Flu shots scheduled for next week on campus

The Influenza virus kills thousands of Americans each year. Flu shots are available for students, faculty and staff in various locations on campus in October.

The cost is $25 for faculty and staff and $10 for students, or those wanting to receive the vaccine may use their health insurance if vaccinations are a covered service. Students must present their student ID to receive the discounted self-pay price.

Clinics are scheduled from 5-7 p.m. next Tuesday in the Towers lobby, from 9-11 a.m. next Wednesday in the Flint Hills Room and from 1-3 p.m. next Thursday in the Kanza Room. Call 341-5222 with questions, or email Mary McDaniel at mmcdanie@emporia.edu.

B-ball tourney sign-ups free for students, faculty and staff

ESU Recreation services will host a 3on3 Basketball Tournament at 5 p.m. on Oct. 18. The competition will be offered in both men’s and coed divisions, with a three game guarantee.

Games will be held in the multipurpose gym in the Student Recreation Center. Teams can sign up online now through Oct. 17, at Emporia-recsport.ezleagues.ezfacility.com. All entries must be completed by Noon on Oct. 17.

The tournament is free for students, faculty and staff and teams must be affiliated with ESU to participate.

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DJ by night, basketball player by day

Jarvis Nichols, senior communications major, is a two-year student basketball player and has worked as a DJ at Natasha’s from 10:30 p.m. to midnight, every Thursday to Saturday, for three months. Nichols said that he gets to party and entertain others who party at the bar.

“When I am doing that, I get to see everything. I see who is drunk, who is not, who is talking to whom, who is dancing with whom, who is looking at me… I just get chances to see everything,” Nichols said.

Nichols owns a professional turn table and music mixer and he practices for 30 to 40 minutes every day either at home or at Natasha’s.

Nichols has been turning for eight months. He used to work at a little nightclub back at home in Chicago and was always watching the DJ there.

“I felt like a have an ear for music, so I want to start the same thing,” Nichols said.

The other reason that Nichols said he became a DJ is because he had anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery twice and had to stop playing basketball for about eight months.

“Before I was playing basketball all the time, then I had to find some other way to have fun and fill that void for basketball,” Nichols said.

With previous experience working on the KISS 103.1 “After Hour Show,” Nichols said he is thinking about working at the radio station after graduation and getting a job that fits his background in communications, although he said has been playing basketball since he was two years old.

“To be honest, I don’t want to play no basketball no more, even though I got crazy game,” Nichols said.

As a student, Nichols needs to study and do homework every day and as a basketball player, he also needs to practice and work out every day from 3-5 p.m.

According to Nichols, he balanced the daily schedule of getting up and going to class in the morning, then going to basketball practice in the afternoon, studying and doing homework from 6 to 9 p.m. and getting ready for work at the club by 10:30 p.m.

James Roberts, owner of Natasha’s, said Jarvis does a great job at his work.

“He pulls a very great crowd. He is big balling and most of the people follow him place to place,” Roberts said.

Kris Cannon, bartender at Natasha’s and Nichols’ roommate, said he keeps the music mainstream.

“In my opinion, he is the only real DJ in town. That is why Natasha’s is so packed all the time,” Cannon said. “Jarvis mixes the real music in town, because anybody can hit the playlist on the computer.”

Roberts said Nichols can play about any kind of music and he does a nice job of making people comfortable at the bar.

“The DJ’s job is to make people to feel like the bar is their home to relax, and this is where they belong and this is where they to be, and Jarvis is doing great on it,” Roberts said.

Lauren Lau

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Your support was awesome at the NCAA Division II National Women’s Basketball Tournament held in St. Joseph, Mo. last week over 288 other Div. II teams. It was a beautiful sight to witness the ESU band, cheerleaders and over 200 students pulling together as one, to cheer the Lady Hornets on to a National Title on National T.V. What energy, what enthusiasm!! Every group was well-behaved and gave their heart and soul to the Lady Hornet’s team.

You will cherish those memories the rest of your life.

Many, many thanks from a proud local alumnus and the other 56,000 other ESU alumni throughout the U.S.A. You helped to make history.

Robert D. Chatham

B.S. ‘57

M.A. ‘61

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Senior guard Sophia Lenard shoots over a FHSU defender Thursday night during the first round of the MIAA Tournament. The Hornets beat the Tigers 72-66.

After a rough start, the Emporia State women’s basketball team was able to pull together and defeat Ft. Hays State 72-66 in the first round of MIAA Tournament action.

A trio of three-pointers late in the game from senior guard Jamie Augustyn led the Hornets to come back from a large deficit.

“I just did what I do,” Augustyn said. “My teammates did a really good job of finding me open, so I just shot it.”

Freshman guard Jocelyn Cummings was the first to score for the Hornets on a slashing move to the basket. With just over 17:30 to play in the first half, the Hornets found themselves down 3-7 thanks to a pivotal Ft. Hays three-pointer.

