THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015 VOL. 67, ISSUE 12

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French grad shares story of attacksBy ROBIN ALLARDGuest Writer

Editor’s note: On Fri-day, three teams of terror-ists carried out coordinat-ed attacks at six locations in Paris, killing at least 129 people and wounding at least 352. In an email to Newman University Relations, Robin Allard, a 2014 graduate, former Vantage

staff member, and French native, describes what he experienced in his home only five miles from the center of Paris on that night:

First of all, yes I was very close to the attacks. I live in Boulogne-Billan-court, which is 15 minutes away from the Stade de France where the soccer game was being played. I was sup-posed to meet friends in a bar near the stadium to watch the game. Fortu-nately for me, I was pretty tired after

giving some English lessons to a kid in Paris, so around 8:15 p.m. I went back home to watch the game on T.V.

So, I was one hour away [from be-ing] at the wrong place at the wrong moment. I got pretty lucky, and I am also happy that my friends went to a different bar (10 minutes away from the attacks) so nothing happened to them, either. I was watching the game and heard the two bombings on T.V.,

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Student Government Association president, Brandon Gollhofer, and vice president, Brandi Boese, have started giving out discount cards to students around campus.

The discount cards have been in the works for months but have only re-cently surfaced around campus.

“Over the summer, we got in con-

tact with the company that sets up dif-ferent discounts for college students. Brandi and I thought it was a great idea and got the program approved for Newman,” Gollhofer said.

The cards, which according to Goll-hofer cost a little under $4,000 for 2400 of them, are small enough to fit in your wallet and list many local deals.

Some benefits were specifically cho-sen for the card.

“We gave the company a list of busi-

nesses we’d like discounts for and we got a lot of confirmations. We specifi-cally asked for a discount at the War-ren, and now students can see movies for $5 with their Newman ID,” Goll-hofer said.

Some businesses on the card may not be familiar, but there is a reason for that.

“We wanted to support local busi-nesses and give students options for things to do around Wichita while

allowing them to give back to the community,” Gollhofer said. “These discount cards will hopefully bring at-tention to smaller businesses around the city.”

There are a couple of things to keep in mind when using these discounts cards, Gollhofer said.

“It’s a good idea to bring your stu-dent ID with you when you want

College Central Network system in place for students

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A FRENCH CITIZEN overcome with grief at the Place de la Republique in Paris. Parisians created a memorial shrine for victims of the attacks at this square located near two sites of terrorist attacks. Observer News, Courtesy Photo

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Student Government discount card program initiated

By DELANEY HIEGERTManaging Editor

The career services department of-fers many services to students, but has begun to draw attention to a specific service it provides, the College Cen-tral Network, which allows students access to helpful information outside of the career service offices hours.

Melody Head, director of career services, said this program has been in place for the past four months and all Newman students are pre-registered in the program’s system.

Upon activation, students will have 24-hour access to the site and will be able to upload a resume, search for in-ternships and mentors and apply for various jobs.

The CCN program, which can be accessed online or on mobile phones, provides various career-building tools for students to use such as resume building tips, co-op opportunities, in-ternships and mentorships, and even job opportunities.

“There are four active components that must be in place for the system to be used to its fullest potential. These components, the students, faculty, alumni and community, play an im-portant role in the effectiveness of the program,” Head said. “I will be focus-ing on connecting with students, fac-ulty, alumni and mentoring programs, and the community and its ability to provide cooperative education, intern

Terrorists’ attacks in France hit close to home for Newman grad

Robin Allard

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but I did not think it was anything different from the usual loud noise during soccer games.

Later on, when I was going to sleep, my brother sent me a text ask-ing if I was doing okay and if I was safe. I turned on the TV and could not sleep for the night as I was watching the news and hearing the police and firefighters driving down the street where I live. The next day, we were not allowed to leave our apartments and houses. I mean, it was very scary and I did not feel safe at all, so I stayed home all Saturday long.

To prevent future attacks I believe we need to “take care” of the Daesh (ISIS) threat quickly. If we get rid of the big part of the Daesh with all the

leaders, the terrorists’ attacks will de-crease.

Also seeing all the support we have had during the weekend and now still means a lot to me and all French peo-ple. I never thought we would see such a big support and it is so nice to see that!

