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THE LIFE
Spring 2015 | VOL. 2
FROM THE
EDITORS DESK
PG. 4-5
PG. 12
TIM HOSSLER
ALEX KONG
BAKARY SUSO
Architecture graduate student Bakary
Suso works to bring health care and
playgrounds to his home country in Africa
PG. 7-9
ZALMAN TIECHTEL
Rabbi Tiechtels work at the campus
Jewish Center focuses on making a home
away from home for Jewish students
PG. 14-15
BRADLEY VONADA
Bradley Vonada, the vice president of the
club Quidditch team, is competing at the
top of his game during the season
PG. 16-17
KEON STOWERS
PG. 10-11
KILEY DOMBROSKI
PG. 18
SOPHIA TEMPLIN
Managing time is crucial for Sophia
Templin, who is a softball player, sorority
member and student senator
Reception to Follow
An enrolled member of the Osage Nation, Warrior is the author of The
People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction, American Indian
Literary Nationalism (with Craig Womack and Jace Weaver), Like a
Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (with
Paul Chaat Smith) and Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian
Intellectual Traditions. He is also a member of the Native Critics
Collective, which published Reasoning Together, a collection of essay
focused on Native literary criticism.
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BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
DESIGN AND H
CONQUER
Ben Lipowitz
@BenLipowitz
HAT
DO
YOU
TAKE FROM THAT
EXPERIENCE WITH
LEIBOVITZ THAT YOU GIVE TO
YOUR STUDENTS?
One thing is, hopefully,
teaching by example. Like
follow your dreams and
push yourself to do the
best thing you can do, even
if that thing might seem
super crazy. Find the people you want to work with.
Find the cities you want
to live in. But then also be
flexible enough. Theres going to be your dreams, but
then theres also going to
be those paths that come
along and be willing to
take them and be willing to
change your goals.
HAT
IS
YOUR
FAVORITE THING TO
DESIGN?
CONTRIBUTED/TIM HOSSLER
Assistant design professor Tim Hossler created this book for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Arts anniversary of its sculpture garden.
Leibovitz is considered on of the worlds best portrait photographers, who developed her signature
use of colors and striking poses while chief photographer at Rolling Stone. One of her most notable
photographs is of nude John Lennon curled alongside his clothed wife, Yoko Ono, on Dec. 8, 1980.
That photo of the former Beatles member was captured just hours before his death later that day.
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ty-handed.
Instead, Tiechtel used tissue paper to wrap some
delicate handmade matzos, or unleavened bread
eaten during Passover. He placed them in a cardboard box with a note wishing the family a happy
holiday and sent the student on his way.
To those who dont know him, this may appear
to be an act of kindness toward strangers. For
Tiechtel, its simply a message of love to his extended Jewish family.
Along with his wife, Nechama Tiechtel, the rabbi directs the Rohr Chabad Center for
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LISTEN TO
TIECHTEL
SHARE THE
STORY OF
HOW HE
CAME TO LAWRENCE IN
THE ONLINE VERSION OF
THIS ARTICLE.
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BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel runs the Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Life with his wife, Nechama Tiechtel. The center is a few blocks
south of campus at 1201 W. 19th St. The couple leased both sides of the duplex before they purchased the property in 2008.
+WHATS IN
A NAME?
BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtels family consists of his wife, Nechama, and his seven children. He has
four daughters and three sons, who range in age from 4 months old to 9 years old.
MEANINGS OF RABBI
TIECHTELS KIDS NAMES:
Mina Bracha:
Blessing from God
Mendel: Humble
Man
Yosef Meir: An
Increasing Shining
Light
Levi: Attachment
Yisroel: Israel
Sima: Treasure
Esther: Hidden
Inner Beauty
Kiley
Dombroski
Its 5:15 a.m. and
her alarm is going
off. But she has
already been up
for hours. For Kiley
Dombroski, this is
a normal weekday
morning.
BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Ben Felderstein
@Ben_Felderstein
For Dombroski, the inability to sleep in
the mornings before dance workouts is
typical.
Dombroski is a junior from Lakewood,
Colo., and a member of the Rock Chalk
Dancers.
On the days that I have workouts, Im
usually waking up anxious every hour, she
said.
Dombroski is a journalism major studying
strategic communications and is minoring
in creative writing. She has spent the past
three years on the Universitys dance team.
Dombroski juggles dance, school work
and classes, and is a member of the Kappa
Kappa Gamma sorority.
I make it work, Dombroski said. You
have to sacrifice sleep sometimes, but Im
the type of person that needs to be staying
busy.
Growing up in Colorado, most of
Dombroskis high school friends attended
local schools like the University of Colorado.
She wanted to get away from home and start
a new chapter.
