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NIAR Executive Director John Tomblin speaks at a news conference Friday announcing a $2 million grant from the EDA.

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WSU: Trump executive order threatening federal money for violating free speech won’t affect university

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resident Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that would withhold federal grant money from colleges that fail to promote free speech and follow federal rules guiding free expression. Wichita State officials say the university is committed to free speech and will not be affected by the order.

“We’ve always been a strong supporter of the First Amendment — the board of regents has always been a strong supporter of the First

Amendment — so we don’t see any issues or concerns,” WSU Chief of Staff Andy Schlapp said Friday at a university news conference announcing a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Public universities are already required to uphold the First Amendment, but the executive order comes as a response to conservatives who feel their views have been suppressed on college campuses.

“Today, we are delivering a clear message to the professors and power structures trying to suppress dissent and keep young Americans

. . . from challenging far-left ideology,” Trump said during Thursday’s signing ceremony at the White House.

“Under the guise of speech codes, safe spaces, and trigger warnings, these universities have tried to restrict free thought, impose total conformity, and shut down the voices of great young Americans,” Trump said.

Free-speech groups caution that the order provides no clear process for evaluating fair implementation on college campuses.

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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced Friday that the Economic Development Administration (EDA) is a warding Wichita State a $2 million grant to purchase equipment “needed to support regional manufacturing growth and training.”

“This investment will help Wichita State University spur new manufacturing ventures in the region while training workers to support this resurgent industry,” Ross said in a Department of Commerce press release.

The investment will help WSU establish the Automated Technology Laboratory for Advanced Structures (ATLAS) through the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR).

“You’re going to be hearing ATLAS a lot from us,” said John Tomblin, NIAR executive director and WSU vice president for technology transfer, at a news conference held in WSU’s Aviation Testing Laboratory.

“I really appreciate the EDA’s foresight in seeing the economy of Wichita and the manufacturing drive that we have here,” Tomblin said.

ATLAS will investigate the development of manufacturing protocols for automated fiber placement and automated tape laying for aircraft systems, according to a

university press release.

Tomblin said that means teaching robots machine learning.

“These robots are a different type of robots,” Tomblin said.

“The robots will actually be able to think and actually get smarter. Every time they make a part, we want them to get smarter.”

Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, who was on hand Friday for the news conference, said the EDA’s investment will spur on the aerospace and aviation industries in Kansas.

“It will boost the concentration we have for aerospace and aviation activities,” Moran said.

“In my view, this is one more step in making certain that Wichita remains the Air Capital of the World.”

According to grantee estimates, the project is expected to create 150 jobs.

“Those jobs will be a mixture of jobs — many of them will be in manufacturing, some will be in engineering, and some will be in business in the private sector,” said WSU Director of Strategic Initiatives Debra Franklin, who wrote the grant. “Early on, some of the jobs are going to be located here at the university.”

Franklin said manufacturing jobs will include designing, programming, and maintaining robots, as well as servicing and improving automated systems.

She said jobs will eventually “migrate into the private sector.”

Senior cheerleader finishes season with blessings after surviving car crash

BY ELLA DOMINGUEZ

A teardrop splashed against the Koch Arena basketball court.

There she stood: Hannah Foster, beaming, crying, and feeling more emotions than she could process. The crowd of fans, many of whom were familiar with her story, was cheering not with her, but for her.

The senior cheerleader had just been announced at the last men’s home basketball game of the season. It would be the last time she would ever cheer.

With every clap, her heartbeat sped up.

“Is this what gratitude normally feels like?” Foster wondered to herself. Just eleven months before, she didn’t know if she would ever cheer again.

She wasn’t even sure if she would be able to walk.

Late one night in the spring of 2018, a driver who was texting swerved into the left lane at Foster. She veered her car into the concrete median at 65 miles

per hour.

Her headlights broke, and after stepping out of the car to get help, a second car crashed into Foster’s already-totaled vehicle. The second impact hurt Foster even more. Then an ambulance arrived.

By the early morning, her throat was hoarse from hours of screaming and crying in Wesley Hospital. The accident shattered Foster’s femur and almost ended her life.

