Students say they understand WSU’s academic integrity policy, but hundreds of violations continue to occur
BY SHELBY DUVALL shelbyd306@gmail.com
Most students who passed by the Student Conduct table during Academic Integrity Week said they are aware of the “basics” of academic integrity policies, but large numbers of violations are still reported every year. The topic of academic integrity made headlines last month after allegations of academic misconduct were brought against Wichita State President Richard Muma.
According to academic integrity data from Wichita State University, 365 cases were reported during the 2022-2023 academic year, spanning across all academic colleges.
That’s a 9% increase from the year before. These increases came as student headcount at the university increased by hundreds from fall 2021 to fall 2022.
“When you have more students, you should expect that,” said Ed Sawan, director of the School of Computing.
Sawan said he has dealt with many of these cases firsthand. The College of Engineering, which holds the School of Computing, saw the most cases in 2022-2023: 77% of the 365 cases were filed against students in the college, most being graduate students.
The enrollment increase from fall 2021 to fall 2022 saw a massive uptick in graduate students pursuing a degree in the College of Engineering, doubling from around 800 to more than 1,600 people.
This influx of students severely overwhelmed faculty, and some professors left in response, according to Sawan.
“We had classes that had 200 students,” Sawan said. “It was difficult to conduct exams without problems … so the number of academic integrity violations, of course, was large.”
Following the 2022-2023 school year, the faculty-to-student ratio was addressed in the College of Engineering by replacing the faculty members who left and hiring others to serve as proctors during exams.
The School of Computing is now seeing a fraction of the academic integrity violations it was seeing before. So far this
semester, the College of Engineering has reported seven violations out of the total 39.
For the 2023-2024 academic year, 192 academic integrity reports were filed, with graduate students accounting for 60.
So far this semester, nearly 40 reports have been filed, with the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences accounting for more than half of them.
VIOLATIONS FROM A FACULTY STANDPOINT
Academic integrity procedures are lengthy processes, for students and faculty alike.
“It is very time-consuming,” director of the School of Computing Ed Sawan said. “To go through the formal process, you have to file a report and you have to explain why and provide evidence. You also have to be prepared that the students may challenge it.”
When reporting a violation, the faculty member who reports a student has to collect evidence, inform the student of the violation, and assign any grade-related sanctions.
Faculty members who serve on an Academic Integrity Committee are assigned the task of deciding whether a violation did or did not occur and the appropriate outcomes for an incident.
Faculty members who report violations must also attend the hearing involving the violation they reported.
“It’s something that faculty wish not to be involved with,” Sawan said. “They want to focus on preparing their classes, printing notes (and) creating exams.”
TYPES OF VIOLATIONS
The most common academic integrity violation committed by Wichita State students is plagiarism according to Kyle Wilson, the director of Student Conduct and Community Standards. Through his role, Wilson helps operate academic integrity processes.
In the 2023-2024 fiscal year, 70%
of academic integrity cases involved plagiarism.
“You just got to work on those citations and making sure you understand that you need to give credit to other people’s work,” he said.
Improperly citing someone else’s words isn’t the only way students can plagiarize.
“The second-most common issue we see is collaboration,” Wilson said. “There are some instructors that really love when students collaborate and work together on assignments, and then there’s other professors that absolutely do not want them to work together … students think it’s OK in one class so it must be okay everywhere.”
Issues can also arise from using someone else’s graphics or ideas.
Self-plagiarism, otherwise known as “recycling” or unauthorized resubmission, is another problem, Wilson said. For example, turning in a paper a student wrote for a previous class to a different class.
Other offenses include “unauthorized use or possession of materials or resources” (like using a cheat sheet), bribery and in some cases, collaboration.
AVOIDING
VIOLATIONS, AND WHAT TO DO IF YOU CAN’T
To avoid these citations, Wilson suggests an important read for every class: the syllabus.
“You’ve got to read every individual faculty member’s syllabus because it will tell you what is acceptable, and what is not,” Wilson said. “At the end of the day, instructors explain everything in their syllabus.”
However, if a student is accused of an academic policy violation, they shouldn’t immediately panic.
“The biggest thing I can tell students is that if a faculty member accuses you of an academic integrity issue is ‘Just stay calm,’” Wilson said. “We’re here to help you through the process … and you’re not automatically in violation just because a faculty member makes a report.”
The Student Conduct and Community Standards website also has resources for
students with questions about academic integrity including links to policies, information on how to avoid violations when using AI and the step-by-step academic integrity process if you receive a violation. Should a student receive a violation following the Academic Integrity Committee’s decision, they can appeal if they think there was an error during the process that affected their outcome, or if there is new information discovered that was unavailable during the initial review that could change the outcome.
Appeals can be submitted through the online Appeal Request Form.
Sawan said he tries to discourage his students from academic dishonesty.
“I tell the students an example I refer to as ‘reverse shoplifting,’” Sawan said. “Imagine you go to a fancy store, and you shop for a new jacket. You find one and you select it, and you go to the cashier and you pay for it, and when the cashier is distracted, you walk out with the receipt and leave the jacket. You then go to your friends and say, ‘Hey, I have an expensive jacket, see the receipt here.’ And you can get by for a while, but when it (gets) cold and you need the jacket, your friends will say, ‘Where’s the jacket?’”
Sawan uses this metaphor to discourage his students from cheating by comparing a good grade to the metaphor’s receipt, and comparing what the student didn’t learn to the jacket.
Sawan also urges students to consider how this may affect them in a future employment situation.
“It’s the same thing,” Sawan said. “You get your transcript that shows the good grade, and then you get a job, but then at some point, the employer will expect you to do something that’s based on the knowledge that you’re supposed to have from the class. But you will not have it, so you will be fired.”
Wilson said the best way students can avoid any citation is to be mindful of what constitutes cheating and stay informed of professors’ and the college’s policies.
“We want to make sure that the graduates that we have here are graduating with a degree that they earned,” Wilson said.
Graduate assistant arrested for rape, Wichita State confirms
BY ALLISON CAMPBELL editor@thesunflower.com
Wichita State University has confirmed that an individual arrested earlier this week for rape is an enrolled student and a graduate assistant at the university.
Sedgwick County law enforcement
arrested Mohamed Barkat Mia on Monday, Nov. 11, at McKinley Hall. He was later booked for aggravated criminal
sodomy and rape. According to KWCH, WSU communication director Lainie MazzulloHart said at the time of the arrest that the university could not comment on the ongoing investigation or confirm if Mia was an employee or student.
