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Anton TrafimovichStaff writer

This past spring Man-hattan was includedin a list of bike-friend-

ly communities accordingto the League of AmericanBicyclists. Beyond the rat-ing, the city is also recog-nized by the biking commu-nity as one where biking canbe a good alternative to dri-ving a car.

The biggest changes inbiking infrastructure havebeen made just recently.The movement was sparkedby city engineer Rob Ott’sdiscovery of an old Manhat-tan Bicycle Master Plan in2008. That same year a bicy-cle advisory committee waswith a group of experts andbike advocates collaborat-ing on behalf of adaptingcity infrastructure to bicy-clists’ needs and promotingbike culture among the res-idents.

“We have the expertise tomake sure that what we planand implement reallywork,” Peter Clark, civildesign engineer, said.“That’s the key to it.”

In 2008 the city startedhosting an annual BikeWeek, among other thingsinstalling more bike racks.‘Share Road’ signs andsigns pointing the Lineartrail were also put up. ThisApril Manhattan becamethe first city in Kansas witha bike boulevard, MoroStreet.

In a certain way all theseachievements were possi-ble because Manhattan waspredisposed to biking.Unlike many cities through-out the state, Manhattandoesn’t have enormoushighways crossing the cityand impeding safe riding ondriveways.

“I’d say Manhattan is oneof the easiest cities to getaround on a bike. Especial-

ly in Kansas,” Clark said.“Partially because of theway the city was designed.(It has a) great pattern streetdesign, flattish area.”

The street design is beingfurther used to facilitatethe biking infrastructure. Ifthe city will approve fund-ing, next year Manhattanwill get a few more bikeboulevards and a bike laneon 11th street from Poyntzto Bluemont.

So far the bicycle com-mittee is focusing on small-er projects, but in the futurehundreds of thousands ofdollars will be needed tobuild crossings over high-ways that will connect thewhole city with bike paths.

“They don’t want tospend money on anythingthat they will consider asextra expenses or specialinterest,” said Joey Light-ner, bicycle coordinatorintern at City Hall. “[But] it’snot a special interest.”

Indeed, biking is far notspecial interest. Accordingto Michael Wesch, K-Stateanthropology professor andBike Advisory Committeemember, 7 out of 10 Ameri-cans enjoy bicycling. Beinga bike advocate, Wesch triesto change the conversationfrom being about makingManhattan bike friendly forbikers and instead makingthe city bike friendly foreverybody.

“We need to create a com-munity where 7 out of 10people can bike and feelcomfortable,” Wesch said.“That has been my thrust.”

From his perspective asan anthropologist, Weschsees automobiles andcheap gasoline as degrad-ing the sense of community.Unlike driving, he believesbiking creates the sense ofconnection.

“When I bike to work Ioften see two or three peo-ple that I know, I’ll often

stop and talk to at least oneof them,” Wesch said. “Youcompare that to a car, youdon’t see anybody, you don’ttalk to anybody. You are justin a case, in this capsule.”

Wesch said he hasalready noticed changesafter Moro Street became abike boulevard. He said thechildren have never playedin front yards. But after thespeed limit on the streetwas decreased to 20 milesper hour, more children goto play in the front yards.

“And that improves com-munity,” Wesch said.“Because if you are in thefront yard, you actually seeother people.”

Businesses in Manhattanare also joining bike move-ment. Varsity Donuts hasbeen recently recognizedas a Bike Friendly Busi-ness. The donut shop is notonly decorated with bikes,but it has also bike rentals, abike pump, tools to fix flattires and even bike deliv-ery. Many of Varsity Donuts’employees are biking towork, as the employers do.Jeremy Corn and DianeMeredith, two of six co-own-ers of the donut shop, oftenbike.

“We loved donuts and lovebikes, let’s somehow com-bine those,” Corn said. “Peo-ple love it!”

One year after the shopopened it has become a meet-ing spot for many cyclists.Corn even hosted Bike Advi-sory Committee meetings inhis donut shop. The K-Statecycling team meets there,too.

Corn finds it crucial tobike more in Manhattan, asthe city is already over-whelmed with cars. From hisown experience it is possibleto get almost everywhere on abike in less time than it takesto get in a car, drive, park andwalk to the store.

“For me it puts me in agood mood,” he said. “I thinkit makes the city a more civi-lized place to live.”

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CC11 PPEEOOPPLLEEBruce Weber talks about his new home.

DD11 LLIIFFEESSTTYYLLEEFreefall with the K-State Parachute Club.

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Staff photos by Tommy TheisQusai Abu Sneineh, a K-State grain science student from Jordan, rides down Mid-Campus Drive on cam-pus on his bicycle. The campus is a popular place for bikers, especially in the summer, when there is lesstraffic.

A man rides his bike on the K-State campus.

