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MIRANDA TREAS designs compression garmentsfor transgender people

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ZOE LARSON/KANSANMiranda Treas poses in front of her compression garments.

I you wander into Chalmers Hallany given day o the week, chancesare you’ll find Miranda reas workingdiligently in the senior studio.

Te senior textiles major rom Kan-sas City, Kan., spends over 40 hours aweek in the room surrounded by ab-ric samples, bottles o dye and sewingpatterns. Her latest work-in-progress,

which hangs on the walls, imitates thepinkish sponges o a coral ree. Tematerial itsel is elted ur rom reas’own pet rabbit, Aria. reas said oneo her avorite parts o her work isdiving into new abric techniques likeelting and weaving.

Most days reas is here, she is work-ing between classes on resh colorcombinations or her projects. Onweekends, reas switches gears romschoolwork to business work. Her

underwear line, “reas,” is current-ly sold in a pop-up shop in MissionHills as well as a lingerie boutique inKansas City.

However, reas’ newest endeavor issomething that isn’t known so muchor its style as its unction. Earlierthis year, reas began designing andproducing compression garments ortransgender people.

reas first started sewing compres-sion garments when she was 15. Shespent summers and holiday breakssewing at a post-surgical garmentscompany where her aunt worked. Aso this year, reas and her aunt start-ed their line o compression garmentsthey design and create together.

In contrast to her resh colorulcreations in the studio, reas’ com-

pression garments are simple and dis-creet, and that’s just how clients wantthem.

Almost indistinguishable roman average tank top, the garmentsare light-beige and made o a thin,stretchy material called lyrca. Tepieces are meant to be worn underclothing, while inverted seams com-press in to give the wearer the desiredsilhouette.

reas said her garments are de-

signed to help transgender people eellike themselves.

“Beore you’re able to get surgery,you’re stuck with your old body, andthese garments help you eel like whoyou are meant to be and who youwant to be,” reas said.

Although reas said compressioncan be an important part o helpinga transgender person eel like them-selves, it can also be dangerous i not

done correctly.Trough working with the transcommunity, reas said she haslearned about the dangers o bindingand bandaging rom stories o injuredbodies, even broken ribs.

“Tere are things in your body thatyou can’t put that much pressure on,”reas said. “People physically hurtingthemselves because they want to looka certain way just should not be anissue.”

reas and her aunt, Laura reas,take special care when creating theirgarments. Although they do producea stock o generic compression tanksand underwear, they also do customfittings or different body types.

Earlier this all, the duo decided toswitch rom offering their productsin an online store to offerin them

to children’s hospitals and ostercare systems. Miranda said they arecurrently in the stages o negotiat-ing contracts to make their productsavailable in those spaces. However,she said it can be difficult to finalizeproducts because, when working withyoung bodies, they must be very care-ul.

“Te garments they wear can real-ly shape them or lie, which can bea good thing but also a really bad

thing,” Miranda said.Laura said she is currently working

with doctors to see what is correct ordeveloping bodies.

“We’ve talked about having a littlebit lighter compression,” Laura said,“but we just want to get doctor’s ap-proval beore we go orward withthat.”

Although Miranda and her auntbegan making their own line o gar-

ments only recently, the pair has beenworking side-by-side or years to givethe best o their sewing and designingskills to transgender people.

Laura said when Miranda first cameto work or her at the post-surgi-cal garments company during highschool, she ound she had quite theknack or sewing. Although she wasworking alongside well-seasoned in-dustry garment workers, Laura saidthe high school student was able to

work twice as ast as her proessionalcounterparts.

“She taught them a lot,” Laura said.“She showed them how to go ast andlook very, very calm.”

Laura said her niece’s proficiencyearned her independence and ree-dom in her work.

“She could not kee her own sched-

ule, she was so ast; everyone just lether come and go,” Laura said.

Afer enrolling in a ashion designprogram her junior year o highschool, Miranda began to expand herskill set. Laura said when she woulddo custom fittings or clients, Miran-da would ofen be in the room mak-ing suggestions and offering advice.

“She was the only other design per-son in the building besides me,” Laurasaid. “It gave me confidence too, and

that was helpul.”Now, as a senior in college, Laura

said Miranda is still providing herwith support and ideas as they moveorward with their independent ven-ture.

“It’s so nice to have her now as thiscreative, young adult that’s so smartand brings things to the table,” Laurasaid. “We have different talents; shebrings things to the table that I don’t

think o, and we work together wellthat way.”In the uture, Miranda said she

wants to continue working or hersel.Right now her bra and underwearline is sold at Birdie’s, a lingerie shopin Kansas City as well as the pop-upshop. She hopes to have a website upand running by the time she gradu-ates.

As or her line o compression gar-ments, Miranda said she’s going to

keep moving orward with her aunton making them available to thosewho need them. Miranda said mak-ing the compression garments is herway o “doing good.”

“It just makes me eel like I’m givingback,” Miranda said. “You should justwant to do good, and this is some-thin that I eel is ood.”

LARA KORTE@lara_korte

Te end o the semester hasn’tcome as a surprise to anyone.Some students are showing upto classes or the first time sinceSeptember, finals are creepingup, winter is coming and the

campus is winding down.It has been 16 weeks since we

first sat down in class. Most o uschose the same seat each day, sit-ting next to the same person. Wemight have been strangers at thebeginning, but afer 16 weeks,we’d like to think we know ourclassmates better and can evencount them as our riends.

But how well do you real-ly know them? You may thinkthey’re quiet, but they could be atalented violinist outside o biol-ogy class. You may glance over ather doodles in her notebook, notknowing she designs compres-sion garments and a ashion line.You may know she’s the mostdedicated person in class, butyou may not know it’s becauseshe’s a first-generation studentputting hersel through college

on her own dime.Tese are the students eaturedin this issue o Day in the Lie,but they’re not the only peopleat the University with uniquestories. People come to Lawrencerom all over the country andthe world, bringing their speci-ic backgrounds and experienceswith them.

Day in the Lie celebrates thisdiversity and uniqueness. From

students to aculty to staff, Jay-hawks on campus do incrediblethings, and this is just a sampleo it all.

