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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Webb

As part of the creative writing program’s visiting writers series, Professor Amy Sage Webb will read from her recently published collection of short stories, “Save Your Own Life,” at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Preston Family Room in the Memorial Union.

Copies of the book will be available for sale for $15 each, and a book-signing will follow the reading.

Webb is co-director of creative writing and was named a Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor last spring. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University, a master’s in English from Kansas State and a master’s of fine arts in English from Arizona State.

Senior Peter Shoemaker’s BFA thesis exhibit, “Infamy,” is on display in the Norman R. Eppink Gallery through Feb. 15. Shoemaker will graduate in May with a degree in engraving and sculpting. The opening reception is at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Bruder Theater Lobby.

Gallery hours are 9am to 3pm, Monday through Friday.

The presentation is titled “Civics Reform: It’s Really Important.” For more information, contact Michael Smith, associate professor of social sciences, at 341-5566, or at msmith3@emporia.edu.

The report comes after the recent Noel-Levitz consultation report on improving retention at Emporia State. Shonrock will discuss the results of the report, as well as the university’s plans to use them.

Driewer has experience with hospital budgeting, which derives funding from multiple sources, similar to how universities are funded. Driewer looked for common themes among the departments and has made suggestions on how to implement some of the suggestions provided by faculty and staff.

The Faculty Senate meeting is open to anyone wishing to attend. It will be at 3:30 p.m. next Tuesday in the Preston Family Room in the Memorial Union.

Jasper is the president and CEO of Riverview Center, a rape crisis center in Dubuque, Iowa. He is also a sexual assault and domestic violence advocate and an international primary prevention speaker with experience working with colleges, branches of the military, teenage residential treatment centers and gangs.

For more information, contact SOS at 620-342-7943, or go to the SOS web site at soskansas.com. To learn more about Jasper or the Riverview Center, go to riverviewcenter.org.

Once a new date is established, ticket prices will be $20 for general admission, $15 for students and $35 for ringside seating.

For more information, contact Sandra Price-Byrd at 620-480-0066.

All items for sale were handmade by glass-forming students and include ornaments, vases, bowls, cups, goblets, paperweights and more. Ornaments are $10, and all other prices vary.

Proceeds from the sale will help the Glass Guild pay for conference fees, equipment and supplies and bringing visiting artists to campus.

Etzell’s talk will focus on his experience protesting an ad portraying violence against a woman and the backlash from both those who created the ad and other women that followed.

“I certainly don’t have all the answers on how to prevent violence and sexual assault,” Etzell said in a press release from Ethnic and Gender Studies. “However, my discussion and questioning opens up several opportunities to further discuss and speak out against our overall culture’s seeming ‘acceptance,’ silence and apathy about these issues.”

Contact Karen Smith, director of Ethnic and Gender Studies, at 341-5570 for further information.

Extended hours start at 7:30 a.m. and go until 9 p.m. Dec. 7. The library will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 8. Then, it will be open from 1 p.m. Dec. 9 around the clock until 6 p.m. Dec. 14. The library café will also be open.

The event will be put on by Ghost Tours of Kansas and the Kansas Paranormal Research Society, who present information based on the “recent paranormal investigation” done at the library, according to an Emporia State press release.

The presenters will also demonstrate to attendees how to use ghost hunting equipment and share their personal experiences with the paranormal. The event is free of charge and available all community members.

Jing Hong, an exchange student from Beijing, China, packs food bags for elementary students from food insecure homes in the community at the Emporia Gazette office yesterday afternoon. ESU American Democracy Project students, ESU tennis team members and community members volunteered. They collected 739 bags of food and packed 280.
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Penny Weiner, a playwright with 39 years of experience, talks to students about her experience Oct. 12th in Plumb Hall. While teaching, Weiner got the idea to make a play out of an E. E. Cummings poem, which led her to a graduate program for playwriting. Weiner was brought to Emporia State as part of the English department’s Visiting Writers Series.
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The dorm floor that collects the most cans wins a pizza party from ASG. The winning Greek house and RSO will each receive free color advertising space in The Bulletin. The winning house and RSO can design their own ads or have The Bulletin design them.

Can the ‘Bods runs through October.