Anton TrafimovichContributing Writer

Curbside recyclingstarted in Manhattan fiveyears ago, when MandyScholz, a single mom, pon-dered ways to make a livingfrom home while helpingthe community at the sametime. She did it by estab-lishing Go Green Recy-cling. Today three compa-nies provide curbsiderecycling in town.

Scholz had just movedback to Manhattan at thetime.

“I noticed that my momwas taking all of her ownrecycling to the recyclingcenter and I saw an oppor-tunity for this service,” shesaid.

Two years after Scholz,Justin Dodge, a recent K-State graduate, launchedCarnahan Curbside Recy-cling. He still operates thebusiness by himself.

Dodge, who had justcompleted MBA programin K-State,found theb u s i n e s sidea worthtrying.

“ T h a t ’ ssomethingthat thecommunityn e e d e d , ”Dodge said.

Both GoGreen andC a r n a h a nC u r b s i d eR e c y c l i n gpick up recy-clable mate-rial at curb-side and drop it off atHowies Recycling andTrash Services. The area’sonly recycling , it was start-ed by Howard, Joann andGreg Wilson in 1984. Theybegan with aluminum cansbut expanded their recy-cling cycles to take in foodand beverage glass, plasticjugs bottles, steel cans,paper/magazines, card-board, and newspaper aswell. They also acceptscrap metals includingtransmissions, radiatorsand car batteries.

For a long time, Howiesonly accepted drop offs attheir recycling center, butthey opened their owncurbside recycling servicein 2010. They now have1,500 customers who payfor curbside recycling,although most of theirmaterial still comes fromdrop offs. Up to 2,000 peo-ple drop their recyclablematerial at Howie’s everyweek.

“Right now on Saturdaysometimes 550 peoplecome to this door in themorning,” Howard Wilsonsaid.

Wilson said he buys non-trash metals. Although hedoesn’t pay for paper, card-board, plastic, glass, orcans he still recycles them.Howies operates from 7.30

a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday and 8 a.m.to noon on Saturday.

The curbside providersagree that the Manhattanmarket still hasn’t reachedits full potential.

“I feel that there is roomfor growth in Manhattan,”Scholz said. “The interestseems to go in stages anddoes reflect the economy atthe time.”

Wilson said they alsoaccept clothes that theybale for shipment to China.Another item they arestarting to accept is e-waste.

Although there is a lot ofglass recycling, Howiesdoesn’t pick glass up. Wil-son received a $15,000grant from Riley County torecycle glass that isbrought in; otherwise, hesaid, he cannot make profiton it. The grant also goestoward recycling steel cansand plastic.

“But basically it’salways glass,” Wilson said.

“Glass isl o s i n gmoney bigtime.”

D o d g ep r o v i d e sc u r b s i d eglass recy-cling. Hesaid that isone of ther e a s o n swhy somep e o p l echoose hiscompany.

“ T h e r eare a lot ofindividuals

that want to recycle,”Dodge said “But they don’thave the time; they are busyduring the week.”

Although Dodge stilloperates the entire busi-ness by himself, he finds itbeneficial to stay in it.

“It’s definitely some-thing that you get a lot ofsatisfaction because youknow you are helping thecommunity,” he said. “Iknow I’m doing somethingright.”

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With 23.8 percent ofpotential recycling beingdone on campus, K-State wasranked 173rd of 605 schoolsparticipating in a recentnational college recyclingcompetition.

Although the result couldbe considered good, BillSpiegel, custodial supervi-sor and general operator ofthe Recycling Center, looksforward to increased recy-cling on campus.

“There is always room forimprovement,” Spiegel said.

The Recycling Center isright behind Weber Hall onClaflin Road. Seven full timeworkers operate the center,which accepts newspapers,different types of paper,cardboard, aluminum, plas-tic bottles, and wooden pal-lets. Recycled material ispicked up from all depart-ments and bins around cam-pus. Also there are eight binsfor recycling outside the

center where anyone candrop off material.

The recycling centerdoesn’t bring in money, but itsaves money by divertingtrash from the landfill. Itcosts the university $45 totake one ton of trash to thelandfill.

Although recycling isboth economically reward-ing and ecologically clean,all of the recycling done oncampus is voluntary. K-Statehas no mandatory recycling.Moreover, it is the onlyschool in the Big 12 confer-ence that doesn’t have a feefor recycling.

Nevertheless Spiegel isoptimistic about improve-ments in recycling. He saidin the fall 2013 students liv-ing in dorms might start pay-ing for recycling services.Ashley Bailey, a senior inmass communication, did astudy this past semesteramong students living in thedorm. She found that thosestudents wouldn’t mind pay-ing to fund recycling on cam-

pus.“We will recycle more,”

Spiegel said. “Right now it’sall on a volunteer basis,which we do a great job.”

There is a long way to gobefore recycling becomesuniversally accepted oncampus. Warren Berg,manager of custodial ser-vices and director of recy-cling services, said lack ofawareness about recyclingis the main barrier.

