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In accordance with the Cam-pus Master Plan, the free park-ing spaces previously located near the soccer fields will be replaced with landscaping in order to make the view entering Emporia State campus from the highway more appealing.

“First impressions are terri-ble,” said Mark Runge, director of University Facilities.

There are currently free parking spots located in the back third of the Student Recre-ation Center parking lot, along with some spaces across the street.

Bryan Foltz, sophomore sec-ondary English education ma-jor, said he is happy about the new location of the free parking.

“It is closer to Morse (Hall) and it doesn’t feel like you are walking across campus just to get to your car,” Foltz said. “Es-pecially with this cold weather,

free parking being closer to the Rec and even to the dorms is going to help out a lot of stu-dents and make sure they are safe.”

Alyson Bartholomew, fresh-man Spanish major, said she wasn’t aware that the free park-ing had ever been in a different spot.

“We have already heard 100 percent positive remarks about how much better it looks on the north end of campus,” Runge said.

So far, the university has started working on replacing the gravel on the north side of campus with landscaping. A fence near the highway is being repaired. Landscaping has in-cluded mowing, filling ditches and working to take down the greenhouse and some of the buildings included in the Art Annex.

“We are losing students be-

Kansas budget shortfall

With Kansas facing a $278 million budget shortfall by July, budget cuts are looming in the back of some educator’s minds.

“We’re waiting and watch-ing,” said Michael Smith, pro-fessor of social sciences. “Right now, the main impact is that there is a little bit of money that maybe could do some good things.”

Emporia State is holding this money until they know wheth-er there will be a budget rescis-sion or not, Smith said. If there is, the “whole” can be filled by this money. If not, it can be re-leased for its original purpose.

“I think this will speed (the Master Plan) up,” Smith said. “It is, in part, a fund raising tool. The president (Michael Shon-rock) is very good at fund rais-ing and he is very close to the foundation.”

Smith said he’s sure Shon-rock has already taken the Mas-ter Plan to donors asked for support.

“I think you will see the Master Plan as a fundraising tool,” Smith said.

Werner Golling, vice presi-dent of Administration and Fiscal Affairs, said he was not aware of any planned budget cuts at ESU.

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Nick Thomsen, junior psy-chology major, said he was “fucking ecstatic” when he found out that Kansas was go-ing to become the 33rd state to legalize same-sex marriage.

“I just had this awesome feel-ing when I just read about it be-cause honestly, I thought Kan-sas would be one of the last ones to legalize it,” Thomsen said. “I was surprised that there’s a lot of people who are just open to the idea of it to the point where they said, ‘You know what, let’s just legalize this.’ To me, I’ve al-ways thought of Kansas like a pure Republican state, conser-vative and whatnot so when I heard this I figured, you know, maybe the politics and maybe the ideas about it really have changed more than I thought they did.”

Though in the courts there are still some trying to fight the lift on the ban – and some coun-ties are still not allowing licens-es to be filed – for the most part, Kansans are finally allowed to show their love no matter their sexual orientation.

For some students, this new fact will not affect their every-day life or future, but for others, this affects their ability to finally be able to marry. For Thomsen, the news came from Facebook and he was excited to hear it.

A few weeks ago when Kansas was still debating on whether or not they should lift the ban on same-sex marriage, there was a glimmer of hope for young gay and lesbian Kansans as their dreams of being able to get married seemed to be com-ing to fruition.

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(left)A man in a black hat is restrained and has soda dumped on his head by a crowd after yell-ing, “God said no” to same-sex marriages, outside the Sedgwick County Courthouse Monday. MARK REINSTEIN | the Bulletin

(right) Members of the Westboro Baptist Church protest outside the Sedgwick County Courthouse Monday prior to the weddings of about 20 same-sex couples on the courthouse steps. MARK REINSTEIN | the Bulletin

Roc’Quele Faldet holds her son Silis while she and her soon-to-be spouse, Breanna Faldet, wait to get married during a group wedding ceremony on the steps of the Sedgwick County Courthouse on Monday. MARK REINSTEIN | the Bulletin

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‘Last call’ for frat houses at ESU

If you’re looking to join a fraternity just for the all-night ragers, Emporia State is not the place for you. Now, five out of six fraternities that have houses are dry.

“On November 5th, the membership of Sigma Tau Gamma, Delta Chapter, voted to go dry,” said Josiah D’Albini, president of Sigma Tau Gamma in an email statement.

D’Albini did not respond to an interview request sent by The Bulletin by press time Wednes-day night.

Javier Gonzalez, director of

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Sigma Tau Gamma recently voted on Nov. 5 to declare its fraternity house to be dry. It joined alongside five other campus fraternities that are dry houses. NICHOLAS SUMNER | the Bulletin see FRATERNITY page 5

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“Eventually, I would say most likely we will eliminate free parking over the next few years. But with that said, as you grow older you’ll find that nothing is for free.”

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Police ReportsReports from ESU Police and Safety

Nov. 12Officer recovered bicycle

reported stolen, reference case 2014-C-049.

South Twin Towers zone 40 Fire. Smoke detector Room 112-B. Human error.

Officer checked KS 424GMD in Lot 11 by King Hall. Vehicle was running. Operator had run into one of the buildings for a mo-ment.

Nov. 13Officer flipped breaker

for Trusler Hall Room. 211.Officer checked Beach

Music Hall. Student Guard could not secure one of the doors.

Nov. 14Officer loaded bags of

hyalite into vehicle 3373 in preparation of winter weather.

Officer checked the op-erator of a campus Gator in Union Square. Operator was driving erratically. Of-ficer advised to be wary of pedestrians.

Officers responded to a report of a possible gas leak on 7th floor of South Twin Towers. Officers were un-able to detect an odor or leak.

Morse Hall Complex Reception reported eleva-tor malfunction in Central Morse Hall. Officer found no problem.

Nov. 15South Twin Tower zone

186 Fire. Smoke detector Room 516. Human error.

Singular/Trusler zone 1 Fire Trouble and zone 91 missing alarm are going off repeatedly.

Nov. 16ESU PD HQ received an

automated message from an elevator in Singular/Trusler Complex. Officer found no problem.

Officer contacted the op-erator of a vehicle parked improperly in 1500 Wooster Dr. and advised to move to a legal parking area.

Alarms in Singular/Trusler Complex sound continuously for zones 1 and 91. Mechanical prob-lem. Recurring problem.

The horn for KS 363FSF was going off in Sector 6. Officer contacted owner in Trusler Hall. Officer si-lenced the horn.

Nov. 17Officer provided escort

for two female students from 15th and Merchant to Twin Towers Complex.

Officer attempted to pro-vide jump start assistance for KS 915HBS at 13th and Exchange Ct.

