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volume 137, Issue 9 • wednesday, october 27, 2010

“Wonderful World of WU” ends with Homecoming crowning

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Last Wednesday, Washburn shift-ed their focus to a timely topic.

The Washburn Law Federalist Society sponsored a debate with the topic, “High Time: Should We Legal-ize Drugs in America?” The debaters were New York University Law Pro-fessor James B. Jacobs and Topeka doctor and drug policy expert Eric A. Voth.

Jacobs serves as professor of Con-stitutional Law and the Courts and the director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice. He was also ap-pointed to the advisory board of the National Institute of Corrections by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

The board is an agency that is part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons. Jacobs took the side of Pro-drug legalization during this debate.

Voth serves as the chair-man for The International Drug Strate-gy Institute and has a medical practice in Topeka. Voth earned his medical degree at The University of Kansas Medical School. Voth wrote an article for “The World and I,” entitled “Amer-ica’s Longest ‘War.’” He took the side of anti-drug legalization during this debate.

The debate began with the ques-tion, “What would the world look like if all drugs that are commonly crimi-nalized now such as cocaine, heroin, and meth were to be made legal?”

Jacobs had the opportunity to be-gin on this question. While he admitted his view has changed over the years and that there is no simple answer he did have some suggestions.

“We are living through a period of mass incarceration which is very much on my mind, 2.2 million people in pris-ons and jails on any given day in the United States,” said Jacobs. “About one-fourth of that population is there because of the drug effects.

“Let’s say roughly half a mil-lion people incarcerated for taking drugs, possessing drugs and selling drugs, trafficking drugs and then go-ing through the prison system being acculturated to that and going back on the streets, being assigned away to the criminal underclass.”

He said that it would be better if all drugs would be legal but “with hesitation.” His suggestion would be that if all those who had been in prison for drug use, possession, etc. would no longer be in jail there would be less “racial profiling,” “less police corrup-tion,” and “take away the monopoly

[of the drug market].”Voth on the other hand believed

that making drugs legal would lead to many problems such as more drug re-lated accidents.

“Realize that drug use is not a victimless event and the whole issue around drugs really loses the fact that drugs create their own demand,” said Voth. “It’s not like wheat, it’s not soy beans, in other words if all of a sudden you have a mass supply of those things or prices go down, you have a flow of use or maybe a little increase of wheat sales, but with drugs one of the major things, that I see in treating over 4,000 addicts is that one of the major factors that holds them back is the cost of the

drug. Voth also said that de-

mand with drugs falls into how much can be bought and how much is needed to pass out or overdose. This means that if any-thing is done about drugs and affects the demand,

“the floodgates use will go up”In the second half of the pre-

sentation, the question was “What about marijuana, alone, putting the other drugs aside, should it be legal-ized?”

Jacobs argued that though there are many negative affects to drugs ,the government should not have control over what a person should be able to do.

He then went on to discuss how many people have done drugs and still be successful.

“There are millions and millions of people who have taken illicit drugs, and lived happily ever after and grow up to become doctors and lawyers, and law professors, and business men and congressmen, and presidents of the United States,” said Jacobs. “And they don’t become addicts, they don’t be-come abusers. Yes, there are some who get in trouble with these things but there are some who get in trouble with every kind of substance and activity.”

Voth argued that drug use changes a person’s ability to make responsible decisions.

“Let’s talk about freedom from repression,” said Voth. “I would ven-ture to comment that there is nothing as repressive as addiction. The addict that quit smoking, that can’t give up heroine, that can’t walk away from his marijuana, that can’t quit drinking, and his life has been enslaved. He has been made a slave to a substance.”

A former Washburn Student Gov-ernment Association member is one step closer to turning his political as-pirations into reality.

Garrett Love, president of the Washburn Student Government As-sociation in 2009-10, is running to be the representative for District 115 to the Kansas House of Representatives using many of the tactics he learned when running for WSGA president.

“I went to see him this summer, and it was funny because his campaign looked a lot like ours did when he ran at Washburn,” said Lucas Mullin, cur-rent WSGA vice president and Love’s WSGA campaign manager. “He’s all about going door-to-door and really meeting people.”

Love, a resident of Montezu-ma, Kan., said his involvement with WSGA and the Leadership Institute were the most formative experiences he had that led him to his current run for office.

“Definitely if I hadn’t done those, I wouldn’t have obtained the skills necessary to campaign,” said Love. “A lot of the skills I have now come from learning it at the Leadership Institute and then putting it into practice and really working it out in WSGA.”

Those skills benefit-ted him when he went up against Melvin Neufeld, the former representative of District 115, who had served in that position since before Love was even born. Despite the in-cumbent’s vast experience, Love won twice the votes in the August Repub-lican primary. The voting turnout was a record for a primary in that district, which was surprising considering that Love is a 22-year-old running in an arena where few are under 30.

Although one obstacle of the campaign is over, Love will still have opposition from 31-year-old Ashland resident Jeremy Luedke. Luedke, an Independent and associate of the Tea Party, is running a write-in campaign against Love because he believes all politicians should have a competition.

Love decided to run for the House of Representatives only at the end of May, after his graduation from Wash-burn with a Bachelor’s in Business Ad-ministration, so his success has come

relatively quickly. That kind of success seems natural to Love, though.

“Before his run for WSGA presi-dent, Garrett didn’t have any real ex-perience with politics,” said Mullin. “He had been appointed to the senate his sophomore year, and he was elect-ed his junior year, but he hadn’t really taken on any of the bigger staff roles.”

It was there that Love said he had key campaign experiences that set him up for his current success.

“Getting face to face with people was key for him,” said Mullin. “We made a list of people around campus, and then just went and talked to them and checked them off.”

Love’s current campaign has been similar, listing registered voters and then trying to talk to them. He said his campaign has been mostly door-to-door.

“It’s a lot like at Washburn, but where there I was walking all over the place to talk to people, now I’m driv-ing all over the place,” said Love. “But it’s very rewarding, and I’ve gotten pretty positive feedback.”

Jeff Mott, the director of the Lead-ership Institute, was able to serve as a mentor for Love his senior year when he joined the Leadership Institute.

“He got involved a lot later than our other students,” said Mott. “He

was one of the only up-perclassmen in Leader-ship Institute 100, the intro class, but he really

benefitted from it. He really engaged in the learning process.”

Love said getting involved with the leadership classes helped him be-cause he wanted to serve people, and the classes allowed him to decide how best to carry out that personal plan. The strategies he learned have allowed him to reach out during this campaign.

“The people of our state are look-ing for a fresh perspective,” said Love. “You have to know you’re working for the people and not for personal gain. I was really glad to see that so many people got on board with that vision.”

Mott said he was not surprised to see Love excelling with the experi-ences he had gained in school.

“A student like Garrett, who is interested in getting involved with the learning process, does not come along every year,” he said.

Love’s attention in both WSGA and Leadership Institute led him to a

complete victory in the primaries, and all that remains is the Nov. 2 elections. But he won’t stop there, because the campaign is only the first step in his political journey.

“I really want to focus on fiscal responsibility,” said Love. “It’s got to be about people, and not all about politics.”

That attitude is what Mullin sees will get Love far in politics.

“We disagree about a lot of things, politically,” said Mullin. “But I always liked working with him in WSGA be-cause he was dedicated to working things out for the people we represent. He takes that seriously. Sometimes he takes a long time to talk things over, just because he wants to understand his decision completely, inside and out.”

Mott said a lot of that was what attracted Love to the Leadership Insti-tute.

“He got really energetic when we discussed how sometimes you face de-cisions that are right versus wrong, but other times it is right versus right,” said Mott. “Then you have to understand that someone is going to lose. And you have to know how it will affect all of these people. That’s what got Garrett really interested, was learning how to make those tough decisions.”

Love’s tough decision-making days may be coming, but for the mo-ment he’s content in meeting as many people as he can on the campaign trail and occasionally stopping in to help with the corn harvest at his parents’ farm.

His quick climb up the political ladder may have started with WSGA, but that hasn’t prepared him for every-thing he may face.

“WSGA was the biggest factor in why I was confident to run, but I wouldn’t say that’s what qualifies me for it,” said Love. “It’s very different in some ways because if I win there will be a lot more responsibilities, and more people that I represent.”

There is one more difference about this race, aside from the respon-sibilities, seriousness and size, that keeps confronting Love.

“People keep asking how old I am,” said Love.

Regina Budden is a senior mass media major. Reach her at regina.budden@washburn.edu

Regina BuddenWASHBURN REVIEW

Christina ButlerWASHBURN REVIEW

Blunt truth: Eric A. Voth, left, and James B. Jacobs, right, debated last week on legalization of drugs. The two had very contrasting points of view on the situation.

Debate sparks controversy

Washburn foundation: Garrett Love talks with individuals while he campaigns for a Kansas House of Representatives position. Love graduated from Washburn last year and was WSGA President, along side former vice president and current president Caley Onek.

