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volume 137, Issue 13 • wednesday, december 1, 2010
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A Sign From Above: Think Big Topeka, in collaboration with other organizations, hung this banner on the Cumulus Broadcasting building at 9th and Kansas Ave. in Downtown Topeka. On Tuesday, Topekans again showed their interest in the Google Fiber Project.
Washburn students have been watching him on MTV for years, and now they’ll get the chance to interact with him live because the Washburn Student Government Association is bringing Rev. Run to Washburn as their final lecture series speaker for the semester.
This Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Washburn Room of the Memorial Union, Rev. Run will be available in a question-and-answer session, with no admission fee, until 8:30.
Rev. Run, whose real name is Joseph Simmons, is a rapper-turned-reverend who was one-third of the rap group Run-DMC. More recently, he is known for his reality show on MTV, “Run’s House,” where viewers see the dynamics of the Simmons family.
“[The show] is really neat for Rev. Run because he is able to portray how reality shows don’t have to be negative and crazy,” said Caley Onek, president of WSGA. “You can have a success-ful show that portrays how you should live your life and how you should treat your family and respect them.”
Onek said that the committee in charge of finding lecturers chose Sim-mons for a variety of reasons. They had to compare the quality and name recognition of the speaker with the price that was asked, but Simmons had the originality that the committee was looking for.
“We were trying to get some name recognition that the community as well as the students could get excited for,” said Onek, “He brings a different dynamic than past speakers that we’ve had, and we’re always looking for something new, something different,
something exciting.”Simmons’ commitment to Zoë
ministries and his family cover an as-pect of life that Onek says many col-lege students don’t consider much.
“When we’re in college we kind of get away from our families, and it’ll bring back the importance of family,” she said.
WSGA has been promoting this as the part of Washburn Lecture Series, but Onek said that it’s actually a pretty big departure from the usual format of the series. Generally there’s about a half hour to an hour of lecture, and then a 15-minute opportunity for the audience to ask questions. After, the speaker may take a bit to sign books or take photos, but speaker-student inter-action is limited.
“With Rev. Run, it’s going to be set up like a Q&A, there’s going to be a lot of audience interaction,” said Onek. “He wants to stay after, he wants to take pictures with the students, he wants to meet them, he wants to sign autographs.”
Onek said WSGA is excited about the potential for an entertaining yet ed-ucational event, but she personally is looking forward to learning Simmons’ life story.
“I’m excited to hear about what he’s learned throughout his life, and about his personal journey from rap-per to reverend.”
Yesterday, the past and the future collided in a fun, if somewhat chilly, afternoon that helped to put the final punctuation on an effort that has seen Topeka launched into the forefront of national attention.
As many remember, earlier this year Topeka became Google, Kan. for a short time as the drive to bring a new technology to the capital city courtesy of the Internet search engine giant, Google.
From standing on the Topeka Roadrunners ice rink forming a human “Google” to appearing on national television on the day that Google tem-porarily turned their website to “To-peka,” there has been an effort on the part of organizations like Think Big Topeka and Go Topeka to continue the spirit in their bid to win the high-speed Internet contest.
“It’s just great to see the community rallying around something like this,” said Ryan Bish-op, Gizmo Video productions employ-ee and Washburn alumnus.
All of the effort culminated in a small gathering downtown near the corner of 9th Street and Kansas Av-enue, as free food and live music pro-vided a backdrop for a History Chan-nel special that was being taped.
The special entitled, “How States Got Their Shapes” brought further attention to the city and state as the deadline for the announcement of which city will be awarded Google’s technology closes in.
“We just wanted to do some-thing that would show we still care to Google and that we haven’t given
up on this idea,” said Alissa Sheley, founding member of Think Big Tope-ka. “We knew we wanted to do some-thing to wrap up the year so we got this awesome banner made with help from community supporters and came down here to show we love our com-munity.”
Among the other members of the community, Mayor Bill Bunten spoke about his feelings on the process and expressed his thanks to “the young people of Topeka.”
“I just feel like I’m 75 again,” said Bunten. “I am so happy that everyone came out even in this weather to help support our community. I love Topeka and I know that everyone here feels the same way.”
After Bunten’s address to the gath-ered crowd, the Topeka High drumline took center stage as they put on an en-ergetic performance that had people
rocking back and forth in the crowd. The group played and danced back and forth in a style reminiscent of the
movie, “Drumline” and even featured a drum cadence from the movie.
Prior to the speakers and after Topeka High was done, a local music group, Chris Aytes & The Good Ambi-tion, performed classic rock and even some rock inspired Christmas music to help keep the crowd entertained in weather that dipped into the low 30 degree range.
“We appreciate everyone brav-ing the weather to come out and show everyone how much our community wants positive things to happen,” said Sheley.
This year students have another advantage in the fight to stay sane dur-ing the last few days leading to finals week.
Success week, the week before finals, was proposed with the purpose of encouraging faculty to use the time to review course material and not give out any new proj-ects, tests or fi-nals.
S u c c e s s week is ex-plained in the faculty hand-book as, “No final examina-tions, except ‘take–home final examinat ions’ may be given by an instructor dur-ing the five days prior to the first day of final examina-tions without approval of the dean of their major academic unit.
The faculty shall not administer any test, examination or quiz worth more than 10 percent of the final course grade during the last three days prior to the first day of scheduled final examinations each fall and spring se-mester to allow for proper preparation for the finals.”
The roots of success week started with Washburn Student Government Association after they heard from sev-
eral students that there was a need for it.
“That was the concern that we heard several times from students was that the week before finals was actually worse the week of finals itself because of all the tests and everything that was coming through the week,” said Caley Onek, president of WSGA.
The pro-posal for suc-cess week then worked its way through the ap-proval process. First approved by faculty sen-ate earlier this year on April 12 and then by the general fac-ulty on May 11. It received final go ahead by the Washburn Board of Regents at a meeting on Sept. 24.
Throughout the whole process, WSGA and the fac-ulty worked together to get the policy passed.
“The success week policy could not have gone through if it had not been for all the support that we did receive from the faculty and how they worked with us,” said Onek.
Jaimie LuseWASHBURN REVIEW
Success week looks to relieve student stress
Jaimie Luse is a freshman business major. Reach her at [email protected].
That was the concern that we heard several times from students was that the week before finals was actually worse than finals week itself
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Robert Burkett is a senior mass media major. Reach him at [email protected].
