In today’s economy of pinching pennies and higher tuition rates, money has become an even more vital com-modity to any teaching institution.

On April 27th, Washburn Univer-sity President Jerry Farley and Wash-burn Foundation President JuliAnn Mazachek held a news conference in Mabee Library to announce that Wash-burn will be receiving a generous do-nation.

“A gift of this magnitude is truly transformational,” said Farley. “It will permit us to do some things that, without the gift, we wouldn’t have the resources to do other-wise.”

That gift was a large sum of a little over $6 million donated by Jacki Summerson and her late husband, Frank, who passed away a few years ago.

“We wanted to choose some-thing we felt would be a signifi-cant contribution to something here in Topeka and we chose Washburn,” said Summerson. “We’ve always felt that our education here has helped us with our successful careers.”

Summerson and her husband both graduated from Washburn University after transferring from Kansas State University.

“The small class sizes and the fact the professors have a real interest in the students was amazing,” said Sum-merson.

Summerson was fascinated with how Washburn’s faculty and class sizes allowed students and teachers to have more one-on-one interaction. Because of their fondness for Washburn’s terrif-ic faculty, the Summerson’s decided to graciously donate a substantial amount of money towards helping Washburn’s

faculty in the future.“Truly an exceptional opportu-

nity that we’ll be able to provide to our faculty in the future and be able to continue to our strong commitment to teaching excellence,” said Mazachek.

The Summersons created a trust fund in Frank’s name that houses the six million donation. Washburn held a news conference to tell the community of the donation and how Washburn Uni-versity is now the beneficiary of the ir-revocable trust fund. Many prominent members of Topeka and Washburn at-tended the press conference including Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten and Kansas

Senator Garrett Love. The money will not transfer until Jacki passes away.

The money will be used in vari-ous ways to help out the faculty of Washburn University. The terms to the agreement are very lenient allow-ing the Washburn administration to use the money in whatever way they deem suitable, as long as it pertains to the faculty. Salaries, technological advancements, and traveling expenses are just a few of the mentioned ways the money is intended to be used. As technology and research increases, there will be a growing demand for pedagogical changes which will be costly. Summerson’s much appreci-ated endowment will help Washburn overcome the challenges of the strug-gling economy.

Jacki grew up in the small town of

Clearwater, Kan., while her husband, Frank, originated from Hoxie, Kan. The couple met at Kansas State and transferred together to become Icha-bods. Jacki graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physical sciences while Frank graduated with a business administration bachelor’s de-gree. The couple purchased the Man-power franchise in 1987 and expanded the business with offices now in Wich-ita, Kan., Springfield, Mo., and parts of east Texas. They went on to start Professional Security, Inc. with offices in the same places as the Manpower franchise. They then created PSI Ar-

mored, Inc., with offices located in Topeka, Wichita, Springfield, Kansas City, and St. Louis.

Summerson is still very much involved in Washburn af-fairs as a member of the Wash-burn University Foundation’s Board of Trustees and Board of Directors. The soft spoken Sum-merson made a brief statement during the announcement but

her gift said enough. Farley was very grateful for Summerson’s donation and willingness to help the school out in tough financial times.

“We want to continue our long term commitment to teaching. We are a teaching institution,” said Farley. “Our faculty are exceptionally good at teaching. We want to be able to rec-ognize and reward those faculty mem-bers for their excellence.”

The donation by Summerson of $6 million is the largest gift ever given to Washburn University, beating out the $5 million donated a few years back that is being used right now by the university.

You might put “Pen to Paper” while peering “Through the Looking Glass.”

These two senior exhibits are just a couple of many exhibits new to cam-pus and a few other locations around the city of Topeka. The exhibits are part of an exit requirement of seniors pursing their Bachelor of Fine Arts de-gree.

“For scientific illustration, the main purpose is to educate and to give obvious information,” said Shelby Leach, senior fine arts major. “Not just to tell a story, because art itself is com-municating and this is just being more direct and detail oriented.”

Scientific illustration is Leach’s chosen emphasis for bachelor of fine arts degree.

Although scientific illustration is the kind of thing you would find in textbooks, Leach says that her exhibit is more of a showcase of what you can do with that in mind.

Not so much scientifically speak-ing, another senior will mostly show-case his works of photography and digital media along with variations and manipulations of the two media.

“Pretty much everything influenc-es my art because art is very adaptable to other forms, not just other things,” said Jason Gwaltney, senior fine arts major. “It’s used for so many purpos-es, but it can go so well with literature, music, psychology and everything else that it’s able to interact with in every aspect of the world pretty much.”

Gwaltney likes the interaction and being able to throw his own twist on it. His emphasis is on photography and computer graphics.

For Leach, the influences were a little more straightforward. She cred-its mainly biology, some anatomy and her pet chameleon for that aspect of her work. For her favorite piece in her collection, Leach couldn’t decide be-tween two. Either her more abstract

piece, a painting based on a kidney structure, or a digital work of specific anatomy based off an imaginary crea-ture.

Like most of the approach Leach uses in her art, her choice of a title for her exhibit was to the point.

“When you have science, it’s pret-ty much straight forward,” said Leach. “It’s pen to paper.”

“Through the Looking Glass” is Gwaltney’s exhibit title, although he got the idea from the sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

“The author was able to just dis-tort Alice’s perception on herself, oth-ers and the world around her,” said Gwaltney. “It’s a very warped, dis-torted twisted perception of the world and others and that’s kind of what my show is about.”

Gwaltney describes his personal attachment of the title further as more along the lines of behavioral, human-istic and missed assumptions in psy-chology. He views this as a different approach to how we view ourselves, others and the world around us.

Leach’s gallery talk took place Monday, April 30. As part of the talk, Leach spent a good part of the show going through a step by step creation of scientific illustration for the art de-partment students and faculty in at-tendance. Her exhibit will remain dis-played at Barnes and Noble through May 14.

Gwaltney’s work will premiere as part of May’s first Friday art walk at the Upstage Gallery. His gallery talk will be held at the art building at noon, Friday, May 4. Later that evening, his gallery reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Upstage Gallery. The gallery is located at 720 S.W. Jackson in the Jayhawk Towers. Gwaltney’s exhibit will be displayed May 4 until June 1.

The Washburn University Board of Regents approved a proposal Tues-day for a heating, ventilating and air conditioning company to be selected to perform a detailed energy audit of both Washburn and the Washburn In-stitute of Technology and make rec-ommendations for a comprehensive energy program.

Qualified proposals to provide the conservation and improvement services were received from Johnson Controls, Honeywell, Schneider Elec-tric and Trane according to the WBOR agenda. But Honeywell didn’t “make the cut.” Only the remaining three companies were selected to proceed in the selection process.

Washburn should be able to re-coup its expenses from the program in no more than nine years accord-ing Vice President of Admissions and Treasurer Rick Anderson.

“We don’t want to take any money away from our other purposes, so any-thing that we do will be at least rev-enue neutral or better in terms of fur-ther energy savings,” said Anderson at the WUBOR meeting on Tuesday. “A number of institutions have done this around the country. What I’m looking for here is how to improve our ener-gy efficiency and improve our infra-structure in the same process without spending any more money.”

In the WUBOR meeting agenda,

Washburn University President Jerry Farley recommended the contract be awarded to Trane, who has a long history of helping institutions save money by reducing energy expenses. In 2009 the University of Central Mis-souri signed a $36.1 million contract with Trane that addressed necessary upgrades in energy efficiency and maintenance. The project generated $500,000 in savings before it was completed in 2010, and is still paying for itself.

