Stereotypes were broken and stories were told during Tuesday night’s Faces of Homelessness Panel discus-sion in the Shawnee Room of the Memorial Union. Approx-imately 50 people gathered to hear members of the Lawrence Community Shelter discuss the problem of homelessness in the Topeka/Lawrence area, and share stories of their own experiences.

“A lot of people think of homeless people as a person who likes to get drunk and not do any-thing,” said Dustin Allen, a 10-year employee of the shelter. “That’s so far from the truth it’s not even funny.”

Laughs permeated the heavy topic, to lighten the mood and bring the discussion into a different light. “Happy Birthday” was sang in the style of Elvis Presley to junior An-gelique Flinn, by shelter case manager Brian Blevins. How-ever sad or humorous, the main focus of the evening’s discus-sion was breaking stereotypes and telling stories.

“When you see homeless people, I hope you don’t judge them by their actions,” said James Gaillard, a friend of the Lawrence Community Shelter.

Gaillard shared his person-al life story, as did the five oth-er panel members. Gaillard, an

Army veteran from Operation Desert Storm, was discharged from the military for marijua-na use. He would later be di-agnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and was home-less off and on for

many years.“In war, you see things

you don’t want to see,” said Gaillard.

After falling back on God and his faith, Gaillard decided to do something positive with his life, and give back to others who might be struggling with similar situations.

“I’ve crawled out of this stagnant life I used to live,” said Gaillard. “Only doing something positive could actu-ally help me stay where I want to be.”

Gaillard is one of 23 full-time staff members of the Law-rence shelter, which is currently undergoing a change in loca-tion. The current shelter, locat-

ed on 10th and Kentucky in Lawrence, has been over-pop-ulated for three years, and has served 726 people so far this year. The Topeka Rescue Mis-sion serves about 2,000 people

a year, in comparison to Lawrence’s projected

1,000 for 2012. The new shel-

ter in Lawrence is a 25,000 square-foot complex with an

additional four acres o f open ground, for a playground and like items.

“We’ve got resources out our ears,” said Brian Blevins, a case manager at the shelter.

Blevins shared his story as well: abused as a child, recov-ering alcoholic, and who could have been a successful coun-try-western singer.

He went through 13 treat-ment facilities for alcoholism. After sobering up and getting a degree from the University of Kansas, he came back to work at the shelter.

“I am Brian Blevins again,” said Blevins. “I don’t

know who that other monster was.”

The main theme of the dis-cussion: community involve-ment. According to the panel members, the community with-i n the shelter, as well as

the surrounding area, is equally important to the success of the Lawrence Community Shelter and Topeka Rescue Mission alike.

“We goof around a lot, but we cry a lot too,” said Blevins. “We invest a lot of love in clients.”

The discussion was not solely aimed at Law-

rence issues. Topeka’s homeless problem--and

ways that the community is combating it--was also dis-cussed.

“If you don’t serve the poor with love, they will hate you for it,” said shelter director Loring Henderson.

The Lawrence Community Shelter has had a long-stand-ing internship program with Washburn. This internship is available for students focusing on programs related to social work, and have a strong inter-est in helping others.

For more information, vis-it www.lawrenceshelter.org.

Sharing Sensitive Stories: Members of the Lawrence Community Shelter sat and discussed stories of their life and their work with a room-full of students on Tuesday, Nov. 13. The panel discussion was part of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week on campus. More events pertaining to homelessness awareness are scheduled on campus for the rest of this week.

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Monday, Nov. 19

High School Art Day: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Capturing the Spirit: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Garvey Fine Arts Center/Mulvane Muse-um Gallery

Lasting Impressions: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Garvey Fine Arts Center/Mulvane Muse-um Gallery

Friday, Nov. 16

Paint Washburn Art Auction: Memorial Union, Stauffer Commons

Running for Healthier Lives: 9 to 11 a.m., east side of Petro

Saturday, Nov. 17

Sunday, Nov. 18

Capturing the Spirit: 1 to 4 p.m., Garvey Fine Arts Cen-ter/Mulvane Museum Gallery

Lasting Impressions: 1 to 4 p.m., Garvey Fine Arts Cen-ter/Mulvane Museum Gallery

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Thanksgiving Buffet: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Memorial Union, Washburn Room

Leadership Institute Advi-sory Board Meeting: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center

Women’s and Gender Stud-ies Brown Bag—Senora Presidente: noon to 1 p.m., Memorial Union, Stauffer Commons

Women’s Basketball vs. Southwestern College: 5:30 p.m., Lee Arena

Dive! Living off America’s Waste: 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Men’s Basketball vs. Peru State College: 7:30 p.m., Lee Arena

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Lasting Impressions: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Garvey Fine Arts Center/Mulvane Muse-um Gallery

Diversity Initiative—Sto-rytelling: noon to 1:30 p.m., Mabee Library

Oxfam America Hunger Banquet: 6 to 8 p.m., Memorial Union, Stauffer Commons

Crane Observatory Open House: 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 15

In October the first part of this series gathered students’ reactions to higher online tui-tion rates. Some students did not mind paying $192 more for a 3-hour course. Some students preferred taking classroom courses for the in-person inter-action and access to professors. However, others, especially in the nursing program, were faced with no classroom alter-natives to certain online cours-es. This last group of students felt strongly that their online courses cost them much more and delivered an inferior learn-ing experience.

This second article dis-cusses online courses from the perspective of the university, and it takes into account cost considerations.

Washburn’s $64/hr sur-charge for online courses is high among its peer institutions. Only Kansas State Universi-ty, with a surcharge of $100, charges a higher differential.

But charging an online pre-mium is not uncommon among universities in Kansas and in the United States. Training fac-ulty in the use of online tech-nology and offering help desk support are the driving factors behind the surcharge, accord-ing to faculty and administra-tors interviewed for this article.

