The students’ voice since 1901 • Vol. 113 • No. 3 • Thursday, September 12, 2013 • Check us out online esubulletin.comONTHEWEB

Students put on ‘tree house’ comedy

Page 7

On Sept. 6, Joseph Hamer, freshman elementary education major, discuss-es getting the James Patterson Teacher Education Scholarship. Hamer was one of eight freshmen who received the scholarship this past summer. Lingzi Su/The Bulletin

Courtesy photo of Knox

Gabe Andrews (left), senior business administration major, and Benny Bowden (right), senior digital audio re-cording major, of the musical duo “Gabe and Benny,” give Emporia State the right to use their hype song “Right Now” Sept. 9 in President Michael Shonrock’s office in Plumb Hall. Andrews, Bowden and the Emporia State Foundation made plans to film a music video for the song to promote ESU. Will Austin/The Bulletin

Max McCoy, associate professor of journalism and adviser for The Bul-letin, discusses a layout from a design book with former staff members Kenzie Templeton, graduate student and Chris Krause, senior science education and earth science major. Templeton said McCoy values the im-portance of listening to students. Photo courtesy of Eric Benjamin.

Best-selling author gives scholarships to incoming freshmen

The Guinness Book of World Records holder for the most number one books on the New York Times Best Seller List, James Patterson, has given eight scholarships to freshmen education majors.

Last semester, on April 15, Ken Weaver, dean of the Teachers College, discovered that these scholarships were going to be offered. Patterson had contacted President Michael Shonrock via mail, according to Weaver, about establishing the James Patterson Teacher Education Scholar-ships at ESU.

Patterson, who is the author of book series such as “Alex Cross” and “Maximum Ride,” wrote that he had paid attention to the way ESU’s edu-cation department prepared future teachers and emphasized literacy and decided he wanted to support the students through scholarships.

The idea evolved into eight $6,000 scholarships for freshmen education majors who showed seri-ous commitment to completing the university’s program. Weaver said

Michael Vander linden

linden@esubulletin.comchoosing which students were most likely to stay the course as education majors proved to be a very challeng-ing task.

A team of ESU faculty and staff were responsible for discerning which students were most deserving of the scholarships based on an extensive application process that students had two weeks to complete. Michelle Berg, Samantha Buchanan, Leanne Feathers, Jennifer Gottstein, Joseph Hamer, Sarah Johnson, Travisray Salyers and JaShawn Wallace were the recipients of the scholarship.

Joseph Hamer and Leanne Feath-ers, freshmen elementary education majors, said it was difficult to obtain all of the information.

At first, Hamer wasn’t sure he would have his recommendation let-ters sent in time.

“It was almost three weeks into summer,” he said. “I really didn’t think my guidance counselor would be checking her email when I asked her for a letter.”

According to Weaver, 54 students applied, and the selection committee

McCoy makes mark with national awardWill austin

news@esubulletin.com

Mac McCoy, associate professor of journalism and faculty adviser for The Bulletin, was recently named the 2013-2014 Distinguished Adviser for four-year university newspapers by the College Media Association, a

Dynamic duo signs rights to hype song for one year

susan Welte

editor@esubulletin.com

Ten2One, formerly known as Gabe & Benny, have given Emporia State the rights to use their ESU hype song “Right Now” for one year.

The duo, consisting of Benny Bowden, senior digital audio

recording major, and Gabe Andrews, senior business administration major, will still retain “100 percent copyright rights,” Bowden said.

“It’s an awesome accomplish-ment,” Bowden said. “We’re just blessed to be able to do it.”

Andrews said the agreement came about when he and Bowden decided to pitch the idea of creating

a promotional music video for ESU to university officials last spring. The school is investing $5,000 in the production of the video, and the duo were each awarded a $2,000 scholarship in return for granting the university the rights to the song.

The licensing agreement allows

See Signing ...Page 3

See ScholarShiP ...Page 2

See adviSer ...Page 3

national organization representing college newspaper advisors around the country.

When McCoy first heard the news on Aug. 31, he said he was humbled to be counted among the advisers who received the award before him.

“I was taken back and quite

Funeral held for student Bulletin staff

editor@esubulletin.com

A funeral for Eric Lislie “Bubba” Knox, a 21-year-old physical therapy major at Emporia State, was held Tuesday morning at First Christian Church in Hugoton.

Knox was found dead in his apartment at The Villas, 1839 Merchant St., last week. The man-agement at the apartment complex denied comment to The Bulletin, but President Michael Shonrock offered his condolences in a university press release Sept. 6.

“We at Emporia State are deeply saddened by Eric’s death,” Shonrock said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.”

Memorial contributions may do-

nated to both the Hugoton Kids Club Wrestling and American Diabetes Association “in care of Garnand Fu-neral Home, 423 S. Main, Hugoton, KS 67951,” according to the funeral home’s obituary for Knox.

grateful, as well,” McCoy said.Colleague Mel Storm, professor

of English and chair of the English department said an honor like this was well overdue for McCoy.

“My first thought was, ‘Well, it’s about time,’” Storm said. “His work with student publications has been invaluable.”

McCoy began advising The Bulletin in 2007. In this position, he said he has provided feedback and suggestions about students’ work. Most importantly, he said, he has been the student newspaper’s advocate.

Steve Listopad, chair of the CMA awards committee, said Mc-Coy’s emphasis on student advocacy was evident.

“It was apparent that Max was willing to stand behind his students during difficult situations,” Listo-pad said. “It is the mark of a great adviser when, instead of dealing with overwhelming circumstances themselves, they lift students up and teach them how to respond.”

This isn’t the first time an advisor for The Bulletin has been recognized by the CMA. Sally Turner, who has

Page 2 news The Bulletin | Sept. 12, 2013

Police ReportsReports given to The Bulletin

from ESU Police and Safety Department

Corrections

steVe edWards

edwards@esubulletin.com

Students are sworn in as senators at the first Associated Student Govern-ment meeting of the semester on Aug. 29 in the Senate Chamber. The next ASG meeting will be held at 5:15 p.m. on Sept. 19. Michael Boyer/The Bulletin

ASG kicks off new year at ESU

Associated Student Government kicked off the 2013-14 school year with a new group of student leaders and two senate meetings on Aug. 29 and Sept. 5.

The first meeting opened with new members of ASG taking an oath to “forsake all personal ambition” for the sake of Emporia State.

“There are a lot of new and excit-ing things this year as well as a lot of dust flying around,” said Racheal

ScholarShiP from ...Page 1

Countryman, ASG president and senior communication major, during the session on Aug. 29.

The ongoing projects and push to increase ESU’s interaction with the Emporia community were the hot topics during ASG’s first two sessions.

“Pardon our dust, we have a few projects going on,” said President Mi-chael Shonrock. “We’re doing some pretty cool things with technology this year.”

Shonrock said that ESU is “in the process of new campus master plan.” He also said that student input is

welcome and appreciated.“Sometimes I close my eyes and

see how this campus will look in the future,” Shonrock said. “We need your input and we need to start dreaming big.”

Kate Churchill, ASG public affairs director and senior commu-nication major, said ASG will boost outreach to students this year. On Wednesdays, a Q&A booth will be set up in the Memorial Union for students to talk to senators and rep-resentatives and ask questions about issues affecting campus.

