THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016 VOL. 68, ISSUE 2

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New year brings array of security issues By ALYSSA TAYLORStaff Writer

Newman University has had mul-tiple reports of suspicious characters on campus since the start of 2016. The individuals’ appearances on campus have attracted the attention of New-man University campus security, said Officer Morris Floyd, head of security.

The last week of January alone had

two instances of suspicious characters on campus only two days apart.

The first incident was reported on Jan. 24 when a female student was walking by herself from New Hall to Mabee Dining Center and an un-known male catcalled her from his beige Acura. The man did not exit his vehicle and no physical harm or threats took place, but the student did contact campus security.

The second incident involved a sus-picious figure who has appeared mul-tiple times on campus, first inquiring about a work opportunity

This man was also spotted on Jan. 26 by a faculty member at Mabee Din-ing Center with a flashlight and had been going around campus telling fe-male students that he knows the Ara-bic word for beautiful.

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By ELLEN HEALYStaff Writer

Thanks to the changes made in how students nominate candidates, every senior is eligible to be Newman University’s 2016 homecoming king and queen.

The change was proposed by Levi Esses, Newman’s dean of students, at a Homecoming Committee meeting in December and was approved by SGA

in a meeting on Jan. 26. The email to vote will be sent to students Feb.15 and will be open for nominations until Feb. 16.

In the past, Newman students have voted for Jet royalty only one way: by voting on a list of top 10 candidates they received through an email, nomi-nated by students and faculty. This year, students are the only eligible voters who have a chance to decide the top 10 candidates for themselves,

by voting on a preliminary ballot that lists all Newman seniors.

Esses said that the decision will help students feel more a part of the Newman community, where all sen-iors have a chance to be nominated.

“I feel like in the past, there have been some students left out,” he said. “So I wanted to give the senior group an opportunity. I wanted to give all seniors the opportunity to be a part of the preliminary ballot and the voting

process.”Once the preliminary votes have

been received, the homecoming com-mittee will take the top ten female and male nominees and put their names into the homecoming ballot and students can vote for homecom-ing court Feb.22-23, where the court will be announced Feb. 24, and the crowning ceremony will be at the basketball game on Feb. 25.

Men’s basketball player temporarily suspended

See “Crime” on Page 2

NEWMAN SECURITY patrols the campus all hours of the day and night and is available to Newman students 24/7. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

Changes made to homecoming nomination process

By LAUREN SPENCER & JOHN DENNYStaff Writer & Editor-In-Chief

Junior men’s basketball player and starter Jarvis Williams has missed the past three games due to what Ath-letic Director Vic Trilli called a tem-porary suspension issued by Head Coach Mark Potter.

Trilli and Potter both declined to comment on the reason for the ab-sence, but Wichita police records show Williams was arrested at 2:41 a.m. on Jan. 24 on suspicion of do-mestic battery.

According to the report, a 23-year-old woman reported being battered, however she showed no visible inju-ries.

Williams, a guard and team leader who averages 11 points and 2.4 as-sists per game, has not responded to an email asking for comment.

Potter declined to say when Wil-liams will return to play, but said “My belief is that he is going to be back.

“Sometimes things happen, and there’s consequences that need to be paid, but we move on with life, and so will Jarvis. Jarvis will be a better man because of it,” Potter said.

The men’s basketball team will take on Oklahoma Panhandle State at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at home.

Campus trespassers, theft cause concern for Newman students

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From “Crime” on Page 1

First tailgate of spring semester

The Campus Activities Board is holding the semes-ter’s first tailgate for the women’s and men’s basket-ball teams.

The tailgate, at 5 p.m. tonight in the Gorges Atri-um, will have free food and drinks for Newman stu-dents.

Law school informational session

Washburn University admission is holding an event to help inform stu-dents about the application process for Washburn’s law school.

The event, sponsored by the Future Legal Profes-sionals of Newman, is at 1 p.m. today in the Alumni Center of Dugan Library.

“I want to make sure that the sen-iors out there who should be recog-nized get a chance and then leave it up to students who they want to pick in terms of their court,” Esses said. “I think that this is the best way to recognize all students and give them their say on who should win.”

Senior Brandon Gollhofer, SGA’s president is happy with the decision, saying that students will now have a more direct process in nominating their candidates for homecoming court.

“This is a more inclusive and fair idea for our graduating seniors,” Gollhofer said. “It gives the student

body more power in the decision process.”

Esses said that whether the deci-sion will continue is up to the stu-dents and how successful the prelimi-nary ballot will be.

