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D.A. decision on rape reported at Flats coming ‘shortly’ BY JENNA FARHAT
A rape reported to Wichita State police in December remains under investigation by the District Attorney’s office, DA Spokesman Dan Dillon said. Dillon said no arrests have been made, and that a charging decision would be made “shortly.” No alert was sent out to the campus by WSU police regarding the rape. University Police Captain Guy Schroeder said that was because it was an “acquaintance rape.” “That’s not a stranger type thing,” Schroeder said in February. “If it were a stranger rape, and we thought that that had anything to do with threatening anybody else on campus, we would have put out a notice to everybody.” WSU Police Chief Robert Hinshaw said in January that there was a “known suspect.” The suspect does not live or work in the greater Wichita metro area, Hinshaw said. “I don’t want to make a promise I can’t keep,” Schroeder said, “But I will tell you in lots and lots of years of police work, I think we’re going to get that charge.” In December, a student reported she was raped at The Flats, an apartment complex located on campus. The student was a resident of The Flats at the time of the report. WSU police redacted all information related to he student who reported the rape. The incident is the second sexual assault reported at The Flats since the apartment complex opened on campus last August. Dillon said additional information was requested by the DA’s office, which was provided by WSU police.
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Wichita State President John Bardo speaks during an event announcing a partnership building with Spirit Aerospace and Wichita State University at the Experiential Engineering Building on Innovation Campus.
Spirit AeroSystems leasing space on Innovation Campus
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pirit AeroSystems will lease Partnership Building 2 on Innovation Campus, officials from the aerostructures manufacturer and Wichita State announced Thursday. Vice President for Technology Transfer John Tomblin said the partnership aligns with the university’s shift in gears to focus on applied learning and being an “economic driver.” The building will have no classrooms, Tomblin said — only opportunities for applied learning and research. “Applied learning — that means we want to do things differently in how we train a workforce and educate a
workforce in the future,” Tomblin said. “The economic driver that we usually talk about is how we can grow jobs and how we can grow employment,” Tomblin said. Tomblin said the partnership with Spirit AeroSystems is comparable to WSU’s partnerships with Airbus, who is also leasing land on Innovation Campus. “The best thing is for students to work on real-world projects,” Tomblin said. “How they work on real-world projects is, bring them into the university.” WSU President John Bardo said the role of a university should center around integrating with the outside world. “That’s what this is about today, is helping our community change its capacity for the future to provide better
Student organizations concerned amid meager budgets BY MATT COOPER
For the rest of 2018, Indian Student Association will continue to fund themselves, after being denied funding from student government. According to lines 53 and 54 of the 2018 fiscal year Student Services Budget, a total allotted sum of $50,000 dollars was dedicated to requests for funding of student organizations through SGA. In emails obtained by The Sunflower, SGA Treasurer Marshall Johnson addressed Indian Student Association’s treasurer Ashwin Rajesh by stating the following on March 8: “Unfortunately, the senate has completely allocated all of the funding available for organizations this Fiscal Year.” Johnson went on to express hopes that the SGA’s decision wouldn’t dissuade ISA from communicating with student government officials in the future. Decisions for student organization funding is seperate from those decided on by the WSU Student Fees Committee. The funds are allocated to SGA by the Student Fees Committee, and are then allocated to student organizations based on requests
made to student government. “We’ve actually taken consideration for everything and we’ve done everything possible from our side but we’ve not even been given a chance,” Indian Student Association president Alla Sri Krishna Vastav said. Vastav said ISA has not received funding from the SGA organizational allotment for the past three years. In November last year, the Vietnamese Student Association was allotted a recommended funding of $400 for the 2018 fiscal year. The Biomedical Engineering Students association was recommended a 2018 operating budget of $1,550. “It’s been really hard the last three years to run the organization without any standard funding,” he said. Vastav said ISA has explored various mediums of funding outside of SGA in recent years. This has included taking advantage of local sponsors and acceptance of donations from local businesses and Indian families. ISA is not the only student organization frustrated with its allotted funding for 2018. SEE BUDGET PAGE 4
learning opportunities, to provide employment opportunities,” Bardo said. Spirit AeroSystems CEO Tom Gentile said the new building will employ around 30 people from Spirit AeroSystems and “support 200 students.” Gentile said Spirit’s Innovation Campus location will be where work is done on graphic prototyping, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and additive manufacturing. “These are things that we will be able to incubate here and take to our factory floor across town over on Oliver Street and put into production,” Gentile said. Partnership Building 2, located just north of the Experiential Engineering building, is expected to be complete
