Washburn dorms listed among most affordable
Derek Richardson WASHBURN REVIEW
According to Affordable Schools, Washburn’s residential living is among the top 30 most affordable college dorms in the country.
Affordable Schools is a website dedicated to finding affordable colleges. They are a leading higher education resource. They listed Washburn’s dorms as number 21 on their list of “Most Inviting yet Affordable College Dorms in America.”
“I’m thrilled in that we really do have quality facilities here and quality services and to be recognized for that is wonderful,” said Mindy Rendon, director of Residential Living.
To determine which schools were the most affordable, Affordable Schools looked at statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics. They also took into consideration the residential halls’ charm. Each place was individually visited
and investigated on factors such as appeal, amenities, facilities and social scene.
The cost of each of the 30 schools on the list were below the NCES 2012/13 average cost, which included board. Additionally, the appearance of each of the dorms are considered pretty and have outstanding amenities. Affordable Schools calls it “the best-value college experience that money can buy.”
According to the website, Washburn had charm and elegance on the outside with plenty of activities on the inside to keep students happy. The exterior of the Living Learning Center gives way to many classrooms, study rooms and communal spaces.
The website was also impressed with the other dorms on campus, stating that Kuehne and West hall look more like extended townhouses than typical dorms.
Students also like their experience of living in the dorms. In
particular, students like the fact that they have their own bathrooms.
“For the money, we have the nicest dorms I’d say. I’ve seen K-State’s and they’re trash,” said Colby Cannon, a freshman pre-pharmacy student. “I don’t mind paying for my own bathroom.”
Dawson DeShazo, a freshman criminal justice major, agrees.
“It’s pretty private, and I don’t have to worry about taking showers in front of other people and shampoo thieves,” DeShazo said.
Rendon said just under 700 students live on campus, with over half being freshmen. While currently there is no waiting list, there have been before.
Rendon believes one of the best things about dorm life is making connections with other students.
“The one-on-one interactions that they have with their neighbors is probably most influential in regards to what makes them
want to stay,” Rendon said. Washburn is currently in the early stages of planning a new dorm hall. Rendon said that they are working on strategic planning on what the hall will look like and what it will be known for. Most importantly, they are trying to figure out how it will serve the students.
“It’s pretty cool to be able to have somebody that’s in your class that’s living under the same roof as you are and if you miss notes, you’re able to get them from somebody, or if you just want to walk to class with somebody, some are available to do that with,” Rendon said. “I think that what’s helpful, and I think that’s what makes people enjoy the facilities, and I think it’s what helps them get connected to the university.”
Derek Richardson, derek. richardson@washburn.edu, is a junior mass media major.
Page 3: WSGA presidential candidates hold debate in Mabee Library to discuss campaign platforms and campus issues.
Page 11: Washburn music professor joins rock legends and more in Kansas Music Hall of Fame’s class of 2015.
Page 9: Senior Connor Crimmins discusses Ichabod baseball team’s winning streak.
Page 6 & 7: Students share plans for Spring Break 2015.
Mark Feuerborn contributed to this story.
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RESIDENTIAL LIVING: Students walk outside the Living Learning Center toward the dorms. Washburn’s dorms were 21 in a list of the 30 most inviting and affordable college dorms in America. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the average price of room and board in 2012/13 was $9,552 for public schools, while Washburn’s room and board was $6,541 for the 2014/15 school year.
Photo by Ryan Ogle
Calendar
Wednesday, March 11
Neck-Up Check Up
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
International Brown Bag Lecture with Desmond Egan
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Creativity Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Volunteer at the KTWU March Pledge Drive
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
WSGA Elections
All Day
Thursday, March 12
Comfort Food Buffet
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
C-TEL Workshop
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Volunteer at KTWU March Pledge Drive
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Northeast Kansas Scholarship Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
WSGA Elections
All Day
Friday, march 13
WSGA’s Spring Break KickOff
10:30 AM
Softball vs. Emporia State
2:00 PM and 4:00 PM
Alumni Associaton After Hours
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Philosphy Club Meeting
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14
Neck-Up Check-Up
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Baseball vs. Emporia State
2:00 PM and 4:00 PM Softball at Emporia State
2:00PM and 4:00PM Volunteer at KTWU March Pledge Drive
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
WSGA elections in progress Briefs
The Washburn Student Government Association is holding its spring 2015 elections this week from March 10-12.