Love pursues winning election

Christina Butler is a freshman mass media major. Reach her at christina.butler@washburn.edu

Photo courtesy of Garrett Love

Photo by Molly Adams, Washburn Review

KANSAS HOUSE ELECTIONS

With enrollment just around the corner for students at Washburn University, the de-cision on what classes should be taken is crucial. On Friday, Oct. 22, faculty members met for an Academic Advising Ori-entation that will serve as a productive tool for providing assistance to students at their advising sessions.

Students who have declared a major will soon be meeting with their department’s advi-sors, who will provide students with a pin num-ber to enroll in required courses as well as adjust s c h e d u l e s . New profes-sors at Wash-burn Univer-sity made up a majority of the attendees at the orientation day, along with some professors who have been at Washburn longer.

“We’ve invited faculty that think they are going to have advising duties,” said Pamela Erickson, Coordinator of Ad-vising at Washburn University. “The purpose of it is for new faculty to learn how advising works at Washburn. We’ll have another one in March.”

One new faculty member at Washburn, Karen Garrison from the department of kine-siology, attended the meet-ing in hopes of learning how Washburn’s advising programs work.

“I hope to learn basically how to better help the students prepare for the future, and to help make sure they graduate on time,” said Garrison.

The academic advisors at Washburn University, who held the orientation seminar, dis-cussed the issues in great detail with academic advising as well

as the advantages. This year, advisors are working to make academic advising a more per-sonable experience, which is an important part of student reten-tion.

“The advising session is an opportunity for you to re-ally reach out to these students and connect with them,” said Erickson. “Luckily Washburn requires every student to meet with an advisor every semester. Many institutions don’t. I’m very thrilled that Washburn does that, because it does lead to higher retention of students.”

W a s h -burn is a rare school that allows fresh-man students to declare a major, but about 1,200 students are still consid-ered unde-clared. Yet, with the availability to enroll on-

line, students are sometimes reluctant to want to visit with advisors, since most courses can be chosen on students’ own time.

“Students don’t usually know why they have to come talk to us,” said Dannah Hart-ley, Academic Advisor at Wash-burn. “Sometimes they think it’s a hurdle.”

Advisors gave faculty at the seminar more information on academic advising. The next academic advising seminar will be held in March, because it is around the peak enrollment time. Appointments to talk to academic advisors can be made by contacting the Office of Academic Advising from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

“You’re advising them [the students],” said Erickson, “but the ultimate decision is up to them.”

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The Bod Beat News • Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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alendarCHealth Care Career FairWashburn Room, Memorial Union12 to 3 p.m.

Trick or Treat off the streetLiving Learning Center6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 27

Thursday, Oct. 28

Friday, Oct. 29

-paid for by WSGA-

We started off Monday with the Homecoming Ball which turned out to be a great event. The DJ was very good and took requests all night, and you had to fight for room on the dance floor! Tuesday evening was the Ichabod Race, and the weather was much nicer this year so it proved to be more of a foot race getting to the different buildings.

Wednesday evening was the text message competition at the library, where Blake Bryant won an iPad! Thursday began with the WU Chef competition where we had 6 teams compet-ing and a lot of really neat cakes being decorated!

That night, we saw some awesome performances at Yell Like Hell. Friday night we had our big pep rally, Friday Night Madness, to get everyone excited for the big game against Northwest the next day, which took place right after the parade. Wow! What a busy week! Our football team lost by one point, so we wish they would have won, but they sure played hard!

Congratulations to my Vice President, Mr. Lucas Mullin for being the 2010 Homecoming King and to my Budget Di-rector, Miss Taylor McGown for being the new Homecoming Queen!! And a big congrats to all of the Homecoming candi-dates and finalists! Thank you for all you all do for Washburn. We had a very good group this year. Hope you all enjoyed Homecoming week and hopefully can get some rest this week. Go Bods!!!! :)

Caley OnekWSGA President

Donovan Cook memorial tree dedicationNorth side (front), Carnegie Hall4 p.m.

Debate, “Border Crossing: The Immigration Debate in Contemporary Politics”Room 114, School of Law7 p.m.

Diversity film, “Iron Jawed Angels”Mabee Library12 p.m.

Hallo-WU-een costume contestStauffer Commons, Union Market12 to 1 p.m.

Lady Blues volleyballLee Arena, Petro Allied Health Center7 p.m.

President’s Press

Some events that occur in a community’s history can have long lasting effects on its citi-zens. One author has written a book in an attempt to capture that moment.

On June 8, 1966, at 7:20 p.m., an EF-5 tornado struck the campus of Washburn Universi-ty. Eleven of 13 major buildings on the campus were destroyed causing a total of $8 million worth of damage. Among the victims that evening, there were 16 fatalities. Forty years later to commemorate the anniversary of this tragic event, author Bo-nar Menninger wrote the book, “And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tor-nado.”

The book tells the story of the tornado that left many peo-ple wondering if the campus of Washburn could survive such a powerful tornado. The book also features indelible images taken that document the torna-do’s destruction of Topeka as a whole and within the Washburn community.

After so many years some asked why Menninger felt the need to write a book about such a subject.

“I just felt like it was a sto-ry that needed to be told before everybody was dead that was in

it,” said Menninger “I needed to do something on the side that would be fun.”

While writing the book Menninger reached out within the Topeka community to find survivors of the 1966 tornado. Menninger would record all of his interviews to refer back to them if need be. He recalls some of the emotional aspects of his interviews with the sur-vivors. Menninger would start off getting a little background information from the survivor he was interviewing, once that

was over and they began to dis-cuss the tornado, things would get really emotional.

“When I’d start talking about the tornado, you could feel how emotional the people really are,” said Menninger.

According to Menninger, the interviews would get so emotional that he recalled two interviews he did with two women who survived the tor-nado in which one woman cried and the other started shaking just at the thought of the word tornado.

As a resident of Topeka during the time of the tornado, Menninger was only a young child when the tornado struck but says he was on vacation at the time. “We lived on 29th [Street] & Jewell [Avenue], we went on vacation the Sunday before so we missed all the ex-citement, that’s probably why I wrote that book.”

Menninger offered a sim-ple truth when asked what les-sons came from such a historic event

“Respect Mother Nature, she’ll kill you,” said Men-ninger.

Saturday, Oct. 30

Run/walk for Fistula FoundationSoutheast doors of Petro Allied Health Center9 a.m.

Sunday, Oct. 31

Children’s Day eventWhite Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center1:30 to 4 p.m.

WATUP! Halloween partyArt building, room 1206 to 9 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 1

High school showcase concertWhite Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 2

School of Business research seminarRoom 104, Henderson Learning Resources Center12:30 p.m.

Safe Zone trainingLincoln Room, Memorial Union2 to 5 p.m.

Lady Blues volleyballLee Arena, Petro Allied Health Center7 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 3

Brown Bag international lectureInternational House12 p.m.

Nall Speak OffRoom 100, Henderson6:30 p.m.

“Oh, Lordy! Look who’s 40!” The Washburn Catholic Campus Center ends its cel-ebration of its 40th Anniver-sary with a Mass on Sunday conducted by the priest who began Mass at the center back in 1970.

Vince Krische returned to the University Catholic Cam-pus Center after 40 years to conduct Mass in celebration of the momentous anniversary.

Washburn students and To-peka citizens gathered together for the Mass in the Washburn Room.

Krische explained the be-ginning of the Catholic Center, when he, Archbishop Ignatius Strecker, and the Pastor of the Most Pure Heart of Mary Par-ish drove to the corner of 17th Street and Jewell Avenue and asked to purchase the house from the woman who lived there, all three standing in black suits wearing Roman collars.

After replacing her home they turned the newly purchased house into the Washburn Cath-olic Campus Center.

The center began when the University was much smaller, and when the resources of To-peka were more able to help, and it was easier to get people involved, however the center is still able to retain a large fol-lowing among Washburn stu-dents, and citizens of Topeka.

The toughest time for the center was in 1996 when there was no chaplain, very little student activity, and little com-munity support. Topeka priests attempted to revive the center by allowing students to take on greater leadership roles, and through grass roots movements and lead to a much more active center.

Krische said that there wasn’t a chapel for Catholic students so they would have a “church in a box” and go around to the various buildings. Today there is a chapel inside the center.

Krische explained that he hopes that in the future that every university would have a house of Catholic studies, that would teach theology, philoso-phy, and history.

The Center will continue to offer classes on Catholi-cism, and continue its service projects in the future said Patti Lyon, Director of the Catholic Campus Center.

Lyon said that one of the most important things for the growth of the center would be a full time priest so that they would be able to have daily Mass.

Lyon said that she invites all Catholic students to get ac-tive at the Catholic Campus center, including attending Mass, enrolling in classes, and taking part in the service proj-ects.