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Beore coming to KU, interna-tional student Henry Setton had

never lef his home country oBrazil. A second semester resh-man violin student, all Settonknew about Kansas beore leav-ing his hometown o São Paolowas that it gets tornadoes, as he’dseen in “Te Wizard o Oz.”

Setton has been playing theviolin since he was 10 years old.Tere are no other musiciansin his amily, and he had neverpicked one up beore a dream

where he was playing the violin.Te dream made him ask his par-ents i he could take lessons. Teyagreed but said he had to earn it.

Setton’s parents told him theywould only buy him a violin i hecontinued to get good grades orthe rest o the school year. Eachside held up their end o the deal.As a child he says he was “talent-

ed but nothing crazy.”Afer skipping a grade in high

school, Setton started college inBrazil at age 16 and had complet-ed two years o it when he decid-ed he wanted to study abroad. Heelt stuck in Brazil, where he saysthe schools tend to put all o theirmoney into SEM programs.

“In Brazil, I elt that I was stuckand also that I couldn’t grow alot as a musician,” he said. “Eventhough I had a really great teach-er, all the other music classes,they were not strong enough.Tey would not prepare me orreal lie or to t ry to get a Master’s

abroad, either in the U.S. or inEurope. So I elt that it was tooweak.”

Assistant Proessor in theSchool o Music Véronique Ma-thieu, Setton’s violin instructor atthe University, is originally romCanada. Mathieu received herdoctorate rom Indiana Univer-sity and taught at the State Uni-

versity o New York Buffalo be-ore hearing about an open violinproessorship in Lawrence. Tisis her third year at the University.

“I think in a way I can relatebetter to international studentsbecause I also was one during mygraduate studies,” Mathieu said.“I understand the challenges theyace and can help them in varioussituations.”

Mathieu makes yearly trips toBrazil to give master classes. Itwas during one that she met Set-ton. Tey reconnected last sum-mer, and he mentioned to herthat he was considering transer-

ring to an American school. Ma-thieu encouraged him to applyto KU. He agreed, and Mathieuhelped make preparations or hisaudition and transition.

“She would answer one millionemails every day or me, and Iknow she’s extremely busy, so, Imean, she’s a wonderul person,”Setton said.

Even though Setton sent hisaudition video that all — aferthe deadline or the spring 2015semester — the School o Musicmade an exception and acceptedhim. He began classes with Ma-thieu in January and says the twoo them have grown very close.

“I like the way she tries to have agood environment in the studio,”Setton said. “Even when she’schoosing the students she’s go-ing to accept, she doesn’t chooseany student. It’s not only how thestudent plays; it’s also the per-sonality. I she eels the student’stoo competitive and, like, jealous,

she wouldn’t accept the student,because her priority is having agood environment or the stu-dents. And that’s great. I eel theenvironment here is much better,much less competition [than inBrazil].”

COURTNEY BIERMAN@courtbierman

HENRY SETTON Brazilian violin student

COURTNEY VARNEY/KANSANHenry Setton is an international student from Brazil.Setton has been playing the violin since he was 10.

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As nervous students enter the Wat-kins Health Center lab or blood tests,they are greeted by a room filled withcomy chairs, countless posters andthe smiling aces o Laura Kimble and

Pat Moody.Afer a quick procedure, studentsare rewarded with a hand-drawnbandage that could put a smile onanyone's ace.

Kimble and Moody, medical labo-ratory scientists, have been staplesat Watkins or a long time. Moody,a Universit raduate took her first

job out o college at Watkins 36 yearsago and has been there ever since.Kimble joined the staff 16 years agoafer moving to Kansas. Te two havebecome known by students or theirhand-drawn bandages.

Many o the students who come intothe Watkins lab are anxious about

their results or getting their blooddrawn. In response to this, Kimbleand Moody draw on the bandages inan attempt to put a smile on students'aces beore they leave the office.

“We just wanted to make a betterexperience or students," Kimble said."It’s a little hug on the Band Aid."

Watkins Health Centerlab scientists who draw

cartoons on bandages

LAURA KIMBLE& PAT MOODYPHOTO ILLUSTRATION ALEX ROBINSON/KANSAN

From left, Laura Kimble and Pat Moody sit down in the blood drawing room to demonstrate what they do.

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A DAY IN THE LIVES OF KIMBLE AND MOODY

8:30 a.m. Arrive at the lab. Record temperatures and turn on analyzersand computers. Check in and report results from reference lab. Read cul-tures.

9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Do different activities as needed, including runningtests, ordering supplies, performing maintenance, doing paperwork and

drawing blood.

4:45-5 p.m. Shut down machines and put reference lab specimens in lockbox for pickup.

5 p.m. Leave lab.


ALEX ROBINSON/KANSANLaura Kimble works on blood samples. They often run tests on blood for studentswho need medical tests done, ranging from tuburculosis to STDs.

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Kimble was the first to draw onbandages afer the state stopped pay-ing or cartoon bandages. She givesstudents the option o a cat, dog orrabbit. Inspired by her coworker andworried that the students would bemissing out i she gave them a ban-dage, Moody ollowed suit by draw-ing Jayhawks or her patients.

“I sat down and figured out how todraw [the Jayhawk], and then I prac-ticed a lot,” Moody said.

Drawing blood and drawing onbandages are only small parts o theirjob descriptions. Work in the lab alsoinvolves running tests, including SDtests, tuberculosis tests, and all bloodand urine tests. Tey don't alwayshave a set schedule; they do the workthat needs to be done when it comesup.

“Tat’s why I like it — every day isdifferent," Moody said. "It requiresme to think."

Both Kimble and Moody said theybelieve the best part o their work isthe opportunity to connect with andhelp students. Tey see their job asmuch more than just drawing bloodand running tests — it's an opportu-nity to help students in need.

“We can kind o give [students] a

push in the right direction and say,'Keep your eye on your goal,' becausewhen you’re sick you don’t think youcan get through your day, much lessyour semester,” Kimble said.

Kimble and Moody said they speci-ically appreciate the opportunity theyhave to work with college students or

their "big veins" and their perspectiveon lie.

“Tey have resh ideas," Kimblesaid. "It’s un to see what they plan todo afer they leave here."