The elections will be for both presidential and senatorial positions. Students can vote during this time online at the my.washburn.edu login portal. Students can also vote in person and voting booths will be located in Memorial Union and Mabee Library from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The presidential and vice
presidential candidates for this election are Damian Barron and Brooke Peele, www. facebook.com/BPForWSGA, Blake Porter and Malcolm Mikkelsen, www.facebook.com/ PorterMikkelsen2015, and John Shively and Evan Altman, www. facbook.com/ChangeWSGA.
For more information on this election visit Washburn. edu/WSGA or facebook.com/ MyWSGA
Apeiron approaches
Washburn University’s annual Apeiron is being held on Friday, April 24 this year, and is currently open for students to register until March 25. The Apeiron is an opportunity for Washburn students to enter into a professional setting and showcase their research, scholarship, creative activities and community engagement activities. These can be presented in a speech, exhibition or performance. Depending on the field the student’s work is being showcased in, appropriate criteria will be used to judge the student’s work. General judgments will be made based on creativity and originality. The work being showcased is required to be at a more advanced level than a typical class paper or project. Students interested in showcasing
their work at the Apeiron must also find a faculty member who will agree to oversee the student’s project, presentation or performance.
Activities showcased at Apeiron can also be completed as Washburn Transformational Experiences, a Washburn program that allows students to propose an idea and potentially receive funding for it.
Students interested in participating in Apeiron should visit the Apeiron registration page under the Academic Success tab on MyWashburn.
Washburn to host climate change panel
On March 25, the Biology, Philosophy and Political Science Departments, in conjunction with Eco-Bods, the Philosophy Club and the Washburn Center for Government and Public Policy, will host a discussion panel on the issue of climate change. Entitled “Kansas and Climate Change: A Panel Discussion with Five Experts on the Impact of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Global Warming on Kansas’s Economic Future,” the panel will invite each of the panelists to express their own
personal views or their organization’s views on the issue of climate change as well as its impact on and significance to Kansans.
WMarch 3
21:54 - Notice to Leave; Mabee Library. Report Taken: One Notice to Leave served: Individual left campus with friend.
March 4
07:45 - Criminal Damage to Property Cargo Container/ Storage Shed, Parking Lot 18. Report Taken: No suspect(s) at this time: Investigation continues.
The panelists include Kellis Bayless from Washburn’s Biology Department, Dorothy Barnett from the Climate and Energy Project, Brad Loveless from Westar Energy, Mark Smith from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 Office, and Xiaomao Lin from Kansas State University.
Kaye McIntyre, Kansas Public Radio, University of Kansas, will serve as panel moderator.
The event will be held in Henderson 112 from 7:30-9:00 p.m.
In addition to informing partici-
pants about climate change and allowing them to hear different sides of the issue, the event will also serve as a precursor to a lecture and discussion by Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies at New York University, at 7:30 p.m. on April 6 in the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center. Both programs are free and open to the public.
ashburn Campus Police Report
March 4
07:55 - Fire Alarm, KTWU. Report Taken: Probable cause burned belts due to air handler motor malfunction.
March 5
09:52 - Missing Person, Stoffer Science Hall. Report Taken: Individual was located and stated they were OK.
March 7
13:40 - Burglary/Theft to Vehicle Purse and Contents, Parking Lot 10. Report taken: No suspect(s) at this time: investigation continues.
March 7
17:06 - Intrusion Alarm, Garvey Fine Arts Center. Report Taken: Area checked: No sign of forced entry: No one found in the area: Alarm cleared and reset.
March 9
11:29 - Theft From Building Money Bag/Currency, Memorial Union. Report taken: No suspect(s) at this time: Investigation continues.
March 9
18:24 - Fire Alarm, Kuehne
Hall. Report Taken: Probable cause use of hair spray close to the smoke detector: Alarm cleared and reset.
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WSGA presidential candidates debate on campus issues
The candidates for WSGA Presidency participated in a debate on Thursday, March 5.
The teams of Damian Barron and Brooke Peele, Blake Porter and Malcolm Mikkelsen, and John Shively and Evan Altman were asked multiple questions by host and Assistant Dean of Mabee Library Sean Bird that spanned various subjects regarding the candidates’ individual ideas on what would be best for the future of the campus.
All of the candidates expressed excitement while waiting for the debate to start.
“I’m a little nervous, naturally, but I’m just really excited to let the students know what our platform is, answer any questions they might have and hopefully have a spirited discussion tonight,” said presidential candidate Blake Porter.
“We’ve been working really hard on this, both of us, and we really do care about Washburn,” said presidential candidate Damian Barron.
“When we saw people get as excited about the things we’re talking about on campus as we were, it increased our excitement, and now we’re really passionate because now we really want to bring that positive change to campus and we think this is a good step towards doing so,” said vice presidential candidate Brooke Peele.
