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How Wichita State boosted enrollment leading up to the official headcount

By CHANCE SWAIM, RAY STRUNK & MATTHEW KELLY

Earlier this month, The Sunflower reported that Wichita State achieved the largest enrollment increase of any four-year regents university in the state through a late push to enroll non-degree-seeking senior citizens and high school students in free, half-credit-hour courses.

Phi Delta Theta suspended, investigated for sexual misconduct

Besides high school students and senior citizens, WSU enrolled university employees — including faculty — in free, half-credit-hour courses before reporting the largest enrollment increase in the state.

Sept. 29, WSU announced an increase of 607 students from last fall.

Without high school students, senior citizens, and WSU employees enrolled in half-credit-hour badge courses,

headcount would have been down by 110 students.

The third day of fall classes, when enrollment was losing pace with last year’s numbers, Rick Muma, senior associate vice president for academic affairs and strategic enrollment management, sent an email to 85 university leaders telling them their employees could take free

HALF-CREDIT-HOUR ENROLLEES IN OFFICIAL HEADCOUNT

HS Students

281

WSU Employees

58

60+ Students

378

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MADNESS

By MATTHEW KELLY

For the first time in two decades, there will be a contested Democratic primary for the Kansas governor’s race, but House Minority Leader Jim Ward is already sizing up a potential Republican challenger.

“A lot of smart Democrats talked to me about it seriously — about being the candidate who could beat Kris Kobach,” Ward WARD said. “I took that seriously.”

Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state, is considered by many to be the frontrunner for the Republican nomination because of his name recognition.

Ward said voters are ready for a change in leadership after seven years of Republicans controlling state politics.

“A lot of Kansans think we need to return the balance of a two-party system,” Ward said. “By electing a Democrat governor that understands rational, fiscally-responsible policies and talks about running state government more like a business.”

A number of candidates have characterized Topeka’s climate as toxic, saying an outsider needs to win the governor’s mansion to shake up state politics. As a prominent member of the legislature for the last 16 years, Ward is a fixture in Topeka, but he said he brings an outsider’s perspective.

“I have an insider’s experience, but an outsider’s attitude to change the politics of Topeka,” Ward said.

“I’ve demonstrated that this year with working with the coalition to change the tax experiment.”

By ANDREW LINNABARY

Phi Delta Theta fraternity is under suspension and investigation by Student Conduct and Community Standards due to multiple allegations of misconduct — including sexual misconduct in 2016 — stemming from their annual Luau event, held at the end of September. The suspension will be upheld until the investigation into the multiple allegations is closed.

The Student Conduct and Community Standard office wrote to sororities with members involved saying that multiple female Greeks experienced “non-consensual sexual behavior during a Luau event hosted by Phi Delta Theta Fraternity in fall 2016,” according to a fraternity member who wished to remain anonymous to avoid backlash from the Greek community.

While on suspension, members of the fraternity are prohibited from engaging in any form of chapter operations or fraternity-related involvement on or off campus, including Shocktoberfest and Songfest, Student Involvement Assistant Director Tia Hill said.

Fraternity presidents and representatives were made aware of the suspension at last week’s Interfraternity Council meeting.

Sororities with members who reported sexual misconduct at the Luau were contacted by the Title IX office near the beginning of October, an anonymous sorority member said.

“These incidents may cause serious physical and/or psychological harm,” Student Conduct’s message said.

“Wichita State University maintains a comprehensive program to support those who are involved in such incidents, and will respond promptly and equitably to reports SEE PHI DELTA THETA PAGE 2

Ward: ‘I want to be the boring governor.’

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Wichita State guard CJ Keyser cocks back for a dunk during the “Shocker Madness” dunk contest. Keyser won.

Bardo compares Innovation Campus to LeBron James

Bardo new chair of Urban League of Kansas

‘Controversy and misperception’ Christina Long, a presenter at President John Bardo spoke at Startup Grind, said Bardo’s plans Startup Grind ICT, a monthly event for the university have, at times, that connects local entrepreneurs, been met with opposition. on Thursday.

