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of General Education courses that help fulfill degree requirements.
Summer tuition has been reduced by 50 percent for students who were enrolled in at least 12 credit hours in the spring and finish this semester in good academic standing.
Tuition will be reduced for students who enroll in six or more lower division credit hours. There are 99 classes in more than 25 departments available to take. Both online and on-campus options are available.
“Now is the time to keep making progress on completing your degree,” said Tim Peterson, dean of Graduate Programs and Academic Outreach.
Peterson said that in addition to saving some money, there are a lot of interesting courses offered in the summer including a number
Classes offered include classes such as financial accounting, cultural anthropology, introduction to art, and college algebra.
There were 3,334 students enrolled in 12 of more credit hours as of the spring 2015 census date who may qualify for the savings if they have an overall 2.0 cumulative GPA by the start of summer sessions.
“We hope that all of the students who are eligible for the summer savings will take advantage of this opportunity,” Peterson said, “but we obviously won’t know how many will actually do so until the summer sessions begin.”
Peterson said enrollment in lower division summer courses have declined since the federal government discontinued the summer Pell Grant program several years ago.
“Some students have also report-
ed that the lack of scholarships has deterred them from enrolling in the summer,” Peterson said. “We hope that the pilot summer savings program will allow these students to accelerate the completion of their degrees via the summer sessions.”
Peterson said that while the summer savings program is not restricted to freshmen students, their retention rate historically lags behind those of other students.
“Research has shown that students who complete at least 30 credit hours during their first year of college are more likely to finish a degree,” Peterson said. He said he hopes summer courses can help them achieve that essential milestone.
Peterson said once they have confirmed that students who have enrolled in six or more lower division credit hours have met all the requirements for savings, the 50
percent savings will be applied. He said that should happen beginning the last week of May.
There are three sessions for the summer semester that classes meet for: early session, full session and late session. The early session runs from May 26 to June 25. The full session is from May 26 to July 16. The late session is from June 29 to July 30.
Advanced registration began on April 6. Students need to contact their major advisor to secure a summer enrollment PIN. For students who haven’t yet declared a major, they can consult an academic advisor at (785) 670-1942 or send an email to advising@washburn.edu. More information can be found at www.washburn.edu/summer.
Page 3: C-SPAN producer visits Washburn to speak with Mass Media students while in town filming for local spotlight special.
Page 12: Actor, comedian, art enthusiast Cheech Marin loans his personal collection to the Mulvane Art Museum.
Page 9: Dancing Blues win big in national competition.
Page 6: Two senior art majors showcase their talents in new Art Building exhibit.
Derek Richardson, derek. richardson@washburn.edu, is a junior mass media major
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alendar
Wednesday, April 8
God’s Bods
American Business Women’s Association
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Kansas Correctional Association Student Chapter
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
WATUP Pottery Throwing Night
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Washburn Student Government Association
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, April 9
Fifth Annual Leadership Challenge Event
Country: Prints by Charles Capps and Tom Huck
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Prairie Printmakers from the Washburn University Art Department Student Exhibition
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
C-TEL Players Present: Diversity Matters
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Friday, April 10
Softball vs. University of Nebraska at Kearney
2:00 PM
Women’s Tennis at Northeastern State University
2:00 PM
Softball vs. University of Nebraska at Kearney
4:00 PM
Alumni Association After Hours
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Baseball vs. University of Central Missouri
5:00 PM
Saturday, April 11
Football vs. Spring Scrimmage
11:00 AM
Men’s Tennis vs. Cowley County Community College
12:00 PM
Baseball vs. University of Central Missouri
1:00 PM
Softball vs. Fort Hays State University
1:00 PM
Baseball vs. University of Central Missouri
3:00 PM
Planetarium Open House
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Softball vs. Fort Hays State University
3:00 PM
Upcoming United Way events Briefs
United Way of Greater Topeka’s 150 hours of service ends this week. It’s your last chance to help support them. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday April 8 in the Union, United Way will be selling ice cream, kettle korn, books and T-shirts. On the same day, until 5 p.m., bids for the Pop-a-Shot competition will be taken at the VPAT office. The top bidder will win the Pop-a-Shot game, with the entire bid amount going to benefit United Way. If you want to help even more, become a part
of United Way’s Caring Club. The cost is $150 annually and you will receive special discounts from local vendors as well as in invite for Washburn’s Caring Club reception. Pledge forms are due by 5 p.m. on April 8 to HR room Morgan Hall 118. United Way is dedicated to helping people achieve their potiental through education, income stabilty and healthy lives. For more information about United Way and their events for this week visit www.washburn. edu/unitedway.
Caitlin Ediger Sr. Recital
At 7:30 p.m. on April 12 in White Concert Hall, Caitlin Ediger will perform her senior recital. Ediger, a senior music education major with a piano emphasis, will perform a variety of pieces on both the piano and the organ.
