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Danny Davissenior sta! writer

A city ordinance adding sexual orientation and gender identity has reached the ! nal stage of the process. Tonight, the City Commission will hold the second reading of the ordi-nance. " e ! rst reading back in De-

cember drew several hundred people and crowded City Hall. Commissioners spent time dis-cussing the issue then opened the meeting up for public com-ment.

Many citizens spoke both in favor and against the ordinance, some citizens representing orga-nized groups." e ordinance began last year

when the city asked the Human Rights and Services Board to review whether such an ordi-nance was necessary. A# er ad-ministrators cra# ed the bill, it went before the board and was passed by a vote of 4-1.

Commissioners passed the ordinance during the ! rst read-ing by a vote of 3-2. Commis-sioners Bob Strawn and Loren Pepperd voted against the it.

Strawn said a clear de! nition of “gender identity” was needed in the ordinance. " e meeting begins at 7 p.m.

in the City Commission Room at City Hall. " e meeting is open to the public.

Austin Enns and Katie Reilleycoverage editor and sta! writer

" e average college stu-dent spends many hours writ-ing scholarship essays, but through the annual K-State Telefund, students take an active role in securing money from alumni donors for de-partmental schol-arships.

Every year thousands of K-State students from all nine col-leges call alumni, seeking donations as part of the K-State Telefund and provide a valuable service that helps support scholar-ships for many students.

Je$ Pfannen-stiel, associate director of annual giving and student programs with the KSU Foundation, said the Telefund is meant to create connections between students in addition to its fundraising aims.

“It also gives our donors a chance to connect with a stu-

dent which they don’t get to do every year,” Pfannenstiel said. “Donors who live in Kansas can get back, but those who live in other places can get back through the student who share about what is going on at KSU, so the value is greater than dollars raised, students have an opportunity to ! nd out what K-state was like.”

Kassie Curran, sophomore in food science and Telefund volunteer, reiterates what Pfannenstiel said.

“I choose to do K-State Telefund because it’s connecting with the alumni and really help-ing them to give back,” Curran said.” Telefund gives them an opportunity for them to make a connection with students that are currently on campus.”

Pfannenstiel said the Telefund started about 30

years ago as a small event on campus, and it has grown into a four-week event that involves about 2,000 students.

Alan Klug, vice president for Finance and Administra-tion with the Foundation, said that students raise about $1.5 million, and the donations are

spread pretty evenly among the various colleges.

“Basically when a student makes a call, the donor decides where it goes, so a college of business graduate will typi-cally donate to the college of business,” Klug said. " e format for this year’s

Telefund has changed from previous years, said Cara Richardson, the special events director for the College of Human Ecology.

“We used to have students from all of our majors call every night,” Richardson said. “So this time instead we decid-ed to designate certain nights to di$ erent departments.”

Students from each depart-

ment along with the depart-mental clubs are responsible for ! lling the Telefund seats in order to raise their own de-partmental scholarships.

Students such as Nellie Hill, junior in agriculture commu-nication and journalism, and also a representative of the college of agriculture’s student council, are also coaching the Telefund callers by giving moral support and keeping the participants refreshed with beverages and snacks. Hill and other coaches also pass out and collect the alumni’s Tele-fund card, which describes their graduation information and whether they have donat-ed before.

Richardson said that the alumni from the College of Human Ecology are very giving, and the connection with the current human ecol-ogy students who are calling makes a di$ erence and secures more money.

Pfannenstiel said that his sta$ and some student em-ployees set up the call center and test the phone lines for three to ! ve days at the begin-ning of January. Overall, Pfan-nenstiel said the Telefund was very e$ ective in reaching out to alumni.

“" ere are people who donate every year who we call,

Sam Diederich news editor

Four K-State students have been nominated by the uni-versity to compete for Harry S. Truman scholarships.

Melanie Hall, senior in psy-chology, Ariel Anib, junior in sociology and modern lan-guages, Emily Patton, senior in anthropology and psychology and McKenzie Snow, senior in political science, will compete with students across the country for scholarships that award up to $30,000 to students pursuing careers in public service.

Anib said the application pro-cess has been long and, on occa-sion, intimidating.

“I received a letter saying that my interests aligned with the Truman Scholarship and my GPA was good enough to apply,” Anib said. “A# er the initial ap-plication, you are interviewed by a group of people. " ere was a lawyer, a judge, a professor of English. It was intimidating.”

