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VOLUME 142, ISSUE 16 FEBRUARY 3, 2016
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‘Chi-raq’ tackles gun violence
Distinguished Kansan: On Jan. 29, the president of Washburn University, Jerry Farley, was given the “Distinguished Kansan of the Year” award. A comedic video montage of Farley and his interactions both with students and his wife was shown before the award, showing off Farley’s more “goofy” side.
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Dylan McManisWASHBURN REVIEW
In honor of his work at Washburn University, leader-ship skills that bring change to campus and amazing bow ties, Washburn President Jerry Far-ley was named “Distinguished Kansan of the Year” on Jan. 29.
Every year, the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas orga-nization names a “Kansan of the year” to give an award to. But some years, they give a second award which they call the “Dis-tinguished Kansan of the Year” award, and this year, that award went to Farley.
On Jan. 29, the annual Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas banquet was held at the Ramada in downtown Topeka. The event featured a social gathering be-fore the dinner so that attendees could greet one another as well as look at the artwork entered in the high-school arts competition that the organization holds ev-ery year on display.
The competition featured multiple categories that allowed for both black and white pho-tography as well as color pho-tography, mixed media, draw-ing, painting, pastels, portraits and even a category simply entitled “Freedom.” Awards for the art competition, as well as an all-ages essay competition and a grades 8-12 competition, were handed out during the dinner by Gov. Sam Brownback.
Then, the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas honored Washburn University with a Distinguished Service Cita-tion based on the university’s 150 years of excellence. Din-ner guests got to watch a video about Washburn’s founding as Lincoln College and how it be-came Washburn University. It talked about the 1966 tornado and how Washburn went about recovering after the disaster. Then it went to talk about mod-ern day Washburn, its many de-grees, service projects and ac-tivities. The award was given to the Washburn Board of Regents by Brownback.
Following directly after his
university, Farley received his award as the “Distinguished Kansan of the Year.” Before Farley had even gotten up to the podium, the audience had been introduced to his antics via several other presenters, one of whom was a recording of Washburn alum Bob Dole. The audience then watched a come-dic video about Farley, which featured him running around on campus and in his own home with a tracksuit and shades on for a good portion of the vid-eo. While the video was all in good fun, the end of the video featured praise from the board
of regents about them choosing Farley to be Washburn’s presi-dent back in 1997.
Of course, the video showed quite a bit of Farley’s fun and playful side.
“I like doing it,” Farley said. “I hope this crowd tonight was ready for that. It’s a good bit different as you saw from most of the presentations that were made.”
When Farley got up to speak the crowd grew silent. He spoke of his wife Susan and the var-ious projects springing up around Washburn such as the KBI building, the union reno-
vations and the new dorms. He even took a moment to make an aside about balancing Kansas’ inances, if the governor would let him. Overall, his speech was certainly the liveliest of the night, earning him a full-ledged standing ovation.
Because of Farley’s involve-ment with the event, about a dozen students were given free tickets to the event, which reg-ularly cost $75 per person to attend.
“The fun part for me tonight,”
Michael AnschutzWASHBURN REVIEW
Feb. 1 saw the return of the University of Kansas ilm pro-fessor Kevin Willmott to the Washburn campus for a showing of “Chi-raq.” The ilm, co-writ-ten by Willmott and Spike Lee, was chosen to be a part of Phi Alpha Theta’s monthly ilm se-ries.
Tom Prasch, chair of the his-tory department, cited several reasons for choosing “Chi-raq” for this month’s showing. Nota-bly, it is a contemporary take on the classic “Lysistrata,” a greek comedy by Aristophanes with an anti-war message.
Additionally, the ilm address-es gun violence in contemporary America and is a return to more mainstream movie making for director and cowriter Lee.
“His work has always inter-ested me; as an African Ameri-can ilm maker, he seems [to be] an incredibly important igure,” Prasch said of Lee.
“Chi-raq” begins by assert-ing that we ind ourselves in an emergency and that more Americans have been murdered in Chicago in the last ten years than American special forces soldiers who have died in the Iraqi and Afghani wars.
“The level of gun violence … it’s become so everyday. This is a problem in a lot of American cities … the notion that this is an emergency is new and ights that normalization,” Prasch said.
Following “Lysistrata’s plot, a group of women in Chicago, speciically in the Englewood neighborhood, band together to end the deaths of gun violence by going on a sex strike.
The men of the ilm, such as Nick Cannon’s character Deme-trious/Chi-raq, must either make peace or never get a “piece” again.
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Alpha Phi to host Cardiac Care Week
The Wash-burn chap-ter of Alpha Phi is host-ing Cardiac Care Week, a series of fundraisers for their philanthro-py, Women’s Heart Health, Feb. 8-11.
The week will begin with a “Cardiac Care Candy Cook-out” Feb. 8. The event will take place at the Alpha Phi house starting at 8 p.m. There will be food, games and music. There will also be items available for a purchase, such as teddy bears, buttons, hair ties and t-shirts.
Feb. 9, Alpha Phi will host their annual male pageant, King of Hearts. The event will take place in Washburn A&B starting at 7 p.m. Donations will be tak-en at the door. It will be $2 for the initial voting tickets and $1 for each additional ticket.
