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Denim Day highlights sexual assault Angel Tolstikhina

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Photo by Faith Hadley

Ready to Go: Pathophysiology students sitting, ready for the lecture to begin. Many of these students were recently accepted into the school of nursing for the fall and will be the last to take this course prior to entering the program.

Nursing curriculum to change Modifications to help students retain difficult material Faith Hadley

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The curriculum for the School of Nursing has recently undergone modifications that will soon be put into place for the benefit of Washburn’s pre-nursing majors.

The pathophysiology and pharmacology classes are each being split into two-semester courses. Both classes were originally taken, separately, in one semester.

Pathophysiology is the study of the disease processes that occur in the body. Pharmacology informs students of various drugs’ administration and how they function in the body. The courses are highly interrelated, as a working understanding of how a disease works is necessary for proper and effective comprehension of a drug.

Along with the split of both courses into two separate semesters, pathophysiology will be moved from a prerequisite for the nursing program into the School of Nursing curriculum. There

were multiple prompts for four semesters. The transfer these changes. However, of pathophysiology to within many faculty favored having the nursing school curricupathophysiology as a prereq- lum will ease these difficuluisite. ties.

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diseases and are taking those medications.

“You are tying in what you’re learning with what you are actually seeing, touching, and listening to,” said Sue Unruh, who currently teaches pathophysiology and pharmacology in the nursing school.

Unruh was also a member of the undergraduate education committee for the School of Nursing. This committee was responsible for the logistics required in the curriculum changes. They met on several occasions and developed course flow, syllabi and course descriptions.

The changes are already visible online in the list of prerequisite courses.

The recently accepted class of students that will enter in the Fall of 2016 will be the last students to go through the old curriculum. Any current pre-nursing students will now have a lighter prerequisite load.

Faith Hadley, faith.hadley@ washburn.edu, is a sophomore nursing major.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Washburn University announced a Denim Day during which the students may wear denim or teal as a show of support for victims of sexual violence.

From 9–11 a.m. students will be offered a chance to decorate a denim pocket to manifest support for ending violence on Washburn campus, which they will staple to the board on the Quad lawn.

At noon the Union Underground will hold a “Walking the Walk” event where visitors can speak with counselors and advocates from the YWCA Center for Safety and Empowerment as well as seeing real-life material in order to raise awareness for violence.

The Washburn Employee Wellness Program, sponsored by the SRWC, will host an Employee Denim/Teal photo contest. The departments wearing denim or teal will be able to take a picture and email it to Coletta Meyer at coletta.meyer@washburn.edu by 5 p.m. to be entered into a drawing to win a free lunch for up to 10 people.

“This is a new program SRWC joined on Sexual Assault Awareness Day but we have been involved in Wear Red for Women photo contest every second Friday of February,” said Colette Meyer, wellness coordinator.

“This year SRWC partnered with the Sexual Assault Grant and help them promote the day.”

In addition, students may notice teal ribbons wrapped around one in five trees on the WU campus representing national statistics indicating one in five women will experience sexual assault.

“I think it is really important to bring awareness into our society about sexual assault so we can better prevent it from happening,” Meyer said.

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Briefs Event to show reality of sexual violence

As a part of Denim Day activities, there will be an event aimed toward informing participants about the truth about sexual assault, including both men and women. The event will be from 3-4 p.m. in the Union Underground, located on the lower level of the Memorial Union. The event may make participants uneasy, but there will be counselors from Student Counseling as well as representatives from the YWCA Center for Safety and Empowerment who will be willing to discuss the event with participants.

Other Denim Day activities included an opportunity 9-11 a.m. for students to decorate a jean pocket, then staple it to a post that will be placed on the lawn outside the Memorial Union. This event was meant to raise support for stopping violence on campus.

There was also a forum at noon, facilitated by Joel Bluml, about what Washburn is doing both to support victims and end violence on campus. The event took place in Mabee Library and included a question and answer period at the end of the panel. Denim Day is part of Sexual Assault Awareness month. It was started not only to support victims of sexual assault, but also to protest an overturned court case. The case was overturned because of a decision that said wearing tight jeans means that rape can’t happen because the victim would have to help with the removal of the jeans.

Washburn has been observing Sexual Assault Awareness Month by tying teal ribbons, the color for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, around one in five trees, which symbolizes how one in five women will be sexually assaulted during their college career.

Alumni Association hosts ‘Night at the K’

The next Washburn Night at the K will take place June 19. The event, hosted by the Washburn Alumni Association and supported by UMB Bank, Hutchins & Haake, LLC and Kuckelman Torline Kirkland and Lewis, will include a tailgate from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The tailgate is $7 for people aged 5 years and older and some of the delicacies include burnt ends, friend chicken, cole slaw and dinner rolls among other foods and iced tea, water or beer to drink. The Alumni Association will also provide private motorcoach rides to Kauffman Stadium for $20 a person. The ride will leave at 9:30 a.m. from the Washburn Campus.

For the game itself, the Alumni Association will have seats available in both the lower and upper levels. Tickets for the lower level are $34 a person and tickets for the upper level are $15 a person.

People who purchase tickets from the Alumni Association will receive a free t-shirt. Additional t-shirts cost $10 each. The game, Kansas City Royals vs. Detroit Tigers, will begin at 1:15 p.m.

For more information about the event, please contact the Washburn Alumni Association at (785) 670-1641 or wualumni@washburn.edu.