“There are a lot of things we need students’ opinions about,” said Ma-rissa Germann, ASG vice president and senior marketing major.

Countryman said ASG will add three new unpaid staff positions this year: executive assistant, committee coordinator and community liaison.

A new amendment will also take effect this year to increase the com-munity service hours required from RSOs to 30 hours from the previous 20. It also removes the restriction on services hours that were completed on-campus or off-campus.

Proposals to add a critical think-ing portion to the CAAP test were also discussed during the session on Aug. 29. ASG senator Josiah D’Albini said if the amendment is passed, that it is “very likely that students currently enrolled will be grandfathered into taking the old CAAP test.”

During the senate meeting on Sept. 5, D’Albini was elected as president pro tempore. D’Albini, who is also president of Interfrater-nity Council, will take over the VP’s responsibilities if necessary.

Kevin Johnson, general counsel, attended the Sept. 5 session to make guest remarks to the ASG senate.

“My client is the university,” Johnson said.

The next ASG meeting will be Sept. 19 in the Senate Chamber.

narrowed it down to 16. Each finalist then had an interview with the selec-tion committee – most were face-to-face, but the committee made some exceptions.

“I had a full time job working with a special education program this sum-mer,” Hamer said. “I could not make it to the scheduled interview day, but

they were flexible enough to Skype with me, which is really cool that they would make that work.”

When Feathers applied, she didn’t expect to win the scholarship,

“I got my phone call and literally was in shock,” Feathers said. “Every-one was just excited for me and I’ve kept them up to date on everything I’ve done.”

eMily Giffin

giffin@esubulletin.com

Students commute in many waysCars, bicycles and even long-

boards are just a few of the modes of transportation used by those commuting to Emporia State’s main campus.

“Since it would take me an hour or so to walk, I ride bikes,” said Logan Ranger, sophomore undecided major.

Isaiah Shaver, freshman busi-ness marketing major, said it’s convenient to drive his car because he can get to school quicker.

“What is inconvenient is trying to find a place to park,” Shaver said.

For students living on campus with less of a way to go, biking, walking and longboarding are popular options.

“I have my car here but…I

don’t really go a lot of places,” said Zach VanDorn, sophomore art therapy major. “In town, it is pretty easy to just get around on the long-board, so I try to stick to that. It’s cheaper, too.”

While a large number of stu-dents live on campus, others live at home and some even commute over an hour to attend classes.

“I go to Emporia from Paola which is a little over an hour (on) Monday, Wednesday and Friday,” said Mercedes Gallagher, sopho-more rehabilitation services major.

Just as there are a variety of different modes of transportation, there are also a variety of reasons for them. Some, like Ranger, use manpower to cut down on expens-es. He also said it helps him cut down on expenses.

“Being a student is hard as it is – money-wise,” Ranger said. “It gets

you exercise so you don’t gain your freshman 15 or sophomore 70.”

Others simply prefer to arrive on time without having to worry about exercise or an unkept appear-ance.

“I tried to ride my bike, but it is kind of a long ride, and I don’t like to show up to my classes dirty,” said Shaver.

Some have no choice but to use just one mode of transportation.

“(I don’t like commuting), but sometimes life happens and we have to do things we don’t enjoy,” Gallagher said.

Many students use their means of transportation for fun as much as for getting to class on time.

“As much as I can, I like to get out and ride around to so I don’t necessarily have to be going some-where but just going around on it,” VanDorn said.

Throughout the process, both Hamer and Feathers said they were thankful to their teachers, family members the Emporia State team and, of course, Patterson.

“We hope this relationship with James continues to grow into a long deal investment of our students,” Weaver said.

- CLASSIFIED -Stone Lodge Apart-

ments, one and two bed-room apartments, $265 and up. Call (620) 757-1943 for more informa-tion.

The political science program has not been terminated. It is still active at Emporia State, according to David Cordle, provost. Also, the William Allen White Library will not be open 24/7. It will only be open 24 hours during the school week. The Bulletin regrets these errors.

Sept. 4Officer assisted the Emporia Police

Dept. with a call at 13th and Mer-chant.

Officer stopped KS 083FPS in 1200 Highland. Verbal warning for driving with headphones on.

Officer stopped KS 964BGA in sector 8. Verbal warning for failure to use turn signal.

Officer checked Trusler Sports Complex. Secured the north yellow gate.

A female student reported receiv-ing a threatening text. The text was misinterpreted. Officer took report.

Officers checked KS 185DKG in Sector 7. Headlights were on. No other problem was found.

HPER building zone 60 Fire Trouble. Problem was smoke detector in basement hallway outside of the Racquetball court.

Officers admitted a female student into King Hall Room 13.

Officers assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a suspicious person call at 905 East.

Sept. 5Officers assisted Emporia Police

Dept. with call at 1839 Merchant.Officer stopped KS 325EYA at

1100blk Market. Verbal warning for a one-way violation in 1100 Mechanic.

Officer stopped KS 528AFI in Sector 6. Verbal warning for a registra-tion violation.

Officer stopped KS 824BBE at 10 W 15th. Verbal warning for a stop sign violation at 15th and Wooster Dr.

Officer stopped KS 381CSW at 10 W 15th. Verbal warning for a stop sign violation at 15th and Wooster Dr.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a car stop on Kellogg Circle.

Officer contacted skateboarders at Morse Hall Complex and advised of campus policy.

Officer stopped KS 484FBL in 10 W 15th. Verbal warning for driving without headlights.

Officer contacted skateboarders at 15th and Wooster Dr. and advised of campus policy.

Officer stopped KS 686FBX at 1500 Wooster Dr. Verbal warning for driving without headlights.

WAW Library staff reported someone possibly smoking in the 2nd Men’s restroom. Officers made no contact.

Sept. 6Cremer Hall zone 28 Fire Trouble.

The problem was a smoke detector on first floor by northeast double doors. Human error.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a welfare check at High-land and Merchant.

Officer contacted operator of a vehicle parked improperly at 19th and Morse Dr. and advised of campus parking policy.

Officer admitted Dustin Howell into Visser Hall Room 328 to retrieve his car keys.

Officer stopped KS 362FUB in Sector 3. Verbal warning for one-way violation at same location.

Officer admitted Jyiu Yang into Science Hall Room 87 to retrieve property.

Officer responded to a verbal argument at the south end of Welch Stadium.

Officer checked welfare of oc-cupants of a vehicle parked in free parking. No problem was found.

Officer admitted Damon Lease HPER building Room 218 to retrieve

property. Officer stopped KS 789BVQ in

1300 Merchant. Verbal warning for driving without headlights.

Officer stopped KS QQV617 at 1000 W 12th. Citation for stop light violation at 12th and Commercial.

Resident Assistant at North Twin Towers requested welfare check on a male student in North Twin Towers. No problem was found.

Officer contacted bicyclist in Sec-tor 3 Verbal warning for a one-way violation in same location.

Sept. 7Officer stopped KS 030DFH in

Sector 7. Verbal warning for failure to yield at same location.

Officer provided escort for two male subjects from Sector 7 to 3012 W Hwy 50 – Longbine Auto Plaza.

Officer stopped TX LBM5DV in Kellogg Circle. Verbal warning for driving with no headlights.