Yawei Fan and Zheng Lin died last October when a fire broke out in their off-campus apartment at 12 East 11th Ave. A fire prevention workshop will be held Tuesday in their honor.
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A fire prevention workshop will be held from 4-5 p.m. Tuesday in Webb Hall 1. The Office of International Education and Student Affairs are working in conjunction with the City of Emporia Fire Department to bring this workshop, “Zheng Lin and Yawei Fan: A Tribute,” about fire safety and prevention to the general public in memory of Lin and Fan, two international students from China who lost their lives in an apartment fire near campus last October.

“The purpose of this workshop is to prevent similar incidents and educate people, especially young people who have never lived on their own, about fire hazards in apartments or homes, basic fire safety techniques, and – a commonly misunderstood concept – their rights as a tenant in regards to fire prevention,” said the OIE in an email sent to Recognized Student Organization yesterday afternoon.

According to Bulletin archives and authorities from the Emporia Fire Department, the fire was caused by combustibles left too close to a floor furnace, including clothing, paper and other personal items.

“After the fatal fire last fall, we realized that we have students in our community that are not familiar with the type of heating equipment that they may encounter in off campus housing here in Emporia,” said Tom Andrews, fire marshal, in an interview with The Bulletin last spring.

Captain Larry Bess, Battalion Chief Rex Fisher and Andrews will speak at the event.

“For nearly 150 years, Emporia State University’s Teachers College has been at the forefront of teacher education,” said Ken Weaver, dean of The Teachers College, in a press release. “We are honored to have Secretary Duncan and President Van Roeckel stop in Emporia to honor career teachers inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame and seek input about education in America. It promises to be inspirational for our students and our faculty.”

Emporia is just one city on the 10-day Education Drives America tour, which concludes Sept. 21 in Washington, D.C.

Fans will have several opportunities to show support. Around 4 p.m. today, the players will eat their team meal in the Memorial Union then head to the stadium to dress for the game. The team will leave from the north entrance to the Union (by the Office of International Education and Career Services), walk through the parking lot on the east side of Wooster Lake, then down the street in front of Singular/Trusler to enter the east side of the stadium. Fans are encouraged to line the team’s route and cheer them on as they make their way to the locker room.

During pregame, juniors Gabe Andrews and Benny Bowden, who form the musical duo Gabe &Benny, will perform their original ESU hype song “Right Now.” The Stingers, ESU’s dance team, the cheer squad and Corky will help engage the crowd to participate in the song.

Tickets for Thursday’s game, designated as the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame Game, cost $9 for adult general admission, $7 for child/senior general admission and $13 for reserved chair back seating on the west side. Ticket booths open at 5:30 p.m., and stadium gates open at 6 p.m.

Amy Sage Webb, associate professor of English and co director of the Creative Writing program, received the Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor Award Tuesday Afternoon. Photo Courtesy of Media Relations

Amy Sage Webb, associate professor of English and co-director of the Creative Writing program, is the 2012 Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor, the highest award given to Emporia State faculty members.

President Michael Shonrock, Mel Storm, chair of the English department, Marie Miller, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Provost Tes Mehring and Vice Presidents Ray Hauke and Jim Williams presented the award to Webb Tuesday afternoon in Plumb Hall during her advanced fiction class.

The individual selected as Distinguished Professor must meet rigorous standards demonstrating excellence in teaching, student mentoring, and encouragement of academic excellence in students, a strong record of scholarly/creative activity, and leadership within the university and to the profession.

Webb will be recognized at a university reception toward the end of April, will be listed in the May commencement program, and will lead the academic processional at graduation next December and May.

Free campus concert will feature Kansas band

The Tallgrass Express String Band will perform during the “Heart of the Land: Discover Kansas Through Music” spring concert at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Skillet Atrium of Visser Hall.

The concert is free and refreshments will be provided. The band features Charlie Laughridge of Council Grove, Loren Ratzloff of Canton, Annie Wilson of Chase County and Carl Reed of Manhattan wearing historic western dress and playing instruments including the fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, upright bass, dobro, harmonica and concertina.

The event is sponsored by the Office of International Education and Psi Chi national psychology honor society and will run until 9:30 p.m.

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Michael Lane, former president of Emporia State and current faculty member in the business department, is one of four finalists for the presidential position at Valdosta State University in Georgia. Lane met with the campus community at the end of February.

“Clearly Valdosta State University is an excellent institution with wonderful and friendly people,” Lane told VSU’s student newspaper, The Spectator. “Their interest in VSU is both impressive and important. I leave Valdosta more convinced that this is an exceptional opportunity.”

