With the bleachers quickly filling up and the student section growing by the minute, Lee Arena was anything but quiet last Wednesday night. A large crowd had gathered to cheer on Wash-burn’s very own Lady Blue Volleyball Team as they faced their fellow MIAA opponent, the Missouri Southern Li-ons.

Match one started out with a bang right from the opening serve, with both teams going point for point in the very beginning until halfway through the match, when the Lady Blues took a commanding 18-11 lead. The Lady Blues then moved on to take match one in a standing score of 25-15.

At the start of match two, both teams came out struggling as they both made early mistakes. However, the Lady Blues ended up using MSU’s errors against them to bust out a 17-13 lead. They then added three more points to make the score 20-13. The Lion’s head coach, Trish Knight, con-cerned that her team was losing mo-mentum, called a timeout to try and

talk things out. After the timeout, the Lady Blues

came out confidently, with swag-ger, and junior captain Jessica Fey responded with a ferocious kill that echoed through Lee Arena. MSU re-acted quickly to that attack and put two more points on the board, never-theless, it was not enough to diminish the burning confidence of the Lady Blues as they took the second match 25-15.

“We came out excited for our first home game,” said Fey. “Sure, we didn’t play as well as we initially wanted to but we ended up with a win—which is always good.”

Senior captain, Courtney Wall-man, agreed with her teammate.

“Jessica is right,” Wallman said. “Last week was a good experience for everyone in learning about where we’re at as a team—it gave us a good feel of who much we need to improve on and what we still need to practice before our game against Northwest Missouri State next week.”

After the 15-minute break,

Gridlock. Running late. Creeping through the parking lot. These are all things that students tend to associate with going to school at Washburn.

Recently, the university has been undertaking a systematic approach to repairing facilities around campus. Among those projects has been the largest of the parking lots on the east side of Petro Allied Health Center. At an estimated cost of over $1 million dollars for the entire campus wide proj-ect, the Petro parking lot was targeted as the first in a series of infrastructure improvements.

Students however wonder why Washburn decided to undertake the project at the time that they it did.

“What students don’t realize, is that the campus continues to run even though they’re not here in the summer,” said Rick Anderson, vice president of administration and treasurer. “Petro in general has a lot of particular activity; Sunflower State Games, basketball, volleyball camps etc.”

While all of those facts are true, the question still remains. Why now as opposed to earlier in the summer?

According to Anderson, the pro-cess for beginning the infrastructure improvements began back in May of this year. As the system currently stands, Washburn administration can-not spend more than $50,000 on a project without Washburn Board of Regents approval.

With that in mind, the initial pro-cess of submitting a bid for a contract began at the beginning of the summer. After going through the approval pro-cess, the board of regents approved the bid in June at the end of the month. As a result of this, the absolute earliest that the university could have moved on the project would have been July 1.

With the consideration of the busy schedule during the summer, the ad-ministration took a look at the schedule

and tried to determine a period of time in which the project could be complet-ed without undue inconvenience to the campus community.

Towards the end of July was when the project was started. Since then the project has met with some adver-sity due to weather conditions keep-ing crews from being able to stay on schedule.

“Right now I expected two-thirds of [the parking lot] to be open,” said Anderson. “Really not quite half yet is and they’re still pouring concrete. Two-thirds will be open in another week.”

Students however, still feel that Washburn needs to build at least a small amount of more parking on campus.

“On Monday, Wednesday, Friday I have to park all the way out on Boswell [street],” said Ryan Caldwell, junior art major. “Its just nuts. I mean I think they should have started working on the parking during the summer.”

In response to many students grumblings about the lack of space and availability, Vice President Anderson expressed his view that many students were reacting early on in the year to the first week of classes in which many more students are on campus than will be seen throughout the bulk of the se-mester.

“Clearly the first week on campus, everyone is trying to figure out things,” said Anderson. “Even if we had the Petro lot, we would still have parking issues. This is natural to every campus. New freshman, everybody coming to campus start of the semester, between [9 a.m. and 1 p.m.] everybody de-scends.”

While some students might com-plain about the parking, Anderson feels that Washburn is really giving students a privilege for free that other universi-ties take advantage of students on.

“You know its an interesting per-spective,” said Anderson. “I’ve been on a lot of campuses and this is the easiest campus to park on that I’ve ever been on. Students don’t know any different.

All they know is what their situation is here. We don’t charge for it and in most cases, other than certain narrow windows, [parking] is not a problem on this campus.”

In fact according to Anderson, stu-dents don’t have a parking problem as

much as they have, what he terms as “a walking problem.”

“Even from 9 a.m. to noon, it’s a walking problem not a parking prob-lem,” said Anderson. “In reality you can find a space over near the [Wash-burn Village], you can find a space

over by the tennis courts, but thats a ways away if you’re coming to Mor-gan Hall.”

The Burger Stand made their To-peka debut in the College Hill devel-opment, and has been hopping since they unlocked their doors for business Sept. 10. The Burger Stand, owned by native Topekan Simon Bates, also has two locations in Lawrence.

The Burger Stand not only fea-tures burgers, but Hawt Doggz (featur-ing Nathan’s Famous hot dogs), eight custom-made dipping sauces, six va-rieties of French fries, and more. One of the dipping sauces available is the Roasted Garlic-Parmesan Aioli.

“It’s like mayonnaise in texture and creaminess, only better,” said Pe-dro Concepcion, The Burger Stand’s executive chef.

One of the most popular burgers ordered is Smoke, which includes ap-plewood-smoked bacon, smoked Gouda cheese, and chipotle-cocoa ketchup. The Ichabod Dog is one of the most ordered Hawt Doggz with whiskey caramelized onions, bacon baked beans, and cheddar cheese. Duck fat fries are also well liked, and are made to order fresh.

“The trick is to eat them fresh out

of the fryer,” said Concepcion. “Ev-erything is made fresh.”

What sets The Burger Stand apart from other places is they try to please everyone, including vegetarians and

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Eating out: The Burger Stand, 1601 S.W. Lane St., recently opened with a menu of upscale burgers and other offerings.

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Plagiarism can be inten-tional or unintentional, so it is imperative to know what pla-giarism is, how to prevent it and why you should.

Questions related to the topic will be answered at the “Plagiarism Forum,” Sept., 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Wash-burn Room.

Plagiarism is an act of dis-honesty that can be easily pre-vented. Malone University’s President Gary W. Streit was caught using material that he had not written and was ques-tioned when people began to notice striking similarities be-tween Streit’s material and in-formation that had previously been posted online. According to The Daily Mail, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny alleg-edly ripped off one of President Obama’s speeches, claiming that it was a tribute to the Presi-dent after he was caught. Ac-cording to Plagiarism.org, 36 percent of undergraduate col-lege students admit to know-ingly copying work that wasn’t their own. Plagiarism comes in many forms so it is very im-portant that students are able to identify and prevent it.

“The topic of plagiarism needs to be discussed,” said Maria Stover, speaker for the forum and associate professor of mass media at Washburn. “The more visible it is the

less of a problem it becomes. Awareness is important and empowering. Everybody makes mistakes and nobody is perfect so it happens.”

The idea is to help prevent it.

“The Washburn Review is involved in giving back to the community every day and we wanted to be able to give

back more,” said Robert Burkett, editor-in-chief of the Washburn

Review. “This event is made to be an informative way to give back. Everybody makes mis-takes and even we make mis-takes.”

The event will have a num-ber of presenters who are there to help students better under-stand what plagiarism is and provide resources to arm them with knowledge to help them be successful through their ca-reer at Washburn and through-out the course of their lives. Also, different areas of plagia-rism will be covered and how it applies to various majors. Any questions that may be a concern can be asked at this event, and prizes are also involved.

“Most acts of plagiarism are usually lack of knowledge, however ignorance is not an ex-cuse,” said Stover.

Each year is a new begin-ning for Washburn. For each of these new beginnings comes the annual address of President Jerry Farley in what has been coined the, “state of the univer-sity” speech.

Farley started off his ad-dress with a few elements that are familiar from his opening year addresses, recognizing faculty and students that had achieved honors and outstand-ing performance while repre-senting the university in dif-ferent academic and athletic pursuits.

Farley then found a couple of key ideas which he homed in on throughout his speech.

“I have a couple of ideas I think we can embrace this year and change the way we do things at Washburn,” said Farley. “To me, I am always amazed at how much vitality there is at Washburn.”

Farley expressed his excite-ment for the coming year as he talked about students returning and their energizing the cam-pus. Farley also emphasized collaboration to the faculty in the audience as well.

Among the two key con-cepts Farley’s address centered around, innovation was his key

thrust. “Our success on our cam-

pus will be in our openness and in our connectivity with one another,” said Farley. “At any point in time there is an oppor-tunity for extraordinary change in our world, but at any moment only certain changes can occur and do occur.”