Officer stopped KS 943DVU in 1400 Market. Verbal warning for a one-way violation.

Sept. 8Officer stopped KS 539BWG in

1400 Market. Verbal warning for a one-way violation in same location.

Officer admitted Chris Ledger into the Art Annex glass blowing building.

Officer admitted William Johnson into King Hall Room 8 to retrieve a project.

Officer contacted two subjects on the wall at west Welch Stadium and advised to get off of it.

Officer coned off parking stall on Kellogg Circle.

HPER building zone 9 Low Bat-tery Restore-Manual Pull in Gym A north exit. Unknown error.

Officer turned on the track lights in Welch Stadium.

Sept. 9Physical Plant employee reported

an opossum outside of North Morse Hall. Grounds crew set a live trap.

Faculty member reported a bat in Plumb Hall outside of Room 404. Officer was able to remove the bat and release it outdoors.

Officer admitted male subject into Beach Music Hall Room 323 to retrieve keys.

Officers contacted several subjects at the north end of the tunnel under I-35 and advised of campus alcohol policy.

Sept. 10Female subject reported her bike

tires were slashed in the bicycle rack outside of Memorial Union.

Construction worker requested to speak with an officer at the tennis courts in reference to the return of a lost water cooler.

Resident of Twin Towers Complex requested to speak with an officer at South Twin Towers.

Officers responded to a report of a male subject approaching and harassing female students at Memorial Union.

Officer stopped k267AFH at 15th and Market. Verbal warning for a parking violation.

Officers checked KS 900DVJ in Sector 7. The trunk was open. Of-ficers secured the trunk.

Officers provided escort for a female student from ESU PD HQ to Singular Hall.

Officers also admitted student into building.

The ‘Do Not Enter’ sign at 15th and Market needs to be put back up.

since joined the journalism depart-ment of Eastern Illinois University, was named an Honor Roll Advisor in 1998.

Kenzie Templeton, graduate English student and former editor-in-chief of The Bulletin, nominated McCoy for the award. She said he recognizes the importance of listen-ing to students.

“That’s a rare quality to find in

The Bulletin | Sept. 12, 2013 news

Micaela cline

cline@esubulletin.com

Mock interviews to help lift job-searching confidence

adviSer from ...Page 1

Signing from ...Page 1

Fences and signs line the corner of Merchant and 12th St. Sept. 10 as construction begins on the new CVS phar-macy. A closed apartment building, several vacant houses and the RE/MAX Realtor Office were demolished to make way for the new business. Jennifer Pendarvis/The Bulletin

Photo illustration by Jenny Pendarvis/ The Bulleitn

College is a time when getting that “dream job” starts to become more of a reality and less of a distant dream.

A tool that looks to help students work toward that goal is Mock Inter-view Day, offered by Career Services. The event, which takes place today,

will allow registered students see what a real job interview could feel like. The event’s goal is to improve the self-presentation and confidence of participants, as well as highlight their strengths and weaknesses in the interview process.

“I think it would be smart to do a mock interview, even though I am just a sophomore,” said Carrie Kellie,

Michael Vander linden

linden@esubulletin.com

CVS will give more shopping optionsOn the corner of Merchant

Street and 12th Street, a demoli-tion has been completed and construction had started. The large fenced-off construction area will soon be home to a CVS pharmacy.

The space used to be occupied by a blue apartment complex and the RE/MAX Realtor office. Aaron Sewell, owner of the Emporia RE/MAX Realtor office said they were approached by personnel from CVS who wanted to buy their of-fice and the land around it for the new store.

After several negotiations, the staff decided to move into a new building on 116 West 12th.

“We may have moved offices, but we’re still alive and kicking,” Sewell said. “But we’re still alive and kicking. We just had a good offer and decided not to pass.”

Dave Hendricks, director of the Memorial Union, said he thinks the establishment of the new CVS store will be good for the area that surrounds Emporia State.

“(It will be a bonus) especially for those that don’t have (a) phar-

macy,” Hendricks said. “Now, they can pick up their needs right across the street.”

Hendricks said that, fortunately, he feels like the bookstore and other MU businesses will not be affected by the competition CVS may im-pose. The only common products they both sell are notebooks, pencils and other school supplies.

“It may affect our campus phar-macy,” said Hendricks. “But really, the services CVS will provide are different than what we have.”

This opened up a convenient spot for the pharmacy chain, and after a strong bidding war involving companies from states like Missouri and Ohio, Fortney & Weygandt, Inc. won the bid and began con-struction.

Miranda Murphy, junior nurs-ing major, works at the Medicine Shoppe by Newman Hospital and said she sees the positives for the new building by campus.

“I remember always having to drive to Walmart for my medicines and then pick up all of my groceries at the same time,” said Murphy.

A lot of pharmacy business is about convenience to the customer, according to Murphy.

“I drove around delivering medi-cines to customers who couldn’t always make it to the shop,” said

Murphy. “I think the new phar-macy will be a great convenience to the on-campus students.”

According to The Emporia Ga-zette, the store hopes to be open for business in October or November.

sophomore marketing major.June Coleman, director of Career

Services, said the dynamics of each in-terview are adjusted to meet the crite-ria of the specific field where students want to find work after graduating.

“If you are interviewing for a posi-tion that requires solid presentation and communication skills, a candidate might be asked to prepare a 20-min-ute presentation on a particular topic for the interview,” Coleman said. “If the position works with multiple departments, the interview might include meetings with each of those departments.”

The mock interview allows stu-dents to gain confidence when they walk into a room of real employers.

“The program helps students expe-rience a traditional behavior-based in-terview and gives them practice in that setting,” Coleman said. “The recruiters conducting the interview will give the student feedback on their interviewing skills, as well as their résumé.”

Juniors and seniors who are able to venture out into the “real world” are the main audience Career Services had in mind for the event, but freshmen and sophomores are also welcome. Maddie Potvin, freshman marketing major, found helpful advice and tips from the office’s counselors via their other services.

“Career Services helped me update my résumé and look for a job that could work with my classes,” Potvin said.

Career Services offers extra support for students looking for jobs by updat-ing résumés and assisting undergradu-ates in finding jobs on-campus and off-campus. Job searching strategies, internships, part-time employment and career counseling are also avail-able.

Today Career Services hosted their fall Career and Graduate School Fair from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Webb Hall. The Mock Interview event will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge on the second floor of the Memorial Union.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — State and federal officials have agreed to sharply increase the capacity of an eastern Kansas res-ervoir that provides water for the cooling lake at a nearby nuclear power plant.

Kansas signed a deal with the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers on Thursday to raise the capac-ity at the federally owned John Redmond Reservoir by nearly 30 percent, the Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/17E1Gz7) reported.

The reservoir southeast of Emporia is 40 percent silted in, Kansas Water Office Director Tracy Streeter said, and fell to about 50 percent of capacity last year because of the drought.

The reservoir was able to pro-vide water to the cooling lake at Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant, Streeter said, but the low level created concerns. Westar Energy, which provides electricity to nearly 225,000 customers in the Wichita area, owns 47 percent of the power plant.

The agreement signed Thurs-day increases the reservoir’s eleva-tion by 2 feet, raising the number of gallons available in storage from 16 billion to 22 billion.

“That will help mitigate the effects of a drought,” Streeter said.

