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Faculty Healthcare Washburn employees suffer from budget cuts; must pay healthcare premiums Regina Budden WASHBURN REVIEW

The Board of Regents ended a seven-year run of self-funded healthcare for Washburn, Friday with a decision to have faculty and staff assist in paying their premiums.

In the past, Washburn University has paid the full premium for its employees. The new policy means that employees will pay part of their premiums, a higher deductable and more for office visits. The policy has also raised the cost of brand-name drugs to $10 for employees, but generic drugs will remain at $5 in an effort to “encourage the use of generic drugs,” said the president Jerry Farley.

Farley recommended these changes to the Board of Regents as a reaction to the current “recession economy” because Washburn University’s goal is to make increases that will put at least $25 million back into reserves. Also new is the fact that employees are no longer required to have a plan from the university coverage. If they prefer, they can shop around for a cheaper plan, but they would have to pay for it entirely out of pocket.

For employees that choose Washburn University’s plan, the responsibility for paying their premiums will be based on the size of their salaries and policies. For instance, employees who have salaries equal to or less than $26,042 will pay $25 each month for a single person plan or $255.81 each month for a family plan, while those employees that make more than $58,131 will pay $100 per month for a single plan or $828.89 per month for a family plan. In all cases, the university will

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Faculty pay premiums: President Farley makes over $240,000 a year. He will pay the same for coverage as any faculty member who makes more than $58,131 a year. cover what the employee does not pay. appointed about the new policy Harold Rood, chair of the phi- changes, they weren’t surprised.

“It is deplorable that we’ve losophy department, spoke on behalf of the professors, “Nobody likes it. had to increase these costs, espeIf you were to say how many peo- cially in a year in which we have ple were in favor of this, I would had no pay increase,” said Farley. have to say ‘no one.’” He said they were concerned because this adds one more bill that they have to pay.

Michael D. Haze, union presi- Regina Budden is a junior mass media dent, said that although many fac- major. Reach her at regina.budden@ ulty and staff members are dis- washburn.edu.

ISS director receives no blame for e-mail crisis Lauren Eckert WASHBURN REVIEW

of faculty, most faculty members are not pointing blame at the director for the recent e-mail outage.

The outage, which first occurred It was only five months ago that the faculty senate at Washburn Univer- on Aug. 19 and was completely restored sity passed a “vote of no confidence” on Sept. 10, was the source of a lot of regarding Information Systems and frustration for both faculty and students.

Freshman Renae Langer said, “It Services director Michael Gunter. The recent e-mail crisis has some wonder- was really frustrating because as a freshman, it’s a ing if there is lot more comfortany connection “ able communibetween the cating with prooutage and the The problem wasn’t fessors through faculty concerns that I really missed e-mail. Without from last April. it, everything Faculty cone-mail--it was that seemed to be a cern for Gunter’s the rest of the world lot more chaotic.” practices as ISS Assistant director were had it, and I didn’t.

Professor of Engfirst brought to lish Sarah Smarsh attention at the was in agreement.

Jan. 18 faculty - Sarah Smarsh “The email senate meeting, Assistant Professor of English crash obviously where faculty or altered complained that ” slowed my communicaGunter was intions with stuterfering with dents, faculty and faculty research, academic computing, library access, other professional contacts. For the faculty privacy and academic freedom. first day or two, though, I had a posiThe meeting heard some fac- tive outlook, figuring it would be someulty members refer to Gunter’s what refreshing to return to phone calls behavior as “unstable,” arguing and face-to-face interactions where that he “could not be trusted” and e-mail had taken over,” Smarsh said.

“In the end, it wasn’t such a fun was pointedly avoiding questions.

Tom Prasch, faculty senate presi- experiment. Email has sped up the endent, said in April that the main factor tire world, and being without it is nothof faculty discontent stemmed from a ing but a disadvantage. For me, corre“fundamental lack of trust” in Gunter. spondences regarding important events Despite the faculty vote, Gunt- were interrupted, and the multi-tasking er remains employed at Wash- required to complete my jobs as profesburn University as ISS director. sor and writer was stymied. The probWhile the lack of confidence in Gunter remains fresh on the minds Please see UNIVERSITY page A5

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just a Washburn issue Ashely Nadeau WASHBURN REVIEW

the raise in the student fees. This included the recreation center and the health center and some other random charges. While I did not use all of the services I paid for, it was nice to be able to go to the doctor when I was sick and go to the rec and swim at the pool. We had a really nice rec and natatorium, so I think it was worth it,” said KSU graduate Elizabeth Cobb.

Washburn tuition is, at the very least, $5.20 per credit hour less than KSU, and $17.90 per credit hour less than KU. Washburn also has had less tuition increases traditionally.

“I’m not worried about it because I intend to work hard and get scholarships,” said Washburn freshman Melissa Duncan. “I think it’s worth the money, I like the small class sizes and plus it’s still cheaper than other Universities around here,” she said.

Ashley Nadeau is a junior mass media major. Reach her at ashley.nadeau@ washburn.edu.

Graphic by Valerie Caviglia, Washburn Review

Comparison of tuition by year: Washburn tuition is up by four percent since last year.

KU and KSU increased by more than five percent.

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to incoming freshman, there would be no guarantee that any other type of student wouldn’t see a tuition increase,” Rising tuition appears to be a said Lois Pinder, accountant at KU’s trend in Kansas universities. As many bursar’s office. Along with no guarhave already experienced first hand, antee to new, non-freshman students, traditional undergraduate tuition at there are additional potential costs for Washburn is $201 per credit hour, a KU tuition. “I will let you know that $4 increase from last year. Washburn there is a campus fee of $423, which students may not be alone in deal- is for everybody, and other individing with a higher cost of education. ual departments charge additional The University of Kansas basic tu- class fees,” said Pinder. Washburn ition for the current academhas a campus fee of $43. ic year is $218.90 per credit UNIVERSITY Kansas State Univerhour, which is $12.40 more sities’ basic tuition for the TUTION than the 2008-09 term. Al2009-10 term is $206.20 though KU increased tuition per credit hour for unby $8.40 more than Washburn did, they dergraduate students, an increase of have different method in billing tuition. $7.73 from last year. “They always “KU actually does a thing where raise it in the fall though, it has been they lock the tuition price for four going up every fall for a while,” said years. You know what it will cost from Elma Pfaff, KSU administrative speday one,” said Ashley Bowser, a KU cialist. KSU has a flat campus fee art major. However there are draw- of $80.50, and a student fee which is backs to the tuition compact at KU. $23 per credit hour up to 12 hours.

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News Briefs • Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Thursday, september 17 Scorch on the Porch Memorial Union Lawn 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Constitution Day Presentation Henderson, Room 100 2:30 p.m.

Student Success Skills Workshop Mabee Library 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Thursday Night Live Kansas Room, Memorial Union 6 p.m.

Crane Observatory Open House Stoffer Science Hall 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Friday, september 18 Diversity Matters Seminar Vogel Room, Memorial Union 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Volleyball Lee Arena 7 p.m.

Saturday, september 19 Volleyball Lee Arena 2 p.m.

Sunday, september 20 No events scheduled

Constitution and Citizenship Day to be recognized at WU TOPEKA - Students, staff and faculty are invited to Washburn’s 2009 Constitution Day event at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17 in Henderson 100.

Alex Glashausser, professor and associate dean, School of Law, will present “Constitutional Conflict: Judicial Supremacy and Congressional Power.” For information, call 670-1154.

The history of Constitution Day & Citizenship Day:* In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated the third Sunday in May as “I Am an American Day.” The observance, as stated by Roosevelt, was to honor those who have recently become members of our body politic, and at the same time reaffirm our allegiance to the principles of American citizenship.

He called upon federal, state and local officials, as well as patriotic and civic organizations, to hold exercises designed to impress upon our citizens, both native-born and naturalized, the privileges of their new status in our democracy and their responsibility for building this nation’s

security and advancing its welfare.

Twelve years later, President Harry S. Truman signed a bill that renamed the holiday “Citizenship Day” and moved the observance to Sept. 17, the date the Constitution was signed in 1787. Following the passage of a joint resolution in 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed the week beginning Sept. 17 and ending Sept.

23 each year as “Constitution Week.”

Senator Robert C. Byrd (DWV) entered an amendment, known as Public Law 108-477, to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005 that changed the name of the Sept. 17 holiday to “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.” The purpose of “Constitution Day” and “Citizenship Day” is to honor and celebrate the privileges and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship for both native-born and naturalized citizens, while commemorating the creation and signing of the supreme law of our land.

TOPEKA - Patients are now being accepted by the Anxiety Clinic at the Psychological Services Center at Washburn University.

The clinic specializes in treating a variety of problems associated with anxiety such as public speaking fears, fears of interacting with others, panic attacks, worry, stress, obsessions and compulsions.

The clinic is staffed by students working toward their master’s degree in psychology, under the supervision of a psychology department faculty member who is also a licensed psychologist.

