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WSU reaches $495,000 settlement with former VP; explicitly forbids contact with The Sunflower BY MATTHEW KELLY

ichita State has reached a $495,000 settlement with a former university vice president who sued WSU for retaliation in 2016. Wade Robinson, who served as vice president for student affairs until 2015, alleged that WSU and President John Bardo demoted him and eventually terminated his employment after he tried to investigate two student athletes, including one member of the 2013 Final Four men’s basketball team, for alleged rapes. ROBINSON The settlement agreement, obtained through a Kansas Open Records Act request made by The Wichita Eagle, is intended to “resolve all disputes and differences” between Robinson and the defendants. As a result of the settlement, Robinson will receive a $297,000 check and his attorneys will receive a $198,000 check. The agreement is signed by Robinson, WSU acting President Rick Muma, and WSU Chief of Staff Andy Schlapp. The settlement contains a nondisclosure agreement ensuring that Robinson will not speak negatively about the university. “You agree that you will not make, directly or indirectly, nor will you prompt or encourage any other person to make (i) any express or implied negative or disparaging oral or written statement, question, comment, or other communication regarding WSU, Dr. Bardo, or any of the Released Parties,” the agreement reads. The agreement goes on to explicitly forbid Robinson from communicating with The Sunflower. “Consistent with the spirit and intent of this agreement, you will not engage in making any posts, comments, letters to the editor, or other communications of any kind to or with The Sunflower or its Staff,” the agreement reads. The comment policy on The Sunflower’s website allows for readers to comment on stories using an alias. One frequent commenter who goes by the name “Real Shocker” is often very critical of the WSU administration and its decisions. Believing the commenter to be Robinson, another commenter, “Office of the General Counsel,” has taken to responding to Real Shocker’s comments on Sunflower articles. SEE ROBINSON PAGE 5 “Real Shocker,” who has been an avid commenter on The Sunflower’s webiste, is very critical of the WSU administration. Believing Real Shocker to be Wade Robinson, another commenter, “Office of the General Counsel,” has taken to responding to all of Real Shocker’s comments. WSU General Counsel David Moses declined to comment on the terms of Robinson’s settlement.

Former student arrested for battery of officer, drug paraphernalia

BY ANDREW LINNABARY

Wichita State police arrested a former student shouting and throwing objects at officers inside Wilner Auditorium last week, Police Chief Rodney Clark said. Three officers arrived at Wilner Auditorium around 6 p.m. last Tuesday. After their arrival, the man — a former student that Clark would not identify — “immediately is yelling [at the officers],” Clark said. “He just started yelling, ‘f*ck you [racial slur]’ and ‘all you

[racial slurs] suck,’” Clark said. Clark does not believe the incident was racially motivated, he said, and clarified that the individual — who Clark would not identify the race or age of, but described as having a “darker complexion” and being in his late 20s to early 30s — used the n-word in a slang way. “I’m not sure if that’s something young people just say or what,” Clark said. SEE ARRESTS PAGE 5

Muma, Hall address referendum concerns at SGA meeting BY EDUARDO CASTILLO

Acting President Rick Muma and Vice President for Student Affairs Terri Hall addressed student senators’ questions and concerns about next week’s referendum at Wednesday’s Student Government Association meeting. Of the questions and concerns senators conveyed, many focused on the construction of the new business building, and why it is a priority in the Shock the Future campaign. SEE MUMA/HALL PAGE 5

“The business building has been discussed for many, many years,” Muma said. “Feedback has been sought from students, faculty, and staff in the business school.” The construction of a new business building has been on the table for the past six years. Information that was collected from the exit survey that students intending to graduate are required to take showed support the new building on campus, Muma said.

The state of Kansas does not give funding for the construction of a new academic building. If the referendum fails, business students will vote on a program-specific $30-$35 per credit hour fee hike to pay for the new building, Woolsey Hall, which donors have already raised $30 million for. The date of a potential second referendum has not been scheduled yet due to SGA elections that will be held in April, Hall said.

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Acting President Rick Muma and Vice President of Student Affairs Teri Hall listen to a question about the Shock the Future referendum from a student senator at Wednesday’s SGA meeting.

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The Shocker women’s basketball team had a near-record attendance against UConn.

