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Man arrested following fight in Koch Arena student section

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BY JENNA FARHAT

A man was arrested following an altercation in Charles Koch Arena during a Wichita State men’s basketball game. Adam Colangelo, 26, was arrested and booked into Sedgwick County jail on one count of domestic battery after a fight with his girlfriend in the student section of the arena, according to the WSU crime log. The fight broke out just before halftime during Sunday’s game against Tulsa. Neither the man nor his girlfriend are WSU students, said Robert Hinshaw, interim university police chief. Hinshaw said the woman received minor injuries that did not require medical treatment.

Student received first-degree burns in fire at Henrion Hall BY JENNA FARHAT

A fire in Henrion Hall was caused by an electric malfunction in a table saw, according to Mike Strickland, director of environmental health and safety. The malfunction caused the saw to spark and ignite sawdust particles in the air, causing the flash fire Friday morning. The student using the saw suffered from first-degree burns. An ambulance transported her to a local hospital where she was treated and released, said Joe Kleinsasser, director of news and media relations. The instructor of the class told Wichita State police that the fire burned the hair on her arms and that she ingested smoke, which caused her irritation. She transported herself to the hospital. Kleinsasser said the instructor is fine. The fire-damaged saw is being stored as evidence with the university police, Kleinsasser said. Firefighters on the scene said the fire was contained to the area of the table where the saw was located and did not cause any structural damage to Henrion Hall. Henrion Hall is used by the School of Art and Design as a studio space for ceramics, sculpture, and painting. Henrion Hall was built in 1921, and is one of the oldest buildings on campus. According to a Kansas Board of Regents report from January of last year on building conditions at state institutions, Henrion Hall was rated 58 out of 100, which is the worst condition of any academic building at Wichita State.

WSU will host Wichita’s eSPORTS convention BY DANIEL CAUDILL

handler Hoskins is one of five team members from Wichita State’s own League of Legends team competing in a tournament hosted on campus annually. Hoskins was born and raised in Minnesota, but moved to Athol — A northwestern Kansas city with population of 41 — with his mother as a junior in high school. After graduating, he enrolled at Fort Hays State University, where he studied psychology for two years. Hoskins — now a junior at Wichita State -- said that he transferred from Fort Hays because he did not fit into

student life there. “Everyone just drinks. If you’re not into that, then there’s nothing else for you to do,” he said. It was during his freshman year at WSU that Hoskins discovered League of Legends after seeing fellow students playing it across the hall from his dorm room. “They always had like four or five people in a small dorm, and they were always playing League,” he said. “I stopped in one time and saw them playing, and it looked pretty fun, so I went and downloaded it.” League of Legends — commonly referred to simply as ‘League’ — is an online match-based game where two teams of five compete for control over a limited map in order to ultimately destroy the other team’s base and win. “It was rough, but I spent a lot of time working on it,” he said. “I really enjoyed (the game) and I’m competitive, and I didn’t have much else to do besides class.” Through gaming,

Hoskins came to know now-professional League of Legends player Juan Garcia — known as “Contractz.” Garcia is a high-ranking player on League of Legends’ North American server. As a professional, he has competed on established teams such as Cloud 9, and recently, the Golden State Guardians — an NBA franchise team added to The League of Legends Championship Series this year. Advice from his high-ranking friends, along with years of practice and studying, helped Hoskins move up in ranks. Reaching all the way to the second highest division in Diamond, he has climbed a total of 23 divisions in his League of Legends career. After playing competitively alone, and “semi-competitively” with friends, Hoskins was looking to join a team. SEE ESPORTS PAGE 3

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SGA votes to remove required presidential approval from bylaw changes — awaiting president’s approval BY DANIEL CAUDILL