“The biggest thing isgoing to be the education.”Berg said. “We need to edu-cate people better whatcan be recycled.”

To spread the messageSpiegel attends differentfraternity and sorority meet-ings telling them how theycan bring their recyclablesto the center.

“It has to be a group effortby everybody,” Berg said.“The students are what thepresident needs to hear voic-es come from. They are goingto make a big difference.”

Spiegel is also asking stu-

dents to collaborate with therecycling center. Installingmore recycling containersaround campus costs a lot.The average price of a recy-cling container that holdsfour products is roughly$1,200. To reduce expenseson the bins Spiegel is work-ing with landscape architectstudents who are going todesign recycling containers.At the same time interiorarchitecture students aregoing to design bins that aresupposed to be put inside thebuildings.

“I think if you get the stu-dents more involved indesigning, word of mouth ondifferent projects willspread throughout campus,”Spiegel said.

The Recycling Centerhas always had strong sup-port from the faculty, as ithas today. Many depart-ments ask for extra bins forrecycling. Even PresidentKirk Shultz is helping. “Herecycles at his house,” Bergsaid.

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The first mosque in Man-hattan was built in 1982. Butthe growing Muslim popula-tion — driven by increases inthe number of internationalstudents — forced construc-tion of the Islamic center ofManhattan in 1993. The cen-ter now unites around 200Muslims here.

Unlike in the 1980s, theIslamic center is not just aplace for prayer. MustaqueHossain, a faculty memberin civil engineering, came toManhattan in 1991. Original-ly from Bangladesh, heattended an mosque in a reg-ular house purchased from afaculty member. That placedidn’t have designatedspace for females to pray,something that is consid-ered standard in mosques.Now there is a large prayerhall, a designated area forfemale prayers, meetingspaces downstairs, andclassrooms for the children.

“It is an all-encompassingfacility on par with prayerfacilities of other denomina-tions in town,” Hossain said.“It is the heart of the Muslimcommunity in Manhattanand the surrounding area.”

Adnan Alkhiary, a doctor-al student in family studiesand Islamic Center of Man-hattan president, said mostof the efforts of the centerare devoted to religious edu-cation. The center hostsmeetings and discussions onreligious topics, and main-tains a library and an ongo-ing Girls club.

The Muslim StudentsAssociation, a K-State club,co-participates in variousactivities organized by thecenter. AbdulrahmanAlkhiary, a sophomore inpolitical science, MSA chairmember and AdnanAlkhiary’s son, said bothorganizations are based onthe same people.

“There is not any periodbetween them,” he said.

Although all of the cen-ter’s members profess thesame religion, they comefrom different Muslim coun-tries and cultures. There aremore than three dozen coun-tries represented in the cen-ter.

Sulaiman Alrweih, afreshman in architecturalengineering, said he foundthe Islamic Center very dif-ferent from the mosques heused to visit in his homecountry of Kuwait. He appre-ciates that he can see thevariety of Muslim cultures inone place.

“I can talk to other Mus-lims from other countries,learn about their culture,”Alrweih said.

Prior to coming to Man-hattan, Alkhiary’s familyspent several years inColumbia, Mo., where themajority of Muslims werelocal residents. In Manhat-tan, almost all the Muslims

are affiliated with KSU. Outof 200 members of the centercommunity, only four arelocal residents.

“Our weakness is that thecommunity is not constant,”Adnan Alkhiary said. “Wedon’t have as much commit-ment.”

There are a number of fac-ulty members at the center,but students dominate. Thatresults in an ever-changingstaff and activities.

The Islamic Center hostsbreakfasts during Ramadan,the holy month, when Mus-lims are prohibited from eat-ing during daylight hours.

“Many non-married peo-ple come because usuallythey don’t know how tocook,” AbdulrakhmanAlkhiary said.

The Islamic Center alsohelps to adapt and settle newMuslim students coming toManhattan. They can rely onassistance with findinghousing, buying a car or justgetting acquainted with thecity. Sometimes the centermembers even go to the air-port to pick up a student whojust arrived.

Also the center hostsmany gatherings and activi-ties designed to unite thecommunity. From time totime local Muslims gather inthe center’s backyard tohave a picnic, barbeque orplay games.

One of the center’s goals isto educate locals aboutIslamic culture. Everyone isencouraged to attend week-ly meeting with speakers inthe center.

“Our door is open,”Adnan Alkhiary said.

To reach more people,MSA holds lectures on Islamin the Leadership Studiesbuilding each semester.Adbulrahman Alkhiaryspeaks there at the CultureContext class. He has done itnine times during the pastyear.

The Islamic Center is try-ing to cooperate with differ-ent local services for thebenefit of both parties. TheRed Cross staff came overthe center to learn moreabout Middle Eastern andMuslim culture and to teachMuslim community how toact during tornado and otherdisasters. The center for itspart offered to consider vol-unteers from the number ofMuslim community in case ofany disaster.

