Public hearings for seven Emporia State majors or pro-grams under review for discon-tinuance will be held during the afternoons on today and Friday in the Memorial Union Ball-room, and representatives of some programs plan vigorous defenses.

Mel Storm, chair of the Eng-lish, Modern Languages and Journalism, said there are two things he wants to address at the hearing, on behalf of the French and German concentra-tions that are under review for discontinuance.

“I want to address some is-sues raised in the provost com-munication to us,” Storm said. “And then, primarily for the edification of the hearing com-mittee, I want to talk about the nature of our program, the im-portance of what we do with languages and particularly, some plans that we have for enabling students to continue the opportunity to study lan-guage.”

The hearings, before the Faculty Senate Academic Af-fairs Committee, will begin at 3 p.m. each day. On Thursday, the committee will take up the following: French and German, Modern Languages; BS, Infor-mation Resource Studies; and MS, Instructional Leadership. On Friday, hearings will in-clude BA/BS, Physical Scienc-es; MAT, Social Science; BA/BS, Social Science; and BS, Finance.

The defenders of each pro-gram will have 10 minutes in which to present evidence and supporting materials to the committee, followed by five minutes of questioning from faculty senators. The hearings are part of a process that began Jan. 28, when official notice of program discontinuance was received by the Faculty Senate. The process is outlined in the university policy manual.

David Cordle, academic provost, recommended end-ing the programs in response to a Kansas Board of Regents standards for programs at pub-lic universities, which call for a five-year average enrollment

Snow fell steadily Tues-day morning and covered the remaining ice from last Fri-day’s freezing rain. As morn-ing classes began, campus re-ceived a fresh blanket of snow that wasn’t too deep yet. Many students questioned their own safety as they trudged in

such conditions to later find that their classes after 12:30 p.m. had been canceled. The emergency team had a tough decision to make.

“You’d be amazed at the little things you have to take into consideration,” said Pres-ident Michael Shonrock. “You want to think about when the next paper comes out, when the next sporting event

will be...Campus never really shuts down.”

Although other universi-ties and colleges, including Flint Hills Technical School, started cancellations as soon as 8 p.m. Monday night, Em-poria State remained open half of the day in hopes the weather would not put a damper on classes.

“Our procedure is to make the call by 6 a.m. The day of, but depending on the situa-tion, we may take some time to wait it out and see what the weather might end up doing,” said Carrie Boettcher, emer-gency manager.

The first large winter storm of the year was predicted ear-ly this week, and as students became more aware they con-tinued to hope for classes to be canceled.

“I always encourage stu-dents and personnel to pay close attention to our emer-gency alert system to get in-formation about closings and weather alerts,” Boettcher said.

The snow didn’t let up throughout the day, either. By

the end of the day, the ground was coated with 7.9 inches of snow, according to weather.com. Students had no prob-lem sharing their opinion on social media, particularly on Twitter.

“To the students’ credit, I do appreciate the communi-cation because that is impor-tant,” Shonrock said. “I hope that because I check periodi-cally, it becomes another way to communicate with me and the university.”

Many students com-mented on how dangerous it was to walk to campus and their disagreement with how campus remained open even though the weather forecast stated the snow would not let up. One student even said that if enough people tweeted about canceling class, Shon-rock would close campus.

“Tweeting at me won’t al-ways change my mind, but I do look at the information,” Shonrock said.

The snow continued to fall throughout the day Tuesday,

Distinguished Kansas teach-ers came to Emporia State to talk to future educators about the power of being teachers and how to be successful in their fu-ture careers in Visser Hall on Thursday, Jan. 30.

The program was presented by eight 2014 Kansas Regional Teachers of the Year who were also finalists for the Kansas Teacher of the Year.

Presenters included Jennifer Bailey of Valley Center High, Marney Hay of Pray-Woodman Elementary, Brandi Leggett of Prairie Ridge Elementary, Mary Lonker of Wamego High, Jenny

Nash of Cottonwood Elemen-tary, Katie Perez of Morgan Elementary, Jennifer Smith of Lakewood Middle and Jeff Bax-ter of Leavenworth High, who is the 2014 Kansas Teacher of the Year.

While at ESU, the group spoke to several education classes about their experiences as educators and answered questions about what to ex-pect in the first years of teach-ing. The presentation was titled “The Power of You,” and was about how to become a “deci-sive element in the classroom.”

Adam Butch, sophomore elementary education major, at-tended the lecture for a class but

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Nizomiddin Kuchkarov, senior exchange student, takes aim at Yulia Emokhonova, senior exchange student, with a fistful of snow. Spontane-ous snowball fights broke out throughout the day, Tuesday Feb. 4. WILL AUSTIN | The BulleTin

Jeff Baxter, Kansas Teacher of the Year from Leavenworth High School, concludes a presentation he and seven other distinguished Kansas teach-ers gave to Emporia State education classes at 1 p.m. Thursday Jan. 30 in Visser Hall. The presentation was titled “The Power of You: Becoming the Decisive Element.” WILL AUSTIN | The BulleTin

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said he still enjoyed getting to hear the experienced opin-ions about teaching.

“(I feel) like there’s a great value to teaching students things that you’ve learned,” Butch said. “(I will apply what I learned) by always trying something new and never stop learning.”

All of the teachers received their awards after being nomi-nated in 2013 by fellow teach-ers, members of their respec-tive administrations, the school board and even students and parents.

Leggett, who was nomi-

nated by students, parents and teachers alike, said that she felt honored that she was consid-ered.

“There are a lot of great teachers at our school,” Leggett said. “So it was an honor to be considered and nominated.”

Baxter, who said he has been teaching high school lan-guage arts “a lot longer than

25 years,” said being named Kansas Teacher of the Year was humbling.

After the presentation, the distinguished teachers allowed time for students to ask ques-tions. When one individual asked what advice they had for the future educators, Hay said, “Be true to yourself and remember who you are.”

$360,000 donated to Trusler Sports Complex, School of Business

Emporia State is very ap-preciative of the gift money received from Trusler founda-tion and the City of Emporia totaling $360,000 for the im-provements of Trusler Sports Complex and the School of Business. The Trusler Sports Complex will have a new vis-itor’s dugout and ticket booth and has already completed repaving the parking lot.