Both Kimble and Moody's chil-dren have come to the Universityas students, and they both have hadtheir children as patients. Tough

the women said they don’t see moststudents ofen enough to remembertheir aces or names, they still seethemselves in motherly roles whendealing with students, and they tryto care or the students in a way thatgoes beyond their job description.

“In healthcare you’re busy. You’redoing what you need to do to get thestudent better, but maybe not neces-sarily talking to them, and studentsreally appreciate it when you showan interest in what they’re doing,”Moody said.

Te two have dealt with a wide vari-ety o students, rom students gettingblood drawn to those going throughchemotherapy or dealing with dis-abilities. From conversation whilethey draw blood to the hand-drawnbandages, Kimble and Moody try toocus on the student they're seeing.

“I like to think o it as the next per-

son who comes in is going to be themost ascinating person I see all daylong, and it’s usually true," Kimblesaid. "I you eel that, it’s going to be agood experience."

We justwanted to

make a betterexperiencefor students,”Kimble said.

“It’s a littlehug on theBand Aid.”

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ALEX ROBINSON/KANSANLaura Kimble with a Jayhawk bandage drawn by Pat Moody.

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When Sunny Walsh’s twin grand-daughters were accepted into Pi BetaPhi, Walsh’s response was not thetypical, congratulatory response ex-pected rom a grandmother.

“I’ll never orget. I just thought,‘What were they thinking?’” she said.“‘I don’t want to know what they’redoing.’”

By accepting a bid to Pi Phi, Walsh’sgranddaughters weren’t just enteringa society o Greek women — theywere committing themselves to liv-ing in the same house as their grand-mother or two o their college years.

Walsh is the 77-year-old housemother or Pi Phi. First a house moth-er in Iowa, Walsh came to the Univer-

sity o Kansas in 1988 to be closer to

her daughter and granddaughters.aking a job as a house mother on theUniversity campus was just a conve-nient way to do that.

“My whole plan was to take oneclass [o women] through and thengo to a different campus,” she said. “Ithought, ‘My gosh, you could live allover the country,’ because you don’thave to have urniture or anything.But it just worked so well here, so that

plan didn’t work out, [and] 27 yearslater, I’m still here.”Walsh compares being a house

mother to “running a hotel, only yourguests never go home.” She’s respon-sible or overseeing the maintenanceo the house and its grounds, whichis located on 15th Street across romthe Jayhawker owers. Tat includes

organizing the kitchen, the staff o the

house and, o course, caring or thewomen living inside.

“Tere isn’t really anything youdon’t do,” she said. “It’s a challengeevery single day, and you just neverknow what it’s going to be.”

While Walsh acknowledges the im-portance o getting to know the 199women in the house, she also saysthat it’s not her duty to be their “bestbest riend.” Her avorite part o the

job is seeing those young womengrow.Beore the numbers o sorority

women increased, women lived inthe house rom their sophomoreto senior year. Walsh established ahabit early on o eating breakast anddinner in the dining room with theyoung women, inviting reshmen and

sophomores to eat at her table during

dinner.“Every year, the house has a differ-

ent personality because the peopleare different,” she said. “You never gettired o it. It’s never the same thingevery year. I really liked that becausewhether you had a good group orkind o a tough group, it was alwaysa challenge.”

Sydney Chrisco, a sophomore romBaldwin City and a Pi Phi member,

said Walsh has always been a wel-coming presence in the house.“It’s really personal with her,” Chris-

co said. “She’s like a mom to us.”It’s not all un and games at the

house, though. Walsh says snow-storms present difficulties or thewomen, who share a small parkinglot. She also recalled a flooding o the

house that cost $40,000 to repair.

Afer 27 years o dealing with bothmishaps and triumphs, however,Walsh will retire at the beginning oJanuary.

“I’m 77 years old and there aren’t very many people who can work likeI have done or 27 years,” she said.“I have been really blessed, and I’vedone something that I really enjoyed.”

She has no plan yet or post-Pi Phi,but trusts that something will come

along.She does, however, have an idea owhat she’ll do first.

“I think I’l l sleep or six months,” shesaid with a laugh.

— Edited by Leah Sitz

Pi Beta Phi house mom will retire after 27 yearsSunny WalshGRACIE WILLIAMS/KANSAN

Sunny Walsh, 77, is the house mother for Pi Phi. First a house mother in Iowa, Walsh came to the University of Kansas in 1988 to be closer to her daughter and granddaughters.

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It’s a weekday in 2012, and in themix o all the mail at Grecia Rucoba’shouse lies a blue envelope rom theUniversity o Kansas.

It’s tangible proo o Rucoba’s hardwork – her acceptance letter. Whilesome students accepted to the Uni-

versity take it or granted, or first-generation college student Rucoba, itwas the biggest deal.

“Every day that I am in class, that isa success to me,” she said. “Just to behere on campus is a success to me.”

Rucoba, a senior at the Universityand daughter o immigrants romMexico, said her parents alwayspushed her to urther her educationafer high school because they neverhad that opportunity.

“It was never a question to my par-ents about me going to college,” shesaid. “Tey were like, ‘You are going.Just because we couldn’t doesn’t meanwe are not going to do everything wecan to help you.’”

Rucoba said the biggest challenge obeing a child o immigrants is money.

“I didn’t always have a cell phoneand the things that my peers have butI never experienced any kind o hard-ship like my mom has so I considermysel to be so blessed,” she said.

Rucoba works five jobs and has re-ceived scholarships to help financeher education. While her parentscannot support her financially, theyare her source o moral support.

“Just because the monetary assis-tance is not there doesn’t mean theyhaven’t given me everything I need tothe best o their ability,” she said.

Rucoba’s mother, Lucila Rucoba,grew up in Jalisco, Mexico. She cameto the United States in 1988 when shewas 31. Rucoba looks to her mother

as her source o inspiration.“I am inspired by my mom because

she grew up with literally nothing,”she said. “She had 13 brothers and sis-

ters, and she got her first pair o shoesas a gif or her first communion.When [she] would get a banana, [she]would split it 13 ways or each o herbrothers and sisters. I always remem-ber that when I’m having a hard day,I just think about the bananas. Tat iswhat keeps me going.”

