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Sept. 16, 2016

vol. 125 [issue 2]

Baker University Student Media ~ Baldwin City, Kansas

Wowzer Wildcat

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16 September 2016

Print Is Not Dead Yet!

When was the last time you read a form of print media - a book, magazine or newspaper? Was it recently? Are reading

our print issue right now? Or you cant remember? That is not surprising considering modern popular culture. In the words of the
staff of the Baker Orange, print media is still relevant, convenient, important and timeless. You may not choose to pick

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has become more of a convenience than a necessity. According to history, it doesnt look like print media will ever entirely go

away. There is room in the world both print and digital media. Girls, youre both pretty, stop trying to kill each other. Remember

that 80s classic, Video killed the radio star? But did it?

Modern radio has adapted and survived with the times. Why not the same for print? Print publications may never be as

successful and monumental as they used to be, but there is definitely a place in the world for it. Digital media is important and

BU invests in Turnitin, a plagiarism

detection
software.
make its content any less important? Print media may be more
of a read-out-of-convenience
form media of now, but there is
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valuable in our modern news-as-it-happens society. Therefor, print is rarely the source of breaking news anymore, but does that

something of value in holding and reading a newspaper, book or magazine. Isnt it nice to be mentioned in a newspaper? To have
your picture or quote used in something a lot of people see? Print media can be a tangable keepsake in those instances. Keeping a

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Sept. 16, 2016

EDITORIAL

Print is not dead yet!

When was the last time you

read a form of print media - a
book, magazine or newspaper?
Was it recently? You are reading
our current print issue right
now, but can you remember
what youve read before this?
You may not choose to pick
up a paper when you want to
know the news because thats
what your phone and TV is for,
right? and sometimes it seems
print media has become more of
a convenience than a necessity.
However, we have an
alternative viewpoint. Baker
Orange staff members used
the following adjectives to
describe print media: relevant,
convenient, important and
timeless. According to history, it
doesnt look like print media will
ever entirely go away. There is
room in the world for both print
and digital media. Girls, youre
both pretty, so stop trying to kill
each other.
Remember that 80s classic,
Video Killed the Radio Star?
But did it? Modern radio has
adapted and survived with the
times. Why not the same for
print? Print publications may
never be as successful and

influential as they used to be,

but there is definitely a place in
the world for it. Print is not dead
yet!
Digital media is valuable in
our modern news-as-it-happens
society. Therefore, print is rarely
the source of breaking news
anymore, but does that make
its content any less important?
Print media may be more of a
read-out-of-convenience form
media of now, but there is
something of value in holding
and reading a newspaper, book
or magazine.
Isnt it nice to be mentioned
in a newspaper? To have
your picture or quote used in
something a lot of people see?
Print media can be a tangible
keepsake in those instances.
Keeping an old faded piece of
paper with your name/picture
still provides emotional value to
most people. You just dont get
that option with digital.
Sure, there are a few
archiving sites that take
screenshots of websites as a
form of record, but it just isnt
the same. Some forms of digital
media wont even exist in the
future and with it the content

Graphic by Maria Echeverry

created with it (such as Adobe

Flash Player being replaced by
HTML5, or, heaven forbid, if
YouTube suddenly adopted a
pay-for-play business model).
Digital seems to be more
distant; it is there but has,
somehow, less value. When you
pick up a book, newspaper or
magazine, you know there was
effort put into its creation. Much
like kids drawings, love notes
and postcards, print media are
more tangible and thus have
more significance.
At the Baker Orange, the
decision to continue publishing
a print newspaper, in addition

to our online presence, has

become an annual decision
that grows more difficult each
year. Our editors all want to
participate in publishing print
editions because of the learning
experience and simply for the
love of it.
So if you are one of our
print readers, please visit the
Baker Orange Facebook, page
at facebook.com/bakerorange,
and answer a poll about our
readership. We are curious to
see how many of you there are
and how important our print
issue is to the Baker University
and Baldwin City communities.

Living in a two ... one ... no gas station town

SARAH BAKER
Editor

Some Baker students are probably

deaf to the biggest two trigger words
that are a bane for most Baldwin City
residents at the moment: gas station.
Baldwin City had successfully
supported two gas stations until this
summer when the Kwik Shop took over
the building that previously housed the
Santa Fe Market. That is the moment
when many Baldwin City residents
became agitated. At the intersection
with the towns only stoplight, the
Kwik Shop used to sit across the
street from the locally-owned Santa
Fe Market, which was the larger of the
two. After the Kwik Shop relocation,
the building for the old location now
sits vacant.
While the Kwik, as students
call it, has more pumps and can serve
more people with a larger location, it
is now the only gas station in Baldwin
City. With the nearest gas stations
being in Edgerton and Wellsville,
both at 10 miles as the crow flies, the
Baldwin City Kwik Shop has no direct

competition. Based on the recently

torn-up concrete and for-lease
sign at the old location, it doesnt
appear likely that any competing
gas stations will be moving into that
prime spot anytime soon.
Last week, signs were posted
at the new Kwik location explaining
the process for improving the
current pumps at the new location
by closing half of them at a time,
leaving the remaining pumps
open. However, last Thursday
night, all of the Kwiks pumps were
unexpectedly unavailable, throwing
many in the community into a rage.
Suddenly, Baldwin City residents
had no local option to buy gas.
One particular Facebook
page, the Citizens for the Future
of Baldwin City Community, is an
impromptu news hub for residents
and community leaders to interact
with each other. It has now become
a site for residents to fume about
this latest inconvenience. Some
were commenting with the hashtag
#caseysforbaldwincity or lamenting
they that they sometimes must travel
outside the city for gas. Even when the
pumps are open, the Kwik is often too

Graphic by Sarah Baker

busy for motorists to maneuver their
way to the pumps.
On top of the inconvenience
factor, the city misses out on muchneeded tax dollars when residents
go elsewhere to buy gas. With the
planning of a community center in the
works, that revenue is sorely needed.

The Kwik Shop cannot support

all 4,500 Baldwin City residents.
I am in the same boat as those
#caseysforbaldwincity folks. So if
anyone from Caseys General Stores
Inc. is reading this, please know that
Baldwin City wants and needs you
right now.

Sept. 16, 2016

The Baker Orange | Voices

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Ill stand by my faith

Catholics need to stand together in faith during trying times

LAUREN FREKING
Columnist

It hurts my heart to sit down and

write this. The topic is so heavy that I
worry I will be unable to adequately
describe my opinions and emotions.
By the time you read this, Im
sure you will have heard through the
grapevine that the Catholic priest in
Baldwin City was recently suspended
from the ministry after news reports of
him visiting inappropriate websites
depicting children on the internet. An
FBI investigation is underway.
Cue the moment when my heart sank
into my stomach Sunday evening.
Wow. That is heavy, right? I am
well acquainted with the Rev. Chris
Rossman and have been involved with
the off-campus Catholic center here
over the course of my college career.
As people have been finding out
about the incident, the reactions have
been it seems like that happens a lot,
or wow, another one?
The sad reality is that I am a
member of a church that is stereotyped
as corrupt, sinful and exploitive of
children. Ive heard the stories in
the news over the years of priests
molesting children, Ive watched
movies dramatizing the corruption of
the institution, and Ive seen countless
Catholics lose their faith and leave.
Now that I know someone
firsthand, I will not lie: this situation
hurts. It is shocking and disheartening.
However, in the midst of public
reaction and my own emotions, I never
have questioned or lost an ounce of
support or faith in the Catholic Church.

