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WU freshmen get “experienced”

Colton GoeffertWASHBURN REVIEW

All around campus, at varying times of day, new stu-dents are flocking to one of the Washburn First Year Experi-ence classes. These classes are set up to be an introduction to college life.

One of the FYE professors, Amber Dickinson, described the class as a “transition period between high school and col-lege.” The class was discussed throughout 2008 and 2009 and opened for the first time, two years later, in the fall semester of 2011.

“For any student coming directly from high school or an international student coming to America for the first time, the FYE class is invaluable in the transition process that will help [students] advance their success in the university,” said Alan Bearman, dean of librar-ies who was also a large part of designing the course.

The FYE class covers a variety of topics freshman students would need to know, such as how to use the ANGEL Learning Management System

and their MyWashburn account. Other information covered

includes job-hunting skills, like manner and etiquette for for-mal dining, school skills like time management, as well as test taking skills. When asked to sum up the class in a nut-shell Dickinson replied that she considered it an “organized re-source” for students.

During the course of a class, students were encour-aged multiple times by Dickin-son to take advantage of career services in Morgan 123. Dick-inson also instructed students on how to link their ANGEL and MyWashburn email, ne-gating the need to check both every day.

Kelsey Schweer, a peer ed-ucator for Amber Dickinson’s class and a sophomore com-munication student, demon-strated how to use the ANGEL Learning Management System for the class. Schweer showed students how to check course mail, grades and their course calendar.

“I think the [FYE] class provides additional help trans-ferring into college, and I high-ly recommend [taking] the

class,” said Schweer.Some students like the

class and others don’t. The ones that like it appreciate the infor-mation, but the ones who don’t, think it’s redundant.

“I think the library chal-lenges were helpful, but aside

from that, there was really no new information,” said Chris-tina Entz, freshman nursing student, who attends Rick Ellis’ First Year Experience

Other students liked that the class helped them think about their time management

skills. Athletes in particular enjoy the class because they don’t have as much free time as traditional students. This also goes for students who want to be involved in extra curricular activities.

To find out more about this

program check out the website at www.washburn.edu/fye.

The Race is On: Students participate in an activity called “Amazing Race” to learn about the Mabee Library during their Washburn First Year Experience course. Students used iPads to scan QR codes at different stations in the library. Washburn Experience is meant to teach students about all the available resources at Washburn. It is geared mainly to freshmen and transfer students.

Photo by Sarah Rush, Washburn Review

Class helpful to some, “unnecessary” to others

ResumeRoadshow!

Career FairSeptember 12th10am to 2pm

Lee Arena

September 10th, from 10am to 2pm Memorial Union, main levelHave your resume appraised in preparationfor the Washburn Career Fair!

To have a meal plan or not to have one

The best way to spend a student’s meal plan is always a relevant question with each coming year. Students want to know how to make it through the semester with their meal plan and often wonder what to do with Bod Bucks.

To start off with, students need to know how much is in their meal plan.

There are different plans for students, depending on their living situation. For those living at the Living Learning Center, Kuehne Hall and West Hall they have two options. The first includes $1,220 for dining and $137.50 in Bod Bucks. The second option is $1,890 and $270 in Bod Bucks.

Other students living in the Washburn Village get quite a bit less, with two options as well. The first option is $412.50 for dining and $220 in Bod Bucks. Option two is a little higher with $625 for dining and $350 in Bod Bucks.

Students’ meal plan, or dining money, can be used at

Union Marketplace, Corner Store and Libation Station. Bod Bucks can be money stu-dents put on their card and can be spent on a number of ser-vices on campus including the

Corner Store, University Book-store, laundry facilities, etc.

Students are concerned with overspending. The major-ity of freshman tend to think

they will either overspend or run out of money by the end of the semester. Whereas sopho-mores and above tend to think of ways to get rid of the money on their iCard.

“Freshman year I had a meal plan, sopho-more year I lived off campus, which was a mess, and then I’m back on campus with a meal plan,” said Beth Stewart, junior

music performance major. “My freshman year I ended up hav-ing a bunch of money left over, so my second semester I ended up buying my friend’s lunch every day.”

S o m e students end up

with enough surplus, they ar-en’t even sure how to spend it.

“They give people way too much on the meal plan, so there’s not really room for efficiency,” said Jimmy Bert,

sophomore nursing major. “It’s more of how do I get rid of it.”

Many students don’t pa-tronize the Corner Store be-cause it’s more expensive than the other spots on campus.

“On the meal plan they de-scribe it [as] 14 meals a week,” said Stewart. “That’s three

meals a day and if you buy someone else a meal per

day, you still end up with extra money.”

The first thing students should do is set a bud-get. One stu-dents has hers

planned out.“If you set

yourself a budget, you’re not going

to worry about run-ning out,” said Samantha

Redieck, freshman account-ing major. “[That way] you’ll know, okay I have $20 a day to spend and if I go over that ev-ery day I’m going to run out.”

Many ask how they can spend their Bod Bucks most efficiently. Students have dif-ferent ideas on how to do just that. One idea is to use Bod

Bucks for laundry since that can add up quickly. The price of the washing machine and dry-er cost $2.50 per load, and can put a dent in students’ pocket change.

“Bod Bucks, I usually spend on laundry or vending machines,” said Allison High, freshman nursing student.

They can always add more Bod Bucks to their account, but they should be weary because they cannot take this money off, and they will lose it at the end of the semester.

That’s just one of the areas Bod Bucks can help students with. So students aren’t paying out of hand and pocket to have refreshing smelling clothes.

To learn more about meal plans and Bod Bucks, check out the website, http://www.dineoncampus.com/washburn/. There you can find a detailed description of meal plans and much more information.

Keely BrownWASHBURN REVIEW

Keely Brown is freshman radiology major. Reach her at keely.brown@washburn.edu.

Graphic by Kelsey Wagers, Washburn Review

Colton Goeffert is a freshman industrial technology major. Reach him at colton.goeffert@washburn.edu

Inside Peanuts—The Life & Art of Charles M. Schulz: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Garvey Fine Arts Center, Mulvane Museum

Volleyball vs. Emporia State University: 7 p.m., Lee Arena

NewsNews Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Anxiety Screening Day: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Henderson Learning Center

Sorority Recruitment: 5 to 9 p.m., Memorial Union / Stauffer Commons

Circle, Mirror, Transforma-tion: 7:30 p.m., Washburn University Theatre

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Jamaican poet Kwame Dawes: 4 p.m., Mabee Library

Pre-Law first informational meeting: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., HLC 107

Sorority Recruitment: 5 to 9 p.m., Memorial Union / Stauffer Commons

Wed., September 5

Thurs., September 6

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TueS., September 11

USAF ANG Leadership Lab applications due: 5 p.m., Benton 408

Men’s tennis—Washburn Invitational, Kossover Tennis Center and Washburn Tennis Complex

Women’s tennis—Wash-burn Invitational, Kossover Tennis Center and Washburn Tennis Complex

Volleyball vs. Christian Brothers University: 9:30 a.m., Meyer Sport Complex

Volleyball vs. Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 4 p.m., Meyer Sport Complex

Sorority Recruitment: 5 to 9 p.m., Memorial Union / Stauffer Commons

Circle, Mirror, Transforma-tion: 7:30 p.m., Washburn University Theatre

Fri., September 7

Volleyball vs. Rockhurst University: 9 a.m., Meyer Sport Complex

Sorority Recruitment: 5 to 9 p.m., Memorial Union / Stauffer Commons

Volleyball vs. Northwestern Oklahoma State Universi-ty: 5:30 p.m., Meyer Sport Complex

Circle, Mirror, Transforma-tion: 7:30 p.m., Washburn University Theatre

Sat., September 8

Sun., September 9

Circle, Mirror, Transfor-mation: 2 p.m., Washburn University Theatre

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Resume Roadshow: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Memorial Union/Stauffer Commons

Professor details struggles in bookLouis BourdeauWASHBURN REVIEW

Bassima Schbley, assistant professor in the social work de-partment at Washburn Univer-sity, has not led the typical life of a college professor. Grading papers, researching and writing papers and getting published in peer-reviewed journals isn’t the only thing on her mind.

