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Wichita State to lose $1.5 million from education budget cuts By TJ Rigg EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @TJ_Rigg
Wichita State stands to lose $1.5 million in funding from the state after Gov. Sam Brownback announced cuts to K-12 and higher education. Brownback announced Thursday that he plans to cut nearly $45 million from public schools and higher education in March. The governor also suggested lawmakers could head off reductions by withholding $54 million from public schools.
“The dramatic increase in state education funding that has occurred over the last four years is unsustainable,” Brownback said in a statement. Also Thursday, the governor said a high school’s purchase of a new grand piano, which cost the school $47,000, shows how Kansas’ plan for funding public education is flawed. In a statement, Brownback said the money spent on the piano should have been used to hire another teacher and reduce class sizes. In a statement released after the governor’s announcements, university president John Bardo
acknowledged that the cuts will have an impact on WSU. “The budget decision announced today is unfortunate and could slow us down a bit, but we are moving forward with our plans to support the people of Kansas,” Bardo said in the statement. Student body president Matthew Conklin said his first thoughts on hearing about the pending cuts were disappointment, especially after, he said, the governor publicly remarked that he planned to keep education funding steady. Conklin is also concerned about how the cuts will affect students. “Representing students and
their interests, I think it’s important that they realize that that $1.5 million could be going to tuition, to fund buildings, professor salaries or research,” Conklin said. “Instead, the lost dollars might translate to higher tuition rates, higher costs for students. That’s very unfortunate.” Conklin’s thoughts about tuition possibly increasing due to these funding cuts came from a discussion he had during the last student government administration. At the time, Conklin was treasurer for SGA, and met with the then-president, vice president and others to discuss tuition increases.
“We were talking about a certain percentage of our increase in tuition was a direct result of the decrease of the higher education funding from the state,” Conklin said. “So, students need to keep that in mind if tuition rates increase again.” Kansas public schools will also see a significant cut in education funding from the state. Conklin said he feels sorry for K-12 schools, because those schools did not anticipate the cuts, which are coming in the middle of the fiscal year. See CUTS on page 3
Shockers trap the Bears
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Courtney Marshall is the new CEO of the Alumni Association.
Sunflower Spotlight: Marshall provides fresh personality, ideas for Alumni Association By Kevin Brown STAFF REPORTER @krbrownjr
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Wichita State senior Tekele Cotton attempts to steal the ball Saturday night at Charles Koch Arena. The Shockers defeated Missouri State 78-35. For the full story and photos of the game, see page 4.
Sexual assault: fraternity men under a harsh microscope
In light of an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, fraternity men who do not fit the mold must now defend themselves, their brothers and their organizations. So what does this mean for fraternity men at Wichita State? As a sexual assault allegation saturates through Greek COLUMN BY communities DANIELLE PREWITT across the nation, it is seemingly redefining what it means to be a fraternity man. Last November, Rolling Stone Magazine published a harrowing narrative of a young woman’s alleged rape that occurred at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in 2012. The young woman, “Jackie,” now a junior at UVA, shared with the magazine how she was invited to a party by a fraternity brother, led upstairs into a small dark room and allegedly brutally gang raped by other members of the chapter. At Jackie’s request, Rolling Stone did not contact the member of Phi Kappa Psi whom she claimed orchestrated the rape. However, as more details surfaced in the following weeks, so did the inconsistencies in Jackie’s story, causing her credibility to diminish. Rolling Stone published an apology on its website a few weeks later, recognizing the flawed narrative. After the initial publication, the story made national and international headlines, rendering a disconcerting attitude toward Greek Life across the nation. The issue has since cast an extremely dark light on fraternity men everywhere. It is the echoes of this rape, and other cases like it, that are redefining what it means to be a member of a fraternal
organization. “Wichita State Fraternity and Sorority Life is by no means stereotypical, and we’re proud of that,” said Lyston Skerritt, WSU’s assistant director of Fraternity and Sorority Life. Skerritt, a former fraternity man himself, said that fraternities and sororities are under the microscope because of the nature of their organizations, and now must hold themselves to a higher standard. “For us, it’s not so much as the spotlight is on us,” Skerritt said. “I’d say we need to look at this like it’s a challenge to ensure we are living out our values on a daily basis.” A recent study conducted in October by the University of Oregon sought to reveal the rate of sexual assaults occurring on campus, and if there was a correlation with the Greek system. The study revealed that 48.1 percent of females and 23.6 percent of males in fraternity and sorority life have experienced non-consensual sexual contact. Females not associated with fraternity and sorority life reported 33.1 percent, and males reported 7.9 percent. When you look at the percentages for men, that’s not a narrow gap between Greek and nonGreek reports. It is studies like these that create a negative perception that all fraternities, or Greek systems, rather, are institutions solely of social revelry and sexual disturbances. Sure, the Greeks demonstrate community service and scholarship, but that doesn’t make headlines. Hazing and sexual
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Fraternity members stand for honor, yet wake up to headlines of misconduct.