The tallest member of the cheer team, Foster stands six-foot-two. If she had been a couple inches shorter, her pelvis or spine would have been crushed by her car during the accident, paralyzing her at the age of 19.

The accident caused more than just physical damage.

“I took a lot of things for granted,” Foster said. “I was going through life as a kid. I didn’t think about consequences.

I didn’t realize how temporary everything is.”

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Hannah Foster sits in Leslie Coffee Company and sips her coffee.

But nothing was going to interrupt Foster’s vision — cheer, work, study, repeat. No interruptions or distractions were going to throw her off course. She was determined to graduate with a graphic design degree a year early despite the accident.

“I went through this serious depression,” Foster said,

describing the difficult healing process she underwent after the accident. “Why didn’t I die?

What was the reasoning? What am I supposed to learn from this? I have to understand why this happened.”

Foster’s summer was characterized by daily use of a wheelchair, walker, and cane. For

months, she spent most of her time trying to heal from surgery and attending physical therapy.

After dozens of appointments, doctors determined her femur was not healing and ordered a second surgery. After months of devoting all her energy to recovery, Foster had to start the entire process from square one.

But Foster looks back on the event with a remarkable attitude of acceptance.

“I do think it was supposed to happen. It took a long time to swallow that pill,” Foster said. “I’m really thankful for it.

I’m really lucky. I don’t think I recognized the strength that I had to push forward.”

For the first 19 years of her life, cheerleading was the only thing Foster valued besides her academics, she said.

When that was taken away from her, she was forced to reevaluate. Through it all, she remained positive.

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Jordan Peele’s sophomore feature is a psychological thriller and theatrical gold.

Shockers best Clemson to set up a NIT quarterfinal matchup with Indiana Tuesday.

Sophomore Winny Koskei broke a WSU 3000-meter record that stood for 31 years.

Signs hanging on the fence around the YMCA construction site were vandalized.

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In defense of individual responsibility We live in a time characterized by shattering faith in institutions.

Polling from the last three years indicates that a majority or plurality of Americans have “not very much confidence” or “no confidence” in the presidency, Congress, both political parties, the media, the criminal justice system, and colleges/universities.

In the wake of scandal after scandal, whether it be sexual misconduct, corruption, or leaders acting in bad faith, it’s extremely easy to see why our confidence in these institutions is waning.

However, talking about these institutional failures only from the perspective of institutions is a dangerous worldview. After all, institutions are only entrenched groups of individual humans working under similar rules.

When we view sexual assault, electoral reform, police brutality, sensationalized media, online extremism, etc. as only wonky policy issues, we begin to think that

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there is nothing we as individuals can do to solve problems.

The cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has,” and I wholeheartedly agree.

However, small group is a relative term. I would consider the large numbers of protestors who marched for civil rights or against the Vietnam War a “small group,” as they represented a

tiny percentage of the overall American population. No one can argue that those marchers did not change the world.

Ultimately, these movements sparked lasting and meaningful change — not because they sat and complained about institutional problems in the Jim Crow South or in Vietnam, but because a small group of dedicated citizens felt morally compelled to take action. These individuals came together to create a powerful collective force, calling out racism and abuses of power where they had been tolerated for centuries prior.

Now more than ever, we need this spirit of moral activism to retake hold on young Americans.

Instead of only clamoring for reform in sexual assault policies on campus, we need young men to hold each other accountable and to a higher standard. Instead of complaining about the quality of cable news, Americans need to

choose their media diets better.

Instead of complaining that Twitter and Facebook are ruining communication and productivity, we need to take responsibility for how we use social media in our free time.

When we discuss only institutional policy problems at Amazon, in The White House, or even at Wichita State, we lose sight of how real change is made.

Our generation must not fall into the pit of only talking about issues amongst ourselves on social media. Young Americans must hold themselves and their peers responsible for how we intentionally or unintentionally feed these institutional problems.

It is only when we all take responsibility for ourselves and take action on both a micro and macro levels that change will come.

Ultimately, the old platitude, “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” shows us the way to societal salvation.

Look to yourself, not the news, when something isn’t ‘receiving enough attention’ on social media This past week, multiple people I follow on social media complained about the lack of media coverage for huge events.