She referred “THAT’S LIKE SAYING TO LEBRON Bardo to the Grace JAMES, ‘YOU WERE A FAILURE AS addressed the Memorial Chapel A ONE-YEAR-OLD, YOU DIDN’T controversy, university’s MAKE IT INTO THE NBA.” progress and backlash from ­—JOHN BARDO, PRESIDENT acknowledged downtown Wichita controversies businesses that and scrutiny the saw WSU as university has faced recently. competition for resources, “and Here are some highlights from SEE LEBRON JAMES PAGE 2 his talk.

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Wichita State President John Bardo, responds to a question during the Startup Grind ICT event held at The Lux last Thursday.

President John Bardo was appointed as chair of the Urban League of Kansas Board of Trustees, a nonprofit organization.

The organization was forced to shut down its programming last year after it lost funding from United Way. “We want to establish a sustainable funding model that will keep us around and strong for a while,” McCray-Miller, former chair of the SEE URBAN LEAGUE PAGE 2

INSIDE

‘THE FOREIGNER’ FLUNKS

MR. 400

SHAMET ON THE RISE

The Purple Mile fights to end domestic violence.

Jackie Chan disappoints.

Volleyball coach reaches new milestone.

Shamet earns preseason recognition.

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PHI DELTA THETA FROM PAGE 1

of sexual misconduct, relationship violence, and stalking. The University has a responsibility to eliminate the behavior, prevent its recurrence, and address its effects on any individual and/or the community.

Retaliatory actions against any individual involved in reporting or participating in the investigation of a complaint will not be tolerated. Individuals who engaged in personal use of alcohol or drugs around the time of an alleged incident will not face disciplinary charges for that behavior,” the message said.

Mandy Hambleton, deputy Title IX coordinator for students, confirmed the investigation.

Hambleton said in an email that she could not provide details so as to protect the integrity of the investigation and individuals involved.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 forbids sexual harassment and sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funding. Schools are legally required to respond promptly and effectively to remedy hostile educational environments.

When asked if the Title IX office’s involvement confirmed allegations of sexual harassment, Director of Student Involvement Nancy Loosle said, “The investigation is still ongoing and could involve multiple areas of misconduct.

“Once the investigation is completed, they will have a more clear picture of what areas are involved.”

Several members of the Greek community were willing to speak about the case, but all refused to be identified for this story because of instructions from investigators or of fear of backlash from the Greek community for speaking out.

A sorority membersaid she was brought in for an interview with Student Conduct during the first week of October because she was on the list of Luau attendees.

She said she was aware of many sorority members who had individual meetings with Student Conduct.

LEBRON JAMES FROM PAGE 1

even with The Sunflower reporting this week that the university and its resources being used for an investigation for a student,” Long said.

“How do you push forward through that controversy and misperception?” Long asked Bardo.

Bardo said critics are inevitable.

“There will always be naysayers,” Bardo said.

“Tell me anything worthwhile that has ever happened in the history of the world that hasn’t been controversial.”

“There’s always gonna be people that want to find fault.

That’s easy — finding faults.”

“We’re gonna keep going because it’s the right thing to do.”

Bardo said people should not judge the Innovation Campus too quickly.

“Give us a chance to achieve what we are trying to achieve,” Bardo said.

“It drives me crazy when I see a news item that says, ‘Well, they only had 22 people doing this. It’s a failure.’

“That’s like saying to LeBron James, ‘You were a failure as a one-year-old; you didn’t make it into the NBA,’” Bardo said.

“We’re just experimenting and starting.”

“One of the things you can do as a city and community in Wichita is help people understand that we’ll get there.”

“Help people understand this is moving at light speed compared to what most of people in the country have ever really thought about.”

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Ward said he has a history of working with coalitions, regardless of party affiliations, to solve problems, citing his bipartisan achievements as a member of the Wichita School Board and the Wichita City Council.

Earlier this year, he was a driving force behind the legislature’s decision to repeal Gov. Brownback’s hallmark tax cuts, which were

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Phi Delta Theta’s fraternity house is located north of campus across 21st Street. The fraternity has been suspended.

SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE GREEK COMMUNITY WERE WILLING TO SPEAK ABOUT THE CASE, BUT ALL REFUSED TO BE IDENTIFIED FOR THIS STORY BECAUSE OF INSTRUCTIONS FROM INVESTIGATORS OR OF FEAR OF BACKLASH FROM THE GREEK COMMUNITY FOR SPEAKING OUT. She said she was questioned about 2016’s Luau in addition to this year’s, but this was the first year she attended.