Officer provided escort for a female student from 13th and Exchange Ct. to Memorial Union.

Male student requested to speak with an officer at Cremer Hall.

Nov. 18Officer stopped KS

085DBH at in Sector 1. Ver-bal warning for failure to yield to a pedestrian at 15th and Merchant.

Subject reported theft from W.A.W. Library.

A student checked in his firearm at ESU PD HQ.

Officer stopped KS 046GMC in 10 W 12th. Ver-bal warning was for driv-ing without taillights.

Officer stopped KS 882GLZ at 13th and Mer-chant. Citation for expired tag. Verbal warning for de-fective brake light.

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The ideas and renovations that accompany the Campus Master Plan were the main topic at the Associated Student Government meeting Nov. 13.

“Points of engagement with faculty, with other students – all those things are really the un-derlying mission of everything basically that occurs,” said Bob-bi Pearson, guest speaker and executive director of the Cam-pus Master Plan.

The Master Plan includes ideas for how Emporia State will look upon entering from all different directions, path-ways and roads that focus on making campus safe. The Plan also includes ideas for new buildings, new renovations in current buildings and possible destruction of some buildings.

“We want to celebrate com-ing onto campus,” Pearson said.

The Master Plan has new options for study nooks in most of the buildings. Study nooks will include modern furniture and will serve as places for stu-dents to gather.

“We are working on doing

some things for Plumb (Hall) over the winter break so you’ll see some furniture coming there,” Pearson said. “The fur-niture that is there is kind of dated. (It) looks like it belongs in an airport.”

Pearson said one of the goals of the Master Plan is to cre-ate a better atmosphere. Study nooks will also be equipped with technology.

“You can really grab a seat, move it over, join a conversa-tion,” Pearson said.

Regarding Residential Life, the Master Plan is hoping to purchase land on Merchant Street to build a mixed-use housing.

“We are really trying to think of everything we do on cam-pus, every resource we spend, stop and think, ‘Is it supporting our vision of the Master Plan?’” Pearson said.

It is a 10-year plan, but some steps have already been taken, including some changes in Cre-mer Hall and King Hall.

As the last meeting of the 91 session, the ASG senators focused on having all of their projects finished.

“My committee is done for the semester,” said Miranda Bargdill, senior psychology major and senate operations

chair. “We finished up all of our edits of the RSO Handbook. There’s just a couple pieces we need to stick in there and it should be good to go, so that’s really exciting.”

Matt Heafele, junior ac-counting major and ASG trea-surer, said that in a Financial Aid meeting with President Mi-chael Shonrock, options were discussed for making Financial Aid easier to understand for in-coming freshmen.

Haefele said the meeting with Shonrock also included discussion about having more helpful hints online that could tell students how much debt they would be in if they take out the same loan every se-mester or an online calendar of scholarships.

“Another thing we talked about was a financial literacy class, where either during Hor-net Connection or a have a job for a couple of students where high schoolers can email us or have an open discussion with us and say, ‘Here are some of the things that I’ve done. Here are some of the things that I wish I had done,’” Haefele said.

The first ASG meeting of the spring semester will be on Jan. 15, 2015 in the Senate Cham-bers.

Campus Master Plan topic of student government meeting

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Starting in Genesis, Micah Burt, the 23 year old assis-tant pastor for Lighthouse

Baptist Church will be conducting a Bible study

geared for college students and young adults. The study will be held on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 pm at his

house. If you are interested, call or text Micah at

(316) 633-0113.

At the Associated Student Government meeting, Michael Wilson, PA Director and junior communication ma-jor, catches senate members up during the committee reports section. The final meeting for the semester was held Thursday, Nov. 13 in the Senate Chambers of the Memorial Union. BRITTANY COLLINS | The BulleTin

“There may be a need in the future based on the state’s revenue shortfall, but at this time there has not been any request for us to reduce our budget,” Golling said.

Rob Catlett, director of the Center of Economics at ESU, said that if there are budget cuts, the short term will be more difficult than the long term.

“I’ve heard that there will be cutbacks from virtually every state agency, which would include ESU,” Catlett said.

Catlett said ESU’s budget is mostly made up of wages and salaries that are under contract.

“We could shut the lights off more frequently, conduct our classes in the dark,” Catlett said. “And I’m jok-ing, of course. But there are things that are not person-nel expenditures where we could cut back.”

In the long run, Catlett said there is more flexibility. Tuition could be raised and fees could be adjusted.

“It’s unprecedented to expect all of a sudden in the spring semester to come up with those additional funds, so we are in a much bigger bind in the short term than we are in the longer term,” Catlett said.

Catlett said he anticipates that some kind of action will have to be taken by the spring.

“I don’t see how we are going to make it through without getting into a dan-gerously low state balance,” Catlett said. “So I would an-ticipate the university will be asked to scale back in cer-tain areas.”

In the past, Catlett said that the university has been able to find savings in differ-ent areas to get by. He said hopefully we will be able to do the same now minimize some of the impact on fac-ulty, staff and students.

“Depending on what the governor proposes and what the legislature wants to do, it’s going to be kind of a scary time for a while,” Catlett said.

cause of what we look like,” Runge said. “We’ve got to clean it up.”The university spends just as much money to maintain free parking spaces as to maintain parking spaces that have been paid for. Runge said without any fees, free parking is basically a drain to the university.“Eventually, I would say most likely we will eliminate free parking over the next few years,” Runge said. “But with that said, as you grow older, you’ll find that noth-ing is for free.”Runge said prime parking is considered anywhere within a 10-minute radius of the center of campus. At ESU, that 10-minute line includes the current free parking in the north at the Rec Center parking lot, Neosho Street in the west, Eighth Street in the south, and East Street in the

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The university started innovating the open space between the highway and the soccer fields as part of the Campus Master Plan. Although some free parking was eliminated, students still have the opportunity for free parking near the student recreation center. BRITTANY COLLINS | The BulleTin

east.“To buy a Gray Permit here, it’s dirt cheap,” Ruge said. “$50 a year is approximate-ly $4 a month, which is ap-proximately 97 cents a week, which is approximately 14 cents a day to park.”

Runge said they are looking forward to next spring, when University Facilities will be able to continue their work on the north side of campus. He said getting rid of the previous free parking wasn’t anyone’s priority, just a result of the things the university wanted accomplished first.“There are blocks and blocks of free parking, all in close proximity to the campus,” Runge said.

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professor publishes

book about personal, political

philosophy

John Somer, Professor Emeritus of Emporia State, recently published “A Rose and Spider Web for Amer-ica’s Troubled Heart,” a book inspired in part by the passing of his wife, Connie, and son, John.

