On the eve of Kansas’ 150^th birthday, Kim Redeker, president of the Emporia Arts Council, welcomed the opening of the organization’s new center with “big celebration, big support, big impact and big, big success!”

The new location and resources of the Emporia Arts Center will further the goal and motto of the Art Council which is to “Educate, Advocate, and Celebrate the Arts.”

Redeker said in her welcoming speech last Friday night that the Arts Council will now be able to reach more children, host more educational outreach programs, offer more classes, work with more artists and host more events.

Dave Markowitz, contractor for the space, said the new arts center will create more opportunities for the community than have been available in the past.

Located at 815 Commercial Street in the heart of Emporia’s downtown business district, the center is just another stepping-stone of art and culture in Emporia, Redeker said.

“An ambiance of activity has been created making it a destination place,” said Julia Johnson, city commissioner.

Johnson said the center works in conjunction with the restored Granada theatre, new housing developments and stores along Commercial Street.

It is close enough to the college so that students are within walking distance, and the modern design of the building, brand new tools and resources are aimed at attracting ESU students, said Melissa Windsor, executive director of the EAC.

The issue of the possible removal of the Kansas Arts Commission was a prevailing topic at the opening.

“The fact is that the Emporia Arts Council and an unheard of amount of arts organizations are true economic drivers in our community,” Redeker said.

Llewellyn Crain, executive director of the Kansas Arts Commission, emphasized the importance of “engaging the children of the community, the ESU students of the community (and) the adults of the community” through the arts center.

Johnson said the removal of the KAC, “would be a loss to the state as a whole.”

The center houses the Trusler gallery, Davis Theatre, the Reeble, Harry and Paula classrooms, Humphrey’s clay studio, the Langley Resource Room/Library, Neuer Family Administrative Suites and the Glaser Art & Gift Shop and is open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturday from 10am-4pm.  Classes will begin in the spring of 2011.

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Topeka hip hop group Dream Killer University performs Saturday night in the Red Room at Beer:30. Erica Cassella/ The Bulletin

When Topeka’s DreamKillerUniversity take the stage, they aren’t a typical hip-hop/rap group.

“You could call it rap if it was 1997, because that was rap, everybody came out differently, nowadays it’s reminiscent of another time when everybody could consume the music,” said Anthemous, MC and music producer for the group.

DKU feels that it brings a different sound to the audience than the other groups that frequent the radio currently. The five member band based out of Topeka describes themselves as the “crown jewels” of Kansas, according to their MySpace page.

The group played at Beer:30 on Saturday night for the second time since October, and owner Josh Olsen was glad to have them back.

“We don’t get a lot of chances to have live hip-hop and bringing the comedian brings a different feel to the show,” Olsen said.

The show also featured Austin Wright, a comedian from Topeka and a competitor on Last Comic Standing in 2008, who met with DKU’s manager, Mike Cushinberry, and gladly opened the show as well as Strider, an MC from Lawrence. Getting everyone laughing and feeling good up front was an important thing to Anthemous, and he said he was glad that Wright set the tone for the show.

While there was not a large crowd, the group played energetically and the audience enjoyed the show. As the night progressed the crowd got into the music and rhythm of DKU.

“I love doing stand-up, so I’ll make five people laugh,” Wright said.

The addition of a guitarist and live drummer give the group a more complete sound and separate them from the other groups to come out of Topeka. Anthemous said that the music is a hip-hop rock elitist sound that hasn’t been around in recent years.

DKU’s name is based on the current hip-hop landscape in Kansas and the struggle to be heard. They want people to understand the difficulties of producing music in Kansas and making it into something worthwhile and not just something that doesn’t stand apart. They believe that they can help people understand how difficult it is to make hip-hop in this part of the country.

“Everything that can go wrong will go wrong if you try to do hip-hop in Kansas,” Anthemous said.

The group is working on an album that was initially completed but was put on hold so the instrumental members of the band could be added to the songs. The group felt that without adding the other sounds, the music was less complete and they wanted to give their best effort to the album before releasing it.

“We want to make sure we got it right for the fans, and I really want this album to say something about our diversity, how we can switch it up and still make it hot,” said Spoken Thought, another music producer and MC for the group.

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Junior theater majors Adam Small, Noah Mefford and Elise Blann rehearse Friday afternoon in King Hall. Jon Coffey/The Bulletin.