Specifically the president pointed to the two numbers by which universities around the country are measured; student retention and graduation rates. Farley gave examples in which other areas of the country have linked funding of higher educa-tion to these performance num-bers.

The president then chal-lenged faculty and staff to seek to raise those numbers.

“Our mission is to edu-cate students and to help the succeed,” said Farley. “These metrics are not simple percent-ages, they are not simple num-bers. They represent a student. I challenge each one of us to cre-ate an environment that is inno-vative so that we can improve not only these metrics, but the underlying learning that must also occur.”

The president then pivoted to the topic of results from last year’s National Survey on Stu-dent Engagement. The NSSE was given to both freshman

and seniors as a way to gauge how students viewed their time, both at the beginning and end of their college careers, at Washburn. According to Farley, in most categories there was an increase in performance stan-dards since the test was last ad-ministered in 2007.

“Even despite the improve-ments, we remain about aver-age,” said Farley. “We can do better than that. We are better than average. I challenge all of us to do the things that are nec-essary for us to improve those scores.”

The president then talked about the current financial chal-lenges facing Washburn. With the end of funds from the feder-al stimulus of 2009, Washburn now faces shortfalls in funding. Farley alluded to the need in the future to explore the option of raising tuition. Farley also ex-plained the recent decision to offer certain areas outside of Kansas in-state tuition prices in an attempt to get more students coming to Washburn.

“Recruiting from outside the state has several benefits,” said Farley. “The students con-tribute to the university and the local economy. Furthermore, there is a high probability that students will want to stay.”

The president finished up the address by touching on some of the economic hardships

the university faced, which kept the administration from offer-ing a salary increase to faculty. The administration managed to help members of the university healthcare program by giving full payment for those enrolled in the program.

“I care very deeply about this university and about our future,” said Farley. “I feel ex-traordinarily privileged to serve

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Lady Blues Volleyball vs. Missouri WesternLee Arena7 p.m.

Mosaic ConcertWhite Concert Hall7:30 p.m.

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Friday, September 23

Sat., September 24

Sunday, September 25

Bone Day at the ZooTopeka Zoo9:30 a.m.

Monday, September 26

Monday’s Farmer’s MarketTopeka-Shawnee Country Public Library7:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Washburn Symphony Orchestra ConcertWhite Concert Hall7:30 p.m.

German Shepherds National ShowKansas Expocentreall day

Tuesday, September 27

Beta Alpha Psi Tutoring SessionHenderson Hall, rm. 10911 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Air Force Brass and Blues Band concertWhite Concert Hill7:30 p.m.

German Shepherds National ShowKansas Expocentreall day

Wed., September 28

Beta Alpha Psi Tutoring SessionHenderson Hall, rm. 10911 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Crimes of the HeartTopeka Civic Theatre12:30 p.m.

The Plagiarism ForumMemorial Union, Washburn “A” room6 p.m.-8 p.m.

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Washburn Lady Blues soc-cer v. Missouri WesternYager Stadium6 p.m.

Top City ThursdayDowntown Topeka5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Two Painters: Philomene Bennett & Margo KrenBeauchamp’s Gallery10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Rob Burkett is a senior mass media major. Reach him at robert.burkett@washburn.edu.

On the morning of Sept. 15, members of the Washburn Alumni Association as well as other guests from the Topeka community welcomed back an alum with a life straight out of “Law and Order.”

Over plates of bacon, eggs and coffee supplied by the Alumni Association, guests and Washburn alumni listened to a presentation given by FBI agent Dave Burlew, who has been serving the bureau for over 20 years and has been working as the training and national acad-emy coordinator since 2008.

Burlew graduated from Washburn University in 1980, receiving a bachelor’s degree and playing baseball for four years. After graduation, Bur-lew served as a police officer of Olathe, Kan., for six years, be-fore joining the FBI in 1988.

Success came swiftly for Burlew as an FBI agent; he re-ceived awards and recognition throughout his career, starting in 1996 with the recognition of his liaison work with agencies in Nebraska, then receiving the Meritorious Achievement Award in 1999 for his work in the drug and weapons busts known as “Operation Power-ball,” and again in 2002 when he was given the Officer of the Year Award for law enforce-ment in Nebraska, or other-wise known as the “Top Dog” award.

In 2008, Burlew accepted the job of the training and na-tional academy coordinator for the FBI in Kansas City. Since then, he has been training and recruiting potential FBI agents from the bureau’s National Academy, a university in Vir-ginia where would-be agents endure 10 weeks of hands-on training and activity that ends with the completion of a final fitness test called “The Yellow Brick Road.”

The Yellow Brick Road, named after its yellow painted rocks that mark the trail, is the ultimate of all obstacle courses: a grueling stretch over six miles of woods, water, ropes, barbed wire, walls, trenches and much more. Those who do complete it are awarded a commemora-tive yellow brick upon gradua-tion of the academy.

Burlew not only looks for graduates of the National Acad-emy, or completers of The Yel-low Brick Road, but he said he looks for the people of today’s generation that are driven, have the energy and real desire to become an agent for the FBI. Burlew also travels and speaks to different schools looking to recruit college students as well.

After roughly 23 years in service, Burlew says he’s in the twilight of his career, and that he has lived his dream, but his career has not been as glamor-ous as some movies and televi-sion shows portray it to be.

“I’ve lived in hell, and I’ve met the devil,” said Burlew

in regards to his work against drugs, “That ruins peoples’ lives and careers. I did that for 13 years and I wouldn’t wish that upon anybody, because it is not a fun scene.”

During his talk Burlew told a couple “war stories,” as he calls them; some funny, like his tale about his prevention of a gas station robbery and an ex-hilarated clerk’s remark about him and his FBI crew (“Damn you guys are fast!”), and some not so funny, like his remem-brance of the cocaine and her-oin smuggler who pulled a gun on him.

“That’s not TV, folks,” said Burlew. “That’s real stuff, and it’s not fun.”

Whether good or bad, Bur-lew’s memories grabbed every-one’s attention, and his light-hearted words on his career as an FBI agent brought smiles to a room full of fellow Washburn alumni.

Dave Burlew thanked Washburn and his baseball coaches for the opportunities and experience they gave him, even recalling how crawling through the muddy water on the Yellow Brick Road reminded him of baseball practice.

“I was one of the 600 hired to be an FBI agent back in 1988,” said Burlew. “I’m proud to be an alumni of Washburn.”

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Alumnus’ words of dedication: Dave Burlew entertains Washburn alumni with stories of his years serving the FBI. Burlew is a Washburn alumnus and spoke at the Bradbury Thopmson Alumni Center on Sept. 15.

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As a student comes into Washburn University, he/she is told they must complete a certain class requirements be-fore they can graduate. Among these general education classes are math, science, English, and a Kinesiology 198 (KN198) class.

However, not everyone feels as though some of these classes will be beneficial. An-thony Fast, a veteran of the United States Army, feels as though KN198 for veterans is unnecessary and a waste of money, and has done something about it.

Fast, a senior at WU, de-cided to draw out a proposal to gain support for his idea.

“I just wanted veterans to be granted the credit for the KN198 class due to knowledge they have already gained on this subject while they served,” said Fast.

He went on to compare the classes sections to objec-tives they have already studied. These include weight training, kardio kick,

walk/jog, aerobics, body toning and self-defense. However, the most ironic one he believes to be is the boot camp class.

“The college takes the name from the military to offer it as a class; however, veterans go to a real boot camp and it is not accepted? Give us credit where credit is due,” said Fast.

Fast also said that he thought it was even more il-logical that they introduced an online version of the class.

“I wonder at the dilemma

of having an online physical education class that meets the requirements, yet veteran’s ex-perience is not accepted,” said Fast.

Fast is not only trying to look for ways to help veterans, he also believes by the school accepting the proposal, it would increase the chance that veterans looking to higher their education after service would attend Washburn University.

Gordon McQuere, dean of college arts and sciences has had a chance to look at the pro-posal and form several ideas over it.

“In general, I support the notion that we should have the requirement of KN198 waived for veterans,” said McQuere.

Although the “backing” of a proposal is not necessary for one to pass, it is important to obtain support from a variety of people to get the attention of the faculty/administration.

McQuere also acknowl-edged that the material covered in KN198 is important to edu-cation and not all veterans may have this knowledge.

“I say this coming from the perspective of a veteran myself; I was in good physical shape but had very little exposure to the ideas about a healthy life-style,” said McQuere.

Not only does it need to obtain the attention of

these members, it also has to travel through a long process before it

even gets to a final vote.“Typically, proposals

start at the University Senate,” said McQuere. “Then they will

proceed to a general faculty meeting where it must ob-tain a majority vote. Then,

the administration takes a look at it to determine their

stance. If it passes through all of these stages, it gets to a final vote by the Washburn Board of Regents.”

As a senior, Fast could be gone before his proposal makes it to the board of regents.