The Anxiety Clinic emphasizes utilizing treatments that have been

shown to be effective in the scientific literature. These treatments are typically cognitive-behavioral treatments that involve teaching the patient skills to manage and overcome anxiety. Information on the clinic is found at www. washburn.edu/cas/psychology/clinic.

Fee is $5 per session. The clinic is located in room 111 of Henderson Learning Resources Center on the Washburn campus.

All calls are confidential. For more information, call 785-670-1564.

Photo by Tesa DeForest, Washburn Review

Career Fair: Washburn students pick up hand-outs from a booth at the Career Fair. The Fair was held on Sept. 9 in Lee Arena and hosted several organizations and employers.

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Anxiety Clinic Seeing Patients

Photo by Matt Wilper, Washburn Review

WU on parade: The Lady Blues and marching band parade outside Yager Stadium. The group provided pre-game entertainment for Washburn fans before kick-off at 6 p.m.

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President’s Press -paid for by WSGA-

Monday, september 21 Casual Fitness Morgan Hall, Room 270 12:10 p.m. to 12:40 p.m.

French Conversation Table Sunflower Room, Memorial Union 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Walktoberfest registration begins

Tuesday, september 22 Poker Walk 11 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Coping with Procrastination Workshop Cottonwood Room, Memorial Union 3 p.m.

Wednesday, september 23 Conference- Affirmative Action: Requiem or Renaissance Washburn Room, Memorial Union 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Brown Bag International Lecture International House 12 p.m.

Sociology/Anthropology Club Henderson, Room 103 4 p.m.

“Theology of the Body” Series Blair Room, LLC 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Photo by Matt Wilper, Washburn Review

Active Ichabods: Students Michael Glass and Sam Spyres help with WU in the Community. Volunteers completed various service projects before enjoying free pizza.

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Guest Speaker- Affirmative Action: Requiem or Renaissance Washburn Room, Memorial Union 7 p.m.

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Hello Washburn, I hope everything is going well now that the semester is in full swing. As I was sitting in my Leadership 100 class earlier this week, I started thinking a lot about the “defining moments” or “crucibles” that I have had in my life.

These are times in my life that have always had a substantial impact on me, but that I have not thought much about. They are experiences that have played a defining role in who I am and the direction I have gone. I have enjoyed slowing down to reflect on those pivotal times in my life, and I have realized a lot of them occurred during my times at Washburn. Think about that this week, and also know that who you are and who you are going to be may very well stem from decisions you are making right now!

It’s been a big week for Washburn. Strategic Planning is in full swing. I hope you have been voicing your opinions at the various forums across campus during the past several weeks. This is an important time for our university to decide on the direction we are going to be headed for the next ten years! Let me know (garrett.love@washburn.

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edu) if you have any opinions you would like to see taken to the Strategic Planning Committee. Our Ichabod football team had another big win starting the season off 3-0 and ranked 22nd in the nation, and our volleyball girls are now 12-0 and 6th in the nation. Washburn also received the largest financial gift we have EVER received in the amount of $5 million from Washburn alum, Dick Davidson, the former CEO of Union Pacific. Most importantly, the first tests seem to be rolling around, so make sure to stay on top of those studies.

Come out and see our Lady Blues play their first home volleyball games this weekend: Friday @ 7:00 p.m. against a very talented Truman State team, followed by a 2:00 p.m. game Saturday.

I hope you all have a great rest of the week.

GO BODS!!!

Garrett Love President, WSGA

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 • News

Apple launches new products Josh King WASHBURN REVIEW

provides the user with recommendations based on the apps currently installed. Recommended apps can be removed with a quick swipe of a fin“It’s only rock ‘n’ roll, but we like it.” ger, which Jobs said will make the That was slide one at Apple’s Genius even smarter in the future. latest special event, and for the most Up next, it was time for the rock part that was true. Sure CEO Steve ‘n’ roll talk, and there was plenty to Jobs may have started the event with talk about. Touted first was new iTunes talk of his liver transplant before en- software. Notably, the new software couraging everyone to follow in the includes a completely redesigned generous example of his donor by store bringing a sleeker layout and a becoming organ donors. And he may tip of the hat to social networking. Not have followed it up with talk about only can a user buy and gift songs, the iPhone and the App Store, but oth- they can now share them on Twitter er than that it was all music, mostly. or Facebook with just a few clicks.

In typical Jobs fashion, the numSynching to iPods and iPhones bers came first, the more astounding (sorry Palm Pre, your synching hack the better. He is broken again) announced that now has more Apple has sold “ finely-tuned op30 million iPgiving usIf you haven’t heard, tions, hones and that ers more control the App Store of what lives on the iPod has been a is overflowing their portable debig hit. Customers with more than vices. And with 75,000 titles that Home Sharing, love the iPod. users have downnew in iTunes 9, loaded a remarkthat content can able 1.8 billion come from up to - Phil Schiller times. To put that five computers number in perin the household Senior Vice President, Apple spective, that’s as songs, movWorldwide Product Marketing more than 4 milies, TV shows, lion app downapps are ” even loads each day. shared seamOn the docklessly across et, Wednesday, Macs and PCs. was the release of new iPhone software Other new features include the available as a free download through ability to organize apps from within iTunes for iPhone users and iPod touch iTunes, Genius Mixes and Jobs’ personowners running iPhone OS 3.0. The al favorite -- iTunes LP, which bundles 3.1 version of the software fixes bugs albums with the extra content that was and adds a few new features including lost with the adoption of digital music. pre-made ringtones (iPhone users have But as nice as the new iTunes been able to make their own in iTunes looked, what everyone had really before now) and App Store Genius. showed up for was new iPods. Rumors “Wouldn’t it be great if the App had been flying for months for this Store could make recommendations of event and people wanted new hardware. apps to you, just like Genius is making “If you haven’t heard, the iPod recommendations of songs,” said Jobs has been a big hit,” said Phil Schilwhile describing the new feature. “And ler, senior vice president of worldwide that’s what it does. It’s really nice.” product marketing as he announced The feature shows up on the iP- that more than 220 million iPods have hone or iPod touch’s App Store and been sold. “Customers love the iPod.”

Twenty million of those 220 million were the iPod touch, deemed the funnest iPod ever. Wednesday brought minor price drops (the eight gigabyte model now sells for $199 rather than $249), expanded storage, now up to 64 GB and faster processing. Surprisingly, updates didn’t include the oft-rumored camera. Though rumors say production issues gave the camera-enabled touch the boot, Jobs told New York Times writer David Pogue that Apple sees the iPod touch as the lowest price entry to the App Store.

“So what we were focused on is just reducing the price to $199,” said Jobs. “We don’t need to add new stuff. We need to get the price down where everyone can afford it.”

What they did decide to add new stuff to was the iPod nano. The nano, available now in nine colors and eight and 16 GB sizes, picked up a bigger screen, an FM radio capable of pausing live radio broadcasts for up to 15 minutes, a pedometer and a teeny tiny video camera.

Also updated were the iPod classic, from 120 GB to 160 GB at the same $249 and the buttonless iPod shuffle now available in two and four GB varieties at $59 and $79.

Yet to be honest, the event which purported to be all about music, turned out to be mostly about Steve Jobs.

Yeah, he was only on stage about half the time and he deflected the spotlight as much as Jobs ever does, but it didn’t matter. He was there.

For the first time in 11 long months, Jobs was on stage. He had gone through a medical leave of absence, had a liver transplant and looked as thin as he ever had, but he was there, and the crowd loved it almost as much as he did.

“So, I’m vertical,” said Jobs. “I’m back at Apple. Loving every day of it. And I’m getting to work with our incredibly talented teams to come up with some great new products for you all in the future. It’s really wonderful.”

How to get App Store Genius Step 1.

Go to your App Store and find App Store Genius to download.

Step 2.

Read and accept the terms and conditions.

Step 3.

Enjoy the new options presented to you by the App Store Genius.

All of the Apps will be recommended based on previous activity.

Josh King is a senior mass media major.

Reach him at joshua.king@washburn.edu.

WU Wellness Club Special events director steps down active on campus Richard Kelly WASHBURN REVIEW

Jennie Loucks WASHBURN REVIEW

Guitar Hero, Wii games and remote control car races. Food and prizes were also given away at the event.

The Washburn University WellMegan Kirkhart, secretary, said ness Club is a student organization that that they will be participating in many was created three years ago to promote new activities this year, so it would be healthy living and wellness. Today, the a great time for those interested to join. club has grown into an opportunity for “We will be participating in the students to join MS Walk this year, in on better- “ which I will be coing themselves, ordinating. We are as well as the also considering We don’t want university, and hosting a Breast people to be afraid the community.

Cancer Awareness E v e r y volleyball tournato join because they other Monday ment here at the eat at McDonalds... at 6 p.m. in the Rec,” she said.

Ichabod Room “As well, we’re or they aren’t of the Student working with the physically fit..

Recreation National Intramuand Wellness ral Recreational - Rachel Howard Center, the stuSports AssociaPresident, Wellness Club dent organition, which allows zation holds to communicate ” us their meetings. with schools across Rachel the country.”