I have to say I am very angry at those people. I mean it is stupid to ask this but why? What is it bringing them? Except re-venge? They kill in the name of Allah who clearly forbids (just like in any religion) killing others. Unfortunately this will bring people to generalize

these attacks to all Muslims, which is completely stupid. Also it is very hard to read stories from the ones who sur-vived, or the ones who did not, to see

pictures, videos of the attacks. It could have hap-pened to me or anyone else, it happened so quickly, it is just sick.

They wanted to bring fear to our country but I think it just woke

us up and they will regret it. We have always tried to be pacific, but this was a declaration of war and we have all France motivated and the whole world behind us.

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Thanksgiving buffet held on campus

The Great Western Din-ing staff will be holding a Thanksgiving buffet at 11:30 a.m. today in the Ma-bee Dining Center.

The buffet is open to any-one. Students with a meal plan eat for free, otherwise the buffet is $6.13 a person.

Fall musical opens this week

The Newman Theatre and Music departments are opening their fall musical, “Damn Yankees”, at 8 p.m. tonight in the Performance Hall of De Mattias.

The musical, full of fun, baseball and dirty deals with the devil.

It will run Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

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Razor scootersand alcohol awareness

CAB will be hosting an event to raise awareness of the dangers of excessive drinking and drinking and driving at 8 p.m. Mon-day in the Dugan-Gorges Conference Center of the library.

Students will have the chance to scoot through a course with drunk goggles on to understand the dan-gers of driving impaired.

The event is free.

ships, and employment.”Head has already begun reaching

out to the students on campus to try and boost involvement in the pro-gram. On Monday Head had a booth set up in the foyer of Eck Hall that gave students information about the system and even allowed them to acti-vate their accounts at the booth.

Head also spoke with a business class about the importance of having a strong resume and the useful tools CCN provides.

Senior Courtney Sartin said she en-joyed the exposure to the program that she received during her class time.

“I’m at the point in my academic career where I really need to be work-ing on my marketability as a potential employee,” Sartin said. “The resume builder that the program has was pret-ty beneficial. I also thought it was con-venient that I could search through all the different internship and job open-ings in one place.”

Head said CCN really lets her to ex-pand her reach and get knowledge to students effectively.

“The College Central Network will allow me the opportunity to reach out to students on their journey of career preparation,” Head said. “Now we

have two ways to communicate – elec-tronically or in person.”

If students want to activate their accounts, they can visit www.new-manu.edu. The CCN login page can be found by clicking on the “Life at New-man” tab, then “Student Services” and finally “Career Services”.

Head said she highly recommends the program to all students and en-courages students with questions to come into the career service offices anytime from 8 a.m to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday or 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.

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• 15% off Fazoli’s, Uncle Joe’s Pizzeria, Sugar Sisters Bakery

ENTERTAINMENT• $5 Warren Theater movie tickets,

Movie Machine movie tickets• $8 green fee for FootGolf• 10% off Bicycle X-Change, Al’s Old

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“Seeing all the support we have had during the week-end and now still means a lot to me and all French people.”

ROBIN ALLARD

to use one of the discounts because sometimes the discount requires a valid student ID to be presented, but it depends on location,” Gollhofer said. “Also make sure to pay attention to the card because if an address is listed for a business, the discount is only valid for that particular location.”

The cards are valid through Oct. 11 2016 and every discount can be used multiple times.

There are also some extra benefits available to those who have received a discount card.

“Once you have the discount card, you can access a QR code on the front which brings you to a page to down-load an app. This app includes several discounts that are conveniently placed in one location on your phone,” Goll-hofer said.

Boese, SGA vice president, said she’s looking forward to using the card herself.

“I’m excited about this whole new

opportunity, but I think the students are the most excited for the $5 Warren movies as well as the Fazoli’s discount. I also think the bowling discount will be used a lot,” she said.

There is a wide range of possibilities for students who have nothing to do on a Friday or Saturday night. “If y’all want to go out to eat, there are restau-rants, but there are also other options like FootGolf at the golf course, which is a fun combination of golf and soc-cer,” said Gollhofer.

Boese said the variety of activities will probably appeal the most to stu-dents.

“I’m glad that there are discounts for things to do and not just food. It gives students some cheap options for fun things to do when they are bored,” Boese said.

If you have not yet received a stu-dent discount card, see Gollhofer or Boese for one. There are also discount cards located in the Student Life Of-fice.

