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SUN FLOWER THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2016

VOLUME 120, ISSUE 48

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How do I caucus? cau·cus /´kôkes/: noun e

Democrat

1. a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy 2. a group of people with share concerns within a political party or larger organization

Republican

verb

1. hold or form a caucus

« IF YOU GO:

When: Registration 1 to 3 p.m.; caucus starts at 3 p.m.

Where: Check registered senate district online

How: Divide into groups, head count for each candidate

● Must be in line between 1 and 3 p.m.

Saturday. If you are not in line by 3 p.m., you cannot caucus. ● You must be registered as a Democrat in Kansas to caucus. If you are not registered as a Democrat, you can register on-site the day. ● Must be at the correct caucus location

according to your senate district. You can find out which location to attend on the Kansas Democratic Party’s website, at www.ksdp.org ● Attendees divide into groups for each candidate and a head count is taken.

Delegates are awarded to the candidate groups based on their size.

« IF YOU GO: When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Century II

How: Secret ballot

● Must arrive between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Saturday at Century II Convention Hall. ● You must have registered as a Republican on or before Feb. 4. ● You must provide proof of your registration with a state-issued photo ID. ● Short speeches will be given and voters will cast secret ballots for the candidates

of their choice. ● You need not attend the entire meeting to vote, and you don’t have to listen to the speeches. You can arrive any time between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to cast your ballot, then leave.

Infographic by Jillian Clough

Students gear up for Kansas presidential caucuses ALEX PERRY

I

REPORTER

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n the wake of “Super Tuesday” this week, when 11 states simultaneously held political caucuses to award delegates to Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls, the state of Kansas is holding its own caucus Saturday.

Registered Democrats and Republicans can make their case for their preferred candidates via each party’s unique caucus process at separate locations. One location is Wichita State’s CAC Theatre, where WSU College Democrats are helping to organize the caucus for the 29th Senate District.

WSU’s College Democrats President Paul Brink said he sees this as an exciting opportunity to expose students to the primary process.

“It’s a way for us to connect with the campus community and get more students involved,” Brink said. “I think it’s a very good way for students to have access to voting.”

Each party handles caucuses

differently. Democrats have supporters of each candidate divide into groups at several locations spread across Kansas based on congressional districts. Speeches are made and a headcount is ultimately taken to determine which candidate won which precinct.

Republicans, on the other hand, have a single location for each county, with some holding multiple counties. Votes are taken through secret ballots.

Each party requires Kansas caucusgoers to be registered with the party of the respective caucus. Voters can register as Democrat up to and on the day of the caucus and still attend, while voters must have registered as Republican no later than Feb. 4 to participate in that caucus.

Brink said the Democratic caucus is a unique opportunity for Kansas Democrats to shape the general election — as Kansas has historically been entrenched as a red state. The only two Democrats to win electoral votes from Kansas in the past century were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson.

“If you’re a Democrat and you care about the presidential election, this is one way you can affect that,” Brink said. “It is exciting to be able to participate in the process of choosing our next president, even though it’s within our party instead of versus another party.”

Carri New has attended WSU on-and-off since 1988, and she founded the “Sedgwick County for Bernie Sanders” Facebook page last year. For New, this election should be especially important to younger voters.

“This is their future that we’re working on,” New said. “This is their best chance to pick who they want to lead the country through some really important years they have coming up.”

New acknowledged the significance of having a caucus location at WSU, but cautioned against WSU students assuming they can vote there. If students are interested in that caucus, they should check which district they belong to and which location to attend on the Kansas Democratic Party’s website, www.

kansasdems.org, before Saturday. important, as the party’s field of “I’m happy that it’s there because it candidates is ideologically diverse does bring awareness,” New said. and the eventual nominee will, in all “But on the other hand, I’m likelihood, win Kansas in concerned that some people might November. show up to caucus at the location “We have a lot of different who aren’t actually eligible to caucus candidates with a lot of different there.” views on things,” Hungate said. “I WSU College think it’s important to This is their best Republicans understand that it’s not chance to pick who chair Paige just the party running, they want to lead the Hungate said that they’re individual she feels country through some people with individual passionately really important years platforms.” that young Brink encouraged they have coming up.” voters should young voters to get out CARRI NEW register, be and caucus this Former WSU student aware and be weekend so their voices involved in the primary process. can be heard by lawmakers.