As a senior, Rucoba has made aname or hersel on campus throughher leadership in the scholarshiphalls, as well as her involvement in

the Multicultural Scholars Programand Multicultural Business ScholarsProgram. Ten this year she receiveda KU Woman o Distinction award.

“I was shocked that out o the girls inmy scholarship hall, Margaret Amini,I was chosen, and then campus-wide,that was crazy,” she said. “So manyo the women are so much older andthey have PhDs, and it was just suchan honor to be included on that l ist.”

As a KU Woman o Distinction, shewants to set an example or other stu-dents.

“It has really made me have a deeperappreciation or the type o role mod-el I can be because I am a lot o differ-ent things,” she said. “I am a woman, Iam a first-generation college student,I pay or my own school, I am Hispan-ic, and I eel like in all o those thingsI can be a role model to women, tofirst-generation college students, to

all these different groups o students.And each one o those labels comeswith their own challenges.”

As a Hispanic, Rucoba said she acesmany challenges at the University,especially with a lack o diverse rolemodels.

“I will look around and see a room

ull o white men in a lot o my class-es, and that is a little bit disheartening

just because I don’t see strong His-panic proessors or leaders,” Rucoba

said. “I mean, there’s a couple hereand there, and I really admire them,but I just wish there were more, espe-cially among my peers. I eel like KUcould definitely benefit rom diver-sity, and that is a hard conversationwith not a lot o answers.”

However, Rucoba finds a sense o community within the MulticulturalScholars Program.

“A lot o those students have parentsrom different countries, and that

eels like the closest to a amily thatI’ve had on this campus,” she said.“Tey renew my energy a lot becauseI see all o them going through simi-lar things.”

Rucoba said that in the program,all o the students have similar work hours to her.

“I think we average 22 to 25 hoursa week and that is average,” she said.“I know some students who work 30to 35 hours a week on top o 15 to 16credit hours. Tey make it seem easy.”

Trough all o the challenges, shestill remains driven. Rucoba willgraduate in May with a major in ac-counting and will return next all orthe Master’s o Accounting program.She has an internship this summerwith CBIZ in Kansas City and saidshe hopes to eventually have a jobworking with a nonprofit organiza-tion.

“I think that it is a really valuabledegree. Everyone needs an accoun-tant so I do not think I will ever beout o work, which is reassuring,” shesaid. “I hope to move into a control-ler or CFO or reporting position in anon-or-profit; that sounds like goalsto me.”

ALEX ROBINSON/KANSANGrecia Rucoba combs through pictures to help create a project dedicated to theretired professor of the Multicultural Scholars Program.

GRECIA RUCOBA

ALEX ROBINSON/KANSANRucoba, who is a Woman of Distinction, is from a family of Mexican immigrants.She was encouraged to be the first child in her family to attend college.

A first-generation student determinedto make her time at KU count

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Lizette Peter sits at her deskand turns her computer screenaround. Her calendar staresback with three prominent col-ors — green, yellow and red —splattered across the screen.

Green and yellow take up themajority o space — green orthe teaching side o her job, yel-low or the service, and red orher research responsibilities.

Peter is an associate proes-

sor in the School o Educationand has been since she joinedthe department in 2005 aferreceiving her doctorate romthe University o Kansas. Herteaching ocuses on second-language acquisition, and mosto her research to date has o-cused on the revitalization othe Cherokee language.

Peter describes her current job as finding the perect bal-ance between multitudes o re-

sponsibilities.“Finding that balance be-

tween 40 percent teaching, 40percent research and 20 per-cent service ofen gets out owhack,” she said. “What I find isthat my window or conductingresearch and publishing getssquashed because I spend toomuch time teaching and advis-ing students and doing serviceor the University and otherplaces.”

Peter is also the chair o thecommittee that deals with theKU Core and was on the searchcommittee or the vice provosto undergraduate studies. Tisqualifies as service, an obliga-tion that alls under one o therequirements o an associate

proessor.On top o that work or the

University, Peter also reviews

papers as a member o an edito-rial board or an academic jour-nal, Te Journal o Immersionand Content-Based LanguageEducation, which is indepen-dent o the University.

Despite all the work she doesand as ull as her calendar is, Pe-ter said she doesn’t eel like herplate is too ull.

“I think I do enough. Some-times it’s more than others,” she

said. “Just like with students, wehave our cycles. Te end o thesemester can get pretty busy.I don’t think I do too much. Ithink it’s just about right.”

Te path to being a proessorthat ocuses on language is onethat started in Montana, whereshe grew up. Her amily wouldgo to Canada, the way a amilyin Kansas might go to Coloradoor Missouri. While in Canada,she encountered French lan-

guage, and, rom there, her pas-sion grew.

“[I] was always ascinated bythe French signs and the Frenchcandy wrappers and all o thosekinds o things,” Peter said.

Peter went on to obtain herbachelor’s degree rom the Uni-

versity o Montana. Followingcollege, she spent three years inthe Peace Corps in Sri Lanka.

“It was lie-changing,” shesaid. “Like I said, I grew up in

Montana, so I was pretty cal-low, even though I had beenoverseas as an exchange studentand did a study abroad in highschool. I was never prepared towork or live in an underdevel-oped country.”

Sri Lanka holds a special place

in Peter’s heart, as it is whereshe learned about the influenceEnglish has in the world. It’s

this lesson that she remembersevery day and hopes to pass onto students who aspire to teachthe English language to peoplewho don’t have the same livesand privileges.

“I I have any impact on my students who want to teachEnglish abroad, it’s what Ilearned rom living in a placelike Sri Lanka, and realizingthat even though English may

be seen as a language that willhelp people gain economicprosperity or find better jobs orfind better educational chances,it’s also a language that has alot o power, and that thosewho are teaching it have to beresponsible with that power,”Peter said.

Peter says that her mainsource o joy on a daily basis isteaching and interacting withstudents.

“I can be having a really crap-py day, but, when I can go intoa class and get them engaged,so it’s not just me lecturing —when you get to that place inyour teaching, I think it really charges you and gives you a loto energy,” Peter said.

