This is the first of a two-part story about international students at Newman.

Growing up in Maringá, Brazil, sophomore Eduardo Santos always knew he was destined to play college tennis, a sport loved by his entire family, including his older brother Thiago, who played for Wichita State’s team.

Soon after graduating high school, Santos came to the United States to live with his brother and after four months and one meeting with New-man’s tennis coach, Santos decided to move to Kansas.

Enrique Coiras was playing a ten-nis tournament in his home country of Spain when a manager of a recruit-ing agency approached him, asking him to seriously consider going to the States to play college tennis.

The agency had the reputation as the “go-between” for American universities and the Spanish athletes who wanted to attend them. Sur-prised by their interest, Coiras even-tually accepted the agency’s guidance and chose to come to Newman, not only for sports, but also for its educa-tional opportunities.

Santos and Coiras are two exam-ples of international athletes that have filled slots on Newman sports teams.

Newman’s international students make up eight percent of its student body, representing 26 countries in to-tal. Whether they come for a change

of environment, for the academic programs offered, or for their chance to play on a Division II team, more international students are coming to Newman University every year, say Newman administrators.

Santos and Coiras are two of the six international students on New-man’s tennis team, which has 10 players total. The men’s 24-member soccer team has 13 international

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Alumni giving down for the Newman FundBy DELANEY HIEGERTSports Editor

EDUARDO SANTOS of Brazil found a place on Newman’s tennis team after living with his brother in the United States. Courtesy Hank Griggs, Photo Editor.

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Newman University’s alumni giv-ing percentage is one of the lowest in area among comparative schools, according to statistics gathered by Senior Development Officer David Alexander.

Newman’s percentage sits at four percent while universities such as Friends, Kansas Wesleyan, and William Jewell sit no lower than 11 percent. Benedictine leads the area at 24 percent.

“Unfortunately, alumni giving percentages have been falling rather steadily over the past few years – na-tionwide,” Alexander said. “More and more companies, foundations, and schools are asking people for money. And most of them are very worthy causes. That takes a toll.”

Alexander said that although the national average for giving has been falling, that is not where all the blame lies.

“In no way, shape, or form do I believe that this four percent reflects how Newman alumni feel about their university,” Alexander said. “The problem is not on the alumni end, it’s on our end. We haven’t effectively told the story of why giving back to the Newman Fund and to Newman is so important.”

The Newman Fund is the univer-sity’s annual fund that helps supply money to student scholarships and creates student life programs and services.

Alexander said he feels it’s im-portant to get the message out there to alumni about what the Newman Fund does and what consistent dona-tions mean to Newman students.

“We want to make Newman as accessible as possible to as many students as possible,” Alexander said. “Getting that percentage up means more scholarship money and more ways to make Newman affordable.

“We also constantly reach out to foundations and corporations and ask

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Changes to scholarship procedures

SERVED UP A CHANCE

As tuition at Newman University is set to increase 4.75 percent in the coming academic year, scholarship amounts awarded by the university will go “along that same trend,” said Mark Barrett, vice president for en-rollment management.

Significant changes have been made for the upcoming school year as to how scholarships are distributed –

limits have been placed on how many scholarships students can “stack” from different areas to facilitate more even distribution of financial aid across the board, Barrett said.

“We had some real inequities,” Barrett said. “We had some students that were being really under-awarded and some students that were being really over-awarded. In an effort to make sure that we’re using our financial aid dollars in a way that makes sense, we have to make some

small changes –and I say these are small changes, because what colleges really need to do every single year is assess how their dollars are spent and how it impacts the incoming classes. Newman, however, hadn’t done that in quite a while, so I think this year, having done that, it’s putting us in the right direction going forward.”

Various departments across cam-pus have voiced concerns during the

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for their support,” Alexander said. “And most of these organizations will want to know the percentage of alumni giving. They want to know what the buy-in is from our alumni.”

For these reasons, Alexander said it’s imperative that the university raises the percentage of alumni giving to more accurately reflect how alumni really feel about Newman.

The university has been trying to improve this percentage in numerous ways, all of them focusing on engag-ing the donors, Alexander said.

“The Advancement department staff has made over 400 home visits this year to donors,” Alexander said. “We want to focus on that personal

touch, that extra something that will make us stand out and stick in the minds of our donors.”

Newman Fund Director Blaine Crouch said they have also been focusing on some new avenues of giving.