Wednesday evening, though, MazzulloHart confirmed that Mia is a student and graduate assistant.
In an email to The Sunflower, Mazzullo-Hart said she could not
“provide any further information” regarding Mia’s current employment or enrollment status.
Mazzullo-Hart also said that the university is taking the allegations seriously and that there are “processes and procedures to address potential misconduct by students” and staff.
“We are deeply committed to the safety and well-being of our campus community and provide a multitude of resources to anyone who has experienced
sexual assault or any form of violence,” Mazzullo-Hart wrote. “Both internal and external resources can be found through a search on our website.”
Some of the university’s resources regarding sexual assault, domestic violence and violence on campus can be found on the Crisis Resources, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Campus Assault Resources & Education and Civil Rights, Title IX & ADA Compliance (CTAC) pages of the university’s website.
Poor second quarter dooms women’s basketball to loss against Missouri State
BY JACOB UNRUH sports@thesunflower.com
It was a tale of two halves offensively for Wichita State women’s basketball against Missouri State University (MSU).
The Shockers came alive in the second half on Wednesday night, but a 13-point halftime deficit after scoring nine total points in the second quarter was too much to overcome. Wichita State lost, 82-77, in Charles Koch Arena.
“I think this was a total of three, what we felt like is our normal game quarters, and then our second quarter really just doomed us in all aspects of the game,” Wichita State head coach Terry Nooner said.
The Shockers dropped their second straight game and are 1-2 on the season. Missouri State sits at 2-0 with a pair of wins against American Athletic Conference opponents. The Lady Bears beat Tulsa University earlier this year.
Wichita State shot 42% from the field and 14% from 3-point range in the first half but boosted those numbers to 53% and 54% in the second half.
Wichita State took a 14-7 lead on an 8-0 run in the first quarter. The Shockers held the Lady Bears to 27% shooting from the field over the first seven minutes of the game
through a stifling defense that prevented easy shots.
Wichita State led, 25-24, with 6:17 left in the first half. The Shockers proceeded to miss their next nine shots from the field as Missouri State went on a 15-0 run.
Junior forward Bre’Yon White made a buzzer-beating secondchance layup to close the half, salvaging some momentum going into the break.
“We couldn’t get a shot to go down,” said Nooner about the second period. “And I think we let that kind of affect our defense, it affected our offense, it affected our rebounding.”
The Shockers came into the second half with a smaller lineup on the court. The three tallest players on the roster — senior centers Ella Anciaux and Aicha Ndour and junior forward Maimouna Sissoko — played 19 combined minutes in the first half and none in the second.
Instead, White, junior forward Jayla Murray and senior forward Ornella Niankan split time at center, a position none of them practice frequently.
“We decided to go with the group of kids that we felt that was playing the hardest, that played with the most passion,” Nooner said. “We didn’t really care about how big the group was.”
The home team’s shooting stroke came alive in the third quarter. The Shockers attempted five 3-pointers in the first four minutes of the half, knocking down three of them. After consecutive treys from sophomore guard Salese Blow, Wichita State cut the deficit to 47-43.
Those 3-pointers were key in breaking down a Missouri State zone defense that flummoxed the Shockers in the first half.
“Once you can make some of the threes, I think it kind of softens up the defense and kind of gives us more driving opportunities,” Nooner said.
MSU led, 64-59, halfway into the fourth quarter. Murray sparked a momentum shift with a block that turned into a Blow transition 3-pointer at the other end. Two possessions later, graduate student guard Taylor Jameson tied the game with a layup off a Lady Bears turnover.
The teams remained deadlocked for a few possessions.
Missouri State took a 5-point lead, 78-73, off a wide open 3-pointer due to a Wichita State defensive lapse.
Nooner, visibly frustrated on the sideline, took a timeout with 1:56 left.
Missouri State missed four consecutive free throws down
the stretch, but Wichita State still couldn’t catch up. Jameson and Blow led the second half charge, combining for seven 3-pointers after not making any in the first half. Freshman KP Parr scored 13 points, pulled down six rebounds despite being the team’s smallest player and led the Shockers in plus/minus at +12.
While talking with fans after the game, Murray went down with a cramp and had to be carried off the court by trainers. Nooner said he could see some players were fatigued in the fourth quarter,
but left them in because he was impressed with their fight and effort.
“I’m just pleased with our fight,” Nooner said. “We could have packed it in, and we didn’t. We had timeouts, and we just kind of challenged them to keep taking that (one) possession at a time, keep chipping away.”
The Shockers will attempt to snap the two-game losing streak on Saturday, Nov. 16, when they take on the University of St. Thomas in Charles Koch Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m.
Men’s basketball breezes past Montana State in home opener
BY OWEN PROTHRO
owenprothro@gmail.com
Coming into its game against Wichita State’s men’s basketball team, Montana State University (MSU) made 46% of its 3-pointers. But the Shockers held the Bobcats to 28% from beyond the arc on Saturday night in an 89-69 rout in front of the Shocker faithful. With the win, Wichita State starts 2-0 for the sixth straight season.
“To be honest with you, (I) was really nervous about this one,” head coach Paul Mills said. “Simply because of their (MSU’s) ability to make threes.” Wichita State dominated the first half from the opening tipoff, never trailing through the opening period. The Shockers made huge 15-2 and 10-0 runs to give them a 33-15 lead within the game’s opening 14 minutes.
Fifth-year guard Justin Hill and senior guard Harlond Beverly punctuated the half for Wichita State. Leading 37-22, Hill broke his defender’s ankles and sunk a pull-up jumper, 39-22. After the Bobcats made a 3-pointer on the other end of the floor, Hill converted a stepback 3-pointer of his own, allowing the Shockers to open up a 17-point, 42-25 advantage.
Hill said making the back-toback plays was a fun test of the team’s faith in him.
“You know, just having my teammates trusting me,” Hill said.
“(And) my coaches trust me to make those plays and execute what they call.”
Beverly said he was impressed by Hill breaking a defender’s ankles.
“Usually, he’s the one getting dropped in practice,” Beverly said while laughing. “So it was really good to see it the other way around.”
To end the half, Beverly slammed home an alley-oop pass from Hill as time expired, giving Wichita State a 46-31 halftime lead.
Recalling what he thought when he slammed home the oop, Beverly said, “I just had to catch it.”