Ediger first began playing the piano at five and hated it initially. However, her parents urged her to keep going. Several years later, Ediger is a successful pianist. Ediger has performed in numerous ensembles and con-
Driving simulator on campus
April 2
13:38 - Out of Jurisdiction Use Of Financial Card, Morgan Hall. Report Taken: Information to be passed on to appropriate authorities.
April 2
15:08 - Motor Vehicle Accident, Washburn Institute Of Tech. Report Taken: Photo’s taken, one city citation served
April 3
03:09 - Intrusion Alarm. Facility Services, Report Taken: Yard Alarm: No one
On April 14, there will be a driving simulator on campus from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. President Farley will be speaking at 11:15 a.m. and the local news media is planning on attending as well.
The driving simulator is coming to Washburn as a part of AT&T and Topeka Metro’s “It Can Wait” campaign. A group of students from LE300 are working with AT&T and Topeka Metro for their Community Action Project. The “It Can Wait” campaign is aimed at preventing distracted driving.
According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nine people are killed and 1,153 people are injured in distracted driving incidents every day. AT&T began their national campaign “It Can Wait” in 2010 with the purpose of educating people, especially young drivers, on the dangers of distracted driving.
certs during her time at Washburn. Additionally, Ediger performed at the Kaufman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City last spring.
Ediger has also done with well academically. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and has won the Most Outstanding Music Major Award as well as a Teacher of Promise Award.
Ediger will graduate in the fall after a semester of student teaching. Ediger hopes to teach at the elementary level.
ALD initiation
At 2 p.m. on April 12 in Washburn Room A & B, the initiation for the Alpha Lambda Delta honor society will commence. Inductees need to be at Washburn Room A & B at 1:30 PM to line up. The dress is business casual and there will be a reception following the event. Alpha Lambda Delta is a freshman honor society.
Sexual assualt
Three forums will be held this month to address the changes that Washburn University has made to its sexual assualt policy. The forums will be at 3 p.m. on April 3 in the Vogel Room, noon on April 15 in the Kansas Room and 7 p.m. on April 23 at a location that has yet to be determined. The forums will present the policy changes and then open up the floor for questions and answers. The forums will be a good way for people with concerns or comments about the policy changes to voice them.
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found in the area: No forced entry, alarm cleared and reset.
April 3
06:50 - Medical Call, On Campus Location. Report Taken: Individual treated at scene: Refused hospital treatment.
April 3
12:15 - Minor In Possession Of Alchol, Transporting Open Container: Possession Of Controlled Substance. On Campus Location. Report Taken: Referred to associate vice president for student
Affairs referred to muncipal court.
April 3
13:12 - Fire Alarm, Washburn Institute Of Technology. Report Taken: Cause Could Not Be Determined: Alarm Cleared & Reset.
APRIL 3
23:14 - Odor Of Controlled Substance, Living Learning Center. Report Taken: Investigation into the possible location of controlled substance continues.
APRIL 6
15:47 - Information Report, Suspicious Mail, Henderson Learning Resource Center. Report Taken: Investigation into the suspicious mail contiunes.
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YouTuber addresses assault issues C-SPAN visits campus
YouTube blogger and sex-education advocate, Laci Green, visited campus last week and spoke to students regarding the presence of rape culture in today’s society.
The event was sponsored by a number of organizations on campus including, Campus Activities Board, STAND and Student Activities and Greek Life. Green’s presentation, “Taking Down Rape Culture,” addressed the way that sexual violence has woven itself into American culture and how individuals can combat it.
“Sexual violence is widespread,” Green said, “But instead of being seen as a serious social issue, it’s seen as an inevitable fact of life. Right? This is just going to happen. This is how the world is. This is how men are – this is something people tell me all the time – this is what men do. Sexual violence is confronted not with outrage, as it should be, but with tolerance and excuses.”
She then described a study of college campuses conducted by The Center for Public Integrity in 2009, which found that there is indeed a lack of judicial repercussions for perpetrators of sexual assault, leaving the victims traumatized and no justice served.
“75-90 percent of attackers remain on campuses, in fraternities and on sports teams. The trauma of assault is compounded by a lack of institutional support and disciplinary action,” Green said.
Green’s presentation specifically addressed the question of what rape culture actually is and broke it down into four main factors that keep rape culture aflame. She explained that in a rape culture, rape is common, considered inevitable, excused and tolerated.
She noted that one common trait of rape culture is
victim-blaming, when society blames the victim of assault for their being attacked on the basis of what the victim was wearing and the victim’s reputation, among other excuses. Green countered this idea, saying that rape is not about what the victim was wearing – rape is about power and control.