assault generally do. allegations in the Rolling Stone “It really hurts to have that article. But I know the men here perception from the public,” said at WSU do not fit the mold of a Matthew Brinkmeyer, a WSU cocky, beer-chugging party sophomore and member of Beta animal that could lead a young Theta Pi fraternity. woman into a gang rape. The As the fraternity only men I know “People start to associate me person in are genuine, his family with that [stereotypical] behavior. I respectful and to ever be get defensive sometimes, and I hold promihave to defend myself and my affiliated nent leaderwith a ship positions brothers, so it’s frustrating.” fraternal on campus. — Matttew Brinkmeyer, sophomore organizaSome tion, Brinkmeyer said he feels his members of the Greek communifamily perceives him adversely ty said they feel that fraternity based on what they see in the men at WSU do not conform to media. what is generally perceived by “People start to associate me those outside of the Greek system. with that [stereotypical] behav“The men here at Wichita State ior,” he said. “I get defensive do not fit that particular mold at sometimes, and I have to defend all,” said Emry Woelk, president myself and my brothers, so it’s of WSU’s Panhellenic Council, frustrating.” the regulating body for five As a member of the Greek different sororities on campus. community, and as a woman, it See FRATERNITY on page 4 saddened me to read such graphic
After living in Texas, South Dakota and throughout Kansas, Courtney Marshall has found a new home in Wichita. As the newly-appointed CEO of the Wichita State Alumni Association, Marshall said she has many ideas to tie the alumni association into the lives of Shockers, both past and present and young and old. “I want to make the association accessible and open to the university Foundation, Athletics and the community,” she said. An experienced résumé As a college student at Kansas State University in the mid-1990s, Marshall graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, with an emphasis in public relations. Despite the degrees, she said she “didn’t want to do it forever.” In 2000, Marshall found herself looking through career listings on the website of her alma mater. Discovering an opening for the director of alumni communications and member services, Marshall decided to apply — and she got the job. Marshall stayed in that role until 2004, when she had an opportunity to become the executive director for the University of South Dakota Alumni Association, where she stayed until 2007, creating and managing the association’s $400,000 budget. Fast forward a few years after holding positions at Benedictine College and Texas Tech, Marshall moved back to K-State and became the major gift development officer at the College of Veterinary Medicine, a position that enabled her to arrange donors and gifts of more than $25,000 for the college. Making the Association accessible Although Marshall is not a Shocker alum, she said she has ideas to help grow the WSU Alumni Association into something greater than what is currently in place. “One of the main things I would like to do is restart chapters and societies,” Marshall said. “It is very important to connect our alumni and fans across the country to the institution. We want to take the university to Dallas or Chicago in order to keep those individuals engaged.” See MARSHALL on page 2
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Millenials and media Millennials (college-aged students) are constantly bombarded with media. It COLUMN BY seems to LARISSA LOWRIE dictate our lives more than any other generation. Technology has made being a consumer so much easier. Our phones have become our lifelines to not only our friends, but also how we understand the world. Due to the Internet, that world seems to be getting smaller and harder to operate ethically in every day. Then the question becomes, “Should we have to think about the ethics of our own media?” If we don’t start engaging ethically with media, it would seem that most companies with enough money believe they can shove something in front of us enough that we will like it, buy it and eventually get our friends to do the same. This can be seen by more and more companies purchasing YouTube ads, Facebook ads, promoted tweets, game ads, television commercials, sponsored Tumblr posts — the list goes on and on.