Regent David Moses summed up his understanding of the initial project expenses at the WUBOR meeting.

“If we don’t make any improve-ments, it will cost us about $60,000 for the audit,” said Moses. “If we do some things it will still cost us $60,000 plus whatever it costs to do the work. We will then recoup those dollars over time.”

Anderson men t ioned that the Universi ty of Missouri Kansas City, where he used to work, re-p l a c e d i t s

chiller plant and, among other things, improved its lighting in a similar pro-gram. The project cost was $19.4 mil-lion, and was funded through utility savings from the improvements.

“I have had the pleasure of being able to do this at several institutions,” said Anderson. “The recommenda-tion here is that Washburn, through a request for proposal, move toward se-lection of an energy services company to perform a detailed energy audit and from there we will make recommen-dations to the board on what types of energy savings and investments the in-stitution could make.”

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Due to big changes to fed-eral financial aid programs tak-ing place this coming July 1, all students currently seeking and using financial aid will be af-fected.

While some students do have the funds available out-side of financial aid, according to the U.S. Department of Edu-cation an estimated 12.8 mil-lion college students received financial aid from the federal government in 2009.

This was a 16 percent growth over five years, and in 2009, President Obama put into motion the Recovery Act as part of his education reform campaign in the hopes of keep-ing the money flowing to the Department of Education and to increase graduation rates of college students.

New changes coming this summer that would result in only allowing graduate students to receive unsubsidized Stafford

loans, and to quit paying inter-est on subsidized Stafford loans during recent graduates grace-period are already causing stu-dents to rethink plans for after graduation.

“These changes require me to reconsider all of my future plans,” said Amy Day, senior English major. “I was consid-ering graduate programs that provide teaching stipends, but now it looks like I will only be able to consider this type of option.”

Not only do these changes affect future graduate students, but they affect current graduate students as well.

“I don’t agree with these changes because the majority of students going to graduate school probably don’t work, so where are they expecting this money to come from?” said Stephanie Kimbrel, a graduate nurse practitioner.

Recent legislation changes will require all nurse practitio-

ners to receive their Ph.D be-fore they can practice by 2015. This means that a large major-ity of current nursing students will be required to continue on with their education after they receive their undergraduate de-gree. Because of this change, Washburn is also implementing

a new Ph.D pro-gram enrolling this fall.

“Look at all of the types of

jobs that require post under-graduate degrees like nurses, social workers, professors,” said Kimbrel. “How does the government expect them to be able to work full time and meet the demands of a graduate pro-gram?”

When it comes to students graduating now, not only will they be required to immediately start paying the interest on any subsidized students loans they have accrued, but if they have plans to move on to a graduate program they will need to find resources and jobs available to

pay for interest immediately ac-cruing on any loans they receive from the federal government.

“I might have thought twice before starting a program had this happened prior, but I think when it comes right down to it I still would have done it regardless,” said Kim-brel.

These changes will require all graduating seniors to reconsider their future plans.

Thursday, April 26, wel-comed an opportunity to the students of Washburn Univer-sity. They had the chance to be cast on MTV’s reality series, MADE, for it’s 12th season.

Nathan Johnson, casting producer of MTV’s Made, de-scribed the series as a reality show that helps students who have a certain goal they’ve been struggling to accomplish and do so with the aid of a coach that is excellent in their desired field.

“Whether it be a W.W.E. [World Wrestling Entertain-ment, Inc.] star, an actor or a coach to help the student lose weight, we will provide a coach to help them meet their desired goals,” said Johnson.

Johnson has been traveling continuously since early Janu-ary.

“I can’t estimate how many universities that I’ve been to,” said Johnson. “By now, I’ve probably seen a different school a day, except for Saturdays and Sundays that is.”

Washburn University and the University of Kansas are Johnson’s last two stops before

he can go home. “I’m from New York City,”

said Johnson. “I’ve been going home on the weekends some-times, but it’s very rare because in MTV, we like to do this while you, the students, are in school because we don’t cast in the summer.”

After meeting with the 15 students from Washburn Uni-versity, Johnson describes his

screening as one he’s confident in.

“I’ve been doing casting calls for six years now,” said Johnson, who, in his career, says that it’s never the same.

“I may hear similar goals, but I never see the same per-son,” said Johnson. “They have different stories, different per-sonalities and bring different personalities to the table that I

learn from them telling me in our casting sessions—It’s truly a magnificent job.”

Wahkunah Blevins, senior mass media major at Washburn, is one of 15 students who audi-tioned, described the experience as a wonderful opportunity.

“I personally thought hav-ing MADE on campus was a great chance for students to step out of their shells and get closer to their dreams,” said Blevins.

Blevins has two dreams that she hopes MTV will give her a chance to complete.

“The first being that I want to go [to] Second City,” said Blevins. “It’s an improv school. The second was that I wanted to start a rock band. Been wanting to for a few years, but nobody is ever interested in joining.

Blevins, along with the other students auditioning, said the wait outside of the casting room was extremely tremu-lous.

“You have no idea how nervous I was,” said Blevins. “I felt like I rambled too much afterwards.”

While MTV doesn’t do callbacks, especially for MADE, they do move quickly in casting.

“We decide while I’m sit-ting here during a casting ses-sion who goes forward, then we talk about it in casting meeting, and the people higher up decide who we will green light,” said Johnson.

Green lighting, according to Johnson, is another deciding factor on screen.

“We will shoot two green light episodes and then pitch it to the network to see if it would make a good ‘MADE kit,’” said Johnson.

The 15 students Johnson sat down with will be pitched to the producers this upcom-ing Thursday, or so Johnson believes during the next casting meeting.

“Our students have to be interesting,” said Johnson. “When we know we move very quickly. We know right away.”

Blevins, as one of the 15 being chosen from, wishes ev-eryone good luck.

Final Exams: All day, through Friday. Good luck students.

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Final Exams: All day, through Friday. Good luck students.

Washburn students have a week and a half of classes before summer break. However, those two weeks are being met with some confusion, in regards to their schedules. Success Week comes before the week of final exams, but these have been un-clearly defined since 2009.

“Success Week is before finals week,” said Shelbie Kon-kel, WSGA’s Chief of Staff. “It’s a dead week, basically. It’s an entire week before finals, where students can review their material and study for their up-coming final exams. No home-work is supposed to be assigned during Success Week.”

There are more incentives during Success Week than a lack of homework.

“We have incentives for students during Success Week, to make sure they do their best,” said Konkel. “We have an eve-ning of pizza and energy drinks, then later we serve breakfast on campus, and finally we have a late-night snack for students.”

Rewards and incentives for students are supposed to help garner participation in Success

Week, but some students aren’t buying into it.

“Success Week is a joke. It’s a bunch of bull crap,” said-Brian Rutschmann, double-ma-jor in English and biology.

Rutschmann had a few choice words about Success Week.

“I think we should to-tally have a dead week,” said Rutschmann. “People com-plained about needing one a couple years ago, but they didn’t actually get one. What they got was this silly excuse of a dead week that professors don’t actually care about.”

According to Konkel and WSGA, professors are supposed to follow the policy for Success Week. If they don’t, they could face punishment from a dean or department chair.

“I’ve heard of some pro-fessors not adhering to the rules for Success Week,” said Kon-kel. “That’s going to change soon, though. Myself and other WSGA members are working with the vice president of aca-demic affairs to clarify and im-prove Success Week and make it easier to understand.”