She said she was asked general questions — if there was hazing, underage drinking, where she spent the night. She wasn’t told what the allegations were, or who alleged there was misconduct, she said.

She said she talked about the allegations with a Phi Delta Theta friend of hers outside of the interview.

He was “very secretive” about why the fraternity was under investigation, she said.

“He was not specific in any way,”

as a “new form of education” implemented at WSU this fall.

Badge courses are “self-directed” courses aimed towards non-degree-seeking students.

The courses award a half-credit hour to high school students in AP classes, non-degree-seeking working professionals in self-directed online courses, and senior citizens in courses that meet four times a semester at local retirement centers and churches.

Students in badge courses are not required to pay student fees. There are no grades in the courses. They are taken for completion credit.

There are 843 students enrolled in badge courses this year, compared to 55 last year.

Thursday, Bardo downplayed the fact that badge course enrollment in the two weeks leading up to the official headcount accounted for WSU’s increased enrollment this fall.

“It’s not about — oh, we did it to get the numbers up,” Bardo said.

“Who cares? The bottom line at the end of the day is, can we get you what you need in a timely manner, where you are, in a way that is transcript-able so that you know that it’s there and you can prove you did the work?”

I-35 CORRIDOR STRATEGY

Bardo referred to a recruitment strategy announced by the university in 2016 that allows residents of certain parts of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas to attend Wichita State and pay reduced, in-state tuition.

He stressed the economic importance of recruiting along Interstate 35, known as the I-35 corridor.

“If you look at shipments out of Wichita, of goods, they tend to go along the I-35 corridor,” Bardo said. billed to Kansans as a “red-state experiment.”

“I voted against the tax experiment back in 2012 and I continued to work over the years to put together a coalition . . . that was able to repeal the tax experiment to the benefit of the people of Kansas,” Ward said.

He said he hopes to bring a level of stability to the governorship.

“I want to be the boring governor,” Ward said. “We’ve had too much controversy and radical sways and policy experiments. I think

she said. “He just said they were on suspension.”

She said sexual harassment was listed on a questionnaire she was given before the interview, and she was asked questions related to sexual harassment during the interview.

“They asked me questions about where everyone slept and if I was dating the guy who brought me,” she said.

Luau — a Hawaiian-themed, off-campus Phi Delta Theta annual party featuring tiki torches and floral leis — was held this year at an alumni’s residence near the Waterfront at 13th Street and Webb Road on September 30. The event ends with attendees sleeping in tents.

Guests invited as a date are allowed to share the tent of their inviter. Phi Delta Theta members are allowed to bring more than one guest, a fraternity member said.

Some of the guests who weren’t comfortable sharing a tent also slept in cars, according to an attendee. Sorority members also had the option of sleeping in a tent designated for their sorority, the attendee questioned about the Luau said.

“For Wichita State’s purposes, there are now 10 million Kansans.”

“I brought my own tent so it wasn’t an issue for me.”

As of Tuesday afternoon, the president and representatives of Phi Delta Theta did not respond to requests for comment.

SEPTEMBER’S BANNER INVESTIGATION

This is the second investigation into Phi Delta Theta fraternity in two months. The fraternity suspended two chapter members and was briefly under investigation

by Code of Conduct and Title IX in September after a banner encouraging new sorority recruits to visit for “free house tours” was hung from a window at their frat house on the first day of sorority recruitment. A photo of the banner was posted to social media, sparking immediate backlash.

The investigation was dropped without discipline after the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) sent a letter to President Bardo criticizing the university’s investigations for violating free speech rights protected by the First Amendment.

University officials agreed the banner was constitutionally protected.

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LATINX CLUSTER HIRE

Bardo discussed the proposed Latinx cluster hire that was brought before the Faculty Senate last week.

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

Wilson Baldridge, professor of French, who presented the proposal to the faculty senate last Monday, 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.”

Bardo called the move “innovation in the arts and sciences.”

“We’re gonna try to hire people where we don’t specify what disciplines they have to be in. They just have to be in Latinx studies,” Bardo said.

