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110 campus security cameras installed, cost $240,000 Margaret Mellott Copy Editor

Editors Note: This story was redone. A previous story was fabricated by a former staff reporter for The Bulletin. In the interest of transparency, we rewrote the story and put it on the front page.

To improve student safety, 110 new indoor/outdoor security cameras were installed across campus.

The installation was completed over the summer, and cameras are primarily located in areas of high student traffic, like walkways, parking lots and athletic practice

fields.

However, there are a handful still being adjusted, according to Cory Falldine, chief information officer and associate vice president of information technology.

Chris Hoover, chief of Emporia State police and safety, said IT has been spearheading the project and that ESU police and safety wasn’t involved until fairly recently.

“I wasn’t involved until just prior to the installation phase,” Hoover said.

Falldine said before these cameras were installed, there wasn’t

an extensive camera system on campus.

“Prior to this project, ESU did not have a single, comprehensive, video technologies system for safety and security,” Falldine said. “I’d estimate the campus had around 20 devices in various locations across campus, for various purposes.”

Anna Qualls, freshmen nursing major, said that the cameras will help prevent criminal activities.

“I guess (the purpose is) to make the students feel more safe and to keep out delinquent behavior,” Qualls said.

Hoover agreed, and said “the whole point is safety.”

The cameras have already proved useful, according to Hoover.

“With the cameras, we’ve already investigated several incidents in the past few weeks,” Hoover said.

Precious McConigly, sophomore nursing major, said despite the added sense of safety, some students might feel uneasy with the cameras.

“Well, some might feel safer because there’s cameras, so if some-

thing bad happens they’ll know that the person who did it will get in trouble for what they did,” McConigly said. “Then some people might feel like it’s invading their privacy because a lot of people hang out here…(they’ll) feel like they’re being watched.”

Having the added security cameras on campus will help students feel safer, according to some. “(Having the security cameras) makes me feel better that they’ve added more recently,” Qualls said.

“Especially in the wake of so many school shootings.”

CAMERA C STS PROJECT TOTAL COST

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Students pass by one of the security cameras outside of Welch Stadium. Source: Cory Falldine, chief information officer and associate vice president of information technology.

There are 110 new cameras installed across campus. | The Bulletin Infographic by Margaret Mellott | The Bulletin Archive

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ASG to recieve diversity and inclusion training Margaret Mellott Copy Editor

At the second diversity/inclusion committee meeting of the year, they finalized plans to do 10 minute diversity trainings and hand out informative packets during Associated Student Government meetings.

Later today, Kim Nguyen, graduate student of art therapy

and clinical counseling, will give the first presentation in the ASG meeting about the basics of Emporia State’s diversity, equity and inclusion plan.

Nguyen will also address senators’ identities and positionality, understanding and alleviating stereotype threats, unconscious bias and incorporating diversity issues.

After this, they also plan to

discuss sexuality and gender diversity, race and ethnicity, disabilities, and mental health in the coming weeks during ASG meetings.

Once the presenter for each topic was decided, Nguyen spoke about how each training should be structured. see DIVERSITY page 5

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Bats descend on ESU Sarah Spoon

Editor-in-Chief

Editors Note: This story was redone. A previous story was fabricated by a former staff reporter for The Bulletin. In the interest of transparency, we rewrote the story and put it on the front page.

During the last two weeks of August, Emporia State’s police and safety received multiple calls about bats in White Library, Plumb Hall and

in Morse residence hall.

“There were a lot of entries (in the police logs) for a little while,” said Chris Hoover,

chief of police and safety.

“It’s weird be- cause I don’t know anything about bats,

but apparently in the fall,...we have more issues with bats... than any other time.”

According to the National Park Service, bats are generally migrating or preparing to hibernate in the Fall, which could account for their activeness.

Maddison Hayes, sophomore see BATS page 2

Source: wildlife.org Infographic by Kalliope Craft | The Bulletin

Writer focuses on Kansas history Editor-in-Chief

Many of Thomas Averill’s works are about Kansas history, especially focusing on the underground railroad, slavery and issues between the union and the confederacy.

He read an excerpt from “Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr,” his fictional story from the perspective of a young woman who was

Sarah Spoon Editor-in-Chief

Academic Affairs meeting was presented with proposed amendments to the Kansas Board of Regents expedited program approval process policy by Steve Lovett, president of Faculty Senate and assistant business administration professor, during their meeting Tuesday.

These proposed amendments could mean the formation of an expedited process for programs, so they can be approved “faster” than the conventional way, according to Lovett.

“This has been very rarely used and some requirements for a program to qualify,” Lovett said. “I can give you a scant number of examples where it’s been used in the past…It’s not that it happens everyday.”

The expedited program would still have to be approved

by KBOR after it is approved by

the university.

“Feedback from the provost about why we were asked to even consider an expedited review process is because at some point he tried to put a program up through this (policy) pipeline, to expedite it through KBOR,” said Brenda Koerner, chair of AA and associate biological sciences professor. “They came back and said ‘Why should we expedite it if you don’t?’ Which is somewhat of a valid point.”

It is believed that this process is not to be used in “bad faith” and to simply move the process along more quickly, according to Michael Behrens, assistant professor of English, modern languages and journalism.

Instead this is to help universities respond to opportunities for new programs more quickly.

There was a concern about resee AFFAIRS page 2

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against slavery during his talk Monday.

“I fear I’ve given up my heart, along with everything else, and yet my heart is here too with my song and our work to carry slaves to freedom, our mission to make Kansas territory the free state of Kansas,” Averill said.

“You can tell she’s a very determined woman, from the get-go.”

Averill’s books are filled with his own historical research.

“I weave real facts in with my

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own fiction,” Averill said.

Benjamin Budds is one of his focal subjects in the research he $20 does to make his books more Ralphie life-like.

“Benjamin Budds has an inHe is a goof ball and loves attention. teresting history, because he was a lawyer from back east who He enjoys playing and cuddling. came to Kansas to work on the underground railroad,” Averill said. “Benjamin Budds had a Those interested in adopting Ralphie should fill out an application to adopt at the Emporia see AVERILL page 5

Kansas Animal Shelter, 1216 Hatcher St. Ralphie, like all animals at the shelter, was picked up as a stray. Infographic by Kalliope Craft | The Bulletin

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Gazette faces criticism for unsigned letter Sarah Spoon Editor-in-Chief

There were many vocal condemnations of “The Gazette,” Emporia’s local newspaper, after they printed an unsigned letter that passed judgement on Danica Rothe, a language arts teacher at Emporia High and alumna, in their Sept. 1 and 2 issue. The letter called Rothe out for allowing a piece of artwork with Trump and other persons with their throat slit to hang in her classroom.

The letter was accompanied by the picture.