“In the military, there is a brotherhood,” said Fast. “I’ll be happy to take this class if it means I’m helping my brothers in the future.”

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Sex. Be honest with your-self, that one word was all it took for you to be interested in this article, wasn’t it?

That’s all it took for almost 200 of Washburn’s students to be interested in attending last nights presentation: “Sex Ed Bootcamp.” The program’s creators, Sexologists: Dr. Joni Frater & Esther Lastique, know what they’re talking about.

Both women are Amazon.com best-selling authors and have been interviewed by over 300 media outlets, including Playboy and Maxum magazine. With a fair warning, the cen-sors came down and the audi-ence was given the cold, hard truth—literally.

Sex-Ed Bootcamp, accord-ing to Frater, was built around the goal that the audience leaves with the accurate information about their bodies and the true information no one wants to talk about.

“What we’re really try-ing to come across with is the knowledge that your body be-longs to you and that you need to know what to do with it, for it,” said Frater. “We want you to love your body, inside and out.”

Both women are huge be-lievers in monopolizing the op-portunity to have the program be presented to college stu-

dents.“We believe in ab-

stinence with edu-cation because, come on, ev-eryone choos-es to have sexual inter-course at one point or an-other in their lifetime,” said Lastique. “We want students to be educated on this topic so that they can be happy when that time in their life comes.”

W h e n asked for a ba-sic description about their pro-gram, the sexologists described it as a very interesting and different type of sexual program.

“We focus on informing the student body anything we can cover: the basic anatomy, STD protection, barrier pro-tection and technique,” said Lastique. “If you’re going to be sexual with another person, we want you to know how to maximize your pleasure while staying safe.”

Frater added that with ev-ery campus presentation, the two women speak personally with the health departments in the hopes of customizing their

lesson based upon each campus’s statistics.

An hour and a half of productive talking, inap-propriate jokes made in the audience and valuable lessons from Frater and Lastique had the entire audience enjoying themselves as the program cov-ered everything starting with the basics: self-love, protective practices, hints about talking things through with your sexual partner, pleasurable tricks, the right way and the wrong way to doing things and more mature content that

will not be mentioned. “As our first time in Kan-

sas, we really enjoyed speak-ing with the Washburn students who came to see our presenta-tion,” said Lastique.

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Jordan Loomis is a freshman mass media major. Reach her at jordan.loomis@washburn.edu.

To mark the founding of the United States government and to educate Washburn Uni-versity students, staff, and fac-ulty about how it came to be, Saturday Sept. 17 was another Annual Constitution Day.

Wednesday, Sept. 21 sees award-winning journalist and author Robin Wright in the Washburn Room of the Memo-rial Union at 7 p.m. as a special guest speaker in support of her new book “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World” with a book signing following her speech.

In 2005, the late Sen. Rob-ert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest serving senator at the time, helped enable the Con-solidated Appropriations Act, which requires every educa-tional institution in the country that receives federal support to mark constitution day in a pub-lic fashion.

In the beginning, like oth-er schools, Washburn began observing Constitution Day by placing notices and signs around campus and even ran a student essay competition, but that soon expanded.

“We got better organized and formed a bigger commit-tee,” said professor Mark Pe-

terson of the sociology depart-ment. “This year the speaker is being funded by WSGA, the president’s office, the law school, history and political science. Mass Media’s putting a little money in and so forth.”

Over the past few years, the committee of approxi-mately seven or eight people has become more serious about Constitution Day, and Peterson thinks it shows.

“The last couple of experi-ences have been successively better in terms of getting stu-dents involved,” said Peterson. “This one, I think, will carry on that tradition.”

Having travelled the world

for her work and becoming a Jill-of-all-trades in mass me-dia, Wright has much to offer with her speech.

“One of the things that I hope happens is that kids at Washburn get a better sense of their relationship to a much larger world,” said Peterson. “I think your generation is going to discover that globalization has real meaning.”

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Sam Sayler is a sophomore Eng-lish major. Reach him at samuel.sayler@washburn.edu.

Washburn University held its semiannual Career Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 13, in Lee Are-na. The Career Fair is designed for students and community members to meet important people in their area of expertise and get an idea of what jobs are available.

Some of the businesses

in attendance included Cumu-lus Broadcasting, imageQuest, Bartlett and West, State Street and Saint Francis Community Services, Inc. Many of the busi-nesses have attended the fair at Washburn more than once.

Christina Johnson of Cu-mulus Broadcasting, Inc. said that Cumulus is currently look-ing to hire for two positions: a sales representative and a part-time board operator and pro-

gramming assistant who helps out in running different events that Cumulus does. Prospects should be reliable, outgoing and hard working with a flex-ible schedule.

Cumulus Broadcasting, Inc. is a broadcast company that owns six radio stations in Topeka and many more stations throughout the United States. Local Cumulus stations broad-cast anything from rock music

to country music to sports. State Street is a banking

company that is into institution-al investment banking. They have been around since 1792 and are based out of Boston, Mass. They provide financial services to mutual funds com-panies, insurance companies and companies and states with pension plans.

“At State Street, we look for well-rounded business stu-

dents,” said Bret Fischer with State Street. “Our positions are kind of a combination of accounting, finance and eco-nomics all rolled into one pack-age. We don’t get hung up on the type of degree. We look for someone with the ability to learn new things because, in our industry, things constantly change, so you have to con-stantly learn new regulations and new ways of doing things. We look for people who have innovation, the ability to think outside the box and come up with better solutions for solv-ing problems.”

State Street is a global company that has been af-fected by the recession. How-ever, Fischer says that Kansas City has been designated as a growth site for State Street. It is anticipated that they will add 600-800 new employees in the next couple of years.

Bartlett & West is a civil engineering and special tech-nology firm. They have 330 employees at 11 locations all over the Midwest. The com-pany supports the school and gives scholarships to pre-engi-neering students.

Ali Williams, a former Washburn graduate and em-ployee at Barlett & West, said that they have been really lucky during the recession.

“We have really loyal cli-ents and we’re in a market where there’s not a lot of com-petition,” said Williams. “We are a pretty small engineering firm and we have hired 65 peo-ple since January.”

imageQuest is a Xerox company that provides office and production equipment, digital color and software solu-tions.

Jeanna Allen from image-Quest says they’ve been on a hiring kick since November and are busier than they’ve ever been. While imageQuest is also looking for outgoing, hard-working individuals with flexible, they are also looking for somebody who is willing to relocate. imageQuest has loca-tions in Wichita, Lenexa and Salina.

Saint Francis Community Services, represented at the fair by Heather Elliott, is a company that specializes in social servic-es for families in Kansas. In the northeastern part of Kansas, the company’s goal is family pres-ervation and they work with families before the children are removed from the home. Intensive in-home services are provided to help keep the fam-ily together. The company has offices in the western half of the state where they provide foster care services as well.

Elliott said that, being in the social work field, the reces-sion hasn’t impacted the com-pany’s services or amount of hiring.

“We’ve done the fair here for four years and it’s always been a great success for us,” said Johnson. “We always meet some great potential interns and employees here.”

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For sports fans, the time of year approaching is one of complete ecstasy. With football coming into full swing, many different team shirts can be seen around campus throughout the week.

Now understandably, many people going to Washburn have allegiances to the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, not to mention NFL teams (I myself never pass up an opportunity to catch a Tampa Bay Buccaneers game.) With all that said, I hope that students will remember where they are going to school and take a moment to appreciate the efforts that our student athletes put forth each time they take the field or court.

Specifically, the somewhat poor attendance at many of the sporting events I have been at this year has been disheartening. While some may argue that there has been an uptick in attendance this year, I still find this to be a bit laughable.

The fact that students can’t bother to show up, when the ticket is free to watch the currently American Football Coaches Association Division II eighth ranked Washburn football team play on a MIAA game of the week is in my opinion, pitiful.

Keeping in mind that KU just came off of a mind altering beating last Saturday, Washburn has continued to roll with a gritty road win against its first legitimate opponent of the year in Missouri Southern State University, now comes the first measuring stick of if the culture of Washburn is for real. Everyone showed up for the home opener, but will students in particular show up for a nationally televised game? Considering it is against an opponent that will fight back unlike Lincoln University (Mo.) who lost to Washburn 66-26.

I can only hope that there will be a sea of blue clad fans ready to watch the game and cheer on the team to hopefully another victory.

Some will say that they

just don’t enjoy football, and that is fine. Sports aren’t for everyone. That said--there isn’t an excuse not to enjoy another of Washburn’s highly successful teams as they compete for conference supremacy.

In the case of the Lady Blues volleyball team, which started off the season preseason ranked number five in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, there is plenty of upside to going to a game.

First, the team is extremely exciting to watch. For those that haven’t had a chance to watch the likes of Jessica Fey, junior middle and rightside hitter Breanna Lewis, senior rightside hitter, Hillary Hughes, junior outside hitter and the rest of the team, you are missing out on a superior show of athleticism.

