The 9, 10 and 1100 blocks of Commercial Street will soon be dedicated to busi-nesses and residential areas specifically aimed toward Emporia State students.

“We are looking to bring quality living and businesses that will support the student body but will also act as a recruitment mechanism for years to come,” said Casey Woods, executive director of

Emporia Main Street.The “Black and Gold Dis-

trict,” as it has been named, had new incentives recently approved by the City of Em-poria. On projects that ex-ceed $3 million, the city will consider giving industrial revenue bonds. Projects of this value will also have a sales tax exemption.

“We’ve seen a lot of im-provement in the downtown area over the past few years,” Woods said. “We’ve seen $32 million in development just

in the past six years.” President Michael Shon-

rock said the university does not have any authority over making decisions for the dis-trict, but those at Emporia Main Street have asked for their opinion.

“We’re trying to build the culture of a college town and community,” Shonrock said.

The Black and Gold Dis-trict was approved in March of last year, and is planned to

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Grad Blast set to close Senior Week

Grad Blast will end this year’s Senior Week as one big event with prizes, free Chipotle and the biggest change of all – free alcohol.

“ B o a r d games in the Union and movie nights at the Granada just weren’t at-tracting stu-dents any-more,” said Ally Spease, Senior Week co-chair, ju-nior market-ing major and a former designer for The Bulletin.

The event will be held at the newly renovated Brickyard 20 Ale House, 402 Merchant St. Brickyard is also one of the event’s big-gest sponsors.

“Though some people might find it shocking that we are providing alcohol to our seniors, the reason behind this was not to in-crease attendance but to start treating our seniors like the grown adult alumni that they will be in a few weeks after the event,” Spease said. “I believe that if we treat them like the adults that they are, they will feel more welcome to come back and partake in Alumni Association events after graduation.”

A tab assigned to the Se-nior Week budget will allow students to receive up to two complimentary beers at the bar, but after their maximum limit is hit on the tab, stu-dents will have to purchase any additional alcoholic bev-erages on their own.

The first 150 students to register are also guaranteed free Chipotle and a free T-shirt.

“I do think most people

will go to this event because of the Chipotle, which was a great idea,” said Shelby Perez, senior communica-tion major. “That is some-thing that most students do not have access to every day here at ESU.”

170 stu-dents had already reg-istered as of yesterday.

“In the past, we have also been known to spend most of our bud-get on prizes to give away throughout the week,” Spease said. “This year, we decided to give some-thing to ev-

erybody, something that ev-eryone will be able to take home with them – a final celebration with their class-mates before graduation.”

Prizes seniors can win at Grad Blast include gift certif-icates to local and franchised businesses, free oil changes, four-day passes to Coun-try Stampede, a 50-inch flat screen TV and free graduate classes.

Spencer Bauman, senior business marketing major, said the prizes were “nice incentives” to sign up for the event. He said he expects it to be a large turnout.

“I want to enjoy my last year being a college student and might as well have fun with my class while I can be-fore we all start our own ca-reers,” Bauman said.

Senior Week will still be a week long, said Nikki Metz, alumni programs coordina-tor for Alumni Relations, but the biggest change is having one big event for seniors at the end.

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Gov. Sam Brownback picks up Hostess cakes that he took with him after the ribbon cutting ceremony t on Wednesday at the Dolly Madison Hostess plant. The company has grown its production equipment to produce 1,100 Twinkies per minute. MARK REINSTEIN | The BulleTin

Brownback visits Emporia businesses

Gov. Sam Brownback stopped at the Dolly Madison factory, Dynamic Discs to promote their growth

A lot cleared out next to Little Caesars and Family Video on Commer-cial Street in preparation for the construction of a Haag Management apartment complex on Monday, March 30. This is the first installment into the cities Black and Gold District plans for Commercial Street. NICHOLAS SUMNER | The BulleTin

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ASG election results announced today

The 2015-2016 Associated S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t president, vice president and senator seats will be announced at 6:30 p.m. today in the Memorial Union Mainstreet. Voting closes at 5 p.m. The celebration will take place after The Bulletin’s publication. Follow the QR code to find the results.

Police ReportsReports from ESU Police and Safety

April 1Officer stopped TX

DC1H867 in Sector 3. Ver-bal warning for expired tag.

Officer stopped a bicy-clist at 15th and Morse Dr. Verbal warning for a stop sign violation at same loca-tion.

Officer stopped a bicy-clist at 15th and Luther. Verbal warning for a stop sign violation.

April 2Officer escorted a fe-

male student from ESU PD HQ to 12th and Constitu-tion.

Officer followed up with a male subject in ref-erence to a current case.

April 3Officer assisted Em-

poria Police Dept. with a search for a suspect in a battery case in the vicinity of 15th and Center.

April 4Officer assisted Empo-

ria Police Dep. with non-injury accident on 600 Lin-coln.

April 5Officer stopped KS

546FDY in Sector 3. Verbal warning for driving on the sidewalk on the east side of the Morse Hall Complex.

April 6Officer assisted Empo-

ria Police Dept. with a car stop in 1500 W 6th.

April 7Officer assisted Lyon

Co. Sheriff’s deputy with a car stop at 1020 Merchant.

Officer contacted a skateboarder at 15th and Wooster Dr., and advised of campus policy.

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One in every five women have been raped in their life-time; as have one in 59 men, according to according to the Center for Disease Control. April is Sexual Assault Aware-ness Month. CDC states that sexual assault and sexual violence are unwanted sexual advances or touching that can occur to anyone by anyone, even a person’s current romantic partner. Sexual violence can lead to eating dis-orders, depression, suicidal thoughts or actions and other physical and mental problems. SOS and THRIVE are host-ing Take Back the Night at 7 p.m. on April 16 in Bruder Theatre that will include a candlelight vigil, a speaker and a march. Their goal is to raise awareness amongst students about how common sexual assault is and the definition of the term. The first 150 students who show up will receive

Faculty Senate launched its first meeting in a month on Tuesday in the Preston Family Room in the Memo-rial Union with a recap of the Higher Learning Com-mission evaluation visit. The last meeting was can-celed because of the HLC visit.

“The visit went very well,” said David Cordle, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. “At least, we think it went very well.”

Cordle touched on three issues that the HLC evalu-ation pointed out. The first was the way the general education program’s learn-ing path outcomes are as-sessed is not as far as the HLC would like. Secondly, learning outcomes are not

always stated in syllabi. The last topic Cordle mentioned was the way the evidence about professor qualifica-tions is documented has holes.