“I hope that this will continue, but if it is unsuccessful, we will change some things. But I think it’s worth a shot to see how things go.”

Senior and Vice President of SGA, Brandi Boese said she is hopeful for the decision to stick, saying that it will create a better sense of community and fairness for Newman.

“I believe it will help everyone feel more included in what goes on at NU,” Boese said. “I am interested to see how it turns out. You always

wonder how people will react to changes like this, but hopefully it will work out fine and can be a process we continue.”

Esses encourages students to take the time in their consideration.

“I know it will be a very long list at the beginning, but this way it shows all the seniors and gives students the opportunity to vote. I hope they take the time because it’s a pretty cool thing to be nominated and it makes you feel good. Even if you’re not actively involved on campus, you’ll feel like, ‘Wow, at least I get a shot at it.’ I want to have recognition, I want to have fairness and I really want to make sure that everyone has a shot.”

From “Homecoming” on Page 1

NUG club to make dream boards

The gardening club will be holding its first event of the semester, where stu-dents can make a dream board of their ideal garden.

Students are invited to bring old magazines to help with the collage mak-ing, but magazines will be provided.

The event, starting at 1 p.m. Feb. 11, will be held in the Dugan Library Atrium and is free of charge.

TIPS FROM NU SECURITY:

•Be aware of your surroundings and don’t let your headphones and smartphones distract you.

•Call security when you see some-thing that isn’t right or someone that doesn’t belong on campus.

•Travel in groups of two or more when walking on and around cam-pus.

•Call security if you ever feel unsafe walking somewhere on campus.

“I don’t think he’s a threat at this time,” Floyd said. “I just think he makes people feel uncomfortable.”

The man was last seen riding his bike around campus on Monday and Floyd has since contacted the commu-nity police officer. He said he hopes that they will be able to come up with a plan to identify this man as make sure there is a re-cord showing that he is unwelcome on campus.

“We aren’t just going to sit and wait for this guy to quit,” Floyd said. “We are going to be proactive.”

Also, a vehicle was stolen from the Merlini parking lot on Jan. 26. The car was involved in a police chase according to the areas patrolling officer’s report stating that

the driver was driving in a suspicious manner. Once the driver was appre-hended the police contacted the vehi-cle’s owner, who didn’t know his car had been missing.

Emails have been sent out to stu-dents following each of the incidents to help keep them informed. There is also a spreadsheet of incident reports available in the security office for any-body who would like to know New-

man University’s crime statistics.

Floyd said that it’s important for students to be proactive about their safety and pay attention to the information security releases.

“With this construction [on West street] we are going to get certain el-ements through this campus that we normally wouldn’t have” Floyd said.

“We aren’t just going to sit and wait for this guy to quit. We are going to be proac-tive.”

MORRIS FLOYDCampus security provides escorts across campus for any student, 24/7. This service, as well as any other security need, can be provided by calling 316-253-7580.

By JOSIE JENKINS-STANKIEWICZStaff Writer

On Tuesday, Jan. 26 the Student Government Association shut down a proposal to create a weightlifting club due to liability issues. The club was turned away with a close vote of nine to seven.

However the designer and propo-nent for the weightlifting club, fresh-man Kenny Ho, is bringing the club proposal back to SGA for review next week.

Ho said he put in a lot of hours over Christmas break to format a club that would promote health and fitness in a positive way.

“The plan is to give people who want to improve themselves a friendly competition,” Ho said.

Ho said he wanted to have the club meet once a week to discuss plans, workouts and diets and would also have its members max out on core lifts once a month.

Ho, who planned for the club to lift at Genesis gym locations in Wichita, said he felt a weightlifting club would a great benefit to students at Newman.

“To me, fitness is synonymous to freedom,” he said. “As the body grows old, it remains strong and young. It keeps the mind sharp and the spirit powerful. Fitness is being able to speak, act and think without

hindrance.” Ho said his dream for the weightlift-

ing club is to bring together a group of people who believe in the disciplines, concentration and technique required in weightlifting and help them to find success.

Ho said weightlifting encompasses the important aspects of fitness and health that allow individuals to better themselves.

“It always gets ugly before becom-ing beautiful,” Ho said. “No Caterpil-lar becomes a butterfly right away, you will be in a cocoon for a long time.”

Ho said he eagerly awaits the next vote from SGA and is hoping for a dif-ferent outcome this time around.

