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WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1896.

money Makers

FROM FY 2013 TO FY 2019

$364,323

MARCHE FLEMING RANDLE

230 percent increase $53,000 to 175,000 Role changed from assistant liberal arts and sciences dean to vice president for diversity and community engagement.

$358,000 $231,712

$330,000

FY 2019

FY 2019 FY 2013

$280,000

RICK MUMA

88 percent increase $148,625 to $280,000 Role changed from associate provost for quality assurance and accountability and professor to provost and chief academic officer.

TOP 10 SALARIES

John Bardo President $364,000

$184,500 $123,000

$179,478 $110,316

$175,000 $53,000

AVERAGE SALARY OF PROFESSORS

$148,625

John Tomblin Executive Director of NIAR, VP of Research and Technology Transfer $358,000

LOU HELDMAN

62 percent increase $110,316 to $179,478 Role changed from interim director of the Elliott School and distinguished senior fellow to vice president of strategic communications.

$81,021 $73,981

ANDY SCHLAPP

50 percent increase $123,000 to $184,500 Role changed from executive director of government relations and board of trustees to chief of staff and director of NIAR business development.

JOHN BARDO

10 percent increase $330,000 to $364,323 Has remained in same role, president, whole time.

TENURE-TRACK PROFESSORS

— including associate and assistant professors — have seen an average increase of 9.5 percent to their salaries between fiscal year 2013 and 2019. That’s $73,000 to $81,000. This is including all colleges and programs.

Assistant, associate, and full professorships are the three tenure-track teaching positions. No other teaching positions were included in this comparison. Assistant professor is often the first position held in a tenure track, followed by associate, then a full professorship.

WHAT’S TENURE?

In higher education, tenure is a professor’s permanent job contract, granted typically after a probationary period of six years. A faculty member in such a probationary position is said to be in a “tenure-track appointment.”

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This graph shows the growth of a number of administration members’ salaries as compared with the average growth of tenure-track professors’ salaries. The salaries were pulled from WSU’s fiscal year 2013 budget book and the current fiscal year 2019 budget book. There were 378 professors in FY 2013 and 425 in FY 2019.

‘Things can be accurate without being true’

BY ANDREW LINNABARY

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Anand Desai Dean of the Barton School of Business $266,000

Associate professors’ average salaries per college $120,000

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ll of the administration members in the salaries chart above were emailed with the chart’s numbers and asked if they would like to reply. Lou Heldman, vice president for strategic communications, replied for all, then contacted The Sunflower over the phone.

He said the salary increases are based on new roles and responsibilities. Here are some excerpts of what he said.

“If somebody is doing the same work, then of course their rate of pay is not going to go up at the same rate of someone who is doing totally different work.”

“Everybody is always making a decision in their job — am I valued here, or would I be more valued somewhere else?”

“Maybe Jr. Simon can’t dunk the ball, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t a very good member of the team.”

“You get paid based on the responsibility and not the contributions.”

“Things can be accurate without being true.”

Tony Vizzini Professor $243,000

$80,000

$60,000

$40,000

Royce Bowden Dean of the College of Engineering (retiring) $242,000

$20,000 $0 ANDREW LINNABARY & MADELINE DEABLER/THE SUNFLOWER

This graph averages the salaries of associate professors, the most commonly occurring professorship across the six main colleges. VP of Strategic Communication Lou Heldman explained the salaries are a reflection of the market-value of each college in the real world.

BUSINESS — $116,111

Dean Elledge Director of Advanced Ed. in General Dentistry $240,000

ENGINEERING — $83,438 HEALTH PROFESSIONS — $68,077 FINE ARTS — $61,667 LAS — $59,490 APPLIED STUDIES — $57,100

Werner Golling VP of Finance and Administration $235,000

Private Wonder school opens its doors at Wichita State

BY MATTHEW KELLY

With Hurricane Florence bearing down on the East Coast, Wonder co-founder and CEO Zach Lahn worked the storm into Wednesday’s lesson plan.

Armed with a leaf blower, Lahn took his students outside to test their makeshift structures, built to withstand hurricane-force winds.

“It’s all about relevance,” Lahn said.

Wonder, a Koch-family funded private school, opened Sept. 4

in a renovated space in Wichita State’s former Printing Services building. Thirty-nine students, ages three to 11, now attend school daily on campus.

“Very quickly, I realized just how much of a dedication there is to like, innovative thinking here at Wichita State,” Lahn said.

Lahn co-founded Wonder with Annie Koch, Charles Koch’s daughter-in-law. He said WSU was the ideal location for a school that invests in children and fosters creativity.