My hope today is to educate others

on what the Catholic Church does
when situations like this arise, bring to
light societal expectations and discuss
the true center of our faith.
First of all,
it needs to be
said, the Catholic
Church has
never supported
or hired child
molesters. The
church views
sexual abuse and
pornography as a
grave moral evil
and particularly
deplorable in
organizations
claiming to
order moral
leadership.
So why do
scandals keep
happening?
In the past,
the Church, in a
forgiving sense,
thought it could
treat pedophilia
with counseling
and psychology.
Wanting to
be forgiving
and accepting
of even the
least of these, it tried to treat the
problem rather than banish it. The
Catholic Church eventually learned
that, unfortunately, this mental
sickness is rarely if ever curable
through treatment, and instead
the perpetrators would have to
be removed from the institution
completely.

The church now spends tens of

millions of dollars each year on child
protection efforts, and the number of
new allegations is just one-third of
what it was a decade ago.
When reports
of the Baldwin
priest reached
the archdiocese
of Kansas City,
there was no
hesitation from
the church in
contacting the
FBI to investigate
the situation.
When
tragedies like this
arise, I think of a
saying, You cant
control what
happens, but you
can control your
reaction. The
Catholic Church
has done almost
everything in
its power to
recognize the
problems and
sins within as
well as react in
the best way
possible.
Sexual
abuse, child
pornography and molestation are
unfortunate realities of multiple
organizations, including public
schools, churches, governments,
Jewish communities and Boy Scouts.
Unfortunately, sin is everywhere.
The Catholic Church is supposed to
guide us morally, and it is the oldest
and largest Christian organization

I continue to

stand by the church

that emphasizes
forgiveness, humility,
service and love. I
stand by the institution
that founded hospitals,
homeless shelters,
schools and nursing
homes. I stand by
the Catholic Church
because it has been
the deepest and most
consistent connection
to God and His love
throughout my life.

Word Around

BAKER:

Do you prefer e-books or

printed textbooks for class
reading assignments?

in the world, so it is shocking when

things this unsettling occur on the
inside. Because the Catholic Church is
composed of and led by human beings
who have free will, it is not immune
to these sins. We Catholics have never
claimed to be perfect or sin-free.
I am absolutely rocked by what
happened here in Baldwin City. No
doubt, this news will spread across
campus. Some will probably lose faith
and leave the church. Others will be
more firmly rooted in their disdain for
Catholic practice and beliefs.
The news is discouraging right
now, and it hurts my heart. It hurts
my heart for our priest who may have
fallen victim to this terrible sin and life.
It hurts my heart for the Catholic and
non-Catholic community of Baldwin
City, which will surely be scarred.
I know to some it would be crazy
to stay in a church like this. For me it
is not. Father Chris Rossman is not the
Catholic Church. If he is found guilty, I
do not stand by him or what he did.
I am not naively standing by an
institution with beliefs that are crazy
or out of line. I am not afraid to leave
organizations I do not believe in.
Earlier this year, I decided that I am
no longer a Republican but this is
completely different.
Instead, I stand by the church that
was founded by Jesus Christ Himself,
passed onto St. Peter, and grown by the
12 Apostles. I continue to stand by the
church that emphasizes forgiveness,
humility, service and love. I stand by
the institution that founded hospitals,
homeless shelters, schools and nursing
homes. I stand by the Catholic Church
because it has been the deepest and
most consistent connection to God and
His love throughout my life.

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I don't like staring at a
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it's easier to take notes."

Caitlin Hardgrove

Austin Halsey

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sophomore

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I do have some on my
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highlight in the book. It's
a lot easier, although it's
also a lot heavier."

Jenny Robbs
senior

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Sept. 16, 2016

BU limits aid for future Harlaxton students

SPENCER BROWN
Staff Writer

In reaction to the increased

student interest in the Harlaxton
College study abroad program
for the 2016-2017 term and a
subsequent hole in the universitys
budget, Baker University has
changed the financial aid package
for future program participants.
An email from Director of
Study Abroad Robyn Long to the
student body noted that any Baker
scholarships to help pay for the
program would be replaced with a
smaller $5,000 maximum in student
aid during the 2017-2018 school
year.
We all recognize that this will
have an impact on participation
in Harlaxton, and I am sorry for
that, Long said. I dont think it
will reduce interest at all, and,
we hope, being allowed to use
$5,000 of [students] Baker aid in
conjunction with outside aid and
careful planning will still seem like
a tremendous help to study for a
semester in Europe.
After nearly 30 years of a much
easier tuition exchange process for
BU students to attend Harlaxton,
this is the first time that Baker
administration has grappled with
financial sustainability. This comes
at least partly because of BU
students increased interest in the

program for the 2016-2017 school

aid transferred over, but also the
year, as 30 to 40 students will
transfer of all credit hours taken
spend the semester in England for
while abroad allow for the ease
the current school year versus the
of transition between semesters
typical 12 to 15 students.
while keeping students on track for
This means that Baker sends
graduation.
a check for the cost of all students
Sophomore Caringtyn Julian, who
participating in the program for a
was looking forward to studying
given semester, historically $100at Harlaxton during the upcoming
200,000, Long said. With the
spring semester, recently withdrew
increased
her application
interest,
due to financial
that amount
reasons,
is closer, in
although not
2016-2017,
because of the
to $600,000,
changes to the
which is not
financial process
sustainable on
for the following
a campus our
school year.
size.
Julian and her
Students
family realized
with a 3.0
that even the
GPA or higher
current price
junior Miranda Lindmark
will be able to
differential
apply for the
between Baker
program and
and Harlaxton,
will be offered the $5,000 of aid off
though slight, was more than what
of the $20,000 per semester price
they expected.
tag of Harlaxton College. Students
Its unfortunate that money is a
with a GPA of 2.0 to 2.9 may apply
factor, she said. There are so many
but will receive no aid, while
changes that come about when you
students with a GPA below 2.0 are
realize that Baker is not the only
not eligible to study abroad.
thing in the world. A lot of people
Students have a slightly different
come here because they see the
perspective, as it is a major reason
opportunities of traveling during
why the Harlaxton program has
interterm or to Harlaxton. With
traditionally been chosen. Not only
these changes, you are potentially
have scholarships and financial
cutting off so many people from

I am very excited

for my experience
and glad that Baker
has given me the
opportunity to do
something like this.
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studying abroad.
Interterm, however, is an area
that Long hopes will grow after
this financial change. In addition,
she noted that Harlaxton offers a
summer program that is roughly a
fourth of the cost of a semester. It is
a shorter 5-week program, costing
students approximately $5,000
while earning them three to six
credit hours and allowing them to
experience traveling Europe.
We should be grateful that Baker
is even letting us use our financial
aid toward something like this,
junior Miranda Lindmark, who will
be studying abroad at Harlaxton in
the spring 2017 semester, said. I
know this is not always the case at
other schools. I am very excited for
my experience and glad that Baker
has given me the opportunity to do
something like this.
Though the future of the
programs cost to Baker students
remains unknown following the
2017-2018 school year, it is certain
that the financial ease of studying
abroad at Harlaxton will not be the
same.
I am grateful for the chance
to address student questions,
Long said. We remain a partner
institution with Harlaxton College
and look forward to preparing
students for Harlaxton and other
semester-long programs for the
2017-2018 school year.

Sept. 16, 2016

The Baker Orange | News

Were turning it in

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BU now using Turnitin plagiarism detection software

SARAH BAKER
Editor
Beginning this fall, Baker
University has renewed its
subscription to Turnitin, a
controversial plagiarism detection
software, to aid faculty and students
in the discovery and prevention of
plagiarism on campus.