“I was glad that we called it because last game we hadn’t put it in (the play) yet,” Beverly said. “So we went over it a couple (of) times today. He (Hill) threw a really good pass.”
The Shockers managed 51% shooting, 38% from beyond the arc and 88% from the free-throw line in the opening period, led by an 11-point effort from Beverly.
Wichita State outrebounded MSU 23-14 and owned the paint, outscoring the Bobcats 28-6 down low.
Senior forward Ronnie DeGray III said the defense’s intensity during the first half helped the team build such a big lead. DeGray scored 11 points, nabbed six rebounds and tallied a block in his 21 minutes of game time.
“(We’re) getting (to) the shooters, pressing them, running off the line, making them play a game that they don’t want to,” DeGray said. “And they turned the ball over in transition. So (the) guys are focused on detail to start the first four minutes and the second unit continued (it).”
The second half was over before it started. The closest the Bobcats came was cutting Wichita State’s lead to 6 points, 52-46. Leading 66-58, the Shockers went on their biggest run of the half, 7-0, to take a 73-58 lead.
From there, free-throw shooting and bench points contributed to the 20-point margin of victory. During the half, Wichita State hit 15-18 free throws and outscored MSU 16-8 off the bench. Senior guard Xavier Bell carried the load, scoring all eight of his points in the second half. The Shockers ended the game hitting their last three shots in a row.
Wichita State ended the game shooting 52% from the field, including 85% from the charity stripe. The Shockers more than
doubled the Bobcats’ points in the paint with 52. Hill scored a game-high 17 points, grabbed five rebounds and assisted five buckets. Four more Shockers ended the game with double-digit points. Senior center Quincy Ballard ended the game with four blocks, a career-high.
Senior forward Ornella Niankan attempts a contested layup in the second quarter against Missouri State. The Shockers lost the game on Nov. 13, 82-77. |
Photo by Garima Thapa / The Sunflower
Fifth year guard Justin Hill drives into the paint on Nov. 9 against Montana State. Hill scored a game-high 17 points. | Photo by Mack Smith / The Sunflower
Wichita State men’s basketball will stay in the confines of Charles Koch Arena when it plays an old Missouri Valley Conference rival, the University of Northern Iowa on Thursday, Nov. 14. The clash of undefeated teams will
Freshman guard KP Parr dribbles the ball up the court against Missouri State. Parr scored 13 points in the loss. | Photo by Garima Thapa / The Sunflower
Gabi Maas battles back from season-ending injury
BY OWEN PROTHRO
owenprothro@gmail.com
May 14, 2024, was another day of volleyball practice for Gabi Maas. But the trajectory for Wichita State’s starting libero’s junior season plummeted in an instant.
During a drill, Maas jumped up for a hit and, on the way down, her knee buckled and her leg gave out. Immediately, she knew something wasn’t right. Her knee bent sideways in an unnatural position.
Maas dislocated her patella and simultaneously tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), medial cruciate ligament (MCL) and meniscus, ending her junior season before it started. Maas said she’ll never forget that day. She remembers thinking, “My volleyball season is over — my volleyball career is over.”
A week later, Maas went through a knee reconstruction surgery and has been on the road to recovery since.
SURGERY AND SUPPORT
During Maas’ surgery, her doctors needed to take out part of her quadricep muscle to repair her torn ACL. From there, she had work done on her meniscus and knee capsule, the structure surrounding her knee.
Luckily for Maas, her MCL healed naturally, preventing another surgery.
“Thank God for that,” Maas said. “I wouldn’t have been able to handle that … because MCL (surgeries) are a whole other ball game.”
Maas was discharged from the hospital on the same day of the surgery. Her surgery experience was a little different than most.
“A lot of people that get ACL surgery, they walk into the surgery and come out on crutches, right?” Maas said. “I walked in on crutches because my leg was a mess, so that was different … I was the opposite.” Throughout her recovery process, Maas’ family — her mother Jana, father Dustin and brother Jack — have played a vital role in supporting her. Maas’ mother also went through ACL surgery in the past.
“They’ve been incredible,” Maas said. “I call them all the time and just vent to them about things I’m going through and how I’m feeling. They are back in Colorado, so it’s hard (sometimes) … But they have been so supportive and so great … they (would) do anything for me.”
Maas’ brother was graduating from high school at the time of her surgery. He insisted that their parents attend the surgery instead of his graduation to make sure she was OK.
“He’s like, ‘You go help Gabi,’” Maas said. “So like, even down to my brother’s (support) has been amazing because if I was him, I would want my parents at his graduation. But he was like, ‘This is not as important as my sister getting surgery.’” Maas’ teammates have also played a supporting role in her recovery.
“They’re amazing,” Maas said. “I mean, I literally could not ask for more. The day I found out that I tore my ACL, I came to practice, obviously more upset, and they
GABI MAAS Wichita State junior libero I could have a careerending injury and never be allowed to play again, but I’m lucky enough that I am going to come back from this.”
had bought me … a little gift basket and gift cards, they wrote a note to me.”
Fellow libero Reagan Anderson said she and Maas still do the same bonding activities together, making sure things don’t change in their relationship.
“We still do all the things that we did before,” Anderson said. “We do things to help keep her mind off of it … And next week is coming up on six months (since Maas’ injury) so we’re going to go to dinner and we’re going to go celebrate it because it’s been a long time and she’s doing great.”
TRAINING AND RETURNING FOR PLAY
Maas said she started recovery and training the day after her surgery. It began with “very basic stuff” like lifting her leg up and down and getting mobility in her ankles without putting any weight on her knee.
Eventually, she went to her hometown in Aurora, Colorado, and spent six weeks going through physical therapy to begin walking again.
Once she returned to Wichita, she began working with Wichita State’s assistant director of sports medicine Kat Hollowell.
Hollowell said she has been rigorous with Maas while keeping her workouts within what’s reasonable for knee recoveries.
“I’ve tried to really capture her competitive side to make it a little more interesting but also more challenging for her,” Hollowell said. “She’s not the kind of person who can do boring rehab, day in and day out. We’ve had to find some creative ways to make things a little bit more interesting for her and challenge that competitive side without making it too difficult.”
Hollowell has implemented the use of a volleyball in Maas’ training for both a mental and physical challenge.
“She might be doing balancing, where she’s passing or setting a ball to herself,” Hollowell said. “And she has to maintain balance without falling off either a pad or one of these boards we have that tilts.”
