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Former NFL
player Michael
Sam shares
his coming-out
story
he School of Engineering
celebrated
45 years of diversity
Saturday night, honoring
the founding of the Minority Engineering Program.
The program, among other
initiatives, allowed for the
creation and maintenance
of an organization called
Diversity Programs Student
Organizations that promoted success in the STEM programs for minority students.
Lorin Maletsky, associate dean for undergraduate
studies, said he is proud of
the school for being one of
the first departments to have
the foresight to welcome
and encourage all students,
regardless of race, gender or
financial standing.
Diversity across the
University, as well as in
engineering, is incredibly
important, Maletsky said
at the ceremony. It would
be great to see support programs such as this throughout the University. We need
to bring in more students
from varying backgrounds
as well as be able to retain
them and make them feel
welcome.
Florence Boldridge, the
Master of Ceremonies and
Director for Diversity and
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Joyce Shinn, co-founder of the Shinn Scholars, discusses how vital the scholarships that she and her late husband provide to the diversity program are to
minority students in STEM fields.
presidents from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, National
Society of Black Engineers,
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and Society of Women Engineers,
took to the podium expressing their gratefulness for
The general election for the 2016-17 Student Senate body will
be held Wednesday and Thursday. Online polling is sched-
OneKU
Presidential Candidate: Stephonn Alcorn, current Student
Senate government relations director
Vice Presidential Candidate: Gabby Naylor, current School
of Business senator
Platforms: According to OneKUs website, the coalition
has launched 12 campaign initiatives focused on inclusion
and representation, student vitality and campus renewal.
You at KU
Program working with inner-city school districts to acclimate high school students to the college experience
Mental Health Services and Awareness
Work with Counseling and Psychological Services to increase campus outreach, as well as increase the hours
and locations of available psychologists for students
On Campus Advocates
Coordinate with the Willow Domestic Violence Center
to bring a part-time advocate to campus
Student Finance Transparency
Lower the costs of printing an official transcript and
move all academic material charges to the Enroll & Pay
portal
First Generation Peer Mentorship Program
Establish a mentorship program that matches incoming
first-generation students with University students, who
are also first-generation students, to help students who
CARE KU
Presidential Candidate: Richie Hernandez, former
Association of University Residence Halls senator
Vice Presidential Candidate: John Castellaw, current
Student Rights Committee
member
Platforms: During its formation meeting Feb. 25,
CARE KU launched five campaign initiatives, focusing
mainly on campus safety and inclusion.
Mental Health Awareness
Addressing Equality and Inclusion on Campus
Campus Safety and Security
Services for Military and Veteran Students
Student Resources
Specific focus on gender-neutral housing options
CARE KU does not have a slate of senators, and is only
running with Hernandez and Castellaw on the ticket.
HOW TO
VOTE
All voting for Senate elections occurs online at the Rock
Chalk Central website. Any student with a KU ID is eligible to
vote through their account on
the website. Once the ballot is
finalized, a specific link will be
available for students to vote,
Jesse Burbank, chair of the
Elections Commission, said.
Students can vote on personal mobile devices or at the
Elections Commission central
polling locations. According
to the Elections Commission
Calendar, the commission will
have two polling locations on
campus open to students: one
on Wescoe Beach, and one at
Mrs. Es Dining Hall.
Students will have the opportunity to vote for a presidential and vice presidential ticket,
and then specific senators
within any classifications the
student falls under, including
academic school and on-campus or off-campus senators.
Burbank said 17 percent of
the student body voted in the
last Student Senate election.
He said he hopes to exceed that
number this year.
According to the Student
Senate Rules and Regulations,
the Elections Commission will
release the unofficial results of
the election after the initial tabulation of votes is completed on
Thursday. It is then required to
certify the results after a waiting period of 48 hours.
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Former Kansas running back Brandon Bourbon plays against the
West Virginia Mountaineers on November 16, 2013. Bourbon was
found dead on Friday.
Brandon
Bourbon,
the former Kansas running back who was reported missing earlier
this month, was found
dead on Friday of apparent suicide, according to
the Maries County Sheriffs Office. He was 24.
On
Friday,
the
Maries County Sheriffs
Office said Bourbons
body was found on a secluded river front property off Route AA near
Vienna, Mo. The suicide
was confirmed following
a detailed investigation,
the sheriffs office said.
Bourbon was reported missing on the
evening of April 2. His
family has been notified,
officials said, and his
friends have posted their
sentiments on Twitter
and Facebook.
On Friday, Kansas
coach David Beaty released a statement via
Twitter about his death.
Our hearts are broken to hear the news of
the passing of Brandon
Bourbon, Beaty said
in the statement. Our
thoughts and prayers
are with Brandons family and friends.
Several former Kansas players tweeted similar messages.
Rest in peace to
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Jameelah Jones talks about social injustices during her lecture, The
SeeSaw: Part II as a part of the Last Lecture Series. The Last Lecture Series
was put on by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
Something being
difficult doesnt
mean nothing
should be done.
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Michael Sam, who was the first openly gay NFL player on the St. Louis
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Award-winning slam poet Denice Frohman performed at Smith Hall Thursday night.
said.