Campus groups organize Success Week events

Washburn Student Government Association is hosting a variety of events during Success Week to help students de-stress before finals week. On April 29, there will be miniature golf on the Union lawn. On the following day, WSGA will hand out small

‘Scorch on the Porch’ talks energy

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Study Time: Kristine Hicks, energy and sustainability manager at Washburn’s Facilities Services Department, explains charts on recycling and its benefit to Washburn at Scorch on the Porch. The event was held on Earth Day, and featured a live band, presentations on energy and sustainability, and the opportunity for students to recieve plants for a donation to Ecobods.

cakes in the Union from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be pizza and energy drinks available in Mabee Library starting at 7 p.m. on May 3 and 8. The Union Underground will host a coffee tasting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 4. The Union will be serving a late night breakfast on May 9.

For more information about Success Week events, please contact Soren Lamb at chief@mywsga.com.

Campus Activities Board is also hosting a Do-nut Stress event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 3 at the Union Underground.

The event will have free doughnuts and adult coloring books.

For more information about this event, please contact CAB at (785) 670-1222 or cab@washburn.edu.

Mulvane hosts various events

The Mulvane Art Museum is hosting a lecture that will discuss the events surrounding Guadalupe 7-8 p.m. April 29 at the Mulvane Art Museum. The lecture will be taught by Jeanette Rodriguez, who will discuss some of the symbolism and theology behind the event.

The Mulvane Art Museum will also host a brown bag lunch and conversation from noon to 1 p.m. on May 12 at the Mulvane Art Museum. The event will feature discussion with Marydorsey Wanless, Judith Sabatini and Daniel Coburn about photography. This event will be held in conjunction with the

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exhibition Marydorsey Wanless Retrospective.

Another event being held in conjunction with the Marydorsey Wanless Retrospective Exhibition is a demonstration

by Wanless entitled “Tri-Color Gum Bichromate over Cyanotype” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on May 17. This event will also be held in the Mulvane Art Museum.

For more information about any of the events, please contact Delene Van Sickel at (785) 6701124 or mulvane.info@washburn.edu.

The Washburn Review’s crime report follows crime trends on a yearto-year basis. This chart accounts for crime from Jan. 7 to Apr. 25.

Alcohol Violations - 6% Assault - 3% Burglary (Vehicle) - 10% Criminal Damage - 15% Domestic Violence - 1% Drug Arrests - 8% Harassment - 11% Theft (Auto) - 7% Traffic Accidents - 18% Theft - 21%

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New student government officials sworn in Brian Cervantez

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Washburn Student Government Association swore in its new president, vice president and newly elected senators April 20 to start their first meeting before normal business could be brought to the table.

The meeting was a little rugged at first, but as the new senators got used to parliamentary procedure, the process sped up.

“I’m most excited for the new administration to learn all the parliamentary procedures because I had trouble learning it coming in to open senate seat last semester,” said Chris Beier newly elected WSGA senator. “I hope to see WSGA pass some meaningful bills to make changes around campus in a positive manner.”

The new administration nominated and voted for speaker pro tempore, parliamentarian, nominating committee, internal finance, and internal affairs. Senator Dalton Hane was elected by the senate for speaker pro tempore and senator Ian Fluke was elected by the senate for parliamentarian.

For, the nomination committee the senate elected Senator Jeremy Ridge,

Photo by Brian Cervantez

Sworn In: Washburn Student Goverenment Association had its inauguration to swear in its new president and vice president for the up coming year.

Dalton Hane, Meagan Borth, Zach Johnson, Chelsea Newman and Trevor Bollinger. For internal finance, the senate elected senator Dalton Hane, Traevor Mcpherson, Melissa Tovar, Jesse Kern, Ian fluke, Trevor Bollinger and Claire Pickert.

The last positions to be elected by

the senate were for internal affairs.

Traevor McPherson, Alex Lasher, and Claire Pickert were elected.

After the body elected their positions, WSGA continued to the rest of the agenda.

“I’m very excited to take on my own project of reforming the constitution

and the bylaws: making them more clear and concise; making them more accessible to the student body, because, as your government, it’s important for us to be accessible and for our policy to be easily understood, especially when you want to come to us for whatever it may be; helping to understand the process is really important,” said Traevor McPherson, newly elected WSGA senator.

Student government also voted on a bill to give Bod Squad $5,000 to make a “traditions book” for the organization. The project was put together as a capstone by Sara Edelman.

The book will catalogue different traditions Washburn has and if a student completes a certain number of traditions they become a “traditions keeper.” They would then get a medal they could wear at graduation.

The books would cost students $7.50 a person and Bod Squad would change its membership fee from $10 to $15 for students to join. The bill was passed.

The senate regualary meets at 6 p.m. on wednesdays during the semester.

Brian Cervantez, Brian.Cervantez@ washburn.edu, is a senior mass media major.

DENIM: Day of awareness recognized worldwide warp-faced textile used to manufacture jean clothing. Since so many signature wardrobe items are made out of a particular material, it would be understandable why April 27 is a National Denim Day, as much as denim deserves all of the praise for granting many people the comfort of the daily life. Unfortunately, this day holds a sorrowful reason for its existence.

In 1992 in Rome when an incognizant 18-year-old girl went for her first driving lesson that turned out to be an hour-long brutal rape by her 45-year-

old driving instructor. After the incident he threatened to murder her if she were ever to reveal the incident. However, the young woman told her parents later that night, and with their help, she pressed charges with the Italian Supreme Court against the instructor.

At first the alleged rapist was convicted and sentenced, but in 1998 the Italian Supreme Court overturned the conviction, claiming that because the 18-year-old wore tight jeans, the rape would be impossible to have occurred.

As outrageous as the argument might

seem, the court reasoned that she must have had to help the assaulter remove her jeans, thus making the act consensual.

“It is a fact of common experience that it is nearly impossible to slip off tight jeans even partly without the active collaboration of the person who is wearing them,” said the Italian Supreme Court.

