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UNIVERSITY NEWS UMKC’s Independent Student Newspaper

Volume 81, Issue 20

Monday February 17, 2014

Rolling Out The Red Carpet:

Courtwarming 2014 EVENT SCHEDULE

Saturday, February 15 2pm -Swinney Recreation Center UMKC Women vs. Texas-Pan American UMKC Court announced at halftime Sunday, February 16th 6:30-8:30 pm -Student Union Coffeehouse stage Game Night - Come get your game on!

Monday, February 17th 7 pmStudent Union Theater UPS Cinema Movie Night Tuesday, Feburary 18th 7 pm Student Union Theater Yell Like Hell Wednesday, Febray 19th 7pm Pierson Audtiorium Trivia Night Thursday, February 20th 7 pm Municipal Audtiorium Blue and Old Game vs. Bakersfield Friday, February 21st 2:15 pmUnion Station followed by Ice Skating at Crown Center Service Friday Event and Ice Skating Saturday, February 22nd 7pm Municipal Audtiorium Court Warming and Coronation

Court-warming kicked off on Saturday with the women’s basketball team, with each candidate for this year’s royalty court being introduced at halftime. Eight UMKC hopefuls will compete for the crown this week in a variety of events, following the theme “Rolling Out the Red Carpet.”

This year, candidates represent a variety of student organizations.

Things will start heating up this week as each student takes on several activities to be held on campus. All events are open to the entire student body.

In typical Roo fashion, the Yell Like Hell competition will take place on Tues. Feb. 18. Come cheer on your favorite candidate as they strut their stuff on the Student Union Theatre stage. On Wed. Feb. 19, students and royalty court candidates will test their UMKC and Hollywood knowledge in a trivia night. Several other healthy competitions will also occur throughout the week. Check out the UMKC homepage for more information.

At the end of the week-long campaign, two students will be received the prestigious title. Crowning will occur at the men’s basketball game Sat. Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in Municipal Auditorium.

2014 UMKC Courtwarming Candidates

Bri Ehrler

sponsored by Delta Zeta is a Biology, Chemistry, Philosophy major

Jonathan Finch

sponsored by Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a civil engineering major Infographic // Ashley Lane

Colby Carpenter

sponsored by Lambda Chi Alpha is a Biology major

Christopher Beaudoin

sponsored by Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society is a chemistry, biology major

Jacob Dorries

sponsored by Pride Alliance is a Criminal Justice major

Raschell West

sponsored by Chi Omega is a music therapy major

Brett Parrott

sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega is a Chemistry, predental major

Mary Margaret Pearman

sponsored by Alpha Delta Pi is a pre-dental and psychology

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Communication studies seeking content for KHEN Channel 17 Sam Littlefield Staff Writer

The department of communication studies is in the process of acquiring local television channel KHEN Channel 17, which has been managed by the department of information access through Time Warner Cable Company.

The department of information access has, until now, been in charge of both channels 17 and 18, but is giving up both of the channels.

Channel 18 will be inherited by the Kansas City School District and channel 17 by UMKC. The department of communications studies expects to have full control of channel 17 by the end of the month.

“The handover is still happening,” said Peter Morello, associate professor of journalism. “With anything big it takes time to connect.”

Morello, who served for 15 years as a correspondent for the Public Broadcasting Service before coming to UMKC, is overseeing an independent study of students working with channel 17. The two students responsible for channel 17’s content management and production this semester are seniors Riley Kurtenbach and Brittney Ernst.

“Tuesday [Feb. 18] we hope to get some schedules going,” Ernst said.

“Right now we’re still in the process of finding out how the system works

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As part of their independent study, Ernst and Kurtenbach will review all content provided by students, professors and student organizations.

After initial reviewing, the approved content will be uploaded into a database, where they will then be able to select content to fill up the various broadcasting schedules.

The agreement that the department of communications studies has with Time Warner mandates that at least 40 percent of channel 17’s scheduled content must originate from local sources. The agreement also states that all content aired must be of some educational value and cannot be of any higher rating than TV-14.

Although Morello has been

soliciting content for the past year, there is still a need for more local content.

This need creates a unique opportunity for students to submit their own content for a chance to have it broadcasted across the Kansas City metro area.

“It looks good on a resume,” Morello said, “when you’ve had a segment, or a show, or a report transmitted to a half million households.”

Morello’s hope for channel 17 is that it will eventually be completely run by students and be something that UMKC can be proud of.

Kurtenbach and Ernst are open to reviewing content from any department at UMKC and any original content created by UMKC students that meets the educational and rating requirements.

“I would love to get some student films from the film department,” Ernst said. “I would love to get even some guest lectures recorded here at UMKC. Even if someone wanted to produce their own show or content, something they would normally put on the internet. If we feel it is acceptable we will hopefully put it up.”

For anyone at UMKC interested in submitting content for review, please contact Peter Morello at morellop@ umkc.edu. slittlefield@unews.com

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Pass the milk: Cookies with Chi-O a homemade tradition

The women of Chi Omega throw what they know.

Chi Omega hosted its annual Cookies with Chi-O event at its chapter house on Feb. 12. This was an opportunity for everyone at UMKC to meet the newly initiated members, tour the chapter house and socialize with the women of Chi Omega.

“It’s just a tradition we have,” said sisterhood chair Marjorie Farrington. “You know, cookies are, especially around Valentine’s Day, are a really sweet treat. We have a lot of Valentine’s Day themed cookies.

The Chi Omegas socialize.

From left to right: Nickey Nehring, Daeshanna Hudson, Nicole Koentz, Olivia Willis Photo // Vishnu Chander into it the more I’m getting so much more excited and just really stepping come for a good time and get to know into my role and not be as shy to do new people,” West said. “…I think a as much promotion and be more lot of times there’s a lot of segregation involved in things. I think it will be between Greeks and non-Greeks. It’s a great experience now and it will be just encouraging friends in general to a great way to promote Chi Omega come and mix and mingle and get to and the conservatory next year and know us outside of Chi Omega and outside of the stereotypical Greek once I’ve graduated.”

West said she chose Chi Omega setting.”

Cookies with Chi-O was an open because the sorority’s motto upheld her Christian values, particularly house event complete with upbeat scholarship before social obligation music, casual socializing and, of course, hundreds of different cookies. and character before appearances.

“I would say that all of our events kbaxendale@unews.com we promote to the women and the public that everybody is welcome to

Members of Chi Omega baked hundreds of cookies for the event.

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Photo // Vishnu Chander It has a nice ring to it, Cookies with Chi-O.” The sorority welcomed 25 new members, who were initiated last month. OIivia Derry and Haley Franklin were enthusiastic about their initiation.

“I joined because of some of the connections I made with some of the girls are really great,” Derry said.

“I know there are a lot of nursing majors in Chi Omega so I thought that would help since I’m going into the field. I like the philanthropy a lot.”

The women have been involved with Chi Omega since fall 2013 but

they did not become official members until this semester.

“It’s just good involvement in the campus,” Franklin said. “We do a lot of volunteer work. It’s just a good way to have a family away from home. I really like it.”

Franklin baked cookie brownies, a combination of the two sweet treats. Each of the approximately 80 members contributed cookies for the event. The seniors provided supplies such as soft drinks, plates and cups.

“This is definitely one of our big events that allows other members on campus to come and just talk to us and get to know us, get to see our house and meet all the new girls that were just initiated,” said Alex Johnson, administrative secretary for the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

“I really like this event. It’s very relaxed and fun. Everyone gets to eat and talk. I think it’s a good way to get to know everybody.”

Johnson brought heart-shape cookies in honor of Valentine’s Day. Cookies were set out throughout the house for guests to enjoy while mingling with other students.

Raschell West was selected to represent Chi Omega in UMKC’s annual Court Warming tradition.

“At first it was a little overwhelming to think that I’d be representing the entire chapter and ultimately representing UMKC,” West said. “But the more I’m getting

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Tis the season for H & R block advertisments filling the air and planning what you’re going to do with that hard earned tax refund. Tax season is in full swing and filing your taxes can be a confusing and tricky process that many college students are tackling for the first time. There are many different tax services where you can pay to have a professional do your taxes or you can choose to do them yourself, which is becoming a more and more popular choice by the year due to the increase in and ease of onlne e-filing in the last decade. Here are some tips to help you decide whats best for filing your taxes and how to best prepare yourself for April 15.

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Your 1098T is located on your pathway account under Main Menu > Self Service > Campus Finances > Tax Information. Here you can view your past 1098T’s and also opt to recieve your 1098T online only.