“Victims don’t cause rape, rapists do. This is a very common sense fact that our culture really has a hard time processing right now,” Green said, “Someone makes a deliberate decision to sexually violate someone. That’s what causes rape.”
Green also took a strike at sexual objectification and its pervasiveness in today’s society, naming it a factor of rape culture’s continuance. She said that the problem with sexual objectification is not finding someone sexually attractive, but alluding that the attractiveness of an individual is the basis of their value.
“It’s so pervasive that each and every one of us has been conditioned to really evaluate a woman’s looks right off the bat and to evaluate their sexual appeal, particularly sexual appeal to men, right off the bat. This is how we’ve learned to see women and it’s because of these aggressive portrayals that we see all the time,” Green said.
Green hoped that from her presentation, students would take with them a better aware-
Ashley Hill, producer for cable news network C-SPAN, paid a visit to Washburn on Monday and spoke with mass media students about the ins and outs of TV journalism.
Hill was in town to gather footage for part of the network’s C-SPAN’s Cities Tour, which will showcase Topeka in the coming weeks.
A ten-year veteran of the television industry, Hill cut her teeth producing local programming in her home state of Ohio before making the jump to news.
ness of rape culture and the ability to recognize these trends and patterns that have become so common in today’s culture.
For those wanting to become stronger allies for their peers, she recommended getting involved in the discussion of how to build a safe and healthy community.
“Speaking up, using online platforms, attending the sexual assault policy hearings that are going on, becoming a peer mentor, becoming an advocate in their own communities and starting those conversations with people that they know,” Green said. “There’s just a million little ways and it doesn’t even have to be like this big kaboom thing, right? It’s all of the small things that really add up to a big change.”
The transition saw Hill relocate to Washington D.C., where she landed a job at C-SPAN. The job, which sees Hill visiting cities across the country, was a perfect fit for the reporter.
“I’ve always wanted to travel the country and tell people’s stories,” Hill said of her role with the network. “I really believe in what CSPAN does – providing access to information and letting people tell their own stories without interference from an anchor or talking head.”
Exploring the city in one of C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles, Hill and her crew visited with locals to unearth bits of Topeka’s untold history. Segments to be featured on the Topeka edition of C-SPAN’s Cities Tour, airing May 2-3, include a look at the reading library inside the Governor’s Mansion, the history of Brown v. Board and the civil rights movement in Kansas and an interview with Kansas author
Cyn Harris, who penned a book about Clemetine Paddleford, a 1950s food journalist who paved the way for Food Network celebrities like Alton Brown and Emeril Lagasse.
Looking back at her own career, Hill imparted some valuable advice to Washburn students.
“Learn to do as much as possible and learn from as many people as possible. Be in the right place, you will learn from the people around you,” Hill said. “You’re going to fail sometimes. I thought I was going to be in print journalism initially. I wound up getting a job in television and I loved it. I didn’t expect it, but that’s what happens. Be willing to try new things and don’t be afraid to fail sometimes.”
Ryan Ogle,ryan.ogle@washburn. edu, is a senior mass media major
C-SPAN’s Ashley Hill visited campus this week while in town filming for an upcoming special on Topeka.
Photo by Katie Wade
Photo by Ryan Ogle
Speaking Out: Laci Green speaks to students on taking down rape culture.
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Large Hadron Collider restarts after two years upgrading
Derek Richardson
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After undergoing upgrades over the last two years, the world’s biggest and most powerful physics experiment, the Large Hadron Collider, was powered back up on April 5, 2015.
The LHC is a particle collider, and is the single largest machine in the world. It took ten years to build and went online for the first time in 2008. During its first “season” it discovered the elusive Higgs boson, a particle that makes up the Higgs field. The presence of the field explains why some fundamental particles have mass. In 2013, it was shut down to undergo upgrades.
On April 5 at 10:41 a.m. local time in Geneva, Switzerland, the LHC fired a proton particle in its 17 mile circumference magnetic ring followed by a second particle in the opposite direction at 12:27 p.m.
According to a press release by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, the particles were circulated at an injection energy of 450 billion electronvolts, and over the coming days, operators will check all systems before increasing the
energy of the particles.
An electronvolt is the amount of energy gained by a single unbound proton or electron when it is accelerated through an electric or magnetic field. For comparison, a AA battery gives an electron about 1.5 electronvolts of energy. The full power of the upgraded LHC has an energy of 13 trillion electronvolts.
The LHC works by cooling superconducting magnets to the extreme temperature of negative 455 degrees Fahrenheit. These magnets propel particles in opposite directions in tubes at an ultrahigh vacuum at speeds approaching the speed of light.
Gigantic particle detectors placed at four interaction points along the ring record the collisions when the particles collide.
In routine operations, protons can lap the 17 mile long ring over 11,000 times per second, producing up to a billion collisions per second.