Freshman forward Morris Udeze will miss the rest of the season.

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COURTESY If next week’s student fee referendum passes, more than half of the money raised by the fee hike would go towards the construction of a new business building, Woolsey Hall. The building would be named after Wayne and Kay Woolsey, who donated $10 million to the project.

Top 5 things we could use a new business school building for With the Shock the Future referendum vote coming up next week, the topic on everyone’s mind is, obviously, Woolsey Hall, the new Barton School of Business building. As such, The Sunflower has decided to compile a list of the Top-5 (non-educational) potential uses for the new building, which university officials maintain will be beneficial to all students. DISHONORABLE MENTION: BUSINESS CLASSES

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Obviously, business students think they are drawing the long straw on the new building. We engineering students must send a strong message by completely taking over the back half of campus. If they really want a new building, they can have the Engineering Building. Beware, however, that there are no women’s restrooms on the second floor. 5. A SUNFLOWER OFFICE

Have you ever been to The Sunflower’s office? The setting seems less representative of a newspaper and more so of a storage room. Shoved into the basement of Elliott Hall, we are all but cut off from the

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OPINION EDITOR outside world, with no cell signal whatsoever — which is, you know, not a great thing for a newspaper. 4. A FULL-SIZED COLLEGE FOOTBALL FIELD

Hear me out. On Saturday mornings, all of the desks are moved to storage, the walls are torn down, and the ceilings are retracted much like an NFL dome. Fully immersed in the sounds of the crowd in what would be one of only four indoor stadiums in the FBS, the WSU President’s Executive Football Team roars onto the field. Not one person could say that it wouldn’t be interesting — at least for a short period.

In an effort to compete with the Koch family-funded Wonder School, Wink Hartman could hold High School courses in the newly built building. In fact, the Wonder School could feed directly into it, keeping students on campus from kindergarten through their doctorate.

“I would want to have the parking situation improved rather than the buildings on campus. Making more available spots to park would be great.” - SARA LLOYB, psychology, sophomore

2. A PARKING GARAGE

I don’t mean a metered garage like the one by the RSC. We need a multi-level garage built into the building to allow for students to drive directly to the doors of their classrooms. Green permit parking with the added convenience of avoiding a 10-minute walk. 1. A TACO BELL EXPRESS

When I was told that the Taco Bell Express that many of us had come to love — or at least rely on to get through the day — was going to be replaced following the 2016-17 school year, I was obviously distraught. If a Taco Bell of any sort will be included in the new building, you can bet your ass that I’ll be first in line.

“McKinley Hall should be updated. I don’t think that it’s necessarily old, but it just feels out of date. Some of the classrooms could use some work.” - SYMONE MITCHELL, pre-med, freshman

The worst movie of 2018: Netflix’s ‘White Fang’

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CULTURE EDITOR No one is going to watch a movie about your dog. In fact, you usually have to pay people to watch your dog. With “White Fang,” Netflix asks you to watch their dog for free. Don’t. If “White Fang” the novel is a wolf, then “White Fang” the animated Netflix movie is a FurReal Friend. It looks cute but does nothing, and even a kid can tell it’s not really alive. Let’s get one thing straight: the original “White Fang” is a dark morality tale about what happens when a wolf is alienated from his kind through violence and human intervention. It’s the sort of story with enough violence to satisfy Tarantino and enough striking quotes to rationalize a voice-over running through the film. However, Netflix’s “White Fang” ditches everything great about its source material, and what it has to offer in its place is laughable at best. In the novel, White Fang is a

COURTESY White Fang’s mother bears the most complex emotion granted to the four-legged characters that dominate the movie’s screen time — confusion with a touch of worry.

badass wolf hardened by famine and hatred of his own species. He narrates with a cold detachment as death comes for everyone but himself. In the movie, a wordless, cutesy White Fang barks, looks sort of confused and growls menacingly. The range of emotion the animal demonstrates would hardly fill up a five-minute Pixar short. At 90 minutes, the character goes beyond unbearable into the realm of the absurd. The rest of the film is built on elements just as depressing. The film’s human characters are extremely boring, and the poorly-written dialogue rarely serves to provide any information that’s not made obvious

already on screen. The animation itself is chunky and ugly. The entire film looks like a cheap videogame cutscene. Every time “White Fang” ramps up to a fight scene, the camera pans away because apparently, those would either be too hard to animate or they would look stupid given how cheaply the graphics are rendered. It’s hard to watch without feeling embarrassed for everyone involved. There are millions of cute dog videos on the internet, yet “White Fang” manages to be one of the worst. I would give it one star if only there was a single bright spot among the arctic mess.