Howard, presi The Nadent of the Wellness Club, said that tional Intramural Recreational Sports this isn’t only for people who are Association offers scholarships and very fit or concerned with wellness. awards to students as well as pro“There are many dimensions of viding them with ideas for events wellness besides nutrition and fit- and opportunities for future jobs. ness. We don’t want people to be The WU Wellness Club curafraid to join because they eat Mc- rently has 50 members. There is Donalds on a regular basis or they no membership fee for those interaren’t physically fit,” she said. ested in joining. The next meeting The club participates in many will be held on Sept. 14, at 6 p.m. service projects to promote healthy For more information on how living, both on Washburn’s campus as to become a member contact Rawell as with other community-based chel Howard at rachel.howard@ organizations. In the past, they have washburn.edu, Megan Kirkhart at done the Aid Stations for the Re- megan.kirkhart@washburn.edu, lay for Life 5K and 10K, where they or call the Student Recreation and handed out bottled water to partici- Wellness Center at (785) 670-1314. pants. Also, the annual All Night at the Rec, which takes places in February, is put on by the club. In the past at this event, students have been pro- Jennie Loucks is a sophomore mass media vided with the opportunity to join in major. Reach her at jennifer.loucks@washon fun and games such as volleyball, burn.edu.

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the job has enough drive, they can find projects of their own as well,” said Koepsel. “They can work with CAB to bring in people and can get involved in Sometimes you just hit committees to really get things done on a point where you know it’s campus. It’s a really flexible position.” time to let go of something.

Koepsel resigned from WSGA afSuch was the case for sophomore ter a long summer with a lot of contemErica Koepsel. Recently, she stepped plating and thinking about what were down from the role of Washburn Stu- really the biggest motivations to remain dent Government Association’s Spe- involved. Koepsel warned students cial Event Director. She doesn’t regret who get greatly involved to make sure a moment of her time servthey’re doing it for themSTUDENT ing but had to keep her own selves and they have their agenda in mind, thus mak- GOVERNMENT hearts in the right place. ing the decision to resign.

Kent McAnally, “WSGA was a good Director of Career Serstart for me. It was a good way for vices at Washburn also agreed me to get involved as a freshman,” with Koepsel’s sentiments. He sees said Koepsel. “But as I progressed many students come in and want and got involved in other organi- to get deeply involved on campus. zations, I realized my heart wasn’t “You may start with one thing and in that as much as other things.” that may lead you to other things. The The role, though, of WSGA big key is to figure out where to diSpecial Events Director was some- rect your ambitions,” said McAnally. thing she spoke strongly of looking McAnally also said many stuback to the resignation. With ap- dents try to get involved in too many plications for the role due this past organizations with the hope of usFriday, Koepsel offered wise words ing it for resumes, when they may be to whoever received the position better off with a few organizations “The big focus is the lecture series and more involvement within them. and finals week. If the person who gets Koepsel understands that there

are students who are on the other end of the spectrum and haven’t gotten involved. She highly advocated that those students should see WSGA or any other organization as a great way to start and to stop by the office of what they’re interested in.

“Open senate seats come and go all the time, and from being on senate, I got so involved on campus. If there are open seats, I would definitely go for one,” said Koepsel.

“You meet so many people that are in other organizations. And if WSGA doesn’t end up being your thing, it’ll definitely help you find what is.”

The most important advice that Koepsel could provide was to be self-dependent and not worry about how others will react to resigning from a spot in an organization. She said college only comes once and it is important for everyone to do what suites their own goals.

Richard Kelly is a sophomore mass media major. Reach him at richard.kelly@ washburn.edu.

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Opinion • Wednesday, September 16, 2009

University events spark questions, offer no answers

Ben Fitch WASHBURN REVIEW There have been a variety of strange occurrences concerning Washburn personnel lately, and the common theme is poor communication. The director of admissions, Kirk Haskins, is gone; whether he was fired or resigned is unclear. The strategic planning committee has seen its share of problems, as Kim Morse was asked to resign from her faculty-elected chair in a supposedly blatant and offensive e-mail. And Mike Gunter, ISS director, has been trying to fix e-mail problems with a ‘vote of no confidence’ looming over his head.

So why are there so many issues?

It seems the answers are vague and often ill-conceived. The common element is, again, poor communication. This has been a notable problem for some time now. The WTE faced student opposition because of poor communication among the advocates. They could have sold it better. And this is only one example.

When the Chartwells contract was renewed last semester, there was student outrage. It seemed that students had finally found something to be active about, albeit food. But the anger was misguided. It turned out that students had not taken the time to fully understand the specifics of the contract, which was severable at any time. WSGA had the opportunity to provide input into the decision, but poor communicaGUEST tion resulted EDITOR in a stagnation of results. And as a side note, I would like to say that if you are not pleased with Chartwells, don’t eat there. You have more important things on your plate to worry about.

So students are guilty as well. It seems many are apathetic towards all of this administrational dithering. The Review searches for answers among administrators, who continually refuse to comment, and, in the end, the staff puts long hours into what most students at Washburn barely give a second look. It is a commonly appreciated fact that the average Washburn student does not have a voice.

Strategic planning is in motion, and the committees are looking for student input. This is an opportunity for us to open the lines of communication and end this pathetic trend, which goes for faculty and students.

Washburn is a great school.

There is truly an offered value that distinguishes the Washburn student from that of other universities. I only ask, however, that we not take too many sips from our half-full glass.

Health care one step at a time that get Congress’ undivided attention.

The first and possibly most fundamental issue to health care is Last week President Obama tried tort reform. One of the cornerstones to deflect the national conversation to to medicine today according to most the always-pressing issue of health experts is what is referred to as care. While there is nothing wrong “defensive medicine”. Today’s medical with talking about as complex an professionals live in constant fear of issue as health care and what we can litigation and the loss of their medical do to help solve the financial crisis licenses because they didn’t order that is Medicare and the pay me first expensive and mostly unnecessary health insurance industry, one has to tests that would leave them clear of wonder when the president will start any possible fault while wringing to seriously address the root issues more and more money out of the that comprise the health care debate. system and as a result driving up costs.

Many people in this As the president country don’t realize that spoke about, as a result THE REVIEW’S of living in fear of sothe issue of health care is VIEW more than just how much called “junk lawsuits” insurance will cost and the system incorporates the introduction of yet another money unneeded inflation of costs and thus a soaking entitlement program in the large amount of money is lost for no form of the so-called “public option”. real reason other than a well-meaning The claim that the president made medical professional doesn’t want to during his address to a joint session of be taken to the cleaners in a multicongress last week that he would fund million dollar lawsuit. Enforcing health care by, “cleaning up the waste responsible penalties thru making and abuse that exists within the current plaintiffs responsible for the cost system.” Perhaps the cynic in all of us of a defeat in court is a worthy idea sees the idea of a government program or possibly the capping of awards that operates efficiently as an oxymoron. should be another idea. Why should The more realistic solution to someone who has been wronged for a health care that the president alluded small amount of costs be able to sue to is a more indirect approach. for hundreds of millions of dollars?

Before Americans will ever realize The other major issue that was a dime of savings or an increase in alluded to by Rep. Joe Wilson in a productivity of the health care our roundabout way is the issue of illegal elected issues should stop trying immigrants draining out the system. to fix it all at once. Each issue that While America has always been termed affects health care is in themselves the land of opportunity, one has to major plank issues and should be think that coming here perhaps wasn’t addressed seriously as separate issues as big of an issue when the country

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had half the population it does today and half of the life expectancy as well.

Elected officials use the platitudes of coexistence to justify the robbing of resources from what would otherwise be spent on citizens who deserve to be taken care of more so than the illegal interlopers who bring with them a lack of education and increase in criminal activity due to their inability to gain legal employment in a lot of cases. In the case of health care, the fine line of social responsibility versus economic realism muddies the issue. When does the cost of being a hospitable port to the wretched poor of the world collide with the reality that it costs money to care for the millions of people who come here without regard to those that are here already and the untold cost they heap onto an already stressed economy.

To ensure health care gets to those that deserve it, some sort of comprehensive immigration reform must be passed before we can truly see the end of the waste that occurs all to often in emergency rooms across the country.

Hopefully our public officials will come together in the interests of the “little guy” as the president put it and address the issues that really shape the issue of health care with serious thought and a minimum of games and accusation throwing tantrums.

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Scholary talk: President Jerry Farley and his wife Susan host discussions at their home.

Selected students are invited to talk about topics with their peers and professors. them with a few thought-provoking Jennie Loucks questions to think about and discuss WASHBURN REVIEW during dinner. Dinner brings small Thirteen years ago, when Jerry groups that later come together to Farley became president of Washburn share and discuss their thoughts.

Topics are generally chosen based University, he and his wife Susan began their Roundtable Discussions. upon current events. In the past, topThe president said that they began ics have ranged from gun control, to these dinner/discussions to be able to hate groups, to wellness to tax dolinteract more closely with students in an lar being used for bailouts. Students environment that is a little more relaxed, are both chosen at random by Farbut stimulating and intellectual as well. ley, as well as invited by facilitaThe process of organizing a tors, who may also be their teachers.