Recently, groups of college-aged people have been fighting back against this idea of blindly consuming media without understanding the implications. It can be seen in the reaction to two recent and specific movies: “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “American Sniper.” For different reasons, each movie has inspired its own sort of grassroots boycott and commentary. The range of moral ambiguities for each movie is in stark contrast to the others. “Fifty Shades of Grey” is said to glamorize sexual abuse and the use of #50DollarsNot50Shades is being used to promote donating to domestic violence centers instead of seeing the movie. Wichita State sophomore Marilyn Morton did research on the film and learned about its completely wrong take on BDSM. “It just promotes heterosexual sexual abuse, while a movie with a homosexual romantic plot is still considered controversial,” Morton said. “And from the interviews I’ve seen, the actors didn’t even like shooting the movie because they knew it was wrong.” “American Sniper” is seen as a movie to promote nationalistic
pride, but has also been accused of increasing Islamophobia. Kiah Duggins, also a WSU sophomore, acknowledged that both sides of the political spectrum have drawn conclusions about the movie. “I think the country’s conversations about the film would be more productive if they focused on the movie’s exploration of abstract concepts such as war, honor, death and conviction,” Duggins said. Other generations might share the same opinions as millennials, but we are the ones constantly being directly marketed to. The juries are still mostly out on the movies listed above, and millennials themselves are still split in whether they saw the movie and loved it or if they are boycotting the movie altogether. The point lies in the active decision to do either. Most of the time, millennials are passive observers, constantly being sold to. As a generation, we need to become active, more vocal members in what we like, don’t like, are offended by and what we are not offended by. Eventually, it will not be movies they are selling us, but our own futures.
The NCAA is going to rewrite the record books and potentially vacate a COLUMN BY maximum of RAHIM THOMPSON 74 wins from the Wichita State men’s baseball team due to sanctions. A Missouri Valley tournament championship and the ineligible players’ individual statistics will also be vacated. Which raises the question: is baseball a team sport or not? This is something I would like to ask the NCAA. Late last month, the NCAA issued a one-year probation, a $5,000 fine and vacated all of the wins in which the ineligible players on the WSU baseball team participated in while ineligible — essentially wins from the 2012 and 2013 seasons. Why were the players ineligible? In November of 2013, coach Todd Butler discovered 21 players were receiving discounts, as much as 50 percent, on Under Armour apparel and non-athletic gear through an account that was administered by former
baseball administrative assistant Shelley Wombacher. The problem wasn’t the athletes purchasing Under Armour gear — according to NCAA rules, athletes are allowed to purchase items related to their sport. However, those athletes decided to purchase hunting gear and other non-baseball clothing, which made them ineligible under NCAA guidelines. Eight of the players who purchased items less than $100 worth of clothing reportedly paid back the money. OK, cool. That’s the honorable thing to do. Now it’s time for the NCAA to do the honorable thing — for once — and not vacate wins, but dismiss all individual statistics from the players that were ruled ineligible. Those wins were team wins. The fact that athletes knowingly or unknowingly purchased non-baseball gear, having no direct effect on player performance, such as steroid use, should justify my reasoning for leaving the team wins alone. It’s unfair and sends the wrong message to college
athletes. If you take away team wins for individual acts that clearly did not provide any kind of unfair advantage to either team, then the NCAA is essentially saying the individual is and will always be above the team. University President John Bardo seems to agree. Bardo said in a statement last Thursday that he agrees that the punishment set by the NCAA for infractions are appropriate. However, Bardo said the university would appeal the sanctions in regards to vacated wins. Which, I believe, is the right course of action for WSU to take. “The student-athletes involved acted without guilty knowledge,” Bardo said. “It seems unfair to permanently tarnish the records they achieved as a team.” Regardless of what mistakes each individual person has made, none of those mistakes impacted the game of baseball or caused an unbalanced momentum swing. So why take away team wins? This is a question I would like the NCAA to answer.
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Association as becoming the premier way to show support for WSU after a Shocker graduates. She estimated that, as of right now, there are only about 6,000 paid memberships in the Alumni Association — a number she hopes will grow exponentially. “You want to join the Association because that is the No. 1 way that you show your enthusiasm for the association,” she said. Marshall said she also wants to help extend the reach of the Alumni Association on campus, with opportunities to provide for Shocker alums both on and off campus. “I think the line of communication has opened up a lot,” she said. “People are already reaching out to us and seeing us as a
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Changes on campus are part of what drove Marshall to Wichita, she said, as she felt the new, revitalized campus initiatives through Innovation Campus provided her with an unparalleled career opportunity. “We have many new deans with new ideas, so I have been working with them to see how we can partner and serve the community,” Marshall said. One of the ways that Marshall wants to transform the Alumni Association is through refreshed communication among graduates and the university. She said she envisions the Alumni
Native Kansas roots Through her position here at WSU, Marshall has been able to check back in with her love of Kansas. After traveling around and learning how to be an effective director, Marshall plans on staying in Kansas, putting her experiences and lessons to use. “I have traveled all over the country, and I just kind of keep coming back here,” she said. “It is a place that I want to be.”