Thirty new security cameras are coming to Wichita State’s campus BY JENNA FARHAT
Thirty 360-degree security cameras will be installed on Wichita State’s campus by the end of the summer, Student Body President Paige Hungate announced to the Student Senate. Hungate said Wednesday evening that two of those cameras would be installed by the end of this month, with the other 28 being installed all over WSU’s campus by the end of the summer. The cameras will be located on the blue emergency light poles scattered across campus. The first two security cameras will be installed this month on an emergency light pole outside of the Bombardier Learjet Practice Facility near Eck Stadium, and another one on an emergency light pole between Jabara Hall and Shocker Hall. Currently, there are no such security cameras on the emergency light poles. Hungate said the cameras, which will be monitored by university police, would not be watched unless the emergency button is pushed. “They’ll only be looked at if something happens,” Hungate said. “So somebody’s not going to be always sitting and watching the cameras. But if somebody presses
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the blue light button and it calls the police station, then the police can then look at the camera and look at who’s there and what’s happening in the situation,” Hungate said. In December, student government ended the Collegiate Readership Program, which made local and national newspapers available for free on campus. Hungate said the money that funded the newspaper program would go to pay for the installation of the 30 security cameras.
The Collegiate Readership Program, which was funded by $62,500 in student fees, provided copies of the Wichita Eagle, USA Today, and the New York Times to Wichita State students. The decision did not affect The Sunflower, which has its own, separate newsstands and delivery system. Hungate said in February that $46,000 of the money that once funded the newspaper program would go towards installing the security cameras.
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SOFTBALL DROPS TWO
Try this Asian cuisine for a satisfying thrill to your tastebuds.
The Sunflower asked random students why college is important to them.
The Shockers recover from a Friday blowout to win two in a row against Tulane.
The Shockers dropped two at home over the weekend.
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hinese takeout — It’s what we know as grease-stained carry out bags, fortune cookies, scents of sauté style Mongolian beef and Sichuan chicken emanating from oyster pails filled with steamed rice and topped with bouquets of cream cheese crab rangoons. This is the legacy of Americanized Chinese cuisine. That said, few locals do it better, or cheaper, than south Wichita’s Ah-So Oriental Cuisine. Run and operated locally and seemingly marooned in between Moe’s liquor store and a now boarded up Park Lane Heights Laundromat, Ah-So’s culinary auspices don’t seem all that promising. However, in lieu of a home cooked meal this past week, I called in an order to Ah-So for pick up. To say the least, the experience was revelatory. I SAMPLED THE FOLLOWING
The Triple Crown (sauté shrimp, beef, chicken and vegetables draped over steamed rice) Price : $5.85
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Butterfly Shrimp (Fried, battered shrimp) Price: $3.85 Fried Mandu (Pork dumplings of the Korean variety) Price: $0.85 Each Cream Cheese Crab Rangoons Price: $0.85 Each Egg Drop Soup Price: $1.50 Why was this meal a revelation? Aside from sating my appetite amid wading through piles of unfinished term papers, Ah-So’s spread taught me something about the American diet: Americans are dangerously in love with the rich, sweet, and greasy of cuisine. Was the Triple Crown sultry and filling? Was the butterfly shrimp tasty? Were the mandus satisfactory? Yes, yes and yes. Frankly, I’ve never had better, cheaper local takeout Chinese. Though I couldn’t
help but feel a tinge of guilt. In Andrew Coe’s 2009 book, “Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States,” Coe laments the post World War II tradition of quick, salty, sweet, and cheap, Chinese: “American tastes . . . rule the meal,” he says in the book’s final paragraph. “Like their ancestors fifty and a hundred years ago, most Americans still expect Chinese food to be cheap, filling, familiar and bland.” This perspective says something about the American sense of taste, that it just might be narcotized to the standard of cheap, salty, sweet cuisine being synonymous with something gourmet. My meal from Ah-So was cheap and filling. The rice was steamed with just enough of the germ washed away to make the taste buds happy. The steam from the Egg Drop broth cleared my sinuses as I slurped away at the soup. The crunch of each bite of butterfly
shrimp was a ritual, which felt so reminiscent of a kind of childlike reverie that American consumers are so magnetically drawn towards. The Triple Crown came stuffed with shrimp, beef and chicken smothered in a spicy garlic sauce and rounded with carrots, broccoli and sliced mushrooms. All were above average, especially given the affordable price. These foods are cathartic and meditative. Perhaps Coe was a skeptic of all things culturally appropriated. Maybe I am a biased eater whose parents engorged him with far too many of General Tso’s chicken dinners. But one thing is certain. At Ah-So Oriental Cuisine you won’t wipe out your bank account or be left with a bad taste in your mouth. The food is superb and the prices humble. What more can a student in the American consumer culture ask for?