Wednesday, Feb. 10, Alpha Phi will be moving off campus to Mr. Goodcents on 21st Street for its Goodcents Fundraiser. From 4-9 p.m., Mr. Goodcents will donate a portion of its funds to support Cardiac Care Week. Students can use their student ID to receive a discount. You do not need to say that you are with Alpha Phi for the proceeds to go toward the fundraiser.
Cardiac Care Week will con-clude with a chili cookout at the Alpha Phi house from 6-10 p.m. There will be over 20 types of chili as well as desserts. It will be $5 for two bowls, $10 for seven bowls and $15 for an un-limited number of bowls.
For more information, con-tact Leah Coons at [email protected].
FAFSA FridayOn Friday, Feb. 5, the Stu-
dent One Stop will have staff from Financial Aid available to assist students with illing out their FAFSA. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Student One Stop, located on the main level of Morgan Hall. Washburn’s priority deadline for FAFSA is Feb. 15. For more in-formation about the event, con-tact Meghan Salsbury at (785) 670-2768 or [email protected].
Dress for Success to model proper business attire
Campus Activities Board will host a business attire fashion show at the Bradbury Thomp-
son Alumni Cen-ter from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 9. The event will have models dressed in various types of attire from business casual to business profes-sional to interview attire. The audience
will have the opportunity to vote for the best-dressed model and the model who wins will receive a prize. There will also be mem-bers of the Topeka community at the event who will critique the outits of the models and will offer advice on how to present oneself. For more information, contact Jordan McDowell at (620) 441-8999 or [email protected].
Mabee hosts chili cook-off fundraiser
Mabee Library is hosting a chili cook-off Feb. 4 from noon to 2 p.m. The cook-off will be a fundraiser for the Washburn University Veterans Organiza-
tion. Participants can donate to sample the chili recipes avail-able and vote for their favorite. There will be awards for best lavor, hottest chili, most unique chili and vegetarian chili. The li-brary will also provide onions, hot sauce, corn bread and crack-ers to eat with the chili. For more information, please call Mabee Library at (785) 670-1983.
Lounge naming contest still open
Memorial Union is hosting a naming contest for the renovat-ed lower level lounge, which
opened last week. Students who wish to participate can submit their name for the lower level lounge using a Google docu-ment, located at bit.ly/1Plc-qwX. The top three entries will be released for students to vote on. The irst place winner will receive $250 in Bod Bucks and second and third place will re-ceive $25 in Bod Bucks. Stu-dents must be currently enrolled and may submit their names for the lower level lounge until Feb. 12.
Washburn alum opening gallery
Spring 2015 graduate Ryan Ogle, together with artists Sta-
ci Dawn, Shelly Bedsaul and Erin Hatton, is opening a new art gallery, dubbed Haven Arts, on Friday, Feb. 5th, in the North Topeka Art District. The gallery aims to feature the work of lo-cal artists, interior designers and photographers.
The gallery’s irst exhibit, “White Noise” is set to open on the same day at 10 a.m., and en-try to the gallery is free. “White Noise,” is described as an inter-active installation by Ogle. Ogle and the other residents artists also plan to offer classes to the general public.
Those interested in learning more about Haven Arts can vis-it their page at facebook.com/HavenArtsTopeka.
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Dating Doctor: The campus Activities Board hosted David Coleman, “Dating Doctor,” Feb. 2. Coleman hosts around 150-200 shows nationwide every year, offering tips on how to approach a crush, recognize bad relationships and use pick-up lines. “If someone is in a relationship, I try to make it better; if they are in a bad relationship, to help them exit gracefully, and if they haven’t had a date in a while, I try to help them build their conidence,” Coleman said.
WashBurn Campus poliCe report
January 27
00:40 - Information report.
West Hall.
Report taken: Smoking in a room: Referred
to the Associate Vice President for Student
Life.
January 28
17:48 - Information report/Phone scam
Morgan Hall.
Report taken: Received information about a
phone scam attempting to extort money and gain personal info.
February 1
10:15 - Possession of marijuana/Possession
of paraphernalia.
Washburn Institute of Tech.
Report taken: Referenced to District Court,
referred to Associate Dean of Student
Services.
February 1
13:42 - Theft: Bicycle/Bicycle lock.
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Report taken: Investigation continues.
he Washburn Review’s crime report follows crime trends on a year-to-year basis. his chart accounts for crime from Jan. 7-Feb. 2.
Burglary (Vehicle) - 30%
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het - 20%
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humor of the Greek comedy the ilm ada-mantly promotes the potential for peace-ful protests. Mentioning the real life suc-cess of such a strike helped to end the second Liberian civil war.
Prasch also shed some light on the sit-uation in Chicago by explaining that Chi-cago’s residential patterns are some of the most racially segregated in the country.
“Segregation is one of the main, less addressed characteristic of northern cit-ies. Chicago is an unusually extreme case, that south side/north side divide.” Prasch said.
Willmott’s work on the ilm actually be-gan 13 years ago with a screenplay called “Got to Give it Up” written by Willmott. Production with Lee did not pan out then but two years ago Lee showed interest in making it under the new name “Chi-raq”. A name originated by rap-pers in Chicago based on the perception of the city as a war zone.