The Student Senate approved a bill that would remove a constitutional requirement for President John Bardo’s signature on bills amending student government bylaws. Kylen Lawless, SGA chief of operations and co-author of the bill, said Wednesday evening that removing the requirement for the president’s signature was meant to correct a “fallacy” in

the legislative journal. “President Bardo, or his designee, has to approve changes in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Statutes,” Lawless said. This means that a signature from President Bardo or, more likely, Vice President of Student Affairs Teri Hall (Bardo’s designee) will be required in order to finalize the bill. “In the constitution, it says that the president of the university only needs to sign

statutes,” Lawless said. “Down later in some other statutes, it says that [the president] is going to sign changes to bylaws and statutes.” Lawless described statutes as an “external representation of the association,” and the bylaws as rules for how SGA runs its meeting. Other campus organizations are required to have the university president’s approval to change their bylaws.

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The Student Senate sits through a session in the Fall.

INSIDE

A BAD BREAKUP

BEER FOR BREAKFAST?

STAFF PICKS

Remembering the passing of a friend.

Can WSU afford to pay Vizzini six figures?

The Sunflower’s beer aficionado Brian Hayes on his favorite morning brews.

Who takes the Eagles by 69?

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Nathan Davis, center, and Jenna Farhat, right, interview Djuan Wash at a Trump protest in November 2016.

When the world slows down

n college, the world moves quickly — too quickly at times. One year ago — on a cold Monday morning — our newsroom slowed down in an instant when our staff learned the news that our colleague Nathan Davis, 23, had died. Our fast-paced day slammed into a brick wall. Though most of us experienced a loss at some point in our lives, this one was different. As we mourned the loss, we moved to a discussion of how we best move forward. What we don’t do enough of in college is slow down and get to know one another. In high school making friends is second nature, but college is a different story. You have to put out effort. In a semester, The Sunflower staff had collectively interviewed hundreds of students, faculty, staff and outside community members, but the connection between people in the newsroom

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still left something to be desired. Nathan didn’t always have an assignment. Most productions nights he’d venture into Elliott Hall to play video games on his laptop and be surrounded by friends. He didn’t always open up, but occasionally, he’d spark up a conversation with someone, and each day The Sunflower would learn more of his story. Friendships don’t happen on their own, you have to work at them. This

was Nathan’s lesson to us. Nathan stopped into The Sunflower after he finished his shifts at Shocker Grill and Lanes. One night he spoke up in the great music debate, offering an end-all statement that he knew the greatest song of all-time — no doubt about it. The song? Prince’s “Raspberry Beret.” “Have you heard this song before?” he asked. “This song is the greatest.” He was completely serious. We watched and laughed as he struggled to find the music video on YouTube (Prince’s music was notoriously hard to find for free online). This memory is still referenced on a weekly basis, when someone plays the song on production night. It’s easy to stay closed off, and it’s hard to open up. It’s even harder to break into a new group of friends. Nathan reminds us to stop, slow down, and interact with one another.

Vizzini’s paid leave isn’t in Wichita State’s best interest When the Kansas Board of Regents approved a 2 percent raise for university presidents in 2015, John Bardo and four others declined the offer, expressing discomfort with accepting more money for themselves when limited resources ruled out raises for faculty and staff members. After three more years of state leaders neglecting to invest in higher education, Kansas universities are still cutting corners — hiking tuition and fees and holding out on those raises for most professors. A Regents report this month showed that the state’s academics still make decidedly less than professors at competing public institutions. The pay gap of over $20,000 between Wichita State and competing schools is wider than that at any of the other five Kansas institutions in the report. Which is why it stands out when WSU is seemingly giving money away. Earlier this month, WSU announced that Provost and Senior Vice President Tony Vizzini will go on paid leave this spring, “to focus on his professional goals.” That means Vizzini, who is in his fifth year at WSU, will continue to receive his $297,353 salary, even though he “will not be involved in daily operations” at the university, according to the announcement. Vizzini has actively been job hunting since last spring while participating in daily operations at WSU. And that’s absolutely his prerogative. As Bardo put it in the