About Turnitin
The Turnitin website markets
the product as technology to
improve student writing that was
created in the late 1990s. Turnitins
Feedback Studio says it has amassed
a collection of more than 600 million
student papers.
Approximately five years ago,
Baker University used a licensed
plagiarism-detection software,
but because of budget concerns,
discontinued the service. Since
then, faculty members have voiced
their desire to have an equitable
and consistent tool for finding
and assessing incidents of student
plagiarism.
Despite Turnitins success in
college spheres over the years,
the software has received mixed
reviews. There have been some law
cases, like Vanderhye v. iParadigms
LLC, featuring students who have
refused to submit their papers to
the program all submitted papers
are saved to an external database
to which another party could have
access on the grounds Turnitin
is violating their copyright and
privacy rights. Both a district and
an appeals courts affirmed Turnitin
was in the right under fair use
- using the papers in a new and
innovative way. Fearing the potential
for future lawsuits, though, some
colleges have either banned the
entire service or have incorporated
a policy exempting students from
being required to submit work if they
choose not to.
Students have also posted on
various forums such as YouTube
comment sections and Reddit feeds
saying that they have failed an
assignment, or been asked to rewrite
work, due to a large percentage
of their paper being flagged as
plagiarism, when they say they did
not plagiarize and that it was due
to professor and/or software error.
Some students posts suggest that
the professor-errors are a result
of a lack of knowledge of how the
software works, and the systemerrors stem from a computer not
understanding the circumstances or
context in which the flagged portions
are set.
When a paper is submitted,
the Turnitin software flags any
instance of possible plagiarism,
including quotes, the bibliography

source, required/standard subject

heading, article names and amount
of similarity to other papers. It
then calculates a percentage of the
submitted work that is plagiarized or
similar to other works.
A blog post published by Turnitin
on its website stated its response to
such student claims:

There is a very distinct

difference between what
Turnitin flags as matching
text (aka: similarity index)
and plagiarism. Turnitin
will highlight any matching
material in a paper - even if it
is properly quoted and cited.
Just because it appears as
unoriginal does not mean it
is plagiarized; it just means
that the material matches
something in the Turnitin
databases.
We leave it to the
instructors to look at a paper
and the originality report to
make the determination of
whether or not something
is plagiarism, and to what
extent - intentional plagiarism,
unintentional plagiarism,
improper/lack of citation
or mere coincidence. Best
practices from instructors
suggest that Turnitin
OriginalityCheck be used as
a teaching tool to address
citation and academic honesty,
not only as a punitive tool .

Spurred by this controversy,

Susan Schorn, a writing flag
coordinator at the University
of Texas in Austin, was inspired
to conduct a study about the
effectiveness of both Turnitin and
UTs plagiarism detection software
of choice, SafeAssign, in discovering
plagiarism. She started her study in
2007 and conducted a follow-up in
2015. Schorns experiment began
with a sample of test essays with
23 commonly-cited sources among
humanities courses, including
various levels of plagiarism. During
her study, Schorn concluded that
Google searches surpassed both
systems in the amount of copied
material detected and simplicity of
use. Although, both systems could
outperform Google in collusion,
or similarity, of papers, for the 23
plagiarized sources in the papers
which were strategically placed
there by Schorn and her colleagues
based on common methods they
saw in students papers Google,
again, surpassed both systems in the
amount of correctly-found plagiarism
with 91.3 percent. Turnitin and

SafeAssign found 60.76 and 43.4

percent, respectively.
Schorns data suggests that
while Turnitin is more effective than
competing software, it is not as
effective as manual Google searches.
The overall effectiveness and
usefulness of Turnitin as a plagiarism
detection software may be up to
colleges, faculty and students to
determine themselves.
Turnitin at Baker

How this software will affect

Baker University has yet to be seen,
considering it is the start of the year
and Faculty Senate is currently in
the process of amending Bakers
academic misconduct and plagiarism
policies to include more strict
measures of dealing with dishonesty.
Mass Media and Visual Arts
Department Chair Joe Watson said
that Baker is not requiring faculty
and students to use Turnitin, but
faculty members do have it available
as a tool to detect and prevent
plagiarism.
There is no policy that says
Baker faculty have to use this
software, Watson said. I am sure
there are going to be some of my
colleagues that dont want to use it,
and if they dont want to, they dont
have to.
Watson says that he is passionate
about plagiarism, and he will spend
a lot of time trying to find it if he
suspects it in a student paper. He
knows that Turnitin is not perfect,
but he sees it as a valuable teaching
tool for students to learn how to
avoid plagiarizing.
Frankly, I plan to use
[Turnitin] as a tool, he said. One
of the things I want to do is have
students turn in drafts, so that if
there is something that raises a
flag, they have the opportunity
to change it. I find no pleasure in

finding plagiarism. Telling a student

that I found plagiarism in one of
their papers is one of the most
painful things I do as a professor If
there is a tool that I can use in one of
my classes that students could use to
submit a draft and catch something
like, Oh, my gosh! I forgot to cite
that! Or I forgot a quotation mark!
things like that do happen and
students can avoid it and clean it up
before they turn in a final version, I
am all for that.
Acknowledging the issues of
professors not understanding the
program fully, Watson said that the
Baker faculty has set up training
sessions where faculty learn how to
use the software correctly. Watson
knows that a computer-generated
software like Turnitin still needs a
human element to be most effectively
used.

I think with any software

system, nothing is ever going

to be perfect. It is important
how you use it, he said. If the

computer software messes up, I

am not going to hold [students]
accountable for that. I think that, like
with anything, you have to learn how
to use it and not abuse it You have
to include a human element, not just
take the report and use it verbatim. It
will produce a report but you have to
use your own common sense to read
the report and apply it as you see fit.
Watson said he is looking forward
to implementing the Turnitin
software in his classes in the coming
weeks as both a teaching tool
and a way to lift the burden of his
plagiarism hunting.
Something I am excited about is
that this takes the burden off me as
a professor. I can submit it, wait for
the report to come back, read the
paper, look at the report and make a
judgement. I am sure there are things
that might be better, but its all in
how you use it.
Agreeing with Watson, senior
English literature major Kristen
Robbs thinks that Turnitin could be
a good source for helping students
understand plagiarism.
I also know that sometimes
plagiarism can be hard to
understand. Especially working as
a writing tutor, I can see how hard
it can be to understand how to
take someone elses ideas and use
them to support your own without
taking credit for their work, Robbs
said. I think this software is a good
start to physically demonstrating
what plagiarism is and opening
students eyes to ways they may
be plagiarizing and not realize it.
For underclassmen in particular, it
could really up the learning curve
on knowing how to write a research
paper with your personal opinion as
well as the opinions of others.
Robbs is familiar with software
like this and thinks it is a helpful tool
for both students and faculty. Her
father was a teacher and used this
software to check his students work.
My dad has used this program
before as a teacher, and it was helpful
for him to be able to double-check on
papers that seemed off, Robbs said.
Sometimes it would frustrate him
to see how students would try to get
away with blatant plagiarism.

I think its a nice tool to have at

the schools disposal, both for
professors and students, and will
help identify and improve on
plagiarism problems, but it must
be used wisely and, especially
initially, with a dose of grace;
otherwise, it could turn into a case
of guilty until proven innocent.