The Trusler foundation was created in 1991 once the Truslers passed away. It con-tains several million dollars instructed to use for area youth, Emporia youth and economic growth.

Kent Weiser, athletic direc-tor of ESU, said, “We would always work with the Trusler foundation over the past 15 years when we wanted to do major improvements.”

The School of Business will use the money to increase advertisement of the univer-sity through marketing tech-niques.

“The $100,000 from the Trusler Foundations was re-

ally inspired by Dale and Carolyn Davis whom gave the school $100,000 earlier this fall to promote and mar-ket the school,” said John Rich, professor and director of Student Affairs and Alum-ni. “They believe this school doesn’t receive enough rec-ognition across the state as it should be,

With the focus of bring-ing more of a variety of dif-ferent students onto campus this will help with connecting ESU to a different segment, the business entrepreneurial area and possibly other areas as well.

“When so many people think of Emporia State, they think of the Teachers College,” Rich said. “Though their de-sire is not to do anything to harm the teachers college, but they do want more people to realize we have a very strong business school and raise this awareness across the state and region.”

The Trusler foundation also donated $25,000 to the sports complex for the ticket booth and visitors’ dugout. This was an improvement

they have been wanting for a while.

Currently, tickets and ad-mission to the games are set up at a table or tent, which is not ideal for a more profes-sional looking complex. Com-pleting these two additions will finish off the improve-ments to ESU’s home baseball and softball fields.

“The new dugouts and ticket booth will provide a positive first impression to our fans and visitors and make their day at the ball park even more enjoyable,” said Don Weast, assistant ath-letic director for media rela-tions.

The other large project of repaving Trusler Sports Complex recognizes the City of Emporia for gift money of $235,000.

“The City of Emporia stepped in and offered the money because we use that complex a bunch during the summer and spring for tour-naments, little league and adult leagues, and it’s the first impression people have when they come to the stadi-ums,” Weiser said.

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Police ReportsReports given to The Bulletin

from ESU Police and Safety

Jan. 29Officers assisted the Empo-

ria Police Dept. with a car stop at 18th and Merchant.

Jan. 30Officer escorted a female

student from ESU PD HQ to her apartment off campus to assist in locating her cellular telephone.

Officer assisted Emporia Po-lice Dept. with a car stop in 1800 Merchant.

Jan. 31Officer assisted Emporia Po-

lice Dept. with an ambulance call at 12th and East.

Officer assisted three ve-hicles at 15th and Market that were having difficulty on ice.

Officer stopped KS 608ERG in 1100 Commercial. Verbal warning for a one-way viola-tion in 1200 Market.

Feb. 1Officers assisted KS 705EIY

in Morse Hall Complex loading zone that was having difficulty on ice.

Officer stopped KS 562GDU at 11th and Merchant. Verbal warning was for poor drivers view.

Feb. 2Officer took report of non-

injury accident involving KS 687CSO in Lot 11.

Ambulance responded to South Twin Towers for a sei-zure. A female student was transported by ambulance to Newman Regional Health.

Female requested to speak with an officer at Roosevelt Hall in reference to missing keys.

Officer provided escort for subject from Roosevelt Hall to 1500 Washington.

Officer escorted a female student from ESU PD HQ to Twin Towers Complex.

Officer assisted a male stu-dent who slipped on the ice around Singular/Trusler Com-plex. Officer distributed Hydite on the icy areas.

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a victim of a financial crime in

TexasOfficer stopped KS 887JST

at 10 W 15th . Verbal warning for a stop sign violation.

Officer stopped KS 569FDY at 11th Constitution. Verbal warning for driving without headlights.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a Disturbing the Peace call at 929 Lawrence.

Twin Towers Reception Center reported some rooms on 7th North Twin Towers were without power. Officers reset the breaker.

Officers assisted Lyon Co. Sheriff’s Dept. with locating a reckless driver.

Officer stopped KS 011GDW at I-35 and Burlingame Rd. sub-ject was taken into custody for DUI and transported to Lyon Co. jail.

Feb. 4Ambulance responded to

Memorial Union for a fall. Sub-ject was transported by am-bulance to Newman Regional Health.

Ambulance responded to Memorial Union for a fall. Sub-ject was transported by officer to Newman Regional Health.

Ambulance responded to Northeast Morse Hall Room 316 for a male student with side pain. Subject refused transport to Newman Regional Health.

Resident of North Twin Towers 7th floor reported the power was out. Officer reset the breaker.

Residential Life reported a female student missing. Offi-cers were able to locate subject and checked her welfare. No problem was found.

Officer assisted vehicle stuck in snow between Plumb Hall and Science Hall.

Officer assisted a vehicle stuck in snow at 15th and Mer-chant.

An employee of Memorial Student Union reported a sus-picious package at the east en-trance. Officer determined the package was a bundle of news-papers.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a call in 1000 Merchant-Country Mart.

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Emporia State received three gifts totaling $360,000 for the School of Business and Athletic Department including $235,000 from the City of Emporia to repave the Trusler Sports Complex parking lot. The Athletics Department also plans to renovate the visitor’s dugout and build a permanent ticket booth at the complex this year. ALEX HAMMERSCHMIDT | the Bulletin

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five-year average enroll-ment of 25 undergraduate stu-dents and 10 graduate students. The programs under review did not meet these average rec-ommendations, he said.

“The central reason that per-haps all of these have in com-mon is that they serve very few students, and I don’t believe there’s a realistic prospect of that changing,” Cordle said. “That’s a very broad general-ization. There’s always, as you might imagine, a different story with every one.”

One program, finance, has no students enrolled, but that’s because the department stopped offering it as an op-tion. French and German, Cordle said, have only five or six students. Among all seven programs, there are around 80 undergraduate and 20 graduate students enrolled.

Cordle said the recommen-dations start with the programs not meeting the KBOR stan-

dards, but it doesn’t stop with just the numbers.

“We have to take other things into account, too,” Cor-dle said. “For example, some programs might be very impor-tant to ESU’s carrying out its mission, even if they are small. Other programs might be small today, but maybe we have rea-son to think we can grow them later.”

The problem, Cordle said, may not be specifically money, but resources.