“We have a very fundamental belief that every child — every child is capable of great things and deserves to find their calling and they can change the world,” Lahn said. “We believe that and we tell these kids that every day.”

Wonder does not plan to seek accreditation through the Kansas Department of Education, meaning it will not be required to follow state regulations, administer state tests, or hire licensed teachers.

Instead, the school plans to use a portfolio-based approach to

showcase students’ projects and presentations throughout the year.

“We’re trying to help students be more creative, and the portfolio-based approach is being adopted by more and more schools,” Lahn said.

Wonder has hired three WSU grads to be full-time guides — there are no “teachers” at the school — but it’s unclear what applied learning opportunities Wonder will afford current WSU students.

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Sandra Bibb Dean of the College of Health Professions $205,000

Dennis Livesay Dean of the Graduate School/Associate VP for Research and Technology Transfer $199,000

INSIDE

GEOLOGY ROCKS

REMEMBERING MAC

STARTING FRESH

Learn how to sharpen a knife.

Geology students apply their learning in the mountains of Wyoming and Montana.

Columnist Ryan Crews reflects on the late rapper Mac Miller.

He was a top N.C. player. Then he tore his ACL. Now he’s starting over at WSU.

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hocker readers, this week I write to you under a perhaps hasty assumption that you’ve never considered the importance of a good, sharp, kitchen knife. For those who have, perhaps you’ll gain some cutlery advice.

Why is a finely sharpened kitchen blade important?

Chopping ingredients with a dull knife can actually affect that tastes of food after cooking.

Aside from making veggies and herbs easier to cut, a sharpened blade will create delicate slicing incisions in your ingredients rather than the smashing gouges left by a dull knife.

This is important because wellchopped ingredients maintain flavorings through juice and germ. These are otherwise lost when cut roughly with poorly maintained blades.

Safety is another point of note.

You might think a dull knife is safer than a sharp one. However, the opposite is true. For example, if you’re chopping potatoes with a bad knife, extra force will be necessary. Any accidental cuts you sustain will be deep, jagged, and take more time to heal. On the other hand, a small cut sustained with a sharp knife will be easier to clean because less force will have been put into cutting in the first place.

Minor cuts made by sharp knives can heal quicker, too,

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because a knife undergoes a subtle disinfecting process during polishing. A freshly sharpened knife is then less likely to retain bacteria.

At the end of the day, your cooking will be easier and you will expend less effort in chopping vegetables, fruits, fungi and the lot.

Finally, by keeping your knives sharp, you’ll be abiding by a Gonzo adage put forth in the cinematic Johnny Depp version of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”: If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.

Here’s How to Sharpen a Knife.

THINGS YOU NEED

Stainless steel kitchen knife Sharpening stone (also known as a wet stone) Bottle of lubricating solution Fine drying cloth First, clean your knife with lukewarm water — making sure to get any stray bits of dirt or

leftover crumbs off of the blade and hilt. To get rid of any extra dust or grime, wipe the knife down with a dish cloth.

Now you’re ready to sharpen.

After buying a blade sharpening lubricant — I prefer Smith’s Honing Solution because its cheap and it works quite well — add a bit of it to the rough side of the sharpening stone.

Rub the solution into the stone using the cloth until the liquid is gone and the surface is left damp.

Hold the knife with its hilt towards you and the blade facing away from your body. Gently pull the knife along the surface of the wet stone — angling the knife upwards slightly as the blade tip passes over the end of the stone.

Keep the knife held at a 45degree angle. This will guarantee that iron atoms in the knife will gather as compactly as possible and give you a sharper result.

Repeat on both sides of the knife.

For the last step, rub in a bit of lubricant on the smoother side of your sharpening stone. Rub each side of the blade along the stone on both sides.

Give the knife a onece-over by gently grazing it along the wet stone once more. Repeat as desired.

Once finished, wipe your knife down with a few dabs of lubricant before drying it off. Now you’re ready to slice and dice.

‘Safe in the Hands of Love’: A gateway into the world of avant-garde pop music The fantasy of navigating an alien world often relies on an unspoken protection of the navigator.

The new, mysterious places crafted in fantasy narratives should be dangerous by default.

Often, they are inhabited by species that must be befriended or defeated to ensure safety. The fact that a character not only survives but thrives in new environment where the odds are stacked against them is perhaps the most fantastic element of most fantasy pieces. It’s no wonder our favorite fantasy protagonists are armed with magical powers, unfulfilled destinies, and powerful friends.

The feeling of safety in the unknown radiates throughout Yves Tumor’s brilliant new record, “Safe in the Hands of Love.” Fit for soundtracking an Atlantean art gallery, Tumor’s unique brand of

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CULTURE EDITOR trip-hop lurches from banshee-like peals of harsh noise and sea-soaked jazz guitar. A protection spell of warm, gritty texture and melodic reverb envelopes even the record’s most challenging moments.

