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Volume 128 Issue 58
Monday, December 8, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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DALTON KINGERYKANSAN
CarmaHop, a ridesharing service, officially launched in Lawrence over the weekend. The service gives Lawrence residents whiteboards so they can write their desired destination for passersby to recognize.
Political groups prepare for legislative session
ALLISON KITE
@Allie_Kite
from membership development to tabling, educating students seems to be key in programming among multiple political student organizations next semester. Chief among several groups' goals is education.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
As students wrap up the semester,political organizations are already planning their programming for next semester.
Brittany Bodenheimer, a sophomore from Topeka and president of Young Democrats, said they too would focus on outreach, hoping to attract more students and get them involved in the political process.
to speak. However, because she is transferring to Wichita State University, much of the planning will be up to the new president, who will be elected this week.
zations," she said. "I think that the biggest issue that organizations in general are having right now — political or not
— is just a lack of student involvement, so I would just encourage students to get involved with whatever fits best with their ideas and really grab on to something."
STUDENT LEGISLATIVE AWARENESS BOARD
The Student Legislative Awareness Board, a bi-parti
As Andrew Vogel flicks
a 6-foot graphite rod effortlessly over his shoulder, yellow fishing line follows the motion of his arm, unfurling over Lake Henry's surface.
Vogel's fingers were almost too stiff from the cold to tie a fuzzy fly to the end of his fishing line. It was a 20-degree Friday afternoon in November, one year since Vogel visited the Lawrence lake's shore for a game of catch and release.
"It's veryzen and veryintrospective and contemplative," Vogel said. "It's a good thing to get out and hang out alone on some water."
He left that evening with an empty net, but planned to hunt whitetail deer the next day in Coffee, Mo. This is the type of weekend Vogel looks forward to most.
Vogel, a fifth-year senior, grew up in the mountainous terrain of Greenwood Village, Colo. Even without peaks in Lawrence, he's been able to maintain an outdoor lifestyle for the past five years.
"When you have access to mountains like that all the time, you just do everything there is to offer," he said. In Kansas, "you have to look harder, but it's still out here."
"If you ask too many questions you miss out on the experience," Vogel said.
the wilderness, he said, is to release control. He said it's wasted energy to try to predict the environment.
In the Altitude
He said hed consider himself a fisherman though he also hikes, runs, camps, skis and hunts. Vogel, a minimalist, has one rod, one reel, and a few flies he knows will hook a decent sized trout, brown or rainbow. In the back of his Jeep Wrangler, decorated with a Kavu and Browning Rifle decal, he packs only what he needs, including a thermal sleeping bag, a hammock and, of course, a fishing rod with tackle.
Andrew Vogel, a senior from Greenwood Village. Colo. fishes on Lake Henry in Lawrence. Vogel is an avid outdoorsman.
In August 2012, Vogel ventured from familiar mountains into new territory when he climbed Africa's 19,340-foot Mount Kilimanjaro with strangers. He was dropped off at the base where he met his guide for the first time.
first time.
Five days, and several climate changes tropical rainforest,
timberline, rock, arctic tundra later they reached the top. Different worlds, Vogel said.
"there's no preparing," Vogel said.
"You just go out there."
He said that for a while, it was hard not to drop out of school. In nature he finds himself the happiest and feeling the most authentic. The whole point of immersing himself in
Despite his mellow disposition, Vogel said he's always restless for the next adventure. During the semester, Vogel said, he tries to get out once every month, savoring the season and sounds of the ecosystem to last him until the next time he can escape.
worlds, Vogel said. "Every once in a while, you'll catch yourself. You'll look over a big drop and think 'Wow, I'm actually here,' he said.
He said he remembers feeling like he was floating in the clouds, and thought it was surreal that the same ice his boots touched had been there for thousands of years. It's what hed imagine Mars would look like.
"Its a cathartic experience to feel that small and insignificant yet at the top of something," he said.
And in only one day, he was at the bottom again. It wasn't the first time he had journeyed into higher altitude. He trained that summer, hiking six 14,000-phus-foot peaks in Colorado's range, some on his own, some with friends like Sam Ancona, a fifth-year senior from Centennial, Colo., and a middle school pal.
Together, with one other friend, they hiked Mount Bierstadt in the Rockies.
In Lawrence, the air is different
"I think it's a sense of accomplishment and you want to relive it over and over again," Ancona said.
On the plains
"My body is just used to knowing that little air doesn't mean you're going to die," Vogel said. "It just means you have to work a little bit harder."
Next on his Vogel's list is the 20,000-foot Mount McKinley in Alaska's Denali National Park. He has his sights set even higher: He said he will one day climb Nepal's monster, 29,000-foot Mount Everest, no matter how long it takes.
but nonetheless, Vogel said he appreciates what the land has to offer. Even in winter, snow won't deter him from fishing. When he does catch something, he said he prefers to toss it back, out of respect for the fish and the game.
Maybe it has something to do with seeing the fish bite the fly, but David Franco, one of Vogel's fly fishing buddies from Kansas City, said it's an intimate sport. The rhythm is meditative and even when they're together, Franco said it's easy for him to forget he's with someone.
"If I catch a good fish, I hope one day someone else gets to experience that too." Vogel said.
Vogel said he has replaced survivalist guides — what he considers childhood reading —
"The best thing you can do for a fly fishing partner is when you hit the river, you walk the other way," Franco said.
Franco said. Out on the river in their waders, Vogel and Franco exchange knowledge of trial and technique. Vogel said a lot of what he knows is either from observation or self-taught, but he'll never consider himself an expert.
"You just subject yourself to things and you learn through doing it what works, what doesn't work," Vogel said.
with more existential writings like Walden and Kerouac. He said he connects with the idea of a wandering soul.
When he graduates in May with a psychology degree, he'll have a year off before attending medical school to become a surgeon and "cut people open," a job he has always wanted. He said he plans to use the time off from school for exploring, preparing for Alaska and finding meaning in life.
"It's a constant search, the whole search is romantic in itself," Vogel said. "I think that's what makes it fun."
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A private minority students.
Cota said the task force that compiled the report and sent it out to many within KU's administration and did not get a response.
may affect minority students.
Last week, student groups,
including the Black Student
Union, organized several events
on campus to protest the issues
going on in Ferguson and
discuss what was happening
media. On these platforms, the dialogue has been base, racist and often hateful. This reflects poorly on the entire K-State family and even more poorly on the individuals who are making these posts. The K-State community is better than this and we expect more of ourselves," part of the message said.
Miranda Davis
The accuser, whose name was never released, claimed Bavel placed his arm around her shoulder and his hand on her knee as he helped her study material from his symbolic logic course at Perkins — a place where he has met with students to provide help for
handled his case fairly. His hearing is scheduled for Jan. 14.
there have been consequences in both his personal and professional life. When the Lawrence Journal-World recently published a story on the subject, Bavel's son, who lives in Lawrence, was asked about the accusations at work.
"My son was shown the article at work, and obviously he was hurt by it," Bavel said. "There have been reactions
Aside from the accusations affecting his personal life, Bavel has also become slightly more cautious when it comes to meeting with students to help them outside of class, though he's tried to continue to provide as much assistance as possible.
about us.
"Now, anytime a student asks to sit next to me in a booth, I'll refuse." Bavel said. "However,
I sit meet at rerkins with students between six and eight hours a week. I look at my students as my children or grandchildren, so my main goal is to help them."
CLASSIFIEDS 8
CROSSWORD 6
CRYPTOQUIPS 6
OPINION 4
"They [KU] will not admit
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SPORTS 10
SUDOKU 6
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