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One student has found a balance between school and relaxation that incorporates a rather interesting hob-by – filmmaking. Pre-Med student, Andrew Regoli, is one day of filming away from completing his first inde-pendent film, “Tuition Hike.”

Regoli is from Ocala, FL. and was homeschooled from kindergarten un-til 12th grade. “My love of filmmak-ing started when I was younger, and I made movies with friends on a VHS camcorder,” Regoli said.

Eventually, he ended up in Kansas for high school. “I really struggled be-cause I wanted to go to film school, but I also wanted a stable career,” Regoli said. After high school, he attended Cowley Community College when he was sixteen years old. Regoli cur-rently has two nursing degrees, an as-sociate’s he received in Virginia and a bachelor’s he received while living in Florida.

While pursuing a Pre-Med degree from Newman, he works at Via Christi Clinic as an Intensive Care Unit charge nurse and is also part of the biocontain-ment unit. “I chose Newman because of its reputation for its Pre-Med pro-gram and emphasis on higher stand-ards. I’m also able to work as an RN and be a part of the biocontainment

unit, which is pretty cool because I get to help when there’s an outbreak like Ebola,” said Regoli.

Regoli’s endeavors to receive a Pre-Med degree while working as an RN is balanced by his love for filmmak-ing. “I’m working on a movie right now, and I used all amateur actors and equipment from eBay. I love that I can just have fun with it, and I don’t need a degree to make a movie,” Regoli said. “I work at such a serious job, so it’s nice to work on something that doesn’t require the same efforts I put in to deal with matters of life and death.”

Regoli’s idea for the movie stems from his own experience in college. “’Tuition Hike’ is about two guys try-ing to pay for college by scamming the system in order to receive free school-ing,” said Regoli.

While there are a few opportunities for independent filmmakers around Wichita, Regoli has an idea of where he wants to take his film. “I want to submit my movie to Tallgrass, but I definitely want to try and show ‘Tui-tion Hike’ at The Orpheum which is really good for indie films,” he said.

While Regoli has a passion for film-making, he isn’t overly concerned with the success of the film. “I’ve worked really hard on this movie, but I had so much fun during filming that honest-ly, it was all worth it in the end even if it doesn’t turn out perfect,” he said.

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ANDREW REGOLI is producing his own indie film, “Tuition Hack.” Courtesy Photo

By RACHEL ADDUCCIStaff Writer

Full-time student, part-time filmmakerStudent writes, directs and produces independent film

REGOLI worked with Derek Hough on “Move Live on Tour.” Courtesy PhotoTUITION HACK is Regoli’s first indie film, and almost wrapped. Courtesy Photo

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DAMN YANKEES!

DAMN YANKEES opens this weekend. Here is a selection of photos from this week’s dress rehearsal. The show opens tonight at 8 p.m. and runs Friday, Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the DeMattias Performance Hall. All Photos by Kati Bush

TOP LEFT: The Washington Senators perform “The Game.”TOP RIGHT: Players catch Gloria (Rebecca Mumford) during “Shoeless Joe.”LEFT: Lola (Alison Byrne) attempts to seduce Joe Hardy (Joel Sponsel) during “Whatever Lola Wants.”ABOVE: Gloria asks Applegate (Wesley Williams) for more information about Joe.BOTTOM LEFT: The Senators look on as Joe tries out for the team. BELOW: The town prepares to celebrate Joe’s success on the team.

sportsTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015

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MEN’S BASKETBALL (3-0) WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (2-1)

PAST GAMESOct. 29at Texas A&M-Commerce, W 89-79

Nov. 17vs. Pittsburg State, W 98-89

UPCOMING GAMESTuesday at 7:30 p.m.at Fort Hays State

Saturday, Nov. 28 at 3 p.m.vs. Rockhurst

PAST GAMESNov. 14at UC Colorado Springs, W 71-64

Nov. 18at Washburn, L 46-58

UPCOMING GAMESSaturday at 1 p.m.vs. York College

Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.at Fort Hays State

this week in sports...PAST GAMESNov. 12at Texas A&M International, W 3-0Nov. 14at St. Mary’s, W 3-0 UPCOMING GAMESTomorrow at 7:30 p.m.against, No. 3 Lubbock Christian*Fort Smith, Ark.