“We want to make things fun for our donors,” Crouch said. “We want to get alumni involved with Newman and keep it that way.”

One new avenue of giving will come in April, when Newman will be giving away a goat.

“This is just a way for us to get donors involved while having a little fun,” Alexander said. “We will be selling goat insurance throughout the month, and if the alumni and donors want to ensure they don’t end up

with a goat at their house by the end of the month, they’ll need to purchase goat insurance.”

Alexander said the department has been working on creative ideas like this to get alumni and friends of the university engaged and having fun while donating.

“As I said before, we do not feel like that four percent reflects how our alumni feel about Newman,” Alex-ander said. “We really just want to engage our alumni in ways where we aren’t just asking for money. We want them to understand that they’re a part of the Newman family. They need to know that when you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet for life.”

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Auditions to-day for Art DOG show

Those interested in par-ticipating in the Wichita Art Day of Giving variety show can audition from 3 to 5 p.m. today in the De Mat-tias Performance Hall.

The variety show will take place on April 24.

2015 Newman Family Week-end

Newman will host Fam-ily Weekend Friday and Saturday.

Events on Friday begin with a 7 p.m. Rush of Fools concert on the Plaza.

Saturday events begin with an 11 a.m. softball and baseball tailgate, games fol-lowing.

The weekend will con-clude with a 7 p.m. Fun Night event at the west All Star Sports location.

athletes; there are five out of the 10 golfers on the men’s team and five out of eight players on the women’s golf team.

Many international student ath-letes like Santos are recruited by Newman coaches while other athletes like Coiras are lured by the recruiting agencies that they are partnered with.

Many hear about Newman’s reputation from alumni, friends and family members who return home after their experiences.

“What ends up happening is that sometimes a school’s best recruiters end up being the people on a team,” said Vic Trilli, Newman’s athletic director.

“Say there’s a soccer player from England, that person might go back home and tell their best friend ‘hey, this is a great place to go, there’s great support here from the coaches, team member and teachers. This support becomes so important for foreign students because they can’t go home when they want to.”

Many international student ath-

letes sign contracts made with agen-cies and companies that help student athletes become familiar with the universities that will be the best “fit” for them, Santos said.

“What usually happens in Brazil or the other countries that foreign students belong to, is that you have a contract with an agency to help you find a college, to be the liaison between you, the coach, and the university,” Santos said. “Most of the international students that come here

usually pay this agency to help them out, to show them teams, to show them universi-ties. That’s how most

of them do it, but for me, I ended up doing it all by myself with my both-er’s help.”

Newman recruits overseas, but also recruits locally among a pool of international students who have al-ready been in Kansas playing at other schools.

“We recruit a lot from WSU where

foreigners come there and then come to us,” Trilli said. “We also have a large amount of transfers from the Kansas junior colleges, which are heavily made up of foreign students, many of which are on athletic teams. The key for us is if they are a good fit.”

Trilli said that most of the time, Newman coaches are recruiting by video and the internet because New-man does not have the funds to send recruiters to other countries. Students from other countries sometimes find Newman on their own.

“I think a lot of students are find-ing us because they are looking at our athletic website,” said Kirsten Eng-lish, Newman’s director of under-graduate admissions.

“The rest of them are doing interest searches and are finding schools that match the academic programs that they’re looking for, or sometimes that match the English proficiency levels that they have achieved.”

Please see next week’s issue of The Vantage for the second part of this story on the financials and benefits of interna-tional students attending Newman.

Second eight week courses

Tomorrow is the last day to drop or add second eight week courses.

Students interested in dropping or added courses should consult their ad-visor and the registrar’s office.

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past semester that the changes in the awarding of scholarships will have an adverse effect on their recruiting capabilities.

Barrett said he has heard those concerns, and he thinks the issues will work themselves out.

“Anytime there are changes, there’s always going to be some fear of what that’s really going to mean,” Barrett said. “I think what it’s really going to mean at the end of the day is we’re working toward spending our money in a way that is going to help us enroll more students.”

Newman has seen a slight shift in its demographics with this year’s freshman class, Barrett said. Not only is the class strong academically, but also the members of the freshman class generally come from the Wi-chita arean and from more financially sound backgrounds.

“We’re working really hard to make sure we’re shoring up our own backyard, in a sense,” Barrett said. “I think what we’re trying to do here is the right thing.”