I’ve often wondered where our police officers are when vehicles don’t stop for those folks walking on campus who are in crosswalks. This morning I found out when I was pulled over myself. Now, let’s forget the fact that I dodge scooters, skateboards, bikes, or whatever happens to be the latest fad to get around on SIDEWALKS these days. That’s another letter. I was chagrined when the officer informed me that I “sped right past” a student in a crosswalk as I looked for a parking space. First of all, at less than 20-milesan-hour, I was hardly speeding, and second of all, the student in

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announcement, “Vizzini is in his fifth year as chief academic officer, which is a normal career point to consider new positions.” But that doesn’t mean WSU is obligated to pay him six figures while he looks for his next gig. The Regents policy accounts for paid leave “in order to fulfill jury duty, National Guard duty, or other civic obligations.” “Professional goals” are nowhere to be found in the policy, but Bardo can award paid leave at his discretion if it is “in the best interest of the university,” Joe Kleinsasser, director of news and media relations, told The Sunflower. Vizzini’s salary is paid through taxpayer funds and tuition — tuition that has continued to rise each year as Kansas universities compensate for a lack of funding. If Vizzini will not be contributing to WSU in a meaningful way this semester, there must be another reason why it is “in the best interest of the university” to pay him the entirety of his salary. In a written statement, Bardo called Vizzini “a wonderful colleague,” and said he has

LETTER to the EDITOR question hardly had to dodge for cover. I’m no math teacher, but I can judge distances. But the most important thing I noticed, and continued to notice as I walked across campus, is the terrible lack of visuals for motorists on campus advising of a crosswalk. Slapping something on the ground--especially as this campus

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Tony Vizzini will receive his full six-figure salary this year while he continues to job hunt.

“treasured his leadership, critical thinking, enthusiasm and That could lead one to reasonably believe Vizzini’s paid leave has been awarded as a token of gratitude for his service to the university. And I’m sure students would be glad to know their tuition is going to show that gratitude, were they not too busy deciding if they can afford both their textbooks and a parking pass this semester. Bardo himself is no stranger to sticking around on university payroll after making it clear he’s ready to move on. According to the Smoky Mountain News, after retiring as chancellor of Western Carolina University in 2011, Bardo continued to make his full salary of $280,000 for the next year while conducting research. Bardo also received retirement and health

insurance, despite surrendering his university-provided car and free house. Drawing on his past experience, it makes sense that Bardo, who respects Vizzini as a colleague and wishes him the best in his professional pursuits, might want to award him paid leave. But when you consider the financial state of higher education in Kansas and the fact that the median salary in the U.S. is between $59,000 and $73,000, shelling out the rest of Vizzini’s $297,353 seems excessive. As president, Bardo is called to act in the best interest of the university. As an academic officer with high aspirations, Vizzini has decided to act in the best interest of his professional goals. It doesn’t have to be an ugly breakup, but if Vizzini’s moving on, so should WSU.

continues to grow--isn’t enough. I felt awful and embarrassed this morning, but needlessly. I’m no angel, but this morning was a bit silly. Ironically, after I did find a parking spot in the faculty lot by Corbin, I had to cross one of the worst places on campus: Yale and Perimeter. I know pedestrians have been hit there. You know what? Despite that, there isn’t a visual sign for motorists except what is on the ground, and that’s not enough--and let’s not get into motorists who aren’t even from the United States. The campus is responsible for doing its part. I don’t think

the officer was being nice by just giving me a verbal warning; many moons ago, I worked for a vehicle insurance company. The whole situation was flimsy from the start. But let’s remove the guessing game, shall we? Let both pedestrians and motorists know the score and be accountable. Because after this morning, if I even get tapped in a crosswalk and no sign is posted, the bodily injury suit is coming to Wichita State. —Kerry Jones, Fairmount Lecturer in the English Department

