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Latinx cluster hire proposed at faculty senate

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Dr. Ron Matson, dean of Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, takes notes during a faculty senate held in Clinton Hall.

A proposed cluster hire of Latinx faculty was brought before the Faculty Senate Monday, with supporters citing a lack of representation for the Latinx community in the Wichita State student body, faculty, and staff.

Jean Griffith, interim chair of the English department, said the Latinx community is the “largest-growing population in the region.”

The cluster hire — faculty hired as a group — would affect several departments on campus, including psychology, English, and social work.

The proposal also lays out plans to increase online education and Spanish-language instruction.

Wilson Baldridge, professor of French, said the cluster hire would not necessarily bring in revenue for the university.

The payoff, he said, would be recruitment.

“What we are hoping for is a return in terms of recruitment,” Baldridge said. “Through outreach, through what’s in Kansas and along the I-35 corridor.”

Baldridge nodded to Wichita State’s I-35 recruitment strategy, a move that has allowed residents of

certain parts of Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri to attend Wichita State and pay discounted in-state tuition.

Griffith said the cluster hire would double the number of Latinx faculty at Wichita State.

“Our numbers are really low,” Griffith said.

Baldridge said the proposal was a “bottom-up initiative, not a topdown initiative.”

He said the proposal was still a work in progress.

Griffith said funding for the proposal does not have funding.

“The funding hasn’t been worked out yet,” Griffith said.

Trial date set for student’s murder

By JENNA FARHAT

A year after Wichita State student Rowena Irani was killed in her home, Dane Owens will appear in court to stand trial for first-deIRANI gree murder and aggravated burglary in connection to her death.

Oct. 3, 2016, Irani was shot in the head in her home. She died in the hospital the next day.

Nov. 6, Owens’s jury trial will begin, according to Dan Dillon, the district attorney’s office spokesman.

Irani, 22, was a psychology major and student involvement ambassador at WSU. Owens is Irani’s ex-boyfriend.

He told detectives he was angry at Irani for breaking up with him, according to the arrest affidavit.

Owens had told Irani about a previous ex-girlfriend that he had planned to kill, the affidavit said.

It said Owens had dug a hole and was on his way to kill her when he changed his mind.

The affidavit said that he took several hydrocodone pills the morning of Oct. 3 and drove to Irani’s house with a handgun in a sling he wore on his arm. He walked in the front door and said he was “spooked” when Irani came around the corner and shot her in the head, the affidavit continues.

Detectives interviewed a friend of Owens, who said that in the week prior to Irani’s death, Owens seemed angry and mentioned needing the “stress relief” of “shooting someone,” the affidavit said. The friend said Owens did not specify who he wanted to shoot.

The affidavit concluded that Irani had been shot and left without care for three hours before her mother found her.

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SGA senators Shelby Rowell, right, Jeremy Hoover, right, speak about the Las Vegas resolution during the session.

SGA DOUBLES DOWN Student Senate passes two resolutions addressing Las Vegas Shooting

By RAY STRUNK

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he Student Government Association passed two resolutions Wednesday addressing the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas.

A resolution authored by LAS Sen. Shelby Rowell and Fine Arts Sen. Xan Mattek was introduced last week. Senators expressed concerns with the resolution’s clarity and mention of the Kansas campus carry law. The resolution was postponed to give senators time to revise it.

At-large Sen. Jeremy Hoover, who opposed the

“IT FEELS LIKE WE TRANSCENDED ALL THE STUPID, MEANINGLESS DRAMA.” ­—XAN MATTEK, FINE ARTS SENATOR

original resolution, introduced a separate resolution addressing the shooting.

Before the senate addressed Rowell and Mattek’s resolution, At-large Sen. Taylor Williams proposed a motion to skip ahead to Hoover’s resolution.

Mattek said the motion was an attempt

to undermine the original resolution.

The motion failed and the senate first addressed Rowell and Mattek’s resolution.

Rowell said she consulted with other senators and students throughout the week to address issues with the resolution.

“A lot of people had a lot of say on this,” Rowell said.

“I met with Sen. Bearth to go through his concerns and his decisions. That was a really great meeting — a lot of work was done there.”