Academy Awards still in shallows when it comes to diversity Sunday’s Academy Awards were, in a word, shallow. One side of that coin: a steamy, too-real-to-be-acting performance of the “A Star Is Born” hit “Shallow” by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. Some viewers assuredly lost signal as their TVs overheated from the tension. Seriously — Bradley Cooper’s girlfriend, you should be worried. The other side: a predictable, whitewashed awards ceremony that allegedly lasted only three hours. It felt like a lifetime. Baby steps toward better diversity and inclusion are nothing more than hollow gestures when the Academy is still rewarding mediocre (“Bohemian Rhapsody” was not magnifico) and troublesome (“Green Book” is this century’s “Driving Miss Daisy,” critics say) movies. Without a host, there was plenty of time to let the movies and actors

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shine, but the Academy seemed more interested in rewarding familiarity over freshness. Sure, best actor winner Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) deserved props for being able to act while wearing prosthetic teeth twosizes-too-big for his mouth. And Olivia Colman, best actress winner for her role in “The Favourite,” was delightfully authentic in her

acceptance speech during one of the fakest nights of the year. Maybe I was just charmed by her accent. But aside from a well-deserved win by a giddy Spike Lee (best adapted screenplay for “BlacKkKlansman”), Sunday’s Academy Awards were as white and predictable as they come. Remove the winners’ names, and you could paste this awards ceremony into any year. Nobody would notice — probably not even the Academy. And maybe that’s how the Academy likes it. But if the Academy wants to maintain relevance in an America that looks, sounds, and feels less and less like it with each passing day, the organization needs to get out of the shallows of diversity. Do more than dip your feet into diversity and call it good, Academy. Take a headfirst dive. The water’s fine.

“I think recycling should be a priority. I used to be at KSU, and they would have recycling bins with every trashcan. It was just more readily available. I think saving the money and focusing on things like that would be beneficial.” - ZAK KEITH, industrial engineering, junior

“The college of engineering building should be renovated. It doesn’t look good, at least to me. I mean, Wichita State is really known for their engineering program, so I think that they should put more money into engineering.” - MMASI OBI, biomedical engineering, sophomore

“I believe that parking improvement should be a priority.” - KRISTA SHIELDS, spanish, senior

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‘YOU DON’T MICROWAVE RELATIONSHIPS’ How ‘The Bachelor’ is designed to violate its own values

Everyone knows that “The Bachelor” is inherently ridiculous. You give a man about 30 relationships to manage, tell him to gradually cut down to the best one, and then pressure him to propose all over the course of a month. It’s a ridiculous scenario where no one comes out looking all that sane. Nowhere is the tension between the show’s premise and its stakes clearer than during hometown dates, where four lucky contestants get to bring home the same man to their families. Each family is both pretty excited they’re on TV and that their little contestant is doing well in the competition, but rarely is a family excited that their daughter has actually become emotionally attached to a man with three other girlfriends. The hometown dates then show each family member trying to feel out and reckon with the chances that their child might be heartbroken on national television, all the while suppressing the most basic piece of advice they can give them: this show is stupid, and if you buy into its love narrative, you’re dumber than I thought. In Monday’s episode, one father looks at his recently-divorced daughter in shock as she admits she’d say yes to a proposal then and there. Soon after, he says, “You don’t microwave relationships. That’s what is going on.” You feel like cheering at the simple logic thrown into the show’s matrix. But by the end of the night, the father has essentially come to terms with the whole deal, and the date ends in stock romantic music. It’s the contradictions that make the show as laughable as it is addicting to watch. However, the surface dissonance begs a question — exactly what is the contradiction at the heart of “The Bachelor”? How can we acknowledge the show’s stupidity and still find ourselves rooting for ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ that the show sets up? After all, social media jumps on

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CULTURE EDITOR contestants who are seemingly ‘in it for the right reasons’ and cheers on contestants who are somehow tricked into falling in love over two months on camera. The truth is that what makes the show both irresistible and frustrating is that its contestants – and seemingly the show itself – hold values that “The Bachelor” is designed to violate. Three of the core issues that come up time and time again are contradictions within themselves. So without further ado, here are three contradictions that make “The Bachelor” grind painfully forward, season after season: 1. BE VULNERABLE AND OPEN IN RELATIONSHIPS.