“We love to hear students’ Roundtable Discussion begins with the topic. The Farleys make their se- thoughts, and then have students lection, then select a faculty member hear what other students’ thoughts to act as a fascilitator of the discus- are,” said Farley. “It’s fascinating sion.. This faculty member introduces to hear the different perspectives.”

Farley said that he and his wife the topic to the guests and provides

always hope that everyone will hear something new from what they always thought, that they’ll process it and that participating in the roundtable will either broaden their thoughts, or change how they have always seen a topic.

“Susan and I are regularly surprised with what people say because all of us have stereotypes and opinions,” said Farley. “When people don’t fall into these categories, we’re surprised. It’s refreshing.

Last fall, Bethany Whitehurst, sophomore, attended a roundtable on Muslims and the Islamic faith. Whitehurst was standing outside of the Living Learning Center one evening when Farley and his wife happened to be leaving the Memorial Union. After chatting for a while, they extended an invitation to her and her roommate.

“This dinner ended up being nothing like what I expected,” said Whitehurst. “I was fortunate enough to have the guest speaker in my discussion group, and I thought that it was very enlightening.”

The Roundtable Discussions are planned two to three times a semester, around other campus events and activities. Students who have been invited are contacted via telephone or e-mail, and asked to RSVP. If students are interested in attending a Roundtable Discussion they can contact the President’s Office at (785) 670-1560, and ask for Lisa Ille.

Jennie Loucks is a sophomore mass media major. Reach her at jennifer.loucks@washburn.edu.

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lem wasn’t that I really missed e-mail-- it was that the rest of the world had it, and I didn’t.”

Alan Shaver, chemistry professor, was also frustrated by the so-called upgrade.

“The e-mail outage was frustrating because, like many software ‘upgrades’ there is little or no apparent improvement in the performance of the Washburn e-mail system, or any other software upgrades that were installed at the same time,” Shaver said.

“I spent valuable lecture time explaining things that I have been handling better and more clearly by e-mail. The functionality of the new software was surprisingly different, not better, and I had to work through new ways for students to use the message board to post required chemistry articles for me and the class by oral instructions in lecture.”

While the crisis complicated

communication for many people, ISS made a point to clarify that no one person was responsible for the outage. In a series of campus announcements posted to the MyWashburn Web site, ISS reported that the outage was strictly a result of the server updates and that the department was working diligently to resolve the issue.

While all the reasons behind the email debacle have yet to be discovered, the Washburn community has been understanding and is not pointing fingers.

“I don’t think the e-mail issue was anyone’s fault, and I thought ISS did a good job of communicating the issue to everyone by the campus announcements,” said Langer.

“I’m just glad e-mail is back and seems to be operating smoothly.”

Lauren Eckert is a junior mass media major. Reach her at lauren.eckert@ washburn.edu.

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Welcome to the classroom 2.0

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Gone are the simple days of blackboards and chalk, whiteboards and dry erase markers, and as it seems, pen and paper.

Just walking around a college campus will prove how much more technology is involved. There is hardly a class a student can go to where there isn’t at least one student with a laptop. But more than that, there are very few professors who don’t include technology in their classroom.

“Angel is much more advanced and organized that WebCT was, said Keith Rocci, information literacy librarian at the Mabee Library. “Professors can use many different features on the system that make an online class interactive. It is all about gaining a comfort level for the system.”

Technology is quickly advancing in the “real world” and it is also advancing in the classrooms at Washburn.

It is the job of professors to prepare students for their future fields to be ready to work right out of college.

Advancements in technology are happening so quickly it may be hard for professors to keep up but they are certainly trying.

“In most of my classes, there is

something in the structure of the class that involves technology,” said Jordan Shefte, a junior mass media major. “My professors use PowerPoint, blogs, Angel and personal profile Web sites. They want to make sure I am showing future employers my resume and work.”

PowerPoint has been a staple in many classrooms for years now, however now the new versions allow for advanced features, such as embedded videos. YouTube, blogging and online homework have also become favorites of professors.

Computers are essential for college students; their own or the library’s. A lot of assignments a r e to be typed and/or turned in via e-mail.

“Students can always use the library to find references or to ask for help with technology that they may not understand fully,” said Judy Druse, assistant dean at Mabee. She also said that library can now rent

laptops to students and they can use them anywhere in the library.

Mabee is a helpful resource for any student who may not catch on as quickly as a professor expects. Rocci said technology in the classroom is very important but so is personal contact with a professor. Students learn in different ways and getting both online and in class is a good balance.

“Technology is the wave of the future. Keeping up with technology is important because when looking for a job, people with knowledge of technology are going to have an edge,” said Rocci. “If you don’t keep up, you’ll get left behind.”

As technology plays a bigger and bigger role on campus, there are also more distractions in the classroom for students and professors alike. Texting and Facebook are the highlights of some students’ classroom experience. Some professors try to regulate it in the classroom by banning them or taking points from students who are using them. However, a lot of professors don’t think that it is worth their time to discipline the students if they are going to continue to use them.

As the struggle for a balance in technology and other forms of teaching takes place, students just try to keep pace. Students will need to learn how to use the ones that are necessary for passing the class and eliminate the ones that turn into a distraction in the classroom.

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Student activity fee budget Jaime Brown WASHBURN REVIEW

that are divided among various other clubs at Washburn. Exactly who gets what is decided by the Washburn University Board of Regents.

Every Washburn University Of course no school department department faces the trials and runs without employees and those tribulations of budgeting and the employees do get paid. However Washburn Student Government their pay only accounts for 16.9 Association is no exception. percent of the student activity fees.

Even departments that exist to Despite the set-in-stone budget dish out funds have to account for the WSGA does occasionally acquiring their monies as well as how allocate funds for a group or event they spend that budget. that needs more funding.

Most students probably “We sometimes move UNIVERSITY money never take the time to in the budget but I FUNDING don’t think that happens itemize precisely what their thousands of dollars are very often,” said Hogan. going toward aside from “We pretty much work the vague idea of tuition. Should a with the amount of money that is student really get down to parsing assessed through students enrolled.” their annual school bill they’ll notice As the governing body of the ever present “activity fee.” Washburn University, the Board of Tiny in comparison to the various Regents is made up of nine members other monstrosities, otherwise known and is an entitity required by law. as school fees, the student activity fee Of the nine members, the governor is the bread and butter for WSGA. of Kansas and the mayor of Topeka The organization gets its money each appoint three members. Two from student activity fees which are other members are selected by the tacked onto each student’s bill. The the Shawnee County Commission $43 fee is small for each student, and the Kansas Board of Regents and but it adds up and pools together a final seat is filled by the mayor or to help fund campus organizations. a member of city’s governing body.

Three major student The appointee determined by organizations receive a decent chunk the Kansas Regent only serves a of the student activity prize. Those one-year term; all other members organizations are the University serve staggered four-year terms. The Childcare Development Program, the remaining additional members are Dancing Blues, and the Cheer Squad. James Roth, Christel Marquardt, and “The WSGA gets around vice chair Ben Blair all of whom 60 percent or 70 percent of the were selected by the governor. total activity fee,” said Keenan The Washburn Student Hogan, WSGA budget director. Government Association gets a budget The remaining money helps at the beginning of the year and goes fund other student organizations from there. Typically the organization such as the Review and the Campus won’t go too far beyond that budget, as Activities Board. The leftovers after the bulk of the allocation is cemented at

the beginning of the fiscal year. There is a WSGA reserve fund for those rare occasions Washburn University needs a major pep boost. While that is indeed rare a certain amount of funds are kept in that reserve.

“We always find we don’t have the funds we think we need, and we don’t really do fundraising because we don’t want to ask students for more money,” said Hogan.

Despite the glaring bureaucracy of it all the WSGA is ultimately dedicated to the student body. According to its Web site even declares “the Washburn Student Government Association is responsible for the bulk of the money collected from student activity fees. We choose to give it back to the students in the form of student organization funding and the services we offer.”

Washburn Student Government Association is a public organization on Washburn’s campus and as such its budget is made public record.

Anyone can check out their Web site for information on exactly how the WSGA’s portion of the student activity fee is spent.

Also available on the site are funding documents and student government form.

For more information on the budgets or to see what other information is available, visit the WSGA Web site at http://www. mywsga.com/ or call 670-1169.

Jaime Brown is a senior mass media major. Reach her at jaime.brown@washburn. edu.

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Washburn alumni chase land speed record Brian Allen WASHBURN REVIEW

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Adventure calls: Brian and Tucker Allen stand with their bikes on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Allens competed in the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials.

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Record Breaker: Brian Allen speeds across the salt of “The Grinder.” Allen went to Wendover, Utah, to try to break the land speed record.

I have two degrees from Washburn and my wife Tucker Allen has one. They have helped us in the workplace but all work and no play makes for a dull Ichabod.

Inspired by the little guy-against all-odds movie, “Worlds Fastest Indian” starring Anthony Hopkins, we decided to pursue the dream of building some old motorcycles to race for land speed records on the famed Bonneville Salt Flats.