“It’s a really different kind of ilm. We kept the original play, written in 411 B.C., written in verse, and we kept it in verse … we incorporated some new characters … mainly the John Cusack character …based on father Michael Pleger, who’s a real priest deeply involved in the gang violence problem,” Willmott said.
Willmott and Prasch both expressed a gaining of awareness about the level of shooting deaths by way of the ilm.
“The normality of violence is some-thing you can’t quite get your head around. We would be shooting the ilm and strike up a conversation with people in the neighborhood and ind they’d lost a daughter or a son or a mother or father …almost everyone you met had lost some-body” Willmott said.
Connections between the American involvement in Middle Eastern wars and the danger posed to Chicagoans were found in more than the name “Chi-raq” during the ilming process.
“There was a woman who had two
sons, one who went over to Iraq … they were very worried about the son going to Iraq … a few weeks later the son in Chi-cago was killed and the son in Iraq had to come back for his funeral,” Willmott said.
A question and answer segment was held with Willmott after the showing. One of the key issues brought up was the intentional lack of shown violence in the ilm, opting to show the consequences of shootings without sensationalizing or glamorizing them.
The history of the gang environment of Chicago was also explained briely. According to Willmott, many Chica-goans reported that the tearing down of the Cabrini Green public housing proj-ect spread gang activity over a far wid-er amount of the city. The RICO Aact of
1970 also contributed to a situation of many small gangs with little central au-thority as is now the case in the city.
Community members also brought up questions ranging from how to en-act social demonstrations within a university and the potential for a “food des-ert” to be created by the removal of the Dillons gro-cery store on Huntoon this February.
When asked what Wash-burn students who did not see the ilm should know about it, Willmott echoed the call for criticism of vi-olence present in “Lysistra-
ta”. “It relates to things they see or heard
about in Topeka or Kansas City … not just gangs but gun violence … that so many Americans think that guns are part of our wardrobe is something we ought to think about,” Willmot said.
“Chi-raq” can be purchased through www.amazon.com and is available for streaming for amazon prime members.
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Dylan McManis, [email protected], is a freshman English major.
Farley said, “was to look out from up here on the stage and see all the students.”
Some of the students that came to the event were some of the WSGA senators, as well as the Washburn Student Body President, Blake Porter.
“We’re really excited that Dr. Farley is receiving this award. It’s certainly war-ranted. It comes as no surprise to me that he is being honored with this award,” Porter said.
“Dr. Farley does so much for our com-munity, and so much for Washburn in general, especially student government and everything we do,” said Leah Coons,
a WSGA senator.After Farley’s award, the Native Sons
and Daughters of Kansas gave out their Kansan of the Year award to Jim Hoy, who taught at Emporia as the chair of their English department. A rancher and a part of the Cowboy Hall of Fame, Hoy gave a speech about the history of Kan-sas and what makes Kansas so unique.
Hoy’s speech led into the audience singing “Home on the Range” together to end the night.
Photo by Fahad Alfrayyan
The Award: Gov. Sam Brownback presents Washburn University President Jerry Farley with his award for being the “Distinguished Kansan of the Year.”
Photo courtesy of Amazon Studios
No Peace: In “Chi-raq,” Lysistrata hosts a strike to end gang violence in southern Chicago.
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Faith Hadley, [email protected], is a junior nursing major.
Faith HadleyWASHBURN REVIEW
The upcoming career fair is bursting with opportunities for students.
The fair will be Feb. 17, 10 a.m to 2 p.m. in Lee Arena. This is the largest career fair in a decade. The sheer vol-ume of booths that will be present on the day of the fair should lay to rest any concerns students have that there won’t be something of interest for everyone. “The fair needs more choices for dif-ferent majors,” said Marissa Coyle, ju-nior history major.
Nearly 130 employers and organiza-tions will be present from 18 different ields. According to Duane Williams, Career Services Specialist, that num-ber is bound to continue to grow in the next few weeks.
The high amount of groups attending bodes positively for students, as it sig-niies high employer interest in hiring Ichabods.
It is best to be well prepared before attending. One way to do that is to tar-get the organizations you would like to meet with. A wealth of information on the organization that will be present at the event as well as other important in-formation is available with a bodjobs account.
To create an account or access more information, see the Career Services page on the Washburn website. Those with bodjobs accounts have résumé help, 562 full-time jobs, 111 part-time positions and 126 internships within their reach.
“On any given day, that’s very typi-
cal of what we’ll have,” Williams said.Taking a strong and appealing ré-
sumé to a career fair is advisable to maximize chances of impressing po-tential employers. Career Services will be holding a Résumé Roadshow Feb. 15, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the union lob-by. Career Services staff and various employers will be available to do a short review of students’ résumés.
When asked what other advice he could offer to inquiring students, Wil-liams said, “Number one: dress to im-press. First impressions are extremely important.” Business casual for under-graduate students, but business formal for graduates looking for full-time jobs. Be friendly, have copies of your résumé, and have a short speech pre-pared to introduce yourself and what you are looking for.
For those who are nervous, unsure or just new to the career fair scene, tours will be available. The tours will show how to maneuver through the fair. To the Ichabods interested in internships, orange lags will be present on the tables of employers with internships available.
