The Baker Orange 2014-15 issue 2

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September 19, 2014 vol. 122 [issue 2]Baker University Student Media ~ Baldwin City, Kansas

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The Baker Orange dives deeper into the true cost of a college education.

pg. 8 & 9

Senior Gunnar “DJ Gunz” McKenna puts his own spin on campus nightlife.

pg. 14

Football jumps to 2-0 on the season

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Photo by Chris Ortiz

A diffi cult decision:

“Ok, I’m not that now, what am I?” - Marc Carter

As he battles cancer, former

Professor of Psychology Marc Carter retires to

face whatever comes next.

Taylor ShuckEDITOR

It began with a weekend off. Then, just a semester off. By the start of the fall 2014 semester, Marc Carter decided not to return to teaching at Baker University.

Last December, the former professor of psychology was diagnosed with a brain tumor known as astrocytoma. He took the spring semester off, intending to return in the fall. As his condition continued to tire him, Carter decided retirement would be the best option for both himself and the Baker community.

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“The decision was largely about whether or not I could do it and do it well,” Carter said. “Not feeling that I could (do it well), I decided not to. If I was going to do it, I wanted to do it right.”

Although his surgery at the Univer-sity of Kansas Medical Center satellite campus in Westwood went well, with the doctors telling him they removed over 99 percent of the tumors, Carter still felt he was not ready to return. The choice for replacement, according to Carter, was obvious.

Following Carter’s retirement, his position has been filled by Rand Ziegler, who had previously held the same position as Carter before becoming an administrator. Carter said the transition made “real good sense,” and Ziegler believes the same. Ziegler himself said it was “quite natural” for him to take over Carter’s teaching position.

After working in administration for 10 years, Ziegler is happy to be back in the faculty. Ziegler said he always knew he wanted to retire as a faculty member.

“Quite honestly, I’ve always been a faculty member at heart,” Ziegler said. “I really, really like being back in the classroom, and it reinforced to me how much I missed the being in there.”

While Ziegler was happy to transi-tion back into the role of teaching, Carter is having a more difficult time adjusting. Carter said the hardest part is not thinking of himself as a college professor anymore.

“After having identified myself as a college professor since ’92, it’s kind of strange to think ‘OK, I’m not that now, what am I?’” Carter said.

As for “what he is,” Carter has been focusing on the things he could not find time for when he was a professor, including reading, writing and even taking a French class from his wife and former colleague, Professor of

French Erin Joyce. The two have worked together at

the university for 10 years, with Joyce starting in 1999 and Carter in 2004. Joyce said that coming back from sum-mer vacation without her husband was “a little strange” to her, but she recog-nizes that he made the right decision.

“In the spring, it felt like he was on a sabbatical and he would come back, but coming back this fall and knowing he was retired was a little emotional,” Joyce said. “I know he made the right decision.“

Although all of Carter’s MRIs have been clean, he is still undergoing chemotherapy five of every 28 days. He said the treatments are tedious and he is “beat all the time” during those five days, but he jokingly added that it at least gives the couple a chance to go to Costco.

Because it has only been eight months, it’s hard to tell where the cancer might go. As of right now, Carter and Joyce are taking what comes and going step-by-step with the process.

“Right after the surgery, they tell you anything could happen,” Joyce said. “I really tried to not think too much through it ... Let’s just do it. I don’t know, for me, it didn’t help to think ‘What if this happens?’ We just have to do it.”

Although he is no longer a full-time professor, Carter said he has had much support from the faculty and staff, including Brian Posler, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Posler has told Carter he is welcome to come back whenever he feels up to it.

“The dean has been great, but it’s a little odd when you’re really invested in a community and then all of the sudden, you’re not in that community anymore,” Carter said. “But we’re going to try and find a space for an office in the university so I can come and do some work in the library.”

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Sarah Baker ASSISTANT EDITOR

Fall enrollment is on a steady incline as Baker continues to gain and keep new students.

Currently, Baker has 228 new freshmen and 39 transfer students enrolled for the fall semester on the Baldwin City campus.

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Brian Posler said that while Baker does not have as many new freshmen as last year’s class at 234, overall enrollment is increasing largely because Baker’s retention rate is improving.

“Those retention numbers are

doing pretty well, which means we are successfully finding students who are a good fit to stay and be successful at Baker,” Posler said. “The full-time enrollment will be higher this fall than last fall by about 20 students or so. And so that’s good news for Baker.”

Kevin Kropf, the senior director of admissions, said the incoming fresh-man class is very diverse, including the addition of 11 international stu-dents enrolled this fall, twice as many as last year. These students are from all around the world, from Canada to Australia.

“We’re excited that almost a quar-ter of the [freshman] class identifies

as African American, Asian American, and Native American or Hispanic or Latino,” Kropf said. “We think having a diverse class is an important thing.”

According to the 2013-14 Baker University Fact Book, BU had a spike in enrollment in 2008 and 2009, with almost one thousand students enrolled at the Baldwin City campus. By 2011, that number had decreased by nearly 60 students. But enrollment has increased each year since then.

The total number of students has been increasing and Posler said it is evident in the recent residential changes on campus.

“We have men in Irwin this year, because we needed overflow from

Gessner,” Posler said. “So it’s not sur-prising the NLC is full, [and] it’s not surprising the apartments are full, but it is nice to see Gessner essentially full … the fewer empty beds and the more full the campus is, in ways of housing, also really helps Baker.”

Kropf and the admissions office believe it is a whole campus effort to enroll a student.

“It’s faculty, it’s coaches, it’s the building [and] grounds people, it’s student life - it’s the entire experi-ence,” Kropf said. “When we get students to visit, we want them to engage as many aspects of the campus as possible, and so we know we can’t do it alone.”

Improved retention rate helps enrollment numbers

Carter’s cancer battle leads to retirementContinued from Pg. 1

Former Professor of Psychology Marc Carter works on his bicycle in his shop in his backyard. The shop is home to Carter’s makeshift bicycle repair work space and man cave. Since his diagnosis, Carter has been able to spend more time with one of his favorite hobbies, which is cycling. Photo by Chris Ortiz

EnrollmentBy the numbers

NEW FRESHMEN: TRANSFER STUDENTS: INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

228 39 11

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Visiting professor feels at home at Baker Megan Henry

STAFF WRITER

He’s lived in many different places in the United States, from New York to Tennessee. But none of these states compare to Kansas, where Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish David Lisenby, Ph.D., “feels most at home.”

Whether teaching or schooling, Lisenby has made his way through many states, only to stop here at Baker to fill in for Professor of Spanish Sandra Schumm who is on sabbatical this year. Lisenby will be teaching all of Schumm’s Spanish courses at the 200-level and above.

“I was eager to get back in this area,” Lisenby said. “I’m really enjoy-ing the class sizes and getting to know the students well just in these first few days.”

Lisenby attended graduate school at the University of Kansas, where he earned his doctorate. Upon graduating from KU, he began teaching Spanish and has continued to do so for the past 11 years.

His first impression of Baker was that most students are involved in

many activities on campus, and views this as a “unique and positive” trait of the university.

“I’m looking forward to learning personally from the experience of teaching a wide variety of courses at Baker and getting involved,” Lisenby said. “I’m thrilled to be here.”

Sophomore Kristen Finger thinks Lisenby will do well at Baker and by the end of the semester he will have students who are encouraged and enthusiastic about Spanish.

“I think he demonstrates a lot of patience and understanding toward students,” Finger said. “He’s relaxed, but firm, which gives us the confidence to grow in our Spanish ability.”

Lisenby will be continuing the out-of-class activities Schumm helped with, too, including the Spanish table in the cafeteria and hosting film nights.

Senior Jacob Mogle is in one of Lisenby’s Spanish classes and foresees him fitting in well at the university.

“Professor Lisenby is going to find a lot of success at Baker,” Mogle said. “His teaching style promotes fun and learn-ing side by side, which is exactly what Baker’s language department needs.”