Candidates were given three minutes to respond to each
question asked. They covered multiple subjects, including current campus issues, such as the need for more parking and the need for new measures against sexual assault.
“We want to foster a culture of consent here on campus, where we educate people what consent is, where we educate people about the misconceptions that exist in rape culture today,”
Peele said. “When asking students if they were to be victimized what they would do, if they knew where to go, the overwhelming response was “no.”
from students about how to make Washburn a safer campus.
Following last week’s vigil in Carole Chapel, Washburn students will host a rally on Thursday, March 12 at noon in Mabee Library to speak out against sexual assault.
The rally will feature discussion about bystander awareness, consent and other campus safety issues. Rally organizers will also continue taking suggestions
Representatives from Topeka’s YWCA will also be on hand with resources and additional information on sexual assault and safety.
After news of a reported rape last month inside Carole Chapel, students and organizations have came together in order to help raise awareness and offer support for victims of sexual assault.
That shows an inherent problem on our campus. We want to have a sexual assault response team. This is a group of faculty who have undergone advocacy training, so when this happens they know where to go.”
John Shively also proposed a repeal of the tobacco smoking ban on campus.
“What it does is it tries to solve a problem, an addiction, by forcing everyone off of campus,” Shively said. “Prohibition doesn’t work; if we want to help people, then let’s do it in a real meaningful way.”
Shively also proposed the idea of a student-run Supreme Court to assist in regulating WSGA.
“Currently, there is no oversight; there is no accountability on behalf of the students and the student organizations that pay for WSGA to do what it does,” Shively said.
Porter’s agenda was described as a plan to Regroup, Recharge, and Reinvest.
“The regroup aspect gets away from just whatever administration is in power, their policies get pushed through,” Porter said. “I think it could be focused
more on the students and their concerns. To recharge we think that has to do with Washburn pride. There’s a lot we can do to make the Ichabod a more visible figure on campus. To reinvest, we want to make sure that student organizations as well as those who aren’t in student organizations can request funding if they would like it.”
Interesting to note is that the candidates agreed on multiple issues, but differed in methodology.
“I don’t know if I’m going to win, but hearing what all the other candidates are doing, and knowing that they’re doing good for Washburn regardless makes me feel confident that we are moving forward,” Barron said.
The candidates all also expressed hopes to compromise and work together for the benefit of Washburn, regardless of the race results.
“I would hope that we would reach out to the other candidates about maybe chairing ad hoc committees that help create change. Even if you run and lose, you should still have an effective way to have your voice heard on campus,” Shively said.
“Whether we win or lose, I think Washburn is about to take some major steps forward just because of what we talked about tonight,” Peele said.
Mark Feuerborn,mark.feuerborn@washburn.edu, is a freshman radiology major
Photo by Mark Feuerborn
The Great Debate: Sean Bird moderated last week’s debate between WSGA presidential candidates in Mabee Library. Vying for office this year are Damian Barron, Blake Porter and John Shively, along with their respective running mates.
Dawn begins mission at Ceres University responds to student’s concerns
On March 6, 2015, after nearly eight years and 3.1 billion miles, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft became the first spacecraft to visit and orbit a dwarf planet.
Launched in 2007, Dawn used ion thrusters to slowly change its orbit around the solar system. It first went into orbit around the asteroid Vesta in 2011, and spent 14 months surveying the rocky world. Then it fired its ion engines again to break orbit and begin its long journey to the dwarf planet Ceres. Upon orbit insertion, Dawn officially became the first spacecraft to orbit two separate extraterrestrial bodies.
“Dawn’s ambitious expedition would be truly impossible without ion propulsion,” said Marc Rayman, mission director of Dawn in a blog post on March 6.
Dawn uses ion propulsion, a form of electric propulsion that creates thrust by accelerating ions of a particular gas and “throwing” them out of the engine. In Dawn’s case, the propellant is Xenon. Ion systems can change velocities in space with extreme efficiency, but at a cost: it takes a lot of time.
“If you hold a single sheet of paper in your hand, it will push on your hand harder than the ion engine pushes the spacecraft at maximum thrust,” said Rayman.
Rayman said at the current throttle level, it would take almost 11 days to accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour.
Dawn’s orbit insertion around Ceres was different from typical orbit insertions around other planets. Rayman said a Mars orbit insertion usually involves anxious people monitoring telemetry on computer screens while the spacecraft executes a bone-rattling, whiplash-inducting burn of its main engine to drop into orbit.
“If you had been in Dawn mission control, the scene would have been different,” Rayman said. “You would mostly be in the dark. The computer displays would be off, and most of the illumination would be from the digital clock and the string of
decorative blue lights that indicate the ion engine is scheduled to be thrusting.”