The first media timeout of the half stopped the action at the 15:56 mark with ESU trailing the Tigers 5-7. Following the timeout, the Tigers went on a 4-0 run until senior guard Sophia Lenard made a basket in the paint.

Another media timeout saw the Hornets still trailing Ft. Hays State, 9-15, with 11:20 remaining in the half.

ESU Coach Brandon Schneider was forced to call a timeout when the Tigers’ lead extended to 11 with 8:09 left in the half.

Senior guard Lacy Corker made a three-pointer following the timeout, cutting Ft. Hays State’s lead to eight, 12-20. Two straight treys from Ft. Hays’ Naomi Bancroft put the Hornets behind by 14 with just over six minutes to play in the half. The final timeout on the floor of the half saw the Tigers with a 29-17 lead over Emporia State with 3:27 remaining.

Senior guard Lacy Corker puts up a 3 point shot Thursday night in Kansas City.

A well executed offensive play by the Hornets saw Cummings take it to the rim and score, cutting the lead to 10. A pair of free throws from Lenard and a slashing basket by Boston saw the Hornets pull within six of Ft. Hays’ lead, 23-29, with just over a minute to play in the opening period.

A three-pointer from the Tigers gave them a nine point cushion going into halftime with a 32-23 lead over ESU.

Schneider said that Hays’ effort in the first half proved to be formidable.

“In the first half, Hays was really good,” Schneider said. “I really felt like the difference between the two halves (was) Hays’ seniors played like they wanted to play another game. They out-competed our seniors.”

Boston led the Hornets in their comeback effort with seven early second half points. A timeout on the floor stopped the action at the 11:33 mark with the Hornets trailing the Tigers 38-47.

Augustyn sparked the comeback by the Hornets, who cut the Tigers lead to four at 43-47 with just under 10 minutes to play. Junior forward Alli Volkens followed up Augustyn’s basket with one of her own on the low block, setting the score to 47-45 in favor of FHSU. Another three-pointer from Augustyn that led the Hornets to within one of the Tigers’ lead, 48-49, led to a timeout by Ft. Hays Coach Tony Hobson.

Senior guard Cassondra Boston attacks the FHSU defense Thursday night in the first round of the MIAA Tournament.

Following the timeout, ESU finally took the lead thanks to yet another Augustyn three-pointer. The Hornets went on a 7-2 run after the timeout by Ft. Hays, bringing the score to 55-51 in favor of Emporia State with just over five minutes remaining in the contest.

Boston said that it was at this point the seniors realized it was time to step up.

“We knew we had to pick it up right then and there,” Boston said. “I just kept stressing that every possession mattered. We couldn’t take any possessions off.”

Ft. Hays went on a small run of their own to tie the game up at 55 with 4:08 left to play.

The final media timeout saw ESU leading FHSU 58-57 at the 3:37 mark.

A myriad of lead changes occurred in the final few minutes of the game until a hard earned basket on the low block by Volkens stretched the Hornets’ lead to three, 66-63, with 1:04 remaining in the half.

Following a FHSU timeout, a trip to the charity stripe for Boston led to two more points, extending their lead to five, 68-63 with under a minute to play.

Boston gave the Hornets four more free throw points as the team left the court with a victory over the Tigers, 72-66.

Boston led all scorers with 23 on 6 of 18 shooting. Augustyn chipped in 11 points, while Volkens and senior guard Lacy Corker added 10 points each.

The Hornets will now face Central Missouri in the semifinals of the MIAA Tournament.  Tip-off is scheduled for 2:15 on March 6 at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.

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MOE

Emporia State Men’s Basketball Head Coach David Moe knows a little something about the game of basketball. Having learned from the likes of basketball legend Larry Brown and long-time NBA coach Doug Moe (David’s father), Moe has used his past experiences to lift the Hornets to a MIAA threat year-in and year-out.

A Burlington, N.C. native, Moe spent his younger years attending prep school at Smoky Hill High School in Aurora, Colo. Upon graduation, Moe initially attended and played basketball at Catawba College before transferring to Texas Lutheran, where he graduated in 1986.

After leaving Texas Lutheran, Moe became a graduate assistant at the University of Kansas during the 1988 season, the year the Jayhawks won the National Championship. Moe then became an assistant coach at Texas Tech from 1988-91, then left the Red Raiders to pursue a career in the NBA with his father.

Moe believes that he learned more from his father’s character than his coaching abilities and accolades.

“I probably learned from the type of person he was,” Moe said. “I think obviously the way I grew up exposed me to a lot of different things and different people, and maybe I had more resources as far as basketball…I think being at Colorado and being on the road recruiting for so many years helped me with my contacts.

As far as being in practice and coaching the game, the only guys that are there are the assistant coaches, me and the players…there’s no Doug Moe or Larry Brown sitting over my shoulder telling me what to do. I don’t sit there and try and be my dad or Larry Brown. The people I grew up around were some of the greatest coaches in the game – just because I was around those guys doesn’t mean I can coach.”