Computers at CERN store over 30 petabytes of data from LHC experiments every year. That is equivalent of 1.2 million Blu-ray discs.
With the LHC entering its second season of operation, experiments will be exploring uncharted territory. According to the CERN press
release, upcoming experiments will seek new particles beyond well-established physics theories, antimatter, and dark matter. Only
about four percent of the universe is made of matter we can detect directly. About 23 percent is made of dark matter.
Derek Richardson, derek. richardson@washburn.edu, is a junior mass media major.
New York University professor lectures about Climate Change
Mark Feuerborn
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The New York University director of Environmental Studies and Animal Studies Initiative, Dale Jamieson, hosted a lecture on Monday, April 7, in the Bradbury Thompson Center about the realities of climate change.
Titled “Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed – And What it Means for Our Future,” Jamieson’s lecture is a follow-up to his recently released book “Reason in a Dark Time” which suggests that there is a possibility that humans have drastically altered the environment to a point that there is no coming back in the near future.
“We have committed the world of the future to a radically different planet than the one that we have known and our ancestors have known,” Jamieson said.
Jamieson went on to discuss the history of climate change, dating
back much further than the majority of the public is aware of. He also talked of a chronological chain of events including the first public declaration by political officials regarding climate change. Lyndon B. Johnson, for example, was actually the first U.S. president to speak publicly about climate change.
“Fifty years ago is the first time a president has actually made a state-
ment on climate change. Not only do we have a steady history with the growth and development of science, but we have an issue that was already in the Oval Office 50 years ago,” Jamieson said. “Why, despite the steady growth of scientific knowledge and policy initiatives at every level, have we failed to act? Given this story that I have told you… How could it be that we
have failed to act?”
Jamieson went into detail about a long history of claims of denial commonly made by conservative politicians.
“We have this thing called organized denial … Not only are the strategies the same with climate change that have been used with DDT, tobacco and cancer, and second-hand smoke and all these other things, but in many cases it’s the same people who’ve been involved in all these issues,” Jamieson said.
“If you have an industry that is making profits from DDT, tobacco, second hand smoke, fossil fuels … you may know that someday the world’s going to change … but every day that you prevent that is a victory for you, so it’s a game of delay essentially. It’s not in some sense about the science. It’s not about the policy. It’s essentially about delaying changes in the service of protecting the presidential system.”
What Jamieson says here is that
the world will change and move past using a fossil fuel economy, but it’s going to take a very long time, and denying climate change only digs a deeper hole.
On March 25, Washburn hosted a panel of environmental and energy experts who discussed how climate change could impact the future of Kansas. They argued that promoting the economic benefits of reducing environmental problems would better encourage people to act to fight climate change. Jamieson expressed agreement with this view.
“I think in this way we need to engage in whatever motivations that people have,” Jamieson said.
“In an ideal world, people are doing the right thing and they’re benefitting from that. If you can align the economic incentives with things that are going to make the environment better, I’m all in favor of it.”
Mark Feuerborn, mark. feuerborn@washburn.edu, is a freshman mass media major.
Photo courtesy of CERN
High Precisioin Science: Workers at the Large Hadron Collider perform final allignment checks. The machine is a 17 mile long ring that guides particles precisely at near the speed of light. Particle collisions help scientists determine what the universe is made of on a quantum level by recreating conditions similar to that of the Big Bang.
Photo by Adrianne Lara
Reason in a Dark Time: Dale Jamieson signs a copy of his book for a student. Jamieson’s lecture was a follow up to his recently released book.
Schools not far from being bed & breakfasts
Public schools in the United States are no longer simply a place for learning. In fact, in quite a few cases, learning and knowledge is the secondary reason children go to school.
Many schools offer breakfast for students, in addition to lunch. But now some are offering dinner as well.
This raises so many red flags, but at the same time, conflict regarding how to feel about the situation.
state.
The question in this is, who is to blame?
Well the need arises from parents not being able to feed their children. Of course there will be cases of this - people have misfortunes in life. Loss of job, unexpected crises, et cetera.
But when 51 percent of public school students come from homes that can’t feed them, that’s not all just “misfortune.”
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The first thing that comes to mind is: why? Why are children needing to stay at school to have dinner? And if that is the case, with all three meals offered at school, why are these children needing to go to school if they want to receive even one single meal a day, five days a week?
It is not incredibly farfetched to think that soon children will be spending the night at school, and the everyday public grade or middle school will be a de facto boarding school, from which the students only return home on the weekends, if that.
There is no other way to put it other than to say that the United States is quickly becoming (or perhaps already is) a welfare
That is people incapable of providing for their children, but having them anyway and passing the responsibility on to others to take care of them. And that is the mentality of our welfare state. “I want something, so I’m going to take (or have) it and let others pay the cost.”