““A Rose and Spider Web for America’s Troubled Heart” is a story of how America drifted into our current political, economic, and social predicament, a story of what we may have lost during this process, and a story of what we may need to learn or relearn to fulfill the great promise of America,” Somer said in the description of his novel.

Somer has written sev-eral other texts throughout his life, both before and during his time at ESU. This includes coediting and coauthoring 12 academic books and writing three books for the general pub-lic: “The Vonnegut State-ment,” “Writing Under Fire: Stories of the Vietnam War,” and “The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing.”

“This is a little different, kind of philosophical; it’s not so much aimed at teach-ing and all of the things he’d done earlier. As far as I remember, they were more related to pedagogy and things like that,” said Jim Hoy, professor of English. “But this was his expres-sion of his own thoughts, kind of philosophical in na-ture. Like I said he always had this kind of penchant for ideas that had hit him and he’d just get excited by them… John has always been kind of a heavy think-er, a deep thinker really like that and (the passing of his wife and son) got him to, I think, thinking about the meaning of life.”

Somer taught at ESU from 1972 until his retire-ment in the late 90s. He taught, among other things, American Literature. In this book, he talks about the changes in the American people in the last 60 years and the way they view themselves and each other.

“It is my intention to reveal some of the many strands of our confusion and thus to help clarify the issues that divide us,” Somer said.

In addition to being a prolific writer, Somer was an engaging teacher during his time at ESU.

“Very intellectually en-gaged, sometimes very ex-citable, very enthusiastic, and most of his students, that’s one of the things you’d read on John’s teach-ing evaluations, his intel-lectual excitement, and the way he threw himself into things,” said Richard Keller, professor of English.

Through the writing of ‘A Rose and Spider Web for America’s Troubled Heart,’ Somer challenges intellec-tuals to mull over impor-tant issues facing America today.

“America’s history, es-pecially since World War II, is a dramatic illustration of the social confusion created by the subtle yet resonant changes in our ideas of life, death, and social norms,” Somer said.

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La Notte del’ Opera, or The Night of Opera, was a series of five opera scenes performed Saturday in Heath Recital Hall by the vocal op-era class.

“It’s called opera work-shop,” said Justin Petersen, graduate voice performance student. “We are all enrolled in this class, and it’s to get us familiar with opera, and it’s to prepare us for the spring op-era, because in the spring we do a full scale opera.”

Under the direction of Pe-nelope Speedie, professor of voice, costumed by Judy Rice and accompanied by Liu Li on piano, the seven opera work-shop students performed scenes from three operas in English, one in French, and one in Italian. Petersen said that language is difficult, but is also one of the main things that must be mastered as a vo-cal student.

“Freshmen normally just do Italian. Sophomores then venture into German, and juniors get French,” Petersen said. “But, in opera scenes, we just kind of base it on who is familiar with the language. By the time you’re a senior you should be able to at least read the four main (languages) – English, French, German, and Italian.”

One of the pieces per-formed was Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 3. Don

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Justin Petersen, graduate music student, as the role of Des Grieux, turns away from the pleas of forgiveness from Manon, played by Camille Kietzman, music major, in a scene from the opera “Manon” on Friday evening in Heath Recital Hall. La Notte del’ Opera was a collection of acts and scenes of five different operas per-formed in just over an hour. JENNIFER PENDARVIS | the Bulletin

Lesbian couple Jess Penn and Shanon Fletcher was the first couple to apply for a same-sex marriage license in mid-October was ultimately denied. However they were the first in line when the ban was officially lifted, and their license was approved this past Monday, November 17.

Another couple that is ex-cited to hear the news is Jaco-da Barger, senior psychology major, and Tyler MacDonald, junior sociology major – who have been dating officially about two and a half years and unofficially about seven years. The couple met in mid-dle school and were friends throughout high school.

“We were actually best friends for a long time and then I don’t know, you hear all the time about people falling in love with their best friend,” Barger said. “I guess it’s kind of a cliché but that’s what it was.”

For some Kansans, the al-lowance of same-sex marriage threatens the religious-made sanctity of marriage. But with the heterosexual divorce rate as high as 33-50% with only a

1.1-1.8% of same-sex divorce, there is not much to worry about. There is of course also talk of same-sex couples not being able to have children, but there is artificial insemination or adoption for options.

“It’s a good thing. I don’t know what people are so afraid of. They get married for the wrong reasons, get divorced – if that doesn’t ruin the sanctity of marriage, then us getting married isn’t going to ruin it,” says MacDonald. “People get married two or three times in their life and I get married once in my life, how is it going to ruin your life? We’ve been to-gether for half of people’s mar-riages.”

For now, the horizon looks bright for gay and lesbian Kan-sans, who take this ban lifting as a sign that perhaps Kansas is more accepting for all people. So far there are at least 10 coun-ties – Lyon included – that are accepting and granting same-sex marriage licenses.

“The way I see it, marriage has always been something that’s been a man-made insti-tute. You don’t exactly need

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Giovanni, who is notorious for having had 2003 women, has found himself in a sticky situation, having killed the father of Donna Anna, an en-gaged woman he’s trying to seduce. He runs into Anna and her fiancé and they ask him if he will help them find her father’s murderer.

“He’s amazed she doesn’t recognize him. He says, ‘Of course,’ and just as he’s about to ask her to come in for re-freshments in the castle, Elvi-ra comes out again and says, ‘No don’t trust him.’ By the time the quartet is over, Anna

and Ottavio are suspicious of the Don, and just as the Don leaves… Anna recognizes him as her father’s murderer, and as she leaves, Ottavio sings his wonderful aria say-ing how much he loves her and that he will avenge the death of her father,” Speedie said.

The aria, sung by Petersen, impressed Sarah Bender, ju-nior recreation major, because of the proficiency in the for-eign language and the overall delivery of the solo.

“I could really feel the emotion. It was just a pow-

erful performance,” Bender said.

In addition to Don Giovanni, La Notte del’ Op-era also featured a scene from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Theif, Jules Massenet’s Manon, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, a Japanese inspired opera featuring all seven per-formers.

“I thought they were well prepared and they did a won-derful job,” said Alan Com-stock, chair of the department of music.

Ariel Forsythe freshman biology major; YiXuan Liu, junior business major and Joohee Jeon, junior accounting major, practice Zumba as a workout in the Student Recreation Center Nov. 15. MAN XU | the Bulletin

Dancing the Night Away

Roc’Quele Faldet and Breanna Faldetare show off their wedding rings to their son Silis after getting married Wednesday during the group wed-ding ceremony on the steps of the Sedgwick County Kansas Courthouse. MARK REINSTEIN | the Bulletin

a ring or a piece of paper to say that you love someone or that you want to be with (them) for the rest of your life. But at the same time I’m also happy because in the eyes of the law we’re just as legal as anyone else, as we should be,”

said Thomsen. “I think that it doesn’t matter whatever you are – gay, straight, bi, whatever – I think if you love someone and they love you back you should be able to say that to the law, and the law should be able to recognize that.”