The next step in the process is a “return to volleyball progression.”
“Like any general knee injury, you have to do your cardio, you do running, (and a) running progression,” Hollowell said. “(Then) you do long endurance running, sprinting, then you do your volleyball-specific activities.”
Maas said she is on course to be fully cleared for play by February. By the time the 2025 season rolls around in the fall, she hopes to be “the Gabi that people watch play.”
NEW ROLE
Since being sidelined, Maas
has found herself as the team’s “listener,” being there for her teammates when they have struggles or need someone to talk to.
“I’ve kind of always been that person for a lot of the girls,” Maas said. “But even more so (now) because I have more time to listen to what’s going on and just kind of give them advice, like how to handle certain situations and what’s going on.”
Anderson said Maas has been terrific as a vocal leader.
“She motivates us, gives us a lot of motivational talks in the locker room,” Anderson said. “I think she has done a great job of helping us and encouraging us. She’s just been a great teammate throughout this whole thing.”
Maas has also found herself becoming akin to a player-coach, a player who can view the game through the lens of a coach.
“Since I don’t have to play, I see a lot of interactions that happen on the court,” Maas said. “I see a lot of stuff that a coach would normally see.”
After the team’s first tournament of the season, Maas’ teammates chipped in and bought her a clipboard so she could take notes and scout other teams, which keeps her engaged in the game.
“I was just using my planner,” Maas said. “And so they got me a specific little clipboard with my name and stuff on it, which was really nice.”
BEING AWAY FROM THE GAME
Since being away from the sport she loves the most, Maas said the mental challenge of not being on the court has been difficult for her.
“I feel guilty a lot of the time,” Maas said. “The guilt of like, ‘I can’t play for my team,’ and I feel like they’ve been missing me, (which) is hard (to deal with). And so that’s been, mentally, the hardest thing ever in my life.”
Though she misses competing with the team, Maas said her journey to recovery has helped to put things in perspective.
“Yes, this is hard,” Maas said. “However, I’m lucky that I even have the opportunity to play college athletics, and I’m surrounded by such an amazing training staff because not everyone gets that … I could have a career-ending injury and never be allowed to play again, but I’m lucky enough that I am going to come back from this.”
Hollowell shared the sentiment.
“I feel like she’s matured a lot,” Hollowell said. “She’s kind of become a leader on the team (and) she always was, but I think now because she sees it (the game) from a different perspective, she’s able to give real-time feedback to people … whether it’s volleyball related, personality-related, team chemistry related. (She’s able to) stand up and say something.”
When she returns, fans of Wichita State volleyball can look forward to the high-energy Maas they knew before.
“When she’s out there, she’s going to give it her all,” Anderson said. “(The fans) can look forward to her being just like she was last year — if not even better.”
BY JACOB UNRUH
& MACK
SMITH sports@thesunflower.com & mackred22@gmail.com
Wichita State faced a tough weekend road trip against a Rice University team at the top of the American Athletic Conference (AAC) and Tulane University, which was celebrating its senior day.
The Shockers dropped a heartbreaking loss to Rice on Friday, but recovered to sweep Tulane on Sunday.
The Shockers sit in third place in the AAC standings at 10-4 after the road trip.
With Rice and the University of South Florida also winning on Sunday, the Shockers will be unable to move up in the standings during the remaining two games of the regular season.
@ RICE
Wichita State and Rice are about as evenly matched as two volleyball teams can be — but so far this season, the Owls have the Shockers’ number.
When the teams met on Oct. 6 in Charles Koch Arena, the Owls scored a narrow five-set victory. On Friday night in Houston, another barnburner ended with the same result. Rice won, 3-2 (2025), (25-22), (25-22), (22-25) (16-14).
The loss snapped Wichita State’s four-game winning streak while Rice upped its own winning streak to five games.
Senior middle blocker Morgan Stout was, yet again, the most dominant offensive player on the Wichita State side of the court. She led the road team with 20 kills on a .267 percentage, added four blocks and didn’t sit out a point after taking a shot to the face on a powerful Rice kill in the third set.
The 20-kill performance is Stout’s third time eclipsing the 20-kill mark in the last four games.
Junior libero Katie Galligan followed up her first AAC Defensive Player of the Week award by leading the team with 20 digs.
Nearly every statistic was tight between the two teams. Wichita State hit .214 to Rice’s .255 and scored 80 points to the Owls’ 82. Wichita State never trailed in the first set, either tying or leading Rice by fewer than 5 points the whole way. The Owls jumped out to its first lead of the game with a 4-0 run to start the second set. The teams were knotted throughout the period, but Rice rallied for four of the last six points of the set to win.
The third set was a mirror of the second, down to the winning Rice margin after the Owls ended the set with a 4-2 run.
It looked as though the fourth set would end without drama as WSU led, 18-12. Rice proceeded to go on a 6-0 run, including two blocks of Stout. Wichita State recovered, however, to win the set.
Rice had the momentum for most of the fifth set. That appeared to change when senior libero Annalie Heliste earned a dig and kill on the same play. The ball bounced off her arms, over the entire Rice team and landed right in front of the end line. That sparked a 6-2 Wichita State run that gave the Shockers the lead, 13-12. Rice recovered to take the next two points, but the Shockers tied it at 14 to extend the game. However, Rice won the final two points to earn the victory. Fifth-year middle blocker Sarah Barham put up one of her better performances of the season with nine kills on a .533 percentage and four blocks. Redshirt freshman Alyssa Gonzales added 14 kills. The Shockers needed those performances as junior outside hitters Brooklyn Leggett and Emerson Wilford combined for 14 kills, 11 errors and a .054 hitting percentage.
@ TULANE
Wichita State volleyball was able to secure their third sweep of the year against Tulane (25-22), (25-19), (25-21). Senior middle blocker Morgan Stout got the scoring started in the first set with a kill. Freshman outside hitter Gracie Morrow came out hot in the first set, collecting three of the first six points for the Shockers.
Going into the media timeout Wichita State led, 15-12. Out of the timeout, Stout collected back-toback aces. A kill by Stout pushed it to set point. Morrow would get a kill, ending the set. The second set started back and forth with no team able to go up by more than three points. WSU gained some momentum with a 4-0 scoring run, forcing Tulane to call a timeout with the score being 11-7, Shockers. After the timeout, Wichita State was able to maintain the lead and eventually win the set.