And it works, because we have a government that caters to that lifestyle. Because anyone should be able to have anything they want, even if it means others paying or providing for it, because if everybody doesn’t get whatever they want, well, that’s just discrimination.
Right?
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Child’s Play and Void new senior exhibitions
Katie Child and Ashley Russell, senior fine arts majors, are displaying their senior shows this week. Child’s exhibition entitled “Child’s Play.”
“Each piece in this accumulation of work represents a milestone on my journey to become the individual I am. This work is a concrete manifestation of my growth,” said Child in her exhibition statement.
Child is pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis on art education.
“I found that as I spent more time during the semester volunteering with art projects and doing outreach work with kids in the 501 school district. I loved teaching and working with those kids so much.” Child said.
Ashley Russell’s exhibition is entitled “Void.”
Russel said the name of this exhibition comes from the concept of voids and barriers within the theme of her show. She said most of the show is 2D workprintmaking monotypes - which were all created during her semester study abroad in Belgium.
Other media includes glass and mixed media sculpture. Rus-
sell’s Bachelor of Fine Arts degree includes an emphasis in printmaking.
“My inspiration was the push towards thinking about art beyond aesthetics, which had been a void during much of my artistic education. Visually, I am inspired by the geometry within nature, architecture and the colors in fruits, vegetables and antiques,” Russell said.
Russell plans to stay active in the Topeka arts community and will assist muralist Dave Loewenstein as his apprentice with the new addition to the Great Mural Wall of Topeka. Russell has also applied for several artist residencies.
The exhibitions will be in the John R. Adams art building for two weeks, from April 6 to April 17. The building is open on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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ART: [Above] A compliation of Child’s works including Trees on the Bank and Fall Reflections. [Below] Russell’s piece entitled Formations, made of copper with patin and wire.
Photos by Fahad Alfaryyan
WHIMSICAL: Child’s piece, Childhood Reflections, is a mobile that incorporates wire, cut paper and mirrors
MIXED MEDIA: Ashley Russell’s exhibition includes several media forms. This piece, Woven Eggs, includes rope rubberbands and adhesive.
Grace Foiles, grace.foiles@ washburn.edu, is a sophomore theater major.
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Duke conquers Wisconsin to win national championship
Final Four.
For the first time since 2008, two No. 1 seeds met Monday night in Indianapolis in the National Championship game to wrap up the NCAA Tournament.
The No. 1 seed out of the West region, the Wisconsin Badgers, were taking on the No. 1 seed out of the South region, the Duke Blue Devils.
Wisconsin was coming off an impressive Final Four upset over a 38-0 Kentucky team that some college basketball analysts believed to be one of the best teams of all time. Duke was also going into Monday night with a lot of confidence after beating a tough Michigan State team by 20 points in the
The first half lived up to all the hype that comes with the biggest college basketball game of the year. It was a fastpaced, back-and-forth and exciting game to watch. Neither team could pull away from the other. In fact, the biggest lead of the first half was when Duke was up 23-17 with about six minutes remaining. Then Wisconsin responded with a 7-0 run and jumped back in front with a 24-23 lead with just under five minutes remaining. At the half, both teams were tied at 31 and the two teams looked very evenly matched.
There were 13 lead changes in the first twenty minutes of the contest. Wisconsin made 12/31 field goals, shot 4/11 from
the three point line. Duke shot 50 percent from the field and was only 1/4 from 3-point range.
Wisconsin came out playing well in the second half and with 13 minutes to go had a 48-39 lead. The Blue Devils struck back and tied the game at 54-54 with about seven minutes to go.
With just under two minutes remaining, Duke had the ball and looked like they were in control with a 63-58 lead. With the national title on the line and the shot clock winding down, Duke’s freshman point guard Tyus Jones hit a game sealing three pointer with 1:15 left. Duke went on to win the game by a score of 68-63.
Duke was led by their highly regarded freshmen including Tyus Jones, Jahlil
Okafor, Justice Winslow and Grayson Allen. Jones won the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament and finished with 23 points. Allen, who averaged only 4.4 points per game and 9.2 minutes per game during the season, finished with 16 points.
Wisconsin leaned on their senior center, Frank Kaminsky, who finished with 21 points and 12 rebounds.
With Monday night’s victory, Duke’s head coach Mike Krzyzewski won his fifth national title while being at Duke.
Dancing Blues bring home national championship
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You’ve probably seen them in action at Ichabod basketball games and during homecoming activities, but did you know that the Washburn University Dancing Blues are two-time national champions?
Last month, the squad traveled to the University of Northern Texas, as they do almost every Spring, for the American Dance/ Drill Team National Championships. One of 33 colleges in the competition, the Dancing Blues took first place with a score of 292 out of a possible 300. Scoring at the competition is divided into three categories - choreography, presentation and execution with scores determined by a panel of three judges. The team danced all over their competitors, earning individual scores of 99, 97 and 96 from the judges.