On March 10, the university of-fered ten Cardinal Newman scholar-ships to prospective freshmen, he said. That number is down from the

15 the university offered last year as a competition-based affair.

Barrett said distributing university financial aid is always walking a fine line between too much and too little.

“What we need to is make sure that we are not giving so much away at the front end that we don’t have enough of the critical mass of tuition,” Barrett said. “A lot of schools are find-ing that they’ve had to give so much away to be competitive that they all of sudden don’t have enough revenue. There is a balance there and that is what we’re trying to make sure we do correctly.”

“What ends up happening is that sometimes a school’s best recruiters end up being the people on the team.”

VIC TRILLI

Yellow wristbands are starting to pop up across campus again, but in-stead of being tied to the Livestrong campaign, they are being sold by Newman students to benefit a local organization.

The bands are being sold by a group of students taking Director of Nurs-ing Teresa Vetter’s Cancer Treatment class. The class is part of the Newman Studies Program, the interdisciplinary plan of study implemented in 2012.

Vetter, said she wanted her stu-dents to experience a service project by dedicating the semester to help-ing Camp Quality, a camp that allows young cancer patients the opportunity to have a fun camp experience. She also volunteers with the camp, which is primarily sponsored by Via Christi.

The class was split up into three groups; each working on their own project. One group organized the Stuff-a-Bear event held on campus a few weeks ago and another will be hosting a school supply drive in the coming semester. One group of students de-cided they wanted to sell wristbands

to raise funds for the camp. Senior Matt Riedl, who is a member

of the group, said they chose to do the fundraiser keeping in mind that the camp is non-profit.

“The camp is run entirely by volun-teers,” he said. “So they need money to purchase supplies. It’s set up like any other summer camp. They play sports, do arts and crafts and hold a talent show. They need supplies to do all of that.”

Camp Quality serves around 75 children at Camp Tawakoni in Au-gusta each summer for the week-long program. Campers are not required to pay a fee to attend, and for the most part, come from around the Wichita area or surrounding cities. Campers and volunteers will also be receiving wristbands.

Riedl said the group ran into a snag in getting the wristbands shipped. He said the bands were ordered from a website promising a 24-hour turna-round, but he didn’t receive them until over a month later. He said they didn’t realize the website was based out of China, which extended the shipping time, coupled with bad weather on the east coast.

“We had this idea in the second or

third week of the semester and got the project approved with SGA who agreed to give us $200 to order the bands,” he said. “We planned on get-ting them out before spring break so we could set up at events like basket-ball games.”

The class has 500 bands to sell, each student in the class agreeing to sell around 20 wristbands. Riedl said the group will be selling wristbands at the Rush of Fools concert on at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

The wristbands say “Band Together for Camp Quality.” Riedl said group member Lucas Hanson came up with the phrase.

“We were looking for something that was kind of catchy but wasn’t sil-ly,” Riedl said. “He just said it one day in class and we decided to run with it.”

The class will begin selling the bracelets on Monday. Contributors will receive a bracelet for their $3 do-nation.

“We thought the bracelet idea was something simple that people would enjoy because it is more affordable than a t-shirt,” Riedl said.

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Calling all singers, dancers, jokesters and poetry slammers.

Newman is putting on its first ever Newman Variety Show, a talent show that will showcase the skills of the campus community with the goal of raising awareness about the arts and money for the second annual Art Day of Giving (ArtDOG), put on by the Wichita Community Foundation.

Auditions for the Variety Show started on Wednesday and will con-clude from 3 to 5 p.m. today in the De Mattias Performance Hall. The show will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 24, in the De Mattias Performance Hall.

Wichita ArtDOG is a 24-hour on-line fundraising event that invites the community to donate funds to support local art programs of their choice. Newman University’s Fine Arts Department is one of the recipi-ents.

David Alexander, Newman’s se-nior development officer of Univer-sity Advancement, and his team cre-ated the Newman Variety Show to help bring in money for Newman.

Newman raised $7,000 last year,and hopes to raise $10,000 this year, Alexander said.

“Anyone is welcome to come,” Al-exander said. “You can sing, dance, act, do a dramatic poetry reading, or even tell a good joke; whatever you think your talent is, you’re invited to do it.”

From 5 to 7 p.m. before the Vari-ety Show, people are invited to visit the Steckline Gallery and view the last Final Friday exhibit of the year, which will showcase artwork cre-ated by local artists Dustin Parker and Greg Turner. Artwork created by Newman seniors and alumni will also be on display, and some pieces made by the alumni will be up for auction.