Going orward, Peter said shesees hersel making a positiveimpact on the University as shetakes on more leadership rolesand attempts to leave her mark

on the lives o students.“I think me and my colleagues

have an opportunity to dothings and make changes thatwill leave a lasting legacy,” shesaid. “Tere’s a lot o potential.”

— Edited by Dani Malako

JARRET ROGERS@JarretRogers

LIZETTE PETERA teacher andresearcher who focuseson the power oflanguage

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In the middle of Septem-ber, many students are finallygrasping the concept of eachof their classes. But GrahamWehmeyer, a senior micro-

biology major, was walkinginto the dreaded MCA, orMedical College Admissionest, completely prepared.

Seven and a half hours later,Wehmeyer became one ofthe few examinees to receivea perfect 45 on the MCA.

But the road to this perfectscore was not easy.

It began during Wehmeyer’schildhood. He was always in-

terested in sciences, especiallybiology, and was raised in astrongly academic family.

“I was lucky enough to havea family that understood theimportance of academics —my dad has been a professor atKU since 1999 and is current-ly the director of the BeachCenter on Disability and theco-director of the KU Centeron Developmental Disabili-ties — and encouraged me topursue my interests at everyopportunity,” he said.

However, even with an ac-ademic-heavy family, Weh-meyer said he struggled withacademics in high school. Hehad trouble understandinghow he could connect the ma-terial he learned with how touse it.

During his junior and senioryear of high school, Wehm-eyer said he was lucky enoughto take part in a bioscienceprogram at Blue Valley’sCenter for Advanced Profes-sional Studies. Tis programfocused on exposing students

to how they could apply bio-science to the real world. Tisincluded learning correct labtechniques, knowing how to

design and perform researchprojects and understandingscientific literature.

Te program sparked Weh-meyer’s interest for molecularbioscience and paved the wayto his microbiology major. Hewas able to obtain a positionin a molecular bioscience labat the University before he wasa freshman.

Despite his difficult major,

Wehmeyer said he had to ad- just to a heavy load to studyfor the MCA.

“It takes time and practice,”Wehmeyer said. “Te testthat you take, it plays to yourstrengths, it plays to yourweaknesses.”

Te menu Wehmeyer hadcreated for himself looks tobe rigorous to the normalstudent; however, Wehmeyermade sure to leave room forpleasure within his schedule.He said he believes a studentwill not be able to performwell when under the constantstress of the MCA, and mustleave room for relaxation anda social life.

“It’s important to not get toocaught up in studying all thetime,” Wehmeyer said, “If youstudy 24/7, you’ll burn your-

self out and you won’t do aswell.”

Wehmeyer began studyingfor the MCA in May, allow-ing him flexibility between

juggling studying, volunteer-ing at Heartland CommunityHealth Center and a job at amicrobial genetics researchlab with Susan Egan.

“[Studying] didn’t [affectmy daily life] that much actu-

ally which was nice,” he said,“Te lab I’m in is really greatbecause it’s pretty flexible…Icould fit 4-5 hours of researchin a day and then go study andstill be done at 8 or 9 and gowatch a movie or go out.”

Te Heartland Community Health Center is a clinic basedin Lawrence dedicated to pro-

viding service to underservedand uninsured people. Wehm-eyer did not have much extratime while studying for theMCA, but still volunteered atthe health center.

GRAHAM

WEHMEYER

Who got aperfect score

on the MCAT

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOGraham Wehmeyer conducts an

experiment in the lab.

JOSH MCQUADE@L0neW0lfMcQuade

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When ony Bolden, an associateproessor and undergraduate advisero Arican and Arican AmericanStudies, was young, he consideredhimsel an artist.

But when he uses the term artist, hedoesn’t mean a singer or rapper — he

means a reader.Tough reading didn’t become a

passion until later, growing up, Bold-en always wanted to be a writer andsaid he understood that the two wereclosely related.

When he was a child in the 1960sin Berkeley, Cali., his mother usedto play BB King and Aretha Franklinin their home, which Bolden remem-bers giving him a warm eeling. Hisather was a reader, and though his a-

ther never went to college, he studiedjazz on his own. Bolden’s ather alsostudied Egyptology and taught him-sel how to read hieroglyphs.

Bolden’s ather would also read tohim. Bolden ought it at that age, buthe would realize its importance later.

When Bolden was a soldier in Ko-rea, he had a negative emotional ex-perience and, while he still doesn’tknow why, the next day he went tothe local library and picked up a bookby James Baldwin called “Go ell It on

the Mountain.”‘When I read the book — remem-

ber, I am 19 years old and thousandso miles away — and I couldn’t under-stand what I understand now, but allthose characters reminded me o myaunts and uncles and gave me a reallywarm eeling,” Bolden said. “Tat’swhere I started.”

When Bolden returned home, hemoved back to Caliornia and went toschool at Merritt College in Oakland.At the time, his ather lived in Oak-land, so he would stop by on his wayhome to Berkeley, and his dad wouldteach him the history o jazz.

“He taught me how to identiy thesounds o individual instruments andindividual instrumentalists, and thenhe taught me how to listen or certainkinds o sounds that sort o reflectcertain eelings or moods or ideas,”Bolden said.

His ather also taught him gene-alogies o musicians and who hadinfluenced whom. Tey would sit andlisten to music or hours, and whenhe visited him on the weekends, hisather would take him to the livingroom and put on the record playerwith music rom 1945-70.

Despite his ather’s ocus on music,Bolden’s attraction to being a writerand a literary artist remained. Forhim, an artist meant an intellectual.

“I aspired to be an artist, and onething that happened was one o theolder artists I knew told me in a or-mal voice, ‘ony, i all you want to dois read and write, why don’t you goand pick up a master’s degree some-where?’” Bolden said.

Tat’s exactly what Bolden did.Afer enlisting in the army in 1975,

he moved south, went to collegeand started a amily. He received hisbachelor’s degree in English at Dil-lard University in New Orleans, hismaster’s degree in Arican-AmericanStudies at the University o Iowa, andhas his doctorate in English romLouisiana State University.

His first ob was teachin at the Uni-

versity o Alabama, and he came tothe University o Kansas in 2009.