Angel is currently Wash-burn’s online course manage-ment system, and the university is taking bids to replace Angel with another system beginning with the next academic calen-dar year.

According to Stewart Mur-phy, Director of Online Educa-tion, Angel and any online sys-tem requires more tech support and training for faculty.

“With classroom courses, professors might just elect to put up some files. But in an on-line course you have to replace all the elements that happen in the classroom, such as discus-sion, submitting assignments and returning them graded, the online quizzing, and the com-munications between professor and student,” said Murphy. “So yes, there are more activities and tools, and therefore more training and support.”

Faculty investment of time and labor is another factor, ac-cording to information provid-ed by Nancy Tate, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs. A typical online course saves a professor two-and-a-half hours per week standing and lecturing in the classroom. But the same online course also adds 10 hours per week for the professor to read and to respond to students’ posts, con-cerns, and inquiries.

By contrast, in a classroom setting these concerns can be handled more efficiently, as a professor can answer common concerns for students all at once.

Rob Hull, professor of fi-nance, teaches an online course in the business school. He said the biggest time investment involves the learning curve as-sociated with changing online technology.

“The startup time of train-ing for online courses is great-er, but if you can teach the same course for at least three years then it begins to consume less time. But the biggest deterrent to teaching an online course is the constantly changing tech-nology,” said Hull, referring to online course management systems, such as the upcom-ing termination of Angel and the adoption of a new system. “When they do this, it is like starting all over again because you basically have to start the course from scratch.”

For Kerry Wynn, professor of history, her online courses involve the same investment of time but a different allocation of that time.

“For an online course once I’ve posted lectures, I don’t have to deliver them, so in that way it is less work. I write the lectures, and while I re-evaluate them every time I teach the course, I don’t have to standup and deliver 50-minute lectures,” said Wynn.

At the same time, Wynn

finds she is slowed by assign-ments, which are submitted on-line.

“The grading actually takes longer online. For me it’s much faster to write than it is to type. So I’m much faster at reading, marking, and mak-ing comments on papers when they’re in [hardcopy] form,” said Wynn. “So for online courses, the tasks are different and the workload is allocated differently, but the time com-mitment is the same.”

Although Washburn, among its peer universities in Kansas, charges a high online premium, Washburn’s baseline tuition of $225/credit-hr places Washburn in the middle of the pack.

This fact encourages uni-versity bursar Richard Selden. Selden handles collection of tu-ition money and disbursement

of university funds, and he is largely removed from setting online tuition rates and from discerning additional costs re-quired for online education.

But as the bursar, Selden compares the cost of a Wash-burn education to those of its peers, and he believes Wash-burn students are receiving val-ue for their tuition money. The baseline tuition, he believes, is a significant reason for this.

“Overall, Washburn pro-vides an excellent value in the learning experience, and the part I’m very happy about is that a Washburn education is affordable when it’s compared with the other universities in our state,” said Selden.

Rahul Venkat is a senior

computer science major. Reach him at RahulVenkat@outlook.com.

Washburn cites training, support for added online tuition costs

This article is the second of two about higher tuition rates for online education at Washburn. This week’s article exam-ine’s the administra-tion and faculty’s take on the issue.

The previous ar-ticle, which appeared in the October 24 is-sue of the Review ex-amined students’ per-spectives.

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The Eagle Has Landed: A Fox Model Blackhawk helicoptor, flown by the Kansas Air National Guard, landed in Memorial Union Lawn. Highland Park High School JROTC color guard presented their colors.

Veterans’ Day

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Brothers in Arms: (From left to right) Steven Baker, Blackhawk crew chief, and Washburn biochemistry major; Casey Atkins and Sean Mullus pose in front of the Blackhawk helicoptor. Thomas Romig, dean of the law school, spoke about soldiers and shared examples of American’s military.

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To this day, the Nazi re-gime’s rise to power baffles scholars and observers, even nearly 70 years after its fall. People are astonished how one nation, in a human lifetime, could transform from a thriv-ing center of sciences and hu-manities into a regime of war and genocide. This disturbing transformation has been the subject of numerous articles, essays, studies and retrospec-tive analyses.

Leslie Reynard, Washburn professor of communications, has taken interest in how social ideas begin as minority views, gather momentum and finally cross a ‘tipping point’ at which the ideas become majority views. Likewise, social ideas can begin as majority views then reverse course and regress toward the same tipping point going the other way before they fade into the minority. ‘Spiral of Silence’ describes this phe-nomenon.

Last month, Reynard was the featured speaker at the home of Jerry Farley, Washburn’s president, who hosted a gath-ering of 25 students for dinner and intellectual discussions. Farley’s roundtable dinners are held once a month, and students are chosen at random. For the honor, a Washburn professor of distinction is asked to lead and to moderate the discussion, and past topics have included the national debt, healthcare policy and gun control.

With the 2012 elections, Reynard stated this would be the first presidential election for many college students.

“I speak to groups about democracy, civil discourse and deception,” said Reynard. “With the election coming up, I wanted to tie in my talk with the ‘Spiral of Silence’ and en-courage students to discover their intentions and feelings about the election and to deter-mine whether students would be either actively participating in the process or avoiding it.”

‘Spiral of Silence’ emerged from the pioneering work of German political scientist Elis-abeth Noelle Neumann. After World War II, Neumann pon-dered the rise of the Third Re-ich, and she asked, “How could

this all have happened, and why did the German people allow this to happen?”

Reynard said Neumann’s ‘Spiral of Silence’ theory ex-plains how human beings, “do not want to be part of a per-ceived minority,” regardless of whether or not they’re in the mi-nority.

“ P e o -ple fear re-jection and social isola-tion, so the more they p e r c e i v e they’re in the minori-ty on social issues, the more silent they will be on those is-sues,” said Reynard.