“I would say everyone was pretty excited,” said coach Angie Smith of the victory. “This Dancing Blues team really worked together and they were willing to put aside what they wanted for themselves and do what was best for the team as a whole. I think that really helped us excel. Not only at Nationals, but through the entire season. That attitude really helped us at the competition.”
In her 26th year as head coach of the Dancing Blues, Smith, who also serves as an adjunct
Kinesiology professor, has become one of the winningest coaches at Washburn, earning her first national championship at the same competition in 2013. Of the current Dancing Blues, co-captain Monica Conaway, Lexi Lemons and Madison Williams were members of that team.
For this year’s competition, the team, which was selected in April of last year, began rehearsing their winning routine in June. To help with choreography, Smith enlisted the help of famed choreographer Mandy Borgelt, who once served as the coach of KU’s Rock Chalk Dancers.
Thirteen of the sixteen member squad traveled to Texas for the competition last month, where the Dancing Blues strutted their stuff in a two-minute routine set to the tune of “Sweet Disposition” by Australian indie-pop act The Temper Trap.
The Dancing Blues first took this routine to competition in July of last year, only a month after rehearsals began, at the Universal Dance Association Camp and Competition in July at Missouri State University. Despite the limited amount of preperation time, the Dancing Blues took second place.
“If you could see the performance then compared to the performance now, there’s a huge difference,” Smith said. “I think that’s a testament to how hard they worked this season.”
When not tripping the light
fantastic, the squad spends time giving back to their community. Their most recent act of altruism was to adopt Emmerson Selk, the older sister of Karis Selk, the seven-year-old cancer patient who was named an honorary member of Washburn’s volleyball and women’s basketball team.
The team named Emerson an honorary member of the Dancing Blues and let her in on some
sideline action during a home basketball game.
“She really enjoyed that. I saw her the next day and she told me how much she loved it,” said Conaway.
The team also made Emerson a part of a longtime Dancing Blues tradition.
“We have a tradition where we pass on a teddy bear to a member of the team. This year we passed it on to her instead
of a team member because we felt like giving it to her meant more,” Conaway said. Tryouts for next season’s squad will be held on April 26. Those interested in being a part of Washburn’s Dancing Blues can email Angie.Smith@washburn.edu for more details.
Ryan Ogle, ryan.ogle@ washburn.edu, is a senior mass media major
Softball looking to earn spot in MIAA conference tournament
The Washburn Ichabod softball team will close out the home slate this weekend with games against Nebraska-Kearney on Friday and Fort Hays State on Saturday. Between games on Saturday, the Ichabods will honor two seniors, Kristen Bell and Lauren Thimmesch, who will be playing their final games in Topeka.
The Ichabods are coming off a week where they went 2-4 overall splitting MIAA doubleheaders with Central Missouri and Southwest Baptist.
The Ichabods were swept in a non-conference doubleheader against Arkansas Tech on April 1.
The Ichabods are sitting in ninth in the MIAA standings, two games behind Nebraska-Kearney who is in eighth. Fort Hays State is in sixth in the conference standings. The top eight teams in the final MIAA standings qualify for the conference tournament starting April 30 in Kansas City.
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Dancing to Victory: Members of the Dancing Blues dance team [bottom left to right] Katherine Matthews, Bailey Turner, [top left to right] Lexi Lemons, Radie Keller, Monica Conaway, Mackenzie Stultz and Amelia Wynn pose with their trophy and championship banner after placing first at this year’s College Dance Teams American Collegiate Championship.
Tyler Feist, tyler.feist@washburn.edu, is a freshman business major.
Masters ratings may rely on Tiger
It is the first major tournament of the season and the buzz is back. Although
outside of the top 100 players, Tiger Woods is planning to play at Augusta National in this year’s Masters. Last year, Woods had undergone a successful microdiscectomy to cure a pinched nerve that had been bothering him. Whether or not he is at the top, or even middle, of his game, just Woods being in the tournament will boost ratings. Woods gives everyone who gets even the slightest joy from watching golf a reason to watch. You know that whatever he does, it will be the story of the week. For fans, they don’t even need to see Tiger in the hunt on Sunday. Fans will watch just to see him play.
There will always be the fans that will tell you that it doesn’t matter who is playing, it the Masters. This statement is partially true. There will always be the
Golfers place fourth in Rumble
After one day at the River Rumble golf tournament, the Ichabods were sitting at seventh place out of fifteen teams.
On the second day they climbed the team leaderboard to fourth place and that’s where they finished. Their round for the first day was a 313 and on the second day they improved their round to a 304. This put their total at 617 for the two days of the tournament.