“Elections are really impactful not “Any chance someone has to be only to the working class, but to engaged in the political process is an college students,” Hungate said. opportunity to have your voice “Policies that they put in place will heard,” Brink said. “Even if it seems impact us, and I think college small or seems insignificant, young students need to be aware that who’s people participating in the primary getting elected now is going to affect process allows decision-makers to our future and our children’s recognize that we are an important futures.” force within the electorate and that Hungate also said the Kansas we have issues that need Republican Caucus is especially represented.”

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Learning without borders: Students to travel to Uganda CHELSEA MOORE

REPORTER

@chelslalamoore

On March 15, three Wichita State students will travel, along with a professional mentor from Nebraska, to Uganda to assess the needs of St. John’s Primary School.

The students are members of a student organization called Engineers Without Borders (EWB), which assembles members with a goal of designing and implementing projects outside the United States.

“We’re all students,” said Milo Pham, marketing chair for EWB. “Why do we have to wait until we grow up and have the money [to] start helping everybody around us?”

But “helping” hasn’t always been easy for EWB. Before the organization’s current project in Uganda, EWB had trouble financing another project in Guatemala, where they focused their efforts on building a school.

“We did not expect [the Guatemala project] to be nearly as expensive as it was going to be,” said Ernesto Cisneros, former president of EWB. Cisneros was EWB president for 18 months, and said the school had unforeseen complications — seismic activity in the area the school was supposed to be built.

Fixing the design to ensure the structural integrity of the building nearly tripled the cost of a typical EWB project.

“We could have started breaking ground, but we decided to wait until we had more money,”

Photo by Manny De Los Santos

A man observes the winning “Best of Show” photo, “Uneasy Perfection” by Mariah Drussel Friday at the Current 8 Final Friday Reception at WSU’s SHIFTSPACE gallery, located in downtown.

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Students in WSU’s Engineers Without Borders will travel to Uganda later this month to assess the needs of St. John’s Primary School.

Cisneros said. “We didn’t want to leave a project halfway finished.”

The final price for the Guatemala project was more than $120,000, and the project was dropped after EWB was unable to raise the funds quickly. “$120,000 over the course of five years,” Seham Alyan, president of EWB, said, “I don’t think that’s not feasible. We just didn’t have the support and pathways we needed to make that happen.”

Alyan said their next goal is to become a department organization for the College of Engineering.

Once that happens, she said EWB could establish donation channels through the WSU Foundation.

For now, Alyan and Cisneros

have been applying for grants to pay for the new project in Uganda.

They have also paired up with a fellow EWB chapter in Omaha, Nebraska.

“They were planning on closing out their Uganda program,” Alyan said of the Omaha chapter. The WSU chapter had been trying to adopt a project in Uganda, but couldn’t find mentors willing to travel.

“We ended up filling in the gaps for each other and merged on the program. We couldn’t adopt a program on our own. It was a beautiful coupling of two needs,” she said.

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Student work explores human identities in Current 8 show MARISSA CAMPBELL

REPORTER

@soupitup13

Identities — in some way or another — were the concepts behind the work of 10 Wichita State students.

In the latest installment of WSU’s Shiftspace gallery, students used different media such as photography, drawing and digital art. The gallery opened Friday and will remain open until March 19.

SHIFTSPACE is open from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

SHIFTSPACE, located downtown at 416 S. Commerce St., hosts work from undergraduate, bachelor’s of fine arts senior exhibitions and master’s of fine arts thesis exhibitions, along with other community, regional and

interdisciplinary artists and events.