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O’Malley enters governor’s race as ‘consensus builder’ with leadership experience

By MATTHEW KELLY

Tuesday, the Founding President and CEO of the Kansas Leadership Center, Ed O’Malley, officially joined the crowded Republican field of gubernatorial hopefuls.

O’Malley, a former state representative, has spent the last 11 years at the helm of KLC, working with local leaders from government officials and non-profit executives to grassroots activists and pastors.

KLC has teamed up with Wichita State in the past, and a number

of O’Malley’s books are required reading for WSU classes.

“I’ve worked with so many phenomenal local leaders,” O’Malley said. “I know the great things happening in the communities across the state, and I think it’s time to have a similar type of effective leadership at the state level.”

O’Malley said he has an ambitious goal of revitalizing the Kansas education system by bringing the high school graduation rate from 85 percent to 95 percent and the post-secondary credential rate from

40 percent to 70 percent.

“We have to have a vision of excellence,” O’Malley said. “I believe we have to have a vision of being the best in the world.”

O’Malley said that, as governor, he would ensure schools were funded to a constitutional level while reminding citizens of the value of investing in education.

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Kansas Gubernatorial candidate Ed O’Malley greets a supporter after his official announcement speech in front of Union Station in downtown Wichita.

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Don’t cook in The Flats’ lavish, fully furnished kitchens: The issue with WSU’s housing proposals The Flats, a privately-owned and Wichita State-operated apartment complex, is fancy — fancy enough to be equipped with luxurious amenities, including a fully-furnished kitchen and deluxe granite countertops. If you live at The Flats next year, you’ll be recommended to ditch your lavish kitchen and state-of-the-art appliances for meals at Shocker Hall.

Scott Jensen, director of housing and residence life, introduced a list of new housing proposals to the Student Senate last week. One of the proposed changes for next year’s housing rates was the requirement for occupants of The Flats to purchase a meal plan to dine in Shocker Hall’s cafeteria. Currently, only Shocker Hall residents are required to purchase a meal plan.

An unlimited meal plan currently goes for $2,030 per semester, and the proposed cost for the same plan next year is up more than 6 percent to $2,165.

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to graduate from Shocker Hall.

After an occupant shortage and the closure of Fairmount Towers, WSU moved roughly 300 students to The Flats, bringing the apartment complex owned by MWCB, LLC. to full capacity.

One of the original selling points of The Flats was the fully loaded kitchens. After a student graduated from a two-year residency in Shocker Hall, they could transition to a lifestyle reflective of a real adult with adult responsibilities such as cooking and meal planning. The Flats provides all the tools to make this a reality.

President John Bardo aspires to retain more students on campus.

With The Flats, occupants can walk home and prepare lunch on an hour break — all without leaving campus.

But WSU isn’t satisfied with students cooking in their own kitchens.

Traditionally, a meal plan goes hand-in-hand with on-campus housing. Not here. Assigning a $2,000-plus meal plan doesn’t add much to this equation.

This and other proposals — including increasing lease rates to $4,500 per semester for a one-bedroom room in The Flats — have not yet been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents.

David Murfin, chair of KBOR, is co-owner of MWCB, LLC. He has, up to this point, abstained from all votes involving The Flats, and willingly identified himself as a conflict of interest at last month’s KBOR meeting.

MWCB, LLC. originally offered The Flats to the public, but later agreed to let WSU students occupy

the complex. They said they elected to lease the facility to WSU Housing and Residence because they knew how best to cater it to Shockers — not because only 37 occupants had signed up for the nearly 300 available spots in the weeks before the August move-in date Students who were moved from Fairmount Towers to The Flats paid the rate they would have paid at Fairmount this year — $2,190 per semester for a double room or $2,950 for a single room.

Should these proposals be approved by KBOR, students who were relocated this year will have to either pay $1,500-plus per semester on top of this year’s rate or find an off-campus housing option.

This, packaged with a $2,000-plus per semester meal plan provision doesn’t make sense.

More requirements don’t make The Flats any more marketable.

If these proposed rates and amendments are approved, WSU will likely find The Flats faced with deficient occupancy come the 2018 fall semester.