Her story is documented in the autobiography of her husband, Dr. Ayla Hammond Schbley, Ph.D. He was a drug enforcement officer for the Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration (DEA) and worked for the Central Intelligence Agen-cy (CIA). The book, “No More Lies: An Abridged Collection of Memories and Indignities to My Pride, by the ‘Real James Bond’ ” was published this year by iUniverse Books in Bloom-

ington, Ind. “I have always referred to

Ayla as the “real James Bond” as he had all the traits, special skills/talents, training, courage,

smarts, and physical capabil-ities of such a movie hero as James Bond was,” said Don Stone, special agent and United States Drug Enforcement Ad-ministration who worked with Ayla Schbley. “But Ayla was for real and Bond was not.”

The book is the Schb-ley’s account of Ayla’s expe-riences working for the CIA and the DEA. Bassima helped Ayla complete the book af-ter his death at the age of 50. The Schbley’s, originally from Lebanon, had many instances where they had to face death while they were living there because of the war according to Bassima.

Bassima Schbley worked on their book in order to help preserve the memory of her husband, she said.

“What inspired me to write this book was my true

hero, my de-ceased husband who rescued me from Leba-non and brought me to the U.S. from Lebanon 30 -yea r s - ago which allowed me to go to school and pur-sue my dream” said Bassima Schbley.

The Schb-ley’s lived a life that most peo-ple would see as impossible, Bassima Schb-ley was part of this life and was able to see what he had to do in his jobs with the CIA, DEA and

U.S. military.“I was in the capital, Bei-

rut Lebanon, 30 years-ago and I was wanting to leave because we were living in bomb shel-

ters and we had to go into bomb shelters every day because their were bombings there everyday and we had problems because of this” said Bassima.

The country of Lebanon has experienced many wars and the Schbley’s wanted to escape these wars.

“Wanting to leave Leba-non because of the bombings and to avoid war and to allow me to get an education was a good reason for me to want to go the United States and make a better life for myself was good reason after wanting to get married” said Bassima.

Ayla Schbley was born in 1955 in Beirut, Lebanon: his father was a U.S. citizen who returned to Lebanon after busi-ness success in America. Ayla Schbley was a Vietnam veteran and a member of Delta Force, with tours in Korea, Japan and Germany. After 10 years of ser-vice, he left the U.S. Army to

assist the DEA and other intel-ligence agencies in their count-er-narco-terrorism efforts in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

According to the book, Ayla Schbley was a professor in the criminal justice depart-ment at Washburn before his death from heat exhaustion in 2005.

“Besides writing mine and my husband’s book, I am also interested in classes and research having to do with the Middle East, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), reli-gious ideas, Israel, war going on in Lebanon with Israel, Muslim issues,” said Bassima Schbley. “20 years ago me and Ayla [Schbley] left Lebanon to come to the United States and I [became] interested in wom-en’s rights issues and have also published a book called “Wom-en and Civil Rights: Religious Authority and Female Oppres-

sion in 2009.”Her scholarly interests

include a focus on research regarding culture and belief systems of Muslim Middle Eastern women living in the United States. She also teaches and particpates in international presentations on the oppres-sion of Muslim Women, PTSD in Middle Eastern children, spirituality, ISlam and provid-ing clinical services to Middle Eastern cultures.

Bassima Schbley has many other works published on other topics as well. She teach-es a variety of courses on social work and participates in many committees for organizations on campus.

Louis Bourdeau is a master’s stu-dent in criminal justice. He can be reached at louis.bourdeau@wash-burn.edu.

Activities & Majors Fair

Photos by Rodolfo Parisi, Washburn Review

An Open Book: Bassima Schbley, assistant professor of social work at Washburn, credits much of her current place in life to her now deceased husband, Ayala Hammond Schbley. Bassima has written a novel “No More Lies” in his honor. In the novel, she details his “rescue” of her from Lebanon, where she lived in bomb shelters.

Photo courtesy of Dr. Bassima Schbley.

An Honor to Join: (Above) Meredith Cline, senior biology major, helps promote Mortar Board Senior Honor Society at the Washburn Activities and Majors Fair last Wednesday. Cline is a member of Mortar Board.

A Good Place to Think: (Left) The Washburn Psi Chi Honor Society helps students at the Washburn Activities and Majors Fair understand the organization. Psi Chi is a honor society for psychology students and was charted at Washburn in 1968.

A3News • Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Keely BrownWASHBURN REVIEW

Want to wear the Ichabod suit?

Mascot tryouts will take place Sept. 12 for the 2012-2013 school year. Students must register online by Sep-tember 7, 2012. One mascot performer is returning for the 2012-2013 year, which means one performer will need to be replaced.

Mascot performers will make $650 stipend per semes-ter. This position is work-study eligible.

The Ichabod is the offi-cial mascot of Washburn. The use of the mascot is intended to enhance the traditions of the university and energize and en-tertain an audience through per-formance.

Mascot performers should possess professional knowl-edge, interpersonal skill and be skilled in physical perfor-mance, as well as dance. The mascot should be able to inter-act spontaneously with an audi-ence.

All qualified applicants must be able to participate in an audition on Wednesday, Sept. 12.

Performers will be ac-countable to perform at all Washburn home games and outside appearances as sched-uled. They must maintain and care for their costume, props, and signs. Developing, creat-ing, and executing new per-formances, skits and ideas is a must. Mascot performers must be able to perform in excessive heat and in front of a crowd.

It’s important that the mas-cot provides creative assistance to presentation, skits, and re-lated promotions. As well as, communicate well with mascot manager, mascot assistants and the other mascot performer.

Mascots are also required to be no more than 6 feet tall and 190 pounds, to properly wear the Ichabod costume. Per-formers are required to be en-rolled as a Washburn Universi-ty student in good standing and maintain a cumulative 2.5 GPA.

Students interested must submit to and pass a back-

ground investigation, complete a sexual harassment sensitivi-ty program and must represent Washburn in a positive light at all time.

Experience in mascot/cheer/dance/game entertain-ment is beneficial. However, mascot performers must be creative, easy going and com-fortable dealing with all types of people.

The schedule of a mascot must be flexible to accommo-date the mascot appearance and team meetings, as well as be able to support and assist the evolution of the mascot pro-gram.

For the tryouts, students should remember to wear pre-sentable, athletic clothing and shoes. Mascots will be selected based on their appropriateness and entertainment value.

From January to June of last year, two performers made 67 appearances (83 hours). For the entire 2011-12 academic year Ichabod strutted his stuff at 129 different appearances, for a total of 204 hours.

The mascot performers will be attending Mac’s birth-day party, of the Missouri Mavericks hockey team, and to Sluggerrr’s Birthday Bash, of the Kansas City Royals, of which students can look at pho-tos of on Facebook.

Washburn is also looking for two mascot assistants, who will escort Ichabod around at events, help hand out promo-tional items and interact with the crowd. Mascot assistants receive $450 per semester this position is also work study-el-igible.

