pamphlets were offered on the H1N1 virus, pre-diabetes, health tips on food and wallet-sized walking log cards.

Other activities on campus spread the fun beyond Yager Stadium and Memorial lawn. The Mabee Library hosted Caddy Stacks which allowed families to play mini golf throughout the maze of books. A new art exhibit by Ken Butler called Hybrid Visions debuted in the Mulvane Art Museum. The Washburn Bookstore was bus-tling with business because of its big-gest sale of the year. Shoppers who

bought one Washburn-imprinted item got a second one half off. Such a great deal had many people walking out of the bookstore with some new Icha-bod paraphernalia to wear with pride.

Outside, grills fired up and de-licious-smelling smoke wafted all over campus thanks to tailgaters get-ting ready for the Ichabods game against the University of Central Missouri. The Alumni Association, BodSquad and Greek houses such as Delta Chi and Sigma Phi Epsi-lon had food tents for their members

and guests. Chartwells also offered culinary treats indoors with its Fam-ily Day picnic in the Washburn room.

Food and sales aside, it was the people that made Family Day success-ful. Families from all across the region came to participate in the gathering.

Sheila Karlin and her family from Garden City, Kan. had to wake up at 4 a.m. for an almost six-hour trip to see freshman daughter Kelli Jo on Satur-day. Even after the long journey and lack of sleep, Karlin was still excited for the game, “Go Bods,” she said.

Karlin’s 7-month old grand-daughter Hayden Schaffer was also in attendance and cheered on the Icha-bods with a blue and white pom-pom, making the Karlin family was a per-fect example of a dedicated family. Not only were they there supporting their current Ichabod, but introduc-ing Wasbhurn to a possible future one.

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Washburn has become an interna-tional destination for learning and local students can influence and benefit from the experience of these visiting students.

This year, 163 students came to Washburn from 34 countries scat-tered around the world. Favoring programs in business, nursing, mu-sic and English, Heidi Staerkel, coordinator of international student ac-tivities said 76 of this year’s students come from China and Hong Kong, 12 more from Paraguay, nine from Ke-nya and eight from Honduras. Fifteen countries are represented by only one student leaving lots of opportunity for international students to feel alone.

Staerkel, a self-described in-

ternational mom, helps the interna-tional students get through the red tape and onto campus, then assists them with legal and practical orienta-tions, cultural and social adjustments and any questions they may have.

Visiting students are also sup-ported by the Topeka Friendship Net-work. It helps to match up interested

students with American friendship families.

“They get together at least once a month for maybe dinner, or go to a soccer game or just give

them the opportunity to participate in American culture,” said Staerkel. “And [they] practice English.”

Yet family and university support is not the only thing international stu-dents need, something senior business major Travis Byers learned during his studies in Rosenberg, Germany. Be-

ing a stranger in a strange land speak-ing a strange language he discovered his university’s buddy bystem, which matched visiting students with locals, to be invaluable on a practical level. It was both culturally enriching and a great way to foster lifelong friendships.

Byers discussed his international experience with other students and it became clear that having a buddy made a huge difference. Simple things like getting from the airport to the school, selecting classes and instruc-tors, where to eat, where to shop, what to wear, places to go and places to avoid can be quite daunting for a first time visitor to a school, town or coun-try. Add language and cultural barriers and suddenly the concept of having a local buddy makes a lot of sense.

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Families play at Family Day...Washburn University had a busy

campus of pre-game fun and activi-ties on Saturday’s Family Day be-fore the football game against the University of Central Missouri.

Throughout campus families of all shapes and sizes enjoyed an array of activity tents and tailgating opportuni-ties. The event was created with all ages in mind, especially the younger crowd.

“When I walked up here, I thought it was so sweet to see all these children having fun,” said freshman BodSquad member Rachael Johnson on the young children enjoying the free activities.

There was definitely fun to be had with the inflated Rat Race Obstacle Course, Washburn tattoo and coloring contest tent and carnival like games.

Many Washburn clubs and inter-est groups participated with the free Family Day games. A large Operation board game was used by the American Medical Student Association and the musical fraternity Sigma Phi Iota sang during games of musical chairs. The Leadership Institute’s Pit Stop Chal-lenge and Modern Languages Depart-ment’s bucket toss game were also part of the fun on Memorial Lawn.

For the less competitive crowd Alan Dietrich’s fossil display of Mosa-saur and Xiphactinus skeletons allowed the campus to view creatures more an-cient than the stereotypical professor.

The School of Nursing and St. Francis Health Center reminded fami-lies of health issues amidst a sea of hot dogs and hamburgers at their free blood pressure screening tent. Level One nursing students were able to practice taking blood pressure read-ings in a non-traditional environment full of distractions like the chiming bell tower and crowds. This allowed the students to get clinical experi-ence and gave the family members of the Washburn University commu-nity valuable insight on their health.

Traffic at the tent kept the volunteers busy. One family stopped by together to settle the score in their competition for best blood pressure. Informative

Meghan Ryan is a writer for the Wash-burn Review. Reach her at meghan.ryan@washburn.edu.

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Family Day: Statistics professor Mike Mosier scampers through the Rat Race Obstacle Course during Family Day. The Sept. 26 event on the Memorial Union Lawn provided an opportunity for families to visit booths for various campus organizations, play games and interact with the Washburn community before the afternoon football game.

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The e-mail debacle that plagued Washburn’s campus for the first part of this semester is almost over.

On Friday, Sept. 18, the 12-mem-ber Technology Steering Committee sent out an e-mail to the Washburn community explaining in detail the extended outage. It explained the reasoning for the upgrade, which led to all the problems that occurred, as well as how the problems pro-gressed and were eventually resolved.

On the Banner system that Washburn has been running on since 2004, there have been at least three major upgrades.

“The upgrades depend on the area

and on the module,” said Mike Gunter, director of Information Systems and Services. “There are about 12 up-grades per year, not including patches.”

The upgrade that led to all the recent e-mail problems at Washburn was done by SunGard, the company who provides the university with the Banner system. The main prob-lem with the upgrade was that the e-mail server would not function. There were also more minor prob-lems that were fixed along the way.

SunGard indicated to Washburn that it had never had issues on such a scale as our before. This was caused by a design failure of the software itself.

The failure was discovered on

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German TableMemorial Union, Sunflower Room2:30 p.m.. to 3:30 p.m.

Student Success Skills WorkshopMabee Library3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

French Conversation TableMemorial Union, Sunflower Room3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.

OPENMemorial Union, Crane Room5:00 p.m.

Crane Observatory Open HouseStoffer Hall, Crane Observatory8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Friday, October 2

Volleyball InvitationalLee Arena2 p.m., 6 p.m.