If there are no new candidates presented, the presidential search committee will choose three of the four candidates and submit an unranked list to the Regents’ Special Committee, according to The Spectator. The university expects to have their new president in place by July 1.

The other finalists are Bill McKinney from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Cheryl Norton from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and Ray Alden from Northern Illinois University

VSU has 13,000 students and is located on 168 acres near the southern border of Georgia.

Foundation president candidates to visit campus

Four individuals being considered for the position of the ESU Foundation president will be in Emporia next week for interviews.

Two candidate interviews are scheduled for March 15. The following day, another two candidates will be interviewed. The four finalists will also participate in a variety of meetings and forums intended to introduce them to ESU and the Emporia community.

The Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a meet and greet for each candidate. Community members are encouraged to attend and take this opportunity to meet the candidates. These sessions will be held at 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on both Thursday and Friday at the Chamber office in the Trusler Business Center, 719 Commercial Ave.

The campus community is invited to meet the candidates at separate forums in Webb Hall at 1:15 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. on both Thursday and Friday.  These meetings are open to staff, faculty, students and friends of the university.

A blood drive for the American Red Cross will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 6 in the Visser Hall Atrium and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 7 in Webb Hall. Sign-up tables for appointments will be available on Main Street in the Memorial Union on March 1, 2 and 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

All donors will receive a t-shirt. In accordance with state regulations and subject to approval of the supervisor, benefits eligible classified and unclassified employees may be excused from work to donate blood.

Church to host garage sale

The First United Methodist Church will host a garage sale to raise money for local and regional missions this weekend at 823 Merchant St.

On Friday the sale will take place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on Saturday it will be held from 8 a.m. to Noon. Traditional garage sale items as well as some antiques will be available.

For more information, contact Paula Sauder at 342-4939 or paulakay46@hotmail.com.

Community service group to hold fundraiser at Pizza Ranch

Pizza Ranch, 3000 West 18th Ave., will host a fundraising event for Alternative Spring Break from 5-8 p.m. on March 5. The group will be on-hand to wait tables and will collect 100 percent of the tips.

The organization will travel to Fairfield, Ala. during spring break to help families faced with daily struggle to survive living among substandard and inhumane living conditions.

Writers help community improve skills

On Saturday, ESU will host the Focus on Writing Day to help participants improve their writing skills beginning at 9 a.m. at the William Allen White Library on campus. Two sessions will be lead by professional writers Andrea Warren, Max McCoy, Gwen Larson, Amy Sage Webb, Theresa Mix, Jerilynn Henrikson and Andrew Smith.

Lunch will be served in the Visser Hall Atrium at 11:30 a.m., served by the International Food Festival. The day will conclude in Visser Hall 118 with keynote speaker Andrea Warren, a William Allen White Children’s Book Award recipient. ESU course credit is available with paid tuition, and PDC points are offered. The Focus on Writing workshop is open to all ESU students and community without charge. For more information, please contact Connie Phelps at 620.341.5817.

Student in the Teaching Middle/Secondary Mathematics class are looking for volunteers to help with a project to teach middle school students and their parents fun ways to enjoy math and alternate ways to meet the common core standards.

The project is a service for Emporia Middle School. Last year, over 50 ESU students helped with the event. There are only 14 students currently in the course, so they are looking for students to volunteer from 5:30-9 p.m. on March 6 who are interested in workings with kids.

Family Math Night will be held at Emporia Middle School, 2300 Graphic Arts Road. The concept is to “travel around the world” by going through each math station.

To sign up, contact Connie Schrock at 341-5631 or cschrock@emporia.edu, or Chase McIver at cmciver@emporia.edu.

Girl Scouts offer ‘Sweetheart Child Care’ this weekend

Emporia Cadette Girl Scout Troop 34047 is offering Sweetheart Child Care on Saturday from 6 p.m. to midnight at the Amend Girl Scout Center, 1200 Burlingame Road.

Children will make crafts, watch movies, dance, eat dinner, enjoy snacks and play games while parents enjoy each other’s company for the evening.

Children who are potty trained up to age 10 may attend. Cost is $25 for the first child and $5 for each additional child. Children may bring their pajamas, blanket and pillow.

To make a reservation or for more information call Susan “Momma Scout” Faler, 794-2026.

Proceeds go toward Troop 34047’s October trip to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.