S u r -p r i s ing ly, this fear isn’t limited to oppres-sive governments and heated political issues. It also happens in low-stakes, benign situa-tions. Reynard cited a classic study in which a human sub-ject was grouped with five to seven ‘conspirators’ who were presumed by the subject to be naïve volunteers for the same experiment.

When group members were shown a drawing of lines and asked to pick out the lon-gest line, the naïve subject se-lected the true longest line, but the conspirators voiced their selections for the shortest line. The naïve subject, after a few

rounds of d i s c u s -sion with peer pres-sure from the con-s p i r a t o r s , changed his pick and selected the true shortest line as rep-r e s e n t i n g the longest line.

“We’re very, very susceptible as human beings to social con-trol,” said

Reynard. “We have an internal monitor for embarrassment, fear of rejection and punish-ment by authority.”

“This causes us to take a particular stance or action, “if we feel we are accepted, or to shrink back from it if we feel that we are not accepted.”

Reynard believes the U.S. has conditions which make it

susceptible to ‘Spirals of Si-lence.’ She challenged students to identify views which might be majority views but appear to be minority views because so few people voice their opin-ions.

Students named govern-ment surveillance as one area in which Americans may be perpetuating a spiral of silence. Students agreed that surveil-lance was value-laden and per-tinent to many Americans. But they also believed that the issue was not very well publicized and that people weren’t raising the issue out of fear that their views were in the minority.

Students also identified America’s treatment of pris-oners of war, and how this treatment has brushed aside 35 years of the U.S.’s commit-ment to agreements at the Ge-neva Convention. One student voiced her opinion that, “to be held indefinitely in those types of conditions, and to have an entire country look the other way when not every captive was found to be a terrorist,” was akin to the Communist Red Scare of the early 1950s. Rey-nard concurred, saying, “We seem to be taking everyone who’s a follower of Islam and labeling them a terrorist.”

Reynard said that most re-search on the spiral of silence has been focused on television

and print, which were two mass mediums of the 20th Century. Reynard would like to see the theory tested on social media because, “social media has be-come so vast so quickly. View-points are diverse, and social media allow opinions to be distributed and expressed anon-ymously.”

Students interviewed af-ter the event came away with favorable impressions of the evening and of professor Rey-nard’s talk.

“I appreciated the oppor-tunity to have intelligent con-versation for an evening. I liked hearing about the ‘Spiral of Si-lence,’” said Maggie Sigler, a senior majoring in legal studies. “It wasn’t anything I had heard of in any of my classes. I didn’t know what to expect when they invited us here for dinner, and it turned out to be a stimulating conversation.”

Kelsey Fowler, a sec-ond-year law student, was en-couraged in her belief that peers of her generation think about political and social issues.

“I got out of this many different perspectives, and a

showing that our generation is engaged,” said Fowler. We have different perspectives, but people still care. It may not be party politics that we care about, but we care about the issues because these are issues we’re going to have to live with.”

For Cassandra Blackwell, a senior majoring in history, her knowledge of social issues was deepened by attending the roundtable discussion.

“I knew some of the issues from my courses in commu-nication. But one area which amazed me was the magnitude of surveillance and privacy is-sues,” said Blackwell. “They are not considered issues, be-cause they lack publicity. And I think they should be discussed more. But it never ceases to amaze me how much everyone is willing to engage in an intel-lectual discussion, especially in the presence of Washburn’s president, in his home.”

Rahul Venkat is a senior

computer science major. Reach him at RahulVenkat@outlook.com.

Students discuss ‘spiral of silence’, oppression

By Crooked Steps: Leslie Reynard, Washburn professor of communications, recently spoke to a round table discussion hosted by Washburn president Jerry Farley on the subject of social ‘tipping points.’ Farley hosts a different roundtable discussion every month.

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—Maggie SiglerSenior, legal studies

It wasn’t anything I had heard about in my classes. I didn’t know what to expect when they invited us here to dinner, and it turned out to be a stimulating conver-sation.

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Washburn Tech recently received a $10,000 grant from the Ingersoll Rand Foundation, which will help fund the de-velopment of the new Midwest Training Center for climate and energy control technologies. The training center will offer a series of certifications collabo-ratively developed in conjunc-tion with the National Coalition of Certification Centers.

The center’s goal is to pro-vide existing and new workers the additional training needed to help current and new firms grow in the region. The MTC will achieve this goal by providing a system of connected and stack-able credentials to existing tech-nicians, to new students and to displaced workers for multiple programs and industry sectors. The center will also provide train-the-trainer opportunities to secondary and post-second-ary instructors throughout the Midwest.

“Trane is honored to sup-port Washburn Tech in the development of the Midwest Training Center,” said Keven Ward, the public sector con-sultant for Trane. “The train-ing center will serve business and industry throughout the Midwest region by producing trained employees with nation-ally recognized certifications, and to provide access to short term training and certifications for incumbent workers as well.”

The MTC is scheduled to be open later this fall and certi-fication programs will begin the first week of December. Wash-burn Tech leaders anticipate over 30 emergent workers will be trained in industry specific certification programs by the end of January 2013. To learn more about the Midwest Train-ing Center please visit www.washburntech.edu.

Fatima Oubaid is a sophomore mass media major. She can be reached at fatima.oubaid@washburn.edu.

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“I think the government should always in-crease public assistance with poverty to reduce levels as much as possible, because it helps the economy.”

This week is national hunger and homelessness awareness week, so we wanted to know…

Lukas Ryan Utz, sophomore Political Science

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“There is huge room for the gov-ernment to actually go around and legitimately find ways to help these people earn an income and feel sup-ported.”

Jean-Luc Chinal , senior Psychology

“I like bearded ladies.”

“If people have no options like because of foreclosure, they lost a job, stuff like that, the government should step in and help them out as much as possible.”