Learning that her one-act play, “A Beautiful Lie” was selected as one of three outstanding plays in Region V of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival came as a surprise to Lindsay Ward, senior theater major.

“I’m completely shocked… I didn’t even think they had it (due to technical error) – I’m really excited,” Ward said.

The story centers on a rural Kansas family on the brink of completely dissolving. Jeff, a 23 year-old aspiring actor has come home after two years of essentially no contact with his younger brother, Aaron, or his mother.

“Two years before the play starts, the younger brother died from complications with his severe autism, so Jeff left… and the dad left a few years before the youngest brother died, so it’s just been the mom and the middle brother,” Ward said.

Now it is two years later and Jeff is getting married. His fiancée, Olivia, is a foster child who has never had a real family, so she demands that they come back and spend Christmas with his family.

“The actual plot of the story is trying to reach some sort of reconciliation and it’s not at all simple and it doesn’t even really happen… it’s about grief,” Ward said.

One of the most interesting aspects of Ward’s play is the setting. It’s Christmas time in Kansas, but it’s also 70 degrees outside. This is, in part, where the title comes from, since early Christmas morning it starts snowing, despite the previous warm weather.

“The name ‘A Beautiful Lie’ comes from the fact that we all create lies, pretty lies, to help us get through difficult situations… snow covers everything and hides what’s underneath,” Ward said.

Ward said her inspiration for the play came from her own experiences with her family, although the family in her story is much different from her own.

“My little brother is severely autistic – he’s not as bad as the character in the story, he’s nine years old and he can’t talk, but he can use sign language, but the struggles that my family has had did definitely inspire it,” Ward said.

Ward said the process has been therapeutic, but the story has evolved into something much more than when she had started.

“These characters (are) their own people now, they’re not who they were based on at all,” Ward said.

ESU students read Ward’s play as a script-in-hand performance this week at the KCACTF in Ames, Iowa, before an audience of about 500. Jim Bartruff, director of theater, said it has been about six years since ESU has taken a performance to the conference.

Adam Small, junior theater major, played the role of Aaron. Small said he was not nervous at all to perform at the conference.

Bartruff said Ward’s play was blinded (her identity and school were removed) and then read and judged by a playwrighting director from another region.

“It’s a big deal… the fact that it stands out from the group to a reader not from our region says there is something about it that is interesting and captured his imagination,” Bartruff said.

Bartruff said that the play is a “really clear” and “sometimes troubling, but very honest examination of a rural Kansas family.” He said it has a lot going for it since Ward understands her characters.

“The script is a very strong script – even if we didn’t know it was from Lindsay, it would still be a script that was of interest to us,” Bartruff said.

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Lead singer of HA HA Tonka Brian Roberts performs Saturday night at Beer:30. Erica Cassella/ The Bulletin

The stage lights of Beer:30 were lit yet again when Ha Ha Tonka came to entertain about 200 people last Saturday night, finishing up their 2010 tour in a city that they feel always gives them a warm welcome. Antennas Up from Kansas City, Mo. was the opener band.

“It’s a great college town with a really rowdy crowd and it’s just a great place to play,” said Brian Roberts, vocals and guitar for the band. “We’ve been coming to Emporia for close to four years now and we always look forward to that stop on tour.”

Their first album, “Buckle in the Bible Belt,” was released in 2007 and their second album, “Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South,” was released in 2009. And, according to the band, they sound like, “indie rock meets ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

“I thought it was really good,” said Lainie Harber, senior communication major. “I like their music, I think it’s really fun, but what I really enjoy is the crowd they bring in. People are so excited to see them and they bring a really neat atmosphere.”

They also plan to release a third album in the spring of 2011 titled, “Death of a Decade.” The band plans to return to Emporia in April when they go on tour for that album.

“The end of the decade is an obvious reference point to the first point in our lives that we felt that passage of time,” Roberts said. “It’s not a funeral procession for the last years, it’s more like that morbidly optimistic praise that the passage of time is better than the alternative, we’re peaking around the corner to see what’s coming next.”

The band consists of Brett Anderson on keyboard and guitar, Lennon Bone on drums, Lucas Long on bass and Brian Roberts on guitar. While Roberts sings most of the songs, all of the other members also pitch in vocals.