Weightlifting club turned down by SGA

Senior theater major Justin Ralph is involved in most productions that appear on Newman’s main stage, but this semester he is returning to his alma mater, Maize High School, to direct Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting For Godot,” which opens this weekend at Maize.

This is not Ralph’s first year direct-ing at Maize. Last year, he said his former high school theatre instructor, Kathleen Barbara asked him to direct “Steel Magnolias.”

“I thought, ‘Why not? I like to direct, I like to work with youth in theater,’ so I took the opportunity and I loved it,” he said.

Barbara said she originall asked Ralph to direct so she could produce an extra show that year, but was pleasently surprised with the out-come.

“He did such an outstanding job that I offered him back to direct a show of his choice,” she said. “Justin works really well with the students and they respond very positively to

his direction. He is also fearless in his choices as a director, which I admire very much.

Ralph said he was asked to return the next year and was told he could choose the play he wanted to direct. His choice? Samuel Beckett’s existen-tial piece, “Waiting For Godot.”

“On the heels of directing ‘Steel Magnolias’ and performing as Ham-let ‘Hamlet,’ I had this belief that any-one could do anything if they put the right work into it,” he said. “I had this idea of ‘Waiting for Godot’ and how it’s about nothing and what feels more like nothing than the monotony of school?”

Each theatre major is required to present a piece of work to culminate their major and time at Newman.

“The things I was consistently drawn to were breaking expectations, telling different stories, and sharing the art form,” he said. “When I was brainstorming my concept, I started racking my brain about what would be fun, and what would be artistically fulfilling, and I decided that I might as well make it my capstone too.”

Ralph said that his experience working with Maize High School has

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JUSTIN RALPH watches his cast rehearse “Waiting For Godot.” This is the second year Ralph has directed at Maize High School. The show opens Friday. Kati Bush, A&E Editor

By ANDREW REGOLI AND KATI BUSHStaff Writer and A&E Editor

Theater major returns to alma mater to direct high concept play

been a positive one.“It comes with its challenges, es-

pecially this year because the show is harder. But ‘Steel Magnolias’ last year had its own problems, because I was a male directing an entire female cast. So, I had to really just focus on the problems, the human problems like dealing with death, because those affect you no matter what gender you are,” Ralph said. “I definitely get a youthful energy from being around the students. Sometimes I just feel like, ‘Man, I am an adult?’ They just use this vernacular and slang that I don’t know. I’m getting older.”

Sophia Wagner, who plays Vladimir in this show and played Ouiser in “Steel Magnolias,” said that she was grateful Ralph cast her in both shows.

“Justin has helped me grow so much as an actor,” she said. “He encouraged my growth and believed in me by cast-ing me as Ouiser. He’s given me the opportunity to do something I’ll never get to do again: play Vladimir. I can’t do this anywhere else in the world.

“Waiting for Godot” runs this weekend at 3:15 and 7:30 p.m. on Fri-day and at 2 p.m on Sunday at Maize High School, 11600 W 45th St N. Tick-ets are $6 for general admission.

RALPH warms up his cast before a dress rehearsal. Kati Bush, A&E Editor

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There’s a love-hate relationship with cafeteria food. While we love some of the choices, the saddest mo-ment in many of our lives is when we go to the dining hall and there’s noth-ing there you like. Or when there’s something you really love but you’ve eaten it so much that you begin to feel sick thinking about having it for the 50th time this semester. While the food in the dining hall isn’t awful, it’s not the best either. No matter how much I love the ladies that make my food, I do not know if I like the food enough to pretend to be excited to eat chicken fried steak for the fifth time in three weeks.

After break I was hoping that the school would maybe switch up the menu and put in some new food choices, however, I was disappointed. On the first day back I had chicken, which wasn’t so bad, but still wasn’t home cooking. After that, things seemed to settle back into the same old routine. Chicken tenders, tacos,

meat loaf, sandwiches, chicken breast, etc. Of course the sides are always the same: veggies, fries, and sometimes tater tots.

Those chicken tenders tasted the same when I had them every week last month. Tacos are my favorite, howev-er I’ve gotten so tired of having tacos that when I saw them I didn’t feel the same giddiness I felt when I had them in the first few weeks. Meat loaf? I hate it. Nothing against the ladies that work in the kitchen, but when I went to dinner last Sunday I felt like crying because I realized that I had another no-dinner-for-me day. That’s what truly sucks. Going to a small school like Newman, we really don’t have a variety of dinner options. There’s nothing like going to dinner after be-ing hungry for the last four hours to find that neither main food options are anything you like.