Our Washburn University physics class was useful but as professional nurses we are better at medication injection than fuel injection so we recruited a team of friends that included a skilled machinist, a mechanic and an engineer. We found a 1971 Triumph 250cc for Tucker and a 1982 Honda 500cc for me. Both are single cylinder engines designed for low speed power on the trail rather than high speeds on the highway but as the Burt Monro character said in the movie, “Anyone can buy a fast bike, the trick is to make a slow bike fast.”

With a budget tighter than a banjo string we approached the rebuilds from two different directions. The 38-year-old Triumph got an engine makeover with all the racing parts we could find. The 27-year-old Honda got stretched, lowered and wrapped in wind shedding fairings to make it as streamlined as we could. All the work was done by hand in the garages of our team, making do with what we had.

Thus our motto, Making Doo, and our name, Speed Team Doo, AKA STD.

After a year of late nights and came loose, another the muffler was long weekends, learning skills, lost and once the carburetor fell off. solving problems and making a host But eventually it surprised us all with of new friends, our motorcycles were a speed of 102 mph. Delighted but not ready to roll. Our chosen venue was satisfied I gave it one last, caution to the the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials, an wind ride. I hit the timing gates as fast American Motorcyclist Association as the old dirt bike could carry me only sanctioned land speed racing event on to coast away with a broken engine. the Bonneville A land Salt Flats near speed racing Wendover, Utah. “ veteran told us, We were by “If you don’t If you don’t break it, the great barren break it, you expanse of the ain’t trying.” So you ain’t trying. salt flats. Not a I guess we can’t blade of grass, be faulted for not a stone, not trying. Some nothing but snow teams spent a white salt as far lot more money as the eye can see and went a lot up to and beyond faster. The world Land speed racing Veteran the horizon. record contender “It looks fell just short at down hill in every 350 mph. But ” no one had more direction,” said our machinist. fun or enjoyed We were greater personal soon to learn how this tract of salt crust accomplishments than we did. earned the nickname, “The Grinder.”

Between last year and this A teammate brought his 250cc bike year our little team holds three land and promptly burned up a piston in the speed records in three different thin high altitude air. With a clever and 250cc classes. A big thanks to our quick repair he went on to set a record local sponsors, the Kickstart Saloon, in his class. Tucker had set a record Freestate Cycle, Sante Fe Trail Cycle, in her 250cc class and tried to raise it Topeka Harley Davidson and Cope with an 80 mph run. But her ignition Plastics. We left with broken bikes, unit gave out and she could not back up a renewed spirit of adventure, smiles her speed with the required return run. on our faces and vows to return.

I had my doubts about what my worn-out, oil burning, eBay engine could do without a first gear but I ducked behind the shaped-to-my-form fairing and gunned it down the five Brian Allen is a returning alumni. Reach mile course. On one run the spark plug him at brian.allen@washburn.edu.

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Greek life: The men of Kappa Alpha Psi take a stroll around campus. They are part of an African-American fraternity that has only recently started at Washburn University.

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“Basically what 300 means is that I’ve recruited well. I mean that’s just really what it amounts to. Because I The season before Lady Blues got good players, and I’ve had good head volleyball coach Chris Herron players. And I’m lucky enough that came to Washburn, the team went we’ve been successful. So that’s just 12-22. In his first season with WU, in what that means.”

2002, he led the Senior setter Kate Hampson has team to a 29-5 gone 107-19 in her four years playing record. And the under Herron and she understands how Lady Blues and big 300 wins are.

Herron haven’t “That just shows that he’s a really looked back since. good coach and he knows what he’s Chris Herron talking about especially if you look at picked up his 300th career the record books and you look back win as a college coach before he was here and Washburn last Saturday morning at wasn’t very good,” she said. “So that the Rockhurst Fall Classic says a lot about him.” in Kansas City, Mo., an Herron, now 301-73 for his college achievement that says coaching career, changed CAREER a lot about the seventhe Washburn volleyball plus years he has put in MILESTONE program from a team with at Washburn. a career win percentage of The coach, who is .389 to one of .829. Before very dedicated in his work, said he he came to Topeka, the team had only didn’t even know it was approaching three winning seasons in the 15 years and said he is always focusing on just prior to 2002. Some highlights that the things he can control. he’s been a part of include leading “I’m so wrapped up and focusing the Lady Blues to five-straight NCAA on who I play next, that I don’t have tournaments, its first two conference any idea of what’s happened,” said titles and earning himself three MIAA Herron, who is 226-44 in his career at coach of the year awards. And he said Washburn. “Because there’s nothing I he wants to keep doing the job he loves can do about what’s happened before. as long as he can.

I just worry about what’s in the future.

“I don’t want to think about when So that’s just kind of how I prep myself it’s over with,” said Herron. “I’m and my team. enjoying so much what I do. And I’m

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very lucky and very fortunate to be able to do what I like to do. There’s a lot of people that don’t have that opportunity.

And so I’m grateful everyday that I get to come do this.”

The No. 6 Lady Blues, 12-0 and one of only two teams still undefeated in the MIAA, are back in action at 7 tonight on the road for their first conference game of the season at Northwest Missouri (7-5) in Maryville, Mo., as Herron goes for win number 302.

“They’re 7-5 right now,” he said.

“They have a Division I transfer at the setter position that they didn’t have last year. And other than that, they have everyone back so they’re going to be much better this year than they were last year. Last year we went up there and handled them pretty easily.

But we played them in the spring and they were a different load than they were last fall. So we’ll have our work cut out for us. Plus first conference match is on the road. And they always have a big ‘ol crowd when we play up there for some reason.”

Washburn volleyball fans have their first chance to see the Lady Blues in action 7 p.m. Friday in Lee Arena when they play their first home game of the year versus MIAA foe No. 19 Truman State (9-3).

Eric Smith is a senior mass media major.

Reach him at eric.smith1@washburn.edu.

Washburn soccer fighting injury bug

One of the issues is that we haven’t started well within the first 15 minutes of a game. But we will change warmups.”

Collins said the effort of the team The Lady Blues started the MIAA is notable especially considering the season with a 3-1 loss against the inexperience of some of the older Central Missouri Jennies, but Coach players.

Tim Collins is optimistic about the “We only have eight players with team’s chemistry. He said they won’t significant varsity experience,” he said, have to do anything differently when “the rest are sort-of being baptized by they meet Central Missouri again, fire.”

Sept. 24.

Captain Ashley Klone remains The Washburn a rock-steady defense had some element as holes. Two starting “ goalkeeper defenders, Ashley for the team.

It’s the chemistry Hynek, junior, and Collins said Danielle Sicard, he expects her and the way the junior, were unable to make two team plays together. to play because of game-saving injuries. saves per They battle— “We had to game, but will challenge for every shuffle four players be expecting into positions they more from her ball. don’t usually play,” when the team Tim Collins said Collins. meets Central H y n e k Missouri at Head coach, soccer and Sicard are home. expected to Having ” recover before the the home team plays Truman field will give State University the team the tomorrow in Kirksville, Mo. advantage, said Collins, when the “[Truman] is calm under pressure,” Jennies experience the fatigue factor said Collins, “they possess the ball.” after traveling to an away game.

But he said he believes the team will be able to match Truman’s efforts with the versatility that the Lady Blues bring to the field.

“It’s the chemistry and the way Ben Fitch is a junior mass media major. the team plays together,” said Collins. Reach him at benjamin.fitch@washburn.

“They battle—challenge for every ball. edu.

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Upcoming schedule

Sept. 17 Washburn at Truman, 4 p.m.

Sept. 24 Central Mo. at Washburn, 6 p.m.

Sept. 19 Washburn at Mo. Western, 1 p.m.

Sept. 26 SW Baptist at Washburn, 6 p.m.

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Senior bulldozer: Senior fullback Brad Haug thunders past the Missouri Southern defense at Yager Stadium. The Ichabods won the contest 54-31 for Washburn’s MIAA conference opener.

No. 22 Ichabods prepare for Griffons Robert Burkett WASHBURN REVIEW Next Saturday, Washburn will take to the road to continue the roll the football team is off to.

Having played three games this season, Washburn has ridden to a thus far undefeated mark. They will face their first real test of the season against Missouri Western State University who themselves, are coming off three consecutive wins including an impressive road win at Fort Hays State University last week.

Going back to last season, both programs have grown together at roughly the same pace and both seem poised for big seasons this year.

Indeed, this annual matchup has been one of the most hotly contested series for Washburn the past few seasons.

“This matchup has been a pretty

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closely played game every year since we arrived on campus,” said Craig Schurig, head football coach.

If the statistics this season are any indicator of what fans should expect from both teams, the game ought to be a closely fought affair. This season, both teams have been prolific in the passing game with both starting quarterbacks averaging more than 220 yards and two touchdowns per game. Both teams are not going to abandon the balance of the offense that the running game offers though.

“We feel like running the ball

will set up everything else we want to do on offense,” said Schurig, “and conversely we want to stop them from running the ball and make them a one dimensional team as well.”