So far this year the men’s golf team has finished first, eighth, and now fourth.
The lowest score for the Ichabod’s came from Tavin Dugan who shot a 78 on the first day, and a 75 on the second. This put Dugan at nine over par and tied for 15th place. Jordan Hecker posted the lowest round for the golf team on the first day of the tournament with a two over par 74.
The school that took home the team title was
Lincoln Memorial who posted a total of 593 for the tournament. Lincoln Memorials Braden Gaylon also took home the individual title. He posted a red number of one under for the tournament by shooting rounds of 70 on the first day and a 73 on the second day.
The other golfers for Washburn were Ronnie McHenry tied for 20th. Alex Green who shot a 155 and also tied for 20th. Alex Green was tied for 25th with a score of 157.
And last but not least was Tristian Abts with rounds of 81 and 78.
The Ichabods will try to place even higher at their next tournament in St. Charles, Missouri. The tournament will be held at the Missouri Bluffs Golf Club, and will be hosted by Lindenwood. It will take place April 6-7.
Andy Massey, andy. massey@washburn.edu, is a junior criminal justice major.
fans of both golf and sport that will tune in. However, the numbers from the 2014 tournament show that it was almost only the diehard fans. 11 million views watched Bubba Watson win by three strokes. This viewership was significantly less than the 14.7 million in 2013 and 13.5 million in 2012. As a matter of fact, the weekend ratings were the worst since 1957. The 1957 tournament was one year before Arnold Palmer won his first Masters.
If anybody is hoping Tiger does well, it is all of the people at CBS. With ESPN showing the first two days, CBS needs Tiger to make the cut so that he will be playing Saturday and Sunday. So now that we have looked at the viewership of the tournament, who has the best chance to win the Masters?
Although Tiger will be the story, he
won’t have much of an impact on the outcome of the tournament on Sunday. Instead, there may be some history made as Bubba Watson looks to become only the second player to win the Masters three times in four years. The other two players that will be in contention on Sunday are Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth. For McIlroy, he will have to overcome the demons at Augusta as he only has one top 10 finish there. Rory can do it if he just plays the golf he can play. Spieth, on the other hand, will have to rely on Bubba and Rory having an off tournament, but if they do, Spieth is good enough to win the green jacket in his young career.
Trevin Edelman, trevin.edelman@ washburn.edu, is a junior mass media major.
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Comedian entertains at Washburn
Kenzie McCoy
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Comedian Nick Guerra entertained Washburn students Tuesday, April 7 in the Washburn Room with his relatable humor and charm.
Guerra made a point to connect with the students who at-
tended the show. He began his act by relating to all the short people in the audience, talking about the troubles of high cabinets and the struggles of dealing with tall toilets.
I loved when he used people in the audience in his act,” said Hillary Ronnebaum, an undeclared freshman. “His laugh was
so unique and it made everyone laugh. I thought it was really funny.”
Guerra also frequently asked the audience about their own lives, their relationships, and their inner evil tendencies. Guerra says we all secretly have evil tendencies, such as stealing shopping carts and eating
donuts before having to pay for them.
Guerra even got himself laughing when talking about the adventures of a girlfriend moving into his home. Guerra says the move starts with a simple toothbrush, then the bobbi pins appear and it all goes down hill from there.
“I really enjoyed [the show],” said Coral Steinhoff, a freshman physical therapy major. “It was the best laugh I’ve had in a really long time.”
Kenzie McCoy, kenzie.mccoy@ washburn.edu, is a junior mass media major.
'The Martian' offers dark, realistic take on classic science fiction
Colleen Kelly
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“The Martian” is a soon-to-be science-fiction classic detailing the story of Mark Watney, one of the first astronauts to set foot on Mars in the not-so-distantfuture. During a mission on the red planet, Watney is separated from his crew during a dust storm and left behind when believed dead. With limited food, water, oxygen and no means of communication with NASA, Watney struggles for survival in an impossible situation.
Let me start off by saying how immersive this story was. I listened to both the audiobook and read some of the written work, and both hold up beautifully. This novel was very much grounded in reality; I had no trouble believing that this was a very possible, very terrifying possibility for space travel. It contained a lot of scientific jargon and made a concerted effort to remain grounded in reality and factual science, but you don’t have to be an expert in science to understand what’s going
on scene to scene. That element was designed to save readers the trouble of suspending their disbelief, but it does drag at times and feel like a science lesson.