While I eat at the dining center fre-quently, I can’t exactly talk about all the different food options, because I get the same thing every single day. I get the same fries and sandwich ev-ery time I go to lunch because it’s safe. I know I like that sandwich that I’ve

been eating every day for the last 17 weeks of school. I know that those sea-soned fries are going to be good.

I never go out of my comfort zone, because the one time I did, it was for pork tacos and I was so disappointed that I just ended up going and getting the same turkey sandwich and fries, anyway.

While students generally complain about the repetitiveness of the dining hall food, sometimes they actually do have wonderful food that fills me up so much that I feel like I could take a nap that lasts a lifetime. Whenever a

new food option I’ve never had is in-troduced, I always get happy because finally the routine is broken, and my taste buds rejoice at the fact that they aren’t having the same sandwich for the third time in one week.

So for this week what is our Mabee, Mabee not? I am going to have to say “Mabee Not” to the roast beef sand-wich I had for lunch on Monday. It started off good, and it looked really appealing. However, halfway through the sandwich the roast beef got really fatty and chewy, or something, be-cause whenever I tried to bite down it slid away from my teeth. Eventually, I got so annoyed I just tried swallowing it and gagged. Attempted murder by roast beef is a definite “Mabee Not!”

With that said, I am going to say “Mabee” to the chicken cordon bleu. The chicken by itself was delicious, add on some ham and you can’t go wrong. The sauce was also very good and I just very much enjoyed this din-ner. Although I would have enjoyed two rolls instead of the one I received, this one is still one for the books.

Nothing against the ladies and gentlemen that work in the kitch-en, but when I went to dinner last Sunday I felt like crying because I realized I had another no-dinner-for-me day.

By SASKA TIMARACStaff Writer

Mabee, Mabee Not: Freshman reviews quality of cafeteria food

MABEE MABEE NOT

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MEN’S BASKETBALL (11-9) WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (9-10)

PAST GAMESJan. 28at Texas A&M International, L 78-83 Jan. 30at St. Mary’s, L 65-84

UPCOMING GAMESTonight at 7:30vs. Oklahoma Panhandle State

Saturday at 3 p.m.vs. Lubbock Christian

PAST GAMESJan. 28at Texas A&M International, L 36-58 Jan. 30at St. Mary’s, L 59-67

UPCOMING GAMESTonight at 5:30vs. Oklahoma Panhandle State

Saturday at 1 p.m.vs. Lubbock Christian

this week in sports...PAST MEETJan. 24at Nebraska Kearney, L, 9-40 UPCOMING MEETSTonight at 7at Pratt Community College

Thursday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m.vs. Fort Hays State

PAST TOURNAMENTJan. 23-24at McKendree Baker, Fairview Heights Ill.Men: T-3rdWomen: T-5th

UPCOMING TOURNAMENTFeb. 6-7Crusader OpenDubuque, Iowa

WRESTLING (1-7) BOWLING

@newman_jets

Red shirt freshman shines in first major appearanceChristian DeYoung impresses coaching staff with strong showing

On Jan. 23, the men’s basketball team lost a close game to Arkansas-Fort Smith 78-79. Although the score shows a loss, it was not for a lack of ef-fort, particularly from red-shirt fresh-man Christian DeYoung, said Head Coach Mark Potter.

DeYoung played more minutes against the Lions than he had all sea-son and Potter said even though he hadn’t played much before, it didn’t show.

“In his time and his effort, he has not really had any legitimate college varsity minutes,” Potter said. “You don’t see what you saw Christian do on Saturday when it’s their first op-portunity. That’s one of the most special things I’ve ever seen.”

D e Y o u n g played 22 minutes against Fort Smith, totaling more than his 16 minutes to-tal in his first seven games combined.

Scoring 21 points, he tripled his high-est scoring game, which was against Oklahoma Panhandle State on Jan. 9.

“I was very confident in myself go-ing into the game because I’ve been practicing for basically two years and knew I was ready,” DeYoung said. “After I made the first shot, everything slowed down for me and it really gave me confidence throughout the rest of the game.”

His first 3-pointer brought the Jets within 4 at the 12:49 mark in the first half and then another right under the 11-minute mark to bring the Jets up 20-19 in the first half. DeYoung drained one more 3-pointer to help get the Jets

tied up by the end of the first half.

In the second half, DeYoung had two more three-pointers. One shot to cut the deficit to five and then another three to tie up the game with just over five minutes left in the game. He went 5-6

from three and finished with a .833 shooting percentage.