* Heartland Conference Tournament

PAST TOURNAMENTNov. 8-9 at Southern Classic (Atlanta)Men: 5thWomen: 6th

UPCOMING TOURNAMENTDec. 20-21at Las Vegas Invitational

VOLLEYBALL (25-8) BOWLING

@newman_jets

Basketball programs find early season successMen’s and women’s basketball off to strong start to the 2015-2016 season

Both the men’s and women’s bas-ketball programs are off to a hot start in their 2015-2016 campaigns, with men going 3-0 to start the season and women 2-1.

The men started their season last

Friday with an 81-79 victory over the Cameron University Aggies as part of the Oklahoma Christian Classic in Oklahoma City. The Jets trailed the Aggies by as much as 17 at one point but they mounted a comeback late in the game.

“You don’t want to find yourself in that position very often,” men’s head

coach Mark Potter said. “Our guys re-ally showed an incredible amount of heart and found a way to come back all the way and finish it up.”

The Jets returned to action the next evening, beating the University of Texas A&M-Commerce Lions 89-79. Junior guard Jarvis Williams, a trans-fer from Holmes Community College in Mississippi, led the Jets in minutes played and points with 36 and 22 re-spectively.

The men came back to Fugate Gym-nasium Tuesday night for their home opener against in-state rival, Pittsburg State, a game which Coach Potter said could be the biggest of the season.

“[Pittsburg State] is an in-state, Division-II rival. It may be nonconfer-ence game but it can go a long way to determining your regional rankings and decide whether or not you go to the NCAA Tournament,” he said.

Newman defeated the Gorillas 98-

89, and outside of the first posession, the Jets never lost the lead.

The women tipped off their season with a game against the Regis Rang-ers in Denver as part of the Heartland-RMAC Challenge. The Lady Jets came back from a one-point deficit at the end of the first half to win the game

75-53. They then trave-

led to Colorado Springs to play UC-Colorado Springs, where they won 71-64. Junior forward Mali Wright, one of only five returning Jets this season, led the team in points, putting 24 points on the scoreboard.

While the wins are important, wom-en’s head coach

Darin Spence says that establishing chemistry is vital in these early games.

“It’s just an opportunity with all the new faces that we have to get to learn from each other in an in-game situa-tion,” Spence said. “I’m pleased with

SENIOR GUARD, CORTRAEL COLBERT, sets up a play during Tuesday’s game against Pitt State. Colbert had 15 points and 4 assists. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

By WESLEY WILLIAMSSports Editor

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“My goal is to make us be the best we can be today with every possession and every practice. If we can do that over and over and over again then the scoreboard will take care of itself.”

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our effort and our energy level has been good. So far, so good.”

The women traveled to Topeka Wednesday to take on the Washburn Ichabods, a game in which they lost 46-58.

While both coaches are eyeing a

chance to win the Heartland Confer-ence Championship at the end of the season, they want their teams to im-prove every day.

“We want to get better each day and we want to have fun,” Spence said. “We want the kids to have a good experience going through this and we want to play for a chance to be in a

working with them a great deal and I felt they were hungry for success and eager to learn.”

Although Brown was only an in-terim head coach for the end of this season, he said he has confidence that whatever new coach comes in will be able to find success with the team.

“Although a few fantastic players graduate this year, there is still a won-derful and talented returning group of players,” Brown said.

The Lady Jets will have 16 return-ers next season after graduated five seniors.

On the men’s side of things, Brown said he is content with how the season panned out.

“We had a much more difficult schedule this year as we looked to grow through various challenges,” he said. “We played some fantastic soccer and we were much better overall than last year. Our possessions were better. Our offensive decision-making was much stronger as well. We were the number two team in the conference in goals scored even with our tough schedule.”

The team, which returned to the

conference tournament as the No. 2 seed again this year, lost to Texas A&M International University in a penalty shootout after two overtimes. Brown said the loss was tough on the team, but that he was proud of the way his team played.

“We played on of our best matches of the season in that semifinal game against TAMIU, but on that day the

The men’s and women’s soccer season wrapped up in the past few weeks – the women’s season ended with a record of 6-8-2 and the men’s ended after a loss in the first round of the Heartland Conference tournament leaving them with a record of 10-7-2.

The Lady Jets – who were taken over by men’s head coach Cliff Brown in the middle of the season – had three conference wins on the season and five players names to the All-Heartland Conference team.

Freshman Quincy Plank, juniors Madison Decker, Morgan Foster, and Korrie Raney and senior Darci Night-ingale were the five members of the Lady Jets selected for conference hon-ors.