“We have to keep in mind…whatever resources we’re us-ing for one program are not be-ing used for another,” Cordle said. “There’s only so much to go around in terms of teaching resources and other resources we have to put in place to offer instruction.”

Storm said that the Midwest is isolated, and internationaliza-tion is a huge part of opportu-nity for students.

“I’m not going to try to con-vince anyone that our numbers are high, because, clearly, they are not, but there are other is-

sues involved in terms of edu-cation, the student experience and the university experience,” Storm said.

The timetable for the discon-tinuance process, according to Lidzy, includes a report from the committee to be delivered to the Faculty Senate on Feb. 18. By March 4, the Faculty Senate must vote on the discontinu-ances, and that vote and associ-ated recommendation will go forward to the administration.

“I hope they choose to ad-vise the programs to the presi-dent that we be allowed to con-tinue on with our program,” Storm said. “Because I know that both the provost and the president are concerned with giving our ESU students the fullest possible range of educa-tional opportunity, and I hope that if that recommendation goes forward from the hearing committee and from the senate, it will be favorably received.”

President Michael Shonrock will have the final decision on whether or not to continue the programs.

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Radius Brewing Company has spent the last two years perfecting their beer recipes while construction began at their location at 6th and Mer-chant streets. Finally, the long-anticipated grand opening will happen soon.

Although the official date of the grand opening has not yet been set, Sarah Bays, Radius employee, said they’re expecting it to take place in a little more than a month. The opening has experienced mul-tiple postponements, due to extensive renovations being made to the building.

Emporia craft beer enthusi-asts flocked to Radius Brewing Company as they held their first public beer tasting Feb. 1-2. J. J. Bays, Radius brewmas-ter, said although Radius has not officially opened, it will be holding another public beer tasting this Saturday, 1-5 p.m. and Sunday, 12-5 p.m.

Sarah Bays said the brewery officially employs only three people, including herself and her husband, J. J.

At the tasting last weekend,

Radius had their wheat beer, pale ale, India pale ale, brown ale, porter and stout available for sampling. They also sold refillable 32-ounce “squeal-ers” and 64-ounce “growlers” of the six brews. J. J. Bays said they sold over 250 containers on the first day of tasting.

“That’s a lot of beer sold in three hours,” Sarah Bays said.

Rosie Davis, senior biology major, said one beer that stood out to her was the porter, Sarah Bays’s favorite, incidentally.

“The Radius porter is deli-cious,” Davis said. “That is a really good beer.”

Sarah Bays said when Radius officially opens it will be a restaurant as well as a brewery, complete with a wood-fired brick oven for pizzas. Soups, salads, sand-wiches, and a pricier chef’s menu of steak or seafood will also be available.

“The menu will be pretty eclectic,” she said.

The delays in construc-tion have allowed J. J. Bays to experiment with gourmet beer recipes. Sarah Bays said her husband has experimented with a lot of flavor combina-tions with the porter such as

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Sarah Bays, Radius employee, waits for Emporia residents to sample some of the select types of beer during their first public beer tasting Feb. 2. NICHOLAS SUMNER | the Bulletin

Emporia residents sample several varieties of the beer that have been brewed onsite on Feb. 2. NICHOLAS SUMNER | the Bulletin

Jeremy Johns, co-owner and brewmaster at Radius Brewing Company, labels freshly brewed bottles of beer on Feb 2. Radius Brewing Co. is located at the corner of 6th Street and Commercial. NICHOLAS SUMNER | the Bulletin

Chad Swift, general manager of Radius Brewing Company, spent Sunday, Feb. 2 preparing samples of beer for costumers to try. Radius Brewing Co. was open to the public to try out their home brewed beer during the big Superbowl weekend. NICHOLAS SUMNER | the Bulletin

cocoa chipotle, peanut butter and chocolate curry

“There are numerous other recipes that will be available later on,” J. J. Bays said. “Some will be variants of the beers we sold this weekend, some will be very original, and we will do some European styles, as well.”

Most of their ingredients come from area farmers, Sarah Bays said.

“We have a couple sources for local grown hops,” she said. “When we start getting more local ingredients, we will do some brews using all local ingredients.”

The brewing company expects to be more active in the coming months. Sarah Bays said they hope to sell growlers every weekend until the grand opening, They will be attend-ing the Kansas Craft Brewers Expo in Lawrence on March 8. On April 12, they will also be at Emporia Main Street’s Taste of Emporia at the Civic Audi-torium.

With Radius poised to open after two years in the works, Sarah said the company “would like thank the commu-nity for their patience.”

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Movies Gone Foul

Students, faculty and staff slipped and slid across a layer of ice on campus Saturday. The assumption, perhaps, was that someone would be along soon to clear the sidewalks and parking areas. But no one came along until two full days later – right before classes were going to be in session on Monday morning.

University Facilities, in the Stormont Maintenance Center, was closed for the weekend. When we called Stormont, a recorded message asked stu-dents to call Police and Safety for emergencies. The walkways were an emergency waiting to happen, so we made another phone call to Police and Safety. An officer told us that clear-ing sidewalks is not a part of their job. Whose job is it, then? Who exactly is supposed to

be making sure that students are safe and protected when walking conditions are hazard-ous?

Last February, we experi-enced the same kind of weather we are facing now. We had a few smatterings of snow and then two massive snowstorms back-to-back. At a time when every other school in the county was closing their doors, our stu-dents were wondering why we were still open.

But our university crews were on the job. They ventured out in the dangerous weather and started clearing the side-walks long before anyone set foot onto campus. And we thanked them for that.

This year, it was a different story.

Who is in charge of clear-ing snow and ice? Just because

departments are closed down doesn’t mean life stops on campus. Close to a thousand students live on-campus and must leave their dorms to do something as simple as eat lunch. For this reason, at the least, the university should be aware of the conditions on campus and should be certain that the walkways and build-ings are safe environments.

Around 9 a.m. Monday., a BuzzIn announcement was sent out by ESU Emergency Man-agement to let everyone know that the conditions on campus were “slick.” Yes, conditions were obviously slick – they had been since the storm on Friday night – but what were they doing about it to keep us safe?