In two or three weeks the university will get a draft of the report from the evalu-ation team. The shortcom-ings may be outlined in the report. The report could potentially read, “met with concerns.”

“If that is the case it’s not the end of the world, it’s okay,” Cordle said. “It sim-ply means that it’s met with concerns, there will prob-ably be a follow up process where we have to report back and get monitored to make sure that we docu-mented the correct issue.”

Brian Denton, legislative liaison, spoke about bills being discussed in Topeka, including bills regarding

a tuition freeze, university official’s titles and higher education budget cuts.

“ESU’s position is to sup-port the governor’s recom-mendation of no cuts to higher ed. and that’s where we sit right now,” Denton said. “That’s the house po-sition and the position that is currently being adopted by the conference commit-tee.”

Manjula Shinge, faculty president, received a letter from David Rintoul, faculty senate president of Kansas State University, regarding the bill that will freeze tu-ition for two years.

“Yes, it will help par-ents and students for a little while, but if the regents in-stitutions are crippled and we cannot hire and retain quality member and excel-lent staff,” Shinge read. “That short term benefit

will evaporate as the qual-ity and the reputation of our schools goes down the drain.”

This meeting was the first in which the presidents of Unclassified Commis-sion and University Sup-port Staff Commission both attended to share reports from their areas.

“I truly believe that when we hear from all of the bod-ies, shared governance is really going to get straight-ened out,” Shinge said.

After discussion, the sen-ate approved a modification of the process of nominat-ing and electing the second vice president of the faculty that involves flipping a coin in the case of a tie.

The next faculty senate meeting is at 3:30 p.m. on April 21 in the Preston Fam-ily Room in the Memorial Union.

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Faculty members approve the faculty senate meeting by raising their hands on Tuesday in the Preston Family Room of the Memorial Union. The Faculty Senate will meet again on Tuesday, April 21, in the Preston Family Room of the Memorial Union. SHIVAM BHAKTA| the Bulletin

Life of ESU almna to be celebratedThe School of Manage-

ment and the William Allan White Library will celebrate the life of Geraldine Har-riet Strader from 2-3:30 p.m. Friday in the William Al-len White Library Learning Commons.

Strader graduated from Emporia State in 1957, and was one of the first black women to live in Abi-gail Morse dormitory. She passed away in 2014.

The party is to celebrate her “contributions to break-ing barriers for African-American women,” according to Angelica Hale.

The group will also be celebrating the role of the li-brary in high schools, and Gwen Alexander, Dean of the School of Library and Information Management.

Strader’s family will also attend the event.

In the April 2, 2015 issue of The Bulletin the article “ASG dis-cusses RSO status renewal” stated that Recognized Student Or-ganizations that did not attend the meeting would be rescinded. This is false. The organizations required to attend the meeting were those that are asking for line item requests for next year. If they were not present they would not receive funds. No organi-zations were rescinded for not attending this meeting.

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Discredited rape story a test for Wenner, Rolling Stone

NEW YORK (AP) — Through decades of dig-ging into the private lives of rock stars and providing a forum for colorful writers like Hunter S. Thompson and P.J. O’Rourke, Rolling Stone magazine publisher Jann Wenner has never been afraid to push boundaries.

Now Wenner, who founded the magazine as a 20-year-old college dropout, is weathering the stiffest test of Rolling Stone’s credibility that the magazine has faced in its 48-year history.

On Sunday, the magazine retracted last November’s story on sexual assault at the University of Virginia in advance of the release of a damning Columbia Uni-versity report about its re-porting and editing, and on Monday, a fraternity named in the story threatened a lawsuit.

The magazine also faced criticism Monday for what some critics deemed a mut-ed response to the problems outlined in Columbia’s ex-haustive report.

The sharply funny O’Rourke, who worked at Rolling Stone from 1985 to 2000, said he found the edit-ing and fact-checking there to be as rigorous as the leg-endarily tough New Yorker magazine.

“When Hunter S. Thomp-son dies and I leave, and the factual reliability of a publi-cation goes down, there must be something wrong with modern media,” he said.

Rolling Stone’s unique niche in magazines was an outgrowth of Wenner’s in-terests, a mixture of authori-tative music and cultural coverage with tough inves-tigative reporting, usually from a liberal world view.

“We are just placing our efforts on one larger cam-pus event instead of several smaller events,” Metz said.

From April 20-21, Career Services will have a table set up in the Memorial Union Main Street from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a LinkedIn pho-to booth, résumé reviews and free cookies. On April 23 from 3-4 p.m., the ESU Graduate School will host a “Graduate School Boot Camp” in the Greek Room of the Memorial Union.

The budget for Senior Week is $3,000 – with the ma-jority of funds coming from generous sponsors, Spease said. This year, Senior Week is sponsored by the ESU Am-bassadors, ESU Alumni As-sociation, Liberty Mutual, Emporia State Federal Credit Union and ESU Career Ser-vices.

“Everything involving Se-nior Week this year was de-signed to cater to the class of 2015,” Spease said.

Seniors can register on-line by visiting hornetnation.emporia.edu/senior2015 or by calling (620) 341-647. The event is for seniors only. No guests will be admitted.

Four rows of brightly col-ored, go-karts sit under a tent at the Emporia Family Fun Center, 1004 E 12th Ave.

The paint has begun to chip off of them and the seats have permanent indentations. Three sun bleached karts sit off to the side. Dark black tires outline the perimeter of the track. Be-yond the go-kart track are two putt-putt golf courses and the bright green grass is splotched with brown spots.

The center opened about 20 years ago to offer fun sum-mer activities for Emporia, said Sam Singh, owner.

“I’ve been in Emporia for the last four years,” said Caitlen Giesing, junior English major. “I didn’t even know it existed until two years ago.”

The center usually opens sometime in March, depend-ing on the weather, and closes in September or October. It is

open every day of the week from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on weekends from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Emporia Family Fun Center is partnered with Mr. Goodcents. Mr. Goodcents is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Giesing said she and her friends were bored so they de-cided to check out the center. They played putt-putt golf and drove the go-karts.

“I am awful at putt-putt, so it was pretty fun hitting around the colored ball 12 or 15 times to get it into the hole,” Giesing said.

The go-karts were too slow for Giesing’s taste, but she could see how a kid would be excited to drive one.

Though the speed of the car can depend on how good the driver is, some cars are slower than others. The average speed is 20 mph, according to Singh.

“I suppose you pay for what you get and if you are really bored on a Saturday,”

Giesing said. “It is fun to waste some time with your friends or significant other.”