For more information, visit Washburn.edu/about/ichabod/mascot or contact Amanda Hughes at 785-670-2153 or e-mail amanda.hughes@wash-burn.edu.

To register, go to Wash-burn.edu/mascot. Make sure to send a cover letter and resume with references to amanda.hughes@washburn.edu.

Keely Brown is a freshman radiol-ogy student. She can be reached at keely.brown@washburn.edu.

Time to suit up for students

Someone needs your “me time” more than you do.

More than 100 Topeka boys are waiting for a mentor.

S i g n u p | t o p e k a . k a n S a S b i g S . o r g | 7 8 5 . 2 3 4 . 5 5 2 4

Fired Up: The Ichabod pumps up students during Washburn football’s victory over the University of Nebraska—Kearney on Aug. 31. Tryouts to become the next Ichabod begin on Sept. 7.

Photo by Mike Goerhing, Washburn Review

Mascot tryouts begin Sept. 12

Amanda NarverudWASHBURN REVIEW

Any student planning to complete an associate, bach-elor’s or master’s degree this fall must file an application for degree form to the Wash-burn University Registrar’s Office no later than Friday, Sept. 7. Application forms are located in the registrar’s office, Morgan Hall 115 and also online on MyWashburn .edu. The online application form can be found at the University Services tab, under WU Departments. Click on t h e Un i -v e r -s i t y Registrar, a n d then look under Frequently Used Forms at the bottom of the page.

Application forms can be submitted to the regis-trar’s office in multiple ways. A student can pick up the form during regular business hours, or they can print and complete the online form and either fax it or mail it to the university registrar’s office

Students may also scan the form in to a computer and email it to the registrar’s office. University policy re-quires that applications for

degree be submitted in writ-ing, with the student’s signa-ture and the date.

Submitting an applica-tion for degree will initiate a graduation check. Graduation checks are completed mid-way through the spring and fall semesters. According to www.washburn.edu appli-cants will receive an email indicating that everything is in order for grad- uation,

or that certain requirements have not yet been met.

Commencement is a cer-emony to celebrate, honor and recognize the achieve-ments of all graduates. The fall 2012 commencement cer-emony will be held Friday, Dec. 14 in Lee Arena locat-ed in the Petro Allied Health Center.

Other important dead-lines to remember for the Fall 2012 graduation candidates are:

Sept-Nov. 30 – Pre-reg-ister your permanent email address with the profession-al graduation photographer

GradImages. (www.gradim-ages.com)

According to Washburn University’s fall graduation website, two pictures will be taken of each graduate - the first will be of the graduate receiving the diploma cover and the second will be a por-trait-style photograph as the graduate leaves the stage. To ensure that you receive notice from the professional pho-tographer, GradImages, when proofs are ready for view-

ing, pre-register your permanent email

address at least two weeks

prior to the ceremony.

N o v . 2 – Dead-line for master’s candidates to pre-order cap, gown and hood online, by phone at 785.670.2665 or in person at the Ichabod Shop. (Addition-al shipping charges will apply after this date.)

Nov 13-Dec 7 – Associ-ate and bachelor regalia (cap and gown) can be purchased at the Ichabod Shop. Con-tact the Ichabod Shop for any questions regarding the or-dering or purchase or regalia.

Amanda Narverud is a junior majoring in mass media. She can be reached at amanda.narverud@washburn.edu.

Fall grad deadlines approach

8/27 at 10:48 in Henderson Living Res. Center - Information report, medical call - report taken, indv. was taken to hospital by AMR ambulance.

8/27 at 21:39 in Henderson Learning Res. Center - Information report, elevator problem - report taken, trapped indv. taken out of elevator by TFD, WU maintence called.

8/28 at 3:16 in Living Learning Center - Information report, medical/alcohol call - report taken, indv. taken to the hospital by AMR ambulance, referred to Dean of Students.

8/28 at 11:00 in Morgan Hall - Information report, possible threat - report taken, indv. con-acted and stated just venting frustration, referred to Dean of Students.

8/28 at 10:00 in Morgan Hall - Information report, possible elect. harrassment - report taken, individual contacted and told to stop all contact with other individual.

8/29 at 11:20 in Washburn Institute of Technology - Making false information counterfeit currency - report taken, no suspects at this time.

8/29 at 16:54 in Art Building - Theft, art portfolio/aluminum ruler - report taken, no sus-pect(s) at this time.

8/30 at 12:12 in Garvey Fine Arts Center - Criminal damage to property, piano chair - report taken, no suspect(s) at this time

8/30 at 15:12 in Living Learning Center - Information report, possible weapon in room - re-port taken, no weapon found.

8/30 at 15:32 in Memorial Union - Theft, currency - report taken, possible suspect identifies, investigation continues.

8/30 at 16:56 in Morgan Hall - Information report, suspicious person - report taken individ-ual checked and left campus.

Happenings around WU’s campus

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A4OpinionOpinion Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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“I have been to FFAW. I enjoy it because I like to look at art, and at how people use art to express themselves.”

Many changes have been taking place in Topeka, and the First Friday Art Walk is a huge contributor to many changes. The Review was curious who has checked it out.

Katelyn Meyer, freshman, undecided

Tori Carter, junior, history

Sage Cornelius, sophomore, business

Katherine Valdivia, junior, early childhood development

“Have you been to the First Friday Art Walk? Why or why not?

Graphic by Maggie Pilcher, Washburn Review

Interviews and photos by Tricia Peterson

Print Editor-in-ChiefTricia Peterson

Online Editor-in-ChiefBrian Dulle

Advertising ManagerRaz Potter

Promotions ManagerBita GivechiNews EditorRyan HodgesSports EditorLuke Warnken

A&E EditorKelly Hurla

Photo EditorMike Goehring

Graphic Design EditorKatie Child

Copy EditorsRichard Kelly • Fatima Oubaid

• Abby BrinkerManaging EditorBradley Parrales

Production AssistantsLinnzi Fusco

WritersShelby Atadgi • AJ Dome• Kelly Andrews • Michelle

Boltz • Jordan Loomis • Mike Crayton • Ryan Ogle • Fatima

Oubaid • Colton Goeffert • Alexander Sonnich • Keely

Brown • Landry Fhrenbacher • Louis Bourdeau • Amanda

NarverudPhotographers

Kelly Andrews • Ryan Burge • Louie Cortez • Andrew

Escandon • Mike Goehring • Jordan Loomis • Ashley

Russell • Amanda Narverud • James Sims • Sarah Rush

• Alex Voskoboyev • Eric Gordon • Keely Brown • Linnzi

Fusco • Emily LingenfelserGraphic Designers

Katie Child • Kelsey Wagers • Sarah Williams • Brent Koehler • Ashley Russel

Videographers Bradley Hernandez • Andrew Huff • Rodolfo Parisi • Luke

WarnkenAdvertising Staff

Autumn Kirchner • Chloe Callahan • Keely Brown •Ryan

Burge • Autumn KirchnerBusiness Manager

Sarah RothAdviser

Regina Cassell

Corrections:While the Review strives for accuracy, we some-times make mistakes. Any corrections will apprear here.

If you are a student who is in-terested in creating a cartoon

every week, (and getting paid!) please email patricia.peterson@washburn.edu for more details.

A day for our hard work

Labor Day, always landing on the first Monday of every September, is one of those hol-idays that most people accept but they never consider its sig-nificance. Sadly, I am usually one of those people and this year I decided to check it out.