During the ! rst round of in-terviews, applicants answered questions about their post-grad-uation plans and what societal issues they wished to combat. Prior to the interview, there was little applicants could do to pre-pare for the panel’s questions.

“All we had to prepare was an e-mail from Jim Hohenbary,” Anib said. “If I wasn’t the type of person that planned out my life details it would have been much more di% cult.”

City to vote on hot-button issue

Students compete for public service funding

Event about building relationships with donors, non-donors

Telefund raises money for colleges’ scholarships

Joshua MaddenSta! Writer

“It’s been many years since I’ve been here,” Rob Riggle said, “I got my pilot’s license in college and used to & y from Lawrence to here... I had a lot of fun nights out in Aggieville.”

Rob Riggle, former correspon-dent for “" e Daily Show,” and Bo Burnham, stand-up comedian and actor in Judd Apatow’s 2009 ! lm “Funny People,” came to McCain Auditorium to perform together in a show put together by the Union Program Council. Riggle opened for Burnham, who ! rst achieved fame for his immensely popular videos on YouTube.

A# er achieving fame on You-Tube, Burnham starred in his own show at the Comedy Connection club in Boston. A# er working for a while opening for other comedians, Burnham eventually had his own “Comedy Central Presents” special. When the special aired, Burnham said that all he could think was, “Holy s***, this is really happening.”

Riggle, who is a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps, got his start doing stand-up comedy while attached to Marine Training Unit 17 in New York City, saying that he would work with the unit during the day and perform at night, even-tually landing what he called his big break as a cast member on Saturday Night Live.

Still serving in the Marines, Riggle explained that he actually did Marine duty the morning of the show, running drills for half of the day with a unit in Kansas City.

Riggle explained that Saturday Night Live spent decades as the major spotlight for comedians and went on to say, “Now you see as many people from ‘" e Daily Show’ getting movies as SNL stars.”

Despite the fact that both co-

medians have had very successful “Comedy Central Presents” specials, this marked the ! rst time that Riggle and Burnham had ever met. When asked what it was like working with comedians as well known as Riggle, Burnham said, “What I want to emulate most about guys like Rob Riggle is how nice they are o$ stage. " at’s how I want to act.”

For Riggle, this was a trip home. In addition to other friends who went to K-State, Riggle’s wife is a K-State graduate in biology.

Riggle gradu-ated from nearby Shawnee Mission South High School and said that he took the opportunity to do this show as an excuse to come home. He attended the University of Kansas where he majored in the-atre and ! lm and minored in his-tory. While at KU, Riggle would & y around the Big 12 attending games.

Burnham pointed out that

one nice thing about working as a comedian today is the fact that con-tent is so accessible. “Artistically you have access to anything through the internet,” he said.

Burnham’s comedy has a heavy musical element but Burn-ham was quick to point out his role as a comedian, saying, “I’m a comedian ! rst... musician like ! # h. I write about what I ! nd interesting... I don’t look back basically.”

Ross Jensby, fresh-man in political science, serves on the Union Pro-gram Council and said

DIFFERENT PATHSTwo comedians meet, share the stage for the fi rst time in packed McCain auditorium

Burnham, Riggle bring comedic blend to K-State

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don’t look back basically.”

Bo BurnhamComedian

“I think it’s important to note the nine colleges really use the money

to support scholarships,”

Je! PfannenstielAssociate director of annual giving,

KSU Foundation

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Nathaniel LaRue | CollegianAn unoccupied silver sedan rolled down the hill between the K-State Student Union and Memorial Stadium on Monday evening and ultimately collided with a wooden trash receptacle, which could not be resuscitated by responders. The wooden trash receptacle will be missed. It is survived by one recycling bin. No people were

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Danny Davissenior sta! writer

The K-State women’s tennis team pulled off an upset over No. 30 Iowa this weekend, de-feating the Hawkeyes 6-1. The Wildcats played the Hawkeyes Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa, after beating previously unde-feated Miami of Ohio 6-1 on Saturday.

To put the victory over Iowa into perspective, the last time K-State defeated the Hawkeyes was Feb. 26, 1989. This win was also K-State’s first victory against a Big Ten Conference team since May 10, 2003.