One person and two per-son go-karts are available. “Mr. Goodcents” is plastered across the sides of every kart.

Dallas Schafer, sophomore secondary business and math economics education major, went to the Emporia Fam-ily Fun Center a few years ago with some friends to play golf and race go-karts.

“It was fun to just hang out,” Schafer said. “The go-karts are fun unless you get a slow car, then you have no chance.”

Both putt-putt courses have 18 holes. It costs $4.50 per per-son fo one round. Riding the go-karts costs $4.95 per person.

Mr. Goodcents offers a $3 discount for students on a meal consisting of an eight inch sandwich, a drink and a cookie or a bag of chips. Fracis-co Busto, manager, said this is the main thing students order.

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Katalina Fredeliksen, freshman at Emporia High, races against Kaden Nguyen, fifth grader, at Emporia Family Fun Center on Sunday, March 29. Emporia Family Fun Center also provides students with a $1 discount on any single activity. SHIVAM BHAKTA| The BulleTin

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Kendrick Lamar releases ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’On March 16, rapper

Kendrick Lamar released his first album in almost two years.

“To Pimp A Butterfly” (TPAB), is a deep, thought-provoking testament that works as a reflection of the West-Coast native’s rise as a hip-hop mogul. In “TPAB,” he speaks about many controversial topics such as faith, race, the nature of poverty and the power of music.

The first three tracks describe his thoughts coming into the rap indus-try. In his opening verse of “Wesley’s Theory,” Lamar says, “When I get signed, homie I’mma act a fool. Hit the dance floor, strobe lights in the room,” Throughout these three tracks, he identifies his obsession with fame and material things and how they have gotten in the way of who he truly is as an artist and a person. As a result, he begins his spoken word poem at the end of “King Kunta” with “I remember you was conflicted. Misusing your influence.”

He adds on pieces of this poem at the end of certain songs in the album until he unveils the dedi-cation of the entire poem to hip-hop legend, Tupac Shakur, in the last track.

In tracks four through

six, Lamar identifies the many problems in the rap industry and in himself. He exposes that at one point he did not under-stand the value of his art-istry by stating, “What money got to do with it? When I don’t know the full definition of a rap image,” in his fourth track, “Insti-tutionalized.”

In a very emotional and poetic manner, the song “u” acts as a cry for help as he decides to come to terms with the many offenses that he has committed. Through all of this, Kendrick assures himself and his listeners that “If God got us, then we gon’ be alright” (from the seventh track on the album, “Alright”).

All in all, the hip-hop, jazzy feel of the pro-duction line combined with powerful and well-thought lyrics in “To Pimp A Butterfly,” is something that even a fan of country music should take a listen to. So far, “TPAB” has been well received by consum-ers and it has been sitting at the top of the Billboard Charts since its release on March 16. Many have agreed that, not only is this album the most important album in over a decade, but that it is the most important rap album of all time.

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Family Fun Center thrives through decades

Since GameStop and Matty B’s have closed, Tru Gamer has seen an increase in business.

Tru Gamer customers are usually greeted by the owner, Brad Robbins, and his cat, Tet-ris. While the Emporia location, 1601 W. 6th Ave., opened in De-cember 2013, Tru Gamer has been in business for a little over three years.

“We’re about just gaming in general,” Robbins said.

The majority of Tru Gamer’s business comes from college students.

“I have talked to the owners to network and found them to be polite and professional,” said Rodger Belyea, senior psychol-ogy major and president of the ESU Gamer’s Guild. “Out of the various gaming stores Em-

poria has had over the past few years, I personally have enjoyed Tru Gamer the most.”

Tru Gamer carries video games for the newest genera-tion of consoles, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but they also carry used and hard to find games for older systems dat-ing back to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Tru Gam-er also caters to traditional gamers with board games, card games and tabletop role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.

“Some days we deal more in video games, some days the card games – it just depends,” Robbins said.

Robbins hosts weekly game nights, tournaments and events in the store as well. Monday’s events are generally tabletop games, Yu-gi-oh tournaments

take place on Tues-days and Saturdays, Dungeon and Drag-ons fifth edition en-counters on We d n e s -days and Magic the Gathering on Friday and Sun-

day afternoons. Robbins said they will be starting Pokemon tournaments on Saturday’s soon.

“A few of the [Gamer’s Guild] members stop by Tru

Gamer to play in their card tournaments – usually Magic: The Gathering,” Belyea said. “As college students, we are busy and don’t attend some of their module adventures, but we would if we had the time.”

Tru Gamer’s increase in business has pushed them to start carrying more new mer-chandise.

“We accept trade-ins and pay more than most anybody else,” Robbins said. “And we don’t turn away games, so we kind of have an overflow.”

That extra inventory is tak-ing up space in the back of the store that Robbins had initially intended to be a gaming room to offer players more space.

“It can get kind of hectic in here,” said Jeff Robbins, Rob-bins’ brother who has moved to Emporia to help run the store. “One day there were about 20

people in here, and there’s just not enough space.”

Tru Gamer offers the op-tion for customers to pre-order games and items. In order to pre-order merchandise the customer needs to put down a deposit, with the money going toward the total cost of the item. Jeff Robbins says that it is often advantageous for people to pre-order as he can offer them a dis-count.

“If I don’t have to invest time on the item sitting on the shelf, waiting for it to sell, we can work something out for the customer,” Jeff Robbins said.

Jeff Robbins also special or-ders items for customers that have been released but are not in stock at a similar savings.

Tru Gamer is open from from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

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Brad Robbins, owner of Tru Gamer, sorts games in the storefront on Monday, March 9. Tru Gamer is a general game store that carries video games for every console, board games, trading card games, as well as collectibles. NICHOLAS SUMNER | The BulleTin

Kalen Brummett, sophomore elementary education major, buys a Nintendo 64 controller from Brad Robbins, store owner, on Friday, March 6. TruGamer opened in Emporia in December 2013. NICHOLAS SUMNER | The BulleTin

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In some odd way social media has us dating for oth-ers entertainment and enjoy-ment.

Social media sites such as Facebook, Snapchat, Insta-gram and Twitter let us post whatever we want, whenever we want. Many people do just that - especially about re-lationships.

Social media is how we portray our relationships to the world, but most im-portantly to our friends. We show all the positive aspects of our relationship, such as holding hands on the beach, that sweet new profile picture and that all important rela-tionship status.

On my own Facebook ac-

count, I have a picture of my significant other and myself, as do many other Emporia State students. Of my Face-book friends that go to ESU, 80 percent show their rela-tionship status, 47 percent have a profile picture with that person and 73 percent have at least one post about a significant other.

