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THE BULLETINVOLUME 114 - NUMBER 2THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014

RSOs color campus withwater balloon fight

Students gathered on the practice football field to be splattered by water balloons filled with paint Monday, Aug. 25 at the Student Recre-ation Center.

People Respecting Individ-uality and Diversity in Edu-cation (PRIDE), the sociology club and SOS Advocacy For ESU (SAFE) were the hosts of the water balloon fight.

The groups hoped to fill 1,500 balloons, but because they couldn’t find a hose and had so little time they were only able to fill about 300.

Along with balloons being filled with dyed water, there were buckets placed through-out the field with dye in them that participants could splash onto one another. This was a new event for the clubs and they hope to make it a tradi-tion and improve it every year.

“I know we are planning on doing another one of these for spring semester, probably towards finals week because everyone is so stressed out and water balloons can be very therapeutic,” said Callie Bish, senior sociology major and treasurer of the sociology club.

The ideals of all three clubs are similar. PRIDE’s goal is to create a safe place for people to embrace the differences that make up everyone. SAFE

focuses on creating awareness for human trafficking, dating violence and abuse and pro-viding a safe place for victims to get the help they need. The objective of sociology club is to create a better understand-ing of the different areas of hu-man society.

“PRIDE, sociology club and SAFE. Have been think-ing about doing this for awhile and we just recently brought it to realization and are really excited to see if we have some fun with water balloons to-day,” said Jeff Bollman, soph-omore art major.

Students were encouraged to wear a white shirt or some-thing they didn’t mind getting

tie-dyed. By the end, every-one’s crisp white shirts were smeared with different colors and many had hand prints on the back as well.

“It was a good way to get everyone together for the first time this school year. Kind of raise awareness that there are these clubs out there and it was just something fun after the first week of school,” Bish said.

Tayler Heitfield, freshman sociology major, attended the water balloon fight with five of her floor mates. Heitfield was the target of many bal-loons and ended up getting hit with more paint than she was able to throw.

New vision statements focuses on ‘common good’

Racing his competitors around Wooster Lake, freshman Dustin Bittel rows around obstacles with his boating partner freshman Tristen Show-ers avoiding trees and fountains. Boat races were one of the many things offered at Wooster Wipeout held outside Morse Hall Aug. 23. BRITTANY COLLINS | The BulleTin

Amtrak has expressed interest in building a passen-ger train station in Emporia after conducting a passen-ger study, according to Casey Woods, director of Emporia Main Street and member of the Amtrak Task Force.

“We’re one of the smallest communities along some of their passenger rail tracks that doesn’t have a stop,” Woods said. “The Am-trak train actually travels through Emporia twice a day and just doesn’t stop here be-cause we don’t have a passen-ger rail station.”

Since ridership has been es-tablished, they are currently in negotiations with BNSF Rail-way about use of the railways. According to Woods, the fear of the BNSF is interference with their delivery schedules, which would interfere with their “bottom line.”

“Now we feel like since they’re already passing through here that it would be a negligible impact, but we also

have to be concerned about which rail line the stop would occur on,” Woods said. “So the next step of the process is actually planning where we would put the actual station.”

Reverend Andrew McHen-ry, chair of the Amtrak Task Force, said the station must be the length of one full train to allow passengers to board the train all at once without hav-ing to pull each car up to the platform.

“That usually takes up a few city blocks,” McHenry said.

Woods said it’s possible the size of the platform could re-quire some “creative engineer-ing” to better suit Emporia’s infrastructure. To help with this, the task force brought in Bruce Boettcher and BG Consultants.

Boettcher described BG Consultants as an architecture and engineering firm helping with the logistics of the proj-ect.

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Students ready their water balloons for the start of the fight by the Stu-dent Rec Center Aug. 25. KATHRYN MARTIN | The BulleTin

The President’s Strategic Planning Cabinet changed the vision statement from “Changing Lives since 1863” to “Changing Lives for the Common Good” during the spring 2014 semester as part of the Strategic Plan Develop-ment for 2015-2025.

“That is a driving force in terms of what we’re doing with the bigger picture – the Strategic Plan,” said DeWayne Backhus, executive director of Strategic Planning. “Within

the Strategic Plan, ‘Changing Lives for the Common Good’ is the vision statement for the Strategic Plan.”

The Strategic Planning Up-date released May 12, 2014 by the Office of the President de-fined “the common good” as “attentive to the interests and well-being of others.”

“By ‘common good,’ we’re thinking in terms of communi-ties out there being better for what those who go through the educational process are able to attain,” Backhus said. “The ‘common good’ thinks of the interest of others in addition to one’s personal benefits.”

The new vision statement was part of the Strategic Plan revision. The Strategic Plan was redrafted for a couple of reasons, according to The Stra-tegic Plan Background Docu-ment draft. One reason listed is the upcoming completion of a 10-year accreditation cycle.

“In addition, the new Uni-versity leadership (President Michael Shonrock and Pro-vost David Cordle) combined with Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) expectations were the complementing circumstance prompting the current stra-tegic planning process,” the document also states.

The Strategic Planning Timeline draft said the plan won’t be officially implement-ed until fall of 2015. However, approval of the continuation of work on the Strategic Plan by the Kansas Board of Regents in June allowed the new vision statement to be used by ESU.

“I think the new vision statement is great,” said Tyler Huddleston, Associated Stu-dent Government president and junior communication and Spanish major. “As a stu-dent, I believe that it is impor-tant that students have

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Police ReportsReports from ESU Police and Safety

Aug. 20Officer contacted the op-

erator of a vehicle parked im-properly in Sector 8 and ad-vised to not back into parking stalls.

Officer stopped a bicyclist in Sector 3. Verbal warning for a one-way violation in same location.

An ambulance responded to Singular/Trusler Complex 2nd floor lobby of Trusler Hall for a male student who was ill. Student refused transporta-tion.

Officer assisted the opera-tor of KS 964EOO in Sector 9. A tree branch had fallen on her vehicle.

A female student requested to speak with an officer at ESU PD HQ in reference to stolen property.

Aug. 21Officer assisted Emporia

Police Dept. with a child in need of care call in 1000 Com-mercial – Family Video.

Officer stopped MO CH-7V9F in Sector 8. Verbal warn-ing for a stop sign violation at 15th and Wooster Dr.

Officer stopped KS 851EMH at 18th and Mer-chant. Citation for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a cross walk in 1500 Merchant.

Officer stopped bicyclist in 10 E 12th. Verbal warning for a one-way violation in 1100 Market.

Officer stopped bicyclist in the Sector 2. Verbal warn-ing for a one-way violation in same location.

Officer stopped MO WJ5J9K in 1600 Highland. Verbal warning for speeding in 1800 Highland. Citation for no proof of insurance.

Officer took report of non-injury accident involving KS 418CDT and ESU parking sign at 1500 Morse Dr.

Officer contacted the oper-ator of KS 076FSX and advised not to park on the grassy area north of I-35.

Officer assisted Lyon Co. deputy with a car stop on I-35 at southbound mile marker 129.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a suspicious person call in 800 Merchant.

Officer provided escort for a female student from 6th and Commercial to 2063 Brandon Ct.

Aug. 22Officer assisted Emporia

Police Dept. with stolen bicy-cle from HPER building. Bike was returned.

Male subject reported an elevator malfunction on 6th Floor of North Tower Towers. Officers released subjects from elevator and shut it down.

Officer stopped KS 238GMB in 1300 Merchant. erbal warning for failing to stop at a red light at 12th and Merchant.

Officer stopped KS 066GVL at 15th and Merchant. Verbal warning for driving without brake lights at the same loca-tion.

Male subject requested to speak with an officer at ESU PD HQ in reference to a park-ing problem.

Officer stopped KS 788GPN in 10 E 12th. Verbal warning for driving with high beams on.