Taking away the things stu-dents treasure most is appar-ently something that Emporia State is good at.

Most recently, the issue is free parking. Until several weeks ago, free parking included a decently-sized parking lot across the street from the Student Recreation Center, along with spaces sur-rounding the soccer fields. The university decided to get rid of the spaces around the soccer fields to “clean up” the area because they want to make a better first impression.

While the university accom-modated the change by creating free parking spaces by the Gray Parking in the Student Recre-ation Center parking lot, who knows how long they will be there. Because free parking may “go away in a couple of years,” according to Mark Runge, director of University Facilities in an interview with The Bulle-tin this week. He also said, “But

with that said, as you grow older, you’ll find that nothing is for free.”

No kidding.Tuition has been steadily

rising at public universities, and went up 4.9 percent at ESU in just the last year. If we were college students 50 years ago, we’d only be paying pennies compared to what we pay now. And our options for parking passes range from $50-$95 – on top of our tuition, technology fees and campus privileges fees.

Hardly a bargain. On top of that, our food

options at Sodexo sometimes are triple the price of what we could get them somewhere else for. Then, a resolution was pro-posed to the Budget & Tuition Committee last spring to get rid to flat-tuition – something that is unique about ESU and is attractive to many potential students. Luckily, the resolution was dropped once outraged students condemned the reso-

lution on social media and on campus.

Runge also said that the uni-versity spends as much time maintaining the free parking areas as they do the paid-for spots on campus.

Really? I don’t buy that. The number of free parking

spaces is dwarfed in compari-son to the amount of paid-for spaces on campus. It certainly didn’t look like free parking was being kept up. These spaces weren’t even located in an asphalt parking lot that needed to be resurfaced. They were located on the outer edges of campus with weed-infested gravel.

ESU is losing students because of “what we look like,” according to Runge. No – we are losing students because our faculty and administration are not listening to what the students want. To me, keeping minimal free parking spaces is the least that they could do for

already financially drained stu-dents.

Students want free parking. Students want flat tuition. Stu-dents want the best education they can receive without feeling like they need to donate an arm and a leg to scientific research to do so.

But students also want faculty and administration that put their students – not physical appearances – first.

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Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching, which means it’s time to give thanks to those important people in our lives, no matter how much right or wrong they’ve done. Let’s begin:

Thank you, Emporia State, for being a caring group of faculty and staff. Students are privileged to have such a pro-fessional, yet compassionate group of people to help them through their college careers. Thank you for being there for students when they need you most.

Thank you, ESU students, for making for making your voice heard and making ESU an accepting campus. From PRIDE to JA Sakura, students have made ESU a model campus for other universi-ties to follow in our footsteps. Thank you, ESU students, for being a shining example of

what acceptance should look like.

Thank you, Emporia, for attending to students’ needs. Your discounts and acceptance for the student populace allow for ESU students to feel com-fortable while in town, making Emporia a home away from home. Thank you for your generosity towards the student body.

We give thanks for all these good deeds and more. Now, let us thank those who have done us wrong.

After all, ‘tis the season.Thank you, ESU, for confus-

ing and teasing students with free parking. Your plans for the new front view of ESU may have had good intentions, but students don’t seem to be too excited about the idea. Thank you for trying, but please try to appeal to the needs of current students better.

Thank you, Gov. Sam Brownback, for allowing your state to free fall into a massive deficit. Under your watch, Kansas is now $30 billion in debt. It’s as if you watched taxpayer money being thrown into a furnace while you twisted and twirled your hands together menacingly in your homegrown, farm town lair with your blind followers behind you.

Education has seen numer-ous budget cutbacks to its funding, forcing universities to discontinue programs and let go some of their staff members. Thank you, Brownback, for your clear, undying support for educators and the education system. Now Kansas doesn’t need to worry about its educa-tional system because soon it may not exist.

Finally, thank you, ESU, for your excellent food service

that forces students to go on that diet they’ve always said they wanted to do. Who knew hunger and unhealthy food choices were such a great way to get students to lose or gain that weight like they’ve always wanted?

In this season of giving

thanks, thanks should be given to those that deserve it. Whether you have been a gleaming, perfect human being or a wicked crustacean that deserves to be poked in the eye 1,200 times a day, you deserve to be thanked.

Thanks for being you.

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Students – and people in general – need to learn what and what not to post.

Recently, I’ve found myself giggling at and being perfectly entertained by Yik Yak, an app

that serves as a bulletin board for people to anonymously post whatever wild or fantasti-cally humorous thoughts run through their busy, pudding-brained minds.

The majority of the post-ings I find on Yik Yak serve as evidence for the downfall of decent society. Posts like, “Does anyone want to fuck in the library?” and other sexist, racist, or general discrimina-tory posts prove that the hope for a decent society is slowly falling into a bottomless pit filled with the uneducated, ill-mannered, youth of our country.

While Yik Yak allows its users to post anonymously, that shouldn’t make people

feel the need to post their most putrid thoughts regarding how they feel about race or how they would slaughter count-less villages and eat the hearts of every child within a 10-mile radius for the chance to get in bed with a person. People have forgotten that not every-thing that runs through their brains deserves to be shouted from a rooftop or posted on a message board.

While some of these post-ings are crude and indecent, some are mildly, if not greatly, entertaining. Every now and then, there will be a perfect gem of a post that keeps me laughing for minutes on end. Though rare, they are the reason I continue to scroll

through the app, even if they are severely outnumbered by these awful postings.

These senseless postings aren’t restricted to Yik Yak. Other social media, like Twitter and the titan that is Facebook, see these kinds of posts every day, but in far greater numbers.

The nonsensical and vague status updates and tweets are just as bad the vulgar post-ings. I don’t care about your vague status that’s begging for attention. Chances are, no one will give it a second glance, and your craving for likes and retweets will go unsatisfied.

If you’re dying to post something for the world to see, make it meaningful and useful. If something happens in your

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Thanks for the Sentiment

“I hope you have a pleasant Thanksgiving, that you have a Merry Christmas, and, since I probably won’t see you in the few days’ span between Christ-mas and the end of the year,

Happy New Year as well,” is kind of a mouthful.

“Happy Holidays,” on the other hand, sums it up nicely.

Thanksgiving is next week, so whether your mom asks you to make a run to the store for cranberry sauce or you just stop by the gas station, chances are that every day for the next month or so, you’ll hear at least one cashier or stranger wish you, “Happy Holidays.”