Finally, the win over Iowa gave the Wildcats their sixth 4-0 start in the program’s his-tory. Over the past nine years, the team has had three 4-0 starts, including this season.

“This was a tough Iowa team, essentially the same team that beat us 7-0 last year,” coach Steve Bietau said. “It was a very strong perfor-mance by our team. It was a much more difficult match than the score would indi-cate.”

In doubles competition on Sunday, the team won two matches, giving the Wild-

cats a 3-1 doubles record this season. Junior Nina Sertic and sophomore Ana Gomez Aleman won 8-3 in the No. 3

lineup position. Aleman also helped the team in singles action with a 6-1, 6-1 defeat over Christina Harazin of Iowa.

The victories continued throughout the team with Petra Niedermayerova, fresh-man, defeating No. 70 Sonja Molnar, Iowa. This was the second time Niedermayerova has defeated a ranked op-ponent in singles. Playing at the No. 1 lineup position, she

handily defeated Molnar, 6-1, 6-3.

“Petra’s been outstanding, it’s just so difficult to win points against her,” Bietau said. “Even when her op-ponents are able to do some damage, they pay a heavy price for it. They have to work awfully hard.”

Iowa’s single point came against Sertic as she was de-feated by Lynne Poggensee-Wei.

The Wildcats fought through a pair of three-set matches. Antea Huljev, the team’s only senior, came from behind after losing the first set, 1-6, to defeat Iowa’s Jes-sica Young, 6-4, 7-6.

This was Huljev’s fourth singles victory in a row for the season. In January, she reached the 50 singles wins milestone.

Bietau said he was satis-fied with the performances by Huljev and Karla Bonacic, sophomore. During their sin-gles matches, the team match was clinched. Once that hap-pens, it becomes difficult to let go, especially in a match as heated as theirs, he said. Both players had the mental effort to see the match through for a pair of wins.

On Saturday, the team lost their only doubles point of the season against Miami of Ohio. Their singles play, however, pulled through and gave K-State the win, handing Miami their first loss of the season.

Bietau said the team looked shaky in doubles play on Saturday and played poorly throughout it. They improved for doubles on Sunday, some-thing he said gave the play-ers confidence and improved their singles performance.

Sertic played her first match of the spring and came away with the win. Her 0-6, 6-4, 6-3 defeat of Miami’s Nimisha Mohan boosted her record at the No. 4 lineup po-sition to 3-1.

The Wildcats continue on the road this weekend to Denton, Texas. They will play Louisiana-Lafayette on Satur-day and No. 60 North Texas on Sunday.

Justin Nuttersports editor

As the 2010-11 indoor season continues, the event titles and personal bests keep rolling in for the K-State track and ! eld team.

" e Wildcats combined for ! ve ! rst-place ! nishes and seven individual records at the 36th annual Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational last weekend in Lincoln, Neb. " ey did so against some familiar competition, as the tournament ! eld in-cluded six teams from the Big 12 Conference.

“We did get a chance to run against some of the same people that we’re going to see at the conference meet, which is always good,” head coach Cli# Rovelto said. “For the kids, it just raises their comfort level.”

" e two-day meet, which took place at the Bob Dev-aney Sports Center, was highlighted by a career day by junior Boglarka Bozzay. Bozzay, a distance runner from Veszpren, Hungary, broke multiple records in one event when she ! nished ! rst in the women’s 1,000-meter run. Her winning time of 2:45.91 not only shattered the meet record held by Ne-braska’s Ashley Miller last season, but it also edged out

the Devaney Center record of 2:45.96, which was set by Missouri’s Ashley Patten in 2005.

“I thought Bogie (Boglar-ka) Bozzay ran very well,” Rovelto said. “From my per-spective, I thought the real encouraging thing was, as well as she ran, I think it’s obvious that she could have run even faster had the race laid out a little bit di# erently. I was very impressed with her.”

Joining Bozzay as ! rst-place ! nishers were junior Martynas Jurgilas in the men’s 60-meter dash, senior Sam James in the men’s 800-meter run, senior Jack Sachse in the men’s 1,000-meter run and senior Je# rey Julmis in the men’s 60-meter hurdles.

Rovelto said Julmis, a transfer from Cloud County Community College, is starting to return to form, even though he just saw his ! rst action of the season last week at the Big 12-SEC Challenge.