Officer stopped KS 163EDQ at 12th and Merchant. Verbal warning for driving a one-way violation on Kellogg Circle. Citation for no proof of insurance.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a car stop at 12th and Highland.

Aug. 23Officer responded to a re-

port of an electrical problem in Southeast Morse Hall Room 106. Officer contacted Loris Gilbert. He resolved the issue.

Officer contacted the op-erator of a vehicle parked im-properly in 1500 Market and advised to move vehicle to a legal parking space.

Officer contacted two skateboarders in Sector 4 and advised of campus policy.

Officer stopped KS 926GMB in 1200 Highland. Ci-tation for a stop sign violation at 15th and Wooster Dr.

Officer stopped KS 658EEP in 1500 Market. Verbal warn-ing for driving without head-lights.

Aug. 24Officers checked welfare

of a male student sleeping on a bench by the Twin Towers Complex. No problem was found.

Officer stopped MO PL3E7E in 1200 Highland. Ver-bal warning a one-way viola-tion in 1400 Market.

Aug. 25Officer provided escort for

a female student from Student Wellness Center to Newman Regional Health.

Subject reported a theft of a cellular telephone from HPER building. This incident oc-curred sometime earlier on this date. Report taken.

Officer provided escort for a female student from New-man Regional Health to Morse Hall Complex.

Ambulance responded to soccer practice fields for heat related incident. Subject re-fused ambulance and was transported by officer to her job at First Christian Church-12th and Highland.

Screw came out of push bar on door on west side of Singular/Trusler by 15th and Morse Drive door is locked, but needs to be repaired.

Aug. 26Officer stopped KS

281GDW at Sector 1. Verbal warning for a one-way viola-tion.

Officer stopped OK 380FVD at 105 W 12th. Verbal warning for a one-way viola-tion in 1100 Constitution.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a suspicious subject at 12th and C of E Dr.

Officer stopped KS 687FNE in Lot 11. Verbal warning for obstructed windshield.

Officer escorted male sub-ject from Student Wellness Center to Newman Regional Health.

Officer transported male subject from Newman Re-gional Health to the Student Wellness Center.

Resident reported a bat was loose in the hallway of ground floor of Northeast Morse Hall. Officer captured the bat and released it outside the build-ing.

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ASG gears up for new year

Associated Student Gov-ernment held the first meet-ing of the year on Thursday, Aug. 21. The short meeting ad-dressed several matters for the upcoming year and also swore in all current 2014-2015 ASG senators.

Tyler Huddleston, ASG president and junior commu-nication and Spanish major, announced that ASG will be working closely with the Cam-pus and Communication com-mittee to start renaming the streets and pedestrian walk-ways on campus. He also an-nounced that “Can the Bods” will be supporting the initia-tive of the new campus food pantry this year.

Nathan Short, junior the-ater major and a Union Ac-tivities Council representa-tive, said he was thankful to ASG for granting UAC a line-item increase for the first time since 1999. With this increase, campus events for this year include speakers from “The Buried Life” and “Girl Code”

from MTV. There will also be a performance by singer/song-writer Tyler Hilton, as well as discounted tickets for the mid-night premiere of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1.”

The Buried Life is coming to campus Oct. 22, Tyler Hilton on Oct. 27, Girl Code on Nov. 20, and the premiere of “Mock-ingjay” is Nov. 22.

“We’re (Union Activities Council) here to entertain the students, and we are very ex-cited for the great line-up we have this year,” Short said.

President Michael Shon-rock attended the meeting with positive and thankful remarks for this year. He addressed the Campus Master Plan and reac-creditation through the Higher Learning Commission. Every 10 years the university must be accredited through HLC and the university will be in the process of reaccreditation this year.

“Part of the Campus Mas-ter Plan, we are constantly renovating things – King, Cre-mer, and Plumb and also more landscaping improvements on campus. There’s a little of excitement because there are

some building projects down the road as well,” Shonrock said.

Shonrock has given ASG the opportunity to attend the Kansas Leadership Center on Sept. 5.

Victoria Harmon, ASG vice president and junior account-ing major, announced that there are still five senate seats available, three at large, one undecided and one graduate student. Also, this week will be the start of office hours for all ASG members.

A retreat is set for Aug. 29-30 for all ASG members. They will leave at 6 p.m. tomorrow and will return Saturday after-noon.

“We’re taking all the rest of our senate down to Wichita for the retreat, and that’s where we’ll work on the rest of our calendar planning, the initia-tives that we want to talk about throughout the school year and for all of us to get to know each other,” Harmon said.

The next ASG meeting will be at 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 4 in the Senate Chambers on the third floor of the Memo-rial Union.

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The senate members of Associated Student Government stand to take the oath of office Aug. 21. The senate members had to recite the oath after Taylor Kriley, one of the co-advisors of the Associated Student Government. CASSIE HOLT | the Bulletin

experiences in college that further their belief in helping the community. The new vision statement will tell prospective and current students an idea of what Emporia State University is about – fostering vibrant com-munities and exercising adap-tive leadership for the common good.”

The university begsn us-ing “Changing Lives for the Common Good” on some of its

printed material after KBOR ap-prove the progress on the plan, Backhus said, though it might not end up in all departments’ printed goods.

“One would hope that it be-comes something that persons who receives communications from Emporia State University would associate with Empo-ria State University,” Backhus said. “Just as everything doesn’t show up through departments, I can’t answer that. But would I expect the university will have that fingerprint on it.”

Campus will host Second Annual Tie-Dye Run

Runners will have the chance to participate in the Second Annual Tie-Dye run starting at Plumb Hall on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 10 a.m. Participants in the run will be covered in different colors at each kilometer they make pass.

The entry fee for the race is $25 for adults, and $15 for children 12 and under. Registration to place T-shirt orders ends tomorrow, Aug. 29. On-site registration is also accepted.

After the 5K run is complete, participants can take part in the “Color Festival,” where they will be covered in more colored powder. The run is for both first-time 5k runners/walkers and experienced runners who wish to have fun.

The money earned will go to benefit Children’s Champion Network, which helps support Big Brothers Big Sisters, Emporia Child Care and Camp Alexander.

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BizFest tonight in MU Ballroom

The School of Business will host BizFest from 5:30-7:30 p.m. tonight in the Memorial Union Ballroom. The event is for geared toward business majors and students interested in a major or minor in business, but all students are welcome to attend.

At BizFest, students are able to visit booths to receive information about student organiza-tions and events in the school of business. They will supply free pizza. Zoiks! will perform, and there will also be a drawing for prizes. Prizes include an iPad, lunch with the dean of the School of business, Kristie Ogilvie; lunch with Dr. Miller and ESU gear. Students will receive a ticket to enter into the drawing at the door and may receive additional tickets for prizes by visiting booths and documenting their visit using a “passport” given out at the door.

Registration deadlines for intramural leagues approaching

Emporia State will be offering three different intramural leagues this fall. Flag football sign up ends this Saturday, sand volleyball registration ends Tuesday, Sept. 2 and indoor volleyball sign-up ends Tuesday, Oct. 7.

Whitney Slater, assistant director of recreational services, said this is the first intramural sand volleyball league they have had for the past four years.

Following the registration dates, there will be a captain’s meeting for flag football and indoor volleyball on the registration due dates at 5 p.m. The sand volleyball meeting will be Sept. 3 at 6 p.m.

Slater said Sunday sand volleyball will be played four-versus-four on campus at the court next to Morse Hall. Flag football will be played on the intramural fields north of I-35.

Each sport will play three to four games in the regular season, depending on how many teams are entered into the league. After the regular season, there will be a single elimination tournament.

League for flag football begins on Sept. 2, sand volleyball league begins on Sept. 7 and in-door volleyball will begin on Oct. 13.

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Isaiah Shaver, sophomore business marketing major, has not one or two jobs, but three jobs that he plans his classes around.