Twenty people responded to the unsigned letter and “The Gazette’s” choice to print it with their own signed letters to the editor, which appeared in the Sept. 4 edition. Multiple others took to Facebook to demand answers from “The Gazette” about the unsigned letter. None of the

letters appeared online, only in their print edition.

“What is interesting is no one really talked about the content of it (the unsigned letter),” said Chris Walker, publisher of the Gazette. “They’re concerned about the anonymous (aspect), but no one was concerned about the actual (topic). I wrote an editorial on the actual topic of having a President’s slit throat (and) on whether (it was) appropriate or not. It’s interesting how the people were concerned about anonymous (issue) versus the real issue.”

Much of the concern within the community came from the fact that the letter that was printed was unsigned, therefore authorship was unknown.

“I’m not sure there’s any hard or fast rule (about publishing letters unsigned) really,” Walker said. “Editorial page is for com-

Kansas chiropractor charged with raping underage patient EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — An Emporia chiropractor already facing two sexual battery charges is now charged with rape involving an underage female.

The Lyon County Attorney’s office charged Eric Hawkins on Monday with raping a patient who was 15 or 16 at the time of the incident. Court documents allege the assault occurred be-

tween October 1 and November 30, 2015.

Hawkins was charged in August with two counts of sexual battery involving a 22-year-old and a 32-year-old patient. He is scheduled to appear in court on those charges Thursday.

The Emporia Gazette reports his chiropractor’s license was suspended in July pending the outcome of the court cases.

CoCG switches evaluation administrator survey to human resources Allie Crome Managing Editor

The Committee on Campus Governance is considering having the administrator evaluation survey housed in Human Resources department, rather than in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness.

The survey will be a collaboration between CoCG and HR, according to Bethanie O’Dell, chair of CoCG and virtual learning librarian.

“When I was thinking about it, because (Faculty Executive Committee) wanted us to be ‘oh, it’s only a Faculty Senate thing’ and that would mean that I, or somebody in here, would be assigned that task of creating that survey and seeing those results and I thought ‘I don’t feel comfortable having that kind of information,’” O’Dell said.

The confidential information would include the responses of individuals to questions on the survey.

That issue of confidentiality is why JoLanna Kord, assistant provost of institutional effectiveness, recommended that the process be switched to HR, instead of remaining within her department.

“Involving university employees such as myself in a process where we are privy to individual responses to questions

about the evaluation of administrator performances places me in a vulnerable situation since none of my roles and responsibilities are aligned with facilitating personnel evaluations,” Kord said in an email sent to O’Dell.

The committee had previously considered housing the survey in IT instead of HR, but decided against it.

“I think Jo Kord is right,” said Carol Lucy, senator assistant professor of business administration. “It’s not in her category and I know for a fact IT stuff is in common area, so that makes me very uncomfortable even when IT does our own research study data. You can’t leave it in the common area. That is a challenge, so I think human resources is the right place for it.”

During their next meeting, Steve Lovett, president of Faculty Senate and assistant professor of business administration, and Ray Lauber, director of HR, will attend to discuss the process that switching the department will take and what HR’s role in the collaboration will be.

After meeting and discussing the procedure, the committee will then begin to draft a bill regarding the transition.

The next CoCG meeting will be at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 25 in the Xi Phi room.

Corrections A previous version of the article, “Emporia surrounded by traditions, history, legends” misstated the location where Martin Anderson was found and the circumstances surrounding his death. The Bulletin regrets these errors.

munity conversations and if people are fearing retribution or something, it’s something we’ll take into account.”

The Gazettes guidelines printed in their paper are, “Letters must be no longer than 300 words, be signed and contain an address and daytime phone number.”

“The Topeka Capital-Journal,” “The Kansas City Star,” “The Wichita Eagle,” “The Lawrence Journal World,” “The Hutchinson News,” “KVOE” and The Bulletin all require letters to the editor to be signed, according to their respective policies.

“In the editorial I wrote people need to be aware, whether offensive or not offensive, of what’s being hung in classrooms,” Walker said. “If those were students with slit throats on their wall, it certainly wouldn’t be acceptable. Everyone’s questioning

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continued from page 1 interdisciplinary studies major, lives in Morse and was concerned about the bat appearances, for their safety as well as human’s safety.

“There’s a big thing with people giving bats diseases down in Arkansas for awhile there,” Hayes said. “I am concerned for both parties. It’s not good for them and it’s not good for us. It really just needs to be taken care of.”

More than 50 percent of U.S. bat species are in danger of extinction due to loss of habitat and white nose syndrome, according to nature. org. White nose syndrome is usually spread to bats from human contact in their homes.

It falls on police and safety to deal with the bats because they are most often spotted at night, when no one else is around, according to Hoover.

“We actually ended up buying a butterfly net to try to capture them,

about (the) anonymous (aspect) when the internet’s full of anonymity, and we use anonymity. I think people are missing the bigger picture.”

Rebecca Herrig, of Emporia, wrote vocal support on Facebook of Rothe.

“Teachers jobs are hard enough and we should be celebrating the teachers that inspire kids to think for themselves and express those thoughts, not fire them because they hung up one of their students projects,” Herrig said in an interview with The Bulletin. “She was always pleasant and very encouraging of my stepdaughter when I spoke with her during parent teacher conferences and my kid loved her as a teacher. She was upset when she saw the letter and couldn’t believe that someone would say such mean and untrue things about Ms. Rothe.” because we didn’t have anything to really work with and they can be rabid,” Hoover said. “They can be a little bit dangerous to handle, so we try to have gloves and the net and we release them.”

Sometimes the bats are released north of the I-35 and Merchant overpass, while others are released outside the buildings, depending on the officer’s choice.

“There’s some concern about when you release them,” Hoover said. “They found a way in, and... they’re liable to find a way in again, so the same bat may be causing you trouble a couple of times.”

The bats are more often found in the library and Plumb Hall, according to Hoover. They occasionally have also shown up in Visser Hall.

“That short little blip of issues we had a couple weeks ago...was atypical,” Hoover said. “We get more calls...during different times of the year, but that was more calls than normal...We haven’t had a bat call for quite a while now.”

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within one fiscal year,” Lovett said. “How are you going to do continued from page 1 that?”

The next Academic Affairs directing funds if a new program meeting will be at 3:30 p.m. Sept. was expedited.

25 in the Miller Room in the Me“It goes through quickly so morial Union. you’ve got to adjust quickly,

Brenda Koerner, chair of the Academic Affairs committee and professor of biological sciences, reads through a proposed policy for expediated programs. The Kansas Board of Regents is looking at revising the current policy to allow for an expediated process at both the campus and KBOR level. Sarah Spoon | The Bulletin

Police Reports Logs from ESU Police and Safety Sept. 5 Officers responded to a medical call involving a female student in HPER building Room 204. Subject refused medical treatment and was escorted on foot by a friend to her dormitory.