Opening Reception for “Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions”Mulvane Art Museum5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Young Alumni After HoursBradbury Thompson Alumni Center5 p.m.

Friday Night Live (Chi Alpha)International House6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Ichabods at Night

Saturday, October 3

5K Fun Run and Walk8:30 a.m.

Car WashSixth and Branner, Topeka10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Alumni Association TailgateYager Stadium at Moore Bowl11:30 a.m.

Mulvane Art Museum’s Family and Community DayMulvane Art Museum1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Volleyball InvitationalLee Arena1 p.m., 5 p.m.

FootballYager Stadium at Moore Bowl1 p.m.

SoccerYager Stadium at Moore Bowl6 p.m.

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Sunday, October 4

Miniature GolfMabee Library1 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Monday, October 5

NAMI WashburnMemorial Union, Kansas Room6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

EPIC Campus MinistryKuehne Bell Tower8:15 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Ichabod Mascot Auditions

Tuesday, October 6

Brown Bag International LectureInternational House12 p.m.

VolleyballLee Arena7 p.m.

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The Washburn University Men’s Basketball team will be holding open try-outs on Oct. 8.

Auditions will be held in Lee Arena in Petro Allied Health Cen-ter from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Interested participants need to

bring a completed physical form con-ducted within the last six months.

For more information, con-tact Cody Ziegler at (785) 410-0208 or (785) 670-1356.

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Flu season: Alex Mitts receives his flu shot from Maggie Habercanp. The clinic is hosted by the student health office and the School of Nursing across from the corner store and is scheduled to run Monday, Sept. 28 through Friday, Oct. 2.

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NAMI Washburn will be holding a meeting on Oct. 5 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Kansas Room in Memorial Union.

We will have an open forum, Creativity for Mental Health for any-one and everyone to read personal poetry, their favorite poets, sing songs and enjoy a POETIC event.

Mental Health isn't just about illness, it is also about inspiration. Writing poetry, singing/song writ-ing is a cathartic way to cope with experiences of anxiety, depression and unhappiness but also all the good feelings that happen in ones life that become something more than just

feelings inside our hearts and bodies.Please come and join us

for a wonderful event. Re-freshments will be available.

Contact Alice M. Harnisch President NAMI WU at 785-969-0321 or NAMI-WA S H B U R N . G M A I L . C O M(National Alliance on Men-tal Illness) for more information.

NAMI WU is a student organiza-tion that provides education and advo-cacy on the topics of Mental Illness.

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Washburn University re-ports fall 2009 enrollment figures

TOPEKA - Fall enrollment at Washburn University totals 6,652 students enrolled in 74,185 credit hours. Head count enrollment is up from fall 2008 by 107 students (1.6 percent) and student credit hours rose by 984 (1.3 percent).

“The University is aggressively pursuing strategies and procedures to get information in the hands of poten-tial students who would benefit from a Washburn education,” said Jerry B. Far-

ley, president. “We are pleased enroll-ment is up, which continues to confirm the value of a Washburn education.”

The increase reverses two con-secutive years of enrollment declines and was fueled by increases in en-rollment by both Kansas residents and students from out of state. More than 90 percent of students attend classes on campus and two-thirds are enrolled on a full-time basis.

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WU enrollment figures released

Registration is due today for stu-dents interested in becoming the new face of Washburn by sporting the Ichabod mascot costume this year.

All students interested in this position should contact Aman-da Hughes at 670-2153 or e-mail amanda.hughes@washburn.edu.

To be eligible for the position, the student(s) selected must be en-rolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours at Washburn University and maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.5.

The student(s) selected will re-ceive a $1,000 stipend per semes-ter in addition to up to $150 per semester for the purchase of text-books at the Washburn Bookstore, along with other selected benefits.

The Ichabod mascot is the of-ficial mascot of Washburn Uni-versity and is intended to enhance the tradition and spirit of the audi-ence through exaggeration, char-acterization and entertainment.

Mascot auditions will be held on Monday, Oct. 5, and pre-registration is required.

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Ichabod mascot registration dueTOPEKA - Join Washburn Uni-

versity President Jerry B. Farley in a 5K run through the College Hill neighborhood and onto the Washburncampus, or enjoy a leisurely two-mile campus walk this Saturday, Oct.3. The run/walk is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. in front of theBradbury Thompson Alumni Cen-ter on the Washburn campus.

Registration on the morning of the event begins at 7 a.m. The cost is$20 for runners and $15 for walk-ers. Children 12 years of age andunder are free.

First place medals will be award-ed to male and female runners invarious age divisions. Refresh-ments will be provided after therun/walk, and there will be drawings for various prizes.

All of the proceeds benefit the Washburn Alumni Scholarship Fund,which has been provid-ing scholarships since 1944.

“In this tough economy, these scholarships mean a lot to ourstudents,” said Susie Hoffmann, director of the Washburn Alumni Association.

For additional information, call (785) 670-1641. To see a map of therun and walk courses, visitw w w. w a s h b u r n . e d u / s e r v i c e s /alumni/funrun/2009runwalk.htm.

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5K to boost fund

Inscape, the literary journal of Washburn University in Topeka, Kan-sas, seeks written works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and visual art for its 2010 issue. Best-of-genre prizes will be awarded. The submis-sion deadline is October 20, 2009. Please visit inscapewashburn.word-press.com for submission guidelines.

The 2009 issue of the journal was celebrated with a public reading attend-ed by more than 100 people. The jour-nal is currently in its second print run.

Inscape, which premiered in

1972, annually publishes creative works from the region and beyond, selected and assembled by upper-level creative writing students. In-scape aims to serve as a vibrant element of the literary landscape by inviting creative risks, by pub-lishing quality works and by fos-tering community among writers.

The 2010 editor in chief can be reached at mat-t h e w. l e e p e r @ w a s h b u r n . e d u .

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Students of Washburn,

It has been a great start to a great week! In big news for the universi-ty, total enrollment hours rose this semester. While it may not be our responsibility, I think now more than ever students need to distrib-ute the message that Washburn is an outstanding school. Most high school students across the state have no idea what we have to offer. They don’t know about our excellent campus, incredible resources, and most importantly, our professors, who actually care and want to see us succeed. We should take it upon ourselves to let prospective students know. I was talking with a friend the other day, and the conversation moved to “bucket lists”- what do I want to do before I die? It has been a lot of fun processing and putting it together. Some people regard this as a solemn thought they don’t want to consider, and often realize too late the power it can hold. Our life will pass in the

blink of an eye. My challenge to you is to make your own “bucket list.” What are 20 things that YOU want to do in your life? Consider that question, think about your answers, and then go out and act on them. There won’t be a better time in your life to start. Congratulations to the WU foot-ball team for their big win this past week against Top 10 ranked Central Missouri. We have an important week for WU athletics this coming week as well. The football team is playing Saturday at 1:00 p.m., soccer on Saturday at 6:00pm, and the volleyball team will compete in two games Friday (2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.) and Satur-day (1 p.m. and 5 p.m.). I hope to see you there.