There are three key points in the policy which are being

addressed.“A. Faculty are encour-

aged to utilize Success Week as a time for review of course ma-terial in preparation for the final examination. If an examination

is to be given during Success Week, it must not be given in the last three days of Success Week, unless approved by the Dean or Department Chair. As-signments worth no more than 10 percent of the final grade and covering no more than one-fourth of assigned reading material in the course may be given.”

“B. Major course assign-ments (research papers, proj-ects, etc.) should be due on or before the Friday prior to Success Week, and should be

assigned early in the semes-ter. Any modifications to as-signments should be made in a timely fashion to give students adequate time to complete the assignments.”

“C. If major course assign-ments must be given during Success Week, they should be due within the first three days of Success Week. Exceptions include class presentations by students, and semester-long projects, such as a project as-signment in lieu of a final. Par-ticipation and attendance grades are acceptable.”

The policy continues, say-ing that “make-up assignments, make-up tests, take-home finals and laboratory exams” are not included in the policy. Also, classes that meet one day a week are exempt.

Rutschmann said that pro-fessors don’t exactly follows those rules.

“It’s a lack of enforce-ment,” said Rutschmann. “The actual leadership of the school doesn’t care about the student body at all. They just hurriedly put together an appeasement for students, so that they didn’t have to listen to end-of-the-year complaints.”

Local community colleges such as Allen County have a pre-determined dead week, and it’s been found to be beneficial for their student body. Wash-burn’s Success Week didn’t come about until 2009, when Konkel was the Chair of Cam-pus Activities.

“I dealt with student needs and wants,” said Konkel. “They wanted a dead week before fi-nals--and so did I. It was origi-nally refused, so Success Week was the compromise.”

It looks as if another com-promise is in the works at WSGA.

“We’re going back to the drawing board,” said Konkel. “We need to get faculty and students on the same page. The long-term goals for Success Week include better advertise-ment and incentives for stu-dents.”

Better advertisement and incentives may--or may not--make everyone happy.

“I’d just be happy if I could have a week of peace and quiet before finals,” said Rutschmann. “That’s all I want.”

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Success Week is not so successful

Jordan Loomis is a freshman double major in mass media and art. She can be reached at jordan.loomis@washburn.edu.

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STUDENT FINANCE SERIES

I think we should totally have a dead week. People com-lained about needing one a couple of years ago, but they didn’t ac-tually get one.

- Brian Rutschmann senior double major in

English and biology

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Fulfilling Dreams: Nathan Johnson, casting producer of MTV’s show MADE, interviews a Washburn student for the show last Thursday. Washburn hosted a casting call for the show. Made is a reality show that helps students accomplish their goals and dreams

Photo by Andrew Escandon, Washburn Review

Graphic by Kelsey Wagers, Washburn Review

This week set off a chain of “lasts” in my college career. Last classes, last piano lesson, last newspaper and last week of finals. I’m going to miss Wash-burn. I’m going to miss my pia-no teacher, James Rivers, who is not only proficient in piano, but in life wisdom. At times when

I would get frustrated with a piece of music, he always had great advice. I think I learned as much about life from him as I did piano technique.

“Don’t get so caught up in the struggle that you become moody,” he told me one day when I was particularly frustrat-ed that my fingers kept tripping over each other in disharmony. Perfect advice for a stressed out college student.

I’m going to miss my mass media teachers. Kathy Menzie was one of the reasons I added mass media as a second major. She was the first one (besides my mom, of course) to see that I had potential in the mass media field and helped me gain con-fidence in my writing. Regina Cassell and Maria Stover have both been so supportive and I’m going to miss their advice

and encouragement, as well. I’m going to miss the

Washburn Review staff. Robert Burkett has taught me so much about the field of journalism, and I am so grateful he gave me the opportunity to work for the Review. I’ve been lucky to have the Review staff as my friends and coworkers. It’s been a fun year, especially going to the Kansas Association of Colle-giate Press conference in April. We had fun. Enough said.

Of course, I can’t look back on my college career without acknowledging the very im-portant presence of my parents and husband. My mom and dad have always, always been there for me. From supporting me all three times I changed my de-gree, to helping me with late night study sessions, they were there.

I’m sure it was not easy for my husband, Brandon, to share me with Washburn. Over the last four years, he has been my rock. College has been a hurri-cane of events and Brandon has been my calm in the middle of it all.

With the excitement of graduating, there is one voice that I wish I could hear cheer-ing my name as I walk across the stage to receive my diplo-ma. Of course my incredibly supportive husband, parents, sisters, in-laws and friends will be there, but one major voice will be missing. My grandpa, Gene Sullivan, was one of the main reasons I went to college. As an English teacher, his love for learning touched everything he did, including his family. He lived frugally and saved enough money to help each of

his grandchildren pay for col-lege. He was the editor-in-chief of his college newspaper, and it would have been fun to share stories.

Even though I miss him immensely, I know I am mak-ing him proud. A valuable les-son he taught me is that learn-ing and growth doesn’t stop with school. It’s a lifelong pro-cess. Even though I will miss my friends, my teachers, the Washburn Review staff and my SAI sisters, it will be amazing to see where we all go from here. There is a lot more learn-ing to do.

January 2009 is a time where my life changed forever. I had been at Washburn for a se-mester and wasn’t sure if I was on the right path. My mother had passed away on New Years Day that year. It was a tough

time for me, and I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it through school. During the fall, I had been encouraged by a professor to give working for the newspa-per a shot.

Sitting down with the edi-tor of The Review at the time, ReAnne Wentz, I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into. I spent a semester not sure of what I was doing and had contemplated quitting, but Re-Anne, to her credit, gave me the encouragement to keep at it. I don’t know where I would be now, so I have to say thank you to her for keeping me on a path which I am now fully commit-ted to.

After ReAnne, the next person who helped me is one of the smartest people I have

ever known. Regina Stephen-son was the editor of The Re-view prior to me, and I learned so much from her. Her sense of humor and grace under pres-sure is something I took away from my encounters with her. It was never what words she had to say to me; it was always the example she gave that helped me so tremendously.

In terms of the learning experience, I have had so many professors who have had such a profound impact on my ex-perience at Washburn. I could spend all day talking about the class of professors we have on this campus. I wanted to thank one of them in particular. Maria Stover was for me, the first pro-fessor at Washburn who really pushed me past where I thought

I could go. She challenged all of my assumptions about ev-erything I thought I knew about the world of mass media. Her incredible intellect, sense of humor and honest desire to see myself and the all of the other students in her classroom suc-ceed is an immeasurable gift, which I take away with me as I prepare to leave Washburn.

Regina Cassell has had an impact on me which I’m not sure I can adequately describe. Regina has been a mentor and friend to me in her role as fac-ulty advisor to Washburn Stu-dent Media. There were times when I doubted myself or was uncertain what came next. Re-gina has been there to give ad-vice and listen equally when I needed it. She has been tough

on me when I needed it, also. A lot of the feedback I got this year has factored in to the way I look at where I am going next.

Overall, my experience at Washburn has been something I will remember always. To those I didn’t get a chance to men-tion, thanks for everything you did for me. For those who are going to be leading this publi-cation next year, good luck!

Lastly, I want to thank my family for supporting me these past four years. My brother es-pecially for always being there when I needed someone to talk to.

Rob Burkett is a graduating senior mass media major. Reach him at robert.burkett@washburn.edu until May 12.