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Breakfast Getting to know running experiments in conference rooms. I came here right as they were finalizing the plans for the building.

One of the things that Dean TengKee Tan was really committed to when he recruited me was building a research laboratory. So we went to sit down with the architects and interior designers and looked at basically a finished plan for the entire building and we said ‘Where the heck are we going to fit a lab in here?’ Well it turns out they had a basement that they weren’t using. It wasn’t going to have any windows; it was basically going to be all pipes and heating and stuff like that. And they said we don’t actually need all that space for utilities, so we basically created a first floor; they actually renumbered the building. We are the first floor, we are not in the basement.

That’s cool that you actually got to have a say in it.

Dr. Self engages student assistants in research studies.

Jake Newstrom

A&E Editor

This week I sat down with Dr. Will Self, assistant professor of leadership and organizational behavior at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. Self is well-known among students and faculty for his research and positive influence on campus. I had a chance to ask him about his work here at UMKC, as well as get an inside look at his lab.

What brought you to the Bloch School?

It was not your traditional faculty placement experience. I did my Ph.D. in California at U.C. Berkley, and as I was wrapping up I was looking around trying to figure out where I wanted to go next. I was really looking globally—the US, Europe, Asia—the big universities. I’m a little different than some people. I wanted a place with a great research environment, a place where I could take what I do and take it to the next level. But I also wanted a place that was doing something special. It seems like sometimes all universities are just kind of the same and it’s hard to differentiate them, so I was looking for something with a spark where I thought that I could not only do good work but I could also make a difference; where I could be a part of something that was being built.

Our dean at the time, Teng-Kee Tan, who had just recently come to Bloch from Nanyang University in Singapore, I had heard of him and his reputation in Singapore and about the things that they were doing at Nanyang where they did a quick turnaround in a really short amount of time. He reached out to me and was telling me about the Bloch School. Here in the Midwest there was this university that was really coming into its own and that for years there had been little pockets of excellence. Now, there was this unique opportunity to kind of bring it all together and unite all of these little pockets of excellence into

a school that could rise up in the rankings and hold its own nationally and internationally. He was telling me how there was a commitment to build a new building, which in academia right now is kind of unheard of. To have the money, it’s pretty rare. We talked about the new vision, the new strategic plan; the fact that they were hiring when a lot of universities were slimming their ranks.

I am in my third year here so this

was just a few years ago with the recession, and Teng-Kee was talking about doubling the size of the faculty in ten years which no one was talking about at the time. So I was like ‘OK, I am not entirely sure where Kansas City is, I don’t know what’s going on at UMKC, but I’ll come out and visit.’ And so I came out and really fell in love—with the students, with the campus, with the city—and then came here the next fall.

Photos // Jake Newstrom

It was amazing, to be able to build this … we’ve been able to build something that’s actually pretty unique in a business school. There aren’t a lot of business schools that have a fully functioning behavioral research lab like this. We have hidden cameras, microphones, observation equipment. This is a playground for researchers. It’s so much fun, and we decorated it to try to capture that sense of fun. For us, research is fun; it’s about playing, it’s about discovery. And I think this space kind of represents that.

So you were here before they finished the new building (Bloch Executive So where are you from originally?

Hall).

With the new building that just opened this year, we were lucky.

Behind the smoke and mirrors, there’s really good infrastructure here for doing research, which we didn’t have before. We were often

My family is Texan and I grew up in Arizona. I went to college out in Boston and worked out of Boston, but a lot in Asia, too. I was consulting and a lot of the projects were helping American and western companies set up operations in Asia. So when I was working I was traveling a lot to Asia, largely China, and did that for a while. Then I went to school at Berkeley, outside San Francisco, for my master’s and Ph.D.

What are your degrees in?

Harvard is primarily a liberal arts school, so my undergrad is in what we called “social studies.” It’s like politics, philosophy, economics, a “Jack of all trades” major. I minored in French lit and took Chinese, too, because why not? Then my master’s is in business and my Ph.D. is in organizational behavior, which is basically business psychology; how people interact in organizations.

That’s what you do in your research, right?

Exactly. I am kind of like the psychologist on staff here at the Bloch School.

J: I’ve participated in some of your studies, how do you formulate them?

Dr. Self

A lot of it comes randomly in conversations or what I’m reading.

I try to read a lot, and random stuff, because being a psychologist a lot of my ideas come from the real world.

So when I hear a friend from college complaining about their boss or something that’s going on work I sit there and think, ‘Yeah, yeah,

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with Jake: Dr. William Self yeah. I sympathize, but that’s an interesting study. Let’s see how we can turn that into an experiment.’

So I try to get a lot of the influence from the real world, and it leads to a lot of interesting research but it also leads to research that can be applied; that real executives would find interesting and useful in their own lives.

What do you do when you find your results?

So the goal in academia is largely publication: to find something interesting, write a paper about it (we’re always still in school), and then you submit it to these journals and try to get it out there so that your peers and the scientific community can see it and debate it and hopefully take it to the next level.

Do you also publish the results here at the university?

I do. One of the things we’ve been working really hard on here is to build a research community, and part of that is getting better about communicating our own research and our research results to our students. In the past I think at the Bloch School it was kind of two different worlds. There was the research that happened in secret and what happened in the classroom.

And really those worlds should be brought together.

I see that you’re doing that by integrating the research into our courses at the Bloch School.

Research assistants take a break to play 4-man ping pong. with the research process. Some people are like ‘OK that’s enough, I kind of know now what my faculty members do, now let me get back to work and get my degree and get out of here.’ Some people actually become really excited about it and what we’re developing now are ways for them to take that excitement and go to the next level with research.

their own research question, come up with a methodology, collect data, analyze data and produce in the end a senior thesis that is publishable, that is a high level of quality and that people would be interested in.

I think then you get a full life cycle of research, you get the Research Engagement Program in your class, where you can just sort of participate

So where did your love for research begin? Were you that kid on the playground watching the others kids and thinking “I think he really likes so and so…”

systems, the way you talk about interactions, the way you talk about strategy, you sound like an academic, not a business person.’ I didn’t really think there was a difference there. It had never occurred to me. She said, ’Have you ever considered being a business school professor?’

Honestly, it had never occurred to me where a business school

You just never know when that one interaction you’re going to have with some random person is going to send your life off in a different direction. - Dr. William Self

We call it the Bloch Research Engagement Program and we have it embedded in these courses. It’s meant not to be something difficult, not over-the-top, but a chance for a lot of people to get their first contact

This year, we launched the Senior Thesis Group at the Bloch School. It’s a chance for advanced undergraduate upperclassmen to do their own research; to actually come up with

and get a taste for it, but for some people who really like it there’s the chance to take it all the way and do their own research.

The lab houses two observation rooms where researchers use surveillance equipment to monitor subjects.

You know it’s funny, I totally wasn’t. Even senior year in college if you had told me I was going to go back for a Ph.D. or become an academic I would have laughed at you. It was just nowhere on my radar. I’m now the one when I see a student really stressing about what they’re going to major in or what they’re going to do when they grow up, I’m like, you can spend time thinking about that but you’ll never really know. Life is such a circuitous process.

It was after spending some time out of the work world, after having a job and being an adult, that I hit a point where it was time to go back to school for something. I was thinking I would go back for my MBA. That’s what I always planned on doing. I was out interviewing at business schools for their MBA programs, and I was at one school and somehow something had happened where the person from admissions that was supposed to be talking to me got sick and a faculty member she was friends with stepped in at the last minute to meet with me. We were sitting there talking and about halfway through the conversation she just stopped and she’s like, ‘Why in the world are you applying for an MBA program?’

I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ and she said, ‘Well, the way you talk about things, the way you talk about

professor came from. I didn’t know how they were created. So, on the spot, she educated me on Ph.D. programs and how to get a Ph.D. at a business school and what a business school faculty member looked like.

I scrambled midway through the admissions cycle and put together applications and sent them out to Ph.D. programs and just kind of took a leap of faith and went into one … you just never know when that one interaction you’re going to have with some random person is going to send your life off in a different direction.

Really, without her, if the normal admissions person had been there and I had done the normal interview, I would have been in an MBA program. I’m so glad that was not the course because I love what I do. jnewstrom@unews.com

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Valentine’s Day Claire Engel Staff Writer

I not want gifts from my boyfriend

on Valentine’s Day? Yes, what an inconceivable No, I don’t dislike Valentine’s concept. Valentine’s Day is no longer Day because I am a lonely spinster about celebrating your relationship. who spends my time envying happy Instead, it’s about measuring how couples. On the contrary, I am in much your significant other cares the happiest relationship of my about you measured in heart-shaped life. I don’t even dislike the idea of candy and giant teddy bears.