Packs of students were seen tiptoeing to class in order not to fall on their faces, which some of

The meaning of the word pirate has changed from those “Argh!” yelling sea-rats, who go out looking for treasure on the high seas, to mean those who acquire digital goods illegally via their desktop. Today, when we picture pirates, we imagine an average-looking person wearing everyday clothes in front of their PC download-ing various lines of code. You can pirate, everything from movies and television shows to video games and books.

How many can say the President of their university has tweeted at them? Students at Emporia State can.

ESU has been doing a fabu-lous job at utilizing the social media website that is slowly changing communication and possibly the world – Twitter. Twitter handles and hashtags are featured just about any-where from brochures, TV shows, movie previews, pages of magazines and more. Who knew this site could connect people in such a way that is a boost to our school spirit, pride, and community?

It seems that ESU has been a spearhead for reaching potential students and also connecting to the students we already have. The admissions department has been active on Twitter this past year and they are just now noticing other schools finally doing the same.

Through the various univer-sity Twitter accounts, incoming

Almost any kind of enter-tainment can be found on the internet.

With piracy, files are copied and uploaded to the internet on a site or two. Then, you download the copy while whispering, “Argh,” under your breath and now you’re a pirate. The original file is still there, you just absconded with a copy of the file. No harm done.

An old advertisement that came on before the movie on a DVD would always say, “You wouldn’t steal a car, would you?” If I could clone a car and take the clone while the original car remained, I would totally “steal” that car.

Current anti-piracy laws harm the wrong people. They target average people who download media and keep it for their own per-sonal use with no intention of making a profit from it. I believe those who down-load and use content they find online for profitable gain should be the only ones who

freshmen are getting excited and posting about ESU. It is a contagious excitement that makes current students proud to be a Hornet. Next year’s freshman class is already con-necting with other new stu-dents even before they move into town. This can ease those coming-to-college jitters we get. Twitter is a great tool for our current Hornets, adminis-tration and alums to welcome the new class and make them feel like part of the family.

Not only has Twitter made an impact on our recruitment, but has done an outstanding job for our athletics. Now stu-dents can keep up to date with scores, games and matches even when they can’t attend. Teams can also create and maintain an identity such as the football team’s slogan of “Brick By Brick, We’re Not Done” that became their mantra last season. #StingersUp even won a Division II Twitter hashtag

It’s pretty awkward when you’re watching a movie with your parents and you see their jaws drop with disbelief as the actor on screen drops the f-bomb three or more times in a sentence.

Every time I suspect a movie in theaters of being good, it usually turns out to be absolutely awful. Either the plot line is poor, the actors are cheap and impassionate about their roles or the language is vile and not meant for human

contest.Twitter may even be a

factor in building our future retention rates because it has boosted our community, spirit and pride in a way that makes people want to stay. Now stu-dents feel more connected – like ESU really can be a home away from home – and it has given us a place to have a voice with our administration and among our peers.

consumption. I was embar-rassed even to be seen watch-ing a movie with content so vulgar that the film’s meaning became incoherent.

“The Wolf of Wall Street” is a film based on a true story – so it is automatically good, right? It’s about a New York stockbroker who runs a firm that engages in security fraud on Wall Street in the 1990s. The popular website, IMDb.com gives the film 8.6 stars out of 10, even though the

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receive punishment. Pirating copies of files should not be illegal. Instead, piracy should be legalized for those who do not distribute their “booty” for profitable gain. It is a con-venient way to watch shows and movies without going bankrupt.

Congress has tried to pass laws that would combat piracy both by asking search engines not to provide links to websites with illegal content and by attacking the adver-tisers that sponsor those web-sites. One recent bill, called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), was put into Congress but was put on hold because of a protest by Google and many other large websites.

Corporations should take a similar stance and use piracy as a form of distribution to get their products out there for mass public consump-tion, not to punish people for obtaining their content by different means. Penalize the criminals, not the average person on a budget.

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movie promiscuously pro-motes illegal drug use, sex in the workplace and inspiring a group of co-workers with acts of indecency.

Times have changed and it is becoming more and more difficult to monitor media influences. Do you really want a film like this to influence your child’s attitude or per-sonality? My little sister, for instance, loves Katy Perry and every time I ask her what she wants to be when she grows up she always replies with the same answer, “A rock star like Katy Perry because she’s on TV!”

When a little boy sees an older man making money hand over fist in an easy but immoral kind of way, who do you think his role model for the week is? That vile rich

man on TV, of course. The difference between right and wrong for a child, and even one in the adolescent stage, can be very confusing, which makes them impressionable and vulnerable to negative influences. I asked myself the question, “If you are so deter-mined to keep your younger sister from watching a movie, should you really be watching it?”

We are the role models that our siblings and children look up to. It is our responsibility to instruct and groom the next generation, helping them to become moral and responsible citizens. Next time you turn on the TV or decide to watch a movie, stop and consider who else might be watching, and how you or the other individ-ual might be affected.

them did, anyway. Sending out a notice of this kind is insulting to the student body. Students were already on campus by the time the cleanup began, and the effort, frankly, was feeble. There weren’t enough paths cleared

between buildings and some crosswalks and handicapped ramps were left untouched.

As students, we expect walkways to be safe. Allowing campus to become an ice rink is unacceptable.

The Bulletin |Feb. 6, 2014 NEWSMiller retires after 23

years of excellence

After 23 years at Emporia State, Marie Miller, dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has decided to retire. After hold-ing such titles as professor of music, chair of the music de-partment and interim chair of Modern Languages before reaching her current position, she said, “It’s time.”

Ken Weaver, dean of the Teacher ’s C o l l e g e , said that in her po-sition as chair of the music de-partment, Miller was r e s p o n -sible for every mu-sic teacher at Emporia State, those who taught vocal performance and every teacher that specialized in a certain in-strument.

Miller excelled in all that she did, Weaver said.

“You can truly say that she has given the gift that keeps on giving, and that is the teachers that are out in the field, wher-ever they are,” Weaver said.

Miller said working with faculty and students has been the best part of her time at ESU.

“Working with the depart-ment to…help them through a project, whether they’re look-ing for funding or working on their curriculum or trying to find the best way of doing things, those are the highs,” Miller said. “That’s what I thor-oughly enjoy every day.”

She admitted that a lot of her work was dealing with less funding and cutbacks, but said today’s situation is better.