Brown said he was very happy with the way the team handled the season and the changes that came its way.

“I’m very pleased with how they re-sponded to the things I asked of them, from changes in the system of play to changed in attitude and approach to the game,” Brown said. “I enjoyed

goals just didn’t drop for us,” he said. “Many players hate losing in a penalty shootout, but for me the way you exit doesn’t matter. I hope that is makes our returners hungry to im-prove for our next season and really buckle down in spring training.”

The Jet’s will have 16 returners on the team next season after graduated 8 seniors.

NU soccer finishes year with success, high hopesBy DELANEY HIEGERTManaging Editor

MEN’S SOCCER was eliminated in the first round of the Heartland Conference Champtionships. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

From “Basketball” on Page 5 position to win the league title and go beyond that and go into post-season play.”

“My goal is to make us be the best we can be today with every possession and every practice,” Potter said. “If we can do that over and over and over again then the scoreboard will take care of itself.”

The men next play on Tuesday when they travel to Fort Hays State University to take on the Tigers, while the women play in their home open-er on Saturday against York College. Both teams open conference play with a Dec. 17 road trip to Austin to play St. Edward’s.

Question of the Week

SophomoreShepherd

Who will be in the college football playoffs?I don’t really watch sports. Too much Fall Out 4.

James

JuniorPaugh

I think it will be Iowa, Oklahoma, Alabama and Clemson.

PhilFreshman

Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma State and Notre Dame.

Blake

Oklahoma State and Alabama for sure. It’s a toss up on the other two.

Who cares? It’s col-lege football

Junior

LarrySenior

WinslowTyler

Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State and Okla-homa State.

Kevin LumanShepherd

Lee

Senior

I found it. The search is over. The quest is done. I’ve finally found it:

The perfect doughnut.My journey took

me away from New-man University, across Wichita to the fabled “West side” of town. Near the province of Maize, Kansas, a brisk walk across Sedgwick Country Park to the corner of 21st and Ridge Road, in the mystical palace the Hurts Donut doughnut shop lay...

THE PERFECT DOUGHNUT.In the vault (a “display case”) se-

questered between other doughnuts, doughnuts almost delicious as this

perfect doughnut, is a doughnut so good it could possibly have been craft-ed by the Lord himself. The dough-nut is called the “Jesús.” (Pronounced Hay-ZEUS)

It’s a soft, tenderly-made, cake doughnut with a white sugar glaze, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and drizzled in decadent caramel, this doughnut balances the line of being a breakfast treat and an after-dinner sweet. And the flavor hits you like a burst of pure bliss.

I wept a single tear the first time I had this doughnut, fueled by the epiphany of the discovery of the per-fect doughnut.

My first meeting with the “Jesús” doughnut was entirely by chance. Be-cause when I visited Hurts Donut for the first time, I got a “dirty dozen,”

which means the employee picks the doughnuts out for you. It saves you time, money, and the employee gives you an assorted box of their personal favorites.

And now – much like that em-ployee – the “Jesús” cinnamon sugar, caramel-glazed delight is my favorite doughnut.

There are other notable doughnuts in the mythical Hurts Donut store. Like a doughnut modeled after “Sesame Street’s” Cookie Monster, a doughnut that is a real-life version of Homer’s fa-vorite Lard Lad doughnuts from “The Simpsons,” and doughnuts made with red velvet cake. But those treasures are for you to venture out and experience on your own.

I’m here to say you will be doing your taste buds a favor if you get your-

self a “Jesús.”Thank me later, or thank Jesús.

JESÚS IS JUST one of many specialty doughnuts available at Hurts Donut on Maize Road. John Denny, Editor-in-Chief

I was two years old when my home was torn apart, my memory gone, but my experiences still embedded in my brain. The same ex-periences that cre-ated my morals, my beliefs, who I am.

I came as a first generation emi-grant, refugee sta-tus, but apparently not a threat. I walk amongst thousands of students eve-ryday and no one would ever know that I was a refugee because my accent is long gone and my skin is the same as the people who stole this land.

That’s why you accept me.Would you accept my mother? A

woman who works two jobs, whose English makes you wince. Would you accept my father who stumbles with his words because he’s afraid to speak? Would you have the patience to sit and try to decipher his English? Or would you turn towards me with an impatient look and wait for me to translate? Would you accept me

knowing that my mother is Muslim, and I have, in some point in my life, practiced Islam? Would your Islamo-phobia be quieted because I am so much like you?