Taylor ShuckEDITOR

To start the 2014-15 school year, Baker University was faced with a pile of budget cuts that surprised faculty and staff members. President Lynne Murray addressed Faculty Sen-ate on Sept. 2 and discussed the cuts and their effects on the university.

“I know you came in to budget cuts,” Murray said. “I am looking into that and greater than that, I’m look-ing into greater transparency.”

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Brian Posler said that most of the cuts were made before Mur-ray arrived. He said the Board of Trustees directed former President Pat Long, outgoing Chief Operating Officer Susan Lindahl and him to find inefficiencies and places where cuts could be made.

Posler said many members of the BOT were in favor of the budget cuts.

“The Board has worked hard to pay down debt over the past several years and has done that very suc-cessfully, decreasing it by more than $5 million,” Posler said in an email. “After working to achieve that goal, some Board members were reluctant to add any debt back to that total.”

Cuts came in the form of $500,000 from operational budgets and $500,000 in personnel. Posler said many of the cuts were based on year-end spending levels last year and how certain departmental expenses could be cut while still sparing stu-dent and faculty experiences.

Although the total $1 million figure seems large, Lindahl said that it is spread throughout all of Baker’s campuses, which have a total annual budget of $40 million.

“We wanted to find those funds in the best possible way without hurting the environment and the morale of the institution,” Lindahl,

who recently submitted her resigna-tion, said. “Our mission is to deliver the best education that we can, and we don’t like to reduce any budget but we are required to meet certain financial indicators, and if we aren’t meeting those, for any institution, we have to look at what we can reduce.”

To help with the tough finan-cial times, Murray hopes to have decreased spending on events and other presidential occasions, so the cuts will not have a direct effect on teaching budgets.

Murray will also be facilitating a faculty budget group along with cre-ating a “President’s Visionary Fund,” through which a significant amount of fundraising can be done for the university.

Posler hopes the cuts do not affect the students in any way.

“We all tried our very best to in-sulate students as much as possible,” Posler said. “Some administrative of-

fices will be more thinly staffed, but we all will strive to serve students just as well as before. My hope is that very little will change for the student experience this year as a result.”

Lindahl said that even in a time of budget cuts, the university has hired new faculty on the Baldwin City campus and is starting more growth programs on the satellite campuses, including new accounting and crimi-nal justice majors at the School for Professional and Graduate Studies campus in Overland Park.

“There’s great synergy across the university toward those growth programs,” Lindahl said. “We focus on investing in our campus so that our facilities are welcoming and a place that students want to be and an investment toward the commitment to hire faculty to meet the mission of the university. But now we just have to have a laser-light focus on revenue and growth and quality programs.“

Faculty, staff surprised to start the school year with cuts

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish David Lisenby teaches his class different Spanish vocabu-lary words. Lisenby is filling the position of Professor of Spanish Sandra Schumm for the year while she is on sabbatical. Photo by Khadijah Lane

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Mykaela CrossASSISTANT EDITOR

The new year moves forward by bring-ing back old memories. At least, that is what Baker University students will be celebrating with the fall 2014 Homecom-ing. The event, themed “Lasting Traditions Bring New Beginnings,” will differ from years past in that the competitions will be class against class in order to promote more all-inclusive spirit events.

Sophomore Luke Miltz, this year’s pub-lic relations chairman for both Zeta Chi fraternity and the Student Senate, is a big fan of Homecoming week and believes it is a chance to do more than just play games and have fun.

“I think that Homecoming is a unifying event to celebrate,” Miltz said. “It’s a time when we generate school spirit and have pride in our university.”

Though this year will still feature events much like Homecomings in the past, such as Miltz’s favorite, Skit Night, the competitors will be the four classes; freshmen, sophomores, juniors and se-niors.

Miltz supports the idea of having the classes compete instead of campus orga-nizations such as Greek houses and sports teams.

“I really appreciate the changes in Homecoming plans for this year because it takes away the focus on Greeks and athlet-ics and brings us all together,” Miltz said.

In addition to the new competitive form, the 2014-15 Homecoming will fea-ture a night of Powder Puff Football, when the freshmen and seniors who registered to play will be on the same team and take on the sophomore and junior teams.

Junior Ashley Riniker is in charge of organizing the events hosted by Student Activities Council throughout the week. She is most looking forward to Powder Puff football but also enjoys the BU Show-down event.

“There’s going to be musical chairs, tug of war, knock out competition, and a relay (at BU Showdown),” Riniker said. “While all of that is going on, we’re going to try and have a trivia competition about Baker to celebrate tradition.”

Other familiar activities such as win-dow painting and other BU pride events will also be taking place this year.

As a member of SAC, Riniker’s mission was to try and incorporate all of campus into the Homecoming celebration and re-move the “Greek Week feel” that has been associated with Homecoming. Since this is the first year trying out this new idea, she hopes that this will be a smooth test run that may turn into a “loved tradition.”

“I think this year is going to be hard to figure out how to organize the whole event and involve everyone,” Riniker said. “It’s kind of like a work in progress, but I’m really hoping this year will be the rough start that will get much better and become a Baker spirit tradition.

Students are not the only ones getting fired up about Homecoming. Director of Student Life Randy Flowers believes that the tradition is something that allows students to celebrate their university’s history and show pride and spirit for the campus.

“This is a week to reflect on the history of the university through engaging the students to celebrate,” Flowers said.

Flowers’ favorite part of Homecoming is seeing the royalty candidates.

“It gives credit to the students who’ve put in time and helped to push their col-lege career that they are now being recog-nized as a top leader at Baker University,” Flowers said.

Flowers, Riniker, and Miltz would all recommend that students take part in the events during the week and share their Baker spirit.

“Get involved as much as you can,” Miltz said. “If you come to Baker and do nothing but study you’re missing out on valuable student life experiences.”

The theme will emphasize the impor-tance of Baker’s road to its status quo.

“Baker is full of history and traditions. There is a lot to our campus that many don’t realize and we want to take a mo-ment to recognize our past that got us to where we are, and use those traditions to excel in our future,” Flowers said. “There is a lot of change happening at Baker, and while we emphasize the positive changes, it’s important to remember that past.”

Homecoming debuts new structure

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Separate the colors from the whites. Wash one

set in cold, one in warm. Use this detergent and that fabric

softener in only the colored load while using just a little bit of bleach

in the white load.The 2014 fall semester is under-

way and campus housing welcomes back more than just students, but their laundry as well. With laundry fees included in housing costs, stu-dents living on campus can do their laundry with no coins needed, though not every student looks at laundry the same way.

With so many instructions, prod-ucts and dials, not to mention the other tasks to accomplish during the day, senior Joey Majchrzak does not have time to worry about learning how to do laundry. Instead of learn-ing the laundry ropes as a freshman, Majchrzak takes his clothes home to

his family.Before coming to Baker Uni-

versity, Majchzrak had only ever touched laundry when he was

helping his mother around the house.

“It was something I never really paid

attention to,”

Majchrzak said. “I basically followed the instructions given each time.”

Majchrzak has never used the laundry facilities on campus and considers laundry a chore. He sees doing his laundry off campus as an advantage, but understands the need to learn.

“I don’t have to think about doing my laundry during the week,” Maj-chrzak said. “But we all have to learn someday.”

Sophomore Amanda Conrade lived in Irwin her freshman year but now calls the Horn and Markham Apart-ments her home. Conrade is one of the students who chooses to do laun-dry on campus. Much like Majchrzak, laundry was not something she had to worry about at home, but she did learn the basics from observation.

“I don’t think I ever really did a whole lot, but I helped my mom every now and then,” Conrade said.

Now that she lives on campus, Conrade does her own laundry often. She considers her pile of dirty laundry pretty average compared to her fellow Wildcats and can “survive” on wash-ing one load a week.

“I definitely really like Irwin’s laundry facilities. They’re much more up-to-date,” Conrade said. “The facili-ties in the apartments can’t always be counted on. The dryer can be really finicky so sometimes you have to dry your clothes twice.”