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Sept. 16, 2016

GOING GREEK: Recruitment numbers on the rise

MYKAELA CROSS
Assistant Editor

Chapter houses are welcoming

their new members into Greek life as
formal rush at Baker comes to an end.
With 119 students selected into the
various chapter houses, this years
rush numbers were higher than they
have been in over 10 years.
As the numbers stand right now,
sororities have added 68 new women
to Greek life with Alpha Chi Omega
gaining 26 new members, Delta Delta
Delta gaining 20 new members and
Zeta Tau Alpha with 22.
Assistant Director of Student Life
Josh Doak said that this years turnout
for sorority formal rush week was
much larger than normal.
We had more women register this
year than in the past 10 years with 91
women who registered, Doak said.
So that was a great number to show
interest initially.
Doak said fraternities have also
seen a larger applicant turnout than
usual.
There was a much larger interest
than weve had in the past, Doak said.
Although those numbers eventually
drop off as students decide whether or
not its for them, we are always excited
when we have a large number of men
come take house tours and see what
Greek life is really about.
Fifty-one men were accepted
into fraternity houses, though the
numbers change as new members are
constantly being recruited. Delta Tau
Delta added 13 new members, Sigma
Phi Epsilon 12, Zeta Chi 8, and Kappa
Sigma 19.

This years rush was new for more

than just the applicants, as it was a
learning experience for Doak and some
members of the PanHellenic Council
as well.
With this being my first year at the
institution, it was a lot of me observing
how things went, and the women did a
great job, Doak said. For most of the
officers, it was their first time on the
council seeing this side of things, so it
is a learning year for all of us to just
see how it goes.
Sophomore Jason Shipps decided
to join Zeta Chi fraternity and said the
larger turnout did not dissuade him,
since he already knew Greek life was
something he just had to do.
To me its always been a
quintessential part of the college
experience, and while everybody is
trying to join the fraternities since
the fraternities are always throwing
the parties, for me, it was more about
being a part of something bigger
than myself, or to be part of an actual
community that I can contribute to,
Shipps said. Its really helped me stay
on my A game with academics and to
become a better community member.
Its a good way to get involved and a
good way to meet new people.
Senior Madison Haefke noted the
difference in numbers and said that
although she is no longer an active
member of Alpha Chi Omega due to
her recent marriage, she is excited to
see recruitment numbers so high.
If we keep getting class sizes like
this, then we can continue to offer
the benefits of the Greek system to
that many women, such as leadership
opportunities and that support system

Freshmen Angela Bober and Haley Vlcek get ready at Alpha Chi Omega sorority for their annual
event, Water Wars, with Delta Tau Delta fraternity. The women traditionally wear all black and
paint part of their faces for the event. This year some of the members painted the letters A, X and
O on their arms as well. | Photo by Lexi Loya

that is so dear to me, Haefke said.

While going Greek may be a good
choice for some, Doak and Haefke
both say that its not for everyone, and
thats OK. Haefke would suggest to any
student still considering looking into
greek life to do it!
I think formal recruitment can be
very intimidating to some people, so
the informal recruitment process or
joining a house at semester is more
relaxed, Haefke said. Theres no time
limit to when you can join, so it gives
you an opportunity to go and hang out
and see what its like, which you really
dont get during formal recruitment
since its before the semester.
Looking forward, Doak said he is
excited to see this new batch of Greek
members grow into future leaders,

something he says Baker does for its

students.
We have a great group of leaders
and a great looking future, Doak said.
Its an exciting time to be a part of the
office of student life as well as to be a
part of fraternity and sorority life.
For students still interested in
checking out life as a Greek, Doak said
that it is never too late and encourages
them to get into contact with him or
their Greek student peers.
Jump in, connect with us,
participate in on-campus events. Even
if you arent a Greek member, most
of our events are open for students
to come and participate, Doak said.
Share the campus experience with us,
because Greeks are normal students
on campus, just like everyone else.

Someone had picked at the chairs

and written inappropriate messages
on the dry erase board, Bailey said.
There is no way to know if the
vandals were students, so security
personnel decided to lock up the
rooms. However, now that the fall
semester is underway, the study
rooms have now been unlocked and
will remain so.
When the students are here, the
students are here, (and) they need
those rooms, Bailey said.

Freshman Lexi Morris appreciates

the rooms.
Even though were already a
smaller campus, its really nice to
have a quiet and private place to
study, she said.
Morris also said the dry erase
boards are especially helpful since
one cannot find them anywhere else
on campus except for classrooms.
Bailey said the students need not
be stressed as the rooms will remain
open for students use.

Union study rooms reopen after summer vandalism

rooms. Dean of Students Cassy Bailey

said she was unaware the rooms were
ever locked until a distraught student
came to her office and voiced his
The study rooms in the Long
opinion on the matter.
Student Center are open to students
Bailey said the rooms were locked
again.
After a study room was vandalized by security after the incident of
vandalism during the summer. She
in the Long Student Center this
summer, the doors had been locked by said now that the fall semester has
started, the Long Student Center
campus security in order to prevent
is open during business hours and
further damage. This caused some
virtually anyone can walk in and use
students to believe they had to make
the rooms.
appointments in order to utilize the
BRENNA THOMPSON
Assistant News Editor

BAKER
IN BRIEF
September

18

20



21



22

Royals vs. White Sox

2 p.m. | Kaufmann Stadium
M ajors F air
11 a.m. | Collins Center
Clash of Classes
9 p.m. | Collins Center
Tunes at Noon: Griffin Alexander
11:15 a.m. | Cafeteria
Last Lecture: Joe Watson
9 p.m. | Rice Auditorium
Hypnotist Tom Deluca
9 p.m. | Rice Auditorium

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27

Calendar times and dates may change after print publication.

For updates on sports schedules, visit bakerwildcats.com.

Football vs Benedictine
2 p.m. | Liston Stadium
W omens Soccer vs Culver-Stockton
6 p.m. | Liston Stadium
Men s Soccer vs Culver-Stockton
8:30 p.m. | Liston Stadium
Election Candidate Panel
11 a.m. | Mabee 100
Volleyball vs MidAmerica Nazarene
7 p.m. | Collins Center
W omens Soccer vs MidAmerica Nazarene
6 p.m. | Liston Stadium

Men s Soccer vs MidA merica Nazarene

8:30 p.m. | Liston Stadium

October
4

5

V olleyball vs Benedictine
7 p.m. | Collins Center
W omens Soccer vs Central
6 p.m. | Liston Stadium
Men s Soccer vs Central
8:30 p.m. | Liston Stadium
A Night of Social Justice: Cody Charles
8:30 p.m. | McKibbin Recital Hall

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Sept. 16, 2016

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Bone marrow drive yields another match

BRENNA THOMPSON
Assistant Editor
Another bone marrow
donor match has been found at
Baker University. This brings
the number to eight matches
since Baker started collecting
samples four years ago. Due
to medical confidentiality, the
university does not release the
names of potential donors.
According to Director of
Student Life Randy Flowers,
Baker was initially approached
by John Murry, who works to
spread awareness, education
and involvement in bone
marrow donation.
Murry is a grandfather to
four boys who all are in need
of a near-perfect bone marrow
match for a long-term solution
to a rare blood disorder. He has
now dedicated his life to helping
others with cancers of the
blood, blood disorders or any
medical condition that requires
a bone marrow transplant.
According to Murry,
there are more than 10,000
Americans in need of
transplants, and 3,000 of them
will die within the next year due
to no suitable matches.
Over the past five years,

Murry and his family have

registered 34,496 new potential
donors and found more than
900 matches for people in need
of bone marrow.
Baker has now started
hosting bone marrow testing
for one day each spring
semester.
This school year, the testing
will be done in March of 2017.
The process takes 10 minutes
or less. The sample is collected
through a mouth swab and
anyone who is above the age of
18 and at least 115 pounds is
eligible to be tested.
The sampling process is
easy, painless, costless and
could potentially save a life,
Flowers said.
However, if a registrant
becomes a match with one
of the many people on the
National Bone Marrow Registry,
the process of extracting bone
marrow is painful. Murry still
urges students to remember
that if they are a match, they
could save a life.
The testing is done through
a nonprofit blood cancer
organization that promotes
the event and tests samples.
Flowers said it costs Baker
nothing.