To anyone curious where their major will take them, deciding on a major or seeking employment or internships, the upcoming career fair will be a vital event to attend.
Washburn prepares for upcoming Career Fair
Infographic by Faith Hadley
Final ‘Courageous Conversations’ brainstorms inclusivityLisa HerdmanWASHBURN REVIEW
Washburn University held a third “Courageous Conversations” meeting at 7:30 a.m. Feb. 2 in the Kansas Room to talk about diversity and equal opportuni-ty on campus.
The Washburn Student Government Association and Diversity Initiative col-laborated to set up meetings to provide students a place to come and share ideas about promoting and starting the conver-sation about equality.
“We want to create a safe and inclusive campus at Washburn University,” said Jessica Barraclough, director of Student Activities and Greek Life. “Some of our goals include engaging faculty and class-es and using these opportunities to adapt what we do in classes to be better. We are trying to think about what questions we want to see in these conversations.”
There were two meetings that occurred before this one. The last one was at the end of the 2015 fall semester and was used as an opportunity to generate some questions.
“We are trying to think about the big-ger picture,” Barraclough said. “How do we engage more conversations to make cultural changes on campus to be more inclusive?”
Multiple tables were set up around the room with a different question written on a piece of paper at each. Each group would walk from table to table, answer-ing the question with as many ideas as they could.
Questions included: What are the guid-ing words that you would want to see in a diversity vision; how do we create a cul-ture change at Washburn; and how do we continue the conversation about diversity after students take the class Washburn 101?
Many Washburn groups have partic-ipated in hosting and participating in these meetings, including: the Washburn Black Student Union, Diversity Initiative and SAGL.
Barraclough expressed her concern that many students do not show up to the already existing programs at Washburn that offer students an opportunity to talk about diversity.
“Washburn has lots of unique pro-grams, but there are not very many peo-ple present,” Barraclough said. “How can we increase opportunities for students to attend and create new programs?”
Some of the problems concerning at-tendance were listed at the meeting in-cluding incentive, time of day and the location of the meeting.
“I would attend meetings about diver-
sity if it was at the right time of day,” said Alex Hounchell, senior English major. “It just depends on how long they are, and if they are convenient to get to.”
Many questions led to a conclusion by the group that it was important to educate other students and create a better under-standing of racism and social justice and about creating a culture shift. Programs and classes can be created to engage more students and help them learn from each other.
Leveraging programs could be set up
to help students report and change prob-lems that they see on campus with inclu-sivity and diversity.
“Representation matters. We need to know how we can create diversity on campus,” Barraclough said. “How does Washburn deine diversity beyond the demographics, and how do we take that deinition to move forward?”
Lisa Herdman, [email protected], is a senior English and mass media double major.
Brainstorming: A group of students discusses and writes down their ideas for how to make diversity at Washburn more inclusive of minority student experiences.
Photo by Lisa Herdman
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Over the last eight months, Donald Trump’s rising populari-ty has had moderate Republicans feeling disenfranchised.
The billionaire-turned-presi-dential candidate has gained pop-ularity largely due to his unorth-odox campaign strategy of not apologizing for being politically incorrect and wanting to force Mexico to pay for a fence on the southern border.
This stratagy has involved dou-bling down on controversial state-ments that include, but are not limited to, calling most Mexicans rapists, dismissing a female news
host’s tough questions as “blood coming out of her whatever,” and claiming that he could shoot someone and still retain voters.
Up until the Iowa Caucus on Feb. 1, that last statement seemed to be true.
Trump has gathered a support base from the Republican Party that has moderate Republicans worried. Does the base of the party actually agree with what he stands for? And if that is the case, does that mean the “base” is push-ing out moderate conservatives to where they have no party? They won’t become Democrats.
Moderate Republicans are not “on the fence” with many issues. Broadly speaking, they believe in limited government, states rights and investing in the military. Democrats, on the other hand, are generally more progressive on social issues and favor a strong central government to regulate markets.
It is up to moderate conserva-tives to vote for sane candidates that are willing to work with Democrats on important issues. The likelihood of Trump or Ted Cruz working with a potential Democratic Congress is slim. We
would have the same gridlock that we have had for nearly six years.
Thankfully, Feb. 1 was the irst sign of weakness in the armor of the Trump campaign. He was the biggest loser of the night, coming in second, with Marco Rubio less than a percentage point away from pushing Trump to third place.
Moderate conservatives need to speak up and be willing to voice their opinions and bring civility back to Congress.
Moderate Republicans need to speak up
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WSGA has hit the ground run-ning since returning to campus. We’ve got a pretty full sched-ule this semester and elections will be here before you know it. On Feb. 3, members of stu-dent government will be at the Capitol where we will join other students from across the state to lobby for issues affecting higher education in Kansas.
One week later, WSGA will have our annual meeting at the Capitol where students who are running for President and Vice President are encouraged to announce their candidacy. Because of the Capitol’s hours, we’re asking that students arrive before 5:30 p.m. when the doors close and the meeting will begin at 6 p.m. From this day, those students and those running for a Senate seat are allowed to begin
campaigning. The campaigning can last up to four weeks, after which elections will be held. Students can vote on March 8, 9 and 10. The winners will be announced on March 11. Also, WSGA will be giving away spring break tank-tops at the conclusion of the announce-ment. This will all take place in the newly renovated lower level of the Union.