Robert BurkettWASHBURN REVIEW
Topeka continues to go gaga over Google
THINK BIG TOPEKA
Regina BuddenWASHBURN REVIEW
Photo by Robert Burkett, Washburn Review
The Reverend Is In: Joseph Simmons, more commonly known as Rev. Run, will bring his interactive Q & A and lecture session to Washburn this Thursday. Audience members will have the opportunity to meet him before and after his presentation.
Rev. Run to speak at Washburn
Photo courtesy of http://www.revrun.com/.
Regina Budden is a senior mass media major. Reach her at [email protected].
A2 News • Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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Holiday ceramics saleMain Lobby, Washburn Union9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Brown Bag international lectureInternational HouseNoon
Free HIV testing (World AIDS Day)Boswell Room and Rice Room, upper level, Memorial Union1 to 4 p.m.
Women’s basketballLee Arena, Petro Allied Health Center5:30 p.m.
Men’s basketballLee Arena, Petro Allied Health Center7:30 p.m.
WU wind ensemble concertWhite Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 1
Thursday, Dec. 2
Welcome reception for Rick AndersonWashburn Room lounge, Memorial Union10 to 11:30 a.m.
WU opera, “Amahl and the Night Visitors”White Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center2:30 p.m.
Presentation, Joseph “Rev. Run” SimmonsWashburn Room, Memorial Union7 p.m.
A Night of Media Merriment fundraiserRamada Inn, 420 S.E. 6th Ave7 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 3
WU Board of RegentsRoom 220, Petro Allied Health Center4 p.m.
WU jazz ensemble concertWhite Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 4
Mulvane MerrimentMulvane Art Museum10 a.m.
Football: Kanza BowlHummer Sports Park, Topeka1 p.m.
Women’s BasketballLee Arena, Petro Allied Health Center5:30 p.m.
Men’s BasketballLee Arena, Petro Allied Health Center7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 5
WU percussion holiday concertWhite Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center3 p.m.
Ugly sweaters on skatesSk8away, 815 S.W. Fair-lawn Rd.7 to 9 p.m.
Sunday Mass, Catholic Campus CenterCatholic Campus Center, 1633 S.W. Jewell Ave.6 to 7 p.m.
As the winter holiday sea-son arrives, the Catholic Cam-pus Center has started its Giv-ing Tree Project to help provide gifts for underprivileged chil-dren.
The Giving Tree Project concept involves a participant choosing an angel from one of the trees, buying the gift that is on it, and returning it so that it may be distributed to children throughout Topeka. There are many trees around campus, in the offices of various organiza-tions that help with the project.
The three charities that the center distributes the toys to are, To-peka Rescue Mis-sion, Let’s Help, and Doorstep.
This year’s edition of the project began Nov. 5, and gifts will be accepted through Dec. 2. People who want to help in another way can help to distrib-ute the toys to the charities that will give the toys to the kids, on Dec. 3.
The idea of the project started in 2002, when the Cath-olic Campus Center wanted to put a few trees on campus, but was not allowed to. The only tree they had that year was in their own room, said Jeffrey Leiker, president of the Catho-lic Campus Center.
The roots of the concept of the Giving Tree Project origi-nate in another project called the angel tree project. They
continue to do the Giving Tree Project every year because of the tradition that has been set, as well as they chose this idea specifically because the angel tree was recognizable.
“Five organizations work with the Center on the project, including WSGA, multicultur-al affairs, Residential Living, Campus Ministries and Zeta Tau Alpha,” said Leiker
Many of the gifts include clothes, with a few educational toys, puzzles and occasionally sports toys.
Organizers were wor-ried about the success of the program in 2008 when the re-cession initially hit, but they
were still able to get around 200 gifts in the project, accord-ing to Leiker.
They expect that this year they should be able to get at least that much success, though they hope for more.
“I personally think its a wonderful opportunity even before I came to Washburn I participated in the angel tree project back at home,” said Leiker. “Every year whenever I was late-night shopping at Wal-mart grab an angel and buy a gift, and just kind of goes into, its more of a blessing to be on the muscle part of it, for lack of a better term, the actual inside part, with an even better chance of helping these kids out.”
She reaches for a tissue for the fifth time in the last five minutes. Her nose is red from constant blowing, her eyelids are swollen and heavy and eyes are glassy. Despite the nasty cold that ravages her si-nuses and leaves her in a fog, she grabs another spelling test and starts going through the words, red pen in hand. She puts a small check mark next to the word correctly, which was ironically spelled incorrectly.
Megan Kirkhart, a student teacher at Farley Elementary in Topeka, knows she can’t let a runny nose stop her from grad-ing, planning and keeping up with her own class assignments. She battles her nine-hour work day with coffee in the morn-ing and a soda in the a f t e r n o o n . With all the germs she is exposed to in the class-room every day, it is no surprise that some of those germs w a n d e r e d her direc-tion. But as always, she just keeps on.
Student teaching is a burden that many people take for granted when they consider the teaching profession. While it may seem that it is a simple semester of assisting a teacher, many fail to understand that student teaching is an opportu-nity that education majors use to gain experience in the class-room and teach and plan their own units and lessons without guidance for the first time. But there’s a catch.
While this opportunity is undoubtedly beneficial for new teachers, it is also an expensive experience that comes with a lot of extra baggage.
Education students must file a student teaching applica-tion during the semester prior to when they wish to start stu-dent teaching.
The Washburn department of education requires that all students applying have a cu-mulative grade point average of 2.5 or above and a teaching specialty grade point average of 2.75 or higher. Students must also be approved by the Depart-ment of Education before they may begin the student teaching experience.
The cost of tuition is $207 per credit hour at Washburn University for the 2010-2011 school year. Take this cost times
15, and that is how much each student pays in tuition in order to student teach. Now consider that each student is committing to working approximately 40 hours a week on site, and an ad-ditional seven to eight hours a week grading and planning for the upcoming week.
This makes working an outside job nearly impossible, and something that is strongly discouraged by Washburn’s de-partment of education.
In addition to this expense and the time commitment, stu-dent teachers are also required to attend nine seminar sessions on campus to discuss class re-quirements, teaching and man-agement strategies and to meet with university supervisors to discuss individual questions and assess how the semester is progressing.
T h e y also attend two behav-ior manage-ment class-es, and turn in several lengthy as-s ignments , i n c l u d i n g a 25-page Wa s h b u r n Univers i ty Performance Assessment, a s s e m b l e a detailed, t w o - w e e k unit plan, turn in a
10-minute DVD presentation showing classroom instruction, a diversity research paper, com-pose daily journal entries and more.