“All of these events - the Steckline Gallery exhibit, the showcasing of se-nior and alumni artwork and the

Newman gears up for Art Day of Giving

A NEWMAN STUDENT sports his shiny, new Camp Quality wristband. Teresa Vetter’s Cancer Treatment class will begin selling these wristbands for a $3 donation Monday. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor.

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Senior theatre major CL Smet’s full-length play “Fair Departure” won second place for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival’s National Undergraduate Playwriting Award.

Smet said she was shocked to learn of her success.

“I freaked out,” she said. “The first person I ended up telling was Rusty [Carbaugh], which was awesome because she’s been almost as much involved in the process as I was.”

Carbaugh is directing a production of “Fair Departure” 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 7 p.m. Sun-day April 16-19 in the Jabara Flexible Theater.

Theatre Director Mark Manette said he was happy when he heard that Smet’s play had won second place.

“I was very excited,” he said. “It’s an accomplishment for her. She de-serves it.”

“Fair Departure” focuses on the relationships and changes faced by the two roommates and sister of a sui-cide victim named Jackson.

Smet said the play was inspired by a quote from Shakespeare’s play “Merchant of Venice,” in which the character Portia says, “For there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant them a fair departure.”

“Everything I write is inspired by a quote,” she said.

Work on “Fair Departure” began during the fall 2013 semester, Smet said, when current senior Rusty

Carbaugh was working on Smet’s play “Every Tuesday,” which went to nationals but did not place.

Smet said she bounced the idea for “Fair Departure” off fellow theatre major Justin Ralph who encouraged her to write it.

Smet finished her first draft nine months later in July of 2014 and submitted a draft to the contest in December of that year. The play was judged in January, and a final draft was sent in February that became a national qualifier.

Smet has done some work since on the draft Carbaugh is directing.

“I’m a perfectionist and don’t know when to stop,” she said.

Carbaugh said directing “Fair De-parture” is a big deal for her because it serves as her directing capstone and as Smet’s writing capstone.

“There’s a lot of pressure, but there already was a lot of pressure because it’s my senior capstone,” she said.

The second-place prize includes a $500 scholarship, a $500 cash prize, membership to the Dramatists Guild and the Playwrights’ Center, and an all-expense paid trip with a guest to the National KCACTF Festival in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center in April.

“I would love to [publish it] once it gets to a point where I feel it’s com-plete,” she said.

The Playwrights’ Center is based in Minneapolis and serves as a network for playwrights, Smet said.

After graduating from Newman, Smet said she hopes to pursue a thea-tre graduate degree in directing or playwriting – perhaps both.

Manette said this play’s success can help get Newman’s name out on a national level.

“I hope it means a lot for Newman because my job is basically to build a theatre program. I could not be more proud of her. She deserves it.”

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Senior theatre major wins national playwriting awardBy JESSICA SPONSELNews Editor

variety show - all sort of dove-tail with the Art Day of Giving’s online event,” said Susan Crane, an assistant profes-sor of English and a member of the Variety Show’s committee. “We sort of make it extra ‘zazzy’ with all that will be going on that final Friday of April 24th, in order to bring more people in, by letting them enjoy and view New-man’s artwork and talent.”

The Variety Show will be a fun way for people to see the talent of Newman University students, Crane said. There are many talented students on campus outside the art majors.

But students shouldn’t feel pres-sured to donate, instead, they should come to have some fun, she said.

“I’m grateful for whatever people can give. I mean anything is helpful, but I do hope that students feel wel-come and don’t feel like they’re being asked to donate. We’re not trying to pressure anyone to donate, especially if they are a student.”

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courtesy of Wichita Community Foundation

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Gemini: “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” -The Theory of Everything (2014)

Cancer: “I am Groot.” -Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Leo: “Horror has a face and you must make a friend of hor-ror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies!” -Apocalypse Now (1979)

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Golf teams have high hopes as season continuessports

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MEN’S TENNIS (13-4) WOMEN’S TENNIS (14-1)

Newman vs. FriendsW 9-0

Newman vs. Dallas BaptistW 8-1

Newman vs. Texas - Permian BasinW 7-2

Newman vs. New Mexico Military Institute W 8-1

Newman vs. McPherson CollegeW 7-2

Newman vs. FriendsW 9-0

Newman vs. Dallas BaptistL 3-6

Newman vs. Texas - Permian BasinW 9-0

Newman vs. Texas A&M - KingsvilleW 6-3

Newman vs. McPherson CollegeW 9-0

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By JUSTIN RALPHStaff Writer

The Newman University women’s golf team has been having a strong season so far, with the Lady Jets con-sistently doing well at tournaments and showing promise for their spring semester.