GO BODS!Garrett LovePresident, WSGA

Monday, Aug. 17, around noon. Two days later, unrelated events occurred, when the core router crashed, and the e-mail system continued to corrupt.

Today Washburn is running on the original e-mail software, part of the resolution of the problem.

Wednesday, Sept. 23, a de-sign review meeting between Sun-Gard representatives and Gunter’s team began the process of finding and deciding on new software.

“These were just problems that were not foreseen, and it took a long time to get things back up, but it takes a long time to move millions of messages,” said Gunter.

The amount of time it took to configure the systems stemmed from restoring the millions of mes-sages in the 17,000 washburn.edu e-mail accounts. All told, the fix took approximately 40 hours to complete.

Gunter said that they moved at the quickest pace that they could, work-ing 12 hour days, including weekends.

The ISS team at Washburn spent weeks, and is still communicating with Sun Microsystems, the com-pany who created the software, to

solve existing problems as well as successfully complete an upgrade.

“There are at least six people that we are for sure interfacing with, and many more doing work in the

background,” said Gunter. “We have been patched through to Sun Micro-systems people around the world, and everyone has been fully cooperative.”

SunGard understands that this has been a major inconvenience to a lot of people and it has accepted full responsibility for the failure.

“SunGard promised they would

deliver, configure, and make the up-grade work, but they failed,” said Gunter. “They have been very re-sponsive. We’ve been meeting a lot, and they are bringing in their partners from Sun Microsystems.”

Washburn hired SunGard on a firm fixed price, which means they paid one sum for the entire conver-sion. As soon as the problems were discovered as a design failure Sun-Gard began fixing everything for free. There is no limit on the compensation that Washburn will receive. SunGard has promised to foot the bill until the conversion is complete, and the sys-tem is up and running problem-free.

“We did get some benefit out of the upgrade,” said Gunter. “We changed out a lot of our systems, and most of them are working OK.”

Gunter also said that he would like everyone to know that he and his coun-ter partners are taking notes of exactly what happened from start to finish of the process that will be published as soon as all problems are resolved.

A3Wednesday, September 30, 2009 • News

On Sept. 25 a group of teenag-ers loaded with blankets and sleep-ing bags invaded campus to take Washburn University for a test drive.

The high school students were here for the Ichabods at Night event, an opportunity for prospective students to see what Washburn has to offer them. Not only did they have the opportu-nity to stay on campus with student hosts, the 15 students had a chance to check out classes, extra-curricular ac-tivities and financial aid opportunities.

It’s all part of an effort to help prospective students decide whether Washburn University is the right place for them or not. The event traded tra-ditional college visits for experiences of actual college life. Instead of stuffy tour guides, the students were paired with actual Washburn students and stayed in the residence halls rather than in hotels with their parents.

Ichabods at Night started Fri-day night with a quick campus tour, followed by a college-favorite pizza dinner before the Lady Blues vol-leyball game against the University

of Central Missouri. Prospective stu-dents were then introduced to some of the resident advisors of the Liv-ing Learning Center at an ice cream social. Then it was off to the resi-dence halls for some much-needed rest to prepare for a busy second day.

Saturday the participants joined their Washburn hosts for Fam-ily Day pre-football fun. They tail-gated and enjoyed the day’s activi-ties then headed to Yager Stadium to watch the Ichabods take on the University of Central Missouri.

For students interested in helping the university with future Ichabods at Night events, information on be-ing a student host is available in the Admissions Office. The next event will bring high school students to campus Oct. 2 and 3 and any student living on campus is encouraged to sign up to host prospective students.

“We can never have too many hosts,” said Priscilla Sa-marripa, admissions counselor.

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peer contact that Byers helped launch the WU Buddy Program,

“There was a group of Chinese girls who walked three and a half miles just to shop at Wal-Mart,” said Byers.

He also described how a Japanese student, a visitor from a stoic culture, unnecessarily postponed seeking med-ical care for an injury. Both of these instances could have been avoided if these students had a friend they could have sought advice or confided in.

Byers, Staerkel and Angie Swim, launched the WU Buddy Program “to advise, encourage and assist in-coming international students to achieve the fullest potential of the study abroad experience at Wash-burn University and the Community.”

Buddies are expected to meet three hours or more a month, maintain open communication, become a friend, be an ambassador of the United States and

lend a helping hand. Buddies should understand that there are different cultural beliefs, attitudes, and norms between our international students.

The humanitarian, educational and culturally enriching experience of be-ing a WU Buddy is obvious but there are practical benefits as well. The program offers Washburn students an opportu-nity to create friendships on an interna-tional level, something that is increas-ingly important in the global market.

Interested students can visit the International House for more infor-mation. After filling out a form to help match the students with simi-lar interests. To get started sharing culture with the international com-munity, students can attend the WU Celebration of Cultures, Nov. 21 in White Concert Hall from 7 to 9 p.m. to share music, dance and fashion.

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International buddy system Jennie Loucks is a sophomore mass me-dia/Spanish major. Reach her at jennifer.loucks@washburn.edu.

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Like many Americans, the current state of affairs in our nation has sparked my concern about the future of our country. With all of the problems our nation’s leaders are currently struggling to solve, questions continue to arise for me about why these issues keep occurring and what we’re doing to finally fix them.

I spent this past weekend in Washington, D.C. at a conference focused on leadership, and my time spent in our nation’s capital gave me a different perspective on the situation – a view that many people in our generation fail to see.

I know that we’ve all heard it before – family members, teachers or mentors encourage us to do great things because “we are the future” and “we have the power to change the world.” And if you’re anything like me, you’ve entertained the thought for a couple of minutes before dismissing it, thinking there was no way you could possibly impact the world any time in the near future.

I also never thought that a weekend, and in particular a dinner conversation, could change my views about any serious topic concerning myself and my future. However, I was very wrong.

I spent last Saturday evening sharing dinner and conversation with

two Senate c o m m i t t e e m e m b e r s . One of the m e m b e r s ,

Michelle, worked for the appropriations committee, which delegates federal money to foreign countries. The fact that she’s only in her early thirties was surprising enough, but what shocked me even more was that she had already spent seven years working at the capitol, meaning she had started shortly after college.

Michelle went on to talk about her first time visiting the capitol before she started her first job. After spending some time in that environment, she realized how many young people were working there and asked why they had so many interns working for them. She was in turn surprised to find that many of those people she saw were actually full-time employees, not interns.