“I think they should do a lot more so that people don’t have to stand on the streets and beg for money.”

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

Sitting on the front steps, one single tear trickled down my cheek and landed by a snowflake. Even through the pain, I could see simplicity and yet the beauty of the moment. I bowed my head, told myself to suck it up. I wiped away the next tears before they could fall. I was freezing, but I refused to go back inside. It didn’t feel like my home anymore, and it wasn’t in two days anyway.

Two boxes, one laundry basket and a box of Honey Bunches of Oats. Five years ago, these items were every-thing I was left with when my mother decided to leave and take most of my belongings with her.

It was simply clothes, blankets and a few movies. Staring out the back window of the truck I was in, I looked at these possessions as my life-line. I felt almost numb. I knew I could still be sad. I knew that I had every right to be angry, but at the time the numbness eased my heartbreak.

Living with my alcoholic mother, wasn’t exactly ideal. But I shuttered to think of the things I would lose, whether I would be able to finish school, carry on or even come close to fulfilling my dreams of becom-ing a writer.

The small town that I’m from doesn’t have sheltered liv-

ing or rescue missions. What it does have is a knack for people talking and not going straight to the source. I was a teenager, abandoned by my family who chose drugs and alcohol over me, but some people around town had heard differently. I not only heard the voices of my mother in my head telling me I’ll never do anything with my life or become anybody, but it felt as if the town itself now shared the idea. While some people waited for me to fall on my face, others embraced me.

What I’ve discovered is that I don’t need nice material things. I found that I can com-fortably sleep basically any-where. Whether it’s the couch, the floor, in a car, it’s all the same to me. A home to me is a place where I can feel wel-come, where I will always feel welcome.

The family who took me in is one I consider my family to be today. It took losing ev-erything to find my place to call “home” no matter where my life may take me.

It’s when you have noth-ing to lose that you truly have everything to gain. Five years ago, I would have never imaged that I would be in a position to provide for myself enough to live day to day and to get a col-lege education.

Today, I do my absolute best to take nothing for grant-ed. I try to see humor in every situation, and I remind myself that it could always be worse. Maybe I’ll always like to prove people wrong. The thing is, I don’t really mind. So while I joke around too much, and at times, can be too honest, I live with a different appreciation.

Question: I saw in the news that a woman was fired from her job for calling the president the n-word on Facebook and saying she hoped he was assassinated. Can em-ployers really do that?

It depends. Due to increas-ing popularity of social media, employers, schools and agen-

cies are paying attention to what affiliates are doing with Facebook, Twitter and blogs. As a result, private and public corporations and businesses (including higher education and vocational schools) have mod-ified employee handbooks, cit-ing that any misappropriation or inappropriate conduct that tarnishes their company can re-sult in termination, suspension

or other forms of discipline for violations of company policy regarding social media, and, if fired, will deny unemployment. There are variations of this, but if Cold Stone Creamery has this clause written in, it is well within their rights to fire this employee, especially given the dramatic public backlash.

Denise Helms’ words not only caught the attention of the California population, but the Secret Service as well. The government has charged sever-al people with class D felonies for threatening bodily injury or death against the president, vice president, secretary of state or cabinet members (ac-

cording to Fox 40 News out of Sacramento, Calif.). What peo-ple fail to realize is that digital-ly, whatever you write online is public to some degree, and if it comes to threatening other peo-ple, there will be consequences. Businesses have received pub-lic attention for their policies which involve human rights issues (think Chick-fil-A, Hob-by Lobby), resulting in acco-lades or criticisms accordingly. Stanford and other Ivy League schools have also recommend-ed to applying students to make sure their Facebook accounts are “PG” as social media ex-poses you to them, and vice versa. Stanford stated that if

you post something you don’t want your grandmother to see, to refrain (see U.S. News).Moral of the story: be aware of your rights, and the policies of the companies you are affiliat-ed with. More importantly, be aware of what you say: whether now or later, words can come back to bite you.

“I believe the govern-ment has an obligation to its people so they should provide as much sup-port as they can.”

The Washburn Room in the Memorial Union was filled with students last Thursday, eager to hear the dating tips that have helped students across the country.

The real-life dating doctor, David Coleman, visited Washburn University to offer advice on dating and relationships. The 2011 Entertainer of the Year, known throughout the country as the “real-life Hitch,” coaching clients through the crazy, confusing world of dating.

The event was sponsored by the campus activities board, Student Recreation and Wellness Center, inter fraternity council, panhellenic council, health services and first year experience. Coleman has been named the National Collegiate Speaker of the Year 13 times. He is a popular speaker in the college market and provides programs that directly address the issues facing today’s students and

staff. With a master’s degree in college student personnel administration, and thousands of appearances, Coleman understands the developmental needs of today’s student and his programs address those areas.

Coleman began his presentation by explaining how to tell within five

minutes i f

s o m e o n e w a s right for you . Lynnie Tran, a j u n i o r mass media major, met her boyfriend of almost two years during her freshman year on campus. Tran said they

usually plan time to hang out a few days ahead of time, when ever their schedules allow some free time.

“Even though we both attend Washburn, we’re lucky if we see each other twice a week,” said Tran. “We usually just eat dinner and watch movies. If it’s still daylight out,

we might go for a walk around campus.”

He explained his ABC’s of initial interest: attraction, b e l i e v a b i l i t y , chemistry and desire. Students enjoyed segments

of the presentation that were

dedicated to pick-up lines. Students

challenged Coleman with the beginning of a pick-up line

to see if he knew the second half, Coleman has thousands of pick-up lines memorized and challenges students to stump him with one he has never heard.

Coleman emphasized his belief that first and second

dates should be limited to one hour; this allows for an exit if the date goes terribly wrong, while it also allows for the desire for more time when the date is over, hopefully resulting in another date. Washburn has an enrollment of about 7,000 students with a variety of dating situations and an extensive list of date experiences.