“We are trying to work outrelations,” AdbulrakhmanAlkniary said.

In the future they aregoing to host meeting of thiskind with the police and firedepartment. AdbulrakhmanAlkniary said, they are try-ing to show all the peoplethere is no any distinctbetween Muslim communi-ty.

“It would be win-win forus, for community, for every-one,” Abulrahman Alkhiarysaid. “We got to take thatstep.”


The international com-munity is growing rapidlyat K-State. Around 10 per-cent of the students areforeigners.

Emilie Guidez, gradu-ate student in chemistry,is among them. Guidez isoriginally from the townof Annemasse, France.After living in Kansas forfour years, she said shelikes everything in theUnited States and nowdoesn’t want to go back toFrance.

Guidez gained herbachelor in chemistry inthe University of Geneva,Switzerland. Her town islocated right on the bor-der with Switzerlandwhat enables her to go tothe university by busevery day. Even thoughthe town is a part of theGeneva metropolitanarea, the bus ride willusually take around twohours with numerousstops and busy traffic.

Unlike many peoplewho are looking forwardto settling in bigger cities,Guidez finds the smalltown lifestyle moreattractive. This is why sheis so excited to study inManhattan.

“It’s not a big city, it’snot too crowded, not toostressful,” Guidez said.“But it’s big enough to

hang out. It’s just the rightsize.”

Living in a small townto her mind has moreadvantages. It is neverloud, the air remainsclean and fresh. Alsonothing tempts her fromwork in a town like Man-hattan.

“Parties and gettingdrunk all night, I don’tcare about that,” Guidezsaid. “I care about people,making friends. And hereI made very good friends.”

The only barrierGuidez had to overcomein the United States hasbeen the food. In 2008when she was on anexchange trip at K-StateSalina and was on themeal plan she had prob-lems with local food thatshe didn’t like at all. Now,when she lives off cam-pus, she cooks herself.Sometime she cannot findsome ingredients and hasto adapt traditionalrecipes from her motherand grandmother sheuses.

What Guidez likes a lotis the American system ofeducation. The universityshe used to go in Geneva isincomparable with K-State, she said. Unlike inthe U.S., students in Gene-va don’t enroll in classesthey would like to take.Once they are acceptedinto their program, theyget a schedule for the

entire course already setup by the faculty. And nostudent can either add ordrop a class.

Back in Geneva, uni-versity policy was strict.The grade was never com-prehensive and wasbased on the final examresult only.

In case the studentfailed, he or she had sev-eral chances to retake theexam. Repeated failuresled to dismissals. InGuidez’ class, for exam-ple, 50 students began,but in three years only 15were left. The rest didn’tpass some of the examsand were kicked out.

“It’s never theteacher’s fault if you fail.It’s always your fault,”Guidez said. “You cannotcomplain to your teacherif you fail.”

A large part of her timeat K-State is devoted tonon-class activities, par-ticipating in differentclubs, volunteering. InGeneva students are sobusy with their classesthat they cannot find anytime to do anything out ofthe classroom. Every dayGuidez awoke at 6 in themorning and came backhome only by 10 at night.

“It’s just physicallyimpossible,” Guidez said.

Although the societalvalues are the same ingeneral, some of them aretotally different. For

instance the French bringup kids differently. Here,in the U.S. if you hit yourkid he can call child ser-vices. But in France par-ents can threaten theirkid and no one wouldthink of calling child ser-vices.

Another differencebetween the two societiesis the attitude withrespect to the church.While older people stillremain religious inFrance, it is not as com-mon for young people togo church anymore.

There are other thingsGuidez would rather bor-row from American soci-ety. One is the absence of adress code for students.Here, in the United Statesshe can wear whatevershe wants, but back at theUniversity of Geneva shehad to dress up every day.

“It’s a social suicide ifyou come to school inpajamas in France,”Guidez said. “People willthrow tomatoes at me.Here it’s ok.”

Guidez likes travellingand had already visitedseveral countries. By farshe considers the U.S. asthe best place for living.Even France, where shewas raised, doesn’t seemto be as comfortable asAmerica.

“I feel more comfort-able here than there,” shesaid.


After working in theoffice of InternationalPrograms at K-State for 12years, anthropology pro-fessor Barry Michie head-ed a project to create aSouth Asian Studies pro-gram.

Barry Michie startedhis international experi-ence in 1963, when hewent to Greece for hisjunior year at Lewis &Clark College in Portland,Ore. International pro-grams were already com-mon for American univer-sities at that time.

“The idea was to givestudents some interna-tional exposure, interna-tional experience,” Barrysaid.