The third set also started back and forth. The Shockers went on a 6-0 run, creating some separation. A kill by Stout made it set point. Stout then swung for a kill that was called out, but a successful challenge by WSU head coach Chris Lamb led the referees to rule the ball was touched by a Green Wave player, ending the game. Stout led the team in kills (18) and aces (two). Junior libero Katie Galligan led the team in digs (23), fifth-year setter Izzi Strand led in assists (40) and fifth-year middle blocker Sarah Barham and freshman outside hitter Gracie Morrow led the team in blocks (two).
The Shockers will face the University of North Texas on Friday, Nov. 15 in Denton, Texas. It will be the final road regular season game of the year for the Shockers. The first serve is scheduled for 6 p.m.
Gabi Maas celebrates with her teammates during a Wichita State volleyball game. She held a personal clipboard that her teammates gifted to her earlier this year. | Photo by Annie Scoggins, courtesy of Wichita State Athletics
Fight the burnout blues as the semester’s end draws closer
It’s that time of year again — the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is approaching, marketable Santa merch is hitting the shelves, and movies like “Elf” and “Home Alone” are being played with a side of hot chocolate. Amid it all, burnout is setting in, fast.
Midterms have passed and most students, myself included, are ready for holiday break more than anything. More seats are empty in class and the few stragglers rarely speak as exhaustion creeps into college students’ bones.
According to a study by Handshake in 2023, 29% of undergraduate students reported feeling burnt out often, and 51% said they felt burnt out sometimes.
As college students, life doesn’t stop, even when it gets hard. As easy as it is to skip class, students are often the ones who pay for it, financially and academically. Each class skipped is another dollar given to WSU without a purpose attached to it.
As someone who has suffered from burnout, I have accumulated some techniques that helped me stay on top of classes and responsibilities.
DON’T BE AFRAID TO ASK FOR HELP
You’re not alone in being overwhelmed and stressed, so don’t be afraid to ask someone for some help when it feels like you’re drowning, whether that be your parents, friends or a therapist.
As someone who values being independent, I know it’s sometimes
I grew up enchanted with stories of “lost media”: clips of “SpongeBob SquarePants” that exist only within memories posted on various Reddit forums, television series our parents grew up with completely lost to time, the Library of Alexandria burning to the ground in 48 B.C.E. Lost media has taken on a different tone in recent years: the need for physical media is stronger than ever. Now, lost media takes a more personal approach: your five generations of Sims family get scrubbed from your laptop, your private middle school playlists locked under a different Spotify password. Sure, these personal examples don’t fit the traditional definition of “lost media,” but as far as we’re concerned, they’re just as lost as anything else, and they have the disadvantage of not having an army of Reddit users to help recover them. The quick and easy loss of data in the digital age is why physical, tangible forms of your favorite media are needed more than ever before. Digital media is simply too
hard to accept help, but it can be the best — and most responsible — thing to do in certain cases. There’s nothing to be ashamed of for that.
Sometimes, you just need a shoulder to lean on.
WHAT IS BURNOUT?
Burnout is a term that is thrown in conversations quite often. According to Psychology Today, burnout is a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress. Some signs of burnout, according to Healthline, are exhaustion, feelings of dread, difficulty sleeping, inconsistent appetite and cynicism.
LEARN TO SAY ‘NO’
You can’t do everything — that’s a fact. There are certain things you have to say “no” to and that can be difficult. Stretching yourself too thin could be detrimental to your mental health.
To combat the exhaustion and dread, balancing work and social life is crucial. Spending all your time studying is not the answer to success.
Human beings need socialization to live properly, but you can’t spend all your time at parties at the same time. There’s a thin line college students have to walk to stay healthy, both mentally and physically, and it’s difficult to navigate.
But being mature enough to know limitations will save students heartbreak in the future, even if it means disappointing someone now by turning down their invitation.
FIND A HOBBY
Instead of catching yourself in the never-ending cycle of scrolling through Instagram Reels and TikToks, find a new hobby.
Social media can be toxic to a person’s mental health. Watching TikTok stars buy their third mansion can really damage your self-perception and personal goals.
To combat doomscrolling, find something new and productive to replace it.
This could be journaling to stay mentally healthy, jogging to stay physically active or learning to crochet to help release your creative side.
SET REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
It can be hard to accept that we, students, are not perfect beings. Most of us will not get a perfect “A+” in every class, no matter how hard we try.
Often, the stress that students place upon themselves is set by the standards they have for themselves. We are our toughest critics, but we need to be our biggest supporters as well.
Instead of saying you’re not going to miss a single class all semester, maybe say that you will only miss class when necessary. While it still sets a goal that requires a certain amount of drive and accountability, it’s not as damaging to your mental and physical health.
As the semester comes to a close, it will soon be acceptable to nap all day over the much-needed winter break. But until then, keep on top of classes and save the naps for after homework is done.
As a student at Wichita State, I have come to expect frequent construction around campus, but the new Hub for Advanced Manufacturing Research (HAMR) building for the National Institute for Aviation Research has brought fresh frustrations.
Located behind Woolsey Hall and The Suites, the HAMR occupies prime land that could have benefited all students directly.
Campus construction has become a near-constant presence, with fences lining the miniature Suites parking lot and loud noises echoing around campus. I can hear the loud crash of something dropping or breaking all the way from Braeburn Square.
The timing, as usual, is also inconsiderate. As finals approach, students must endure the clangs and bangs of heavy equipment — not exactly an ideal environment for studying.
For months, students like me thought the bones of the building were the beginning of a new parking garage. It would have been a long-overdue resource that could have eased the ever-growing parking pressures. I even hoped that WSU might roll out a new fee structure to support the potential garage or a semesterly subscription charged to students on top of the parking pass.
While that may not be ideal, it seemed like the typical WSU move. Imagine my
disappointment when I realized it wasn’t a parking garage. It wasn’t even a tool or service for students to use on their day-to-day. It is not a solution at all, but another National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) project. It’s not that the Hub for Advanced Manufacturing Research building lacks merit. According to WSU, this $62 million project — supported by a $26 million federal grant from the 2021 Build Back Better Regional Challenge — will enhance NIAR’s capacity to research advanced manufacturing processes and potentially assist small businesses, which could even mean more learning opportunities for students.
I don’t think we really needed another NIAR facility right next to The Suites or, honestly, planted on campus at all. There are plenty of destinations in the 10-year master plan that could have suited this niche building better. For instance the large block of space behind Braeburn Square, behind a large pond.