If you are interested in run-ning for one of the 27 available Senate seats, you can ind an ap-plication online or in the WSGA ofice beginning on Feb. 10. For information about voting, please follow us on social media or look for one of our posters as elections get closer.
- Blake PorterWSGA President
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Sophie Oswald, sophie.
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Laissez-Faire is a Bummer Folk-Punk band from Lawrence. There are only two members in the group: Brendan Mott on vo-cals and guitar and Alan Leiker on drums.
These guys came together and formed their band after Mott’s other band broke up.
“I’ve known Alan since like irst grade and he’s back in town. We inally started jamming and it turned into this,” Mott said.
Laissez-Faire is a French term, meaning to “let things take their course” or “let it be.”
“We were just going through all of these stupid history books and stuff trying to come up with a name for like 12 hours,” Leiker
said.When go-
ing through these books, they stumbled upon the term and it stuck.
They don’t really have a reason for playing the genre they do.
“That’s just the style I guess I like to play. It’s fun and sim-ple and still lets me write what I want,” Mott said.
Mott gets a lot of inluence from a couple of bands, speciically Against Me, The Front Bottoms, Bob Dylan and Andrew Jackson.
“My inluences are like Joyce Manor and Tiger’s Jaw and Title Fight and a bunch of old country and dead rock stuff,” Leiker said.
Their main goal right now is to play their music for anyone will-
ing to listen.“Some people won’t like it and
some people will like it; it doesn’t really matter. I just want to play music for people that’ll listen,” Mott said. Leiker agreed.
People should come out to their shows because they are just gen-erally fun guys.
“If you enjoy having a good time, then come,” Leiker said.
No matter what genre you lis-ten to, Laissez-Faire shows are fun for everyone.
“Even if you don’t enjoy our music that much, come for the at-mosphere,” Mott said.
When promoting their shows, they usually use social media, pri-marily Facebook.
“We’re about to release our EP on a site called Bandcamp and we are going to put it out on cas-
sette,” Mott said.They put a lot of effort into
their new EP.“We recorded it with our friend
Andy Fredrickson in Topeka at his house. Most of the songs are from an album that Brendan put out,” Leiker said.
“Yeah, it’s like half songs I al-ready had, half new songs. It’s rough, not super polished or any-thing. Just a good rough sounding EP,” Mott said.
Laissez-Faire has a very unique sound. Deinitely check out their new EP and try and make it out to a show.
Sophie’s Scoop: Laissez-Faire a unique sound
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Renovated lower level lounge opens Dylan McManis WASHBURN REVIEW
On Jan. 29, the lower level lounge of the Washburn Me-morial Union held its grand opening ceremony, having been preceeded by the Union Daze events.
Renovations to the lower level lounge have been in the works since the Fall semester, 2015. The grand opening of the lounge is only one of the irst stepping stones that the
Union has in store in order to restore the whole Union for the irst time since 2001.
While the grand opening itself was only for one day, it was part of a week long cel-ebration, Union Daze. All week, students received free entertainment and snacks. At the grand opening, there was free popcorn, soda, several different lavors of beef jerky and music. Using the vari-ous lounge seats and booths, students were able to sit and
relax, hanging out with their friends and working on home-work.
Traevor McPherson, a soph-omore legal studies major, was one of the people enjoying the festivities.
“I like the lounge. The seats look odd at irst, but they’re actually very comfortable,” McPherson said.
Part of the ceremony was to announce the contest to decide the new name for the lounge, with the goal of making a
more comfortable and person-al space for students.
“I think it’s a great idea, that students get to name the lower level. It’s majorly for us. The lower level hosts a variety of student organizations as well, so it needs to be something for the students,” McPherson said.
“The booths are very unique because the only other place like it is in the library, and you don’t always want to hang out at the library. So the booths help students get out of their
rooms and hang out in a much more neutral area.”
The lower level of the Union will be named before too long, but until then, the new furni-ture is available for students use in their own way.
Dylan McManis, [email protected], is a freshman English major.
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Unpacked: A diagram depicts the newest layout to be implemented in the lower level lounge as the furniture sits beside it, unloaded and unpacked.
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Top: Students lounge in the new seats in the lower level Union.
Left: David Dennis, junior biology major, Trevor McPherson, sopho-more legal studies major and Na-talie Engler, sophomore criminal justice major sit and discuss the Union renovations.
Right: Students enjoy the prac-tical uses of the new booths. An area that serves no other purpose beside being a place to hang out, it gives the students new-found freedom.
Danger Zone: A sign warns students to stay out of the area as workers contin-ue to move furniture into place.
Heave-Ho: Facility services work to put together the new seating for the Union Lower Level Lounge. These benches make up a larger structure including ive booths that allow students to gather and study together.
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The Southern Baptist University women’s basketball team edged out Washburn in the inal seconds 64-65 in a heartbreaking loss. Momentum played a large role in the game as points came in streaks for both teams. The lead changed hands 12 times and saw four ties.