The freshman’s performance has not gone unrewarded. DeYoung played 19 minutes and went 2-4 from behind the arc in the Jets’ double-over-time loss to Texas A&M International on Jan. 28. He followed that by playing 20 minutes and had a perfect shooting percentage in Newman’s 65-84 loss to

St. Mary’s. DeYoung graduated from Andover

Central High School in 2014. As a sen-ior Jaguar he averaged 14 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game and set a school record in free-throw per

CHRISTIAN DEYOUNG, left,, guards a play against a University of Arkansas-Fort Smith player on Jan. 23.Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

By TAYLOR MANNISStaff Writer

“You don’t see what you saw Christian do on Saturday when it’s their first opportunity. That’s one of the most special things I’ve ever seen.”

MARK POTTER

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016 SPORTS 6

Question of the Week

Sophomore Hobbie

Who do you think will win the Super Bowl?

“‘Panthers... I’ve only been wrong about the Super Bowl once.”

Jacob

Senior Leivian

“The Denver Broncos because I love Peyton Manning.”

EmilieSenior

Byrne

“Well, I’m no expert in sports, but I can see a Panther eating a Bronco. It’s like a less pretty zebra and a less pretty lion fighting.”

Alison

“‘I’d say the Panthers!” “‘Denver and then Peyton’s going to ride into the wind.

Junior CromerJensen

SeniorJulianEaston

Bowling spares season with strong recoveryFollowing slow start, men’s, women’s bowling begin to shine

The men’s and women’s bowling teams started the season slower than

they hoped, but since then they have made significant strides. Both teams have traveled to St. Louis, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Illinois since November with their worst finish being seventh.

The men’s team enjoyed a season best, third place finish at the Lion’s Classic in St Louis in early November. Followed by a fifth place finish at the Southern Classic, taking place in At-lanta. In Las Vegas, they finished sev-enth at the Las Vegas Invitational and seventh at the Collegiate Shootout. Most recently, they brought home a tie for third at the McKendree Baker tournament two weekends prior.

The women’s team has finished higher in every tournament they have participated in this season in compari-son to last. In St. Louis they finished a season tying-best, second place. Atlanta was impressively their low-est finish since the first tournament of the season, finishing sixth. In both tournaments in Las Vegas, along with the McKendree Baker tournament in Illinois, the lady Jets finished and tied for fifth place.

Head Coach Billy Murphy said that the team has improved the last few months and credits that to team chemistry.

“Yeah, we are a ton better now than we were three months ago,” Murphy

said. “The guys have come around and the team chemistry is better, they perform better.”

Murphy says that the turning point for the program this season was the trip to St. Louis and that the success there has helped the team the past few tournaments.

“The Vegas trip was really good, but it really started in St. Louis quite honestly,” Murphy said. “We had a moment in that tournament where we were struggling a little bit and then it just hit them; like a light bulb, it just clicked.”

The men, who were sitting at 50 in the national power rankings, are currently ranked 24th. The women, currently sit at 14th, hoping to reclaim their season best ranking of 10th.

Both teams will travel to Dubuque, Iowa this weekend to participate at the Crusader Open and Coach Mur-phy is confident that his teams will meet the program’s expectations.

The Jets will conclude regular season play in Indianapolis at the Hoosier Classic Feb. 20-21. NEWMAN BOWLING prepares for the final two tournaments of the regular sea-

son, hoping to make it to the postseason competitions. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

By KYLE MAZZAStaff Writer

centage at 94.1 percent. DeYoung was awarded All-Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League Honorable Mention his

senior year.DeYoung said he decided to come

to Newman because of the academics and the basket-ball program.

“I wanted to get a good education

while getting a chance to play basket-ball,” DeYoung said. “I really liked how Coach Potter ran the program and the style of basketball he likes to play.”

Newman’s next game is tonight at 7:30 as they host Oklahoma Panhandle State. The Jets beat the Aggies earlier this year in Goodwell, Okla., 114-80.

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This week the first Americans cast their vote for who should become the Republican candidate for President of the United States. Hundreds of Io-wans cast their vote (or caucus rather) for Donald Trump, and thousands more votes are expected to be cast for the New York real estate mogul; however, mine will not be one of them.

Donald Trump is not who the Re-publican Party needs to lead them to the White House. His language is abrasive and he has blatantly disrespected numerous groups including Mexicans, Muslims, women, and the physically disabled community. This is why the Kansas Federation of College Republicans has barred any promotion of Trump by the Federation until an apology is giv-en and it is why Newman University College Republicans supports their

decision.Some may believe that Trump em-

bodies the rebellion in the face of polit-ical correctness that we need, howev-er, there is a difference between being politically correct and being respect-ful. While I agree that a candidate’s rhetoric should be tough and answer many tough issues, it should also be respectful of all people regardless of their position in society.