According to the United States Department of Labor website, there is some debate, about who originally proposed this worker’s holiday. There are two men, Peter McGuire, gen-eral secretary of the Brother-hood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the Ameri-can Federation of Labor, and Matthew Maguire, a machin-ist, who is supposed to have founded the holiday. I think it’s funny they both have the same last name, it’s just spelled dif-ferently. I don’t know if there is a significance there with the confusion, or not.

That same website says that McGuire was said to have wanted to adopt a holiday that would honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we be-hold.” While this has never

been challenged, the second Maguire was a secretary for the Central Labor Union in New York which is also who adopt-ed the Labor Day proposal. It doesn’t matter who proposed it first. I think that because it was this was all happening in 1882 it’s a big deal. Sure it took a few years for the first state to make it a holiday, Oregon in 1887, and federally in 1894, but it’s significant because it was so long ago.

Today I feel like we are spoiled workers. Most of us take this day off from work and think nothing more of it. Back in the 1880s, people worked hard, with their hands and rarely had an extra day off from work. Back then, to take a day off from work was lazy and would cost a lot of money. Today, we have so many days off given to us throughout the year and we take full advan-tage. We take advantage of sick days, holidays and personal days. Even if some places re-quire you to work on holidays, you get paid time and a half or more.

Don’t get me wrong, I be-lieve in Labor Day and think we all deserve a day off in observance of our hard work throughout the rest of the year. I just think it’s pretty amazing that this day was made a federal holiday over a century ago and we still observe it today.

Jimmy Bert, sophomore, nursing

Tricia PetersonWASHBURN REVIEW

Tricia Peterson is a junior mass media major. Reach her at patricia.peterson@wash-burn.edu

“No, I have no idea what the FFAW is.”

Paul Smith, junior, sports management

“I have heard of it, but I have never been. I probably won’t go because on Fridays I am usually at work or at home and I live three hours away.”

“I have not been because I wasn’t sure when it was going on. I haven’t really heard much about it.”

“I have not been to the FFAW. I think they need to advertise it better, like put stuff up in the Union.”

“This is my first semes-ter here so I am trying to learn just getting around. I plan on doing more activities around here.”

You stay classy, TopekaWashburn ReviewWASHBURN REVIEW

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establish-ment of religion, or prohibit-ing the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

—The First Amendment

Topeka is famous, or rath-er, infamous as the home of the Rev. Fred Phelps and the West-boro Baptist Church. We don’t like it, but that’s just the way it is.

Phelps and his followers (family), know the world over for their signs that read “God hates (insert random word here),” are Topeka’s elephant in the room and, impressively, we’ve managed to do a pretty good job of ignoring him.

And our city should be proud of that.

The Phelpses have done more than enough to deserve a public lynching, especial-ly from Topeka residents that are forced to deal with his act

on an almost-daily basis. But rather than taking a vigilan-te-mob mentallity towards this vile group of people, Topeka residents have done the prop-er, Christian, thing and simply chosen to ignore the Phelpses. Since we can’t “legally” kill them, the best thing we can do is to ignore the Phelps family and go about our daily lives.

Through their actions, the Phelpses have done more to benefit the homosexual com-munity than just about anyone else. They’ve made homosex-uals into an underdog group... and there’s nothing more that America loves than an under-dog.

Topeka needs to be ap-plauded for rising above the hate and putting the Phelpses in their right place... the trash can.

Lady Blues’ soccer team drops first two by close margins in Missouri

There are moments in life where sporting events are bigger than what they seem. Jackie Robinson’s first game in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform was a step towards breaking down the wall of segregation in sports and in the United States. After a tragic campus shooting, the Virginia Tech football team took to the field in the memo-ry of those who were gunned down. Hokie nation proudly wore school colored ribbons on their shirts along with the rest of the fans in the stadium.

For Dave Alden, Wash-burn’s men’s and women’s ten-nis coach, the Ironman triathlon was more than just a physical test.

“I decided that I wanted to do this in honor of my wife,” said Alden.

In December of 2011 Al-den and his children, Alexa and Nadia, said their final goodbye to Megan Alden who coura-geously fought cancer. With the memory of his wife as his motivation, Alden decided to participate in the strenuous Ironman triathlon. After fail-ing to sign up in time for an Ironman triathlon in Arizona, Alden had to resort to traveling to Louisville, Kentucky. The three-legged race begins with a 2.4 mile swim, followed by a grueling 112 mile bike ride, and to finish it off a nice little 26.2 mile stroll. To prepare for the physical endeavor, Alden began training back in April.

“I have been swimming

since late April and bought my bike in June,” said Alden.

Using his spare time on Washburn’s campus Alden was able to run and maintain his training. With the help of a friend, Dave Provorse, chair-man of the WU psychology de-partment, Alden constructed a training schedule.

“I met with Dave and he said, ‘here’s your roadmap and you have about three months’,” said Alden.

Most people train for years to get in the proper shape for a triathlon, but Alden used only a few months before traveling the ten hours to Kentucky.

“This was my first big tri-athlon,” said Alden. “ Most people seem like they’ve done a few before this one. After talking to people who

have been training for 8, 12, 16 months and here I’ve been training for two months.”

Despite not being in top-notch shape, there was no ques-tion he was going to finish the race.

“I finished,” said Alden. “That was my goal.”

Estimating a target time was challenging since it was only his first triathlon, but Al-den decided he wanted to finish under 17 hours, a trying task. After shedding 11 pounds of fluid and 140.6 miles later, he crossed the finish line two min-utes over 16 hours.

“I finished and got an IV immediately,” said Alden. “I was elated right after and then I was sore for quite a few days.”

Trying to stay motivated for 16 hours of exhausting ex-

ercise is not easy by any means, but for Alden the 16 hours was

nothing. After watching his

wife endure the hardship of cancer, no task seemed tough.

With the support of his two children and a promise to himself and his wife, he would finish the triathlon.

“It all depends on your motivation,” said Alden. “For me it was never a question of whether I would finish.”

Nothing proves his love for his family as much as this past week did. A day after finishing the triathlon, Alden hopped in his car and drove ten hours back home to make it in time for his children’s back to school night.

The Lady Blues soccer team opened their 2012-2013 season Friday, Aug. 31, with a close 1-0 loss against Drury University. Head coach, Tim Collins, describes the game as “a tale of two halves.”

In the first half, Drury took the lead within the first minute of play and held the Lady Blues away from the goal.

“We had a tough time throughout the first half with the speed of play and absorbed, quite well within the first min-ute, their play,” said Collins.

In the second half, the

Lady Blues pushed hard against Drury, but unfortunately did not find the back of the net.

“I wondered only about our character throughout the game, and my questions were answered by the girls as we took it to them in the second half,” said Collins.

A solid second half perfor-mance was not enough to give the Blues a win, but it did leave the team with a sense of some satisfaction.

“We totally dominated the second half,” said Collins. “ It was an incredible 45 minutes that we displayed.”

Leading the Blues’ shots throughout the entire match

were junior middle fielder and forward, Caysie Beetley, senior forward, Leah Talley, and ju-nior defender, Megan Buckley, leaving Washburn with a total of five shots and Drury with only four.

“All of the girls were sol-id throughout the game,” said Collins.

Washburn was just unable to recover from the early defi-cit and monsoon-like weather made a comeback that much harder.

“We had a good start against Drury,” said Collins. “Sure, we didn’t get a positive result, but we played well and have developed our confidence

to where we can come out strong for our next match.”