The balance here is exquisite. If you’ve always wanted to enter the realm of experimental music but find most of its records grating, ugly, or boring, you’re likely to find an in here. The record’s poppiest, most

straightforward cuts, “Noid” and “Lifetime,” resemble alt-radio tracks while maintaining the weirdness that sets Yves Tumor apart.

There’s no doubt that “Safe in the Hands of Love” is still a challenging record — especially in its back half.

“Hope in Suffering” showcases a ghoulish spoken-word sample amidst cacophony, and closer “Let the Lioness In You Flow Freely” hurtles the listener through chaotic noise rock.

Yet if you give yourself the time and patience to crack through the record’s harsher sections, an enchanting melodic core glows through the shell. “Safe in the Hands of Love” is a gateway into the bizarre and wonderful world of avant-garde pop music. It’s a journey magnificently suited for listeners both familiar with and hesitant towards exploring the artistic unknown.

“We used the parking garage last year. It’s a little harder because they had the parking garage open for students last year, and now you have to pay.”

—NATHAN PRICE, senior, aerospace engineering major

“[Parking is] worse this year. There seems to be more people this year. I usually park way the heck out there (off campus) and have to walk to main campus.”

—VICTORIA ASKIN, senior, mechanical engineering major

“I park off-campus and walk across 17th St., … It’s fine and it’s free, so go for it.

Because I get here so early, the distance from the RSC to my car is eight minutes tops. Now I have my friend’s longboard that I borrow, so it’s even faster to my car.”

—ALAN NGUYEN, senior, accounting major

“Parking sucks. Going here is already so expensive, I didn’t expect to have to fight for parking.”

—KORY MONTOYA, freshman, forensic science major

Racial bias in our criminal justice system looms large Persistent racial disparities actually define our criminal justice system. Of the 1.6 million people serving prison sentences of longer than a year, 60 percent are African American or Latino.

According to the Brennan Center, racial bias constitutes a principal driver of inequality in all its forms: it depresses economic opportunity and mobility, compromises educational opportunities, and strips people of the right to participate in our democracy.

Roughly seven in 10 African Americans said they were treated less fairly in their dealings with police. This disparity begins long before any contact with law

LETTER TO THE EDITOR enforcement. Schools suspend or expel black students at three times the rate white students get suspended or expelled. Despite consistent drops in crime, the Kansas prison population quadrupled from 2,300 in 1978 to more than 10,000 today.

Warehousing that many people

— many of whom are non-violent drug offenders or people needing mental health care — costs taxpayers $236 million annually.

Racial disparities also negatively influence which immigrants get rousted by law enforcement as well as who encounters voting barriers.

Yes, we have big problems. But the ACLU of Kansas believes we’re bigger than those problems.

Join us on Friday Oct. 5 on the Kansas City Kansas Community College campus for “Still Separate, Still Unequal: Pursuing Racial Justice in Kansas,” to learn more about how you can help reduce spending on prisons, strengthen your community and

stop mass incarceration.

The conference is free and open to the public, but you must register in advance at: aclukansas.org/ stillunequal. Breakfast and lunch will be served.

A whopping 91 percent of Americans say the criminal justice system needs fixing. Count yourself in that number and attend the conference. You’ll acquire the tools you’ll need to dismantle our relentlessly biased and needlessly expensive criminal justice system.

— Mark McCormick Director of Strategic Communications at the ACLU of Kansas

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Using our lives to honor others: Remembering Mac Miller with Donald Glover

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was on a road-trip to Chicago when Mac Miller was found dead of an apparent drug overdose.

Something about the overcast weather, remaining hours of the drive, and the fresh news of Mac’s passing painted a surreal haze on the luscious, green landscape surrounding the highway. It hadn’t quite set in that Mac Miller was gone.

When we finally arrived at the concert, the surreal feeling of absence followed me around for a while. But a wave of love and community finally came during the highlight of the show: Donald Glover led the crowd through a moment dedicated to Mac Miller. “This kid, he was so nice. He was the sweetest guy . . . We should be allowed to be sad. My heart was broken . . . I just want to say, I love you, Mac.�

He continued to get on his knees and sing a quiet, heartbreaking rendition of his “Awaken, My Love!� cut “Riot.� “I can feel it, deep inside my body. I’ve been watching all this all night,� he sang in falsetto while staring to the sky. “I’ve got to move it. This pressure’s brewing. This world don’t feel alright.�

As Glover stood and moved center stage, he wiped tears away, and as the song exploded through the stadium speakers, he danced away the pain we were all feeling.