I honestly can’t understand what the problem is, but mil-lions of people get their hackles up if someone doesn’t instead say, “Merry Christmas.”

Let’s set aside, for a moment, the fact that there are other major religious holidays celebrated in the weeks fol-

lowing Thanksgiving, such as Hanukkah – or less observed holidays, both religious and secular, such as St. John’s Day and Pearl Harbor Day. Never mind the fact that ascribing a certain belief to a customer based solely upon a one minute interaction and their physical appearance basically amounts to profiling, and is rude besides. Let us, instead, focus on sheer practicality.

Even if you practice Christ-mas for strictly non-secular reasons, you will still likely be celebrating more than one holiday in the span of the next month. I don’t mean to imply that season’s greetings should be limited to “Happy Holi-days.”

It’s a two-way street. If you happen to be someone

who observes another holiday or doesn’t partake in religious observance, don’t start eye-rolling or getting up in arms when someone wishes you “Merry Christmas,” or “Happy Hanukkah.”

During this time of the year when the nights are getting longer and the wind is getting colder, we need to remember to just be thankful. Be thankful that someone, however sincere they might or might not be, took time out of their day to hope that things are going all right for you, wishing that you find happiness during argu-ably one of the hardest times of the year.

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state that you disagree with or are enthusiastic about, post about it and create an engaging conversation, instead of posting about a teacher refusing to stop teaching simply because it’s nearing the end of the semester.

Our obsession with posting every little thing that comes to us will be our downfall. Watch what you post.

The Bulletin | Nov. 20, 2014 HORNET LIFE 5Sensory room opens in Visser Hall

With a background in special education and training in sensory rooms, Ida Kerbs demonstrates one of the seven stations in the new sensory room located in Visser Hall on last Thursday evening. Mellow, fun light-ing, a music station with bubble speakers and a maze with tunnels and bus shaped tents are just a few of the features the room offers for student use. JENNIFER PENDARVIS | The BulleTin

Fraternity and Sorority Life, said the fact that so many ESU fraternities are going dry is a beneficial aspect to campus be-cause it sets a precedent for a good example.

“We all know the negative stereotypes that tend to be given to fraternities and sorori-ties,” Gonzalez said. “A huge part of it tends to be alcohol-related and so when you take that away, you open up new doors and new avenues and finally get rid of that stereo-type.”

Alpha Kappa Lambda has also been dry since its return to the ESU campus in April of 2008. Jared Germann, sopho-more secondary education ma-

jor and member of the frater-nity, said that for them, being a “dry” house means no parties.

“We have an apartment complex and because of that we can have alcohol in our rooms,” Germann said. “We have guidelines in places that make sure that we manage al-cohol efficiently and maturely.”

Germann said that he sup-ports any house that chooses to go dry in order to benefit their organization and that it allows for a healthy environment for studying.

“There’s no worries of hav-ing a big rager on a Tuesday night keeping you awake,” Germann said.

For Phi Delta Theta, being “dry” doesn’t just mean not having parties.

“There’s no alcohol permit-ted on the premises – that in-cludes cars in the parking lot, anything,” said Victor Acosta, junior marketing major and treasurer of Phi Delta Theta.

The fraternity has been dry since the 1990s and is now dry nationwide.

“They saw how success-ful it was and they decided to implement that,” Acosta said.

The stigma of fraternities being places to party is elimi-nated by being dry, said Domi-nic Eliot, junior history educa-tion major and president of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Sigma Phi Epsilon has been dry since August of 2013 in order to help the fraternity im-prove academically. For them, being dry also means having zero alcohol on their prop-erty. Since then, Dominic said that fraternity has been able to grow without having parties.

“Being able to have parties and drink is not what being in a fraternity is about,” Eliot said. “While there is nothing wrong

with people wanting to have a good time, people do not al-ways understand the legality of being wet and hosting par-ties and the risk they are taking by hosting the parties.”

The Kappa Sigma fraternity has also been dry since 2012, when their charter was pulled because a student was alleg-edly assaulted by someone underage in their parking the night of a party. The issue arose from the party being “open” and the report of underage drinking.

From 2012 to 2013, the num-ber of liquor law arrests for ESU students rose from seven to 23. In 2012 and 2013, how-ever, there were zero liquor law

arrests on non-campus prop-erty. Non-campus property includes fraternity and soror-ity houses. The Alcohol/Drug Abuse Prevention Program at ESU “requires newly enrolled, degree seeking students under the age of 22 to complete the AlcoholEdu program.”

Sigma Pi is the remaining “wet” fraternity at ESU. Chase Sossi, secondary English edu-cation major and member of the fraternity, said he doesn’t believe there is a stigma at-tached to being the only wet fraternity and that he hasn’t felt any pressure to go dry. He also said being a wet house gives members a safe place to stay.

“I can’t really say if we will become a dry house or not, but I think as long as we keep be-ing responsible and following our guidelines and values, the decision should remain up to the members apart of the chap-ter,” Sossi said.

As far as consequences for fraternity members coming back to their houses drunk when the house is dry, Gona-zlez said it depends on the fra-ternity.

“Almost every chapter has a JRB or Judicial Review Board. So they all have their own sanctions and rules in regard to violating any type of rule,” Gonazlez said. “If they have the organizations to a certain degree in regards to that sanc-tion of being dry, in regards to saying, ‘That is not permit-ted,’ then yes, there would be some type of reprimand, but more what holds true is that as long as no one gets hurt, yes, then that’s what happens. But generally, as long as no drink-ing happens on the premises, if they got drunk outside the house, then that’s a whole dif-ferent story.”

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TOPEKA (AP) — A To-peka city committee has de-clined to take action on a pro-posed public nudity ban that is headed to the City Council for consideration.

The council’s Public Health and Safety Committee voted 3-0 Tuesday to make no

recommendation on whether public nudity should be-come a misdemeanor offense. Committee members say the council should make the de-cision.

The issue arose after a man was seen walking nude in south central Topeka earlier

this year. The proposed ban wouldn’t apply to children under age 10 or breastfeeding women. Violators could face up to 30 days in jail and a fine of between $1 and $499.

Public nudity isn’t banned by state law or Topeka ordi-nance, though state law pro-hibits it in the context of sex-ual arousal.

It’s unclear when the coun-cil will consider the issue.

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Students across Emporia State’s campus are count-ing down the days left until Thanksgiving Break so they can eat delicious and filling home cooked meals while enjoying the company of their family. But for many international students, Thanksgiving is not a part their normal tradition.

Elena Kimmerzell, fresh-man political science major from Germany, normally does not celebrate Thanks-giving. Although, she does celebrate something similar.