So far this season, MWSU has played extremely aggressive defense, led by Daniel Atkinson (18 tackles and three sacks) and have been rewarded with a healthy turnover margin that has featured two interception returns for touchdowns and nine sacks coming into this Saturday’s game. While their

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Softball starts fall play

Sports Report

Robert Burkett WASHBURN REVIEW

Volleyball Standings Conf.

1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1

Overall 9-3 12-0 10-0 10-3 9-3 7-5 7-5 5-4 5-7 3-9 10-3

Sets won Sets lost 31 15 36 1 30 3 34 13 30 14 24 20 24 18 21 19 22 27 13 28 31 12

WU schedule Tonight

WU results Sept. 11

Washburn 3, Midwestern St. 0 Washburn at NW Mo. St., 7 p.m.

Washburn 3, Upper Iowa 1 Friday Truman at Washburn, 7 p.m.

Sept. 12

Saturday Washburn 3, E. New Mexico 0 Washburn 3, Ill.-Springfield 0 Mo. Western at Washburn, 2 p.m.

Soccer Standings

Southwest Baptist Central Missouri Nebraska-Omaha NW Missouri St. Truman St. Washburn Emporia St. Missouri Southern Missouri Western

WU result Sept. 12

Cent. Mo. 3, Washburn 1

Conf.

2-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-2-0 0-2-0

Overall 4-0-1 3-2-1 3-3-0 5-1-0 2-2-2 2-2-0 0-3-1 2-4-0 2-4-0

WU schedule Thursday

Washburn at Truman St., 4 p.m.

Saturday

Washburn at Mo. Western, 1 p.m.

GF 12 8 15 10 7 7 3 10 10

GA 6 4 14 4 8 7 10 15 14

MIAA schedule Thursday

UCM at UNO, 4 p.m.

NWMSU at MSSU, 7 p.m.

ESU at MWSU, 7 p.m.

Football Standings

Central Missouri (12) Missouri Western Washburn (22) Nebraska-Omaha NW Missouri St. (6) Fort Hays St. Pittsburg St. (11) Emporia St. Truman St. Missouri Southern

Conf.

1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1

Overall 3-0 3-0 3-0 2-1 2-1 2-1 2-1 1-2 1-2 0-2

PF 113 142 163 114 93 107 93 90 67 46

PA 62 59 66 31 43 96 56 73 76 71

( )- Division II nat’l ranking

Games Saturday

Results Sept. 12 Washburn 54, Mo. Southern 31

Washburn at Mo. Western, 6 p.m.

Central Mo. 24, Emporia St. 21

Neb.-Omaha at NW Mo. St., 1 p.m.

NW Mo. St. 30, Pitt. St. 10

Pitt. St. at Central Mo., 1:30 p.m.

Neb.-Omaha 38, Truman St. 0

Emporia St. at Mo. Southern, 6 p.m.

Mo. Western 58, Fort Hays St. 31 Fort Hays St. at Truman St. 7 p.m.

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Swing away: Junior Nicole Perkuhn stepped up to the plate during Sunday’s double header.

Ichabods sweep weekly MIAA honors Three Washburn Ichabods swept the weekly MIAA football player of the week honors as they were announced by the conference offices. Sophomore quarterback Dane Simoneau, senior defensive end Eric Lawrence and senior placekicker Steve Ivanisevic received special teams player of the week after the Ichabods topped Missouri Southern 54-31.

Simoneau passed for a career-high 306 yards completing 20 of 27 passes with three touchdowns while playing only three quarters. He also rushed for a touchdown. He was 14 of 16 for 181 yards in the first half. He had all three of his touchdown passes in the second quarter and rushed for one more in the second quarter when the Ichabods outscored the Lions 28-0.

Lawrence recorded seven total tackles with four solo stops along with 2.5 sacks and 3.5 tackles for loss while playing only three quarters helping hold the Lions to 208 total yards with 99 yards rushing and 109 yards passing through three quarters. His total yards lost on sacks was 12 and it was 14 on 3.5 tackles for loss.

Ivanisevic tied Mike Cassin (1978 vs Missouri Valley), Dan Brown (1992 vs Emporia State) and Chad Todd (2000 vs Wisconsin-LaCrosse) by hitting four field goals in a single game tying the school record. In 11 kickoffs he averaged 56.5 yards per attempt. He has connected on all five of his field goal attempts this season.

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Photo by Aaron Deffenbaugh, Washburn Review

Hut hut: WU quarterback Dane Simoneau was named MIAA offensive player of the week.

Tennis takes advantage of fall tournaments Richard Kelly WASHBURN REVIEW

after he completed his first season last same way.

“I think we can definitely win conyear. He has high hopes for both teams he coaches this year. He knows it’s hard ference this year. I think that’s a big goal Washburn’s tennis teams are ready for his men’s team to top their MIAA for us as a team,” said Doole.

Northwest Missouri State Univerto take on any competition that comes championship last year, but he sees it as sity, who beat out the Lady Blue’s tennis a possibility. their way.

“Our goal is to repeat from a confer- team last year, lost a few players for this Armed with a men’s team that won the MIAA Championship last season ence standpoint, but then our next goal season and that could play a factor when and a girl’s team that came in second in to go even further in the NCAA tourna- the season begins in spring.

For both squads, the fall tournathe MIAA, each of the respective teams ment,” said Alden.

Annie Doole, a sophomore who ments they’re playing in come as a way is ready to defend its high rankings.

The men’s team bolster’s five se- was with the team last year, saw her and for the players and coach to assess the niors and one junior while the girl’s her teammates surprise opponents last progress that needs to be made and posseason. Adding to that, she sibly who will fit best together in douteam is fairly experienced sees this year as being a lot bles play. as well with five sophoWASHBURN less of an adjustment with “I think by and large everyone has mores and one senior. Both TENNIS come in pretty good shape. The positive Alden staying on. teams don’t begin their full “Last year, it was a to playing these fall tournaments is it schedule until spring but each have four occasions to get warmed completely new team because we had gives us time to work on any of the defiup for that this fall beginning with the a brand new coach and six of us were ciencies that pop up in the tournament,” Washburn Invitational September 4-5 freshmen and we had one junior coun- said Alden. “It gives us time to work on and continuing on with the Wichita State ty transfer, “ said Doole. “I think we not only the physical but the mental asInvitational September 11-13. Each will shocked a lot of people because of that, pects so they can be strong in all areas of their game.” play against Cowley County Commu- just being underestimated.”

Alden also concurred that the womnity College on Saturday and each have a regional tournament on separate dates en’s team was young and shocked a lot of people last year, but he also thinks Richard Kelly is a sophomore mass following that.

Dave Alden returns as coach for the team can only continue to improve media major. Reach him at richard. this season for both men’s and women’s, as this year progresses. Doole feels the kelly@washburn.edu.

w e i v e Staff Pick ‘Em R e Th Week One

the staff

Pittsburg St. Washburn Emporia St. Nebraska-Omaha Truman St. Missouri Western NW Missouri St. Missouri Southern Southwest Baptist Fort Hays St. Central Missouri

coach Lisa Carey.

Indeed, the team returns a large portion of last year’s team that featured a relatively young team. Carey said the Offseason work began for Wash- young squad took away lessons from burn’s softball program during the the experience of last season that will weekend. carry into the upcoming year.

Washburn opened up the abbre“We spent a lot of time in team viated fall slate of games last Sunday practices, lifting and conditioning against Neosho County throughout the offseason Community College in a just working on getting LADY double header of exhibieveryone prepared,” said BLUES tion games.

Carey.

The Lady Blues went The exhibition seainto the game hoping to measure their son will continue next weekend beginwork in the offseason on the field and ning on Sept. 19, for the Lady Blues in were not disappointed. In a combined Emporia where they will participate in 16 innings of play, the Lady Blues the Emporia State tournament. scored thirty-one runs and held their opponents scoreless. The team hopes that Sunday’s results is a sign of things to come this season.

Robert Burkett is a junior mass media “We want to be tops in the con- major. Reach him at robert.burkett@ ference this year,” said softball head washburn.edu.

the games

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Duke @ No. 22 Kansas

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K-State @ UCLA

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No. 19 Nebraska @ No. 13 Virginia Tech

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No. 14 Georgia Tech @ No. 20 Miami (Fla.)

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Oakland Raiders @ K.C. Chiefs

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The Review Staff Pick ‘Em is a weekly feature where we pick the winners of college and pro football games around the country. Check back weekly to see our standings!

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 • Sports

Sophomore hitter embraces tough position Eric Smith WASHBURN REVIEW

spend the most time with them as a result. And so that’s just a job you kind of got to want because it’s not easy.”

It seems she does OK at the Sophomore Mollie Lacy is the top position as she leads the team in kills middle hitter on the Washburn Lady (101), kills per set (2.97) and attack Blues volleyball team, and according percentage (.462) for the 2009 season. to head coach Chris Herron, she plays She also leads the 2009 team in total one of the most difficult positions on points scored with 123.5 and is second the team very well. in blocks with six for the season.