The logic of Italian Judicial Government sparked widespread protest around the world. Even though the Italian Court has overturned its deci-

sion once more in 2008 excluding a “denim” defense to the charge of rape, the Denim Day is annually recognized worldwide and by at least 20 U.S. states in particular. Wearing jeans on this day has become an international symbol of protest against destructive prejudices about sexual assault, and Washburn University is actively involved in raising the awareness on such an issue.

Angel Tolstikhina, anzhelika. tolstikhina@washburn.edu, is a junior exercise physiology major.

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Students garden during Earth Week International students discuss earthquakes Jena Dean

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The Memorial Union hosted Gardening Day, a two-day event transforming the Union Courtyard, April 19 and April 20 as a part of Earth Week.

The event focused on remodeling the small space in the Union, which included removing all plants, remodeling the ground and adding new additions to the space.

“This space has been neglected for a long time and we’ve been trying to figure out what to do with it,” said Becky Bolte, director of the Memorial Student Union. “Today was meant as a community day for clean-up and to make our world beautiful.”

Gardening Days started the process of transforming the outside area into a place of relaxation and fun for students.

All students were invited to pitch in and get dirty to remodel the space.

“It’s a tough time for students and it’s hard to find a time to come out and help. Hopefully students will see the impact of gardening here and will have fun,” said Bolte.

The courtyard, which holds additional seating for students in the Union, especially during lunchtime, will be transformed into a zen-like environment with sand and rakes to help students

Ali Dade

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Photo by Jena Dean

I Can Dig It: Students got their hands dirty to transform the Memorial Union courtyard into a zen garden.

relax.

“Zen is a type of spiritual thing that allows an area itself to be spiritually connected,” said Jarrett Heinson, junior clinical psychology major. “The Zen garden will increase the spirituality around campus.”

In addition to the Zen garden, the remaining space will host small concerts and events for students in the future.

“We have lots of ideas for the rest of the space. We want to completely redo the space and have it as an event space for concerts and relaxing for students,” said Bolte.

Although the space was not fully completed in the two day time frame, Bolte will continue to work on the project with help from student volunteers.

“We’re beginning the stages of redoing the space. Students have had lots of input of what they are looking for. But there are so many grand ideas, we can’t do them all,” said Bolte.

“This idea is definitely one we can do right now.”

Jena Dean, jena.dean@ washburn.edu, is a senior mass media major.

Japan experienced four highmagnitude earthquakes April 14 and 15. The four cities affected were Ueki at noon (which received a 6.2 magnitude), Uto at 3 p.m. (6.0), Kumamoto-shi (7.0) and Ozu (5.7), which both occurred within the 4 p.m. hour April 15. About 40 people have been pronounced dead after these earthquakes.

In addition, at about 11:30 p.m. April 16 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the country of Ecuador. Nearly 600 people have been pronounced dead after this earthquake.

Miyuki Nishimura, originally from Japan, is a senior mass media major, and her family was directly impacted by one of the earthquakes in Japan.

“When the first earthquake happened, a picture frame that was hanging on a wall hit my sister’s face and it woke my sister up. All my family said [to] me they woke up suddenly because of sound of shaking ground, falling and breaking stuff in the house.”

Nishimura wanted to let the students, staff, faculty and supporters of Washburn know that you can donate money to help the rebuilding of the

country: “What I want people to do the most is to know about this happening and pray for people in Japan.”

Alejandro Valarezo Plaza, originally from Ecuador, is a freshman finance major, and although his family wasn’t directly affected by the earthquake, he feels he should be able to help.

“It has affected me because I know that I could be helping a lot of people from my country while being there,” Plaza said.

Plaza spoke highly of his home country in reference to rebuilding after the earthquake.

“After the earthquake, all the Ecuadorians immediately started helping the people that were affected by the earthquake giving a lot of donations… But that’s what I like about Ecuador: the union that we show as a small country.”

Those wanting to donate to the Japanese earthquake relief fund can do so at https://www. globalgiving.org/projects/ kumamoto-japan-earthquakerelief-fund/.

Ali Dade, alexis.dade@ washburn.edu, is a sophomore English major.

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Mark Meets World Tubman $20 more than just equality measure Mark Feuerborn

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In light of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s announcement that the five, 10, and $20 bill will be redesigned, an uproar ensued when it was revealed civil rights activist Harriet Tubman will replace president Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20.

The $10 and $5 will each feature a separate array of civil rights activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr. while retaining Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln on their respective fronts. Lew announced the changes as part of an effort to address America’s history of racial and gender inequality.

As Lew has made clear, the changes are necessary. Just as credit cards require new security

features such as the chip reader, so too does American currency in order to prevent the creation of counterfeits. The redesign of the bills will be permanent, but it’s not slated for circulation until 2020.

Updates are necessary, and they often come with many benefits.

While everyone has been up in arms about a Tubman $20, they probably overlooked the mention that these updated bills will also be the first to have a tactile feature for the blind to read the currency.

It goes without saying that everyone should understand the intentions of updated security.

However, I believe we should also understand it’s due time for the abolition and suffrage movement to receive the honor it deserves.

It makes sense for Lincoln and

Hamilton to remain on the $5 and $10 alongside the new faces.

Both were progressive and innovative men, responsible for great advances for the country. Jackson must also remain on the back of the $20.

To be blunt, there is no reason to keep Andrew Jackson, a slaveowner, on the back of a bill with Harriet Tubman, and former slave and Civil War heroine for the North. The message is mixed, at best.

It is noteworthy to recall Jackson’s signing and supervising of the Indian Removal Act, which resulted in the infamous Trail of Tears and countless deaths. Native Americans received the honor of the Sacagawea dollar, which is no longer in mint. Seems fair, right?