“They’re our biggest crowd pulling band, as far as straight entertainment music,” said Josh Olsen, owner of Beer:30. “We keep having them back just to bring something to Emporia. For a three dollar cover, you can see a nationally touring, signed band.”

Ha Ha Tonka was signed by Bloodshot Records in 2007 and they are very proud of their Ozarkian heritage, a very important influence in their music. In fact, they take their name from a state park in the area.

“We’ve always tried to sing about what we know and where we’re from so there are a lot of Ozarkian trends in both the music and the lyrics,” Roberts said. “I think if there’s any prevailing theme throughout our music, it would be that we are a band from the Ozarks.”

The band has been together for around five years so they are no strangers to Emporia, having played here several times. And according to Roberts, Emporia is one of their favorite places to play.

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With the economy the way it is, it pays to live cheap.

With a little knowledge and some savvy shopping, there are many options available to students who wish to find inexpensive meals throughout the week.

The Didde Catholic Campus Center, located at 1415 Merchant St., offers a Dollar Dinner event once a month open to all students.

“(The Dollar Dinner) benefits the students a lot because it gives them a cheap meal that’s good and a chance to socialize,” said Charlie Sigle, junior nursing major and director of the Dollar Dinner program.

Sigle said the food at this event goes fast and can be gone as within the first 20 minutes of service. The food available includes sloppy joes, spaghetti, tacos and chili.

“Dollar Dinners have been a long standing tradition at Didde, and owes its roots to a Sunday tradition on the Kansas University campus,” said Sister Pat Lynch.

Another food alternative is the spaghetti lunch available from the Christian Student Center located at 1503 Merchant St. This free meal occurs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Friday and is open to any student.

Don Bright, an Elder of the Church of Christ, has overseen the meal for the past three years and has seen a steady growth in the number of students who attend. The Christian Student Center accepts volunteers to help prepare and serve the spaghetti lunch.

“Most students appreciate (the meal) and are always willing to help,” Bright said. The Center also serves breakfast every morning starting at 8 a.m.

Another option for those on a budget is simply shopping smart. The local grocery stores offer deals on most grocery items and often times there are bargains every day of the week. Reeble’s Country Mart offers many discounts, including the Always Save food brand, which allows students to purchase a large amount of food at a modest price. Checking the newspaper for the deals and coupons offered from grocers is an option to find the best price among grocery stores.

Some restaurants around town offer meal specials as well. Bruff’s Bar and Grill, located at 2640 West 18^th Ave.,sells 69 cent tacos on Mondays and Applebee’s, on 2901 Eaglecrest Dr., serves 39 cent chicken wings all day on Monday and Thursday and everyday after 9 p.m. Fast food is also always an option, and most of the local fast food restaurants have dollar menus if something quick is needed.

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Filmmaker Kevin Willmott speaks to Quivira, the creative writing club, Wednesday night in Science Hall 072. Jon Coffey/ The Bulletin

Kevin Willmott, professor of film at the University of Kansas and writer/director of several films came to ESU on Wed. to give a lecture entitled “On my Films.”

Willmott, a native of Junction City, has directed four full-length films and written four others. His most recent film, “The Only Good Indian,” was screened at ESU on Tuesday.

According to the movie’s website, it has received several awards, including a best director award for Willmott at the 34^th Annual American Indian Film Festival in 2009. The film was also screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

The “On my Films” lecture included various clips from Willmott’s films and a question and answer session with Willmott. The lecture was sponsored by the Department of Ethnic and Gender Studies, the Department of English, Modern Languages and Journalism, the Performing Arts Board, the Special Events Board and Quivira, the student-run creative writing group on campus.

Karen Smith, the director of Ethnic and Gender Studies, said the film screening and question and answer session was very successful.

“I’m thrilled… We had about 70 people here and usually we struggle to have people at our evening events for the Ethnic and Gender Studies. Every question I had was asked and answered so it was just great,” she said.

Willmott said that growing up in Kansas has a great influence on how he makes films.

“I had a great upbringing in Junction City and a great neighborhood I grew up in. It was an incredibly integrated neighborhood. I think it influenced me about race, which is a big part of my films typically, and it taught me a lot about trying to break open the whole issue of race,” he said.

