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This Argo focuses on the upcoming holidays and events that span Washburn, as well as the surrounding community.
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A Dark tale for WU: Sounds in the Theatre
Elise Barnett WASHBURN REVIEW
“We’re almost done right?” I ask, trying not to look as bored as I feel. Helping a friend with a final project is one thing. Helping a friend finish a final project into the late hours of the evening as the building empties and the great expanse of dark theater seats begins to look more and more haunting is another thing entirely.
“Last shot,” Arissa calls from behind her camera lens. She clicks the shutter open then closed and the project is finished. “Well that was fun. Thanks you guys for helping me.”
Ashley, Sam and I all shrug something to the affect of “no problem” as we stand gathered near the center of the stage.
“You know what would be really cool?”
Ashley asks to no one directly. “If we did an EVP reading in here.”
“You mean like they do on Ghost Adventures?”
Arissa asks rhetorically and with the present glow of true enthusiasm.
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“What’s an EVP reading?” Sam asks as I try to look cool and pretend I already know the answer.
“It’s an audio
recording to try and pick up spirit voices. We all sit really quiet with the lights out and talk to the spirits. It’s freaky what you hear sometimes.” Ashley clarifies as Sam and I look fearfully at each other.
“That sounds a little terrifying.” I manage to say, throwing my perceived coolness to the wind.
“Exactly.”
Arissa prepares her iPhone for the recording while Ashley and Sam decide to form a pair to turn off the lights. I am instructed to stay standing where I am in the center of the blank, bare stage surrounded by nothing but empty seats and darkness. I hear the count of the lights. One, two, three... blackout. I hear the shuffling footsteps of Ashley and Sam as they blindly end up somewhere beside me. We sit down. The light of Arissa’s phone illuminates a small section of the darkness for us to gather around. She starts the recording.
For a few moments our breaths are quick and irregular and slightly panicked in the vacant, hollow black of the theater. We hear footsteps, high heels clicking down a
hallway, and for a moment we forget that we are in the center of a school building that is not yet entirely empty, though nearly so. A few moments later there is nothing. We sink into the darkness, examining its every creak for signs of otherworldly contact. The wind blows hard against the outer door, creating an echoing rhythm of shuddering metal. A shiver rolls up the curve of my spine and spills across my arms. I can feel my heartbeat pounding in my ears as the room feels colder and colder, ice cold and then nothing.
“Okay, let’s see what we got,” Arissa says, pressing buttons on her phone again. Sam rushes fearfully to the light switch and flicks them all back on again as Ashley locks her eyes on the phone, searching for the possibility of spirit evidence. Everyone is silent again. Arissa begins to play back the recording.
Breathing, footsteps, Ashley sneezing, the door, more breathing, but beyond that there is something, something else.
“Do you hear that?” Ashley surveys excitedly.
“It’s just the feedback from the phone speaker,” I
think out loud, destroying Ashley’s hopes for only an instant before she decides to ignore me.
“It’s a hum. It’s a spirit! We did it!” Ashley rejoices.
All of a sudden Sam starts spouting off about how she heard the theater was haunted by a woman who killed herself, or was murdered or otherwise died tragically. Arissa is also convinced, though less enthusiastically now, of our evidence. I remain skeptical. I heard no voices.
We decide to try another area and then another. Each time we hear and feel something different. We hear children laughing, a woman crying, a boy who wants to play around on the catwalk, but each time they are just outside the range of comprehension, uncaptured.
After two hours of still darkness and empty stomachs we decide to end our ghost hunting adventure vowing next time will be different, undisputed, but first, Taco Bell.
Elise Barnett is a senior English major. Reach her at elise.barnett@ washburn.edu
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With today being Halloween, we at The Review want to know...
“What is the worst thing you’ve ever got while trick or treating?
“‘Orange nasties’ (those orange & black wrapped toffee candies) and my exwife!.”
An apple (because and pointless.)”
“A coloring book, you can’t freaking eat those! I put a costume on and walked the block for cavities, not coloring books.”
“The wrong end of a shotgun.”
Question: My boyfriend came home and told me he has an STD. I haven’t talked to him in a week. I got tested and I’m clean, but I don’t know that I can ever trust him again. Really bad trick-or-treat. What do I do?
Cheating is a difficult thing to have an “easy solution” for. Ultimately, it depends upon the desired outcome. However, I would assert that, right now, you probably don’t know what you want. From the fact that you call him your boyfriend still, I would also assert that you want to be with him, if only in part. That said, people cheat for many reasons: low self-esteem, it’s easy, they’re drunk, they feel like it, sex is casual, attention, pain, rejection, whatever. As you don’t tell me what transpired, I can-
not answer that part. What I can tell you is that cheating is a choice, no matter what. Whether drunk or sober, cheating is a choice. That said, staying together is also a choice.