“It takes a lot of patience and organization and time management to be a successful student teacher,” said Kirkhart. “Luckily, a lot of these skills I gained through my previous education classes at Washburn, and I felt as prepared as I think I could be going in to this semes-ter of student teaching.”
Mary Cottrell, a current student teacher at Langston Hughes Elementary in Law-rence also believes that the edu-cation curriculum at Washburn has been beneficial to her stu-dent teaching experience.
“Student teaching so far has been such a wonderful ex-perience and I know that com-pared to some of the other uni-versities, Washburn has done a great job of preparing us for taking over a classroom,” said Cottrell.
But prepared or not, there is no doubt that the transition to student teaching is trying for these future teachers. Student teachers go from working part-time jobs and taking regular courses to working full time and managing more assign-
ments and responsibility than they have had to face before.
And many students agree that it is this adjustment that is the most difficult to manage when transitioning from stu-dent to student teacher.
“My least favorite part of student teaching was the physi-cal adjusting at the beginning,” said Cottrell. “They never tell you how you will spend every moment planning and how ex-hausted you are at the end of the day. I wish I was less stressed but this is a small price to pay and I know it will not always be like this, especially once I get past my first few years of teach-ing.”
Even students who have not yet embarked on their stu-dent teaching adventures are nervous about what the future brings.
Student Megan Peraita will begin student teaching dur-ing the spring semester and is excited, yet anxious to get the experience under her belt.
“Do I feel like I’m 100 per-cent prepared to student teach? Yes and no. I have had some amazing professors at Wash-burn that have guided me and been a huge help in preparing me, but no one can fully pre-pare you to student teach,” said Peraita. “Throughout the edu-cation program you take a few classes where you observe in a classroom for 20 to 30 hours, but I know that experience will be completely different from actually teaching.”
While it is a lot of time and even more work, most student teachers are quick to admit that it is a useful and overall enjoy-able experience.
“I love being with the kids,” said Kirkhart. “They make the experience what it is and make it fun, so even though it’s a lot of work, this is my passion. This is what I love. I wouldn’t change it.”
Cottrell shares similar sen-timents.
“The students are pre-cious, even if they drive me nuts sometimes,” said Cottrell. “They are so intelligent and full of life. It’s so fun to be around them.”
It is this love and passion for children and learning that prevail at the end of the day, making all the stress and extra work worthwhile.
“I admire the satisfaction teachers must feel every single day when they teach their stu-dents and change their lives,” said Peraita. “Student teaching will be a learning experience for sure and I am thrilled.”
I admire the satisfaction teachers must feel every single day when they teach their students and change their lives
- Megan PeraitaWashburn, senior
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teaches studentsTimothy LakeWASHBURN REVIEW
Lauren Eckert is a member of Regina Cassell’s feature writing class.
Timothy Lake is a freshman mass media major. Reach him at [email protected]
GIVING TREE PROJECT
A post-election roundtable to analyze 2010 election results in Kansas and the United States will begin at 4:30 p.m. today at the International House.
The roundtable will feature noted political scientists and scholars from across the state. It is free and open to the pub-lic.
Participants will be: Joe Aistrup, Kansas State Universi-ty; Burdett Loomis, University of Kansas; Ed Flentje, Wichita State University; Mark Pe-terson, Washburn University; Chapman Rackaway, Fort Hays State University. Bob Beatty, Washburn professor, will mod-erate.
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A3Wednesday, December 1, 2010 • Opinion
In a Nov. 14 Washington Post editorial entitled, “Olber-mann, O‘Reilly and the death of real news,” journalism afi-cionado and former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel expressed that unbiased journalism is a thing of the past.
For proof, he offers such talking heads as Keith Olber-mann, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews, who infuse real world events with a heavy dose of their partisan views to deliver news in a manner that is heavily profitable and sometimes (often) inaccurate. Koppel says the beginning of the end came in 1968 with the unveiling of CBS News’ news magazine “60 Minutes,” which was the first news program to turn a profit.
While we certainly agree
that such figures as Olbermann, O’Reilly and Beck have done quite a bit to tarnish journalis-tic credibility, and we definitely agree with the Daniel Patrick Moynihan quote Koppel uses “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts” we don’t believe journalism is beyond repair.
The obvious biases of such figures has been used by the media corporations for years as a way of turn-ing news into entertain-ment to make money. In a way, however, it is the clarity of the connections between political parties and the networks that will eventu-ally be the downfall of such stations.
Most of the talking heads currently employed grew up with prime examples of how journalism should be done, such as Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. The newer
generation of journalists, who will eventually take over for the big names, have been raised with prime examples of what NOT to do, and hopefully will have learned from the mis-takes of their predecessors. In a world where accurate informa-tion is key, younger generations have fled from such shows in a wild attempt to find some truth in the world. Thus explains the
popularity of Comedy Central’s Jon Stew-art, who despite quite clearly being an enter-tainer was named the
fourth most-trusted journalist in a 2007 poll by Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Part of the reason for this is that he was one of the few people on television who presented things the way they were before tearing them apart, rather than intertwining opinion and news. For example, his in-terview with Jim Cramer, host
of Mad Money, was one of the hardest hitting interviews ever broadcast on cable television.
The future of journalistic integrity relies heavily on the education that journalists re-ceive and how much empha-sis is put on credibility and the importance of an unbiased presentation. For this reason, it’s imperative that funding for journalism programs in high school should not be cut, be-cause the only way to fix the current situation is to prepare the next generation of journal-ists and show them that there is more to journalism than who can scream louder or bash their interviewee the most.
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Peter RubyFreshman“Professors assign work before (success week) and say we have the week to get it done so it really won’t make a difference.”
Stacia GerickeSenior“I just looked at my agenda and I have 3 projects due next week, so no.”
Cameron Hughes is a sophomore art and graphic design major who is tired of the disappointments that Christmas brings. Reach him at [email protected].
Lucas WhippoSenior“I think it can be good, assuming it is used for the right reasons.”
Lindsay SollarsJunior“I don’t think (the teachers) are honoring it. I don’t think it’s even relevant to nursing school.”
Megan BuckleyFreshman“I think it’s nice I think the finals are going to be hard and I want good grades.”
Ryan MasilionisJunior“I haven’t really had any issues with it, but it’s nice to have a week where the teachers don’t assign anything.”
REVIEW’S VIEW
With the end of the semester fast approaching, the Review was curious to find out if people will actually utilize the Success Week policy.