“Translated into English, it would be Harvest Festi-val of Thanks,” Kimmer-zell said. “But it’s not really celebrated, it’s more of a church thing. So when you go to church it’s decorated with harvested goods.”

This year, however, is the first time some students will be celebrating a holiday like this. For Chuckwunenye Nweke, freshman psychol-ogy major from Nigeria, this is the first time he has cel-ebrated Thanksgiving. He has nothing like it at home.

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Yang Hong, graduate business administration student, and MengYi Li, junior marketing major, play cards with their friends to spend the weekend in their apartment on Saturday, Nov. 15. They said they would like to drive to Kansas City to experience Black Friday this year. MAN XU | the Bulletin

this country to get to know its culture and I’m trying to get a feel for this country and I’ve been told (Thanksgiv-ing) is one of these traditions

as well as Christmas and I’m really hoping someone invites me,” Nweke said.

Tamer Abdullah, fresh-man business major from

Syria, is another student that has never witnessed a Thanksgiving celebration.

“I like (Thanksgiving),” Abdullah said. “It is good

to remember that we should be thankful and grateful for our health and we are still eating from food and drink that are blessed from God.”

Combine sharing program aims to boost farm income

WICHITA (AP) — A combine-sharing program touted Wednesday as the first of its kind aims to give farmers a chance to make some money off expensive equipment that sits idle once harvest is fin-ished, and could provide competition next season for custom cutters.

The “Farmer to Farmer” program from FarmLink, a Kansas City, Missouri-based agribusiness, will let farmers inKansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas who have spring or early summer harvests of winter wheat or other crops rent their equip-ment to farmers farther north. While farm equip-ment rentals themselves are nothing new, industry

officials say the idea and scale of this program is somewhat of a novelty.

“It is very similar to kind of vacation sharing or car sharing program,” according to FarmLink spokeswoman Meredith Powell.

FarmLink would con-tract with farmers who own certain combines from model years 2012 or newer, pick up the equip-ment after the harvest and deliver them to those who rent the machines for the late summer and fall har-vests. Combine owners could make as much as $40,000 a year in extra income by participating, a price based mostly on how much the rental combine is used, she said, and Farm-

Link would shoulder the cost of any needed main-tenance and repairs.

Tracy Zeorian, execu-tive director of the indus-try group U.S. Custom Harvesters, said she expects farmers will see the program as a great opportunity.

“When the commod-ity prices were high, we were seeing farmers with brand new combines that we never would have seen otherwise,” she said, adding that many farmers are still saddled with pay-ments. “Unfortunately, the cost of equipment is so tremendously high that a farmer can’t justify having a combine sitting around for two to three weeks a year.”

Updates with quotes from state official

TOPEKA (AP) — The federal government has told the state that the Osawatomie State Hos-pital has three weeks to correct problems found in a recent inspections or it will no longer be eligible for Medicare payments. The head of the Kansas agency that oversees the hospital says she’s confi-dent that won’t happen.

Kari Bruffett, secre-tary of the Department of Aging and Disability Services, assured a legis-lative committee Tuesday that the state has a plan to help address problems — particularly overcrowd-ing — before Osawatomie is taken off Medicare, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.

“We don’t think that’s going to happen,” Bruffet told the Joint Committee on Home and Commu-nity Based Services and KanCare Oversight. “We in fact have a plan of cor-rective action. It includes resolving the outstanding issues this week.”

Osawatomie State Hos-pital and Larned State Hospital are the only two state hospitals that house patients with severe mental illness. The last inspection by the Center for Medicare and Med-icaid Services cited over-crowding at Osawato-mie, Bruffett said. As of Tuesday, the hospital had 221 patients, 15 more than its legal capacity.

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Chipotle hoax sparks flurry of excitement

After a picture was post-ed on Instagram Nov. 12 of a flier claiming that Chipo-tle was coming to Emporia, students immediately began posting it on different social media sites.

But it was all just a prank.Paul Griffin, junior com-

munication major, was be-hind the hoax. Griffin said he expected the picture to cause a lot of hype.

“It (was for) a public rela-tions class and after the pre-sentation, our teacher joked about not posting it since it could happen,” Griffin said. “I didn’t think people would just fall for it so easily.”

Melissa Falk, senior psy-chology major, was among those students who fell for the hype. In the tweet, Falk said she was glad she would graduate before then because otherwise she would “be the first blonde sumo wrestler.”

“I think we need more restaurants because Empo-ria doesn’t have much vari-ety besides hamburgers and pizza,” Falk said. “It would be nice to have more chain sit-down restaurants instead of just Applebee’s. I wasn’t too upset when I found out it was a joke, though, be-cause I graduate in May, so it wouldn’t apply to me any-way.”

The idea of the project was to work on marketing skills. The students did a survey to find out something that Em-poria doesn’t have but needs and then gave a 30-minute presentation about it.

The Chipotle project was done by Spencer Anderson, senior communications ma-jor with an emphasis in pub-lic relations, Tyler Wright,

senior communication major, Patrick Webb, senior com-munications major and Tay-lor Weisman, junior commu-nication major.

“We made a good-looking flier, but it was just a project for class,” Anderson said.

Anderson said he didn’t realize that the flier had been posted on social media or that people were believing it.

“Social media and word of mouth are the most effec-tive ways of getting the word out,” said Carol Strickland, professor of the Principles of Public Relations class where the project was presented.

Strickland said when she was running off copies of the flier a student saw it and said, “Oh my gosh, Chipotle is coming.”

“It proves exactly what we have been saying in class about when you get people buzzing about something,” Strickland said. “There might be people standing in line on December 15 of next year for this opening.”

Strickland said she was on the phone with someone who lives near Kansas City, Kan. and they had seen the fliers and heard the news that Emporia was getting a Chipotle in 2015.

“The kids had said, ‘What if we just start the buzz? Do you think Chipotle would respond to it?’” Strickland said, “And I said, ‘You never know until you try.’”

Strickland said someone would have to be willing to buy the franchise and put the money into it, but if the flier was circulated around enough, there is a chance that it might be able to hap-pen eventually.

“I kind of saw this light in their eyes like, Oh, maybe we can get something going,’” Strickland said.

Sigma Tau Delta hosts second Open Mic Night

Last Monday in the Greek Room, Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, hosted Open Mic Night. Students gathered for a night of poetry and music.

“We enjoyed (Open Mic Night) so much last semes-ter that we decided to do one each semester,” said Caitlen Giesing, junior English major and vice president of Sigma Tau Delta.