After the discussion in that conversation and a weekend spent with national student leaders, I realized just how much power and importance we really have in our world today. Many of the people I met and heard speak were members of our generation who are making an impact right now. And it’s not until you actually see these people in action that you can really understand the ways you may be able to make that difference, too.

While the problems in our nation may be caused by previous generations, we have to face the reality of what we’ve been given and step up to the challenges our nation faces. We really are the future, and we are the ones making the decisions for our nation right now. I encourage you to find the way you can make a difference. I encourage you to be the future.

A4 Opinion • Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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What intramural activities are you doing or interested in doing?Tesa DeForestWASHBURN REVIEW

Shane KennedyFreshman

“I’m playing rugby right now.”

Andrew HolmesJunior

“I’m playing intramural football. My back hurts because I carry the squad.”

Joeseph SmithJunior

“I play flag football. Our team only has five people and we’re kicking ass!”

Calvin GrosshueschSenior

“I’m too busy right now, but I want to play basketball.”

Alexandria HamiltonSophomore

“I’m going to do powder puff!”

FROM THEEDITOR

Nicole Stejskal is a junior mass media major. Reach her at nicole.stejskal@washburn.edu.

Leaders stop and consider

Derek HolovachSenior

“I play intramural football.”

As many officials in politics are celebrating the stabilization of Iraq as a nation of democratic thought in a region that has no democracy many have turned their attention to what is poised to be “the next war.”

Afghanistan, a small central Asian country that has seen war come and go and come again throughout history, is poised to be the next sight of American military bloodletting and the current administration seems to be having second thoughts.

Most in the military establishment, the current ground forces commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal included, have called for as many as 40,000 more troops to be deployed almost immediately to the theater of operations.

In contrast the president along with his foreign advisors seem to have backed off of what seemed to have been a liberal rallying cry during the election to “Take the war back to where it should be,” by refocusing

the war effort on Afghanistan and destroying al qaeda. The rabid attacks on the previous administration for diverting the war effort to Iraq might well be on point but he ring hollow now that Obama is no longer a “yes we can” man and is now a “crap we have to do this for real guy.”

Conservative commentator George Will is among a group of voices who have been advocating a more surgical

approach to Afghanistan that have been leaning on lessons from the past and point to the experience of the now defunct Soviet

Union’s experience in Afghanistan during the entire decade of the 1980s.

The last great superpower to set foot in the rugged surroundings of Afghanistan saw 14,000 dead as well as more than 550,000 injured or sick soldiers during their occupation from 1979 to 1989 and sapped the public will to support any future misadventures abroad. As this took place the soviet economy continued to struggle and eventually collapse along with their government.

While the United States military is more technically advanced than the Soviet war machine in just about every aspect of warfare the great equalizer will be the mountains themselves. The kind of fighting that will win this war, will be fought by soldiers climbing their way through the same mountains that claimed the lives of soviet men more than 30 years ago. There will be no awesome assortment of armor and heavy equipment to support them.

Hopefully the president and his team will think long and hard about what they are committing the nation to before we get ourselves in further than we really want to be and experience this generation’s Vietnam with an unwinnable quagmire.

The views expressed in the Review’s View are those of the Washburn Review editorial board, and not necessarily the views of Washburn University.

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Most coaches will tell you that games are won and lost in the trenches.

For Washburn’s offense, the foundation of everything that they accomplish starts up front along the offensive line. As a team that has steadily grown over the past few seasons, so too has an offensive line that has come up togeth-er since their freshman year and have steadily incorporated other newcomers into their fold.

“We’ve really tried to adopt the younger guys into our group,” said Ian Vistine, junior left guard.

Indeed, as the 2009 season has progressed, all the players along the offensive line have come together as a unit and feel like they have improved

through each game. One of the rea-sons for this feeling is the continu-ity of the unit thus far this season.

“Last year we had a lot of in-juries along the line and had to play a lot of different positions,” said Ty Lewis, junior center.

As the season has started to take shape, the offensive line has attempt-ed to keep up the pressure on oppos-ing defensive units by denying them the opportunities to attack the quar-terback, having only surrendered two sacks so far this season and opening up holes for the running attack that

has been as potent as any offensive attack in the conference this year.

As for goals, the of-fensive line is unique

in how they measure their success as a group. Unlike other positions on the field that can point to yards, catches, touchdowns and a myriad of other statistical measures, the offensive line relies on others ac-complishments to help them mea-sure if they are keeping on track.

“We’d like to get 400 yards a

game on the ground and hold op-ponents to zero sacks,” said Brian Folkerts, sophomore right tackle.

Despite all their success on the field this season, all the play-ers agree that activities off the field have helped to develop the chemistry that the unit relies on during games as well. Various activities have in-cluded social gatherings and dinners on set days, which allow the team to build the spirit of brotherhood and work around busy schedules.

As for what brought the offensive linemen to Washburn varies. Some desire competition at the top levels.

“I came from Colorado where the [Rocky Mountain Athletic Con-ference] is,” said Lewis “I decided I wanted to play at Washburn in the MIAA since it really is the best con-ference in division two football.”

Other members of the offensive line came to Washburn as the pro-gram was starting to come up the ranks of MIAA powers and assert-ing itself as a competitive program.

“We just wanted to come here and make our mark at Washburn and help take the team to the next level,” said Bill Boyer, junior left tackle.

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Playing at home is usually an ad-vantage. And despite a rare home loss for the Washburn volleyball team last Friday versus top 25 MIAA foe Cen-tral Missouri, the Lady Blues still con-sider Lee Arena a tough place to play.

“We were really upset,” said Jes-sica Wade, sophomore middle hitter. “We had higher hopes and a standard where we don’t like to lose at home.

“We’re hoping for a re-covery and a turnaround.”

With only two losses for Wash-burn in the last three seasons on its home court (the other being a NCAA tournament semifinal loss to Western Washington in 2007), the ninth-ranked Lady Blues look to restore order this Friday and Saturday when they host the Holiday Inn Lady Blues Regional Crossover Tournament.

“It should be some good competition. I know there’s at least one ranked team that’s going to be in there that we’ll get to play [No. 6 West Texas A&M],” said Jennifer Kolarik, sophomore outside hitter. “So it’ll be good to get away from conference and that stress and every-thing. It’ll be a good chance to show that we’re still up to the competition.”

While the Lady Blues (15-2, 3-2) are just as good on the road, home cooking is always bet-ter, and the team knows Lee Arena like the back of its hand.

“It’s easy when you get to stay at home, sleep in your own bed, so you’re in your own element,” said Kolarik. “It’s not like you have to get off the bus and get ready to play. It’s fun to play in front of your own crowd and every-body you know. We’re used to this gym, we’re in here all the time. So it’s good to be in our own place.”

