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Photo courtesy of the City of Topeka
What parking problem?: With construction on the parking lot near Petro Allied Health Center running behind schedule, students at Washburn have faced a daily challenge of finding a place to park. Rick Anderson, vice president of administration and treasurer, calls it a “walking problem, not a parking problem.”
Topekans explore Greenville plan Michelle Boltz
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Annually, the Topeka Chamber of Commerce sends a group of about 50 people to communities around the United States that are similar to Topeka in population size, economic and industry for ideas to revitalize our Downtown area. Washburn law student Angel Romero, along with Zach Snethen, were two people that went to Greenville, NC on September 15-17, 2011 to see how the Greenville community had revitalized their downtown area, and brought back some ideas on how we as a community could do the same. Greenville is well known for their biking community, and hosts the U.S. Cycling Tournaments every year. “Greenville is committed to keeping the community healthy, and have separate bike trails, similar to Shunga,” said Snethen. “We’re really proud of the work people in Greenville have done, they have a genuine passion for cre-
ating a great Residents community have made a around us. It conscious efwould go a fort to make long way for contact with progressive creative and development innovative in Topeka.” jobs, resulting Greento schooling, ville has been and people in the process were deterof revitalizing mined to stay their downin Greenville Photo courtesy of the City of Greenville town area for and raise their the past 20-30 Metamorphosis: The views of downtown families there. years. Their Greensville and Topeka serve as a road map. Although anchor is a Topekans went to Greensville to learn about Greenville is ballpark and downtown development similar sized bridge, givto Topeka, two ing it an urban look to their downtown, colleges, Clemson and Bob Jones Uniwhich has been done within the past 10 versity, surround them. Greenville also years. has a technical college. Greenville has When in Greenville, members of a smaller populations size than Topeka, Go Topeka met with individuals from but their metro community is bigger, their Young Professional Internship yet face similar challenges to ours. program, and had a great opportunity to Go Topeka, as well as Heartland see what they have done for Greenville. Vision and the Capital City Project
are currently transitioning with a design team to work with our community about what is unique about Topeka. “It’s a dynamic process. It needs to involve the whole community to make something unique for everyone to enjoy,” said Snethen. “We need to take ownership and take pride in our community to really creating a community, not just a cool downtown.” “We encourage students to keep up to date in our community for ways to get involved,” said Romero. “The best involvement is to be involved in activities and patronizing local-area businesses. Washburn students are just as much a part of the Topeka community,” said Snethen. To follow along on upcoming progress of the downtown revitalization plan, and to find out how to get involved, feel free to visit www.capitaldistrictproject.com, or www.topekachamber.org.
“It may be about changes, but it sounds boring. It’s an Evolution. Evolution of Adam. Me,” says senior artist Adam Koger. The Washburn Art Building on campus, currently houses Koger‘s “evolution.” The exhibit is required as part of Washburn University’s transformational experience for those graduating with a bachelor in fine arts degree. Koger’s emphasis for his degree is photography. It’s within these photographs and other works of art that show his own evolution. Koger’s first college experience was at Kansas State University. Koger spent four years at the university but
left in 2004, without obtaining a degree. “I was taking things in the wrong direction, partying too much late at night and enrolling in 8:30 a.m. classes,” said Koger. “It’d be easy to miss a class Photo by Jordan Loomis, Washburn Review ,and from there, it just spiraled.” Photo courtesy of the city of Greenville, NC He started Evolution: senior art student Adam attending Wash- Koger’s exhibit is on display in the Art burn University in Building. The exhibit will up until Oct. 18. August of 2007. Over the years, Koger has pho- relaxing for Koger.
tographed about 12 abandoned houses, with several hundreds of photos to show for it. “Evolution A” showcases the best of these. At first, Koger didn’t know exactly what he wanted to capture. Driving back roads and admiring the countryside were a start. The drive was peaceful and
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“I wasn’t looking for abandoned houses. They started drawing me,” said Koger. Shortly after beginning to photograph abandoned houses, Koger felt connected. “Two years ago, I became a single father,” said Koger. “The mother decided she didn’t want to be a mom. I was left to raise a (now four year old) daughter by myself and finish school. I felt kind of abandoned at the time.” To deal with these emotions, Koger channeled them through his photos, explaining that it was therapeutic for him to get that out through his art.
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Michelle Bolz is a junior mass media major. Rech her at michelle.bolz@washburn. edu
Adam Koger evolves through his art
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Bods earn road win
Another team fell victim Saturday to the momentum of the Washburn Ichabods as they toppled the Truman State University Bulldogs, 42-14. The Ichabods are now 6-0 for the first time since 1946, making head coach Craig Schurig the winningest coach in Washburn University history. The Washburn Ichabods are currently sitting at the No. 5 position in the nation on the American Football Coach Association top 25 poll. “It feels good for a team in the middle of the season,” said Schurig. “You‘re really just focused on one game at a time. We feel like we’ve played well and earned the wins that we’ve had. We feel like we could play better, but really you just try to focus on the next opponent, and try to get better for that next opponent.” Washburn’s defense was the first to take the field as they held the Bulldogs to just 20 yards of total offense in the first drive and had a sack by senior defensive end Dakota Palan-Johnson. Thanks to solid rushes and big pass completions, the Ichabod offense scored the first rushing touchdown of the game on a five-yard carry by senior running back Justin Cooper. Truman State’s following drive once again end in a punt after a joint sack by sophomore defensive end Adebayo Oladapo and junior defensive lineman Jayveri Kelly. The Ichabods tacked more points on to their lead after a four-yard touchdown reception by senior fullback Greg Schoenberg. TSU’s drive would be cut short by yet another joint sack this time by freshmen offensive lineman, Bryan Dale and Oladapo shutting out the Bulldogs in the first quarter, 14-0. Before officially getting settled into the second quarter the Ichabods received their third touchdown of the night by Washburn sophomore wide receiver, Ronnell Garner
Arts &Entertainment Kelly Hurla
Ichabods Rolling: Dane Simoneau dives for a gain in Washburn’s last home game. The Ichabods went on the road for a win last weekend 42-14.