September 20, 2017
Volume 144, Issue 5
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Students present for forensic science week Whitney Clum
Washburn Review whitney.clum@washburn.edu
Students gathered in the Kansas Bureau of Investigation building for the Career Fair and presentations of forensic science research done in Kansas to complete the Kansas Forensic Science Week. Booths were set up in the lobby, displaying information about the qualifications needed to work in the forensic science field. In between DNA models and detailed displays of latent prints, representatives from Emporia State, Johnson County Sheriff ’s Office Criminalistics Laboratory, Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center and the Washburn Forensic Science Department interacted with students. The KBI also spoke to the public about their specific departments. The second floor rotated between six different sets of
, research by both students and researchers in the field of forensic science. All of the research was done in the hopes of expanding the possibilities of how science could be used in a courtroom. The individual disciplines for each study varied drastically in their approaches and their research focuses. Even from just Washburn, the subjects were as wide-ranging as chemically analysizing car paint and using statistics to determine one’s sex from their bones. Ryan Haller, junior chemistry major, gave a bit of insight into putting together his project and how to use in the future. “We would collect paint chips from damaged vehicles and we would get a laser and skin off the top to get a cross section so we could get all the layers,” Haller said. “Then you would lay the paint chip flat and scrape the razor across the top of each individual
In His Genes: Pardon Masarirambi, Emporia State graduate student, presents his evidence hailing flesh-eating insects as sources of DNA. His initial research focused specifically on flies.
Photos by Whitney Clum
Chipper: Ryan Haller, chemistry major, displays his research on paint chips from cars. His research focused on how these methods can be used to determine different makes of automotives vehicles.
layer. We would then roll those flat and analyze that... In theory, it should show that individual layers [of paint] get the same information as cross sections.” According to Haller, if a hit-and-run incident occurred, layers of paint could be used just as effectively as a cross section to narrow down what type of car was responsible. Following the theme of using trace evidence from vehicles, Katie Hays’, sophomore molecular biology and forensic chemistry major, experiment revolved around the fibers found in cars. “I saw an episode of the Forensic Files where there was a case with a little girl that was solved with a fiber from a car,” Hays said. “I went up to professor [Holly O’Neill] and wanted to do a fiber project. We went out to different dealerships here in Topeka. We ended up
collecting samples from five different makes...What we did was we mounted fibers with a mounting medium. We would find nylon, go to the flow chart. We got three consistent fibers.” Like Hays, Mackenzie Walls, forensic anthropology major, conducted her research with a new sort of database in mind. Her research, consisting mostly of statistics, is about trying to ensure that the points on the human skull and pelvis accurately, consistantly determine an individual’s sex. “This is just a small part of the overall grant that Dr. Klales is doing,” Walls said. “I did the stats to see if everything was acceptable, reliable and accurate. The point of this grant was to take all the data collected, put it in a database so it runs the points.” Pardon Masarirambi, Emporia State graduate, was the outlier in terms of
school and goal in mind for his research. His project focused on using flesh-eating insects as a second source of DNA in the even that their either was not a body available to examine or if any remains were unidentifiable through other methods. “If someone is missing and we don’t have a body, what do we use?” Masarirambi said. “I thought about flies, but flies can go anywhere, so I need something else. That was my starting point.” Whether it was presenting research, giving job advice to students, or comparing KBI’s operations to their TV counterparts, Washburn’s Forensic Science Department put everything they had on the table for the Career Fair for the conclusion of forensic science week.
Workshop updates students’ views on masculinity Charles Rankin
Washburn Review charles.rankin@washburn.edu
Men Can Stop Rape was a discussion-based workshop aimed at teaching healthy masculinity Sept. 18 in Washburn B. Led by Jeremy Hardy, training and technical assistance coordinator, the workshop began with the simple task of looking at “Fight Club’s” Tyler Durden and Kanye West and answering the question: Between the two, who’s the real man? The discussion that fol-
lowed looked at qualities that make up a “real man” in the eyes of society today, such as being the financial provider for one’s family, being physically strong and being calm and collected. Later in the workshop, students were asked to think of the strongest man that they’d known in their lives. Responses varied between their past coaches, their fathers or someone they knew that had served in the Marine Corps. Most of these answers had in common was a familial connection to the students,
humility and a respect for others. They also looked at how these qualities matched up against the previous qualities of the “real man” exercise. “These people that are being mentioned share one important thing,” said Pat McGann, director of strategy and planning for Men Can Stop Rape. “They are treating people like they matter, and that is the biggest thing we want you to take away from this.” McGann talked about how necessary it is that people treat one another
like they matter. He said that when we think of people as less than ourselves, we are more prone to act hurtfully toward them, whether it be physical or emotional. At the end of the workshop, students broke into groups to discuss ways that they could individually help promote healthy masculinity and how groups around campus could help with this in the longterm as well. The workshop had a positive impact upon students. “It was helpful to just see a better view of what
masculinity should be and how we can improve it on our campus,” said Blake Cheatham, sophomore kinesiology major. “I’m really glad I was able to come.” Other students agreed that their perspectives on what masculinity should mean have changed. “I got a different aspect of what healthy masculinity is,” said Lenny Robinson, freshman nursing major. “I think after this, we are all more knowledgeable about what it really means to ‘be a man.’”
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