Valentine’s Day as a day to celebrate Hey, if heart-shaped candy and your relationship. However, I hate giant teddy bears are your thing, what Valentine’s Day has become. then indulge on Valentine’s Day. Last year, when friends asked I’m not saying you shouldn’t. But me what my boyfriend got me for you shouldn’t expect the same of Valentine’s Day and I said, ‘nothing.’ everyone else. Maybe some people I watched their jaws drop. “Nothing? prefer to celebrate their relationship How could he get you nothing? by staying in, ordering pizza and What a terrible boyfriend! I bet you going on a Netflix binge. Others dumped him!” They were enraged. might like to spend the day outside.

“No, no,” I assured them. “He Some might want to spend the night didn’t get me anything because I dancing. Or maybe they just want to didn’t want anything.” lie around all day and do nothing at At this, some looked at me with all. sympathy, assuming I was lying, and The point is Valentine’s Day should internally pitied me. Others looked at be about couples celebrating their me like I had three heads: how could relationship however they choose. It

Claire Engel should not be about judging others’ relationships based on what they did or did not buy each other or how much they spent on dinner. Don’t allow other people or even Hallmark influence how you think about a holiday, and let Valentine’s Day be about your partner. cengel@unews.com

Fearlords Matt Melson Staff Writer

is unknown, but police are

investigating a theory of a romance triangle that led to the shooting.

I’m tired, you guys. Tired of seeing Police have in no way said the what the media has come to in this incident was random or that it was country. The constant 24-hour fear done by a mentally disturbed person. machine that is modern news has It seems that the fear mongering by almost driven me insane. What was the media has become so ingrained the last straw? A recent mall shooting in our DNA that it has become an outside Baltimore, Md. innate reaction to assume that any For those who are unaware of the shooting is a mass shooting. Some story, Darion Aguilar, 19, went into of the people who were close by in the Columbia Mall and shot two the mall at the time of the shooting employees of a shoe store, Brianna were interviewed and said that they Benlolo, 21, and Tyler Johnson, 25. “heard gunshots and ran inside a Both of his victims died and Aguilar dressing room to seek safety.” took his own life.

Now, of course, this is a legitimate Now, this is a tragic story and reaction to a shooting but it seems something that is happening far too that our mentality about shootings often in our country, but the media’s has switched in this country to a coverage of this event was horrific. shooting now involves everyone Fox News spent the morning within the area of the gunman and reporting that there was an active the gunman has no distinct motive shooter in the Columbia Mall on a for what he is doing. shooting spree. CNN had similar The reason for this switch is the reports, but, of course, in true CNN media. The current news media has fashion everything they were saying switched from reporting on an event were from “unconfirmed reports” to speculating on it. Then after they which is another way of saying “this speculate it is time to round up as is all speculation,” which is another much fear as they possibly can out way of saying ‘Hey, we are making of the incident so that you have to this stuff up to get ratings.’ MSNBC watch the news to know where not was reporting on the shooting as to go and how to be safe. The media well, but let’s be honest: no one has us so afraid of one another that watches MSNBC unless “Locked most people don’t even trust their Up” is on. neighbors anymore.

Let me remind you, the shooter The Columbia Mall shooting is killed two people and then killed clearly not the only blatant attempt himself before the police were even by the media to instill fear, either. able to surround the building but Take any shooting over the past somehow both Fox and CNN were year: mass shooting, school shooting, getting reports of mass hysteria and whatever, and see how the media mass murder within the Columbia reports on the story. The Navy Mall. Really? There were even Yard shooting is another prime shoppers inside that shoe store at example of botched coverage by the the time who were unharmed by the media so that they can get ratings. gunman but yet this is an event of But regardless of what is actually mass chaos? happening, the media takes it upon Also, the motive of the shooter itself to instill fear into this nation.

Matt Melson But this fear mongering is rampant throughout all aspects of the news as well. Take how CNN, a very liberal station, or Fox News, a very conservative station, covers any type of political event. Both, of course, will have very different views because of the political biases that they have, but in the end each of these stations tries to make you feel what the other side is doing. That is, “these people” get into power then they are going to destroy this country and what it stands for, and again it is just about trying to make you as afraid as they possibly can.

I’m tired, you guys. I’m tired of watching the media turn sensible, rational people into paranoid hobbits too afraid to leave their houses. So if I can give you all some advice, don’t simply rely on television news for information. Read articles and actually look up what happened in an event. Don’t rely on the media to summarize a story into 45 seconds; become informed, do the research, do your part as a citizen, become empowered. Only then will this nation not be afraid anymore. mmelson@unews.com

Glitter is thicker than blood

Roze Brooks Editor-in-Chief

You know that scene in The Fox and the Hound when the old woman leaves Tod in the forest? It’s not because she wants to, it’s because she has to.

That’s how my weekend felt when I delivered the closing remarks at the 2014 Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference. From a student leader perspective, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing limitless hours of work finally pay off. However, this was the first time I had committed so much time to one project—two years to be exact.

Wherever readers’ passions lie, I’m sure anyone can relate to the feeling of being completely consumed, invested and enamored by whatever it is that gives meaning to our everyday lives.

I was fortunate enough to work with a team consisting of people from entirely different backgrounds, different strengths and different aspirations. My team consisted of writers, dancers and workaholics.

Our studies spanned from nursing, to finance to veterinary medicine.

We came from varying family dynamics—some that fully support and accept our involvement in the movement, and some that are detached, unaware or unreceptive.

Through this experience, the term “family” has become much more lucid for me. It is not contingent on the blood relatives you are assigned at birth. It relies on the connections, the empowerment, the internal growth and the sense of community you feel with a genuine group of people. My planning team became a family that will never be corrupted.

What’s more is that I was able to share this experience with my UMKC family. Roos, you would be proud to know our Chancellor Leo Morton received a standing ovation for his opening speech. Although this event was held off campus, the blue and yellow was present in an undeniable way. Administrators, professors and community members, in addition to the 1900 attendees from across the Midwest region, gathered to ensure MBLGTACC 2014 placed UMKC on the map. Not simply as

Roze Brooks an LGBT friendly institution, but as a university that supports the hopes and ideals of its students.

And among the star-studded keynotes and entertainment, we were able to feature names that found their start right here—smack dab in the middle of the states. Country singer and KC native Chely Wright endured three hours of meet and greet, determined to encounter every attendee she could. Kara Laricks, a fashion designer hailing from Overland Park, reflected on how far her hometown has come.

If there is anything I learned from these incredible people, this weekend and my team, it’s that we are all destined for greater things— as long as we’re ready to claim it.

I encourage anyone who has big dreams, grandiose visions and wanderlust in their hearts to pursue something of great magnitude. That’s what we’re all here for after all, right?

We all walk across that stage, but it’s what we do next that’s important.

So open that private practice.

Start your own political campaign.

Write that best-selling novel.

Take a road-trip through the trees, destination unknown.

Work your way straight up the corporate totem pole.

Change people’s lives simply by saying hello.

Become the face of a revolution without fear.

Do whatever it is that gives you purpose, because no one has the right to tell you your dreams aren’t worth it. It takes two weeks to form a habit—but it takes two years to form a family. rbrooks@unews.com

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Mizzou shows its rainbow stripes, embraces openly gay NFL hopeful

colleges and universities to make an how to deal with that from a public investment and work toward future standpoint, and ultimately Michael action and progress.” decided that he didn’t want that to With Sam opening himself up be the focal point of the season. He to some criticism for his public wanted to focus on football and not announcement, he was subjected do anything to add pressure for him to homophobic questions and or for his teammates, and I think comments. New Orleans Saints that’s a great example of the kind of linebacker Jonathan Vilma person he is.” reportedly insisted that he was scared to share a shower or locker room with Sam, or any other gay Sportsmanship: A four teammate. letter word?