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It’s what’s for breakfast

BY AGNES CORRIGAN

BRIAN HAYES

BEER CRITIC

veryone loves breakfast. Crispy bacon, shiny eggs, roasted coffee and sweet maple syrup all laid out on the table. The flavors of breakfast are distinctive. So, what could be better than breakfast? A breakfast beer, more accurately a breakfast stout. The stout is the only beer big enough to incorporate all the flavors of the heartiest meal of the day. A breakfast stout is brewed with maple and coffee and sometimes other adjuncts to create something uniquely breakfast-y. What is the best breakfast stout? Today in The Sunflower’s test kitchen — a.k.a the patio at Central Standard Brewing — Sports Editor Matt Crow and myself will taste test 4 different breakfast stouts.

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Founder’s Canadian Breakfast Stout proves that bourbon has a place at the breakfast table.

sides of the glass as we drink it down. Heavy on the coffee and chocolate, the maple doesn’t show until it warms. “It’s good, dark and heavy, like a strong cup of covfefe,” Crow said as we neared the bottom of our first glasses.

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First off, boasting a home field advantage, “Born with Teeth,” Central Standar Brewing’s offering for Breakfast stout. Although, it’s not actually advertised as a breakfast stout, but it fits the bill. Coffee, maple and chocolate; checks all the boxes. This 10.5-percent ABV stout drinks like it’s 5-percent. The notes of dark chocolate and coffee hide the alcohol — well, there’s only a twinge of it on the back end of the palette. The double mash make this one of the thicker beers we drank, despite not being barrel aged. It has legs. The dark brown head streaks the

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Founder’s Canadian Breakfast Stout proves that bourbon has a place at the breakfast table.

Other Half’s “Short, Dark & Breakfast” puts the syrupy sweetness in the breakfast stout. BRIAN HAYES/THE SUNFLOWER

CANADIAN BREAKFAST STOUT

and chocolate all work together to make this an ideally balanced breakfast stout. It’s never too sweet or too boozy.

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“Born with Teeth” is Central Standard Brewing’s offering in the breakfast stout category.

to see if that maple would ever come out— it didn’t.

Next up, “Short, Dark & Breakfast.” This beer is the breakfast variant of Other Half Brewing’s “Short, Dark & Handsome.” The additions of maple syrup, coffee and lactose make it fit the breakfast stout bill. This beer clocks in at 7.4-percent. There’s a good deal more carbonation than “Born with Teeth.” It’s much thinner, lacking the viscosity of the previous stout. Brooklyn-based Other Half Brewing nails the sweetness in this beer with the addition of lactose sugar. It has the sweetness but lacks the maple — even as it warms the maple isn’t there. “It goes down well if you don’t like the harshness of some of the heavy stouts,” Crow said. I struggled to finish my pour of the 16-ounce can we split. I wanted

With a name like “Canadian Breakfast Stout,” the next beer we sampled by Founders Brewing has set the expectation very high. I imagine after a bottle of this we should end up dressed like the Royal Canadian Mountie on the bottle, lapping at the tap on a maple tree. Sadly, we did not. Canadian Breakfast Stout was bottled in 2017, it was the first time since 2011. My first impression is boooouuurrrben. Before the glass even hits my lips, I can smell the sweet oaky-ness of the barrels. The barrels used are what makes this beer so special. The barrels were used to age bourbon, then after they were spent, they added pure Michigan maple syrup. After the syrup was drained this imperial stout packed with coffee and chocolate was added to the barrels to set until it absorbed the flavors of the previous two occupants of the barrels. All that work and patience paid off with an incredibly drinkable, exceedingly thick breakfast stout. Notes of bourbon, maple, coffee

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Kentucky Breakfast Stout by Founders is released once a year.