Conrade thinks that there are

benefits that come with being able to do laundry on campus without hav-ing to pay.

“Most schools you have to pay for your laundry and at Baker you don’t,” Conrade said. “It also saves my mom money at home since we don’t have to pay for the water use there.”

Though freshman Nicole Fienhold, a resident of Irwin this year, agrees with Conrade on the free laundry benefits, she also sees setbacks when using BU’s facilities.

“There aren’t very many settings on the washers and dryers,” Fienhold said. “And you have to move people’s laundry who’ve run off and left it all the time. Overcrowdedness is defi-nitely a problem.”

Fienhold regularly does her laundry twice a week and uses the facilities in Irwin. Her favorite part of laundry is seeing the clothes neat, finished and clean on her hangers.

“I like to have clean clothes so it’s nice,” Fienhold said.

So while Majchzrak has still yet to do his laundry as a senior, Conrade and Fienhold are finally getting used to the “wishy-washy” laundry machines that the uni-versity has to offer.

WASH SPIN CYCLEHOT

WARM COLD COLORS WHITES

Life lessons in unexpected places:THE LAUNDRY ROOM

At a time when the university is fac-ing budget cuts and changes in enroll-ment, it’s nice to see effort still being made beyond the basics of operational budgets and personnel. The Long Stu-dent Center is now a functional space where students, faculty and staff can comfortably meet on campus.

The funds for the Long Student Cen-ter renovations came from generous donations only, which is why the prog-ress for updates could still continue even after the Board of Trustees dealt a blow in saying $1 million had to be cut from this year’s university budget.

We as an editorial board are sure glad the progress continued.

The Daily Grind, which is the new coffee shop in the student union, gives students a central meeting place other than the basement of the library. The sleek design of the area makes it feel like the university is keeping pace with other larger universities.

Before The Daily Grind, there wasn’t a place on campus other than the caf-eteria to get food or drink. This wel-comed pitstop has changed students’ mornings and afternoons, with a simple Starbucks coffee or Jamba Juice snack.

The next phase of the Union reno-vations include outdoor seating and a large venue for meetings or speeches. Each of these will help bring the Baker community together and keep people on campus, which has been an issue for the university in the past.

The coffee shop provides students with a place for homework and sepa-ration, something that many students could previously only find after driving 19 miles up the road to Lawrence. At all times of the day, from open to close, students can be seen either ordering a coffee or sitting at one of the new ta-bles, flooded by the natural lighting of the space. This is a pleasing sight from that of last year when students only saw the student union if they were

walking through to the New Living Center or stopping into the cafeteria.

Now that the university has a shiny new science building and student union facilities, when will the rest of campus see similar improvements? Larger state universities have fash-ionable and functional arts centers, whereas Rice Auditorium seems to be stuck in the ‘70s, and for a liberal arts college, it’s interesting to see where some of the funding goes.

And this isn’t the only problematic building on campus. Just a few days ago, our own mass media building, Pulliam Hall, had water damage. Pieces of the roof were falling off onto the stairs and much of the carpet was wet from the damage.

We hope that this is one trend on campus that continues until each department and the whole university can have the same profound effect on students and the community.

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E D I T O R I A L

Apple Inc. is attempting to make a comeback with the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus that went on pre-sale Sept. 12. But will it be enough to bring Apple back to the top?

iPods, iPhones and iPads are just some of the examples of Apple products that have taken the stage and outshone competitors, that is until recently. Though Apple’s prices would suggest its devices are elite, the devices’ performances aren’t giv-ing the same impression.

What are we really paying for when we enjoy our little Apple logo? Exactly that, the logo. Compare per-formance of an Android device with that of Apple’s recent ones, and I’d vote for Android any day. With sales demonstrating that competitors now have the edge, the Apple company certainly needs to do something.

I remember the day I got my iPod

4GS. It was brand new and the next big thing. That was only three years ago and I never touch my iPod any-more. Why would I? My glitch-free Samsung Galaxy S4 does everything my iPod does -- faster, brighter and more efficiently.

The iTunes programming compli-cates data transfer from the program to the device. I’ve lost countless songs, videos and photos thanks to the different iTunes bugs; I’ve wasted hours trying to recover lost files. With my Galaxy S4, transfer-ring files is direct and speedy, taking me no time at all to download and upload various files.

The only reason I see for Apple’s high popularity is the bandwagon ef-fect. Apple makes consumers believe that since everyone else has one and it’s the most expensive, they have to have one too. People just don’t realize that in this case, the cheaper option is actually the better option.

As if file transfer errors weren’t enough, recurring issues with iCloud, the satellite storage Apple provides to make information easier to access from all its devices, are turning more customers away from Apple. The iCloud does its job, but too well. Many customers, recently including celebrities, have had their private photographs and informa-tion hacked directly from iCloud. Just look at Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton.

I like new stuff as much as the next person, but it would take more

than just a newer, larger screen to make me switch. Then came Sept. 9, when Apple unveiled the long-antici-pated iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.

Even as a Droid lover, I watched the presentation and was impressed by the sharper and alterable camera settings, vivid screens, new texting features and storage benefits. The iPhone 6 Plus might be the device to change my mind.

The thinner, larger, and rounded edged iPhone 6 and 6 Plus differ only in size and color options, but they have the new iOS 8 processor, mak-ing them faster and filling them with all sorts of new functions. While the iPhone 5S was 4 inches, the iPhone 6 is 4.7 inches and the Plus measures up to 5.5 inches.

Yeah, I may switch. That is if Apple’s gotten rid of the rest of the worms.

Apple not without worms: problems with products

Union updates rejuvenate campus

Abbey ’s sketch pad

Mykaela Cross

by Abbey Elsbernd

A recent USA Today article titled “Hooking up to getting hitched: Yes, it can happen” states that one-third of the marital relationships in a given sample started with a hookup. It emphasizes that articles and studies have been talking about “the hookup culture” and how it is affecting college students worldwide.

While I didn’t exactly come into college expecting to find my Mr. Darcy, I can’t help but think that this hookup culture has destroyed the idea of find-ing a future husband or wife while in school.

First things firstSo what’s a hookup?It’s this purposefully ambiguous

term used by all of us college students to describe anything from making out to sex. (Yes, I said it. Sex. College stu-dents have sex, surprise!) We created this word to cover a wide variety of situations so that we can choose if we want to exaggerate our night or hide what really happened.

Brooke Davis in One Tree Hill captured this idea best when she said, “Relationships are just too hard, hook-ing up with boys is so much easier.” What makes relationships so hard, though? It’s not a new concept. People have been getting married and living happily ever after for years now.

Where is this change coming from?I’ve seen couples sitting on their

phones together in a restaurant, do-ing who knows what, but obviously not paying attention to each other or having a conversation. I wonder how these two can consider themselves

to be in a relationship, unless it’s one involving them and their cellphones. Hookups are easier for our generation because we are so focused on every-thing else, from getting good grades to an ex’s tweet to a best friend’s Instagram, that we don’t have the time and energy needed for an actual relationship.

Relationships don’t work in our culture because we don’t let them work.

Why do we do it?Having some-

one who is just a “thing” is easy for us because it’s com-pletely low-risk. It can end whenever needed, because, well, it never even really started. I don’t know how many times I hear someone say, “Oh, we’re just a thing.” What does that even mean?

In these “things,” it’s better to be the person who cares less, because then it’s possible to walk away un-scathed when it ends. This fits into our schedules easier because in col-lege, we have school clubs, homework and graduation to worry about. Add-ing a relationship to the mix is just one more drop in the bucket. But man, where did the romance go?

Our culture is much more open sexually than any of those before; hav-ing a one-night stand isn’t something to be ashamed of, and in some ways, it’s even glorified. We just use that ambiguous term “hookup” and tell whatever story we feel like telling. So like Brooke Davis said, if it’s possible to have sex without a commitment,

why should college students take the time to be in a relationship?