“Very different, but that came from the faculty.”

Joining the American Athletic Conference Bardo said the decision to move Wichita State from the Missouri Valley Conference to the American Athletic Conference had nothing to do with basketball.

“I don’t care about basketball,” Bardo said. “That’s not why we did it. Think about the other schools in the athletic conference.”

“We’re like Houston. We’re not like Evansville,” He said. “It’s part of this message of, who are we?”

Kansans just want good old-fashioned boring government that takes care of — pays the bills, takes care of essential services like schools and good roads, and public safety.”

Ward said that, as governor, he would create a tight, fiscally-responsible budget.

“Fiscal responsibility is the number one issue,” Ward said.

“Kansans are very fiscally responsible, and it really angers them — there’s a real anger out there — that their state government doesn’t pay their bills.”

Urban League of Kansas, said last year.

Bardo has been a member of the board since early last year, according to a university news release.

Amy Barfield, a psychologist at the Counseling and Testing Center and president of the Unclassified Professional Senate, said in a UP Senate meeting Tuesday that she spoke with Bardo about his recent appointment.

Barfield said Bardo and a small group of faculty would be traveling “to talk with a company about an urban development program.”

“There’s nothing like it in the Midwest,” Barfield said. “What’s needed for sustainability in urban development areas — [Bardo] is looking at maybe developing some new degrees out of that.”

Barfield said a potential urban development program at Wichita State would call for the addition of “one or two” new faculty positions.

She said the program would be good for recruitment.

“That will give us a new market for recruitment in an area that’s lacking in this part of the country,” Barfielf said.

Last Thursday, Bardo spoke at Startup Grind ICT, an event for local entrepreneurs, and mentioned his recent appointment to the board and how it relates to Innovation Campus.

“All of the national data show that you wanna be not right in downtown,” Bardo said.

“The area of relatively low-income, relatively working-class homes, that’s where you wanna be.”

Bardo said that’s right where WSU is located.

“We’re in the right location with the right mission.”

Ward said he does not expect any of the four teenage candidates who have entered the race to become the next governor, but that they serve an important role in shaping conversations about key issues.

“I think that the fact that they’re willing to put their voice into the mix is very good for Kansas,” Ward said. “We’re going to hopefully talk more about young people issues when we talk about affordability of college education, when we talk about jobs and careers that you can have in Kansas.”

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Jackie Chan in “The Foreigner”

Chan can’t save this clunker

MATT GARNER FILM CRITIC

There’s a certain schadenfreude associated with a revenge thriller — watching unnamed and faceless mercenaries arrive at gruesome deaths elicits an almost primal response from the viewer. Haven’t you always wanted to see justice done in a way that the real world could never allow?

It’s the basis on which superheroes and their antagonists come from. In “The Foreigner,” Jackie Chan’s latest film in the crowded genre, Chan’s considerable passion can’t save the film from its clichéd script.

Chan, 63, plays Quan, a retired restauranteur in London whose daughter is blown up in a terrorist bombing by “The Authentic IRA.” Part of the appeal of this film is watching well-regarded actors playing against type.

Chan, usually known for his happy-go-lucky personality and intelligent mixture of action and comedy, tackles his first dramatic role in some time to great effect. In fact, Chan brings an uncommon gravitas and authenticity to the character, playing him with an emotional reservation and apathy that looks and feels as if it is truly brought on by the death of a loved one.

Spurred on by tragedy, he tries uses his special skills to investigate who killed his daughter. Ever since “Taken” revitalized the genre in 2008, copycats have sprung up like the heads of a hydra. “The Foreigner” attempts to differentiate itself through its inspired casting choices.

Pierce Brosnan plays an Irish politician and former IRA strongman whose ties to the organization may not be as severed as he wants the public to believe. It’s a far-cry from the days he played the most famous British spy in all of cinema. While he does a fine job of playing an Irish crime boss/politician (the film wants you to believe they’re one and the same), most of his performance is shackled by the asinine situations the film places him in.

For a while, it works, as Chan’s journey for revenge gives he and Brosnan a platform to shine scene after scene. But it quickly becomes bogged down by a laborious subplot that threatens to overshadow the main narrative, resulting in a poorly-paced detour.