In just two years, Miller went from Danny Brown labeling him “the worst guy� in rap music to making songs with Danny Brown. He was rising rap’s ranks adjacent to Donald Glover and

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“PEOPLE SAY YOUR LIFE FLASHES BEFORE YOUR EYES WHEN YOU DIE, BUT WHAT FLASHED BEFORE MINE WAS A CELEBRITY’S.�

Rapper, singer, and producer Mac Miller died Friday, Sept. 7 of an apparent drug overdose in his home in Los Angeles.

2013 was the year they both gained the respect they deserved. “We were both internet music kids. We came up during the internet and a lot of critics were like, ‘this corny ass white dude’ just like they were like, ‘this corny ass black dude,’� Glover says.

Miller was a bright light with stories of generosity following him in his interpersonal relationships. He always shined brighter than the demons of his psyche. The important thing for everyone who was touched by his work is to remember him for how he made you feel.

Articles will label him as Ariana Grande’s ex. People will exploit his pain and frame him as a hopeless

junky because of the way he went out.

I will remember him for how his music made me feel. Glover’s words will stick with me, when he pleaded with us that, “I felt good about being sad because it tells me that he was special . . .

Everybody deserves that. Everybody in this room. You are nobody’s narrative.

Sometimes people will struggle with that because people will tell you who you are on the internet . . . They will make a narrative about you, but we’re all way too complex to be a narrative.�

On the 11-hour journey back to Lawrence, we were 15 minutes away the end of the trip when we were involved in a collision at 70-miles-perhour. While the car was violently pulsing from left-to-right and I was sure

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that we were about to flip, a picture of Mac flashed into my head. I was sure that we were about to join him when suddenly the vehicle stopped. With my heart pounding, I discovered that no one was hurt in the accident.

People say your life flashes before your eyes when you die, but what flashed before mine was a celebrity’s. Not even their life — just a picture of their life. It made me want to get my priorities straight. I want to start living my life. I want to fill up every moment with love for myself. I don’t want to live for anyone else. Living to my fullest, as he did, is the only way we can truly honor Mac Miller. Rest in peace, Eazy Mac with the Cheesy Raps.

Wichita Community Theatre offers intimate portrayal of ‘Fun Home’

BY MARIAH PERKINS

The Wichita Community Theatre (WCT) is nestled in the College Hill neighborhood. Upon walking in, it’s clear that the staging and seating are arranged to make this already relatively small theatre into an intimate space — a home. “WCT is different than many of our traditional theatres in that performances can move to the floor, because we can move our audience seating,� Director Vonda Newby-Schuster said. “I think this made WCT uniquely qualified to do [“Fun Home�].�

Newby-Schuster said performing “Fun Home� in a cozy, homey theatre to an audience seated close to the stage, brought the focus back to the actors and the relationships.

The journey through family relationships is at the heart of the musical. It’s the story of a family, centered on the relationship between daughter Alison Bechdel and father Bruce Bechdel as they each trudge through the difficulties of their own identities.

The show watches Alison grow up through childhood, her college years, and ultimately adulthood.

Over the course of the play, she grapples with her sexuality, her tangled family dynamics, and the death of a loved one. “Fun Home� is a unique musical in many ways. It has a small cast, deals with heavy subject matter, and is based on a graphic memoir.

WCT’s rendition of the play is impressive and incredibly moving.

Newby-Schuster handled the heavy subject matter honestly and poignantly by fostering conversations with the cast. “I would pose questions that

would spur conversation,� NewbySchuster said. “We pulled from our own experience in our conversations to better understand the subject matter. Because these characters are/were real people, we wanted this musical to have a very natural/realistic style. The conversations and deeper questions, I believe, helped to make the portrayals true.�

Although the intricacies of the “Fun Home� story are uniquely Alison Bechdel’s, universal themes ultimately spring forth.

One of the star moments of the show was captured in young Alison’s song, “Ring of Keys,� performed beautifully by Ava Graves.

The song deals with Alison seeing a woman presenting in a masculine way. Young Alison is overcome, and she sings, “Do you feel my heart saying ‘hi’?� This moment of seeing representation of who she thought she could be is profound and necessary in the coming-of-age process. “Fun Home� is a profound and heavy musical, yet it offers many moments of comic relief. One moment that filled WCT with laughter was the song “Come to the Fun Home,� performed by the children — Ava Graves, McKynlee Stecklein, and Nathan Stecklein.

Despite its title, the song is a jingle advertising the family’s funeral home.

Another moment of reprieve was the song “Changing my Major� after a romantic night with College Alison (Ashleigh Taylor)’s love interest, Joan (Erin Gray).