This shows we do not just date for ourselves, but for oth-ers and this in turn encourag-es us to hide any negatives we have with our partner. What it also does is put a social worth on our relationship. We post pictures with our significant others for “likes”. If a new profile picture does not get as many likes as we would have hoped, what do we do? Change it.

What you do not see though, is all the negative things. Your friends do not post pictures of them fighting, arguing or publiclychange their relationship status to single.

What this means is that we create a false reality through a psychological effect called cognitive dissonance – a phe-nomenon in which an indi-

vidual holds two or more contrary beliefs over the same subject - in this case, relation-ships.

Say we get into a fight with our significant others and it is something serious, maybe we should break up with them for it, yet we do not. Our part-ner may be being mean, rude, disrespectful, etc.

Then we pull up social media and we see the status of how much we loved them, our profile picture together, and we get confused. We saw how many likes our picture got, how happy it made oth-ers to see us together, and we are stuck. We cannot imagine breaking up with them now.

We forgive them for what they did and move on, which creates a vicious circle of emotions every time we fight or disagree.

We post the positive and only let ourselves see the positive. This isn’t healthy. We need to try and break the cycle of cognitive dissonance when it comes to relation-ships and mentally separate the false reality we see on the screen from what our life is actually like.

During my high school days, my generation contin-ued the age-old American tradition of attempting to in-tegrate technology into the classroom.

Having students rent lap-tops through the school sys-tem, and classes designed to make us confidently use tech-nology was one of the most ad-vantageous experiences of my schooling. Regardless of one’s profession, technology — spe-cifically computer software — has become an integral part of our lives. As such, there

should be no trouble keeping technology integrated with the classroom. This would, on the surface, leave no problem for colleges to keep technol-ogy consistent across classes.

However, that consistency has been all but ignored dur-ing the time I have been at Emporia State. That alone wouldn’t be too much of an is-sue – however, problems start to arise in two specific areas.

First, while it is under-standable for some classes to use technology and websites less than others, classrooms range from using absolutely no technology to being com-pletely integrated.

The second is the change in the sites some classes use. Over the course of one semes-ter, the site professors have used to get their work to stu-dents changed.

Last semester, a couple professors continued to use, Blackboard, despite the fact that we now have Canvas, which made the shift to the new site more drastic. Given how awkward, and some-

times ineffective Canvas can be, this has only confused and stressed students.

More than a couple of times, I have talked to other students in one of my classes where we use Canvas regular-ly to upload work to the pro-fessor. These conversations revolved around the issues with the site. Among them are simple navigation issues, but the far more pressing issue has came from files not uploading. Even if one knows just what they are doing, the site seems to be counterproductively de-signed. It becomes tiresome.

The issue is not in the site, but more in the lack of com-mitment on the part of the school or instructors to use the site consistently, and by extension, help the students properly use technology for their schoolwork. The desire is there, students know how much value technology has in their lives, but without the school system keeping it con-sistent across the board, stu-dents are left frustrated simply in the way they turn work in.

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After Brownback proposed Senate Bill 7, which imple-ments block grant funding to public schools, a panel of judg-es spoke up and said that they might pursue action to stop the bill. They did this because an ongoing lawsuit against Kansas states that our public schools are unconstitutionally, criminally underfunded.

Within days of that state-ment, a new bill appeared that is intended to change the rules of impeachment for Kansas Su-preme Court justices, increas-ing the impeachable offences from four to 15.

At the top of the proposed grounds for impeachment was “attempting to usurp the pow-er of the legislative or executive branch of government.”

The executive branch, if you weren’t aware, is comprised of six people - Brownback and his cronies. The legislative branch is made up of the state Senate

and House of Representatives - a 77 percent Republican group who votes along party lines rather than on merit and has passed one of Brownback’s asi-nine laws after another.

The Kansas governing body has declared open sea-son on education and the only thing keeping them from pull-ing the trigger is a few judges, who now face the threat of los-ing their jobs and facing possi-ble criminal prosecution if they don’t get out of the way.

This implicit threat against the Kansas judicial branch is politics at its worst. It’s manip-ulative, underhanded and un-just. The system of checks and balances was put into place ex-pressly to prevent something like this from happening.

If this bill passes, who could the judges turn to?

The legislature and execu-tive branches would have de-cided that the judge was out

of line, and so if a new judge ruled against that decision they would run the risk of being ac-cused of attempting to usurp power from those branches and face the same consequence.

As a university that prides itself on shaping future teach-ers, we can’t let this stand.

If this bill doesn’t stop before it’s passed, Brownback would have free-reign and be able to run unchecked. (Brownback went on to sign SB 7 into law - in secret, behind closed doors with only a few people as wit-nesses, only notifying the pub-lic and the press afterwards.)

The judges are the only thing standing for us, and we need to stand for them. Write to your representatives, write to your senator, write to Brown-back himself - not that he’ll listen - and let them know that this is unacceptable. And write to the judges - encourage them to keep doing the right thing.

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About a month ago, I read an article in the ESU Bulletin written by a student entitled; “Change in Religion.” As I read it I found that it was not a particularly joyful or neces-sarily exciting article to read. The author simply claimed that the people of this world no longer rely on God to fulfill their daily needs, such as food or water, or to get them out of horrific situations, such as slavery or poverty. Whereas the author did agree with the morals of the Christian faith, he no longer felt it was neces-sary to pray, attend church or even to believe in God for that matter. Simply put, he believed God was irrelevant to today’s world. While I strongly dis-agreed with this article, it did get my attention by making it clear to me that some of us may not understand why we worship God in the first place.

You might be wondering why we should even believe in God to begin with. It does seem silly, does it not? The idea of an all mighty being in the clouds watching over us, especially with all of the scien-tific evidence we have of the Big Bang theory and natural selection. To answer this ques-tion I turn to one of my favorite writers, Christian apologetic, Peter Kreeft.

In Kreeft’s article, “The Reasons to Believe,” he claims that, “where there is design there must be a designer.” Ultimately he explains that if you were to find a deserted island with “S.O.S” written in the sand, you would not think the letters came out of nowhere. You would not think that the waves washed up onto the sand and left the message behind. No, because of logic and reason you would know that someone, a “designer,” created the message. The same goes for the entire universe; where there is creation, there must be a creator.

Now you might say “well that is great and all, but what about all that scientific evi-

dence we now have?” It is not my intention to tell you that everything in your biology textbook is nonsense, or that the Big Bang never happened. My goal however is to per-suade you to have faith that, if it were to happen this way, that it was God driven. This is the way the designer chose to design his creation.