The Lady Blues’ next match came against Missouri S & T. Washburn was able to get on the board in the 29th min-ute with a Beetley score, but couldn’t muster up another goal the rest of the game. After a scoreless first overtime period, the Lady Miners’ Kendra Wood knocked in a corner kick in the second extra period to give Missouri S & T the victory, 2-1.

“In the second half they put us under a little more pres-sure,” said Collins. “We strug-gled dealing with that and kind of got out of our game.”

The Lady Blues were un-able to capitalize on opportu-

nities and some spectacular de-fensive plays by their opponents closed the door for any chance at a victory. Although the Blues were only able to muster up one goal in two games, they were able to get off more shots than both of their opponents. Wash-burn outshot the Panthers of Drury by one shot, five to four, with three of those coming on goal. In the second matchup Washburn outshot Missouri S & T 13 to 8 with nine of those being shots on goal.

“We do need to be better,” said Collins. “But last year we wouldn’t have had those chanc-es (to score).”

The Lady Blues have made a valiant effort to finish, wheth-

er it be scoring a goal or play-ing all 90 minutes of the game. A tough game against Missouri S & T and a strong showing in the second half of the Drury game leave plenty of hope in Collins’ mind.

“If we can put togeth-er moments like that (second half against Drury), during the course of the year then we can do some real damage,” said Collins.

Washburn will have a chance to right the ship this weekend with games Friday and Saturday in Colorado. On Friday, WU will square off Col-orado Christian University in Lakewood, Co., and will then travel to Golden, Co. to face the Colorado School of Mines.

“Colorado Christian we should be able to play straight up,” said Collins. “Colorado School of Mines is very good and we welcome the opportu-nity to test ourselves against a terrific opponent.”

The head coach has full faith in this team.

“Our strength is our team,” said Collins, “as we continue to grow throughout the next two weeks and the entire season, we have potential to do well.”

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Photo courtesy of Gene Cassell, Sports Information DirectorIronman of His Own: Washburn tennis coach Dave Alden speaks to his team during a match last year. This past week Alden made a road trip to Louisville, Ky., to participate in the Ironman triathlon. Alden, who enters his fith season at the helm of the Ichabods and Lady Blues’ tennis teams, entered the race as a promise he made to himself after the passing of his wife.

Jordan Loomis is a sophomore double major in mass media and art. Reach her at jordan.loomis@washburn.edu. Luke Warnken is a sophomore athletic training major. Reach him at luke.warnken@wash-burn.edu.

Alden runs triathlon in rememberance of wife

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Looking on: Alden watches as his team competes. With a veteran men’s team and young women’s team, all eyes will be on Alden to help lead his team to MIAA glory.

With the fall sports now in full swing, the Washburn ten-nis teams will look to get in on the action. On Sept. 7 and 8 the men’s and women’s teams will host the Washburn Invitation-al. For Dave Alden, Washburn head coach, the meet will give him a chance to see his team in real action.

“You can put your players in different match situations but you can’t replicate being in a match,” said Alden.

On the women’s side the Lady Blues must replace sev-en players who graduated last year. With six incoming fresh-men spots on the depth chart are open for grabs.

“Some of our opponents have played on our court more than my own team,” said Al-den. “It will be a baptism by fire.”

Washburn still brings back junior Sophie O’Neill and sophomores Casyn Buch-man and Rachael Haagerman. O’Neill and Buchman saw ex-tensive action last season for the Lady Blues.

There should be no prob-lem trying to find players to lead the way for the Ichabods. The men’s side will look to dominate this year in the MIAA with a veteran group of play-

ers. With plenty of juniors on the team including WU’s No. 1 singles player, Arkadiusz Kozaczuk, the Bods have high expectations.

“This is the year their ma-turity should show up,” said Alden.

The Washburn Invitational will be the first test for the new 2012-2013 teams. With only two weeks of practice under their belts, both teams will like-ly have early season struggles. Luckily for Washburn, they’re not the only ones with limited time.

“Good thing is that every-body only gets two weeks of practice,” said Alden.

Washburn will also get the advantage of starting their fall season off at home. For many new players, playing at home can be a comfort.

“Everybody gets to sleep in their own bed and eat fa-miliar food,” said Alden. “It’s good because they can have their friends come out and see them.”

Prior to regular season play, the Topeka RoadRunners want to make sure they’re in top shape.

This weekend’s games were a step in that direction.

Playing Friday and Sat-urday against the North Iowa Bulls of the North American 3 Hockey League, Topeka shut out its opponent, winning 8-0 on Friday and 5-0 on Saturday.

In Saturday’s contest, To-

peka jumped on top at 3:19 of the second period, as forward James Ring slipped a shot into the back of the net. The lead increased to 2-0 at 13:13 on a goal from forward Josh Haver-strom. Defenseman Luke Ve-itch finished off second period scoring at 13:45.

Scott Langer, Topeka head coach, said the two exhibition contests helped assess where his team is after only three practices before Friday.

“In this past, we’ve always had way more practices be-

fore we have exhibitions,” said Langer. “We kind of reversed it this year, which is going to give us the ability to make correc-tions real quick.”

Ring scored another goal in the third period, as well as forward Mike Chen, to round off scoring for the RoadRun-ners.

In Friday’s contest, the scoring started considerably quicker. Returning forward Kyle Sharkey scored a goal less than two minutes into the game to give Topeka the 1-0 lead.

They wouldn’t look back from there, as forward Collin Mont-gomery slipped a shot into the back of the net at 15:53 of the first period.

The second period includ-ed four goals, including another goal from Sharkey, as Topeka increased its lead to 6-0.

“We had some butterflies in the first period but the sec-ond and third periods were great,” said Sharkey. “We start-ed to pick it up and just went to work.”

The scoring finished off in the third period with goals from forward Drew Kariofiles and defenseman Trace Strahle.

With vastly different line-ups on the ice on Friday and Saturday in order to give all of his players due playing time, Langer stressed that no one is safe to make the team come regular season.

“It’s a tryout for every one of these guys,” said Langer.

The preseason continues as Topeka now travels to Ab-erdeen, S.D. to face the Aber-deen Wings on Sept. 7-8. The regular season begins Sept. 12 in Blaine, Minn. at the NAHL Showcase Tournament.

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Washburn’s Jahmil Taylor, senior linebacker, came away from Thursday night’s game satisfied with the performance

of his defense. The Ichabods were tested right out of the gate when the University of Nebras-ka Kearney Lopers took their first three drives down into Washburn’s red zone.

“It’s just one of those

things, you gotta dig down deep and pull it out,” said Taylor.

The Bods defense was able to stop UNK on two of the first three drives, stopping the Lop-ers from scoring with a blocked field goal and a goal line stop

at the two yard line. The third drive by the Lopers ended with the first touchdown of the game. UNK would keep a 7-0 lead until the beginning of the second quarter when Ichabods quarterback Mitch Buhler

connected with receiver Matt Kobbeman at the 9:12 mark to tie the game at 7-7.

Buhler, who had a position battle with Joel Piper through fall camp, was happy to get that first touchdown of the season.

“It was definitely a pres-sure reliever,” said Buhler. “It was good to score.”

Piper also saw action in the second quarter and was able to take the offense down to the Kearney eight yard line where place kicker Jeremy Linn put one through the uprights with 32 seconds left to give Wash-burn a 10-7 lead going into halftime.

Washburn got the ball to start the second half, drove 75 yards and topped it off with a rushing touchdown by junior running back Hayden Groves. The running game started to come alive in the second half and helped Buhler get into a rhythm. Head coach Craig Schurig was happy with the second half performance of his backfield led by Groves.

