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MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014
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CONTRIBUTED BY ANDREW WIEBE
USA National Men's Soccer Team fans walk to the American Outlaws pre-game party in Natal, Brazil, before the U.S.-Ghana matchup on June 16. The U.S. defeated Ghana 2-1.
Alumni navigate World Cup country
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By air, taxi and subway, Jayhawk alumni are making their way through Brazil with a few eyebrow raising details, but with more ease than expected.
ERIN ORRICK
This convenience may be due to the fact that Brazil's airport security is not nearly as strict as most American city airports.
Andrew Wiebe, a 2009 University graduate is on assignment as a current media editor for MLSsoccer. com. He said he moves around Brazil so far with little to no problem.
Depending on who you talk to, the ease of travel throughout the host nation's cities can land on either side of the proverbial traffic spectrum.
"For me, it's actually been pretty smooth." Wiebe said. "I haven't really had any issues. We were told we going to need to get to the airports up to three hours early, but that hasn't been the case at all."
"Their security is much different than that of the U.S." Wiebe said. I've gotten water bottles in. We don't
have to take shoes off. We don't have to put laptops in a separate container. They get you right in, through and then you're out. You don't get bogged down in all of the security lines."
Andrew Joseph, a 2012 University graduate and current reporter for The Arizona Republic and Channel 12 News in Phoenix, took a 10-hour flight from Atlanta to Rio de Janeiro to kick-start his World Cup vacation and excitement was brewing before he even stepped foot on the plane.
"I will say that I've never seen a flight in which the passengers were so collectively excited to get on an airplane," Joseph said. "As soon as the agent said, 'we will start our boarding process with first class,' it was a mad dash to the ticket scanner. Didn't matter what zone you were in, everyone wanted to get on that plane. I've never seen that before."
Joseph said it was an amazing sight to see a flight with mostly Americans, and a handful of Brazilian, Mexican and Bosnian fans going to a location
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for Hawk Week and prepping for the Free State Festival.
"No matter how much he has going on he always steps aside to make time for people and solve the problems right in front of him while keeping the other chaos organized or at least in check," said Douglass, a nontraditional student from Wichita majoring in film.
Filmmaking, Clement said, is where he finds purpose in life and he takes it seriously, paying careful attention to details.
"There are people that I think float through the world and don't really care about how they affect the world as a whole," Clement said. "I'm not that person."
His girlfriend, Goodman, also a producer of the film, calls him the "courtesy police." He said he always uses his turn signal, and is willing to pay $2 more for a cup of coffee "because that's how much it actually costs."
"Being aware of surroundings is what makes a good creative person," he said.
If nothing else, he hopes at least a few people in the audience appreciate the film. The handful of viewers who told him it's thoughtful, he said,
is the biggest compliment.
"How do you communicate thoughtfulness in a piece of art?" he said. "It's, like, intangible. It just happens."
An early cut of the film won a special mention for cinematography in the Harvard College Film Festival in April.
"It was easy to make beautiful because Greensburg is beautiful," he said.
— Edited by Ashleigh Lee
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