WSU should have the priorities of the area set to the students and their interests. Maybe instead of a building that only serves a niche population of Wichita State, we can have some sort of grocery market or another building that can aid the entire campus. Given that students are the reason for the university’s functions and existence, as opposed to partnerships and other entities, the campus should focus on its students.
unreliable to be something that memories are built on. When I was in middle school, I changed the password to my phone and ended up mistyping the new password two times in a row while setting it. The only solution was to completely wipe my phone.
Because I was 12 years old and an idiot, none of my photos were backed up anywhere. I was forced to say goodbye to photos of my cat as a kitten, videos of my baby brother toddling through life, and, on the bright side, audio clips of me struggling my way through a difficult cello piece — all stuff that could’ve been placed on a hard drive, or, better yet, a data-storing CD.
My stepdad, who was neither 12 years old nor an idiot, was loading his truck for a work trip once and misplaced his laptop and hard drive. A few minutes later, he found them, crunched under the back tire. Goodbye years and years of memories, many of which are completely lost to the world now with no hope of return. Although hard drives are a solid option, nothing really beats a stack of CDs with all of your childhood memories.
It may sound materialistic, but physical media is a great way to keep what’s important to us in
close proximity. It’s a lot harder to forget a lovely day you spent with your friends if you have a framed photo on your desk. Albums feel more meaningful when you can flip through a lyric book, the edges thumbed by countless people before.
In 20 years, what are you going to have to show your children and loved ones? An album on your phone, confined to a 2532 by 1170 pixel screen doesn’t have the same nostalgic feel as flipping through a physical album. Our parents and grandparents were onto something with scrapbooks and photo albums. Print out your photos, in case your drive gets corrupted and your albums get wiped. Buy physical copies of your favorite movies and video games, in case you get locked out of your Steam account or Netflix raises their prices (again). Browse stacks of mildewy records to look for your favorite 70s band.
Turn the playlist that defined your sophomore year of college into a CD. (It’s really easy, actually.) After all, people you’re trying to woo are going to be way more impressed by a CD that you spent hours toiling over, with a title lovingly scrawled in Sharpie, than a playlist that Spotify’s artificial intelligence DJ half-built for you.
LOST MEDIA
Lost media is defined as media that is believed to be lost or otherwise inaccessible to the general public.
Lost media has gained popularity through the rise of YouTube creators like “blameitonjorge” and the lost media Reddit page. Oftentimes, the most popular cases of lost media are media that never existed in the first place.
EXAMPLE OF LOST MEDIA
“Sesame Street”: 53 episodes
1971: Debut of first deaf character Linda, portrayed by Linda Bove, lost. Debut of Oscar the Grouch’s pet worm, Slimy, lost.
2022: Majority of the show donated to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and the Library of Congress.
Four test pilot shows from 1969, the “Snuffy’s Parents Divorce” episode and several specials were not donated.
Many segments only exist in versions dubbed in other languages. Raw footage containing certain scenes for some lost episodes is believed to be buried in the Sesame Workshop archives.
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ARTS & CULTURE
‘Incohesive cohesiveness’: Artists relay the many frustrations of being critiqued in
Mya Scott mds.200624@gmail.com OPINION
“AT CRITS END: Taking Frames, Kicking Class,” made by the Studio Tools and Presentation class, is a lot to behold. At first glance, it’s a conglomerate of multiple different kinds of art pieces. It seems chaotic and like pieces of a puzzle that don’t fit together quite right. At its core, it's a physical representation of the artist’s frustration with long hours and even longer critiques.
The gallery holds multiple different minor themes such as personal strife, humanity, consumption, interaction, perspective, connection and even cats.
“The show as a whole, it has an almost incohesive cohesiveness,” senior Zelda McAfee said.
A description of the gallery even concluded with a statement that said, “The complexities of hosting a group show that encompasses so many different topics challenges us to find connections within each other. We are not taking criticism at this time. Thanks. :D.” The message emphasizes the complexities of the art and the artist’s annoyance of spending a huge portion of their lives being judged.
At the exhibition, there were three floors: the first was the title card and then the other two floors were curated by some of the students who had placed art into the show. The third floor was co-curated by McAfee and fifth-year senior Isabella King. McAfee said that giving students the opportunity to curate is really important in the art field, however, there were some challenges. It’s
not displayed in your typical gallery — it's a school building. There are fire alarms and wires and too many doors to count that can get in the way of displaying the pieces efficiently, and the students themselves were the ones curating the floors.
“With living artists, a lot of people want their art in a very specific places and a lot of people want their art in those same specific places so it’s a battle to figure out who goes where,” McAfee said. “I think that this was a really challenging space, but I think we were really successful in working with those challenges and finding those parts that made sense for the space.”
And they did pull it off — the pieces are placed in a way that draws your eyes from one to the next in a pleasing way. Not a single piece overshadows another, and they work together in a way that encapsulates the non-linear storytelling of their themes.
Within the multiple different outlets of this overarching theme, there were even more mediums. There’s everything from watercolors to building a figure out of discarded fidget toys.
Junior Bri’Quin Hadley had an interesting medium and an even more interesting inspiration.
“I always loved art, but I would say my first interest in art was probably Transformers,”
Hadley said. “Definitely Michael Bay (film director of the first five Transformers movies) influenced me a lot. And my dad would buy me a lot of Transformers, and then I would just start to draw them. And then just from there, I started to branch out into different types of art.”
Hadley used items that can be found in most American households such as plastic forks and old Expo markers. My favorite
piece of his is titled “Steven strikes back.” It features what looks to be a scorpion-esque creature fighting a modified Transformers doll. The scorpion, Steven, is a literal amalgamation of trash and various items — his tail is a fidget rainbow worm, one of his claws is part of a paintbrush and his back leg is made of a marker tied to a miniature T-pipe, like what you would find under a sink.
This piece is a pure and unfiltered projection of what the imagination can do when it’s released to full capacity.
Other artists, like junior Noah Hutchinson, weren’t inspired by a certain franchise, but rather certain genres and subjects of art.
“All of my work really consists of either microscopic or zoomed-in, high-detail anatomy studies,” Hutchinson said. “And then kind of twisting it … (with) a comic book graphic type of style.”