To be critical of Tubman’s

placement on the $20 bill is to disregard her forward thinking and fight for equality for people of all races and genders. Jackson, on the other hand, is a man I associate with extortion of entire peoples. It’s maddening to see people complain about a great person getting half the honor that a bad man has held for 100 years.

Now that it’s time for the American currency to get a modern makeover, it’s time to see some faces on these bills with modern mentalities. Here’s to 2020, when I hope to look at a $20 bill and remember a figurehead of equality, instead of a man of oppression.

Mark Feuerborn, mark. feuerborn@washburn.edu, is a sophomore mass media major.

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Our goal at the beginning of the semester was to help the Washburn Review evolve into a source not just for news, but for reflection. We wanted to write stories that brought challenging and controversial issues to light.

We wanted to give a voice to students and organizations that typically go unheard. Our editorial team is confident that we accomplished our mission – to make this publication about you and what you do.

This semester has been a time of growth and maturing at the Washburn Review. We welcomed new staff members on board and we watched our seasoned reporters flourish and take on greater responsibilities. Perhaps this is normal of an organization this size, but we are especially proud of the mentors and leaders that have shaped this team into a powerhouse of strong reporting.

In our final editorial meeting, we mentioned that something about the atmosphere in the Review office has changed this semester. Comradery and

solidarity have become our greatest strengths. There were times this semester that horrible circumstances fell upon editors or reporters, and each time the team rallied together in support.

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Student workers foster lively fitness

Amy Reinhardt

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Money is often something that college students are in short supply of, which leads them to search for methods of income to accommodate their school lifestyle. This prompts many to look into on-campus jobs.

At Washburn University there is an array of on-campus jobs.

The largest campus employer is the Student Recreation and Wellness Center, which employs between 45 to 60 student workers every semester.

The SRWC pushes for new recruits after spring enrollment for the following fall semester.

Applicants are required to complete a general application and paper interview. The finalists partake in a phone or in-person interview coordinated by the SRWC staff.

“During our spring/summer hiring push, we normally see 100-125 applications, and depending on the number of staff we plan on hiring, we will conduct anywhere from 35-60 interviews,” said John Cummings, SRWC associate director.

Cummings said positions range from fitness loft monitor to front desk monitor to office assistant. In addition, students have the option to be promoted to facility supervisors. This opportunity involves another interviewing process, which means it’s not an automatic

Photo courtesy of Kasey Paez

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Rock Wall Climb: Kasey Paez (left) and Allie Bellinger (right) take advantage of the SRWC to learn how to climb a rock wall. The SRWC is free for Washburn students.

Student Employee: Ellen Glasgow, a junior psychology major, poses for a picture in her new SRWC t-shirt. Glasgow is in her first year of employment.

promotion based on seniority.

Kasey Paez, junior social work major, started working at the SRWC in fall 2014.

After two semesters, she was promoted to facility supervisor.

She noted that the transition into supervisory status was easier than she expected.

“The professional staff are all super friendly, and they were easy to approach if I ever had a question or needed help completing a task,” Paez said.

The professional staff determines the schedules at the beginning of the semester, and then employees have the opportunity to ask off, pick up

or trade shifts as needed. There is a 20 hour cap per week, and Cummings said some students work as many as 15 to 18 hours a week while others only work four to six hours.

Student workers have the opportunity to gain additional hours by serving as group exercise instructors, Rock Wall monitors and intramural officials.

Being an on-campus job, student workers at entry-level positions are paid $7.25 per hour with the possibility of merit raises each year. Group exercise instructors and intramural officials have a starting pay of

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$7.50.

Emma Showalter, freshman biology major, and Rachel Hoover, junior athletic training major, are both members of the intramural staff and serve as officials. Their tasks include scorekeeping and refereeing games.

“I have been able to network more with the intramural staff because it’s much smaller in size, and they are a very fun group of people to hang with,” Hoover said.

Emma Showalter, freshman biology major, started working at the rec right when she started at Washburn University in fall 2015. It was the oncampus employers at summer orientation who convinced her it’d be a great place to practice skills that would be applicable to her post-college career.

“I’ve had practice effectively confronting people.

I’ve learned how to make confident decisions on the spot and hold a conversation with a complete stranger,” Showalter said.

While students don’t receive any traditional benefits at the SRWC, the benefits they do receive come in the form of experience, training and knowledge in the co-curricular realm.

“We give our student employees a structured framework in which to perform their job duties, while also providing an atmosphere to promote critical thinking and

problem solving within each individual,” Cummings said.

The thing that some student workers enjoy about the SRWC is the environment. They have become close with co-workers and have grown accustomed to the regular visitors.

Ellen Glasgow, junior psychology major, wishes she had started working at the rec her freshman year instead of waiting until she was a junior.

She claims she would’ve been able to make friends much earlier due to the assortment of people she socializes with during shifts.

Even though the SRWC has a surplus of student workers, not all are guaranteed to stay for multiple years. Cummings said the main reason students leave is because the demands of their academic course loads make it difficult to continue their employment. However, he enjoys watching the students grow during their time with the SRWC. “Many go from first-year students who are excited to begin their college career with little idea of what lays ahead to thoughtful and educated young adults who are ready to embark on the remainder of their life journey,” Cummings said.

Amy Reinhardt, amy. reinhardt@washburn.edu, is a senior mass media major.

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Josh Setchel

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Remember that picture of the dress that floated around last year and the world couldn’t decide on the color? Well get ready to have another debate about the new MacBook. Depending on the light, Apple’s newest laptop model will appear either a delicate shade of bronze or incredibly pink.

Either way, it’s exceedingly more vibrant than the standard gray.