There were heart-wrenching performances from Helen Bechdel (Sheena Monroe), Bruce Bechdel (Kenneth Mitchel), and Adult

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Alison (Claire Wehry) in the songs “Days and Days,� “Telephone Wire,� and “Edges of the World,� respectively. These songs offer insight into how each character deals with this pivotal moment in the Bechdel family.

WCT’s performance of “Fun Home� is an intimate and moving portrayal of a thought-provoking

musical. It’s no surprise that most leave this show changed.

Newby-Schuster said she would like potential future audiences to keep an open heart and mind about the show. “It is more than the subject matter,� Newby-Schuster said. “It has substance and feeling and heart. I think audiences will walk

away with so much to think about.

It's a great conversation starter.

Don't stay away because of its content. This show is so much more than that.� “Fun Home� is running this Thursday through Saturday at Wichita Community Theatre at 8 p.m. with a matinee on Sunday, at 2 p.m.

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Students from WSU and other colleges and universities from across the country pose for a photo at the geology field camp. “The goal is to make our students practicing scientists,” William Parcell said.

‘GO BEYOND A SET OF TEXTBOOKS’

Geology camp gives students the chance to apply what they learn in the classroom

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very summer, geology students at Wichita State have the opportunity to apply what they learned in the classroom in the mountains and valleys of Montana and Wyoming.

When the program was started in the 1970s by professor John Gries, geology students traveled to Colorado to conduct exercises in nature. In 2018, the camp has the same mission, but now the trip takes students through Montana and Wyoming — spending a month from late June through late July with fellow Shockers and students from other universities.

Chair of the geology department and head of the field camp William Parcell said the camp gives students

the opportunity to “go beyond a set of textbooks” and make applied learning a part their studies.

“Our goal is to make our students practicing scientists,” Parcell said.

“Watching the interaction between students and lifelong friendships that are often made at the camp is my favorite part.”

Students are expected to “pull their weight” and help with setting up and packing up camp as they travel through geological sights. The campers analyze data and interpret what they see.

WSU students can earn six credit hours for attending the camp.

Parcell said a recent major donation to the program means the price of attending the camp is just the regular tuition price for the six hours of credit from the geology course.

In May, Wichita oilman Wayne

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Woolsey and his wife Kay donated $2 million to the geology department.

To apply for the program, students must be geology majors and preferably have taken previous geology courses at the university.

Students must apply before January, when final decisions are made for the program. There is no cap on

how many WSU students can attend the camp.

About half of the camp attendees are WSU students, but the camp has earned national attention by teaming up with universities and colleges from across the country.

Students can apply for the program at wichita.edu/fieldcamp.

SGA introduces bill to recognize WSU Young Democratic Socialists of America

BY DANIEL CAUDILL

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Wichita State has finished installing thirty 360-degree security cameras on the emergency light poles around campus. The cameras are not continuously monitored, police said, but are looked at when someone pushed the emergency button. The cameras were funded with $46,000 that was previously used to support a college newspaper readership program.

Student Government Association introduced a bill Wednesday that would recognize a chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) at Wichita State.

YDSA is the youth and student section of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which was founded in 1982 by American author and activist Michael Harrington.

Alex Tackett, president of the current unrecognized YDSA club, spoke during the meeting.

“The goal of the organization is to help educate and organize young students on campus who like to participate in the democratization of all things, be it society, the economy, the government,” Tackett said.

According to the YDSA website, chapters at universities, colleges, and high schools “fight for the immediate needs of workers and students while building our capacity to fight for more radical and structural changes.”

Tackett said one specific activity the goal has in mind is to campaign for James Thompson, the Democratic candidate for Kansas’ 4th Congressional District. Thompson shares some broad political ideals with the DSA, including medicare-forall and lowering the cost of a college education.

The bill, authored by RSO Student Assistant Amanda Coon,

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Alex Tackett, president of the currently unrecognized Young Democratic Socials of America chapter at Wichita State, speaks at SGA’s Wednesday meeting. YDSA is one of three student organizations seeking recognition from the Senate.

was one of three bills read at the meeting related to recognizing student organizations. The other two bills were for WSU Math Club and Wichita State Animation Reel Coalition.

“With the new media arts program that has come together, there’s a lot of students that are interested in learning animation and all of its applicable fields,” said Alec Lang, standing president for the Wichita State Animation Coalition. “What we wanted to do is bring the community together for these media arts students, and not just for them, but for the people that maybe don’t have that major.”

If recognized as a student organization, Lang said that the group hopes to develop workshops for students related to animation as well as community-wide events.