John and Connie Ernatt, artists and owners of Diver Studio served as jurors in the latest installment titled “Current 8.” The Ernatts were chosen to judge the show which included going to a student show hosted at McKnight Art Center in order to select artists for the exhibit.

“Although there wasn’t a set theme to the show, everyone’s work did involve people and seemed to be making some sort of reference to identity,” said Dale Small, one of the featured artists.

“I’m not sure if this was done on purpose, or if our work just ended up meshing well to create this gallery.”

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PAGE 2 | ENTERTAINMENT

Marissa’s Melodies

Strong week for music in hip-hop, metal The start of spring has also been a wake-up call for the music industry, as COLUMN BY many known MARISSA artists and CAMPBELL bands have released albums this week. From Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to Anthrax and The 1975, narrowing down the albums to review was difficult. This week brings music from every genre imaginable so everyone needs to checkout at least one new album.

“This Unruly Mess I’ve Made” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Released: Feb. 26 Genre: Hip-hop

Macklemore is one of the few rappers to cover creative and usual topics in his genre. From fun and spunky songs like their hit single “Thrift Shop” to one of their latest singles “Brad Pitt’s Cousin,” the duo knows how to have a good time. The funny and flirtatious song does not fail to show off their wild personalities.

Although they are a high-energy group that has great entertainment value, they tend to have a serious side, as well. Their first album featured “Same Love,” which discussed gay rights. This album features songs like “Light

Tunnels,” that denotes the downsides of fame and the pressure put on people in the industry, as well as how some may just be in the industry for money and fame. “Growing Up,” which features Ed Sheeran, refers to life of parenthood, especially on the road. As the rap duo continues to cover topics not widely discussed, they will continue to be a breakthrough in their genre.

Download: “Light Tunnels” “For All the Kings” by Anthrax Released: Feb. 26 Genre: Metal

Thrash metal kings Anthrax returns with a vengeance with its 11th studio album “For All the Kings.” Founding member and guitarist Scott Ian will melt your face with his fretwork. The album starts off with “You Gotta Believe” that has an intense, in-your-face running line that makes you want to head bang. As the thrashing album continues, “Breathing Lightning” takes a turn for the album as it is based off the Stephen King novel “The Gunslinger.” “All of Them Thieves” sounds like a battle anthem as the band marches up a hill prepared for war. With classic, raw metal, the fast-paced, scowling vocals in “Evil Twin” is sure to be a fan favorite.

Download: “Evil Twin”

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“i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it” by The 1975 Released: Feb. 26 Genre: Indie

After waiting three years since their first album, The 1975 is finally back. After just one album, the band became immediately huge with the success of their songs “Chocolate” and “Girls.” Known for

their almost ‘70s-esque, bubble-gum vibe, the band continues that sound in “UGH!,” which is reminiscent of early Michael Jackson. The title track (which is ridiculously long) is a dreamy, peaceful whisper of Matt Healy’s vocals. The single “Somebody Else” is definitely not the best choice from the album, as it seems like a washed up ‘80s ballad and the album is full of other great options.

Download: “i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it”

Grit, grime with no payoff in ‘Triple 9’ The power of films like “Children of Men” and “Room” (which I would COLUMN BY have chosen ALEX PERRY for Best Picture over “Spotlight,” but whatever) rests in how they juxtapose soul-suckingly awful situations with tiny glimmers of hope, as the latter adds weight to the former.

Director John Hillcoat’s “The Road” pulled this off fairly well in 2008, which followed a father and his young son as they journeyed through a post-apocalyptic hellscape rife with bandits and cannibals. It worked because there was a light, however faint, at the end of the tunnel at the film’s conclusion.

Unfortunately, Hillcoat’s most recent effort, “Triple 9,” instead opts to wallow in misery for the entirety of its runtime, letting us know, in clumsy ways, just how gross it thinks the world is in. There are glimpses of something more here, but it never comes together into anything satisfying.