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Students advocate for student advocate

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‘Blade Runner: 2049’ K (Ryan Gosling) enjoys a drink in this re-boot of the classic science fiction film “Blade Runner” (1982).

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Student Body President Emeritus Joseph Shepard speaks to student senate about the treatment of Student Advocate Rheanna Pierce. Shepard said Pierce has been excluded from important SGA conversations.

Student advocate Rheanna Pierce’s role discussed

By RAY STRUNK

Joined by members of the Multicultural Greek Council, Student Body President Emeritus Joseph Shepard addressed the Stuswnt Government Association Wednesday with concerns that the association’s student advocate, Rheanna Pierce, was being treated unfairly by members of the cabinet.

Shepard said Pierce has been left out of the decision-making process.

He said that he has received complaints throughout the year about Pierce’s exclusion.

“We believe that Rheanna Pierce has not been included in important conversations, meetings, and gatherings this year with SGA.” Shepard said.

Shepard said an SGA press release from Student Body President Paige Hungate “acknowledging every other cabinet member except for Student Advocate Rheanna Pierce,” inspired him to speak up.

“We believe that this oversight is, again, a cherry on top of everything that [Pierce] has been excluded from this entire year,” Shepard said.

Shepard said he believes Pierce’s exclusion from a meeting with President John Bardo and his executive team was intentional.

“She deserves to be kept in the loop,” Shepard said. “She should not have to constantly ask for permission to be a part

When it was first influenced by Tokyo, striped released in 1982, “Blade in neon and big business.

Runner” wasn’t immeThat element of “big diately christened as the business” is still present science fiction classic it in the sequel, but it feels is today. Contemporary like a natural extension of critics cited its slow the visual style instead of a pacing and emphasis duplication. Deakins’s vision on visual grandeur over of the future is stylistically storytelling. Some of cleaner, but just as potent as these same complaints the original’s.

MOVIE CRITIC could rightfully be Gosling is surrounded by made about its sequel, a collection of talent, least “Blade Runner: 2049.” of which is Harrison Ford, But what the two films have in common is reprising his role as Deckard. Ford brings a a masterful exploration of genre dovetailed weariness to the role that’s both believable with an intelligent treatise on the question of and earned. Jared Leto is sufficiently menacwhat it means to be human. ing as Wallace, the de-facto corporate villain, “Blade Runner: 2049,” which takes place though he doesn’t bring the same humanity 30 years after the original, follows a “Blade to the role that Joe Turkel originally brought Runner” named K (Ryan Gosling) as he treads to Tyrell. No replicant in the film holds a the muddled waters of humanity in reference candle to Rutger Hauer, but Dave Bautista to “retiring” replicants — the androids that gives a good attempt in his brief appearance. populate this universe.

Like any machine, there are bugs. The film The plot doesn’t offer any easy answers to is about 20 minutes too long and features a the questions raised by the first film; instead, few scenes that could have been trimmed for director Denis Villeneuve advances the conboth length and pacing. The second act drags versation about the complex nature of being. and features a romantic scene that I don’t Part of my trepidation at the announcethink I’ll ever be comfortable with. ment of a “Blade Runner” sequel was how it Narrative threads are briefly introduced would handle the infamous cliffhanger the and left dangling towards the end of the film first film ends on. Part of the lasting appeal — ostensibly in the service of world-buildof the original film lies in the conversation ing — but I’d argue that the aesthetic and the ending sparks. Why provide a concrete production already did that work for them. answer to that conundrum?

Characters depart in an unceremonious Luckily, the film sidesteps around that fashion that doesn’t leave the emotional potential pitfall with clever plotting and impact the director most likely desired. Luv, writing. Much like Alexander, they evaded the replicant who works for Wallace, shrivels the Gordian knot by slicing right through it. in the shadow of Roy Batty.