“Image if he’s the guy next to me, and you know, I get dressed, naked, As is the case with each university taking a shower, the whole nine, across the U.S., foreign countries and it just so happens he looks at always have their own policies about me, how am I supposed to respond,” different sexual identities. This has Vilma said. become an extensive issue with the According to the NCAA LGBT current Winter Olympics, being held inclusion guide, “The locker room in Sochi, Russia. can be a vulnerable place. Knowing In June 2013, Russian President a teammate is gay, bisexual or Vladimir Putin approved legislation lesbian can trigger homophobic prohibiting “nontraditional sexual reactions in some student-athletes. relationships” and “discussion of Sometimes student-athletes become homosexuality” among minors.

Michael Sam, SEC Defensive Player of the Year. uncomfortable in the locker room Disobedience of this law could result Courtesy // University of Missouri Athletics only after a teammate has come out.” in discrimination, arrest and even Roze Brooks

However, even in the pique of violence.

Editor-in-Chief After some deliberation, Sam gender identity/expression in its sports and LGBT media attention, Back on the home-front, Sam and his agents decided it would be discrimination policy, each college Sam seems optimistic.

According admitted to ESPN he had seen and Michael Sam may say best to reveal the news as far away and university has the right to follow to Outsports, his teammates knew experienced his own fair share of from drafting time as possible. their own policy. farewell to Faurot “When it comes to LGBTQ issues he was gay and didn’t outwardly violence growing up. Disclosing that Timing became integral to this Field announcement, since many in the in college athletics, there is still much display discomfort with sharing he’d witnessed his brother killed by gunshot, his sister pass away as a Columbia, Mo. community were work to be done,” said Campus space with Sam. Sam and his agents have prioritized baby, his second oldest brother going “If you’re a Tiger, you’re a Tiger— already aware of the news.

Pride Executive Director Shane and if you can play, you can play!”

“Michael is a football player, not an Windmeyer. “LGBTQ students the upcoming draft as the main focus missing in 1998 and his two other brothers currently residing in prison, This message was a prominent activist,” publicist Howard Bragman today are more out than ever before for now.

This past August, Michael was Sam has persevered over his past. feature of the You Can Play video the said. “If you start showing up at too and those who are athletes deserve “Telling the world I’m gay is University of Missouri- Columbia many dinners and too many parades, to know which schools and which very direct with the team when released in April 2013. Mizzou’s you start to send the message to a athletic programs will respect them he decided to let everyone know nothing compared to that,” he said.

Athletic Department released its potential team about his priorities. for who they are. This requires that he is gay,” said Mizzou Head Coach Gary Pinkel. “We discussed rbrooks@unews.com contribution to the national video The community wins when he campaign, promoting LGBT rights steps onto an NFL field and plays and diversity on its sports teams. in a game, not as the grand marshal On Feb. 10, Mizzou defensive of a pride parade. He may do that lineman and the Associated Press’ eventually, but the first year needs to SEC Defensive Player of the Year be all about football.”

Michael Sam, announced that he Although Sam’s NFL-destined was gay in an exclusive interview status helped him safely come out with ESPN. Although the public publicly about his sexuality, this announcement has received much is not a reality always afforded media attention, teammates and to LGBTQIA-identified studentcoaches at Mizzou have known athletes.

Dan Moreno

about Sam’s sexual identity since Senior Staff Writer August. Revealing this facet of his Being a team player After making history last year, identity did not inhibit Sam from UMKC head women’s soccer coach assisting his team to a win in the 2013 According to the National Chris Cissell has big plans for the Cotton Bowl.

Collegiate Athletic Association, upcoming season including the “I understand how big this is,” Sam few resources about being inclusive told ESPN. “It’s a big deal. No one has to different sexual orientations addition of nine new players to the ever done this before. And it’s kind of and gender identities/expressions roster.

In its very first season as part of the a nervous process, but I know what were available to college athletics I want to be…I want to be a football programs, coaches or athletics WAC, the women’s soccer team had an overall record of 12-9-1, making player in the NFL.” administrators ten years ago. it all the way to the conference final In the instance that Sam gets In the associations Inclusion of drafted for a professional team in LGBTQ Student-Athletes and Staff where the Kangaroos fell short to May, he would become the first in NCAA Programs guide, it insists Seattle University 3-0.

As Cissell and his team prepare for openly gay player in the NFL. that all colleges and universities have Sam received a standing ovation an “ethical responsibility” to provide the upcoming season, Kansas City Women’s soccer is already looking ahead to the 2014-15 season. at a Mizzou game this past weekend a safe and supportive environment added nine players to its roster. out for everybody’ but I’m honest Courtesy // UMKC Athletics “This season we have a lot of great when I tell you that we want Seattle from his fellow classmates. Though for all students. However, according he was out to a number of people to the Campus Pride 2012 LGBTQ players returning and a real good and we want to beat them,” Cissell Durwood Stadium through the 2015 at his school, coming out publicly National College Athlete Report, recruiting class coming in,” Cissell said. “I would be lying if I told you National Women’s Soccer League required some careful consideration. Dr. Sue Rankin and Daniel Merson said. “Now we’ve set the bar even Seattle are not in my mind for next season, Cissell believes that only positive things will come out of this With his heightened popularity point out that twice the number of higher and the expectations are to season.” decision. win the WAC and go to the National from being a hot candidate for LGBQ student-athletes reported Cissell is known for recruiting “I think it’s awesome,” Cissell drafting, Sam was able to confer with harassments than their straight Tournament.” local talent instead of going further After breaking records and putting and seeking future ’Roos. This year said. “It will bring lots of attention two different agencies to handle his counterparts. to our program not just locally UMKC’s women’s soccer program publicity. In January, Sam chose 18 percent of LGBQ-identified on the map, things have changed for five of the recruits are from Kansas and regionally but also nationally one agency and almost immediately student-athletes reported instances City and the surrounding metro area. because all the games will be on TV regretted it. It did not seem as though of offensive, hostile, exclusionary or the Kangaroos.

“I think there is a lot of talent in “Last year the goal was just to Kansas City,” Cissell said. “Bringing and people will get to see what a nice it would be receptive letting him be intimidating conduct, compared to stadium and campus we have and make it to the playoffs,” Cissell said. completely out about his sexuality. nine percent of straight-identified “This season our only goal is to win girls from around also generates bringing at least four thousand fans Returning to his other option, student-athletes. Overall, athletic more interest in the local community to every game.”

Sam had a sincere conversation performance was cited as the the whole thing.” in our program because people know Cissell believes that Kansas City’s Current champion Seattle we are succeeding.” with Empire Athletes, and the duo primary reason for harassment to any professional women’s soccer team University will host the 2014 WAC worked together creating a timeline. student-athlete. However, for LGBQ Maureen Bigsby from Omaha, Neb. playing at UMKC will be beneficial Tournament and is one of Cissell’s ESPN and The New York Times student-athletes, 39 percent claimed and Lilly Cobb from Glen Carbon, were the only two networks kept sexual identity as the primary cause main targets after losing all three Ill. are joining Olivia Hodison, for his team as well.

“Our girls are going to attend all games to the Redhawks last season. entirely in the loop, even though of their reported harassments.

Whitney Lucas, Nikki Lynch, Kara of these games,” Cissell said. “The “Most coaches will give you the local publications attempted to snag While the NCAA does talk about ‘Oh yeah we got to watch Priest, Haley Sutter, Micah White chance to watch them play and share the story. and Sydni Young from Kansas and include sexual orientation and a locker room with some of the best Missouri. soccer players in the world is going After losing Taylor Bare who to be such a great learning experience scored 15 goals in her last season for them.” as a Kangaroo, Cissell trusts the With this partnership, Cissell recruiting class and returning players hopes to see UMKC players play to fill Bare’s shoes. at the next level and join F.C. “Taylor is a big loss from a goal Kansas City, which has five players scoring standpoint,” Cissell said. representing and playing for the U.S. “What’s going to happen now is that National Team in the near future. we are going to have several girls step Coach Cissell’s team will face F.C. up and we may not have one player Kansas City in an exhibition game with 15 goals but we will have plenty this spring, date to be determined. of players with a handful of goals.”