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The positives of having a smartphone have to do with ease of access for email and other useful apps. Thinking pragmatically, apps such as Trivia Crack and 2048 would only serve to distract me and are simply time-wasting apps that appear to be useful for learning or “brain-jogging.” I’ve played Trivia Crack before, on friends’ phones. The game isn’t even fun. I only felt good when I beat someone or answered a lot of questions in a row. Honestly, if someone offered to let me use their phone to play Trivia Crack again, I would do it in a heartbeat. Yes, I lied — the game is actually really fun. Still, I’ve never played 2048 and have only watched others fiddle around on the game. From my perspective, if 2048 was a prescription drug, I’m sure one of the side effects would be: “chances of feeling like a genius.” I can already access email on my computer, but having access to my email 24/7 no matter where I am sounds like a dream come true. Admittedly, smartphones are awesome, but I can’t help but feel I have turned to the dark side by writing that. The main barrier between a smartphone and me is the $30 a month I would have to shell out in order to pay for data. As a broke college student, that is quite the barrier. While I definitely do not need a smartphone, I’m being honest with myself when I say that I absolutely want one.
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I still have a clamshell phone, one of those cool phones that flips open COLUMN BY from two BRENNEN SMITH sides. According to a 2010 study done by OkCupid.com, iPhone users have the most sex by the age of 30 out of any smartphone user. In fact, the study shows that by the age of 30, men have had, on average, six sexual partners if they own an Android phone, about eight if they own a BlackBerry and 10 if they own an iPhone. Validity of the study aside, the problem for me is I have never owned any of those phones. It’s possible that this study only reflects the types of people that buy certain smartphones, because the study definitely does not give enough information to conclude that buying an iPhone will help them have more sex. The reason that I use a flip phone is because I’m not the type of person who needs a smartphone. I’m not even sure if I want one. Smartphones mostly provide ease of access to something people would normally do on a computer or a laptop. That means by paying for a smartphone, the extra cost of going from a flip-phone to a smartphone is going toward mobile connectivity — connectivity that only lasts for a certain period of time until the phone is out of data.
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(TOP) The Navy Band Great Lakes Brass Ambassadors entertain the crowd Friday evening in Miller Concert Hall, inside Duerksen Fine Arts Center. The show featured a vintage Naval aircraft onstage, which was provided by the Kansas Aviation Museum. (LEFT) A trombonist entertains the crowd Friday evening in Miller Concert Hall. (RIGHT) The Navy Band Great Lakes Brass Ambassadors entertain the crowd Friday evening in Miller Concert Hall.
SGA passes bills By Cole Yancey STAFF REPORTER @CAYancey21
The Wichita State Student Government Association passed a senate bill to add senate positions at its meeting Wednesday. The bill amended the constitution and gave way for SGA to add positions to the senate as the university grows and diversifies.
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“How are they going to come up with that hole in their budget when they’re in the middle of their fiscal year?” Conklin said. “I think that’s very unfortunate.” Conklin said the funding for
Since the bill amends the constitution, it will have to be placed on the ballot with the SGA elections. WSU students will vote for or against the senate bill. Elections for the new senate will begin April 1 and last three days. Along with the senate bill, SGA passed two funding bills. SGA will meet again at 6:30 p.m. next week Wednesday, in the Ulrich Museum. students in K-12 schools is of vital importance as they prepare for higher education. “We need that funding for kids in K-12 to give them adequate resources and education to prepare them to go on into higher education,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that it’s being sliced across the board like that.”
NEWS IN BRIEF Date Night on a Dime: Valentine’s Day Edition The Office of Student Money Management is hosting “Date Night on a Dime: Valentine’s Day Edition” on Tuesday. It takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the first floor of the Rhatigan Student Center. Students can create homemade Valentine’s Day cards and learn how to celebrate without breaking the bank. Valentine’s Day is Saturday. The event is open to the Wichita State community. For more information, call 978-3254.