The

GREATEST
Homecoming
on

Earth

Graduate Assistant Gabby Garrison and Emily Riggs help Kendall Stelting sign up to be a bone marrow donor in the
Long Student Center during the March 2016 donor drive. The chance of being a match is rare but could help save the
life of someone battling blood cancer. | Photo by Chad Phillips

We just have to provide

volunteers and facilitate the
drive, Flowers said.
Flowers said that it only
takes one sample, and then
your results are in the registry
forever. Therefore, unlike
blood donation, it only takes

one sample, one time.

Flower said a match found
last month was from the first
bone marrow drive in 2013.
Also, he said it is important to
remember by offering a sample
you are not committing to
donating bone marrow.

Murry said that currently

only 2 percent of the United
States is currently registered.
His mission to find more
donors will not stop until
there is no longer a deficiency
of bone marrow for those in
need of it.

Thrusday, Sept. 22

Hypnotist Tom Deluca

9 p.m. | Rice Auditorium
Friday, Sept. 23

Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet & Student-Athlete Awards

6 p.m. Reception, 7 p.m. Dinner and Program

Overland Park Marriott | 10800 Metcalf Ave.
Saturday, Sept. 24

Alumni Tailgate Luncheon

Noon | Tent outside Liston Stadium

Wildcat KidZone (Children 12 or younger)

Noon | Northeast corner of Liston Stadium

Baker vs. Benedictine Football Halftime Royalty Ceremony

1 p.m. | Liston Stadium

B aker vs . C ulver -S tockton W omen s S occer

6 p.m. | Liston Stadium

B aker vs . C ulver -S tockton M en s S occer

8:30 p.m. | Liston Stadium

Saturday, Sept. 17

Mini Big Event

9 a.m. | Various locations
Sunday, Sept. 18

KC Royals vs. Chicago White Sox

1:10 p.m. | Kauffman Stadium
Monday, Sept. 19

Serenades at the Greek Houses

7 p.m. | Various locations
Bakers 2016 Homecoming Candidates:
Tuesday, Sept. 20
K at i e H i bbe l er - Cardinal Key
C h a d P h i l l i p s - Sigma Phi Epsilon

C lash of the Classes
L a u re n F rek i n g - Student Senate
G av i n W eb s t er - Student Senate
S t e p h a n i e W o lt k a m p - Zeta Tau Alpha P a rk s B o e s c h e n - Baker Active Minds

9 p.m. | Collins Gym
S a r a h M u l l i n s - Delta Delta Delta
M at t h ew B u s h - Delta Tau Delta
Wednesday, Sept. 21
B r i t ta n y C r i t t e n d e n - S.A.C.
R ya n E mme - Kappa Sigma

Last Lecture with Joe Watson
The winners will be announced during halftime of the Baker vs. Benedictine homecoming football

9 p.m. | Rice Auditorium
game Saturday, Sept. 24, at Liston Stadium.

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page 9

1.
3.

Frank Perez
Director of Bands
Amateur Photographer

2.

4.

5.
8.

6.

Students dont often know what their professors do

outside of the classroom. For one professor, photography is
Faculty Guest Gallery
a passion.
I like [photography] because it is a creative outlet for
me that isnt music, Director of Bands Frank Perez said.
Most of my hobbies have involved music, so it is cool to
do something not even related to music. That is totally
different. I dont get to do it as much as I like, but I try to
have a camera with me at all times, so when I do have that
free 20 or 30 minutes I can go take some photos.
On an outing with his dad in San Diego a few years ago,
Perezs love of photography took off. With his Nikon Coolpix
camera in manual mode, he captured three beauty shots
of San Diego Bay, after which his interest in photography
quickly grew into a hobby.
I had no idea what I was doing, but I was so happy that I
got something. After that I was hooked, he said.
Dreaming of owning a high-quality camera, he slowly
made his way from a Nikon Coolpix to a DSLR camera,
which was given to him by his family upon his graduation
with his doctorate in music from the University of Kansas.
Full photo gallery available at
www.thebakerorange.com/photos/galleries

(Photos courtesy of Frank Perez)

7.
9.

1. A brother-in-laws dog, Logan. 2. BU

President Lynne Murray and Wowzer at
the 2015 Maple Leaf Festival. 3. Keeper
of the Plains Monument in Wichita. 4.
Osborne Chapel at BU. 5. The old bell next
to the chapel at BU. 6. Union Station in
Kansas City. 7. Christopher S. Bond Bridge
in Kansas City. 8. Sunflower and KC Royals
hat left at Grinter Farms sunflower fields. 9.
The back of recently retired Director of Jazz
Ensemble J.D. Parrs band jacket last spring.

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Sept. 16, 2016

Choir
Opening the Baker choirs
busy fall schedule is a Choir
Music Learning Day on Oct.
7, when the choirs will host
200 high school students.
Director of Choral Activities
Cathy Crispino will direct
the students as they are
preparing for upcoming
KMEA State Choir auditions,
and the Baker choir students
will perform for them then
take them on tours around
campus.
On Oct. 21, the Fall
Choral Concert will feature
all Baker choirs Concert
Choir, Chamber Singers and
Community Choir and will
be themed Ad Astra Per
Aspera, the Kansas state
motto.
The fall concert will
close with all choirs singing
Dont Be Afraid, Crispino
said, which tells the listener
to shine all your light, an
appropriate image after
thinking about starlight
throughout the program. We
have an opportunity to lift
the darkness for others, as
our own troubles are eased
through the sharing of song.
We need that in our lives.
Later in October, the
Concert Choir will travel
to three Topeka schools
and Holton High School for
exchange concerts. A few
days after that, the Concert
Choir will perform at a
Topeka Countryside United
Methodist Church service.
Wrapping up the semester
all three choirs will join the
Orchestra and Percussion
Ensemble to host the annual
Christmas Candlelight
Vespers. Also appearing in the
concert is Baker alumna Sara
Wentz and her Celebration
Ringers, a handbell choir,
from Lawrence First United
Methodist Church.

Department of Music and Theatre

Fall lineup
SARAH BAKER
Editor

The Baker University Department of Music and Theatre has plenty in

store for this fall, from a two-person play about President Nixon to the
annual Christmas Candlelight Vespers and the addition of a drumline.

Theater

Orchestra

Drumline

The first theater

production of the fall is titled
Nixons Nixon, a dark comedy
about the meeting between
Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger and President
Richard Nixon on the eve of
Nixons resignation. The play
opens on Thursday, Oct. 6, at
7:30 p.m. and runs through
Sunday with a 2 p.m. matinee
in Rice Auditorium.
Its a two-man show
that reveals Nixons deep
paranoia. It is both a blissfully
funny and sometimes cruel
look at two very powerful
historic figures, Associate
Professor of Theatre Tom
Heiman said.
The second play of
the semester is titled The
Journey of Everyman and is
a classic medieval morality
play following Everyman.
According to Heiman, this
production will offer a very
contemporary twist to the
original work. The Journey
of Everyman will open on
Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Rice
Auditorium.