But when does it turn into some-thing to be worried about? This open sexuality leads to a decline in actual relationships. I’m not saying college is where you have to meet your soul mate, sorry Princeton Mom, but it’s not about racking up a number either.

Are women the problem?

For Samantha on Sex and the City, hooking up is her way of tackling the sexual double

standard by having sex “like a man.” She feels that by taking control of her own sexuality, she can keep the power rather than the man. We are in the fourth wave of feminism, one in which women are expected to do whatever they want to, not to please anyone, but to make themselves happy. They’re called “rebel women.” They fight for abortion rights, they raise hell when a man touches their ass and they treat their bodies like it’s a vessel for feelings. This fourth wave has its place for women like Samantha, who want to have the power over their own body and have the freedom to do what they want with it. But having a hookup isn’t synonymous with having power.

Kudos to you women who feel like you’re getting back at men for being able to have meaningless sex, but I don’t think it really makes us even with them. Feminism is about respect-ing oneself and settling for what is deserved and nothing else.

“Relationships” in college turn into sex-only “hangouts” because guys are fine with it. The study mentioned in USA Today says that 50 percent of men feel positive after a hookup, and we women are too busy trying to make a name for ourselves and being independent. Samantha is a powerful business woman, without the time or the desire for a relationship, which is nothing to be ashamed of.

But honestly, wouldn’t it be better to share it with someone else?

The problem is, we don’t care enough to find out.

I’m no expert, but..Dating isn’t for everyone. That’s

easy enough to realize considering it involves having money for dates, foregoing college parties for a night at home with the beau, and above all, it means having feelings.

If you want to get down to the ba-sics, a lot of it probably has to do with the need to make babies and populate the world, but it’s more than that. It’s being able to have someone next to you who cares about the same things you do.

I’m not your mom, so I’m not say-ing “stop hooking up” – studies do show that it works one-third of the time - but feelings aren’t a thing of the past and neither is dating, yet.

Women, give good guys a chance. They’re not all gone yet. Men, delete your Tinder and ask a girl on a real date. To the movies, not to your dorm room.

P.S. - Has anyone even tried walking under the Baker grape arbor yet?

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Word AroundBAKER:

“What do you think about The Daily Grind?”

“It’s really good for when you have bad days or rough mornings. It’s a great pick-me-up!”

Bethany Oeserfreshman

“I love the coffee shop because my roommates sometimes buy me coffee and cinnamon rolls, and it makes my day!”

Bailey Gibsonfreshman

“I like the shop because it gives variety to what we can eat and drink with the addition of both Jamba Juice and Starbucks.”

Clarence Clarksophomore

the end of college datingHookup culture:

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deb

t, ju

st st

eps

behi

nd m

ortg

age

loan

s. W

hile

the

pr

ice

of t

uitio

n an

d fe

es o

nly

rose

4.8

per

cent

from

201

1-12

to

2012

-13,

acc

ordi

ng t

o T

he C

ol-

lege

Boa

rd, p

ayin

g fo

r col

lege

is m

ore

than

just

the

stic

ker p

rice.

The

re a

re m

any

mor

e ex

pens

es

tack

ed o

n to

a c

olle

ge e

duca

tion

than

just

the

tui

tion

and

fees

. Fro

m h

ousi

ng t

o ex

trac

urric

ular

ac

tiviti

es, t

he p

rice

of a

deg

ree

cont

inue

s to

rise

.

At th

e ba

sic l

evel

, students are

ex-

pected to pay $25,950

a y

ear f

or

tuiti

on a

t Bak

er U

nive

rsity

. As a

pri

vate

uni

ver-

sity

, the

re is

n’t a

diff

eren

ce b

etw

een

in-s

tate

and

ou

t-of

-sta

te tu

ition

, and

with

out �

inan

cial

aid

, th

is se

ems l

ike

a hi

gh n

umbe

r. Th

ere

is a

lso

a general undergraduate fee

of

$340 a year

for s

tude

nts t

hat p

ays f

or

thin

gs li

ke m

embe

rshi

p to

the

gym

and

par

king

.Lu

ckily

for s

tude

nts,

Bake

r pro

mot

es th

at

over

90

perc

ent o

f all

stud

ents

at t

he u

nive

rsity

re

ceiv

e �in

anci

al a

id in

the

form

of s

chol

arsh

ips

or g

rant

s. Bu

t, fo

r the

mos

t par

t, st

uden

ts st

ill

have

a b

ig ch

unk

of ch

ange

to p

ay a

fter t

he g

rant

s an

d sc

hola

rshi

ps a

re p

ut in

to p

lace

.

2. Housing & Food

In a

dditi

on to

tuiti

on a

nd fe

es, s

tude

nts a

t Ba

ker U

nive

rsity

are

requ

ired

to li

ve o

n-ca

mpu

s, un

less

they

fall

unde

r one

of t

he e

xem

ptio

n re

-qu

irem

ents

, suc

h as

a m

edic

al co

nditi

on o

r liv

ing

at h

ome.

Sen

ior A

undr

e Al

len

estim

ates

that

he

save

s alm

ost $

2000

a y

ear l

ivin

g of

f cam

pus.

“I m

oved

off

cam

pus b

ecau

se it

was

chea

per

and

save

d m

e an

d m

y fa

mily

a lo

t of m

oney

,” Al

-le

n sa

id. “

The

pric

e di

ffere

nce

play

ed a

hug

e pa

rt

in m

y de

cisi

on b

ecau

se n

ow th

at I

live

off,

I hav

e m

oney

to p

ay fo

r ren

t, bu

y m

y ow

n fo

od a

nd sa

ve

up m

oney

.”Th

e ave

rage

yea

r of

hou

sing

on

cam

pus

at B

aker i

s $5

,026

, w

hich

is a

ppro

xim

atel

y $9

11.5

0 a

mon

th. A

llen

pays

$30

0 a

mon

th fo

r his

off-

cam

pus h

ouse

, a

$611

.50

mon

thly

diff

eren

ce. B

ut st

uden

ts a

re

also

for

ced

to h

ave a

meal

pla

n th

roug

h th

e un

iver

sity

whi

le li

ving

in th

e do

r-m

itori

es, whi

ch on

averag

e is

an-

othe

r $4

,175

a y

ear.

3. Books

& Supplies

Mos

t col

lege

clas

ses h

ave

a te

xtbo

ok

requ

ired

with

them

, if n

ot m

ore

than

one

. Th

e Co

llege

Boa

rd re

port

ed th

at d

urin

g th

e 20

13-1

4 sc

hool

yea

r, pr

ivat

e sc

hool

stu

dent

s on

ave

r-ag

e sp

ent

$1,2

53 o

n bo

oks

and

supp

lies

for t

he y

ear.

Seni

or

Aman

da S

eele

y w

ould

und

erst

and

this

ex

pens

e fo

r a ch

emis

try

maj

or, b

ut a

s a

busi

ness

maj

or, s

he w

as a

ppal

led

by h

ow

muc

h he

r tex

tboo

ks co

st fo

r a se

mes

ter.

“I e

nded

up

only

buy

ing

thre

e ou

t of

my

six

text

book

s bec

ause

the

cost

for o

ne

sem

este

r was

a li

ttle

ove

r $1,

000,

” See

ley

said

. “I w

as p

rett

y m

uch

in sh

ock

and

I th

ough

t the

y w

ere

joki

ng. I

kne

w I

coul

dn’t

buy

all o

f the

m.”

As fo

r sup

plie

s, it

can

vary

gre

atly

de

pend

ing

on a

stud

ent’s

maj

or. J

unio

r Ke

lsey

Vol

lenw

eide

r is a

stud

io a

rt a

nd a

rt

hist

ory

maj

or. F

or h

er cl

asse

s, in

add

ition

to

text

book

s, sh

e is

exp

ecte

d to

buy

her

ow

n ar

t sup

plie

s, ra

ngin

g fr

om p

aint

to

canv

ases

. She

said

that

alth

ough

$15

for a

tu

be o

f pai

nt m

ight

not

seem

like

a lo

t, it

st

arts

to

add

up o

ver

the

cour

se o

f a se

mest

er.