Journalism refuses to lay down and die
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Be sure to mention the page number and issue of any mistakes we make. Regina Budden is a senior mass
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As success week nears, students realize just how little their professors care about the policy that is supposed to en-sure maximum study time.
They’ve heard multiple times about how success week (or dead week or whatever you want to call it) can contribute to the academic excellence of their students. It’s also been part of the faculty handbook long be-fore the Love-Onek administra-tion made it a prominent issue on their campaign platform. Yet the faculty isn’t buying it.
Students run themselves ragged this time of year try-ing to finish final projects and semester compilations. Stress levels jump to the danger point, along with coffee, snack, ciga-rette and liquor sales.
It’s not that I think that col-lege professors are bad people. I understand that the song and dance routine performed by students every day (the it-must-have-been-accidentally-deleted and oops-I-didn’t-hear-you-s a y - t h a t r o u t i n e ) must get p r e t t y old, but that often leads to a callousness toward the individuals who do exert themselves in class.
That is the unfortunate part. Of course, there will be students who abuse the week of academic relaxation. Many of my counterparts whose pro-fessors have agreed to success week have already made their plans: for one week, they’ll party hard, play beer pong and drink whatever’s left of those Four Loko cans in the fridge. Then, Sunday night, they’ll hit the books again to salvage their brain puddles and grades.
Some students will not be partying and will use the lack of pressure to get in some ex-tra studying, and maybe a tad of relaxation as the week is in-tended.
However, I would like to point out that not all of the “party kids” are bad students, just as not all of the students who will be studying are mod-els of excellence. Some of them are students who have worked hard all semester, and are now reaping the fruits with a bit of worry free relief before once again plunging into caffeinated power-study sessions.
That’s what is so appeal-ing about success week. Not everyone studies the same way. I personally work well under pressure, so success week will be spent cleaning my apartment and doing final projects for all the classes where my profes-sors have conveniently ignored the administrative dictates. Fi-nals week will still be a rush of madness and strain, because that is just the way I roll. But not everyone is like me. A lot of people will actually use success week to study and prepare and do the “responsible thing.”
Professors just need to re-alize that while students such as myself will abuse the leeway given to us, measures like suc-cess week allow everyone, both the pressure workers and the people who shut down, to be able to practice their best meth-ods of preparation.
FROM THE EDITOR
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Beginning in 1979, during the hazy days of the southern California punk rock scene, Bad Religion introduced their unique brand of harmonized punk rock with their 1981 self-titled EP and later the punk classic “How Could Hell Be Any Worse?” As one can guess by the band’s name, Bad Reli-gion has, since the beginning, set their sights on organized religion. Early records popped out classics like “I Want to Conquer the World”, “(You Are) The Government”, “Flat Earth Society” and “Damned to Be Free.”
Earning a doctorate from Cornell University in zoology —based on research focused on evolutionary biology—and with regular teaching com-mitments to the University of California-Los Angeles, lead singer Gregory Walter Graffin, is possibly the smartest man to rock a microphone stand.
The rest of the band though, haven’t been slouch-es, either. Lead guitarist and co-songwriter Brett Gurewitz founded the indie-darling recording label, Epitaph Records to originally release the first Bad Religion albums. That label eventually flourished to include bands like the Off-spring. Geurwitz was in turn forced to temporarily leave the band in the mid-1990s to con-centrate on his label’s success.
To celebrate their 30th anniversary, the band began by releasing a free live album over the internet and then by introducing their 15th studio album “The Dissent of Man,”
A quick listen to the first three tracks “The Day That The Earth Stalled,” “Only Rain” and “The Resistance” should give you a pretty good idea about what this band is about.
Most interestingly, though is the fourth track “Won’t Some-body,” which began life as an acoustic demo on the deluxe edition of the band’s 2007 al-bum “New Maps of Hell.”
The overall awesomness of “Dissent of Man” is both an honor and a curse. It sounds just like a Bad Religion album should sound. All of the ele-ments are there: High Octane guitars, great vocal harmonies (fans of bands like Green Day and the Offspring should pay attention here—they got it from Bad Religion) and lyrics profound enough that a dic-tionary is required for transla-tion.
The downside of that awe-somness is that, when com-pared to the band’s 30 years of music, “Dissent of Man” actu-ally comes across as boring and forgettable. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, a lot of the bands people grew up loving have fallen into the same hole: U2, Metallica, R.E.M. Even
my beloved Pearl Jam have fallen into this same trap. It’s hard to keep the fire and passion of a band
just breaking through sustain-able. It’s hard to be in the same headspace as 30 years ago when you now have the title “doctor” added to your credentials, you’re noticeably balder than you used to be and you now have young children to care for.
Which finally brings the story back to Neil Young’s classic line, “Is it better to burn out than to fade away?” Kurt Cobain tried one answer. Bad Religion is looking to find another.
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John Austin’s book, “Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare,” can help you unleash your inner evil genius and be your guide to (mostly) harm-less revenge, which of course is a dish best served cold.
Working with typical of-fice supplies like pens, pencils, paper and rubber bands, the book takes you step-by-step through a series of build plans that range from harmless of-fice pranks to Mythbusters-approved “do not try this at
home.” Safety is, of course, priority number one in this book, so protective eyewear is advised for all projects.As William Shakespeare wrote in ‘Julius Cesar, “Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.”
For the paranoid, please note: This is not “The Anar-chist’s Cookbook.” In fact, even the most explosive proj-ects are only designed to make a loud boom, at most. “Mini Weapons” is more prank than terrorist blueprint and (prob-ably) won’t get you listed on the Transportation Security Administration’s no-fly list. This book really is “for enter-
tainment purposes only.”The book is broken down
into sections including “small launchers,” “bows and sling-shots,” “darts,” “catapults” and the ever-popular “combustion shooters” and “minibombs and Claymore mines.” The proj-ects range in complexity from 60 seconds to 60 minutes.
If you are fighting an in-tense battle of cubicle warfare, build yourself a bb Pencil. Us-ing a mechanical pencil, rubber bands, tape and Airsoft bb’s for ammo, you can make yourself a shooter capable on inflicting, well, zero damage to your op-ponent. It will, however, get
someone’s attention. And if you want to get really fancy, you can add a laser pointer for aim and a clip for holding ad-ditional ammunition.
The Maul Gun is particu-larly impressive. Capable of piercing cardboard with ease, the gun is made of nothing more than binder clips and rubber bands. While it’s not the most accurate weapon in your cubicle arsenal, it does throw pencils with admirable velocity. Never underestimate the power of rubber bands.