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Seven signs you’re growing up The other day, I had a friend ask me if I pick up the ice cubes that accidentally fall to the floor when I’m getting ice, or if I let them melt on the floor with the excuse “it’s only water”, or even worse — do I kick them underneath the refrigerator? I told her that I definitely picked them up. She looked shocked and responded incredulously, “I guess you’re a fully-actualized, mature adult.” At this we laughed, because we both know I’m a mess and basically in-utero as far as maturity goes. But this got me thinking, what are the signs in everyday life that qualify you as mature? This is what I’ve compiled:
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1.) You replace the toilet paper roll when it’s empty if you were the last person to use it. If you live with a roommate or with family, you’re officially the spawn of Satan if you don’t replace the roll.
2.) You get your pants hemmed. I don’t know about you, but the length of jeans is perplexing to me. Either they’re hobbit length, or they’re made for Shaq. My jeans fall into the latter category, and the bottoms are tattered to shreds like I’m some sort of hobo. 3.) You separate your laundry. Why don’t I do this? It’s so simple. But it’s even more simple to just throw it in all together. Who needs white t-shirts when you can have a new grayish t-shirt after one wash? 4.) You get your oil changed. It’s such a pain in the arse. But, from experience, Jiffy Lube has a fantastic assortment of magazines. 5.) You make your own doctor’s
Feeling the effects of budget cuts Thanks to a rubber stamp by Wichita State President John Bardo, The Sunflower will receive $80,000 in student fee allocations, thus shrinking The Sunflower’s budget to a new low. Those unfamiliar with The Sunflower’s budget continue to propose ideas for how to cut spending. If we reduced print, if we asked for donations, if we didn’t do this or we didn’t do that, we’d be better off. But that’s not the issue. In reality, printing costs are marginal to the overall budget. The largest fraction is student salaries. All staff positions are student
positions — and all positions are paid. Nobody is getting rich. The students at The Sunflower are underpaid and overworked, but they’re all proud to be a piece of the puzzle because working for The Sunflower is more than just a paycheck; it’s the clips, the professional experience, and the comradery. But because of the budget cuts, fewer students will get the opportunity to work for The Sunflower. The overworked and underpaid will be forced to take on higher workloads in order to preserve the quality of the publication. The challenges will increase.
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In The Sunflower’s most recent issue, a typo made it to print; and critics jumped on the opportunity. While we admit fault, the reality is that we’re already feeling the effects of the budget cuts. Responsibilities are piling on those who are already bearing large burdens. This week, The Denver Post published a front-page visitors guide to Denver’s own Coors Field,
appointments. In a perfect world, would I schedule my yearly checkup? Yes. In the real world, would I neglect to go to the doctor even if I had a tapeworm and a brain-eating amoeba just because I’m too chicken to make my own appointment? Also, yes. 6.) You eat a vegetable once a week. Iceberg lettuc on your Taco Bell doesn’t count. 7.) You don’t shove granola bar wrappers into the bowels of your couch. Don’t even say you haven’t done this before. There’s nothing quite as shameful as sitting on your couch and hearing the crinkle of 7,000 granola bar ghosts.