“It’s

har

d be

caus

e it’

s so

muc

h m

ore

cost

s tha

n I h

ave

time

to d

eal w

ith,”

Vol-

lenw

eide

r sai

d. “B

aker

trie

s har

d to

mak

e it

inex

pens

ive,

but

you

can

rack

up

a go

od

bill

beca

use

of th

e sp

eci�i

c qua

lity

and

type

of s

uppl

ies y

ou h

ave

to g

et.”

Volle

nwei

der p

oint

s out

that

art

st

uden

ts a

ren’

t the

onl

y on

es w

ith e

xtra

ex

pens

es; d

igita

l med

ia st

uden

ts a

re e

x-pe

cted

to g

et th

eir o

wn

hard

dri

ve, w

hich

ca

n co

st u

pwar

ds o

f $10

0, d

epen

ding

on

size

and

type

. Spe

ci�ic

mat

hem

atic

al

calc

ulat

ors r

ange

from

$10

0-$2

00 a

nd

all s

tude

nts i

n m

ath

clas

ses a

nd m

ost i

n ch

emis

try

clas

ses a

re e

xpec

ted

to p

ur-

chas

e on

e.

$25,950

[

[$1,253

[

[

4. Athletics

Mos

t stu

dent

s at B

aker

are

invo

lved

in a

thle

tics.

Alth

ough

this

can

help

pay

for t

uitio

n, th

ere

are

othe

r out

-of-p

ocke

t cos

ts a

ssoc

iate

d w

ith b

eing

in th

e sp

ort.

Juni

or G

abe

Gree

nbau

m h

as

play

ed b

aseb

all f

or th

e un

iver

sity

for t

hree

yea

rs. H

e sp

ends

mon

ey o

n ne

w cl

eats

($80

), a

new

ba

t ($8

0) a

nd a

glo

ve ($

220)

, costing

him

$30

0 to

pla

y. B

ut in

add

ition

to th

at,

he h

as to

buy

oth

er a

thle

tic w

ear a

nd sp

ends

mon

ey o

n ot

her “

�itne

ss st

uff.”

Alth

ough

it is

a li

ttle

ex

tra,

Gre

enba

um �i

nds t

his a

s a co

st h

e is

will

ing

to p

ay.

“Bas

ebal

l is t

he o

nly

spor

t I’v

e pl

ayed

that

I di

dn’t

wan

t to

give

up

and

it’s t

otal

ly w

orth

it to

m

e,” G

reen

baum

said

. “Th

e co

sts a

re a

ll w

orth

it in

my

eyes

.”$300

[

[

$9,201

[[

5. Going Greek

Mor

e th

an 3

00 u

nder

grad

uate

s are

mem

bers

of t

he

Gree

k lif

e at

Bak

er U

nive

rsity

and

are

“an

inte

gral

par

t of

the

Bake

r Uni

vers

ity so

cial

scen

e” a

ccor

ding

to th

e of

�ice

of fr

ater

nity

and

soro

rity

life

. The

re a

re m

any

mor

e co

sts

asso

ciat

ed w

ith G

reek

life

than

any

oth

er ca

mpu

s org

ani-

zatio

n. A

lthou

gh li

ving

in a

Gre

ek h

ouse

is ch

eape

r tha

n a

dorm

or t

he a

part

men

ts, n

ew m

embe

rs in

a so

rori

ty

have to pa

y an

ave

rage

of

$1,9

47 i

n new member

fee

s th

eir

firs

t ye

ar,

acco

rdin

g to

the

info

rmat

iona

l pac

ket h

ande

d ou

t by

the

Of�ic

e of

Stu

dent

Affa

irs.

Juni

or M

egan

Pon

tius s

uspe

cts s

he sp

ends

$75

a se

mes

-te

r on

clot

hes n

eede

d fo

r dat

e pa

rtie

s or s

hirt

s for

eve

nts.

Alth

ough

this

pri

ce v

arie

s bas

ed o

n th

e ne

ed fo

r shi

rts f

or

diffe

rent

eve

nts,

she

says

mos

t sor

oriti

es d

on’t

forc

e st

u-de

nts t

o pu

rcha

se a

ny o

f the

shir

ts. B

ut fo

r rec

ruitm

ent,

she

had

to sp

end

$200

in sp

eci�i

c clo

thin

g.“I

had

to h

ave

spec

i�ic s

hoes

, a re

d dr

ess a

nd a

cert

ain

type

of c

ardi

gan,

” Pon

tius s

aid.

“It’s

an

extr

a ex

pens

e th

at

my

fam

ily w

asn’

t nec

essa

rily

cons

ider

ing

whe

n I c

ame

to

scho

ol, b

ut it

’s no

t a b

urde

n.”

The

aver

age

new

mem

ber f

ee fo

r fra

tern

ities

is si

gni�i

-ca

ntly

chea

per a

t $22

0 fo

r the

�irs

t yea

r.

6. Studying Abroad

Acco

rdin

g to

the

Inst

itute

of I

nter

natio

nal E

duca

tion,

the av

erag

e co

st

of s

tudy

ing

abro

ad f

or o

ne s

emes

ter

was

$17,

785

for t

he 2

012-

13 a

cade

mic

yea

r. Ba

ker U

nive

rsity

mak

es it

eas

y to

stud

y ab

road

; it’

s par

t of w

hat A

ssis

tant

Dea

n fo

r Aca

dem

ic A

ffair

s Mar

tha

Har

ris c

alls

“the

lib

eral

art

s exp

erie

nce.”

Bak

er a

llow

s all

�inan

cial

aid

aw

arde

d by

the

univ

ersi

ty

to b

e ap

plie

d to

war

d st

udyi

ng a

broa

d, fr

om d

epar

tmen

tal a

war

ds to

par

ticip

atio

n aw

ards

. Har

laxt

on, B

aker

’s si

ster

scho

ol in

Gra

ntha

m, E

ngla

nd, c

osts

onl

y ab

out

$1,0

00 m

ore

than

Bak

er, a

ccor

ding

to H

arri

s. Bu

t Har

ris a

lso

said

that

the

cost

can

vary

wid

ely

whe

n it

com

es to

stud

ying

abr

oad;

one

pro

gram

can

be u

nder

$6,

000

whi

le th

e ne

xt is

ove

r $20

,000

.H

arri

s bel

ieve

s stu

dent

s sho

uld

take

adv

anta

ge o

f Bak

er’s

gene

rosi

ty w

hen

it co

mes

to st

udyi

ng a

broa

d.“I

t’s b

ecau

se o

f the

val

ue w

e pl

ace

on st

udyi

ng a

broa

d as

a li

bera

l art

s exp

eri-

ence

, eve

n w

ith b

udge

t cut

s and

har

d �in

anci

al ti

mes

,” H

arri

s sai

d. “B

aker

mai

n-ta

ins i

t as a

pos

sibi

lity

for a

s man

y st

uden

ts a

s we

poss

ibly

can.

”Bu

t in

addi

tion

to tu

ition

, the

re a

re m

any

othe

r cos

ts a

ssoc

iate

d w

ith st

udyi

ng

abro

ad, t

he m

ost o

bvio

us b

eing

a p

lane

tick

et. A

nd b

ecau

se o

f the

conv

ersi

on ra

te

of m

oney

, bas

ic n

eces

sitie

s are

ofte

n m

ore

expe

nsiv

e ov

erse

as a

s wel

l. Al

so, m

ost

stud

ents

like

to d

o m

ore

than

just

han

g ou

t in

thei

r dor

m ro

om. H

arri

s sug

gest

s th

at stu

dent

s br

ing

at l

east

$2,

000

with

the

m to

stud

y ab

road

, but

this

is a

“pur

ely

pers

onal

choi

ce” o

f the

stud

ents

.