If you need to get the at-tention of someone in the next cubicle, well grab your #2 Cat-apult and unleash a torrent of erasers, paperclips or spitballs on all who chose to ignore you. In the wrong hands, rubber bands can, indeed, be poten-tially dangerous.
If you have a roommate who won’t leave the thermo-stat alone, simply booby trap said thermostat with a mouse-trap claymore mine designed to shoot Nerds candy in the general direction of anyone foolish enough to change the thermostat. For a more Holly-
wood effect, replace the Nerds with flour for a big “poof.”
This book makes for great “rainy-day” fun. It’s like Kin-dergarten crafts—only more entertaining. The projects are easy to build, require materials that can be easily found around the home or office and can provide hours of time-wasting
fun.So the next time you enter
the Student Publications of-fice, watch out for the sign that says, “Death from Above!!!!!”
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Ryan HodgesWASHBURN REVIEW
Full-time student. Fifteen credit hours, mostly upper divi-sion Spanish and Mass Media classes. Part-time job at a day care. Graduation, a quick year and a half away.
This sounds like the typi-cal profile of a college student, working toward a degree, and working even more to pay for said degree. Now, add in the full-time hobby: amateur Bi-cycle Motocross (BMX) biker, This is the life of Washburn stu-dent Bridget Walter.
Born and raised in Topeka, Walter was introduced to BMX 12 years ago when her twin brother, Devin, began partici-pating in the sport.
“My brother started racing a year before me, and I went to all of his races. I decided I wanted to try it out, too,” said Bridget Walter. “I didn’t like it that much at first because I didn’t really care about it. I was just doing it because my brother was doing it.”
Her enthusiasm grew gradually. Today, Walter’s en-tire family is involved in the sport. Her parents took over—and now run the local BMX track, Heartland BMX, where she and Devin help out.
“[Running the track] is gratifying be-cause you get to go out there and do all the work and you get to see these little kids come out and race,” said Michael Wal-ter, Bridget’s father. “Some of them are slower and some are faster, and then all of a sudden, one kid will get it. They get this fire in their eyes and they start to really want to compete. It makes it all worth it.”
On top of school and work, Walter practices once a week, for two hours, and races once a week. BMX bikers stay in shape by training in the areas of weight lifting, plyometrics, and sprints.
The BMX season runs from March to November, giv-ing bikers a break through the winter months.
Locally, BMX interest is
small, so for most competitions, Walter and her brother travel out of state. To date, they have competed throughout the Mid-west, as well as in New Mexico, Florida, South Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Since local races are sparsely attended, Walter finds herself competing against her twin, but when asked about sibling rivalry, she jokingly ex-plained.
“My brother usually wins, but that’s better than racing someone slower because I’m constantly trying to keep up,” said Walter.
Margaret Walter, Bridget’s mother, agreed that sibling ri-valry is not a real issue, attrib-uting this geniality to the fact that they are two siblings not of the same sex.
“When it comes to the na-tionals and big races, where it really counts, they aren’t in the same class, so it isn’t so much of a problem,” said Margaret Walker.
“I think just being able to watch the kids race and do well is my favorite part of the sport. I really enjoy most the aspects of it. I like meeting new fami-lies and hanging out with them
whenever we see them at a national. Just the whole expe-rience.”
Both Wal-ter children are sponsored by Redline Bicycles, a manufacturing company, and Adventure Bi-cycles, a shop based out of Minnesota. The sponsorsh ips
include bikes, parts and uni-forms. Each racer competes on two bikes, the Class or 20-inch wheel bike, and the Cruiser, or 24-inch wheel.
“A national competition takes all weekend, said Bridget Walter. There will be practice Friday afternoon, and a pre-race on Friday evening. Then practice Saturday morning. National No. 1 is Saturday afternoon, and National No. 2 is on Sunday. There are two qualifying rounds, and then the main event. There are usually 1,000 racers, give or take,
at each national race,” said Bridget Walter.
Walter is currently ranked first in the nation on her Cruis-er, and fifth in the nation on her Class bike.
For each race a biker partic-ipates in, he or she accumulates points, which are how rankings are decided. Points earned in local races accumulate to create a district ranking, and national competitions do the same for nation ranking. Along with points, all races give trophies to the winners.
Devin Walter explained that BMX has its definite ad-vantages over other more-com-mon sports.
“Everyone gets to shred. There is no sitting on the bench here or waiting for someone to pass you the ball,” said Devin Walter.
So far in the two Walters’ careers as amateur BMX bik-ers, they have had the opportu-nity to meet numerous profes-sional BMX bikers, including two athletes who competed in the most recent Olympics.
“We met Kyle Bennett and Donny Robinson, and they were really cool guys. They’re spon-sored by companies like Nike and McDonalds, so they’re big names,” said Bridget Walter. Ryan Hodges is a junior social
work major. He can be reached at [email protected]
Bring the rain... and spitballsBook teaches art of cubicle warfare
The Maul Gun: Composed of nothing more than binder clips and rubber bands, the Maul Gun is capable of launching a pencil or other projectile with enough force to penetrate cardboard. The Maul Gun is one of several projects featured in the book ‘Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction.’ To see video of the Maul Gun in action, check online at www.washburnreview.org.
Photo by Ryan Hodges, Washburn Review
Ryan HodgesWASHBURN REVIEW
Ryan Hodges is a junior social work major. He can be reached at [email protected]
Washburn student hits BMX trackJennie LoucksWASHBURN REVIEW
Jennie Loucks is is a member of Re-gina Cassell’s feature writing class.
Photo courtesy of Bridget Walter
Over The Hills and Far Away: Bridget Walter, a Washburn junior, competes in a BMX competition. Balancing a heavy class load and a part-time job, Walter has followed in her twin brother’s footsteps in motocross competition.
Illustration courtesy of ‘Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction’
They get this fire in their eyes and they start to really want to compete. It makes it all worth it.
- Bridget WalterBMX racer and
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Guest speaker Hesham Soliman spoke about the won-ders of Egypt, for the Washburn Alumni Association.
The Washburn Alumni As-sociation is sponsoring a trip to Egypt from May 21 to 31, 2011, which includes a four-day cruise down the Nile River. This is the Association’s first trip to Egypt.
This fall, the Washburn Alumni Association returned from a trip to Spain, Italy, Por-tugal and Gibraltar on an Ibe-rian Peninsula cruise. The As-sociation sponsors two trips a year, one in the fall, and one in the spring.
“We have travelled all over the world,” said Susie Hoff-mann, director of the Washburn Alumni Association.