He is a delivery driver for Jimmy John’s, works as a house boy for Alpha Sigma Alpha and is a life drawing model for the art department – all while also being an Am-bassador for the university.

“I’d say the life drawing model (is my favorite job),” Shaver said. “I’ve always had an interest in modeling and this is probably the clos-est I’ve ever come. I think it’s fun. It’s more challenging than I thought it would be.”

The job of the life drawing model has always been a con-troversial one. Shaver said he doesn’t receive a lot of “hate” about it, at least not to his face. The biggest challenge of the job is the 20- minute increments he has to sit com-pletely still while students draw his figure.

“(I have to go 20 minutes) without falling asleep or moving because your limbs are falling asleep,” Shaver said. “It’s about three hours,

Tuesday/Thursday that I do get a spot.”

While his parents don’t give him financial assistance because of the amount of jobs he has, they don’t seem upset that he poses nude for money.

“I’m guessing they’re fine with it,” Shaver said. “We don’t exactly talk about it. But when it does I guess, come up – they bring it up more than I do, and in no negative ways. It’s a job.”

Shaver also said that if he could, he would work more hours at his modeling job be-cause he likes it so much.

“It was just something I always thought that I’d like to do and I was right,” said Shaver.

Shaver is one of many stu-dents, traditional and non-traditional, who put them-selves through school with multiple jobs. Another stu-dent, Madeline Malley, junior nursing major, has two jobs this fall, but over the summer and last spring, she juggled many jobs like tutoring and coaching a volleyball team to keep herself financially afloat. She is also part

of a sorority.“One of them is to pay for

school and to pay for funds of like rent and tuition, things like that,” Malley said. “But then there’s certain jobs that once I’ve had them, like the retirement home, I don’t need to keep that job but I love working there…it’s like something that I just don’t

want to give up.”Having two siblings who

needed to be supported as well, she decided that it would be easier on her par-ents if she worked to put

herself through school. As a nursing major, she has a lot of expenses – in the past she has spent close to $900 on books alone.

This semester, Malley will work 10-20 hours depending on the week – a slower pace from the 15-30 she worked in the spring. But even once she has money, she won’t stop there.

“Money is so temporary,” Malley said. “Even though I’ve got some financial aid and I’ve worked enough over

the summer and I’ve gotten a few scholarships, that doesn’t mean that my senior year I’m going to have money to or get enough money to not have to work. I look into the future

and I feel like just because I have the money now doesn’t mean I’ll have the money then.”

While she admits she doesn’t have much of a so-cial life, she believes that the down time with her soror-ity sisters she does get is that much sweeter.

“I feel very blessed to be able to receive an educa-tion because not that many people are able to go to col-lege and so school is my main priority,” Malley said. “I do

think it’s worth it, because I have gained so much. Even if it’s just little activities that I’m able to do here and there it makes me appreciate it so much more.”

Another member of Greek life, Joel Young, senior sec-ondary English education major, knows what it’s like to have to work multiple jobs. Young is currently an em-ployee at GNC and a second assistant manager at Sho-eSensation.

“I’ve been working since I was thirteen and had my pa-per route. I think it strength-ens, matures and prepares a person,” Young said. “I also didn’t get enough financial aid this semester, so working is kind of a must right now. Family helps when they can, but sadly we all have bills to pay.”

A member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, he said that a social life does get put on the back-burner.

“If I could work less, I would. But, you do what you need to. I believe life is to enjoy and school is, too. But work also develops a person as I said before,” Young said. “I would definitely work less, just to enjoy the ‘college ex-perience‘ a little more.’ I be-lieve it helps you prepare for life out of college. Balancing out the work (and) life load. Not to mention the groups on campus I’m in. But hey man, life’s good, challenging and never dull.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Dun-can said Thursday that states can apply for extra time before they use student test scores to judge teachers’ performance.

Duncan’s decision is an ac-knowledgement of the concerns by teachers’ unions and others that it’s too early to make teacher personnel decisions based on how well students do on new assess-ments developed under the Com-mon Core standards that will be used in much of the country this school year.

The move affects the more than 40 states and the District of Columbia that have a waiver around stringent parts of the No Left Behind Law. One condition the Obama administration put on obtaining a waiver was the development of a meaningful teacher evaluation system.

“The bottom line is that educators deserve strong sup-port as our schools make vital, and urgently needed, changes,” Duncan said.

There’s been a movement in recent years to end routine “satisfactory”-checked teacher evaluations and replace them with evaluations that better re-flect whether students are actually learning. Evaluations can decide critical issues such as pay, tenure, firings and the awarding of teach-ing licenses.

The administration offered incentives, including the waiv-ers and Race to the Top grant money, which contributed to the shift.

The same incentives also en-couraged the adoption of career and college ready standards, and Common Core fit the bill. The Common Core standards spell out what reading and math skills students should master at each grade and have been adopted by most states.

As the two efforts roll out, it’s created hiccups.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, praised Duncan’s deci-sion.

Multiple jobs keep Hornets busy for school year

Education Department tries to ease testing worries New Obama birth control fixes for religious groups

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to quell a politically charged controversy, the Obama administration announced new measures Friday to allow religious nonprofits and some companies to opt out of paying for birth control for female employees while still ensuring those employ-ees have access to contraception.

Even so, the accommodations may not fully satisfy religious groups who oppose any system that makes them complicit in providing coverage they believe is immoral.

Effective immediately, the U.S. will start allowing faith-affiliated charities, colleges and hospitals to notify the govern-ment — rather than their insur-ers — that they object to birth control on religious grounds.

A previous accommodation offered by the Obama adminis-tration allowed those nonprofits to avoid paying for birth con-trol by sending their insurers a document called Form 700, which transfers responsibility for paying for birth control from

the employer to the insurer. But Roman Catholic bishops and other religious plaintiffs argued just submitting that form was like signing a permission slip to engage in evil.

In a related move, the ad-ministration announced plans to allow for-profit corporations like Hobby Lobby Inc. to start using Form 700. The Supreme Court ruled in June that the govern-ment can’t force companies like Hobby Lobby to pay for birth control, sending the administra-tion scrambling for a way to en-sure their employees can still get birth control one way or another at no added cost.

The dual decisions mark the Obama administration’s latest effort to address a long-running conflict that has pitted the White House against churches and other religious groups. The dispute has sparked dozens of legal challeng-es, fueling an election-year debate about whether religious liberty should trump a woman’s access to health care options.

“Today’s announcement

reinforces our commitment to providing women with access to coverage for contraception, while respecting religious consider-ations raised by nonprofit organi-zations and closely held for-profit companies,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell.

Yet the latest proposals will likely run up against the same ob-jections, because they still enable employees to receive contracep-tion through their health plans — one of a range of preventive services required under President Barack Obama’s health care law.

“We will be studying the new rule with our clients, but if today’s announcement is just a different way for the govern-ment to hijack the health plans of religious ministries, it is unlikely to end the litigation,” said Mark Rienzi, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. The fund has represented both Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College, an evangelical school whose case also made its way to the Supreme Court.

Kansas Democrats rally to support state candidates WICHITA (AP) — Demo-

crat Paul Davis promised Sat-urday to seek bipartisan coop-eration to meet the challenges Kansas faces if he is elected governor, saying party labels re-ally shouldn’t matter.

In his campaign to unseat Republican Gov. Sam Brown-back, the Democratic candidate has already drawn endorsements from more than 100 current and former elected GOP leaders, and Davis told the crowd at the Kan-sas Democratic Party’s annual Demofest convention in Wichita that there will be more.

“The bipartisan coalition that this campaign has built is truly unprecedented,” Davis said.

Brownback is facing an unexpectedly tough re-election race because of questions about whether his tax cuts are boost-ing the economy as promised or wrecking the state’s finances. A second major bond-rating agen-cy earlier this month downgrad-ed its credit rating for Kansas, undermining Brownback’s effort

to tout an economic comeback as he kicks off a fall re-election campaign after a narrower-than-expected GOP primary win.