“We’re in exciting times in the university now, so it’s a good time to be here,” Miller said. “(There is) lots going on

and a lot of forward looking, so I think it’s a good time.”

Gary Wyatt, associate dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that shortly after Miller was appointed dean, the econ-omy went downhill and mas-sive budget cuts were made.

“I’ve been able to watch her guide the college through some very difficult times…and yet she handled it so well and was able to bring people together and help them through the

difficulties,” Wyatt said. “It’s when a real chal-lenge comes that a true leader shows, and I’ve just learned so much from Marie based on the way she’s handled the challeng-

es that have come the college’s way.”

Miller said the person she has to thank the most for sup-porting her through all her time at ESU is her late husband.

“He was the one person I could sit down with and talk to about the situations… He never ever gave me a sense that what I was doing wasn’t important or wasn’t worthy of his time, and that was impor-tant (to me),” Miller said.

When she retires, Miller ex-pressed a desire to travel and see her family in Florida, as-sist with city planning and the senior center in Americus and continue helping with Hand in Hand Hospice in Emporia. She said her husband’s death two years ago helped her reach to the decision to retire.

“It’s been a hard adjustment, although I’ve come through it,” Miller said. “That made me realize there are things that I want to do in life, and the lon-ger I wait, you know, the less time I’m going to have.”

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Marie Miller, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, an-nounced she will retire from her position at the end of this semester. Miller has been the dean since 2011, but has also held positions such as a professor of chair, chair of the music department and interim chair of Modern Languages. NICHOLAS SUMNER | the Bulletin

For the fourth year in a row, Emporia State will offer its free annual Mosaic of ESU retreat to students Feb. 21-22 at Camp Wood YMCA.

Tayler Wash, senior elemen-tary education major, has at-tended the retreat before, and said the retreat uses group activities and games to help participants get to know each other and learn about how di-versity affects their world.

“This program is not about having lectures and having a person stand up in front of a group,” said Jason Bosch, se-nior director of the Center for Student Involvement.

Typically, 50-60 people participate each year. Jason Brooks, director of multicul-

tural affairs, coordinates the event and is the primary facili-tator. He also selects five to six faculty members from ESU to help lead the small groups.

Bosch said the retreat teach-es students about accepting others, “rather than looking at those differences as a way to divide us, to look at them as an opportunity to come together and find where we have com-monalties and not just differ-ences.”

On Friday, Feb. 21, a bus will leave in the afternoon to take students who have signed up to Camp Wood, a YMCA camp 30 miles west of Empo-ria and will then take students back to campus the next day.

Bosch said the retreat is called “mosaic” because of the many different elements that make up a mosaic image.

“A mosaic is usually a pic-ture or an image that’s made up of a bunch of different ele-ments or tiles or pieces so it fits… the idea of the diversity in people that are different and come from a lot of different backgrounds and experiences that all contribute something to the world,” Bosch said.

Wash said she enjoyed the experience in the past and wished it could have been lon-ger.

“It made me more aware of how much more open-minded I needed to be,” Wash said. “It made me want to come back to campus and be more open-minded to different people from different cultures.”

To sign up for the retreat, register online at Emporia.edu/oma before Tuesday, Feb. 11.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — It isn’t just farmers who will benefit from the sweeping farm bill that Congress has sent President Barack Obama. There’s also help for rural towns, grocery stores in low-income areas and, most no-tably, the nation’s 47 million food stamp recipients.

After years of setbacks, the Senate passed the nearly $100 billion-a-year measure Tues-day on a 62-38 vote. The White House said the president will sign the bill Friday in Michi-

gan, home state of Senate Ag-riculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow.

Farmers in every region would still receive generous subsidies — from Southern peanut growers to Midwest corn farmers and dairies around the country. The sup-port is designed to provide a financial cushion in the face of unpredictable weather and market conditions.

But the bulk of its cost is for the food stamp program, which aids 1 in 7 Ameri-

cans. The bill would cut food stamps by $800 million a year, or around 1 percent.

House Republicans had hoped to reduce the bill’s costs even further, pointing to a booming agriculture sec-tor in recent years and argu-ing that the now $80 billion-a-year food stamp program has spiraled out of control. The House passed a bill in Septem-ber that would have reduced the cost of food stamps five times more than the eventual cut.

day didn’t arrive until 5:07 p.m., when students received yet another ESU Alert saying that campus would be closed Wednesday, Feb. 5.

“The university plans for events on an ongoing basis,” Boettcher said. “We started planning for this week’s storm last week, and continue to make decisions as the weather changes.”

Boettcher strongly encour-ages students to attend the many precautionary lectures that take place on campus, so each student can be more pre-pared for the weather condi-tions Kansas typically throws at its residents.

“The more we can do to learn and prepare as individu-als, the more we can do for a particular weather situation,”

Boettcher said.With a windchill advisory

put into effect at 3 p.m. yester-day, ESU personnel, including Shonrock, worked to make sure the pathways and roads would be clear for students and employees to go back to normal this morning.

“We’ve been up on campus all day (Wednesday) trying to get the roads cleared,” Shon-rock said. “Even though cam-pus is ‘closed’ we are never re-ally closed. Don’t forget about the folks who get up early to help get prepared for the next day. They are breathing the cold air and wind to help in-sure that we can make it to campus safely.”

Although Shonrock kept student and employee safety at the top of the list of priorities, people still got hurt Tuesday.

Jason Bosch, senior director of the Center for Student In-

volvement, took a fall outside his apartment early Monday morning.

“I was getting out of my car in the parking lot next to my apartment,” Bosch said. “As I turned to close the door, I slipped and fell on my back, and hit my head on the icy pavement.”

Bosch felt fine until he ar-rived at work at 8 a.m. later that morning.

“My face and arms started tingling, I had a shortness of breath, I felt dizzy and I was having trouble concentrating,” said Bosch.

After a trip to the emergen-cy room, Bosch was diagnosed with a contusion, and is recov-ering. Accidents have racked up over the last few days with 11 accidents reported by Police and Safety, two of which land-ed people in the emergency room.