One was someone complaining about the flooding in Nebraska causing millions in damage to farmland not being national news (it was), and another was someone saying that the kid who smashed an egg on Australian Senator Fraser Anning’s head was receiving more attention on Twitter than the Christchurch shooting itself (also not true).

When complaining about certain events not receiving enough attention, you should first look at yourself, or really what you follow on social media before you start complaining.

We choose what we want to see on our feeds. We follow

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or don’t follow certain media outlets, as well as block, mute, or unfollow certain people because we disagree with their opinions.

This creates echo chambers that reinforce what we believe because we don’t have anyone else telling us otherwise. You may not even follow any actual news outlets on

your social media.

The Nebraska flooding was actually national news, and still is — especially now that President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration for it on Thursday, days after the flooding began.

Maybe it just wasn’t on your feed because of the echo chambers you created, or maybe you just don’t follow that many news outlets and it’s just your (sort of ) loved ones you follow.

Twitter giving more attention to the kid smashing an egg on an Australian senators head? That’s an easy one to explain. It’s all you and the meme culture surrounding Twitter. It’s all you because you’re not following actual news outlets or their wonderful reporting staff on Twitter. You’re following meme pages. You’re

following your friends who retweet those pages and don’t give attention to the news.

Do yourself a favor, and everyone else too. The next time your feed isn’t showing you the news you want, look at what you’re actually following on your accounts.

Sure, the news may be sobering sometimes, but it’s more important than that viral tweet you’re going to laugh at for .2 seconds and continue scrolling after.

Follow more news outlets — especially local ones. Go even further and find reporters — but please not the talking heads on cable news that pretend to be reporters — that you may like, and follow them too. These people are trying to do important work and trying to get on your feeds. You’re just not letting them.

Tom Izzo’s viral blowup showcases a social media perspective problem As the first weekend of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament came and went, I noticed one poignant viral moment that epitomized a huge problem that social media, and America as a whole, struggles with.

In his team’s first-round battle against Bradley, Michigan State Head Coach Tom Izzo got into a serious verbal altercation with Freshman Aaron Henry. Several on Twitter quickly pointed out how they thought Izzo had crossed the line by berating the young Henry, who has little experience and was thrust into a playing role due to injury.

This is just one in a long series of examples of how social media has a perspective problem. People refuse to place themselves in the shoes of others, and instead look at issues locked in their own worldview.

As pundits were quick to criticize Izzo, dozens of former and current basketball players — including Aaron Henry himself — rushed to Izzo’s defense. Most fell into the same perspective trap, calling those who were uncomfortable with the exchange “soft” or claiming that they were unqualified to discuss basketball, as they never played the game at a high level.

Both sides must realize that calling Izzo brutal or calling Izzo’s detractors soft does nothing to advance public discourse.

Context and perspective are key when processing moments like this. I experienced a microcosm of this discussion during winter break, when one of my friends and I discussed a situation much like Izzo’s with my mother.

Both my friend and I played a combined seven sports in high school, and both had brief stints at playing collegiate baseball and football, respectively. My mother, in contrast, went to college to get a degree in theatre performance and routinely calls the “halftime” of sports games “intermission.”

In this situation, she argued that the excessive yelling in American sports was derogatory and dangerous, until both my friend and I explained to her that in our experience, that kind of coaching works in sports such as football and basketball.

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After that, she still doubted, but understood our perspective, just as we understood hers.

High-octane coaching like Izzo works, in my opinion. When you’re battling at one of the highest levels of any discipline, tempers can flare, and furious

exchanges aren’t rare. This is especially true when discussing contact sports such as basketball.

In my experience, this kind of brutal coaching lights a fire in your belly and pumps your adrenaline up — allowing you to act more decisively and aggressively in the game. Although this style worked for me and many other collegiate athletes, it doesn’t work under all contexts.

For example, being chewed out during a football game and during a golf tournament would produce significantly different results, as football is a game in which more physicality is required and golf is a game in which more calmness required.

Similarly, some athletes can

take verbal scolding and produce better results, while some crumble under that kind of pressure, as we see continuously on TV shows the likes of “Last Chance U.” Ultimately, these instances of debate are not about who’s right and who’s wrong, but about how we can better understand the versatility and diversity of the human experience, which is severely lacking on most social media platforms.