But that’s not all. In addition to the new color scheme, the MacBook will run approximately 25 percent faster, promising better graphics performance and an extra hour of battery life, addressing the most common complaint about Apple products.

It may not seem like much of an upgrade for those who already own last year’s model, but for those a few years behind or coming to Apple for the first time, it’s a worthy reason to invest.

Best of all, the new color will be available in both Pro and Air models,

giving consumers the best of both worlds.

The more powerful Pro vs. the more size –convenient Air. Bright pink vs. delicate bronze. Choose your side, Apple users.

Josh Setchel, joshua.setchel@ washburn.edu, is a senior English major.

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August 19, 2015

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App helps Bods get class info

News

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ber. It is not likely that any class locations will change with the completion of the project.

The KBI building, which has been in development for just under two years, will have its grand opening Monday Nov. 2.

“It is an expansion of the foren-

This fall is the first full semester in which an app is available for Washburn students, enabling them to access academic information from their mobile devices.

Launched on May 13, 2015, the Ellucian GO app was created by Ellucian, the same company that made the Banner system that holds student records at Washburn as well as many other universities.

Students know Banner as MyWashburn and this app pulls information from that system. But the app is far from just a link to existing sites.

“It is something that the company has as a mobile app that allows a lot of useful information to be pulled out of the system in a friendly way to students, faculty and staff,” said Patrick Early, University Relations director.

Along with making mobile access to D2L convenient, the app provides direct access to often used information. Finding contact information for offices, faculty and students is made easy and provides quick access to grades.

The app also has additional functions. For instance, students may use the app’s map function to get directions to buildings on campus from their current location.

Michaela Saunders, web editor for University Relations, works on the team that helped bring Ellucian GO to campus. She said the map capability will be a great feature for somebody who’s not all that familiar with campus.

There are social media capabilities including connections to Twitter and Facebook. In the near future, a homecoming app will be added to keep students updated on those events as well as academic,

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Page 3: Jared Starkey is the executive director at 712 Innovations, a space he calls “a gym for nerds.”

Sports

Photo by Amy Reinhardt

Casino Night: Zachariah King, sophomore business major, deals out cards to players at the blackjack table during the annual Casino night during Welcome Week.

Page 11: The Ichabod football team is ready for the season.

Arts & Entertainment

Page 12: ‘Mauritius’ returns to campus for an encore performance.

Campus Life

Student wish benefits Union Amy Reinhardt

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Toward the end of the fall semester Washburn students will be able to socialize, play games and study in a fully renovated lower lounge in Memorial Union.

In 2014 Brett Johnson, a Washburn admissions counselor, submitted an application for a Student Initiative Grant when he was a student.

The Student Initiative Grant has money set aside from the Washburn Student Government Association’s funds each year, and any Washburn

student with an idea to benefit the Washburn campus is permitted to apply.

Students deliver their ideas in front of the senate and if it’s passed, WSGA funds that project. However, it is up to the student to ensure that the project is completed.

Johnson’s idea for a project was to increase university spirit by adding more Washburn colors and pictures around the Memorial Union.

“I would find myself sitting around campus and think to myself, ‘If I didn’t know I was at Washburn University, I wouldn’t know I was at Washburn University,’” Johnson

said.

Johnson received his idea from the large, metal black and white prints of Washburn campus life hanging inside Pizza Pub. “I want this to be a general space where students can go and hang out and utilize for multiple purposes whether that’s studying, socializing or playing games with friends,” Johnson said.

In February, Becky Bolte, Memorial Union director, was handed a capital improvement plan by the board of regents to refresh the

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Rainy summer impedes progress

Grace Foiles

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Page 6: Casino Night entertains new students during Welcome Week Activities.

Several buildings on the Washburn University campus spent the summer under construction.

“Morgan Hall, I think the total length of time for the project was about 18 months,” said Patrick Early, University Relations direc-

tor. “They are in the final stages of getting things finished up, they are going through what, in industry terms, is called the punch list. It’s where you go through and find all the little things that need tweaking,” Early said.

Early stated that they expect the Morgan project to be completely finished by homecoming in Octo-

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“Fear the Walking Dead” shocked its viewers in its season two premiere episode, titled “Monster” when it showed a swimming zombie assaulted by the propeller of a boat.

At the very least these zombies simply use the water for transportation, according to the actress who plays Alicia on the show, Alycia Debnam-Carey. “They survive, but they can’t swim.” Still, this revelation shocked fans. A general assumption of zombie fiction is that the obvious solution would be to stick close to water, due to the inability of zombies to swim. The undead being able to survive and attack in water seems to be a dangerous threat. So why has this new change occurred, and what changes have been made to zombie fiction that make these monsters such an interesting facet of popular culture for hundreds of “The Walking Dead” and “Fear the Walking Dead” fans?

Overall zombies frighten audiences because they are very dark interpretations of the most despicable aspects of humanity. They attack in packs with no forethought, and they kill their own kind just to satiate an unquenchable hunger. It certainly paints a dark interpretation of humans. They are mindless, and occasionally only bow to an overall ruler. Zombies as a concept are meant to incite fear in us because of this twisted interpretation of human life. They embody the most disgusting qualities of humans heavily exaggerated.

Early iterations of zombie fiction from Haitian folklore surrounded necromancy and sorcery. This early fear of manipulation of dead corpses would have terrified people with strong religious views of honoring the dead, as well as death being the final iteration of a person’s lifespan. To manipulate this belief system would be very terrifying to people in the early 1800s.

Later interpretations would have mad scientists reanimating mindless corpses, which obviously resonated with people’s fear of scientific exploration in the late 1800s. Eventually zombie popularity would reach its peak after George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968. Zombie films had already been a popular genre, but they weren’t considered terrifying until Romero’s hit.