Trusting a partner with compromising information about yourself isn’t a process anyone should take lightly, but sharing the right information at the right time can really strengthen a relationship and let you know whether or not something can work long term. However, “The Bachelor” compresses the time over which this should happen down to a couple months, and contestants know that what they share isn’t just going to “The Bachelor,” but everyone who watches “The Bachelor.” Why on earth would you share anything actually compromising or personal? The ideal contestant is armed with a sob story that poses no actual threat to themselves if shared and paints them as a victim or survivor.

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Current Bachelor Colton Underwood holds his head as he tries to make sense of the season’s nonsense.

That’s not vulnerability, but manipulation, and Bachelor Nation has been trained to cheer it on. 2. DON’T LEAD PEOPLE ON IN RELATIONSHIPS.

Like anyone else with a head and a heart, “The Bachelor” has a good idea whether or not someone is marriage potential the day he meets them. Past contestants have reported that it’s relatively obvious early on who The Bachelor is really interested in — usually one to four people. However, the show doesn’t allow its Bachelor to cut people quickly, or else they wouldn’t be able to fill enough episodes. It’s basically in the show’s contract to lead people on. 3. GO ON THE SHOW FOR LOVE, AND WITH NO ULTERIOR MOTIVES.

At the end of the show, one contestant leaves a fiancée to a man who just days before had sex

with another girlfriend and was contemplating proposing to them. Really, winning “The Bachelor” is more of a loss than anything else. However, almost winning “The Bachelor” — coming in the top five or so, for example — means you get out scot-free with tens of thousands of social media followers and a shot at appearing on one of the Bachelor’s sister shows. You’d have to be an idiot to go into the show for love. You’d only have to be bold and willing to be a little disingenuous on a disingenuous show to have a good shot at a boatload of social capital. On the first season of “Survivor,” only one of its players acknowledged early on that the show was a game. As people cast votes for other players to leave the island based on little more than what they were feeling at the moment, the player built a voting alliance to

ensure that he was never voted out. Players got angry at his manipulation of the game as he voted out threats and kept unworthy competitors, and then he won. Now he has a million dollars and the show of Survivor is what it was always meant to be – a cutthroat competition with complex social dynamics. “The Bachelor” functions as “Survivor” might have functioned if no one came to terms with its game-like structure. No one wants to acknowledge the real stakes and goals of the players, and for this reason, the contestants are either cast as jerks, idiots, or the random soul who “The Bachelor” actually falls in love with. It’s a complete mess of a show. As viewers — even ironic ones — we’re as likely to fall for its faulty reasoning as the contestants we laugh at along the way.

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Do you love learning but hate slowmoving lectures and presentations? Then come to the Ulrich for a lightning round of Pechakucha-style presentations — each presenter flips through 20 slides for 20 seconds, meaning presentations clocks in at under seven minutes. There’s no time to get bored! Come fill your brain in one of the campus’s coolest venues.

One of Wichita’s most exciting displays of creative talent, the 2019 Emerging Artist Showcase will feature Shocker artists across a range of disciplines. The artists’ work will be on display for public viewing as it is simultaneously judged in a sponsored contest. Take in the highstakes, high-quality displays this Saturday and support your fellow students! The Art and Design Advocates will be presenting the event.

One of Wichita State’s most impressive voices, Master’s student Philip Lopez will be performing on Sunday at Wiedemann Hall. Lopez has performed a number of operatic roles at WSU, including a star performance as Figaro in last year’s production of “The Marriage of Figaro.” Come support your fellow students while getting a first-class performance!

Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Location: Ulrich Museum Cost: Free! After two cancellations, this wonderful art event is finally set to get underway! Free delicious hors d’oeuvres and wine are only the tip of the iceberg for WSU’s “Writing Now, Reading Now” series, where students can come to the Ulrich to feel like true patrons of the arts for a day. This Thursday, visiting writer Margaret Malone will be reading. Her stories are known for tackling tough topics through ordinary, but surprising objects. There’s rarely a more delightful way to immerse yourself in visual, written and culinary arts — don’t miss this free fiesta in your very own art museum.

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As a result of phishing attempts, Wichita State is implementing a new cyber security system for university employees. The new system, Duo, requires two-factor authentication for certain services.

Wichita State IT department to implement new cyber security system for university employees

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new cyber security system will be deployed by Wichita State’s information department next Wednesday. This system will be implemented for all WSU employees — faculty, staff, administration, and student assistants. Duo is a two-factor authentication system that will place additional security measures to avoid data being modified by someone other than the legitimate user. Users will have to enroll in Duo in order to maintain access to certain WSU online services.

The online services that are monitored by the system include myWSU, webmail, WSU team Dynamix, and banner applications. There are several different ways to authenticate the user, which include the Duo mobile smartphone application, text message, or a landline call. “If some cybercriminal somehow got the ID and password of a legitimate user here, which might happen, made by methods other than phishing, although phishing is one way, they would not be able to log in as the individual fully and do any damage, because they would not have the second factor that the actual legitimate employee has,”

Chief Information Officer Toney Flack said. There have been some concerns from the Faculty Senate regarding accessibility. The information technology department is reassuring university employees that the WSU website contains a link to the Duo product website that has information on accessibility concerns with Duo. Information logs show that only a few failed attempts by legitimate WSU employees have occurred when they accidentally tapped the red X on their smartphones instead of the green checkmark. “If a user logs in and gives their ID and password and then is prompted for a Duo push, but the push is

not coming from them, but from a third-party actor, they will see that request and then know that it is illegitimate,” Flack said. “They just tap their smartphones with red X, and we get a report immediately of any activations that are deemed by the user as being invalid and illegitimate. “To our knowledge, we’ve had no successful phishing attacks that got all the way through to the point of full login since we’ve implemented the Duo product.” A Duo demonstration session will be held next Wednesday, March 6, at 2:30 p.m. in Hubbard Hall room 218. By the end of March, all WSU employees will be required to enroll in Duo.

Department head worries clinical psychology program could lose accreditation if referendum fails BY DRAKE ROBINSON

If next week’s Shock the Future student fee referendum fails, acting President Rick Muma has said Wichita State will still have to find a way to pay for a new business school, but other infrastructure upgrades around the university will likely go unfinished. For WSU’s play therapy and clinical psychology programs, that could mean a loss of accreditation. Remodeling WSU’s play therapy center and psychology clinical labs is a shared Applied Studies and Liberal Arts and Sciences infrastructure priority. “Due to new licensure requirements, the (WSU) clinical mental health counseling program must be accredited by the Council for

Accreditation for Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) by 2022,” wrote Jody Fiorina, head of WSU’s counseling, educational leadership, educational and school psychology (CLES) department. The department is currently pursuing accreditation, but it is not likely to get recognition from the education board by the time the new requirements go into effect unless they upgrade the psychology facilities for the future, Fiorina said. “If the referendum does not pass it puts CACREP accreditation and the entire clinical mental health program at risk,” Fiorina wrote in an email. “(I)n the worst case scenario, we might have to close the clinical mental health program to new

students starting in 2022 until an alternate site can be located.” Fiorina said the department meets regularly with the WSU Foundation about seeking donor support. “The problem we have is that the program is relatively new so there are not as many alumni to pull from and to be honest counselors make fairly modest salaries,” Fiorina wrote. “Ironically we have discovered that it will be easier to garner donations from the broader community once the clinic is created since people have expressed a willingness to sponsor sessions for children in need of services.” Gentry Thiesen is a political science and anthropology double major who is serving as an LAS

Fund the Present fliers posted around campus not associated with Sunflower BY MATTHEW KELLY