The Ichabods fell early in this game, down 8-3 in the early goings, then came back with a change of momentum to take the lead 10-8 and stretched the lead to 6, but the Bearcats brought the game back within reach by the end of the irst quarter, cutting the lead to three, 16-13.
The second quarter started with the Ichabods stretching the lead out to eight after six minutes of play, 29-21. The Bearcats then came back with a quick burst of points in a 9-0 run, putting the them on top by one to end the half.
The Bearcats stretched out the lead to eight, 37-29 before the Ichabods made a comeback run to make it a 3-point game. The Bearcats took a 7-point lead with 5:25 left in the quarter, 38-45.
The Ichabods then started another comeback, scoring eight and holding the Bearcats to zero in the inal three min-utes of the quarter.
The inal quarter started with back and forth lead changes with no clear winner in sight as it changed four times in the irst four minutes, neither team going up by more than three. The biggest lead in the fourth quarter was held by the Ich-
abods with a 4-point cushion with 4:10 left in the game, 58-54. Then the Bear-cats came back and took the lead 59-58. The Ichabods tied the game with a free throw, then took the lead with a layup 61-59, which was quickly taken away with a 2-point basket from the Bearcats, tying the game at 61. They then took the lead with a basket making the game 63-61. The Ichabods’ Julie Rayn hit a three with only 12 seconds left, seemingly giving the Ichabods a win 64-63, but with 2 seconds remaining the Bearcats laid in a basket to win the game 65-64.
Cindy Demosthene led the Ichabods with 13 points, making ive of six shots. Erika Lane and Alyxis Bowens each had 12 in the game. Bowens shot well from the ield (ive of nine) and Lane was four of 11, missing all three shots from behind the 3-point line but hit all four free throws. Jayna Smith led the defen-sive effort with 6 steals in the game and added seven points to the board as well.
The Ichabods will be back in action Wednesday, Feb. 3 at home in Lee Are-na facing Pittsburg State University. The Ichabods are now 12-8 this season, 8-6 in the conference, while the Gorrillas are 17-4 this year, 11-4 in the confer-ence. They are currently riding a six-game win streak.
Ichabods fall in inal seconds to BearcatsBrenden WilliamsWASHBURN REVIEW
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Court Vision: Alex Botkin dribbles down the court after a rebound. Botkin inished the game with 12 points and one assist as well as four turnovers.
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The Washburn men fell to the Southwest Baptist Bearcats 98-104 in a triple overtime thriller. The Ich-abods fell after a third overtime ral-ly by Southwest Baptist that put the Bearcats up in the inal seconds of the game.
Six Ichabods reached double digits in scoring, Javion Blake leading the team with 23, 12 of which came from four 3-point shots, while he shot six of 16 on the night from the ield, but also seven of nine from the charity stripe. Randall Smith had 17, mak-ing six of his 21 shots from the ield, missing all four of his 3-point shots but hitting ive of seven from the free- throw line.
For Southwest Baptist, Brian Pat-terson had an outstanding shooting game, hitting nine of 10 shots, and one from behind the three-point line, his only struggle coming from the free-throw line, hitting only four of eight. Kalehl Brown had 21, shoot-ing six for 11 and hitting eight free-throws.
The game started as a back-and-forth shooting clinic, going back and forth with neither team gaining an advantage, tying at seven, then Wash-burn took a lead of six, followed by a run by Southwest Baptist to tie the game at 16.
The Bearcats took their irst lead of the game with eight minutes left in the irst half at 19-18. The Ichabods then took off, going up by four, 23-19. Washburn then jumped back to a six-point lead, 30-24 with 2:42 re-maining in the irst half, only to have the Bearcats tie the game again at 30, then take the lead 33-32 to end the irst half.
The second half was also an even game as both teams refused to give in. They tied at 37 and again at 39 until Washburn took off to an eight-point lead, 47-39, and kept the lead for a few minutes before the Bearcats re-duced it to ive, then to three at 51-48 with 8:09 left in the game. They tied again at 52 before the Bearcats took a three-point lead. The game was then reduced to a one-point game as the lead changed hands multiple times before tying at 66 to end the second half, after Washburn’s Javion Blake hit the tying 3-pointer with only 11 seconds left.
The irst overtime was as back-and-forth as regulation, with neither team gaining an edge before the other hit a 3-pointer to bring the game back within reach.
Washburn led 80-77, but the Bear-cats’ Cartier Dean hit a three as time expired to send the game to a second overtime.
Washburn held a three-point lead early in the second overtime before it was reduced to a one-point deicit, which Washburn countered with two free throws from Javion Blake.
Cartier Dean then tied the game with an additional free throw for the Bearcats with only 16 seconds left, making the game 87-87.
The inal overtime started with fouls and misses for the Ichabods as the Bearcats took off to a three-point lead 90-87, which only grew from that point on, eventually to six, 89-95, as Washburn struggled offensive-ly while the Bearcats thrived on free throws.
The lead would eventually reach eight for the Bearcats and was then cut to a mere three with only 19 sec-onds remaining, 98-101. The Ich-abods were forced to foul to take the ball back but the Bearcats hit both free throws, then added another after an additional foul by Washburn, ex-
Perfect Stroke: Robert Christopher rises to shoot one of his four made baskets in his perfect shooting night from the ield against Southwest Baptist.