“Je# is still in the process of getting in shape, so that was very encouraging,” Rov-elto said.

While she wasn’t able to capture an event title, senior hurdler Denise Baker con-tinued to show improvement during her ! nal collegiate

season. " e native of Katy, Texas, posted a personal best in the women’s 60-meter

hurdles, ! nishing second with a time of 8.42 seconds.

“(Baker) is really running

at a pretty high level right now,” Rovelto said. “Some of the girls she’s running right with were beating her by lit-erally two tenths of a second two years ago. She’s really gained a lot, relative to some of those people she’s running against.”

With the Huskers moving to the Big Ten Conference next season, the Invitational marked the last time they played host to K-State as a conference rival during the regular season. " e Wild-cats will make one more trip to Lincoln for the Big 12 Championships on March 11-12.

Despite the upcoming conference realignment, Rovelto said he anticipates future competitions between the schools.

“In our case, if they’ll have us, I don’t see how we could not go there,” he said. “" ey’re always going to have a very good team. We’re very comfortable competing against them. We’ve done it for so long.”

K-State will be in split squad action this weekend when it sends athletes to the Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa, and the Tyson Invita-tional in Fayetteville, Ark. Both are two-day meets and will take place on Friday and Saturday.

K-State wins fi ve events at Husker Invitational

UP AND OVER

Wildcats overcome ranked Iowa, end 12 year losing spell

On my ! rst ever Super Bowl Sunday here at K-State, I decid-ed to watch the game at Bu# alo Wild Wings in Aggieville with friends. We got there roughly 90 minutes prior to kicko# in order to secure a seat at the packed sports bar.

As the game kicked o# , the division within the crowd was split right down the middle. Half the fans were rooting for the Green Bay Packers, the other half for the Pittsburgh Steelers. " e ! rst 11 minutes of the ! rst quarter were very unexciting. But then something extraordinary, at least in the minds of K-State fans nation-wide, happened. With 3:44 le$ to go in the ! rst quarter, and the Packers driving, quarterback and eventual Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers hoisted up a 29-yard pass to receiver and K-State alumnus Jordy Nelson, who had burned cornerback William Gay down the right sideline.

It was the ! rst touchdown of Super Bowl XLV, and the crowd in Bu# alo Wild Wings went crazy. Fans from both teams, as well as viewers, all got up and clapped for the former Wildcat. Nelson received similar responses for the other eight catches he had on the night, but none more so than a$ er his touchdown.

" e crowd’s reaction was unmatched, even when Ben Roethlisberger’s pass to Mike Wallace late in the fourth quar-ter fell incomplete, thus sealing the victory for the Packers.

Not only did Nelson’s touch-down reception in the ! rst quar-ter provide an example of that famous brand of K-State unity that is exempli! ed throughout campus, but it also furthered the athletic department and univer-sity’s wishes that the program be recognized as a national brand.

Nelson set Green Bay Super Bowl records for receptions and receiving yards, with nine grabs and 140 yards respectively. Im-mediately following his perfor-mance, AOL Fanhouse posted an article that told the story of Nelson’s impromptu journey from walk-on college player to Super Bowl champion.

Players like Darren Sproles are all excellent players at the professional level, and help bring notoriety to the K-State program. However, nobody can match what Nelson provided on Sunday. Nelson was bril-liant, carrying nearly half the workload of Rodgers, and his performance will help attract re-cruits and donors to the athletic program.

Right now, Sproles is one of the most beloved players for the San Diego Chargers and Nelson was the favorite target of the Super Bowl MVP. It certainly seems like the Wildcat Nation is truly on its way to becoming one of the most recognizable names in college sports.

Sean Frye is a freshman in pre-jour-nalism and mass communications. Please send comments to sports@spub.ksu.edu.

Nelson’s catch makes statement

Carmen Borau Ramos, sophomore, returns a volley during doubles play against Drake on Jan. 23.

Ryann Krais, junior in combined events, competes in the high jump on Jan. 22 during the match against Benedictine College.

Cenarda Jackson, sophomore in combined events, com-petes in the long jump during the match against Benedic-tine College Jan. 22.

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“Petra’s been out-standing, it’s just so

difficult to win points against her. Even

when her opponents are able to do some damage, they pay a

heavy price for it. They have to work awfully

hard.”