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The snowstorm makes it a feat for students and faculty to travel on foot and by vehicle Tuesday Feb. 4 through-out the day. Maintenance and custodial services worked through the day clearing snow only for the walkways to be covered again within the hour. JENNIFER PENDARVIS | The BulleTin

Left to right: Katie Hatesohl, sophomore nursing major, Evangeline Carney, sophomore psychology major, and Dani De Vore, junior social science education major, hit each other with snowballs during their free afternoon, Tuesday Feb. 4 outside Morse Hall.WILL AUSTIN | The BulleTin

Larry Gutierrez, custodial specialist, shovels through the mass of snow that blanketed campus at 11 a.m. Tuesday morning in front of Breukel-man Science Hall. Campus custodial services worked throughout the day to clear the sidewalks and pathways of ice and snow.JON COFFEY | The BulleTin

Construction continues on the fourth floor of the William Allen White library on Monday, Feb. 3. On the Em-poria State University Libraries and Archives Facebook page it was announced that renovations of the fourth floor would begin Monday, Jan. 2. JENNIFER PENDARVIS | The BulleTin

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As you stroll down the gro-cery store aisles, it’s impossible to ignore the copious amounts of “health foods” – organic cookies, fat-free ranch and sug-ar-free ice cream – just to name a few. At first glance, it seems like these items would be sav-iors for those trying to lose weight. Who doesn’t want to have their cake and eat it, too?

Well, you can eat cake and lose weight, but not because the ingredients are organic. The fact that they’re organic might actually make you fatter.

This is called the health food halo effect. You buy a healthier alternative that is sugar-free because everyone “knows” sugar is bad for you. So far, so good. The difference is, instead of enjoying the indulgence in moderation, you eat more of this food because it’s suppos-edly healthy. You could have had three normal Oreos for 150 calories, but instead chose the low-fat Oreos and engulfed the entire row for a much bigger calorie cost.

These health foods give the illusion that the quantity doesn’t matter and common sense can go out the win-dow. Quantity does matter and while our minds may be tricked by witty marketing, our bodies respond to calories and nutrients. It’s food psy-chology, and it works, because

just about everyone is looking for ways to lose weight.

This effect is also found while eating out. Compare food choices at Subway to McDonald’s. Both restaurants offer cookies as a dessert, but how many people buy a cook-ie at McDonald’s? Hardly any, because it’s obvious this isn’t the best meal we could be hav-ing, and we play mental collat-eral damage.

On the other hand, how many people buy cookies at Subway? Now that you think about it, quite a bit. We ratio-nalize to ourselves that since we made the good choice opt-ing for Subway, we should reward ourselves with two birthday cake cookies. All of a sudden, it wasn’t such a great decision after all. Many people actually end up eating more calories at Subway.

The same psychology is used at Orange Leaf. “Frozen yogurt is healthier than ice cream, grab me the large con-tainer. I’m pouring M&M’s on this, too.”

The idea isn’t to avoid these foods or places, but to under-stand that they aren’t magi-cal. If you aren’t mindful your health consciousness could ac-tually backfire. If you’re opting for low-fat ranch, that is great, just don’t compensate by hav-ing twice as much.

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Students: Regardless of whether or not you wanted classes, do you think it was safe for campus to open today?

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Soon, Emporia State will be able to transfer transcripts electronically with a system called Ellucian Banner ERP.

Alicia Dingman, regis-tration administrative as-sistant, said other colleges can request transcripts from Emporia State and avoid paperwork by receiving an electronic version. However, the program is not technical-ly up and running yet.

“It’s still just in the test-ing stage,” said Renee Bass, administrative officer in reg-istration. “It will be very neat when it’s ready.”

In order to transfer a transcript wirelessly, stu-dents will have to go to ESU’s Office of the Registrar web page. There is a link that takes students directly to the payment page. Students will need their credit card num-ber and Social Security num-ber ready. However, official transcripts cannot be pro-cessed if the student has out-standing obligations to ESU.

“I think it is definitely worth the money to have my transcripts sent wirelessly,” said Kathryn Martin, fresh-man elementary education major. “I’m a little surprised

Last year, when Jason Brooks began his position as director of Multicultural Affairs at Emporia State, the university requested that he find a way to focus on civil rights and social justice. And thus, the Dream Act Series was born.

The Dream Act Series has two sides to it. On one end, immigration reform and on the other, Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream for our nation.

This year, amidst the 50 year anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and com-memorations on how far American society has come in the fight to end racism, ESU has been given a special opportunity to reflect on the past.

Brooks applied for a grant through the National En-dowment for Humanities in New York, and ESU was one of 436 universities and other public entities within the United States to receive the $1,200 grant and the four documentary films that make up the Created Equal: Amer-

ican Civil Rights Struggle Film Series: The Freedom Riders, The Loving Story, The Abolitionist and Slavery By Another Name.

The money is being used to cover refreshments, pub-lic relations, venue cost and other expenses that go along with showing the films.

The first two documen-taries, The Freedom Riders and The Loving Story, have already been shown at Wil-liam Allen White Library and the Emporia Public Li-brary, respectively.

After each showing, a discussion session was held. The Loving Story covered the issue of interracial marriage, which sparked important dialogue with community members in attendance who had lived through the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s, 60s and 70s.

“It happened in our histo-ry and it affects how we live now,” said Lynette Olson, reference service coordina-tor at the Emporia Public Li-brary. “History books don’t give you that information on people.”

The third film of the se-ries, The Abolitionists, will be

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Emporia Youth Mentoring handed out gifts to thank current Emporia State mentors for their service at a meeting held on Jan. 30 in Butcher Education Center. The Emporia Youth Mentoring Program matches ESU students with local elementary children. They are currently looking for more volunteers. ALEX HAMMERSCHMIDT | The BulleTin

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shown in the Preston Family Room in Memorial Union on Feb. 6 at 6 p.m., and the last film, Slavery by Another Name, will be shown in William Al-len White Library Learning Commons on Feb. 13 at 6 p.m.

Along with the Dream Act Series to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr., the William Allen White Library is putting together a display in honor of Black History Month this February locat-ed on the lower level. It in-cludes a letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed to the Kansas State Teacher’s College – now ESU – thank-ing the university for the students’ involvement with the SCOPE project, which focused on increasing black voter registration.

Through these means, ESU is working to keep his-tory alive.

“The further we get away from the 60s and the 50s, we’re losing a little bit of the generation that actually lived through it,” Brooks said. “We want to continue to keep on bringing it up because we don’t want to repeat this his-tory by no means.”