While Barry Michiewas studying in Oregon,Aruna Nayyar was study-ing at Smith College inMassachusetts. WhenPresident Kennedy initi-ated the Peace Corps, anAmerican volunteer pro-gram, in 1961, both Barryand Aruna becameinvolved. Barry joinedafter graduating fromLewis and Clark and wentto India in January 1966.He was posted in the town

of Malpura in Rajastanstate. Aruna Nayyarreturned from the U.S.and was hired by thePeace Corps in India. Thetwo met and were marriedin 1968.

While Aruna was usedto an international envi-ronment, Barry said liv-ing abroad changed hisattitude toward manythings. Experiencinganother culture gave hima a way of looking at thingsthat he wouldn’t neces-sarily have had if he hadstayed within his own cul-ture.

“Basically you findyourself in a new reality,”Barry said. “It makes youstop and question all sortsof assumption that youdidn’t even know that youhad.”

Since he married anIndian, learned Hindiand visited many coun-tries in the region, SouthAsia has become a secondhome for Barry. Barryapplied for a grant fromthe Department of Educa-tion to involve profession-al programs at K-State,and he and his wife haveworked in that area since1976. He said the point ofthe program is to allowstudents to get exposure

to the region through tak-ing courses related toSouth Asia, working,researching or takinginternship in the region.

Barry Michie believesthe region is worth study-ing closely because Indiais a major competitor anda major partner of the U.S.

“There are Indian com-panies coming here andinvesting here inKansas,” he said.

According to Michie,the South Asia programreaches out to differentmajors. There are coursesin Hindi, history, anthro-pology, social sciencesand humanities, agricul-ture, engineering andbusiness that containSouth Asian perspective.Some of them, like Hindi,have $500 scholarships.

Agriculture and foodprocessing in India

As a part of the SouthAsian studies Sajid Alavi,associate professor ofgrain science and indus-try, designed a studyabroad class titled “Agri-culture and Food Pro-cessing in North India”.During a two-week sum-mer trip in 2010, 10 stu-dents in grain science,

food science and agricul-tural economics, andthree instructors visitedfarms and other agricul-tural and food processingfacilities in northernIndia.

Alavi said it’s vital forstudents who go to work inindustry to be globallyaware, and such trips arevaluable for gaininginternational experi-ence.

“If they go out andexperience those placesfirst hand, it makes thembetter employees whenthey work for any multina-tional company,” he said.

This project is just onepart of the South Asiancontent in Alavi’s classes.He teaches a food pro-cessing class every yearand includes variousinternational examples.

Also, in a couple ofyears a new course onagriculture and food pro-cessing in the developingcountries with substan-tial South Asian contentshould be started.

“In order to under-stand and interact effec-tively, college is the timeto really get your foot inthe door and get someunderstanding about it,”he said.

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For those students whostill haven’t decided ontheir major or don’t knowhow to bridge their majorto a career, the Academicand Career InformationCenter provides free con-sultations. Although tar-geted primarily at fresh-men and sophomores, thecenter serves students ofall years and majors.

“It could be a K-Statestudent, or it could be astudent who is not yet a K-State student,” saidMichelle Haupt, Academ-ic and Career Informa-tion Center coordinator.

Most of the center visi-tors are open optionmajor students, thosewho still haven’t made afinal decision on theirmajor. However, otherstudents who are uncer-tain in their major andthinking of changing italso visit the center.Those who are satisfiedwith their major but can-not find an appropriateapplication to it in thereal world can also makeuse of it.

Haupt said that thecenter is very much indemand among students,especially in the fall.

“The fall semester isterribly busy,” Hauptsaid. “We always havedoors open.”

In the spring, summerand fall 2011, ACIC served1,400 students in a varietyof ways, among them:

*Career assessmentquestionnaire. This is aquestionnaire aboutstudents’ interests, abil-ities and values. Afterstudents answer the sur-vey questions, ACICstaff ties all of the infor-mation together and sug-gests a place to startexploring.

“We help studentsunderstand a little bitmore about them-selves,” Haupt said.

To come up with advice

on fields of possible inter-est, ACIC uses a careerdatabase, web resourcesand the ACIC library.Haupt said the question-naire helps studentsdecide about their nextstep either in determin-ing a major or choosing acareer.

*Career planningclass. Another helpfultool is the Career Plan-ning class. This is a onecredit hour, eight-weeklong course that coverstopics such as choosing amajor, exploring careersand defining values. Dur-ing the course a studentwill take three careerassessments andresearch majors andcareers. By the end of thecourse, a student will alsoprepare an initial resumeand cover letter, and gothrough a mock interview.

Haupt said both heroffice and CareerEmployment Services arerelated to careers, butthey cover differentaspects.

“We are step numberone. As a student wants tounderstand and deter-mine what the path wouldbe, we are the office theycan come to,” Haupt said.

According to Hauptaround 130 studentsenroll in the Career Plan-ning class each year. Morethan 90 percent of the stu-dents agree or stronglyagree that they are betterprepared for makingdecisions on their majorand career after takingthe course.