Because Dawn uses a very slow ion propulsion system, it is able to very carefully move itself into an orbit similar to the dwarf planet’s orbit around the sun with only a 100 mile per hour difference between Ceres and Dawn.
“If Dawn had stopped thrusting before Ceres could exert its gravitational control, it wouldn’t have flown very far away,” Rayman said. “The ion propulsion system provides such exceptional flexibility to the mission that controllers could have guided it into orbit some other time. This was not a one-time, all-ornothing event.”
Ceres lies between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt. It is 590 miles in diameter, and has a year of 1,680 days. Its gravity is 1/36th that of Earth.
It was discovered in 1801, and originally declared a planet.
Soon, more “planets” in this region were discovered. It wasn’t long before it was realized a new type of solar system body had been discovered--asteroids--and Ceres was reclassified as such.
In 2006, when Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, Ceres also met dwarf planet char-
acteristics and was reclassified again.
With clearer and clearer pictures being taken by the Dawn spacecraft, many images show “reflection” spots in one of the craters. Some scientists speculate that this may be water ice on the surface. Observations from Earth suggest that Ceres may have a 100-kilometer-thick icy mantle containing more than 200 million cubic kilometers of water. If verified, Ceres would have more freshwater than Earth.
As Dawn spirals down closer to a final 230 mile high orbit, it will begin its science mission around the dwarf planet. What are those bright spots? Does Ceres have a thin atmosphere? What does this mean for human exploration? Does Ceres have any moons?
“While the search will continue, so far no picture has shown evidence of companions orbiting Ceres,” Rayman said, “And yet, we know that as of today, Ceres most certainly does have one. Its name is Dawn!”
On Monday Washburn University responded to concerns about the sexual assault that occurred in Carole Chapel.
The university issued a press release addressing their involvement in the case as well as plans for how to address similar situations that may happen in the future.
“The Washburn University Police Department has turned over the results of their investigation of the recent incident in the chapel to the Shawnee County District Attorney for review,” the release stated. “The District Attorney is reviewing the evidence and any decision about pursuing prosecution will come from them.”
The release also re-emphasized the university’s decision to not inform the student body about the incident was because they felt they had the situation under control, with a suspect who was quickly identified and interviewed.
“The university police determined there was no immediate threat to the university community and made an appropriate decision under our policies not to issue a timely notification warning,” according to the release.
However, in a nod to student concerns, the release confirmed that university officials met to review notification policy and how informing the student body could be balanced alongside the police investigation.
Patrick Early, Washburn University’s Director of University Relations, expanded upon the press release.
“As a university, the safety of the students, faculty and staff is always our first priority, so we want to continue to have a dialog about safe practices on campus and learn what we can do to make this a safer environment,” Early said. “So that’s one of the things we’re going to be, in the upcoming weeks or months, to talk about safe practices, talk about what we should be doing
and how were going to enhance the safety of Washburn.”
The Washburn Police Department, no longer bound by silence due to the sensitive nature of open investigations, also wanted to voice their involvement in the matter, their intentions and how they plan on moving forward in the future.
“I have spent days now, going over all of our policy’s procedures and they’re good, but I want to make sure that they are in tune with what our students, faculty, and staff expect,” said Dean Forester, Washburn University’s Chief of Police.
As the one who made the call to not immediately inform the student body, Forester said he felt the weight of his decision and instead of closing himself to the students voices he attended the chapel vigil himself.
“I attended the meetings. I went to the chapel when they had their vigil, and they had a different view. And rightfully so, because regardless of what happened, how it happened, where it happened, or anything else, it happened. And I think I needed to be more cognizant of that, we probably should have issued some type of alert or maybe even simply said its all clear. We’ve learned from that,” Forester said.
When speaking about Washburn security, Forester was confident that his team, as well as the university, makes the security of students their first priority.
“When I look back over the years at the things we have done here, the only real goal that we have if you read our mission statement is the safety and security of the students. And we take it very serious how we do that, even down to the people that we let on campus,” Forester said.
Both Forester and the university spoke about establishing a dialog with students so they can understand the student’s concerns as they need to be addressed.
DAWN at CERES: Two bright spots appear in a crater. Scientists wonder if there is ice on the surface. As Dawn spirals closer, more photos will be taken.
Image courtesy of NASA
Anonymous racism is still racism - we can fight back
This might be shocking to some, maybe not so shocking to others, but this is one of many anonymous comments left by Washburn students last semester on the infamous Yik-Yak phone app.