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Wichita State’s Student Government Association has been hard at work, even though school just started. Last week marked the first SGA meeting of the school year and the second meeting of the 55th session of SGA. Three new committee chairs were appointed during last Wednesday’s meeting: sophomore Steven Haneveld was appointed chair of Campus Issues Committee, junior Brianna Kitchings was appointed chair of Organization Outreach Committee, and senior Grant Rains was appointed chair of the newly formed Programming Committee. All chairpersons had many ideas for projects to take on over the school year. The Campus Issues Committee plans to improve recycling efforts on campus. Haneveld said the main targets for that project are Ablah Library, Hubbard Hall and the wRECk Center. He said these areas are more popular with students now than during past semesters and the accessibility of recycling bins should accommodate the increase. Haneveld also spoke about a “zombie attack” exercise that he is developing with Legislative Director Darren Beckham. The plan is to outline various emergency response situations in a way that interests and engages students. The Organization Outreach Committee, formed last year, is defining its role on campus. Kitchings hopes the OOC can learn more about the student organizations by visiting them and finding ways to assist them. The OOC has made it a goal to better inform student organizations about the funding process through SGA. Formed this year, the Programming Committee has already identified many projects. The first event will be a “Rock the Vote” event in September. Rains is working with his committee to host a Shocker Appreciation Concert in October. There are also plans to hold the second annual Students vs. Faculty football game.
TExTbOOkS FIND IT ON NEWS STANDS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 I remember the first day in elementary school. The teacher called out our names, we would walk up to the front of the class, and she would hand us FEATURE bY our glossy, new textbooks. CHANDLER WILLIAMS Sometimes the books had that new-book smell, and I loved writing my name on the top line of the inside cover and flipping through all of the untouched pages I would soon come to discover. The exhilaration subsides when the book doesn’t include colored pictures, the only smells are of late night coffee stains from the last owner and it comes with a hefty price tag. For some, textbooks cost more than their tuition and come in three-ring binders with paper inserts. I think it is difficult for college students to wrap their heads around spending so much money on a book when they are paying for rent, food, utility bills and tuition at the same time. Thankfully, there are many creative options to save money on textbooks that are credited to 21st century resources. According to Brian McKenna, a writer for collegefinder.com, the five cheapest websites for buying college textbooks are Chegg, Flatworld Knowledge, Campus book rentals, Affordabook and Google books. McKenna says Affordabook searches sites like eBay Inc., Amazon.com, and half.com to find
the lowest prices and save you time. Chegg plants a tree for every book it sells. McKenna reported that it has planted more than 3 million trees. E-books are also transforming the industry. Kelli B. Grant, a writer for Smartmoney.com, said students can download textbooks onto their phone by using sites such as CourseSmart.com. Some popular local resources are Books-To-Go (4960 E. 21st St. North), Ablah Library and the Wichita State Facebook group called “Wichita State Textbook Swap.” Last year, I resorted to buying all of my books at the campus bookstore for the convenience. This year, I found that Books-To-Go has most textbooks required for Wichita State students and sells them 5 to 10 percent cheaper. I also learned the reserved section of Ablah Library has some textbooks you can scan, free of charge. Other resources WSU students reported using were Amazon Prime, (free two-day shipping if you buy a $79 annual membership fee), Craigslist.org, bigwords.com and abe.com.
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wRECk Center open earlier to accommodate students By Robert Hite STAFF REPORTER
The wRECk Center has extended its operating hours to accommodate Wichita State students’ desire for more places to “hang out” due to the Rhatigan Student Center construction. Shelly Martins, RSC director of marketing, said the center, now located on the second floor, opens two hours earlier and is now open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. The hours that food is for sale remain the same, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday. “We’re happy to serve students’ needs out of the class—a home away from home,” Martins said. This gives them more options, times and places to socialize and study during the RSC renovation, she said. More seating and dining choices in the RSC will not become available until mid-September when Chick-Fil-A, Fast Break, Masala Asian Grill and Taco Bell are to reopen. The food court seating area will reopen at the same
of university dining services, said a hot dog stand, Wu’s Weenie Wagon, has been placed near Ablah Library, Jardine Hall and Lindquist Hall to give students the chance to eat on the run. “We intend for it to be permanent,” he said. Another cart with barbecue beef and pork is to be added soon at the same location, Casida said. “We’re considering a vegetarian option,” he said. “We bought them and will utilize them as long as students utilize them.” Casida expects the carts to stop serving once it gets too cold and start again when it gets warm enough next spring. The cart’s hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, weather permitting. The spaces known as the Fireplace Lounge and Shocker Square will not reopen next month and neither will the art gallery, the first-floor restrooms or the stairwell next to the restrooms, Martins said. It may be one year before they do. Restrooms are only available on RSC’s second floor. The north entrance into the RSC will open in mid-September,
ODI hosting Great Blacks in Wax The Office of Diversity and Inclusion will host “Great Blacks in Wax” Thursday as part of Black History Month. The event takes place from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in room 208 of the Rhatigan Student Center. African American figures from the past and present will be featured in wax. Attendees will get to learn about the accomplishments of those people featured at the event. For more information, call 978-3034.