Roger Deakins, the film’s renowned Yet, “Blade Runner: 2049” is a film with cinematographer, captures the visual style of the lasting power rarely felt in theaters these this futuristic period with such skill, symmedays. I saw the movie almost a week ago and try, and beauty that his fingerprints are all still think about it daily. It’s a unicorn in the over the movie — as much as the director and Hollywood cinematic landscape: an intellimain actors. gent and idea-driven science fiction film with Much like the original “Blade Runner,” an engine fueled by thought — not action. this film is concerned with aesthetic and The movie is long, slow, and devoid of the production and narrative. The future is traditional elements found in blockbuster minimalist and sleek — wrapped in rain and productions, but it displays a confidence that fog. It provides a nice contrast to the original is magnetic — one that any viewer drawn in film’s murky and crowded Los Angeles, one will find hard to resist.

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of the important conversations.”

Student Body Vice President Breck Towner said he will make an effort moving forward to include Pierce.

“For me personally, I could do a better job with word of mouth,” Towner said.

“Stop her in the office and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got something going on. I’d like you to be there. I want you to be there. You’re important to this.’”

LAS Sen. Kenon Brinkley asked Hungate if Pierce can join the other officers in giving a weekly report.

“We can definitely talk about that with Student Advocate Pierce,” Hungate said.

Returning Adult Sen. Kathy Bond said she didn’t know who Pierce was.

“This is a case in point,” Shepard said.

“Rheanna is your student advocate.

“It is the responsibility of the cabinet and everybody in this room to make sure you know who your student advocate is.”

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‘If you have an idea, you can come to us’

By ABIGAIL FAFLICK

Tuesday evening in Devlin Hall, students competed to win $500 in prototyping funds for viable ideas at the Shocker Startup Business Model Competition.

Jocelyn Galicia, a finance and entrepreneurship double major, taught participants how to build a business model canvas. After they learned how to write a canvas, they used their own ideas to build their own one-page business plans.

Karam Anadani, president of Shocker Startup, organized the event alongside other club leaders to help equip entrepreneurs on campus.

“Shocker Startup is the first and only entrepreneurial program on campus,” Anadani said.

“What we do is we help students move their ideas into the real world. We help get them funding, we help contact them with mentors in the industry, and we help teach classes like building business plans, marketing, and design thinking.”

Anadani said since diverse backgrounds promote more creative thinking and understanding of entrepreneurship, individuals from all academic colleges are welcome to Shocker Startup events.

“We want multidisciplinary advantages for every student on campus,” Anadani said.

“If you are an engineering student, know business. If you are a business student, you

might not know engineering or design.”

“What we are trying to do is combine everyone altogether to help them innovate more at a multidisciplinary level.”

Shocker Startup meets monthly, and they host events two to three times a semester.

Earlier this semester, they hosted an event where students created sustainable living solutions for potential life on Mars.

In November, they will bring in mentors from the industry to speak with students.

“Shocker Startup Impact is the name [of the event in November],” Anadani said.

“What we are trying to do is bring industry people to campus and let students hear what type of opportunities they have.”

“They can learn from what these industry people have to say.”

Anadani said the mission of Shocker Startup is to move students to real companies by incorporating innovative solutions and ideas. ”If you have an idea, you can come to us,” Anadani said. “We will put you with mentors and give you networking opportunities.

Anadani said Shocker Startup advances President John Bardo’s mission of innovation.

“We are the student ambassadors to innovation on campus,” Anadani said. “We are here to help students from all colleges to innovate their ideas.”

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The work of Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian explores the relationship between language, aesthetics and content. Defying an adherence to any single medium, McMillian’s artistic practice utilizes performance, video, installation, sculpture and painting to tackle issues of race, gender and power within social history and culture.

McMillian’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Royal Academy of Art, London.

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Bishop prepares for final season at Wichita State

By ALIYAH FUNSCHELLE

Jacob Bishop, a senior Wichita State golfer, said he fell in love with the sport as soon as he picked it up.

“I’ve tried just about every sport,” Bishop said. “Once I played golf, I kind of just fell in love with it.”

Bishop credits his dad with getting him into golf. He first started golfing competitively during his freshman year of highschool.

Despite his limited experience, Bishop worked hard to get to the D1 level.

Bishop said one of his teammates, Taylor Moore, served as his role model.

“Taylor Moore was, and still is, an unbelievable player,” Bishop said. “He played at Arkansas and he is on the Web.com tour now. He was my role model and he pushed me to my limits.”

Alec Heinen, Bishop’s current roommate and former Shocker

golfer, originally got Head Coach Grier Jones to watch Bishop play.