I would assume someone reading this is thinking, “even if God is real, I already have all the things I need; food, cloth-ing, shelter, and money. I am happy with my life already, why would I need to pray or continuously attend a church?” With this kind of thinking, you fall into the same trap as the author of “Change in Reli-gion.” You see, God is not just a good luck charm or a lucky rabbit’s foot that we call upon when things are not going so well for us. God is our creator, our friend, our heavenly father, and the entire reason for our existence. For all of these things, we should be grateful and therefore desire a personal relationship with him.

Compare this to a relation-ship with a friend, a family member, or maybe a boy-friend or girlfriend. You get to know these people by talking to them, learning more about them

and spending time with them. The same can be said about God. You get to know God by talking to him and spending time with him through prayer and worship. In order to have a relationship with God you must put in the time and effort just like any other relationship.

Whether or not you believe in the same God as I do, is not important for the sake of this article. What is important to take away from this is that science alone can never explain all that this world is or how we got here. The only explanation we have for all of this is God as our designer and creator. Also, God is not just there to take care of our earthly needs. He is there to guide us closer to him so that we can obtain the personal relationship with him that should be desirable for us all. God is still very much present and relevant to this world, and I will leave it at that.

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TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas is expected to issue $1 billion in bonds to bolster its pension system for teachers and gov-ernment workers after the Leg-islature authorized the debt.

Some lawmakers see the move as potentially risky, and the votes in the Republican-dominated Legislature were relatively close despite a push from GOP Gov. Sam Brown-back.

The Senate approved the bill Thursday on a 23-16 vote, a day after the House passed it, 63-57. Brownback — who had proposed $1.5 billion in bonds — is expected to sign the bill,

and supporters said the state should issue the debt starting this summer.

The Kansas Public Employ-ees Retirement System would receive an infusion of cash, im-mediately narrowing a long-term gap in funding for retire-ment benefits. The pension system would invest the mon-ey and expects its investments to earn significantly more than the state would pay on the 30-year bonds.

“This is a very solid finan-cial decision,” said Republi-can state Sen. Jim Denning, of Overland Park.

But there’s skepticism — in-

cluding among teacher, state worker and retiree groups — because the move also is de-signed to help with the state budget by decreasing state contributions to public pen-sions by $64 million over the next two years.

A report last year from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College said bonds decrease financial flexibility, turning pension payments that can be modified into set bond payments. The report also said underfunded plans and finan-cially stressed governments typically issue bonds, often to lower annual costs.

BLACK AND GOLDcontinued from page 1be an ongoing project. Woods said that they are planning to “never be done” with the Black and Gold District.

“We are investing real dol-lars into making Emporia what students want,” Woods said.

Tyler Huddleston, Asso-ciated Student Government president and junior Spanish and communication major, said he isn’t sure how much the district will help with re-cruiting students, simply be-cause he doesn’t know if stu-dents on campus visits will have much exposure to it.

“I do think having an area close to campus with college-aimed businesses will help in the retaining of students already on campus,” Hud-dleston said.

The Chelsea Lofts, which are apartments that will be-come a part of the district, have already begun demo-lition. Part of the $4.5 mil-lion project included tear-ing down seven dilapidated homes.

“We want people to have

a good, quality, safe living environment close to the uni-versity and business district,” Woods said.

In a few years, Woods said he hopes the Black and Gold District will be a place where students can hang out before football games, tailgate and then head to the game.

For students who are hop-ing for a Target or Chipotle, however, they’re out of luck. Most businesses like those need a market trade area of 150,000 or more to attract their attention – Emporia is at 54,000.

“One thing we’ve heard a lot about is students wanting a Chipotle,” Woods said. “Re-alistically, we may not be able to offer that, but we may be able to offer a locally-owned alternative.”

Shonrock said that feed-back from students has in-cluded the want of places to “hang out,” eat, living areas and retail stores.

“We’ll see what happens with the new development,” Shonrock said.

Repairs are being made on the parking lot Wednesday where the information booth used to be near the HPER building to improve the area for traffic safety. Construction is expected to last two to three weeks in this area. MARK REINSTEIN | The BulleTin

Construction continues in front of HPERWork on the parking lot between HPER and the one-room school house is being done to

improve the safety of drivers during high traffic times.

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Yoga classes for university credit discontinued

Patty Jo Thompson, also known as Yoga Mama, stretches her spine and hips and opens her chest and lungs with the “fan” pose in the dance studio on March 31 in HPER where she has been teaching her yoga classes on campus for the past eight years. Thompson chose ancient yoga because the postures are safe and include the five Tibetan “fountain of youth” poses. JENNIFER PENDARVIS | The BulleTin

Patty Jo “Yoga Mama” Thompson, age 74, has been teaching yoga for eight years at Emporia State. But after this semester, her classes will no longer be offered for credit at the university.

“I have two classes a semester that are always full with 40 or more students and more wanting to get in,” Thompson said.

As of Tuesday, Thompson had 40 students enrolled in one class, and 39 in another. Thompson said in the past, she has offered to teach a third class to accommodate the overflow, but has been denied.

In her time at ESU, Thomp-son has taught yoga to more than 650 students.

“Now, I won’t be able to reach those people to help them because my class is a whole lifestyle,” Thompson said.

The reason behind dis-continuing the class for insti-tutional credit is due to the HPER department wanting to try out other activity classes, said Shawna Shane, chair of the health, physical education and recreation department.

“We just try to change things up every once in awhile,” Shane said.

Cessalie Wood, junior nursing major, said she dis-agrees with the universi-ty’s decision to discontinue Thompson’s yoga classes. Wood took yoga with Thomp-son last fall and this spring and said she is an asset on campus because everyone knows her.

“If her classes are always full and even over the limit sometimes, then obviously people enjoy the class and the results that they get from it,” Wood said.

Activity classes offered next year include Zumba, Insanity, basketball, tennis, golf, boxing (levels one and

two), Pilates and a spin class.Shane, however, said

most activity classes – yoga, Zumba, Insanity, tennis and more – usually are filled to capacity. This semester, Zumba has 38 enrolled out of a cap of 40 students. Pilates has an overflow with 43 stu-dents enrolled, also at a cap of 40.

Thompson said, yoga will still be offered at the Student Recreation Center. Students won’t be able to take it to go on their transcript. The class-rooms at the Rec Center also only hold about 25, opposed to 40, Thompson said.