Fastest fingers: Blake Bryant, junior and Shelbie Schmidt, freshman, compete in last Wednesday’s Homecoming text message competition. Bryant eventually won the competition, getting a free Apple iPad as a prize.

Timothy LakeWASHBURN REVIEW

Robert MillerWASHBURN REVIEW

Kelsie O’ConnellWASHBURN REVIEW

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Timothy Lake is a freshman mass media major. Reach him at timo-thy.lake@washburn.edu

Robert Miller is a freshman French major. Reach him at rob-ert.miller@washburn.edu

Kelsie O’ Connell is a freshman mass media major. Reach her at kelsie.oconnell@washburn.edu

Center celebrates 40th anniversary

Menninger discusses F-5 tornado

Advising session educates faculty

Chaos: Bonnar Menninger ex-plains the conditions of Topeka’s 1966 tornado. As a native, his book deals with the carnage of the event.

Photo by Brittany Pugh, Washburn Review

Photo by Candice Morris, Washburn Review

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Grinning ear-to-ear while posing for photos after being announced King and Queen at the Homecoming football game, Lucas Mullin and Taylor McGown could not look hap-pier.

“Winning homecoming King is more than just receiv-ing a top hat and a plaque,” said Lucas Mullin. “Every one of the candidates has poured themselves into Washburn in some way, and it was such an honor to make it that far.”

A senior public administra-tion major, Mullin serves as the vice president of the Washburn Student Government Associa-tion, is a member of Phi Delta Theta and Order of Omega honor society and a board member for the Community Resource Council. Participating in these, any other activities, al-lows Mullin to be involved in many campus events, including Homecoming week.

“Since I was chair of the homecoming committee, I had the opportunity to plan home-coming from the beginning,” said Mullin. “It was a great process to go through and I en-joyed planning the schedule of events throughout the week,” he said.

As chair, Mullin met every week with the other commit-tee members from April until Homecoming. The committee worked to decide on the home-coming theme and its events.

“We looked at recommen-dations from previous years to see if it was an event we want-ed to keep, a tradition, or if we wanted to throw in new things. This year, we kept all the tra-ditional events such as the ball, Ichabod Race, WU Chef, Yell like Hell, and Friday Night Madness,” said Mullin.

Homecoming week began with the Homecoming ball, Oct. 18, where Mullin and the other candidates were announced. As Mullin’s candidacy was an-nounced, attendees at the ball showed their enthusiastic sup-port for Mullin and all the can-didates.

“I loved starting the week with the ball because it brought over 300 students together in an exciting atmosphere where we could celebrate the King and Queen nominations,” said Mullin.

As the week progressed, Mullin was able to participate in the events he, and the other members of the homecoming committee, planned.

“I also liked the library partnership on Wednesday and the fact that a Washburn student could have a chance to win a free iPad,” said Mullin. The Wash-burn texting competition sponsored by the Student Friends of Mabee Li-brary was a first for homecom-ing week and for the school.

“Through my position in WSGA, senators and I worked together to connect with all stu-dent organizations, as well as follow up with them, in order to try and get as many organiza-tions involved as possible. We

had an increase in participa-tion and registration this year, and I feel that it was due to our increases communication ef-forts,” said Mullin.

Besides the texting compe-tition, other firsts for this year’s homecoming week included a new mini golf tournament, the Say Cheez photo booth and re-cord turnouts for Yell like Hell on Thursday, Oct. 20, and Fri-day Night Madness the follow-ing night. “The bleachers were completely packed with stu-dents wanting to show school pride and get pumped for the big day Saturday,” said Mullin.

“My main job during the week was to ensure that every event ran as smoothly as pos-sible. Due to my hair respon-sibilities, it was hard for me to sponsor and participate. Even

though I was behind the scenes, I re-ally enjoyed watching stu-dents have a

lot of fun and excitement and prepare for the big game.”

Saturday’s homecoming game against Northwest Mis-souri State may have ended in disappointment for Washburn sports fans, but for Mullin and the other homecoming candi-dates it was a culmination of well more than a week’s worth of hard work.

“After hearing my name announced, all I could think about was how it was a huge thank you I could share with my friends, fellow Ichabods, and most importantly my fam-ily,” said Mullin. “If it wasn’t for my family, I would not even have had the opportunity to be here and invest my time and en-ergy into Washburn.”

Washburn University’s an-nual Homecoming crowning took place Saturday, Oct. 23 as the Ichabods took on Northwest Missouri State Bearcats. As each candidate lined up along the football field, the results were revealed.

Taylor McGown, nominat-ed by Washburn Student Gov-ernment Association, took the crown as 2010’s Homecoming queen. McGown, from Mound City, Kan., serves as president of the Bod Squad, a biology mentor for students, as well as budget director for the WSGA . McGown is a junior majoring in biology at Washburn.

“It’s very surreal,” said McGown of the win. “There were a lot of really good candi-dates up [to win].”

McGown said that because she woke up late, she didn’t even have to time to think about winning. As President of the Bod Squad, McGown said she had to get the tailgate up and going before the game, which was a priority concern.

Humbled by the win, McGown said she did not ex-pect to win. Yet, she feels her victory was a great honor.

“It feels really good to know that the students felt that I was the one they wanted to see and to represent Washburn in that way,” said McGown.

Alongside McGown, senior Lucas Mullin took the crown as Homecoming King. A senior majoring in public administra-tion, Mullin felt honored by the win as well. Also nominated by the Washburn Student Gov-ernment Association, Mullin serves as vice president of the WSGA and is a member of Phi Delta Theta.

“I’m very excited,” said Mullin. “It’s a very big honor.”

Mullin said he knew the day was going to be good, re-gardless of whether or not he won. Not only is Homecoming

Mullin’s favorite time of the year at Washburn, but his par-ents, whom he doesn’t see all the time, were there to witness the crowning.

“It was kind of a thank you, and it shows them that what I do on campus is hopefully s o m e t h i n g good, and that people see it,” said Mul-lin. “[It shows them] that my four years have been good, and it’s been worth something.”

Mullin feels it is also an honor to be among the past few winners of the crown, includ-

ing Angel Romero and Jona-than Person. Also aware of the alumni that would be returning to campus to watch the crown-

ing, Mullin was addition-ally extactic.

“ T h e fact that I got n o m i n a t e d was an honor itself,” added Mullin.

B o t h McGown and Mullin said they knew each of the c a n d i d a t e s

and that being among them made the candidacy that much more awesome.

“It was a great experience,” said Mullin.

With all the candidates standing next to President Far-ley, Romero, last year’s king, crowned McGown and pre-sented her with flowers after the announcement rang through the crowd.

“The winners are great rep-resentatives of the student body and will represent the univer-sity very well,” said Farley.

Both McGown and Mul-lin would like to thank the student body for making them Washburn’s 2010 Homecoming queen and king.

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WINNING HOMECOMING KING

As the cool October wind swept the clothes and hair of the ten deserving candidates, members of the crowd stood, awaiting the announcement of this year’s king and queen.

The road to this moment has been paved with hard work and dedication for all of the homecoming candidates and Taylor McGown is no excep-tion.

Although her candidacy was announced at the home-coming ball Monday, Oct. 18, M c G o w n ’s journey to-ward Wash-burn royalty began long ago, as she no stranger to helping out the Washburn community. A junior bi-ology major, M c G o w n volunteers as a mentor for fellow biol-ogy students. She is the cur-rent president of Bod Squad and budget di-rector of the Washburn Student Government Association.

“I handed out spirit point tickets to all the students that came to the dance, helped check students in, and danced a little,” said McGown. “The homecom-ing ball was just the beginning of a week packed with events.”

McGown participated in the WSGA sponsored Icha-bod Race on Tuesday, Oct. 19, where she helped the public re-lations director cut and arrange puzzle pieces for the event.

“I worked at a station to hand out the puzzle pieces to the teams during the race,” she said.

WSGA senate meeting took place the following day where McGown helped finalize details for the Yell like Hell Bod Squad skit. She also helped plan the Friday Night Madness schedule of events including the music and confirming rented items, speakers and performances.

Thursday’s Can Food Drive at the Washburn Soccer Game was next on McGown’s Homecoming agenda. The food drive collected cans for local food banks.

After the food drive McGown, with her fellow Bod Squad members, participated in Yell like Hell. The Bod Squad performed a skit and dance, dressed in blue, full-body span-dex “Morphsuits.” The perfor-mance earned Bod Squad third place in the event.

“My favorite activity was participating in Yell like Hell with Bod Squad. This was the first year Bod Squad has been involved in the event. It was a lot of fun starting a new tradi-

tion for the organization,” said McGown.

After from being involved in Friday’s luncheon for the alumni and all Homecoming candidates and the Alumni Af-ter Hours, McGown, along with Bod Squad and WSGA, hosted Friday Night Madness. Besides helping at the event, McGown also was responsible for a lot of the prep work.