With last month’s announcement The women’s soccer team will start dmoreno@unews.com next season with nine new players. that F.C. Kansas City partnered with Courtesy // UMKC Athletics UMKC to play their home games at

New players, new season, and one goal: The WAC Championship

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Photos // UMKC Athletics

UMKC (7-17)

37-31 | 59

UTPA (8-19)

37-31 | 68

UMKC (10-14) 38-69 | 92 NMSU (12-13) 34-75 | 84

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Kim Nezianya 38 22-31 21 3 6

Martez Harrison 10 8-17 6 5 3

Taylor Leathers 13 7-7 9 2 0

Frank Williams 7 5-20 1 3 1

Grace Mitchell 6 3-6 4 0 1

Fred Chatmon 10 5-9 11 0 1

Eilise O’Connor 17 11-22 3 4 2

Trinity Hall 12 8-15 4 1 1

Calli White 6 4-13 3 4 1

John Burke 8 5-7 1 1 1

Kelsey Barnwell 0 0-2 0 1 1

Caleb Johnson 0 0-1 0 0 0

Taylor Strickland 2 1-1 0 0 1

Kirk Korver

0

Jordan Evans 4 2-3 3 0 3

Isaac Kreuer 0 0-0 0 0 0

Lauren Dudding 6 4-6 5 1 1

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Javorn Farrell 30 17-26 6 4 2 Shaquille Boga 11 7-17 2 4 3 LJ McIntosh 3 2-10 3 0 0 Lauri Toivonen 0 0-2 1 1 0 Justin Leathers

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Brianna Freeman 10 6-16 4 2 2 Sasha Weber 22 14-27 2 1 1 Danesia Williamson 17 9-32 2 6 4 Moriah Mack 8 4-5 3 2 0 Tamera William 3 2-3 0 0 0 Tyler Ellis 8 4-6 7 0 0 Abby Scott 14 10-25 2 4 2 Elena Holguin 0 0-0 0 0 0 TOTAL

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Kim Nezianya: Rising, Overcoming and Shining

69 player in the state of Texas by the Premier Basketball Report. There she recorded more than 1,000 career points. Nezianya did not have a hard time choosing UMKC as her new home.

“Coming out of high school I just wanted to get out of Texas,” Nezianya said. “But what caught my attention was UMKC’s pharmacy program, which made it easy for me to come to UMKC over other choices.”

Being seven and a half hours away from home is no longer an obstacle in Nezianya’s life, as it was during her freshman year.

“During my first year I was very homesick,” Nezianya said. “My parents tried to come to a lot of our Senior Kim Nezianya Photo // Dan Moreno games to kind of help me forget the homesickness but it was a learning opportunity for me to branch out Dan Moreno

and help me prepare for life after Senior Staff Writer basketball.”

As much as basketball has given With only five games left in senior Kim Nezianya’s collegiate career, her Nezianya many satisfactions, she did one and only goal before graduating not start playing the sport until she has already been accomplished: she was 14 years old.

“Basketball has saved me from became the leading rebounder in lots of bad choices but it has also UMKC’s history.

On Saturday, Nezianya picked provided me the opportunity to up her third straight and thirteenth travel and visit other countries,” overall double-double with 26 points Nezianya said. “I have everything to and 14 rebounds in a win against thank basketball for because it has Texas-Pan American. Add this to her also given me the opportunity to give career-high 38 points and a career- me a college education.”

After shining in her first three high 21 rebounds against New Mexico State last Thursday, and it seasons as a Kangaroo and being increased her record to 887 rebounds named to the 2012-13 Preseason this season. Laurie Smith formerly Second Team All-Summit League by College Sports Madness, Nezianya held the rebound record at 864.

“Urgency is the best word to appeared and started in seven describe what I’m feeling right now,” contests before missing the rest of Nezianya said. “Every game that I the season after a severe knee injury.

“I was devastated,” Nezianya play just reminds me that is one less that I have for the rest of my career so said. “I was not really motivated to I just go out there and play as hard as recover, I seriously thought that was the end of my basketball career after I can and give it my all.”

After having spent the last four rehabbing for seven months for the years in Kansas City, Nezianya has four-to-six week recovery I was told it would be.” fallen in love with UMKC. The coaching staff gave Nezianya “I can only say I’m blessed,” Nezianya said. “UMKC is one of the another opportunity to set foot on greatest places I have ever been. The the court again after the NCAA gave coaching staff loves us so much and Nezianya the chance to redshirt that they have really cared about my life year.

“My training staff and coaches after basketball and I will always be thankful to UMKC for giving me this helped me heal back up before another surgery I had this last opportunity.”

Nezianya is originally from summer,” Nezianya said. “After the Carrollton, Texas, where she second surgery I just knew that attended Newman Smith High everything happens for a reason and School and was ranked as the No. I stayed faithful to come back and I

Long days on campus can require packing a lunch or shelling out for Einstein’s Bagels or the cafeteria.

On days where one is strapped for cash, brown bagging may be the best choice. Here are some tips for building the perfect sandwich, hearty enough to sustain, but still healthy and low in calories. Packed lunches don’t have to be a boring peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Spice up bland sandwiches with these tips and check out this week’s recipe.

Skimp on Sauce

While there are some healthy sauces out there, the majority of them are not. Most of them are oily or fatty, with preservatives and other problematic ingredients. If using a sauce, try to portion it sparingly.

Measuring the sauce is a good way to get the correct serving size. Knowing the good sauces from the bad can be half the battle. For example, one ounce of yellow mustard has just 19 calories. The same amount of mayonnaise has 210 calories. Lowfat substitutes can help, such as light versions of mayonnaise and creamy salad dressing or using nonfat yogurt instead. Using a light balsamic vinaigrette dressing can also add a lot of taste to the sandwich without as many calories. Hummus is another substitute that is filled with protein and flavor.

Kim Nezianya is the leading rebounder in UMKC’s history. honestly have a completely different Courtesy // UMKC Athletics mindset this year.”

To keep shooting hoops is with my church so I am just a regular Nezianya’s dream after she graduates college student I guess.”

Before playing her very last game this year with a bachelor’s degree in with the number one on her jersey, chemistry.

Nezianya wants to be an inspiration “If I could have it my way I would for both her coaches and her love to play overseas but I don’t teammates. know if that’s realistic because of all “I want to leave a legacy and the injuries I’ve had,” Nezianya said. show my teammates and the future “If that is not possible I would love basketball players that if you work to be accepted at UMKC’s pharmacy hard and have the right mindset you school, which I have my fingers can make it through everything,” crossed for.”

Nezianya said.

With a huge smile constantly on Next up for the women’s basketball her face, Nezianya is known for being team is a crucial conference a very happy and active person who game this Thursday against the tries to stay close to her loved ones.

CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners at “Kim is a goofball,” Nezianya said.

Bakersfield, Calif.

“I love having fun and being with my dmoreno@unews.com friends but I am also really involved

Lindsay Adams

Senior Beat Writer

Need a good packed lunch?

Try this recipe. It makes three servings and takes no time at all to make. It can be refrigerated for several days, so it can be made ahead for the week. This delicious salad in a pita pocket is only 296 calories per serving, but is packed with juicy tuna, veggies and fruit. This sandwich hits most of the major food groups and supplies 24 grams of protein per serving.

Ingredients

Illustration // Joey Hill

Preparation

First, chop the cucumber, celery, onions and grapes. Make sure they are a manageable size to eat, but don’t chop them too small. They should add a nice texture to the tuna

Sandwiches 101

Lindsay Adams Senior Beat Writer

Health Recipe: Tuna pita pocket

1 (7 ounce) can solid white tuna packed in water, drained 4 tablespoons light creamy salad dressing (such as Kraft’s Light Miracle Whip™) 1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish, or to taste salt and pepper to taste 1/2 cup chopped cucumber 1/4 cup chopped grapes 1/4 cup chopped celery 1/4 cup chopped red onion 3 cups alfalfa sprouts 3 whole wheat pita pockets

Health Journal:

salad. Mash the tuna together with the salad dressing and relish in a small bowl with a fork. If necessary adapt the recipe to get the mixture to the desired consistency. Stir in the grapes, celery, onion and cucumbers.

Put one-third of the tuna salad

mixture and 1 cup alfalfa sprouts into each pita pocket. Serve immediately, or wrap the pocket for a brown bag lunch. ladams@unews.com

Branch out from Bread

There are many ways to lower the high calories associated with bread. The best way is to switch from white bread to whole wheat.

Whole wheat breads have more selenium, potassium and magnesium than bread made with refined flour, as well as containing more fiber and protein. Open-faced sandwiches are also a great option as they split the calorie intake of bread in half, which can save around 70 calories. Other options include pita pockets and wraps, which can be wrapped in a more traditional tortilla style, or in a wrap made out of lettuce.

Green is Good

Using spinach and darker greens is always a good idea, and incorporating many different colors of veggies ensures that the nutrients in the sandwich are optimized. For the most part, different colored vegetables usually have different nutrients. Cucumbers, red onions and an assortment of colored peppers are great additions to any sandwich. Green is good, especially darker greens, because of the iron boost, but so are the rest of the colors. Also, don’t forget the fruit.