Furthermore, this distraction takes Chan off-screen for over thirty minutes as the director sets up a second-act riddled with clichés and dulled by familiarity.

What made “Taken” work was its pacing. Stripped down to the bare chassis and engine, “Taken” was 93 minutes of pure power distilled into a moving image, roaring across the scene with a fervor so relentless and violent that the viewer had no choice but to acquiesce or get off the ride.

“The Foreigner” wants to be that picture. It wants to be that next action movie that becomes a pop-culture phenomenon through its word-of-mouth buzz and entertainment value, but it lacks the same electric energy and perfect pacing that transformed “Taken” into a thrill ride.

Instead, “The Foreigner” sputters and chokes, stops and starts again, barely pulling itself across the finish line in a final showdown that arrives as too little too late.

Watching the film, it’s apparent this was a Chan passion project — a way for him to break out of the typecast he set for himself in the last two decades through his string of successful action comedies. It’s just too bad the film he attached himself to was a clunker.

Student provides relief for earthquake victims in Mexico

By MATTHEW KELLY

Over the summer, senior Allison Bailey traveled to Puebla, Mexico to take in the city and earn credits for two Spanish courses. She returned to Puebla Wednesday to bring supplies and money to victims affected by the deadly earthquake that devastated central Mexico in September.

Bailey said she grew close to the people of Puebla because they were willing to share their culture with the students living amongst them.

“It was just sort of mind blowing how proud they are of their culture and how open they were to sharing it with us,” Bailey said.

Back in Wichita, Bailey watched as the city she had immersed herself in was ravaged by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake. She said the full impact of the disaster struck her when she saw footage of historic landmarks that she stood at mere months ago collapsing, particularly a church she had visited at the top of a pyramid.

“When I got on social media, I saw a video of the church crumbling down, and I was just like, ‘Oh my God,’” Bailey said. “I just wanted to cry.”

In the aftermath of the quake, she also saw people reaching out to provide relief to victims.

“I was seeing photos of like, my friends over there helping out, passing out clothes to kids,” Bailey said.

Bailey said she already wanted to go back to Mexico, but now she felt she could give back to the community, particularly by handing out clothes to children. She utilized Facebook to get her message out,

and she and her best friend raised money and collected clothes she could take to Puebla.

“They need clothing and they need everything because everything was destroyed,” Bailey said. “I thought I would bring clothes, and I’m not really sure what else they need, so I was just going to bring money donations, and once I get there, convert it to pesos.”

Bailey said she plans to stay in a hotel and work with friends she met over the summer to distribute supplies to those in need. Fortunately, none of her friends were injured in the quake.

“The friends that I made over there, they honestly feel like they’re going to be friends forever,” Bailey said. “It’s a cool feeling.”

Bailey, who decided to double major in Spanish after earning her minor in Puebla, said she has also grown close to her Spanish professors.

“They feel like family, honestly,” Bailey said. “Like, this is the first time I’ve ever felt involved in school, and I’m assuming it’s because it’s something I really like.”

Bailey works part-time at North High School, helping students who speak limited English to succeed in school.

Bailey said she plans to stay in Mexico for five days, distributing the supplies she gathered.

“You can say you care and you can say this affects you, but most people are just on social media raving about it and I’m just like, ‘Come on, let’s actually do something about it,’” Bailey said.

“Hopefully I make some sort of a difference.”

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T-shirts painted by Purple Mile participants are hung on a clothesline.

‘No more’ to domestic violence

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By DANIEL CAUDILL

n honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Wichita/ Sedgwick County Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Coalition hosted its third annual Purple Mile Awareness Walk Saturday to raise awareness and recognize victims of abuse..

The coalition’s intent behind the walk was to raise awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault, while honoring victims of such abuse.

Lynn Turner, an event coordinator there on behalf ofrepresenting the coalition, spoke on to the significance of the eventwalk.

“I think it’s very important to raise awareness and prevention of sexual and domestic violence,” Turner said. “[The walk] is a great opportunity for community partners to come together to champion against these issues.”

The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reports that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe violence inflicted by an intimate partner at some point in their life.

PurpleMile_TM6 The Wichita/ Sedgwick County Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Coalition coalition hopes is working to decrease those rates through the Purple Mile and other means of preventative education.