The piece that stood out the most to me by Hutchinson was entitled “Wash Your Hands.” It was a comically large, cartoonish face drawn in the fashion of those tiny, green germs you see in cartoons. The face is screaming at you, and the red background surrounding the green germ gives the impression that it’s coming toward you.
This is a cool piece. The art is well done, the line work is impeccable and the style is so unique to some of the other styles in the gallery that it’s hard not to take notice of it when you walk by.
Then again, other artists didn’t focus on the medium as much, but the what message they’re trying to convey.
“From my art, I would like (spectators) to understand how I’m viewing the world for women’s bodies,” McAfee said. “ I did a work based on Greek gods. I used modern bodies so they’re
new exhibition
not perfect marble sculptures, but they’re supposed to look like sculptures because of how society treats us.”
McAfee has completed and displayed two pieces from this series they’re working on. They’ve done Artmes, the Greek goddess of the moon, and Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
McAfee used photography to depict this vision. For Artemis, they had someone else pose for the portrait, and for Aphrodite, McAfee posed for their own piece.
These pieces are beautiful — McAfee perfectly captured the sculpture vibe for the portraits. The outfits were an amazing representation of the time frame being emulated.
Not only was “AT CRITS END” a way for artists to release frustrations, it was a way for them to be able to show outside spectators the visualization of their annoyance — without critiques.
“For student art to be available to the public for free, just to come and view is really important,” junior Lily Arens said. “It's a great way for the public to be able to talk with artists as well, because especially in galleries or museums, often the artist isn’t actually there. So being able to actually speak
with the people that made the art can really give people perspective on the meaning.”
Students like King, find the public attention helpful, not just because of the direct communication between artist and spectator, but also because it helps smash certain stigmas around art students.
“Since (the public) is able to come out and see these for free, I think it helps people kind of understand different types of art and kind of gets rid of that stigma against rich students,” King said. “I feel like a lot of older people especially are like, ‘Oh you go to art school, what do you make money with?’ And it’s not always about that, it’s sometimes just about the art and it’s good for them to be able to see that.”
Despite all the stigmas and the challenges, artists will continue to be inspired, either by pressing societal problems, like McAfee, or the hit series “Transformers,” like Hadley, and will continue to make art.
“We’re aspiring artists and we’re just going to keep going,” Hadley said. “They should just continue coming out and supporting the origin of art and the students. Art is life.”
Students peruse and purchase homemade goods at Maker Market
A spectator observes an art piece at the reception of “AT CRITS END” in McKnight Art Center. | Photo by Mya Scott / The Sunflower
Students take a look at the jewlery and crafts sold by Barbwire Creations at the Maker Market on Nov. 12. Jay Dewiel, a creative writing major, chats about crafting with the vender of SourBunny Studios.
Kenia Chavez-Juarez and Milyka Johnson, both health science majors, admire the wares at the Beth and Bella Art booth. | Photos by Shelby DuVall / The Sunflower
Sydney Burns, a psychology student, makes a purchase at SourBunny Studios’ booth during the Maker Market.
Maverick Lane, a sophomore majoring in graphic design, chooses at bracelet from a booth at the Maker Market.
Ruby Quezada Valadez, a design and tech major, examines the mugs and bowls at a ceramics booth for the Maker Market on Nov. 12.
Mya Scott mds.200624@gmail.com REVIEW
I can count the number of times I’ve reluctantly enjoyed a William Shakespeare play on one hand, but Wichita State’s School of Performing Arts has added another play to that list.
Written by Shakespeare in the early seventeenth century, “Twelfth Night” is a romantic comedy, which was influential due to its reversal of societal roles.
“Twelfth Night” follows the story of a girl named Viola. Thinking her brother is dead, she pretends to be a man named Cesario. Viola works for Duke Orsino, whom she falls in love with, but her sentiment is not shared as Orsino is in love with Countess Olivia.
In a desperate plea, Orsino sends Viola, acting as Cesario, to Olivia’s garden to woo her, and the countess falls in love with the false Cesario, unaware that her love is actually a woman.
One of the oldest love triangle stories, if you will.
This play was so ahead of its time. If they hadn’t spoken in early modern English, I would’ve thought this was written in modern-day times. It has drama; it has inappropriate innuendos; and it even has LGBTQ+ themes hidden throughout, an uncommon 17th-century occurrence.
While this is happening, Viola’s believed-to-be-dead brother, Sebastian, is roaming the streets, causing confusion and problems everywhere he goes.
Adding to the writing genius, the cast created a whole new layer that made it exciting and interesting to watch. It’s not easy
to make words like “thee” and “thou” sound anything more than pretentious, but this cast did a wonderful job. Their diction was perfect and so comically timed when needed, while parts meant to tug at the heartstrings were beautifully delivered. Their responses and expressions helped emphasize what their character was feeling.
The simple stage of wrecked pirate ships, while the curtain was lined with treasure maps, set it apart from other productions of “Twelfth Night.” And costumes were brilliantly meshed with the dress from the 1600s.
But what really set this play on an “A” tier was the staging. All the movements seemed natural — not robotic and stiff. They moved around like they were actually the characters within the scene.
And the best part was the fight scene.
Late in the play, Antonio, a wanted man who rescued Sebastian, is caught by guards as he roams the streets. An epic sword fight breaks out between the two guards and Antonio, and when I say this thing looked cool, imagine 10 times what you believe the word “cool” means.
The movements were flawless, not a single stutter in swing or step. There were rolls, jumps and literal swords flying through the air. And even though it only lasted no more than three minutes, it has made a lasting impression on my mind. Everything about this scene was perfect.
Overall, “Twelfth Night” deserved every clap, laugh and giggle it received. It was hilarious and goofy, and I’m glad the Wichita State actors stepped up and embraced the silliness instead of backing away from the sheer ridiculousness of it all.
Lily Bann arts@thesunflower.com REVIEW
“I will touch you on my darker nights,” Wichita State assistant professor Hilary Grace Taylor sings in the final section of Lance Hulme’s world premiere of “December Night” — a mark of the final destination in the shared spiritual search for freedom from agony between the helpless slave, Sada, and the hopeless archbishop, Father Latour (played by Logan Tarwater).
The opera’s libretto, written by Alicia Richards, is a vignette from the titular chapter in Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop.” Deemed as one of the great American novels, it may seem like a challenge to wrap Willa Cather’s writing into an articulate adaptation for audiences.