Officer engaged in community contact with multiple students at 15th and Market.

Student reported her stolen bicycle from Cremer Hall on 09/05/2018 between 08/29/2018 at 1400 and 09/03/2018 at 0530.

Officer engaged in community contact with a male subject and a female subject at 18th and Morse Dr. Officer engaged in community contact with a female subject in 1700 Highland.

Sept. 6 Officer escorted a female subject from the Student Wellness Center to Crosswinds Counseling and Wellness.

Officer stopped KS 603KXP in 1100 Union. Samuel Serrano Duenas was taken into custody for driving without a license. Processed and released.

Officer escorted a female student and two children from the Student Wellness Center to Sector 9.

Officer provided escort for a male student from Student Wellness Center to North Twin Towers.

Officers responded to a report of a suspicious male subject in Science Hall Room 30. Officers escorted John Graham from the building.

Officer engaged in community contact with the operator of KS 682CXC in Sector 7. Subject failed to yield pulling out of a private drive.

Sept. 7 Franzi Willenbuecher reported an unlawful act concerning computers at Cremer Hall. Crime occurred between 08/31/18 and 09/04/18.

Sept. 8 Officer assisted Lyon Co. deputy with offender verification at 909 Constitution.

Officer removed tattered flags from Butcher Education Building.

Sept. 9 Officer contacted subject walking on the wall of Wooster Lake and advised not to do so.

Sept. 10 Officer stopped KS 680KZM in 200 W 12th . Verbal warning for not wearing seatbelt. Citation issued for child restraint.

Officers responded to a report of a large dog wandering around the vicinity of Morse Hall Complex. Animal left the area prior to officers’ arrival.

Sept. 11 Officer stopped KS D2158T in 100 W 15th. Verbal warning for texting while driving. Cited for driving while suspended.

Officer stopped KS 453DAG in 1300 Merchant.

Verbal warning for texting while driving.

Officer stopped KS 882KHN in 200 W 12th. Verbal warning for no seatbelt.

Officer stopped KS 220GPS in 1200 State. Verbal warning for no seatbelt.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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Eminem is back with a bang His new album, “Kamikaze,” has had sales surge, fueled by a healthy dose of controversy.

From the people he raps about, to the people he raps with, and even the his raps themselves: ev-

erything seems to be surrounded in controversy.

But, let’s face it, it’s nice to have some of the old Eminem back.

A high point of the album

has to be the soulful number, “Stepping Stones.”

He shares his opinion of how the world was and how it’s gotten to where it is now. Eminem sings about kids nowadays not knowing who he is and his old audience leaving him; about how he has been there for all his friends, but they aren’t there for him, which is something we can all probably identify with.

He airs his frustration about how men can’t talk about their feelings or do anything other than be manly.

Eminem, uncharacteristically, also reflects on things he might have done wrong, like using some people as the track’s iconography as stepping stones and then apologizing for that abuse.

He raps about wanting to

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change his course and walk a straight line because he feels like he’s spent too much time helping other people, and now he and his fans are suffering.

The album title and controversy generator, “Kamikaze,” also demands to be discussed.

He named dropped a number of people including MGK (Machine Gun Kelly), who is one of his biggest rivals at the moment. Whether it was a brazen act of ego or a calculated selling technique is impossible to say, but so far it’s paid off in spades, generating orders and downloads reminiscent of his prime.

As much a fan of Eminem as I am, I have to say it was sad to hear some of the songs clearly made in an attempt to stay rel-

evant.

For example, his song, “Not Alike,” sounds an awful lot like “Bad and Boujee” by Migos, creating cheap mimicries instead of his usual trendsetters.

He’s trying to reach out to a younger audience. This is great, as long as he keeps some of his original sound for the loyalists.

When’s Eminem is being himself and rapping about what he knows best, that’s when he’s at his best.

For the most part, this was a great album. There are some new and experimental tracks as he feels his way into new markets, but it still has enough of the core Eminem we all came for to make it worthwhile for the long-time listeners.

Market brings food, sights, merchandise

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Achieving fitness outside of the gym Community members walk down Commercial street last Saturday during the Great American Market. The market was filled with local sellers of handmade crafts and other items. Ziwen Wang | The Bulletin

Violet Porter Staff Writer

Emporia hosted The Great American Market Saturday, with many different vendors who found their way to Emporia and brought with them a menagerie to put on display.

One of the first booths promoted was an educational booth about Salt Lamps. Salt Lamps are said to help with a multitude of illnesses including asthma, allergies, depression, colds, and COPD, making them an apparent pulmonary cure-all.

They work by passing light through salt to produce negative ions. These ions are supposed to rid the air of bacteria, smoke, and pollen as well as charging the air with a healthy energy.

The Healing Garden of

Health keeps a supply in their health store located in Chanute, Kansas.

Another booth was Chandler’s Fluid Art. This was their first year at the market.

Chandler was taking the first step in selling her own art. She lives in the Overland Park area, but she is also available on Instagram at chandlersfluidart.

Plumb Place, 224 E. 6th Ave, is a shelter for women. It helps its tenants with life skills such as resume building, interview practice, filling out job applications, budgeting, time management, and other independent living skills.

Their booth was seeking volunteers for everything from filing paperwork to helping with events.

The Cloudy Corgi is a busi-

ness ran by a husband and wife and make paintings of the namesake corgis. They also have a Facebook page, supposedly run by the dogs themselves.

The Beacon for Hope suicide prevention booth was selling bracelets, pens, and other small trinkets. All the proceeds are going to their education programs for students and the police on how to handle suicide situations, or friends and families who are struggling in the aftermath.

One of the last booths was the Sunflower Gymnastics ran by David and Stacy Doenland. They had a small booth with a runway set up for their kids to practice their gymnastic skills. According to David Doenland they have almost 400 athletes to compete in 2 national events and a handful of local ones every year.

Fitness and health are often equated to time spent at the gym. Yet, for many people, the gym seems intimidating, which can lead to an avoidance of the gym and exercise in general.

This doesn’t always have to be the case. While going to the gym might help achieve your fitness goals faster, it doesn’t have to be the only option.

Another option could be just one activity, or it can be as many as you’re interested in. You can find an alternative to the gym in every game and sport that you can choose from.

A lot of people start out playing all these sports and games as children, even without a proper team, but tend to grow out of it. That doesn’t have to be the case.

Swimming, tennis, soccer, basketball, or whatever game draws you can be your alternative. Often, they don’t require a team, or even very much time.

As a college student, you are likely busy, but even twenty minutes a day is a good start.