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A3 OpinionOpinionWednesday, May 2, 2012

Washburn has been my home for the past five years, and I am happy to report it was an amazing experience. I be-lieve Washburn students don’t

realize how lucky they are to be at a school that offers them so many life-changing oppor-tunities. As a double major in Actuarial Science and Busi-ness Finance, one would expect me to be buried in books, but I have been involved in a lot of different organizations, worked on campus, networked through conferences and built great re-lationships with my professors.

I’ll admit not every class had the best professors, but when I had a great profes-sor, they became a mentor and friend.

In particular I would like to thank: Mike Mosier for get-ting me excited about statistics, Azyz Sharafy and Donna La-

londe for taking an interest in me and my wellbeing and Gary Baker and Rob Weigand for opening my eyes to my future in finance.

My recommendation to those of you who aren’t fin-ished with this chapter of your lives would be to do everything you can, while you can. As cli-ché as it sounds, these years do pass by quickly, so don’t miss your chance to get involved!

Seniors reflect on Washburn experience

Elisa GayleWASHBURN REVIEW

Elisa Gayle is a graduating actuarial science and business finanace double major. Reach her at elisa.gayle@washburn.edu until May 12.

Having been in this orga-nization longer than anyone on staff, it’s kind of a strange sensation to be writing my se-nior farewell. I have poured my heart and soul into the Re-view, the website (www.wash-burnreview.org) and the Kaw Yearbook for the last five years, and I really don’t know how to function without being a mem-ber of student media.

During my time, I’ve been the Arts & Entertainment Edi-tor for two years, Sports Editor, Assistant Web Editor, Online Editor-in-Chief, Copy Editor, Yearbook Photo Editor and now back to Sports Editor for the final semester of my career.

I’ve done almost everything there is to do as a student jour-nalist, from taking photos and writing stories to selling ads and helping plan events such as the Jayhawk Revival. It’s been an incredible experience to be in each of these positions, and I learned so much. I encourage future staffers to try new things and go for different positions on staff.

I’ve seen a ton of chang-es during my time here, and though I haven’t always been a fan of them, I am happy to see the way our publications have developed and evolved over the years—particularly the website and its social me-dia applications. I hope in the years to come that our future editors will use those services to the best of their capabilities to provide quality coverage to the students.

It’s been a long and strange journey, and I’m thankful for those I’ve met along the way. In particular, I want to thank Re-gina Cassell for always having faith in me and pushing me to be the best I can as a writer and her husband Gene for all the help he’s given me. I’d also like to thank ReAnne Wentz for tak-

ing a chance on me when I first started and letting me become Arts and Entertainment Editor, Valerie Caviglia for getting me involved with the website and Mike Goehring for taking the time to teach me how to be a real photographer and taking the time himself to be a real friend. I have several others I’d like to thank, as well: my fam-ily, especially my grandparents; Regina Marie Stephenson; Gar-rett and Caley Love; Linnzi “Lizo” Fusco; Chris Marshall; and Eric Smith. Without you all I don’t know how I would have gotten through the past five years without pulling my hair out and joining the circus, so for that I am eternally grateful.

I’m off to bigger and bet-ter things, now, trying to fig-ure out what type of fast food jobs you can get with a degree in mass media. I’m terrified, as all seniors are at this point in the year, but I’m excited to see what comes next.

In conclusion, thanks for being my friends.

Josh RouseWASHBURN REVIEW

Josh Rouse is a graduating senior mass media major. Reach him at joshua.rouse@washburn.edu until May 12.

Megan HashWASHBURN REVIEW

Megan Hash is a graduating senior music and mass media double major. Reach her at megan.hash@washburn.edu until May 12.

Facing a six-game losing streak, the Washburn baseball team was looking for anything to get them back on track. They found what they needed headed into this last weekend and were able to pick up three wins out of four games.

On April 28, the team traveled to face Northwest Missouri State in a four game series. The first game did not look extremely promising as the defense gave up three runs in the first inning.

However, the bats of the Bods battled back and put five runs on the board through the next six innings. The game was tied 5-5 heading into the seventh inning.

Junior infielder Brad Alberts was able to get on base with a single and later scored. The defense held tough, and the Ichabods won the game, 6-5.

Senior pitcher Kerry Schachenmeyer realized that this was a major difference in the team from the beginning of the season to the end.

“When we were down, it was hard to get anything going for the team,” said Schachenmeyer. “Now, we are just consistently hitting the ball and scoring runs; it’s a great way to head into the post

season.”Schachenmeyer started

the game and felt relaxed and confident up on the mound through the game, thank to the offensive production the Ichabods manufactured.

The Ichabods were able to take the second game, 12-8, with seven of the starters having at least two hits apiece.

“It is so much easier to just settle in and throw strikes when the offense is putting up numbers like ours,” said Schachenmeyer. “It’s easier to pitch and keep them from scoring 12 runs than it is shutting them out.”

The second day of the series saw the Bearcats pull

off the upset in game three by hitting a walk off grand slam in the last inning to win, 9-8.

However, this irritated and pumped up some of men in blue, especially junior catcher Richard Swan. During the final game, he went 3-for-4, driving in a season high five runs and hitting a pair of doubles.

“I always feel relaxed before games,” said Swan. “But this was the most relaxed I’ve ever felt up at the plate.”

With these wins, the Ichabods control their own fate headed into the post season. With four games against rival Emporia State, every win brings their chances of getting into the

MIAA championship closer. If playing against a rival

team for a chance to make the post season is not enough motivation for the Bods, Senior Day is on Saturday at Falley Field, and everyone wants to go out with a bang.

“One of our goals is to beat Emporia every year,” said Swan. “There is no better way to send out the best senior core I’ve ever played with than to beat Emporia and play in the MIAA.”

Former Washburn Ichabods offensive tackle Brian Folkerts announced via Twitter Sunday that he has signed a free agent contract with the NFL’s New Orleans Saints.

“My agent says it’s a done deal with the Saints! #whodat” said Folkerts on the social media network following the end of the 2012 NFL Draft.

Folkerts is now the fourth former Ichabod who will be competing in an NFL camp this summer, with wide receiver Joe Hastings and linebacker Michael Wilhoite at the San Francisco 49ers camp and Cary Williams at the Baltimore Ravens camp.

Folkerts earned first team Daktronics all-region honors and first team all-MIAA honors as a senior, leading the No. 4-ranked passing offense in the country, with 331 yards per game, which ranked No. 5 in total offensive yards with 481 per game. He was a second team d2football.com All-American selection and a third team Don Hansen Football Gazette All-American pick.

As of Tuesday night, fellow senior Dane Simoneau had yet to be contacted by an NFL team.

Josh RouseWASHBURN REVIEW

Josh Rouse is a senior mass media major. Reach him at joshua.rouse@washburn.edu.

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Missouri Western deals Washburn final blow in MIAA Tournament

You’re Out!: The Lady Blues were knocked out of the MIAA Tournament April 27 by the Missouri Western Griffons after losing 9-6. The Blues finished their first season under head coach Vanessa Becerra with a 19-24 record (9-11 in MIAA).

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If one looked into the dugout during game day, they would see one player keeping to himself trying to stay as relaxed as possible. This player would most likely be junior catcher Richard Swan.

“I get with the coaches every once in a while to figure out who can hit or steal,” said Swan. “But I love the silence and just being able to get locked in.”

Swan plays arguably the toughest position in the game. Not only does he have to focus on calling every pitch and catching it, but he also has to be aware of who the batter is, where the runners are, and how the defense should be set up. This is all before the ball is even put into play.