“We want to try to offer some different things because students are still able to get yoga, even if we don’t have a class for it, so we try to have some different offerings that aren’t there otherwise,” Shane said.

College students need yoga

because it can help reduce stress, as well as strengthen the immune system and improve sleep and digestion, Thompson said.

“It’s going to help your energy, memory and stamina,” Thompson said. “If you can focus well in this class for one hour, then you’re able to learn how to concentrate in school.”

Elizabeth Ravenstein, senior marketing major, worked with Thompson on a project for one of her classes and characterized her as “an absolute blast,” and said she is always full of energy and ideas.

“(Yoga) not only is relax-ing, but gives you a sense of serenity and belonging,” Ravenstein said. “Everyone is equal in a setting with Patty.”

There is always the possi-bility of bringing yoga back, Shane said.

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After admiring others’ tattoos, Andrew decided to go to a tattoo artist in a basement.

Andrew Etheridge, senior crime and delinquency major, has nine home made tattoos covering his arms, legs and torso. Growing up in Wichita, Etheridge met a man named Omar who had done a number of homemade tattoos.

“When I was in high school, there was an older Hispanic guy who did tattoos for people

in our area,” Etheridge said. “I went to see five to 10 different people with tattoos, and I liked them. He wasn’t charging over the head, so I went with him.”

Compared to a typical tattoo, homemade tattoos are usually much cheaper. Ether-idge got all of his between $30-$80.

Cameron Mann, freshman communications major, has three tattoos, two of which were homemade and he noticed the price difference.

“I got two in a basement and one in a shop,” Mann said. “The one I got in the shop was $260.”

A shop will also usually charge for time or ink color while with Etheridge’s tattoos the price varied on the detail with which Omar would use. Surprisingly, Etheridge believes that his homemade

tattoos have more ink and appear darker than the one he got in a shop, despite being cheaper.

“When I went to get my initial tattoo that I wanted to get in high school, I went to a couple different shops and they were talking hundreds of dollars and that shied me away based on the price they estimated for time,” Etheridge said.

Every tattoo that Etheridge has means something special to him. His favorite tattoo is on his left arm and is a picture of the first time he held his son, Aedyn, in his arms.

Latiyera Yeargin, fresh-man sociology major, has three homemade tattoos and one from a shop. All three of her homemade tattoos were from different places.

“One was at my cousin’s

house from some random tattoo lady,” Yeargin said. “It got done in a kitchen. Another one I got for New Year’s and was done in some man’s apart-ment.”

Despite Yeargin’s tattoo adventures, something Ether-idge wanted to note was that the term ‘homemade tattoos’ does not mean that the quality of the tattoo is poor. Most homemade tattoos are of pro-fessional quality, but they are just done from someone who does not have the time or money to open their own shop. They are more of an under-ground business that does not lack quality.

“None of my tats were ever infected, clean brand new needles were always used,” Etheridge said. “All of my homemade tattoos were done with a normal tattoo gun.”

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Andrew Etheridge, senior crime and delinquency major, shows off his homemade tattoos on March 30. Nine homemade tattoos cover Etheridge’s body. SHIVHAM BHAKTA | the Bulletin

Beyond the Tattoo Parlor

When some students decided to explore the tunnels under Emporia State a few years ago, they ended up inside a building and acci-dentally shut the access door. To get out of the building, they broke a window. Little did they know the doors were unlocked from the inside. The students were issued a warning and had to pay for the damages.

“There’s nothing secret about them,” said Mark Runge, University Facilities director. “It is a dangerous place. There are a lot of things protruding, and there’s a lot of hot pipes.”

The tunnels make a loop from the Towers Complex to the front of campus. They host pipes for electricity, steam, communications and water.

Derek Parris, sophomore business administration major, has been in the tunnels twice with a small group of friends.

“It’s pretty cramped in some of the areas, then it can get to be pretty hot because it’s next to the pipes,” Parris said.

With no uniform structure, some parts of the tunnels are easy to walk through, others are just tall enough to crawl through.

Parris said being in the tunnels was pretty cool because not many other stu-dents had had the opportu-nity to be in them.

Every few years Univer-sity Facilities does mainte-nance on the tunnels.

“People think it’s nice and dry and clean,” Runge said. “No, lot of tunnels leak. A lot of tunnels are dirty. A lot of

tunnels have cockroaches and pests that we have to con-tinue to fight to keep them clear of.”

Kari Laughery, sophomore education major who trans-ferred to Fort Scott, said she explored the tunnels once with a few friends.

“No one was seriously hurt, but I did catch my side on a protruding piece of metal and got a nasty bruise,” Laughery said.

A friend of Laughery’s had been in the tunnels before and wanted to show her what they were like. She said the section she was in wasn’t as cool as she had expected, but she is curious about what other sec-tions might be like.

The oldest tunnels were made about 100 years ago. Some of the tunnels are aban-doned due to the demolition of buildings. To build new tunnels it would cost $1,500-$2,000 per foot.

“It’s a wonderful structure to get to our utilities, but it’s utilitarian,” Runge said.

Within the last three to five years an extra eight inches has been added to the six inch ceilings of the tunnels. Even so, Runge said parts of the ceilings sometimes cave in.

“That’s why we don’t like to take people there,” Runge said. “There’s no reason to put you in danger. If you want to see a view of the tunnels we can probably make a movie of it or something.”

The main function of the tunnels is to supply buildings with proper utilities.

“There’s nothing mysteri-ous about them,” Runge said. “We discourage anybody trying to get in the tunnels for their safety. There is nothing down there that would be of interest to anybody other than mechanical people.”

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One by one, bodies trick-led into the open reception at the Norman R. Eppink and Gilson Memorial Galleries when the clock struck 5 p.m.

For the event, art students submitted their artwork for an outside juror, who decided not only who earns their place in the art exhibit, but who earns the many scholarships given out in the middle of the event.

The pieces that were accepted into the Annual Juried Art Student Exhibit were then placed in the Emporia Arts Center down-town for the Salon des Refuses art showcase. All of these pieces may not have been accepted into the main exhibition, but they are still

considered quality artworks worthy of recognition.

Scholarship nominees watched as family members, friends, faculty and fellow Emporia State students gazed upon their creative artworks while helping themselves to cheese, crack-ers and lemonade. Kendall Hambrook, junior engrav-ing major, submitted three pieces. Two were considered for scholarships. One piece was entitled “Subtle Seduc-tion.”

“My dad is one of 40 Master Engravers in the nation, so I would have to say that he is my biggest inspira-tion,” Hambrook said.