Soliman has been an Egyp-tologist for the past 20 years, and centered his presentation on ancient Egyptian art, history and religion. Soliman showed a 12-minute film on Egypt’s highlights, as well as various historical sites.
“Every inch of Egypt has something to see and do,” said Soliman. “It will be as if you’re on a time machine, villages are the same as they were 5,000 years ago.”
Egypt has a dry climate, and is more arid in the south.
“You would not need a jacket in May,” said Soliman.
Arabic is the primary lan-guage spoken in Egypt, but people also speak English and French. One-third of the “Seven Wonders of the World,” are in Luxor.
“The best feature about Egypt is the people. They’re very friendly and it is very safe, both day and night,” said Soliman. “They’re very helpful if you get lost, and help find you find your way. They provide the best Egyptologists and tour guides. They show everything both modern and ancient, and it all comes together beautifully.”
The Association will leave from Kansas City International Airport to John F. Kennedy Air-port in New York, then non-stop to Cairo. Guests will stay at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Cairo, and then will go to Abu Simbel and Aswan, where they will go on a four-day cruise down the Nile.
“Those who haven’t visited Egypt by cruise haven’t seen all of Egypt,” said Soliman.
Once arriving in Luxor, they will fly back to Cairo for the remainder of the trip before returning home May 31.
The cost per person is $3,995. The tour includes transportation, hotel accom-
modations, 18 meals, and tour h ighl ights . The deposit for the trip is $350 per person, and is due by March 18, 2011. They will have a maximum of 40 people on
the trip, so it will be on a first come, first serve basis.
“We’ve sold out every trip we have taken,” said Hoffman. “The benefit of travelling as a group is safety in numbers.”
To make reservations, or for more information about the trip, contact Hoffmann at [email protected], or visit the Washburn Alumni Association office, located in-side of the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center.
Michelle BoltzWASHBURN REVIEW
Michelle Boltz is a sophomore mass media major. Reach her at [email protected].
Lecture previews Egypt trip
For those interested in new, local rock, Head Change is one group to check out.
They played a packed house this last Friday at the Granada in Lawrence, 1020 Massachusetts Street, along with two other local Topeka and Lawrence bands, Mirror Image and Sixteen Penny. Promoting their new album “The Truth” which released on Friday, they sold 100 copies at their nearly sold-out show.
Head Change has been together for a few years, and originally consisted of different members. Wyatt Decsh, lead vocalist says the band has been around for seven years, but the current members have been to-gether for about a year and a half. Josh Sterling, guitarist, is an original member who grew up with Decsh and have been playing together since their school years. Dustin Robbins, drummer, and Nathan Sterling, bass guitar were both recruited by Decsh and Sterling after go-ing through one or two others who didn’t perform to stan-dards.
The group has been creat-ing songs together and Decsh describes the new songs as a collaboration of everyone writ-ing their own parts to tell a story. They still play original
songs from the first years, but are getting enough new songs that they don’t need to play the old ones.
Head Change plays all over Topeka in various bars, most popular at the Boobie Trap and Ruffnecks on weekends, as the headliners. They have also done shows in Kansas City, Lawrence and Emporia, as their fan base is getting larger with every show.
Not only have they accu-mulated many fans in the time they have been playing, but their album producer, Paul Sch-neider of RunDown Studios, saw something special in them as well.
When talking about stu-dio time and actually recording their songs, Decsh described Schneider as someone who they hit off with immediately and helped them with recording.
“[Schneider] has believed in us and gave us a lot more
time in the studio,” said Decsh. “He has been close and honest with us from the beginning.”
Their music is a cross between Tool and Breaking Benjamin, Decsh’s voice re-splendent of Benjamin and the melodies similar to Tool. Al-though their sound is like these bands, they still have their own emotion that tells the truth of their band.
“We are original, we are not trying to be like everyone else is today,” said Sterling when describing the band’s sound.
Head Change’s new album is available on iTunes. The band is also on Facebook and album requests can be e-mailed to [email protected].
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Head Change hosts CD release showTrish PetersonWASHBURN REVIEW
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Trish Peterson is a sophomore mass media major. Reach her at [email protected].
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Travel Itinerary:
Day 1 – Depart U.S.Day 2 – CairoDay 3 – Cairo - Abu Sim-bel - Aswan Nile CruiseDay 4 - Nile Cruise - Kom Ombo - EdfuDay 5 - Nile Cruise - Edfu - Luxor Day 6 - Nile Cruise - Luxor Day 7 - Luxor - CairoDay 8 – CairoDay 9 - CairoDay 10 – Return to U.S.
review sportsAfter losing two exhibi-
tion games against the Univer-sity of Kansas and Kansas State University, the Washburn Lady Blues basketball team started the season strong on Nov. 15, beating Southwest College 91-60.
“The level of play is a little lower than what we play at,” said Ron McHenry, Lady Blues coach, of the victory. “So, com-ing in, we needed a little confi-dence. We needed to play well. We needed to get our heads up after taking a couple of bumps against some pretty teams.”
Members of the team were quite satisfied with the outcome of the game.
“Yeah, we did get off to a good start,” said Raychel Bol-
ing, senior forward. “It takes us a while to get used to each other playing, since we are a young and new team, but I believe we did really well. We executed the plays right and I think this season will be a great season.”
Boling had one thing in particular in mind going into the season.
“I’m really looking for-ward to playing Emporia because last year, we did win against them, but they did win the national championship,” said Boling. “So it’s really a goal for us to win against them and go to battle with them and hopefully kick their butts.”
Senior forward Alyssa Mullen discussed the difficulty of bonding with an entirely new
team.“We only have two seniors
this year,” said Mullen. “We lost four or five last year and our entire starting lineup, so we have to completely rebuild our team from the ground up.”
Mullen also looks forward to dominating the court, just as her favorite dinosaur Tyranno-saurus Rex dominated the Cre-
taceous Period.“I’m looking
forward to a dif-ferent role,” said Mullen. “I’ve always been a
defensive role and rebounding and everything like that. I’m trying to step up to more of a scoring and just being a team leader.”
Coach McHenry was ex-cited to test out the new batch of players on the court.
“A lot of these kids have played in our system, just not maybe starters,” said McHenry. “So we have kind of a younger, less experienced group right now that is gaining experience all the time. At some point, we got to, we’re talking about young and inexperienced, be-come players, and carry our-selves to win championships, which this team has the abil-ity to do. So, I think its a little slower process, but we should, if we all buy into it, run the sys-tem, I think we can.”