Herron agreed, say-ing that Washburn fans were some of the great-est in the conference and that Lee Arena is truly home sweet home.

“I think the big-gest thing is you’re in your surroundings, in a gym you practice in everyday,” said Her-

ron, who is 92-13 all time in Lee Are-na. “You know what the temperature is and what the court feels like. The other thing is we get crowds here. You know you go to other schools and they don’t get anything like the MIAA gets.

“The crowds at Washburn are a lot of fun to play in front of. And we got to have that on Friday night when we play West Texas.”

The Lady Buffs, who are also 15-2, are a member of the Lone Star Con-ference and are in the South Central Region with the Lady Blues. The two teams will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.

“It’s our conference ver-sus their conference so this re-gion match is important for re-gion rankings,” said Herron.

“This tournament is a sort of a crossover tournament and it’s impor-tant to us because you have to finish ranked in the top eight in your region. The winner of the MIAA, the winner of the Heartland and the winner of the Lone Star all have automatic qualifi-ers. And the other teams have to be ranked in the top eight in the region.”

Other competition for Wash-burn this weekend includes South-eastern Oklahoma State at 2 p.m. Friday, as well as matches ver-sus Tarleton State and Angelo State at 1 and 5 p.m. on Saturday.

While the Lady Blues are prepping for all the teams this weekend, Herron said the Lady Buffs are going to be a handful.

“They’re going to be here and it’s going to be a tough task ahead of us,” he said. “They return three All-Americans. So that match alone will prepare us for what’s ahead in conference. It’ll be a challenge.”

Maybe the third time will be the charm for the Topeka RoadRunners.

Looking to build off of a strong season last year and many offseason acquisitions, the North American Hockey League’s Topeka Road-Runners will play their first regular season home game at the Kansas Expo-centre’s Landon Arena this Fri-day night at 7:05 p.m. against the Texas Tornado.

The Road-Runners opened their season on Sept. 17 and played four games in four days through Sept. 20 at the annual NAHL Show-case. The RoadRunners lost their first game of the tournament, but bounced back in games two and three and lost their fourth in a shootout to come away with a 2-1-1 record. And this past weekend, the team made its way to Frisco, Texas to take on the Texas Tornado and after a weekend of win-

ning one game and losing one game, the team now holds a 3-2-1 record going into this weekend’s games.

The team returns eight players from last year’s squad but is a pre-dominantly young team that may take a few weeks to gel as the season begins. But the team hopes to see positive production out of return-

ing players including Alec H a g a m a n , Jeff Burke and newly se-lected captain of the team Kurtis Anton. The aforemen-tioned Haga-man leads the team with three goals and one assist for four points and is also tied with three other play-ers who have

four points apiece. A slew of Road-Runners are right behind them with three points, so production has been by a variety of players.

But for most, it’s hard to find the time or money to catch a game with already so much on their sched-ules. Tickets though start at $10 for a single game, so it’s easy to not break

the bank. It should be noted though that there is a five dollar parking charge, so carpooling is advocated.

Also, the RoadRunners pro-vide promotions at select games. Some upcoming promotions include WIBW’s Radio Cash Machine on Saturday, Breast Cancer Aware-ness Night on Oct. 22, Team Poster Night on Oct. 23 and Halloween Costume Night on Oct. 24, said Arch Ecker, director of media and broadcasting for the RoadRunners.

Kansas isn’t exactly a hotbed for hockey, but a loyal fan base ex-ists for the RoadRunners, as they averaged about 1,700 fans last year. Ecker said the RoadRunners are looking to increase that number for this season and welcome anyone who has never been to a hockey game to come out to at least one.

“[Hockey’s] a combination of fluid movement and graceful skill combined with speed and bone jar-ring contact. The atmosphere at a RoadRunner game is vibrant, and a delight to the senses,” said Eck-er. “We have the best fans in the NAHL and our home ice advantage is second to none. It’s more than just a game, when you come to a RoadRunner game, it’s an event.”

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Meep meep: The RoadRunners look to make their third season worthwhile with a championship, but face a tough divisional schedule. Some of the upcoming promotions for the ‘Runners include WIBW’s Radio Cash Machine and Team Poster Night.

The atmosphere at a RoadRunner game is vibrant, and a delight to the senses.

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Huddle buddies: The offensive line has made protecting the quarterback their number one priority, allowing only three sacks in their first five games. The rushing game is quite healthy, as well, as the Ichabods average 4.9 yards per rush.

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Boom goes the dynamite: Freshman outside hitter Hillary Hughes and the Lady Blues host the Lady Blues Regional Crossover Tournament this weekend where they’ll look to recover from two straight losses.

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Washburn student Daniel Salazar runs a local skate shop in downtown Topeka that is home for local skateboarding and a recently dying lifestyle.

“It has allowed me to explore the world on four little wheels,” said Salazar.

Midwest Skate is known for its unique style, individualism, and raw skateboarding. Run by skateboarders, you’re guaranteed the best product review and awesome skate tips, as well as being part of a community. Located downtown on 6th and Kansas, the shop adds color to the ghostly atmosphere, attracting a younger crowd. With the recent outburst of corporate invasion, the sales are definitely suffering along with a style that is increasingly becoming not so unique. Skateboarding has always been know for taking care of itself, a very independent business, but the recent amount of exposure is making it more corporate.

Salazar originally started in

skateboarding retail in Garden City. Wanting to go to school at Washburn he decided to move his shop with him to the City of Topeka. He later expanded to owning a shop in Lawrence as well but due to the high rise in gas in 2006 the second location closed. For the last three years Midwest was located in West Ridge Mall and recently moved to a new location where a mini ramp is planned to be built. They also recently constructed a Web site at www.midwestskateonline.com a place

where you can learn more about the shop, new products, and its team.

Salazar is going to school for a major in art and hopes to

continue working in the skateboarding industry as long as he can. “I don’t have to sit on the sidelines and be like yeah… I can do it anytime I want” said Salazar.

No matter what you might be into always be true to it and never sell out.

As a high school golfer at Hayden High School, Riley Piles was a part of one 4A state championship and two more second-place finishes. Tuesday at the Division II National Championship Preview in Noblesville, Ind., he added another golf accomplishment to his repertoire, with his first individual victory in a college tournament.

“It feels pretty good,” said Piles, who finished second in a tournament earlier this season after losing to teammate Dustin Yeager in a playoff. “It’s a little bittersweet with the team not doing so well but it’s a big stepping stone in my college career.”

The Ichabods, which began the final round of the two-day tournament at the Sagamore Club in second, finished fifth overall as a team with a score of 626, four shots back of second place Bellarmine. MIAA rival Central Missouri ran away with the tournament with a score of 610 as a team.