After a one-year stint with the Philadelphia 76ers, Moe became an assistant coach at Colorado University, where he manned the position for eight years. Moe’s relationship with Emporia State Athletic Director Kent Weiser led him to become ESU’s 16^th men’s basketball coach in 2001.

As the coach for the Hornets, Moe has seen a vast amount of success – he has led the team to five straight winning seasons and school’s first two NCAA Tournaments, along with earning MIAA Coach of the Year in 2003. Moe firmly believes that it is the players the have enabled him and the team to achieve so much success.

“We’ve got high quality people that are driven to be successful,” Moe said. “Yeah, we might not have the most talent, but we certainly work together as well as anybody.”

Senior guard and psychology major Tim Niles said that Moe has made an impact on his development

“He’s showing me my weaknesses,” Niles said. “He emphasizes that you need to work on your strengths, too. I think for the most part he’s helped me with that, and noticing that basketball isn’t everything – it has to do with a lot of family and a lot of schoolwork and hard work. That’s his biggest influence right there.”

Senior guard and communications major Dustin Andrews said that Moe’s ability to effectively communicate with his team is why he has earned so much success.

“He specifies that everybody has their own role and you have to play within your own role,” Andrews said. “I think that’s one of the reasons why he’s been so successful – he can get certain people to play within their role and not do too much. He’s pretty lenient, so he’s not as strict as other coaches could be, so I think that plays a part too.”

Niles believes it is consistency that makes Moe successful.

“I think because he sticks to his routine,” Niles said. “He has a common goal and he knows his personnel as far as coaches and who he’s bringing in to help out the athletes and whatnot.”

Moe is looking forward to a productive season from his experienced Hornets team. He said that his recruits have a basic understanding of how to be winners.

“The one thing I look forward to is guys understanding what it takes to be successful and compete and working on staying focused, being aware…we’re going to face adversity, and how you respond to it is what makes coaching challenging and fun,” Moe said. “Hopefully we’ll respond to it and continue to get better and learn how important being focuses mentally is to your success.”

Mental toughness is something that Moe stresses to his players.

“I think that’s the strength of our team,” Moe said. “We don’t have the physical talent that a lot of teams we’ve played against do. We’ve got to be tougher mentally than some of the teams.”

An extensive basketball-laden past has led Moe to become the coach he is today. Moe noted the importance of learning from his past mistakes.

“You are what your past was,” Moe said. “You learn from your mistakes and you learn from people that you respect. You try to eliminate your past mistakes…I think my job is to teach these guys to learn from their mistakes, you know, look at yourself, evaluate yourself before you point fingers at other people.”

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Doug Irby

The time of year has come once again when college basketball programs around the country show the fruits of their season-long labor by competing for an NCAA title. But competition begins long before game day. The sports version of gender wars is apparent even more so during March Madness.

When the taboo subject of women’s basketball versus men’s basketball is brought up, many think it is a discussion of which is better to watch or which is more important. Without spouting biased speculation, the only way to view this matter is to understand that women’s and men’s basketball are completely different and should be treated as such.

One argument leads some to believe that more publicity equals greater importance. Although men’s sports generally get more advertising and coverage, it does not necessarily mean they are more important.

An article from the Daily Vidette said that the first law of media is to make money. If you do not make money you can become like one of the Denver papers or the San Francisco papers and go out of business. The media has to find ways to serve their public and give them what they want.

According to an article in the Mercury News, it is inevitable that the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments are played simultaneously. The women’s games play in smaller venues, they do not play above the rim and their team members do not make millions in the WNBA.

The average salary cap for an entire WNBA team is around $803,000. The salary for a bench warmer in the NBA is $826,000. Stephon Marbury will make $21,937,000 this season playing for the New York Knicks whereas the entire budget for all 13 teams in the WNBA is $10,439,000.

Although, in a purely statistical viewpoint, women’s basketball does not match up to men’s, many more aspects should be taken into account.

The focus of many men’s games is to make money. The schools use players to make money and players use the schools to get rich.

Unlike men’s basketball, women generally do not have the option of a professional career in the sport they play, which gives them a great advantage in their careers.

The Daily Vidette said that 97 percent of women’s basketball teams in this year’s NCAA Tournament graduated at least 60 percent of their players, whereas only 48 percent of the men’s basketball teams in the tournament graduated at least 60 percent of their players.

The higher graduation rate of women in college sports is mainly due to the focus their programs have in comparison to men’s sports.

The Daily Vidette went on to say that women are becoming much more successful in the corporate world. In fact, four out of five women in the top 500 businesses are women who were college athletes.

Although women’s and men’s college basketball have many differences, male athletes should learn from their female counterparts because going professional is not everything.

Doug Irby/The Bulletin

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