Too often, we tend to forget that all these all count as exercise and start to believe it’s the gym or nothing. Just getting a start, getting interested in an

activity and starting to move towards a healthy and fit lifestyle is something to be proud of.

You don’t even need to be good at sports either, just find some other beginners or friends to play some casual sports with.

Join in a volleyball game outside of Morse Hall or join an intramural team.

The recreation center on campus offers free fitness classes throughout the week like yoga and Zumba. These are typically posted in the recreation center lobby.

If the gym interests you, but you just aren’t sure where to start, you can even try out a personal trainer. The recreation center also offers sessions with personal trainers, and you don’t even have to make a commitment of more than one workout.

Start towards your fitness and health goals whenever you can find the time. If you don’t like working out alone, you can even try to find a workout buddy to keep you company and help motivate you.

Get started, get moving and believe in yourself. You can do whatever you put your mind to.

Men of excellence build a bridge of teamwork

Xavier Cason, freshman elementary education major, works alongside friends for the men of excellence protege program on Monday in the Memorial Union. The teambuilding activity challenged the teams to build a path of newspapers across the room and travel across without stepping off the newspaper.

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The Bulletin | SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

A Title IX not free from compassion

During the presentation portion of the interviews for the new Title IX coordinator position, several candidates said that compassion and counseling do not fit into the role of a Title IX investigator.

While an investigator has to view both sides and remain unbiased, that doesn’t take away the fact that the majority of Title IX cases are sensitive. The ability to empathize in such a difficult time is a key factor in this job.

Coming forward with any issue regarding Title IX is a courageous action and should be taken seriously. The position may not be to “counsel,” but if it’s devoid of any compassion, then how can stu-

dents feel safe coming forward?

Although the university is making a step in the right direction for students, more has to be done before students can truly feel safe. The university is creating a full-time position dedicated to all concerns regarding Title IX, but that is just one person for the thousands of students at Emporia State.

With a single person running Title IX, there is no accountability or oversight.

In a department, it requires collaboration from all employees to run smoothly. If ESU is going to refer to Title IX as a department, it needs to be treated as such. Similarly, a Title IX department should

The relationship between religion and the arts

Violet Porter Opinion Writer The fine arts department puts on a variety of showings around campus and several places in town. Some of the more questionable places, at least for me, are the churches.

We live in an era where the No. 1 battleground is church versus state. These traditional performance spots are going to come under some scrutiny.

However, I do acknowledge that there are several defenses for why the fine arts department performs in churches.

As far as real estate in the community goes, churches are some of the cheapest theaters the university can rent out. The Granada might be amazing, but it comes with a comparatively heavy price tag.

The budget crisis and cuts have been discussed ad nauseum, but the fact that, especially moving into this year, this fiscal point is very valid hints to deeper issues afoot. The last publicity Emporia State wants is its art department on corners selling cookies in competition to the Girl Scouts, but there’s a real possibility if things continue the

same way.

Most churches are designed with sound quality of the stage in mind. The pastor has to proselytize effectively and the choir has to be able to project better than the tone-deaf flock.

It’s sad though, that this very sound quality is a draw over any other place on campus. Have we not also built stages and halls made for performances? There’s no reason for a funded business to have inferior construction to a non-profit.

The final reason given was community outreach. This is technically true, but it’s not an all-encompassing community outreach; it is a very specific community.

Not only are the non-religious among us less likely to attend any concert in a church, but the piece choice is almost always religious as well, ostracizing the reluctant attendee even more.

Also overlooked are the beliefs of the choir themselves.

It’s accepted that a well-rounded musician will perform all types of pieces, but it seems insensitive to force multiple religious performances on the unevangelized or those of a differing faith.

The onus isn’t all on the school though. The students are more than capable of presenting alternate venues, and we are nothing if not problem solvers.

Hornets have to care and have to make their voices heard. Get out on social media or drop a note by the Beach Hall office and make the faculty aware this is an issue that must be changed, or at the very least, addressed.

not function as a single person.

Right now, the future Title IX coordinator will report directly to Kevin Johnson, general counsel.

Johnson is the university’s lawyer, meaning the university is Johnson’s client.

If the person who is supposed to be completing unbiased Title IX investigations is reporting to the university’s lawyer, who has a vested interest in protecting the university, how can we expect a fair investigation?

The students should be able to trust that the university has their best interest in mind. We should have a team dedicated to Title IX Photo Illustration by Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin that shows compassion towards us and that we can trust.

Nike goes in with a swoosh

Gage Simpson Opinion Writer Nike’s decision to put Colin Kaepernick as the face of their most recent ad campaign places them on the right side of history.

And, on the right side of protest.

The controversy over Kaepernick began when the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers made the decision to sit during the national anthem.

This was later changed to a kneeling position after a conversation with Nate Boyer, U.S. veteran. Kaepernick has made it clear that his protest is about police brutality against people of color. However, this idea seems not so clear to some.

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Margaret Mellott Copy Editor Since I was a young child, I’ve always had a slight aversion to meat. As I got older, I went through phases of liking and not liking meat, but for the past few years, I have been a full vegetarian.

It has always been my full expectation that most places don’t have vegetarian friendly options. So, when my room-

mate told me that the cafeteria at Emporia State had a vegetarian option, I was pleasantly surprised.

That is, until I saw what the vegetarian options were. It’s one option, everyday, in a sad little corner across from the condiments. I know everyone complains about the food options, but trust me, at least your options are more than pizza, salad or whatever they put out for the vegetarians.

Now, trust me, I know this seems like a very minor problem, but it’s time to take some actual care for students with different eating needs.

Finding good options for nonmeat eaters may seem trivial, but some of the best food, that you could even serve meat eaters, are vegetarian. Don’t believe me?

Here are a few examples: mac n’

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call of “All Lives Matter” being a façade to protect structures that oppress people of color.

There’s no credible evidence of either of these conditions occurring with Kaepernick.

A good writer, however, always approaches with a bit of skepticism. Businesses are designed to make profit, and Nike is no exception. I think that the deal with Kaepernick needs to be looked at with watchful eyes.

The first aspect to realize is that other businesses were also looking at signing the pro. Nike did, then, nothing terribly noble.

The second part is looking at why he became famous in the first place.

Kaepernick’s protest made headlines because of his protest against the slaughter of black bodies. One could argue, then, that Nike is capitalizing on this calamitous phenomenon. In a way, they’re profiting off the protest, which wouldn’t exist in a world without police violence.

Good call for Nike, but this needs to be taken with a grain of salt. We still have work to do; and progress to be made.

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“First the @NFL forces me to choose between my favorite sport and my country. I chose country.

Then @Nike forces me to choose between my favorite shoes and my country. Since when did the American Flag and the National Anthem become offensive?”