Rising Up: Javion Blake rises to shoot one of his six made baskets against Southwest Baptist, four of which were 3-pointers.
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Ichabods fall in triple overtime thriller to Southwest BaptistBrenden WilliamsWASHBURN REVIEW
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High School Youth Wind Ensemble: The high school youth wind ensemble performs at White Concert Hall. Sarah Labovitz directs the high school wind ensemble in “Melodious Thunk,” arranged by David Biedenbender.
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White Concert Hall hosted the an-nual Washburn Youth Wind Ensemble at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27, which featured local middle school and high-school ensembles from Topeka and a few surrounding towns, including Holton, DeSoto, Leavenworth and Eudora. The event was free of charge and open to the public.
The Youth Wind Ensemble is a volun-teer opportunity for students, which has a consistenly large turnout of participants each year. Students from middle school and high school joined together to per-form for their family and friends.
The middle school ensemble was con-ducted by three different instructors, which teach at local middle schools around Topeka. Jennifer Antonetti from Robinson Middle School conducted “Af-rican Folk Trilogy #2,” Ryan Simpson from Seaman Middle School led “Kro-nos” and Barry Evans from French Mid-dle School directed “Salvation is Creat-ed.”
Each of the pieces contrasted to create an even blend of music. For many of the middle school students, it was their irst time performing with other students out-side their own school.
There was a short intermission be-tween the middle school and high school
groups. During this time speakers dis-cussed how important it is that the par-ents keep their children in band, explain-ing that it creates lasting memories and helps to excel academics.
Sarah Labovitz conducted the high-school ensemble. The director led four
different arrangements: “The Cave You Fear,” “Greek Folksong Suite,” “Country Wildlowers” and “Melodious Thunk.” Each created a blend between upbeat tempos and gentle rhythms.
For many of the high-school students, the event counts toward lettering in band
for participation in extracurricular events. Topeka High School student Ethan
Spencer-Coleman explained how the con-cert was an improvement from last year.
“Last year we had some hiccup,” Spen-cer-Coleman said. “I felt like there were some things we could have done better, but that’s always the case. I felt like we did well.”
Many of the students commented on their performance compared to last year, saying that each person played at their best ability.
“I think we did really well on most of the parts,” said Eric Robles, Leavenworth High School student. “There were some things for me that were pretty dificult, but it was a good performance.”
Robles commented on the different ar-rangements based on his favorites.
“I really liked ‘The Cave You Fear’ be-cause I like the sound of it and a lot of the parts I have are really important,” Robles said. “I think ‘Melodious Thunk’ was a pretty close second.”
The event concluded with a thank you to the parents for keeping their students in band and a inal standing ovation for the middle school and highschool perfor-mances.
White Concert Hall presents Youth Wind Ensemble
Andrew ShermoenWASHBURN REVIEW
Something about biopics in the vein of “The Danish Girl” makes me feel bad when I don’t like them. Their subject matter and story are supposed to make me feel something on an emotional level, but a lot of them never succeed in their execution. “The Danish Girl” is one of those movies. Despite some really amaz-ing performances, the ilm lounders on the surface. It attempts to deeply inlict emotion, but ultimately it doesn’t take any risk and it doesn’t try anything that makes us feel connection to the protag-onist in any way. Ultimately, the ilm is well-constructed but timid and unimag-inative.
Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) is a talented painter in 1920s Copenhagen One day, his wife, Gerda (Alicia Vikan-der), asks him to wear a dress to ill in for a model for a portrait she is painting, and this ignites a desire in Einar that helps
him begin to realize that he identiies as a woman, later named Lili.
When it comes down to it, there isn’t enough substance in “The Danish Girl” to make the story compelling. Einar/Lili is a wholly uninteresting character, de-spite the dificult journey that she must take to get what her heart desires. Perhaps this is just devotion to the true emotion of the person, but it still doesn’t make for a compelling lead. Eddie Redmayne, a talented actor, gives a performance that does not deserve an Oscar nomination, which is exactly what he got. Also, his performance is almost entirely in an odd whisper voice, making Lili incredibly dificult to understand in some scenes.
The real star of the ilm is Vikander. Her portrayal of Gerda is heartbreaking. Her devotion to her husband is so beau-tifully captured in Vikander’s gaze and brilliant delivery. I was so captivated with Gerda’s emotions during the story that it was more compelling than any-thing that Lili was going through. The
re-creation of 1920s Copenhagen and Paris, as well as the costume and make-up design make for a beautiful ilm, but when it comes to story quality and emo-tional heft, “The Danish Girl” falls lat. Director Tom Hooper’s newest attempt has once again showed that he has not found a niche for his ilmmaking style, nor has he truly made any cinema that is groundbreaking or interesting.
“The Danish Girl” isn’t a bad ilm. It’s construction is competent and it is still watchable. Although, a two hour ilm featuring a boring protagonist isn’t a great cinematic experience. Luckily, Vikander’s portrayal of Gerda is one of the best characters on screen this year.