Bianca Martinez, a junior biology major at Washburn and a member of CAB, has been with her high school sweetheart for two years. Martinez said that she gets to see her boyfriend every day, since they both attend Washburn. She said that they typically go on simple dates.

“Dinner at home, $2 movies or fishing and riding the paddle boats at Lake Shawnee,” said Martinez. “Our main thing is to have fun and spend time together. How expensive the date is doesn’t matter.”

On a cold and rainy Saturday night in Topeka, College Hill Pizza Pub was packed with students looking to grab a bite.

I entered the restaurant at 1418 SW Lane St. around 1:40 a.m. and then watched as the bar crowd began rolling in about 2 a.m. The crowd was steady, as servers took orders and then concurrently helped dish out piping hot 10” pizzas to customers.

It was my third time at College Hill Pizza Pub, and there’s a reason I will continue to return. The environment is cozy, with tables along the south wall. Most tables are equipped with small TV’s, and the walls are filled with beautiful photographs taken on the Washburn University campus.

Orders are taken in a sandwich shop style, as you select everything on your pizza, down to the cheese and sauce used. A one-topping pizza is $5 plus tax, and the restaurant also serves multiple alcoholic beverages and soft drinks.

When you get your pizza, you may wonder if it will be enough to feed your hefty pizza craving, but rest assured, these 10” pizzas pack more punch

than you expected. Finishing three of the four slices, I’m full and ready to take my final piece home with me.

The restaurant itself can hold roughly 50 patrons, with room for 20-30 more on the outside patio (weather permitting.) On this Saturday, as patrons ran into the restaurant to dry off, I ordered a pepperoni pizza. Roughly 10 minutes after ordering, my name was called at the front counter, and I walked up to grab my box of pizza goodness.

Opening the box, the first thing I noticed was how hot my pizza was.

It was to the point I burned my mouth on first bite. Granted, it was delicious, but I learned my lesson to let it cool off.

Looking at the other patrons around me, everyone was trying different toppings. That’s one virtue of the pizza pub. Their toppings consist of everything from pepperoni to green peppers to lamb. Yes, lamb. I compliment them on their originality in that regard.

As aforementioned, after three slices, I was down for the count. I couldn’t eat anymore. As I prepared to leave, I admired the fact this pizza joint was taking a chance telling patrons it’d stay open ‘til 3 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

The restaurant is a nice break from the IHOP and Denny’s I regularly go to for late night eats.

So, in all, check out College Hill Pizza Pub. It’s different, it’s delicious and

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United Way of Greater Topeka needs adopters for this year’s Christmas Bureau. Approximately 3,000 families will be hoping to be adopted.

Adoptions for the Christmas Bureau can happen in a variety of ways. One way is that local nonprofit organizations pull together and adopt a large number of families in need. Some families are adopted by companies, groups, or private individuals. The remaining individuals are made possible through donations to the Christmas Bureau.

“We are expecting more than 9,000 people total of all ages this year seeking help,” said Tom Baumgartner, director of volunteer engagement for United Way of Greater Topeka. “Every number is expected to

be up this year. We anticipate more families and a larger total number of people served. It is expected that the size of individual households will also be greater. When times get tight, households often combine to help share in expenses.”

The Christmas Bureau has been a part of Topeka’s history for the past 71 years thanks to the generosity of hundreds of volunteers. The intake process for families needing assistance will be held from Nov. 2 until Nov. 10 at Let’s Help and the Antioch Family Center.

For more information about how to adopt a family or to be involved email cb@unitedwaytopeka.org or call 785.273.4804

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Washburn’s student film organization, TriBODS, and students enrolled in MM405: The Documentary Film are collaborating together to host DocuMatters, an event that will showcase three different d o c u m e n t a r y films; Finding Kalman (Jacobs and Weisman, 2010), Police Tape (Wolf, 2011) and Divide (Miller and Ugarte, 2012).

S t u d e n t s will introduce, analyze and lead a discussion over the documentaries. A student will introduce a selected film to the audience before each screening, then another student

will give a short presentation summarizing the analytical findings after each film’s screening and finally there will be a discussion session after all three film screenings. There will be a chance for audience members to ask questions

about any of the three screened films.

The event is free and open to the public.

DocuMatters will be from 6-8 p.m. this T h u r s d a y Nov. 15

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The Washburn University Alumni Association has organized another group trip that is sure to impress. This time they will be embarking on a five night Western Caribbean cruise abroad Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas, to Belize City and Cozumel, Mexico. The trip will be five nights long, extending from Nov. 24-29. The group will be meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. There will be a welcome reception the evening of departure as well as a cocktail party on the second evening of the trip.

Prices for inside cabins begin at $369 per person for double occupancy. Other cabin options are available at a higher rate if one desires. It should also be noted that airfare is not included in this price.

Belize City is located

between Mexico and Guatemala. It is often called “The Jewel,” because it has the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere and has a very modern Caribbean charm. There are many miles of tropical rain forest to take in and explore. Cozumel is an island off of the eastern coast of Mexico where visitors may explore or even look for gold and silver jewelry in the shops of San Miguel. This island is also known for snorkeling.

“Besides beautiful scenery, both locations offer wonderful excursions,” said Robin Moser,

assistant director of Washburn Alumni Association. “Glass bottom boat tours, tours of the Mayan ruins, opportunities for snorkeling and scuba diving and just a chance to be a tourist

and take in the culture.”

T h e W a s h b u r n A l u m n i Association now has more than 3,000 m e m b e r s . It connects its members with the university by keeping them i n f o r m e d on activities that bring the alumni

together to promote fellowship and serve the alma mater.