Now, the fact that he not only cheated but also now has an STD complicates things. To be harsh, that means he had unprotected sex with someone who isn’t you, now putting you, and other people, at physical risk. Not only is this damaging to your emotional health, but it’s potentially damaging to you physically as well. My best advice right now is to talk to someone close to you and deal with whatever comes up: humiliation, shame, anger, spite, impulses, wanting to scream, the “WHY ME!!?!!!” moment, all of it. Deal with it all, exactly as it is. Don’t reject any of your emotions, don’t wish it away, deal with it head on.
Too many times in life we stomp our feelings down, or avoid feeling whatever we’re feeling, in order to avoid the pain. Or, we dwell in our feelings and never come out. Either way, you’re setting yourself up in your future if you don’t.
So, I invite you to heal now, because no matter whether you give him another shot, if you don’t, you’ll spend the rest of your relationship punishing him and yourself. If you handle it now, if you guys don’t stay together, you also won’t bring this into your next relationship. Cheating enabled him to make the relationship all about him. Now, it’s all about you
If you would like Raz’s advice, email your question to realworldraz@gmail.com.
Look for this column every week on this opinion page for your answer.
Shawn Collins, Junior, Mass Media Film and Video
Maddy Tennant, Freshman, Music Education
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Interviews and photos by Bradley Parrales
Forest Evans, Freshman, Music Education
Kaleb Marconette, Sophomore, Business
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TPAC offers gingerbread workshop
Luke Warnken WASHBURN REVIEW
The Topeka Perfoming Center offers fun for the whole family while generating money for a good cause.
This upcoming November, TPAC will open its doors for the communtiy to create gingerbread homes. Materials will be provided for the community to use to create unique gingerbread homes. The gingerbread homes built for the GHH contest and any that are donated can be viewed throughout the weekend. The gingerbread homes
will be auctioned off on Sunday.
There will also be a holiday boutique offering all kinds of goodies including crafts, fresh fruit baskets and various holiday items.
Fresh baked goods and homecandy will be available for purchase. The event, sponsored by Capitol Federal, is to help support TPAC. The fundrasier helps to bring in money so TPAC can continue to provide art educational programs for the community. The money will help fund TPAC’s Youth Education Program, the Sheffel The-
ater Clinic and the Young Artist Awards and Schooltime Theater.
There is an admission fee of $3 per person or $2 per person if there is a group of six or more.
TPAC will begin their Gingerbread Homes for the Holidays fundraiser at 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. on November 16. The doors will open the following day at 10 a.m. and will close at 4 p.m. on November 17. It will open at 11 a.m. and finish up at 2 p.m. on November 18.
Luke Warnken is a sophomore athletic training major. Reach him at luke.warnken@
Stuffing
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup butter
3/4 tsp salt
A dash of pepper
1 1/2 tsp poultry seasoning
1/4 cup hot chicken broth
6 cups cubed bread
Preheat the oven to 350˚ F.
Line a large, heavy bak ing sheet with parchment paper. Whisk the flour and baking powder in a medium bowl to blend. Using an electric mixer, beat the sugar, butter, lemon zest and salt in a large bowl to blend. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the flour mixture and beat just until
Form the dough into a 13-inch long, 3-inch wide log on the prepared baking sheet. Bake until light golden or about 40 minutes. Cool for 30 minutes.
Place the log on the cutting board. Using a sharp serrated knife, cut the log
Pumpkin Cheesecake
2 packages of Philly Cream Cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
a dash of ground cloves
1 premade graham cracker crust
Preheat oven to 325˚ F.
Sauté onion and celery in butter with salt, pepper and poultry seasoning.
Mix all ingredients.
on a diagonal into 1/2 to range the biscotti, cut side down, on the baking sheet. Bake the biscotti until they are pale golden about 15 minutes. Transfer the biscotti to a rack and cool completely.
Stuff into turkey, follow cooking instructions for turkey.
Biscotti
If not stuffing into turkey, put in a 9x13 greased pan. Bake for an hour.
The great thing about this recipe is that it’s simple and easy. If you want to add ingredients or leave them out, there isn’t anything that needs to be changed.
For example, raisins, dates, nuts or any other dried fruit or fresh vegetable you like can be added. If you don’t like chicken broth, switch it out for beef broth. Just remember, it is called stuffing only if it’s stuffed into something, and it’s called dressing when it’s baked.
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
3 tablespoons grated lemon zest (from about 3 to 4 lemons)
3/4 cup coarsely chopped whole almonds
18 ounces white chocolate chips - melted over a double boiler or in the microwave on low - stir occasionally.
Dip biscotti into chocolate and let dry on parchment paper.
Mix sugar, cream cheese and vanilla until smooth.
Add eggs slowly, beating constantly.
can also save some of the batter before adding the pumpkin and spices, and layer it on top of the pumpkin batter. Use a toothpick to swirl around and create the above effect.
Mix in canned pumpkin and spices and mix until
Place in water bath, which could be a cake pan with water in it. This helps keep the cheesecake from cracking.
Bake for 30 minutes.
Spread in graham cracker