Davis told Democrats that Brownback’s failed experiment has led to higher property and sales taxes, increased college tuition and a downgraded credit rating as the state faces a budget deficit of more than $1 billion over the next five years.

“We cannot undo this mess overnight, but we can restore common sense leadership,” Davis said.

Brownback spokesman John Milburn said Saturday in response that Davis has bought into President Barack Obama’s agenda and contended that an analysis of Davis’ plan shows it would result in income tax increases. Davis had previously proposed freezing the tax cuts in place in January 2015, in-definitely postponing more than half of the total cuts scheduled through mid-2018.

“He is completely out of

touch with Kansas,” Milburn said of the Democratic candi-date.

Before his address, Davis told The Associated Press that his party in Kansas needs not just Democratic voters but also independent and Republican supporters, and his campaign is focusing its resources on iden-tifying those voters and getting them out the polls in November.

Breaking down traditional party lines was a recurring topic with other candidates at the con-vention as the Democrats reach out to independents and mod-erate Republicans to overcome the nearly 20-percentage point advantage in voter registration that Republicans have in Kansas.

Chad Taylor, the Democrat trying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, said his cam-paign can win the Senate seat — if it can keep its Democratic base and draw 8 percent of indepen-dents and moderate Republican voters in the November general election.

The GOP has won every U.S. Senate race in Kansas since 1932.

Roberts, 78, is seeking his fourth, six-year term in the Nov. 4 general election after emerg-ing from a bruising primary race with tea party challenger Milton Wolf. Taylor is the Shawnee County district attorney.

Greg Orman, co-founder of a Kansas City-area business capital and management services com-pany, is running as an indepen-dent candidate campaigning on the promise of bipartianship.

“He is taking more Republi-cans from Pat Roberts than he is me,” Taylor said of his indepen-dent opponent.

But that assertion drew a sharp rebuke from Orman campaign manager Jim Jones, who said in an email that replac-ing one partisan one partisan in Congress with another partisan serves no purpose, and Orman, like many Kansans, believes that electing independent problem solvers is the only way to fix the

mess in Washington.“Any suggestion that votes

belong to any party is simply ar-rogant,” Jones said. “They belong to the voters of Kansas, and Greg’s receiving support from Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike.”

Orman has said in the past that if he is elected as an Inde-pendent, he’d caucus with either party if it had a majority. That raises doubts for some commit-ted Republicans, who are hungry for a GOP majority in the Sen-ate to stymie Obama during his last two years in office.

Roberts’ campaign manager Leroy Towns called Orman an “opportunist” who wants to hide his liberal Democratic back-ground with an independent label and noted he is already drawing public support from Kansas Democrats.

“As a true Democrat, Orman will be rejected by Republicans and he will continue to compete with Chad Taylor for Democrat votes,” Towns said.

Madeline Malley, junior nursing major, begins her first day back as an admissions tele-counselor Wednesday afternoon in Memorial Union. Malley began her job here on campus last Spring to help pay her bills in addition to working at a retirement home as a weekend administration service assistant. JENNIFER PENDAARVIS| the Bulletin

Think about your eight-year-old self.

What were you like? Were you the same as you are now, with the same personality, same interests or beliefs? Now take a look at yourself.

The other day my friend came to me to vent about how he thinks he has changed too much from the person he used to be – the free spirit he enjoyed being with no worries about his future, the world around him or his trust in others. He noted how he has moved away from his previous personality to his present self and felt some form

of regret about it. This forced me to meditate

on what kind of person I used to be and brought forth the real-ization about how much I have changed over a period of time. People are always changing, they are never the same person they were a week, a month, a year ago. We are like a page in a book, when we are done with one, we turn to another.

Times change and so must we. As we get older, we learn about the world, about each other, but we seem to have forgotten what kind of people we used to be. We’ve forgotten

about our whimsical fascina-tion with the world around us and forget how to see the magic in every day.

We pass through moments in our lives like scenes in a film, and that’s good, we have to keep going just as long as we remember who we used to be. We no longer need our silly beliefs in magic and supersti-tion because, now, we can hold ourselves up.

The saying, “People don’t change” is false. One may make mistakes, but that’s part of being human. We learn and move past our failures and

regrets to form a more complete version of ourselves.

An individual should never want to be a past version of him or herself. No right-minded human being would ever trade out a newer version of com-puter software for a version that is five years its elder.

Embrace your present self and look forward to your future you. As you move forward, always remember the different people you were because they’re still you. The new you is coming and it’s going to be a whopper. Make it a good one.

The Bulletin | Aug. 28, 2014

“Oh, you go to Emporia State? So you’re studying to be a teacher, right?”

Most students on ESU’s campus have heard this countless times, and they will hear it another countless times.

Though some students are, in fact, going to school to become a teachers, the teach-ing program is astounding and widely known for being so, ESU does more than just produce teachers from the front doors of Visser Hall.

ESU also has a magnifi-cent business school that is internationally accredited and provides internships for its students (not that other departments don’t). We have

a great psychology program, music program, nursing pro-gram and even more to offer students who do not have an interest in teaching.

The fact that those who do not attend ESU assume that all of our students are future teachers is wrong. ESU does put a lot of emphasis on its teaching program, so much so that it has caused other degrees, like the Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, to be cut while the university keeps the Bachelor of Science Education part of the pro-gram.

We need to divert some of our attention as a university from teaching and broaden our focus to the other pro-

grams that seem to be dying off like a severed limb from a tree. If we solely focus on a single program, the rest of the college will starve. There will be nothing but teachers here soon.

We are widely known for our teaching program, and that is exciting, but it would be nice to be known for more than being good at one thing. Get the word out that ESU of-fers a variety of other classes and programs for those who aren’t interested in teaching.

Pull some, not all, focus off of teaching and place it into other areas. The uni-versity should be known for everything it does – not just teaching.

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When the Nest Overflows

The Undergraduate Graduate

At Emporia State, we are able to enjoy breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the Hornets Nest.

But lately, I’ve found it dif-ficult to enjoy my meals, due to the cafeteria being filled to capacity.

As a sophomore on-campus ESU resident, I have had the luxury of having my meals prepared by the Sodexo food service in the Hornets Nest. But what once was an orderly, well-structured service has become a chaotic environment, where the students descend like vul-tures fighting for the last piece of pizza.

ESU has experienced a great increase in student enrollment and changes are being made to accommodate our growing population, but we should also focus our attention on provid-ing a space where we may enjoy a meal without being trampled on.

The Hornets Nest is a great facility, modern in its overall design and aesthetic appeal,

but, despite that it’s a nice place to eat, it is simply too small.

Busiest at noon and five p.m., students crowd into the cafeteria, rushing in front of each other to reach the hot foods first. I’ve even seen students stand while they eat because they couldn’t find a place to sit, some even resort to dining outside in the scorching heat.

The Hornets Nest needs to be enlarged or a temporary space needs to be provided until such changes can be made to accommodate when traffic is greatest.

Help make our cafeteria a better place to eat and converse by inviting others to sit with you if they are alone, saving a table for another group of stu-dents.

Graduate school is hard.Not only is it hard, but it’s

even harder when you’re still an undergraduate student – which I am. I’m currently both a graduate and undergraduate student at Emporia State.

The decision to get a head start on graduate classes stemmed from the fact that I thought I only had three credits before graduation. I get antsy when I have too much free time on my hands, so picking up some master’s level classes was just going to be an added bonus.

In reality, I discovered that I have seven undergraduate hours to complete my degree. But I’m still taking two gradu-ate level classes so I won’t get behind.