The job of recruiting quality athletes to Washburn has been something that head coach Chris Herron has been able to achieve in spades and it’s just a travesty that more students don’t show up to give them the support and respect they deserve as they defend their regular season conference title this year.

Second, the games are played indoors so unlike with the football team, the casual fan doesn’t have to deal with the elements and cold weather as the season progresses.

Lastly, these young ladies have been wonderful ambassadors for the university, going to tournaments throughout the country and competing with some of the best teams in the nation.

Beyond all of that, one has to remember that unlike in Division I athletics where students receive the “full ride” scholarship and don’t have to take on the additional stress of paying for school, many of these athletes are paying for their own school in some way or another. The fact that they take on the additional burden of not only academics and the financial stress that comes with student loans but also then devote their time and energy to competing at a high level is a testament to their dedication.

The least we can do as fellow students is show our respect for them by appreciating the efforts they put forth and the sacrifices they make by attending.

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“We think out of the box, keep everyone happy, and want everyone to go home with a smile,” said Concepcion.

The Burger Stand has a kid-friendly menu to please the inner child of taste buds, which includes grilled cheese, cheeseburgers, corn dogs and hot dogs.

“They can be custom or-dered with additional ingredi-ents,” said Concepcion.

Soon, The Burger Stand will have daily and weekly specials, along with a complete cocktail and beer list. On tap, they have beers made from lo-cal breweries, including Tall-grass, Blind Tiger, Boulevard, and Free State. A sampling of the cocktail menu includes Tequila Rickey, Gin Fizz, and Rum Relaxers.

One of the things that is unique about The Burger Stand is their Pong Bar, located on the other side of the establish-ment and is only featured at the Topeka location. The Pong Bar features two tournament-size ping-pong tables, two pool

tables, a foosball table and a pinball machine, along with another full size bar. Above the bar is a net that house a huge pile of ping-pong balls.

“It’s a great place to hang out,” said Kenny Pingleton, bar manager. “Our location is great, centrally located for hospitals, [the Washburn] campus, and downtown.”

Robert Krause drew up the Pong Bar concept after being fascinated in the sport for two years, which has again become

a popular trend. Another fea-ture about the Pong Bar is the mural painted by local area art-ist Aaron Marable, who lives in Lawrence.

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For the uninitiated, Mar-vel’s Ultimate Universe is a separate entity from their main line of comics. Originally, the imprint was designed to bring in new readers and slowly transfer them over to regular Marvel books.

However, after 10 years of telling alternate-reality tales of Spider-Man and the like, the ultimate universe now bears an even smaller resemblance to the Marvel Universe. For instance, Ultimate Peter Parker is dead after being shot by the Green Goblin.

While Parker is running around in movies, TV shows, and half of every other Marvel comic series, writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli work their magic to make Mo-rales everybody’s new favorite superhero.

While Morales already ap-peared as Spider-Man in “Ulti-mate Fallout,” this story shows his background and origin be-fore he ever wears the tights. It’s understandable if readers are left wanting more in terms of superheroics and action, but Bendis plays the slow game and definitely has plans for the future of the title (pay special attention to the number 42), just as he did when he launched the original “Ultimate Spider-Man” starring Parker in 2000.

The first issue puts crime-fighting on the backburner in order to introduce Morales and build his corner of the Ultimate Universe. Bendis and Pichelli make sure that Morales isn’t Parker with a different skin color. In fact, Morales’s race is not mentioned at all. For the moment, it’s refreshing to see a

Marvel hero with both his liv-ing still alive, but time will tell if Morales’s new Spider-Man is born of tragedy like Parker or because of his own desire to do what is right and be accepted like DC Comics’ Superman.

Even though Morales’s par-ents are both alive, the family dy-namic still has its cracks. Pichelli excels at character moments in the book such as when Morales is accepted into a new school via lottery. His parents are ecstatic for their son, but Morales has dis-dain for the idea of the lottery and that he got in while other children are crushed by being rejected.

After the lottery, Morales goes to see his uncle when he is bitten by a new mutated spider.

After a phone call to Morales’s father, it is clear that the grown-ups do not like each other and

we see Morales use his powers for the first time, another oppor-tunity to show how he is not a carbon copy of Peter Parker.

The issue has strong char-acter moments, beautiful art, and is definitely worth the atten-tion of any curious spider fan.

This issue may be the polar opposite of “Ultimate Spider-Man” in terms of storytelling, but it is still the most entertain-ing offering from DC Comics’ second week of the New 52.

Deathstroke, also known as Slade Wilson, is already well into his career as a mercenary and assassin at the beginning of the issue and writer Kyle Hig-gins and artist Joe Bennett do not shy away from action and violence.

Wilson has been relegated to bodyguard work and desires to be the most fearsome man on the planet again. He is brought into a new mission and joins forces with the Alpha Dawgs. Bennett draws the best “acting” in his career with the annoyance

of classic tough guy Death-stroke and his new partners for the MTV crowd.

DC had a strong showing this past week with “Franken-stein: Agent of SHADE” and “Demon Knights,” but “Death-stroke” is the company’s best book of the week. Big action, gallows humor, and a genuine-ly surprising twist make this a must-have for actions fans that are new to comics and older readers mourning the loss of DC’s terrifically violent and hi-larious “Secret Six.”

Image Comics’ new es-pionage thriller from cowriters Nate Cosby and Ben McCool and artist Breno Temura is mostly exposition in its first is-sue, but “Pigs” promises more action and intrigue to come.

All that is known in the first issue is that a second-genera-tion KGB sleeper cell is located Cuba and the time has come to invade the United States.

Meanwhile, New York cops a interrogating a woman about the sleeper cell, but as expected, she is uncooperative.

Cosby is known mainly for editing all-ages titles at Marvel, but now that he is writing his own series free from editorial confines, the swears come out in full force.

This issue is a tad light, but “Pigs” has a great last page, and creator-owned comics need all the help they can get with DC’s New 52 and Marvel’s big event comics and relaunches.

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Mosaic - the word is de-fined in many ways as pertain-ing to something made from many diverse elements, and the name is perfect for the Mosaic Concert, taking place at Wash-burn a second time this year.

What is the Mosaic Con-cert all about? The best way to describe it would be as a col-lage of many different musical groups, all brought together in one place for one performance. There are no breaks between each piece of music, only a con-stant flow of sound. As soon as one piece ends, another begins. All the singers and musicians are spread throughout the au-ditorium in different positions, surrounding the audience with music.

“It’s sort of like short at-tention span theater,” said Mark Norman, director of bands. “Each piece is about five min-utes - it would start off with the wind ensemble on stage, then the women’s choir in the balco-ny and so on. They go one right after the other...you end up get-ting about 20 pieces of music in an hour and 15 minutes.”

Norman said that while the concert is fast-paced, it is also easy to enjoy due to the eclectic range of music presented. Ev-erything from band and orches-tra to piano solos, jazz combos and choir voices can be expect-ed at this year’s performance, with many major composers such as Tchaikovsky and Men-delssohn represented.

The entire music depart-ment gets involved in the con-cert, professors included. Once the pieces have been decided,

the performers and groups practice separately. There is one group rehearsal that takes place, Norman said, in which they work out lighting, and po-sitioning.

“It can be difficult some-times because there are students who are performing in more than one group and need to get from one place to another,” said Norman.

The group rehearsal lasts a few hours.

Jaron Marcus, a junior piano performance major, per-formed in the concert the first year it took place at Washburn and will also be performing this year as part of the choir.

“Getting ready has been a lot of hard work,” said Marcus. “Dr. Kellam is always good at preparing his students, it’s always fun to be a part of his choir.”

Marcus commented that while performing in the last concert was something he had fun with, he also enjoyed being able to watch the majority of it and appreciate the music.

“I think the piece I liked the most last year was the brass piece by Mr. Norman,” said Marcus. “I’d love to see some teachers perform again this year as well.”

Marcus will be performing “Hymn to the Fallen” by John Williams as part of a choir in the concert this year.

The Mosaic Concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday Sept. 24 in White Concert Hall, and it will be open to the public free of charge.

The emphasis is on the briefness and firmness of strokes, with just the delicacy of the paper, precision is required. Too much ink and control will be lost. There is no erasing or going back.

With help from Sweet’s Sabbatical, a funding source for Washburn faculty to take time away from Kansas and study, Washburn professor Ye Wang studied in China for two months over the summer. Dur-ing his sabbatical Wang worked on improving his ink painting techniques and studied under two master artists.

Su Maolong and Tang Yun-ming gave him many ideas for not only the painting aspect but teaching later in his lessons about the art of ink painting as well. Yunming specialized in

mountain paintings while Mao-long demonstrated calligraphy.