“I sent out emails to all the athletic teams and coaches get-ting participation in this event, getting stuff set up and music turned in,” said McGown.

The final day of the candi-date’s involve-ment in home-coming week began with the parade where McGown par-ticipated as Bod Squad president and as a candidate. Following the parade she set up the Bod Squad tailgate for the home-coming game against North-west Missouri State Univer-

sity.McGown recommends all

Washburn students get involved in future homecoming week events because it is an impor-tant week for the school.

“It shows pride in Wash-burn and obviously school spirit. The more involved you get, the more fun it is. People always need help putting to-gether this great week. It really is a great time for Washburn, with all the alumni back, being a part of that is rewarding,” she said.

As her name was an-nounced as Homecoming queen during half-time at Saturday’s football game, McGown was thrilled and honored.

“It was surreal. I kept thinking to myself, is this hap-pening? The week went by so fast, it seemed like it was just Monday, being announced at the Homecoming ball,” said McGown. “I feel honored be-cause the students chose me to represent Washburn. It feels amazing, like what I’m doing on campus is making a differ-ence. All of the candidates do great things for Washburn,” she said.

As homecoming queen McGown will continue to en-thusiastically support Washburn through Bod Squad, WSGA and in other ways.

“I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing, that’s what got me here. I will stay involved, supporting Washburn in any way that I can,” said McGown.

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Washburn Royalty: Taylor McGown, junior, and Lucas Mullin, senior, were announced Homecoming queen and king at halftime of the Washburn v. Northwest Missouri football game. Each is heavily involved at Washburn.

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Americans unashamedly love and watch a lot of reality television. Reality TV is a social experiment and it is interesting to see how people act toward one another when cameras are around. Trashy or pure, there is a message behind every reality show - some even teach life lessons.PROS:

Creates a lot of good: Shows such as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and The Biggest Loser provide a platform for people to change their lives, even for the people watching the shows. Reality TV inspires people to help strangers, volunteer and commit to making their lives better.

A great social experiment: How honest can people really be in front of a camera? More than they are to people’s faces. A participant on Big Brother,

Survivor, The Real World and The Jersey Shore, will say ANYTHING “behind” peoples back. Somehow, without fail, participants on these shows forget that what they are saying is going to be aired on national television. It is the best way to get honesty in the world today, put people in front of a camera and let them say whatever they want.

Entertaining way to relax: Jersey Shore is a mindless, hilarious, trashy, excellently unscripted show that proves people like that actually exist. There are more guys than not that love and participate “t-shirt times” of their own. And for the ladies, The Bachelor allows them to watch two people fall in love in the span of six weeks, though there is a 98 percent chance it won’t work in the end. But it is all about the journey, right?

Introduces unknown worlds: Teen Mom, Ice Road Truckers, Project Runway, The Amazing Race and Deadliest Catch all show viewers a world they may never otherwise learn about if it weren’t on TV. CONS:

Bad example for children: For the younger generation of television watchers who may be flipping through channels and find a reality TV show in the trashy category, such as

Jersey Shore, Bad Girls Club, Tough Love, or The Real World, they may not know the stars of these shows are not

good examples of how to act in the real, real world.

Unrealistic career dreams: As great as American Idol is, it, along with other talent competition, may provide people with unrealistic career goals because they think reality TV is their way to make money.

This only happens for a very, very tiny group of people, who need to move on with their lives after their eighth, ninth or tenth run at reality TV.

There are better things to watch: Enough said.

All in all, there are good and bad reasons to watch reality TV. It is entertainment and a look into random peoples lives that is utterly fascinating to me. Americans will continue to watch all of my reality TV shows until there are no more (which likely won’t ever happen) If you haven’t watched any reality TV, try one or two and you may just be surprised how much you like to see human interaction at its finest. But keep in mind, don’t act like the trash.

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Regina Budden is a senior mass media major. Reach her at regina.budden@washburn.edu.

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What weapon would you choose

in the event of a zombie apocalypse?Daniel FurmanFreshman“I would use my textbooks because I would finally get some use out of them.”

Sydney HansenFreshman“I don’t know, aren’t zombies allergic to onions or something like that?”

James LawsonSophomore“A rifle because it has good medium-range accuracy and ammo would be easy to find.”

Sarah PattenJunior“A machete so I can mow down all the zombies.”

Alexis GlesmannFreshman“I would use my brute strength because I’m a bad-ass.”

Jeffery LeikerJunior“I would use some sort of metal bat because it never needs sharpened and won’t break easily

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I scan the menu. Endless pancakes, eggs galore, and meaty sausages run together. My friends groan and roll their eyes as I take my time deciding what I will torture my stomach with on this particular outing.

I’m on a late night IHOP run with some friends, not terri-bly hungry, but hungry enough that the usual fries and small root beer from McDonald’s won’t cut it. And I’ve been try-ing to eat healthier, so as not to get diabetes or heart disease (or both) by age 23. The Tilapia is appetizing, with its side of po-tatoes, broccoli and a soup or salad. Too bad I can’t eat all that at any meal, let alone a late sup-per. Scanning the tri-fold once more, I visually stumble upon the Kids’ Menu, where a half of a fish and a small serving of broccoli catch my eye. Perfect. Healthy. Portion-controlled.

We order. The waitress looks at me. I’m not kidding, I really do want the child-sized serving. Not because of the price, but because I know I won’t overeat like I am so wont to do at a restaurant where the meal is suited to Vikings, not bored college students.

“I’m sorry, that’s for 12 and under only.” She underlines “only” in the air with her pen, then waits irritably for the next three minutes it takes me to find something. I finally settle with a biscuit and four pieces of bacon, well done. I give a two-dollar tip. Whatever happened to “the customer is always right?”

Perhaps this rendition of my experience is a tad dramatic (I tipped $2.03, according to my receipt), but this speaks to a bigger problem. American health continues to deteriorate, but portion sizes keep growing. It is understandable to think that the customer wants more bang for their buck, but I per-sonally would rather have less bang and less buck and slightly smaller thighs. More people are eating out on a regular basis, and it is outrageous for restau-rants to expect and encourage customers to eat an entire small farm animal every time they dine out.

Customers don’t really want to take home leftovers, otherwise they would have dined in that evening anyway and eaten last night’s green beans and twice-cooked chick-en. No one really wants to buy a $7.99 meal and only eat $5.27 of it. My peers have also com-plained about overeating when they eat at restaurants. We are conditioned to eat everything in front of us. Restaurants prey on this response by placing more in front of us to begin with, and lowering the temperature of the room so that diners’ body-temperatures drop and they feel hungrier.

What seems ridiculous about this overeating phenom-ena is that I have observed it doesn’t apply to what we gen-erally think of as fast-food res-taurants. This is in part because it is more acceptable to order the meal in parts, such as order-ing a Big Mac but small fries. Or no fries, if you want. And, although the multiple voices over the drive-through speaker scares me, I am inclined to sug-gest McDonalds over a restau-rant next time I’m cruising for some late night sustenance.

IHOP, I know that with your late night hours you get a lot of drunk people and kids with the munchies, but next time, just let me eat off the kids’ menu.

*Editor’s note: in the event of a zombie apocalypse, please be advised that zombies are not, in fact, allergic to onions

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Washburn University’s Yager Stadium came alive with energy and excitement as parents, students and community members gathered for the annual Capital City Marching Band Festival.

Wednesday Oct. 20, the marching band festival, showcased half-time performances by eight local high schools. Judges at the festival rated the schools on various aspects of their performance.

Mission Valley High School’s marching band began the night with a blues-inspired collection of three pieces. What the Mission Valley Vikings lacked in size, they made up for with spirit and enthusiasm.

Next, Highland Park high school Marching Scots took the field along with Highland Park’s dance team. For the first two numbers of their performance, the dance team performed small routines off to the side of the band. The last number brought the dancers and band together in a mosaic of fun and precise coordination.

The Osage City Marching Indians and color guard rocked the house with their show entitled “Rock of Ages” which featured the song “Carry On My Wayward Son” originally performed by the rock band, Kansas. The crowd roared as the band sang the opening lines of the song leading into their instrumental interpretation.

As the night progressed, the bands grew larger and the routines more theatrical and overall dynamic. The second half of the festival featured all 5A and 6A high schools including Leavenworth, Shawnee Heights, Topeka West, Seaman and Washburn Rural.

The Leavenworth Pioneer Band and color guard boasted a video game theme opening the performance with the theme from the popular game “Halo.” Dramatic and eye-catching, the large band moved around the field in a show catered for the technological generation. The color guard used multiple flags and plastic rifles in their routine.

The Shawnee Heights High School Marching Thunderbirds’ half time show was a medley of songs from the band “Chicago.” Along with being performed as part of the festival, their ensemble will also have the privilege of performing in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Chicago. Though only featuring one band’s music, the composition itself gave the band a chance to demonstrate contrast and show its strengths in all types of music.