Up to 800 students visitthe annual Majors Fairhosted by ACIC. On thatday, usually in the fall, allcampus departments gettogether in the StudentUnion to answer stu-dents’ questions con-cerning their programs.This year the event isgoing to be on October31.

“It’s really an oppor-tunity for students tolearn more,” Haupt said.


There are a number of ser-vices at K-State designed tohelp students catch up orexcel in their academics,find appropriate resourcesfor a class, or land a job. Hereis a digest on major helpingservices available to K-Staters.

Career and EmploymentServices

The title of this organiza-tion gives the idea of its pur-pose. CES prepares studentsfor the career in real world.The range of serviceincludes resume critiquesand organization of profes-sional fairs. Leah Adeniji,Career Development coordi-nator, said all of the CES ser-vices are connected. Sheadvises students to come toCES as early as in the firstyear of the college.

“You start to build these[professional] skills as afreshman,” Adeniji said.

Adeniji suggested the fol-lowing consequence of suc-cessful finding a job by theend of the school: resume cri-tique, meeting a career advi-sor, attending workshops,attending career fairs, andnetworking with employers.

Adeniji stresses that col-lege students have time andopportunities to improvetheir professional skills andmake themselves more mar-ketable. “When you gradu-ate, you are not going to havepeople knocking on yourdoor,” Adeniji said.

Meeting an advisor. CEShas a dozen specialized advi-sors assisting students. Any-one can make a 30-minuteappointment or walk-in andspend up to 15 minutes withan advisor every Wednesday.An appointment can bearranged to discuss any topic.It could be resume critique,internship or job opportuni-ties, or getting prepared foran interview.

The art of the interview.CES provides mock inter-viewing sessions to get stu-dents prepared for questionsboth general; and directly

related to their major. “Lotsof people have trouble withthat,” Adeniji said.

Career fairs. One of themost important tasks of CES ishosting a career fair. Each falland spring several generaland specific fairs are hostedat the K-State Student Union.Employers from neighborstates recruit K-State stu-dents either as interns or forfull-time jobs. The nextcareer fair will be on August31. In addition CES organizespart-time job fairs at thebeginning of the school year.

Tips to find a job. K-Statestudents have access to a CESaccount, were employerspost their openings. Adenijialso recommended that stu-dents upload their resumesas sometimes employerssearch for available studentsthemselves.

When going to an inter-view or a career fair, thosewho don’t have a professionalsuit can borrow up to fiveitems in CES office.

The best time to startsearching for an internshipor a job is one semester inadvance. For instance those,seeking for internship in thesummer should attend acareer fair in September,while students searching fora job in the fall are better off

starting in the middle ofspring.

“Resume, interviewing,networking opportunitiesand skills. The top three waysthat employers recruit col-lege students are throughcareer fair, internship andnetworking,” Adeniji said.

Academic AssistanceCenter

The Academic AssistanceCenter is an umbrella estab-lishment that organizescourses to help students suc-ceed in their academics.

“We want them to knowwhat’s out there, how we canhelp them, down the road,”Judith Lynch, director of Aca-demic Assistance Center,said.

University Experiencecourse. This is for freshmenonly. New students get adetailed orientation to theuniversity, learning about thevariety of resources avail-able on campus and otherhelping organizations theycan use. The center invitesrepresentatives of differentcampus organizations tospeak on study skills, campusresources and services, acad-emic planning and advising,career exploration, universi-ty policies and procedures.

“It specifically designed

to help them figure out how tobe a good student,” Lynchsaid.

Up to 450 freshmen enrollin the University Experienceevery fall. The course can betwo or three credit hours,depending on whether stu-dents take an optional guidedstudy session. During thesesessions, which are held insmaller groups, freshmentalk about their current class-es, and study together for theexams.

PILOTS Program. Thisprogram has a similar goal tothe University Experiencecourse, which is to help stu-dents to make transition fromhigh school and adjust to col-lege life. However, PILOTS ismore than just one course.Those enrolled in the pro-gram get their regular classesnarrowed. Instead of severalhundred people on the lec-ture on psychology, for exam-ple, PILOTS fellows will getthe same lecture with thesame instructor but the num-ber of students at the lecturewill drop to 50. Classes aresmaller in order to let stu-dents digest all the materials.

“We just make it a littlesmaller a little more person-al. And we monitor themclosely, so we know if theyhave trouble,” Lynch said.

Services at K-State Career center putsstudents on right path

Staff photo by Tommy TheisAllie Straub and Sadie Daniel, both students and employees at career and employment services,file info on the many feilds in which K-State offers education.

Jeremy BohnContributing Writer

Manhattan brings manybenefits to students livingaway from their homes forthe first time. The city has asmall town feel, but alsohas a strong college townatmosphere.