“I like landscapes, but I didn’t want to paint only land-scapes or just figures,” said Wang.

Instead, Wang focused on flowers and birds for his series of ink paintings.

After his two month study Wang is closer to understanding the traditions of Chinese paint-ers.

“In China, they believe in the Taoist philosophy,” said Wang. “They hide themselves in the mountains, away from re-ality. They believe this allows them to blend with nature.”

After the trip, Wang began to like ink painting more and more.

“It shows confidence in your drawing,” said Wang. “It doesn’t limit you by any rules from the realistic style. The op-posite of accurate is fine, it al-

lows a lot of flexibility and the focus is on inner expression.”

Figure drawing and paint-ing are just two of the classes Wang teaches on campus. For painting classes, Wang demon-strates oil, watercolor, ink and other various techniques. His current exhibit was his first con-taining strictly ink paintings.

Wang’s previous exhibit “Reflection” on display was at Cottey College in Nevada, Mo. ended on Sept. 16. His “Reflec-tion” collection was made up of just that, reflections.

Wang sets up a scene, has his subjects stand behind glass and he takes a photo. He then paints from the photo he takes. While he has a focus on each painting, he never knows what will be reflected in the glass. People walking by, cars, bill-boards, signs and whatever else comes in view that brief second are what will end up in the final

painting. “I’ve been working on

these types of paintings for the last ten years or so, but I have an idea for what I’d like to do next,” said Wang.

Wang expressed his desire to go all the way back to the classics. Applying his same reflection technique, he wants to set up scenes from classical paintings. His emphasis is to reconstruct classical paintings and deconstruct them at the same time.

“This is what I’d like to do in the following years, maybe even another ten,” said Wang.

The Ink Painting Exhibi-tion by Ye Wang is currently on display upstairs in the Art Building.

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Ivy Marcus is a freshman English major. Reach her at ivy.marcus@washburn.edu.

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

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Professor Art: Ye Wang’s ink paintings can be found on the top level of the Art Building. Wang’s time in China influenced his current collection on display. The works will be available for viewing through next week.

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It doesn’t matter how someone gets to campus, whether they run or walk, as long as pa r t i c ipan t s show up this weekend to support the Washburn Alumni Association.

For WAA, the 5k Fun Run and Campus Walk event is an event that does several things at the same time. For the association, the event is one of several fundraising events throughout the year that helps to build community on campus with those that have graduated.

Along with more tradi-tional social events like Af-ter Hours, an event that dues paying members can attend to meet, greet and catch up with their fellow members, the 5k event gives alumni members a chance to do something that is a little more casual and differ-ent from most other fundraising events that WAA throws.

Through the event, WAA is able to help fund further en-

deavors like funding alumni scholarships for students and supporting future events that the WAA supports throughout

the year. This year the event

is set to start at 8:30 a.m. Saturday Sept. 24 at the Bradbury Thompson

Center. The course will take par-ticipants around the campus of Washburn,

throughout the nearby college hill neighbor-hood and will end back at the BTC where refreshments will be available for participants.

For those still interested, entries will be accepted up to the morning of the event but will incur an additional $5 fee on top of the $15 walk and $20 run fee. Late enrollers will not be guaranteed the t-shirt given out to early registrants for the event. For more information on sponsors for the event go to www.washburn.edu/alumni/funrun/2011runwalk.htm.

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Robert Burkett is a senior mass media major. Reach him at robert.burkett@washburn.edu

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Greatest hits albums usual-ly mark a turning point in a suc-cessful band’s career, whether it is number of albums released, anniversaries or as Monty Py-thon once titled their own hits package, “Contractual Obliga-tion Album.” They don’t, how-ever, usually cause a band to implode. Breaking Benjamin’s “Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin” managed to do just that.

According to a report from billboard.com, the remix of “Blow Me Away,” which fea-tures prominently on “Shallow Bay” was not authorized by singer Benjamin Burnley but was instead approved by gui-tarist Aaron Fincke and bass player Mark Klepaski. At the time of the release of the re-mixed “Blow Me Away,” the band was already on a “hiatus” due to Burnley’s illness and inability to tour and the remix situation further complicated a situation that led to the even-tual termination of Fincke and Klepaski from the band.

Drama aside, “Shallow Bay” offers an adequate over-view of the post-grunge band’s career from its self-titled debut EP all the way through 2009’s “Dear Agony.” While not nec-

essarily a huge fan of Break-ing Benjamin, there are at least enough songs on the album that I at least recognize to justify calling this a “best of” album. “Polyamorous,” a minor radio hit from the band’s 2002 album “Saturate” starts off the album in a rather generic manner, which I suppose is appropriate for the band.

“So Cold,” one of the few Breaking Benjamin songs I actually like, is definitely the standout track on the album. The song, which featured in the movie “Hellboy,” brings a strong presence to an otherwise somewhat bland and generic album.

The rest of the album plods along in such a fashion that leaves me lumping Breaking Benjamin into the same pile of generic, clichéd rock as Creed and Nickelback. Listening to the previously mentioned re-mix of “Blow Me Away,” I am struck by both a question and an answer. First, who is “Valora” and why were they unnecessar-ily grafted onto this song?

Secondly, this question also provides the answer to the question of why Burnley fired his band mates. In his suit against his former band mates, Burnley alleges that Fincke and Klepaski were offered $100,000 by the band’s record label to ap-

prove the song.If you are a fan of Break-

ing Benjamin, it might be worth the effort to track down the de-luxe version of “Shallow Bay,” which offers an additional disc of rare songs and acoustic per-formances. I often enjoy acous-tic rock so I actually enjoyed this bonus disc more than the actual album. The songs “I Will Not Bow,” “Polyamorous,” “Until the End” and “Breath” all benefit greatly from the acoustic treatment.

The bonus disc also fea-tures covers of Queen’s “Who Wants To Live Forever” and

Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence.”As a fan of Depeche Mode’s “Violator” album, I found the “Enjoy the Silence” cover especially grating. Burn-well’s attempt to ape Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan’s English accent rings hollow and the band completely fails to capture the essence of the song.

As a “greatest hits” pack-age, “Shallow Bay” offers a look at a band that often failed to live up to its own inadequacy.

Hits album breaks Benjamin

Ryan Hodges is a junior social work major. Reach him at ryan.hodges@washburn.edu

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I heard the new Office Too had a great menu, so I thought I would check it out. I was im-mediately surprised with what I found, and I was so impressed that I got my hopes up – not such a good idea.

The “first” Office location is downtown, but recently the own-ers decided to open a second one on South Topeka Boulevard, so they just named it the The Office Too. It has the same menu, drinks and prices but the hours at The Office Too extend until 5 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

The initial atmosphere is that of a bar, and because it is a dueling piano bar there are piano keys painted on the walls. There are booths and tables, as well as many seats available at the bar, which is located in the middle of the room. During nice weather they also offer a patio with a smoking section.

The menu is not your typical bar menu, and you can find a va-riety of appetizers and entrees that you wouldn’t find at other bars – shrimp cocktail and fresh oysters on the half shell for example. I played it safe and ordered the bruschetta and fried pickles. Both were good, but lacking on small details.

The bruschetta bread was my favorite of the two because the to-matoes were fresh, and seasoned just right. With basil chiffonade,

olive oil and reduced balsamic vin-egar the tomato mixture was spot on. The bread they placed this to-mato mixture on, on the other hand, was not. It was as if the chef took French bread and sliced two-inch thick slices, lightly melted parme-san cheese, and then plopped the tomatoes on it, causing the bread to get soggy, fast. If only they had toasted the bread sufficiently the entire dish would have made more sense. I must also note that on the menu they claim the toma-toes are roasted 24 hours, which I

thought they seemed like fresh tomatoes. I was disappointed with this because I

was looking forward to trying br-uschetta bread that wasn’t like any I had tried before.

The fried pickles were my least favorite of my entire visit - soggy and salty, which is not what I wanted. I didn’t finish them and I always finish my fried pickles. The batter slid off the pickles and seemed oversalted, which with the briny-ness of the pickles, there should be little salt, if any.

I then ordered The Office Cristo, which is a fried sandwich. Each sandwich is served with a choice of sides, French fries, on-ion rings, cole slaw, side salad or kettle chips, and comes with a pickle spear. The Office Cristo is basically a Monty Cristo sand-wich which consists of turkey, ham and Swiss cheese layered on bread, then battered and deep-fat-fried. After it’s golden brown

and crispy, powdered sugar is sprinkled on top and it is served with raspberry preserves.

The sharpness of the Swiss combined with the sweetness of the powdered sugar and preserves combine wonderfully. I spread the jam on the top of the sand-wich and then ate it because the preserves are more chunky than smooth and it’s difficult to dip the sandwich. I thought this sandwich was wonderful and would order it again, the appetizers not so much.