The Topeka West Marching Chargers brought performance and color guard interaction with a routine featuring selections from the opera “Carmen.”

Telling the dramatic tale of love and betrayal in a 15-minute halftime show is no easy task

and the interaction between the guard and the band was engaging and unique to their performance.

Seaman High School’s Viking Marching Band also played with theatrics, but didn’t let the color guard steal the show. The band’s boisterous music and complex, serpentine formations gave the performance a classic “big band” feel which got people moving in the stands.

To close the high school portion of the festival, Washburn Rural High School’s Junior Blues performed their

Latin inspired show whose title translated means “this is how we play.” In addition to a color guard and large band, the Junior Blues had a baton twirler as part of their routine. They were also the only band to incorporate solos into their music.

Washburn’s own Marching and Dancing Blues closed the festival with a riveting performance that included a performance by the Washburn Faculty Brass Quintet.

Overall the festival was a high-energy collection of music showing what the northeast Kansas area marching bands are capable of producing.

The Capitol City Marching Band Festival was sponsored by the Washburn University Music Department with help from Manning Music of Topeka.

The Washburn International Club will present the fifth annual Celebration of Cultures at White Concert Hall on Nov. 6 from 7 to 9 p.m.

The event is free to the pub-lic, although goodwill donations will be accepted to support ac-tivities of the International Club. The International Club terms its mission as making the interna-tional presence more visible on campus and help build stronger ties between international stu-dents, American students and the Topeka community by spon-soring activities both on and off campus. The office of interna-

tional students works with 185 students from 40 countries.

Students will be performing traditional and modern dances, singing and instrumental per-formances that represent their home nations. There will be a variety of display tables as well as Chinese calligraphy and pa-per cutting demonstrations. The program will also include an in-ternational fashion show and a martial arts demonstration. This student driven and directed event was very successful last year and should be a popular part of Wash-burn‘s family day activities.

International club hosts CelebrationKate ArroyoWASHBURN REVIEW

Despite a late start due to technical difficulties Saturday night, The Students didn’t skip a beat.

Alpha Delta hosted a re-union concert for the band, that is made up of Alpha Delta alumni for the Alpha Delta fundraiser at the Roostertail, 830 N. Kansas Ave. The fund-raiser was to help fund mainte-nance work at the Alpha Delta fraternity house. Livy High, a local alternative rock band from Wichita, headlined the show. The two bands together put on a show that kept the crowd happy all night, and left them wanting more.

G r e g g Shaeffer, lead rhythm gui-tar and vocals, started The Students in the early 1980s with a couple of fraternity brothers who shared his same passion for mu-sic. Washburn students loved their Rockabilly feel and would book them for concerts on campus and around town in various bars.

“These guys were a legend on the bar scene,” said Trey Fischer, Washburn alumnus. “If you’ve ever watched the movie ‘Animal House,’ these guys would have played at the Delta Tau Chi house.”

When the band first started playing together they needed a synthesized drum, until they found Matt Griswold who wasn’t at the show. Marc Mc-Gee was lead vocalist in the original band and was unable to make it as well. The remain-ing two members, Shaeffer and “The Moose” Chris Mitch-ell on bass guitar rocked the house. With his sunglasses and jokes, Mitchell was entertain-ing while the crowd waited on technical issues to be solved.

“Our music is better than it sounds,” said Mitchell. “That is the band slogan!”

Despite what Mitchell said, many fans from their col-lege days showed up to support the band. They hadn’t played together in 25 years, but their sound didn’t suffer.

“They were really great,” said John Henderson, junior Alpha Delta and English edu-

cation major at Washburn. “Me being [from] a younger generation myself I thought they sounded really good.”

This was the first Topeka show for Livy High, and the turnout was a packed house. Loyal fans from Wichita joined them for the show, and sang along with every song, they also helped promote the band to future fans. Jett Miller, guitar, keyboard and backup vocals, has been with the band for the last year and says they have come a long way. When he originally joined up with Jason Carroll, lead vocalist, all the songs were written by Car-roll.

They have been collabo-rating as a band now and are

writing new songs together, with Carroll writing the lyr-ics and some of the music.

“It might be awhile be-fore we have our next al-bum,” Miller said when asked about future mu-sic from Livy High. “We will keep writing new songs and playing new songs.”

Miller says Livy High doesn’t have very many live shows under their belt, but plan on having more in the future. Their set is very elaborate, they have a light show, a fog machine, sky high amps, a stage for their drum-mer and other equipment so it is difficult and expensive to get it moved around. They plan on returning to Topeka and sur-rounding areas as soon as the opportunity arises.

“We pride ourselves in quality over quantity,” Miller stated. “[The couple of] shows we have done have been very successful, 200 to 400 fans each time would show up.”

Livy High is on Facebook, and there are videos of songs on YouTube. Mark Aguirre is a dedicated fan who goes to ev-ery Livy High show and takes pictures and records the shows and posts them for the band on the YouTube channel he cre-ated. The Students have a fan page on Facebook, where they have some of their songs avail-able to listen to.

Band reunion raises money for Alpha Delta house renovations

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These guys were a legend on the bar scene. If you’ve ever watched the movie ‘Animal House’ these guys would have played at the Delta Tau Chi house.

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Trish Peterson is a sophomore mass media major. Reach her at patricia.peterson@washburn.edu.

Washburn’s Mulvane Art Lab started their celebration of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with a Family Day activity on Saturday, Oct 23. The Art Lab was open to the public for a free activity that included demonstrations on making traditional decorations for Day of the Dead, which is a holiday celebrated in Mexico on Nov. 1 and 2.

The Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrating loved ones who have passed away. It is believed their spirits return one day of the year to be with their families. All Saint’s Day, Nov. 1, is when the spirits of children return and All Soul’s Day, Nov. 2, is when adult spirits return. Families and communities have a variety of ways in

which they celebrate this holiday and honor their dead.

Many towns have parades and outdoor festivals during this holiday, with performers dressed in skeleton costumes and masks. Bakeries and vendors sell cookies and candies shaped like bones, skeletons and skulls. Making and decorating sugar skulls is a common activity in many homes. Besides enjoying these treats for themselves, people will leave them as offerings for the spirits of their loved ones at altars decorated with favorite foods and articles of the deceased.

A favorite decoration is papel picado, which literally means ‘punched’ or ‘perforated’ paper. Brightly colored banners of delicate tissue paper are hung everywhere during Day of the Dead. Creating cut paper art is an ancient tradition that originated in China with

the invention of paper in the year 105. Over the centuries it spread to Japan, Central Asia, and with the Moorish occupation of Spain from 714 to 1492, the art found its way into Europe. The conquering Spaniard’s brought this to the Americas as well as the Catholic holidays of All Saint’s Day and All Souls Day.

The Aztecs had already developed their own paper from tree bark pulp and had a tradition of paper cut images as part of their religious ceremonies. Eventually, as in many countries, the native beliefs and practices merged with Catholicism and its holidays. Papel picado is a folk art tradition that has remained part of these celebrations for centuries.

The Mulvane Art Lab is keeping this tradition alive in our community by offering an opportunity to make your own

papel picado banners and other decorations. Two visitors to the Family Day event were Jennifer and Gustavo Ibarra, who spent several hours patiently creating beautiful and imaginative decorations to display in their home for the Day of the Dead holiday. Jennifer, a sixth-grade student “you make a big celebration for your family and relatives that have already passed,” Jennifer said. Jennifer and Gustavo made papel picado banners, ofrendos (small altar-like decorations), paper flowers and other decorations during their afternoon at the Art Lab. The Mulvane Art Lab will continue to offer Day of the Dead decoration making through the end of October.

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Marching on: Yager Stadium recently played host the annual Capital City Marching Band Festival. The competition featured eight local high school bands performing their half-time productions.

Photo by Zachary Lambert, Washburn Review

Elise Barnett is a sophomore English major. Reach her at elise.barnett@washburn.edu.

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Marching bands walk the walk for festivalElise BarnettWASHBURN REVIEW

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Kate Arroyo is a junior mass me-dia major. Reach her at katharine.arroyo@washburn.edu.

Kate Arroyo is a junior mass me-dia major. Reach her at katharine.arroyo@washburn.edu.

Photo by Molly Adams, Washburn Review

Day of the dead: The Mulvane Art Lab recently hosted Family Day activities celebrating the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos. The festivities honor loved ones who have passed away.

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If you’re looking for a good game to get you in the Halloween spirit, Dead Rising 2 may be just the game for you. Although the game relies more on gore than ghouls, massive hordes of zombies and a myr-iad of customizable weapons make Dead Rising 2 a sure bet for classic zombie killing fun.