Piles, who was tied for the individual lead after day one, won the tourney by shooting a 75 and 73 for a 4-over 148, one shot ahead of Casey Pine of Lewis. Piles leads the team in stroke average for 2009 at 73.8 and has had the highest finish for the Bods in each of the three tournaments he’s played this season.

Other individual results for the Bods included Yeager, who finished in a tie for 13th with a pair of 78’s for a 12-over 156 and Brian Walker, who tied for 38th with a 78 and 82 for 160 overall. Also for the Bods, Nate Hoefflin finished tied for 46th with an 83 and 79 (162), and Nate Sargent rounded out the Washburn individuals tying for 70th with a 169 (86-83).

The Ichabods will close out the fall season next Monday and Tuesday at the Fort Hays State Invitational. The MIAA points tournament will be the last competition until March for Washburn.

“We’re just going to practice putting and chipping. The easy shots are the ones that killed us this week. The ones in the wind,” said Yeager, a senior who has the second highest stroke average for WU in 2009 at 75.8. “We’ll have to reevaluate and go from there. Obviously we’d love to do a little better and beat Central next week.”

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Conf. Overall PF PAMissouri Western (12) 3-0 5-0 224 133NW Missouri St. (6) 3-0 4-1 200 70Central Missouri (20) 2-1 4-1 157 112Fort Hays St. 2-1 4-1 188 147Washburn (17) 2-1 4-1 233 124Nebraska-Omaha 2-1 3-2 185 104Missouri Southern 1-2 1-3 116 128Pittsburg St. 0-3 2-3 147 124Emporia St. 0-3 1-4 123 147 Truman St. 0-3 1-4 98 187

Standings

Results Sept. 27WU 36, UCM 21NWMSU 70, TSU 0UNO 44, MSSU 36MWSU 45, PSU 40FHSU 40, ESU 20

Games SaturdayFHSU at WU, 1 p.m.UNO at ESU, 1 p.m.TSU at UCM, 1:30 p.m.NWMSU at MWSU, 1:30 p.m.PSU at MSSU, 2 p.m.

( )- Division II national ranking

( )- Division II national ranking

Conf. Overall GF GATruman St. 5-1-0 6-2-2 16 8Nebraska-Omaha 4-1-0 5-4-0 19 15NW Missouri St. 3-2-0 7-2-0 13 7Southwest Baptist 3-2-0 5-2-1 19 12Central Missouri 3-2-0 4-4-1 12 8Washburn 2-3-0 4-4-0 12 14Missouri Western 2-4-0 4-6-0 16 17Emporia St. 1-4-0 1-6-1 5 20Missouri Southern 1-5-0 3-7-0 12 23

Sports Report

Standings

WU upcoming scheduleTonight

Rockhurst at Washburn, 6 p.m.Saturday

Missouri Southern at Washburn, 6 p.m.Oct. 8

Washburn at NW Missouri St., 6 p.m.

Conf. Overall Sets won Sets lostCentral Missouri (5) 5-1 15-3 46 14Nebraska-Omaha (15) 5-1 15-4 51 21Emporia St. (T6) 4-1 14-1 42 11Pittsburg St. (21) 4-2 12-5 43 22Washburn (9) 3-2 15-2 49 8Truman St. (20) 3-3 12-6 43 27Missouri Southern 2-2 7-6 28 29Southwest Baptist 2-3 7-10 30 38NW Missouri St. 1-4 8-9 29 32Fort Hays St. 1-5 4-14 20 45Missouri Western 0-6 7-11 30 38

Standings

WU recent resultsSept. 19

Washburn 3, Mo. Western 0Sept. 23

Nebraska-Omaha 3, Washburn 2Sept. 25

Central Missouri 3, Washburn 2

WU upcoming scheduleFriday

SE Oklahoma at Washburn, 2 p.m.West Texas A&M at Washburn, 6:30 p.m.

SaturdayTarleton State at Washburn, 1 p.m.Angelo State at Washburn, 5 p.m.

Football

Soccer

Volleyball

WU recent results Sept. 19

Missouri Western 3, Washburn 0 Sept. 24

Washburn 1, Central Missouri 0Sept. 26

Washburn 4, Southwest Baptist 3

WU scheduleOct. 10

WU at UNO, 1 p.m.Oct. 17

PSU at WU, 1:08 p.m.Oct. 24

WU at NWMSU, 1:30 p.m.

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the games Josh Eric Mike Nicole Aaron RobertFort Hays State @ Washburn WASHBURN WASHBURN WASHBURN WASHBURN WASHBURN WASHBURN

Kansas State @ Iowa State IOWA STATE IOWA STATE IOWA STATE IOWA STATE IOWA STATE IOWA STATE

No. 4 LSU @ No. 18 Georgia GEORGIA GEORGIA GEORGIA LSU GEORGIA GEORGIA

No. 7 USC @ No. 24 Cal USC USC USC USC USC CAL

No. 8 Oklahoma @ No. 17 Miami OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA MIAMI

N.Y. Giants @ Kansas City Chiefs GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS

Baltimore Ravens @ New England Patriots RAVENS PATRIOTS PATRIOTS RAVENS RAVENS PATRIOTS

N.Y. Jets @ New Orleans Saints SAINTS SAINTS JETS SAINTS SAINTS SAINTS

San Diego Chargers @ Pittsburgh Steelers STEELERS STEELERS STEELERS STEELERS CHARGERS CHARGERS

Green Bay Packers @ Minnesota Vikings VIKINGS VIKINGS VIKINGS PACKERS VIKINGS PACKERS

Week Five

Staff Pick ‘Em

LAST WEEK 5-5 7-3 6-4 9-1 6-4 7-3

The Review Staff Pick ‘Em is a weekly feature where we pick the winners of college and pro football games around the country. Check back weekly to see our standings!

OVERALL RECORDS 26-14 30-10 24-16 30-10 21-19 28-12

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Taking it easy: Washburn art student Daniel Salazar sits outside Midwest Skate, a skate shop that he runs in downtown Topeka. The shop recently moved from its location in West Ridge Mall.

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Head games: Lauren Henry, 99, and Washburn face Rockhurst at 6 tonight in Yager Stadium.

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After beginning the MIAA schedule 0-3, the Washburn soccer team is on a two-game winning streak with recent home wins against Central Missouri and Southwest Baptist.

Tonight at 6 versus Rockhurst (5-3-1) in Yager Stadium, the Lady Blues (4-4-0) close out their four-game homestand and play their last nonconference regular season game of 2009.

The last time the Lady Blues played the Lions was just last season when they won 2-1 in overtime.

Rockhurst leads the all-time series 2-1-1.

Seeing is believing at the Mulvane Art Museum’s newest exhibit, “Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions, where umbrellas become violins.”