Lacy, as a middle hitter, has the Coming to Washburn from responsibility to Lincoln, Neb., make blocks and Lacy is one of kills as well as “ five active Lady move sideways Blues from the Once she does quickly to Cornhusker adjust to the ball state. She said something, she gets and where her she knew all of it right. And she opponents are her Nebraskan at. teammates works had at it until “Mollie before coming Lacy’s as good to Topeka she gets it right. laterally as any including player we’ve C o u r t n e y Courtney Wallman ever had here.

Wallman, who Sophomore outside hitter And we had she was good Tessa Jones who friends with ” and now rooms was pretty good laterally,” said with.

Herron, who “She’s a coached Jones to three All-American tremendous athlete and she’s got lots honors. of natural talent,” said Wallman, who “[Lacy’s] just so dynamic off of is a sophomore outside hitter from one foot.”

Beatrice. “And she works hard in And Herron said for her position, practice and she always gives it her she has to be aware of a lot of different all. aspects of the game.

“Once she does something, she “There are so many things. The gets it right. And she works hard at it middle hitter is the toughest hitting until she gets it right.” position because they’ve got so many Lacy said while she has loved her reads that they’re responsible for. And experience at Washburn and with the if they make a bad read, then there volleyball team, she wants the team to could be a huge whole in the block so learn from last year. they have the toughest job. And so I “I’ve really enjoyed the last two

years. The girls are great,” she said.

“We had a kind-of disappointing season last year towards the end of the year. We had a good record but we’re disappointed with where we ended.

And this year we’re just looking to be a lot more competitive at the end of the season and finish a lot better in the tournament.”

While Lacy said she is still undeclared in a major, she is thinking about applying for nursing school. She said her favorite play on the court is a “pump” which is when the setter makes a set backwards towards Lacy’s position for her to kill.

When it comes to volleyball, Lacy is all business and is always trying to improve all aspects of her game including blocking, which she said she’s not as good at as she’d like to be.

“We have our times when we look really good, and then there’s times when it’s like we have a lot to improve on,” she said. “Like we still have a long ways to go as a team and as individuals. Like we make too many errors at crucial times in a game.

If we’re playing a really good team, those errors can’t happen. Otherwise we’re not going to be able to win.

“Our conference is going to be a big test in the season. The MIAA is always really good and we’re expecting that. And we’re looking to really step up our game and improve as a team.”

Eric Smith is a senior mass media major. Reach him at eric.smith1@ washburn.edu.

Photo by Mike Goehring, Washburn Review

Young gun: Sophomore hitter Mollie Lacy may be one of the younger members of the Lady Blues, but she’s already made a name for herself as middle hitter.

Washburn golf team unable to keep up with Central Missouri Truman Bulldogs Classic Kirksville Country Club Kirksville, Mo. Dates: Sept. 14-15, 2009 Par 71, 6418 yards Rank Team Day 1 Day 2 Total 1. Central Missouri 293 276 569 2. Washburn 287 290 577 3. Missouri Southern 297 300 597 4. SW Baptist 296 302 598 5. Missouri Western 295 304 599 6. Truman State 296 304 600 7. Maryville 303 300 603 8. Rockhurst 294 310 604 9. Quincy 302 308 610 10. Fort Hays State 313 302 615 11. Truman B 309 310 619 12. Pittsburg State 313 313 626 13. Culver-Stockton 314 317 631

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Tuesday to lose the first MIAA pointstandings event of the season.

Finishing second and eight strokes Finishing second place as a team behind UCM, Yeager and the Ichabods in golf is usually not a bad thing, team just couldn’t keep up with the especially when you have the top two last year’s MIAA champions. individuals in the tournament. But for “The course was playing harder the Washburn Ichabods golf team, today but we didn’t come out and play Tuesday’s finish at the Truman State our game. We just didn’t play well as Bulldog Classic in Kirksville, Mo., a team,” said Yeager, who shot a 68 was a tough one to take.

Monday before hitting a “Yea, we’re extremely ICHABOD 73 Tuesday. “Each of us disappointed,” said Washburn struggled. Made some GOLF senior Dustin Yeager who won mental mistakes. A few the tournament after defeating bad swings here and sophomore teammate Riley Piles on a there. A few bad breaks but as a team playoff hole. we didn’t step up.”

Yeager and the Ichabods led While Washburn actually only MIAA rival Central Missouri by six dropped three strokes between the strokes after one round Monday before two days with 287 and 290, UCM giving up 14 strokes to the Mules on just picked up the pace for the second

round, breaking away from the competition.

“Central is a talented team,” said Yeager. “They have a lot of good players on their team. They’re going to be tough to beat. If we want to contend with Central, we’re going to have to play better. Every one of us has got to step up and play well. Any day one of us could be the low man on the team and we have a well-balanced team.

But we just didn’t come to play.”

Washburn’s team total of 577 strokes was 20 strokes ahead of Missouri Southern who finished third.

Yeager and Piles both finished one stroke up on the field at 1-under 141 while Ichabod freshman Nathan Hoefflin finished tied for seventh at 144. Redshirt freshman Brian Walker tied for ninth with a 145 as well, and

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defense has been opportunistic, their offense features some players of the caliber and speed that the Ichabods haven’t seen up to this point.

“They have as fast receivers as we have seen all season and will really be a key matchup for us defensively,” said Schurig.

Not to be outdone on defense, Washburn led by Zach Watkins (16 tackles and 1 interception) has been turning up the heat on opposing offenses all season thus far and should see opportunities to make plays against the power passing game of MWSU.

In the special teams facet of the game both teams look to be pretty evenly matched as well, featuring punting units averaging over 35 yards which should contribute to the field position battle and overall strategy of the game.

Regardless of the final score this first real test of the season for Washburn figures to be a hard fought game and will be a fair forecaster of what the rest of the season will hold for the Ichabods.

Robert Burkett is a junior mass media major. Reach him at robert.burkett@ washburn.edu.

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Teamwork: Sophomore fullback Greg Schoenberg embraces senior receiver Brad Cole after an Ichabod touchdown. Washburn faces Missouri Western on the road Saturday.

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senior Matt Lazzo tied for 23rd with a 149. Miles Christensen, Nate Sargent and Jeffery Jarvis wrapped out the Washburn team with a two-day total of 150, 155 and 157 respectively.

Next Monday and Tuesday, the Ichabod golfers are back on the links in Broken Arrow, Okla., for the NSU Men’s Golf Classic.

“At the tournament next week, there’s going to be all the good teams,” said Yeager. “There’s going to be a little bit stronger field. Central will be there, NSU, a lot of our regional teams.

I’m looking forward to it, I think we’re just going to have to play better.”

Eric Smith is a senior mass media major. Reach him at eric.smith1@ washburn.edu.

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Encore of ‘Rabbit Hole’ a success Ben Fitch WASHBURN REVIEW

The cast of the theatre department’s production of “Rabbit Hole,”

by David Lindsay-Abaire gave a fair portrayal of a family coping with grief.

In the play, a couple have just lost their young boy, Danny, to a tragic accident.

The play is not about the accident, however, but the trials of Danny’s family as they try to get over their grief.

The cast gave a matinee performance, Sunday, after three nights of portraying the anguished family.

Surprisingly, there were comedic moments amongst the tragedy. And the satisfaction of reciprocated laughter was visible on the cast’s faces; especially Jason Bivens, a Washburn Graduate, who made the script come alive with the mention of a questionably well-gifted bathroom set. While Bivens’ performance was hard to believe towards the beginning of the play on opening night, his gumption strengthened before his forceful outburst at the end of act I when he explodes over a tape.

Heather Prescott was endearing as the character, Izzy—a hot-headed young woman with a flare for the dramatic. Prescott’s finesse as Izzy was

notable and her ease with the role made the character believable. She provided a great deal of the comedic relief and could have been perceived as the audience favorite.

Arissa Utemark, however, was the most notable of the cast in her part as Nat. She wore a cap and wig over her hair to mimic the look of a 60 to 70-year-old woman. Utemark’s movement about the set was reminiscent of the character as well as her tone of voice.

The cast ate real food during the play, which was, while distracting, a more believable element than watching the performers mime the act of eating. Bivens drank from bottles of the Jamaican Red Stripe during several moments of the show—twisting off the bottle caps from bottles that must be pried open: a slight inconsistency.

But, after all, the show was amazing. One might have found it hard to leave the auditorium after the melancholy resolution, but as Nat said in regard to the feeling of loss: “Not that you like it exactly, but it’s what you have instead of your son, so you don’t wanna let go of it either.

So you carry it around.”

Ben Fitch is a junior mass media major. Reach him at benjamin.fitch@ washburn.edu.

Photo by Matt Wilper of the Washburn Review

Encore!: (from left) Shanna Carlson, Arissa Utemark, Heather Prescott and Jason Blivens display strong emotions in the Pulitzerwinning play“Rabbit Hole.” The play initially ran this summer but was brought back for an encore performance for students this fall.

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Despite name, Sick Puppies sends hopeful message Ashley Rafferty WASHBURN REVIEW

their harder style and sound, while maintaining a positive attitude. The lead singer, Crispin, sticks out because he has some killer stage moves and Mass Street in Lawrence was a gigantic Mohawk. He is a truly buzzing as the Granada had yet another amazing vocalist and knows how to solid line-up. First on stage was a local please the crowd. TVU is really a good band from Overland Park, Kan., called group of guys.