Kansas, feds reach deal on Redmond Reservoir

ESU to use the song in whatever “tasteful” way they wish for mar-keting and promotional purposes, Bowden said.

“The experience alone is going to be awesome,” Bowden said. “I’m pretty pumped to get ideas flowing for the music video.”

Andrews said nothing is set in stone yet, but the two have been meeting with university officials to brainstorm ideas for the video.

Gwen Larson, assistant director

of Marketing and Media Relations, said that Kevin Johnson, general counsel, coordinated the contract signing and even provided a bottle of sparkling grape juice and champagne to toast the event, a tradition Larson said he began when he was in private practice to celebrate occasions when clients came to sign contracts that were “good news.”

Ten2One’s new single, “Make You Feel,” will premiere at the end of this month, wiith radio play on Kiss 103.1 and their album “White Flag” drops Dec. 2 this year.

Page 3

since joined the journalism depart-ment of Eastern Illinois University, was named an Honor Roll Advisor in 1998.

Kenzie Templeton, graduate English student and former editor-in-chief of The Bulletin, nominated McCoy for the award. She said he recognizes the importance of listen-ing to students.

“That’s a rare quality to find in

an adviser, regardless of if it’s an a academic adviser or a newspaper advisor,” Templeton said.

McCoy, who obtained a Mas-ter’s in English at ESU in 1993 and worked as a graduate teaching as-sistant in the same department, said he developed an interest for teaching very quickly.

“I’d done a lot of writing work-shops in my career, having both been a journalist and a novelist, and

I found that I enjoy talking about writing and talking about journal-ism,” McCoy said.

Before coming to Emporia State in 2006 as journalist-in–residence, McCoy was the investigative jour-nalist for the Joplin Globe in Joplin, Mo. At the Globe, he won first-place awards for writing long-form articles about unsolved murders, serial killers, and white supremacist groups in the Ozarks.

In addition to advising the newspaper, McCoy teaches journal-ism courses, such as Investigative Reporting and Photojournalism and has published more than 20 fictional novels.

This semester, McCoy is on sab-batical tracking the Arkansas River from its headwaters in Colorado down to the Kansas plains for a nonfiction book about the natural and cultural history of the river. His

methods for following the Arkansas have included driving a jeep, kayak-ing, and even mountain biking.

Storm said it will be a good thing when McCoy returns from sabbati-cal in the spring semester.

“We really miss having him around,” he said.

The Distinguished Adviser Award will be presented to McCoy at the National College Media Con-vention in New Orleans on Oct. 25.

The reservoir currently is 13 to 14 feet above normal, and the corps is temporarily allowing it to operate at the higher level, Streeter said.

To achieve the increased stor-age, the reservoir’s allowed con-servation pool level will be in-creased while its flood level will be lowered. Water for Wolf Creek’s cooling lake is pulled from the conservation pool.

The second phase of increas-ing Redmond’s capacity is to start dredging the silt from the reser-voir and strengthening the banks of the Neosho River to reduce the flow sediment.

While the state has about $1 million to pay a firm to design the dredging work, Streeter said his office will ask the Legislature to approve $25 million for the project.

The state hopes to begin dredg-ing in 2014, he said.

After decades of silt slipping into the water, many of the state’s lakes and reservoirs need to have sediment cleaned out, Streeter said.

The state restored a lake in 2010 on a smaller scale, state of-ficials said, when it worked with Horton to remove about 1 million cubic feet of sediment out of Mis-sion Lake in Brown County.

Page 4 The Bulletin | Sept. 12, 2013

Miley MadnessIt’s pretty obvious that Miley

Cyrus hasn’t been thinking straight lately. Or at all, really.

Just a couple weeks ago, I was sitting in front of my TV, some-what enraged by her degrading performance at MTV’s annual Music Video Awards. Meanwhile, my Twitter timeline was flooding with tweets from others who were feeling the same as I was.

Although she claims that we are overthinking it, Miley Cyrus did a little more than confuse her audience with her raunchy perfor-mance.

If anything, Miley did get one thing from it – attention. And maybe Miley was successful in some way since we are, indeed, still talking about it.

But we aren’t raving about it because it was amazing and burst-ing with talent. We’re ranting about it because it was disturbing and trashy. She didn’t represent herself as an artist, but, instead, she

If You Build It, They Will StaySTAFF EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL STAFF

BUSINESS

ADVISER

The BulleTin

Susan WelteEditor-in-Chief

Will AustinManaging Editor

Jon CoffeyPhoto EditorCzarli Rex

Opinion EditorRocky Robinson

Sports EditorKhaili Scarbrough

Design EditorAlly Spease

Designer/Public Relations

Ashley LucasAdvertising

and Office ManagerSipei Huang

Business Manager

www.esubulletin.com

Offices are located on the third floor of the Memorial Union on the campus of

Emporia State University, Emporia, Kan.

One free copy per ESU student.

Additional copies are $1.50 per issue or $30 for a yearly subscription.

Phone: 620-341-5201Fax: 620-341-5865

Email: editor@esubulletin.com oradvertising@esubulletin.com

Amy Sage WebbProfessor of English,

Modern Languages, and Journalism

Employment: Mission Possible

To Ink or Not to Ink

opinion

chelsea taBolt

tabolt@esubulletin.com

Marilyn Kearney

kearney@esubulletin.com

rachel Marshall

marshall@esubulletin.com

Welcome to Emporia State, an-other notorious “suitcase campus.” The term is used to refer to college campuses that experience a mass exodus of students, staff and faculty over weekends and summer term.

Because ESU is in such a prime position between Kansas towns like Wichita, Lawrence and Topeka, many students leave on the week-end to spend time with family and friends or to find something more exciting than what is available in Emporia.

Many of our faculty and staff commute to Emporia from towns and cities as far away, or further, than Kansas City. Anyone who has been on campus during the weekends or summer terms can tell you that on Saturday and Sunday, it is more like a ghost town than a college campus.

That being said, social inter-actions are just as important as academic classes. Attending events,

activities and social engagements when we’re not in class challenge students in a stress-free way that helps us adapt to the other issues they face in the academic arena.

Students typically choose a suburban – or rural – campus like ESU because they want a sense of community, to bring their cars, have school and friends within walking distance and to also have school at the center of their social and academic lives. Unfortunately, many students complain that there is nothing to do in Emporia.

We only have a scarce handful bars, a bowling alley, a roller-skating rink and a few tiny coffee shops. The Memorial Union Bookstore, Hornet Express and Buzzcotti all turn off their lights and lock their doors on the weekends.

The Hornet’s Nest also has great-ly reduced hours. Most Recognized Student Organizations will not schedule events on the weekends,

based on the premise that “no one will show up.”

All this is contrary to the knowl-edge that there is a small but solid student presence already here on campus each and every weekend.Many international students have neither transportation nor extra funds to take them sightseeing every weekend. Many on-campus and off-campus student residents actually prefer to stay in town.

Budgets are being cut and funding is low, yet new student enrollment rates are up. Continuing retention rates remain low, how-ever.

We should be creating a 24/7 home away from home.

As Hornets, we are strong and loyal. We are determined and pas-sionate. We need a campus-wide movement. We need to create the best campus we can be – the kind of university where people love to stay and hate to leave.