“He ran extremely hard, had a lot of confidence. Ran the ball out of the backfield on a couple screens and got us go-ing,” said Schurig.

Kearney answered back with a score of their own to make it 17-14 going into the fourth quarter. At 14:56 of the

fourth quarter, Buhler connect-ed with Alec Steuber for his second passing touchdown of the game, making it 24-14. Ke-arney only had one more drive that threatened to score when they started at the Washburn 36 yard line. The Ichabod defense once again stepped up and kept the Lopers from scoring with a third red zone stop, this time at the 7 yard line. This would be the last time that the Kearney would have possession of the ball.

Washburn’s running game shouldered the load the rest of the way as they ran out the sev-en and a half minutes left in the game.

“When you can run the ball at the end of the game and have the lead, that’s a great thing,” said Schurig.

Washburn’s defense end-ed the game with two sacks and allowed 349 yards of total offense. Offensively, Buhler finished with 179 yards passing and two touchdowns, Groves had 101 all-purpose yards and a touchdown. Kicker Jeremy Linn hit a field goal and three extra points.

Ichabod defense stands strong as WU defeats Lopers

Luke Warnken is a sophomore athletic training major. Reach him at luke.warnken@wash-burn.edu.

After a debacle of an off-season, college football is now back underway. The past week-end teams put on their uniforms again and took the field. With a heavy cloud from the Penn State scandal hanging over college football, die hard fans flocked to stadiums.

And like every season there are sports writers, fans, and couch quarterbacks pull-ing out their pens and papers to start critiquing every little move their favorite team does. Count-less articles have already sur-faced over what teams should

be scared and how they look af-ter one game. Impressions over teams began to make their into magazines and Sportscenter.

Already, teams hurt their stock while some made sports analysts drool. Michigan looked like a blunder of team and Denard Robinson was Mr. Irrelevant against a stout Ala-bama defense. Oklahoma took forever to put away a so-so UTEP team while USC rolled over a porous Hawaii defense. In a world where first impres-sions matter, this past weekend left analysts with plenty of crit-icism and hysteria.

But why are first impres-

sions so important? College football teams don’t get the luxury of preseason games or exhibition games. First games are exactly that; first games. There will be nerves, first game jitters, and mistakes.

In 2010 Virginia Tech lost to a good Boise State team be-fore falling to James Madison out of the blue the following week. With a 0-2 start every-body was ready to stick a fork in the Hokies and find a new ACC champion. The fighting Frank Beamers went on an 11 game win streak before losing to an Andrew Luck led Stan-ford team in the Orange Bowl.

But unlike most power-house teams, the Hokies had the guts to face Boise instead of some FCS foe. Oklahoma State put up 84 points on some team who was there for a paycheck. But what does that mean? Noth-ing! Last year those same Cow-boys lost to a mediocre Iowa State team, which cost them a shot in the BCS title game. Michigan went out on a limb and embarrassed themselves on national television. Robinson’s Heisman hype may have gone down the drain. But don’t be quick to count the Wolverines who still have a realistic shot at winning the Big 10 (or is that

Big 12, conference realignment is confusing).

Georgia Tech started off 6-0 last year and looked like a real contender before losing five of their last seven. Unlike most sports there is parity in college football. Rarely do we see sleepers like Butler make it to the championship games, but with every game being make or break, it makes every game that more exciting. BCS busters have won their way into big games and proved the little guys can win too. Too eager are we to dismiss them with first impressions. Their too small, don’t have the five star recruits,

and the budget to compete with the Texas’ and Alabama’s of college football.

A New York Yankees pitcher once said that Mickey Mantle would never make it in the big leagues after Mantle’s tryout for the Bronx Bombers. To his surprise Mantle became one of the most successful Yanks of all time.

Let first impressions be first impressions.

Richard Kelly is a senior double major in mass media and social work. Reach him at richard.kelly@washburn.edu.

Yager Stadium Magic: The No. 20 ranked Ichabods welcomed new MIAA foe Nebraska-Kearney on Aug. 30. Led by a veteran defense and pound it out funning game, the Bods managed to come away with a 24-14 victory over the Lopers.

Luke Warnken is a sophomore athletic training major. Reach him at luke.warnken@wash-burn.edu.

RoadRunners gear up for new season WU tennis kicks off at home

Drew Egnoske is a senior mass media major. Reach him at drew.egnoske@washburn.edu.

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Bring on Winter: The Topeka Roadrunners got back on the ice for two exhibition games against the Northern Iowa Bulls of the NA3HL this past weekend. Regular season play begins Sept. 12 in Blaine, Minn.

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The Music Department at Washburn often has aspiring musicians that go unnoticed by much of campus. Music performance major Phillip Watson, aka Brail, is a junior double-majoring in music per-formance voice and cello.

“I’ve always loved music, but one time I was in the third grade watching an episode of Tom and Jerry and he’s playing the bass and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world,” said Watson. “School told me I was too small to play the bass, so they put me on the cello.”

Watson had originally planned to come to Washburn studying in the field of psychol-ogy and using music as his pas-time activity outside of school. When he found out he could get a scholarship for all of his work in music, he decided to take music performance on instead.

Beginning under the teach-ings of Steven K. Elijah for cello performance, Watson had opportunity to learn what he needed to try-out and get a scholarship for music here at Washburn.

“I had a bout of depres-sion and music was always something that I turned to,” said Watson. “It helped me and I wanted to be able to do that for somebody else, so I started writing.”

As Watson began to find his niche in music and song-writing he soon became the songwriter known as Brail. The name actually came from

a free-styling moment with one of his friends who he had looked up to.

“He said it was kinda cool,” said Watson. “Hearing kinda cool from him was the most amazing thing ever, so Brail it was.”

Not only does Watson participate in music depart-ment events each year, but he stays an active musician in the community as well. He puts on annual concerts for the youth, leads his church’s praise team

choir and does many indepen-dent gigs at local music perfor-mance venues.

“I’ve had the pleasure of being in two operas with Phil-lip: ‘Carmen’ my freshmen year and Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Christmas Story’ this year,” said Alex Joslin, junior music education major.

Watson knows it takes more than just music skills to become an artist as he con-stantly looks to also improve his business, management and

writing skills. Ultimately, Watson has

one major goal in mind and a slew of future plans in action.

“I try to be someone every-one can follow; a leader,” said Watson. “But don’t be stupid, it’s hard work and you have to love what you do; strive to be the best musician you can be, but don’t quit your day job.”

Cello There: Phillip Watson poses for Washburn Student Media with his cello. Watson also goes by the name “Brail.”

Sammy Zalloum, owner and operator of Genie Hookah Lounge, wants to provide To-peka-area youth with an alter-native social experience.

“Topeka needed a hookah house,” said Zalloum. “It’s better for Topeka, because it doesn’t get kids under the in-fluence, and instead of going to Lawrence for the same thing, they can stay here and support Topeka. We’re supporting the local economy, and providing a good place for people to come and be social.”

Zalloum, a former IHOP manager, opened Genie Hoo-kah Lounge on June 21. Their sign is difficult to read from the street, but Chris Alejos, Zal-loum’s contractor, says that’s unavoidable.

“Right on Wanamaker, you’ll notice that those busi-nesses don’t have signs out by the road,” said Alejos. “You can’t put any new signs up

right next to Wanamaker. I guess 21st is the same way, so we’re stuck for awhile with our little sign.”

To help with advertising, some volunteers have set up a website for the lounge. Drew Stratman and Tori Tipton, a lo-cal couple, created the site for Zalloum, paying for it out of their own pocket.