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Fantasy leagues await playoffs
As the fantasy football playoff weeks draw near, a few last minute changes could mean the difference between playing in a consolation game and win-ning the league championship.
Brian Westbrook - San Francisco 49ers, RB
START ‘EM: Westbrook is replacing Pro Bowl running back Frank Gore after Gore suffered a fractured hip Mon-day night. Westbrook rushed 23 times for 136 yards and a touchdown in the Niners’ 27-6 victory against the Arizona Car-dinals, and should remain the starter for the rest of the season. As far as his skill set, he is very similar to Gore but has been hampered in the past by injuries. With only five games left in the season, and considering his workload has been minimal this season, chances are good he will make it through the fantasy playoffs unscathed.
Fred Jackson—Buffalo Bills, Running Back
SIT ‘EM: Jackson has played very strong as of late, having big games against De-troit, Cincinnati and last Sun-day against Pittsburgh. This week, however, may be a good time to sit him if you have other viable options at running back. Jackson will be facing a tough front seven from Minnesota, which last year was amongst the league’s best rushing de-fenses and this year, despite being less dominant, are still quite staunch in the middle as the fifth best run defense in the NFL. The Minnesota lineback-ers have enough speed to keep Jackson from totaling another 100-yard receiving game as he did against Pittsburgh, and Buf-falo quarterback Ryan Fitzpat-rick will probably be looking to target Steve Johnson and his other receivers downfield quite a bit against Minnesota’s weak secondary. If you don’t have any other options, he may still be worth starting, but I wouldn’t count on it this week.
Steve Johnson—Buffalo Bills, WR
START ‘EM: After an emo-tional breakdown following his dropped game-winning touch-down pass in the Pittsburgh game, Johnson will be looking to rebound in a big way against the NFL’s No. 14 pass defense. He has had a swirl of contro-versy after apparently blaming God for the dropped pass on his Twitter account, but most great receivers tend to come with baggage. If you’re looking for a huge point total this week from a wide receiver, put Johnson in your starting line up and say a little prayer.
Randy Moss—Tennessee Titans, WR
SIT ‘EM: Since rookie quarterback Rusty Smith was unable to do anything against the lousy Houston Texans pass defense, don’t expect things to improve this week as they take on another lackluster second-ary from Jacksonville. Moss
has caught only four passes in the three games he’s played with Ten-nessee, and al-though you could
say he’s improving, you could also say he’s got nowhere to go but up. Fellow Tennessee re-ceiver Nate Washington should also be riding the bench, if you haven’t already dropped him.
Jacoby Ford—Oakland Raiders, WR
START ‘EM: Ford has been impressive lately, having big games against the Kan-sas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins. He not only does a good job on the receiving end, but also in the return game, as he returned the opening kickoff against the Dolphins 101 yards for a touchdown. The Raiders will look to run heavily against the Chargers this weekend, but he has a solid chance to use his speed for a breakaway touch-down reception or another big return. Following that game he faces two very weak pass defenses in Jacksonville and Denver. He has yet to string together multiple solid games, but that could begin this week.
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Josh Rouse is a senior mass media major. Reach him at [email protected].
Ichabod basketball cleans upThe Ichabod basketball
team left all memories behind of their three exhibition losses, disposing of Peru State College (Neb.), 97-50 in their first regu-lar season game of the year.
Washburn held Peru State to just 31 percent shooting on the night and forced 27 turn-overs.
With the Ichabod defense making opportunities, it seemed to kick-start an offense that had previous struggles on the offen-sive end. The Ichabods shot a staggering 60 percent from the field, going 9-20 from three-point range.
The Ichabods followed their opening night win with another victory, trouncing Kan-sas Wesleyan University.
Their shots continued to fall with regularity in the friendly confines of Lee Arena, using three pointers to jump start a 99-52 win.
The Ichabods tied a school record converting 15 three-pointers, 11 of which were in the opening half. Their hot start offensively was preceded once again by a stellar effort on the defensive end of the floor, forc-ing the Coyotes into 26 turn-overs on the night.
The Ichabods looked to continue their success, head-ing west for the Grand Canyon Thanksgiving Invitational and an opening night game against
the Antelopes of Grand Canyon University.
The Ichabods victory was overshadowed by a career-high 38 point performance by senior forward, Logan Stutz. Stutz caught fire early scoring 17 points in the first half, leading the Ichabods to a 40-31 lead at the half. Washburn never re-linquished the lead in an 86-81 win over the host school.
The Ichabods’ second game of the Turkey Day sab-batical pitted them against Fort Lewis College. The Ichabods fell for the first time this season in a 66-77 loss to the Skyhawks.
Washburn could not continue their offensive prowess, con-necting on a season-low four three-pointers and shot just 37 percent from the field. Stutz led the Ichabods with 22 points following his 38 point perfor-mance the night before.
Adversity can bring a team closer together and catapult it to an expected level of per-formance. With the start of the MIAA season on tap, the Icha-bods cannot dwell on their final game defeat in Arizona.
Washburn opens the con-ference schedule on Dec. 1 in a matchup against the Univer-
sity of Nebraska—Omaha; the team that brought their 2009-2010 MIAA tournament run and season to a close. After the exhibition slate and start of the regular season, the Ichabods have shown that they can make the necessary adjustments to become a championship caliber team. Expectations are high for this Ichabod team as the season begins with the start of confer-ence play.
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Sharp shooter: Stevi Schultz, Lady Blues junior, shoots against Kansas State. The Lady Blues are ranked No. 4 in the country and play tonight.
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Strong Start: After losing their first three exhibition games against Division I oppnents, the Ichabods are showing a strong start toward a winning season. Washburn’s first conference game is tonight at 7pm in Lee Arena.
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Ancient Taoist masters once proclaimed, “Don’t start none, won’t be none.” At-tendees of Washburn Ichabods’ football games have no doubt noticed the Marching Blues, who frequently interact with both the crowd and the rival contenders.
Along with their instru-mental support of the team, the band has made its mission to intimidate and taunt opposing teams with brass, percussion, and woodwind instruments.
“We just want everybody in the crowd and on the field to get involved and get excited,” said Nick Scott, sophomore marching band member. “The marching band repre-sents the school. Peo-ple see the marching band, and they’re like, ‘Oh, they’re so cool and organized.’ We just get ev-erybody energized.”
To achieve their goals in the past, the Marching Blues have goaded opposing teams, but there are limits to what is acceptable behavior in the line of duty.