Today, I call on both Izzo’s defenders and detractors to drop their preconceived notions and attempt to understand the different experiences that the other has, as it is there wherein better human interaction thrives.

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“Such lack of definition could lead to administrative standards being developed or arbitrarily implemented which chill free speech or inquiry, or which might be used to advance specific political agendas,” the Student Press Law Center wrote in a press release.

WSU General Counsel David Moses and Vice President for Student Affairs Teri Hall both told The Sunflower they were unavailable to comment on WSU’s free speech policies Friday.

“WSU has a long-standing strong commitment to First Amendment rights and will always protect the freedom of speech as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and decisions of U.S. courts,” university spokesman Joe Kleinsasser wrote in an email.

“We believe WSU is in compliance with the latest executive order and the free speech standards.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is a group that advocates for free speech on college campuses around the country. FIRE uses a three-tiered rating system to gauge universities’ policies on free speech.

According to the FIRE website, a green-light rating indicates that none of a university’s policies pose a serious threat to free speech. A red-light rating indicates at least one “clear” restriction on protected expression.

FIRE gives WSU a yellow-light speech code rating, indicating at least one ambiguous policy that “too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.”

WSU’s main campus has five free speech zones and 46 reservable spaces for “First Amendment activities,” including protests, rallies, and public forums.

“We want to promote free speech, but we can’t promote free speech that is disruptive to the business of the

university,” Hall said in 2017.

Events must be registered with the Office of University Event Services at least 72 hours in advance. Hall said registering in advance helps the university understand where events should be held, how many people will attend, and whether or not amplification devices will be used.

Hall said the university has the power to shut down “First Amendment activities” that are outside of the guidelines, but that doing so is not standard practice.

WSU’s chapter of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) has protested free speech zones by passing beach balls around campus and writing on them with markers.

During their first demonstration in 2017, the WSU Police intervened — checking a beach ball for hate speech, according to then-chapter President Maria Church.

FIRE has condemned WSU in the past on several occasions. In April 2017, the free speech group wrote a letter petitioning the university to overturn the Student Senate’s initial decision not to recognize YAL as a registered student organization. In September 2017, FIRE wrote another letter calling on WSU to drop an investigation into Phi Delta Theta fraternity after members hung a banner reading “New Members Free House Tours!” outside their window during sorority recruitment.

WSU’s Student Supreme Court eventually overruled the senate’s decision and recognized YAL, and WSU dropped the banner investigation.

University officials could not immediately provide information about how much money WSU receives in federal grants. In addition to last week’s $2 million research grant from the Department of Commerce, WSU received a $2.5 million grant from the Department of Defense last August. A year earlier, the Department of Defense awarded WSU a $1.9 million grant.

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‘Us’ earns its universal terror through Jordan Peele’s excellent filmmaking A testament to his directorial excellence and relevance, Jordan Peele’s sophomore feature, “Us,” broke through the weekend as a box office force to be reckoned with.

His debut film, “Get Out,” remains highly acclaimed as one of the most successful thrillers of the millennium.

Led by Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Evan Alex, “Us” follows a family of four through their summer getaway to Santa Cruz. All is sunny until sinister doppelgangers, or tethers, appear at their doorstep and begin wreaking deadly havoc on the main characters — the married Adelaide and Gabe and their two children, Zora

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and Jason.

“Us” vividly displays the power and presence of blackness in the media. Peele implicitly shatters the horror movie trope where the token minorities are the first to be killed off.

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Shockers squander sweep on Sunday

BY SEAN MARTY

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Wichita State freshman Jamarius Burton defends against a Clemson forward during the game at Littlejohn Coliseum in Clemson, South Carolina on March 24, 2019.

Wichita State baseball fell one game shy of a sweep on Sunday.

The Shockers were victorious in two of their three games in the conference opener against Memphis. The Tigers won 6-3 after the Shockers won the first two by a combined score of 15-7.

Keith Stepter put Memphis ahead early with a two-run home run. The ball narrowly escaped the outstretched glove of WSU’s Hunter Gibson.

Memphis added to its lead on a Paxton Marshall RBI single.

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Wichita State senior Jordan Boyer gets a hit during the game against Memphis at Eck Stadium on Sunday.