The poem continues to tell
how the erasure of each womans name imitates the erasure
of their ancestors.
We are not as different as
we may seem at first glance,
Winter said. Our blood drips
down in the same gradient that
patterns our spectrum of peoples: Native Americans, Mexican Americans, we are both
indigenous Northern Americans. Stories supported by our
ancestors spines are the kinds
so strong they cannot even
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thing she often does is include
Spanish in her poetry as a way
of declaring her voice.
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of kind of saying like I will
speak my language. Its kind
of declaring, like, my Spanish
opinion
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the screen.
I got out there and
found how technical it really is, Maximovich said.
Theres a real loss of creativity, and you really need
to babysit this program and
continually troubleshoot it.
You lose so much of the organic process that drew me
to art in the first place.
After losing interest in a
project that had taken up an
entire year of her life, Maximovich decided to come
home to Kansas City, Mo.,
when she applied to the
University.
Maximovich said she
could never regret playing video games, having
drawn so much from them
in terms of influence, which
can be clearly seen in her
fantasy-styled landscapes,
but said shed rather get
away from the screen and
into the real world for her
future works.
I got really interested
in Northern European lore
and artworks, Maximovich
said. Ive even been reading some Icelandic sagas
plus Im a huge Tolkien fan
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Andy Hodges (left), a University freshman, and Anna Hamilton, a sophomore. Hodges collaborated with The Chainsmokers and got to shoot a commercial with Samsung.
They said Id be
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Andy Hodges
musician
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Hodges said during the
trip he was able to get some
tips and pointers from The
Chainsmokers on how to
improve his music.
Theyre just giving me
advice on what I need to
do to move on to the next
level, and Im taking that
advice and capitalizing on
it, Hodges said.
Aside from The Chainsmokers, Hodges says he
draws inspiration from
another notable pop artist, Ed Sheeran. Hodges
said he got the idea to layer
sounds from the loop pedal Sheeran uses for his live
shows. Although its meant
for guitars, Hodges bought
the same pedal for his piano, and it allows him to
build his tracks, adding different instruments through
his keyboard.
[Piano] just ranges so
wide, you can cover bass
and you can cover melody
at the same time, Hodges
said. And I love the violin,
I had a song in mind that
features a violin. Its my
second favorite instrument
behind cello.
Just this past semester,
Hodges began producing
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wasn't possible.
"It felt like one of those
it would never happen to
us' scenarios, but once we
got the info and saw what
she was applying for, I told
her right away that if she
applies for it, she was going
to get it," Jordan said.
Brittany said the main
experience that pushed her
to do the show was having
her son at a young age.
You see these teen
moms not being successful
and not doing the things
they are capable of, and I
didnt want to be another statistic, Brittany said.
When you grow up in a
situation like that, you are
either going to swim or sink
and I chose to swim.
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Lawrence resident and middle school teacher, Brittany Harrel-Miller (right), competed in the first season of
Strong, which will air April 13.
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Wide reviever Steven Sims, jr. is tackled by linebacker Joe Dineen, jr. in Saturdays Kansas Football 2016 Spring
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Kansas football coach David Beaty discusses a play with quarterback Montell Cozart during the Kansas football
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Senior quarterback Montell Cozart looks downfield during Kansas footballs 2016 spring game. Cozart and other teammates remembered Brandon Bourbon by wearing towels that read RIP 25.
emorial Stadium
was silent before
the spring game
on Saturday.
The few thousand in attendance stood, hushed,
with hats removed. The
Kansas football players,
outfitted in blue and white
jerseys for the game, rested their hands and looked
down at the ground.
Brandon Bourbon, the
Kivisto Field jumbotron
spelled out in bold white
text. 1991-2016.
Less than 24 hours after
Bourbon was found dead
in Missouri, Kansas foot-
Cozart said.
When Cozart came to
Kansas, a year after Bourbon, Bourbon was one who
guided him along. Both
Cozart and junior linebacker Joe Dineen who played
running back with Bourbon
for a year say Bourbon
mentored them at Kansas.
He pretty much showed
me the ropes; he taught me
how to play running back,
because I wasnt really familiar with the position,
Dineen said. He just took
you under [his] wing. He
was just a really good dude.
Though coach David
Beaty was not at Kansas
when Bourbon played for
the team, he talked to the
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Freshman pitcher Jackson Goddard pitches the ball during Sunday afternoons game against the TCU Horned Frogs. The Jayhawks lost 14-6 in the third
game of the series against the Frogs.
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It was going relatively well for Kansas baseball through four innings
against No. 6 ranked TCU
on Sunday. The team
actually led a national
power 4-3 and were in
position to take the three
game series.
Then the top of the
fifth happened.
TCU put up eight runs
in the top half off of six extra-base hits. The inning
was so dominant for the
Horned Frogs that they
sent eight straight hitters
to the plate without an out
being recorded. In real
time, it took roughly 20
minutes for the Jayhawks
to record the first out of
the fifth.
It was a tough inning,
theres no doubt about
that, Kansas coach Ritch
Price said. We got behind
in the count and left some
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