“I had been organizing a sympo-sium on unk music at the Universityo Alabama, and the chair at KU saidI could do that here, so I came or acampus visit and really loved the en-ergy o the place,” Bolden said.

Tough Bolden isn’t teaching anyclasses at the University this semester,in the past his classes have ocused onmusic. He has taught black popularmusic and the introductory course oArican and Arican American Stud-ies. He also created a course called“Te Lie and imes o Jimi Hendrix.”

Bolden said his students learn criti-cal skills, how to phrase questions andhow to evaluate and ormulate theirown arguments. He said these are lieskills that students can always use inany real sort o endeavor.

“[What I teach my students] is alsoimportant in terms o the history othe country in many ways,” Boldensaid. “I know [my classes are about]entertainment but in many waysthese musicians exuded democraticprinciples and they reconciled theconflict between the interest o theindividual and the collective.”

Aside rom teaching classes, Boldenachieved his goal o becoming a writ-er, ocusing on unk and blues mu-sic. He currently has three published

books and has been working on hiscurrent book, “Blue Funk: Perorm-ing the Grooves in Black CulturalPhilosophy,” or 10 years.

Te reason it took so long, he said,is because he is a literary scholar andhis training is in how to interpret lit-erature. While he writes the book, hereads on his own and trains himsel

on the inormation he is learning.“Blue Funk” traces the history o the

concept o unk rom its early begin-nings.

“Te best way to explain [‘Funk’] is:Have you ever danced beore and hadun? Tat eeling you get, the goose-pimply eeling, well in Arican-Amer-ican cultures way back when, that wasall expressed religiously,” Bolden said.

Dancing was the way people praisedGod, but afer slavery, there was asplit in the church, where dancinghad previously been allowed, Boldensaid. Young people couldn’t expresswhat they had experienced becausechurch rituals had become conserva-tive. Because o this lack o space orexpression, blues music was created.

“Te test o good blues music wasto create that eeling that you eel indancing, but within a proane or sec-

ular context, so I’m tracking that eel-ing and how those ideas get expressedin music,” Bolden said.

Despite working on the book oryears, Bolden said he hasn’t been dis-couraged.

“I have a high standard, so when Iput my name on something I want itto mean something,” Bolden said.

While teaching at Alabama, Boldenmet Willie King, a singer and guitaristwho would go out into the woods toperorm. Bolden joined and watched

the perormances.“Out in the country, everybody

danced, and there was no taboo,”Bolden said. “Te only taboo was dis-respect, and that was the only thingthat wasn’t allowed, so it was a reallyspiritual thing.”

Bolden recounts that it was almostlike oin back in time because there

were no paved roads and there werebarbed wire ences. He said it was likean “old dilapidated juke joint” withplywood floors.

“Tere were very poor people, butthey had all this dignity and there was

just a beauty to the music,” Boldensaid. “You had the entire community there, rom 18 to 78, and everyonerom 25 up would dance, and theycould all dance and they had theirown movement.”

Tis experience not only plays intohis book writing, he said, but also inthe way he teaches.

ara Green, a proessor and direc-tor o Arican American and AricanDiaspora Studies at the University o North Carolina-Greensboro, was astudent o Bolden when he was teach-ing at Dillard University.

Green said Bolden has a clear and

broad outreach, he is very comort-able and always very willing to giveparts o himsel to other students tohelp them be at the level he is now.

“I don’t recall any other proessorI had bringing music into the class-room, and I think, or me, that wassomething that stuck with me, be-cause when I teach now, I teach mu-sic,” Green said.

Starting rom listening to blues and jazz music in his home at a young ageto writing books about blues and jazz,

Bolden has come ull circle.“But having listened to the blues, I

began to understand it wasn’t just en-tertainment,” Bolden said. “Tere wasa logic to this, and it had to do with aphilosophy o lie.”

— Edited by Maddy Mikinski

CAROLINE FISS/KANSANTony Bolden’s love for funk and blues started early, inspired by his parents. He then pursued his passion academically.

BRIANNA CHILDERS@breeanuhh3

TONY BOLDENArtist and associate professor ofAfrican and African American Studies

CONTRIBUTEDTony Bolden

CONTRIBUTEDBolden also served in South Korea.



12/16

Pamela Rodriguez Montero arrives

at Murphy Hall around 9 a.m. eachday. On her way to work — the back-stage world of — her students and fel-low theater lovers greet her.

“Teater has something about acommunity that is just so beauti-ful,” she said. “Everyone involveddoes some part, and then everythingcomes together in a whole big thing.It’s just magical.”

Rodriguez Montero is a graduatestudent from Costa Rica pursuingher master's degree in scenography— the integrated study of all the vi-sual elements in the theater, like sets,makeup and lighting. She also worksas a makeup and stage designer forUniversity Teatre.

“Teater is inclusive of everyoneand has the abilit to work with an

department,” she said. “You can com-bine theater with any other discipline,which is something I love.”

Tis love ultimately led her to

choose scenography as her study fo-cus.

One of the biggest discoveries shemade during her experience at theUniversity is her passion for teach-ing. Before that, she never consideredteaching as a career path. When shewas told she had to teach a class aspart of her program, she said she wasa little worried about it.

“I was scared, at first because Eng-

lish is not my first language, and Ithought they wouldn’t understand methrough my accent, but it turned outfine,” she said.

She now says she enjoys watchingher students grow and gain moreconfidence in their talents through-out the semester.

“It’s really rewarding,” she said.When working for “Johanna: Facing

Forward," her second play workingwith Rodriguez Montero, junior Kate

Smeltzer would see Rodriguez Mon-tero for hours each day. As a result,she even has her Jimmy John’s ordermemorized.

“She is so inspirational and hasopened so many doors for me,” Smelt-zer said. “I have never done makeupbefore, but I want to do it profession-ally now.”

Smeltzer said she did not expect be-ing handed so much responsibility in

the development of the play from the very beginning, but that's what hap-pened. She said that on the first day ofwork, Rodriguez Montero put her incharge of the papers — an importantpart of the “Johanna” set.

“It’s like she never doubts a personfor a second that they are capable of

doing something,” she said.Smeltzer said that quality also

speaks about Rodriguez Montero'steaching skills.