All attendees were al-lowed to pitch in and help write a group poem. A pa-per went around the room and each person could add as much or as little as they wanted. At the end of the show, the completed poem

was read.Participants could sign up

at the door and were required to keep each time they were at the mic to a maximum of five minutes.

“I’m probably going to do poetry later, but now I’m going to sing,” said Murad Jalilov, sophomore politi-cal science major. “It’s a Ra-diohead song. It’s called ‘Nude.’”

Jalilov returned to the mic two more times in or-der to read poetry. He said his poetry shows how he has changed and grown.

“The first poem that I am reading doesn’t really have a title, but I fondly call it the ‘Puss Poem,’” said Lyndsey Kopsa, senior interdisciplin-ary studies major. “It’s just this exchange that happened with me and my father one

evening.”Kopsa also read a poem

about a relationship between Trix the rabbit and Sonny the Cuckoo Bird and their strug-gles with battling addiction.

Ada Verhaeghe, graduate library science student, as-cended to the podium with a notebook full of scratches and ink blots. She went to the mic a total of three times and read eight poems.

Tyler Sheldon, graduate English student, read a poem called “Mocking Gravity” about the power outage the night before Halloween.

“I’ll start with one called ‘Climbing Trees,’”said Will Austin, senior interdisciplin-ary studies major. “And it’s all in second person.”

Austin played and sang his original song with an acoustic guitar. He returned to the front later to perform another original song.

“I was on a trip to Argen-tina. It was a mission trip thing,” Austin said. “We got to see a place that was like a rehab camp where people were building their own houses and everything. It was all these people who were basically recovering drug addicts.”

Austin said that later that semester after returning to school some bad things hap-pened to him, a lot of which he said was his fault. He said it really impacted him when he realized that a lot of those people had more figured out than he did.

At the end of the night, the group poem was read. It started with, “There were tracks in the snow.” It tracked the journey of a boy that was out hunting and was at-tacked by a wolf. He tried to fight through it but couldn’t. The last line, written by Kop-sa, was “As he lay dying.”

“It just kept saying blood in everyone’s and I was like okay, he’s dying,” Kopsa said.

Ada Verhaeghe, graduate library science student, recites several of her poems at Sigma Tau Delta’s Open Mic Night on Monday. This was the organization’s second Open Mic Night and they hope to host another in the spring semester. SHIVAM BHAKTA| The BulleTin

Records reveal divide on Ferguson police tactics JEFFERSON CITY (AP)

— Newly released emails, sent to and from Missouri’s top public-safety officials, show that the state police captain placed in charge of security in Ferguson after Michael Brown’s death was both vilified and praised for attempting to replace authorities’ militarized ap-proach with one more sym-pathetic to protesters.

The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through an open-records re-quest, also show that police tried to find a way to protect members of the clergy who were in the protest crowds, and that some officers ob-jected to an order to take their meal breaks in public.

The messages offer a small window into the in-ner workings of Missouri

law-enforcement agencies as they tried to quell the tensions that arose follow-ing the fatal shooting of the black 18-year-old by white police officer Darren Wilson. The records also illustrate one of the many challenges authorities could face if new protests develop — how to walk a fine line between providing public empathy and security.

There is no specific date for a grand jury decision to be announced on whether to charge Wilson. But antici-pation has been mounting because St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch has said previously that he expects a decision by mid-to-late November.

As early as Labor Day weekend, police were al-ready discussing the need to

develop a well-coordinated plan for a potential surge in protests when the grand jury decision is announced.

Brown, who was un-armed, was shot after some sort of confrontation with Wilson, who had ordered Brown and a friend to quit walking down the center of a street. Wilson has told authorities that he realized after initially encountering Brown that he matched the description of a suspect in a convenience store robbery that occurred just minutes earlier, according to reports in the St. Louis Post-Dis-patch that cited unnamed sources.

The shooting stirred long-simmering racial tensions in the predominantly black St. Louis suburb where the police force is composed

almost entirely of white of-ficers. After a night of riots and looting, police in subse-quent days approached pro-testers in armored vehicles and used tear gas after some demonstrators threw rocks or Molotov cocktails.

Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Pa-trol, who is black, was put in charge by Gov. Jay Nixon to try to restore calm. He talked and marched with protesters, posed with them for photos and spoke to loud applause at a rally where he apologized to Brown’s fam-ily and described his rela-tionship with his own son who wears sagging pants and has tattoos.

Johnson and his super-visors received numerous emails and phone calls com-plimenting his demeanor

from law officers across Mis-souri and the country.

“Your agency and Cap-tain Johnson are making Troopers all over the coun-try proud,” Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Col. Matt Langer wrote to Missouri State Highway Patrol Col. Ron Replogle.

But other current and retired law enforcement of-ficers sharply criticized the highway patrol, asserting that Johnson’s apology and actions implied Wilson was guilty of a crime without the benefit of a trial.

“The actions of Cpt. John-son have infuriated me,” retired patrol officer Mike Watson wrote to Replogle. “He has single handedly destroyed the reputation of the Missouri State Highway Patrol.”

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The Emporia State men’s basketball team went 1-1 in the Las Vegas tournament on Friday and Saturday. They won against Univer-sity of St. Paul Concordia 61-52 on Friday and lost to St. Cloud State 77-87 on Sat-urday.

At Friday’s game against St. Paul, the Hornets started off strong with a 7-2 run over St. Paul. They led most of the first half and ended the half leading by a point.

Coming out of the half, Concordia took their first lead with 44-40 at the 11:51 minute mark. Then, ESU started a 12-1 run and con-trolled the rest of the game, winning 61-52.

Terrance Moore, junior guard, led ESU with 21 points in the game, and Spencer Gales, junior forward, led in rebounding.

The first ten minutes of Saturday’s game against St. Cloud had six lead changes, as neither team could pull away. ESU lead 34-32 at half but St. Cloud went on a 13-0 run to take a 57-46 lead over ESU with less than 10 minutes left in the game.

ESU tried to take the lead by cutting St. Cloud’s lead to 75-66, but St. Cloud made five free throws to win the game 87-77.

Moore again led ESU with 24 points, six rebounds and three steals. Joining him in the double figures was Micah Swank, junior guard, with 12 points and Jevon Taylor, sophomore guard, with 11 points.

The Hornets’ next game is Friday, Nov. 21 against Eastern New Mexico Uni-versity.

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On a snowy Saturday afternoon in Kearney, Neb. the ESU football team fell just short of the largest come-back in school history by a score of 42-40. The Hornets were down 42-14 at the half and scored 26 unanswered points in the second half. They were just two yards short of what was needed to pull the comeback.