Steve BietauHead Coach

opinionkansas state collegian tuesday, february 8, 2010page 4

STREET TALK

Who is your fa-vorite comedian and why?

“Rodney Carrington.

He’s pretty witty.”

Dusty ElliotSENIOR IN CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND

MANAGEMENT

“Bill Cosby. He can be

funny without cussing and he

gets children to look like

idiots.”

Daniel FloresSENIOR IN SOCIOLOGY

“Brian Regan. He’s hilarious.

If you see him live or

on video he’s spastic.”

Luke BlackwellSENIOR IN HOSPITALITY AND RESTAURANT

MANAGEMENT AND DIETETICS

“Lewis Black, because he’s

real and doesn’t have any jokes.

He just talks about what makes him

mad.” Levi Lawson

JUNIOR IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

“Mitch Hedberg because he’s way

out there. You have to listen to him. He’s really

original.”

Lindsey ThompsonJUNIOR IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING

“Chris Rock, because he

puts a smile on my face.”

Megan ShiraishiSENIOR IN PUBLIC HEALTH

“Kevin Hart, because he is

funny and nice to look at.”

Mark GradySENIOR IN BIOLOGY AND WOMEN’S STUDIES

“Brian Regan, because he is

funny.”

Allie EasleySENIOR IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

“Patton Oswalt, because he just

has way dif-ferent subject matter and he

makes up crazy scenarios.”

Ryan KearneySENIOR IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Welcome back fellow K-Staters!It’s great to see everyone back

in the swing of things as we get well into another semester. I’m delighted to share some exciting news with you about what has been going on around K-State including visitors to our campus and headway on mass transit.

K-State students had an awe-some opportunity to hear from U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor last ! ursday in the K-State Student Union as part of the Landon Lecture series. ! e talk was in forum format allowing for student groups to hear their previously submitted questions answered by Sotomayor. ! is was an incredible opportunity that allowed students to learn more about the U.S. Supreme Court and get to know one of the newest members of the court. ! e lecture was quoted to be one of the best Landon Lec-tures ever presented at K-State. I personally thoroughly enjoyed my interaction with Sotomayor; she was one of the warmest and most personal speakers I have ever heard. I am so thankful we, as K-State students, had the opportunity to hear from her. If you missed it, keep an eye for the podcast that will be posted on the K-State webpage soon.

We are also pleased to an-nounce that headway has been made with mass transit in Man-hattan. ! e committee has formed a four person transit board. Two of these members are K-State rep-resentatives, one being a student. ! e implementation committee is still meeting to conduct start-up procedures. ! e board will start meeting once mass transit begins running. I look forward to hear-ing what comes up in their meet-ings and will keep you up to date as they continue.

Have a wonderful day, stay warm!

Danny UnruhSenior in food science and political scienceStudent Body President

National speaker welcomed

VICTIM BLAMING

Legislation’s act, popular trends downplay rape as a serious crime

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

College life can be really demanding. ! e rigors of classwork and careers, plus socializing with friends add up. We o" en forget those that matter most to us — our families. Let’s be honest, what are you most concerned with at the moment? ! at exam looming over your head or taking a weekend to visit relatives? Most likely the former, unfortunately.

When we do think of our families, it is o" en when we need something from them, such as co-signing for a student loan or helping make ends meet on a college budget.

As a sports and event photographer in my hometown, I typically do not encounter the issue of forgetting my family, as I’m o" en home doing photo work. ! at changes during basketball season. In the spring, I go home less frequently and sometimes it slips my mind to plan a trip home as I hurry to my next class.

While college is a wonderful gate-way to new opportunities, we must not forget those we le" back at home. It can be as simple as a phone call before the weekend begins.

When I’m back home, I always make a trip to my grandfather’s shed where he rebuilds Jeeps. During my visit this past weekend, it occurred to me that I couldn’t recall the last time I visited the shed or talked Jeeps with him. Sure, there is always e-mail, but that always seems too impersonal. I much rather enjoy getting a # rst-hand look at his current projects and see the

next Jeep that will take us out on the sand dunes with my own eyes.

Related to that, when visit-ing family, it is best to disconnect ourselves as much as possible with the virtual world. With the surge of smartphones in recent years, it is too easy to become entranced in an app, e-mail or text message. To enjoy those around us, we must put aside our electronic addictions. ! is applies not just to visiting relatives but to a plethora of other situ-ations.