This rendition of Dead Rising follows motocross star Chuck Greene and his young daughter. Chuck lost his wife in an incident where his daughter was in-fected, and she now requires frequent doses of the cleverly named drug Zombrex to prevent her from becoming a zombie. Luck seems to be against the well in-tentioned protagonist, who al-ways seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Similar to its predecessor, Dead Rising 2 pits you against a virtually limitless amount of undead and a few less-than-friendly living. The undead in the game prove to be of little challenge to Chuck, who is a MacGyver in this zombie apoc-alypse nightmare. From the classic boomstick (pitchfork and shotgun) to the snowball cannon (fire extinguisher and water gun) there is definitely room for flexing your creativ-ity in weapon customization.

Unlike other zombie hor-ror games, Dead Rising 2 trades creepy aesthetics with a gratuitous zombie killing frenzy, with less-than stunning visuals. Those who enjoyed Frank West’s photojournalism in the first Dead Rising will be disappointed, as it is complete-ly removed from this game. However, because Dead Rising establishes itself, and Chuck, as a unique re-envisioning of the first game, Frank West’s at-tributes don’t feel missed.

The addition of online multiplayer adds a new level

of fun. Competitive multiplayer is an American Gladiator-esque set of mini-

games for up to four players. From using giant moose ant-lers to scoop up and otherwise destroy zombies to squashing them in giant metal hamster balls, this multiplayer op-tion uses the same hilariously dark, grotesque humor found throughout the game.

Online co-op allows for another player to join the host’s single player story. Al-though both players play as Chuck, the comical, wacky costumes give each player a unique feel. While the guest can’t save their story progress earned in co-op play, they can take the cash and experience earned with them.

All in all, Dead Rising 2 takes all the best elements of

the first game and adds enough to make the gaming experience feel fresh and revived. The mediocre graphics and frame-rate issues aren’t enough to keep Dead Rising 2 from be-ing a great, tremendously fun, blood-drenched adventure.

A6 Arts & Entertainment • Wednesday, October 27, 2010

If you go to Gary’s Berries, located east of Topeka eight miles off 24 Highway, you may end up with a new fall tradition. Gary’s Berries has an annual Fall Festival with many activi-ties, and they are continuing to expand.

Gary’s Berries began in 1993 when owner Gary Starr and his family bought the site in 1993. They turned it into a fruit farm and used it as a project where home-schooled children raised fruit like strawberries and raspberries. This lasted un-til 2003, when it was no longer profitable.

The Fall Festival began in 2000, with Starr adding a corn maze and a pumpkin patch.

“We had a green army tent and four people helping us, and that was it,” said Starr. “It has expanded since then, and we have evolved to just the Fall Festival.”

Until it flooded in 2005, the festival was located on a creek bed on the site. In 2006, it reopened at its current site, located on higher ground.

Gary’s Berries has many things to attract visitors. There is a corn maze, pumpkin patch, giant slide, jumping pillow, goats, hay rack rides, pig races, a haunted house and the newest edition: the corn ball.

“We added the corn ball this year,” said Starr. “It’s a 42-inch volleyball that you hit over the hay bales.”

The haunted house was added last year, and Starr says they are working on adding a petting zoo and a “kiddie cor-ner” with smaller slides for younger chil-dren.

“The pig races are popu-lar,” said Starr. “There are some hillbillies we are starting to develop to act out a scene on the hayrack ride. We are starting to move more into that kind of environ-ment.”

Mitch Hawkins works the pig races and the haunted house. He and his co-worker Mike Myrick really enjoy the spectacle of the pig races.

“Pig racing is better than NASCAR,” said Hawkins. “We run the pigs every hour on the hour. The only exception is on Saturday at 5 o’clock. The pig jokes are the best part of the pig races.”

The festival has vendors that sell food for hungry visi-tors. Selection includes: ham-burgers, hotdogs, bratwurst, turkey legs, French fries, kettle corn, funnel cakes and a unique combination that includes chips, chili and cheese, called Krazy Taters.

People from all over the area come out to the festivities; about 20,000 a year estimated

Starr.“During the day, we see a

lot of parents with small chil-dren who come out to the pump-kin patch, play on the swing set, the slipper slide, things like that,” said Starr. “At night, we see older kids going to the haunted house. We do still see a lot of families at night. They enjoy doing the corn maze at night and other night adven-tures.”

Guests can do all the ac-tivities at the festival but the haunted house for $9.75. The haunted house is $19.75. Food and pumpkins are also sepa-rate. Pumpkins run from $2 for a pie pumpkin to $16 for large ones.

“It’s always a good time,” said Jamie

Kirkham, mother, animal nutri-tionist and guest at the festival. “We bring the kids to play and get good photos with them.”

Gary’s Berries is an ex-panding operation and an ever expanding staff.

“It’s like a big family op-eration,” said Starr. “We have about 70 people helping us. Most will come back every year. Families will work here and we will put their kids to work in the corn maze or pump-kin patch. We’ve been around long enough that now some of those kids are employees with us as well.”

Although the family lives on site, they have full-time jobs and don’t farm or grow berries anymore. Starr works full time for Edward Jones as a finan-cial advisor. Prior to that, Starr

worked for 20 years as a com-puter systems engineer. Both he and his wife, Julie, are WU graduates. They actually met as Washburn students. She has a bachelor of science in nurs-ing and works as a practicing registered nurse, and Starr has a bachelor of art in political sci-ence and a bachelor of science in computer science with a mi-nor in mathematics.

Starr’s son Michael gradu-ated from Washburn this year. His wife and he also have a daughter, Emily, who is a stu-dent at the University of Kan-sas, and another son, Aaron, who plays baseball at Cloud County Community College.

“We don’t do berries at all anymore and all have jobs off the farm,” said Starr.

Starr said he gets his en-thusiasm for the festival from the children who visit and also from the creative aspect.

“Watching the little kids on the bouncing pillow and watch-ing the kids feed the goats is probably the most fun,” said Starr. “That creates my enthusi-asm. That and the joy I get out of thinking and doing different projects, coming up with differ-ent ideas. The day to day opera-tions is not my forte. Luckily, my family still works here.”

Gary’s Berries is open from 5 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, 4 to 11 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday. They will close for the season Monday, Nov. 1.

Directions and other in-formation is available on the Gary’s Berries website, www.garys-berries.com.

GAMEREVIEW

Capcom revives Dead Rising with sequel

More brains: Capcom’s Dead Rising 2 is a sure bet for zombie-killing fun. It keeps the best elements of its predecessor, while also providing a fresh gaming experience. The game is available for PS3, Xbox 360 and PCs.

Screen capture courtesy of deadrising-2.com

—System: PS3, Xbox 360, PC—Publisher: Capcom —Genre: Horror Action Adventure —ESRB: Mature

What’s good —So many zombies, so many ways to kill them—Engaging, entertaining story —Anything can be a weapon—Online multiplayer

What’s not so good —Frequent loading screens between areas—Graphics aren’t that great

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Gary’s Berries scares up Fall Festival activitiesKate FechterWASHBURN REVIEW

Siting Pretty: Gary Star, owner of Garry’s Berries, shows off one of his many props. The annual Fall Festival includes a corn maze, pumpkin patch, haunted house and several other activities.

Photo by Linnzi Fusco, Washburn Review

Topeka Best Pets will be holding their Annual Pet Cos-tume Contest on Saturday, Oct. 30, and is open to all friends, furry, scaly, or feath-ery. The con-test, held at 910 N.W. 25th Street, across the street from Dillon’s gro-cery store and Little Caesar’s Pizza, will in-clude four different categories, including scariest, cutest, looks most like owner, and most original costume, as well as an overall winner.

Registration for the com-petition begins at 10 a.m. and the judging starts at 11. Win-ners of each individual catego-ry receive a six-month supply

of Royal Canin or Science Diet food, and the overall winner will collect a $50 gift cer-tificate to the store.

M e m o r y Makers photog-raphy will be in attendance to take pictures of pets in and out of costume

with orderable prints.The store opened Nov.

29 of last year. The owners, Chris and Maribeth Hamilton

have been in the pet store busi-ness for over 20 years, having owned and operated a separate store since 1989, before selling it last year. The store offers ev-erything from adorable puppies, edible crickets, exotic birds, reptiles, and marine and fresh-water fish. A large variety of leashes, treats, chew toys, col-lars and victuals can be found.

“It’s going to be a whole bunch of fun,” said employee and clothed-animal advocate Elizabeth Michelle Tipton. “We’re trying to put our name out there. Maribeth and Chris Hamilton felt the need for there to be a quality pet store in all of Topeka.”

Costume contest allows pets to dress upSam SaylerWASHBURN REVIEWBringing home the bacon: Gary’s Berries also offers pig races, which

have proven to be quite popular among the farm’s visitors.

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this is the last opportunity to get your picture taken for the yearbook...

seriously, though...this is the last one.