The door opened and in walked Emporia State students heading for chocolate popcorn, ramen noodles and a signup sheet on a front table. By sign-ing their names on the sheet, they were committing to the Emporia Youth Mentoring pro-gram.

Last week, the Emporia Youth Mentoring program held a meeting in Butcher Educa-tion Center to recruit students and to celebrate the work other mentors had accomplished.

The program is designed to help match pre-K-12 Em-poria students with a mentor in a positive relationship that helps meet the needs of the stu-dent. There are currently 180 matches in the Emporia school district. Volunteer mentors are asked to see their student for one hour a week. They sched-ule meeting times either dur-ing the student’s lunch time or after school.

“It’s a school-based men-toring program, so all of our matches have to take place on school grounds,” said Heather Wagner, director of the Empo-ria Youth Mentoring program.

Any student may be re-ferred to the program, as long as they and their parents agree to it. The student is then paired up with a mentor based on need. Sometimes matches may grow and last beyond the school mentoring program and on into other programs.

“If we have a match that’s going perfect and they would like to do that, we refer them to Big Brothers, Big Sisters and then they continue through that program,” said Wagner.

Since mentors cannot sched-ule visits outside of school, being referred to Big Broth-ers, Big Sisters allows them to continue the relationship out-side of school. The mentoring program gives young students one-on-one time with a mentor that teachers cannot give them. They can talk, play games or do whatever they want in order to develop a close relationship.

“We want (mentors) to foster that love of learning in them, and also help them with some goal setting, self-esteem, self-confidence – all of those things to help them be more successful,” Wagner said.

The Youth Mentoring Pro-gram spawned from Youth Friends, which was started 18

years ago through funding by the Kauffman Foundation. Af-ter funding ran out, the pro-gram changed its name, and now the main funding for the program comes from private gifts and grants.

Brooklyn Owens, senior crime and delinquency studies major, matches mentors with students. She said the program is always looking for new vol-unteers.

“We have about 25-plus kids on our waiting list, and we’re always in need of new mentors,” Owens said.

Luke Langston, freshman secondary math education ma-jor, signed up to be a mentor at the program’s recent meeting in Butcher Education Center. Langston was referred to the program by a friend.

“I’ve been feeling like do-ing some volunteer work, get-ting more involved,” Langs-ton said. “I’m excited to do it. I found out about it today, and I’m sold.”

In order to join, applications are available at the Center for Student Involvement. Inter-ested ESU students can also like the program on Facebook or email Heather Wagner at heather.wagner@usd253.net.

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it took so long for it to become electronic. Then I wouldn’t have to worry about losing the paper transcript.”

With technology progress-ing, it was only a matter of time before the process of transferring transcripts be-came wireless. Martin, who plans to transfer to another college eventually, said she will most likely use the wire-less option to have her of-ficial ESU transcripts sent to the new school.

“It just seems like a lot less to worry about,” Martin said.

ESU cannot receive elec-tronic transcripts from other schools, so incoming fresh-men next fall will still have to turn in paper versions from their high school. Ellucian Banner will only deal wire-lessly with transcripts sent from ESU.

A transcript is an official record of all the courses that a student has taken, the grades they got in those classes, their GPA, degrees attempted or conferred and any honors that the student has received while at a school.

When the wireless transfer option is ready, students will be able to go around the long process of acquiring their transcript physically in the comfort of their own home.

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Coming off a rough loss at Fort Hays State last Thursday, the Lady Hornet basketball team was out for redemption when they took the court against Nebraska-Kearney last Saturday. Laura Patrick, senior guard, put up 28 points against the Lopers to lead the team to a 84-75 victory.

The Lopers jumped out to a quick 6-5 lead over the Hornets, but with just over 16 minutes left in the first half went on a 19-5 run, helping them end the half with a 13 point lead.

N e b r a s k a - K e a r n e y would never lead again, but did pull within a point of the Lady Hornets, 68-69, with about four minutes left in the game. A three-pointer from Patrick would end the game 72-68. Patrick went 10 for 17 from the field and three of seven from behind the arc. Merissa Quick, junior forward, along with Kionna Kellog, senior forward, both added seven blocks.

The lady Hornets hit the court again last night, traveling to Topeka to take on Washburn where they improved their record to 20-2 overall with a 69-63 win over the Ichabods.

On an overcast afternoon, Saturday, Feb. 1, Silent Joe rings for pass-ing cars after a funeral for former Emporia State football coach Larry Kramer. Kramer was inducted into the ESU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000 with the second most winnings coach in ESU football history. WILL AUSTIN | The BulleTin

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Nikki Wetstein, senior hurdler and pentathlete, broke her own school record – again – on Jan. 24 in War-rensburg, Mo. at the UCM Invite.

In the race, Wetstein ran 8.56 seconds, which is a pro-visional qualifying time. This is Wetstein’s second time breaking the school record for the indoor track 60-meter hurdles. Her time is ranked sixth in the nation.

“I hope to keep breaking it,” she said.

Wetstein has had an impressive year, also provi-sionally qualifying in the pen-talthon Jan. 31.

“Things are finally just starting to click and I feel like I am finally starting to break through,” Wetstein, a health promotion major, said. “The atmosphere of the program has really changed since my

freshman year and I compete with a really supportive group of girls which makes a difference.”

Wetstein has also broken her outdoor track record twice. The St. Louis native has had three top three fin-ishes in the MIAA conference while at ESU, and she has been to nationals for track three times – indoor in 2011 and both indoor and outdoor in 2013.

“The MIAA is one of the best conferences in (Division

Prior to 1983, the Emporia State football team had nine straight losing seasons. Within three years of his arrival, Larry Kramer, former head coach, would turn that around to start off a seven year winning streak, helping him become the second most winning quarter-back in ESU history.

“We all got along well, and we all were good coaches and he was really one of a kind. He was very intense and said what he meant,” said Ron Slaymaker, former coach and fellow Hall of Famer. “Getting ESU to be great was a work ethic we all had. It certainly wasn’t because of our budget because back in those years, our budget was in the bottom third of our conference. But back then, we recruited Kansas very well. You got the good kids out of Kansas and a few out of state.”