Chris (Casey Affleck) is a fresh face at an Atlanta police precinct who gets partnered up with Marcus (Anthony Mackie). What Chris doesn’t know is that Marcus is a professional bank robber on the side who plans to set up his partner’s death to draw police attention away from his next big job.

The ensemble cast acted as the major marketing push for “Triple 9,” and for good reason. Affleck and

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Mackie are joined by talented, recognizable faces such as Woody Harrelson, Norman Reedus, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Gal Gadot and Kate Winslet, among others.

It’s disappointing that such a great cast was given such mediocre material. The dialogue, in particular, is atrocious at times, as Harrelson’s hard-nosed detective at one point asks someone to be careful about what they “InstaGoogleTweetFace.”

An adequate script wouldn’t save this dull, stale narrative, though.

There’s precious little tension or intrigue to this collection of scenes where sweaty, cursy dudes do shady things in seedy locales.

The most damning part of “Triple 9” is its depiction of everyday police

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‘London Has Fallen’

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The sequel to “Olympus Has Fallen” goes overseas, and it looks just absurd enough to be either entertaining or horrible.

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Even with the 10 different artists having 10 different concepts and medias, each work integrated people in some way.

For Autumn Noire, the concepts of mental illness and sexuality are part of her constant thoughts.

“Both of my works are black and white self-portrait drawings,” Noire said. “One has watercolor pencils layered on it and the other is layered with a silk screen, both of which cover the face.”

In her drawing with the watercolors, Noire represents

asexuality, which she identifies as.

Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction, which is something one in 100 adults identifies as, according to a CNN study.

The other piece with the silk screen represents depression and post-traumatic stress.

“I created work based around these topics because they seem to be things people don’t want to talk about, and I want to start that conversation,” Noire said. “Both are so important and are marginalized, especially asexuality.”

As Noire’s work touches on subjects such as personality, self-awareness and identity, she and Small, and some of the other artists, can relate on the reasons for

work. Affleck and Mackie spend a great deal of time investigating a variety of ethnic stereotypes, most of whom are conveniently armed or otherwise hostile to the cops.

In a world where unarmed people of color are disproportionately killed by cops, it’s irresponsible to push a narrative where minorities are all packing heat or they all have inside dirt on criminal activities. It doesn’t help that Affleck’s character (who we are supposed to like, I think) is needlessly aggressive to them on occasion.

It’s fine (some would say necessary) for sympathetic characters to have flaws, but “Triple 9” gives us nobody worth rooting for. Our main choices are Affleck’s trig-

ger-happy idiot cop or Ejiofor, whose character once belonged to Blackwater, a real-life private military company notorious for warzone debacles.

If only “Triple 9” was deserving of its strong aesthetic. The grimy, menacing locations are often shot well, which is only bolstered by an omnipresent, bassy synth soundtrack that I couldn’t help but enjoy.

Darkness is only interesting if we’re given an opportunity to compare it to light. “Triple 9” ignores this, showing us a world so bleak that it’s ultimately as boring as could be.

‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ SKIP IT Tina Fey stars in a comedy that ends its trailer with a gag about how Muslim women are bad drivers. Yikes.

creating their work.

“I’m really interested in the way we define ourselves as people,” Small said. “The way we define ourselves has changed over time with technology. All media changes our identities and how our identities grow.”

Through his work of photography and digital art, Small combines a total of four images, two that are corrupted files and two that are not, in order to achieve his finished product. Small corrupts the image code by typing one true and one false statement into the code, which when saved, will be gone forever. After using this technique, he then combined all four photos in a way which represents the

subject.

“In my self-portrait, I have compartmentalized the four photos because I tend to do that with my everyday life,” he said. “I try to find a likeness that shows how the person is or how they live.”

Through his work, Small said he finds interest in the way we define ourselves as people. Through physical, mental and digital identity, everyone is able to determine who they may or may not be, he said.

“It’s nice to have different ideas that can come together in one collaborative gallery,” Noire said.

“This way, we are able to talk about each others’ work and see what is being produced.”