The team seized a first place victory at the Texoma Chevy Dealers Intercol-legiate tournament in Pottsboro, Texas with a score of 622, 32 strokes ahead of Texas Wesleyan.

Senior Kendall Anderson also got first place at the tournament with a score of 153 strokes, though she began the tournament in second with a round one score of 76. Sophomore Emily Aird came in second just one stroke behind Anderson after the final round. Junior Josie Jenkins placed third with a score of 158 after leading the tournament the first round with a score of 75.

“I feel great about my game right now. It’s my last semester, so I’m giv-ing it everything I got. I feel really con-fident in the season so far.” Anderson said, “Honestly though, the focus will always be on the team and what we can do as a unit to win. These girls are so special, and I truly believe we can make it to nationals.”

The Lady Jets competed in a two-day, two-round tournament in Fort Smith, Ark., Monday and Tuesday

finishing in second place, with a team score of 615, only eight strokes behind Midwestern State.

Anderson tied for second individu-ally, with a two round score of 151. Junior Courtney Zietsman placed in fourth with a score of 153. Freshman Julie Bernard shot a 156, Aird a 157, and Jenkins a 160.

Jenkins said, “The team got second, but I’m disappointed in our perform-ance overall. We should’ve won the tournament. But it’s golf – a game of ups and downs. I’m proud of what we’ve achieved so far. This is a good team and we all work hard. Good things happen to those who work hard.”

Anderson also voiced concerns about the tournament, but said she re-mains optimistic about the season.

“We played a difficult course and the greens were in rough shape but we were able to fight through. We’ve got four wins under our belt this school year, and we are hungry for more.”

The Lady Jets are currently ranked 16th in the nation, and 4th in the Heart-land Conference. The women’s golf team returns to the green next week at the Dallas Baptist Invitational.

JUNIOR JOSIE JENKINS lines up a put on the green during a tournament this spring. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

BASEBALL (11-12) SOFTBALL (6-23)

Newman vs. St. Mary’sL 0-7, L 0-7, L 0-6

Newman vs. Emporia StateW 9-7, L 0-8

Newman vs. Rogers StateW 5-3, W 3-1, L 5-6

Newman vs. Southern NazareneW 7-0, L 1-3

Newman vs. Lubbock ChristianL 2-6, L

Newman vs. Texas - Permian BasinW 10-8, W 10-9, L 4-6

Newman vs. Washburn W 6-1

Newman vs. William JewellL 0-10

Newman vs. Oklahoma Panhandle State W 5-2, L 6-8, W 14-4

Newman vs. Fort Hays StateW 11-0

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Bowling teams miss cut, fail to qualify for sectionalsRanked Jet squads both fall in qualifying rounds, end season

As I’m writing this, it’s 11 p.m. and I’m on the cramped bottom bunk of a charter bus filled with the Newman softball team on its way back from San Antonio. According to Google Maps, we’ll be on campus around 2:45 a.m. If I fall asleep instan-taneously, I’ll al-most get a full five hours before I have to be up for work, then class, then some extra cuts at the field before we turn around and play again the fol-lowing day.

My first instinct is to complain. Why the hell did I voluntarily agree to this? I want free time! I want a social life! I want SLEEP!

But every athlete knows that when it comes down to it, these thoughts – though not completely harmless – don’t reflect how we truly feel. If you’ve stuck it out and worked your way to the collegiate level, then there’s no hiding it: You love the game.

If we’ve all reached that point, the point where we know we’d have to be shot dead before we’d stop playing the game we love, then what’s it going to take to get those annoying little com-plaints out of our heads for good?

For me, all it took was a step back. When we’re still waking up for 6

a.m. weights or having two practices a day while everyone else is on winter break, it might be hard to see all the benefits athletics offer us. But if you take the time to look, and trust me it doesn’t take long, the positive at-tributes athletics instills in us can be seen everywhere.

Of course there’s the traits all ath-letes puts on their résumé, like “team player” or “great work ethic.” Yes, these are valuable, but I think the most important ones often get overlooked.

