Items including patio furniture and an outdoor grill are missing and presumed stolen from a residence at the closed, university-owned apartments east of campus on 12th Ave.

Occupants of the residence request that the items be returned, no questions asked, and no legal action or other repercussions will occur.

While the apartments are, indeed, closed, the residents said they act as caretakers for the property and that local authorities keep surveillance in the area on a regular basis.

Anyone with information regarding the missing items should contact campus police at 620-341-5337.

The Japanese Association Sakura Choir Concert is at 7:30 p.m. April 13 at the Davis Theatre in the Emporia Arts Center, 815 Commercial St.

The concert will feature traditional and popular Japanese music, as well as traditional Korean, Chinese and American music.

“Sakura Choir has become a very diverse group,” said Juri Tokuda, manager of the choir. “We have Japanese, Korean, Chinese and American students. We are performing a repertoire representing these various cultures.”

Tickets are available at the ID Center in Memorial Union and at the EAC for $3. Admission for students is free with a student ID.

The choir was founded by the ESU Japanese Association Sakura in 2011. There are currently 15 members – nine from Japan; three from South Kora; two from the United States and one from China.

The ESU Glass Guild’s annual Glass Blowout will begin at 9 a.m. April 13 with hot glass demonstrations at the ESU Art Annex. From 12:30-1:30 p.m. there will be a break for lunch, and hot glass demonstrations will resume at 1:30 p.m. and continue through 5 p.m. At 5:30 p.m., there will be a BBQ and potluck dinner, as well as live entertainment, followed by an art auction at 7 p.m.

This year’s featured artist is Ross Richmond from the Seattle, Wash. area. Richmond will work with glass students through the week of April 8 on hot glass forming techniques and processes, as well as offer critiques for students’ work.

“(Richmond) started working with glass at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1991,” according to a press release from the Eppink Gallery. “He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art with a major in Glass and a minor in Metals… (his) pieces are typically narrative, working mainly with figurative elements and symbolic objects.”

Proceeds from the auction will be used to fund future visiting artists, supplies and equipment and educational field trips for glass students.

Names of the four finalists for Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs will be released Friday. They represent institutions in Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and North Carolina.

Candidates will be on campus from April 1-12 for approximately two days each, following the same schedule, which begins late afternoon on Day 1 and continues through lunch on Day 3.

Some locations are still being finalized, but all locations will be located on ESU’s website, which can be accessed by clicking the blue button for Provost and Business Dean Searches on the home page (right under the search box).

The schedule for visits is as follows:

Day 1: 5 p.m. — Reception with Emporia community; Day 2: 3 p.m. — Faculty forum; 4 p.m. — Campus and community open forum; 5 p.m. — Candidate reception.

The Women’s History Month Reception is from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Sauder Alumni Center. Several Hornet women will be honored for the services to the women of Emporia State.

Marie Miller, dean of the Liberal Arts and Sciences College, will receive the Ruth Schillinger Award. Student Lea Anderson will receive the Susan B. Anthony Award, and Malonne Davies, associate professor of physical sciences, will receive the Mary Headrick Award.

Positive psychologist and the world’ preeminent expert on hope, Shane Lopez, will deliver the inaugural lecture in The Teachers College Lecture Series at 7 p.m. April 1 in Webb Hall.

His new book, “Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Other,” was published in earlier this month as “a blueprint for using the power of hope in every area of life and communicating that hope to others,” according to an Emporia State press release.

Copies of the book are available in the Memorial Union Bookstore. The lecture is free and open for attendance. A book signing is scheduled after the lecture, and books will be available for purchase.

“In addition, representatives of nearly two dozen private and public Kansas schools are attending the lecture and will receive complimentary copies of the books signed by Lopez. Dr. Michael D. Shonrock, president of Emporia State University, and Carol Strickland, executive director of the National Teachers Hall of Fame, will assist Lopez in handing books to the school representatives,” according to the press release.

Ambassadors are gearing up for round two of the T-shirt exchange launched last semester. A table will be set up in the union from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 2-3, where students can exchange shirts from other colleges and universities for a limited edition Emporia State shirt not available anywhere else.

Students can also pay $5 for the ESU shirt. All shirts collected at the exchange are donated to local shelters.

Joe Sircoulomb, senior art major, prepares a piece for his thesis exhibition, “Queer,” which is on display through March 15 in King Hall.
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Senior Kaila Mock’s thesis exhibition, “(dis)comfort,” is on display in the Norman R. Eppink Gallery through March 15. The exhibition “deals with the aftermath of sexual violence on both the mind and the body,” according to an Eppink Gallery press release.

The showing has been on display since Tuesday, but the opening reception is from 5-7 p.m. tomorrow in the Bruder Theater Lobby of King Hall. Mock will graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in glass, sculpture, photography and a minor in art history.

Joe Sircoulomb, senior glass and sculpture major, will also open his thesis exhibition, “Queer,” from 5-7 p.m. tomorrow in the Bruder Theater Lobby of King Hall. Sircoulomb’s exhibition has been on display since Tuesday, and it will show in the Gilson Memorial Gallery through March 15.

Sircoulomb’s show “addresses eastern esoteric traditions, while taking a stance for the equality of gender and sexual minorities,” according to the press release. He will graduate in May with his bachelor’s degree, as well as a minor in art history.

A group of students will present Stand For Freedom, an on campus event to raise awareness of Emporia State students about modern day slavery, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. March 13, and 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. March 14 in the Memorial Union Main Street.

“Today, there are more that 27 million slaves in the world, including in the United States,” said Charissa Forsythe, an ESU student who is helping to coordinate the event. “People can come find out more information about slavery and sign a letter to President (Barack) Obama urging him to use his power to help end slavery.”

For more information, contact Forsythe at cforsyth@g.emporia.edu.

Tuesday night, the SMART cabinet in Plumb Hall Room 307 was broken into, and some equipment was allegedly stolen. The missing items include a monitor, an amplifier, an optical mouse and a wireless mouse, said Mel Storm, interim chair of the department of English, Modern Languages and Journalism.

Sgt. Don Shafer and Officer Penny Mains of campus police are in charge of investigating the incident, but The Bulletin was unable to reach either Shafer or Mains by press time last night.

In addition to the missing equipment, the SMART cabinet was damaged, said Gwen Larson, assistant director of Marketing and Media Relations, who received information regarding the incident from Police and Safety.

According to the Annual Security and Fire Safety report in 2011, three incidences of burglary occurred on-campus, two of which occurred in the residence halls.

Storm said in an email to the English department that the cabinet and missing equipment would be replaced and urged everyone to be mindful of locking not only the cabinets, but also the doors to classrooms as well. He also said that it is likely the door to 307 had been left unlocked.

Anyone with information related to the incident should contact Campus Police and Safety at 341-5337.