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Noted speaker on college hook-up culture to lead discussion Friday CHANCE SWAIM

REPORTER

@chanceswaim

Pleasure, meaning and empowerment — three things students want most from their sexual encounters, but for the most part, aren’t getting.

In a recent study on freshmen students, the average college student has somewhere between four and seven different “hook ups” during their four years in college.

Lisa Wade, professor of sociology at Occidental College and founder of the website “Sociological Images,” will give a presentation Friday on sexual encounters on college campuses based on studies she has conducted about students’ sex lives.

The presentation is titled “Sex, Rapture, Resistance: What Students Really Think About Hooking Up.” Wade is famous for her research and commentary on the sexual culture of college campuses; she recently appeared on MTV. The presentation will take place at 6:30 p.m. Friday in Room 209 Hubbard Hall.

Through her extensive research, Wade has come to several conclusions about college students and sex.

“Students feel like they’re

supposed to have casual sex, as opposed to having the option to have casual sex,” Wade said. “That can cause people to not want to participate at all.”

Wade defines a hook up as a casual sexual encounter, including intercourse, oral sex, making out or any other encounter sexual in nature.

“The problem is people feel it’s imperative to hook up on a college campus,” said Wade. “They’re nervous and they don’t know what the rules are, so it’s hard to stand up for and negotiate these situations.”

Wade said hook up culture on college campuses is heterosexist, and laden with gender inequality. She said women suffer more than men sexually, becoming more dissatisfied and experiencing less pleasure.

Women, Wade said, are more likely to get a bad reputation for having sex.

“Of all the social inequalities that we have in the United States, sex and gender are unique in that they require people who are positioned differently to be intimate,” Wade said. “That makes for an interesting dynamic in looking at how gender inequality works.”

Wade said most students look at casual sex as a game with winners and losers. Part of the problem with that view, she said, is that it leaves one or both partners dissatisfied.

The hook up culture on college campuses creates a barrier for students who want to enjoy casual sex, Wade said.

“Part of the problem is everyone assumes they know what everyone else wants, so nobody ever asks anybody what they want,” Wade said, “but if there were different options for being sexual on college campuses, students could not only choose, but they would feel more empowered to talk to each other about what they want.”

« IF YOU GO:

Sex, Rapture, Resistance: What Students Really Think About Hooking Up

When: 6:30 p.m. Friday Where: Room 209 Hubbard Hall

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Student groups plead case to SGA for student fees funding TJ RIGG

REPORTER

@tj_rigg

The Santa Fe Trail Room of the Rhatigan Student Center was filled with representatives from several student organizations Wednesday night.

They attended the Student Government Association meeting to speak about the recommended allocations from the students fees committee, made public Tuesday.

Many who spoke in the public forum expressed concerns about the allocations this year, especially since some groups are slated to lose all their student fee allocations.

Rodney Miller, dean of the College of Fine Arts, spoke up during the meeting.

“There are some rather interesting variations in cuts,” he said.

SGA treasurer Mariah Smith, who served on the student fees committee, said this year was the most difficult year to decide where the student fees money would go.

“Usually, what we look at is where we can make cuts so that we can make increases that need to be made,” Smith said. “This year, there’s no talk of any increases and it was just, ‘Where are we going to find this area to cut?’”

She said the student fees committee had a budget shortfall of about $300,000 due to decreased enrollment and credit hours.

Student Body President Joseph Shepard, another member of the committee, said the student fees committee entered the room at 12:30 p.m. Friday to finish hearing from groups about their plans for student fees, before spending about seven hours deliberating where the money would go.

“We take it very seriously because the decisions we make impacts the student body,” he said. “It impacts all 15,000 students that we represent.”

Smith said once deliberations ended, several committee members left the room feeling “defeated.”

“We were feeling just all around down because it was such a hard thing to do,” she said. “I know I can say that a million times, but when you know that you’re one of the seven people who get to vote on that committee and that you’re having to make these cuts and that you’re going to be accountable to these cuts when they’re cuts you don’t even really want to make, it’s very difficult to have that happen.”