When you are paying more than $500 a month just on the basics, you need a source of income. But I can’t find a job.

As is the situation for many col-lege students, I have a heavy financial burden that weighs me down. On top of little necessities like food and gas, I am responsible for car pay-ments, auto insurance and health insurance every month, as well as paying off tuition, bills at home.

That’s a lot of bills.Over the last three weeks, I have

been endlessly searching Emporia for a part-time afternoon job and have

Over the summer, I worked two jobs. One of them I had worked at for a while, and no one there thought twice of the literary quote I had got-ten tattooed on my right wrist.

My second job, though, told me that I had to keep it covered with a long-sleeve shirt while I was working. It didn’t matter that the writing was profanity-free and utterly inoffensive. It was a tattoo and thus, must be covered. It simply reads, “He listened like we dream of others listening,” which references the book “Interview with the Vampire” by Anne Rice.

A friend warned me about getting my tattoo in such a visible place, specifically because of rules like that. Some places might not accept me for a position at all, thanks to my “ink.”

I wasn’t dissuaded, though. I decided that I would let a thousand other character traits speak for me when it came to getting a job. The tattoo I have is a part of me, but it is

failed miserably. Every day I have been checking websites, filling out applications, going to businesses in person and applying anywhere that is hiring. I have applied for over 40 jobs since school started and have heard next to nothing nothing back. As a student, this can be extremely disheartening, but I’ve learned a few things along the way.

For one, I know I am not the only one going through this. We’re all broke college kids eating Ramen out of our cabinets and turning down outings on the weekend because we don’t have the extra cash.

hardly all of me.Yet, I really shouldn’t have to

worry about being jobless. I’ve chosen to permanently express myself on my body. Tattoos should not be the decid-ing factor in whether or not a person is accepted for a job.

I have an acquaintance that is going to be a teacher, and she has beautiful tattoos on her arms and shoulders. Another friend is incredibly smart and hard-working, and she also has five tattoos.

In my experience, tattoos are symbols of someone’s philosophy, or mementos of a loved one or an important experience. They are not meant to say that person is of poor character, but that they have a desire for expressing something important.

Should I decide to go for a more prestigious job, I might be turned away simply because any tattoo is considered “unprofessional.” How I act is the only factor that determines

But, we live in a college town and other students are frantically applying for jobs to pay rent this month, as well. In Emporia is if you don’t have a connection within the business or an extremely valuable skill, it is tough to get a job here in Emporia. Once we graduate college, however, it will be like that everywhere.

One of the most amazing things I’ve seen here, both on our campus and off of it, is how generous some of our community members are. While looking for jobs, I have often journeyed into businesses that were very obviously not hiring, simply to

my professionalism. My tattoo doesn’t say anything

about how well I wield responsibility, how intelligent I am or how well-suit-ed I am for a job. Only I can say that.

If someone wants a quote on their wrist or some art on the back of their hand, they should go ahead and get it, regardless of the job they want. Their skills and attitude will speak for them – not their ink.

looked like a girl trying to dancing sexily in a drunken stupor.

Britney Spears and Madonna are just two examples of past shock-ing VMA performances that the former Hannah Montana is being compared to. If you watch these, you’ll actually be entertained by a performance that is well-rehearsed and has at least some choreography. You’ll see women who know how to do an 8-count of dance steps and are talented enough to put on a show.

At age 20, Miley Cyrus is sing-ing about getting “turned up” (aka getting drunk or high), “getting some” (having sexual experiences) and making references to “molly” (ecstasy) in her single “We Can’t Stop,” all of which are drastically inappropriate for Miley’s former fan base. She also recently released a music video in which she can be seen swinging on a giant chain-and-ball. Naked.

My fellow females (and males)

– please don’t feed into attention for the sake of attention. Don’t be the girl at the party trying way too hard to be the “main attraction” – because it may not necessarily be a good thing.

Appreciate the better things in life. Give real talent the respect and praise it deserves. Don’t waste another second on something so unrespectable. Take a lesson from Miley Cyrus and learn what not to do.

Cartoon by Sarah Becker

ask if they knew of someone that was currently looking for workers. It is incredibly encouraging how willing to help these business owners can be, even when they can’t hire you yourself.

So, don’t be worried about asking around, and don’t give up. It’s tough when you live paycheck-to-paycheck, or even if you just need a job to cover the extra little things. You never know when someone will call you back, or where you will find that job that works perfectly with your class schedule. Keep looking and keep your head up!

The Bulletin |Sept. 12, 2013 Page 5lifeStyles

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss Kansas Theresa Vail says she wants to break the stereotype that women with visible tattoos don’t compete in pageants.

So during the swimsuit portion of the Miss America competition on Tuesday, Vail revealed two tat-toos — the Serenity Prayer on her

Tour presents hazards of texting while driving

Jonathan Saigeon, Distracted Driving speaker, asks a few questions as Cora Trautloff, freshmen pre-med major, prepares to test her texting and driving skills. The Save a Life Tour visited Emporia State Sept. 4 to raise aware-ness towards the harms of texting and driving. Nicholas Sumner/The Bulletin

Infograph by Ally Spease

So, there’s this new diet promis-ing to shed fat and rid the body of toxins all in the matter of a few days. Interested? If so, you’re like many Americans who are trying out differ-ent “cleanse diets.”

One example is the Master Cleanse, which calls for 10 days of 6 to 12 glasses of maple syrup, lemon juice, water, cayenne pepper, lemon-ade and daily laxatives.

These diets are popular because they provide a simple routine with rapid results, convincing you that the cleanse was a great idea. Supporters will often boast of their double-digit weight loss in a few weeks – or even days.

But, if you’re thinking they’re too good to be true then you are right.

The huge weight loss seen in a short period is not magic, rather a purely explainable physiological response.

Any diet that causes an individual to eat fewer calories than they expend will result in weight loss. The greater the deficit is between the two, then the greater the weight loss will be. The Master Cleanse provides 650 calories per day, which is less than a third recommended by the USDA. Moderately active college males and females need around 1,800 and 2,200, respectively. It’s no surprise these diets produce extreme weight loss.

Focusing only on weight loss is misleading. A cleanse is seemingly ideal for weight loss, but they’re any-thing but for fat loss.

Most cleanse diets reduce calories too quickly, and the faster weight loss occurs the greater likelihood it’s coming from water and muscle, not fat. It’s also harder to keep the weight off. They’re also typically very low in

protein, which is crucial when losing weight to maintain muscle.

Think exercising is hard enough? Try it on nothing but 650 calories of a lemonade concoction.

The more these diets are examined, the more they’re exposed as nothing more than a quick fix. Diets like these aren’t sustainable for very long. They aren’t enjoyable. They don’t teach you how to eat out appropriately with friends and family. Sure, you may lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks, but now what? The second you go back to normal eating habits that weight will creep back on.

Although it’s not sexy, the best diet approach is something that can be adhered to for a lifetime. Make habits like eating more fruits, vegetables and lean meats. Listen to your body when you’re hungry and full. Get into a normal exercise routine. Enjoy some ice cream from time to time to keep sane. Get plenty of sleep. Most of these things we have been told to do since grade school, yet we still aren’t doing them.

While a cleanse diet might win in a 100 meter dash, life is a marathon and developing good dietary habits is the key to a successful race.