Late 3 propels WSU to NIT quarterfinals

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W

ichita State isn’t done yet.

The Shockers advanced to the quarterfinals of the National Invitational Tournament after beating No. 2-seed Clemson in the second round on Sunday. Wichita State will play at top-seed Indiana on Tuesday for a spot in the semifinals in Madison Square Garden.

“It’s March 24 and we’re still playing,” Head Coach Gregg Marshall said, poking fun at the University of Kansas and Kansas State, who both lost in the opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament. “We’re the last one playing.”

Samajae Haynes-Jones hit a 3-point shot to put the Shockers ahead by six with 32 seconds left in play. Haynes-Jones had to put up the shot from deep as the shot clock expired. The Shockers avoided a scare and won 63-55.

Clemson used full-court pressure and forced the Shockers to commit 17 turnovers — 10 in the second half — as the Tigers cut a double-digit deficit to three points in the final minute of the game.

WSU blew open a five-point halftime lead early in the second half

on the back of Jaime Echenique’s offense. Using his size advantage in the paint, Echenique scored early and often in the second half. He made his first seven of eight shots, including two of three three-pointers.

Clemson nearly did the impossible. The Tigers wrecked WSU with full-court pressure and steals.

Haynes-Jones was called for a clear-path foul after Clemson’s Elijah Thomas stole the ball with 1:20 left in play. A pair of free throws brought the score to 58-55 with WSU’s offense stagnant. Out of a timeout, Haynes-Jones redeemed himself of the game-changing foul with a made 3-pointer to seal the victory with 32 seconds left. His late-game heroics once again saved the Shockers.

Echenique scored a game-high 18 points in just 21 minutes of play. The Shockers have won 12 of 13 games when Echenique scores in double figures. He was sidelined for much of the second half after getting in quick foul trouble.

Asbjørn Midtgaard and Echenique combined for 24 points on 10-12 shooting. Isaiah Poor Bear-Chandler, the third-string center, added two points, making his only shot attempt.

McDuffie and Haynes-Jones combined for 26 points.

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SHOCKER RUNNER SHATTERS 3-DECADE-OLD RECORD

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Winny Koskei broke Wichita State’s 3000-meter school record Friday during the second day of the Herm Wilson Invitational. Koskei, a redshirt sophomore from Kenya, topped the school’s record that was last held by Kathryn Evans for 31 years. Koskei ran a time of 9:40.68. Evans’s time was 9:46.90.

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Changes to SGA constitution make presidential succession clearer

BY ANDREW LINNABARY

Student Government Association’s constitution was given a number of changes during Wednesday’s SGA meeting, including changes to how presidential succession works that were made because of a lack of clear procedural guidelines when President Kenon Brinkley resigned from office in February.

There were four changes made to the SGA constitution, SGA Vice President Matt Madden said Sunday. The first is that the president no longer has a veto on senate resolutions.

“Resolutions are expressions of the will or intent of the senate, so it makes no sense for the president to have a veto on them,” Madden said.

The second and biggest change has to do with presidential succession.

“Before these changes, it was unclear as to how succession worked, and succession worked different depending on whether the succession was permanent or temporary,” Madden said.

The chief of operations will chair meetings on a temporary basis if the VP is absent or acting president, Madden said.

Previously, all the constitution said was that for permanent succession, the VP would be replaced by a nominated senator.

The chief of operations will remain the VP unless a senator is chosen, Madden said.

“As a cabinet, we've elected to not appoint a senator, since there's no senators who have the training and time commitment to just become VP, and for such

a small period of time, it's not really worth the hassle,” Madden said. “But the whole situation has revealed that the system has been pieced together by past sessions and not cohesively thought out, which is why we're revising it.”

These changes will be the standard for both temporary and permanent succession, “so that way, we have something procedurally in place for both a one-meeting succession and a more permanent succession like the one we’ve seen this semester,” Madden said.

Brinkley’s resignation made it clear that there wasn’t much in place to outline how to handle a situation like that, Madden said.

The third constitutional change was the removal of a paragraph of the constitution that allowed the president to bypass the rules of quorum and run a meeting without it.

“We thought this paragraph didn’t make any sense,” Madden said. “Quorum exists for a reason.”