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Students decorate ‘bras for a cause’

Photos by Jessica Green

(FAR LEFT) Freshman Maddie Hall shows off her new bra, which she decorated Wednesday to support breast cancer research. (ABOVE) Sophomore Brandon Shinsato writes “cancer sucks” across the top of a bra. For $5, students could decorate bras in awareness of breast cancer. (LEFT) Senior Adam Wells applies paint to a bra in the Rhatigan Student Center.

Body Project seeks to create ripple effect DANIELLE PREWITT

MANAGING EDITOR

@danimal902

A pebble in a river.

It’s how Andy Sykes, coordinator of health and fitness education with Campus Recreation, described the creation of the “Body Project,” a new body activism program at Wichita State that uses dissonance theory to bring awareness and to change the way women think about themselves and others.

“The idea is that it will expand out and it’ll hit more and more people as the program grows,” he said.

Like a ripple effect.

Sykes, along with Erin Lohman from the Counseling and Testing Center, look at dissonance — the image conflicts — and try to create feelings towards betterment in the way women think and feel about one another.

“We want to change the way females think about themselves, and others,” he said.

“It’s this idea of facing this conflict within ourselves.”

Sykes described dissonance theory as how the perception of what is considered good doesn’t always coincide with how people act.

“We know we shouldn’t say bad things to ourselves and to each other, so when a girl walks into a room, we make judgments on her image,” he said. “We know we shouldn’t do that, but we automatically do it.”

He said that society has created the idea of a pretty girl as skinny and what exists is a list of things that women should look like in order to feel pretty or beautiful.

“It’s like pictures of girls on a cover of a

magazine — they’ve “We want to been touched up, they change the aren’t real females way females anymore and it’s not achievable,” he said. think about “Why would we ever themselves, want to look like that, and others.” knowing that we can’t?”

ANDY SYKES Coordinator of health Sykes and Lohman and fitness education will oversee and train for Campus Recreation students, faculty and staff as resources and peer mentors so that, eventually, they can take a step back for students to spread the message.

“Erin and I are the first step, ” he said.

“We will do trainings where our professional staff will become facilitators and students become peer-leaders. Hopefully it’s a student-run program, where it won’t need much help from us.”

And the program is just getting started.

Sykes said late last year the program sought ways to get people involved for executing the program. They had led a training two weeks ago and were able to gain the interest of four students.

“We are hoping that it will grow and those students can hopefully expand as it gets popular.”

If the program grows enough, Sykes hopes the Body Project will become a registered student organization (RSO) that receives funding from Student Government Association. As of right now funding is provided by the counseling center and Campus Recreation.

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The new Uganda project is more cost-effective for the WSU chapter, Alyan said. The venture is rainwater harvesting.

The assessment trip EWB is taking in March will allow the group to assess, specifically, St. John’s Primary school.

From there they will begin the design processes and attempt to raise money necessary to complete the project.

Alyan said children in the area take

turns gathering water during the school day. Every day one child has the two-hour task of gathering river water and bringing it back to the school.

“The ultimate goal is to impact public health by providing clean water to these rural communities,” Alyan said.

Cisneros and Alyan agreed most projects take approximately five years to complete. The Uganda project, for the WSU chapter, is still in its first year.

“The biggest thing is,” Alyan said, “if we fail, we don’t just fail ourselves. We fail an entire community.”

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PAGE 4 | SPORTS

Shockers head to Arch Madness EVAN PFLUGRADT

SPORTS EDITOR @evpflu

Wichita State wrapped up the regular-season as Missouri Valley champions. Thursday they travel to St. Louis to try to claim the conference once again, this time in the course of three days.

The top-seeded Shockers will face the winner of Thursday’s opening game between eighth-seeded Loyola and ninth-seeded Bradley.

Wichita State previously swept both opponents in the regular-season, and by large margins. The Shockers defeated Loyola by an average of 24 points and Bradley by an average of 30 points.