This bus ride back is about 10 hours so I took some of that time to text and email some of my old coaches and mentors that played sports at the col-legiate level. When I asked them what they felt was the most important thing athletics taught them, I surprisingly got very similar responses. They all seemed to center around the concepts

of being responsible and accountable. The most successful athletes un-

derstand the significance of holding themselves accountable.

Baseball great Derek Jeter once said, “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no ex-cuse for any-one to work harder than you do.”

A c c o u n t -ability is all about know-ing what you and your teammates are capable of and then holding yourself and each other to those standards. This is a quality that is not only valued on the athletic field, but in the work force and at home, too. It’s easy to make up excuses when they only affect yourself. When you have teammates and coaches who are counting on you, the ability to make an excuse vanishes. In a way, athlet-ics doesn’t let you be anything but ac-countable.

Although I touched briefly on only a few qualities, the benefits we receive from athletics are truly endless. From the connections we make to the char-acter we build to the opportunities we receive, it really is a blessing.

I know that we all have those weak moments where we like to focus on the negative. (Condi-tioning, 4:30 a.m. alarms, taking tests early, hours spent in the training room, long bus ri- oh, am I rambling?)

I know it gets hard and I know those voices in your head like to take the easy way out and complain. However, if you can remind yourself of all the good your sport is doing for you in the long run, I think you’ll find it hard to complain.

Students-Athletes need reminder of benefits from sports

“There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.”

DEREK JETER

The Newman bowling teams made it to the post season for the 12th straight year. However, neither the men nor women’s squad finished with a high enough score to qualify for na-tionals.

The men’s team narrowly missed the cut, dropping to 5th in the last two games of sectionals. They missed out on a 4th place finish and ticket to na-tionals by 30 pins.

The wom-en’s team start-ed sectionals strong, but dropped to 6th on the second day of com-petition and couldn’t fight its way back to the top.

Although the season didn’t end the way the Jets had hoped, the teams still feel there is something to take from the it all, junior Trevor Baumgartner said.

“At times during the season, it felt like we just couldn’t get over that hump from being good to being great,” Baumgartner said. “But I think that with a season like this under our belts, it will prepare us for next season

and give us that spark we need to get further.”

The men’s team went into the post season ranked 17th in the nation and the Lady Jets went in ranked 15th.

Although both squads had high hopes going into the last stretch of their season, neither one quite per-formed at the level they were hoping for, Junior Tyler Newman said.

“With next season approaching fast, we can’t dwell too long on this year,” Newman said. “I think next year will

be an extremely competitive year for us, and hope-fully a very suc-cessful season as well.”

Most players are already look-ing past this season and into the future.

“I’m really look-ing forward to seeing our teams turn our dreams into goals,” Baumgartner said. “I believe we are truly one of the best teams in the country. Once we all learn how to trust in our abilities in-stead of playing afraid, I think we’ll do great things. Success breeds confi-dence. I think next year, we’ll be the team to beat.”

By ALY JARMANGuest Writer

JUNIOR TREVOR BAUMGARTNER releases the ball to finish out a frame during a tournament this season. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

“I think next year will be an extremely competitive year for us, and hopefully a very successful season as well.”

TYLER NEWMAN

Delaney Hiegert

Sleep is temporary. Softball is forever.

I might not have gone out of town for spring break, but I explored foreign territory all the same. On Thursday of spring break, I dedi-cated half a day to tramping over half the Wichita State University campus trying to figure out my post-graduation life.

Let me just say figuring out life is complicated and even a quarter of WSU’s campus cov-ers a lot of ground.

In fact, it was the crazy amount of walking that day which helped me ap-preciate some of the perks a student gets while attending a small, private university as opposed to a large pub-lic college.

There are several. I know everyone is WSU-crazy after the men’s basket-ball team won in a game against KU, but I just want to share some of the benefits of attending smaller schools like Newman.

1. Small campus: as mentioned above, having a small campus makes for much easier walking. WSU is so large that some students have to catch rides on special WSU-campus buses to get to their next class on time.

2. Fewer buildings: It was a lot of fun trying to find out which building I needed to be at. It was so much fun that I was late and out of breath to one meeting. Newman is SO nice because I know that my class will be in one of four or five buildings, not one of 150 or so.

3. Parking: You think parking is bad at Newman? Go take a look at a large university. Wichita State’s parking is notoriously awful. Some students have to park off campus be-cause of the crazy number of cars. Did you catch that? Some students have to park OFF CAMPUS. At least we don’t have that problem here.