Cleanse Diet Damage

GreG farris farris@esubulletin.com

Micaela cline

cline@esubulletin.com

Health-

Almost 75 percent of people in the world own a cell phone and use it on a daily basis, according to Textinganddriving.com

The issues of texting and driv-ing, as well as distracted driving, were raised at the Save a Life Tour that was presented on campus this past Wednesday. The event allowed students to participate in a texting and driving simulation to learn about fatal collisions and why it has become such a danger.

“How many people out there in the world have a cell phone? Bil-lions,” said Jonathon Saigeon, a rep-resentative for the Safe a Life Tour. “Imagine all the people that are out there at any given time of day, like 5 o’clock traffic, how many people are in their vehicles on their cell phones sending an email, checking a text

message, Facebook or Twitter?” Textinganddrivingsafety.com also

stated that more than 23 percent of vehicle accidents involve cell phones, which translates into 1.3 million collisions in one year. Young adults are involved in 13 percent of those collisions.

Saigeon said the statistics show how dangerous texting while driving has become. He said it is now a more universal problem than drinking and driving.

“When it comes to drinking and driving, there is only so many people that really choose to get intoxicated and then drive,” Saigeon said.

The risk is especially great for teenagers, Saigeon said, because the biggest cause of death for their age group are vehicle collisions.

“It has become an epidemic,” Saigeon said.

In contrast to those who, like Saigeon, stand firmly against texting

and driving, some believe that the real problem is when someone uses their phone at the wrong time.

“I think texting while driving is not as unsafe as some people think,” said Katy Winchester, sophomore marketing major. “If it is bright outside, and you are the only one on this barren highway going straight on the way to Emporia, answering a quick text is fine. If you are in traffic, or it is snowy or rainy, then obvi-ously you should not text and drive.”

Texting while driving has become a widespread and socially accept-able activity, and Kendra Goering, instructor of psychology said this could be attributed to the example set by adults and parents for younger generations.

“I think the idea that if we see our parents texting while driving, we will think it is okay has merit,” said Goering. “We model what we see. Monkey see monkey do.”

Miss Kansas shows tattoos at Miss America pageant

right side and the insignia of the U.S. Army Dental Corps on her left shoulder.

Vail is a 22-year-old senior at Kansas State University. She’s also a member of the Army National Guard who wants to become a mili-tary dentist.

Her platform is helping women

overcome stereotypes and break barriers.

Given her platform, she wrote on her blog last month: “What a hypo-crite I would be if I covered the ink.”

The Miss America pageant is back in Atlantic City, N.J., after a six-year absence. The finale will be Sunday night.

STAFF EDITORIAL

Page 6 The Bulletin | Sept. 12, 2013

Stuffed animals ease college transition

Day in the life of a campus cop

eMMa dePriest

depriest@esubulletin.com

eMMa dePriest

depriest@esubulletin.com

Rachel Shepard, junior psychology major, chose only a select few stuffed animals to accompany her to college. Shepard said she has more than 50 stuffed creatures at home. Jordan Storrer/The Bulletin

They sit on beds and in the corners of rooms – even dorm rooms – silently carrying along memories. “They” are stuffed animals.

“I brought one because my roommate isn’t big on stuffed ani-mals,” said Crystal Doolittle, fresh-man elementary education major. “They freak her out.”

Doolittle said her four-inch tall cream-colored bear also has senti-mental value.

“I got it from my aunt that passed away recently,” Doolittle said.

Johnny Morgan, Resident Assis-tant and sophomore math education major, said he didn’t bring a stuffed animal to college because he didn’t want to appear “non-masculine” to his residents.

At home, he left a little rac-coon from his dad, who made it a tradition over the years to bring home such trinkets. Morgan said the reasons for leaving stuffed animals behind in college aren’t only gender-related.

“Maybe they think it’s an age thing,” Morgan said. “Maybe (it’s) not so much like masculinity or femininity, but they think that they’re too old,” Morgan said.

But Jaqueline Schmidt, director of the Student Wellness Center and a counselor, said she believes a com-fort factor is involved when bring-ing stuffed animals into adulthood. She gave an example of a colleague whose husband had a stuffed animal that his mother made for him right before she died.

“He’s older now, but they still take very good care of that,” Schmidt said.

A situation like that is prob-ably the basis for students wanting to bring something familiar and comforting to a new place because it helps ease transitions, Schmidt said.

Rachel Shepard, junior psychol-ogy major, has a large collection of animals, but she brought only a few of the most important inanimate creatures with her to college. She has everything from hippos and Winnie the Pooh to a baby doll.

“At home I probably have, like,

over 50,” Shepard said. “Maybe even more, because I also have a lot of little stuffed animals.”

The stigma that having stuffed animals isn’t “manly” hasn’t stopped everyone. Caleb Spears, senior com-munication major, keeps one particu-lar furry friend that was passed on to

him. “I was actually willed down a

stuffed animal from somebody in my (fraternity) house, Andrew Walker, and he wanted me to take care of it and just love it like he did whenever he received it,” Spears said. “I’ve been doing my best.”

With the giant teddy bear named Benji, Spears tries to tackle the boundaries of age and masculinity.

“It totally takes a very mature person, in my opinion, to actually be able to have a teddy bear like that, or anything that’s sentimental to them,” Spears said.

Corporal Penny Mains from Emporia State Police and Safety patrols cam-pus on Wednesday morning, Sept. 11. Mains has been an officer at ESU for over 20 years. She is now also a student at ESU. Michael Boyer/The Bulletin

Corporal Penny Mains works in the Emporia State Police and Safety building during part of her morning shift Sept. 11. Mains has dealt with theft, suicide, and arson since being an officer. Michael Boyer/The Bulletin

At 9:18 a.m., Officer Penny Mains of Emporia State Police and Safety deals with a “bat situation” in Plumb Hall – one of the many she’s had to deal with in the last month.

But that’s just one part of her day as a campus police officer.

For Mains, the day begins at 7 a.m. sharp – some-times a little later.

“I was on time today,” Mains said. “I really, really had a hard time when I moved to first shift getting past the Emporia school bus schedule, and trash trucks, or else people coming to work.”

The morning begins at the ESU Police and Safety sta-tion, discussing the previous night’s hap-penings and what to look out for during the day.

“We just kind of do shift briefing,” Mains said.

After that, Mains heads out on patrol, stopping by the Kwik Shop on the corner of 12th and Merchant streets for the day’s refreshments, after which she’ll drive around her jurisdiction which covers anywhere from Trusler Sports Complex to 6th Street.

Mains said the police on ESU’s campus are not any different than other police in Emporia.

“We are not rent-a-cops, and we are not security,” she said. “We have full police powers over the entire city of Emporia.”

Sometimes, she will go on patrol with a student. Richard Bechtel, se-

nior crime and delinquency major, said he likes working with Mains, “because it’s different every day; there is no typical day.”

At 8:30 a.m., she responds to a opossum problem outside of Morse Hall. As an animal lover for as long as she can remember, Mains admit-ted that possums are not part of her expertise.

Mains deals with another animal problem as she helps work out the

bat situation about 45 minutes later.

“They chase the custodians at night,” Mains explained.