“We just felt like helping out,” said Tipton. “Sammy’s super awesome, and we’re hap-py that he chose to start a hoo-kah place in Topeka.”

Tipton and Stratman are working on sweetening the deal for incoming customers.

“We had an idea for punch cards, maybe coupons of some sort,” Stratman said. “Lots of people are choosing to come back anyway, why not give them some incentives to re-turn?”

On June 29, the lounge started offering a ten percent discount for students who show their school ID. The lounge of-fers free wi-fi access as well,

and Zalloum plans on being open for breakfast when school is in session.

“Kids can escape the cold winters with hot coffee and some baklava,” said Zalloum.

Zalloum chose a hookah lounge because “Topeka didn’t have one, and it’s a very relax-ing place.” A hookah is a device used to smoke a flavored tobac-co called shisha. The smoke passes through water kept in a basin, cooling and purifying it. The design of a hookah allows for social smoking, and shisha is not as harmful to a person as cigarettes or cigars.

The hookah lounge is located within walking dis-tance of Washburn, and offers enough parking for at least 60 cars. The lounge will hold up to 97 people in the main room, with another 40 possible in the party room on the side of the building. The party room is not open yet, but when it’s finished, Zalloum and Alejos are enter-taining many different ideas to use the space.

“Live bands, DJs, hosting events… it’s all wide open at this point,” said Alejos.

According to Zalloum, business is “moving well,” with a wide variety of people enjoy-ing the social atmosphere of the lounge. Students from as far as Lawrence and Kansas City are

visiting the lounge regularly, according to Zalloum.

“You know the secret of why that is?” said Zalloum. “It’s because here we don’t have cover charges.”

Zalloum wants to retain customers and make them feel welcome.

“When I designed the menu and the prices, I thought about being a student,” said Zalloum. “As a student, your money is limited. Since this place was built for the student,

I want to be fair to them. I don’t want to be greedy, and I want more customers coming in, with no cover charges and no hidden fees.”

For Zalloum, business is about respecting his communi-ty and providing for his family.

“I like to build a trust be-tween the customer and me,” said Zalloum. “I’m not asking for much. I just want to support my four kids, for them to go to college and get a good educa-tion. I’m not looking to buy a $6 million house, or to drive a Rolls-Royce… I just want a de-cent American life.”

Zalloum’s pursuit of a de-cent American life is helping out those who work for him. Rachael Ginzel, a prospective Washburn student and Topeka native, feels at home in Genie Hookah Lounge.

“This is the perfect place for kids to come, work on their stuff and just hang out,” said Ginzel. “Sammy’s the best boss I’ve ever had. He’s very outgo-ing, and treats everyone like family.”

Genie Hookah House is open Sunday through Thursday

from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m., and Fri-days and Saturdays from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Along with a growing shisha menu, they serve food and drinks as well. The drinks vary from soda to international teas and coffees.

Their food section is small right now, but the desserts are most popular, baklava being the crowd favorite. Grape leaves are served as an appetizer; they are actual grapevine leaves, dipped in a special sauce. Rice is rolled into them, along with some interesting spices, and served with lemon. They are one of the most popular menu items.

The Genie Hookah Lounge is located at 4009 SW 21st Str., next to Speck’s Bar and Grill on the corner of 21st and Gage. For more information, add “Genie Hookah House” on Facebook, or visit their website at www.geniehookahhouseto-peka.com.

Business Is Booming: Sammy Zalloum poses next to the sign for his new business--Genie Hookah Lounge. The lounge is located on the corner of 21st and Gage Streets.

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Genie Hookah House attracts Topeka youth

AJ Dome is a junior mass media major. Reach him at andrew.dome@washburn.edu

Music student goes above and beyond

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Shelby Atadgi is a junior psy-chology major. Reach her at shelby.atadgi@washburn.edu

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The North Topeka Arts District always has something going on, and this month is no exception. Three ribbon cut-tings, student art and two street bands are on the list for NOTO at the monthly First Friday Art Walk. This month’s i s being held Friday, Sept. 7.

In the spring semester, Azyz

Sharafy, associate professor at

Washburn University, taught a class in graphic design and wanted to connect the students with the community. Eleven students were in contact with various businesses in the Tope-ka area to develop a real-world relationship, much like one they will have outside of school. They each created a poster that needed to be approved by the business before they could pass the class. This teaches stu-

dents the importance of making the client happy, giving them something they can use on their resume.

“This is an ongoing proj-ect and I hope it can be carried out every semester, connect-ing more and more students to Topeka community,” said Sharafy. “It has been very suc-cessful for my students to get to work with real businesses and learn how to deal with real cli-ents.”

The student work will be on display from 5:30 p.m. to 8

p.m., Sept.7, at this month’s First Friday Art Walk in the NOTO Community Arts build-ing. Students will be present as well as Sharafy and refresh-ments will be served.

Tricia Peterson is a junior mass media major. Reach her at patricia.peterson@wash-burn.edu

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The Brown v. Board of Education Historical Site in To-peka sponsored the Labor Day Walk/Run for Justice. This event started at 9 a.m. on Labor Day and featured a 5 kilometer trail for participants to travel. The run had no entry fee but did accept donations.

All of the funds raised through the Walk/Run For Jus-tice were donated to the Police and Fire Memorial Fund. This fund was set up for the fami-lies and memorials of the law enforcement, firefighters and EMT’s who lost their lives in the 9-11 attacks. Although the run was for charity and non competitive, small prizes were presented to the first through third place finishers.

Hazel Gauthier, a second year Washburn Law student and the president of the Wash-burn Veteran’s Legal Associ-ation, was there to show her support.

Janet Rice, the Citizen’s Ambassador for the Police De-partment, and her friend Kris-ti Caldwell also attended the event, this being their first 5K. Caldwell and Rice found out about the run through the To-peka Public Schools Wellness Activities list.

“I’m here for the cause, because of the fallen heroes,” said Rice.

David Carter, the Educa-tion Technician at the Brown v. Board Historical Site, was run-ning the event.

“We wanted to put on an event not only to honor those who sacrificed their lives but also to appreciate our local police and firemen,” said Car-ater. “That’s what the event’s all about.”

If the run proves to be suc-

cessful then they hope to make it an annual event. According to Carater, 85 participants were signed up prior to the start of the event.

Carter, who was once a policeman him-self, gave a brief speech about why the run was being held.

“I just had an idea several years back in terms of honoring the police and firemen be-cause you always hear about the negative but you rarely hear about the positive things,” said Carter. “When police, fire and emergency per-sonnel screw up you do hear about it, but on rare occasions, very rare occasions, do you hear when you’re doing a good job.”

“And so really at the heart of this event we want to let our three departments know that they’re doing a great job, that they’re doing a wonderful job,” said Carter. “They make sacri-

fices on a daily basis, not just getting up and going to work but putting their lives on the line.”

Last weekend at the Brown v. Board Of Education site and the adjoining Cushinber-ry Park, there was a festival known as the Heart of America Black Expo Grant Fest.

Both the park and the fes-tival were named after Topeka missionary Grant Cushinber-ry, who founded a distribution center called “God’s Little Half Acre” which made food, clothing and other necessities for daily living available to the needy.

Saturday’s events and at-

tractions at the festival includ-ed a miniature swinging ship, octopus amusement park rides, two bouncy castles and a tram ride that circled the park. As all the standard park equipment was in use. A game or two was

even played on the basketball court.