BSU had organized a flashmob, meant to inform all students of the resources avaliable to them on campus, and for hours after their preformance students on our campus left a spectrum of degrading, hurtful and racist remarks.
For those not familiar with Yik-Yak, the application allows anyone within a small radius within a city to make anonymous comments. Others with the application can then read, reply, up vote or down vote
these comments, so comments often times turn into a forum to bully, inappropraitely sexually proposition or intentionally offend others ‘just for the fun of it.’ Many members of the student body explain away the most negative comments with a shrug and an excuse, “That’s just what happens on Yik-Yak, just ignore it.”
We, as a campus, can’t just ignore this behavior anymore. The recent Oklahoma University incident has chilling parallels that many would also try to ignore and shrug off, but they still remain relevant to this discussion. This incident was semi-anonymous, the students who participated in singing the racist chant believed that no one outside
of their group woud be able to identify their blatant racism, and so students felt no fear to join in.
Much like Yik-Yak, in which users can feel free to allow racist and antagonistic comments to pass through with little to no objection.
Let it be clear, silence breeds oppression
This is not a new idea nor is it one that you should pass off as invalid or not your problem or responsibility.
These incidents at our school seem lesser compared to the inyour-face drama that the national news reports, but how do you think that these students from OU felt comfortable enough to speak that way among their peers? Could it be because one
day when they decided to test the waters to see which behaviors were acceptable their racist comments were most likely ignored?
If any of this offends you, fight back! Delete the app and go learn about a culture that varies from your own. Don’t allow your silent presence to further the bullying of others. Speak out, inform, communicate, do whatever you feel you can, but please don’t accept things that you know are wrong to pass by with no consequences.
This will help not only be meaningful to the BSU community, but also to everyone who has ever been the victim of bullying.
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Local governments and their priorities
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From reading books to traveling the country, Bods prepare for spring break
She plans to go back home to visit her family over spring
He
He plans to snuggle up on a warm spring evening and read 50 Shades of Grey.
Name: Kyle Quiett
Major: Biology
His plans are to write a paper for one of his classes and hangout with his friends.
Major: Elementary education
She will be going to Atlanta, Georgia with her best friend.
Name: Erika Nash
Name: Ramesh Ghimire
Major: Computer information science
plans to travel to Ohio to visit his sister.
Name: Colten Anderson
Major: Business in finance
Name: Tessa Okruhlik
Position: Registar office of Washburn
She plans to work through spring break.
Name: Alicia Shoenberger
Major: Music education
break.
Ichabods baseball sweeps Pitt State
On Sunday, March 8, the Washburn baseball team was looking to complete a four game sweep against Pittsburg State after winning the first three games of the series. Washburn went into the last game with all the momentum and a perfect 13-0 record.
The first run of the game came in the first inning when David Gauntt hit an RBI single scoring Riley Krane to give the Bods a 1-0 lead.
It was the fifth inning when Washburn started to catch fire and would eventually stretch their lead to 5-0. Parker Gibson drove in Payton Soicher and then Kyle Carnahan hit an RBI triple that scored Krane and Gibson. The fourth run of the inning came after a throwing error on a pickoff attempt by a PSU pitcher.
In the seventh inning, Gauntt earned his second RBI of the game with a double that scored Krane once again to extend the lead to 6-0.
In the eighth inning, Washburn showed off their power by hitting back-to-back solo home runs.
The DH Tanner Triggs hit the first home run over the scoreboard in right field and Zane Mapes came in as a pinch hitter and drilled a homerun off the left field foul pole.
The third run came after a bases loaded walk that to make the score 9-0.
To go along with the impressive offensive performance, senior starting pitcher Eric Schmid also threw a great game on the mound. He went 6 2/3 scoreless innings, recorded four strikeouts, and only allowed three hits.
Tanner Kilmer came in relief for
Crimmins talks Ichabods baseball undefeated start
The Washburn baseball team is off to one of the best starts in the program’s history. The team has opened the season with 14 straight wins and consecutive sweeps over conference opponents. There is a lot of buzz and excitement around the baseball program right now, and one of the team’s most experienced players is senior Connor Crimmins.
Crimmins is from Topeka and went to high school at Shawnee Heights. He decided to come to Washburn to play football and baseball for the Ichabods. So far, Crimmins has gotten a lot of playing time during his baseball career at Washburn. He is a fourth year starter for the baseball program and this year he starts in right field. After 14 games this year, Crimmins has a .313 batting average, 18 RBIs and two home runs.
When asked about how he has adjusted to a new head coach this season, Crimmins explained that it has gone smoothly because coach Harley Douglas was an assistant coach his first three years at WU.