Yet with a history of adapting “And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead” by Thornton Wilder and “The Ebony Tower” by John Fowles into two full-length adapted operas, the opening of Hulme’s newest opera on Nov. 7 and 8 unveiled that he was well equipped for properly depicting this somber and afflicting winter tale.
As a discrete WSU student choir within Miller Concert Hall’s audience awakened the stage, it was established that a judicious usage of the non-theatrical space would make up for the lack of curtains and props.
The tormented archbishop, Father Latour, enters. While a lack of introduction emphasized a need to decipher each decibel
in the opera solos, the storyline was simple and pronounced enough for it to only be a matter of understanding the human emotion to access “December Night’s” meaning.
“His soul had become a barren field,” Willa Cather writes, referring to an emptiness and despair Father Latour succumbed to in the time his friend, Father Vaillant (played by Logan Reid) was away.
As Tarwater continues to reflect on his loneliness and inability to help his people in “all that I’ve done” he believes, “I have nothing left to give” all the more, singing, “I am alone — my heart is a stone — on a cold December night.”
Feeling the burden as a leader of a mid-19th century territory in New Mexico, Tarwater belts a distressing stream of consciousness, until he is interrupted by a lively and optimistic Father Vaillant. Joining him onstage from behind the center-stage organ, Reid acts as a witness to the archbishop’s imagination — whether or not he is real or a character in his own head, though, is unclear.
It is not until Sada, who savagely runs on-stage from outside the theater, finds herself in Tarwater’s grasp, that the two feel closure on this “cold December night.”
As the two pray together, it becomes clear Tarwater is growing more and more tethered to his reality as he helps the woman regain agency over her relationship with God.
While it is unclear at times the specifics of their language — one sentiment is clear, the phrase that had reigned most in the beginning was “on this cold December night” is now “this sweet and holy night.”
Attendees look at multidisciplinary artist David Alabo’s visual art through a phone camera. The art turned into a video
through the screen. | Photo by Garima Thapa / The Sunflower
Ellie Skokan grabs food at the reception of the David Alabo artist talk on Nov. 11. The event, which took place in the Ulrich Museum of Art, offered refreshments and alcoholic drinks.
Alcoholic beverages were provided at the Ulrich
museum for David Alabo’s artist talk on Nov. 7. Alabo is a Ghanaian-Moroccan multidisciplinary artist.
Randall Treece has a drink while talking to Ted Adler at the David Alabo artist talk. Adler is a ceramics professor at WSU.
David Alabo, a Ghanaian-Moroccan multidisciplinary artist, talks to WSU alum Karen McPhee. Alabo’s artwork is in exhibition at the Ulrich Museum.
Assistant professor Hilary Grace Taylor looks to Logan Tarwater as he sings to her during “December Night”, created by composer Lance Hulme. | Photo by Taliyah Winn / The Sunflower
THEATRICAL THROUPLE
‘Twelfth Night’ gives Shakespearean take on love triangle
UPCOMING EVENTS
SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM AUDITIONS & INTERVIEWS
SATURDAY, NOV. 16
8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Wilner Auditorium for BFA or BA in theatre, BFA in design & technical theatre
Heskett Center Dance Studios for BFA in musical theatre, BFA or BA in dance
Future students are able to audition and interview for multiple programs throughout the day. Current SPA students and the SPA Director will be available to answer questions. Virtual options are available, but in-person auditions and interviews are strongly recommended.
SYMPHONIC BAND CONDUCTED BY TIMOTHY SHADE
MONDAY, NOV. 18
7:30 - 9 p.m.
Miller Concert Hall
Join the WSU Symphonic Band in a variety of classical to contemporary pieces. This concert is focusing on wind and percussion instruments in creating meaningful music for all participants. The event is free to all WSU students.
WILDLIFE WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Rhatigan Student Center, East Atrium
Join Tanganyika Wildlife Park’s ambassador animals in the RSC to learn and interact with a different creature every 30 minutes.
Meet with Peer Financial Coaches to discuss scholarships and other ways of financing your college education at this come-and-go event.
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMOISTRY
COLLOQUIA SERIES: JUNJI IWAHARA
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20
3:30 p.m.
McKinley Hall, room 224
Professor Junji Iwahara from the University of Texas will perform a talk entitled “Direct measurement of biomolecular electrostatic potentionals by NMR spectroscopy.”
WSU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS “SYMPHONY CHACO” WITH R. CARLOS NAKAI AND SPECIAL GUESTS
THURSDAY, NOV. 21
7:30 p.m.
Miller Concert Hall
Featuring Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai, soprano singer Christina Martos and composer Gary Gackstatter as a narrator, the WSU Symphony presents “Symphony Chaco,” a celebration of musical passion and spirit. Composed by Gackstatter, the symphony is a collaboration with Nakai after Gackstatter found inspiration in the flutist for more than 20 years.
CLOSING RECEPTION: “ASIAN INFLUENCE IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN ART”
FRIDAY, NOV. 22
5 - 9 p.m.
Harvester Arts at The Lux 120 E. 1st St. N.
With work from College of Fine Arts alum Chiyoko Myose and other artists, this reception will close up the exhibition showcasing the influence of Eastern art into Western culture and media.
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Freshman Colton Farmer made his Wichita State University Theatre debut as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a comically foolish and foppish nobleman, in “Twelfth Night.”
Senior Carson Ediger portrayed Sir Toby Belch, uncle to Countess Olivia, raising a glass during the “Twelfth Night” production on Nov. 9.
Freshman Colton Farmer and senior Lynnaya McClure, playing Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Viola, bring humor to a lively fight scene in “Twelfth Night.” The mix-up of mistaken identities and reluctant rivalry warranted laughs from the audience.
Senior Sky Duncan portrayed Antonio, a loyal sea captain and friend to Sebastian, in the “Twelfth Night” production on Nov. 9.
Senior Lynnaya McClure, playing Viola, and sophomore Israel Carreno as Sebastian portray twins separated by a shipwreck. The play concluded with a joyful reunion of the siblings.
Freshman Colton Farmer, in character, practices fighting moves
his role
Sir Andrew Aguecheek, who fights Cesario in “Twelfth Night.” Directed by Joseph Urick, the production ran from Nov. 7-10.
Performing arts major Sara Moore sings during the “Twelfth Night” performance on Nov. 10 at Wilner Auditorium. Moore portrayed Maria, Olivia’s scheming lady-inwaiting. | Photos by Aubri Baker / The Sunflower