The tweet includes a video of @sclancy79 burning their white Nike shoes in some grass.

This misunderstanding of Kaepernick’s protest is unfortunately common. His protest was never about the military, the flag or the country. This was about black people being unjustly killed by police.

At best, opponents of Kaepernick could argue that the protest of the flag is an aftereffect of kneeling. However, this fallacious argument is problematic.

Historically, black protests have been painted as an enemy to the state, thus deserving of a violent reprimand. I would contend that this is the same case here.

The only time it’s appropriate for an observer of a protest to make a judgement as to whether or not the protest or movement is actually following its goals or going against them, such as the

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cheese, veggie lasagna and grilled cheese.

I’ve had to live my life off of basic foods, because that’s all most places offer. This isn’t something that just impacts ESU, it’s the same at most restaurants too.

I’m tired of asking for things “without the meat,” and I’m tired of asking if “that comes with pepperoni bits sprinkled on top.”

I should be able to find nonmeat options without having to worry whether or not I can actually eat it. Here at ESU, it’s not worry I have, it’s a lack of interest in the food being served because it’s only one option.

I understand there’s a world of people out there with different eating needs and habits, but making a little head way for vegetarians in the food department could help open up a world of delicious, tasty foods.

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Faculty Affairs committee considers changes to professional development Gage Simpson Staff Writer

The Faculty Affairs committee considered changes to policy after being charged from the Kansas Board of Regents to evaluate Emporia State professional development.

According to an email from Blake Flanders, CEO and President of KBOR, it asks universities to “review their reward structures to ensure they support faculty members’ professional success … and advance the strategic priorities of the university.”

David Cordle, provost and

vice president of academic affairs, spoke during the meeting, noting that KBOR might want changes in “routes to tenure or promotion…definition of research (or) applied and professional work,” asking “are they flexible enough?” “(The AACSB) overemphasizes research and underemphasizes instructional quality and service,” said George Durler, business administration professor. “Anything we come up with has to meet those accreditation requirements.”

Durler also asked why all faculty at ESU had to do a research

track.

Cordle wanted the committee to focus on data gathering for his report in Dec. of this year, collecting staff and faculty input as to what changes might need to be made.

A report distributed by Sheryl Lidsy, associate professor for the communication and theater department, from the American Council on Education noted that “the traditional career path, based on societal norms from an earlier era…inhibits the success of many women…at nearly every stage of

their careers…”

The report highlights that women and people of color are also affected by traditional means of promotion, noting they “are still disproportionately regulated to the lowest tenure-track ranks for the academic profession or to non-tenure-track positions.”

Some recommendations made by the report are to “enhance recruitment efforts” and “broadening the definition of scholarship and the structure for assessing and rewarding faculty achievements in all facets of the new paradigm of

scholarship.”

Further, to combat diversity shortcomings, the report endorsed creating “hospitable environments that welcome…a diverse faculty in meeting changing needs.”

This report is not an official release of KBOR, the committee, or the university.

Implementation plans are expected to be developed by the spring of 2019, according to the previous email.

The committee meets again on Sept. 25 in the PDK room.

Title IX coordinator position debated Gabriel Molina Maruda Staff Writer

Thomas Averill shares his Kansas writing Monday during the visiting writers series in Plumb Hall. Averill has won the O. Henry award for short stories. Margaret Mellott | The Bulletin

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continued from page 1 Kansas City, Kansas...and a letter I got to read, an actual letter I didn’t make up, he describes housing a runaway slave family in his home, borrowing a shotgun and defending those people for two days straight against the Confederates.”

Averill is the second person to attend ESU this semester as part of the visiting writers series, funded by the Performing Arts Board and creative writing department.

“He is one of Kansas’s great voices,” said Amy Sage Webb, professor of English, modern languages and journalism. “He delights in his subjects and in sharing them with us.”

Webb considers Averill a

mentor who “welcomed her” into writing.

Averill is an O. Henry award winner, a national award given for exceptional short stories, and professor emeritus of English at Washburn, according to Webb.

He taught creative writing, Kansas literature and folklore and film for 37 years.

The event had 30 attendees, composed of students, faculty and Emporia community members.

The next writer to visit will be award winning screenwriter and director Kevin Willmott, who will talk about his new film “BlacKKKlansman,” according to Kevin Rabas, chair of English, modern languages and journalism.

Willmott, a current KU professor, will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Plumb Hall room 303.

Faculty Executive committee received an update from David Cordle, provost, about the progress on the new Title IX coordinator position during their meeting last Thursday.

The new position will report to Kevin Johnson, general counsel, rather than to Ray Lauber, the director of human resources, according to Cordle.

Using the vacant Title IX investigator position to hire a full-time coordinator presents a power problem, Cordle said.

“That will be handled in one of two ways, I don’t think a decision has been made yet,” Cordle said. “One way is potentially just to farm out the investigation.

Just not even do it internally.”

If that is the route taken, then the university will have to pay for the investigations, according to Cordle.

The other way to handle it is to create another position and hire an investigator that will work with the coordinator, Cordle said.

“One or the other will end up happening,” Cordle said.

Previously, Lisa Moritz, filled the investigator role of Title IX, as the Deputy Title IX Coordinator, and Lauber served as the director of Title IX, according to Cordle.

Moritz held other positions at the same time, including Associative Affirmative Action Officer, according to the faculty staff directory listing.

“The workload pretty much became unmanageable,” Cordle said. “Lisa (Moritz) was spending, for the last two years, most of her time supporting the Title IX effort.”

The amount of time it involved, and Moritz stepping down from the Title IX role, led to the creation of the new position, Cordle said.

“If we just hire another Lisa, that person’s going to get burnt out too and then we’re right back to where we started,” Cordle said.

The coordinator role is a full-time, salaried administrative position, according to the Chronicle Vitae listing.

“This new position serves a

key leadership role for the university by ensuring compliance with Title IX; overseeing the implementation of Title IX policies, processes, programs, training; and having no other duties that create a conflict of interest,” according to the Chronicle Vitae application.

Currently, three applicants have been interviewed for the position. No further progress selecting a person to fill the position has been made.

David Cordle, provost, discusses Title IX position requirements during the FAC meeting. Cordle provided a few ideas in regards to the vacant position.

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“The way that I want you all to construct (your presentations), is just, in a way, what do senators need to know to be aware and notice these issues and to also be comfortable talking about it, or dealing with it,” Nguyen said.

There was one absentee at the meeting with all others in attendance. The next diversityand inclusion committee meeting will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Great Plains room in the Memorial Union.

The diversity and inclustion committee discusses training for ASG senators yesterday in the Great Plains room. The training begins today for the senators. Gage Simpson | The Bulletin

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HORNET LIFE Hypnotist commands audience

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At his command, David Hall sent 21 contestants immediately slumping in their chairs, some heads touching the shoulder of the person next to them in front of darkened, blue lights and soothing synth.