Being the only player able to see the whole field, the coaches trust the catcher to be the coordinator on the field. Obviously understanding the roles of each player and possibilities is huge in being successful.

“We honestly control how the entire game goes,” said Swan. “If we make one mistake, it could cause a run to score or an out to be lost.”

However, runners that get on base bring the pressure of catching even higher up, particularly when base runners are on first or third.

When on third base, the catcher is aware that any pitch has the ability to get behind

him. The catcher is in c h a r g e

of doing whatever it takes to make sure he blocks the ball in front and keep the runner at third.

“When they’re at first, there is always the potential for them to steal,” said Swan. “We’re on the balls of our feet at all times, because if they steal then they’re in scoring position.”

To keep runners from stealing, catchers have to focus on getting the ball out as fast as possible. They call their motion “short arming” as they throw directly from their ear. It is not healthy for their arms, but it is a part of the game that every catcher sacrifices for the team.

Swan keeps his arm fresh by long tossing, or the practice of throwing extremely long distances with a partner.

“This keeps everything loose in my arm and helps strengthen it,” said Swan. “But Ibuprofen has become my best friend during the season.”

Between being aware of all possibilities and knowing exactly what pitches to call, it can be a tough job. However, playing an entire season with these guys have helped Swan know who can do what.

“We’re all just brothers now,” said Swan. “When you have a family of brothers, you learn what his strengths are.”

POSITIONFEATURE

Michael Vander Linden is a freshman biology major. Reach him at michael.vanderlinden@washburn.edu.

Michael Vander LindenWASHBURN REVIEW

Junior Swan catches on at catcher

The Washburn Lady Blues season came to an end with a 9-6 loss to Missouri Western at the MIAA Postseason Conference Tournament. Washburn ends the season 19-24.

The Lady Blues started off the game in fine fashion scoring three in their first at bat. After Katie Schroeder led off the game with a single, she moved to second after Lindsey Moore was hit by a pitch. Alex Zordel drove in Schroeder with

a single to right field and then Moore would score on a wild pitch moving Zordel to second. Britny Cushing singled to right scoring Zordel staking the Lady Blues to a 3-0 lead. Howver the Griffons scored two in the bottom of the first to cut the Lady Blues’ lead to 3-2. During the Griffons at bat in the bottom of the second, the teams had a 50-minute lightning delay sending the teams off the fields and back to their vehicles.

The Griffons tied the score

in the bottom of the third inning on an unearned run. In the fourth inning, Washburn took the lead when Kristen Bell scored on a Griffon wild pitch to go up 4-3. Again the Griffons rallied scoring four runs in the bottom

of the fourth inning to regain the lead at a 7-6 advantage.

W a s h b u r n scored two runs in the top of the sixth inning on a pair of RBI singles by Schroeder and Moore, but left two runners on to end the threat. Missouri Westen added two more insurance

runs in the bottom of the sixth putting itself up 9-6 and the Lady Blues put two runners on in the bottom of the seventh but would not score as the Griffons closed out the game and the Lady Blues season.

Washburn pounded out 11 hits in the game with Schroeder, Cushing, Shelby Erickson and Bell each recording two hits. Moore (7-11) took the loss in the circle allowing six earned runs before giving way to Kayla Oldham who pitched two innings allowing a pair of unearned runs.

Press releaseWASHBURN SID

SOFTBALL SEASON

Michael Vander Linden is a freshman biology major. Reach him at michael.vanderlinden@washburn.edu.

On the Line: Washburn has four games left on their regular season slate, a pair of away games at Emporia State Friday and a pair of home games against Emporia State Saturday at 3 and 5 p.m. for Senior Day.

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WU to face Emporia State Saturday for Senior DayMichael Vander LindenWASHBURN REVIEW

Football (Offensive): Dane Simoneau

Football (Defensive): Marty Pfannenstiel

Volleyball: Breanna Lewis

Soccer: Tia Stovall

Women’s Basketball: Ebonie Williams

Men’s Basketball: Will McNeill

Softball: Lindsey Moore

Men’s Tennis: Arkadiusz Kozaczuk

Women’s Tennis: Jamie Blackim

Baseball: John Calhoun

2011-2012 Team MVPs

Photo by Richard Kelly, Washburn Review

Down For the Count: Amarillo Bull defenseman John Rey takes down Topeka RoadRunner forward Gage Hough during the first period Friday night. Amarillo defeated Topeka 3-1 to advance to the Robertson Cup.

Building a winning colle-giate sports athletics program is no small task. For Washburn this is especially the case as the university is coming off one of its most successful years over-all.

The Washburn football team has been able to continu-ally build on its success by put-ting increasingly elite athletes on the field. How that occurs however is another story en-tirely. As part of the process, Washburn coaches head out pe-riodically to evaluate, meet and hopefully sign athletes from around the nation.

In the case of sophomore wide receiver Ronnell Garner,

the recruiting process was a tri-al as the Raytown, Mo., product struggled to come to terms with what he wanted from a prospec-tive school.

“I had a few schools who were interested in me,” said Garner. “The main thing I took to heart was, who was I com-fortable with. I wanted to play for sure but I also wanted to go somewhere I felt I could trust the coaches to be fair with me.”

Garner’s recruitment was a competitive one for the Wash-burn staff. As an all-state pick and Kansas City metro star, Washburn indentified him early as a player they were interested in.

“We knew we were inter-ested in getting to know him,”

said Washburn head football coach Craig Schurig. “Obvi-ously we recruit talented play-ers but we also want to know the young man we are talking to, getting to know them and their family. Its important to us to get the right kind of person to.”

With a larger staff than most sports, Schurig trusts in his coaches under him to help lead the charge in bring-ing in talent as well. According to Schurig the task of identify-ing players is a team effort.

While football has a large roster and thus a need to recruit players on a larger scale, some sports are looking to become more selective at Washburn.

Washburn soccer head

coach Tim Collins is a lone talent sleuth on the hunt. With recruitment rules allowing him to spend a large amount of time on the road constantly, Collins is always busy looking to bring in quality athletes to compete at Washburn.

“I’m on the road constantly,” said Collins. “Once the sea-

son ends, I enter a whole new season with a lot of miles put on the odometer. It can be ex-hausting, but it’s worth it when you are able to bring a player to Washburn, because you know they are going to contribute while they are here.”

While the coaches are al-ways looking for talent, some talent can come to Washburn in

odd ways outside of the tradi-tional recruitment route.

In the case of junior for-ward Sierra Moeller of the Lady Blues basketball team, the recruitment process was an almost seemingly unending process. With an initial year spent at Boise State Univer-sity Moeller had a recruitment encounter completely by acci-dent.

“I was working at a golf course in Lawrence when I met [Washburn Head Coach Ron McHenry],” said Moeller. “He and I started talking, and we just hit it off well. I started looking at Washburn after that and saw the kind of winning tradition that was here so I knew I want-ed to give this is a shot.”

Since her arrival Moeller

has been one of the intregral parts of a team that won the MIAA crown this past year.

Regardless of how an ath-lete comes to Washburn, one thing is certain, Washburn coaches and athletics adminis-tration are on a mission to build one of the best programs in the nation by bringing in unparal-leled talent.

“The coaches here care about the players they recruit so its a win-win for everyone,” said Collins. “We know that our mission is to get successful ath-letes, but we all want to make sure we get our players ready for life after school also.”

The Washburn men’s golf team failed to earn the auto-matic qualifying spot that ac-companies winning the MIAA title, but the Ichabods still man-aged to nab a spot in the NCAA Regional.