The Shockers won five straight to close out the regular season. They defeated their last five opponents by an average of 26 points, and three by margins better than 30 points.

The Shockers own three MVC tournament championships — one in Gregg Marshall’s tenure — last claiming the title in 2014.

“As good as we’ve been, we’ve only won it once in the last three years,” senior Fred VanVleet said.

“It’s just another goal, another thing to keep us hungry.”

The Shockers tip Friday at noon in the Scottrade Center. The game will be available on ESPN3.

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VanVleet named Player of the Year, McDuffie Freshman of Year in Valley awards EVAN PFLUGRADT

SPORTS EDITOR @evpflu

Senior guard Fred VanVleet was named the Larry Bird Missouri Valley Player of the Year, for the second time in his career, on Tuesday.

VanVleet was also the recipient of the award in his sophomore season.

He finished third in the voting last season, with Northern Iowa’s Seth Tuttle winning the title. VanVleet joins Xavier McDaniel as the lone WSU player to earn the title twice.

He is the fourth Shocker to win the award and the ninth MVC player to win twice.

“I always keep confidence in myself,” VanVleet said. “You don’t work this hard to take second place.”

VanVleet averaged 12 points, and leads the conference in assists averaging 5.8 per game. He received 100 voting points. Evansville forward Egidijus Mockevicius finished in second with 68 points.

“It’s been a long journey, a lot of discipline and sacrifice,” VanVleet said. “I think this one means a little bit more.”

VanVleet helped lead the Shockers to a record of 21-3 since his return from an injured hamstring in November. He has a career confer-

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Fred VanVleet enters the starting lineup Saturday before the Illinois State game. VanVleet was named Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year.

ence record of 51 wins and three losses.

“I think at some point you have to put stock in 51-3,” WSU head coach Gregg Marshall said. “That’s why you play the game. No one around here cares about who scores the most points, who has the most rebounds or who has the most steals.

The one stat we worry about is who has the most wins. We don’t know any other way here, other than winning.”

Freshman Markis McDuffie was named MVC Freshman of the Year.

He was also named to the All-Freshman team and All-Newcomer team.

McDuffie is the eighth Shocker to be recognized on the All-Freshman team. He becomes the second WSU freshman in the last two decades to be recognized to the All-Newcomer team.

“Usually an established team like us at this point doesn’t get the Freshman of the Year, that’s odd,” Marshall said. “Our freshmen don’t get the opportunity to play that frequently. This year Markis really found his niche.”

McDuffie averages 7.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per game.

“It’s crazy, I didn’t expect it coming into this season,” McDuffie said. “It means a lot to me.”

Baker and VanVleet were named to the All-Conference team, and were also members of the All-Defensive team. They become the sixth and seventh Shockers named to the All-Conference team for three or more years. They are the first duo to do so.

A Cleveland State transfer, senior Anton Grady was named to the All-Newcomer team.

“It’s a good accomplishment,” Grady said. “It’s a small stepping stone for how I want to finish this year.”

Grady and McDuffie were each selected to the All-Bench team Wednesday.

Baker finished third in the voting for Player of the Year. He finished runner-up last season behind Seth Tuttle and third in his sophomore season behind Cleanthony Early and VanVleet.

“I feel like [Ron] doesn’t get enough respect,” VanVleet said.

“They make it seem like his success has a lot to do with me, but it’s vise-versa, as well. Maybe they need to do two trophies.”

Shockers at-large stakes too close to call

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Junior Zach Lewis attempts to throw out a pitcher on first base Tuesday against the University of Nebraska Omaha.

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After a late rally victoriy against Nebraska Omaha, Wichita State looks to build on their 3-5 record in a three-game home series with Sam Houston State.

Wichita State collected two early wins in their home-opening series against Northern Colorado, before dropping five straight.

The Shockers fell in four straight road games, losing at Oral Roberts and a three-game series at New Mexico.

WSU will play host to Sam Houston State in a weekend

series starting Friday.