Mark Watney as a narrator was funny, levelheaded and clever. He has spent his entire life studying and training to go to Mars, so there wasn’t anyone better suited to try and survive on its unforgiving landscape. The story is primarily told from his perspective, but it also keeps the pace moving in what would have been slower portions of the story with blog posts and journal entries to give us more insight into just how dire the situation at hand truly is. When we’re left alone with Watney and his thoughts, the novel thankfully never takes the clichéd route and becomes preachy or philosophical like we’ve come to expect of other survival stories. Watney is
a man of preparedness and logic, but there were some points where the story could have benefitted from having him break down and become less sure of himself. He is way too calm for what would be a lot of people’s worst nightmare. He always seems to have a ready solution and never truly struggles, he’s just buying time and tinkering until he can inevitably solve the next problem.
But despite that, “The Martian” is an incredibly smart, intense and darkly funny addition to the science fiction genre that
anyone could enjoy. This novel was like the movie “Castaway” meets “Apollo 13,” and funnily enough, it actually is being made into a movie set to come out this November. I’m recommending both picking up the novel ASAP, and pre-ordering your movie tickets for an amazing ride.
Colleen Kelly, colleen.kelly@ washburn.edu, is a sophomore English major
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Cheech Marin loans art collection to Mulvane Art Museum
A collection of Chicano artwork is currently being hosted in the Mulvane Art Museum. “Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection” will be on display until May 16 in the upper level of the museum.
The artwork was collected by Cheech Marin, a comedian and actor who gained fame from his part in the comedy duo Cheech & Chong, but is well known among younger generations as the voice of Banzai, a hyena in “The Lion King.” Marin has been collecting Chicano art for over 20 years.
Chicano artwork incorporates the ideas of the post Mexican Revolution era with current Mexican-American social and political issues and depicts the life and culture of the Latino experience in America.
Connie Gibbons, director of the Mulvane Art Museum, described the interest she had in bringing the collection to campus.
“I thought it would just be a really great opportunity to see a collection of Latino [and] Latina artists by somebody who’s really thoughtful and smart about the works they collect,” Gibbons said. “Especially if we could get him here to talk about that and why he collects the things that he does, what he’s looking for.”
The dates of the works range from the early ‘90s-2012. Most of the artists are from California, but Gibbons said that these works are representative of a much larger demographic.
“Chicano art has really changed a lot in that time period,” Gibbons said. “Some
of the artists that he was collecting like Diane Gamboa and Frank Romero. Those artists were really kind of engaged in Los Angeles and what was going on with Chicano art in the ‘90s.”
Gibbons also said that the collection reflects what she notes as a shift in the issues portrayed by Chicano artists.
“Some of the work has shifted in recent years as artists begin to deal with more personal kinds of narratives in their lives more than bigger kinds of social issues,” she said. “They’re exploring their kind of culture and their family and their communities in some really interesting ways.”
Gibbons said that students should visit the exhibit because of the insight into the Mexican-American experience that it can provide.
“I think what it does – and what any really good art does – is it kind of peels back the layers of an individual’s life and an individual’s perspective,” she said. “These artists are exploring things that relate directly to their culture and their communities, so it gives us a sense of what that means and how people live the day to day. So I think it brings it closer and it makes it more accessible and visceral and gives us a kind of new understanding about life and communities and people and bigger issues.”
The exhibit is sure to be a body of work that students would not see on any average day in Topeka, but the museum has brought the opportunity to experience a collection of works of this nature directly to campus. The museum is also partnering with other departments and community organizations to sponsor several events in relation to the exhibit.
At 4 p.m. on April 9, Jamie Ratliff, assistant professor of art history at the University of Minnesota Duluth will discuss what Chicano art means in the 21st century as well as how it has changed over time and what artists have been doing recently to advocate for their communities.
At 10:30 a.m. on April 10, a panel of discussion leaders will talk about how artists use their work to build communities, which Gibbons says is one of the most powerful abilities of art. Amado Espinoza, a musician and instrument maker, will perform at 12:15 p.m.
“He is kind of rooted in these Andean, Peruvian sounds, makes his own instruments and is an incredible musician. So he’s going to be doing a performance. On Saturday morning he’ll be doing a workshop on taking found objects and making
instruments with them,” Gibbons said.
On May 7, Marin will visit campus on for a presentation on his collection of art.
“The things that kind of tie this together are … that vision of the collector and what he is collecting and why,” Gibbons said. “I think it’s important that we expose ourselves to as many ideas, concepts, cultures, people [and] expressions as we can. That’s the exciting thing about bringing him to campus is being able to take part in, or take advantage of the kinds of things that we’ve got here.”
Katie Wade, katherine.wade@ washburn.edu, is a junior history and mass media major
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COLORFUL CULTURE: Pictured above are three works by Ricardo Ruiz from Corpus Christi, Texas, whose artwork reflects the influence of childhood memories of his family in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection includes over 60 works of art by Latino and Latina artists.
CHICANO ART: These paintings by Yolanda Gonzalez from Alhambra, California, features strong brush strokes and bold colors that pay homage to the beauty and strength she sees in her culture.