The Bods will pack their bags and head to Jefferson City, Mo., May 7-9 for the NCAA Midwest/South Central Regional T o u r n a m e n t . Washburn looks pumped and ready to redeem themselves after faltering late in their last two meets.

“We definitely feel good,” said Washburn senior golfer Chris Grause. “We feel pretty optimistic.”

Washburn failed to put the University of Central Missouri away in the MIAA Champion-ship Tournament April 16-17, but the Ichabods won’t let the bad memory linger.

“That was the toughest lost we’ve had since I’ve been

at Washburn,” said Grause. “It took some time to get over but we have to.”

Washburn blew a seven shot lead to UCM and went home empty handed. It was an-other tough loss to swallow as the Ichabods failed to win their own invitational the week prior to the MIAA championship. On the bright side, after failing to bring their whole team to the regional tournament the last

two years, Wash-burn’s five man team will make its way to Mis-

souri with high hopes this year. “We have to play well

so we can keep playing,” said Grause. “It’s so much bigger than Central (Missouri) and us. It’s bigger than us versus the MIAA.”

The Mules of UCM were able to claim the No. 6 seed after winning the MIAA cham-pionship, but the Ichabods were able to snag the fourth seed in the South Central Regional out of 10 teams. In their tenth NCAA appearance, the veteran

group of Bods looks to leave a mark and leave with no regrets.

“I just want to go out and enjoy every second of it,” said Grause.

Grause is joined by fellow seniors Riley Piles and Ben Mo-ser. Piles was crowned MIAA individual champion during the MIAA championships in April. Juniors Nathan Hoefflin and Brian Walker round out the five man squad traveling to the Jefferson City Country Club where the Ichabods placed third earlier in the season at the 2011 MGA Regional Preview. Wash-burn must finish in the top five to advance to the 2012 Division II Spring Championships Festi-val May 15-19 at The Cardinal Club in Simpsonville, Ky.

“We just want to play good and just keep going,” said Grause.

An overall successful sea-son for the Topeka RoadRun-ners came to a disappointing end on Friday night.

Leading 1-0 with less than 10 minutes left in the contest, Topeka couldn’t fight off a rally from the Amarillo Bulls, who defeated the RoadRunners 3-1 at Landon Arena. With the win, the Bulls finished off the NAHL South division series to advance to the Robertson Cup.

The game included many testy moments, including an ejection of both coaches in the first period following a skirmish between the Amarillo and To-peka benches. The two coaches watched the remainder of the game from the upper balcony.

“I really, truly feel that our guys laid it on the line tonight,” said Scott Langer, Topeka head coach.“They deserved a bet-ter fate. They played a solid hockey game. We didn’t get some of the calls there and we

had to kill [six penalties.] We gave it everything we had and deserved to win that game.”

Following an early delay because of a tornado warning in Shawnee County, the game got underway about 40 minutes late. In the first period, momen-tum swayed, but it was Topeka striking first at 14:28 when for-ward Ryan White fired a wrist shot from the right circle past Amarillo goaltender Gregg Gruehl. It was White’s third goal of the series.

In the second period, de-spite holding a 14-4 shot advan-

tage, Gruehl kept the game close.

The Bulls broke through at

12:41 of the third period when forward Mike Erickson slipped a shot past Topeka goaltender Peter Traber. Forward TJ Sar-cona scored the game-winning goal just minutes later at 17:44. Despite multiple opportunities, including a few late chances in the third period, Topeka was unable to tie the game. Instead, forward Matt Johnson finished off the RoadRunners with an

empty-net goal at 19:59.“We had some huge chanc-

es we just didn’t seem to capi-talize on,” said Langer. “We just couldn’t get the puck in the upper third of the net. It came down to a turnover at the blue line late in the game and that’s when the fatigued showed.”

In the victory, Gruehl stopped 25 of 26 shots while in the loss, Traber stopped 27 of 29 shots. Langer said his team should be proud of its efforts though in the game and for the season as a whole. The team battled through multiple inju-ries and lineup changes over the season.

“You go look at the guys in that room and they have blood on the jerseys and miss-ing teeth,” said Langer. “They didn’t leave anything in the dressing room. They left it all out on the ice.”

Rob BurkettWASHBURN REVIEW

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

Luke WarnkenWASHBURN REVIEW

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

Richard KellyWASHBURN REVIEW

NAHL PLAYOFFS

Luke Warnken is a sophomore history education and physical training major. Reach him at luke.warnken@washburn.edu.

NCAA TOURNAMENT

A5 Sports • Wednesday, May 2, 2011

‘Runners bullied by Bulls, 3-1

Bods bound for Jefferson City

RECRUITING SERIES

Coaches, players form first opinions of each other during recruiting processPart two of a three-part series on the recruiting process in NCAA Division II sports

Photos by Ryan Burge, Washburn Review

Photo by Linnz Fusco, Washburn Review

Traditionally Non-Traditional: Artist Carol Ann Carter uses traditional techniques for creating her artwork, but in a non-traditional way. Her art is on display at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library.

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

A6Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Michelle BoltzWASHBURN REVIEW

What You See Isn’t What You Get: Some of the art featured in this exhibit may look like common items, but most of the time, they are not.

Shelby AtadgiWASHBURN REVIEW

The average life of a college student is filled with constant and consistent stress. We tend to analyze and then analyze the reason for why we are analyzing to the point of absolute over-stressing about the things that we do even in our everyday lives.

S t u d e n t s max out their stress levels to their brink likely because they simply do not know how to stop the stress from piling on. Have you ever heard someone state that they wish they could just go back to the simplicity of their childhood? Perhaps they were not that far off of a solution.

A book that I read recently entitled “Colors For Life” by Martha Soria Sears delves into the concept of coloring. Yes, coloring, one of childhood’s most treasured activities, can

actually help interpret and relieve stress among any age group. Sears goes on about a psychological study that she did on a group of women undergoing daily stress in which was able to determine where their stress was coming from and how

she was able to relieve it for them by simply allowing them to color.

I also embarked on coloring the pages given in this workbook and then reading the interpretation. The concept that certain colors are

drawn to certain emotions should come as no shock to most, but few recognize that the instinctive color that one chooses from a box of crayons can also interpret their stress levels, feelings and life challenges at the time of coloring.

This book analyzes everything from the need for forgiveness in relationships

and the way one can interact with another to the chance that they may thrive in financial situations. You can determine all of these things given your level of stress and then solve them by coloring with a different color.

Though this book had many interesting facts about the way one can interact with the stress around them through color, I felt that it almost lacked more substantial differences or specifics for given pictures. Like many psychological evaluation type materials, it was very general about life events and stereotypes and lacked a lot of substance to the reasons behind the meaning of a given color.

However, if you can look past that portion of the book and through to what is there it can be very informative and a neat learning experience about the insight into your own and others lives and stress.

If only we would have known years ago that the stress relief is as simply as choosing a crayon. Perhaps we still can ‘go back to the simplicities of childhood.’

Coloring solves life’s problems

The Washburn Book Club has been meeting every four to six weeks since its start in 2000. The book club sparked an interest by an employee in the Washburn bookstore who was a librarian that wanted to share their love of reading with others. It usually meets in the union on the third floor on a Thursday at 1 p.m.

The book club is led by Denise Ottinger, vice president of student life, and Martha Imparato, a special collections librarian in the Mabee Library. People that are interested in joining the club are welcome to attend a discussion, or contact Ottinger or Imparato via email. All that is needed is a connection to Washburn in any way, and an enjoyment of reading. There is no cost to join.