Last but by no means least, “Kentucky Breakfast Stout” is made by Founders Brewing as well. This is the same base beer as the Canadian Breakfast Stout but aged in regular oak bourbon barrels. It’s just as thick but lacks the sweetness that mingled so perfectly with the prominent smooth coffee and chocolate. Overall, all the beers featured coffee, chocolate and maple, but they were all vastly different, due to brewing style and technique. “Born with Teeth” and “Canadian Breakfast Stout” were the ales that I’ll remember and want to drink more of. Disclaimer about my affinity and biases toward breakfast as the unequivocal best meal: I wrote this while wearing breakfast themed socks. My home WiFi networks are named “Waffle House” and “Extra Syrup.” My last meal would be an All-Star Special smothered and covered with a well-done waffle. The love runs deep.

‘Hostiles’ provides new material for Western genre It’s easy to forget, now over 100 years removed from the period, the violence and savagery that ruled the American West before its domestication in the early twentieth century. A stark juxtaposition of primal beauty and limitless brutality, the American West in literature and film is defined almost solely by this harsh relationship. The Western genre in particular is an exploration of this idea: a meeting of man and nature and the conflict that arises thereof. “Hostiles,” the latest film from director Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart,” “Black Mass”) is a worthy, if flawed contribution to this hallowed classification-a film that gorgeously captures that tumultuous pairing of man and creation and the terrible beauty that’s formed from their elemental collision. Hostiles follows the last mission of a world-weary Capt. Joesph J. Blocker (Christian Bale) who is tasked with returning a dying war chief back to his home territory to be buried in peace. In his travels back to the chief’s homeland, ESPORTS

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“I’ve always been a competitive player,” Hoskins said. “Playing alone is fine for that, but when I heard there was an eSPORTS organization and a League team (at WSU), I thought I’d try it out.” As a team, Hoskins said that the Alpha Shocks still have “a lot of work to do,” but he has high hopes for the tournament. “We just did the seeding for the tournament, and we didn’t do so hot,” he said. WSU’s team, the Wichita State Alpha Shocks, were seeded 14th out of 15 total seeds in the upcoming $20k League of Legends tournament, according to Wichita eSports’ official Facebook page. They face the third-seed Robert

Blocker stumbles upon a widowed wife played by Rosamund Pike, whose family was slaughtered by the Comanche in blood-sport. The film then follows a fairly predictable path from this point, alternating between beautifully composed shots of men on horseback and scenes of terrible violence. These all lay the foundations for brief interludes of the soldiers contemplating the nature of what they’ve done, grave intonations investigating the perils of violence and men. It’s all not terribly new, and the film’s weaker points tend to flare when navigating the minutiae of

getting from one point to another. Where the film excels is instead in the lingering shots of solemn figures standing against steeple-fingered cliffs, or the overhead stills of Bale and Pike trying to resolve their moral dissonance in a tent. These little snapshots string the film along pulling it from point to point as if summoned by gravity. Scott Cooper, whose films I’ve traditionally not enjoyed, has really shown his improvement as a director by letting these images speak for themselves. It’s not that the actors delivering the hard tack of dialogue do it poorly, it’s just that the old adage of “show, don’t tell” exists for a reason. Good directors know when to leave a scene. However, some of the characters resolve themselves awkwardly, as if Cooper wasn’t sure how to write them naturally out of the picture and instead just killed them off. In addition, Rosamund Pike’s character seems a bit out of place and the film finds reasons to keep shoehorning her back into the plot. One of the most interesting

aspects of “Hostiles” is its treatment of mental health, or “melancholia” as one character puts it. PTSD out on the frontier is something that is rarely tackled in Westerns. The idea of a stoic and strong cowboy, untouched by the things he has to do to survive, is one of the defining tropes of the Western genre. Yet, “Hostiles” has several characters whose mental health is their dominant character feature, and I wish the film had spent more time exploring that aspect than the trite meditations on the evils of violence and what men are willing to do one another. Bale’s right-hand man, is so afflicted with PTSD he ends up killing himself after catching an escaped prisoner. The camera finds him slumped against a tree with the prisoner face down beside him, the back of the prisoner’s jacket blown out by bullet holes. It’s also easily the most interesting question the film raises: the idea that what if the most terrible violence we can commit in the West is not upon each other, but upon ourselves?