Fliers posted around campus encouraging students to vote against next week’s Shock the Future student fee referendum are not affiliated with The Sunflower. One flier was found on The Sunflower newspaper rack in Elliott Hall Monday evening, and another was found on the bulletin board outside of The Sunflower office Tuesday. Both fliers have been removed so that they are not confused with The Sunflower’s editorial stance on the referendum. Anyone wishing to advertise with The Sunflower can reach Ad Manager Kylie Cameron at 978-6906 or admanager@ thesunflower.com. Several other “Fund the Present” fliers were posted around campus, including one in the Rhatigan Student Center and one on a telephone pole across 17th Street. “Shiny buildings are worthless with nobody to teach in them,” the fliers read. “When Grad Students are on food stamps, When WSU has a student food

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The fliers are in the style of Shock the Future signs stuck in the ground around campus.

pantry, When we’re still paying off buildings we haven’t built, Taking more of our money is an insult, Vote no!” The referendum, scheduled for next Monday through Wednesday, is a proposal to raise student fees by $6 a credit hour to upgrade campus facilities. If

it passes, WSU will be able to bond $38.6 million — $20 million of which will go towards the construction of a new business building on Innovation Campus. The fliers are in the style of Shock the Future signs stuck in the ground around campus, which read, “Vote yes!

representative on the Shock the Future steering committee. Thiesen said improvements to the psychology lab have been needed for about 10 years. She said the psychology lab remodel as well as updated biology labs, LAS’s other infrastructure priority, would not only benefit LAS students, but also every Shocker student who takes a biology or psychology class for a gen ed or prerequisite class. Thiesen said she believes that if the LAS upgrades are not attached to a referendum, the upgrades may never happen, or could take another 20-some years before getting addressed. If the referendum passes, students will pay an extra $6 per credit hour in student fees,

allowing WSU to bond $38.6 million. Of that, more than half — $20 million — would go towards the construction of the new business building, Woolsey Hall, on Innovation Campus. Thiesen said she is focused on voter turnout and emphasizing the positive impacts that the improvements would have on the university. She said all students stand to benefit from a new business building, and that moving the school from Clinton Hall would allow WSU to centralize student services, which could improve student life. Thiesen is urging students to study the referendum before casting their vote. Voting opens next week and runs from Monday through Wednesday.

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WSU scores big at Model U.N. Conference

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he Wichita State Model U.N. team racked up awards at the Midwest Model U.N. conference in St. Louis last week. The Midwest Model U.N., MMUN regional conference hosted 370 students from 36 schools last Wednesday through Saturday. The event represented 67 different countries in four days. WSU’s team represented Uruguay and Russia and won 14 distinct awards for outstanding delegations in various areas. The conference’s purpose was to promote awareness of international relations and issues. A simulation of U.N. committee meetings provided a platform for students to speak. Students took on roles of diplomats and represented foreign countries as they analyzed pressing issues. The conference discussed international peace and security, human rights, country development, environmental issues, and other topics. Students prepared for the conference with training resources and weekly meetings. They found resolutions of large-scale problems through research, writing, public speaking, and consensus building. The team will go to the National Model U.N. in New York City in April.

Outstanding Delegate General Assembly 2nd committee (Russia): Daisy Kerabo   Outstanding Position Paper General Assembly 2nd committee (Russia): Daisy Kerabo   Honorable Mention Delegation General Assembly Plenary (Russia): Daisy Kerabo  Outstanding Delegate Ecosoc committee (Russia): Stella Yang  Delegates Choice Award Ecosoc (Russia): Stella Yang  Outstanding Delegation Ecosoc Plenary (Russia): Stella Yang and Cynthia Matson

Honorable Mention World Health Organization (Russia): Cynthia Matson Outstanding Position Paper General Assembly 4th committee (Uruguay): Roger Ruvalcaba

Honorable Mention Delegation General Assembly Plenary (Uruguay): Michael Goddard, Adriana Somerville, Carleigh Camacho, and Roger Ruvalcaba  Honorable Mention Ecosoc (Uruguay): Ashruta Acharya

Honorable Mention Delegation Ecosoc Plenary (Uruguay): Ashruta Acharya, Zubair Khan  Outstanding Delegate World Health Organization (Uruguay): Zubair Khan  Delegate’s Choice Delegation World Health Organization (Uruguay): Zubair Khan

Members of Wichita State’s Model United Nations team poses for a photo at their conference in St. Louis last week.