Would you judge immigrants if I told you that studies show immigrants are more likely to attain higher educa-tion?

Would you accept me if we traced back your ancestry and proved that you are also an immigrant, that your ancestors came here just like I did.

How can I share a story about my life when I know that you’re telling me refugees don’t deserve to come here? How can I tell you that both of my par-ents work two jobs yet we rose from nothing? That my father went in and out of work for 10 years yet they man-aged to send 4 kids to college? That my sister wants to become a U.S dip-lomat? How can I work to better this country while you continue to judge immigrants?

Don’t expect me to understand why you stand with your back turned when brown refugees ask for help, but accept me at face value.

The issue isn’t terrorism, it’s that this country suffers from xenophobia,

racism, and Islamophobia. It’s that the country says, “not all Muslims are ter-rorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.”

Would it surprise you if I said that according to thedailybeast.com, over the past five years out of all terrorist attacks in Europe only 2 percent were committed by Muslims. Or that 94 per-cent of terrorist attacks that happened in the U.S from 1980 to 2005 were per-petrated by non-Muslims.

How about if I said that according to americanprogress.org, 41 percent of immigrants 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree while 30 percent of Americans 25 and older have a degree.

Let’s talk about this terrorism issue, though. Many Americans don’t want to bring in Syrian refugees because they are afraid ISIS might sneak in too. The problem is that if they wanted to get in, they could. You live in fear that terrorists will get in yet America opens its doors for anyone else. You say you want to fight terrorism, yet you don’t care that 30,000 people die from gun violence alone every year in your own country. Or that a total of 100,000 Americans die every year due to vio-lence.

How about school shootings? You

guys turn your back when gun laws are criticized, and say “guns don’t kill people.” Yet mass shootings still take place and you don’t do anything. Americans only care about terrorist attacks when a foreigner is the one at-tacking.

Rest assured Americans, the only thing you’ll be doing for refugees is opening up opportunities. They’re not stealing anything from you, just bet-tering your country. We rise on our own. We work on our own. We flee our countries to try to better our lives. We are just like you, however you act as if we’re some sort of animals trying to destroy your country. Remember America is a melting pot, and you’re just another ingredient, as am I.

I’m not angry at America. I’m an-gry at the people who have seemed to forget that this land that you call your home wasn’t your home at some point. That if your ancestors didn’t make the trek over seas then you wouldn’t be here. Don’t take granted something that at some point didn’t even belong to you. You are just like them. You are just like me. You just didn’t have to live through the hard part.

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I was a refugee.

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Donut change a thing.

A former refugee’s reaction to the Syrian refugee crisis

You’ll have to thank Jesús for this wonderful cake doughnut

Give me your tired, your poor, your terrorized?

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Advertising matter — Except as clearly implied by the advertising party or otherwise specifically stated, advertisements in The Vantage are inserted by com-mercial activities or ventures identified in the adver-tisements themselves and not by Newman University or The Vantage. Advertising material printed herein is solely for informational purposes. Such printing is not to be construed as a written and implied sponsor-ship, endorsement or investigation of such commer-cial enterprises or ventures. Complaints concerning advertisements in The Vantage should be directed to the Business Manager, De Mattias Hall 266, 3100 McCormick, Wichita, KS 67213 or e-mailed to vantage.nu@gmail.com.

Letters to the Editor Policy

Letters to the editor are welcomed on any topic relating to Newman or the contents of The Vantage. Letters should be between 250 and 500 words in length and must include the writer’s name, year or position, and major or department. Letters are subject to edit-ing for space and clarity. Nameless letters will not be printed.

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Opinions Editor, The VantageDeMattias 266, 3100 McCormickWichita, KS 67213or e-mail: vantage.nu@gmail.com

John DennyEditor-in-Chief

Delaney HiegertManaging Editor

Kati BushA&E Editor

Wesley Williams Sports Editor

Hank GriggsPhoto Editor

Jacob HobbieOnline Editor

Justin RalphSenior Columnist

Denise NeilAdviser

Lauren SpencerStaff Writer

Kyle MazzaStaff Writer

Rachel AdducciStaff Writer

Saska TimaracGuest Writer

Moo BarraganCartoonist

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