Morris University Eagles in the first round. Hoskins said that Robert Morris University has a reputation in the eSPORTS industry. “They were one of the first universities to bring eSPORTS to the university,” Hoskins said. “They give out pretty good scholarships for it, too.” Hoskins said that he never thought he would be able to play League for a university, but he hopes there will be scholarship opportunities for eSPORTS competitors at WSU in the future. “If the students at WSU came out to support their team during the tournament, it’d mean a lot to us,” Hoskins said. “If we do well at tournaments, people are going to want to go to WSU and join the eSPORTS teams,

and that’s what’s going to bring the scholarships for us,” he said. Hoskins said that many people in the United States do not consider League of Legends, among other eSPORTS, to be “actual” sports. “A lot of people who don’t think it’s a sport don’t know what it takes to play at a high level. It takes a lot of decision-making, teamwork skills, especially at the higher gameplay,” he said. “In other countries like South Korea, and even Europe, it’s more accepted for people to play video games competitively,” Hoskins said. “It’s seen more as a sport, and not just a bunch of kids trying to make it something.” Hoskins said that attitudes towards competitive eSPORTS are improving, mentioning the recent addition of NBA franchising in the

game’s professional league, the League of Legends Championship Series. At an entrepreneurial startup presentation at the Experiential Engineering Building in December, Ramsey Jamoul — WSU alumnus and CEO of Wichita eSports — described his company as a “pipeline” for collegiate and amateur video game players into the world of professional eSPORTS. “That opportunity will produce the next Michael Jordan of eSPORTS,” Jamoul said. Hoskins offered points of advice for any League of Legends player who wants to improve their gameplay. “The best way to improve is to re-watch the games you’ve played, and see what you could have done better.”

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Students for Justice in Palestine is a group of students that hopes to bring awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Palestine. One of the ways that the organization is bringing awareness is with the screening of the documentary, “5 Broken Cameras” at 7 p.m. Friday in Hubbard Hall 221. “5 Broken Cameras” was shot by a Palestinian civilian, Emad Burnat, living in the small West Bank farming village Bil’in, which is surrounded by occupied territory. The documentary follows Bil’in villagers’ resistence to Israeli settlements. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013. The student group’s goal in the documentary screening is to provoke deeper thought and a consideration to learn more about the Palestine’s current situation. “It’s a very heart-wrenching and emotionally difficult documentary to get through, but it shows everything,” said Deena Helm, president of the Students for Justice in Palestine. “Much of what is seen today in American media is very heavily one-sided, and we want our fellow Shockers to understand that not all Palestinians are angry, violent terrorists. Many of the protests are peaceful and they still don’t have any effect. It’s to show a reality that American students don’t often see and we hope it challenges their current views.” Helm said they chose this documentary because the student group is hoping students will have a better understanding of the Palestinian conflict through the screening. “When Americans think of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their first thoughts are often something dealing with conflict of religion between Jews and Muslims,” Helm said. “That is not at all the case. My sister, Zaena, and I come from a family of Palestinian Christians and have dealt with the same issues. We want students to know that this issue is not at all religious. It’s an issue of occupation, violence, and colonialism. This documentary shows that very well. Our goal is one of knowledge. We simply want others to understand what is going on.”