With this being his senior year, Crimmins is a vocal leader for the team, along with fellow senior Corey Gragg.
According to Crimmins, one of the keys to the team’s 14-0 start has been the team’s mentality, their desire to win and their motto “Let it fly.” The phrase “Let it fly” was something that former coach Steve Anson used to tell his players and the saying has special meaning to the this year’s team. He also claimed that one of the team’s greatest strengths is that they are a close knit group and have all bought in to the system that Coach Douglas has created.
On an individual basis, Crimmins says the best contribution that he brings to the team is his experience and knowing
Schmid and went 1 1/3 innings, retiring all four batters that he faced.
To close the game, Ryne Dowling came in the 9th inning and allowed just one hit before he closed the door and gave WU a 9-0 victory.
With their 9-0 win over PSU, Washburn is red hot and has now completed back-to-back MIAA sweeps, won fourteen consecutive games and improved to a perfect 14-0 overall and 8-0 in the MIAA.
Washburn will play their biggest rival, Emporia State, in a four game series this upcoming weekend. On Saturday, before the first game against ESU at Falley Field, the baseball program and the Washburn community will be honoring former head coach Steve Anson.
Tyler Feist, tyler.feist@washburn.edu, is a freshman business major.
what to expect from each team in the MIAA. Even after starting 14-0, the team’s expectations are still the same. The team came into the season with high expectations and expect to keep competing and winning more games.
Crimmins does not have any specific individual goals, but instead values team goals. He says his goal is to win the MIAA and be a part of the first team in Washburn baseball history to do so.
Crimmins knows that the MIAA is good top to bottom, but the teams to beat are always Emporia State, Missouri Western and Central Missouri.
Crimmins’ favorite team to play against is Emporia State because it is a rivalry game and always has a lot of meaning and intensity.
Tyler Feist, tyler.feist@washburn.edu, is a freshman business major.
Apparently, the harder the fall, the higher you bounce back. Or at least that seems to be the case with Washburn baseball.
Less than a year after the shocking and devastating loss of 30-year head baseball coach Steve Anson, who inarguably has a place among the legends of Washburn, the Ichabods are continuing to fight on.
And not just fight on, but make history.
After Coach Anson’s coaching record was set to rest, his men picked up where their leader left off and are now setting a new record.
The 2015 baseball season has not started great, it has started perfect. 14-0.
For a team to lose such a coach, mentor and figurehead such as Anson and then be able to turn around about half a year later and operate flawlessly is something I find baffling. The amount of heart that the Ichabods baseball team has must be immeasurable.
One factor that I believe has made this possible is the excellent choice by the Washburn athletic department to promote from within.
A national search was conducted to find a replacement for Anson, but in the end Harley Douglas, an assistant coach to Anson, was named head coach.
Douglas already knew the players and they knew him. With a new coach, it may have been a “wipe the slate clean, we’re starting over” situation. But with Douglas at the helm, even though he has made some changes, there was a lot of history for the team to continue to build on. And most importantly, by not bringing in someone new, the team was able to stay a family from top to bottom.
The heart and determination that the baseball team is playing with is truly inspiring, and reflects greatly on our school.
I would like to personally extend my congratulations and admiration to Coach Harley Douglas and the 2015 Washburn baseball team.
Adam Vlach, adam.vlach@washburn.edu, is a senior English and mass media major.
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Senior outfielder Connor Crimmins
Syracuse University faces massive sanctions
Trevin Edelman
WASHBURN REVIEW
As college basketball reaches the final month or so of the season, it got rocked with problems coming out of New York. The Syracuse University basketball program self-imposed a postseason ban for the end of this season. This was soon followed up by sanctions from the all-powerful NCAA. The NCAA conducted an eight-year investigation on the improprieties within Syracuse’s athletic department.
What happened next was a punishment unlike anything we have ever seen before. The NCAA not only altered the pro-
gram’s past, it will have an effect on the Orange’s present and its future. The Association handed out penalties that include taking away 108 wins from legendary head basketball coach Jim Boeheim’s record. The sanctions also included the loss of three scholarships per year for the next four seasons as well as having to play the first nine games of the next ACC season. At the heart of the NCAA’s investigation was the worry of the program’s “lack of institutional control” from the 2000-2001 season through 2011-12. The investigation found three infractions that were committed by the program. One of the infractions was improper benefits being provided to the
students. The other two infractions were academic misconduct and a failure to enforce the school’s drug policy.