Nov. 4 • 11-2 at the corner storethe 499th person to get their picture taken gets a $25 gift certificate to Applebees

It’s going to be a whole bunch of fun. We’re trying to put our name out there.

- Elizabeth Michelle TiptonTopeka Best Pets employee

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Sam Sayler is a freshman unde-cided major. Reach him at samuel.sayler@washburn.edu.

Pig racing is better than NASCAR. The pig jokes are the best part of the pig races

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Much like U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s famous saying, “the buck stops here,” Washburn’s defense knows they are responsible for keep-ing Washburn in the hunt for a bowl game this postseason as they take on Truman State this Saturday in Kirksville, Mo.

Wa s h b u r n has already been eliminated from the playoffs with its 41-40 Homecoming loss to No. 5 Northwest Missouri State in last weekend’s game in which the highly-touted Ichabod de-fense gave up 451 total yards, including 343 yards and three touchdowns through the air.

“If you just have one guy out of place or someone just doesn’t quite do it right, you can give up a lot of big plays,” said Craig Schurig, Washburn’s head coach.

Washburn’s defense, re-garded as one of the stronger units against the pass in Divi-sion II football in the preseason, struggled early on. It gave up 15 passing touchdowns in the first four games. Pierre Desir, sophomore defensive back, had difficulty living up to his pre-season All-American hype, as it appeared several of the big plays against Washburn were blown assignments by Desir. However, Schurig stressed that the early woes were not solely

his fault. “Really,

when something doesn’t go well in any phase of

football, there’s more to it than any individual person, and when things go well it’s like that, too,” said Schurig. “Some of the things that looked like maybe it was his responsibility, it was part of his responsibility but it was also someone else’s too. We really tried to get across that those weren’t necessarily his errors but it’s something he could still learn from.”

Desir seemed to be back on track against Northwest Mis-souri State, accounting for nine

tackles and picking off his third pass of the year.

“He’s a very fine player,” said Schurig. “He can make up a lot of ground in a hurry and can go attack the football, so hopefully we see that a bunch in these next games.”

However, the rest of the defensive secondary seemed to be having problems of its own. Following the Central Missouri game, in which the defense al-lowed 447 passing yards and four touchdowns, the Ichabod secondary improved statisti-cally every game, culminating in an impressive game against Pittsburg State in which they allowed only 85 passing yards and no touchdowns.

“I kind of attribute sec-ondary coverage to offensive line play,” said Schurig. “If one guy’s out of sync, the play doesn’t work. Same thing with the secondary coverage, if one guy’s off then they have a chance to get you. That hap-pened early in the season and since that time we’ve been a little bit more disciplined in our coverages and hopefully that continues.”

Someone once wrote that, “for all things there is a season.” In the case of one of Washburn’s newest athletes, the season never really ends.

Sami McHenry is a red-shirt freshman, currently serv-ing as a defensive specialist for the Washburn Lady Blues volleyball team. When the vol-leyball season begins to draw near an end, another facet of McHenry’s athletic career be-gins to kick into gear as she as-sumes the role of newcomer to the Lady Blues basketball team under the direction of her father, head coach Ron McHenry.

The transition is one that is new for the freshman at the col-legiate level but yet is familiar for a variety of reasons.

“I’ve honestly done this all my life,” said Sami McHenry. “My parents have always given me a variety of different things to do so I feel like that has helped prepare me for taking everything that comes at me.”

In the case of her mindset, some find her single-minded

determination to be a success at Washburn all too familiar.

“Her sister, Dani [McHen-ry Schmidt] was a great two-sport athlete also at Washburn,” said Chris Herron, Washburn head volleyball coach. “So I think it’s just something in the McHenry D.N.A.”

In fact, when she chose to come to Washburn Sami McHenry contemplated if she wanted to pursue both sports and sought counsel from her sister.

“[Dani] just told me to do what I wanted but to not regret anything later so I decided to go for it,” said Sami McHenry.

While she has prior experi-ence as a multi-sport athlete in high school, McHenry has still had to make the adjustments that come with moving to the next level and wanting to be successful in both sports.

“I’ve had to study a lot more with picking up two [coaching] systems and get my-self prepared for both sports,” said Sami McHenry. “I also have to get myself into running shape because conditioning for both sports is different so it’s a

little bit of an adjustment.”As for basketball, coach

McHenry looks forward to the experience which he had simi-larly with his older daughter, Dani (McHenry) Schmidt, cur-rent Washburn assistant volley-ball coach.

“With the life of a coach you don’t get to see your fam-ily as much as you’d like some-times,” said Ron McHenry. “So a little selfishly, I really look forward to spending more time with her as she goes through school here.”

At the same time though, coach McHenry appreciates the task before his daughter as she assumes the role of player on his team.

“She really does face a pretty massive learning curve,” said Ron McHenry. “Playing at this level is a whole other expe-rience, especially with having to play catch up being a month behind [of her teammates].”

After coming off a tough loss in their previous game, in what some were terming an “upset” the Washburn Lady Blues volleyball team bounced back over the weekend with back-to-back wins.

Coming into the game against rival Truman State, Washburn was stung on the road by a Northwest Missouri State team that was just at a .500 record for the year. That loss set the stage for the week-end as the Lady Blues went to work leading up to the games.

“We have a great deal of respect for Truman State,” said Chris Herron, Washburn head volleyball coach. “It seems like since I’ve been at Washburn it’s been us or them as far as win-ning the conference.”

With an opponent of the

caliber of Truman State, it was vital for Washburn to get out early and play well in front of a pinked-out Lee Arena. The Tru-man State game was the Lady Blues game supporting breast cancer awareness.

Washburn came out early in the first set led by Aubri Renshaw, freshman outside hit-ter and Hillary Hughes, sopho-more outside hitter, each of which scored four kills to give the Lady Blues a first set win 25-17.

In the second set, Truman State took the momentum back as they led the set in total at-tacks at net 97-71. Washburn used their defensive prowess to fight off the aggressive play led by Molly Smith, senior libero and Hughes with 10 digs each. Breanna Lewis, junior right side hitter along with Mollie Lacy, junior middle hitter threw up a wall of defense as they

blocked a combined five shots at net during the set.

Combined with the de-fense was an offensive effort that finished out the set with a five-point rally that allowed Washburn to create breathing room and eventually take the set 25-19.

After a brief intermission, Truman State came out and looked flat as Washburn scored the first five points of the third set. Truman State though held on and weathered the early jump ahead of the Lady Blues that combined with some sloppy play that included three consecutive attack errors that brought Truman State back into the set and swung momentum in their favor. Despite the late push in the set to come back, the Lady Blues fell in the third set to Truman State.

In the fourth and deciding set Washburn turned to Ren-shaw once again as the Lady Blues put on a dominant perfor-mance in the final set. Leading the set with 4 kills, Renshaw who finished out the game with 14 kills overall led the Lady Blues offense on a seven point rally early on in the set that broke the back of Truman State and all but sealed the victory for Washburn who won the set 25-20 and took the match 3-1.

Afterward the Lady Blues expressed their relief at getting a big win.

“It was a good bounce back for us after losing at North-west,” said Renshaw. “Coming together as a team and playing as hard as we did coming off a loss, it was a great win for us.”

Renshaw’s play did not go unnoticed either.

“I can’t say enough good things about her,” said Herron. “She’s oblivious to pressure.”

Washburn then followed up the next day with a decisive 3-0 win over Missouri Western to finish out a successful weekend and position themselves second in the conference just one game behind Central Missouri in the MIAA conference standings as the season winds down.

Washburn is on the road to the University of Nebraska-Omaha Oct. 26 before returning home for a showdown against conference leading Central Missouri Oct. 29 at Lee Arena.

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Double trouble: Washburn’s Terry Grimmett, left, and Pierre Desir team up to tackle a Northwest Missouri State player. The Ichabods came close to their upset bid over the No. 5 Bearcats but fell short, 40-41, on a failed two-point conversion.

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Ichabods upset bid falls short

Blues bounce back strongThe Washburn University

community was out in full force this past weekend for Friday Night Madness in Lee Arena. As the combination pep rally and dance contest got under-way, the audience was greeted with quick speeches by Lady Blues Vol-leyball Coach Chris Herron and Washburn President Jerry Farley, among other speakers.

However, for many, the highlight of the evening was seeing all of Washburn’s various sports teams compete in the dance contest. Whether it was the football team’s rousing rendi-tion of Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA” or the soccer team’s vision of a world in which the geriatric community can be ac-cepted as equal to the youth, entertainment was had by all.

Washburn Student Gov-

ernment Association president and emcee for the evening, Ca-ley Onek discussed the origin of the experience, taking over the Student Athletic Advisory Committee’s Gong Show.