home of the Colorado Rockies. The faux paus? In the dominant photo under the headline “COORS FIELD”, The Denver Post somehow placed not a picture of Coors Field, but Citizens Bank, home of the Philadelphia Phillies. This issue made its way through print and to a circulation audience of more than 600,000. Honest mistake? Sure. Funny? Absolutely. But really, the mistake is just one of the effects of The Denver Post cutting jobs from more than half their sports section. Had that page passed by more eyes, the mistake probably wouldn’t have made it to print. Offer any fix you want to solve The Sunflower’s budget crisis. We’re already cutting corners. Just realize in the most sincere way that dollars are people — and that’s why these cuts hurt the most.
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FACES OF WSU Why is college important to you?
“To other people it feels like “Eh, I’m just going to school.” For me this feels like this huge accomplishment and something that I have to do. It’s something if I want to be someone, if I want to be successful at some point, and I want to contribute to society, I need to be educated. So coming from there [the Congo] to here is a huge step.
“I’ve been going for years. I started when I was 22 and I turn 27 next week. I want to get a better job instead of just working in fast food. Like right now, I’m a bartender at a casino.”
—Joey White, senior, accounting
— Rico Mulaji ilunga, junior
“I think just a lot of it is learning how to learn and being able to take skills needed to learn to be able to take that into the real world and know how to advance yourself and think critically about situations. Which I think is a lot of what teachers try to do these days is help students prepare to go out into the real world and solve problems. I think that’s one of the biggest things I’m hoping to get out of it.”
“There’s a lot of people who don’t have the opportunity to [go to college] and since I do, I should be taking advantage of it. Girls in other countries, they don’t have the opportunity to go to college, or to even finish high school. I feel like I should be getting [an education] and especially for my family. Because they weren’t able to get their education. It was just their expectation for me to get my education.”
— Kayla Deines, senior
—Jaqueline Garcia, freshman “For me, the jobs that I would want, that I feel like I would enjoy doing, you can’t typically get into them without a college education. It also helps financially, and learning is just something that I like to do.”
“I don’t know if the importance of a specifically college like 4-year degree is important. But I think in the grand scheme of things it’s important to go find something you enjoy and get an education of some kind and a skill. It just is very helpful long term, so you can set yourself up with a good career. I think it’s very important to find a skill and get good at it. It doesn’t matter what it is. It’s very beneficial.
—Brandon Koch, sophomore
—Arthur Ediget,
senior
“When I was a kid, most of us had a fascination with aircrafts or something just flying. Back when I was a kid I used to — I actually didn’t want to be studying aerospace, I wanted to be a pilot. My uncle was a pilot in the Air Force. I got this fascination with aircrafts, and I graduated, grew up, I got interest in doing aerospace engineering.”
“I first went to college because I wanted to be a vet and you can’t really just jump in be like ‘Hey, I want to help animals!’ They ain’t going to hire you for that and now I came back because I just want to get my bachelor’s because it looks good for a job.”