Opera theater returns with collection of songs for performance BY MATT MADDEN

The Opera Theater will return to the stage this weekend with a “Scenes and Songs” performance. “The main thing for audiences to know is that this is not a full opera production like we did last November,” said assistant director Morgan Buie. She said that the performance will instead be a collection of different songs and scenes from other operas. Performer Julia Pottinger said the scenes are from completely different operas, which can throw off audiences who are trying to follow a plot. Instead, the scenes are connected by universal themes rather than a branching narrative. “Our director, Alan Held, staged the program as if we were all students in a school,” Pottinger said, “While we are not performing in our specific scene, we are still ‘alive’ as our school character.” Pottinger said this dynamic allows characters to take the spotlight during their scene, and then become a part of the background in the others. Since each character is consistently present during the entire performance, it helps weave together the otherwise unrelated scenes. Pottinger also says this provides a unique challenge for performers, as they have a limited timeframe with which to establish the essence of their characters. “At the end of the day, it’s very similar to a concert or a musical revue, almost like a celebration of the more reputable scenes in Opera history,” Pottinger said. The “Scenes and Songs” opera performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday in Wiedemann Hall. The show is around 90 minutes long with no intermission and students can view the performance for free.

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Time for Terrible Tom to meet Father Time

Fly, Nick Foles, Fly

f there’s one thing I can’t stand about football it’s Tom Brady. Some consider him a cheater and others consider him the greatest. I love to hate him. Brady is a five-time Super Bowl champion — the second-most of any player all-time — and Sunday he’s competing for a sixth ring. I’ll admit Brady is skilled. And, in fact, it’s hard for me to deny that Brady is easily the best player to ever play the position. But for no shortage of reasons, Brady is easy to hate. Brady and a group of semi-talented professionals waltzed through the playoffs into the Super Bowl for the second consecutive season and the third time in the last four seasons. Reserve Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles will attempt (and ultimately fail) to dethrone Brady. I for one, wish Brady well on Sunday. I hope he has a Peyton Manning-like Super Bowl 50 performance, celebrates, and rides off into the sunset. Brady will turn 41 years old this summer. Brady is already the oldest quarterback to win an NFL playoff game, and he’s yet to indicate his retirement any time soon. Brady’s wife, Gisele Bündchen, wants Brady to retire. She has spent the season pressuring Brady to hang it up, so much so that she’s started soliciting his friends, like retired NFL kicker Jay Feely, to urge Brady closer to retirement; Brady won’t bite. And it’s annoying. “If it was up to my wife, she would have me retire today,” Brady said. “She told me that last night three times. And I said, ‘Too bad, babe, I’m having too much fun right now.’” Brady has said this year that he feels faster at 40 than he did at age 18. And when asked about when he might consider retirement, Brady said “45 sounds like a good number.” It’s no question Brady can keep playing for a few more seasons, but the NFL isn’t as fun with him dominating the competition year after year. It’s time for Tom to hang it up; he’s only going to retire on a high-note. Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels is expected to accept the Indianapolis Colts’ offer to become their next head coach, and Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia will leave to coach the Detroit Lions. Patriots’ head coach Bill Belichick, 65, could face a massive coaching overhaul, or call it quits himself. If the Patriots win, the dilemma for Belichick and Brady each become easier — and hopefully that decision includes a case of beer and an NFL Sunday Ticket package.

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IT’S TIME FOR TOM TO HANG IT UP...

— Matt Crow

Shockers giving Temple ‘full, undivided attention’ to secure first win over The Owls No. 16 Wichita State has the opportunity to get head coach Gregg Marshall his 80th true road win on Thursday at Temple. Temple and Wichita State have met only three times—with The Shockers not winning a single one. The two most recently met in November of 2011 at the Puerto Rico Tipoff where Temple won by four in overtime. This season, The Owls are 11-10 overall and 3-6 in The American. They are most recently coming off