Walking into my first gradu-ate class this semester, I was ter-rified. Everyone looked so much older, knowledgeable and con-fused as to why this baby-faced blonde was sitting in the class. To make matters worse, I have an extreme phobia of speaking in class. That’s basically what

grad school is – intellectual dis-cussion between colleagues and classmates in class.

After class, I realized that it wasn’t as horrendous as I thought it was going to be. The beauty of graduate school that I’ve learned so far is that it’s a place of thought. Never before in college have I thought as crit-ically and deeply as I have so far in my graduate career. And I’ve only been in these classes for two weeks.

Graduate students have the ability to explore original thought and even surprise their professors. They’re not afraid to commit to projects that some may consider irrelevant. You never know what underesti-mated research is going to lead to the next epiphany.

I like the fact that we’re held to higher standards than under-graduate students. I like the fact that we are expected to get knee-deep into our assignments and brave the unknown. For the majority of our academic lives, we’ve been forced to learn and think in whatever way teachers

deem appropriate. Graduate school gives us the opportunity to break free from that mold.

One thing I have learned is that almost everyone else in the graduate program also feels like they have imposter’s syn-drome. Everyone’s got it. And that’s one of the biggest com-forts in grad school. I was sur-prised to find out that others felt like they didn’t belong, either. But you have to learn to fake it.

Sure, graduate school is hard. But that’s the way it should be.

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The Great Plains Trio, also known as Emporia State’s faculty string trio, performed two large scale works, “Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas” by Astor Piazzolla and “Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49” by Felix Mendelssohn last Satur-day at Heath Recital Hall.

“The first year we did the second trio, (“Mendelssohn’s Trio No 2. in C minor”) so this time we did the first one, which is much more well-known,” said Jeremy Starr, assistant professor of music and violin player in the trio.

The group had played all four of the Piazzolla seasons, just not all in one concert.

“Now we decided to per-form all four,” Starr said. “It’s kind of like we’re completing ourselves.”

The Great Plains Trio was founded in 1976 at ESU and performed together for 21 years before disbanding in 1997. The current trio has been playing since 2012, per-forming about four concerts per season. The group fea-tures ESU music instructors Starr; Susan Mayo, celloist and cello instructor and Mar-tin Cuellar, pianist and pro-fessor of piano.

“Their personalities really blossom on stage,” said Sarah Harrington, junior music per-formance major.

Over the summer, the trio traveled outside of the Empo-ria area to Paraguay.

“There is a nationwide or-ganization called Partners of America that partners Ameri-

can states with Latin Ameri-can countries to facilitate ex-changes, cultural, business (and) what not,” Mayo said. “Kansas is partnered with Paraguay.”

Mayo and Starr traveled to Paraguay last year to play some duo programs and do master program classes with students. As a result, they were invited back to play the Beethoven Triple Concerto this past summer.

While they were there, they worked with youth or-chestras. There are several programs in both rural and urban parts of Paraguay for kids.

“Everybody is so involved and so happy to be a part of this. They have huge wait-ing lists in order to get into these orchestras so if you’re in there, it’s a big deal,” Mayo said. “(The kids) prac-tice from when they get out of school at three until ten every single night… The current conductor of the L.A. Phil-harmonic is a product of that system.”

In the future, the Trio hopes their involvement in Paraguay will lead to stu-dents from those orchestra programs coming to ESU.

“We have a program here that’s called a performer’s certificate, where you can come for a year and study in-tensive English and just take music classes,” Mayo said.

The Great Plains Trio will perform the Beethoven Triple Concerto they played in Para-guay with the Emporia Sym-phony Orchestra on Saturday, Nov. 15 in Albert Taylor Hall.

WICHITA (AP) — Demo-crat Paul Davis promised Sat-urday to seek bipartisan coop-eration to meet the challenges Kansas faces if he is elected governor, saying party labels really shouldn’t matter.

In his campaign to un-seat Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, the Democratic candidate has already drawn endorsements from more than 100 current and former elected GOP leaders, and Davis told the crowd at the Kansas Democratic Party’s annual Demofest convention in Wichita that there will be more.

“The bipartisan coalition that this campaign has built is truly unprecedented,” Davis said.

Brownback is facing an unexpectedly tough re-elec-tion race because of questions about whether his tax cuts are boosting the economy as promised or wrecking the state’s finances. A second ma-jor bond-rating agency ear-lier this month downgraded its credit rating for Kansas, undermining Brownback’s effort to tout an economic comeback as he kicks off a fall re-election campaign after a narrower-than-expected GOP primary win.

Davis told Democrats that Brownback’s failed experi-ment has led to higher prop-erty and sales taxes, increased college tuition and a down-graded credit rating as the state faces a budget deficit of more than $1 billion over the next five years.

“We cannot undo this mess overnight, but we can restore

common sense leadership,” Davis said.

Brownback spokesman John Milburn said Saturday in response that Davis has bought into President Barack Obama’s agenda and con-tended that an analysis of Davis’ plan shows it would result in income tax increases. Davis had previously pro-posed freezing the tax cuts in place in January 2015, indefi-nitely postponing more than half of the total cuts sched-uled through mid-2018.

“He is completely out of touch with Kansas,” Milburn said of the Democratic candi-date.

Before his address, Davis told The Associated Press that his party in Kansas needs not just Democratic voters but also independent and Repub-lican supporters, and his cam-paign is focusing its resources on identifying those voters and getting them out the polls in November.

Breaking down traditional party lines was a recurring topic with other candidates at the convention as the Demo-crats reach out to indepen-dents and moderate Repub-licans to overcome the nearly 20-percentage point advan-tage in voter registration that Republicans have in Kansas.

Chad Taylor, the Democrat trying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, said his campaign can win the Sen-ate seat — if it can keep its Democratic base and draw 8 percent of independents and moderate Republican vot-ers in the November general election.

The Great Plains Trio performs in Heath Recital Hall in Beach Hall at 7 p.m., Aug. 23 in Heath Recital Hall. NICHOLAS SUMNER | The BulleTin

Jeremy Starr, head of string studies at ESU, gives the introduction to the Great Plains Trio concert Saturday night. Dr. Martin Cuellar on piano, Dr. Jeremy Starr on violin, and Dr. Susan Mayo on cello performed in Heath Recital Hall on Aug. 23. NICHOLAS SUMNER | The BulleTin

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at a few locations, but the main areas being considered are Fremont Park and the 1200 block of Whildon Street, according to Boettcher.

“Luckily, we have a group like that willing to work with us because they understand how this would impact the community very positively,” Woods said.

Woods and McHenry agreed an Amtrak would benefit the community greatly. Both said economic growth accompanies a pas-senger train in rural areas.

“People want to live close to it, that way if they just want to jump on the train, they can,” Woods said. “And then business can pop up and take can advantage of the individuals riding. Res-taurants, retailers – there are some communities in Mis-souri where antique shops have made a pretty decent living being close to passen-ger rails because people just hop off the train to go antiqu-

ing.”The Amtrak would also

benefit those without driv-er’s licenses, such as retirees, international students and teens, McHenry said.

“They need a way to get around too,” he said.

The International Depart-ment at Emporia State also supports the addition of an Amtrak because of the bene-fit for international students.

“In great numbers, our international students come from countries where pub-lic transportation is sophis-ticated and widely avail-able,” said Gonzalo Bruce,

dean of International Educa-tion.

“Students depend on public transportation to commute within their own city and reach other metro areas. While Emporia offers many great advantages to international students (chief among which are affordabil-ity, friendliness and safety), public transportation is not one of them.”

McHenry encouraged stu-dents to go to the Amtrak Task Force’s monthly meet-ings. He may be contacted at 785-220-9920 or pastoran-drew70@yahoo.com.