—Missy Rayl, junior
—Tanzimul Farabi, graduate student
Sunflower Soundtrack: ‘7’ by Beach House The sleepy, gentle guitar line in Beach House’s breakout single “Zebra” sounds like a foal taking its first stand with unnatural, slow-mo grace. It’s at once fragile and pristine. When Victoria Legrand’s rich, androgynous vocals come in, they carry the same balance: her voice is deeply textured yet soft. Each element of Beach House’s music tiptoes on this line. As “Zebra” gathers up its cantering shaker rhythms and faint organ pads, it constantly flirts with lifting off the ground. The magic in Beach House’s music lies in the liminal space between floating and forgetting you’re still on your feet. Over the course of their discography, Beach House has moved from pretty bedroom pop (“Beach House” and “Devotion”) to sky-scraping dream pop (“Teen Dream” and “Bloom”) to shoegaze (“Depression Cherry”) and back to pretty bedroom pop with touches of their earlier records thrown in (“Thank Your Lucky Stars”). The B-Sides and Remix collection released last year seemed to cap off the arch of the band. It seemed as if Beach House had explored the range of their sound and cleaned out their archives as a courtesy to their fans. In such context, Beach House entered 2018 with something akin
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MUSIC CRITIC to a blank slate. It’s an odd situation for a band to be in six records deep into their career. While the announcement of their new record “7,” coming in May spurred excitement, it was difficult to tell exactly where Beach House’s sound would go. The record’s first single, “Lemon Glow,” echoed much of the band’s past work. Centered around a warped organ sample, a lilting vocal melody and persistent hi-hats, “Lemon Glow” coasts on a dreamy float over the course of its four minutes. However, the track brings a snarling, aggressive quality around its edges that signals a small but notable shift in Beach House’s approach. Legrand’s vocals turn around minor chords into some dark, nearly creepy, harmonic areas. The lead guitar harkens back to the fuzz of “Depression
Cherry,” but its distortion veers from textured to unhinged. The organ sample, while undoubtedly catchy and memorable, boasts a detuning effect that constantly fights against the hypnotic melodies of the track. “Lemon Glow” finds Beach House sticking to their strengths while pushing into darker, more dynamic territory. “Dive” begins as a lovely ambient-pop ballad with no trace of percussion but then gears up into marching space-rock complete with thundering tom rhythms and diving lead guitar. “Dark Spring” launches with a tumbling drum fill and coasts into a driving atmospheric indie rock cut that alternately recalls Yo La Tengo and Deerhunter. Across the tracks, one pattern is clear: Beach House’s music is more tangible than ever. Guitar and drums sit comfortably at the front of the mix alongside Legrand’s vocals, which shift between the spotlight and the background as each track demands. It’s quite likely that “7” will find Beach House with their feet planted firmly on the ground. Yet given the charged and dynamic nature of these early offerings, it’s likely they’ll manage to reach the same heights as before. While the direction may have changed, the destination – bliss – remains the same.
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The Shockers recovered from a 4-19 loss Friday to win two in a row at home over the weekend against Tulane.
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Top, Wichita State’s Travis Young rounds third base during the first game of the series against Tulane. Left, Wichita State’s Alec Bohm celebrates scoring against Tulane in the first game of the series Friday afternoon. Above, Wichita State’s Tyler Davis winds up a pitch against Tulane.
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Top, Bailee Nickerson runs home after a hit a home run during Wichita State’s victory over Tulsa. Left, Wichita State senior Mackenzie Wright throws to a teammate after a hit by Tulsa. Above, Mackenzie Wright slides into third base during Wichita State victory over Tulsa. MATT CROW/THE SUNFLOWER
Bangladesh Student Association Vice President Arfa Haque said it was difficult being left to raise organization funds independently. “Of course, fundraising is possible,” Haque said. “But it’s not always possible to raise a lot because we have to arrange more for that.” Haque said SGA has an obligation to allocate funding to student organizations. “SGA should definitely help out organizations, especially diverse organizations because they are they there for students. If it [SGA] is not helping students, what is it doing?” In 2018, the total allotted funds for WSU organizational funding was $50,000 dollars. There are 237 recognized student organizations at WSU. If equally distributed among all organizations, each would be allocated $210.97. Vastav said the amount falls short of adequate funding. Last year Indian Student Association spent a total of $5,643 on its annual Indian Night festival at the Rhatigan Student Center. According to Vastav, funds for this event came from committee members and local sponsors. “Being a recognized student organization by SGA, I think they really should consider at least giving us a chance to speak up for what we need,” Vastav said. “That is one thing which was lacking this semester.” In comparison, Vastav noted that SGA doesn’t reserve capability to fund even half of the budget requirement of ISA’s major annual event. “SGA can only provide us only with $2,000 per organization,” he said. “That’s the maximum they can, so it’s never possible. We spent more than SGA actually can give us, not because we want to, but because it is a necessity. “In the 35 years, we’ve always spent more than they [SGA] can