The Baker University

Orchestra is scheduled to
perform its fall concert on
Nov. 15 featuring the works
of Beethoven, Faure and
Schubert. The concert will
also include a guest cello
soloist, Ed Laut. Some of the
works set to be performed
require a larger orchestra
than Baker currently has, so
the addition of a few added
wind and brass players may
be needed to balance out the
large string section.

The newest addition to

the course offerings in the
Department of Music and
Theatre is its brand new
drumline led by Instructor
of Music Andrew Foerschler,
who is a member of the
Kansas City Chiefs Rumble
Drumline.
Its open to anyone who
can read music, even nondrummers, Foerschler said.
The drumline plays at every
Baker home football game
and many other campus and
recruiting events. We have six
students in the line this fall,
and we have a lot of space
to grow, so I look forward to
seeing how it will look in the
coming semesters.

Band
Director of Bands Frank
Perez is in charge of both
the Symphonic Band and
the Jazz Band this year and
is looking forward to their
joint concert on Oct. 10 in
Rice Auditorium, which is
the first concert of the year
for both bands. The concert
will feature Derek Crow as a
guest tuba soloist.
The Annual Marching
Band Festival will take place
a few days before the BU
Marching Band will perform
in the annual Maple Leaf
Festival Parade, as they do
every year.
Perez is also excited
about the fact that the bands
have had an increase in
enrollment.
I am very excited about
our recruiting, he said. We
have 21 new students, a very
talented group of incoming
freshmen. Rehearsals have
gone really well, and they are
working really fast.
The Jazz Band will host
its Annual Guest Artist Jazz
Concert featuring Mike
Mixtacki, a tuba player and
instructor of percussion
at Indiana University. The
annual Jazz Festival will
commence the following day.

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Sept. 16, 2016

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Are monthly subscription boxes worth it?

SARAH BAKER
Editor
Everyone has heard of those
weird something-of-the-month
club subscriptions, but did you know
that basically anything you can think
of is now available as a monthly
subscription box service -- from
personal care product boxes to baconof-the-month boxes.
Being a fan of YouTube, I have seen
many sponsored unboxing videos
from these subscription box services,
where YouTubers unbox what they
have just received and offer viewers
special discounts. After at least a year
of seeing these unboxing videos, I
decided to give a few a try and see for
myself why these are a thing and if
they are worth it on a college students
budget.
I thought that it would be nice to
be surprised once a month with a box
of stuff that may make my day and
give me something to look forward
to. So I did some research and chose
four subscription box services with a
variety of themes that might intrigue
college students on a budget.
# 1 Graze a natural snack box.
You receive eight samples of healthy
snacks with no GM ingredients or
artificial colors/flavors in perfectly
portioned packs.
I had a discount offer from another
Baker student that allowed me to get
my first box free. Each box is about
$12 (plus shipping and handling).
Before your first box, you get a foursnack sampler box as a welcome to the
service. You go online and select what
snacks you may like, love, want to
try or hate. You can also choose to

have a box show up weekly, biweekly

or monthly. My sampler box and first
box included healthy snacks that
ranged from gummies and popcorn to
roasted nuts and flapjacks.
For the most part, I really enjoyed
this box. Who doesnt like being
surprised with a bunch of snacks? I
did, however, choose to discontinue
my subscription with the intention of
returning once I have a steady income
after college. I will definitely reinstate
my subscription to this box later.
#2 Loot Crate - a gaming/geekthemed box. It is very popular among
YouTube gamers.
I selected the cheapest box at
$13.99 a month (plus shipping and
handling). Each month has a theme,
like Anti-hero or Versus. My
monthly box included a T-shirt, socks,
penny bank, button and a Q-Figure
figurine. The cardboard Loot Crate box
also morphed into a hammer.
I chose not to keep this subscription
for a few reasons. With shipping and
handling it was nearly $20 a month for
one box. While that is about average,
there are cheaper options for a college
students budget. Also, I was not
particularly a follower of any of the
games, movies or shows that arrived
in this crate, so I didnt feel like it was
worth it. That is one of the dangers
with box subscriptions.
#3 Geek Fuel another geekthemed box similar to Loot Crate.
Geek Fuel is a little more expensive
than Loot Crate at $17.99 a month
(plus shipping and handling). I actually
liked the majority of the content
included in this box, comparing
favorably to my Loot Crate experience,
but that will change every month. Out
of this whole experiment, this box

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was my second favorite. I chose not to
continue with my subscription because
I could only afford to do one of these a
month, but when that changes, I might
reinstate my subscription.
#4 The Book Drop a handpicked book of the month service from
Bethany Beach Books in Delaware.
I am a big reader and I wanted to
try at least one book subscription box.
I chose the Book Drop because it was
a small business and the books were
hand-selected and not mainstream
books, so I will receive a book that I
wouldnt usually pick up. There are
a few options from childrens and
young adult books, as well as generally
female and male themed titles. I chose
the YA box for $13 (plus shipping and
handling). My box included a book
that I had not heard of, signed by the

author, a few bookmarks and two

small excerpt booklets from upcoming
books.
This is the only subscription I chose
to continue. I think when I averaged
out my expectation and happiness
with the result of all of the boxes, I
found this one the most worth it. In my
opinion, one can never have too many
books.
I now understand why people like
to subscribe to these subscription
services, and I have found at least one
that I will continue with. I recommend
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Quarterback Logan Brettell interacts with the student section after widening the Wildcat lead with another touchdown against Grand View on Aug. 27. Brettell and the Wildcats are 3-0 and
have climbed to No. 4 in the NAIA. | Photo by Shelby Stephens

he No. 4 Baker Wildcats have

opened the season with three
wins and no losses for the third
consecutive year. Baker dominated No. 6
Grand View 36-13 in the season opener,
dismantled Culver-Stockton 89-27 in its
second game and shut down William
Penns triple option on Saturday, 41-7.
I love this football team, head coach
Mike Grossner said. Theyre playing at a
very high level.
Led by junior quarterback Logan
Brettell, the Wildcats have the most
explosive pass offense in the NAIA
at 452 yards per game. Brettell was
named the Heart of America Athletic
Conferences Player of the Week for the
third-straight week following his 427
yards and five touchdowns on Saturday.
Thats what makes us such a
dangerous team. When they try to take
away one receiver, we go to the next
one, Brettell said. Every one of them
can score from anywhere on the field.
Brettell is averaging 376 yards per
game through the air and is first in the
NAIA in total yards through his first
three games of his junior campaign.
The Wildcats have the NAIAs secondbest scorer in senior Quanzee Johnson.
Johnson leads the Wildcats in yards
(269) and touchdown receptions (six).
Johnson caught four touchdown passes

PERFECT START
Logan Brettell and the No. 4 Wildcats
explode to a 3-0 start in the 2016 season
JIM JOYNER
Assistant Sports Editor
in Saturdays win over William Penn
with 169 yards on five catches, including
a 96-yard touchdown grab to begin the
scoring.
Ive got a quarterback that can
deliver the ball perfectly on a dime every
time, Johnson said. In practice we call
him the Machine.
Brettell has distributed his passing
evenly among his core five receivers.
Johnson, juniors Clarence Clark and
Cornell Brown and seniors Damon
Nolan and Ladai Shawn Boose have
been on the receiving end for 73 of
his 94 passes, 1,025 of Bakers 1,356
passing yards and 13 of Bakers 16
touchdowns passes.
Five of us who can get in the end
zone any time, who can make a play
any time, Johnson said. I think thats
something that the other teams have
to watch out for, five receivers that can

make you pay at any time.