Students from Coleman Middle School volunteered to establish the walking route, as well as to serve as “living witnesses” to those lost to violence. As the group followed its path around campus, students stood alongside with signs commemorating the lives of victims.

Other memorials to the victims of sexual assault and domestic violence included a moment of silence in The Plaza of Heroines at Wichita State and various art

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People walk at the Purple Mile Walk to raise awareness of domestic violence.

and poetry exhibitions put on by students.

Several organizations, such as the Wichita Family Crisis Center, the Wichita Police Department Victim Assistance Unit, and WSU’s Center for Combating Human Trafficking were represented at the event.

Risa Rehmert, director of program development at the Center for Combating Human Trafficking, described the center’s broad goals, and how the Purple Mile contributed to them.

“Our ultimate mission is to enlarge the nation’s capacity to help survivors of abuse and violence,” Rehmert said. She expressed hopes that the center’s presence at the event would remind others that trafficking is also a severe form of abuse.

For its first two years, the Purple

Mile Awareness Walk was sponsored by WSU’s Criminal Justice Department, but this year it was sponsored by the WSU Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.

This division is responsible for hosting various training sessions, special guest seminars, and other events centered on inclusion, diversity, and involvement around the community.

Marché Fleming-Randle, vice president of diversity at Wichita State, explained the division’s reasons for supporting this event. “[The division] chose to support the walk to raise awareness of violence, not only in the city, but at Wichita State as well,” FlemingRandle said.

She went on to say there are many resources available to students in abusive situations.

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Markis McDuffie included on Forward of the Year watch list

By EVAN PFLUGRADT

Markis McDuffie, junior forward for the Shockers, was included as one of the 20 members on the Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award. selects an initial list of 20 candidates.

Five finalists will be presented to Julius Erving and the Hall of Fame’s selection committee in March after a committee narrows the list to 10 in February. The Naismith Hall of Fame will present the winner at the ESPN College Basketball Awards in Los Angeles in April.

The award honors Julius Erving, the only player in college basketball history to average 20 points and 20 rebounds per game.

McDuffie is recovering from a stress fracture in his foot which did not require surgery. He is slated to return to action in mid-December.

McDuffie was named to the Missouri Valley Conference First Team after averaging 11 points and 5 rebounds in his sophomore season.

He tested the NBA Draft in the summer and exercised his freedom to return to Wichita State after NBA scouts offered an evaluation.

WSU second in AAC coaches poll

By MATT CROW

Wichita State was picked to finish second behind Cincinnati in the American Athletic Conference, according to a preseason coaches’ poll. The Shockers received 115 votes, including five first place votes to Cincinnati’s 116 and seven first place votes.

AAC coaches also picked sophomore guard Landry Shamet for the first-team all-conference team during the AAC media day in Philadelphia but lost preseason player of the year to SMU guard Shake Milton.

FULL AAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL: 1. Cincinnati 116 (7) 2. Wichita State 115 (5) 3. UCF 93 4. SMU 91 5. UCONN 79 6. Houston 72 7. Temple 68 8. Tulsa 52 9. Memphis 36 10. Tulane 30 11. ECU 24 12. USF 16

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Landry Shamet lands on Bob Cousy Award watch list

By MATT CROW

Redshirt sophomore Landry Shamet has been named to the Bob Cousy Award preseason watch list, an annual award given to the top guard in Division I men’s basketball.

A selection committee appointed by the college basketball Hall of Fame will narrow the list down to ten candidates in February and five in March. The winner will be announced at the ESPN College Basketball Awards Show in April.

Last years award was given to KU guard Frank Mason III. Former Shocker Fred VanVleet was named to the preseason watch list his last two years at Wichita State, making the final five both years.

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Lamb reaches 400 wins at Wichita State with victory over Tulsa

By ALIYAH FUNSCHELLE

Head Volleyball Coach Chris Lamb reached 400 career wins at Wichita State Sunday as his team defeated Tulsa 3-0.

“Honestly, there’s something about [400 career wins] that I really feel good about,” Lamb said.

“Every one of them is at Wichita State.”

Lamb is in his 18th season with the Shockers. He holds a WSU record of 14 consecutive 20-win seasons.