“And…sleep!”, Hall said.

When the participants awoke, they were on a beach in the Bahamas, as they were commanded to “kick back” as Hall fanned the sea breeze. Some wiped sweat from their brows as Hall increased the temperature.

“Hotter and hotter, it’s so hot”, Hall said.

Suddenly, a soothing, cold drink was given to them, and they drank. A cold wind snappishly blew, making each patron shrink in their chair on stage.

“And…sleep!”

The command gave the stars a blanket of comfort.

Cards Against Hypnosis was a show in Saturday Albert Taylor Hall, which mimicked a popular game that encouraged participation from the audience:

“Cards Against Humanity.”

Hall choose to spinoff the popular party game because he wanted “to get the audience to participate through the show and choose which bits they want the people to perform.”

The “black card” would be a setup, such as “You have just turned 5 years old, on your birthday you get…”, then the white card would be the audience’s choice, and in this case, it was between a puppy and a favorite toy. The audience was split when voting, so they went with both.

The hypnotized would awake believing they are five years old and unwrap a present for their birthday. For some, it was a puppy and for others it was a new pair of shoes. There were many events throughout the show just like this.

Tanner Rule, freshman social sciences education major, performed “Single Ladies” with her backup dancers as Beyoncé.

Rylen Hansen, freshman secondary education major, performed the ABC’s.

A full ride scholarship was

on the line at a dance competition, bringing back middle school memories with Gangnam Style, and each star completed the InMyFeelings Challenge.

After winning the scholarship, Tate McRell, freshman elementary education major, said “I’m a fucking boss.”

Each patron thought they hated dancing, until they heard the words “do the Harlem Shake.”

As each segment expanded on the previous, Hall said he has been in the hypnosis industry for 14 years, with three of them performing this show.

Hall was inspired “about 15 years ago” by a hypnosis show he saw.

“I was fascinated with it,” Hall said. “I thought it was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.”

Hall went on and studied hypnosis in college and received training in “comedy stage hypnosis.”

After staging what Hall coins as a “hypnotic induction”, participants are put into a “trance”.

“Everyone goes in and out of a trance all day long…it almost

ESU green spaces have grown

During one of his bits, David Hall made the volunteers hold their shoes to their head like a phone. Soon after, he made them realize what they were doing, resulting in confusion from them, and laughter from the audience.

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feels like you’re zoned out”, Hall said. “When (participants) are… hypnotized, they’re getting relaxed to the point where they’ll take suggestions into their subconscious…”

Hall said “you can’t hypnotize someone to do something that they don’t want to do.”

“Most of the things in my show…are very easy to understand and also are thing that

Event to celebrate Hispanic heritage

Heineken, local historian.

When classes first started Staff Writer in 1863, to stay cool during the Emporia state’s campus warm weather, professors would was founded in 1863 and at the take students outside and teach start there was only one build- under the shade of the trees ing. Now Emporia’s campus when it was too hot to stay inside, according to Heineken. stretched to 234 acres.

Today, students can be found More than 60 buildings fill hammocking in front of Plumb the campus, along with outdoor facilities according an ESU in- Hall.

Over the years the growth formational pamphlet.

These facilities include green of campus green areas has coinareas that are used for many cided with the student body.

“They start with the small sports from football to soccer, as well as paths and trails that can tract of land, one or two buildings, and then as they have more be used by all on campus.

“They (students) also used students, they needed more (green areas) for rallys and space and they enact land, and events and even today we have then a campus,” Heineken said. concerts on Morse Hall lawn... “Why not make it beautiful by Before we had the Welch stadi- having the lawns, having the Source: Hispanicheritagemonth.gov Infographic by Kalliope Craft um where the Science Hall is and trees, having the shrubs, flowCremer Hall is that is where they ers whatever to make it a pretty would play football,” said Roger place to study.” lanthropy “Shaelie’s Wish.”

Daisy Gonzalez “We just try to participate in Staff Writer events all in the community and From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight we try to show what the Hispanic Emporians can attend the His- community is,” said Itzy Aparipanic Heritage Month Kickoff cio, alumna and charter member event and see dancers, eat food of KDC. “It’s nice to show people and take part in activities like what our actual culture is because face painting. a you see…things on the T.V….but The event is sponsored by the a lot of people are not really sure Office of Diversity, Equity and what it’s like to be a Hispanic…”

Inclusion and will be held in KelThe event can help share Hislogg Circle, outside of Plumbh panic culture with those who Hall, according to the Facebook would not otherwise be exposed event page. to it, Aparicio said.

In addition to the perfor“People might not be exmances by dancers and food from posed to eating food from differRoger Heineken, local historian, presents about green spaces at ESU. Currentlocal venders, Kappa Delta Chi, ent countries or seeing the cully, ESU’s campus is 234 acres. Gabriel Molina Maruda | The Bulletin ESU’s Hispanic sorority, will also ture and showing them through be raising money for their phi- these events…seeing some of our Emma Sha

Remembering Patriots Day at Emporia State

people are willing to do,” Hall said.

Two people were dismissed from the stage because they “woke up”, Hall said. Only about a “handful” of people are dismissed per show on average, according to Hall.

The next comedy show planned by the UAC is Sept. 19, with comedian Morgan Jay.

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dances or some of our food or how we’re so friendly as people,” Aparcio said.

Chevelle Balcacer, junior psychology major and president of KDC, said that the folkloric dancers do “a lot of dances that are regional to some areas like Mexico.

According to Chevelle Balacer, junior psychology major, “in past years they used to have them from other countries.”

“They have these big, colorful dresses and…the youngest little girl that they have is maybe nine,” Balacer said.

Last year, the event included a variety of food, such as elote corn and pin tacos, Balcacer said.

Decorations were set out in front of the Emporia State sign to commemorate Patriot Day and the events that happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

The flags were lowered to half-staff around the fountain.

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Williamson wants objectivity in coordinator position

Nanian hopes to prevent problems

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Oliver emphasizes expectations and training

Marjorie Nanie

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Creating a Title IX system that can stand on its own, offering training for faculty, staff and students, as well as being fair and objective in investigations were among the qualities that Van Williamson spoke about last Friday during the presentation portion of his Title IX Coordinator interview.

Williamson was a Seabrook, Texas based lawyer who went into law after a career in data networking.

He said he has experience with compliance issues in human resources and served on several university Title IX focus groups.

An effective Title IX program has to be able to stand on its own merit, and different processes need to be considered, Williamson said.

“The idea of justice doesn’t show up in the verdict, it shows up in the process,” Williamson said. “You have a firm process; you get firm justice.”