We cannot have a polarizing figure as the leader of our nation. If Trump were to shoot off at the mouth about Vladimir Putin of Russia or Hassan Rouhani of Iran we could find our-selves in the midst of World War III and the security of our nation would be at risk.

That reason alone is enough to pre-vent me from voting from Trump, but if we are to look at the actual positions that he takes then you see a bigger de-tractor.

Firstly, Trump has changed his po-sition on different positions so many times throughout the years that it is hard to tell what he actually thinks.

While former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in office the Don-ald believed that she did a wonderful job, but now, only a few years later, he thinks that she was a disaster. This is only one of many examples that I

could use.I understand that people change

their mind, but with no history of taking action other than opening his mouth and in an age where a man’s

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Dump Trump: The enemy of my enemy is dumb

New online payroll system is a pain in theThe age of technology is upon us

and there isn’t a group that’s more on board with the fast-paced, modern-ized ways of our ever-changing soci-ety than the college-aged demographic.

However, there’s a right way and a wrong way to mod-ernize. The new online timesheet program for student workers on campus, put into place by the Human Resourc-es department, is a perfect example of the wrong way.

The new system, run by Paycom Software, Inc., is less efficient and more time consuming than the prior time sheet protocol.

Before the change, student workers were required to pick up and fill out a paper timesheet every two weeks, log their hours as the week progressed,

get it signed by a supervisor and turn it in to the HR offices.

Yes, this process sounds outdated. I’m not arguing that – I’m all for a more efficient program for tracking student worker hours. However, the new online program is far from that.

The first flaw in the new system is simply accessing the system itself. Stu-dents were required to attend a train-ing meeting over the system before it was put in place at the start of the year. Though the meeting went over how to access, use and manage the student’s account on Paycom, a number of New-man students weren’t able to access their accounts until after contacting HR multiple times to obtain the cor-rect login information.

Senior Hangar employee Arianna Raga said she had a lot of trouble ac-cessing her account.

“I couldn’t get on with my first login,” she said. “I had to send a hand-ful of emails before I finally got a login that worked. The system just isn’t con-

venient.” Once students are finally able to

login to their accounts, you’d think it’d be smooth sailing from there. Think again.

The system is not very user friend-ly, causing students confusion on how to log their hours and requiring them to take time out of their schedules to fiddle with the site or visit HR.

Say eventually the students have access to their account and now fully understand how to use the system. Problem solved, right? Everything should be more efficient and effective online than with the paper timesheets – that’s just simple logic.

That would be the case if the new system required only online timesheets. However, once the stu-dents have finally logged their weeks’ hours, they must print off the time sheet, have their supervisor sign it and turn it in to HR.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? That’s because these are the exact

same steps students had to take with the old paper timesheet system. If we’re going to make the switch to on-line timesheets that should mean eve-rything will be completed online.

Even if students have no login trou-ble and understand the system flaw-lessly, they still have to print a paper copy, have their supervisor sign it and turn it in. The new payroll system doesn’t allow supervisors to approve hours online nor does it allow HR to log the student hours directly from their account. In actuality, the system adds a step because students have to print their own timesheet instead of grabbing pre-printed ones from the HR offices.

I’m all for modernization, but this isn’t a step in the right direction. Let’s save a tree, save some time and im-plement an actual online timesheet system that will be helpful to student workers, employers and HR alike.

Delaney Hiegert

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From “Trump” on Page 7word isn’t necessarily what he truly

believes, it is hard to believe this is his firm stance. We need a man who will hold true to the ideals that will get him elected and a man who actually be-lieves in something. As the Alexander Hamilton tells Aaron Burr in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton: “If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?”

Secondly, Trump fails to define the specifics of his beliefs. He has not es-

tablished when he believes that life begins and while on the trail he only brings up the issues he is conservative (in a relative sense) and does not bring up any of his liberal beliefs such as universal health care.

This election cycle has seen its fair share of candidates come and go. We have been able to compare different ideas and different people. We have the option to pick from many quali-fied candidates who will be able to lead this country back into prosperity.

Electing Donald Trump has the poten-tial to end the Republican Party as we know it, and that is something we can-not have.

We can do better.We MUST do better.

Wesley Williams is the Chairman of the Newman University College Republicans.