The Amtrak train actually travels through Emporia twice a day and just doesn’t stop here because we don’t have a passenger rail

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Students admire their newly tie-dyed apparel after the water balloon fight Aug. 25. Organizations filled up many balloons with tie-dye color to assist students to making colorful clothing. KATHRYN MARTIN | The BulleTin

The Bulletin | Aug. 28, 2014HORNET LIFE6

Students cool off Tuesday, Aug. 26 with a slip ‘n slide on the hill by the Student Recreation. The slide was set up by the Student Foundation. MAN XU | The BulleTin

Over 200 students crowded around Wooster Lake to play games, eat free food and relax at Wooster Wipeout last Saturday.

“We are really working on including and being more inconclusive about our inten-tions on campus so that people will know it’s not just for black people – it’s for everyone,” said Paige Hicks, senior sociol-ogy major and president of the Black Student Union.

There was a wide variety of games including canoeing, soccer, a bean bag toss, sand volleyball, badminton and ladders. All who participated in the canoe rides were required to sign a release form and wear a life jacket while on the water.

“(My favorite thing was) canoeing. It was a new, fun and scary experience all at the same time,” said Alaxandra Ricks, sophomore crime and delin-quency major.

This year, in order to provide free food along with games, the Black Student Union com-bined the BSU barbeque, which had previously been hosted at Hammond Park, with the Wooster Wipeout.

“Last year, I think a lot of people really didn’t know about it and they didn’t know how to get to it, “ said Tiara Jones, senior rehabilitation services major and education chair for the Black Student Union. “So (Wooster) is more of a central location just so that when people are walking by they can get some food and play games.”

While some students went to canoe or play a game of sand volleyball, others stayed for the food. Cameron Reynolds, soph-omore theater major and Joel Bowers, sophomore English major took advantage of the opportunity to get a meal for free.

“We were going to go to the caf but we saw the food so we stopped to see what was going on,” Reynolds said.

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Wet n’ Wild

Performing a dance routine, graduate students Marqueita Marisette and Brittany Riggs represent Zeta Phi Beta at Wooster Wipeout Aug. 23. The routine was to welcome students to the year during the Wooster Wipe-out hosted by the Black Student Union. BRITTANY COLLINS| The BulleTin

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University is con-sidering a 20-year, multimillion-dollar proposal to add up to 20 new buildings and increase the size of the campus by about 50 percent.

The plan would cost hun-dreds of millions of dollars, with much of the money coming from the private sector or donations, along with some state funding, The Wichita Eagle reported (http://bit.ly/1oSKAGl ).

The first project would be a $43 million “Experiential Build-ing,” followed by a new busi-ness school and an Innovation Center, with an estimated cost of $70 million. Other parts of the 20-year plan include residence halls, a hotel, another student center and amenities such as ponds, walking paths and apartments for senior citizens who want to live on a college campus.

Wichita State President John Bardo said he couldn’t say what the total cost of the project

would be, or how high student fees would be increased.

He has outlined the plan to the Kansas Board of Regents, state legislators, business leaders, the

Wichita Chamber of Com-merce and city and county development officials. On Friday, he met with

Wichita State faculty and staff.

Bardo wants to break ground in January on an “experiential engineering” building, which he said would provide labs and offices filled with entrepre-neurs, students and researchers. They would be connected with business partners, and feature high-tech 3-D printers, plasma cutters, high-tech lathes and lasers.

“So many businesses now, instead of doing research and development in-house, are finding that partnerships are more cost effective with univer-sities and sometimes even with other companies,” he said.

Wichita State considering major expansion

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The husband of an Ohio middle school teacher was among those expected to testify Tuesday at a court hearing about a rock-dropping incident on a stretch of rural interstate in Pennsylvania last month that left the woman with severe head injuries.

The preliminary hearing at the county courthouse in Lewisburg involves the crimi-nal case against four teenag-ers who are accused of a July 10 crime spree that included dropping a rock onto the car in which 52-year-old Sharon Budd was riding.

Budd’s husband, Randy, said Monday there are indica-tions she may be recovering some sight in her left eye, as she has been blinking and opening it for short periods, and that her ability to communicate also has been improving.

She was moved to a rehabil-itation hospital two weeks ago.

“She’s not really putting together sentences, but if you ask her, ‘are you comfortable,’ ‘are you cold, warm,’ she’ll answer questions, usually with a head nod,” he said.

Surgeons plan procedures in the coming weeks to remove her right eye and install a tem-

porary plate to protect her brain, he said.

Investigators last week revised the criminal charges against Dylan M. Lahr, 17; Brett M. Lahr, 18; Tyler Gregory Porter, 18; and Keefer Lance McGee, 17. They are accused of the attack on Sharon Budd, another rock-throwing inci-dent, driving vehicles through a cornfield and breaking a home’s window with a base-ball bat.

The four face adult charges of aggravated assault, con-spiracy, trespassing, propelling missiles into occupied vehicles, agricultural vandalism and reckless endangerment. Their lawyers declined to comment or did not return phone mes-sages.

Union County District Attorney Pete Johnson said Monday he expected at least one of the four to go through with the preliminary hearing, and that Randy Budd was likely to testify for the prosecu-tion. At preliminary hearings, prosecutors have a lower stan-dard than they do to get a con-viction, and need to produce only enough evidence to send the charges to county court for trial.

The updated police affidavit

states Porter told investigators he threw a rock from the Inter-state 80 overpass but did not hit anything. But a rock thrown by Dylan Lahr hit a passenger vehicle that then pulled off the road, Porter told police, accord-ing to the affidavit.

The Budds were passengers in a Nissan Rogue driven by their college student daughter, on their way from their home in Uniontown, Ohio, to see a show in New York, when the rock smashed through the windshield and nearly killed Sharon.

Randy Budd said his wife probably does not yet realize what occurred.

“We’re not having conver-sations with her — they’re not two-way,” he said. “But she does seem like she knows what’s going on around her, or the people around her. She’s just so, to me, loving and smiling. We ask if she’s in pain, she says ‘no’ all the time.”

He said a teacher at her school sent him a photo on Monday of faculty members wearing pink T-shirts that expressed their support for her, and there are plans to honor her during a high school foot-ball game scheduled for later this month.

Rock-throwing that injured teacher goes to courtMESA, Ariz. (AP) — Inside

a nondescript garage-like workshop nestled between restaurants, a flower shop and jewelry stores along Main Street, ideas are taking shape.

At HeatSync Labs, the tables are littered with computer chips, pens, pads and tools while the room is abuzz with the chatter of would-be inventors hoping to change the world — or just make cool things. They are part of a growing global move-ment of so-called hackerspaces. “It’s all about sharing what we know with one another,” said Mitch Altman, 57, founder of a similar setup in San Francisco called Noisebridge. “It’s cen-tered around community and education and a place where people do what they love doing and hopefully make a living from it.” The idea began to take shape in the U.S. after Altman and other Americans attended a 2007 computing conference in Germany where panelists spoke of their own hacker-spaces. Altman returned home, met with fellow tinkerers, rented a space for Noisebridge the next year. “I didn’t want it to end,” he said. At the same time, similar workshops were opening up across the country — NYC Resistor in New York, Hack DC in Washington, and The Hacktory in Philadelphia — while dozens more have

popped up since. More than 1,600 are now operating around the world, according to hacker-spaces.org, a website dedicated to the effort.

At HeatSync, which opened in 2009, Larry Campbell, 49, is working on a nuclear fusion chamber, while Ryan McDer-mott, 27, tinkers with an elec-tric keyboard programmed to make the colors dance on an LED strip in preparation for Nevada’s annual Burning Man alternative arts festival.

Campbell, a network engi-neer, hopes his device will “change the universe” by turning hydrogen atoms into helium.

McDermott, who works in information technology, has more modest plans for his key-board.

“Anybody that I’ve shown this thing immediately wants to play with it and touch it and make the colors dance and things like that,” McDermott said. “That’s the fun thing for me: getting people’s reaction out of it.” While many projects in hackerspaces are done as hobbies or just for the challenge, some have been turned into multimillion-dollar products. The MakerBot, for example, was created by a tinkerer at NYC Resistor and is now one of the most well-known 3D print-ers on the market.