Many people don’t consider putting fruits on their sandwiches when they make them at home. Sliced apples, grapes, tomatoes, raisins and dried cranberries are all great additions to a sandwich. ladams@unews.com

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Q & A with Nicole Greenberg:

Theatre MFA Student performing in ‘Afflicted’ says to ‘take your work seriously and yourself lightly’ opinions, or at least show them a Lindsay Adams little more background that maybe Senior Beat Writer will surprise them. I am the oldest What made you decide to sister of four siblings, and so I tap become an actor? into that part of myself fairly often I grew up in a small town right when playing her. outside of New York City called Nyack. From a very young age I was What advice would you give encouraged to get involved in the arts. aspiring actors?

We were exposed to theatre, music To other aspiring actors I would and all types of visual arts because say this: be authentic. Stay true we were so close to everything to and trust yourself. And most geographically. I auditioned for my importantly, take your work first role in the fifth grade where I seriously and yourself lightly. I can’t was cast as Glenda in “The Wizard of tell you how much this has helped Oz.” From then on, I knew I needed to me through all of my work. I love to be on stage. I was very involved with laugh and smile and be imaginative, drama all throughout my schooling and when it’s time to crack down and then I got my undergraduate and get to the nitty-gritty you have degree in theatre as well. It just made to be ready for that, too. sense to me.

and her background information and ideas often inspired us, and Jeff Church was an amazing facilitator. We had a blast and I am proud of how I’ve originated the role.

I think the most challenging part of playing Abigail is probably finding the balance of mean girl and just someone who is misunderstood. I don’t believe Abigail is really an evil girl – she acts and reacts for very specific reasons. I didn’t want people to hate her like they often do with the Abigail from “The Crucible.”

at UMKC. I trusted a gut instinct moving cross-country to come to this program and it was by far one of the greatest choices of my life. This program is incredibly fulfilling artistically, and I feel like I have been given tons of opportunities to put myself into a stretch zone with my work. I’m blooming here. That’s exciting.

What are your favorite roles that you’ve played so far?

Some of my favorite roles that I have played have to be Olympia in “Big Love.” At the Copaken Stage, Brooke/Vicki in “Noises Off” and Helena in “All’s Well that Ends Well.” I have always been inspired by strong, funny women like Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball so whenever I can be funny I feel in my element.

However, Abigail makes the list, too.—Talk about a passionate, strong woman.

What was it like working What was the most on a world premiere with the How has your experience challenging part of your role playwright present? been with UMKC? and the show?

This was my first experience I have loved my experience here

What was it like playing such a well-known character?

Nicole Greenberg (as Abigail Williams) in AFFLICTED: DAUGHTERS OF SALEM. Courtesy // J. Robert Schraeder

My process for playing such a well-known character was to look at her through a new lens. Laurie’s [Brooks]play is not “The Crucible.”

I had to look at it as a fresh new character. I think of all of the girls written into the script, people come in with the strongest feelings about Abigail. I hope my performance will make them think twice about their

working on a world premiere and I could not have asked for a better one.

It was the most collaborative process I have worked on in a very long time.

The script was ever-changing down until the day before opening night, and Laurie Brooks was there throughout the entire rehearsal process. What was so incredible was how flexible she was. I assumed that most playwrights are married to their work, but Laurie was very willing to listen and work with the actors. It’s not often that we, as actors, can say ‘You know, this line just doesn’t feel right.’ or ‘The order of these lines would bebetter the other way, don’t you think?’ and to have the writer there and willing to change the script based on your instincts is incredible.

I feel like our choices inspired her

What inspires you?

I am inspired by passion. I am inspired by authenticity. I am inspired by laughter and by people.

The stage is a wonderful place where the most real things happen and you can see real people in real struggles.

There is nothing more fascinating than that. ladams@unews.com

Something ‘Afflicted’ this way comes

of Tituba (Alisha Espinosa) meet in Lindsay Adams the woods to tell fanciful stories and Senior Beat Writer share their dreams. Soon their lives “Afflicted: Daughters of Salem” is start to unravel and their clearing an examination of the Salem Witch in the woods is no longer the safe Trials from the perspective: of the haven they once knew. Their circle is girls who cried witch. The girls of torn apart by events that have spun Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible,” completely out of control, leading up who were based on real people and to the events in “The Crucible.”” are often demonized and portrayed The play starts slowly, adjusting as villains, get a a chance to tell their the audience to the world of the story in this world premiere from girls and introducing the young playwright Laurie Brooks. women who will end up as key A group of young women, led players in the trials. The play

by Abigail Williams (Nicole cemented the audience into their Greenberg) ,protected by the charms time, making it feel the limitations from which these girls suffered. The story heats up slowly but once it does it is fascinating due to honest performances and a strong script.

At the beginning of the show, Abigail started out very understated and with no hint at all of the Abigail that many know and hate from “The Crucible.” The time that is taken for her development creates a bridge between the girl she starts out as and the person she becomes during the witch trials. The strength of Greenberg’s performance as Abigail is that the audience sees the slow unraveling of her life and the unveiling of the darker aspects of her personality. It is her strengths that hide her weaknesses so well.

Her curiosity leads her into trouble.

Her leadership ability enables her to (Foreground): Alisha Espinosa trample over the other girls’’ feelings (as Tituba); (Background): Emily and to appoint herself as a tyrant Shackelford (as Ann Putnam), Emily over them.

Nan Phillips (Mercy Lewis) & Nicole The play explores the power Greenberg (as Abigail Williams) structure both inside and outside in AFFLICTED: DAUGHTERS OF the circle of girls. It explores the SALEM. underlying race relations between Courtesy // J. Robert Schraeder Tituba and the girls, as well as issues

(Left to right): Emily Shackelford (as Ann Putnam), Emily Nan Phillips (Mercy Lewis), Nicole Greenberg (as Abigail Williams), Jessica Jensen (as Mary Warren), Hannah Thompson (as Betty Parris) & Alisha Espinosa (as Tituba) in AFFLICTED: DAUGHTERS OF SALEM. of social status, sexism and religion. entire family brutalized and killed Courtesy // J. Robert Schraeder The ensemble was very strong in front of her. Phillips’ performance and expressed the emotions of the with each actress brought a fresh is wonderfully focused and her girls and the shifting situations of take on her character. Ann Putnam fragility is heartbreaking. Betty the story. The set easily transitioned (Emily Shakelford) is in awe of Paris (Hannah Thompson) may from the forest to the houses in Abigail and is absolutely devoted be the Reverend’s daughter, but the town. The costuming was so to her. Shakelford does a lovely job she still keepings a terrible secret. accurate the audience could almost of showing her naiveté and her hurt Thompson’s immaturity is tempered feel the weight and discomfort of the clothing. when Abigail brushes her aside. with fear Certainly a thought-provoking Mary Warren (Jessica Jensen) is There were some particularly afraid that their nighttime meetings chilling moments; one of which theatre experience, “Afflicted” is are sinful. Jensen delicately balances was the projection on the stage of a show that makes the audience Mary’s extremism with humanity. all the names of people whom the re-evaluate its misconceptions Mercy Lewis (Emily Nan Phillips) girls accused witchcraft who were and judgments of these historical is the most damaged of the girls, executed. The lighting design of the characters. ladams@unews.com having lived through seeing her show was wonderfully atmospheric

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New York Fashion Week meets Valentine’s Day Morayo Bakare Staff Writer

Valentine’s Day is a day of reds and pinks worn with a heart-shaped neckline, a pair of jeans and heels. Or it’s red and pinks dresses and heartshaped accessories. Sure, love and romance are usually expressed in the color of ketchup and Pepto-Bismol, but you don’t have to dress that way to exude passion. Luckily, romanticstyled clothing walked the runway during New York Fashion Week for fall and spring collections.

Romantic clothes are known for their lightness in feeling and color.

The color palette usually consists of pastels or white. Hair is left to the individual’s choice and makeup is kept light. Here are six varied ways to achieve the romantic look using pieces from NYFW and Pinterest as examples.

Oversized Sweaters Oversized sweaters are an easy way to convey the cute side of romance.

They are boxy, soft and adorable.

The Academy of Art University’s fall collection showcased a look that paired a large purple sweater with a long mid-calf skirt and heels, creating a relaxed grunge-inspired outfit. To amp it up, look for a lighter sweater, like the one found in Erica McCleary’s fashion board

on Pinterest, and pair with jeans or a soft colored long skirt. Simple accessories like beaded necklaces or a slouched beanie instantly increase the cuteness of the outfit.