This unique exhibit is on display at the Mulvane until Jan. 24. The Mulvane will be the last museum to have this exhibit before it is shipped back to New York City, where Ken Butler currently resides.

“This exhibit will help reach out to the music department on campus, and [they] may find it to be both intriguing and educational,” said Cindi Morrison, Mulvane art director.

Originally from Portland, Ore., Butler studied the viola as a child. He earned a bachelor’s degree in studio art from Colorado College and a master’s degree in fine arts from Portland State University in painting. Fascinated with the relationship

between the human form on a large X-ray form to a Harmony guitar, Butler was inspired to create his first instrument, made with a hatchet combined with the tailpiece, bridge, neck and strings of a violin. He refers to himself as a bricouleur, a French term meaning “handyman” or “jack of all trades.”

Since moving to New York City in the late 1980s, Butler has performed at the Stedelyk Museum in Amsterdam, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and he has been featured on PBS, CNN, MTV, and NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His CD, called “Voices of Anxious Objects,” is featured on John Zorn’s Tzadik label.

There will be two opportunities to hear Butler’s live performances, There will be an opening reception on Oct. 2 from 5 to 8 p.m., and a second performance will take place during Family and Community Day, Oct. 3 from 1 to 4 p.m. Both performances

will take place in the Art Lab. Children will have an opportunity to create their own instruments and perform a mini-concert with their creations.

Patrick Dougherty is the other featured artist at the Mulvane. He will arrive on Nov. 2, and he will be at the Mulvane until Nov. 20to work on his

latest sculpture, which is made from tree saplings. It will be located on the front lawn across from the Yu-Yu-Yang sculpture. It

is a three-week progressive piece that people can actually walk through.

“It’s an unusual opportunity to see an artist at work and have the option to ask questions, and for the art students to have an opportunity to help him with the exhibit,” said Morrison.

Hard as it was tearing myself away from my computer now that my internet connection is working properly, the bitter taste left over from “Julie & Julia,” coupled with the fact that my queue on Hulu was now empty, told me it was time was time to get out of the apartment and go sit on my ass somewhere else and stare at a bigger screen for a couple of hours.

“The Informant” is a bit of a curious film. When you look at the names Steven Soderbergh and Matt Damon, with a supporting cast including Joel McHale (“The Soup”) and Tony Hale (“Arrested Development”), one of the last things you’d expect is a low-key movie based on the true story of an informant who was helping the FBI get evidence of international price-setting.

“The Informant” further confounds expectations with one of the most wonderfully irrelevant narrations of the main character’s inner monologue, which frequently covers up dialogue with musings about animal coloring and how much money people who

work for him are making. The odd little musings and factoids enforce the idea that Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) is either a mild genius who simply amuses himself when people talk about things he already understands, or a fool with a mild Attention-Deficit Disorder who somehow was able to stumble into a Ph.D. and a cushy job, both of which seem true at one point or another.

Despite having quite a few good laughs, “The Informant” is a very subtle film, amusing the audience mostly through the reactions to Whitacre’s foolish

confidence in the face of criminal activity, as well as some of his more outlandish behavior towards the end of the film as he desperately tries to deal with the actions coming from the company he turned in and the criminal accusations against himself that came to light as a result.

Although “The Informant” is not at all what you would expect from looking at the names in the credits, it’s definitely worth going to see.

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Hybrid Visions: This Mosasaur fossil was one of two fossils outside the Memorial Union on Thursday. Fossil hunter Alan Detrich set up the display in order to increase local interest for a Kansas state fossil.

When most people walk into a museum they don’t wonder how the art came to be on the walls, instead it’s almost assumed that some magic is responsible for setting the exhibit up. For the Mulvane Art Museum Michael Hager is the sorcerer who wields this magic behind the scenes.

TuesdayHager is a man who enjoys a good

conversation, especially when it’s about what he does every day: appreciate art and make it possible for others to do the same. He’s been working at Washburn University as faculty and at the Mulvane Art Museum since 2007 and although he teaches sculpting and print-making, he also carries the titles of exhibition preparatory and gallery technician.

“This isn’t a job, it’s a way of life,” Hager said as he was standing in the upstairs gallery. While he fished sculptures out of a large packing crate he talked. “Viewing it that way makes coming to work natural,” he said. “The level of commitment that you have to put into it, especially teaching, if you only see it as a job then in six months you’d be burned out.”

Hager carefully unwraps piece

after piece of Ken Butler’s travelling exhibit called Hybrid Visions. This exhibit consists of sculptures themed around musical instruments and will be open to the public from Sept. 26 through Jan. 24. Ken Butler will also visit Friday, Oct. 2 from 5 – 8 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 3 from 1 – 4 p.m.

Cindi Morrison, director of the Mulvane Art Museum, said they got this exhibit on its way back to New York from a museum in Portland, Ore. She looks down at the array of artwork lying on the floor that are each made from something different but that resemble banjos. She said she had met Ken Butler back in 2005 and heard his show before. When she had talked to him again he had suggested she get Hybrid Visions before it got back to him.

Hager said that the show of photos he just took down were all prepackaged and labeled. All he really had to do was slip them back into their boxes and put them in the storage facility in the basement, but Hybrid Visions is different.

There’s a sense of chaos in the gallery with all the packing crates and bubble wrap cluttering the floor, but Hager is slowly bringing a sense of order wherever he works.

“With myself, Carol and Cindi there’s three sets of eyes, so if I miss anything they’ll pick up on it. We

make a great team,” he says. It’s easy to see how well they work together as they move around unpacking boxes.

Hybrid Visions doesn’t have pictures to look at of each piece of art that most exhibit packets come with when they are sent to the museum weeks before the actual art arrives.

Hager says that those packets are crucial because they give the dimensions for each piece of art so that the museum knows in advance if they are able to house it or not.

Carol Emert, curator of collections and exhibitions, says that they do have some slides and she holds up a laminated page containing a set. The overhead light shines through the pictures vaguely and the tiny sculptures portrayed inside each slide are visible. Unfortunately there are not pictures of everything in the exhibit.

Hager says that the show came to the museum through a special service that only transports artwork and is the best way to send a collection across the country. The crates were delivered and the unpacking began on both floors of the gallery after the old exhibits had been taken down.

“Each show is its own monster, but the great thing about this job is that nothing repeats,” Hager says.

Blankets are spread across the floor and as Hager continues to unpack he lays each piece out so it’s easy to

see what’s there. He finishes with the big crate and walks over to the bench where his bag is resting. He’s pausing with his work now. He reaches into the bag and brings out a coffee cup and a thermos and pours himself a cup of hot black coffee.

“This can be tedious work, so you have to take breaks,” Hager says as he sips his drink. He also says that if you’re too careful or if you don’t respect the art you break things and that’s why it’s necessary to change it up now and then.