Willmott also said that “The Only Good Indian” was different than any film he made.

“It’s different in the sense that it was the first time I had really got to make a western, so I got to do a lot of the things I have always wanted to do in a western, not fully but partially. There were a lot of things that were different about that film. I was trying to make a big movie with very little, in a way,” he said.

Willmott said that he is working on a couple new films dealing with the issue of race, including a sci-fi film and an alternative history film about McCarthy

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Associate professor Patrick Martin works in the glass blowing studio Tuesday afternoon at the Art Annex. Alissa Miller/ The Bulletin

For engraving professor James Ehlers, the Faculty Art Show is an opportunity to see evidence that professors are working artists and a motivating factor for students in their own work.

“I remember when I was an undergrad and I would see the faculty show, it kind of gave me something to aspire to,” Ehlers said.

This year’s show opens on Nov. 2 with a reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Eppink Gallery in King Hall. The exhibit will feature work created by Emporia State faculty as well as three Emeritus faculty members. Professor of sculpture and gallery coordinator Roberta Eichenberg said there will be art of all mediums, including paintings, drawings, print-making, glass, sculpture and ceramics. The show will run until Dec. 10.

“I invite the entire faculty, and not all of them participate, but they are definitely all invited,” Eichenberg said.

Ehlers said the show is exciting for him because he gets to see what other faculty members are working on.

“I’m curious to see what’s going on. Everyone gets so busy you don’t really have time to see what other people are doing and every once in awhile there is a surprise,” Ehlers said.

Glass blowing professor Patrick Martin also said the opening reception is an opportunity for the faculty to get together because they don’t always get a chance.

“It’ll be a nice event, a lot of times we’re all spread out working, so it’s nice to kind of come together and see where we can get together and see the work,” Martin said.

This year, Martin is putting the third installment of his “flip-flop” series, which plays on the political term, in the show. His flip-flops are made to look like the shoe, with the bottom part as glass and the straps made out of metal. Martin used figures George Bush and Larry Craig in the past, but for this piece the politician is Louisiana Senator Trent Lott.

“(Flip-flop) is such a Republican terminology and such part of their propaganda, I tend to use Republicans, though I am looking into working on Democrats, but I’m not really sure yet,” Martin said.

Ehlers said his work is centered on “death and decay,” with a subject matter of an animal carcass surrounded by foliage. The two pieces he is putting in the show are a wood-cut print and a relief- engraving print.

“I mainly make prints. One of them is a relief engraving, so the plate itself is engraved and then I pull the print off of it, so I’m squeezing the engraving in there,” Ehlers said.

Martin said that because the gallery is open for about a month, people have the opportunity to come in any time and see the work.

“I think it’s a great opportunity to see the talent here at Emporia State, that there are many faculty members full-time and part-time that work really hard and do an excellent job at teaching and, for many students, they don’t get to see their work in person,” Martin said.

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Director of orchestras Jeremy Starr announced at the beginning of the Emporia Symphony Orchestra concert that they would be doing something a little different at the end of the concert –  they would have the reception on stage. Starr said when they had the reception in the lobby of Albert Taylor Hall, orchestra members would disappear and not get a chance to talk to the community.

“Our goal is to get out to the community, so we kind of reversed the process kind of let the people come to us up here,” Starr said.

The orchestra played three pieces during the concert on Wednesday night: “Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture” by Jacques Offenbach, “Pavane for a Dead Princess” by Maurice Ravel and “Symphony No.101 (The Clock)” by Franz Joseph Haydn.

Professor of Spanish William Clamurro has played the oboe in the orchestra since he came to Emporia State in 1997. He thought the whole group sounded good.

“Oh, I think it went very well, the best we’ve played some of these pieces and it all came together very nicely,” Clamurro said.

The symphony orchestra is made up of members of the community as well as ESU faculty and students. Starr said there are 55 members and about 15 to 20 of those members are ESU students. Freshman biology major Natalie Juarez said everyone in the orchestra is very close.

“We all know each other pretty well and we’re all pretty much friendly, it’s just a great environment to be in,” Juarez said.

Having played in the orchestra for 13 years, Clamurro said he does it so he can play symphonic repertoire and it is fun for him.

“I play the oboe in a quintet and other groups, but you have to play in an orchestra if you want to do Haydn, Beethoven and those sorts of things, so it’s a really indispensable thing, I really enjoy doing it,” Clamurro said.