Lace and Chiffon Though it may seem almost cliché to wear lace or chiffon on Valentine’s Day, designers Bibhu Mohapatra, Badgley Mischka and Monique Lhullier introduced fresh ideas that keep the fragile fabrics modern but still elegant. Mohapatra began his collection with a soft pink chiffon couture dress with rose petals. A cheaper yet just as stunning alternative is the lace and chiffon dress from Michelle Barnett’s Pinterest board, “Dresses,” with rose graphics on the bodice.

Badgley Mischka makes use of white chiffon by adding gold lace accents to evoke elegance. A good substitute would be a vintage dress that effortlessly combines lace and chiffon. The vintage dress seen here from Chelsy Schnabel’s board “For the Rich Girl Inside” is a much softer but just as beautiful alternative. Add a floppy hat or a floral headpiece with oxford shoes and you’re set for date night.

Monique Lhullier mixed volume with light romance in her line last fall. Billowing chiffons mixed with brocade patterns and lace littered

the collection. One of her pieces was the all-black chiffon dress pictured.

Getting a dress with crocheted trimmings or embroidery, like the one from “Stuff” by Amy Middleton, is another simple way to reference romance from Lhullier’s collection this particular.

These fabrics can also be worn as separates. Liz Stanley’s dress shown here from “Style I Want” is an excellent example.

Graphic Prints Graphic prints are almost never considered romantic, but are instead associated with edge or hardness.

The Clover Canyon collection goes against that tradition to bring delicate colors and fabrics mixedwith soft graphics to evoke tenderness yet and excitement. Shown here are two dresses from the collection.

Using colors such as pink, orange and blue, Clover Canyon is able to create whimsical yet dreamy clothes that fall in line with the romantic aesthetic. Graphic romance is not easy to find at reasonable prices, but two found from pinterest.com are “Fashion” by Eva’s Glam Fashion and Want*Wear by Helena Zollinger.

“Fashion,” is an unexpected combination of ideas – soft with the hard waves – but excellently conveys the graphic romance of Clover Canyon. - chiffon The dress from

Want*Wear by Helena Zollinger is another great example. Even though it is filled with images, the calm green colors for the nature piece soften the dress considerably, making it possible to be romantic.

Layers The simplest way of achieving the romantic style may simply be layering shirts and skirts on top of one another. Here, another piece from the Academy of Art University has a model layered in a gray floral sweater with a long shirt and a pair of pants. Layering clothes from a similar color palette is a quick way to reach the lightness and freeness layered clothing can exude. The outfit shown from LaLa Chasing Claire de Lune’s “Romantic Clothing” is a superb example. The lavenders and whites almost look like one, yet there is no evidence of heaviness or weight from the clothes. Unlike colors can also be matched for the same romantic lightness, such as Chasing’s pin of the girl with a brocade corset top and a floral skirt that is layered over a tie-dye one. Thrift stores are good places to go to find easily combinable clothes.

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convey ease. When constructed into the correct silhouette, however, the sparkly goddess romantic is quite stunning and powerful. Just take a look at the two models in Alon Livné’s fall collection. One seems to embody a subdued glamorous 1920s actress while the other one is a Grecian goddess. The simplicity, as well as the soft color scheme, is this style’s strong point and it makes both women look at,elegant and at ease. Alternatives are difficult to find, as there must be a balance between the glitter and ornamental extravagance and the matte fabric.

Too much glitter or sparkle is loud, and draping yourself in jewelry ruins the simplicity of the romantic style.

Easier-to-recreate examples are the pink glitter dress and the shiny yellow dress. These are both perfect substitutes because the amount of glittery or shiny material is less overpowering than the matte fabric.

The yellow dress has but subdued shiny thread so as not to overpower the lightness of the silhouette and color. With Grecian or flapper accessories, Livné’s collection can easily be referenced.

With these suggestions, you’ll be able to individualize the romantic clothing style and add to its versatility. These designers can all be found on mbfashionweek.com.

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Into the rabbit hole:‘The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry’

APLSOZ beats set the audience free

Matt Melson Staff Writer It is said that one out of every 100 people is a psychopath, a person who has no empathy or feelings.

They are deceitful, manipulative, delusional and sometimes deadly.

“The Psychopath Test” gives us a glimpse into the minds of these people, insight into the madness industry and what makes a person a psychopath.

This book is an attention-grabber from the very first page. The first chapter opens with a true story that happened to the author and plunges him into the rabbit hole of madness.

An anonymous man sends one of Ronson’s friends a package with a puzzle inside: no return address, nothing indicating who it was from; just a package with an intricate and complex puzzle.

After months of investigating and endless hours spent trying to solve the puzzle, Ronson finally thinks he has at least solved the mystery of who sent the unsolvable puzzle. Jon then tracks down the suspected man. Of course, when he finds him, the man denies writing the puzzle, but there is just something fishy about him.

After endless attempts at trying to get the man to confess to his evil creation, Ronson then comes to the conclusion that the man who wrote the puzzle must be a psychopath.

But this experience leaves Ronson with many questions. Why did he write it? What did he get out of it?

What makes a psychopath? These are the questions that he sets out to answer by exploring the world of psychopaths.

This book isn’t called “The Psychopath Test” for nothing. During Ronson’s exploration into madness he comes across a forty point test that psychologists actually use to diagnose a psychopath. If the subject scores 30 or above, then, clinically, he or she is considered a psychopath.

And, yes, I took the test and scored higher than I was hoping for: 21.

The rest of the book is fascinating.

APLSOZ, freelance DJ Cody Bonebrake.

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Photo // amazon.com From interviews with actual psychopaths to a man who claims he went undercover in an asylum as a psychopath trying to investigate how patients were being treated and was forced to stay for more than a decade, this book is full of astonishing stories.

There were several times I became very nervous while reading this book because I kept thinking I was a

psychopath, but in the end the book addresses this point. Ronson writes that if you are afraid that you might be a psychopath, then you aren’t one.

Psychopaths aren’t afraid.

The next time you are looking for a good read, pick up this book. You won’t be able to put it down.

mmelson@unews.com

the dance portion of their music, Vikki Lampton while APLSOZ dedicates more Senior Beat Writer attention to electronic, which makes If there were a madman in the him comparable to artists such as Matrix cranking out beats carefully Bassnectar and Flux Pavillion. crafted for electronic music devotees He focuses more on what he in the futuristic realm, it would be feels is art rather than catering to APLSOZ. a mainstream crowd. The beats APLSOZ is the stage name of are more old-school electronic, 21-year-old freelance DJ Cody reminiscent of the genre’s trailblazers Bonebrake, a freeform electronic like Daft Punk and Fat Boy Slim. music-producing newcomer from His music is freeform and has many Santa Cruz, Calif. He has filled the genres muddled into one piece of Granada Theater in Lawrence, Kan., music. Many would try to classify with meticulously created beats his music as dubstep but it is really a effortlessly matched to kaleidoscope hybrid of many sounds. images swirling on the screen behind Something could be said about him. the revolutionary fan base APLSOZ The audience is in a standing- draws. Everyone in the audience room-only floor swaying and rocking collectively enjoys the futuristic back and forth to soul-shaking bass. show all while dancing on their The ear-blasting sounds are enough own. The electronic beats are more to shake concert-goers until they fall about letting the music penetrate to the floor. the brain, leaving one free to spasm Those who aren’t swaying are individualistically on the dance floor standing still, hypnotized by not as much as is desired. just the music but also the display If true music is supposed to set of amazing graphic holograms and listeners free, APLSOZ is doing it flashing lights. Swirling circles, right. galactic motifs exploding with color APLSOZ is currently sponsoring a and subliminal-esque messages flash weekly event called Cosmic Therapy at spectators. This production is not every Friday at the Pool Room in just pleasure for the ears, but also a Lawrence, Kan., where spectators feast for the eyes. will not only be able to have an While Avicii and Tiësto are, in APLSOZ experience but also be fact, electronic music producers, they immersed in electronic music from fall under the currently popularized other local up-and-coming artists as category of electronic dance music. well.