“The older I’ve gotten, the more I have appreciated people having a very long career,” Lamb said.

In 2016, Lamb coached the Shockers to their fourth Missouri Valley Conference title as they advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the tenth time during his tenure.

Lamb is 400-159 overall and 8-0 in The American after going 228-78 in The Valley.

Lamb said there is no other place he would rather coach than WSU. “I like people that find a home,” Lamb said. “I want to be the coach at Wichita State. I don’t want anyone else to be the coach.”

“Put me somewhere else and who’s gonna do this job? This is my job.”

Seniors Abbie Lehman and Emily Hiebert were redshirt freshmen when Lamb hit his 300th

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badge courses if they signed up

by Sept. 15 — the Friday before the official enrollment count was taken on Monday.

“This is an opportunity to provide professional development to your employees at no cost to your department,” Muma’s Aug. 23 email said.

Then, underlined and bolded, Muma wrote, “Remember the deadline to get admitted and enrolled is Sep[t.] 15th, 2017.”

“Please pass this on to your employees and others in your units,” Muma said in the email.

Muma said in an email response to questions about enrollment that between the date of his email to department heads and Sept. 15, 58 WSU employees signed up for free, half-credit-hour badge courses.

Ten of those employees were faculty, Muma said.

The identities of faculty members and university employees enrolled in badge courses is protected by FERPA, also known as the Federal Educational Records Protection Act, and therefore unavailable to The Sunflower.

Muma said in his email to department heads that employees’ GPAs will not be affected by the badge courses and that they could post the badge on their social media sites to show they have “mastered a particular skill.”

“When finished they get college credit on their transcript, but it will not affect their GPA as it’s pass/fail (or badged or not badged),” Muma said in the email.

“The employee also receives an electronic badge if they pass, which can be posted on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. as a way to demonstrate to their social media connections they have mastered a particular skill.”

In an email response to questions about the timing of the message to department heads, Muma said: “University employees were offered the ability to take badges earlier in the summer. We wanted them to have the same opportunity to be scholarshiped like everyone else.”

In his email to department heads, Muma pointed to specific badge courses for university employees.

Those were Human Resources Management badges and Professional Writing Series badges.

According to Muma, 17 WSU employees enrolled in Human Resources Management badge courses. Twenty-two university employees enrolled in

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Head Volleyball Coach Chris Lamb calls a play during the game against Tulsa Friday evening.

career wins.

“When I came in, I was nowhere near the player I am today,” Lehman said. “He’s taught me a lot volleyball-wise and about the sport in general. It has just been amazing.”

“It was cool to be with him the last 100.”

Hiebert said she credits Lamb

with pushing her to get out of her comfort zone.

“He helped me so much,” Hiebert said. “I came in and was just used to setting high balls and running after balls and setting, but he helped with my footwork my hands.”

“He has taught me so much about volleyball that I never knew

existed.”

The No. 22 Shockers swept rival Tulsa (26-24, 25-11, 25-12).

Lehman and junior Tabitha Brown shared the most kills with 10 a piece and freshman Giorgia Civita led in digs with 15.

The Shockers will host Cincinnati on Friday and ECU on Sunday.

Professional Writing Series badge courses. All of those employees were non-degree seeking, and all enrolled between the day of Muma’s e-mail and the 20-day headcount.

WSU began counting badge courses as part of its headcount last year. At that time, the university had seven badge courses with 55 students. There are now 36 badge courses at WSU with 843 students.

According to Muma, in his Oct. 5 letter to the editor, this is all part of WSU’s “Strategic Enrollment Plan,” or SEM. “In order to reach the SEM plan enrollment goal of more than 18,000 students by 2020 (not counting WATC students), we will need to grow enrollment by about 5 percent annually in all areas, traditional, transfers, online and even non-degree bound students,” Muma said in the letter.

According to university reported data, degree-seeking students are down. Transfer students are down. Online and badge course students are up.

While the number of badge course students increased by 788 — or 1,433 percent — from last fall to this one at WSU, the number of degree-seeking students decreased by 136 — or 1 percent.

Transfer students decreased by 23 — or 1.8 percent. Full-time online-only students increased by 860 — or 17.2 percent.