“They didn’t have the fund-ing to put it on,” said Onek. “So we decided that we wanted to have a really big pep rally dur-ing Homecoming week, right

before the Homecoming football game, to just get a bunch of stu-dents out here, have a lot of fun, have the coaches talk, have the ath-letes be able to perform danc-es, and let the

students get to know the ath-letes on a whole new level.”

Overall, Onek was more than satisfied with the results of the evening

“I think it went consider-ably well,” said Onek. “We started out ten minutes before, and there weren’t too many people there, and by the end of the show, the whole side over

there was packed. That holds 1,000 students.

“So we had quite a few students here, which is great. Ralph Hipp from WIBW end-ed up coming over after the 10 o’clock news to help out. I can’t believe it went as long as it did. I think since it built so much from last year, we’re go-ing to have to watch time limits now.”

Last year’s Friday Night Madness champions, the men’s basketball team, took a decid-edly different approach to this year’s contest in a real crowd pleaser, even exploiting a back-flipping 10-year-old boy in the process.

“This year, we decided to give audience members an op-portunity to dance and give them a chance to win a couple prizes,” said Bobby Chipman, sophomore forward. “We ran-domly did pick out people, and it happened to be a young boy with some dance moves. He got the crowd on their feet, and I was impressed.”

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Washburn defense must play strong for Ichabod bowl-bid

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Killer queen: Junior middle/rightside hitter Mollie Lacy helped lead the No. 6 Lady Blues to a 3-1 victory Saturday against No. 11 Truman State. Lacy is second on the team in kills with 203.

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Friday Night full of Madness

I can’t believe it went as long as it did.

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Dual sport athlete shines

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Robert Burkett is a senior mass media major. Reach him at robert.burkett@washburn.edu.

Washburn’s Caysie Beet-ley scored her first collegiate goal 51 seconds into the second half to propel the Lady Blues to a 3-0 win over Northwest Missouri in Yager Stadium Sat-urday night. Washburn will be back in action on Thursday at Emporia State.

Beetley’s goal was one of three by the Lady Blues as Washburn’s Lauren Henry add-ed her third goal of the season and Megan Buckley scored her second goal of the season in the 87th minute capping the scor-

ing in the 3-0 win.Ashley Klone picked up

the shutout win in net with her 15th career shutout and her sec-ond shutout of the season in net collecting two saves. The 15th shutout also sets a school record passing former WU net-keeper Jenna Hatlestad. Beetley finished with three shots and Ashley Hynek, Danielle Sicard and Henry each had two.

Washburn (4-7-3, 4-6-2 MIAA) outshot the Bearcats (2-9-4, 2-8-3 MIAA) 13 to 3 holding a 12 to 0 advantage in the second half going with a strong southern breeze.

The offensive outburst only lasted one night.

A day after firing away at St. Louis Bandits goalie Jimmy Hanby and burying five goals in the final period to win 6-3, the Topeka RoadRunners couldn’t replicate the same effort, falling 3-0 Saturday night at Landon Arena.

In Friday night’s match up, Topeka (8-4-2) took an early lead 14 seconds into the con-test when Michael Hill buried a rebound off a Nate Milam shot. But only 18 seconds lat-er, St. Louis’ Chris Ciotti tied the match at one, deflating the RoadRunners’ early momen-tum.

St. Louis (10-3-2) took a 2-1 lead at 16:01 of the first pe-riod when Joe Kalisz found the back of the net, which would stand until 9:54 of the second period when Russell Finch gave the Bandits a 3-1 lead.

Michael Hill scored anoth-er early-period goal 34 seconds into the third period. Halfway through the third period, the

RoadRunners were hit for a four-minute penalty, but two shorthanded goals by Jordan Davis and Nate Milam respec-tively while down a man gave Topeka a 4-3 lead.

A goal at 13:27 by Andrew White and a late empty-net goal by Daniel Dupell finished off Friday’s match.

Early Saturday, Topeka looked like the same team who had outplayed St. Louis in the third period the night before. But nevertheless, 4:59 into the game, Brad Smith found the back of the net, giving the Ban-dits a 1-0 lead. Topeka lead in shots 10-2 after the first period.

During a late second pe-riod Topeka power play, Drew Slaton found himself on a breakaway and flipped the puck backhanded into the back of the net at the 16:46 mark of the sec-ond period to increase the Ban-dit lead to 2-0

For Topeka head coach Scott Langer, it was frustrating to come out firing and be trail-ing.

“I thought system wise, we were really good the first two periods and to be down

was frustrating,” said Langer. “Our first goal was really soft and then a pretty big breakaway takes the wind out of your sails. They capitalized on a few mis-takes. We only gave up 13 shots and got shut out. I don’t know how many times that’s going to happen.”

A third period shot ap-peared to go off the crossbar and stay out of the goal, however the goal light came on, but play did not stop. Upon stoppage of play, head official Lucas Martin spoke with the goal judge and it was confirmed a goal at 3:11 to make it 3-0.

Langer was still in question following the play and notice-ably frustrated by the call.

“The third goal never went in,” said Langer. “I’m not even sure how anyone can get that wrong. That amazes me. At that point, the game’s over and it’s in the hands of the official and the off-ice official who made that call. But we have to sup-port our goaltending and our defense more. We’re only al-lowing 13 shots. We’ve got to score some goals. We weren’t tenacious enough on the re-

bound tonight.”Topeka fired nine shots in

the final period and 23 on the night in the loss. Rasmus Tir-ronen picked up a win and a loss on the weekend, giving up six goals on 37 shots overall.

Langer knows he’s got a young hockey team with a lot of new players and doesn’t expect the team to excel over-night. However, he wants to see change happen promptly.

“We’ve lost some games here early on and we’re not used to how we’re losing them,” said Langer. “I don’t like it. It’s real-ly not part of our identity or our culture. These guys are either going to figure it out or some other guys are going to figure it out for them.”

Topeka returns to the road this week to take on the Spring-field, Ill. Junior Blues. They then return home the following weekend to play the New Mex-ico Mustangs, which begins a six-game homestand.

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Facing off: Andrew O’Leary, forward, looks to win a face-off. O’Leary had two assists on Friday night in Topeka’s 6-3 win but couldn’t convert the next night as the RoadRunners were shutout, 0-3.

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Denver Broncos vs San Francisco 49ers

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RoadRunners show sporadic effort

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However, the Ichabods took a significant hit when they lost Casey Curran, senior safe-ty, likely for the season with an ankle injury, and with Michael Wilhoite, senior linebacker/de-fensive end, occasionally try-ing to fill in at safety against Northwest Missouri State, the Bearcats took advantage of Curran’s absence.

“It’s real funny because everyone was worried about D-linemen being a holdup and thought nobody would be able to pass on us, and then it was

like flip-flopped,” said Wil-hoite. “It was like teams were just airing it out on us and kill-ing us with the pass but nobody could run on us. Then finally we had a game [against Nebras-ka-Omaha] where we finally played a team that was going to challenge us with the run. They said ‘We’re not going to throw the ball, we’re going to run.’ We knew that from watching the tape, we were prepared for it and we did a very good job against it, I thought.”

While Wilhoite under-standably didn’t flourish filling in for the injured Curran against

one of the top offenses in the MIAA, he has found some suc-cess spreading around to other positions on the field.

“He’s big enough to play D-end and he’s got some speed things that help us out there so on certain teams that like to throw the ball, moving him up and giving him some pass rush responsibilities is a big plus and he’s definitely strong enough to do it,” said Schurig.

Wilhoite said that after playing only linebacker for the first five years of his college career, it was a nice change of pace to switch in at defensive

end every now and then to ap-ply the pass rush.

“I never did it before but I really enjoyed it,” said Wil-hoite. “It’s something I really enjoyed, it’s like a new chal-lenge for me. When they first told me about it I was very ex-cited to do something different because I’ve been doing the same thing for so many years that it was just like ‘Now I get to do something different and get to show maybe another tal-ent that I have.’”

While the secondary has struggled to regain its compo-sure, the defensive line and line-

backers have exceeded expec-tations, holding rushers to only 3.7 yards per rush. This number was considerably lower, 3.2 yards per rush, before the Pitt State game where the Gorillas rushed 53 times for 346 yards and five touchdowns.

“I think our front has start-ed to play well,” said Schurig. “The inside backers and outside backers are really doing a good job on the run game.”

The linebacking squad has had its fair share of injuries, however. Michael “Bear” Hol-lins, junior linebacker, hasn’t played a down since incur-

ring a shoulder injury in the Central Missouri game. Luke Schuckman, fifth-year senior linebacker, has been battling concussions. He said he got one against Abilene Christian in the home opener and then had another one against Nebraska-Omaha.

“We’re all kind of banged and bruised, in a way, but we’re fighting through our injuries and doing the best we can to win our next game,” said Schuckman.

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Rivalry roadtrip: The Lady Blues soccer team travels to Emporia Thursday to take on Emporia State at 4 p.m. Washburn is 4-7-3.

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