The Wildcats established their
rushing attack in Saturdays win with
Cornell Brown and freshman Nazayah
Brown. Cornell Brown rushed 13
times for 97 yards and his first rushing
touchdown of the season (fourth
overall) and Nazayah Brown rushed 14
times for 70 yards.
Cornell and Naz ran so hard for us
this week and they did a fantastic job,
which opened up a lot of play action and
double moves for us, Brettell said.
Defensively, the Wildcats have been
almost untouchable. William Penn
scored on a kick return touchdown but
couldnt dent the Baker defense, and
BUs first-team defense allowed only
seven points to Culver-Stockton before
coming out of the game early in the
second quarter.
Weve been preaching all year long

that defense wins championships,

Johnson said. We have beasts back there.
Senior Kharon Brown leads the
Wildcats in tackles with 20, senior
Akim Francis is second in tackles with
18, including 4.5 behind the line of
scrimmage. Francis is first on the team
in solo tackles with 12. Seniors Avery
Parker and Darrain Winston each
intercepted their second passes of the
season on Saturday. Winston has nine
picks in his last 16 games and Parker
has five in that stretch.
Baker plays at 6 p.m. this Saturday
at Graceland University in Lamoni,
Iowa. Baker beat Graceland 52-21 last
season, and the Wildcats have won eight
straight games against the Yellowjackets.
Graceland is 1-2 on the season. After
beating Avila 16-9 in the season opener,
the Yellowjackets have lost to Missouri
Valley and MNU.
After the visit to Graceland, the
Wildcats play their toughest game in
the month of September. Baker hosts
No. 15 Benedictine at 1 p.m. on Sept.
24 for homecoming at Liston Stadium.
Baker looks to avenge its only loss of the
regular season in 2015, a 35-31 loss in
Atchison. The Wildcats have lost two of
their last three to Benedictine, the only
win coming at Arrowhead Stadium on
Oct. 11, 2014.

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Wildcats earn back-to-back wins

BAILEY CONKLIN
Assistant Sports Editor

Baker mens soccer went 2-0 over

the weekend at Liston Stadium, shutting out Goshen College 3-0 on Friday
then shutting out Park University 2-0 on
Saturday.
The Wildcats early attack against
Goshen gave them two goals in the
eighth minute. The first goal was scored
by junior Blake Levine, followed by
sophomore Austin Halseys goal.
I feel like we played pretty well,
Halsey said. We came out very quickly
with two goals in the first 10 minutes, so
when you come out and put it to a team
like that its tough for them to bounce
back.
Goalkeeper Nick Riggle made his first
start of the 2016 season, saving a shot
from Goshens Brodie Nofziger, allowing
Riggle to post the shutout.
Baker had 10 shots compared to
Goshens three in the first half. Goshens
Johan Escalante was able to record three
saves but allowed the two goals from
Levine and Halsey.
In the second half, Baker was able to
establish pace and keep the Leafs from
scoring opportunities. In the 56th minute, sophomore Steeve Pouna found the
back of the net, finishing the Wildcats
scoring for the afternoon at 3-0.
Pouna led the team with three shots
during the match, two of which were
shots on goal. Freshman Peyton Brown
also had three shots, with one on goal,
and Levine recorded two shots on goal
that day.
The second half saw two different
goalkeepers from the Goshen bench. Ty-

Players from both Hastings College and Baker jump for a header near the goal in the second
half of their game on Aug. 30 at Liston Stadium. | Photo by Chad Phillips

ler Born played 10 minutes of the half,

while Ollie Wisseman finished out the
game, allowing one goal and recording
two saves.
The Wildcats left Liston that night

Womens soccer ready

to start conference play
BAILEY CONKLIN
Assistant Sports Editor
The Baker womens soccer team has
hit its stride heading into conference
play in the upcoming weekend. The
Wildcats shut out Ottawa 3-0, displayed
a dominant offense in a 5-1 win over
Park, and secured a 3-2 road win against
Mid-America Christian.
Baker began its winning streak with
a shutout victory against Ottawa on
Sept. 7, improving its record to 2-2.
After an early goal by Erica Esch was
called offside, Heart Offensive Player of
the Week Krista Hooper was the first
to score for the Wildcats, bringing the
score to 1-0 in the first half.
Baker outshot Ottawa 6-3 in the first
half and 8-2 in the second half. All of the
Braves shots in the first half came from
forward Caroline Jenkins.
The second half saw two goals from
the Wildcats, one in the 77th minute
by Megan Johnson, and another from
Hooper in the 81st minute. Both goals
were assisted by Katie Hibbeler.
Rachel Hunt recorded two saves
for the Wildcats, while Ottawas Paige

Lindbloom recorded seven saves but

allowed three goals.
The Wildcats then picked up a
commanding 5-1 victory over Park
University on Sept. 10 at Liston Stadium.
Kady Dieringer was the leading
force for the Wildcats, recording a hat
trick with goals in the 35th and 42nd
minute, both assisted by Hooper, then
completing the hat trick with a goal in
the 47th minute, assisted by Esch.
The Wildcats opened up their
scoring with a goal by Megan Johnson
in the third minute, assisted by Keeley
Atkin. Baker outshot Park 17-10 during
the match, while Park out-fouled the
Wildcats 8-4.
The Pirates fired back in the 30th
minute with a goal by Emily Key.
Baker finished its dominating
display of offense with a late goal in the
86th minute by Sierra McKinney.
The Wildcats then took to the road
to face MACU on Sept. 13 in Oklahoma
City.
The Evangels were the first to score
with a goal by Keanni Barnes in the
26th minute. Baker quickly answered
with a goal by Hooper assisted by

improving their record to 3-2, but rest

and fresh legs were needed to face Park
University the next night.
Between games we do jog and
stretch so we can try and get our

muscles ready for us to play again,

Halsey said.
The Wildcats showed a dominating display of offense with 12 shots in
the first half. Baker took the lead in the
22nd minute with a goal by sophomore
Gonnie Ben-Tal, making the score 1-0.
This was Ben-Tals first career goal for
Baker.
I would say we played even better
against Park, Halsey said. We built off
our success against Goshen. Against
Park we just came out with a lot of energy. We really wanted to come out and
get a good win.
On the defensive end, Baker kept the
Pirates to just three shots in the first
half, and Riggle recorded three saves.
Riggle was able to record his second
consecutive shutout of the season as
well as Bakers fourth shutout victory.
Bakers last goal in the game was
scored by senior Kyle Young in the 44th
minute, assisted by Brown. This ended
Bakers scoring for the night at 2-0.
Ben-Tal led the team with four shots,
followed by three for Halsey. Baker outshot Park 18-7 in the match.
After the weekend, Baker improved
to 4-2 on the season with conference
play just around the corner.
The Wildcats have a short break until
they play Clarke University on Saturday
in Dubuque, Iowa. This will be the Wildcats Heart of America Athletic Conference season opener.
Its nice to have some time off,
because Clarke is the beginning of our
conference, and conference is really
important to us, because we either have
to win regular season or the playoffs to
make nationals, Halsey said.

Sophomore Sierra McKinney came off the bench to score her first goal of the season against
Park on Sept. 10 at Liston Stadium. | Photo by Chad Phillips

Hibbeler in the 30th minute.

The score remained tied 1-1 through
the end of the first half.
The Wildcats then scored in the 60th
minute due to an own goal by MACU.
The game was tied again after a goal
from 30 yards out in the 82nd minute
by MACUs Angelica Ceballos.
Baker had the last say in the game
with a late goal by Dieringer in the
88th minute to end the scoring of the

night at 3-2.
Baker had 24 shots during the
match, 12 of which were on goal.
Hooper led the Wildcats with three
shots on goal and five shots total.
After Bakers winning streak the
last three games, the Wildcats end their
non-conference schedule with a record
of 4-2. Baker will begin conference play
this Saturday at Clarke University in
Dubuque, Iowa.