Each of the three bills recommend recognizing student organizations after they complete the recognition process laid out in SGA bylaws and the RSO Handbook, and upon recommendation of the assistant director of student involvement.

The Student Senate is scheduled to vote on the three bills at its next meeting at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 19 in the RSC second floor’s Santa Fe room.

NEWS

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NEWS IN BRIEF ODI TO HOST HISPANIC INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION The Office of Diversity and Inclusion will host a Hispanic Independence Day celebration from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday on the Rhatigan Student Center’s east patio.

Hispanic student groups will set up booths with information about history, music, and food from various countries that celebrate their independence in September.

ANNUAL MUD VOLLEYBALL AND TUG-OF-WAR EVENT THIS WEEKEND

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BY AILEEN RUEDA-DACOSTA

ennis Livesay, dean of the graduate school and associate vice president of research and technology transfer, is the only candidate for dean of the College of Engineering who is currently employed at Wichita State.

Livesay is one of four finalists for the position. WSU hosted an open forum Monday for members of the university to ask him questions as part of the process of selecting the next dean.

Livesay opened up the discussion by addressing the most obvious setback to his candidacy — that he is not trained as an engineer. His background is in chemistry.

Livesay said he sees the position of dean of the College of Engineering as an opportunity.

He laid out a four-point plan for his vision as the next potential dean of the College of Engineering: diversity and inclusion, lower the opportunity cost, grow our research, and maintain the momentum.

“Are we a research university or are we an access-oriented, urban-serving university?” Livesay asked during his presentation.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 2018

The Student Activities Council will host its annual mud volleyball and tug-ofwar event noon Saturday at the Hughes Metroplex Fields.

Volleyball and tug-of-war will both feature three divisions: men’s, women’s, and co-ed.

Pre-registration and payment ($10 per volleyball team, $5 per tug-of-war team) are due by 5 p.m. Thursday. Visit wichita.edu/sac to register.

WSU HOSTING BLOOD DRIVE WSU will host a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in the Heskett Center lobby.

To schedule an appointment, go to redcrossblood.org and search Wichita State, or call 1-800-Red-Cross. Walk-ins are welcome.

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Either a Photo ID or a Red Cross donor card is required to participate in the drive.

Dennis Livesay, a finalist for dean of the College of Engineering, speaks to faculty and staff at an open forum on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Livesay is currently the dean of the Graduate School, associate vice president for Research and Technology and professor at Wichita State University.

ENGINEERING DEAN FINALIST TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC FORUM

“Are we a traditional college of engineering, or are we a college of engineering looking for opportunities in the cracks between traditional disciplines?”

Having faculty members that represent diverse student backgrounds will better serve the students, Livesay said. He also said that women and minorities are underrepresented in STEM. In light of the heightened

Hefazi is a professor and head of the department of mechanical and aerospace angineering at the Florida Institute of Technology.

attention that engineering is receiving at WSU, Livesay said one of his goals is to keep the momentum going.

“We cannot be complacent,” Livesay said. “We cannot back off,” Livesay said.

With increased funding, research, and a growing number of graduates in the field, Livesay said one of his goals is to keep the program relevant.

BUILD-A-FRIEND

Hamid Hefazi, one of four finalists for dean of the College of Engineering, will speak in public forum and take questions at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in 107 Devlin Hall. The event is open to the public.

CRIME LOG UPDATE ARRESTS

Sept. 6 — 35-year-old man, bench warrant, Rhatigan Student Center.

Sept. 11 — 34-year-old woman, outstanding Wichita warrant, 2415 E. Aloma St. AUTO ACCIDENTS

Sept. 9 — Two-vehicle collision, unknown location.

Sept. 7 — Two-vehicle collision, parking lot 2.

Sept. 6 — A parked vehicle was hit by a car, parking lot 19.

Sept. 4 — A stopped vehicle was hit by a car, Mike Oatman Dr. LOST & FOUND

Sept. 10 — A wallet left on a table went missing, Rhatigan Student Center.

Sept. 6 — A wallet was found at Experiential Engineering Building.

Police were unable to contact the owner.

Sept. 5 — A Physical Plant employee found luggage at Wilner Auditorium lawn.

Sept. 4 — A bicycle was found with a missing wheel, Ablah Library.

THEFT

Sept. 5 — A bicycle was taken at Cessna Stadium. The case is under investigation.

Sept. 4 — A bicycle was stolen and a bike lock was found cut at Shocker Hall.

WONDER

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Top, Junior business major Jacky Enriquez builds a stuffed monkey to support the youth living with cancer at the SAC’s -Build-a-Friend event Monday, Sept. 11, 2018 in the RSC. Above, a stuffed polar bear is dressed in a WSU T-shirt.