In response to “the various news stories related to enrollment in recent weeks, and questions that faculty have asked and been asked,” University Registrar and Director of Enrollment Services Gina Crabtree sent out an email announcement this week to WSU faculty instructing them about what information they are allowed to provide to the media.

“WSU faculty and staff may not share any student-specific information with a third-party (includes parents, other students, media, etc.),” Crabtree said in the email.

“It is fine to answer questions regarding the number of students enrolled in a course, but no lists or descriptors of any kind can be shared that might reveal a student’s enrollment in a particular class,” Crabtree said in the email.

WSU for fall 2018, at no cost.

In two weeks, 281 students enrolled in the free courses geared towards high school students.

The two courses — Library Research: Introduction and Library Research: Resource Use, Citations, and Plagiarism — are instructed by librarian Angela Paul.

The introduction course is divided into three groups, with 195 total enrollees — 88 students are enrolled in the open class, which is available to anyone, 84 Wichita East High School students are enrolled in the course through the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, and 23 Wichita West High School AP students are enrolled in the course. The advanced class has an enrollment of 86.

The badge course was mandatory for AP Language students at Wichita West.

The email from the university — headlined “Exclusive offer for Future Shockers” — said that the courses should take less than ten total hours to complete and are worth one-half credit hour each.

“We commend you for being ahead of the curve and in acknowledgement of that, we want to jumpstart your college transcript now,” the email said.

Paul said that the cutoff for free enrollment in the courses coincided with the 20-day enrollment count.

“The deadline was the 20th day of enrollment,” Paul said.

High school students enrolled in badge courses do not count as first-time new freshmen.

Like the email sent to university employees, the email sent to high school students tells them they’ll receive an “electronic badge that you could post to your social media and/or electronic resume to demonstrate your mastery of these essential skills.”

Muma said the timing of the email to high school students coincided with the high school school schedule. “‘High schoolers’ don’t return to school until late August. This is also the timeframe we contact students about enrolling in concurrent enrollment courses,” he said in an email.

Wichita’s school district began classes Aug. 23. WSU sent the email Aug. 31.

“We have hundreds of students adding/dropping in the first 4 weeks of class and have various outreach efforts to get them enrolled by the Friday before the 20th day. We freeze our enrollment data on the 20th day and students not enrolled by that day cannot be counted in WSU’s

enrollment reports to state or Federal agencies,” Muma said in an email.

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The university made an effort to increase the number of high school seniors taking badge courses in the two weeks leading up to the enrollment count.

An Aug. 31 email from the university offered “two fully-online and self-paced badge courses” to all high school seniors accepted to

‘TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES’

Tina Sorenson, an English teacher at Wichita West High School, said she learned about the badge course program from a flier she found in her staff mailbox in September, advertising free badge courses to high school students.

Sorensen, who takes yearly field trips to WSU with her junior AP language class to see the campus and study at Ablah Library, made the library research badge a requirement for her AP class.

“I made it mandatory for AP because it’s free,” Sorensen said.

“They do the majority of the work on their own, but there’s only four modules and there’s really not a lot,” Sorensen said.

“I want them to be able to learn to research properly, to know what is fake and what’s considered legitimate.”

Sorensen said some of her students have had trouble logging in to access their badge course work. She said she worked with a university technician who said there was a “glitch” in the system.

“He said something about that there was a glitch between enrollment of students who were actually enrolling as college students compared to students in high school working on a badge course,” Sorensen said.

Muma said the issue is not a result of the high school students’ non-degree-seeking status.

“There’s no ‘glitch in the system between degree-seeking and non-degree-seeking students,’” Muma wrote in an email. “The University has had some technical difficulties with students setting passwords (not their IDs), especially when they apply and are admitted on the same day.”

Badge courses do not require test scores or transcripts for admittance, and students can apply and be admitted on the same day.

In a separate email, Muma said, “Counting someone on the 20th day has no relevance to whether they have accessed course content, whether that’s in an online course, a face-to-face course, etc.”

Sorensen said she still thought the library badge course was a good idea, but she was frustrated that she had to spend three class periods working with the university to get all of her students logged in.

“Professional-wise, they were awesome,” Sorensen said. “It’s just that the technology problem was really irritating and it wasted a lot of time because it’s AP and we already have a shortened schedule.”