4. Free events: The WSU tour

Being at a small school where the specialty is pre-med and the scienc-es, the small percentage of pre-law students often get overlooked. The shock and amazement of those who find out Newman has a pre-law pro-gram is astonishing: “Wait, we actu-ally have a pre-law minor? Wow!” My response: “Yes, al-though we are a rare breed of student, we exist.”

By taking classes ranging from le-gal environment of business to consti-tutional politics and history, we study hard to gear up for the Law School Admission Test – more commonly known as the LSAT. The test takes up a half of a Saturday that could be used getting ready for other classes, enjoy-ing the great outdoors, or my personal favorite: sleeping.

The test consists of three differ-ent types of exams: logical reasoning, which analyzes your ability to critique an argument, analytical reasoning,

which tests your skill to solve prob-lems by analyzing clues, and reading comprehension, which is exactly like that stupid portion of the SAT or ACT that we took back in high school. In addition to these portions, you are given a writing prompt and expected to create an argument promoting one side over the other in just 35 minutes.

After months of sacrificing your so-cial life in order to study, you sit down to take the test and the proctor tells you to begin. Now, if you’re a good test taker then all of your preparation comes in handy and you can whiz right through the test and get a 180, the maximum score. If you’re like me, you stare at the booklet in front of you and suddenly get an urge to rip out your eyes like King Oedipus and cry to the heavens: “Why me?” Then you finally answer the questions, rinse, and repeat.

As if the test wasn’t torture enough, you then must survive four grueling weeks of anticipation waiting for your score to come in. It’s kind of like waiting for your bus to come in, only instead of taking you to your

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We have all come back from spring break, where we enjoyed family time, the beach, and some time to breathe. While most students spent their spring break enjoying their time off, there are some who wanted to spend their spring break giving back.

A service trip, which was sched-uled for the break, would have been the perfect opportunity for these stu-dents to make a difference. Unfortu-nately the trip was cancelled this year. It requires a mini-mum number of students to make it affordable and this year they didn’t get enough.

“It’s the second time in 20 years that this has hap-pened but we will be going again next year,” said Rose-mary Niedens, associate v.p. of aca-demic services and student develop-ment.

Newman students’ tasks would have been to assist in whatever job the sisters had assigned them. In the previous years they have helped with landscaping, community service, and many other things. Each year is dif-ferent, but when Newman students partake in these service trips they help where it is needed.

“The sisters who run the mis-sion trips plan things for us to do, so there’s really no way of knowing. Ul-timately our job is to do whatever the sisters want us to do to make their jobs easier,” Rosemary said.

With the shortage of students, and no service trip, many have asked what happens with the tasks at hand? Who will perform these duties that the Newman students should have?

“The sisters will find others who will get the job done,” Rosemary said.

The students of Newman aren’t the only ones that are discour-aged by the cancelled service trip. The sisters were also sad that the students didn’t get to come down.

“We have a pretty good track record seeing that this has only hap-pened twice in the past 20 years,” said Rosemary.

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grandmother’s house, it decides your entire future. Then, once that email hits your inbox and you open it up, you can use the raw emotion to boost your performance as King Claudius in Newman’s production of Hamlet… Oh wait, that’s just me. Never mind.

In reality, your LSAT score isn’t the deciding factor on whether or not you get into your dream law school, which, in case you are wondering, for me is Full Sail University. Law schools look at your resume, your GPA, and other documents like that after the LSAT. You spend months laboring on creat-ing the perfect package to present to admissions councils at your prospec-tive schools.

So, if you are contemplating taking the LSAT in the future now you know what it’s like. Although you should be warned, after taking the test, LSAT means “Leaving Sobbing and Terri-fied.”

guide mentioned that WSU has some free events, but there just didn’t seem to be as many that were truly free for WSU students. Musical events and choir concerts seemed to have a cost even for students. Here at Newman, though, a student ID is guaranteed to get you into almost any on-campus event free.

5. Student seats at sports events: WSU does offer free student tickets to

their college athletic events. But did you know that there’s a limited num-ber of those free tickets? You have to get there early to get one of those tickets. At Newman, there is no limit on student seats at games other than what is mandated by fire code.

We may not have a nationally-recognized basketball team like some Division I schools out there, but I sure am grateful for the perks that I get from attending Newman.