Clamurro said his favorite piece to play was the “Pavane” because, though it has little of his instrument in it, is more subtle and soft than the other two pieces.

“It’s so challenging to play softly and it’s a very, very subtle piece…so I really thought the Ravel, for me, was the most satisfying,” Clamurro said.

Juarez also said her favorite piece to play was the “Pavane.”

“It’s a really beautiful piece and it’s really expressive and it’s really good to play,” Juarez said.

Starr said that, in his second year directing the orchestra, the group is able to make adjustments quicker and are giving their all “from the get-go.”

“I really think we’ve come a long way,” Starr said.

Juarez said her hope is that more ESU students come to the symphony orchestra’s concerts.

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Tools are scattered about the new Emporia Arts Council Building Tuesday afternoon in the 800 block of Commercial St. Alissa Miller/ The Bulletin

Sunlight from the windows lights up the gallery area of the unfinished Emporia Arts Council building set to open in January 2011.The building, which includes a theater, ceramics room and gift shop, among other things, is about three times bigger than the council’s current space.

“We want to grow everything, everything that we have, right now we’re kind of too big at the art center where we’re located currently,” said Melissa Windsor, executive director of the Emporia Arts Council. “And really just, you know, we want to enhance the arts and entertainment district in Emporia.”

The new location at 817 Commercial is 15,000 square feet total, comparable to that of the art council’s current space at 618 Mechanic, which Windsor said is about 5,000 square feet. The gallery itself is 1,600 square feet.

“We’ve been in the current space that we’re in probably about 15 years, so it’s time,” Windsor said.

Windsor said that with the help of fundraising and a lot of private donations, the EAC raised the approximately $3 million it took to build. She said the biggest donation they received was for $745,000 from the Jones Trust Fund. Windsor said the council is still looking for funding to equip the building’s kitchen with things like cabinets, sinks and refrigerators.

“We won’t have the funding for that initially, we’re still pursuing that anyway, and we’re hopeful that maybe we’ll have that by the time we open, but maybe we’ll get that pretty soon,” Windsor said.

Planning for the building project began when Windsor started at the EAC about five years ago, when board members got together and decided to do a feasibility study to see if it was possible.

“It was really started by a group of board members who knew that we had an opportunity for an arts and entertainment district in downtown Emporia,” Windsor said.

Dave Markowitz, head contractor for Mitchell-Markowitz Construction, the firm in charge of building the new center, said the company received a permit to build last November, did the demolition and some foundation work over the winter and really started building this spring.

“It seems like it’s been a long process, but I think the final product is going to be very attractive and go well with down town Emporia and I’m very excited to see how it all turns out,” Markowitz said.
The new structure includes much of the original building, which was most recently Dayton’s hobby shop. Windsor said the building was built in 1921, before the adjacent Granada Theater. Markowitz said that some of the structure of the old building supports the Granada, so engineers were more comfortable leaving it.
“Not only were we able to salvage some architectural features and get the look the architect was wanting, but it also helps support the north wall of the Granada and it stabilizes it,” Markowitz said.

Windsor said she felt that, in its current location, not enough people know about the art center. She said her goal is to expand in all areas, including ceramics and art education as well as having bigger gallery exhibits and shows.

“We want to really grow as far as a community center, you know letting people come rent the facility for other events and activities and really just, you know, enhance the arts and entertainment district in Emporia,” Windsor said.

Lacee Hanson, senior communications major and intern at the Emporia Arts Council said the EAC has outgrown their current location.

“I think that it does have a lot more potential definitely, a lot more room to grow definitely in the new building,” Hansen said.

Sometime in late January, Windsor said the EAC will have the new building’s grand opening celebration. Also, on Jan. 19, the EAC is partnering with the Center for Great Plains Studies for a gallery exhibit juried by Jim Richardson, a National Geographic photographer from Louisburg. The gallery is a part of the sesquicentennial celebration for the state of Kansas.

“We’re very lucky to have the Center for Great Plains Studies ask to partner with us on this and we feel very fortunate to be a part of it and let it be our opening event for our gallery,” Windsor said.

Hansen said she feels lucky to be involved in the EAC at this time of transition.