Another sandwich I tried was the pastrami sandwich. I was ex-pecting pastrami and I got roast beef. Granted the roast beef had good flavor, but the chef also cut the meat the wrong way. The cut needs to go against the grain, not with it which someone missed be-cause parts of my sandwich were

extremely chewy. It was served with provolone cheese with an herbed mayonnaise. The flavor was there but disappointing if you are expecting pastrami.

The staff did an excellent job in taking care of me, refilled my drink and even noticed the onions in my salad and had it re-made for me, without complain-ing. Most of the food was good, yet some left me wanting more, especially after getting excited for bruschetta bread.

Overall my experience at the Office Too was alright, and I plan on going back some night for the dueling piano bar. I might even check out the (first) one downtown.

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

Office Too not too badPastels, glue, and watercol-

ors covered the hands of those who participated in Sha Sha Higby’s workshop Saturday at the Mulvane Art Museum. This performance art workshop incorporated visual art, music and dancing. Higby is a sculp-tural artist who emphasizes in costume design.

To begin the workshop, Higby turned off the lights and talked the participants through a series of different move-ments. The participants moved up and down and waved their arms to the sounds of one of Higby’s performances on the screen in the background. After the warm-ups, the participants began to create costumes out of paper plates, butcher paper, paper bags and wires. They lay-ered their costumes with wa-tercolors, pastels, fabrics and colored tissue paper. Once the participants finished their cos-tumes, they put them on and danced throughout the room, simulating a small part of Hig-by’s performances.

Among the participants at this workshop was junior Can-dice Morris.

“I’m an art student, and we’re making costumes and masks in one of my art classes,”

said Morris. “I wanted to get some ideas for my costumes.”

Other than the United States, Higby has performed in several other countries. Higby started her work in art by sew-ing dolls and puppets at a young age. She also began making sculptures. Her art made it into galleries, but she decided she wanted her art to move.

“[The main idea] is to show how people can trans-form into something else and make stories,” said Higby. “The costumes are the atmosphere around our bodies, and the sto-ry is up to the audience.”

Higby creates her per-formances through a process, which includes making the costumes, taking pictures, and then recording her practice per-formances. After watching the video several times and adding different props and movements, it usually takes Higby a year to fully develop her performanc-es.

“I feel the most satisfaction when I’m making something with my hands,” said Higby. “It’s refreshing. I love the sur-prise of how it comes together in the end.”

Elizabeth Evans is a sophomore Eng-lish major. Reach her at elizabeth.evans1@washburn.edu.

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Office Eateries: The Office Too new location on South Topeka Boulevard. The fried pickles are served with ranch dressing and a pickle.

The Lady Blues went head to head against Fort Hayes State University in soccer on Saturday, pulling out a victory in the last quarter with a score of two to zero.

The game got off to a slow start, with several goal-post ricochets and near misses in the first half, but no scores. The Lady Blues showed great stamina as they put forth pow-erful plays and a strong defense in a constant barrier against the Fort Hayes determined offense, which continued all throughout the first half.

The pace quickened with the beginning of the second half, as the Fort Hayes offense picked up their feet, forcing the Lady Blues defense to step up in order to keep pace with them. As the game wore on, both teams continued to run harder and faster, refusing to give in.

Within the first minutes of the last quarter, the Lady Blues gained the advantage as Caysie Beetley, sophomore midfielder, sent the ball sailing into the goal for the team’s first point.

It was after several more minutes of gameplay, that the Lady Blues scored another goal. The end of the game saw Washburn shutting Fort Hayes out of the goal completely, pull-ing out a well-earned victory.

Coach Tim Collins said that two goals was very pleas-

ing- and that after five losses, while it was hard to have confi-dence, he felt that the team had really showed a lot of it out on the field that evening, both in themselves and in each other.

“Something we talked about at half time is that you can’t play at a pace that is slow-er than what you’re capable of,” said Collins, “You have to work and get faster and quicker and better.”

Collins is confident that the Lady Blues did just that, and hopes to see that attitude continue.

Mallorie Monhollon, fresh-man goalkeeper, expressed sat-isfaction with the team’s de-fense and passing maneuvers during the match. The defense kept its game up really well the entire match, while there were very well connecting passes to the forwards that allowed them to really get a good advantage.

“We just need to keep up our communication,” said Monhollon. “We’ve been im-proving every game. We’ve really stepped it up. I think we just need to keep going in that direction.”

Back on track: Rachel Hansen, sophomore forward, maneuvers down the field against Ft. Hays State University Saturday en route to a 2-0 win. The Lady Blues are now 1-5-1 on the season.

Ivy Marcus is a freshman English major. Reach her at ivy.marcus@washburn.edu.

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The Lions and The Lady Blues came back into the gym ready for game two. Urgently, the MSU Lions struck the first point off of the Lady Blues er-ror. The blues then countered back with three more points to make the score 3-1. Soon after-wards, the Lions scored twice as the Blues struck net. Both teams continuously seemed to go kill for kill, dig for dig and block for black—at this point, the Lions played like they had something to lose, scrapping for everything they could get to make the score 8-11 in favor of

MSU.

Not pleased with the cur-rent standing, Coach Herron called timeout to get his team refocused. “We weren’t re-sponding well after the break,” said Herron, “which is always disheartening, but that’s volley-ball.”

However, the timeout did not seem to help as the Lions added two more points to their lead and it continued to grow to a 5 point lead.

Finally, Freshman Marissa Cox stepped up and scored a thunderous kill, igniting the Lady Blues’ momentum. The Blues went on to score 5 con-secutive points to cut the score 14-16. It looked as though the Lions would go on to survive another match, but the Lady Blues had other plans in mind. The score became 20-19 in fa-vor of Washburn when the Li-ons called timeout. The Blues came out firing on all cylin-ders adding two more points to make the score 22-19. Another tomahawk kill by Fey would seal the deal on the Lions as the Lady Blues won 25-21. “We had a great fan based crowd that helped motivate us during the last few moments of the match,” said Fey.

Senior Mollie Lacy contin-ues her stellar season, capping the night off with 8 points ac-companied by 4 blocks. Junior Jessica Kopp racked up 8 kills with Sophomore Kelsey Lew-is totaling 11 digs. The Lady Blues next game will be against Northwest Missouri State on September 20th and according to Coach Herron, the team is ready. “We want to play well,” said Herron, “with practice and strong leadership—that will be our primary goal every time.”

Homecourt dominance: The Washburn Lady Blues celebrate a point during the first home game of the year. Washburn won in straight sets 3-0 moving to 8-1 on the year. The Lady Blues were led by Jessica Kopp with 8 kills and Abby Wittman with 11 assists respectively.

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2011 Team Leaders

Breanna Lewis6’5 Senior RH

Jessica Fey6’0 Junior MH/RH

Mollie Lacy5’11 Senior MH/RH

Amanda Guess5’6 Senior Setter

Jessica Kopp5’11 Junior OH/MH

Hillary Hughes5’10 Junior OH

34 sets played

89 kills

26 total blocks

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78 kills

28 total blocks

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93 kills

32 total blocks

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149 assists

54 digs

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53 kills

11 total blocks

34 sets played

82 kills

90 digs

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Washburn earns first win against Ft. Hays

This week, many fantasy owners and Kansas City Chiefs fans alike took a huge hit as the franchise, running back Jamaal Charles, went down with a leg injury. Later that night, fan fears were confirmed as it was announced that Charles had torn his ACL.

Charles, a top 5 draft pick in fantasy drafts, is just one of many higher-tier running backs who have disappointed fantasy owners so far. Chris

Johnson has been slow to start after holding out all preseason, Arian Foster was injured Week 1 and barely played Week 2 and Rashard Mendenhall was dreadful in the Steelers’ opener against Baltimore.

So here are a few fantasy pick-ups at running back that can help you out, even in a deeper league.

Thomas Jones, Kansas City Chiefs: TJ may not have the great speed of CJ, but he is a very capable runner that amassed 896 yards last sea-son as a backup running back. Jones had a streak of five years

where he rushed for more than 1,000 yards each season, but that streak came to an end last season. I fully expect him to accumulate his normal payload this year.

Ben Tate, Houston Texans: It may only be a short-term fix, or it may be the best pickup you make all year. It’s hard to say really. All we know is that Ar-ian Foster is still having issues with his hamstring, which can plague a player all season, and that Tate is the third leading rusher in the NFL at the mo-ment with 219 yards. After the great preseason he had, I think it’s entirely possible he could continue his dominance all sea-son if he gets an opportunity to do so. If you have space on your roster and he’s available, pick him up and monitor the situation. You might be good to start him this week and with the way he’s been running he might even be a good starter, even if Foster starts the game for the Texans.

Roy Helu, Washington Redskins: He’s the backup in Washington behind fantasy sug-

ar daddy Tim Hightower, but he had impressive stats Week 2 against the Cardinals. He is mainly being used when High-tower gets tired, but he has the breakaway speed to be a fanta-sy game changer on any given week. I expect to see him used more in the next few games and by midseason the running back position in Washington could become a timeshare.