These artists draw an emphasis to vlampton@unews.com

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Rabby Land is no place for children Rabby and predicts his rise and fall makes him a pariah and he becomes Joey Hill as the rabbits’ triumphant king. It the object of their ridicule. In this Senior Staff Writer bases the story in a universe meant scene the audience is shown the odd Conceived as the master’s thesis for children, but only six lines into format of the opera, in which the of musician and educator Brian the first act it suddenly becomes actors who are singing and speaking Padavic, “A Tale of Two Rabbys” apparent that the rabbit’s natural stand on stage while a group of is a ridiculous work of theatrical fondness for procreation will become dancers act out the scene silently drudgery that has no comprehension a recurring theme throughout the and physically directly in front of the of its own lack of distinctness and opera. This maturation of storybook- audience and throughout the seats. poise. styled fairy tales originally meant for This is an interesting and nuanced Local theatre of any kind seems children is nothing new but has been style of presentation that is welcome to exist in an almost palpable cliché done in a much more subtle and and is actually used cleverly. The of such ridiculous work that is sophisticated way with productions dancers gracefully leap and glide laughable only to the point in which like James Lampine’s “Into the while the narrative continues the viewer realizes that this was Woods” in which a collection of verbally on stage, even for the brief an honest effort by another human being. “A Tale of Two Rabbys” fits this cliché rather well. While its main problems are not exactly mitigated to the annals of aesthetics, writing or the talent of the actors, the issue lies within the work’s inability to understand not only its own genre, but also what kind of audience it’s made for.

The lovingly hand-bound program with a cartoon illustration of a rabbit wearing a crown presenting the thumbs-up to the viewer is arguably the most believable piece of acting the audience will see that night. It is not difficult to envision that “A Tale of Two Rabbys” is a simple presentation intended for children The drawing on the opposite side Tabby fights off the Squirrel Squadrons and Gopher Governments.

Photo // Joey Hill of the program depicts a larger, storybook characters band together drooling, more menacing looking to quell the mortal dangers that arise moment in which the dancers begin rabbit holding a large bottle of from careless wishing Each wish is to grope and dry hump each other alcohol in one hand and a squirrel by allowed to develop for the audience much to Tabby’s disgust. the neck with the other. so the plausible ramifications and Tabby’s only friend is Abby. Noted The rabbit in question is Tabby, consequences can be realized. In as the most beautiful of Rabbys, the titular protagonist of “A Tale of “A Tale of Two Rabbys” there is no she is attracted to his intellect and Two Rabbys.” “Rabbys” refers to such distinction and therefore the kindness. He is not like the other the rabbits that inhabit the mystical narrative suffers. rabbits that are all so focused on land known as “Rabby Land.” This The story begins with Tabby, one thing. No, Tabby is a rabbit of kind of Dr. Seuss-like vocabulary bespectacled and meek, conducting the mind, at least until he mistakes works well for the beginning of scientific examinations while the Abby’s friendliness for romantic the work and the narration by the other rabbits frolic and play. His interest and requests that they have rabbit ear-clad narrator in which he apparent disinterest in the more sex like rabbits. This line seems to describes the tale of Tabby the mad carnal impulses of his brethren destroy whatever parts of Tabby’s

character that have been developed up to this point. He is, in fact, not any better than his brethren, and the idea of this story being about advocating knowledge and uniqueness is destroyed with it. The next day Tabby picks a fresh flower for Abby and presents it to her in an attempt to create what he felt was a budding relationship. While presenting her the flower, however, a nearby Rabby scoffs at the gesture and Tabby turns and leaves, feeling rejected.

Defeated and alone, Tabby wanders the landscape of the farmer’s backyard until he is caught in a rodent trap and taken in as a pet of the farmer’s son. What follows is a short sequence in which the narrator returns to describe Tabby’s eventual spiral into madness as he runs on an exercise wheel, becoming more and more physically fit until one day he finally breaks the wheel off its mount and rolls it into the glass wall of the hamster cage, cracking it. Realizing that this is his one chance at freedom, he bangs on the glass with his paws until he finally breaks free and scurries back to Rabby Land.

Tabby returns to find his home in dire straights. In the intervening months since his incarceration, Rabby Land has become overrun with squirrels and gophers. This brings Tabby into a murderous rage and he uses his newfound physical strength to attack the invaders and reclaim Rabby Land. Having driven out the intruders, Tabby is hailed as a hero by the Rabbys and made king.

While at first he opposes this new position, feeling he could not live up to the responsibility, he changes his mind when he is given a harem of concubines.

What follows is a shockingly wellchoreographed orgy sequence in which Tabby is writhing in pleasure with the group of concubines while an actor moans and shouts from behind the curtain, “Safe word! Safe word!” At this point it seems that the titular hero is falling into the very vices he once rejected, and the short interlude following shows that years have passed and Tabby has become a fat drunkard ruling Rabby Land with an iron tyrannical fist. His lack of real leadership has given way to the appearance of a cat who now threatens the inhabitants of Rabby Land. As hope seems to fade away for the Rabbys, the fourth act marks the appearance of the true heroine of the tale, Babby.

Babby is a young Rabby who has heard much of Tabby’s tales of heroism and experienced his tyranny firsthand. After a chance encounter with the cat, she narrowly avoids being eaten and seeks shelter in Tabby’s castle. While trying to convince Tabby to get up and defend the Rabbys, Babby reminds Tabby of his long-lost first love, Abby.

The resulting remembrance causes Tabby’s libido to inflame and he begins to chase Babby around his castle until finally she concedes and they have passionate sex before the audience’s ears. A post-coital Tabby lumbers off stage as Babby orders him to “go get that pussy!” to a dutiful and no doubt exhausted “hardy har har” by all in attendance.

As Tabby runs out to challenge the cat, he begins to hear the praises of his subjects in his head as they cheer him on louder and louder, building up to a spectacular finale in which, while sticking his head out of a rabbit hole, Tabby is decapitated by a passing lawnmower and a large prop rabbit head is thrown out onto center stage. This story can be seen in the light of a tragedy or cautionary tale, or even more accurately a spiteful story about an intellectual who was doomed from the beginning, filling an inner emptiness with the things that eluded him in life only to be chopped down – literally – by the whirling blades of fate.

It seems that “A Tale of Two Rabbys” tries too hard to be a childish story with adult undertones and subtext, and approaches being a hard-hitting tragedy too lightly and too suddenly at the end. The work comes up short in a lot of ways that make a truly compelling story on either side of the spectrum. jhill@unews.com

Valentine’s Day party made easy with stoplight signals Eppie O’Neal Staff Writer

The Point Bar & Grill, tucked between the Plaza and Westport, held a stoplight-themed Valentine’s Day party hosted by 95.7 The Vibe.

The bar is a casual eatery by day and transforms into a trendy hotspot at night.

The party started at 8 p.m. and consisted of wearing wristbands issued in order to easily identify who was taken. Red meant you were off the dating market, yellow told on-lookers that your situation was complicated and green meant you were looking for that someone special.

Steven Hooks, 25, arrived at the party at 10:30 p.m. and selected a green wristband for his relationship status along with his group of single friends.

“I haven’t approached anyone tonight,” Hooks said. “I’m just here to hang out with my friends.”

He didn’t receive any advances either.

If the chance of finding that special someone was looking doubtful then patrons could try their luck with the radio station by registering for a chance to win tickets to see rapper 2 Chainz perform and win other prizes.

“We dared people to do stuff for 2 Chainz tickets,” said Ivani Bing from 95.7 The Vibe. “We dared one guy to ask girls for their phone number.

“After trying four groups he still didn’t have a phone number.”

The crowd participation made the games entertaining.

“A girl gave someone a lap dance for 2 Chainz tickets and we had a twerking contest,” Bing said.

Every corner of the bar was crowded. Guests could venture downstairs to a lounge area and another full bar for a change of scenery.

The DJ spun hip-hop and R&B hits that vibrated through both floors of the bar. The music prompted some to show off their dance moves.

The power hour from 9-11p.m. drew in the mixed crowd for ultracheap drink specials, where patrons paid a low price for all the wells and domestic drafts they could handle.

Boulevard Chocolate Ale was the popular drink of the night, and free roses added a romantic touch.

Florene Frazier, 23, spent the evening eating a romantic dinner prepared by her boyfriend and reluctantly went out with her single friends.

“The red wristband is great,” Frazier said. ”Now I don’t have to worry about someone approaching me.It’s a nice crowd tonight.”

Those who were looking for someone special and fell short were still able to mingle, dance and just forget about how miserable Valentine’s Day can be for some singles.

The party went late into the night.

The bar closed its doors shortly after 2 a.m. eoneal@unews.com

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