There are currently about 12 members, but about eight to 10 members come on a regular basis. The book club meets year-round.

“If it’s before winter break, we try to meet in early December,” said Imparato.

People that come regularly get the opportunity to choose books for the club, and they also get to lead the discussion for their chosen book.

“It doesn’t take that long to prepare for a discussion,” said Imparato. “We mainly do fiction, but occasionally, we do non-fiction or a memoir.”

Members give opinions about what they have read and ask general questions that would be at interest.

The selected books are available through the Washburn Bookstore and can also get them special ordered at a discount through Nikki Daniels, who works in the general reading book area. Daniels has been working in the bookstore for two years.

“We order about 10-15 copies for the book club and a

few extras,” said Daniels.Some of the titles that

the book club has read and discussed this year include:

“Our Stealing Horses” by Per Patterson (translated from Norwegian).

“Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Resey.

“Rode” by local author, Tom Averill.

On occasion, the book club will read books by local Kansas authors, and will invite them to join in on the discussions of their books. Averill recently discussed his new novel “Rode.”

Another Kansas author that has been read recently is Nancy Pickard, who writes mysteries and lives in the Kansas City or

Lawrence area. Pickard’s latest book is called “The Scent of Rain and Lightning.”

The next book club meeting is Thursday, May 3, at 1 p.m. in the Thomas Room inside the Memorial Union. This meeting’s selection is “Fractured” by Karin Slaughter. The next meeting is planned for mid-June.

For upcoming titles, dates, times and location of future book club meetings, feel free to e-mail denise.ottinger@washburn.edu or martha.imparato@washburn.edu.

Book club going strong

Kelly HurlaWASHBURN REVIEW

Carol Ann Carter not only consistently strives for meaningful work, but gives patrons the opportunity to connect with her art by more than just looking at it.

Art isn’t always a visible texture. Sometimes it’s about what you can feel.

“She’ll start with cloth, but that’s just the beginning,” said Sherry Best, gallery director at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. “She’ll use wire, paint, stitching- what we’ll think of sometimes as traditional quilting techniques and traditional sewing techniques, but she’s not using them in a traditional way.”

The non traditional and mini-retrospective exhibit of Carter’s work “Threading Body & Space” is on display at the Sabatini Gallery until May 18.

While some elements within the pieces can be recognized as realistic, they’re mainly used for details or surface decoration. The pieces Carter has created actually stretch that boundary of what an object can be, would be or should be.

“There’s apron forms, jacket forms, dress forms, purses and bags and even shoes,” said Best. “None of them can necessarily be worn, but they’re all about the idea of those garments and how they decorate the body.”

Along with the different forms are variations of bundles.

These bundles may consist of paper, letters, outdated currency and sometimes even old birthday cards.

“There are things that have been sent to me in good faith and love,” said Carol Ann Carter, artist of the exhibit.

Carter describes herself

not as an independent artist, but a teaching artist.

She is currently a professor at the University of Kansas, although she has held many other teaching positions at various colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Speaking toward the process of Carter’s work, Best has a few theories.

“Sometimes she’ll get tired of a piece, take it apart and use the parts for something else,” said Best. “So I think really for her, the material itself is only a starting point or jumping off point for developing an idea. Then when she combines things, she’ll try all different kinds of combinations and then finally settle on one that she thinks is working.”

At the artist’s reception, Sunday, she went over her ideas on the exhibit, while explaining where she gets her ideas and how she developed them for her current and also future projects.

“Because of a lot of what she’s doing is responding to the feel of cloth, we wanted people to be able to feel what she’s feeling, but without putting the work at risk,” said Best.

To make this happen, a touching table was put together. Carter supplied many materials

from her studio for the table, allowing guests to see, feel and be able to touch many of the same materials in the exhibit, thus really getting the chance to experience what the artist herself was experiencing.

Whenever a student asks what they should be doing, Carter only replies with a question. She asks them what their hands want to do.

“I go where my hands and my heart want to be,” said Carter.

The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is open daily, with hours of operation varying. Monday through Friday the library is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday’s hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday’s hours are from noon to 9 p.m. There is no admission cost to the library or it’s Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, which shares the same hours also.

The exhibit is currently open at the Sabatini Gallery, and will be a part of May’s first Friday art walk.

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Photo courtesy Lyndsi Cox, BA Designs

BA Designs offers four chances a year for local artists to display their artwork in the interior design buisness’s building for the monthly first Friday art walks. The artists don’t even have to be artists either, just people that produce artwork of some kind.

“This particular [art walk], we just wanted to [feature] the design community, so some of the designers here, [from BA Designs] are in the artwalks,” said Cindy Manry, a designer for BA Designs. “We also extended the invitation to architects and designers and people who are in the community, so that’s what this one is. People that don’t necessarily have a job as an artist, they just do art as a hobby on the side.”

One artist included in their exhibit is Gary Cox, who is actually color blind. He uses art to keep him busy, and to “prevent cabin fever.”

“I don’t know if I consider myself an artist buy I have enough skills to get some things done that I like,” said Cox. “I also depend on Lyndsi [Cox] to help with advice and colors as I am somewhat color blind.”

Because BA Designs specializes in interior design, this gives the designers that work there to create a theme and tie the art together in a fun way. This art walk’s theme is a “country fair” theme.

“We, as designers, like to

do things that kind of pull it all together, design-wise, and feature the artists,” said Manry.

BA Designs is located at 4119 SW Southgate Drive, and because of their location, the designers putting on the art show decided to hire a karaoke band, Groovy Girl Karaoke, as well as provide refreshments to their guests. Lyndsi Cox, a designer who is in charge of organizing this event, and daughter of Gary Cox, has additionally planned refreshments to give incentive to those attending the art walk to drive out to their location, which is off the beaten path.

“We are going to have

a beer garden, which is like a buffet with tomato juice, pineapple juice, lemons and other things to flavor your beer,” said Lyndsi Cox.

BA Designs was created by Beth Ann Brandon in 1995 in partnership with her family business, Martin Tractor Company, the second oldest Caterpillar dealership in the world. BA Designs is a full service interior design and contract furnishings dealership.

Photo by Rodolfo Parisi, Washburn Review

Must Love Reading Books: If you are a Washburn student, or employee and you love reading books, the Washburn Book Club just may be for you. Currently they are reading “Fractured” by Karin Slaughter.

Off the art walk’s beaten path

Tricia Peterson is a junior mass media student. Reach her at patricia.peterson@wash-burn.edu

Shelby Atadgi is a sophomore psychology major. Reach her at shelby.atadgi@washburn.edu

Blind to Color: Artist Gary Cox is color blind but is still able to create beautiful stained art pieces that will be displayed this Friday at BA Designs, located at 4119 Southgate Drive.

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On April 29, Lee Arena featured four music acts that planned to entertain the Topeka community.

Not only did they entertain fans that night, but they also had people talking for days later.

The Washburn Student Government Association and Washburn University Campus Activities Board organized the event together to meet the request for a concert at Wash-burn. After much deliberation, CAB focused on bringing in local acts and WSGA contacted Big Gigantic to make their way to Topeka.

The night started with Brail Watson, a local student at Washburn that won a perfor-mance time from winning the WU Idol competition.

Watson is a double major in music performance, special-izing in the cello and vocals. His goal with his music is to change the world.