The Hornets were down 21 points headed into the fourth quarter. A 51-yard pass from Ty Reasnor, freshman quarterback, to Justin Brown, junior receiver, made the score 42-34, ESU kicked it deep. Following thee consecutive tackles-for-loss, UNK was forced to punt into a chill-ing wind from their own 11 yard line. The Lopers’ punt went only three yards. With the Hornets’ having fantastic field positioning, it took a three-yard pass from Reasnor to Brown to make it 42-40. The two-point conver-sion failed. Lyndel Johnson, senior safety, recovered an onside kick and the Hornets were given one last shot to complete the comeback.

Three straight incomple-tions forced a fourth and ten situation. Reasnor was forced to scramble for the first down but came up two yards shy of the first down. UNK ran out the clock with only 1:13 remaining to seal their first victory over ESU since 1986.

The Hornets finished the season 4-7 – their first losing record since 2011.

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falls short

The Emporia State vol-leyball team went 1-1 in their final weekend of the season, losing 3-0 to #6 Nebraska-Kearney followed by a 3-1 victory over Fort Hays State University in their final game of the season.

Friday’s home game against the Kearney Lopers started out with a close set, having 11 ties and five lead changes until Nebraska-Kearney put a small run together to take the set 25-21. The Lopers kept that momentum going into the second set, jumping out to a 6-1 lead. The Hornets were never able to take the lead but managed to fight off three set points before giving up the match 25-22.

The final set also had 11 ties and five lead changes, the last of which would be at 16. The Hornets fought off three match points before the Lopers would win the final set and the match 25-23.

“Kearney, they’re a very athletic team,” said Bing Xu, head coach, said in a media interview after the game. “They have big weapons everywhere in their front. We (defended) them very well, especially blocking-wise. We out blocked them, for me, all

three sets, the whole entire game, the little things cost us. They’re a good defen-sive team. They keep the ball alive a lot.”

The Hornets finished up their season Saturday against FHSU at White Auditorium. ESU rolled through the first two sets, winning both 25-20. The Tigers rallied in the third set, never letting the Hornets have the lead to win the set 25-21. The fourth and final set had five ties and one lead change but a run at the end clinched the match for the Hornets 25-21.

The MIAA rankings, which were released Wednes-day, named Carly Spicer, senior outside hitter, First-Team MIAA Outside Hitter. Courtney Haring, senior hitter, received Second-Team Honors at middle blocker. Five other Hornets received Honorable Mention.

“I’m so proud of our team and how we came together this season,” Spicer, an ele-mentary education major, said. “I’m really going to miss all the girls and the game itself, but I’m glad we could at least get the win on senior night.”

After graduation Spicer said she plans to go to grad-uate school and will be a graduate assistant for the volleyball team next season.

Volleyball goes 1-1

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Carly Spicer, senior hitter, stands by her parents Jeri and Bill Spicer be-fore her last game as a Hornet. Spicer ended the season ranked fourth in the MIAA and was named First-Team All-MIAA outside hitter. ROCKY ROBINSON | The BulleTin

Shayla Cotman, sophomore hitter, goes up for a tip in last weekend’s final home game against Fort Hays State. The Hornets won their final match of the season 3-1. ROCKY ROBINSON | The BulleTin

Coach Slaymaker back on sideline at Chase County

Ron Slaymaker, former men’s basketball coach and member of the Emporia State Hall of Fame, is back on the sidelines coaching, but not at Emporia State.

Slaymaker is now the head girls’ basketball coach at Chase County High School. Slaymaker has posted a remarkable 594 vic-tories on his record between high school and college. 463 of them came during his tenure as ESU men’s coach from 1970-98 – the most in school history.

“I’ll coach those girls the same way I coached college men,” Slaymaker said.

Slaymaker, 77, has been a high school official for the past 17 basketball seasons. He had a hip replacement and couldn’t officiate this winter. The Chase County girls caught his eye from their middle school days when he used to officiate them.

“I saw there was an opening for the job, and I figured what the heck, I can still coach,” Slaymaker said.

Chase County hasn’t been a school known for its basketball, so for Gregg Errebo, Chase County ath-letic director, it was a no-brainer hire.

“He’s a great coach,” Errebo said. “He’s got a hall of fame track record. He showed some interest in in the job and we talked for a bit, and I thought what I really need is a great role model and a great person,

and he fits the bill.”Slaymaker said he always

wanted to coach girls and always had an interest in working with them since he ran his basketball camps at ESU.

“Girls listen, and they’ll run through a wall for you, and I like teams like that,” Slaymaker said.

Slaymaker’s coaching career started in the 1960s as an assistant at ESU. After that, he went to be the head boy’s coach at Roosevelt High School in Emporia, where his record was 131-12. After those six years, he was at ESU where he took the Hornets to four national tournament appearances and won District 10 Coach of the Year six times.

Slaymaker also served as an assistant coach for the United States national team at the 1987 World Games and was on the 1988 Olympic Basketball Selec-tion Committee.

While Slaymaker’s win-loss record speaks for itself, he also had a knack for being a “player’s coach” and would do almost any-thing for his players.

“Coach Slaymaker is really the best of both worlds. He would be intense when he needed to be and he would pick you up if you needed that, too,” said Michael Wohlgast, a former assistant of Slay-maker. “What makes coach Slaymaker a great coach is that he’s a great person and he’ll get the best out of you because of the relationship he builds with you.”

The Emporia State Women’s Basketball team went undefeated in the Ash-brook Classic in Wichita Falls, Texas with a 76-61 win over Texas Woman’s Uni-versity Friday, and a 62-51 win over Midwestern State on Saturday.

On Friday’s game against Texas Woman’s, ESU started with a 7-2 lead with the Pioneers coming back to take the lead 13-12 with 13:50 left in the first half. The Hornets took the lead 44-31 from a 15-0 run over Texas Woman’s before the half. ESU took control of the game in the second half by continually leading the Pio-neers by almost 18 points.

The Hornets won 76-61 over the Pioneers to advance to the championship game.

Merrisa Quick, senior forward, led ESU with 23 points. She also had nine rebounds and eight blocked shots. Kelly Moten, sopho-

more guard, had 14 points, and Kelsey Barnwall, junior guard, had 12 points in the game.

In Saturday’s game against Midwestern State, the Hornets finished the first half at ease with a 14-2 run and later caught up to erase a five-point deficit to win over Midwestern State.

Midwestern took the largest lead over ESU at 21-14. ESU rebounded their way to take a 33-26 lead at half, and came out with a 17-2 run over Midwestern State to win the Ashbrook Classic.

Addie Lackey, freshman guard, and Amber Vandiver, senior forward, both led ESU with eleven points each. Quick followed with seven points, seven rebounds, and four blocked shots.

Emporia State will play against Southwestern College at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22 at William Allen White auditorium for their home opener of the regular season.

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