The zombie story was considered friendly to children at the time because of its campy visuals and lumbering monsters. Many critics had spoken about the experience of watching “Night of the Living Dead,” and children’s experience in particular.

Roger Ebert, one of the most highly lauded film-critics of all time, who wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times, had plenty to say about kids attending the film. “They were used to going to movies, sure, and they’d seen some horror movies before, sure, but this was something else,” Ebert said.

“The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence.

The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifyAndrew Shermoen ing.”

It was clear that this was the turning point for zombie fiction. Romero’s talented eye for horror in the 60s launched is “Living Dead” series into the stratosphere of popular genre. They had changed zombies from a campy monster movie enemy to something all the more terrifying. Flesh-eating, nearly invincible humans. Their slow speed was their only weakness, but in close, claustrophobic quarters, and traveling in hordes they were dangerous to the fictional characters of these stories.

For some reason this image stuck in people’s minds, and remained there as zombie fiction evolved.

The “Resident Evil” games also had a distinct impact on zombie fiction.

Its cramped spaces and unpredictable scares started the beginning of a zombie game, film, and comic franchise that continues to this day. Both “Resident Evil,” “Living Dead,” and “The Walking Dead” all moved away from the necromancy background of zombie lore, instead opting for origins based in mysterious diseases.

Not many people are as affected by reanimated corpses coming from unnatural magic anymore. Books and movies slowly removed an evil stigma from magic, so the frightening idea of witches and warlocks is removed from our psyche.

Disease is something people are terrified of though, especially ones affecting the mind. This constant fear of rogue disease rapidly turning people into walking pathogens hell-bent on eating your flesh and taking your free will is certainly a fear that feels possible these days.

This likelihood probably resonates with people, and while the horde mentality aspect of zombies still frightens people, the slow, shambling movements of them do not affect people the way they used to. This is likely why so many zombie fiction writers have opted to speed up zombies such as in the game “The Last of Us,” the film “World War Z” and these swimming zombies in “Fear the Walking Dead.”

It introduces aspects of zombies that make them more of a threat than the traditional zombies we are familiar with. They have evolved and changed to adapt to people’s fears in the modern age.

Andrew Shermoen, andrew.shermoen@washburn.edu, is junior secondary English education major.

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Ichabod softball falls short of tournament after match Frankie Estanol WASHBURN REVIEW The Washburn Ichabod softball team wrapped up their regular season over the weekend hosting the top two teams in the region.

The Bods would dual with Missouri Western on Friday and Northwest Missouri on Saturday at the Washburn Softball Complex.

They would ultimately fall short of making the MIAA tournament after falling in four tough games in two days.

The 15th ranked Missouri Western team led the conference Photo courtesy of Washburn Sports Information Department with a 19-3 league mark and 3511 overall and Northwest Mis- Pileup: The Washburn softball team lines up to participate in a photo after the game against Missouri Western. The souri entered with a 17-5 MIAA team fell in multiple games over two days. mark and 34-10 overall, which by a walk by Haylee Marsteller back. Down 7-0 in the bottom Pitcher Samantha Carson is second. with one out to cut the deficit of the fifth, the Bods would see seemed more comfortable in the The chance of making the 4-1. A hard lined single by Ash- senior Taylor Zimmerman blast circle and defense played well.

MIAA tournament for the sec- ley Ruder kept things going as a 3-run homer cutting into the She would not allow the first ond consecutive year and win- she advanced Marsteller to third Griffon lead 7-3 for another late Bearcat hit until the second inning one last time for the seniors and herself to second. game rally. ning with the score remaining was all they could think about.

The rally would cut short on Missouri Western would 0-0.

The fact that they were facing two straight strikeouts ending score four more runs and take Unimaginably with two outs the top two teams in the region the game 4-1 in Missouri West- the game 11-4. Zimmerman fin- and three hits later the Bearcats was no problem, but the quality erns favor. Seniors Quimby and ished with three hits while Ash- gained the lead, 3-0. Washburn at bats was not there with run- Marsteller both finished with ley Ruder had two of the 11 total fought back the very same inners in scoring position. two hits a piece.

Ichabod hits. ning as freshman Ashley Ruder Beginning on Friday in an The Bods would out hit the The team would see their sea- hit a one out single before MainIn the bottom of the seventh Griffons in game one (8-7). son come to end earlier then rina Quimby hit for a double the Ichabods were in for a rally The Griffons would score they expected after being swept advancing Ruder to third with as Lacie Myers led the inning off seven runs before WU could by 25th ranked Northwest Mis- two outs. With the tying run on with a solo home run followed have a chance at answering souri on Saturday. home plate a strikeout would

MIAA Baseball Records

*Records are regular season conference records.

Pittsburg State

7-25 Central Oklahoma

16-15 Fort Hays State

12-20 Nebraska Kearney

15-17 Lincoln

Northwest Missouri

19-14 Missouri Western

23-10 Washburn

24-8 Missouri Southern

18-14 Southwest Baptist

0-32

14-18

Lindenwood

*Records are regular season conference records.

Pittsburg State

19-7 Central Oklahoma

19-7

25-7 Northeastern State

17-14 Emporia State

Frankie Estanol, frank.estanol@washburn.edu, is a junior communications major.

MIAA Softball Records

13-19 Central Missouri

end the inning.

With runners on first and second, Merriman would groundout advancing runners to second and third for the third time in the game. Zimmerman would continue the rally attempt and knock in Megan Stegman and Quimby, cutting into the Bearcat lead again 8-4. That would come to be the final score and push Washburn further away from an MIAA tournament birth.