Hackerspaces help techies turn ideas into reality

The Bulletin | Aug. 28, 2014 NEWS 7Student Foundation celebrates class gift

To celebrate the 2014 senior class gift, the Student Founda-tion provided “breakfast at the bench,” at 7:30 a.m. this past Monday.

“We chose donuts be-cause we did ‘breakfast at the bench,’” said Jordan Foutch, junior information systems major.

Student Foundation set up their station at about 7:30 a.m. and stayed until 9 giving away free donuts.

“I was just walking by and saw the free donuts, so I stopped to see what was going on,” said Dalton Wheat, junior business management major. “The bench looks pretty good.”

Students had the opportu-nity to stop by the bench and grab a donut provided by So-dexo.

“I love things like this that help campus out,” said Jordan Cook, freshman Spanish and pre-medical major.

Senior gifts, like the bench, come from Hornet Nation funds.

“We do a T-shirt every year – the Hornet Nation T-shirt,” Foutch said. “The students and alumni buy that Y-shirt, and all

that money goes straight back into senior class gifts and our student emergency assistance fund.”

The gift this year is of a bench with the words “I’m a Hornet!” engraved into the back. It is located at the conver-gence of six sidewalks between Plumb Hall and the Veteran’s Hall entrance of the Memorial Union.

“We decided on the bench from the (Campus) Master Plan,” Foutch said. “The first year we were doing the Stu-

dent Foundation, we wanted to put in a bench and it didn’t come together, so we’ve been planning this for a while.”

Other senior gifts have been benches placed all around campus, as well as parts of the fountain at the south entrance of campus.

“We picked this design from President Shonrock and his master plan,” Foutch said. “We walked around campus and picked a location and we did a couple of designs and just voted on it.”

Josie Rozell, freshman secondary English education major, reaches for a donut at “Breakfast at the Bench” on Monday, Aug. 28 in front of the Me-morial Union. The bench was donated by Student Foundation in honor of the Class of 2014. AMANDA GOERING | The BulleTin

With their “stingers up,” Josie Rozell, freshman secondary English educa-tion major, and Jordan Cook, freshman Spanish and pre-med major, pose as two of the first students to sit on the new bench.AMANDA GOERING | The BulleTin

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has reached a $16.65 billion settlement with Bank of America over its role in the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the financial crisis, the Justice De-partment announced Thurs-

day.The deal calls for the bank,

the second-largest in the U.S., to pay a $5 billion cash penalty, another $4.6 billion in reme-diation payments and provide about $7 billion in relief to struggling homeowners.

The settlement is by far the largest deal the Justice Depart-ment has reached with a bank over the 2008 mortgage melt-down. In the last year, JPM-organ Chase & Co. agreed to a $13 billion settlement while Citigroup reached a separate

$7 billion deal.At a news conference, Attor-

ney General Eric Holder said the bank and its Countrywide and Merrill Lynch subsidiar-ies had “engaged in pervasive schemes to defraud financial institutions and other inves-tors” by misrepresenting the soundness of mortgage-backed securities. The penalties, Hold-er said, go “far beyond the cost of doing business.”

According to one example laid out by the government, Bank of America knew that a significant number of loans packaged into $850 million in securities were experiencing a marked increase in underwrit-ing defects. Notwithstanding the red flags, the bank sold these residential mortgage-backed securities to federally backed financial institutions, the government said in a 30-page statement of facts that is part of the settlement.

In California, Countrywide concealed from investors the company’s use of “shadow guidelines” that permitted loans to riskier borrowers than Countrywide’s underwriting guidelines would otherwise al-low, according to the statement of facts.

In addition, over a period of years, “Countrywide and Bank of America unloaded toxic mortgage loans on the govern-ment sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with false representations that the loans were quality invest-ments,” said Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York.

The government said the civil settlement, the largest reached with a single entity, does not release individuals from civil charges, nor does it absolve Bank of America, its current or former subsidiar-ies and affiliates or any indi-viduals from potential criminal prosecution.

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said in a statement that the company believes the settlement “is in the best inter-ests of our shareholders and al-lows us to continue to focus on the future.”

The bank said in a filing Thursday that the deal will likely reduce its third-quarter pretax earnings by $5.3 billion, or about 43 cents a share after taxes. Bank of America, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, had already had its second-quarter earnings hit by litiga-tion costs related to mortgage

securities cases. Its net income of $2 billion in April-June was down 43 percent from $3.6 bil-lion a year earlier.

Of the $16.65 billion the bank is paying in the settle-ment, almost $10 billion will be paid to settle federal and state civil claims by entities related to residential mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and other types of fraud.

An independent monitor will determine whether Bank of America is satisfying its ob-ligations under the settlement.

“In the run-up to the finan-cial crisis, Merrill Lynch bought more and more mortgage loans, packaged them together and sold them off in securities — even when the bank knew a substantial number of those loans were defective,” said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, whose jurisdiction covers New Jersey.

“The failure to disclose known risks undermines in-vestor confidence in our fi-nancial institutions,” Fishman added.

The Bank of America settle-ment will resolve allegations that the bank and companies it later bought misrepresented the quality of loans they sold to investors. Most of the prob-lem loans were sold by Coun-trywide Financial and Merrill Lynch before Bank of America bought them during the 2008 financial crisis.

Consumer advocates say previous settlements show that the amounts announced in en-forcement actions can overstate their actual costs to the compa-nies being penalized.

In the deal with JPMor-gan in November, the Justice Department had a clear mes-sage for homeowners: Billions of dollars’ worth of help was coming. Holder at the time described the appointment of an independent monitor who would distribute $4 billion set aside for homeowner relief.

The actual relief is more complicated than cash hand-outs, however.

Both Citigroup and JPM-organ earn credits under the settlement from a “menu” of different consumer-friendly activities, according to settle-ment documents. The options are effectively an update of the consumer relief previously provided through the national mortgage servicing settlement, a 2012 deal between state at-torneys general and the major banks.

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As the temperature outside pushes triple digits, the walk to class feels more like a stroll threw an oven.

But that does not stop Emporia State athletics from hitting the field, track or court.

Yesterday, an 18-year-old football player from Morgan State died of heat stroke during football practice and as the Kansas heat continues to bear down on everybody, athletes need to be especially careful, said Leslie Kenney, athletic trainer.

Even though Kenney has not had any heat related cases this year, she said it has been a problem in the past.

“We have had a number of mild cases and every once in awhile we get a bad case, but we have never had one that was life threating,” Kenney said. “Prevention is our biggest thing to combat the heat. We try to education and help student athletes monitor themselves better.”

The NCAA implemented guidelines concerning heat back in 2003 after the last heat stoke death, but these guidelines only call for severe weather monitoring with routine hydration breaks.

The heat can be especially challenging for those who are not used to the Kansas climate. Amelie Heun, fresh-man midfielder on the soccer team, has been fight-ing the climate change since her transfer from Kronberg, Germany earlier this year.

“It is a big change,” Heun said. “I try to drink a bottle of water as soon as I wake up to make practice easier. It is especially tough when we practice on the turf and you can feel the heat coming up through your shoes.

In response the recent heat wave, Bryan Sailer, head women’s soccer coach, has moved some of his practices to 6 a.m. to give his players a break from the heat.

“We have to play in it – that’s the thing,” Sailer said. “They are not going to cancel a game because of the heat, so we have to learn to play in it. This means we have to genu-inely be used to it. It helps (that) our medical staff is very good and will rule on the side

of safety.”No sport seems safe from

the heat. Even the volley-ball team practicing in White Auditorium has dealt with the temperature. Fans lined the stage while temperatures

in the gym pushed 80 degrees.Whether if it’s a student

athlete or a fan attending events on a hot day, Kenney said the most important thing to do is to come prepare and stay hydrated.