The final constitutional change allows the senate to place officers on temporary suspension.

“In February, the senate felt that they pretty much only had three options: write a resolution calling for the president’s resignation, take the president to Senate Review Board, or do nothing about the situation,” Madden said. “We wanted to give them another option with temporary suspension — one that would apply to more situations than just the one we saw in February.”

The senate can place officers on a temporary suspension for a maximum of 30 days.

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UCLA Stuns Wichita Five 108-89; 65-38 Half-Time Makes Difference After a 13-13 tie with 12 minutes left in the first half, UCLA’s Bruins used both their speed and ability to get the second shot and raced to a 65-38 half-time lead over the Wichita State University Shockers in the National Semifinal game.

The final Score was 108-89.

During the first half, both teams were utilizing fast break, but the Bruins were hitting WSU full court press with long passes to get the open man under the basket.

“We did not have any trouble with the UCLA press at the start of the game so I was looking for that five point lead before we went into our spread offense,” was the way Shocker Coach Gary Thompson summed up the disastrous first half.

In only two and a half minutes, the Bruins had moved to a 30-19 lead over the Shockers. UCLA All-American Gail Goodrich led the Bruin scoring with 28 points after scoring 23 in the first half.

After the intermission the shockers came back out more relaxed and hit 64 percent from the field.

Sophomore Jamie Thompson led the Wichita team by hitting 13 of 19 field shots and 10 of 11 free throws for 36 points. He was the fame’s high scorer.

Wichita was hurt mid-way through the second half as Kelly Pete picked up his fifth personal foul and had to leave the game. He left with 17 points and six rebounds.

Wichita out-scored the Bruins 51-43 in the second half of play.

FOSTER

internship, and is still set to graduate a year early. She gained patience, fresh perspective, and most importantly, new relationships that she can’t imagine her life without. She was able to return to cheerleading in November, just in time for basketball season.

“Bad things in our lives have to happen to introduce us to these good things,” Foster said. “All the puzzle pieces make sense now.”

FROM PAGE 1

“There’s so many people I’ve met because of it,” Foster said. “I have all these great people supporting me, and none of that would have happened if it weren’t for my wreck.”

Since her accident, Foster joined a sorority, gained a new graphic design

US

FROM PAGE 3 The representation in this film is not accidental, as asserted through Gabe’s Howard University sweatshirt and the use of Luniz’s “I Got Five On It” as the main musical theme of the film. Repurposing the melody from “I Got Five On It” as the movie’s haunting main theme is the first of many brilliant nuances throughout the two-hour runtime.

The horror of the film is conjured through every frame. There are no tacky jump scares or ploys to get a cheap reaction out of the viewer. Instead, the film stands as a psychological thriller that’s borderline sadistic in its terror.

The most appealing aspect of this film is its multiplicity. “Us” is doubtlessly a thriller, but at the same time, it’s comedic and aesthetically beautiful. The cinematography is to die for, the script is brilliant, and the editing of the film shines.

“Us” ticks all the boxes. It’s the type of film that will have you

rooting for the underdog, yelling at the screen, and cheering with complete strangers sitting next to you when the protagonists narrowly escape danger. In this way, watching “Us” is an involuntarily interactive experience.

While the entire film is engaging and fast-paced, the climax of “Us” left me with my jaw agape, tears streaming down my cheeks, and hands shaking from anxiety and anticipation. Never in my life have I seen a cinematic sequence that moved me so harshly and intensely. Lupita Nyong’o gave the performance of a lifetime that left me in state of complete disarray.

“Us” proves that Jordan Peele is a visionary. He specializes in taking the mundane and mutating it into nightmare. His talent apparently transcends that of any other filmmaker currently in the mystery/thriller genre.

With “Get Out” and “Us” already under his belt, Peele is giving new life to horror. Whereas many other thriller films quickly melt into cheap tricks and gimmicks, “Us” is not cheap, but theatrical gold.

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WSU, YMCA signs vandalized last week

BY MATTHEW KELLY

The Wichita State and YMCA signs hanging on the fence outside of the YMCA construction site across from Eck Stadium were vandalized Thursday, WSU Police Chief Rodney Clark said.