Kemp, Ruder, Quimby and Zimmerman all finished with two hits each. The final game of the season came to an end in six innings with the Northwest Missouri taking it 10-0.

"I was pretty excited, I thought we were going to come fired up," says Coach Becerra on the last games emotional atmosphere. "I thought we did, I think we just kind of lost energy at the end."

She also explained how this was her first graduating class so this season was special to her.

Washburn finishes the season 19-27 overall and 8-18 in the MIAA.

Fort Hays State

13-13 Nebraska Kearney

9-17

21-11 Lincoln

Northwest Missouri

19-7 Missouri Western

23-3 Washburn

8-18 Missouri Southern

10-16 Southwest Baptist

4-22

12-14

Lindenwood

9-17 Central Missouri

13-13 Northeastern State

15-11 Emporia State

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Ichabod men’s tennis takes Newman in match 5-1 Lisa Herdman

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Photo by Natalie Engler

Serving Up: Matt Barlow prepares to serve the ball to the opposing Bearcats in doubles.

The Washburn men’s and women’s tennis teams played Southwest Baptist at noon April 24. The women’s team took a loss while the men’s team won its placement in regionals in its final game of the season.

The women’s tennis team fell against Southwest Baptist in the regular season finale 1-8. Ichabod doubles fell 0-3 against the Bearcats and 1-5 in singles.

Gwen Shepler gained Washburn a point against Beatrix Federer in a match ending 6-4, to make one point against Southwest Baptist College.

In men’s tennis, No. 25 Washburn faced the Bearcats ranked at No. 31. Ichabods turned out a win in a 6-3 victory as an overall score in both singles and doubles,

Photo by Lisa Herdman

Line Five: Ichabod men’s and women’s tennis teams high five before a game of doubles against the Bearcats.

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taking a regional win. The men will move on to the first round of the MIAA Tournament.

Ichabods men’s tennis took the lead 2-1 during doubles with Blake Hunter and Alejandro Valarezo Plaza along with Zach Hampton and Matt Barlow both picking up wins against the Bearcats’ Sherif Abohabaga and Gyorgy Argoston and Chris Blodig and Torben. All doubles came out at least two points ahead for Washburn.

Singles matches with Barlow, Dario Munoz-Poletti and Hampton all took a win over the Bearcats. Munoz-Poletti won a match against Marcel Castillo 4-6, 6-3 and 10-8. Zach Hampton won against Torben Semrau 6-2 and 6-2. Blake Hunter took the game against Chris Blodig 6-3 and 6-4.

Matt Barlow won against Gyorgy Argoston 6-3 and 6-2. All sin-

gle matches came out at least 3 points ahead.

Graduating seniors were recognized on the Ichabod teams and given appreciation. Washburn President Jerry Farley spoke of the importance of sports at Washburn and how proud he is of the teams.

These final matches were the deciding factor in regional games ending the regular season, and the wins for these games aresending the men’s tennis team to the MIAA tournament to play in Springfield, Missouri, against Northeastern State April 29.

Lisa Herdman, lisa.herdman@ washburn.edu, is a senior English and mass media major.

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Ready Return: Nzingha Banks and Ashlynn Sutton prepare to take on the opposing team. Bearcats won the match 8-0 in doubles.

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Senior art exhibit explores inner workings of the mind Lisa Herdman

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Danielle Jones’ senior art art exhibition, which primarily focuses on the relationship between left and right brain thinking, is currently featured in Washburn’s art building.

Jones, senior graphic design major, says the theme of right brain versus left brain came from her painting and drawing versus design work. Her paintings tend to be creative and highly detailed, where her graphic design is more minimal. To complement Jones’s concept, the show is laid out so that her paintings are on the righthand side of the gallery and her graphic design pieces on the left. “[My graphic design] work is less detailed and is out of my comfort zone,” Jones said. “I have

Photo by Lisa Herdman

Two Sides: Danielle Jones hosts a gallery talk for “Inside My Mind,” where she describes the making of art that represent both sides of the brain. Her art includes graphic design, painting, digital painting and photography.

to figure out how to put the minimal amount on a page to convey the most message.”

Jones said that this is very unlike her digital painting work that she considers right brain work. Her paintings are

often very detail-oriented and precise. She loves to draw the human form and take photographs of Mr. Weiner, her dog, and turn them into digital paintings.

Before becoming an art studio graphic design

major, Jones considered other majors, including art education, psychology, biology and zoology.

“I have an interest in science that tends to come back and haunt me,” Jones said. “You can see all of my other interests come

out in my work. Especially my love for animals in my shark finning poster and Topeka Zoo poster.”

Jones said she started making art when she was little girl when she loved art class in school.

She never thought of it

as a potential career and worried about how she would be able to make a living from her art once she entered college.

“Coming into college I never thought of art as a real job,” Jones said. “I talked to some professors about making a career out of art, and it is possible.”

Jones is currently working with Dymax to launch its social media campaign.

“I have been doing art my whole life, but couldn’t figure out what to do with it,” Jones said.

“I found something that really fits me.”

Lisa Herdman, lisa. herdman@washburn.edu, is a senior English and mass media major.

Video game ‘SUPERHOT’ harkens back to ‘The Matrix’ Andrew Shermoen

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The new indie game “SUPERHOT” is directly inspired by “The Matrix‘s” iconic time manipulation and bullet-time action.

In the game, your friend sends you an invite about this new game they’ve found called superhot. exe., which has been

hacked from a game corporation. Once your character enters the game, you find that time only moves when you do. You dodge bullets, throw vases at your enemy and grab their weapon out of the air and shoot them down.

After a few levels, the game glitches out and you can no longer play. When you try to tell your friend,

a message reveals that, the creators “know where you are.” The bulk of the game is your character trying to escape this suddenly– lethal virtual reality.