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Athletes Heatin’ UpAdam Schiltz, former

Emporia State tight end, was cut from the Kansas City Chiefs last Monday. Schiltz was one of 10 players cut from the roster this week.

Schiltz has made appear-ances in three Chiefs games this season but was listed as the fifth end on rosters. The team recently cut the roster down to 53, only keeping three tight ends.

In an interview with The Emporia Gazette, Schiltz said he was not too disap-pointed with the cut.

“You never know where it’s going to go,” Schiltz said. “Last year, I got cut from the Texans and I got picked up by the Titans. You just never know where things are going to go.”

Schiltz was cut in the last round. He said he plans on waiting to see if something happens before moving on.

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Lindsay Caudra, junior distance runner, stretches over hurdles to prepare for practice Aug, 26. The cross country team’s first meet is Sept. 6 in Augusta. Rocky Robinson | The BulleTin

After only losing two guys to graduation, the Emporia State men’s and women’s cross country teams has added 11 new runners to their roster for the fall season. Four girls, all true freshman and seven guys, six freshmen and one junior college transfer will join the returners.

Blocker hopes the depth added to the team will stir up some friendly competi-tion among the runners for the ten meet spots.

“We really worked toward bringing some depth this season,” said Steve Blocker, head track coach. “We have a large group of developing ath-letes that love to run.”

The Hornets will run their first meet, the JK Gold Classic hosted by Wichita State, Sept. 6. Due to the Fall Sports Festival, Blocker said the season will be extended by a couple weeks, but the schedule looks similar to last years.

“Everybody that runs cross country also does indoor track and field, so an extended season doesn’t affect us like other sports,” Blocker said. “These ath-letes compete from August until May, so they are always ready.”

Practice started Aug. 15 for the team. The only ESU home meet will be held at 5 p.m. Sept. 26 at Jones Park. Blocker expects another large turnout, with over 20 teams competing.

Eric Pruitt, junior offensive line; Dylan Hall, freshman offensive line and Danny Goodman, senior offensive line, bury their head in the wa-ter cooler during a practice in last Tuesday’s heat. Athletic training staff monitor players for signs of heat exhaustion. ROCKY ROBINSON | The BulleTin

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Zak King, former Emporia State kicker, has been hired as the new director of Athletic Operations and Event Manage-ment at Emporia State and is preparing for his first big event with the first home football game Sept 4.

King, who worked under the previous event manager, Luke Kriley, last year, started the job July 6 and will be in charge of game day operations for all Emporia athletic events. King does everything from hiring ball boys to making sure ushers help fans find their seats.

“I have stayed in touch with Luke Kriley and when I found out about him leaving, I saw it as an opportunity. When the

job actually came up, I thought why not pursue it,” King said.

McKenzie Cinelli, director of athletic marking, spends her days working beside King pre-paring for game day events.

“We work together in terms of planning and preparing for different events. He just does more of the actual on field things while I focus on the pro-motional aspect,” Cinelli said.

King said he had never thought about a career in ath-letic administration until he landed the event management position at ESU and plans to get his masters in AD while here. He was looking at a teaching position in Emporia before he was hired.

Kent Wiser, current athletic director, said King’s experience with the position made him more than qualified.

“It was a very good pool,” Wiser said. “We interviewed

him and two other guys… All three of them were qualified and good but knowing his work ethic on campus and on the team made him stand out.”

King, as a former kicker on the ESU football team, went 40-40 in point after touchdowns his senior year and was 6-11 in field goal attempts. His wife, Brooke King also works for the school as an admissions coun-selor.

After his graduation in December 2013, King spent a semester working with special needs students at Emporia Middle School.

King said he plans on staying in Emporia for the near future.

“He (Wiser) would be some big shoes to fill, but it would be awesome if I were given the opportunity for the athletic director position,” King said.

After four years of contribut-ing to ESU on the field, King’s

work will still be seen every home game.

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Zak King, Former Hornet football kicker and ESU alumni, was hired as the new director of athletic operations and event management. King graduated last December and began his duties in July. COURTESY PHOTO

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals con-jured up a little more late-game magic Wednesday night.

This time, they didn’t wait until the ninth inning.

Shut down most of the night by the Twins’ Phil Hughes, the Royals finally broke through with six runs in the eighth. Nori Aoki drove in the go-ahead run, and Billy Butler and Salva-dor Perez each drove in a pair during the surge, sending the Royals to a 6-1 victory.

“That’s kind of who we are,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “We’re a team that plays with a lot of heart, with a lot of energy and a lot of passion.”

In the series opener, the Royals were shut out until the ninth inning, when Alex Gordon hit a two-run homer for a 2-1 win. This time, it was a series of bloopers and infield singles that gave Kansas City the offense it needed in the waning innings.

“We’re just living on a high right now,” said Jarrod Dyson, whose bunt single scored the tying run. “We’re going out and having fun and playing like we’re 5 years old.”

Wade Davis (8-2) pitched a perfect eighth for the win,

helping the Royals extend their lead over Detroit to 2 1/2 games in the AL Central. They have won 11 of their past 13 at home.

Minnesota has lost four straight and eight of 11 overall.

“We’ve scored two runs in two games here,” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. “That’s not going to win very many games.”

The Royals’ big rally began when Raul Ibanez led off the eighth with a blooper to right, and Mike Moustakas beat out an infield hit with a dive to first base. Two batters later, Dyson’s bunt allowed pinch runner Lorenzo Cain to slide home and knot the game 1-1.

Aoki followed with a slicing single to left field to give the Royals the lead, and Butler and Perez added four more runs with two well-timed hits to provide plenty of cushion.

“I can remember prob-ably two hard-hit balls tonight. That’s how baseball is going to go,” Hughes said. “That’s a team over there that finds a way and battles.”

Most of the game had been an entertaining duel between Hughes (14-9), who had won his last four starts, and Liam Hendriks, a former Twins

pitcher making his Royals debut.

Hughes gave up singles in each of the first two innings before finding his groove, allowing one other baserunner until his fateful eighth. Hen-driks retired the first 14 batters he faced, and never ran into trouble until Kennys Vargas singled with one out in the seventh.

Oswaldo Arcia followed with a double off the wall to give Minnesota a 1-0 lead.

Hendriks, making a spot start for ailing Yordano Ventura, finished out the inning without any more damage. The Aus-tralian wound up allowing four hits while striking out five without a walk.

“That was awesome,” he said. “It was a good way to start off in Kansas City.”

CROWD BUILDSThere was a crowd of 17,668

on hand, about 4,000 more than for the series opener. Yost had mentioned the sparse atten-dance Tuesday night, and he applauded the energy showed by the fans that turned out Wednesday. “It was electric,” Yost said.

LATE-GAME BLUESThe Twins had been 41-2

when taking a lead into the eighth inning. Now, they have lost two straight in such fashion. “We’ve got two pretty good starts back-to-back nights and haven’t found a way to win,” Hughes said. “Those are games you really hope you can take.”

WADE IN THE WATERSDavis extended his scoreless

inning streak to 28 2-3, best in the majors. He’s allowed two runs over his last 50 outings for a 0.34 ERA — and one earned run in his last 48 innings.

TRAINER’S ROOMTwins: Twins RHP Ricky

Nolasco was feeling better after gutting through a bout with the flu the previous night. Nolasco scattered three hits over seven innings in a no decision.

Royals: 2B Omar Infante (shoulder inflammation) could return to the starting lineup Friday, Yost said. Christian Colon started in his place for the second straight night.

UP NEXTTwins: LHP Tommy Milone

makes his third start since arriv-ing in Minnesota. He allowed five runs on 10 hits in 4 1-3 innings against Detroit his last time out.

Royals: RHP Jeremy Guthrie allowed one run over eight

Royals score 6 runs in 8th to beat Twins 6-1