“I’ve always been involved in music whether it was in my

church or at home,” said Wat-son. “Then my brother-in-law came up to me and wanted to do music, so we’ve worked to-gether ever since.”

Brail now has an album coming out in a couple of weeks that he is hoping helps his mu-sic career take off. He even showed off some of those songs at WUStock, much to the de-light of his fans. However, his rapping style is different from a majority of popular rappers.

“I don’t cuss in my album at all,” said Watson. “It just doesn’t show off who I am.”

Watson hopes to continue his music career trying to bring his different types of musical talents together to become a music engineer and/or a per-forming artist.

Following Watson was Ty Schneider, aka That Kid Ty, a freshman at Washburn who is looking to become an art ma-jor.

When Schneider heard about WUStock, he went to CAB and asked if they were looking for people to play. He showed them his music and they got him to play.

Growing up, Schneider was a fan of all types of music. Now, he’s releasing his own music where Ty looks into spir-itual beliefs, relationships, fun

activities and more. “I like my musical lyrics to

be more serious, cause I think they honestly can show who I really am and show my fans why they should like me,” said Schneider.

The next act was Nate Hargis, aka DJ N8, with Chris Beetles, aka Yung Bee, who combined hip hop and rap with electronic dance music to take to the “next level.”

Both started at young ages watching musical acts and real-ized they wanted to become art-ists. When Hargis heard about WUStock, he gave a copy of his music to CAB and was se-lected to perform.

“The network is growing and expanding every day,” said Hargis.

Beetles agreed. “The stars are the limit; I

want to do this every day if I can,” he said.

However, the crowd really got going when Big Gigantic hit the stage. With hundreds of people and Lee Arena blasting dubstep, the environment was perfect for a concert.

Jeremy Salken and Domi-nic Lalli hit the stage and gave the fans everything they could have wanted and more.

“We not only play dub-step,” said Lalli. “We play

EDM and add classical and hip hop touches to it; it’s kind of our own style.”

Big Gigantic has been around for nearly three years and just came together off chance. Both guys enjoyed all types of music and realized that their own types of music could really be synced together.

“We get to improvise all of our music together,” said Salken. “Since we play instru-ments and electronic music, then the number of possibilities

are huge.”Their hopes for the future

are to continue playing together and to make an impact on a much larger scale. They hope to go international at some point and hope that their music catches on with other cultures.

Big Gigantic can be found on Facebook, Twitter and their website at biggigantic.net.

Photo by Alex Voskoboyev, Washburn Review

Have you ever watched a movie that had the potential to be great, but just couldn’t achieve that greatness?

That’s what happened when I watched one of Netflix’s top 10 recommendations for me. This one was en-titled “Memory.”

Reading the brief description of the plot might not have been enough alone for me to choose this particular mov-ie.

“Dr. Taylor Biggs (Billy Zane) is haunted by a past that’s not his own. A hallu-cinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vi-cious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew (Dennis Hopper).

“Deirdre Blades co-stars as Biggs’s mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history,” states Net-flix.

If it weren’t for Zane and Hopper, this probably would have been lost to one of the

thousands of choices I have out of the streaming titles.

The movie takes off rath-er slow, with awkwardly de-livered dialogue. I’m actually wondering if Zane’s colleague is supporting a real “moles-tache” or if it’s just part of the

movie magic, or lack there of. In the next scene, the doc-

tors are asked to do a consult while still in town for their conference. The “scans” they’re asked to look at, lit-erally have me laughing out loud as they appear to be something configured using the “Paint” program that I as-sume is equipped on almost every computer.

After viewing these “scans” it’s inferred that the patient is inflicted with what appears to be cancer, but only attacking the areas of memory. As Zane’s character searches through the patient’s bag for clues, he rips his glove and becomes exposed to the substance we later find out

is responsible for the strange memory mumbo-jumbo. His hallucinations begin shortly after.

Throughout the film, I find the usual boring ele-ments. Zane’s character sees visions of a serial killer that

are “real,” but no-body believes him at first. He meets a women and they eventually fall in love. For the most part, even the twists are pretty predict-able.

The movie really gets exciting after the second plot point, however when Zane discovers who the real killer is and is hot on their trial. The last 20 minutes of the film al-most make up for how slow the rest of the film is.

Overall, it’s a film that I don’t feel was entirely a waste of my time in comparison to other “gems” in Netflix’s in-stant selection. I only wish more time and money could have been spent on the proj-ect and that the intensity of the last 20 minutes could be the same throughout the film’s entirety.

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Since 2008 there has been a steady stream of movies building to one culminating moment.

This Friday “The Aveng-ers” finishes up a long and wild ride.

In the summer of 2008, Robert Downey Jr. burst onto the scene of super hero mov-ies with “Iron Man.” The story of a billionaire playboy who sold weapons to the world and then ex-perienced a change in his life and became a protector of the world.

Its warm reception at the box office resulted in a follow up film, “Iron Man 2,” which began the process of getting the “Aveng-ers” track started. Samuel L. Jackson’s first appearance in the film as Nick Fury was the beginning of a teaser series setting up “The Avengers” movie.

At the same time that “Iron Man” was receiving wide ac-claim, another movie in 2008

brought another of the super hero franchises back. After a disappointing movie simply titled, “Hulk” in 2003, Marvel chose to reboot the series, pro-viding the series with an actor in Edward Norton that was more watchable than was Eric Bana who portrayed Bruce Banner in the earlier film. In

the upcoming Avengers film, however, Hulk will be played by Mark Ruffalo. How he will be judged by fans and critics alike is something that viewers will have to wait and see.

After a brief hiatus from super hero movies, 2011 was another banner year for the Avengers team as “Captain America: The First Avenger” and “Thor” both debuted.

In Captain America, Chris

Evans, who had been a part of the “Fantastic Four” series of movies playing the Human Torch, took on the role of the all-American hero from World War II. The movie was a smash hit at the box office. From a story standpoint, the tie-in of “Iron Man” to Captain Amer-ica is portrayed when Tony

Stark’s fa-ther, Howard Stark, makes an appearance in the film. The film ends with Captain America being thawed from a frozen tomb in modern day

New York City where Nick Fury once again makes an ap-pearance and foreshadows the creation of the Avengers.

Perhaps the film that had the most potential for turning into a campy film out of all of them was “Thor.” Chris Hem-sworth plays the title charac-ter of “Thor,” who is expelled from the fantastical land of As-gard to earth. Through the evo-lution of the film, Thor goes from a conceited and arrogant character to one that comes to understand the human condi-tion, learning sacrifice and humility along the way. In the process of his journey, Nick Fury once again makes an ap-pearance helping to tie the film to the rest.

Moving forward now into “The Avengers,” the world is in danger and Fury’s job is to bring the seemingly lone war-riors together as a team who can take on the main villain of the film, Loki, who also portrayed the main villain in “Thor.” With an army that he has risen, Loki is looking to conquer Earth. The movie will tell the story of the various su-per heros coming together to defend against something none of them can overcome singly.

The film promises to be a tour de force of action and ad-venture. Hopefully, audiences will be as excited about the film as they have been about the franchises leading up to this moment.

Check out “The Aveng-ers” in theaters May 4 to see what happens next.

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

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What a gas it was to see them

Michael Vander Linden is a freshman mass media major. Reach him at michael.vander-linden@washburn.edu Photo by Ryan Burge, Washburn Review

WUStock brings Big Gigantic

to Topeka

Movie opens May 4Rob BurkettWASHBURN REVIEW

Image courtesy of Marvel Studios.