The College of Applied Studies’ Intern Handbook says “persons certified for student teaching shall engage in student teaching only in educational agencies which are accredited or approved by the state board of education and which have entered into a written contract with a teacher education institution.”

Shirley Lefever, dean of the College of Applied Studies, said she’s excited to explore applied learning opportunities with Wonder in the future, but that those meetings haven’t happened yet.

“I think any time that we can find opportunities for our students to have applied learning, it’s going to be a win, and I think those opportunities will be available in the Wonder school,” Lefever said.

Lahn echoed Lefever’s sentiment.

“Shirley Lefever has a very open mind to new ideas, and so I’m hoping we’re able to develop a great partnership that can benefit both sides,” Lahn said.

Wonder has plans to open a middle school and eventually a high school on Innovation Campus. Lahn said they could break ground on their new building as early as fall of 2020.

“Any time you get a K-12-aged student on WSU’s campus, it increases the opportunity that they will come here as a student,” Lefever said.

To qualify for admission at WSU, traditional students must satisfy at least two of three criteria — attain a 2.0 GPA from an accredited school, be in the top third of their class, or score a 21 on the ACT. WSU works with homeschoolers and students from non-traditional schools on a case-by-case basis.

Bobby Gandu, director of admissions at WSU, said a portfolio-based approach to education complicates the admissions process.

“I’ve been pulled into a room with the administration and we’ve kind of started to think through how would we admit students from the Wonder

“ANY TIME YOU GET A K-12-AGED STUDENT ON WSU’S CAMPUS, IT INCREASES THE OPPORTUNITY THAT THEY WILL COME HERE AS A STUDENT.”

­—SHIRLEY LEFEVER, DEAN OF APPLIED STUDIES

school, where there’s not, say, traditional grades and transcripts,” Gandu said. “And to be honest, I don’t know that we have that fully answered yet.”

Non-traditional metrics of tracking student achievement are becoming increasingly common across the country — something Gandu said will complicate the college admission process.

Tuition at Wonder is $10,000 a year for elementary students and $6,500 a year for preschoolers. Lahn said the school has already started providing financial aid.

“We wanted to find the right families to start the school off, and we found some amazing families,” Lahn said.

“It wasn’t a question when we sat down with somebody, we asked ‘is that something you can pay?’”

Lahn said Wonder plans to provide scholarships or financial aid to 25-30 percent of its student body in the future.

Lahn said the socioeconomic background of a student doesn’t determine whether they can succeed at Wonder — it’s more about a mindset of self-directed problem solving.

“Some people that come from lower socioeconomic environments have the most entrepreneurial skills you can find,” Lahn said. “So absolutely we want that in the school.”

WSU Vice President for Strategic Communications Lou Heldman said Wonder is in-line with the university’s mission.

“We’re at a time in the history of the university where we’re trying to let ideas bloom,” Heldman said. “So we’re going to nurture a lot of different ideas, and some of them will be fantastic and some of them will turn into utter failures, and that’s the nature of innovation — that you try a lot of things and you learn from them.”

SPORTS

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He was a top N.C. player. Then he tore his ACL.

Sports Six Trivia 1. WHICH APPAREL COMPANY IS WICHITA STATE ATHLETICS AFFILIATED WITH?

BY MARSHALL SUNNER

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amarius Burton was a rising star in North Carolina.

Scouts from Penn State, Wake Forest, Virginia Commonwealth, and others, scouted Burton during his junior season at Independence High School. He was considered one of the top high school players in North Carolina.

Then, he tore his ACL. “I had offers from some great schools,” Burton said. “But after I tore my ACL, I didn’t hear from them anymore.”

Burton missed his 17U season of the AAU circuit, which likely played a factor in his recruiting stars. Rivals and 247Sports listed him as a threestar recruit.

Burton rehabbed his left knee that summer, and offers from Massachusetts, George Mason, and Temple came in. He limited his decision to five schools. After leading his high school to a 4A state championship in North Carolina, he had two spots remaining.

“That’s when Butler and Wichita State contacted me,” Burton said.

Burton decided to take his last two official visits to those schools.

He visited Butler on a Tuesday and got on a flight to come to Wichita Wednesday. That same week, on Friday, Burton would announce a verbal commitment to WSU. “It all happened so quick,” Burton said. “My mom told me to pick a school that Friday, and Wichita State was the one.”

Burton said he felt like Wichita State was the perfect fit for him.

A six-person senior class graduated and others transferred out. Burton said he felt like the opportunity for him to come in and play immediately was right there in front of him.

“I knew I could come in right away and make an impact,” Burton said. “It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”

Former Shockers turned NBA players, Ron Baker and Landry Shamet, played roles in Burton’s recruitment.