It offers many things thatappeal to young people,from new shops and restau-rants, to the nightlife inAggieville, to a close-knitcampus, where everythingis in walking distance.Manhattan seems to havewhat a lot of kids in collegeare looking for in their col-lege experience.

However, there arethose who may not want thelarge college experience,who may just want to be at aschool with 700 people,rather than that of 24,000.There are also those whohave had the undergradu-ate college experience, butnow it’s time to buckledown and finish that mas-ters.

Kansas State offersthose options to studentswith its K-State Salina andK-State Olathe campuses.

In April 2011, KansasState opened its doors to anew campus outside of theManhattan city limits. Itwas Kansas State Universi-ty in Olathe, joining K-State Salina as a remotebranch of the university.

K-State Olathe givesKansas State a footprint inan area that from whichstudents had been recruit-ed for a long time, andwhich has grown to behome to many students.

“The greater KansasCity metro area is by farthe largest populationcenter for quite a waysaround,” said KansasState President, KirkSchulz, “it gives us a per-manent physical pres-ence right there in thatKansas City metro area,and in Johnson County,where we get more stu-dents than we get fromany other place inKansas.”

Another reason foropening the branch in theKansas City metro is that

many corporations havebased their companyhomes in Kansas City. Withthe new campus, which willfocus a lot on postgraduatestudies, those studentshave access to companiesthey hope to work for.

“(K-State Olathe) isgoing to bring a researchobjective, as a majorresearch institution, morefully to the corporationsand companies that arelocated in that Kansas Cityarea,” said Schulz.

K-State Olathe CEO DanRichardson said the cam-pus really wanted to put anemphasis on the studies ofanimal health and foodsafety, which are bothaccounted for well with thecorporations in KansasCity.

“Our first building is theInternational Animal

Health and Food SafetyInstitute, so we’re focusedon interactions with theindustries in animalhealth and in food. Theseare core strengths of K-State, that we’re trying totake advantage of thestrong industry presencein Johnson County and theKansas City region,”Richardson said.

K-State Olathe special-izes its studies in educa-tion of animal health andfood safety as well. As partof the agreement withJohnson County, K-StateOlathe offers a K-12 pro-gram, which allows stu-dent’s career opportuni-ties to work with the John-son County schooldistricts.

“We will reach out andwork with the schools dis-tricts in the community to

help the kids get exposureto career opportunities,”said Richardson.

This program does notonly reach out to the Olatheschools, but to all theschools in Johnson County.

“We have strong pro-grams with all of the John-son County school dis-tricts, not just Olathe andhave reached out beyondthat across the state andeven across the border inMissouri,” Richardsonsaid, “to expose kids tocareer opportunities inanimal health, food sys-tems and food safety.”

K-State also offers a typeof schooling where you getyour K-State education,but with smaller classesand more emphasis on theindividual student. Thatoccurs at K-State Salina.

“K-State Salina repre-sents a great opportunityfor that student who wantsa much smaller, intimatecampus environment, thatwill feel a little bit lost in a20,000 student kind of cam-pus, that wants more inti-mate involvement wherethere’s 800 students at apublic university price,”Schulz

This would be similar tostudents who go to small,liberal-arts colleges likeBaker or Mid AmericaNazarene University.

K-State Salina special-izes in the fields of avia-tion, engineering andsocial work. It’s Schulz’sgoal to make Salina an all-around college campus,which will offer students agood second option to thatof K-State in Manhattan.

“I want that to be a com-prehensive campus thatreally just gives anotheroption for people who wantthe K-State degree, the K-State brand, but want a lit-tle something differentthan what they’re going toget out of Manhattan,”Schulz said.


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In February of 2010,Kansas State Universitylaunched a new, long-terminitiative to become a top50 public research univer-sity by the year 2025.

The plan was named2025, and has been Presi-dent Kirk Schulz’s biggestgoal since coming to Man-hattan in 2009.

“2025 is our strategic,visionary plan that seeksto move Kansas State Uni-versity to be recognized asone of the top 50 publicresearch universities inthe country,” Schulzexplained. “We want toraise the national visibili-ty of K-State.”

Raising the university'snational image will addvalue to K-State’s degreeprograms, help attractgreat faculty, retain greatfaculty and bring morecompanies to campus tovisit with students aboutjobs, Schulz said.

It’s also Schulz’s hopethat 2025 will raise nation-al recognition of K-Stategraduates in the workforce, adding value to a K-State student’s degree.

“What it does is addvalue to degrees, whetherit’s a Ph.D., a master's orbachelor’s degree,” hesaid. “It makes the oppor-tunities for our graduatesso much more rich thanwhat they might currentlyhave.”

It was important toSchulz that he get a broadrange of people aroundthe university to haveinput into the plan to makeit work. He said that theuniversity’s faculty andstaff have to be part of theprocess to make the plan asuccess.