But police officer isn’t the only title Mains is known by on campus. She is also a student. After work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Mains attends classes on campus and also is enrolled in one online class.

“I never went to college, and that was why I couldn’t be an offi-cer for the city of Emporia,” Mains said. “I got out of high school and going to school was the last thing I

“We are not rent-a-cops, and

we are not security. We have

full police powers over the

entire city of Emporia.”

– Penny Mains, ESU

Police and Safety officer

wanted to do. I got a full time job, and I got married, and I had kids.”

Mains said she dislikes math, but loves art and is studying jew-elry. She finds it harder to get her degree these days.

“It was going very well when I was on other shifts,” Mains said. “It’s not going so well now that I’m on day shift because it’s hard to find classes.”

Until 3 p.m., the day remains the same – driving around campus, dealing with the bats and letting people into their locked cars. If she’s lucky, there will be something that the Emporia police need help with, but usually, she said, the days remain quiet, minus occasional thefts and alcohol related issues.

When first shift ends, she and anoth-er officer will go over the day’s activities and what to expect that evening. She then gets to go home to her puppy and blogs for a few hours before doing home-work and studying.

Captain Chris Hoover has been a friend of Mains’ since high school.

“When she started, it wasn’t normal at all (to be a female in law enforcement),” Hoover said.

In her 23 years as an officer at ESU, Mains has dealt with theft, suicide, rape, arson and numerous other incidents. She said she doesn’t plan on stopping any time soon – a new granddaughter is just one more reason she wants to keep campus safe.

“I’m proud of my job,” Mains said. “I’m proud of what I do.

newsThe Bulletin | Sept. 12, 2013 Page 7

A Bashing Good Time

Wellness Center continues to careeMily Giffin

giffin@esubulletin.com

Garion Masterson, senior public relations major, smashes a car at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house Aug. 30. Campus and community members were welcome to join in the annual Car Bash. Michael Boyer/The Bulletin

Sitting bolt upright in the middle of the night due to an upset stomach or an aching body is one of the last things that the average college student wants to do. Fortunately, for students at Emporia State, these occurrences do not have to become routine thanks to the Student Wellness Center.

The Student Wellness Center is located in Southeast Morse Hall, across from Brighton Science Hall. It is made up of two parts, counseling services and health services.

“We have a lab and we do some prescriptions,” said Jaqueline Schmidt, director of the Student Wellness Center.

Other services offered to students include visits with nurse-practitioners or counselors, and a biofeedback center for stress relief.

Schmidt said counseling is the

most popular service. “It just seems like there is less

stigma now for seeking out counseling services,” Schmidt said.

Another favorite among students is the bio feedback center. “It’s such a nice, relaxing place and you go and learn how to relax,” Schmidt said.

Brook Sage, freshman athletic training major, said he will use the bio feedback center “to find out if I have anxiety or a stress problem.”

Schmidt also said the Wellness Center does its best to accommodate students and their budgets by charg-ing minimal amounts for each visit.

“They’ll never have to pay more than five dollars for an office visit because that is covered by the campus privilege fee,” she said.

Campus privilege fees for the Well-ness Center total to $74.29 a semester for full-time students and $10.29 per

credit hour for part-time students. These costs are collected along with enrollment fees. Another conve-nience factor is the fact that students have several options when setting up appointments – calling in, online registration or face-to-face.

“I called them to set up my ap-pointment,” said Jessica Bader, junior elementary education major.

Schmidt said they will be doing they will be doing depression screen-ing Oct. 1-3 in the Union and will also be also sponsoring an Alcohol Awareness Week.

The Student Wellness Fair will also be held Sept. 19 in the Student Wellness Center on the second floor of Southeast Morse Hall.

“We had to postpone the Wellness fair,” Schmidt said. “We were pretty excited because we were going to be doing some blood pressure checks (and) some art therapy.”

Students experience ‘tree house effect’

Andrew McCutcheon, junior theater major, acts out a scene from the student-written comedy “The Tree House Effect.” The comedy was per-formed in the Frederickson Theatre Sept. 7. Lingzi Su/The Bulletin

Brooke Sage, freshman athletic training major, makes an appointment with one of the receptionists in the Student Wellness Center Sept. 4. The Wellness Fair, meant to introduce students to the Wellness Center was postponed and rescheduled for Sept. 19. Emily Giffin/The Bulletin

The collaborations between two students in the theater department at Emporia State led to a tree house comedy.

Mark Warner, senior theater major, and Brandon Jensen, junior theater major, presented a newly rewritten version of their comedy “The Tree House Effect” on Sept. 7 in Frederickson Theatre.

“We threw it together in about a month,” Warner said. “I had the idea for the play and Brandon is great with dialogue, so I started working with them on it.”

steVen edWards

edwards@esubulletin.com

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Recent changes in post-release supervision of convicted offenders should help control growth in Kansas’ prison population and stave off the prospect of building a new facility, the state’s corrections secretary said Wednesday.

Roberts said in an interview with The Associated Press that the changes in release policies, which took effect July 1, could result in 100 fewer people going back to prison for technical violations in each of the next two years. He also said the savings would be reinvested in programs to treat substance abuse and mental health problems among prison inmates.

“We should get some relief,” Roberts said. “It will be less than capacity.”

As of Wednesday, Kansas’ male prison population was 8,877 — 78 people over capacity, Roberts said. The female population was 761, or 34 below capacity.

The Kansas Sentencing Com-mission is expected to issue new forecasts for prison populations in the coming weeks.

The policy changes, Roberts said, would keep convicted offenders in their communities and under watch of probation officers who would work with the courts to supervise

Recent Kansas law eyed to help prison population

The play was performed as a script reading with Lexey St. Jost, senior theater major, narrating the action. Jensen said he and Warner wanted an audience’s opinion on the new version.

“We did a couple of rewrites over the summer,” Jensen said. “There was a lot of emailing back and forth.”

In the play, three friends – Jeremy, who is recently engaged and spends all of the free time he can in his childhood tree house in his parents’ backyard; Lucas, an uptight and mar-ried advertising executive and Tyson, a pot-smoking slacker who lives on the fringe – bond over Dungeons & Dragons, marijuana and Jimi Hen-

drix, while pondering their future and trying to escape their fears of growing up and “turning into zombies.”

In the play, Lucas is contemplat-ing his marriage to his slightly more uptight wife, Kate – played by senior theatre major Annie Rosenbrook. During the climax of the play, Kate confronts Lucas about spending too much time with Jeremy and Tyson in the tree house and being over five hours late to their dinner date, but the two make up by the end of the play.

“They may be in the point in their relationship where they are past apologies,” said Andrew McCutcheon, junior theater major.

Warner said the character of Kate was originally meaner and much less forgiving than in the new ver-sion. Warner and Rosenbrook said it seemed that the audience liked the change.

“I had a blast working with my peers like this,” said Colter Lemmon, senior theater major, who played the role of Tyson.

Tyler Lang, freshman theater and psychology major, who played Jeremy, said he enjoyed the audience’s reaction to the jokes. Jost, the narrator, also enjoyed himself.

“It was a lot of fun,” Jost said.Warner said the piece was meant

to work in a variety of production styles.

“We wrote it in mind for someone to be able to do this instantly, as well as doing it with all the technical stuff,” Warner said.