Earnest Graham, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: He is not go-ing to get a lot of carries this season, but where he can help you out is with his receptions. In two games he’s caught the ball 13 times for 79 yards, and I’m willing to bet he will catch a touchdown pass sooner than later. I wouldn’t start this guy unless your team is incredibly low on running back talent (like all your starters are backups), but he can still offer you a little bit in PPR leagues.

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LSU vs West Virginia

@Alabama vs Arkansas

Kansas State vs Miami

Oklahoma State vs Texas A&M

Emporia State vs Langston

Kansas City Chiefs vs San Diego Chargers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Atlanta Falcons

Minnesota Vikings vs Detroit Lions

Middle Tennessee vs Troy

Week Four

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OVERALL RECORDS

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Miami K-StateMiamiK-StateMiamiMiamiMiami

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Bods tie for second at Pitt

After day one at the Pitts-burg State Invitational Sept. 12-13, the Washburn Icha-bods were vying for two dif-ferent championships: the team championship and individual championship. However, after day two, it became evident only one of those trophies was coming back to Topeka.

Junior Nate Hoefflin finished two strokes of the second place compet-

itor to take home the award.“I’ve worked so hard in the

game of golf. It’s nice to see it pay off,” said Hoefflin.

After day one, Hoefflin fin-ished with a score of 69, which was one shot behind the leader. On day two, it became a back and forth battle to see who would come out on top. However, as the exhaustion hit, Hoefflin contin-ued to play strong and took the lead with a second day score of 71.

“The hardest part was defi-nitely finishing the tournament strong,” said Hoefflin.

Hoefflin finished the tourna-ment with an overall score of 140, four strokes below par.

Head coach Doug Hamilton, was not too surprised to see Nate on top of the leaderboard.

“I really thought he would get a win last year,” said Hamil-ton. “So I am not surprised to see it happen.”

With a comeback finish in store for the individual champi-onship, it was the exact opposite when it came to team scores. Af-ter 18 holes, the Washburn golf team had a combined 288 score, two strokes ahead of the Univer-sity of Central Missouri.

The message was quite clear from Hamilton what he wanted from his players. Concentration, controlling emotions, execution, grit and determination all com-prise to maintaining a lead.

“I wanted them to be fo-cused, yet to play their games and not force things,” said Hamilton.

Yet, as day two continued, Central Missouri golfers contin-

ued to put up numbers that Wash-burn could not match. This result put the team in a tie for second place, scoring an overall 585, or a nine above par.

“It’s extremely disappointing,” said Hamilton. “We feel like we lost it more than we got beat.”

With Nate’s impressive num-bers leading the way, it was easy for other guys to step up and con-tribute. Brian Walker, junior, finished the tournament with a 147 score, tying him for eighth. Senior Riley Piles also had a solid tournament, tied for twelfth with a score of 149. The other two Ich-abod golfers, senior Chris Grause and freshman Sam Schulte, both

finished with a score of 154. Of course, there were good

and bad things that the head coach saw. He was happy with

the ball control, especially off the drives. Howev-

er, the mental side of the game seemed to take its toll on the team.

“We have the physical ability to

be a good golf team,” said Hamilton. “We

have potential.” The Washburn golf team

will be in action again Sept. 26-27 in Muskogee, Okla.

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“I’ve worked so hard in the game of golf. It’s nice to see it pay off.” - Junior Nate Hoefflin

Neither rain nor lightning could dampen the spirits of the Washburn Ichabods Saturday in Joplin, Mo., as they were forced to wait out a rain de-lay for over an hour.

Fortunately for the Ichabods the late start brought good news as they extended their winning streak to 3-0 against the Missouri Southern State University Lions with a final score of 30-14.

Within the last decade Washburn has outscored Missouri Southern a whopping 338-234, Saturday’s game was no different.

“Our offensive coordinator, Rob Robinson, did a real nice job,” said Washburn head coach Craig Schurig. “We mixed up our formations a little bit to try to give Southern a different look. It worked and got us going. Our run game started going a little bit and with the way our receivers and quarter-backs are once we get the timing down and they start getting that momentum they’re pretty good.

“We got hot and really started making the plays that we were just missing in the first half.”

In the opening drive of the game, Missouri Southern was forced to punt after Lions’ senior quarterback, Collin Howard, endured the first of two sacks by Washburn senior defensive end Da-

kota Palan-Johnson and an incomplete pass. Washburn’s first drive would prove disappointing after a few mis-reads and a fumble by senior quarter-back Dane Simoneau. Ichabod junior kicker Jeremy Linn delivered the first score of the game with a well-needed field goal. MSSU and WU played a punting game until the beginning of the second quarter, when the Lions put up seven points after a 5-yard touch-down reception by junior wide receiv-er Ne’Ronte Threatt that would close out the first half, 7-3.

Everything that could possibly go wrong for the Ichabods did in the beginning of the third quarter, leaving them stunned and a bit bruised. Wash-burn’s first two drives would result in a pair of sacks by MSSU junior defen-sive lineman Brandon Williams and an interception by Lions sophomore defensive back Demon Haire. An am-ped Ichabod defense regained the ball for its struggling offense through the help of a pair of sacks by junior line-backer Jahmil Taylor and sophomore defensive end Adebayo Oladapo for a total of negative 9 yards.

“We weren’t playing as ourselves, but once we got together on the side-line, started talking and communicat-ing things started going,” said sopho-more wide receiver, DeJuan Beard. “We just contined to trust ourselves and didn’t get away from what we knew. Trust and chemistry came back,

we were off a little bit, but it wasn’t anything we couldn’t handle.”

Washburn would remain unsuc-cessful until the final four minutes of the third, where senior quarterback, Dane Simoneau would hook up with Beard for his first of two touchdown receptions giving the Ichabods the lead at 10-7.

The Lions would regain their lead in the first minute of the fourth quarter with a rushing touchdown by freshman quarterback, Kyle Webster, putting the

Lions up 14-10. Washburn would fol-low up with a 20-yard touchdown re-ception by sophomore wide receiver Ronnell Garner. The Ichabods’ next drive would end in a 30-yard recep-tion for a touchdown by sophomore tight end, Toré Hurst, but a failed kick attempt by junior kicker Jeremy Linn would add only six points to Wash-burn’s lead. The Ichabod’s final score would come in the final four minutes of the game ending with an 11-yard touchdown reception by key sopho-

more wide receiver, DeJuan Beard. Af-ter scoring sixteen unanswered points the Ichabods were able to pull out their third consecutive win with a final score of 30-14. Senior quarterback Dane Si-moneau was 23-for-45 with one in-terception and racked up 274 passing yards with four touchdowns, while se-nior running back, Justin Cooper had 83 yards on the ground.

This week’s matchup against ri-val, Missouri Western brings little preparation with much excitement. The Ichabods have three days worth of practice before they host the Grif-fons this Thursday at 7 p.m. in Yager Stadium. The game will be nationally televised as the CBS NCAA Division II game of the week, making this the first time these two will meet via tele-vision. In his tenth year at Washburn, Schurig knows Missouri Western will be no easy task.

“They are one of the good teams in our conference and we’ve had really good games with them since I’ve been here for ten years,” said Schurig. “ It’s usually we match up really well with each other and basically it just comes down to fourth quarter. We need to play like we did against Southern and if we can play that way in the fourth quarter we’ll win.”

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In Good Hands: Sophomore receiver Ronnell Garner hauls in a reception against Lincoln College. The Bods return home Thursday to face Missouri Western.

Hoefflin wins tournament

with 4-under, 140 score

Graphic by Cameron Hughes, Washburn Review

Fall Turkey• —Archery/Shotgun: Oct. 1-Nov. 29, Dec. 12-31, Jan. 9-31, 2012.Teal• —Sept. 10-25.Ducks• —Oct. 29-Jan. 1, 2012. Jan. 21-29, 2012. Youth Waterfowl• —Oct. 22-23.

Canada Geese• —Oct. 29-Nov. 6, Nov. 9-Feb. 12, 2012. White-Fronted •Geese—Oct. 29-Jan. 1, 2012. Feb. 4-12, 2012.Light Geese• —Oct. 29-Nov. 6, Nov. 9-Feb. 12, 2012.Pheasant• —Nov. 12-Jan 31, 2012. Youth: Nov. 5-6.Quail• —Nov. 12-Jan. 31, 2012.Whitetail Deer• —Youth & Disability: Sept. 10-18. Muzzle-loader: Sept. 19-Oct 2. Archery: Sept. 19-Dec. 31. Firearm: Nov. 30-Dec. 11. Extended firearms antlerless: Jan. 1-8, 2012. Extended archery antlerless: Jan. 9-31, 2012. Woodcock• —Oct. 15-Nov. 28.