“We’re just trying to really build that hype, to get Emporia to recognize that the new building’s going to be a really great thing for the community,” Hansen said.

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Art by Roy Johnson

Nude images of men in the Gilson Memorial Gallery in King Hall have a greater purpose than just being works of art. Senior Art Major Roy Michael Johnson said that the message is to take male physique, which is usually ripped, and put it in what is traditionally thought of as feminine poses.

“Tracing back to Greek mythology, male statures through artists’ work emphasize masculinity and this kind of dominance,” Johnson said.

Johnson is one of the artists participating in the Mass Senior Art Exhibit, with his work on display until Sept. 3. Every senior is required to sign up for a time slot during the year to display their work and the art is judged or critiqued by professors of the Art Department.

“Usually before the show, an instructor will go through the show to give feedback before the show opens,” Johnson said.

The exhibit is a way to show off the work that Johnson said took about a year and a half of dedication. He created his works by a mix of oil on canvas paintings and intimate photography.

Johnson said he started painting in high school, but it wasn’t until he was a freshman that he decided for sure that he wanted to be a painter. When not busy with schoolwork, Johnson said he works at Applebee’s as a server. Among the spectators, he said, were some of his regular guests at Applebee’s that were used to seeing him at work. He said that serving was a great marketing tool to get the word out about the show.

“For anybody that has waited tables before, my artwork is a great tool to fall back on after dealing with the stress of work,” Johnson said.

Junior art major Daniel Swendson saw the show for the first time on Tuesday afternoon. In one section, Johnson uses a single color for an entire pose which Swendson said reminded him of looking through a colored lens.

“It was interesting to see the male form portrayed in such a way,” Swendson said.

Freshman art major Devin Parkman viewed the show this past week as well. Parkman said that he has known Johnson for about a year and a half now and believes that Johnson is much more defined as an artist.

“He projects his messages much more clearly and it’s easy to see how he has grown from where he used to be,” Parkman said.

Parkman said he wasn’t surprised at all by what he saw in Johnson’s display.

“Once you get past the nudity, it seemed to fit his personality and expressed originality. Roy is comfortable with who is. What you see is what you get,” Parkman said

Information on this artist’s and upcoming artists’ work can be obtained at the Art Department Office. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Some of the work on display is also for sale.

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You’ve done it. We all have. Type the name into the search bar. Hit enter. Bam. There’s the Facebook profile. Is he single? Check relationship status. Does he have any crazy ex-girlfriends? Check photos. Or wall posts.

Are you doing this for everyone you know? “Friending” every single person you’ve ever talked to? You may have a problem.

But if you’re just the occasional Facebook peruser, the following sites might just help you in looking up your date for this Valentine’s.

• The first stop on your Valentine stalk – er, search – is generally going to be Facebook. From there, you might be able to see if the person has listed any blogs that they write.
• The next stop on the love train is Google. Google can be a great, but sometimes daunting, resource. But you can be a smarter Googler by using the advanced search options or by file type.
• Some additional sites that search the deep web include www.pipl.com, www.123people.com, www.whostalkin.com, www.samepoint.com and www.icerocket.com. However, the biggest problem with these sites is the search options, as there are limited advanced searches beyond first and last name and state. If there are over 500 people with the same name, it could amount to some lengthy research.

Care to see if your sweetie has a criminal conviction?

• In Kansas, most court records and criminal information are open to the public. By utilizing these records, a person can easily check to see if the person they’re going out with has been convicted of any crimes.
• One Web site, www.criminalsearches.com, allows users to search by criminal history, neighborhood watch and sex offenders. Users can also sign up to receive criminal reports and can look up crime statistics.
• To take a more serious tone, one resource that must be checked is the National Sex Offender Registry, which can be viewed at www.nsopw.gov. The benefit of this site over regular state offender registries is that the national registry tracks offenders if they move from state to state.
• The violent offenders list for Emporia State can be found at the Police and Safety office. Under the Clery Act, the university must produce the list of offenders upon request. Other court information can be found at www.kansascourts.org and inmate lists for the state of Kansas can be seen at www.dc.state.ks.us.

But in all seriousness, the best way to use these resources is to find out what kind of information is available about yourself on the world wide web. By searching out yourself, you can find out how to better monitor your privacy on social networking sites and restrict what information is available.

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