The games that were vacated were games that involved center Fab Melo. The second most famous “Melo” to go through the program was ineligible and even received help on an assignment. And by help, it’s known that an employee of the athletic department was writing papers for him to turn in and claim as his own. Taking away 108 games from Boeheim’s record takes him from No. 2 on the all-time wins list to the No. 6 spot. This is going to do nothing but hurt his legacy.
Not too long ago an equally legendary coach,
Men’s basketball season closes with loss to Bearcats
Adam Vlach WASHBURN REVIEW
The Washburn Ichabods men’s basketball team faced off against the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats Thursday, March 5, both vying for the chance to advance to the MIAA tournament semifinals.
Nearly four minutes into the game, Northwest Missouri State led with 8-2. Washburn’s sole basket came from Algie Key.
Shortly before the 12 minute mark Andy Wilson hit back-to-back 3-pointers, boosting Washburn to just a onepoint deficit at the media timeout with a score of 12-11, Bearcats.
the late Joe Paterno, was ousted at Penn State for a lack of control of his program. All of those years of work and time given to a single program taken away from you, because of one moment of trying to cover something up. It doesn’t look, however, that Boeheim will be anything except the head man for the ‘Cuse in the future.
Boeheim has not only spent his entire professional career at Syracuse, but he even attended the university as an undergrad. Jim Boeheim is Syracuse basketball. So, this raises the same question that was asked when Paterno departed from Happy Valley: Do coaches that are at the same school feel that they are above the law of the NCAA? Is there a problem with teaching coaches as gods on campus?
Trevin Edelman, trevin. edelman@washburn.edu, is a junior mass media major.
But the Bearcats responded with a 7-0 run and took command of the lead, which they held on to for the remainder of the first half.
The first half finished with Northwest Missouri State on top 34-27. The team shot 54 percent from the field, 60 percent from 3-poit range and had 14 rebounds.
Washburn shot 29 percent from the field in the first half, 27 percent from deep and pulled down 18 boards.
Key put the first points of the second half on the board just 10 seconds in,
Minutes later, after a free throw and 3-pointer from Christian Ulsaker, the Ichabods took their first lead of the game with a 15-14 score at the 9:34 minute mark.
but after his field goal, Washburn hit a drought.
After the Bearcats went on a 12-0 rampage, Washburn was forced to call a timeout at the 14:02 minute mark.
Seven minutes later, Washburn still trailed by double digits. With Kyle Wiggins and Alex North shut down, having scored a combined total of five points, the Ichabods could not come back.
With the fall to the Bearcats, the Washburn men’s basketball team was knocked out of the MIAA tournament and their season came to a close.
Adam Vlach, adam.vlach@ washburn.edu, is a senior English and mass media major.
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Professor inducted into Kansas Music Hall of Fame
Ryan
Since 2004, the Kansas Music Hall of Fame has held an annual ceremony to honor Kansas-born musicians whose contributions to the arts deem them worthy of Hall of Fame status.
This year, one of those musicians was Washburn University Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies/ Music Education, Craig Treinen.
“It’s very humbling,” Treinen said of being among this year’s class of inductees. “You do music your whole life, so for someone to recognize you like this, it’s crazy. I never expected this.”
Aside from spending the last decade teaching Washburn music majors the finer points of jazz, Treinen has contributed his soulful saxophone playing to a wealth of internationally renowned recording artists, such as The Temptations, The Shirelles, Lee Greenwood and many others. He has also served as Education and Scholarship Director at Topeka Jazz Workshop and is currently the jazz chair for the Kansas Music Educators Association.
While his list of accomplishments is impressive to say the least, having the opportunity to carry on the tradition of passing knowledge down to his students is what keeps
Treinen motivated.
“My professors and high school teachers were very important in my life,” Treinen said. “I got started in jazz at a very young age. My high
school teachers really pushed me in this direction because they saw how much I loved playing my sax. They’d make me stay after school for extra practice and give me tapes to study. Those guys were very influential.”
After his induction speech, Treinen took to the stage with his backing band - guitarist Wayne Goins, drummer Keith L. Mallory and stand-up bassist Gordon Lewis, who serves as an adjunct music instructor at Washburn - for a set of jazz standards and improved soloing.
Also honored at this year's ceremony, which took place at Liberty Hall in downtown Lawrence, Kan., was renowned Topeka guitarist Dan Falley. Falley, who owned Dan's Guitar Shop, passed away after being involved in a car accident in January 2008. Falley's induction was accepted by his daughter, Jennifer, and Joel Edison and Danl
Blackwood of Jam4Dan, a non-profit organization that raises money for music scholarships in Falley's honor.