‘Be In the World’ pictures.” I see something and I take a picture of an image with my mind, but the thing that’s captured has a feeling that’s attached to that image. And it’s a story I’ve invented based on the feeling picture. BY: What is the common thread connecting your stories in “People Like You”? MM: I mean, I think probably the thing that has always interested me was everyday ways that people try and don’t succeed. After the book came out, I realized the other common theme was lowercase “f” feminism — the small ways that women make or don’t make choices that change their lives. Of the women who are often afraid, in small ways, finally saying no to something or questioning something. I think probably a lot of my 20s were like that. BY: What does your writing process look like? MM: I used to write my first drafts by hand (laughs and points to recently broken arm), and then I would enter it in the computer for the second draft, and then I’d print it off and make more edits. Then, I’d cover them in post-it notes, like “What are you really trying to say?” and “What’s missing here?” as if I was workshopping myself.

BY: Since you came to writing later in life, what were the circumstances that finally led you into it? MM: I was living in Los Angeles with my husband — he was in grad school for film — and I was miserable. Hated it. And was just sort of trying to do everything. I had a ton of weird odd jobs. I have a half sister who lives down there. She told me a story about auditioning for an improv group, and I thought, “I’m going to do that,” because it terrified me. So I did it for two and a half years, and I was sick to my stomach every time. It was physically painful for me. And then everyone around me was really acting. Everyone started getting headshots, and I thought, “I don’t want to be an actor.” On a whim, a friend of mine was taking classes through UCLA extension, and she asked if I wanted to take a short story class with her. I said

yes, but I was terrified. But then I thought, “If I could go onstage and create a character, setting, plot — in a second — then for sure, I could do that on a piece of paper. And then, once I started doing it, I was like, “Ohhhh, this is what I’m supposed to be doing.” BY: Tell me about being a member of the Dangerous Writers in Portland. MM: So, Dangerous Writers was founded by Tom Spanbauer, who studied with Gordon Lish. He was a minimalist whose philosophy was deconstructing a classic sentence. You take the thing that’s written and break it down until it gets at a better sense of how people talk in reality. And when you break it down to its subsets, it becomes more closely aligned with what’s true. So, he taught workshops out of his house. He was our instructor.

He’s taught generations of writers. We met every week for five hours. It was a bunch of tables cobbled together with a bunch of tablecloths. Over time, you would earn a place at the table. The people around the table were called pond scum. I made it to the table in three months. You had to wait for someone to leave. We paid every week to be there, but we paid less to be pond scum. You couldn’t bring pages unless you were at the table. It was very democratic. There is still part of me that considers getting an MFA. It just didn’t happen for me that way, and I feel grateful. I think what was good about meeting Tom was it gave me confidence in what I was kind of already doing on my own, and it allowed me to dip into what my natural instincts were. I feel like if I would’ve gone to grad school, I would’ve been tweaked into a different direction. BY: Any advice to young or emerging writers? MM: I feel like it’s cliched advice, but one — don’t be afraid of your voice being different than other people’s, two — keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, And three — be in the world. I feel like a lot of writers resist interaction with the world. Writers sometimes like to only live in their minds, and I think that can be a loss. And, read a lot. Margaret Malone reads Thursday at the Ulrich Museum as part of WSU’s Reading Now/ Writing Now series. The event begins at 6 p.m. Snacks and beverages will be served. The event is free.

his comments in The Sunflower,” Office of the General Counsel’s comments read. WSU General Counsel David Moses declined to comment on the university’s decision to prohibit Robinson from contacting The Sunflower.