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Sept. 16, 2016

Men win Maple Leaf Invitational

NATHALIA BARR
Sports Editor

The mens and womens cross country

teams opened up the season strong on
Saturday at Bakers 2016 Maple Leaf
Invitational race. The mens team finished
first in the 5K and the womens team
finished second in the 4K.
On the mens side,
freshman Greg Flores
took second with a time
of 16:36. His performance
earned Flores the Heart
of America Athletic
Conference Runner of
the Week honor. Junior
Joe Linder finished right
behind his teammate in
third place. Andrew Dare
and Jamie Steury also
finished in the top 10 for
Baker.
The men finished
Janeane Hernandez
ahead of Johnson
County Community
College by seven points, but the JCCC
women finished ahead of the Wildcats by
23 points.
For the womens team, freshman
Janeane Hernandez was Bakers top runner,
finishing in ninth place overall.
Jenna Black, Bailey Horlander, Annie
Schmucker and Shelby Stephens all
finished in the top 20 for Baker.
The next race for the mens and
womens teams is the Southern Stampede
on Saturday in Joplin, Missouri.

Freshman Greg Flores, in his first official race as a Baker Wildcat, placed second overall in the mens 5K on Sept. 3 at the Maple Leaf
Invitational at the Baldwin City Golf Course. | Photo by Cassie Long

Heart conference adds two teams

BAILEY CONKLIN
Assistant Sports Editor
Two Iowa institutions have
joined the Heart of America Athletic
Conference starting this season. Baker
University will now face off against
Clarke University from Dubuque, Iowa,
and Mount Mercy from Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, in a number of sports.
Both institutions were originally
in the Midwest Collegiate Conference
and were able to join the Heart
immediately to participate in
administrative matters and strategic
planning in April of 2015.
Clarke and Mount Mercy were
not able to compete in on-field
competition until the 2016-2017
academic year, however.
The addition of these two schools
brings the total number of Heart
members to 14. This is the largest
number of schools to be a part of this
conference in its 45-year history.
These additions come just one year
after the previous expansion of the
Heart. Last year the Heart welcomed
William Penn University and Grand
View to the conference. Bakers
Athletic Director Theresa Yetmar says
the addition of two more schools is not
that different than the previous years.
They have a similar institutional
profile, so its a small liberal arts

college. They have some kind of

religious focus, but its not the main
driver, Yetmar said. They both have at
least 20 sports like a lot of our schools
do in our conference, so I think that
overall they kind of fit the profile of
our institutions.
Both institutions will compete
against Baker in mens and womens
cross country, mens and womens
soccer, volleyball, mens and womens
basketball, mens and womens indoor
track and field, baseball, bowling,
softball, mens and womens outdoor
track and field and mens and womens
golf.
The biggest sport missing from the
list is football. Mount Mercy University
doesnt currently have a football
program, and Clarke University
announced it will start a football
program for the 2018 season.
With the addition of these two
institutions, Baker had to make
decisions on how it would structure
athletic schedules to accommodate the
expansion of the conference.
I think weve gotten to the place
where weve tried to be consistent
where we can. If within a sport
we decide to play in divisions, the
divisions are always the same, so those
have been set, Yetmar said. I think
thats important, but we wanted to do
what was best for the sport.

When it comes to football, the

conference is in divisional play, which
automatically gives both the North and
the South division champions a berth
in the NAIA FCS playoffs.
As for soccer, the number of schools
makes it so that the conference can
play a single round-robin and still
have roughly six non-conference
games. These contest limitations still
give Baker the ability to continue to
play schools regionally and across the
country, giving Baker the opportunity
to gain a look and feel for national
rankings.
The addition of these schools may
take a toll on athletes. If the game isnt
at home, then Baker teams will be
looking at five or more hours of travel
to some games.
The travel for those schools for
us become some of our longest trips,
and so I think that with the help of a
conference scheduler, (we are) trying
to minimize missed class time so it
still feels similar to when we had 10 or
12 schools, Yetmar said. So, we are
cognizant of those potential pressures
on student-athletes. Ultimately at the
end of the day, in order to be eligible for
conference, postseason and things like
that, we need to play all our games.
In order for an institution to
join the Heart of America Athletic
Conference, it must first fill out

an application, which Heart

Commissioner Lori Thomas then
reviews. The application is then
reviewed by presidents, and if there
is interest shown, a task force is
created to go and view the institution.
This task force includes at least one
president, the commissioner, one
athletic director and one faculty
athletic representative.
The information gathered by this
task force is brought back to the Board
of Governors, which is comprised of
every director of athletics and every
faculty athletic representative in the
Heart conference. This board then
discusses the information to vote on
whether the institution should be
added.
We do get a vote, but ultimately
that vote is just an indicator for
the presidents who make the final
call, said Yetmar. Ultimately, all
the presidents sit on the Presidents
Council and they decide any additions
for membership.
With this being the second addition
in recent years to the Heart conference,
the question of how many schools is
too many? may soon need to be asked.
I think 16, at this point, would
probably be an ideal number, because
then you would have eight and eight in
terms of divisional play, which makes
for a cleaner schedule, Yetmar said.

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Five things to know about Baker athletics

1
2

Football moves up in the polls

The Wildcats are now No. 4 in the NAIA Coaches Top 25 Poll.
The team started the season at No. 5 and has won all three
games. Baker has defeated Grand View, Culver-Stockton and
William Penn. In the recent Coaches Poll, four other Heart of
America Athletic Conference teams join Baker, including No.
8 Grand View, No. 15 Benedictine, No. 16 Missouri Valley and
No. 19 MNU.

Soccer wins three straight

The womens soccer team has won its last three games
before heading into conference play. The women defeated
Ottawa and Park at home before traveling to Mid-America
Christian for another win. Krista Hooper earned the Heart
of America Offensive Player of the Week honor after her
performances. Hooper scored two goals against Ottawa and
had two assists against Park. Hooper also added another
goal against MACU.

Cornell Brown caught five passes for 80 yards and two touchdowns against the CulverStockton Wildcats on Sept. 3. | Photo by Jenna Black

3
4
5

Cats get four shutout wins

The mens soccer team started the season 4-2 in
nonconference matchups. All four wins for the Cats have
been shutouts. Goalkeepers Patrick Rydberg and Nick Riggle
have recorded two shutouts each.

Wildcat offense ranked No. 1

Junior quarterback Logan Brettell earned Heart Offensive
Player of the Week for the third-straight week. The Wildcat
offense is the No. 1 scoring offense in the NAIA with 166
points in the first three games. Brettell has 1,177 total yards
of offense and 17 touchdowns.

Volleyball hosts tournament

Baker hosted five other teams at the Collins Center for the
Baker Invitational. The Wildcats took on No. 7 Park, No. 18
Oklahoma City, Ottawa and St. Ambrose. The Cats were 0-4
in the tournament.

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Junior Jenna Sackman jumps to set the ball for a teammate during the second
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Parting Shot
Emmie Kindler, Olivia Walker and Tessa Kindler did not let the muddy Baldwin City Golf Course deter their fun during the Cause for Kindler 5K run held Sept. 10 in memory of
coach Zach Kindler, who died from severe cardiac arrest in August 2014. Race proceeds go toward a scholarship fund in remembrance of Kindler. | Photo by Jenna Black