“It’s just something that I love to do,” Hambrook said. “I do it from the heart.”

Art students submitted a wide variety of artworks

including glass works, por-traits, photographs and even a few sketches and drawings. This year alone, over 200 pieces were submitted, and over 80 submissions were considered for scholarships.

“The exhibit serves to provide a professional plat-form for students to display their work for the public to view,” said Roberta Eichen-berg, associate art professor. “But just because you’re not selected, doesn’t mean any-thing.”

Just before students stood to accept their respective scholarships, Arts Chairman, Eric Conrad gave an intro-duction.

“The most important thing isn’t who receives the scholarships,” Conrad said. “But just submitting the work in the first place.”

From now until May 8, the Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition will be showcasing from 5-7 p.m. in the Norman R. Eppink and Gilson Memorial Galleries.

The Salon des Refuses exhibit is downtown at Emporia Arts Center, 815 Commer-cial Str. Those artworks will be showcased from 7-8 p.m. until May, 8 as well.

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Student artworks are displayed as part of the Annual Juried Art Student Ex-hibit Wednesday in the Norman R. Eppink Gallery in King Hall. Students had the opportunity to win scholarships through the show. Ralvell Roger II | the Bulletin

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Racism a lingering problem among collegiate millennials

COLLEGE PARK, Mary-land (AP) — Kayla Tarrant loves the University of Mary-land. But the campus tour guide says a racist email and photo attributed to her schoolmates makes her reluc-tant to encourage other black students to enroll “in a place where you feel unsafe and no one cares about you.”

“We’re literally begging people to care about our is-sues,” Tarrant said, with tears in her eyes, to applause from about 100 students — blacks, Hispanics, Asians and a few whites — gathered to discuss the racial climate at the pre-dominantly white, 27,000-stu-dent campus.

Conversations like the re-cent one at Maryland’s Nyum-buru Cultural Center are tak-ing place nationwide as racist incidents continue to pop up at colleges and universities, even though students are be-coming increasingly vocal in protesting racism and admin-istrators are taking swift, zero-tolerance action against it.

This week alone, Bucknell University expelled three stu-dents for making racist com-ments during a March 20 cam-pus radio broadcast. At Duke University, a noose was found hanging from a tree.

“I just want to say that if your intent was to create fear, it will have the opposite ef-fect,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs at Duke. Officials have since ac-cused a student in the incident but have declined to release the student’s name or race.

This is happening against a backdrop of promise when it comes to race relations, with campuses enrolling record numbers of black and Hispan-ic millennials. The current col-lege generation — young peo-ple who came of age under the

nation’s first black president — is said to have more accept-ing racial attitudes, but put-ting an end to racism among them has proved elusive.

The Bucknell and Duke in-cidents came days after spray-painted swastikas and nooses were found at dorms on the State University of New York’s Purchase campus. A former University of Mississippi stu-dent was indicted on federal civil rights charges last week, accused of tying a noose on the statue of the university’s first black student and drap-ing it with an old Georgia state flag that includes a Confeder-ate battle emblem.

Social media have stoked the issue, with top adminis-trators at Kansas State, the University of Northern Iowa and the University of Missouri urging students to stop post-ing anonymous racist speech on apps.

The wide usage of shar-able video has also been a fac-tor. In February, students at the University of Oklahoma were caught on video singing a chant that included refer-ences to lynching and used a racial slur to describe how the Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater-nity would never accept black members.

“We had an epidemic of racism all across our coun-try,” University of Oklahoma President David Boren, who banned the fraternity from campus, said in a news con-ference. “Ferguson, Missouri, might be the best-known case, but it’s all across our country every day, every week.”

Even before the Oklahoma incident, a little more than half — 51 percent — of college and university presidents in an In-side Higher Ed poll conducted this year by Gallup rated race relations on college campuses

as “fair.”Tasia Harris, a senior at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said racially charged events in society are “blatant reminders that this is something that continues to affect our lives.” She is among students who are trying to get a plaque placed next to a Con-federate soldier statue on her campus, explaining its history.

“White supremacy isn’t just in Ferguson or isn’t just in New York or isn’t just Cleve-land or where have you. It’s also in these very privileged sites,” said Omololu Baba-tunde, a North Carolina senior.

The Pew Research Center work has found that millenni-als are more likely than older generations to say society should make every possible effort to improve the position of blacks and other minorities. They are also more likely to support interracial marriage and have friends of other rac-es. Such data also shows di-vides. Little more than half of white and black millennials in one Pew survey said all, most or some of their friends are black or white, respectively.

And among millennials age 18-24, a 2012 Public Religion Research Institute/George-town University poll found 56 percent of white millenni-als said the government has paid too much attention to the problems of minorities over the past few decades. About a quarter of black respondents and 37 percent of Hispanics agreed.

In 1976, nearly 10 percent of students were African-American and 4 percent were Hispanic. In 2013, nearly 15 percent were black and nearly 16 percent Hispanic. The Na-tional Center for Education Statistics projects such growth will continue.

Wichita seeks ruling on legality of marijuana initiative

WICHITA (AP) — A day after Wichita voters ap-proved a ballot measure that would reduce the pen-alties for small amounts of marijuana, the city asked a court to rule on the legality of the proposed changes, which had already drawn a warning from the state at-torney general.

The city filed its petition for a “declaratory judg-ment” on Wednesday in Sedgwick County District Court in the wake of an elec-tion in which 54 percent of voters backed the referen-dum imposing no more than a $50 fine for first-time pos-session of a small amount of pot. State law deems it a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

Janice Bradley, a repre-sentative of the Marijuana Reform Initiative-ICT who helped get the issue on the ballot, said Tuesday’s vote reflects people’s changing views on marijuana, and elected officials need to take notice.

“We need to come into sync with that in our justice system,” said Bradley, who is named as the defendant in the city’s petition. “We need to get synchronized with what people feel they want versus what the laws are doing — the excessive penalties for small posses-sion that can affect people for a lifetime.”

Attorney General Derek Schmidt issued an opinion last month saying the pro-posed ordinance conflicts with state law and that a public vote to adopt it would have “no legal force and effect.” He also warned Wichita that he would be re-quired to sue to enforce state law by seeking judicial con-firmation of the ordinance’s invalidity.

“My preference would be

to avoid the cost and bur-den of litigation, both for the City and the state, and I therefore respectfully re-quest that the City take the necessary steps to prevent this unlawful proposal from presentation at the April ballot,” Schmidt wrote in a March 5 letter.

Schmidt declined to dis-cuss the matter Wednesday.