"As a teacher, she is so patient andcalm, but most of all, so encouraging,”Smeltzer said. “She gets excited to seeus growing as students.”

Since Rodriguez Montero has beenat the University, she has participatedin four plays, designing the sets, stag-es and makeup. Te most significantplay she has designed so far is “Johan-na: Facing Forward," which is basedon a real-life story about a Latina

teenager who survived abuse.“Te story was so powerful, and Igot to meet with the real Johanna,”she said. “It was an amazing experi-ence.”

She studied as an undergraduatein Costa Rica, where she obtained abachelor's degree in visual arts. Ever

since high school she has been ac-tively involved in the theater world,and one of her dreams was studyingin the United States. Te prolific the-

ater industry the U.S. has to offer, shesaid, put the country as her next stop.She said studying abroad has been apowerful opportunity.

“You learn a lot of things aboutyourself and about the world,” shesaid. “You become more attached toyour country, your traditions.”

And the food?“Definitely, the food,” she said,

laughing. “I cry when I find some of

it in the supermarket.”But the University environment andthe Lawrence community as a wholehave made her transition to the Unit-ed States easier. Te Small World, anonprofit organization in Lawrence,is the place that helped her the mostthose first few months, she said. She

CAROLINE FISS/KANSANPamela Rodriguez Montero, a graduate student from Costa Rica, has worked on four Univeristy plays, including “Johanna: Facing Forward.”

Makeup and stage

designer forUniversity Theatre

PAMELA

RODRIGUEZMONTERO

ANGIE BALDELOMAR@AngieBaldelomar



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developed and improved her Englishskills, which prepared her to eventu-ally apply to the University and pur-sue her graduate studies.

“Tere’s just a human quality at KUthat I find to be precious,” she said.

When she's not in the theater, Ro-driguez Montero is part o the LatinAmerican Graduate Organization,where she meets with the other mem-bers mainly to dance but also to hangout. However, exercising is her mainhobby. She belongs to the Lawrencerunning group Red Dog Dog’s Daysand also loves doing yoga. She is cur-rently trying acro-yoga, which is yogawith a partner.

“I try to be as active as possible,” she

said. “It’s just part o who I am.”Smeltzer agreed.“She’s a ball o energy and very en-

thusiastic all the time,” she said, "evenin the early hours in the morning.”

Now in her last year o the program,Rodriguez Montero already look-ing ahead. So ar, she said, she onlyknows she wants to continue workingin a university environment, whetherteaching or designing productions —but not necessarily at KU.

“I’m open or everything, whetherit’s here in the U.S. or Costa Rica, oranywhere else in the world,” she said.“Afer all, you just have one lie.”

— Edited by Jackson Vickery

I’m open foreverything,whether

it’s here inthe U.S.or CostaRica, oranywhereelse in theworld,”RodriguezMontero

said. “Afterall, you justhave onelife.”

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CAROLINE FISS/KANSANPamela Rodriguez Montero withmakeup she uses for University Theatre.



14/16

At 5:30 a.m., when most studentsare still asleep and the sun hasn’t yetrisen, ad Carpenter is awake andready for the gym. He’s running twomiles, taking a moment to de-stressand collect his thoughts before begin-ning the long day ahead.

Carpenter’s gym routine is similar tothe rest of his day — always varying.

From 5:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., Car-penter is running around. Tis is typi-cal for the University graphic design

instructor and owner of CarpenterCollective, a design firm in KansasCity, Mo.

At the University, Carpenter teachesa visual communications class. AtCarpenter Collective, he designs ev-erything from book illustrations anddesigns to branding for microbrewer-

ies and salons.“I’d say creating brand identities is

probably one of my favorite thingsto do just because it encompasses somany different elements and applica-tions,” Carpenter said. “I mean, to behonest, even when I design a book oranything like that I kind of approachit from a brand identity standpoint

just because you’re creating a littleidentity in itself with pallet and typerecommendations and style.”

Carpenter said it probably soundslike “the most boring job,” but his lovefor design runs deep. His father, anillustrator, is a lifelong employee forHallmark Cards.

“I’m lucky that I’ve been arounddesign and art my whole life, moreor less,” Carpenter said. “A lot of kidsgrowing up wanted to be firemen orpolicemen or football players, andyeah, maybe a little part of me wanted

those things, but when I was a kid Iknew I always wanted to be an artistor designer.”

Carpenter said each day is different.On uesdays and Tursdays he teach-es Visual Communications 204 at theUniversity, leaving less time to workfor his clients at Carpenter Collec-tive. He said his clients are brave andwilling to take risks when it comes todesign.

“I want them to trust us and be will-ing to take risks, and those are thekind of clients we want to continueto work with,” he said. “We’ve beenlucky to work with a lot of people likethat. We hope that those are the kindof people we can continue to workwith and just continue to do the kindof stuff that we really enjoy doing.”

Sally Carmichael, a former intern atCarpenter Collective and student ofCarpenter’s in 2011, is now a designer

for Airbnb in San Francisco. She saidCarpenter makes flawless designs andis also a kind, personal person, mak-ing him a great business owner.

“He’s an insane powerhouse basical-ly,” Carmichael said. “It’s insane howgreat he is. He’s incredibly efficient.”

When Carmichael worked withhim, she said she remembered hewould print designs, talk to clients onthe phone and prepare for a presenta-tion, all while trying to eat lunch.

“I don’t know how he does it,” Car-michael continued.

Te Carpenter Collective office is ashort walk down two flights of stairs.Carpenter and his wife converted anold house in West Plaza into a live/work space. Te top two levels arefor living, and the bottom level is awalkout office space where he works.Living so close to work makes it hardfor Carpenter to take a break, but he

doesn’t mind.“It can be an early Sunday morning

when I can’t sleep, and instead of go-ing to watch V, I typically find my-self going to the office, making stuff,”he said.

Carpenter’s wife works for Carpen-ter Collective, too, which is a greatpart of their relationship, he said.While he’s in Lawrence teaching, hiswife is making progress on deadlinesat the office.

“So I might be here [in Lawrence]teaching, but the train’s still on thetracks,” he said.

Before beginning work in the of-fice, Carpenter works out. With sucha busy schedule of teaching and con-sulting, this is a release for Carpenter.