Instead of visiting

family every so o" en, an-

other idea is to invite family to Manhattan. ! ere are many things to do for entertainment and plenty of good restaurants.

I’m not saying you have to visit relatives

every week, but perhaps every

couple of months. I also understand not all students have family in state and may not be able to visit them except on winter and summer breaks.

Perhaps most importantly, birthdays should not be forgotten. I would bet your parents do not forget your birthday even though you are away at college. Even if you can’t make it back to celebrate, send a card or give them a

phone call. While college can be, in many ways, a new life for students, they should not feel that it has entirely replaced their old life. Don’t get so en-tranced with schoolwork or a job that you forget where you came from. Remember those that truly matter.

Danny Davis is a sophomore in jour-nalism and mass communication and

political science. Please send comments to opinion@spub.ksu.edu

Recently, House Republicans introduced H.R. 3, or the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” which included language that would limit government funding of abortions to “forcible” rapes. Instead of staying with traditional language regarding abortion, Republicans chose that wording to narrow the de# nition of what constitutes rape.! e legislation of course drew

criticism from pundits like Sady Doyle, who pointed out in her Feb. 1 Salon.com column that the term “forcible rape” has no legal de# ni-tion and is thus open to interpreta-tion. Furthermore, “every survivor who # nds herself in need of abor-tion funding will have to submit her rape for government approval,” Doyle said. Strange coming from the party that constantly concerns itself with limiting government interference.

I won’t focus on the contentious issue of abortion, however, because something much deeper concerns me here: this legislation is part of a broader trend in America that tends to blame the victims of rape instead of their attackers. Far too

o" en, our society implies that women desire their own rape and therefore the attack was inevitable.

In H.R. 3, for example, if a woman doesn’t # ght o$ her assail-ant to the satisfaction of the law, the disgusting logic goes, then she must have been complicit in the sexual act and not truly a victim.

In Georgia, a state legislator has introduced a bill that would change the state’s rape laws to replace the word “victim” with “accuser,” making the legal process regarding abused women sound more like a nuisance than a serious crime.

Even in our personal lives, we have trivialized the word “rape.” We laugh when someone makes a crass joke about sexual assault or when, during an intense video game perhaps, an opponent gets “raped.” But as we all should know, rape is no laughing matter and these jokes only serve to minimize the very real impact that sexual assault has on many people.

Furthermore, I have heard many people argue that dressing a certain way makes a woman complicit in her own rape. Wear a skirt to a party? You were asking for it. ! en, a" erword, we put all the shame on the woman for being raped for the same reasons. ! us, in rape more than any other crime, the victim becomes the target of our scorn.! is trivialization of rape,

combined with our perception of women encouraging their own rape and not being victims, is

probably what leads few women to report it. According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report from August 2002, only “[36 percent] of rapes, 34 percent of attempted rapes, and 26 percent of sexual assaults were reported to police” between the years 1992 and 2000. Imagine if, instead of rape, only 36 percent of murders were reported.

Creating further barriers to the process, such as adding “forcible” to the term rape or by changing “victims” into “accusers,” will only make it even harder for women at-tempting to report these crimes.

As a man, I will likely never face the problem of rape, nor will I ever fear becoming a victim of such a heinous crime, and any criticism of my argument on those grounds are completely legitimate. However, I see a worrying trend in the discourse of this country that makes light of this disgust-ing crime. To think that so many women encourage their own rape is disturbing to say the least and our laws should not encourage that kind of logic.

I don’t know whether to blame the advertising that turns women into sexual objects or the conversa-tions that turn rape into a joke, but when our politicians and leaders start trying to narrow the scope of what constitutes “rape,” we have a real problem.

David Rose is a sophomore in politi-cal science and international studies. Please send comments to opinion@spub.ksu.edu

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About 35-40,000 alumni are called as a result of the student e! ort. Even though the amount of money the Telefund brings in is a fraction of the $91 million that the Foundation raised last year, Pfannenstiel said the Tele-fund dollars were still vital.

“I think it’s important to note the nine colleges really use the money to support scholarships,” Pfannenstiel said. “It may not seem like very much, but the colleges rely heavily on those

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Students who decide to par-ticipate in the Telefund receive more than just potential schol-arship money for their major’s department.