“Ron told me that Coach (Gregg Marshall) was going to push me, and if I came in with the mindset to work, then anything that I wanted to accomplish while playing here was possible — whether that’s

a. Nike

b. Under Armour c. Adidas d. Puma

2. HOW MANY OF TODD BUTLER’S FORMER PLAYERS WERE DRAFTED BY THE MIAMI MARLINS? a. Two

b. Three c. Four d. Five

3. WHICH SHOCKER ENDED THEIR STREAK OF A MADE THREEPOINTER AT 40 CONSECUTIVE GAMES LAST SEASON? a. Landry Shamet b. Austin Reaves c. Conner Frankamp d. Markis McDuffie

4. WHICH REGION OF THE NCAA TOURNAMENT DID THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM COMPETE IN LAST YEAR? a. West b. East c. Midwest d. South

5. MARKIS MCDUFFIE WILL WEAR WHAT JERSEY NUMBER THIS SEASON? a. 32 b. 1 c. 5 d. 23

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Freshman guard Jamarius Burton practices in Koch Arena Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018.

getting a degree or going pro,” Burton said.

Shamet emphasized the importance of body language to Burton, a combo guard. “[Shamet] spoke about how Coach Marshall doesn’t like bad body language,” Burton said.

Players like Baker, who started as a walk-on for the program, and others, who weren’t highly rated

high school prospects, made WSU stand out among Burton’s other offers.

“They’ve had players make it even if they weren’t the top-ranked prospects,” Burton said. “ It shows me that if you put in hard work that anything is possible.”

Burton grew up around basketball. His mother played for Alabama A&M and his two sisters

6. WHICH SHOCKER WAS DRAFTED IN THE SECOND ROUND OF THE 2015 WNBA DRAFT BY THE PHOENIX MERCURY?

played collegiate basketball — one at Fayetteville State and the other at Paine College. He grew up on the sidelines, playing with a ball or recording his sisters playing.

Burton first picked up a basketball when he was 3.

“I just grew up loving the game,” Burton said. “When you’re around the game for that long, you will fall in love with it.”

a. Alex Harden

b. Aundra Stovall c. Brittany Martin d. Moriah Dapprich

Answers will be posted in the sports section of Monday’s edition of The Sunflower.

Lamb stays positive through ‘growing pains’ of four-game losing streak

BY EVAN PFLUGRADT

Volleyball Head Coach Chris Lamb said he doesn’t mind his team’s four-game losing streak.

“I don’t know the last time I lost four,” Lamb said on his weekly radio show Monday. “But I feel like we’ve just been let out of a cage — and we’re feeling pretty good about things.”

The cage was a long, four-game road contest that included No. 1 Brigham Young, No. 2 Stanford, and No. 10 Creighton. Iowa State, who defeated WSU last weekend, was ranked one spot out of the top 25 in this week’s AVCA poll.

WSU received votes in the poll for the fourth time this year.

We’re four and four, but you can tell we’re growing,” Lamb said. “We don’t have a signature win against one of the shinier teams — but everybody we’ve had is No. 25 to No. 1.”

All of the opponents WSU has

faced in their eight games this season had postseason bids last year.

WSU secured the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament last year after winning the American Athletic Conference with a perfect record. WSU hosted an NCAA Regional, but lost to Missouri in the second round.

“There’s no guarantee that you get the automatic qualifier,” Lamb said. “We built this schedule for what it’s going to look like two months from now.”

Against Creighton last weekend, in a match that was over in four sets, Lamb said he saw a different fight than what he saw out of his team a season ago.

“I think they knew that we weren’t the better team,” Lamb said of his team. “But I also think they felt that we were in it because we were fighting.

“That’s what we’ve been waiting for.”

WSU’s schedule should ease

Answers from last issue: 1. Wichita Brewing Co. makes WuShock Wheat.

2. Alec Bohm holds four AllAmerican honors.

3. The Wichita Wingnuts played at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.

4. Fred VanVleet was a finalist for the NBA’s sixth-man of the year last season.

5. Samajae Haynes-Jones scored 31 points last season. He was the only Shocker to break 30.

6. Taryn Torgerson won the AAC’s women’s golf championship last year.

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Volleyball Head Coach Chirs Lamb watches his team compete.

up in their final road stretch before hosting their home-opener next week.

“There’s one kind of pain you can live with, and that’s growing pain,” Lamb said.

This weekend, WSU will face Stephen F. Austin, North Texas, and Cal Poly, in a three-game tournament challenge.

Cal Poly has a 7-1 record and is ranked No. 14 in the AVCA Poll.

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