“It was reported that the construction workers saw what appeared to be a college-aged male spray painting on the signs,” Clark said.

“He spray painted that and kind of ran out in front of some of their equipment and was acting erratic and stuff like that and then left.”

Clark said construction workers alerted the police to the vandalism during the work day. The incident does not appear in WSU’s daily crime log.

“We’re not able to say who did it at this point in time,” Clark said.

The “S” in WSU was spray painted over with a “$,” and The “Y” sign was vandalized to read “WHY.” Both signs were replaced by late Friday morning.

“I reported it up to the university, and there’s a person who manages that construction company, and they told them, ‘Hey, go ahead and take the signs down — replace them or whatever they need to do,” Clark said.

He said vandalism isn’t very common at WSU, but that the police take it seriously.

“We’ll continue to watch that area in case there’s like, copy-cattype activity — somebody tries to do it again,” Clark said.

“If we caught somebody actually in the act, we’d make the arrest.”

MEMPHIS

FROM PAGE 4 In the fourth inning, the Shockers’ offense finally started to click. Gibson led off the inning with a single, and Luke Ritter hammered his fifth home run of the season to cut the deficit to one. Gibson later tied the game

NIT

FROM PAGE 4 “By and large, they were building walls,” Marshall said of the Midtgaard-Echenique’s defense.

“Only one of them is in the game at a time. To get that type of production . . . these are brand new guys — it’s just fun.”

Clemson cut the lead to six with nine minutes left. For the first time in the second half, the Tigers had life. But the Shockers clung to every bit of the lead and never squandered. The Tigers never led in the game.

Midtgaard fouled Clemson’s Thomas, setting up two shots — which Thomas would make, cutting the lead to four. Yet, as the players walked away, Thomas pushed Midtgaard — picingd up a technical foul. McDuffie stretched the lead back to six points by making a pair of free throws.

As quickly as Clemson put itself in contention, it took itself out of the game. McDuffie put

COURTESY OF WALTER WRIGHT

COURTESY OF WALTER WRIGHT Signs hanging on the fence around the YMCA construction site were vandalized Thursday.

with a sacrifice fly that sent home Jacob Katzfey.

With two outs in the inning, the Shockers had the bases loaded and Paxton Wallace due up. Wallace hit a foul shot just inches right of the foul pole before getting out.

“Today was the most important game of the season, and we didn’t get it done,” Head Coach

Todd Butler said, adding that he’s searching for a good start to conference play after the team struggled to produce against American Athletic Conference opponents last year.

With the loss, the Shockers fall back below the .500 mark with a record of 11-12. Next up, the Shockers host Omaha at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

the Shockers up nine with a 3-pointer with seven minutes left.

If Clemson was going to have a shot, they would have to rhythmically challenge WSU’s centers.

With Midtgaard’s three personal fouls and Echenique’s four, the Shockers inability to contest shots in the paint gave the poor-shooting Tigers hope.

WSU showed its inexperience, playing like a team that had never seen full-court pressure.

The team rarely got the ball out of the backcourt. It was a six-point game with 2:33 left in regulation, and Clemson took possession with yet another turnover by the Shockers, who couldn’t get the ball across court.

The Shockers broke full-court pressure with a home-run pass to Midtgaard, who dunked it and made it to extend the lead back to six. Even with 1:33 left in play, the game was far from over. The Shockers committed turnovers in the backcourt until the final 12 seconds of the game.

It wasn’t until Haynes-Jones’s

heroics that WSU put the game out of Clemson’s reach.

Clemson played without guard Shelton Mitchell, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament a week ago. He averaged 11 points and three assists for the Tigers.

WSU will meet Indiana, who has played two games without leading scorer Romeo Langford, a projected lottery pick. Langford has reportedly rested a sore back during the Hoosiers’ two NIT games. Indiana Head Coach Archie Miller said Langford wants to play, but his status is not confirmed for Tuesday’s game.

Miller is now the coach at Indiana. He was previously the coach at Dayton two years ago when the Shockers beat the Flyers in the NCAA Tournament.

If WSU wins Tuesday, they will joing seven other teams and advance to Madison Square Garden for the semifinals.

Tuesday’s 6 p.m. game will be broadcasted on ESPN.

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