Redmayne misses the mark in ‘The Danish Girl’
Andrew Shermoen, [email protected], is a junior secondary English education major.
Photo courtesy of Focus Features
Awards Season: “The Danish Girl” has snagged four Oscar nominations, two of them for their leads. Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander give deeply emotional performances. ensemble in “Melodious Thunk” arranged by David Biedenbender.
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Dylan McManis, [email protected], is a freshman English major.
Pulitzer Winner: Helen Hocker Theater’s production of “Clybourne Park,” a spin-off of “A Raisin in the Sun” tackles racism both in the past as well as modern day. “Clybourne Park” won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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A play in two acts, “Clybourne Park” tells the story of just how much can change over the course of 50 years. One thing that unfortunately stands the test of time, though, is racism.
For those who don’t know, “Cly-bourne Park” is a spin-off of “A Rai-sin in the Sun,” except “A Raisin in the Sun” was written in 1959 by Lorraine Hansberry and “Clybourne Park” was written in 2010 by Bruce Norris.
“Clybourne Park” takes a modern approach to the story; The irst act de-picts what happened prior to the events of “A Raisin in the Sun” and the sec-ond half takes place in the modern day.
No, you don’t have to see “A Raisin in the Sun” to appreciate “Clybourne Park.” The play easily stands on its own and the cast members at the Helen Hocker Theater do it beautifully.
The Helen Hocker Theatre is small - not a full stage sort of setting - but that small nature helps the crew make full use of the play’s house setting and the fact that an act never has more than six characters. While both acts take place in the same house, the stage has to go through a dramatic change in-between acts, and the stage crew makes it look easy the way they do it; you wont be-lieve your eyes.
Six actors, all of them absolute pro-fessionals at their craft, manage to jug-gle multiple separate arguments among
themselves without “stepping on each other’s toes.” Of course, that isn’t to say that every single character isn’t try-ing to be the center of attention within the story line. It takes skill to pull off a show like “Clybourne Park,” and this cast most deinitely does it.
The show is mostly about racial ten-
sion, as well as the struggles of life and societal pressures, with an undertone of suicide that deeply affects several of the major characters in both of the acts. It’s a deep show, but the cast can still get you to laugh with their crude language and corny jokes. Crude and corny as they may be, they’re legiti-
mately hilarious as long as you take note of the subject matter.
The audience can easily joke about race, but only because they know the situation the characters are in. The irst act is set in 1959, so many of the things that they joke about and the issues that the characters ind fault with seem sim-ple to us today, if not plain silly.
In the second act, the show portrays 2009, a time when we curse freely and note that yes, sometimes we make jokes about people of a different race; some-times they’re funny, sometimes they’re not. At one point during the second act even homophobia and rape culture are brought up, bringing to mind the ques-tion of modern culture and how ridicu-lous we can be about some things.
The show makes a valuable state-ment. It shows you how the world treats racism, and other legitimate problems in our lives, with an outside perspective looking in.
It deinitely is a valuable experience for anyone of any age, although the show is not advised for minors due to its intense nature. The play is showing at the Helen Hocker Theater in Gage Park. It was performed Jan. 29-31 and has two more evening showings at 8 p.m. on Feb. 5 and 6. Tickets are $13.
‘Clybourne Park’ speaks an uncomfortable truthDylan McManisWASHBURN REVIEW
Andrew Shermoen, [email protected], is a junior secondary English education major.
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On Jan. 22, the oficial “Game of Thrones” twitter account offered an oppor-tunity to tweet directly to the account your opinion of which house is best: Targaryen, Stark, or Lannister. After sending the tweet, you would receive a small teaser depicting very similar scenes based around the house you chose.
Shortly after, many news agencies wrote articles containing all the teaser trailers, which became trending topics shortly af-ter they were revealed en masse later that same day. The trailers depict the banner of one of the three houses mentioned above. As the camera pans away from the banner we see that they are tattered. A voiceover proclaims destruction for the houses from a somewhat villainous character.
Ramsay Bolton claims ownership over Winterfell in the Stark-related video, the High Sparrow rouses his followers to help overthrow the Lannisters and a Dothraki Warlord claims that Daenerys is “queen of nothing.”
The most shared video is that of house Stark, having over 5,600 retweets and 5,000 likes. The public clearly hopes the Starks come out on top. Ashleigh Lottin-ville, freshman art education major, who is
a big fan of the show also hopes the Starks come out on top.
“It will probably be a stronger house though,” Lottinville said. “One that actual-ly has people in it to defend it.”
Of course, a big surprise at the end of season 5 was another death of a fan favorite character. Many fans are divided on wheth-er or not said character actually died or not, and believe that he is to be resurrected in the next season. The creators have ada-mantly claimed that the character is dead, but evidence of the character appearing on set for ilming could suggest otherwise.
An actor from the show, Maisie Wil-liams, who plays Arya Stark, has said in many interviews that the character is dead. “If it makes you feel any better, then yes there’s hope. But, there’s no hope,” she told People magazine after the episode aired last year.
Lottinville said that the trailers claim that big wars are coming and that each of the houses should be on their toes. She joking-ly added that, “maybe Arya will just kill everyone.”
‘Game of Thrones’ releases troubling teaser trailers