Dombroski came to visit Kansas during
the final Kansas-Missouri basketball game
in 2012. Following the victory, she and her
father rushed to Massachusetts Street to see
KILEY DOMBROSKI
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Alex Kong
Standing in his
apartment kitchen,
4P pharmacy student
Alex Kong adds a splash
of whiskey to his apple
cupcake mix.
FRANK WEIRICH/KANSAN
Alana Flinn
@alana_flinn
ALEX KONG
Bakary Suso
Kate Miller @_Kate_Miller_
JILL STIVERSON/KANSAN
BAKARY SUSO
CHASING
THE CUP
Brian Hillix @DoubleHillix
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Sirius Black
Gryffindor
BEATERS
Disrupt the flow of the game by throwing dodgeballs
called bludgers at players to knock them out. The player
hit with the ball is out of play until they touch the teams
own goals. Each team has two beaters.
KEEPER
Defends the goal hoops. Each team has one keeper.
SEEKER
Catches the snitch to end the game. The snitch is worth
30 points and is a ball attached to the waistband of a
neutral player called the snitch runner. Each team has
one seeker.
FAMILY
MATTERS
For Stowers, new family
trumps football
MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN
Kansas football defensive lineman Keon Stowers holds his 11-month-old son, Dallas Anderson Stowers. Stowers proposed to his longtime girlfriend and mother of his son, Carley Baker on Saturday.
Christian Hardy
@Hardy_NFL
eon
Stowers
woke up in his
apartment at Jayhawker Towers
and glanced at
the clock. He hustled out of
bed, grabbed his things and
sprinted to practice as fast
as a 6-foot-2, 224-pound
defensive lineman can.
Stowers has been fighting
against the clock his whole
life. In high school, when
Stowers decided he wanted play football, his grades
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her.
Stowers didnt meet Bakers family from South Carolina until the two had been
dating for a year. Stowers
was a senior and finally had
his act together, but Baker,
who is white, wasnt sure if
her parents would accept
Stowers because he is black.
I knew my dad wasnt going to go for that, she said.
But when Stowers went
away to Georgia Military,
Baker knew she had to tell
her parents something. The
next weekend, when he was
back in Rock Hill, Bakers
dad, Anderson, told Stowers to get into his truck for
a ride.
He went and told him,
Ill kill you if you hurt her,
Baker said.
He did say that, Stowers interrupted, laughing.
With a shotgun in the back
of the truck.
But after seeing Stowers,
Anderson, who died last
year, wanted more information about the kid who was
dating his daughter.
He was trying to find
something bad about him,
but nobody could say anything bad, Baker said.
MOVING FORWARD
Since Stowers didnt have
a home in Rock Hill when
his mom was in prison,
Bakers home became his
own when he was in town.
But his family from his
hometown eight brothers and one stepsister are
still struggling, for the most
part.
Im onto bigger and better things and making a life
with my family now, and
theyre still there, Stowers
said.
Stowers past has influenced his outlook on life.
You can be successful in
what you do and what you
MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN
Former Kansas defensive lineman Keon Stowers gives his son,
Dallas, a kiss on the cheek. Stowers is graduating in May.
MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN
Former Kansas football defensive lineman Keon Stowers poses with his fiancee, Carley Baker,
and their son, Dallas Anderson Stowers. Stowers said if he isnt picked up by a professional
team this year, he would most likely retire from football.
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THREES
COMPANY
Sophomore journalism
student juggles softball,
Senate and a sorority
Amie Just
@Amie_Just
ophia
Templins
multi-colored, floral-patterned planner has seen better days.
The rings of its spine have
started to bend in multiple directions; the corners
are starting to wear. The
gold, glitter stickers that
spell Theta on the bottom
righthand corner are peeling at the edges.
Templins planner goes
everywhere with her. Its
her lifeline. Without it, her
life would fall into complete chaos.
The sophomore journalism student does much
more than take classes
and return home. She is a
member of Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority, is a student
senator and plays Division
I softball for the University,
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in a small town located between Lawrence and Kansas City. There were around
160 students in her graduating class, and Templin
did everything she could
to stay involved. She was
editor of the school newspaper, a class officer, a softball player, in the band and
on the dance team. She was
also in charge of planning
prom.
Ive never settled, Templin said of her long list of
activities. Ive never wanted to be just one thing, because Ive always wanted
to do everything, and Ive
always been able to make
it work.
Conflicts arise all the
time for Templin.
She has sorority chapter
meetings when shes on the
road for softball. Senate
still meets on Wednesdays,
with or without her.
ALI DOVER/KANSAN
Sophia Templin, a sophomore from De Soto, offers some ideas
for a student coalition at a Student Senate meeting.
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