“I am most excited about meeting other Washburn

alumni and the excursions,” said Amanda Hughes, 12 year member of the association.

In addition to hosting a number of events for alumni and friends, the association also offers traveling opportunities like this one several times a year.

“It’s a tropical vacation at the end of November, what’s not to love?” said Moser.

The activities and entertainment on board will provide a great time. For anyone interested in booking the cruise, call 1.800.465.3595 extension 13412 to book your cruise. The special Washburn booking code is: 6795202.

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Ambitious.That’s the buzz word sur-

rounding what is now my fa-vorite film this season, and per-haps all year.

“Cloud Atlas” is composed of six separate story arcs, all interconnected by a continuous theme, spanning 500 years with the actors portraying several different characters throughout. The six main actors within the film all get their limelight, but it’s the ever-changing state of their appearance which is most obvious--and most impressive. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae and Hugo Weaving are the biggest players within the worlds of “Cloud Atlas.” Hugh Grant also stars in what might be considered the scari-est role he’s ever performed. I mean, c’mon, Hugh Grant just isn’t what comes to mind when filmmakers need a large, im-posing, heavily made-up native warrior. But Grant pulls it off in the most surprising way imag-inable, and I am in no way pro-viding a spoiler by saying that.

The most impressive part of this film is the cohesiveness of the stories. Three directors are credited with bringing this monumental film to light. The Wachowski siblings (Lana and Andy of “The Matrix” series), and German director Tom Tykwer adapted the film from a 2004 novel of the same name, tackling the stories as separate short films, and then splicing them together into the biggest picture of all.

Speaking of the “big-gest picture of all,” this film was funded by independent sources, including the German government. With a budget of $102 million, it’s one of the most expensive independent films of all time.

And it shows. Of course the Wachowskis are no strang-ers to excellent digital imag-

ery, but “Cloud Atlas” is with-out a doubt beautiful, polariz-ing and sometimes graphic. It’s well-deserved of its “R” rating, but it’s not a tasteless rating. It’s a film with realistic details, right down to sounds and tex-tures, but with magical ideas and intense visuals. It relies on the pictures to hook you from the very beginning, with some overlaid voiced-over dialogue and a small sampling of each individual story. After that, the stories remained separated in content and even genre--jump-ing from drama to dark comedy to action/adventure. The way it sneaks up on you is subtle,

like a silent black cat, ready to pounce and dig its claws into your spine. And

when it does, it’s certainly ef-fective; I was riveted to my the-ater seat for the entire two hours and 45 minutes of run-time.

Fortunately, it doesn’t feel like a long movie. It actually leaves you yearning for more, silently wishing that it would continue, even though you feel satisfied with the conclusions. It’s kind of like life, actually. I’m sure at the very end some people feel compelled to con-tinue, even though they’re sat-isfied with the results.

This idea of continual con-nections involving basic con-cepts of life and living is the recurring theme I mentioned earlier. If this sounds like a difficult subject to film, that’s because it is. “Unfilmable” has been used to describe this story, yet it’s out in theaters now, and critics are divided. Some love it, some hate it, but there’s no middle ground. I like it when a film does that.

Now, “Cloud Atlas” doesn’t come controversy-free. In one of the stories, a few of the actors are portraying Asian characters. The actors are white, so they were made to appear Asian through make-up, prosthetics, and computer graphics, with a heavy focus on the shape of their eyes. It’s pretty obvious, and it doesn’t

mesh with the high quality of the rest of the film. It’s also not the best choice as a direc-tor if you’re wanting to stay politically correct and remain artistically detailed. However, do not discount this film sole-ly because of this plot device. “Cloud Atlas” has an intrinsic value worth far more than any-thing race or political correct-ness can affect. Don’t let nega-tive critiques fool you. To quote my best friend Tyler, “if you’re looking for something to hate, you’re going to find it.”

This film is about people and the interconnectedness of their lives. Deja vu, intrin-sic memories, small ripples of change spanning centuries--in reality, it has no clear beginning or end. It just continues forever, and with “Cloud Atlas,” we’re sampling a small fictional piece of humanity’s puzzle.

I have a friend who’s study-ing film at the University of Southern California right now. He described “Cloud Atlas” to me like this: “It’s a movie in the same sense that a Lamborghini is a car.”

I’m going to take that de-scription in a slightly different direction. “Cloud Atlas” is to cinema what the Bugatti Vey-ron is to cars. For those unfa-miliar with the Veyron, it’s a $1.7 million German machine with a 16-cylinder engine, ca-pable of mind-boggling num-bers. It only takes two seconds to reach 60 miles per hour, and it tops out at 253 miles per hour… possibly more, if you dare.

Bugatti Veyron, meet “Cloud Atlas.” It’s much like you: dramatic, beautiful, scary at times, exciting at others and very ambitious. And most importantly, “Cloud Atlas” doesn’t cost a million dol-lars. Just $9 will transport you through time and space, telling the story of how we’re all con-nected, whether we know it or not. It’s $9 well spent.

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The stage was set on Sat-urday night for the biggest match of the season.

The No. 3 ranked Wash-burn Lady Blues took on the No. 4 Nebraska-Kearney Lop-ers in a winner-take-all match for the MIAA regular season conference championship. The Lady Blues came into the match with a record of 30-1, while the Lopers were 29-2. Washburn’s lone loss came at the hands of the Lopers earlier this season.

After the Lady Blues took the first two sets, the Lopers ran the table and took the fi-nal three sets to take the match and win the MIAA regular sea-son conference championship. This was Nebraska-Kearney’s first season as a member of the MIAA, and they won the conference with a record of 16-1. The Lady Blues saw their school-record of 51 straight home victories come to end on the final day of the regular season.

The Lady Blues started out the match strong, taking a close first set, 25-22. At this point, the Lady Blues clearly had the momentum, as they won handi-ly in the second set, 25-18.