He’s a tall man at 6 feet 1 inch tall with silver hair and black rimmed glasses and is dressed in jeans and a plaid shirt with the sleeves rolled up over a T-shirt.

Hager sets down his coffee and goes over to another box to start the unpacking again. This time the box is long and rectangular but not very deep. This one is a piano that is in three main parts: the body and two legs. Together he and Carol start cutting the tape that binds the cardboard. They discuss the best way to open it and the lid finally comes back.

Inside there are two long rectangle pieces of Styrofoam on top of each other with various small objects, such as a playing card and part of a scroll that once belonged to a string instrument, fitted into grooves carved into the Styrofoam. How the piano

will fit together seems baffling, but Hager is already seeing the completed piece in his mind.

Together Hager and Emert gently lift the piano out of the box and set each part of it to the side. By the end of the week they will have put all of the pieces together and have put them up onto the wall.

Morrison unfolds a large piece of paper and spreads it out onto the floor. It has a diagram of a group of small sculptures and how they can be placed on the wall. She says this is a rare item to come with an exhibit and that this will make things easier because all they will have to do now is spread the paper up on the wall where they want the cluster to go and put the nails in the wall. Something like this diagram can help to speed the process of putting the exhibit up greatly.

The plan for the rest of the day is to finish unpacking everything and to get the boxes moved into the basement so only the artwork will remain.

ThursdayBy the time Thursday comes

the gallery looks like a completely different place. The packing materials have disappeared and various sculptures are resting against the wall.

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Hybrid Vision: Ken Butler combines art and music to create hybrid musical instruments. His artwork, which explores the transformation of common objects and sounds and altered images, was placed in the Mulvane for exhibition.

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Some have been hung but now there are two pianos, one is resting on the floor still in pieces.

Morrison is working to put the finishing touches on the piano she has just put together. She has used toothpicks to keep everything in place and to make it sturdy.

Hager and Morrison start working on the next piano and use art clips to hold the legs onto the body.

“I have dozens of these clips in my office. They’re an artist’s best friend,” Hager says. The clips hold the legs in place and together they turn the piano over so the lid can be opened.

Hager places the platforms for the pianos and Morrison carefully judges the placement for both pianos.

“Museums have different goals than galleries do. We focus on education,” Morrison says. She also says that when they place the art they’re not trying to sell it but let it be appreciated for what it is.

Morrison says that the things to worry about when setting the art in place is the public’s safety and the art’s safety. “We have to watch for traffic patterns and make sure that when people turn around they won’t bump into things,” she says.

With the pianos in place, it’s time to go down and put together the last free-standing sculpture, another piano. This one will be a little more difficult because there’s no picture showing how it should look once it’s put together.

Morrison and Hager start by making sure the legs are attached and then setting it on the platform. The lid is in layers and each one must be held apart by small pegs that need to be glued in place. The piano itself is only a frame of thin wooden pieces carefully constructed to keep the weight distributed equally enough so it won’t collapse.

“We have one peg left,” Hager says when they’ve finished opening the lids, “and I’m not sure where it goes.”

Morrison, Emert and Hager examine the piano again, looking for where the peg could possibly go.

“It’s like making an atomic bomb and finding one screw left over after you’re finished,” Hager says.

Emert laughs and shakes her head, “Or like putting together a parachute and finding some leftover string when you’re done,” she says.

Morrison says that they’ll figure it out eventually, but sometimes they

have to take a step back and really look at the art. They do find where it goes.

FridayThe last work day spent on the

exhibit is for putting on the finishing touches. Emert is putting up the wording over the exhibits and Morrison is posting placards next to each piece.

Hager, however, is working with another set of skills: lighting the art. He’s trying to spotlight each sculpture and keep one piece from being too dim when compared with the others.

“Aside from moisture, UV rays are the worst thing for art. That’s why the lights here in the gallery all have UV filters. They’re also only 45 watts so I can easily touch them when I need to take down the extras,” Hager says.

He first turns off each individual spotlight instead of using the master switches so that he can relight the exhibit piece by piece. There are three tracks on the ceiling in the gallery downstairs.

“When people tell me I did a good job installing the show I feel like it’s a dubious compliment because I’d rather someone say the art looks great,” Hager says.

When he puts lights directly on a piece he doesn’t set them too high because making the shadows disappear lets the art come forward.

“All shows can be seen as a work in progress. If I see something later I don’t like I’ll come back and fix it,” Hager says.

He also has to watch for the reflection of the light from the walls and floor and says that having wooden floors in a museum is almost against the rules because the light doesn’t get soaked up.

About halfway through he takes a coffee break and talks about the exhibit itself. “I think this exhibit will hold my interest for a while because I like the three-dimensionality of it and there’s a playful intellect that appeals to me. Also the fact that he will visit on the first Friday and actually perform makes it even better,” Hager says.

He finishes placing the last light and turns around. “Well, now you’ve seen me put up a show,” he says.

The Mulvane Art Museum encourages everyone to come and appreciate Hybrid Visions by Ken Butler and see him perform Friday, Oct. 2 from 5 – 8 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 3 from 1 – 4 p.m.

Electrifying sounds and heavy vibrations moved through spectators as they gathered in front of Gage Stage on Saturday, Sept. 26, as Fear Not Tomorrow opened at the Topeka Youth Project’s 25th annual Battle of the Bands.

The battle of the bands was brought back to the Gage amphitheater after the 25 years of history in Topeka. The original show was in 1984 and was called Barefoot in the park where the winner walked away with a 60-ford mustang. The battle of the bands supports the Topeka youth project.

Fear Not Tomorrow brought their alternative sound and put on a very intense show. You could feel the energy the music was portraying through the thrashing solos and intense self-image. Next to take the stage was Shunga Nunga who brought three out of their five members to bring about a mellower atmosphere. Echo Lake, a Washburn-based band, added to the party with some funky music. Bringing their crap from the basement the Basement Buds presented their very own unique style. Next on the list was Head Change, who sounded similar to Kill Switch Engaged and was definitely a crowd favorite. A Weezer look alike, Part Two, finished off the show with a fun performance.

Echo Lake took first place and was followed by Head Change who took second place. Echo Lake plays a lot of shows in Topeka but this was there second outside gig. “We didn’t expect to win we just wanted to come out and have a good time” said their drummer, Matt Mirsch, “it was amazingly awesome … yeah it was awesome.”

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Michael Goehring is a sophomore mass media major. Reach him at mi-chael.goehring@washburn.edu.

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Crowded stage: Echo Lake, a five-member guitar, bass, sax and drum ensemble, rocks a winning performance to a crowd of excited spectators. This stage prescence won Echo Lake first place in the Topeka Youth Project’s Battle of the Bands.

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