The art style is beautiful despite in its limited black, white and red palette. It certainly doesn’t feature realistic violence like other games, but the limited art style makes the

game more palatable and unique.

The story is entertaining with some pretty intriguing comments on corporate control and addiction, but it doesn’t really commit to these themes. It offers some pretty intriguing and trippy moments, but its writing isn’t very clever, often copying too much from the plots of

games, movies and TV shows that employ similar commentary.

Using a great mix of intriguing story, and innovative gameplay mechanics and great art style makes “SUPERHOT” an early contender for Best of 2016 lists.

Did I mention you can cut bullets in half with a

katana and shoot them out of the air? You can’t ask for much more than that.

Andrew Shermoen, andrew. shermoen@washburn. edu, is a junior secondary English education major.

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‘Game of Thrones’ season Senior cellist premiere odd, but riveting hits a high note

Andrew Shermoen

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“Game of Thrones” returned with a literal vengeance in its season premiere episode “The Red Woman.”

Not only did we see last season’s cliffhangers addressed, but we saw the slow, methodical setup of the plot lines at work this year. However, this slow setup didn’t deter from the engaging scenes that made up this exciting hour of television.

The female characters particularly shined, as did some of the supporting characters we rarely see. Redemption and heartbreak happened in spades, as well as what might be considered one of the craziest twists I’ve ever seen in this show. Tread carefully, because these next paragraphs are dark, and full of spoilers.

Sansa (Sophie Turner), Brienne (Gwendoline Christie), Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and Melisandre (Carice van Houten) really shined in this episode. They showed the individual strengths that define their characters and were able to save themselves from sticky situations. Especially Melisandre, who seems to be evolving to a fully realized character as the audience observes things from her perspective, she constantly seems to question her faith and her role after the death of Stannis Baratheon last season.

We see this questioning in the final scene of the episode as Melisandre takes a real good look at her true self.

Beyond just the female characters, several smaller characters also got to shine, including Davos (Liam Cunningham) who not only became a true hero when he

Anna Ciummo

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Red Woman: HBO’s hit fantasy series “Game of Thrones” returned on Sunday. Fans witnessed the return of some familiar faces coping with the corners that they forced themselves into.

protected Jon Snow’s body from the rest of the Night’s Watch and Ser Alliser Thorne (Owen Teale), but also got a few funny lines during an exchange with Thorne. Podrick (Daniel Portman) also got to shine as he held his own in a fight to protect Sansa with his liege Brienne of Tarth. Edd Tollett (Ben Crompton), a Night’s Watch brother and one of Jon’s remaining friends, was visibly horrified and devastated to see his friend slain. He announced that he plans to devise a way to enact revenge on the members of the Night’s Watch who wronged Jon. It was exciting to see his character change from the wisecracking know-it-all that we are familiar with to a revengehungry fighter. Darrio (Michiel Huisman) and Jorah (Iain Glen) also have a fantastic interchange as they search the Dothraki Sea for Daenerys.

Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) begins to regain some of his

lost sanity as he protects Sansa from Bolton soldiers. Joanna Robinson of Vanity Fair said it best when she tweeted “I’m really into a version of this show where Brienne, Pod, Edd, and Davos could be the heroes we deserve.”

As for the other characters in the show, their scenes simply felt like setup. The scene in Dorne felt as though it was attempting to erase any faults the Dornish plot line had in the fifth season.

In the process it removed one of the most interesting, fascinating and devious characters in the books, deciding to instead keep a character whose arc is copied from a separate, more interesting, book character.

Still, the episode was quality.

This premiere kicked off with a bang and promises to deliver a great season.

Andrew Shermoen, andrew. shermoen@washburn.edu, is a junior secondary English education major.

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Despite a possible tornado warning, a crowd gathered in White Concert Hall in order to support Daniel Lytle.

Lytle, who is graduating this year, performed five songs on his cello throughout the evening.

Some were accompanied and others were solo performances.

The first song Lytle performed was the longest piece: Sonata in E minor by Brahms. The piece was so long that it required an intermission before the next four songs.

“After the first half, [the concert] got easier,” Lytle said.

The piece was in three movements. The first movement exhibited fluid, deep notes with a few snippets of acceleration.

The second movement was much more lively with a few smooth parts and the third movement was an intense, deep finale.

“That first piece was a really large work, and it was a big accomplishment for me to play that whole thing,” Lytle said.

Another piece that Lytle performed that night was “Nocturne” by Tchaikovsky and arranged by the University of Kansas professor Edward Laut.

Lytle was accompanied by a few members of the Washburn Cello Ensemble. Lytle kept control of the piece’s rich melody while his accompanists plucked at their instruments, creating a harp-like effect in the background.

The final piece of the senior recital was performed by 13 cello students that Lytle teaches privately. The chorus of cellists played the traditional song “Danny Boy” with the arrangement put together by

Photo by Anna Ciummo

Solo Performance: Lytle performs his first and longest piece, Sonata in E Minor by Brahms. He is a senior music education major.

Erin Renyer, Lytle’s music teacher and Washburn professor.

“I’m not a huge performer,” Lytle admitted. “So I was excited to get to play a concert all by myself.”

Lytle’s main passion is teaching music and will continue to do so.

“You learn a lot about the instrument, just because every student has different problems,” Lytle said about his teaching experience. “You might have to think about the instrument differently than you normally do. Just seeing it through their eyes and trying to work out their problems makes you, in the end, a better player.”

Lytle said he will begin work as a student music teacher at Olathe South High school after graduation. He also will look for jobs in the months to come and will probably start off as a substitute teacher.

Anna Ciummo, anna. ciummo@washburn.edu, is a freshman English major.