Training about Title IX issues would be needed for students, faculty and staff, according to Williamson.

Since Title IX is a fluid situation, anyone brought into the coordinator position, including him, should undergo training, Williamson said.

“I don’t think there should be a way out of being trained,” Williamson said.

“It’s something that this particular position should have to stand up for the first 10, 15 minutes and introduce themselves, say ‘this is who I am, here’s our stuff, here’s the rules.’”

Joey Wood, a counselor at the student wellness center, asked about Williamson’s approach for dealing with a student in a vulnerable situation, such as sharing their experience.

Williamson said that he would be careful if trying to

console a student.

“You have got to be real careful in trying to console someone, you know, get involved in their feelings,” Williamson said. “It’s no place for that in objective thought. If you’re going to develop an objective opinion of what you think happened, you best not ‘it’s going to be okay’ type of thing, because you’re going to fail.”

For situations like that, counselors would be needed as resources, Williamson said. Resources like counselors are what Title IX should be offering, according to Williamson.

Deanna Williams, director of diversity programs, said she understood Williamson’s point about objectivity and asked about how he would encourage students to come forward and how he would show concern.

“Here’s the deal, and this is going to sound terrible... but everybody for the most part is an adult and you’re going to have to make adult decisions when you’re an adult,” Williamson said.

“And that may be coming to the Title IX office to report something that’s happened to you.”

Although Williamson said that he does get impacted by situations like these, it’s not the job of the Title IX office to console anyone.

“The second you do that, the person who is accused is probably going to get a free ride, because you already look like you’re biased,” Williamson said. “It just doesn’t work like that and it can’t. It would not be effective.”

Williamson said that he would also like to get more awareness for Title IX and trust from the students.

“I’m a hard worker, I worked hard all my life and I’ve never failed at anything and I wouldn’t fail at this (position),” Williamson said.

“It’s just who I am as a person.”

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Offering training and education on Title IX and preventing problems in the process were among the main points that Marjorie Nanian spoke about Tuesday, during the presentation portion of her Title IX Coordinator interview.

Nanian is based in Florida and has been an attorney for 30 years. She doesn’t practice law in Florida, but is an adjunct professor. Previously, Nanian was a junior high and high school teacher.

Title IX, and understanding it, is a matter of educating students, faculty and staff, according to Nanian “I think by going into classrooms, where you can work in the subject matter and curriculum...when you talk about sexual harassment cases, you can work that right in and be a guest speaker and do a presentation,” Nanian said.

For faculty and staff, it could involve a workshop or seminar to help provide information, according to Nanian.

Part of the education process is helping people understand what Title IX can do and what its limitations are, Nanian said “We can’t subpoena witnesses, we can’t put people in jail if they don’t show up, we can’t put the perpetrator in jail if he does or she does something wrong,” Nanian said. “Those are things we can not do. And then educate them on what can we do.”

Nanian also spoke about avoiding problems, and resolving the ones that do occur.

“When you have cases hit the media it generates negative public relations for your college,” Nanian said. “It probably impacts the ability to recruit faculty and administrators to your college, probably impacts the willingness of students to want

to attend your college. You don’t want that. And I believe in avoiding problems, or as soon as they raise their heads, resolve it.”

Nanian has training in community dispute and mediation, which she feels will help her resolve and prevent any potential problems, Nanian said.

Jerald Spotswood, dean of the graduate school and dean of distance education, asked Nanian to talk about the role that she sees herself taking on during an investigation.

Nanian said she would use the same strategy she does while building up a case, which involves getting documentation, interviews in a neutral location, and researching the law and policies.

As part of her due diligence as Title IX Coordinator, Nanian said she would get as much information as possible.

“I would want to talk to each individual involved, I want to hear their side of the story,” Nanian said. “I’m sure they’re going to be very different. I would want to see if there’s been any documentation filed, any reports with public safety, teachers, anything.”

Joey Wood, a counselor at the Student Wellness Center, asked about how Nanian would make herself approachable to students, especially international and students of color.

Encouraging them to come forward would be a start, according to Nanian.

“There’s a tremendous underlying fear and they might not come forward and I don’t know if I can overcome that,” Nanian said.

“As an international student, that’s very difficult. I would hope people, if they had an issue, would come. You can’t force people, you can let them know this is available, this is how it works, I’m your contact person if you feel comfortable.”

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Education, keeping Title IX student and faculty centered and ensuring that the process and program are uniform for all that it affects were the three key points that Elizabeth Oliver spoke about Monday during the presentation portion of her Title IX Coordinator interview.

Oliver is an Ottawa, Kansas based attorney, who holds five degrees from several Kansas colleges, including two masters from Emporia State. She has previously served as a state auditor and a guardian ad litem for domestic and child in care cases, which has given her experience with confidential documents, investigations and unbiased cases, Oliver said.

A Title IX Coordinator has to be student and faculty centered, according to Oliver. That includes creating presentations for training, meeting with people and remaining impartial in investigations, Oliver said.

“I think it’s creating an atmosphere of equality and uniformity in Title IX investigations,” Oliver said. “It’s setting up presentations for students, faculty, who need to know ‘what does Title IX do for me, what are my options beyond Title IX, do I want to use Title IX or do I want to use something else?’”

Each investigation is handled based on its facts, which makes each investigation different, but a standard must followed, Oliver said.

“There’s also a standard in how we just do things and that’s why I like Emporia State University, that why I’ve chose this university twice for a degree, there’s a standard of how we do things,” Oliver said. “There’s a standard of expectations and a standard of listening.”

Gary Wyatt, associate provost, asked how Oliver would use education to help students combat wrong expectations that they might have about Title IX and the process.

Oliver said that she would like to have a pamphlet that would detail the process, include advising options, describe the coordinator’s role and set expectations.

Although Oliver said that a coordinator must remain impartial, and maintain a level of professionalism with students, compassion is an important quality in the position.

“There’s a compassion for the victim, there’s a compassion for the situation and there’s a compassion for the defendant,” Oliver said.

“When I was leaving the...I went to talk to the judges and I said ‘give me advice, what should I do differently?’ and one judge’s comment has stayed with me for the rest of my career. It was ‘understand that there’s two sides to a story.’”

Jerald Spotswood, dean of the graduate school and dean of distance education, asked Oliver to speak about what role the Title IX Coordinator should serve in educating faculty, staff and student.

Trainings should be altered to where students and faculty understand the options available for them and the potential consequences, according Oliver.

“I’d like Title IX for students to be not scary,” Oliver said.

Learning about Title IX, warning students and faculty and helping them understand it is important for educating about the process and how it works, Oliver said. If faculty understand, then they are better able to help keep students safe, according to Oliver.