One of the lesser-known game fish available to anglers is the hybrid bluegill.

These fish are a hybrid be-tween a male bluegill and a fe-male green sunfish. As a result of the cross-breeding, a large majority (90-95 percent) of the hybrids are male. However, re-production is still possible. The second generation offspring is typically weaker and killed off by predators.

Hybrid bluegills grow quite a bit larger than either of their parent species, with a growth rate of three to five times as much as a pure bluegill, and put up a terrific fight when hooked. They grow at a rate of .5 to .75 pounds per years and can reach as much as three pounds, ac-cording to Dunn’s Fish Farm. They battle similar to a large-mouth bass and have beautiful coloring.

Hybrid bluegills are of-ten stocked in ponds because

of their aggressive nature and willingness to bite on lures, and they are a great alternative to regular bluegill that can over-run a pond.

Hybrid bluegills can easily be caught using grasshoppers or worms. However, they also are willing to attack a majority of lures, including topwater pop-

pers, jigs, plastic worms, spin-ner baits and crankbaits.

For a band named Echo Lake, it’s only natural that the founding fathers of the group love to fish.

Drummer Matt Mirsch, senior music education major, and bassist Scott Stormann, who is coming back to Wash-burn after taking a few years off to work, created the popu-lar Topeka-based funk band while earning their degrees at Seaman High School in 2006. Several years and a few new band mates later, the band has become a local favorite thanks to various gigs they’ve done in the area, including the Jayhawk Theatre Revival in 2009.

However, when the pair of North Topekan rockers aren’t practicing for an upcoming gig or studying, they spend a good chunk of time at various fishing spots, mainly the Shawnee State Lake just north of Topeka.

“Scott has an addiction,” said Mirsch. “I fish because I like to eat, Scott fishes because he’s addicted to the adrenaline rush of the catch and he should probably see someone about that. That’s all I have to say about that.”

The two began fishing to-gether in high school, but said they just recently started fishing frequently again this summer.

“We used to fish every now and again, because Matt’s dad was a big fisherman and my dad was,” said Stormann. “We’ve been fishing since we were little, but this summer we really started fishing a lot, like hardcore. I’ve been going out every weekend and Matt comes along probably once every oth-er weekend with me and we’ve been going catfishing and bass fishing.”

The other members of the bandlead—singer Dave Hess, guitarist Michael Spangler and saxophonist T.C. Gomez—are all from Washburn. Hess re-cently graduated with a degree in vocal performance, while Spangler is working toward a business degree and Gomez is working toward a music edu-cation degree. Stormann said they’ve never managed to get the whole band together for a fishing trip, joking that it was mostly because Gomez never had enough money for a fishing license.

“Dave came out once... he’s a better singer than a fish-erman,” said Mirsch.

Stormann said he had a lot of fond memories from his fish-ing adventures this summer, in-cluding a trip to Holton’s Prai-rie Lake.

“I had a good time fishing out at this place called Prairie Lake up in Holton,” said Stor-mann. “We went up there fish-

ing one night and it was a full moon. We didn’t catch anything big but we were catching them every time our bait would touch the water.”

Not all m e m o r i e s from the summer were particularly pleasant for Mirsch, how-ever. During their second fishing trip of the sum-mer, Mirsch caught him-self with a treble hook from a lure that required medical at-tention.

“ We l l , I remember it like it was yesterday,” recalled Mirsch. “It was a beau-tiful day out, ya know, with all the neat stuff in nature... I went for a really good, long cast, so I put some oomph behind it. Next thing I know my pole fell apart where it attaches it detaches and my line was a bit funky and I thought the pole just hit me in the shoulder blade. So

I started trying to put the pole back together and I realized the lure got stuck in my shirt. Then I was like this is really

stuck in my shirt, it’s re-ally in there deep. Then I pulled it a little bit and said ‘I think I got myself a little bit... I think it’s in there pretty deep.’

“ W e tried to get it out and were unsuc-cessful and I made a call to Prompt Care and I was the h i g h l i g h t of the day in the doc-

tor’s office and they took care of me very kindly at Sunflower Prompt.”

Stormann said that after the quick hospital trip, they went right back out and continued fishing, but with little luck.

“I got like three in a row right before he hooked himself and then when we went back

out, we didn’t catch shit,” said Stormann.

Mirsch wasn’t the only one with a hook story, however.

“I would like to say Scott had an incident as a young child, if we’re going to go into embarrassing stories of treble hooks,” said Mirsch. “Scott was a wee lad with his father, I believe it was his first time fish-ing. He caught a decent sized bass or something and I guess he went to take the hook out and he was holding the fish by the mouth. It flopped around and he let it go and the fish and the lure went up in the air and the lure caught him right in his thumb and then the whole fish was hanging from his thumb ... I think it was a traumatic inci-dent for him.”

With summer winding down, they duo now have less time to devote to fishing. The band’s next gig is Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. at the Blackbird Espresso Bar & Bistro as part of Tattoo-ween, a Halloween costume competition hosted by Looking Glass Tattoo & Gallery.

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Echo Lake at State Lake: Echo Lake bassist Scott Stormann holds up a two-pound largemouth bass he caught at the Shawnee State Lake. Stormann is returning to Washburn this fall after taking a few years off.

Photos by Josh Rouse, Washburn Review

Pain in the back: Echo Lake drummer Matt Mirsch enjoys fishing, despite hooking himself earlier this summer.

Hybrid bluegill a fun, challenging catch

Echo Lake at Shawnee Lake: A hybird bluegill caught by Sam Shenk, of Meriden, Kan. These hard-fighting fish are a cross-breed between bluegills and green sunfish.

Photo by Josh Rouse, Washburn Review

2011-12 Hunting Seasons

The 40th Annual Nation-al Hunting and Fishing Day (NHFD)—designated by Con-gressional decree and Presiden-tial Proclamation—will be held Sept. 24. The event is a nation-wide celebration of hunters and anglers and their contributions to conservation.

This year, T. Boone Pick-ens is the honorary chair for National Hunting and Fishing Day. Pickens is one of Amer-ica’s most prominent and in-fluential businessmen. He is president and CEO of the in-vestment firm BP Capital Man-agement and founder of Mesa Petroleum.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) Operations Office will host a NHFD event at its Pratt Operations Office located at 512 SE 25th Ave. (2 miles east and 1 mile south of Pratt) on Saturday, Sept. 24. The cel-ebration will run from 8 a.m. through 1 p.m. The event will include a kids’ fishing derby, a casting contest, catch and re-lease fishing, archery, a canoe race and other outdoor events.

Recent testing of Kansas lakes by the Kansas Depart-ment of Health and Environ-ment (KDHE) has revealed no change in blue-green algae lev-els from last week’s sampling. Samples collected at Milford Reservoir in Clay, Geary and Dickinson counties indicate that high toxin levels of algae bloom are still present through-out. Based on samples tested at different points around the lake, a Public Health Warn-ing will remain in effect, and the lake will be open to fishing and boating only. Recreational activities that involve direct contact with water—such as skiing, swimming, wading, and personal watercraft riding—are not allowed.

Tuttle Creek River Pond, below the dam at Tuttle Creek State Park, has been upgraded from an Advisory to a Warn-ing.

Based upon the latest sam-pling results and established h e a l t h r i s k levels, KDHE issues Warnings and Advisories. A “Warning” is is-sued when high levels of toxic blue-green algae have been de-tected. A “Public Health Warn-ing” indicates that water con-ditions are unsafe, and direct water contact (wading, skiing, and swimming) should not oc-cur.

Blue-green algae do not af-fect the drinking water in state parks, and all campgrounds, marinas and other lakeside businesses remain open for business.

KDHE samples recreation-al bodies of water for blue-green algae when the agency is alerted to a potential algae bloom. When harmful algae blooms are present, KDHE, in cooperation with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, responds by in-forming the public of these conditions.

Health effects from ex-posure to blue-green algae can vary. The most common complaints after recreational exposure include vomiting, di-arrhea, skin rashes, eye irrita-tion and respiratory symptoms. These toxins also cause deaths in pets.

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Hunting and Fishing Day set for Sept. 24

Fifty-four anglers, includ-ing a Kansas resident, will compete Nov. 5 in the B.A.S.S. Federation Nation Champion-ship on the Ouachita River in Monroe, La.

Beau Branine, of Haysville, Kan., will compete in the Cen-tral Division against a field

from 46 o t h e r s t a t e s and six

international locations. He is a member of the 2012 Kansas Bass Federation Nation State Team.

The overall winner of the event will receive a fully-loaded bass boat and a 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series quali-fication, as well as a berth into the Bassmaster Classic Febru-ary 24-26 on the Red River in Shreveport, La. Josh Rouse owns RouseOutdoors.net. Reach him at joshua.rouse@washburn.edu.

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