“The parties have agreed that this agreement resolves their legal differences and therefore will not be commenting further,” Moses wrote in an email Wednesday evening. The nondisclosure agreement states that if Robinson violates

the terms of the agreement, he will have to pay back the $297,000 in full plus additional damages, because doing so would cause “irreparable injury to WSU, Dr. Bardo, and the Released Parties.” Shortly after Robinson’s employment was terminated,

WSU hired a full-time Title IX coordinator, Natasha Stephens. As of last week, Stephens is no longer listed in the university directory, and Christine Taylor, director of WSU’s Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance, is serving as interim Title IX coordinator.

cost of Henrion Hall renovations. Certain guidelines are given by the state for repair of the damage that has been done to buildings that pose a safety hazard. The university received $4.6 million dollars this fiscal year. “A lot of it is damage that has been done, like to a roof from hail storms, because that is high-priority because it’s leaking,” Muma said. “Hubbard Hall is currently getting new windows because there has been cracks in those windows — they’re not airtight. “A few years ago, it was the same case with Lindquist Hall. We’re able to use it for those kinds of things. We’re able to make the campus more accessible.” James expressed his concern that some students are still not convinced on the referendum and how it will benefit them in the long run. Hall said senators should be proud of investing in

the university. “That’s a part of what leadership is, and if you care about this place — some of you are going to see a number of these improvements and some of you won’t,” Hall said. “We want you to be proud of this. We want you to be proud of this place and be able to see that this stuff was started while we were there.” The Shock the Future student steering committee has taken the lead on informing students about the referendum. One senator asked how administrators can say the Shock the Future campaign was student-led when “nobody on the steering committee gave input.” “Our involvement is advisory — not to guide or direct,” Muma said. “I don’t think everything was decided about how this was going to move forward.” Referendum voting will be held next Monday through Wednesday.

Wichita State’s visiting writer dives into her craft BY BECCA YENSER

Margaret Malone, a PEN/ Hemingway finalist and Wichita State’s current visiting writer, will be reading her work at Thursday’s Reading Now, Writing Now series at the Ulrich Museum. Malone is the author of “People Like You,” a collection of short stories published by Atelier26 Books. Cheryl Strayed (author of “Wild”) has even claimed Malone as her favorite emerging writer, writing that Malone is “a writer of immense talent” who “reveals the deepest, darkest, and most illuminating truths about what it means to be human.” I caught up with Malone at Watermark Books on a recent chilly evening to dive into how she brings life to the page. BY: First of all, congratulations on the success of your debut novel, “People Like You.” I absolutely loved reading it. The characters are full of flaws, but ultimately relatable. What sparks a story for you? MM: Story sparks for me come from language fragments that get stuck in my head that I think are cool and I write down, or this thing I’ve come to call “feeling

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After shouting at the officers, “he took the ring off his finger, threw it at a police officer, and continued to throw things,” Clark said, reading from a police report while talking over the phone Tuesday afternoon. “He was warned if he continued to throw things, he would go to jail.” The former student grabbed a small yellow book in his pocket and threw it at one of the officers, hitting him, Clark said. Then, the former student was arrested. The officer wasn’t injured. “The officer didn’t sustain an injury, but it was still a crime,” Clark said. “At that point, you have battery on an officer.” The former student was arrested for battery of an officer and possession of drug paraphernalia. A marijuana grinder “with residue” was found in his coat pocket. Clark said the former student was not a threat to campus at any point.

“We’re really hoping that we don’t have to do that,” Hall said. Senator James questioned what happens to the funds that were given by donors if the first and second referendum do not pass. “If this first referendum does not pass and the second one for the business students does not pass, do the donors get their money back or is that ours to keep?” James asked. Muma said Woolsey Hall must be built regardless. “We have to figure out a way to build the business building — we prioritize this as an institution as that this is something that we need,” Muma said. “We’re not going to be promoting sending this back to donors. We’ll have to figure out a way to do that. If the business referendum does not pass, we’re going to have to think

COURTESY Wichita State’s visiting writer Margaret Malone reads Thursday at the Ulrich Museum as a part of WSU’s Reading Now/ Writing Now series.

about the ways to do that.” The proposed fee hike would allow Wichita State to bond $38.6 million. More than half of that money, $20 million, would go towards the business school. If the first referendum fails, smaller renovation project that were planned for other buildings campus-wide will be put on hold. Some such projects include the renovation of the 24-hour study room in Ablah Library, biology lab renovations, an updated wind tunnel in the engineering building, and the renovation of Henrion hall. Muma explained that the minimum $6 fee will raise about $1.8 million every year in order to pay the yearly payment to support the bond, which would take 30 years to pay off. WSU receives about $4.5 million in repair and rehabilitation funds that are used campus-wide on any building that requires it. Some of that money will be used to cover the

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