Warner and Jensen plan to turn the play into a more technical piece later on.

“We would love to take this to theaters and other schools,” Jensen said. “We hope for good things in the future.”

their reintegration into society. He said even if those on probation commit technical parole violations, sending them to local jails for two- or three-day stints would be “10 times cheaper” for the state than returning them to prison for several months.

Other changes in policy reward eligible inmates for participating in rehabilitation programs and good be-havior by reducing supervision time.

Roberts said the total prison population has increased by nearly 900 inmates over the past decade. The last time the system was below capacity was in December 2009.

“A lot of that is due to legislation to keep sex offenders and violent offenders in prison longer,” he said, adding that there have been 99 changes in sentencing guidelines since 2005.

Rep. John Rubin, a Shawnee Re-publican and chairman of the House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee, said the initiatives to keep offenders from going to prison for technical probation violations will give lawmakers a short reprieve from having to consider construction of a new prison.

“We’re eventually going to have to start talking about building a new prison,” he said. “We can never stop thinking about it.”

Stuffed animals ease college transition

Day in the life of a campus copwanted to do. I got a full time job, and I got married, and I had kids.”

Mains said she dislikes math, but loves art and is studying jew-elry. She finds it harder to get her degree these days.

“It was going very well when I was on other shifts,” Mains said. “It’s not going so well now that I’m on day shift because it’s hard to find classes.”

Until 3 p.m., the day remains the same – driving around campus, dealing with the bats and letting people into their locked cars. If she’s lucky, there will be something that the Emporia police need help with, but usually, she said, the days remain quiet, minus occasional thefts and alcohol related issues.

When first shift ends, she and anoth-er officer will go over the day’s activities and what to expect that evening. She then gets to go home to her puppy and blogs for a few hours before doing home-work and studying.

Captain Chris Hoover has been a friend of Mains’ since high school.

“When she started, it wasn’t normal at all (to be a female in law enforcement),” Hoover said.

In her 23 years as an officer at ESU, Mains has dealt with theft, suicide, rape, arson and numerous other incidents. She said she doesn’t plan on stopping any time soon – a new granddaughter is just one more reason she wants to keep campus safe.

“I’m proud of my job,” Mains said. “I’m proud of what I do.

Page 8 Sept. 12, 2013

Cross country teams

dominate first meet

Soccer team starts steady season, 1-2

JereMy decKard

deckard@esubulletin.com

rocKy roBinson

sports@esubulletin.com

rocKy roBinson

sports@esubulletin.com

The Hornet cross country teams officially started their season this past weekend, hitting the road to Augusta for the Wichita State J.K. Gold Classic on Saturday. At the meet, the men and women placed four runners in the top ten of their divisions. The teams also took home first place on both sides.

“It was a great start to the sea-son,” said Eric Wellman, head coach. “Both teams competed very well after a couple very tough weeks of practice.”

On the men’s side, junior Jacob Bull was the first of the Hornets to finish for the men’s 6k race, coming in with a time of 19:35 and placing third overall. Junior Morgan Riggs was not far behind, placing fifth with

a time of 19:56. Senior David Keach and sophomore Daniel Claassen also snuck into the top ten, finishing seventh and ninth to help the men place first overall with a score of 35. Tabor took second with a score of 55.

Freshman Emily Schoenfeld led the women’s team in the 4k race, placing third with a time of 16:05. Sophomores Lindsay Cuadra and Taylor Stueve, and senior Susan Welte came in at fifth, sixth and seventh, securing first place as a team with an overall score of 33. Tabor came in second on the women’s side with a team score of 54, nearly twenty points away from ESU.

The Hornets will not run again until Sept. 21, when they head to Lincoln, Neb. for the Woody Greeno Invitational.

The Emporia State soccer team’s home opener ended in a 1-2 de-feat to Drury at the Emporia High School soccer field last Tuesday.

The Lady Hornets started their season with two games in St. Charles, Mo., where they fell to the University of Missouri on Sept. 6, but came back with a win over Northwestern Oklahoma State on Sept. 8.

In their first trip to St. Charles, the Hornets allowed two goals in the first half. In spite of three shots taken by Jordan Foutch, junior informa-tion systems major, the Hornets could not dig themselves out of the hole and fell to the University of Missouri 2-0.

Foutch said the loss was a learn-ing opportunity.

“This team is still growing and I’m so excited for our future,” she

With an opponent closing in, freshman forward Bridget Wages tries to move the ball forward Sept. 10 at the Em-poria High School. The Lady Hornets fell 1-2 against Drury University in their home opener. Will Austin/The Bulletin

Photo courtesy of Cyrus Hall

Photo courtesy of Cyrus Hall

said. “I think if we play as one, as a team, we will be very successful. We know what we’re capable of and we just need to believe in ourselves.”

The second trip to Missouri had the Lady Hornets set out for redemption. On Sunday, they took on Northwestern Oklahoma and quickly had control of the game, taking 27 shots while allowing the rangers to take none. Senior for-ward Tommi Bouknight put the Hornets up 1-0 with an unassisted goal, which would be the only point scored.

Nichole Marean, junior educa-tion major, who is out this season with an injury, said it is hard to watch her team play in difficult games and not be involved.

“I have surgery on Sept. 18 and recovery and therapy will take a while,” Marean said. “I still go to all the practices and games I can be at for moral supports.”

According to a press release on the university’s website, the team has experienced issues with resurfacing their home field, so games will be held at the EHS until the problem is solved.

The Hornets allowed a penalty kick from Drury in the 30th minute, but senior midfielder Hannah Carl-son tied the score 1-1 with a penalty kick of her own. The Hornets were outshot 19-9, allowing another goal in the 77th minute to put Drury up 2-1, a lead they would hold for the rest of the game.

The team finished their last sea-son with an overall record of 4-11-2 and a conference record of 0-9-2, which is a record Bryan Sailor, head coach, said he wants to improve.

Tomorrow, the Lady Hornets hit the road again, traveling to Den-ver, Colo. to take on Regis in the afternoon and Metropolitan State University of Denver Sept. 15.

Emporia crushes Tigers in season openerThe Hornet football team

stepped onto Lewis Field Stadium to take on the Tigers at Fort Hays State Sept. 5 to start off their 2013 season.

Sophomore Brent Wilson quickly fell into his new role as

starting quarterback, throwing 21-28 for 301 yards, leading to a 43-13 victory. It was the best first start for a quarterback in the his-tory of Emporia State football.

“It was a blessing and I am just glad I got the opportunity to come out and here and help lead this team,” Wilson said in an interview with Media Relations

after the game. “It was a great team effort, everyone contributed in their role.”

The Hornets held the Tigers scoreless in the first two quarters while they ran up the score to 17, ending the half with a 30-yard pass to junior receiver Austin Willis.

The game sped up in the third

with Wilson connecting to Wil-lis two more times. Sophomore kicker Eli Kuhns added a field goal.

After allowing two touchdown passes in the third, the Hornets picked up their defense, holding the tigers back in the final quarter while putting ten more points on the board. The Hornets made use

of the passing game, averaging ten yards per attempt and 14.5 yards per completion.

The Hornets will head to the field again today at 6 p.m. at Welch Stadium for their home opener against the University of Nebraska Kearney – a team they defeated by more than 20 points last season.