Diversity Issue of the Sunflower to release Wednesday A new special issue for the Sunflower this year is Wednesday’s Diversity Issue. This special issue replaces the former February special, the Love and Sex Guide. The Diversity Issue will include stories about diversity on
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Shockers put full-court clamp on Bears By James Kellerman SPORTS EDITOR @JamesKman13
The 1965 Wichita State Final Four team was in the Roundhouse for their 50-year reunion on Saturday. What they witnessed was the first triple-double by a Shocker in 43 years by Fred VanVleet, Ron Baker becoming a thousand-point scorer and a 78-35 stomping of Missouri State. With the Bears’ leading scorer, Marcus Marshall, leaving the team earlier this season and without its team leader in assists, guard Dorrian Williams — who stayed in Springfield due to a concussion — the team was shorthanded. And it showed. “We’re struggling,” Missouri State head coach Paul Lusk said. “Our roster’s depleted. We’ve dealt with some adversity. You’ll say, ‘They didn’t try.’ No, they tried. We were just outmanned and Wichita State’s very good.” With MSU’s inexperienced backcourt and lack of depth, the Shockers took full advantage by forcing a timeout and three turnovers with its full-court press. That was in the first half alone. “As much as I honestly feel for what Paul [Lusk] is going through with the way his roster is made up now, you want to win the game,” WSU head coach Gregg Marshall said. “We thought that was to our advantage with our depth compared to theirs to make the game more of a track meet and pressure them a little bit, and it worked.” The Shockers also crashed the offensive glass better than they have in conference play with 17 offensive rebounds. The only time they had that many offensive rebounds in conference play this year was the last time they played MSU in Springfield, Mo.
“Fred’s got that look in his face when he passes you the ball like, ‘shoot it.’ You can see it in his eyes.” - Ron Baker
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Wichita State guard Fred VanVleet passes the ball Saturday night at Charles Koch Arena. VanVleet went on to record the first triple-double in school history since Terry Benton did it on Jan. 29, 1972. The Shockers defeated Missouri State 78-35.
Wichita State missed nine of their first 11 shots, but once Evan Wessel hit a 3-pointer to take the lead to 7-3 at the 15:55 mark in the first half, the scoring onslaught began. A pair of free throws by senior Darius Carter, a Baker three and a Shaq Morris layup pushed it to 14-3. It only took two minutes and 55 seconds. Then, with 10:27 left in the half, Baker hit a jumper to take the lead to 20-7 and to become the 43rd Shocker in school history to record
1,000 points. Going into halftime, WSU lead 37-13, Baker was in the 1,000-point club and VanVleet was on his way to history — needing five more points, two more assists and two rebounds to record a triple-double. “Fred’s got that look in his face when he passes you the ball like, ‘shoot it,’” Baker said, laughing. “You can see it in his eyes every time he passes it and puts that perfect backspin on it. It’s usually going up. It’s shocking that it’s only
happened [10] times in the history of [the program].” VanVleet had his two assists and two rebounds at the 15:43 mark in the second half. All he needed was five points. “Dominic Okon (director of operations) keeps up with that stuff,” Marshall said. “And he told me with 16 minutes to go or so that Fred needed five points. He already had the rebounds and assists, and I guess he told Fred, too, because the next two times he touched it, he got
five points.” Fred got the five points in almost a minute after the media timeout. A layup and a 3-point shot sealed VanVleet’s triple-double and pushed the lead to 55-19. “We talked about it, and without going away from playing the game the right way, these guys helped me get over the hump,” VanVleet said. “You don’t get a triple-double without having great teammates, and I’ll give all the credit to those guys.”