City Council Member Ja-net Miller said in a news re-lease that the council placed the proposed ordinance on the ballot out of respect for Wichita residents who were concerned enough about the issue to submit a petition with 3,000 signatures.

“The right to petition the City Council for ordinance changes through a referen-dum is basic to our form of government,” Miller said.

In its court filing, the city is seeking a court order de-termining if the new ordi-nance conflicts with state law, whether it is enforce-able and whether it may be properly enacted.

State lawmakers, mean-while, have been consider-ing other marijuana-related legislation.

A bill that would allow about 24,000 Kansas suffer-ing from seizures to receive treatments from locally produced hemp oil was en-dorsed by a House commit-tee, but has yet to be debat-ed on the House floor.

Another bill diverting most marijuana offenders to treatment and probation on their first and second offens-es also stalled after passing through a House commit-tee. The bill’s sponsor, Re-publican Rep. John Rubin from Shawnee, has said he believes that GOP House leadership postponed a vote on it until after the Wichita election due to pressure from conservative Sedgwick County representatives.

SPORTS8 The Bulletin | April 9, 2015

In last Tuesday’s noncon-ference game against Wash-burn, the Emporia State Hornets run ruled the Icha-bods in the seventh inning to cut the game short with a 15-5 win for the Hornets.

Evan Koehler, junior infiedler, led the Hornets with three home runs and a triple.

A double in the bottom of the first by Justin Harris, senior outfielder, started off the hitting for the Hornets. After stealing third, Harris was batted in off a triple by Koehler.

The Ichabods ended the first, stranding Koehler, before scoring a run of their own to tie the game at 1-1 in the second inning.

The Hornets went score-less in the second while allowing two runs in the top

of the third. But back-to-back home runs by Koehler and Price Jacobs, senior outfielder, gave the Hornets a 4-3 lead.

The Ichabods went score-less in the fourth while allow-ing five Hornet runs but bounced back with a run in the fifth.

The Hornets then went scoreless in the fifth, but bounced back with five more runs in the sixth, includ-ing another homerun from Koehler.

The teams exchanged runs in the seventh to end the game 15-5 in favor of the Hornets.

Koehler finished the night four for four with three home runs and a triple. Jacobs added a homer with two RBIs. Parker was three for four with a triple and three RBIs.

The Hornets return Friday to Trusler Sports Complex to take on Northwest Missouri.

Baseball dominates Washburn

The Emporia State softball team traveled to South-west Baptist where they split a double header last Monday. The Lady Hornets won the first game 3-0 but lost the nightcap 4-3, giving up runs in the final inning.

The Hornets opened the scoring in the second with a run off an error. Both teams went scoreless the next two innings until the Lady Hornets scored two runs in the top of fifth to take the lead 3-0.

The rest of the game went scoreless with the Hor-nets winning with three runs off eight hits with one error. The Bearcats finished the opener scoreless with two hits and one error.

In the nightcap, the Bearcats opened the scoring in the bottom of the first off an RBI single. Both teams went scoreless the next four innings. Eryn Stockman, sophomore pitcher and infielder, only allowed one run off three hits. Emporia State got on the board in the top of the sixth.

The Lady Hornets added two more runs in the sev-enth to take the lead 3-1. The Bearcats finished the final inning with three runs to take the game 4-3 and split the double header.

The Hornets stay at home this Friday, playing on the new turf for the first time this year taking on Fort Hays State.

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Softball splits with Southwest BaptistThe Hornets placed third and the Lady Hornets placed fourth in a meet with almost 700 athletes and 21 teams rep-resented at the State Farm ESU Relays last Saturday at Welch Stadium.

Five meet records and one stadium record was broken. Sixty-five provisional marks were met with five automatic qualifiers.

“There were over 700 ath-letes and although we had a few things that didn’t go as planned, we still had a strong performance overall, said Steve Blocker, head coach. “We are ready to go for the ESU multi-events and KT Woodman next week.”

The Hornets had seven provisional qualifiers. They also had three championship events as well as five runner-ups on the day. Andrew Eth-ridge finished second overall in the 110m hurdles with a time of 14.26, and the Hornets 4x800 relay team won the event. Payson Maydew also finished

fifth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.01.

“Basically the meet was just a good glorified practice day,” said Maydew. “Outdoor training is starting to settle in and everyone is working very hard.”

Three Hornets finished fourth in their events and got provisional qualifying marks. Kyle Pfitzenmeier threw 206-1 in the javelin to move up to number 11 on the national list. Tre Dickson became a national qualifier in the triple jump with a jump of 14.57 meters, which was good enough for fourth at the ESU Relays and 16th nationally. Sam Saidi had another provisional mark for the men, jumping 6-02 in the high jump.

Sara Dunkin Beam and Eliz-abeth Costello hit provisional marks throwing in a very com-petitive women’s javelin field. Dunkin Beam threw for eighth with a throw of 135-8. Eliza-beth Costello placed sixth with a throw of 140-1.

Other notable results include Colin Coleman getting third in the men’s 200-meter with a time of 21.70. Ryan Dickson placed fifth in the event with a 21.95 time. Bobby Thompson placed third in the 800-meter with a time of 1:55.49. Thomas LaRoche placed fourth with a time of 1:55.56. Jordan Smith placed fifth with a time of 1:56.01. On the women’s side Monica Howard placed in the top 20 in the 100-meter hurdles, placing 17th with a time of 16.10.

“I think overall we had some good performances,” said Howard. “It really showed us what we need to work on to get better and improve on for the next meet.”

ESU will host their multi-event meet on April 9 and 10 which is a meet specifically for the heptathelon and decathe-lon participants. The athletes that do not compete in those events will travel on April 10 and 11 to Wichita to compete in the annual KT Woodman meet.

ESU track teams compete in ESU relays over weekend 4/6/15

Wade Hanna, sophomore oufielder, and Evan Koehler, junior infielder, are met by the team after a two run homer by Koehler Tuesday at Trusler Sports Complex. Koehler had three home runs in the 15-5 victory over Washburn. ROCKY ROBINSON | The BulleTin

Jagger Harjo, junior, pitches during last Tuesday’s home game against Washburn at Trusler Sports Complex. This was Harjo’s second win this season. ROCKY ROBINSON | The BulleTin

Wade Hanna, sophomore outfielder, slides back to first as the Washburn pitcher checks the runner Tuesday at Trusler Sports Complex. The Hornets run ruled the Ichabods to win the home game 15-5. ROCKY ROBINSON | The BulleTin

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