“We try not to swear,” said Scott. “We try not to do any-thing derogatory to the other team because they’re doing what they need to do, but it doesn’t always work that way. It’s college sports, after all.”
Scott reminisced about a particular incident in which an adversary resembled a char-
acter from the Oscar-winning motion picture.
“There was a player who looked like he was from a mov-ie,” said Scott. “That movie was ‘Avatar.’ So he would come over to the sideline, and I’d shout ‘Avatar!” and he would just make this angry face, so I knew he’d been called that before.”
Scott also clarified the age-old dispute of the difference be-tween the Washburn marching band and the pep band.
“The marching band plays at football games,” said Scott, who is a member of the pep band as well. “And the pep band plays at basketball games, both girls and boys.”
Antics similar to those of the football games seem to have
made their way off of the gridiron and onto the basketball court. At one of last year’s games, the
pep band nearly caused a foul for Washburn after making of-fensive and obscene gestures with a flute.
“I didn’t go to many bas-ketball games last year, but I plan to make it to as many as I can this year,” said Scott. “I don’t that either of the Wash-burn basketball teams get near-ly enough support, and I think it will a ton of fun to cheer them on in a different venue.”
A night after watching the Amarillo Bulls come from be-hind with three third period goals to win, the Topeka Road-Runners wanted to answer.
Five goals in the second period seemed like a reason-able answer. Three goals by Amarillo (15-5-1) in the third period made it close for com-fort.
But in the end, the Road-Runners were able to hold on the Bulls late charge as they defeated Amarillo 5-4 Saturday night at Landon Arena.
Topeka coach Scott Langer said for the first two periods, in which his team held a 27-12 shot advantage, his team re-sponded how he wanted them
to after losing 3-2 the night be-fore.
“We attacked with great energy (in the second period,)” said Langer. “I thought every-one was contributing on all
four lines. Our defense picked it up.”
A f t e r a difficult night on the powerp lay the previ-ous night, Topeka (14-6-2) scored three straight powerp lay goals by Brian Chris-tie, Nate Milam, and Jacob Poe at
the 5:54, 7:19, and 7:42 marks to propel them. They followed with two more even strength goals from Justin Hussar and Ryan White later in the period to give them a 5-0 lead.
But after a late second pe-riod goal from the Bulls made
it a 5-1 game going into second intermission. The third period, which accounted for 77 penalty minutes overall and multiple game misconducts, saw an even strength goal from Amarillo’s Chris Cass at the 12:52 mark to make it a three goal game. With 5 on 3 powerplays on both oc-casions, the Bulls tacked on goals at the 17:26 and 19:00 mark and pulled their goalie in the final minute in attempt to tie the game but were unsuccessful as Topeka held on for the vic-tory.
Rasmus Tirronen got the victory for Topeka, stopping 18 of 22 shots. Amarillo pulled its starter Nikifor Szczerba after he gave up three goals on 20 shots. Steve Bolton then stopped 10 of 12 shots, getting the loss for the Bulls.
Ryan White, who had the game-winning goal and two as-sists on the night, was overall satisfied his team was able to pull off the victory, regardless of circumstances, going into a road series next weekend with the St. Louis Bandits. St. Louis is currently leading the North
American Hockey League North Division with a 18-7-3 record.
“That was the biggest thing for us (to win against Amarillo) so now we can at least go into St. Louis with our heads up,” said White. “Hopefully, we’ll put a whole 60 minutes togeth-er.”
Langer also acknowledged there were struggles over the weekend for both of the game’s third periods, but that they can’t let that affect their mentality.
“You can’t dwell on that third period, because I really do believe we played four solid pe-riods of hockey this weekend,” said Langer. “Things some-times don’t go right, but we’re not going to dwell on it, we’re just going to move ahead.”
From as far away as Chi-na to as close as Topeka every Washburn student has a journey and a story to tell. For one mem-ber of the Lady Blues basket-ball team, coming to Washburn is but one step on her trek.
Sierra Moeller started her journey in Pierre, S.D. where she grew up. Her first recol-lections of her youth revolved around the sport that she came to love as a child. Starting out in third grade, Moeller figured out early on that this was a sport she could really enjoy.
“I just really loved play-ing,” said Moeller. “It’s just one of those things that came natu-rally to me so I just fell in love with that.”
As she continued in her playing career, her parents sought out opportunities for her daughter. Being from a smaller community with no American Amateur Union opportunities in the state, Moeller and her mother showed their dedica-
tion in making a routine eight-hour drive to Minnesota so that she could join a club team and have a chance to travel around the country playing against top talent.
During her time play-ing AAU basketball, Moeller started looking at colleges and initially had her eyes set on the University of New Mexico.
It wouldn’t be until through some mutual friends that she came to the attention of Boise State University. So Moeller once again set her sights on a new school and ended up at-tending BSU for her freshman year where she appeared in 32 games and had success.
However, her time at Boise State just wasn’t what she was looking for and she left school and came home.
“It was a nice school with nice people but I just never re-ally felt comfortable there,” said Moeller.
After taking a semester off, Moeller then started working at a golf course in the Lawrence, area as she enrolled at the Uni-
versity of Kansas for her soph-omore year.
Eventually, Moeller had visits lined up with Brigham Young University in Utah to play basketball there. Her plans though were interrupted by Washburn head basketball coach Ron McHenry.
“He just came in right there at the snack table at the golf course where I was work-ing and recruited me right there, always saying that if I changed my mind that he would love to talk me coming to Washburn,” said Moeller.
Knowing nothing about Washburn, Moeller came to Topeka and looked around the campus. Seeing the level of ac-complishment in McHenry’s tenure at Washburn registered with Moeller, giving her some-thing to think about as she planned to go out to Utah.
“I mean, seeing the nation-al title trophy and all the win-ning seasons really made me realize that coach Mac had a great thing going at Washburn,” said Moeller.
As she set out to see the campus at BYU, second thoughts crept through her mind.
“As I was driving to-ward Denver, I just didn’t feel right about the decision to go down there so I turned around and called coach Mac,” said Moeller.
Now that Moeller is at Washburn, she feels at peace with her decision to stay with the Lady Blues.
“I feel like everything just fits right here,” said Moeller.
Part of the appeal to her is the close knit group that is Lady Blues basketball giving her the sense of belonging at Wash-burn.
“It’s kind of a family type thing,” said Moeller. “Off the court we’re close, so it’s great.”
A8 Sports • Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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Long road?: Sierra Moeller, Lady Blues basketball plyaer, has taken the long road before finally ending up at Washburn.
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