The college football heart was broken Jan. 25 of this year when word spread of the passing of ESU hall of famer Kramer. Kramer had been diagnosed with chronic trau-matic encephalopathy, and his health had been declining for the past eight years.

Kramer played football at the University of Nebraska before being drafted to play in the National Football League for the Baltimore Colts. Kramer started his head-coaching career at Southwestern Oregon. He was the headman there for the 1970 and 1971 seasons only winning three games and losing 17. His winning per-centage there, .150, is 12th all time in school history and his

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total number of wins, three, is 11th. His next head coaching venture was at Austin College in Austin Texas from 1973-1982, where he lead the Kan-garoos to a NAIA national title game in 1981 and was twice name Texas’ collegiate coach of the year.

In 1983, he took over as head football coach at ESU, where he led the Hornets to the 1989 NAIA national title game. After stepping down at ESU in 1994 he was on Bill Snyder’s staff at K-State from 1995-1997 before retiring. Kramer was inducted in the ESU Hall of Fame in 2000.

“The ESU coaching staff is a true blessing,” said Brent Wilson, current starting quar-terback and sophomore busi-ness major. “They want to make you a success, not only on the field but off. They are a dedicated group who make the most of their opportuni-ties.”

Kramer coached not only Leon Lett, ESU Hall of Famer

II),” Wetstein said. “So finish-ing top three is pretty big.”

But track is not the only passion she has. In fact, until college, Wetstein says she considered herself a dancer and did not get into track until her senior year of high school. She still enjoys dance and has even helped out with the Emporia Elementary cheer camp.

“It is important to me to let the athletes know that we have their backs, and we try to take a family approach to the program,” said Steve Blocker, head track and field coach. “Working with her has been really good and she has been really fun to coach. I am going to miss her when she is gone.”

Wetstein, who just started competing in the pen-tathlon this year , says the 60-meter hurdles are her favorite.

“I am not good at, like, the shot put, but I do like to test myself, and it is a challenge,”

Wetstein said.Dominique Staats, sopho-

more psychology major and sprinter, said the track team meshes well, and that Wet-stein adds a lot of enthusiasm.

“We are all close on and off the track and I think that helps us motivate each other during competitions and practice.”

This summer, Wetstein plans to find an internship before she goes to grade school. She is looking at Nebraska-Kearney, a rival team in the MIAA conference, but says she hasn’t made up her mind completely. In a perfect world, Wetstein says eventually she would track coach and own her own dance studio somewhere on the east coast.

“I would like to stay close, I love Emporia and have been here all four years,” Wetstein said. “I love Coach Blocker and I love what he was about, so I would like to stay around track, too.”

and former Super Bowl-win-ning Dallas Cowboy defen-sive lineman, but also Garin Higgins, current ESU head football coach, who has done quite the turnaround of his own. Higgins played quarter-back for Kramer from 1987-1990.

“It was tough to play for Coach Kramer because he was very intense,” Higgins said. “My relationship was good with him as a player, but

it really became much better once I got into coaching.”

Coaching was something Higgins had always wanted to do, but he said that Kramer was one of the main reasons he “got into coaching.”

A visitation was held last Saturday before the funeral for the Hall of Fame coach. The family encouraged attendees to wear black and gold and their Emporia State jerseys to honor the ESU legend.

With 12.2 seconds left, Davion Pearson, a junior guard for Nebraska Kearney, hit a three-pointer to defeat the Emporia State basketball team 66-65 in last Saturday’s game.

A 12-3 run in the first half found the Hornets up, 40-27, at the break. The Lopers took quick control of the second half going on a 6-0 lead. With seven minutes remaining, the Lopers pulled within a point of the Hornets. The Hornets recovered and had a 65-60 lead with a minute and half left in the game.

After Pearson’s three, the Hornets managed to get the ball down the court where Jay Tamaat, fresh-man guard, missed a three and Paul Bunch, senior center could not get the tip in to fall.

Kelab Wright, senior guard, led the Hornets with 16 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Bunch ended the night with 11 points and seven rebounds.

ESU traveled to Topeka last night where they fell to Washburn Univeristy 79-74 moving them to 14-8 overall and 7-5 MIAA.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Pro-testers in cities around the world targeted major Olympic sponsors Wednesday, just ahead of the Winter Games in Sochi, urging them to speak out against Russia’s law restricting gay-rights activities. Two more sponsors of the U.S. Olympic team condemned the law, but leading global sponsors did not join them.

“’’No, no to Russia’s anti-gay law,” chanted several dozen protesters in Paris who gathered in front of a McDon-ald’s restaurant at the Place de la Republique. The fast-food chain is one of the International Olympic Committee’s 10 top sponsors for the Sochi Games,

which open Friday.Protests also took place in

London, Jerusalem, St. Peters-burg, Russia, and elsewhere. In all, 20 demonstrations were planned by the advocacy group All Out and its allies.

McDonald’s, like other top IOC sponsors, reiterated that it supports human rights and opposes discrimination, but its statement did not mention the Russian law.

Coca-Cola, another prime target of protests, also didn’t mention the law in its latest statement, though it described itself as a strong supporter of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

“We do not condone intoler-

ance or discrimination of any kind anywhere in the world,” Coca-Cola said.

Visa, another IOC top sponsor, issued a similar state-ment, as did Dow Chemical, which said it is “engaged with the IOC on this important topic.” General Electric, an IOC sponsor since 2005, declined comment.

In contrast to the cau-tious approach of IOC spon-sors, three sponsors of the U.S. Olympic Committee chose to speak out explicitly against the Russian law.

The first was AT&T.“Russia’s law is harmful to

LGBT individuals and families, and it’s harmful to a diverse

society,” it said Tuesday in a blog post.

Following suit on Wednes-day were DeVry University, a for-profit education company, and yogurt-maker Chobani.

“We are against Russia’s anti-LGBT law and support efforts to improve LGBT equal-ity,” said Ernie Gibble, a DeVry spokesman.

“It’s disappointing that in 2014 this is still an issue,” said Chobani’s CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya. “We are against all laws and practices that dis-criminate in any way, whether it be where you come from or who you love — for that reason, we oppose Russia’s anti-LGBT law.”

Nikki Wetsteinsenior health promotion major

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Larry Kramerformer head football coach