“When he came to watch me, I shot my lowest round of 63, and I guess that was good enough to bring me to Wichita State,” Bishop said.

“I really liked the plan he has for me here. I really liked what he was doing with the team and heard good things about how he coaches.”

Bishop was also recruited by UMKC, James Madison University, and the University of Oklahoma.

“The day after I verbally committed to WSU, the University of Oklahoma’s coach offered me to come play,” Bishop said. “I wanted to stay true to my commitment and be a Shocker.”

In his three seasons at WSU Bishop was named the 2015 MVC Newcomer of the Year and has been all-conference twice.

Bishop’s stroke average of 73.97 is the fourth-best at Wichita State.

“One of my goals I set was to average a scoring average of 71 [before graduating],” Bishop said.

His lowest ever score was a 63 in w w w. t h e s u nand f l ohis w e r. c o m a non-college tournament, best college score is a 67.

Bishop said he tries to stay in the moment and keep the small things from getting to him while golfing.

“Any time I’m under pressure or I hit a bad shot, I just try to slow myself down and enjoy what I’m doing and have fun with it instead formed at a 9/11 unity dance. of puttingColumn expectations by on myself,” gathering hosted by Global Forget what religion they Bishop said.Ragini “I focus on what I’m MATTjust CROW/THE SUNFLOWER Faith In Action, a local were—they wanted to doing in the moment and not get Venkatasubban Jacob Bishop, a senior Wichita State golfer, is in his final season with the team. organization that promotes dance. ahead of myself or dwell on the bringing all religions Dance crosses all past.”

When my cousin Anjana together. religions, races, Bishop said his goal for his last newcomers.” after graduating withcultures a sport and I founded Shocker The hour-long show and boundaries. season at WSU is to make it to Bishop said he thinks WSU’s management degree.

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Midwest.

Compared to other universities on the east and west coasts, which frequently host Indian dance competitions and shows, WSU didn’t have much of a presence. We wanted to change that.

As we started performing around Wichita, however, another purpose came into play—bringing the world together through dance.

Sunday, Shakthi per-

different cultures, chose three songs that represent remembrance, struggle and hope—the three themes of the event.

After our performance, many people congratulated us for showing them a snippet of our culture.

What really struck us, however, were the Muslim gentleman, Catholic woman and countless others who asked if we could teach them how to

belly dance, modern dance and so many others.

Dance breaks down barriers because it’s only achieved by lowering your inhibitions—and when that happens, any preconceived notions about religion and race automatically get lowered as well.

Take Shakthi—we’ve had dancers of Indian, African, Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian,

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Kansas Gubernatorial candidate Ed O’Malley gives his official announcement speech in front of Union Station in downtown Wichita.

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creating the best education system literally in the world — because we care about the students, yes, but frankly, we’re doing it because it’s an economic argument,” O’Malley said.

“It’s the best thing we can do to make our economy thrive for generations to come.”

O’Malley said he hopes to create a culture in Topeka of innovation, creativity, and excellence.

“I believe in our state employees,” O’Malley said. “I believe they have creativity in them and I believe, right now, we’re not asking enough of them, nor are we rewarding them and incentivizing them in ways that’ll help serve the taxpayer.”

As a young man, O’Malley worked for Kansas Gov. Bill Graves.

He said he learned a number of valuable lessons from the former leader.

“I saw him bring people around the table together who think differently, and I also saw him take accountability for things when things didn’t go well,” O’Malley said. “Those two things are powerful to witness when you’re a young person starting your career.”

O’Malley said that, during his time in the state legislature and with KLC,

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Rowell said most students she spoke to supported the resolution.

The resolution, originally titled “Support for Las Vegas Shooting Victims and Families,” addressed the Oct. 1 shooting, gun violence in America, and the state campus carry law. The resolution was to be forwarded to Kansas elected officials, members of WSU administration, and members of the WSU Chapter of Students for Concealed Carry.

An amendment was proposed to change the title of the resolution to “Addressing the Tragedy in Las Vegas and the Implications on Public Pafety.”

LAS Sen. Claire Kirkland proposed an amendment to add the University Police Department to the resolution’s mailing list.