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K-State and Mercy Regional Health Center are teaming up to make research safer in two of Manhattan’s high-pro! le laboratories, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility and K-State’s Biosecurity Research Institute.

" e partnership is a two-way street. Mercy will perform government-mandated screen-ings and preventative treat-ment for Institute employees.

In turn, K-State will pro-vide Mercy with up-to-date data from the Institute. " e exchanged data primarily con-cerns research on pathogens. In the future, the hospital may provide these same types of assessments for employees of NBAF.

“We know NBAF is coming to the community, and BRI is already here, so we all have to be prepared,” said Jana Bowman,

communications and market-ing director at Mercy. “Every-one’s got to throw in their own part of it.”

Julie Johnson, assistant vice president for research compli-ance at the Institute, said the

program development the In-stitute is planning in conjunc-tion with Mercy will be useful to Institute employees, includ-ing graduate students.

“" e programs that we’ve already put in place, we’ll have with the local medical com-munity,” Johnson said. “" at will be a great bene! t for the National Biosecurity Research Institute. When they start plan-ning that, we’ll already have these programs in place.”

Ronald Trewyn, vice presi-dent for research at K-State,

said the Institute is considered a biosafety level three agricul-ture facility, while NBAF, the next institution for which prep-aration is needed, is listed as a biosafety level four laboratory.

“Biosafety level four means you have to be in a space suit, so with air supply pumped in and what-not to be able to work in it, because these are animal diseases, and if people become infected with them, and there’s no treatment, they could get sick or die from working,” Trewyn said.

Johnson said she wanted to emphasize the progression of the programs this partnership has set in place in relation to their importance at this point in time, and also in relation to K-State’s and Mercy’s future plans.

“" e next steps for us would be to expand our research pro-gram here at the Biosecurity Research Institute, and then NBAF, which will involve in-creasing protection from these agents,” Johnson said. “We’ll advance the program as our research program expands, and we’ll be working together to be prepared ahead of time for ev-erything we’re working with.”

K-State partners with MercyPair work together for research on diseases that spread from animals to humans, like H1N1

“We know NBAF is coming to the

community, and BRI is already here,

so we all have to be prepared.”

Jana BowmanCommunications and mar-keting director at Mercy

that the show was a success. “It was great and it was so good to see so many people come out.”

Molly Harrison, sopho-more in advertising, and Katey Kowal, junior in business, at-tended the show together and both said how much they en-joyed it.

“It was awesome,” Harrison said, “Bo Burnham was hilari-ous... I absolutely loved his in-troduction.”

During his performance, Riggle did impressions of his wife and frequently made refer-ences to the fact that his wife’s sister was in the audience and pointed out that despite his impressions, “my wife is not ghetto-retarded.”

“I liked how Rob decided to make his wife sound like a

drunk ghetto girl with his sis-ter-in-law present,” Harrison said.

Kowal pointed out several other moments from the per-formance as being notewor-thy, highlighting one particu-lar moment when Burnham yelled at people for getting up and leaving. Burnham, during his performance, stopped and said, “Sit the f*** down.” She also enjoyed one moment when Burnham asked an audi-ence member what their shirt meant. " e shirt, which said “Muck Fizzou,” appeared to confuse Burnham.

“I love how Bo cussed out our rivalries and learned what Muck Fizzou was,” Kowal said. “It was awesome seeing him live because it’s so much more interactive with him running around and coming up with

things on spot, not just using his ready material.”

As for the future, Burnham is working on a screenplay with Judd Apatow but explained that he was unsure of where it was headed. Riggle is planning on having a second annual char-ity poker tournament. " e “Big Slick Poker Tournament” is a joint project between Riggle and two other local comedians who have appeared on SNL, Jason Sudekis and Paul Rudd, and all of the proceeds go to Mercy Childrens’ Hospital in Kansas City. " e second annual tournament will be on June 24-25.

Riggle also stressed that he will not be in “" e Hangover 2,” saying that everyone always asks about his involvement, but that there’s “no need for a Vegas cop in Bangkok.”

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Rob Riggle, a Kansas City native who has appeared in numerous movies and is a former SNL cast member and Daily Show Correspondent, was the opening act for Bo Burnham. Burn-ham headlined the comedy event in McCaine auditorium.