The longer break be-tween the second and third sets seemed to kill the Lady Blues’ momentum, as they looked

completely flat in the third set, as the Lopers took the set 25 -13. The Lady Blues were able to keep it close in the fourth set, but fell just short, 27-25.

To match the theme of the

game and the weekend, the winner-take-all match came down to the fifth, and final set. Washburn jumped out to an early 7-3 lead, but the Lopers quickly closed the gap to tie

it three different times. The Lady Blues took a 15-14 lead, and served for match point, but Nebraska-Kearney was able to score three straight points and capped the match with a kill

from Ariel Krolikowski to take the conference championship.

Senior hitter, Hillary Hughes, led the Lady Blues with 18 kills and a season-high 21 digs. This match marked

Hughes’ third straight match in which she recorded a dou-ble-double.

“There’s no one person to blame, we all played so hard,” said Hughes. “Things just didn’t go our way at the end. We had so many opportunities to win, but we just couldn’t capitalize on them. We’re go-ing to get them next time.”

Kelsey Lewis also record-ed a double-double, as she tal-lied 13 kills and 14 digs, while Marissa Cox had 11 kills.

Despite the loss, the Lady Blues will still host the first round of the MIAA tournament on Tuesday, Nov. 13, where they will play host to Fort Hays State.

“Getting refocused will be a challenge of the coach-ing staff,” said Chris Herron, Washburn head coach. “It’s going to be a real challenge because this is a tough one to swallow. The match was ev-erything it should have been. You’re talking about 19-17 in the championship match in game five.”

If the Lady Blues win on Tuesday, they will continue in the MIAA tournament on Fri-day and Saturday.

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Lopers snap Lady Blues’ 51-game home win streak

Digging In: Washburn libero Courtney Churchman (in white) volleys back during a ghome match against Lindenwood University. The Lady Blues went into Saturday’s match against the No. 4-ranked Lopers of UNK with a 51-game streak. After winning the first two sets the Blues dropped the next three losing only their second match of the season. Both losses have come at the hands of the Lopers. UNK also clinched the regular season MIAA title.

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Armed with momentum, the Topeka RoadRunners were forced to kill off a five minute penalty kill early in the third period of Saturday’s game.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t keep Amarillo off the board for all of it, giving up the eventual game-winning goal at 6:37, as the Bulls defeated the RoadRunners 4-2 at Landon Arena.

Following a game-tying goal from forward Dan Dupell early in the period, Topeka (14-4-2) kept Amarillo (12-2-3) at bay most of the powerplay, but forward Ryan Cole made sure forward Kyle Sharkey’s spear-ing major came back to haunt the RoadRunners. He scored on a deflection of defenseman John Rey’s shot.

“We did a great job most of that penalty kill, but it takes just one to basically put the game away,” said RoadRunners head coach Scott Langer.

In the first period, Tope-ka struck first as forward Sean

Gaffney scored a powerplay goal at 6:02. Later in the period, Amarillo had a chance to tie it on a penalty shot, but goalten-der Mackenzie Sawyer turned aside forward Gage Christian-son. Forward Tyler Gernhofer tied the contest at 18:45 of the period, reversing Topeka’s Fri-day fortune, where two of their five goals were scored late in the period.

In the second period, for-ward Mike Davis gave Ama-rillo a 2-1 lead when his shot found its way past Sawyer. Am-arillo outshot Topeka 23-18 in the first two periods.

In the final period, follow-ing Dupell and Cole’s goals, forward Omar Mullan sealed the victory with a goal at 8:02. Topeka made a frantic rush to tie the game late, but goaltender Collin Delia held strong to pre-serve a Bull victory.

“I thought we got some pretty decent chances, espe-cially in the first period,” said Langer. “They’re a good team, but tonight we made it very easy for them to win on the road.”

Despite the final score,

Langer said Sawyer’s effort was solid. He made 28 saves on 32 shots.

“[Sawyer] played pret-ty well tonight,” said Langer. “Some of the ones he did face, he did a great job on them. The other ones were just deflections that went off of things.”

The end result contrasted Friday’s contest, where Topeka scored four powerplay goals on its way to a 5-2 win over Ama-rillo. One of the biggest high-lights of Friday’s game was Sharkey, who had a hat trick, scoring a goal in each period.

Topeka now travels to Springfield, Ill. to play the Springfield Jr. Blues this com-ing Friday and Saturday. They will then return to Landon Are-na to face the Texas Tornado Nov. 23-25.

There is a lurking dan-ger that is in the back of every players’ mind. It is the athletic clock that will determine the fi-nal time that a player will strap on his helmet and shoulder pads. A player can sometimes know when that clock is close to expiring, but for many they will never know the exact time it will stop ticking. The covert strike that might end a players’ career often times comes in the form of a concussion.

Concussions are a serious and dangerous problem for ath-letes and as medical research continues to improve, so does the treatment of the symptoms. Unfortunately, there is still a long ways to go in understand-ing what the repercussions are for continued blows to the head that result in brain injuries. Symptoms have ranged from dizziness and confusion to the most extreme in the form of memory loss and suicide.

“The longer someone goes without taking care of their symptoms from a concussion, the longer it will take for them to recover and the risk for long term issues and a second con-cussion increases,” said Aus-tin Hills, an athletic trainer at Washburn.

Hills graduated from Washburn in 2011 and played football for the Ichabods. He coordinates treatment of con-cussions with team physicians and makes sure the department is following the proper proce-dures set forth in their policies.

“We all want the student athlete to get back to play as soon as possible, but all of us here put the student athlete first and care about their health and well-being when it comes to concussions,” said Hills.