Rejuvanated prog-rockers Proto-Kaw, featuring Kansas guitarist Kerry Livgren, were inducted as well. Though the band never acheived notariety until recently, Proto-Kaw was comprised of the original lineup of musicians that became Kansas and reached legendary status with hits like "Dust in the Wind" and "Carry on my Wayward Son."
Other names inducted into this year's Kansas Music Hall of Fame class included Lawrence-based blues band The Lonnie Ray Band, singer/songwriter Gary Winston Apple and popular '50s revival act The Benders.
For a full list of inductees, visit www.ksmusichalloffame.org
Ryan Ogle, ryan.ogle@ washburn.edu, is a senior mass media major.
'Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore' misses the mark
Colleen Kelly
WASHBURN REVIEW
To be clear, this book was a letdown.
"Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore" follows Clay, a graphic designer freshly out of college, as he begins working in a mysterious old book store and finds himself in the middle of a centuries old fantastical adventure.
This book had an intriguing premise and a cool main character, but it all felt so surface value to me. We were introduced to a ton of characters early on that should have been interesting and likeable (an ambitious Googler, a selfmade millionaire D&D lover, a kindly old man trying to break ancient codes), but would get only the briefest descriptions of them and zero personal insight on their thoughts or motivations.
They each felt more like wacky props rather than real people with their own lives beyond Clay's journey, which I couldn't even get invested in.
The book’s first half was almost entirely devoted to exposition, and was dull and unengaging to that end.
The second half of the story seemed to know exactly how it wanted to end, but no idea how to get there.
I could not understand Clay’s instant, obsessive dedication to his "quest," or how everything seemed to have a convenient fix or favor he could call in, which made the book lack any sense of excitement or suspense.
It also did not help that there was an overabundance of inside jokes that flew over my head due to my lack of understanding of computer programming and coding.
I will say, though, that this book did present an interesting perspective on the ebooks vs. traditional books debate. If you are savvy with tech talk,
want a quick, easy story and don’t mind suspending your disbelief for extended periods of time, you might like this. But quite frankly, I found it boring, frustrating, and lacking in any substance.
Colleen Kelly, colleen.kelly@ washburn.edu, is a sophomore English major
Graphic by Spencer Perry
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photo by Ryan Ogle
Playin' Them Changes: Washburn jazz instructor Craig Treinen blasts out a sax solo at the 2015 Kansas Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony last weekend. Treinen was one of twelve musicians honored at last Saturday's event.
Top Town film festival to showcase local, indie filmmakers
On April 11, TopCon will be hosting the Top Town Indie Film Festival at the Quincy Street Conference and Event Center.
The man who created TopCon, known as The GYPSY, came up with the idea to do the indie film festival. Growing up in Topeka, he has many fond memories of walking downtown on summer nights to his favorite comic book store and buying candy.
The GYPSY has ideas to rejuvenate the area. One of those ways is to create opportunities for people to showcase their talents.
He talked about the motivation he has and the encouragement he received from family to start TopCon. He decided this was what he wanted to do, and he made it happen. TopCon was created, and the ideas have continued to spill out, with the indie film festival coming up and several other events that will take place this fall.
“My desire [is] to not only create, but leave my mark on the world and make my world a little better,” The GYPSY said.
By generating a chance for the people of Topeka to be involved
and attend events like TopCon and the indie film festival, The GYPSY thinks the downtown Topeka people know of will begin to look a little different and a little better.
The GYPSY is hoping the indie film festival will inject some creativity and fun into the downtown area along with supporting the TopCon event this September.
They will be featuring independent filmmakers and three films will be shown at TopCon.
Both TopCon and the film festival will feature tributes to legendary actor, director, writer, poet and singer Leonard Nimoy, who passed away in February at age 83. Nimoy was best known for his role as Star Trek’s Dr. Spock.
In addition, the filmmakers featured will get a free three-day pass to the TopCon event. Each film is judged by artistic quality, continuity, story, social relevance and acting. The GYPSY said
that the judging process isn’t anything complicated.
“We’re looking for something enjoyable for people to watch,”
The GYPSY said.
The GYPSY spoke about the amount of talent that is in the film world and his desire to peak people’s interest in film and give the opportunity for them to show off their work.
Many well-known directors, producers, and other film gurus started off small. Tim Burton’s original Frankenweenie, for example, started as just a short black and white film.
The GYPSY described how someone could have great talent but if you don’t go out and make things happen and accomplish your goals then no one will ever be able to experience your gift or ability.
“I want to spread the word and peak people’s interest in film,” The GYPSY said.
For students wanting more information about the Top Town Indie Film Festival or are interested in submitting a film of their own, visit topcon.us/toptown.
Image via TopCon.Us