Sam Houston State’s 3-7 record has already been challenged with three ranked opponents in No. 6 Lousiana-Lafayette, No. 23 Texas Tech and No. 25 Oklahoma.

The Bearkats are coming off losses against Baylor and Rice in their last two outings. They were swept in their first road series against Louisiana-Lafayette.

They dropped their home opener against UTSA. They rebounded, sweeping No. 25 Oklahoma in a three-game home series, including a 4-3 victory in extra innings.

First pitch is 3 p.m. Friday at Eck Stadium.

Wichita State guard Fred VanVleet showed some serious enthusiasm after COLUMN BY a long-distance NICK BEACH three-pointer against Illinois State on Saturday. His team was in the midst of a 27-9 run over the Redbirds. VanVleet flexed in front of the crowd as WSU took a commanding lead on the second-best team in the conference.

The Shockers were victorious, rolling over the Redbirds with a 16-point margin. They previously had won the four games leading up to Saturday by an average margin of 29 points, since the three-point loss to Northern Iowa on Feb. 13.

Saturday’s finale left Wichita State victors of their third straight MVC title; they finished with a four-win lead on the rest of the conference.

The locker room celebrated in delight from their victory, but VanVleet, the MVC Player of the Year, questioned whether or not he had done enough to solidify an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament in March.

“We’ve got bigger and better goals we’re all passionate about,” VanVleet said. “Our objective as a team is not leave it up to [an at-large] and go win St. Louis.”

The Shockers ended the regular-season with 23 wins, but is it enough to land them an at-large bid come NCAA Tournament time?

WSU can secure a spot in the field of 68 if they win the Arch Madness

tournament this weekend, but with tough conference opponents, it’s anything but a guarantee.

Comparatively, the Shockers earned an at-large bid last season, after falling to Illinois State in the semifinals of the MVC Tournament.

They entered with a 27-win record. In 2013 they earned an at-large with 26 wins, after Creighton routed them out in the MVC title game.

“I think we’ve got to be in the tournament,” Gregg Marshall said.

“It’s crazy if we’re not. I know we’ve done what we can do at a very high level.”

WSU has the opportunity to collect win No. 24 on Friday against the winner of Bradley vs. Loyola, both teams they have swept this season. The Shockers defeated Loyola by an average of 24 points and Bradley by an average of 30.5 points this season.

Though things get interesting in the second round. If Wichita State advances to Saturday, they will face the winner of Southern Illinois vs.

Northern Iowa. Northern Iowa defeated WSU in Koch Arena less than a month ago. In the month of February the Panthers have a record of seven wins and a single loss.

The Shockers defeated Northern Iowa on their home court in January, but this game could go decidedly either way.

If Wichita State advances to the championship Sunday, they’ll have a record of 25 wins. Kenpom.com currently lists the Shockers as No. 7 in RPI and listed the 23rd strongest

nonconference strength of schedule.

It’s easy to think 25 wins would be enough, but no one will be able to breath easy unless the Shockers reach that mark.

The early-season win against Utah is now pivotal for March; Utah is currently listed as a potential four-seed according to most Bracketologies. The Shockers defeated the Utes by 17 points. Utah, with a 12-5 conference record and a 2-1 record over ranked-opponents, speaks in favor of WSU. Yet the Utes are the only victory the Shockers hold of any opponent ranked in the top 50, where they have a 1-5 record.

WSU has four top-100 victories, three of which were opponents ranking in the 90s. But four of the seven losses came with VanVleet injured, something the committee should consider.

Earlier last week ESPN’s Joe Lunardi tweeted stating, “Yes, Shockers are a lock.”

But it’s no safe bet.

Something has switched in the WSU locker room; they’re creating a highlight reel on opponents as they’re blowing them out. It’s a big statement, but is it big enough?

The biggest thing Wichita State could have going for them is their name. It’s a familiar one that slides around the NCAA Tournament committee’s office, and it won’t easily be finding its way out.

Wichita State has too much to show. Fans should consider them a lock for the big stage come March 13.

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