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Volume 142, Issue 6
September 23, 2015
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Ichabod Plaza bricks symbolize community
News
Hallee Haar
WASHBURN REVIEW
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Sports
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Campus Life
Brick laying for the Ichabod Plaza began Sept. 21, which marks the beginning of the end of long lasting construction at Morgan Hall. Faculty members congregated outside to watch Ichabod lay down the first brick to celebrate the beginning of the last week of construction on the site. Ichabod Washburn, the school mascot, attended the event, being as quirky as ever. He kept the energy up, and even put on a tool belt towards the end of the event to show his commitment to getting the plaza finished. For those who don’t know, the Ichabod Plaza faces the road, and has been under construction since before the beginning of the semester. Washburn faculty will be happy to have this lengthy project done and have worked hard to make Morgan Hall a beautiful place for students and staff. Kathy Busch, director of communication at the Washburn University Foundation, said that the plaza will hopefully be fin-
Photo by Fahad Alfaryyan
Brick By Brick: The Ichabod mascot lays the first brick at the new Ichabod Plaza at Morgan Hall.
ished by the end of next week, and at the latest before grand homecoming week. Busch played a huge role in this project and beamed with pride at the thought of it coming to a close. It was clear that her and other members of Washburn University have worked very hard to make this a special event. There will be a total of 7,000 bricks at the plaza, 2,000 of which will have names on it. The first brick to be put down
at this event had a name on it, symbolizing the importance of the community to Washburn University. There will be bricks on the ground, with names of alumni, students, faculty, staff, student organizations and other members of the community as well as a seven foot bronze statue of Ichabod Washburn. Fundraisers Limited supplied the bricks. All of the bricks were screened before being ordered in order to ensure that all
of the messages were appropriate. Some bricks contain stories about time spent at Washburn, some are memorial bricks, some have names on it and others are simply blank bricks. On the walkway to the plaza “Non nobis solum” is written on the ground. This is the Washburn motto meaning: “Not for ourselves alone.” This, with the bricks, emphasizes how important community is the university. Richard Liedtke, executive director of enrollment management, said, “It gives everybody an opportunity for this project in the welcome center…it is going to tell a history of Washburn.” Liedtke was right in front during the ceremony, shaking Ichabod’s hand and celebrating this moment. His positive attitude was reflected on every member at this event. Though it is only one project on campus, it is something for the school to be proud of, and something that reflects how important individuals are at Washhburn. Hallee Haar, hallee.haar@ washburn.edu, is a freshman undeclared major.
Federal grant awarded to fight sexual crime Mark Feuerborn
WASHBURN REVIEW
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Washburn University was recently awarded a portion of an $8.5 million grant by the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. Washburn University was the only Kansas college or university to receive one of the 27 awards available. The university was given $299,838 for its “Creating a Culture of Consent at Washburn University: Confronting Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus” project. “When I found out we were awarded the grant, I was very excited,” said Joel Bluml, associate vice president for
student life and a co-investigator on the project. Women and Gender Studies Professor Sharon Sullivan, who is involved with the grant project, expressed high hopes for furthering Washburn’s efforts to combat sexual assault and dating violence on campus thanks to the award. “We really see this as an opportunity to go further, faster, than we would have been without the support. Everyone is committed to having a safer campus... Some of the things that we already wanted to do, we’ll be able to do more easily because of this grant,” Sullivan said. “Receiving the grant is definitely going to help us in creating a culture of consent on
campus,” Bluml said. Bluml also expressed his gratitude to the local organizations such as the YWCA who assisted Washburn in receiving the award. “I think it says a lot about not only our Washburn community but also our Topeka community. There were a lot of hoops to jump through to get this grant… There was a lot of collaboration that went into even applying for this grant. Not only on campus, but also in the community with those key community partners,” Bluml said. The grant will be used to help fund prevention and awareness programming for all students. It will also fund training for law enforcement and disciplinary board faculty on effective ways
to respond to sexual violence. Bluml also stated that behindthe-scenes work has already begun on the grant project, to allow for the project to hit the ground running. “There’s a lot of details that go into both formally accepting the grant, [and] right now we’re looking at finalizing position description… The goal is by the end of the three years of this that the policies, procedures, etc., that will be put in place as a result of this grant will become part of the culture at Washburn,” Bluml said. “Washburn is our community, we get to make it what we want it to be,” Sullivan said.
Mark Feuerborn, mark. feuerborn@washburn.edu, is a sophomore mass media major.
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