Baseball team ‘can move on, finally’ By James Kellerman SPORTS EDITOR @JamesKman13
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Wichita State junior Michaela Dapprich drives to the basket against Missouri State Sunday afternoon at Charles Koch Arena.
Women’s basketball defeats Missouri State By Cole Yancey STAFF REPORTER @CAYancey21
The WSU women’s basketball team beat the Missouri State Bears 69-50 Sunday afternoon. The game was back and forth in the first half and WSU senior guard Alex Harden provided crucial points. Missouri State held a 24-17
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“Most of the public does not know that Greek organizations were founded on service, philanthropy and scholarship,” she said. “We work hard to become Greek and we work hard to stay Greek, and the reason why fraternities at WSU are still
lead midway through the first half. WSU clawed back to take a 29-28 lead going into the half. Although the Bears were in the game for the first 10 minutes of the half, WSU began to pull away. The second half was Wichita State’s. Jamillah Bonner (18 points), Allie Decker (15) and Harden (16) controlled the game. It was a tough fight for the Shockers, but they pulled away at
the end and gained another win in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Shockers are now 18-4 overall and share the lead for the MVC at 9-1. “I was very proud of how the team played in the second half, making adjustments and making a change and how we finished the last 20 minutes,” WSU head coach Jody Adams said after the game.
on campus is because they do not have problems like that.” Perhaps fraternity men are becoming a scapegoat for sexual assault, meaning they are to blame for the rising rates of sexual assault cases at universities. Incidentally, the argument of whether or not to ban fraternities nationwide is becoming a whirling debate. Stories panning from Gawker.com all the way to MSNBC begged the idea of
eradicating these organizations across the nation. One story published by Ali Vitali of MSNBC said, “Sexual assault stories are becoming too frequent, with too consistent a tie to the Greek community. How can we not ask if now is the time to finally put an end to fraternity and sorority life?” Vitali was once a member of a sorority. She proudly wore her letters until she read the Rolling
Todd Butler’s sole focus is on baseball this season. With the NCAA decision announced nearly two weeks ago, coach Butler, Wichita State’s head baseball coach, is ready to move on. “I’m coaching now,” Butler said. “We’ve put that behind us. I definitely feel like [my energy is back on baseball.]” Wichita State is still trying to appealing the NCAA’s verdict in regards to the vacation of wins and the vacation of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament championship in 2013. “I’m for the appeal, for the wins and the conference championship and for all the players and the coaches that have been here,” he said. “Our guys did the best they could. Tough circumstances. “Our administration has done a fantastic job of preparing for the investigation — getting through it — and now we can move forward.” The team’s first game is Friday against Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Texas. The team should be ready to go, Butler said. “They’re ready to play and they’re very eager,” he said. “Now, we need to do our part as a Stone article. Her narrative tells of a time when she blew off the naysayers and was entrenched in her organization. She says that she now feels opposed to mere idea of keeping any fraternity on a college campus. But as Woelk said, these fraternities were founded on service, scholarship and philanthropy. Not to mention fraternities also make up 85 percent of Fortune 500 company executives
program and get back on that winning track and that Shocker spirit. Hopefully, as we win this season, we’ll start to pack this stadium and really get this atmosphere back, so I’m excited.” It won’t be easy, though. WSU has a tough schedule this season, with games against Sam Houston State, Long Beach State, UC Santa Barbara and TCU. “Hopefully, you’ll start to see the character of our guys, the commitment of our players and hopefully our will to win as we start playing this competitive schedule in 2015,” Butler said. “A lot of these games are going to be on the road. We’re going to be road warriors with this team.” The beginning of this season should be easier for WSU, considering players won’t start the season on suspension. “It’s been one year and two months [since the investigation started],” he said. “I remember last year, first game, two hours before the game and not knowing who I could play. Getting through the investigations is really tough, and I thought we did a really great job, and our players, of handling it. You think about starting the season. Players were suspended, and so we worked through it. “And hopefully, after today, it’ll be just baseball. Now, we can move on, finally.” and have produced 18 presidents, according to an article published by USA Today two years ago. “Based on a fraternity man’s values, a fraternity house should be the safest place on a college campus,” Woelk said. “It is the safest place on campus. They teach chivalry, they teach brotherhood. All of their values should co-align and be a safe place for any woman to be.”
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