$17,785

[

[

$2,222

[

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ylor

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10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT BAKER ATHLETICS

VOLLEYBALL WINS SIXTH STRAIGHT

FOOTBALL RANKED NO. 3, HIGHEST IN GROSSNER’S REIGN

LAURY TENNIS COURTS GET A FACELIFT

SLATER EARNS SECOND STRAIGHT WEEKLY HAAC HONORS

ESQUIVEL, BENSON EARN HAAC RUNNER OF THE WEEK HONORS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VOLUNTEERS AT LOCAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Freshman Eddie Esquivel (pictured receiving con-gratulations) and sopho-more Jillian Benson led the men’s and women’s cross country teams to �irst-place �inishes at the Maple Leaf Invitational on Sept. 6.

Men’s and women’s tennis started off the season practicing on a newly resurfaced home court. Both teams took on Emporia University for the fall season opener.

Senior libero Sara Slater is ranked No. 4 in Division I for digs per game with an average of 6.3. She’s recorded 315 digs in the volleyball team’s �irst 14 games.

BU football made a leap in this week’s NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll. The ‘Cats, who are 2-0 to begin the season, are sitting at No. 3 and trailing behind Grandview and Morningside in the poll. BU will begin its conference season at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Evangel.

In a �ive-set nail-biter, the Wildcats took down Peru State in the HAAC season opener at the Collins Center on Tuesday. The team’s previous match featured a 3-1 win over Ottawa University. BU is undefeated against Ottawa Univer-sity on the volleyball court in the 18 years the teams have met. For this season, the team holds a 10-4 overall record.

For the second year in a row, the Wildcats took on the project of helping Baldwin Elementary by cleaning up the playground area.

The BU men’s golf team brought home a �irst place �inish on Tuesday after competing at the Ottawa Invitational at Eagle Bend Golf Course in Lawrence. Sophomore Kyle Fecteau was the top golfer for the men’s squad with a score of 147. The women’s team �inished in second place out of seven teams at the tournament. The women will compete at the Columbia College Invitational on Sept. 29 and 30. The men will take their talents to the Evangel

University Fall Invitational on Sept. 22 and 23.

DIDIC EARNS HAT TRICK, DEFENSIVE HONORSJunior men’s soccer player Amer Didic is the HAAC Defensive Player of the Week after he made three goals to help his team upset No. 6 Hastings, 3-2. It was the team’s �irst victory of the season.

MEN’S GOLF TAKES FIRST AT OPENING TOURNAMENT

MATEER TAKES HAAC GOLFER OF THE WEEK AWARD FOR NINTH TIMEIn junior Lindsey Mateer’s collegiate ca-reer as a Baker golfer, she has earned the women’s Golfer of the Week award nine times. This week’s honor comes after her performance at the Ottawa Invitational on Monday and Tuesday. Mateer took third place out of 35 golfers. She also helped her team to a �irst-place �inish at the Culver Stockton Fall Invitational.

Lauren BechardASSISTANT EDITOR

FOOTBALL TO PLAY AT ARROWHEAD STADIUMThe Wildcats will play conference rival Benedictine College in the Gridiron Challenge at Arrowhead Stadium. The game will kick off at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, in Kansas City.

The Baker Orange | SportsSept. 19, 2014

Jim JoynerASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The men’s and women’s cross country teams swept the Maple Leaf Invitational Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Baldwin City Golf Course.

“We asked the kids at our pre-meeting that they go out and run with their heart,” coach Tim Byers said. “You could tell every one of them put their hearts in front.”

Sophomore Jillian Benson led the way for the women, not only claiming first place overall, but also snagging her first collegiate first-place finish. Benson captured the title in a time of 15:28 with encouragement from Byers, who was telling her "this is yours" before her final sprint.

Freshman Sarah Hollis and sopho-more Rachael Ash followed Benson closely the whole race and finished second and third, respectively. Hollis finished with a time of 15:38 with Ash only five seconds behind.

“Rachel ran a really smart race,” Byers said. “She kind of hung back and let the people get their surge on in front of her, and then she picked people off after that.”

Byers says he couldn’t be more proud of the way Benson, Hollis and Ash ran.

“They were a very solid top three,” Byers said. “A very smart race by those three ladies.”

The women placed four more runners in the top 20 with their deep group of freshmen. Autumn Sifuentes ended up in 11th, Brenda McCollum in 12th, Ziara McDowell in 18th and Cait-lin Apollo in 20th. Sophomore Amanda Moody finished the day in 29th place.

The men’s team also took first place overall behind freshman Eddie Esquiv-el, who finished second individually with a time of 16:03.

“Eddie’s great,” Byers said. “He’s been working real hard at practice and

he’s been doing everything he needs to do to be a better runner at the colle-giate level.”

The men placed five more in the top 10 with junior Gunnar Hays in fourth, sophomore Corey Matteson in sixth, followed by freshman Joe Linder in seventh, sophomore Jamie Stuery in eighth, and Andrew Dare in ninth place. All six finished the 5-kilometer race with times under 17 minutes.

"That whole group, they’ve been running together every day and push-ing each other every day," Byers said.

Senior Vincent Tadokoro ended up just one spot outside the top 10. Sophomore Andrew Emanuels, fresh-man Josh Bostick, sophomore Carter Breithaupt and freshman Johnny Fulk-erson all finished inside the top 50.

The men and women will compete next on Sept. 20 in Joplin, Missouri, at the Southern Stampede.

Runners sweep Maple Leaf Invitational

The craziest season in my 15 years of consciously being a Royals fan is coming down to its last leg. The 162-game marathon is now down to its final two weeks, and we still don’t have any idea of how it will end.

Josh Vernier of 610 Sports in Kan-sas City has been preaching this idea called the “roller coaster” since early in April. The roller coaster simply means the season will have its ups and downs but it’s all about the ride. As cliché as that sounds, I have learned to follow his advice.

The first time I heard him talk about it, I didn’t quite buy in. I let every loss affect me; I let every win make me see World Series lights. I had the passion Josh talked about, but I didn't have that appreciation for the ride. But

I’ve found that this is not the best way to watch baseball.

The best way to watch and enjoy this great game is to realize that it is grueling and will be awful at times, but when the good times roll there will never be anything that compares to it. I’m now a full believer in the roller coaster.

I have come to realize that nothing like this has ever happened to me in my 15 years of passionately follow-ing the Royals. In that time, the Royals have only two winning seasons be-

sides this one and 10 of those seasons resulted in 100 losses or more. I’m used to the heartbreak, but not playoff-type heartbreak. We received our first taste of that in 2013 with the Royals battling for a playoff spot going into the last week of the season, and that was agonizing.

The Royals adopted a motto in 2003 from manager Tony Pena: Nosotros Creemos, which is Spanish for "We Be-lieve." Well, now is the time to believe again. We have to believe in Ned Yost and the lineup that he is posting every day. We have to believe in the style of baseball the team plays; the pitching, the small ball, the defense, the Gold Gloves. We have to believe in the Kan-sas City Royals.

We’ve been through a lot as Royals

fans this season. We’ve seen the win-ning streaks and the losing streaks. We saw an average man from Korea come to Kansas City and change our whole attitude about the team and baseball. We’ve seen first place and winning. It’s all a part of the roller coaster.

For those of us, like myself, who weren’t around when the Royals last went to the playoffs, prepare yourself for what will happen in these next few days. Prepare for the excitement, the fear and the pure hatred of baseball. But prepare for how you can celebrate the Royals making the playoffs.

For these last few games, let’s go back to what Tony Pena taught us to do in 2003.

Believe.

Longtime fan rides Royals' roller coaster

Jim Joyner

Assistant sports editor discusses the roller coaster that is being a Kansas City Royals baseball fan

TOP: Sophomore Jillian Benson accepts her first-place award from coach Zach Kindler’s children and wife. The Maple Leaf Invitational was dedicated in honor of the late coach Zach Kindler, who died from cardiac arrest in August. BOTTOM: Andrew Dare competes for a better position in the Maple Leaf Invitational. Photos by Khadijah Lane

The Baker Orange | Sportspage 12 Sept. 19, 2014

Chad MullenSTAFF WRITER

The BU football team earned an-other close victory on Saturday, holding off a comeback attempt by the Sterling College Warriors to win, 31-30.