At-large Sen. Walter Wright proposed an amendment to remove President of the WSU Chapter of Students for Concealed Carry, Calin Ostby, from the mailing list.

“I just don’t think it’s appropriate to forward this resolution to a student on campus,” Wright said.

Each of the three amendments passed unanimously.

he has been a consensus builder.

“We can be loyal to our values — I’m a Republican — I have pragmatic, traditional Republican values,” O’Malley said. “I can be loyal to those values and still sit down with those who hold other values and find common ground.”

“It starts with understanding that no one perspective has all the right answers.”

In an effort to engage college-aged voters, O’Malley created a college advisory board. He said he plans to send out group texts to the board, gathering students’ opinions on important policy issues.

“Some people told me I was crazy,” O’Malley said. “They said, ‘Look Ed, college students won’t vote. They just simply won’t vote in any election that’s not a presidential election.’”

O’Malley encourages students to join the advisory board, and said they could contact his campaign assistant to sign up to receive texts.

“We don’t need all these people to be Ed O’Malley supporters,” O’Malley said. “Frankly, I’d rather them be from all different perspectives and all different political persuasions. The idea is to help me learn, not just to help me campaign.”

“Leadership is always about listening and engaging the people.”

After over an hour of debate and deliberation, the resolution passed with 36 of the 38 senators in attendance voting in favor.

“I started crying when it passed,” Rowell said. “This has been a labor of love, and I can’t describe how good it felt.’

“It’s probably one of the most fulfilling things I have felt in senate, definitely.”

Mattek said the bill was the “ultimate display of teamwork” by the student senate. She said both sides put aside their differences to pass an important resolution.

“It feels like we transcended all the stupid, meaningless drama,” Mattek said.

“We pretty much compromised,” said At-large Sen. Taylor Williams, who opposed the original resolution last week.

The senate also passed Hoover’s resolution with 36 votes in favor.

The resolution, titled “Sympathies for Las Vegas”, was derived from Rowell and Mattek’s original resolution, with the mention of campus carry laws and gun violence removed.

“This bill shows our heartfelt sympathies for what happened in Las Vegas,” Returning Adult Sen. Kathy Bond said.

Column by

Derek blair

President Barack Obama held a joint session of Congress on Thursday to share his plan to fix America. His plan was very secretive until the day of the speech, when almost

every detail was given to the press.

His plan is ambitious.

Nearly $250 billion in tax cuts, more jobs for teachers, firemen and cops, massive amounts of money spent to rebuild roads and bridges, spending in a new super fast rail system, and investments in green energy.

All for the low, low price

of … $449 billion.

Oh, and this would all be paid for without adding to the deficit.

How can this be done?

That is an amazingly good question, because it remains unanswered by the Obama administration, who say it will be answered “soon.”

The only plausible answer is that taxes will be raised

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Coach Chris Lamb speaks to a player a during the match in Koch Arena.

Volleyball faces big weekend

By ALIYAH FUNSCHELLE

have a 4-0 record on the road.

On Sunday, WSU faces Tulsa.

The Golden Hurricanes are 8-10 overall and 2-4 in the AAC.

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The Shocker Volleyball team has a lot on the line this weekend at Charles Koch Arena — a tiebreaker for the No. 1 spot in The American and the potential for Head Coach Chris Lamb’s 400th win.

FRIDAY NIGHT, THE NO. 22 SHOCKERS WILL FACE SMU. BOTH TEAMS ARE 6-0 IN AAC CONFERENCE PLAY.

WSU is 14-3 overall to SMU’s record of 12-5. The Mustangs also

IF THE SHOCKERS GO 2-0 OVER THE WEEKEND, LAMB WILL SECURE HIS 400TH WIN AT WICHITA STATE IN HIS 18TH SEASON.

Lamb has led the Shockers to a school record fourteen straight 20-win seasons.

The SMU game will be on Friday at 7 p.m. and the Tulsa game will be on Sunday at 1 p.m.

WHERE: Koch Arena

WHAT: WSU Volleyball plays MSU and Tulsa

WHEN: WSU plays SMU on

Friday at 7 p.m. and Tulsa on Sunday at 1 p.m.

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