Representatives from The Villages Inc., a non-profit cor-poration that provides family style group homes to children ages six to 18 and up, were there hosting team building activities. The “centipede” ac-tivity had participants attach to one another and walk through a horizontal net, tyring not to hit any of the strings, which had bells tied to them. If the bell rang, the team had to go back to the start and try again. The underlying metaphor was ex-plained by The Villages Inc’s head of Adventure Challenge

Courses and Team Building Programs, Trent Martin.

“We’re all connected in some way in our community,” said Trent Martin. “Everything we do will effect us, whether we realize it or not, whether it

be positive or negative.” Topeka firefighters and

highway patrolmen were also at the event to show off a firetruck and patrol car, respectively.

The Topeka Zoo had a couple of employees at the event to show and discuss a selection of animals that they had brought with them. Among these animals was a tarantula and a bearded lizard.

Parked in front of the school itself was one of the To-peka Library’s bookmobiles. A classic car show started at noon, though a few modern cars were allowed in the show as well. At six in the evening there was a gospel concert and at eight was the debut of “Bar-bara Johns: The Making of an Icon,” a documentary by Fab-rice Chiambretto. When asked for more information about Barbara Johns, David Smith, the park superintendent of the Brown v. Board site, said that she was a fifteen year old girl who attended the segregated Morton High School in Farm-ville, Virginia before she “led a student strike in the 1950’s that was part of the bigger Brown case, that ended segregation.”

Sunday brought fewer, but different, events. They included a community social and a Mid-west talent show. At eight in the evening, there was a block party with music provided by the Zapp Band, a soul and funk band formed in the seventies. Monday morning brought a five kilometer walk that started at the Brown v. Board site. Self guided tours of the Brown v. Board museum were available all weekend.

A Weekend Of Festivities: Top left:Avery Simecka, first place winner of the Labor Day Walk/Run for Justice, is congratulated by David Carter. Carter was the coordinator of the 5K run. Bottom right: Joan Wilson and a volunteer participate in one of the many festivities being held for the Heart of America Black Expo Grant Fest.

Whether your style is of the classic variety or strictly recreational, there are many options for working on your dance skills.

The Kansas Ballet Acade-my recently hosted their open house event. This event al-lowed the academy to get the word out that they were there and to provide assistance for people wanting to register for classes.

According to the Ballet Academy’s mission state-ment: “Kansas Ballet Acade-my seeks to inspire excellence in our community through the art of Classical Ballet with a combined experience of more [than] 35 years as professional ballet dancers and instructors, our mission is to encourage the next generation of young people to reach for the stars in

whatever career path they may choose.”

The program is divided into three distinct divisions of study in order to provide the highest quality classical ballet instruction to students of all ages and experience levels.

The first division is the Young Dancer Division, which ranges from ages three to nine

“Basic dance concepts such as marching, hopping, skipping and leaping will be introduced along with pre-liminary ballet positions and terminology,” said Stephanie Heston, owner of Kansas Bal-let Academy. “These classes cultivate a love for movement, music and dance in a safe, age appropriate, fun atmosphere.”

The second division is the Professional Division, rang-ing from ages eight to 18. The syllabus for this division was carefully designed to maximize individual growth at any level

and to develop dances to a pro-fessional level.

“Not everyone who stud-ies in this division will aspire to become a professional but they will all be provided with the opportunity to train like one,” said Heston. “Benefits of studying Classical Ballet, such as the development of strong work ethic, self-discipline and physical fitness will serve our students well in whatever path they choose to follow in the fu-ture.”

The third division, the Recreational Division, is open to adults of various ages. There is an emphasis in per-sonal achievement and growth. These classes are designed to enrich the lives of each partic-ipant physically, mentally and socially.

“There are numerous bene-fits in studying ballet at the rec-reational level,” said Heston.

This ballet studio offers

more than just a place for pro-fessional ballet dancers to train.

“We offer classes for beginners, as well as the ad-vanced,” said Heston. “The thing that would be most help-ful for college athletics would be the conditioning classes.”

In addition to classes, other activities such as Homeschool Ballet workshops and ballet birthday parties are available. The option of renting out the studio is provided.

“The studio is perfect for renting out for jazz classes, yoga, pilates mat classes, or private lessons,” said Heston.

For more information, or to register for a class, call 785.383.7918 or visit www.kansasballet.com. The studio is located at 4745 NW Hunter’s Ridge Circle.

Ballet offers many benefits

Grantfest brings support

Keely BrownWASHBURN REVIEW

Running for good reasonColton GeoffertWASHBURN REVIEW

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Landry Fehrenbacher is a senior English major. Reach him at landry.fehrenbacher@washburn.edu

Colton Geoffert is a freshman undecided major. Reach him at colton.geoffert@washburn.edu

Keely Brown is a freshman radiology major. Reach her at keely.brown@washburn.edu

The fall reprise of “Circle Mirror Transformation” starts tomorrow, Sept. 6. The stage is set for multiple performances throughout the weekend in fact.

Although the play was also featured at the Andrew J. & Georgia Neese Gray Theatre over the summer, the cast is looking forward to this week’s performances.

“In the fall, there’s more students and more people,” said Samantha Heath, theatre major.

“The show’s a lot different than what we’ve done before, for me at least,” said Heath. “It’s kind of experimental in a way.” The experimental aspect of the show speaks to the actual nature of the play. The way the

play is set up is actually like an acting class.

“I’ve been in an improv. class before and it’s basically that,” said Bryce Korf, sopho-more theater major. “So I think a lot of the people will enjoy it.”

Tickets will be sold at the performances, $8 for general admission and free of charge for students with their Wash-burn I.D.

Kelly Hurla is a senior mass media major. Reach her at kelly.hurla@washburn.edu

Stage is set Kelly HurlaWASHBURN REVIEW

Approximately 30 hot air balloons will take to the sky, weather permitting, at four dif-ferent times over the weekend. Friday, Sept. 7 marks the be-ginning of the 37th annual Huff ‘n Puff Hot Air Balloon Rally.

The first of these launch-es will happen Friday eve-ning. Two more launches will take place Saturday, one in the morning, and one in the eve-ning. The final launch will be Sunday morning. All launches will take place on the east side of Shawnee Lake, at Tinman Circle, where the rally has been held for the last 15 years.

The rally was originally started by just a few balloon-ists who wanted to show off the sport and science of hot air ballooning.

Once it is dark, the bal-loons will descend for the night. They will stay anchored on the ground while still firing their burners. Tethered hot air balloon rides may be available at these times for $10 per ride.

“Any funds left over from the events, and proceeds from the sales on the field and from the tether rides will go to ben-efit the local Ronald McDonald House here in Topeka,” said Darrin Harrison, coordinator

for the rally. This year the rally will

feature two special balloons. A Cheshire cat from the 1951 Walt Disney adaptation of “Al-ice in Wonderland.” The other will be shaped as a Jack-N-The Box.

“If the weather is right and the wind is pushing them toward the lake, some of the balloons may do what is called a ‘splash and dash,” said Har-rison. This is when a pilot ac-tually lands the basket of their balloon on the surface of the lake for a second before floor-ing the burner and rapidly as-cending, stopping the basket from sinking into the lake.

“You can get some really neat pictures of the water drip-ping back into the lake,” Harri-son said.

The rally has no admit-tance fee and is open to the public. Additional information and specific times for events can be found at the Huff ‘n Puff Hot Air Balloon Rally’s web-site, www.huff-n-puff.org.

Colton GeoffertWASHBURN REVIEW

Blowing hot air

Colton Geoffert is a freshman undecided major. Reach him at colton.geoffert@washburn.edu

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