With just 1:17 left, Sterling pulled within one point after coming back from a 24-7 halftime deficit. The poten-tial game-tying extra point was blocked by BU senior Duane Sims.

“That was a big play to be made, and we got a great push up the middle,” head coach Mike Grossner said.

After a three-and-out on the ensu-ing drive by Baker, the Warriors were left with one last possession. Senior Andre Jolly left his mark on the game, hurrying Sterling quarterback Reggie Langford on one play, then sacking Langford as time expired to preserve the win.

“I widened out a bit, hit a couple moves, and I was fortunate enough to chase him down,” Jolly said.

Jolly, the 2012 All-American de-fensive end, had a great return to the field, recording 2.5 sacks in his first game back since tearing both patellar tendons last season.

“That’s a nice return for him, getting out there just to see if he could still do it,” Grossner said. “He’s not all the way back to where he’ll be down the road, but he sure is close.”

Filling in for a shaken-up senior Camren Tornaden, sophomore Adonis Powell ran for a game-high and career-high 163 yards, including a 77-yard touchdown just before halftime to go up 17 points.

“On the longest run I was un-touched, and then on my second touchdown I also didn’t get touched, so that just a phenomenal job by the O-linemen,” Powell said.

Tornaden, the team’s leading rusher in its first game of the season, was able to come back into the game as a kick returner, even taking a return 68 yards to set up a Baker scoring drive. Powell, however, took over the running load for the rest of the game.

With both senior Scott Meyer and sophomore Clarence Clark being out with season-ending injuries, the Wild-cats will need both the running game help and big-play potential from Powell heading into conference play.

“We had a nice little El-Paso connec-tion with Adonis, and the freshman, De-Andre Turner-Fults,” Grossner said. “I knew that Adonis was a tough runner, but he showed some breakaway speed today. I was really impressed.”

Sophomore quarterback Nick Marra bounced back from an ugly first

quarter pick-six with a strong first half to put the Wildcats up heading into the locker room. He threw two darts down the field in the second quarter for touchdowns, a 26-yard hookup with sophomore T.J. Holtrop, and a 27-yard connection with senior Dylan Perry.

“I think we came out (of halftime) a little cold and a little too confident,” Pow-ell said. “We should have came out with the mentality that the score was still 0-0, instead of coming out with big heads and thinking that the game was sealed.”

Baker defense played lights-out in the first half, giving up only 30 yards. The Wildcats ended the game outgain-ing the Warriors 466-298, but Sterling was able to come back with the help of an interception in the end zone by Kenya Edner, a blocked field goal and big plays by Antonio Bray.

“Coach Thoren told us we needed to keep the ball out of (Bray's) hands, but he ended up getting the ball and making some things happen with it,” Jolly said.

Bray burned the Wildcat defense with 105 receiving yards, including a 61-yard touchdown in the fourth quar-ter to make the score 31-24.

Langford threw his second touch-down to Dennton Hudspeth, a con-verted quarterback, before the fateful blocked PAT.

The 2-0 Wildcats will start Heart of America Athletic Conference play at 6 p.m. on Saturday in Springfield, Mis-souri. where BU will take on Evangel University. The Crusaders also finished the non-conference season undefeated, most recently beating Southwestern College 45-14.

Wildcats withstand Sterling rally, 31-30

Senior defensive back Mike Stevenson sprints off after intercepting a Sterling pass attempt. The Wildcats defeated the Warriors, 31-30, on Saturday, Sept. 13, at Liston Stadium. Photo by Khadijah Lane

VolleyballBy the numbers

In Heart of America Athletic Conference play. BU defeated its first conference opponent Peru State in five sets on Tuesday at Collins Center, 25-16, 18-25, 19-25, 25-23, 15-5

Consecutive wins against Ottawa University. BU defeated the Braves in four sets on Friday, Sept. 12, at Collins Center, 18-25, 25-20, 25-19, 25-15.

1-0

Overall record

The volleyball team huddles together prior to its match against the Ottawa Braves on Sept. 12 in Collins Center. Ottawa defeated the Wildcats in the first set, but BU came back and won the next three to claim the match. Photo by Chad Phillips

Number of digs senior libero Sara Slater has gotten up for the ‘Cats.

315

Total number of kills the team has put down

.235 Hitting percentage at No. 19 in the nation


The BU women’s soccer team’s win on Sept. 12 was a thriller. The spit-ting rain, changing wind and frigid temperature were not the only factors. The Wildcats had to go through a feisty Wayland Baptist team from Plainview, Texas.

"Our thought processes are dif-ferent this year," senior center back Shelby Schiraldi said. "Instead of kicking and running, we're trying to find our target and trying to find our attacking midfielder."

After a scoreless first half, the drama escalated early in the second. Senior Lesley Johnson and Wayland's Jessica Bell went after a ball on the near sideline on a Wayland Baptist counter-attack. Johnson obstructed Bell’s chance at continuing her run and was given a yellow card.

Sophomore Krista Hooper picked up a yellow card 12 minutes later after a late sliding tackle.

In the 78th minutes, Schiraldi received a pass while 70 yards away from goal.

"I was trying to play our outside midfielder, but it just happened to luck-ily bounce," Schiraldi said.

Wayland Baptist’s sophomore goalkeeper Bailey Stengler came out to try and get her hands on the ball before senior Alexa Fryer or sophomore Keely Atkin could make a touch. But with a wet field at Liston Stadium, Schiraldi’s ball skipped over the head of Stengler and took one more hop into the back of the net. A 70-yard bomb and a 1-0 lead.

"I just got lucky since it was raining and it was on turf," Schiraldi said. "I saw the goalie coming out and I was like 'oh please bounce, please bounce!' and it bounced and she didn't get there and it

went right over her head."The Wildcats would go on to keep

Wayland Baptist from scoring for the last 12 minutes and picked up the team's third consecutive win. Hooper and Freshman Megan Johnson led the way offensively with three shots apiece. The Wildcats fired off 13 shots on the afternoon.

"The whole team morale is just way different," Schiraldi said. "Everyone is really positive and wants to play and has so much energy."

The next day, the women moved to North Park where the Wildcats lost to Grace College from Winona Lake, Indiana.

Grace got the scoring going early with a goal in the 10th minute from junior Jordan Hairgrove. Hairgrove fired from a few yards inside the box to beat Baker’s senior goalkeeper Rachel Theobald.

Bailey Sosa struck back quickly, scoring in the 23rd minute with her left foot and buried the equalizer past Grace’s freshman goalkeeper Abby Schue. The game remained tied throughout the rest of regulation.

In double overtime and with under 10 seconds to play, Grace College junior Carianne Sobey set up junior Meghan Wiles with a pass just outside the 18-yard box. Wiles fired a laser from 20

yards out and beat the outstretched Theobald. Wiles beat the buzzer and the Wildcats.

The Wildcats finished with 17 shots with Atkin and Schiraldi leading the way with four shots apiece. Grace fin-ished with 22 shots and 14 on frame.

"No matter the outcome you grow from it," Schiraldi said. "Our last game we lost but we're not going to take a step back from it."

The Wildcats’ record moves to 4-3-0, and they will take on the AIB School of Business in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday, Sept. 19. Their next home game will be the Sept. 24 at Liston Stadium against Ottawa.

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Women's soccer splits weekend games


The men’s soccer team won its first game of the season Saturday after-noon with a dramatic 3-2 win over the Hastings College Broncos at North Park.

Junior center back Amer Didic recorded his first career hat trick.

In the 11th minute, the Broncos’ ju-nior goalkeeper Alex Guyer was given a red card that resulted in Didic’s first goal of the game on a penalty kick to put Baker up 1-0. The Broncos played down a man from that point on.