hen Carson Wentz went down against the Rams in week 14, few saw Nick Foles as someone who could fill in for Wentz after his MVP-level season. Foles has had his struggles in the past and has bounced around the league since his sophomore season with the Eagle but has shown that he is capable of playing with the NFL’s greatest. Most will probably think I’m crazy and I’m not saying Foles is a better quarterback than Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers. But comparing their best games, Foles’s ceiling is higher. On Nov. 3, 2013 Nick Foles played the best game a quarterback has ever had in the history of the NFL. In his third start after replacing an injured Michael Vick, Foles threw for 406 yards, seven touchdowns (tying the NFL record) in a 49-20 win over the Raiders, earning a perfect passer rating in the process. Only five quarterbacks had ever thrown seven touchdowns in one game before that day, none with a perfect passer rating. By comparison, Brady earned a perfect passer rating in October 2007 against the Miami Dolphins in the midst of pats almost undefeated season. Brady threw for 354 yard and six touchdowns in that game. Yes, Nick Foles floundered with Jeff Fisher’s Rams. So did Jared Goff (3,804 passing yards and 28 TDs this season) and every other quarterback on their roster (Case Keenum, Sam Bradford). My point is, just like Jared Goff; don’t judge Nick Foles solely by his time with Jeff Fisher. A Nick Foles we haven’t seen in five years showed himself against the Vikings in the NFC championship. Foles threw for 352 yards, 3 touchdowns and no interceptions against a team that allowed the fewest yards per game in the regular season. This Sunday, what we’re left with is two teams going head-to-head, each with a chip on their shoulder. Tom Brady, fighting time to prove he’s still on top of his game, and Nick Foles, a backup quarterback people put so little stock in they were considered the underdogs at home throughout the playoffs and in the Super Bowl, despite having a top-10 offense and top-5 defense in the regular season (to the Patriots’ top offense, and 29th ranked defense in the regular season). Foles doesn’t have to carry the Eagles squarely on his shoulders; this is a well-rounded football team on both sides with a strong running game. If Foles can harness the magic that helped him with that perfect game against the Raiders, he is more than capable of propelling this team to the a victory over the almighty Patriots.

HE IS CAPABLE OF PLAY AT LEVEL WITH THE NFL’S GREATEST.

— Evan Pflugradt

BY ALIYAH FUNSCHELLE

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of 28-point blowout win against UConn. “They are playing really well right now, they just blew out UConn. They are, obviously well-coached,” head coach Gregg Marshall said. “They just do it right. They are not real complicated. They just guard you, they share the ball and they can all score it.” Temple’s backcourt produces the most points for The Owls: Quinton Rose and Shizz Alston. Rose averages 14.2 points per game, 4.4 rebounds per game, and

2. 4 assists per game. He produced 17 points in their most recent game along with three assists and zero turnovers. Alston averages 13.1 points per game, 3.5 rebounds per game, and 2.4 assists per game. He dropped 18 against UConn and had four assists and zero turnovers. “He’s got some really good players,” Marshall said. “We’ve got to go up there and play well to win. We know that.” The Owls average 67.5 points per game with a -1.0 scoring margin. They also have a

counterproductive rebounding margin with a -3.6 margin and averaging 34.2 rebounds per game. “They’ve got our full and undivided attention,” Marshall said. “As I’ve said, we’ll have to play well to win there.” The Shockers rank fourth nationally in rebound margin at 10.5 and have only been outrebounded once this season. Their scoring margin is at 14.4 averaging 83.4 points while holding their opponents to 69. Wichita State also ranks third nationally for assists after averaging 19.1 assists per game. No team has out-assisted The Shockers in the entire month of January. Temple and Wichita State have both their meetings of the season within two weeks of each other. The two face off again Feb. 15th. Marshall said the benefits of playing games close together all

comes down to the outcome of the first meeting. “It depends on if we win the first game. It’s easier on the scout, because generally they don’t change a whole lot in a couple weeks,” Marshall said. “It just depends on if you win, lose...a lot of factors that go into that.” Junior forward Markis McDuffie has family ties to Temple. His sister, Sierra McDuffie, is in her second season as a graduate manager on the Temple men’s basketball staff. Senior center Shaquille Morris is just 20 points away from reaching 1,000 career points. He will be the 46th member, just the eighth player in Marshall’s era, of the 1,000-point club. Morris scored exactly 20 in Sunday’s win over Tulsa. Tipoff is at 6 p.m. and will be broadcasted on ESPN2.