Deadlines for line item budgets announced Sarah Spoon Editor-in-Chief

The Associated Student Government fiscal affairs committee established their deadlines for meeting with line items last Tuesday. If line items do not meet with the committee during these times or fail to submit their paperwork, they could lose their recognition status and their funding. “(If they do not meet with the committee) there are high possibilities of them not being recognized anymore,” said Daniel Agbaji, graduate library information management and instructional design student.

“We need to actually follow up (with them) carefully. We need to know why and then find a

way we can help (them)...It means they might actually not be recognize or also lose their funding for next year. It’s a very strict rule.”

All line item financial forms are due to the fiscal affairs committee by Sept. 21.

The committee then has until Oct. 5 to review the forms.

“During the collective review, we should have everyone (from the committee) around,” Agbaji said. “Everyone needs to be in attendance in the meetings when we are going to be reviewing (the line items).”

The committee has until Nov. 9 to meet with the line item organizations. Meetings must be held in person, which is a change from the policy last year.

“They’ll come over and mittee will meet tomorrow make a presentation and we’ll with Diana Kuhlmann, Vice speak with them,” Agbaji said. President of administration “We’ll ask them questions and and finance, to answer any if they have any, they can ask questions they have regarding us. We can give them answers.”

There are 12 total line items, according to Malcolm Dade, senator and senior accounting major.

The line items are Associated Student Government, The Bulletin, Center for Early Childhood Education, Educational Opportunity Fund, Athletic Band Stipend, the Performing Arts Board, “Quivira,” Special Events Board, Sports Club, “The Sunflower,” Union Activities Council and Visual Arts Board, according to the Source: Daniel Agbaji Senate Line Item policy.

A few members of the com- Infographic by Sarah Spoon

line items, such as the policy and student fees.

“If you have any questions, get those prepared,” Agbaji said.

Important ASG dates for line items

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8 ESU to host Washburn on newly renovated field Sarah Spoon Editor-in-Chief

The ESU Pitch was remodeled over the summer to add a fence and a portable, covered press box that will hold eight people. It will be used for the first time Sunday during the game against Washburn.

“We will play Washburn at our newly renovated pitch, which we are really excited about that,” said Donald Weast, associate director of intercollegiate athletics. “We put the fence in, which encloses it and gives the soccer team their own ‘home’ now, instead of just a wide open field to play in.”

The fence and press box additions were funded by private donations from the Preston Family Trust, according to Weast and a press release.

“It makes it look like an inter-collegiate athletics place. In the past it was just wide open, you could just run across there,”

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Weast said. “A ball could get kicked and it could go all the way to the other side, so we got that under control.”

The fence was needed, according to Weast, to ensure the safety of the players.

“Used to, just anyone would go out there,” Weast said. “Maybe it rains and someone goes out there and they’re wearing their cleats and they get it torn up...

That doesn’t make it safe for our players.”

The soccer team has 24 players this year, according to esuhornets.com and will face Washburn for the Turnpike Tussle at 2 p.m. Sept. 16 at the ESU Pitch, just north of the student rec.

The admission will be a little more expensive because of the importance of the game, according to Weast.

Admission will be $7 for Jacki Martinek, senior forward, and Ashlyn Lakon, freshman defender, practice yesterday on the ESU Pitch field. adults, $5 for kids and ESU stu- The team has put up a new fence and press box that will be used for first time this Saturday during the Turnpike dents will get in free.

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Students tailgate before first home game

Athletics prepare for action packed weekend Sarah Spoon Editor-in-Chief

Zach Protheroe, community member, plays a game of cornhole last Thursday at the tailgate event.

Many events happened before the home opener game, including a party on the patio, hosted by the Teachers College and a hornet walk.

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Volleyball, cross country and football have multiple events coming up this weekend. Volleyball will play Friday and Saturday at Emporia, football will play Saturday at home and men’s and women’s cross country will travel to Joplin, according to esuhornets.com.

“The first thing we have at home would be volleyball and that’s down at White Auditorium,” said Donald Weast, associate director of intercollegiate athletics. “Right now they’re five and seven. Friday night we’re going to play the No.1 team in the country — Nebraska-Kearney.”

Volleyball is coached by Bing Xu and Carly Spicer. “(Nebraska-Kearney is) undefeated on the year so it’s going to be a tough task but (Hornet volleyball) have already knocked off the team in the top ten,” Weast said. “They knocked out Rockhurst in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago.”

Tatum Graves, senior middle hitter, was just named the MIAA hitter of the week, according to Weast.

“Saturday they’ll come back and play Fort Hays State, an in-state rival type thing,” Weast said. “Hays is more our speed than Kearney is. Kearney is really good.”

Saturday morning, men’s and women’s cross country are heading to Joplin.

“They’re going to compete in the Southern Stamdpede,” Weast said. “It’s going to be one of the biggest cross country meets in the Midwest. It’s got high school and college division.”

More than 1,000 people are expected to compete.

The football team will be playing the University of Nebraska-Kearney Saturday afternoon. They are currently undefeated this year, according to lopers.com.

“We’ve got an opportunity there to come out and do some things and hopefully get back in the thick of the conference race,” Weast said. “Our passing attack, which is what we’ve been known for the last seven or eight years, has struggled a little bit. We look for that to be an emphasis toward and get that started back up again.”

Hornets fall to Pitt State in 13-34 loss Skyla Fox Sports Editor

The Hornets faced Pittsburg State last Thursday at home, tying the game in third quarter, but were defeated in the fourth quarter.

“We fought hard,” said Gary Woods II, junior linebacker. “We didn’t execute when we had the opportunities to.”

The Hornets started strong, with Landon Nault, senior running back, scoring a touchdown within first five minutes of the game. Soon after, PSU would follow with a 23 yard field goal making the score 7-3.

In the second quarter, PSU scored their second touchdown, putting them in the lead, 7-10.

Then, Justin Brown, senior wide receiver, scored a 19 yard pass from Braxton Marstall, senior quarterback,

making the score 13-10 ESU, where it stayed for the rest of second quarter.

“We started off strong, and came up second half with a decent drive,” said Tyler Banta, junior left guard.

The Hornets did not score during the third quarter. PSU evened out the score with a 28 yard field goal, tying the game 13-13, where it would stay the rest of third quarter.

The Gorillas scored two touchdowns in the span of 19 seconds during the fourth quarter, making the score 1327.

PSU then ran a 7 yard touchdown, ending the game with a 13-34 ESU defeat at Welch Stadium.

“It was just a tough loss,” said Cole Baird, sophomore defensive back. “We didn’t execute in some areas, and it ended up costing us the game.

They executed and we didn’t.”

The crowd cheers after the Hornets score a touchdown last Thursday in Welch Stadium. The Hornets will play again on Saturday against Nebraska-Kearney. Margaret Mellott | The Bulletin