Hastings scored the next two goals. The first came from senior defender Tyler Ortneib in the 34th minute. Ortneib’s first goal of the season tied the game at 1-1. Then four minutes after halftime, junior Felix Proessl put the Broncos up 2-1 with just over 40 minutes to play.

Ten minutes later, junior Austin Shiney’s corner kick ricocheted to Didic, and he struck for his second

goal of the game from just inside the penalty box. At the end of regulation, the game remained tied at 2-2.

In the first minute of overtime the Wildcats were given a penalty kick after a handball in the box. Didic stepped over the ball and buried it into the back of the net to complete his hat trick and the win. Didic is the team’s leading goal scorer with four. This was also Didic’s 11th career goal for the Wildcats.

Freshman goalkeeper Nick Riggle made his second start of the sea-son and got his first career win and recorded four saves in the game. Didic finished the day with all five of his shots on target. Shiney and freshman Blake Levine both finished with four shots after both scored in their last game against Park. Junior Diego Or-donez finished with three shots.

Baker improved to 1-4-1 on the season. The Wildcats will play the AIB School of Business on the Sept. 19. Af-ter the road trip, the Wildcats will play Bethany on Sept. 21 at Liston Stadium.

Men's soccer team earns first win of season

Sophomore Matt Hamm fights for the ball against Park University defender Ignacio Flores Garay. The Wildcats fell to the Pirates 3-2. Photo by Chris Ortiz

Baker senior Lesley Johnson defends against Wayland Baptist’s Melanie Panko during the Wildcats’ 1-0 win on Sept. 12 at Liston Stadium. Photo by Chris Ortiz

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Senior Gunnar McKenna knows how to bring energy to the Greek houses on Saturday nights as he puts his own spin on the parties - literally.

When McKenna began making music after his high school graduation, he had no previous knowl-edge of the mixing technology.

“I taught myself through trial and error,” McKenna said. “I used online sites for technique.”

McKenna thinks that the Greek community has been largely supportive of his hobby, and he is thank-ful for the memories he’s made so far.

“I think the social aspect of DJ-ing is my favorite part,” McKenna said. “I get to see all of my friends every night.”

Owen Lewis, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fra-ternity, has known McKenna since he was a freshman and enjoys his sets.

“He does very cool work and you can tell when he

plays that he’s spent a lot of time and worked really hard,” Lewis said.

Lewis believes that McKenna has the skills and ability to be successful in the DJ industry. He said that if McKenna keeps working as hard as he is already, Lewis sees no end to McKenna’s success. A part of that, Lewis said, is McKenna’s interaction with the crowd.

“He’s very much crowd involved,” Lewis said. “If someone wants a song played, he at least gives it a shot.”

Sophomore Liz Stover, who is currently dating McKenna, is also really fond of the crowd reaction to his sets. She said McKenna uses his “energizing set mix” to pump the crowd up.

Although a crowd of students, friends and party-goers might make someone nervous, Stover thinks McKenna is normally pretty calm before he goes on. Her favorite thing about McKenna’s hobby has noth-ing to do with his sound or the audience.

“My favorite part is getting to see him do some-thing he really enjoys doing,” Stover said.

Though he began playing mostly house music, McKenna’s style has changed over time based on the reactions he’s received from crowds.

“When someone came up my first time DJ-ing and told me I needed to change some of my songs, it was a real lesson for me,” McKenna said. “It taught me that you have to be patient with crowds.”

Though for the past three years he has mostly DJ-ed at Greek house parties, McKenna has also per-formed his sets at a sorority formal for Delta Delta Delta and has had deals in the making with larger gigs that, for one reason or another, did not work out.

Although it is still just a hobby at this point, McKenna hopes to try his hand in the music industry in the future. Regardless of whether or not it is his career, he still intends to continue mixing on the side.

“I hope to get more into producing music with newer software,” McKenna said.

At this point, McKenna intends to continue pursu-ing his hobby and hopes to expand his passion by posting his work on SoundCloud and sharing his sets at BU parties.

Senior Gunnar ‘DJ Gunz’ McKenna uses his hobby to entertain students at weekend parties

Senior Gunnar McKenna, nicknamed DJ Gunz, entertains the crowd on Sept. 13 at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house. McKenna, a self-taught DJ, performs almost weekly at Greek house events. Photo by Chad Phillips

Campus Spin

Sept. 19, 2014 The Baker Orange | Entertainment

Taylor ShuckEDITOR

Rehearsals for the University Com-munity Choir have started as the group prepares for its first concert. The theme of the concert, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the Bald-win First United Methodist Church, is “Wanderers Upon This Moment.”

This year, the choir is a half-and-half mixture of Baker students and singers from the Baldwin City commu-nity. The choir holds no auditions and is open to anyone who wants to join.

Sherri Pahcoddy, the coordinator for the Health & Counseling Center, is a community member who joined the choir three years ago.

”I used to sing in choir in college and I had missed it, so it was a good release for me to get back into the mu-sic,” Pahcoddy said. “It got me more

involved in the community, meeting new people and meeting more of the Baker students.”

Many students are in the Commu-nity Choir because of time conflicts with the University Choir class. Interim Director of Choral Ensembles Cathy Crispino believes the well-rounded Community Choir gives students a dif-ferent kind of learning experience.

“It’s a wonderful experience to have that intergenerational singing to-gether. It gives many adults who sang when they were younger a chance to explore again,” Crispino said. “It’s a wonderful thing for them to bring their years of experience in and to just share in music making with the students. It’s a great interaction.”

The University Community Choir meets only once a week on Thurs-days, which means the group has to be “really efficient” with what they

do, says Crispino. She added that the choir requires more outside work for the singers because they don’t have as much time together.

Sophomore Jessica Harvey is studying for her dual major in el-ementary education and piano and is taking the class as the ensemble credit for her piano scholarship. Although she hasn’t taken choir since high school, she recognizes the differ-ence between the Community Choir and University Choir.

“I like it,” Harvey said. “It’s a lot different than choir in high school and it’s a lot of fun because it’s not just Baker students, it’s people in the com-munity too.”

Harvey, like Crispino, thinks the diversity in members is what makes the choir unique.

“There are a lot of older commu-nity members and a lot of them have

choir experience so they bring their prior knowledge as well as their vocal ranges, which adds a lot to our choir,” Harvey said.

Harvey hopes to take what she has learned in the form of vocal exer-cises and techniques to use in her own classroom. She also said that her favorite part of the experience is Crispino herself.

“She’s honestly just a lot of fun,” Harvey said. “She’s also super sweet.”

Crispino came out of retirement to join Baker last year as the interim di-rector of choral ensembles after Mat-thew Potterton’s departure. Potterton established the University Community Choir in 2010, and Crispino is more than willing to continue leading it.

“I think the choir has been a very successful venture,” Crispino said. “It’s a great organization and I’m happy to be a part of it.”

Community Choir begins rehearsals

The God Committee One heart. Three patients. One decision. That’s the theme of the next Baker University theater production.

The play is a drama about a hos-pital transplant selection committee and the process by which patients are chosen to receive transplants.

In the situation, there is one heart available for transplant but three people who need it. Each of the three

patients has the same qualifications, so complications arise when decid-ing who deserves the transplant. The committee essentially “plays God” to decide who lives and who dies.

“This show is a drama. It has very adult themes. College students who

want to be challenged and enter-tained, or adults who have seen what the real world can do to people, this show will intrigue them,” actress MacKenzie Sammons said. “The theater department always enjoys the support of the Baker community.”

Showtimes:

Sept. 25-27 7:30 p.m.Sept. 28 2 p.m.

Performances will be held in Rice Auditorium.

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Freshman Bennett White sprays himself in the face with a squirt bottle while acting as an undercover spy and taking down hypnotist Tom Deluca. The Student Activities Council hosted Deluca Sept. 9 in Rice Auditorium. Students watched as their fellow classmates were hypnotized by Deluca, who selected students from the audience to perform embarrassing stunts, such as dance, talk in vari-ous languages and give CPR to “fruit friends.” Photo by Chad Phillips

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