Black Oxygen. As winners of the 2006 “Every song we write about is Club Wars, they have already started to about hope, whether it’s about hoping make a name for themselves. However, to get the girl back, being in a better they did not have a very good stage place, or not being spiteful or cynical. presence. For the most part, Veering away from the the members stood in the dark and into the light,” LOCAL same spot and maybe had they said. The band formed BAND an occasional head bang. in 2004, and is definitely This could have been due to a must see. They will be the lack of stage space, or it was their performing with Buckcherry at the personal style. Nonetheless, the band Beaumont Club in Kansas City Mo., has a great sound with the distinctive Sept. 19, and Omaha Neb. at the Sokol blues voice of Grant Apple and the Auditorium, Sept. 20. award winning guitar player, David When The Sick Puppies walked Lyle. Their next show will be at the on stage one could feel the excitement Aftershock Battle for Freaker’s Ball sweep over the crowd. Even though Semi-Final in Merriam, Kan., Sept. Hurt was the closing band, the pups 18. were who most fans came to see.

The Veer Union, from Vancouver, They played “All The Same,” “Going British Columbia, came on stage with Down,” and even did a cover of a great energy that lasted through their Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name.” entire set. This band sticks out with This band was amazing, but what

stood out most was how much Emma Anzair, bass, truly rocked out. She never stopped moving unless she was singing back-up. She made the set interesting to watch and got the crowd pumped up. This band really gets into their music, and this concert showed how much the fans were into the band.

At the end of their performance, a girl got a water bottle from lead singer Shimon Moore and left the show saying- “My future husband’s mouth was on this.”

The night ended with Hurt from Virginia. The entire show was pretty good, even though the crowd was pretty small, given it had to compete with the ETID show in Kansas City.

Andrew Vohs, Paola, Kan., said about the show, “It’s bad ass! I wish the crowd would have been better.” He also said that more people need to support smaller bands.

Ashley Rafferty is a junior social work major. Reach her at ashley.rafferty@ washburn.edu.

Photo by Ashley Rafferty, Washburn Review.

In Concert: Emma Anzair, bass players for the Sick Puppies, rocks out at the Granada in Lawrence. The band gave a powerful performance during Thursday’s concert.

Scorch walks the plank Kanye West shows Meghan Ryan WASHBURN REVIEW

Avast ye, mateys! It’s time to take a break from the English Comp. and Modern Languages homework and brush up on your Pirate lingo for the Thursday, September 17 Scorch on the Porch “Talk Like a Pirate Day” is the theme for the second Scorch this semester, and it will be the best yet. Based on the international Talk Like a Pirate Day every Sept. 19, the Memorial Union Operations is hosting an afternoon of island tunes, Caribbean grub, cheap pirate-themed booty from the bookstore and festivities on the north side of Memorial Union from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

“This Scorch is going to be a lot of fun,” said director of the Memorial Union, Kathy Reser. This may be the fourth year Scorch on the Porch has used the pirate theme, but, “It gets better every year!” Reser said.

Everyone is welcome to join in with the festivities and lunch. The lunch menu includes Caribbean fried rice with shrimp, wedge of pineapple and “beachcomber” cookies. The meal is $5 including tax and payable with

the iCard. Landlubbers will be able to enjoy the outdoors and their grub while listening to a live band perform.

Urban Safari, a local Topeka favorite, will be setting the mellow mood and island flavor with their reggae jams. Lead vocalist of Urban Safari, Scotty Riddim, was in the Grammynominated “Blue Ribbim Band.”

The Memorial Union Operations will be bringing special guests to enhance this Scorch’s theme. Captain Jack and Captain Hector will be familiar “pirates of the Caribbean” attending the event in full buccaneer regalia.

“The students will definitely want to come to this one,” Reser said. “They should bring their cameras!”

The fun does not stop with the

picture opportunities. Everyone is encouraged to get their own pirate name and name tag at one of the booths. There will be an activity with a key, a treasure chest and, if successful with the day’s plunder, some “booty” in the form of a prize. The Washburn Bookstore sidewalk sale will be featuring pirate costumes and “Talk Like A Pirate Day” T-shirts. There will also be DVD’s and CD’s on sale for $5. If one cannot pay with Spanish gold medallions, cash, debit, credit or BodBucks will suffice.

With the summer weather drawing to a close, this Scorch on the Porch will allow students to enjoy the weather with good food and music.

Kay Farley, director of the Washburn Bookstore, said this Thursday’s Scorch will be a “Wonderful day to have fun,” and, “Arrrgh, the students need to be there.”

For more information on the international Talk Like a Pirate Day, or to find pirate pickup lines for Thursday’s lunch, check out talklikeapirate.com.

Meghan Ryan is an undeclared sohpomore. Reach her at meghan.ryan@ washburn.edu.

disrespect at awards Josh Rouse WASHBURN REVIEW

Rapper Kanye West managed to make an arse of himself in front of millions of people Sunday night during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

During Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for the Best Female Video Award, 32-year-old West stormed onstage, took the microphone from Swift and said “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyonce [Knowles] has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!” He then handed the microphone back to Swift, who was at a loss for words. The crowd booed West as he walked off the stage but gave Swift a standing ovation.

The broadcast cut to a shot of Knowles, who was also up for the award for her song “Single Ladies,” looking shocked and embarrassed at the outburst by West. Knowles came onstage later to accept the Video of the Year award and called Swift up to the stage to have her moment of glory.

Prior to West’s interruption, 19year-old Swift was expressing how happy she was to win her first VMA award and thankful that, as a country artist, she was able to win the award.

West displayed a great lack of respect for himself, Taylor Swift, the awards show and all the fans who voted. While he has been controversial in the past,

including several similar outbursts during award shows and saying “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” during a Hurricane Katrina telethon, his rebellious history doesn’t excuse him for taking away a great moment in a young artist’s career.

West has since apologized to Swift in his blog, but the damage is done. He overshadowed the first VMA award given to a young emerging artist, he overshadowed Knowles’ Video of the Year award and he even managed to overshadow a night that was dedicated to Michael Jackson, who is a major contributor in the current popularity of music videos in the mainstream.

Given his history of outbursts followed by released albums, I fully expect an album from him in the next few months… and I hope it bombs.

Swift is a wildly popular artist among teenagers, so the fallout is expected to be pretty major for West. However, I think even those who aren’t supporters of Swift will still find a reason to boycott West’s music.

I wonder if Swift—who is wellknown for writing songs about boys who have scorned her—will save a special place on her next album for Kanye?

Josh Rouse is a junior mass media major. Reach him at joshua.rouse@ washburn.edu.

‘Basterds’ baffles this critic David Wiens WASHBURN REVIEW

Photo courtesy of www.inglouriousbasterds-movie.com.

When I scanned the show times this weekend, I was a little disheartened, to say the least. The releases for this Friday were actually so unappealing I would not have reviewed them even if they paid me (which, come to think of it, they do).

A few of the more interesting films I hadn’t had time to see were already bumped off after two or three weeks to make room for more B-grade horror films.

Despite my distaste for excessive gore, I found myself seeing “Inglorious Bastards.” Now, I will admit I have never been a great fan of Tarantino’s work, with the exception of “Deathproof,” but I suspect that if you are a real fan of his you have probably already seen his latest movie anyhow.

I should say right off of the top that this movie has no historical accuracy, or tact. Par for the course in Tarantino’s work, the movie alternates between bursts of sadistic violence and long, drawn out conversations that have nothing to do with the story, but drive most critics inexplicably wild.

Conversations like that, incidentally, are the sole reason this movie lasts nearly three hours instead of an hour and a half. Also in keeping with Tarantino’s style is a terrifically wellmade, albeit out of place, soundtrack that perfectly captures the tone of what’s going on in the film.

I do have to give credit for the films attention to linguistic accuracy—opting to have lengthy

subtitled conversations in French or German rather than have every character inexplicably speak English (I’m talking to you, “All Quiet on the Western Front”).

In regards to the plot itself, it was fairly straightforward: a team of Jewish-American soldiers were dropped into France to kill Nazis and scalp them. While there, they are given a mission to blow up a theater premiering a propaganda film which most of the Nazi high-command, including Hitler, will be watching.

By a strange twist, the theater that is showing it is owned by a Jewish woman who only-just escaped capture four years prior, now living under an assumed identity. This woman, incidentally, has decided to lock the doors and burn the building down as vengeance. I do not normally say anything about the ending of a movie, but to the dismay of written history and good taste—both plans work.

Hitler dies, burning alive and getting shot in the face over and over again.

Then the movie ends.

In all honestly I cannot give you a reliable recommendation as to whether or not you should see this movie because I cannot decide if Tarantino just wrote a very cathartic piece of fiction wherein Hitler got what he deserved, or a horrible mockery of a tragic time in our World’s history, and a slap in the face to anyone unfortunate enough to have been a part of it.

David Wiens is a sophomore English major. Reach him at david.wiens@ washburn.edu.