The tragic ending to All-Pro linebacker Junior Seau, said to be the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain, caused by concussions, shows just how serious they are and the need

to treat them. But suicides by football players linked to con-cussions is not a new phenome-na. Dave Duerson, Ray Easter-ling, and Kenny McKinley are all recent cases of former NFL

players committing suicide.Part of the danger that a

player faces when dealing with concussions is himself and dif-ferentiating between playing hurt and playing injured.

The challenge for trainers comes in the form of detecting and educating players to know that it is okay to tell someone if they have a concussion. In the NFL, a player risks losing money if he is diagnosed with a concussion. It could even spell the end of his career. Because they don’t want to lose money, it can result in sustained inju-ries to the head going without proper treatment. That is an in-tense load to put on an injured brain.

“It feels like your head is going to explode and you feel like you’re in a fog place. It’s very hard to think or even con-centrate for long periods of time,” said Devon Connors, cornerback for the Ichabods.

Connors suffered a con-cussion earlier in his career and the fear of what could happen if he gets another one is always playing in the back of his mind.

“It’s probably one of the worst things to go through be-cause it can effect you in the long run,” said Connors. “Your symptoms can vary depending on the typed of concussion you get and some can end your ca-reer.”

A recent study published by the medical journal Neu-rology concluded that football players are three times as likely to be diagnosed with a neurode-generative disease such as Alz-heimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Once a person receives a concussion, it is very easy for them to get a second one also known as “Second Impact Syn-drome.” This causes excess fluid to build up in the brain and can lead to death, among other things.

“The brain is very suscepti-ble to injury and with increased pressure on the brain it starts dying within 3-5 minutes.” said Hills

Washburn’s Athletic De-partment uses a series of tests and guidelines from the Nation-al Collegiate Athletics Associa-tion (NCAA) and the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA). This establishes a base-line for each athlete be-fore the beginning of a season. Then if it appears that an athlete has a concussion at any point afterwards, they are measured against the original base line test to see the severity.

Hall of Fame running back Earl Campbell sustained inju-ries during his NFL career that have left him using a wheel-chair for a majority of his dai-ly activities. Campbell played during a time when medical re-search was not as advanced as it is today and concussions were something that no one want-ed to acknowledge. Today’s knowledge on medical treat-ments, especially for concus-sions has come along way since Campbell retired in 1986 but there is still a long road ahead as well.

Another challenge for trainers and physicians is that no two concussions are the same. Each individual who re-ceives a concussion reacts dif-ferently so the in lies another challenge.

“There is no ‘one size fits all’ protocol for concussions,” said Hills. “Research on the ef-fects and treatment of concus-sions is ever-changing and we have just scratched the surface on what we will learn.”

The Ichabods ended their season on a disappointing note as they fell to Emporia State at home on Senior Day 55-23. Washburn started the game off strong with a forced fumble by T.J. Shine and recovered by Jahmil Taylor.

Running back Hayden Groves then scored the go ahead touchdown early in the first quarter. Emporia State an-swered back with a touchdown of their own and took the lead 7-6 because Washburn kicker Jeremy Linn missed the extra point. Washburn then scored a field goal on their next drive to take the lead and held it until the end of the first quarter.

The flood gates opened in the second quarter when ESU scored 17 unanswered points and 21 more in the third as well. Washburn held Emporia to only 10 points in the fourth quarter while scoring 14 them-

selves. This was all for nothing as they finished the game and their season with a loss.

“I thought we didn’t finish the season strong and that the team didn’t play with enough

physicality,” said Groves. “We were a young team that needed a year under our belt.”

As disheartening as this loss was for head coach Craig Schurig, his players were able to find something positive to focus on afterwards. It was se-nior day after all and gave those who were playing their last game a chance to think back

through their collegiate career at Washburn.

“It’s been an awesome ex-perience to be with the Wash-burn family,” said Steve Dieck-haus, senior offensive lineman. “I wouldn’t change it for any-thing.”

Dieckhaus recently re-ceived First Team All MIAA honors for his play this season.

Tight end Tore’ Hurst was named to the Second Team All MIAA. Kyle Duncan, Corey Walker, Jayveri Kelly, Bryce Atagi, Jahmil Taylor, Devon Connors, Willie Williams and Aaron Hummert all received honorable mentions as well.

With the departure of the 2012 squad of seniors it is now time for new leaders to step up. Groves believes that he can be a leader going into the 2013 season and sees leading by ex-ample as a key aspect for that to happen.

“I want to become the start-er next season,” said Groves.

“Bigger and stronger” are things that he says he will focus on for offseason conditioning.

“I want to be a team lead-

er and lead by example,” said Groves. “Doing the little things and making sure everyone is working hard and on the same page.”

Sports • Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Drew EgnoskeWASHBURN REVIEW

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Richard KellyWASHBURN REVIEW

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

Drew EgnoskeWASHBURN REVIEW

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

Tough Treading: Washburn’s Tyrell Brown (5), stiff arms an Emporia State defender during Saturday’s Turnpike Tussel meeting. Brown and the Ichabods got blasted by the Hornets losing 55-23.

Photo by Abby Mies, Washburn Review

RoadRunners Get Bullied: Topeka forward Peter Halasch is taken down from behind in fron of Amarillo’s goal during a game on Saturday. After throttling the Bulls 5-2 Friday the Bulls defeated the Runners 4-2 on Saturday.

- Steve Dieckhaussenior offensive lineman

It’s been an awesome experience to be with the Washburn family. I wouldn’t change it for anything.

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Photo by Richard Kelly, Washburn Review

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

Bulls out muscle Runners in Topeka

Heads Up: Washburn quarterback Mitch Buhler was sidelined this last Saturday against Emporia State after suffering a concussion during the game against Missouri Western. Buhler was anable to practice all week after failing to pass certain cognitive tests and physical examinations.

Photo by Abby Mies , Washburn Review

Concussions continue to plague football

Ichabods drop third straight game