“It just makes me more focused,” hesaid. “It makes me more productive,

just stronger in general, if I can dosome sort of physical act ivity, because

TAD CARPENTERInstructor and owner of the designfirm Carpenter Collective

CASSIDY RITTER@CassidyRitter

CASSIDY RITTER/KANSANTad Carpenter offers critique on work from his sophomore class,Visual Communications 204.



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i I don’t I’m a very big jerk. I I don’tmy wie can always tell — she’s like,‘You haven’t worked out in the pastday have you? You need to go do yourgym thing.’”

When Carpenter begins work in theoffice, he starts by shifing through astack o emails beore designing. Anhour later, Carpenter begins workingon one o many projects. He said eachproject is a different level o comple-tion because some may be put onhold while his clients wait or approv-al or investors. Tis means Carpen-ter could be doing a variety o work,rom branding a new brewery in St.Louis or a new salon in Kansas Cityto branding an international reightshipping company in Dallas. Some-times Carpenter takes on designingand illustrating children’s books.

In Carpenter’s eyes, the best part odesigning is the exploration process.Carpenter explores and creates newdesigns every day.

“You’re getting to make somethingout o nothing every single day insome orm or ashion, and that’swhat’s awesome about our processand what we get to do,” he said.

Carpenter said there is still room orimprovement though.

“We’ve been doing this or 10 or 11years, and I still eel like [CarpenterCollective] can always be a little bitbetter and can do a little bit more,and that’s a healthy thing to eel andcontinue to try to strive or,” Carpen-ter said. “And I think just getting new,exciting work all the time is very mo-tivational.”

Deadlines or Carpenter vary. Someprojects take months, while othersneed to be finished in a ew hours.Carpenter Collective does a lot obranding projects, which typicallylast two to our weeks beore showingthe client a design.

Illustrating books is a whole newgame, Carpenter said. It’s normally asix-month, multi-step project romthe time he receives the manuscriptto when he releases the project to theprinter.

Carpenter said the first step is shar-ing style ideas with the client. Tenhe sketches the whole book by pencilor concept, gets approval o the clientand makes revisions. Afer revisions,Carpenter adds color to the pages,gets the client’s approval, makes revi-sions and sends it to the printer.

o Carpenter, books are a “labor olove.”

“Tey are such a pain in the ass, andyou tell yoursel, ‘Alright, I can’t do

one o these or a while. Tis one was just too much,’” Carpenter said. “Butthen the book arrives on your door-step and you get this thing that youmade. You did the whole thing, youknow, and you’re like, ‘Oh man, thatwas un. I could do another one othose,’ and you do another one.”

Similar to any job, Carpenter ex-periences rustrations with time re-strictions and changing gears in themiddle o a project.

“But, in the end o the day we arelucky to do this,” he said. “Tere’snothing that’s really chapping myhide over and over again other thanthings that are just are things that allpeople collaborating on work have todeal with in any industry.”

In the midst o a semester, Carpen-ter typically works late into the night.

“Now that I’m getting older, I trynot to pull like the 3 a.m. nonsenseanymore. It just ain’t helping no-body,” Carpenter said. “So I wouldnormally say I do the 8:30 to 11 p.m.,a lot o times maybe midnight. Arethere nights that I work until 1 in themorning or 2? Yeah, it happens, likeyou just have to get stuff done, but I’malso one o those people that’s verylucky that I don’t need a ton o sleepto unction.”

On uesdays and Tursdays, whenCarpenter teaches, he drives rom hisoffice Kansas City, Mo., to Lawrence.

“It’s not ideal by any means, but it’salso the only like 45 to 50 minutes[when] I’m orced to not do any-thing,” Carpenter said. “And I thinkthat’s probably a healthy thing or me.I’m not good at not doing anything.”

During the drive, Carpenter getslost in the music o Johnny Cash,Buck Owens and Willie Nelson. Temusic reminds him o a slower paceand simpler time, bringing him backto memories o driving through smalltowns in Kansas with his grandpa.

“What I took away rom my grand-parents was the importance o hard

work,” he said. “My grandatherBoehme was a state trooper andGrandather Carpenter worked in theconcrete industry — both no-non-sense, roll-[up]-your-sleeve, get-shit-done kind o jobs. Tat work ethic hasalways stayed with me.”

Carpenter began teaching in all2009. His class this semester is thefirst o our classes students take be-ore being accepted into the Schoolo Graphic Design. When the ourclasses are complete, students turn inall o their work to design proessorsto be reviewed, he said.

Megan Snelten, a junior rom LakeZurich, Ill., is an intern at CarpenterCollective and was in Carpenter’sclass last year. Snelten said Carpen-ter brings a lot o energy and passionto his class. She also said Carpentergears class projects towards real worldapplications which helps keep every-one inspired.

Carpenter particularly likes teach-ing the class because o the youth ohis students and their dedication.

“I love this class because everyone’son pins and needles a little bit. Every-one’s willing to work hard because itis a big semester and it is a big class,but also like the kids aren’t too coolor school yet, like they don’t knowanything, man,” Carpenter said. “Soit’s cool to kind o introduce themto some things and get them excitedabout stuff and motivate them.”

He loves watching students ormu-late their own ideas and become pas-sionate about design the way he is.

“I wish so badly that I didn’t enjoyteaching because it’s one o thosethings, man. It’s really hard whenyou run your own business and youhave a lot o clients and a lot o workand a lot o stuff going on, and thento basically take two days out o theweek and come teach — you have tolove it, because i not it would be aneasy thing to remove,” he said. “I al-ways joke a little bit that I’m like thisis probably my last semester teaching,but the problem is it’s addictive andyou enjoy it. Like, you really get a lotout o it and you love it.”

— Edited by Maddy Mikinski

CONTRIBUTED“Modern-Day Venus,” Tad Carpenter’s spin on Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus,”part of a project he did for Adobe.

CASSIDY RITTER/KANSANTad Carpenter lectures his

sophomore class, VisualCommunications 204.

““You’re getting to makesomething out of noth-ing every single day insome form or fashion,and that’s what’s awe-some about our processand what we get to do.”

TAD CARPENTER

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