“You start getting cre-ative energies of our 1,500faculty and staff thinking,‘How can I raise the profile

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With all the responsibil-ities students face enteringcollege, financial ones areamong the most challeng-ing. After being supportedby parents, students com-ing to college for the firsttime make their own finan-cial decisions. Those deci-sions begin with buyingfood and include seeing totheir credit card accounts.

To deal with all sorts offinancial issues, the Pow-ercat Financial Counsel-ing program was started in2009. This is a place whereany student can get freeassistance on any financialconcern.

Jodi Kaus, PowercatFinancial Counselingdirector, said the programis aimed to be a financialplanner that helps stu-dents learn how to buildgood credit habits and whyit is important to have agood credit score. It alsohelps them understandtheir loan terms and out-comes they will face aftergraduation.

About one-third ofincoming students areseeking informationregarding loans. Anotherthird wants to learn betterpersonal budgeting and

creating spending plans.Understanding and man-aging their credits is thethird most common ques-tion financial counselorsare being asked.

Ronika Ledesma, seniorin accounting, said credit isa vital issue. Before start-ing the program, she hadeight credit cards andnever realized why hercredit score was low.

“There is good creditand bad credit,” Ledesmasaid. “We help them to seevisually how you can boostyour credit by the time you

get out of college.” Roxane Martens, gradu-

ate student in personalfinancial planning, saidthey try to explain thatgood credit is important,naming the credit score asthe financial GPA and thecredit report as the tran-script.

“Life is not just aboutschool, but it goes withthem for their career,”Martens said.

Both Ledesma andMartens are peer coun-selors. Kaus said peer-to-peer modeling is more effi-

cient than regular assis-tance provided by staff. Itwas the first peer financeeducational program inKansas, and was recog-nized by receipts of theVISA award in 2009.

“That’s more effective,”Kaus said. “More than me,out of generation, preach-ing to them like anotherparent.”

According to Kaus, theprogram gains popularityevery year. On the onehand, education is gettingmore expensive; on theother, the economy still


hasn’t recovered and morefamilies are trying to comeup with a better plan formanaging their finances.

Graduate and seniorstudents seek assistancemore often than students intheir junior years. Somecome with spouses and getco-counseling. Kaus, how-ever, wants to see morefreshmen coming to theoffice. Instead of studentstaking loans and then wait-ing to make a plan andrepay, financial coun-selors want them to comebefore they even accept theloan and do a budget.

“We are trying to createa culture change,” Kaussaid.

Another habit, studentsshould get is being cau-tious in their spendinghabits. Kaus said sincetheir budget is limited,they need to have a plan forhow they are going to makeit work throughout thesemester. It is essential notto overspend on unneces-sary things.

The Powercat FinancialCounseling web site con-tains several simple tipsand tools on how to create aspending plan. It allowsstudents to compare theirestimates and actualrecords. Very often theyunderestimate their actual

expenditures. Improve-ment requires behavioralchange.

“You need to modifysomething that you aredoing in a way you handleyour money to stay ontrack,” Kaus said.

Martens said that afterfinding unnecessaryexpenditures, studentscan cut those to put towardthe bill or saving or the goalthat they are trying toreach.

“Maybe they think theyare only spending $50 onfood but they are actuallyspending $200,” Martenssaid. “Maybe going fromthere realistically they arenot going spend $50 butmaybe they carry this to$120.”

Besides traditionalfinance questions, finan-cial counselors deal withsuch issues as revising joboffers and providing infor-mation on benefits, healthinsurance and disabilityinsurance coverage. Alsostudents can find advice ondealing with rent issues ifthey face some troubleswith their landlord.

“We do anything,”Ledesma said “Any ques-tion doesn’t have to befinancial. But if we can’tanswer we help studentsget to that.”

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As the cost of educationincreases, KSU’s Office ofStudent Financial Assis-tance has developed anarray of financial aids thatstudents can utilize toreduce the burden on theirfamily budget.

“Every single student canqualify for some type offinancial assistance,” LarryMoeder, director of studentfinancial assistance, said.

Moeder named threemain sources of financialaid. Those are loans, schol-arships and grants. K-Statestudents get more than $200million a year through thesesources. That’s up from $102million in 2000 and $45 mil-lion in 1990.

According to Moedermost K-Staters use federalstudent loans. Althoughthere are a lot of private edu-cational loans, the federalloan has a fixed interest rateof 6.8 percent, and is covered

by the government. The stu-dent doesn’t have to beginmaking repayments untilafter graduation.

There are two types of fed-eral loans. The first is subsi-dized, and is for studentswho are able to demonstrateneed. The government paysinterest on the loan whilethe student is in school. Thatinterest accrues at 3 percentafter the student graduates.

Any student can receivean unsubsidized loan nomatter what the familyincome might be. That loanaccrues interest immediate-ly at the time of disburse-ment at 6.8 percent.

The amount of a student’sloan depends on such fac-tors as need and the stu-dent’s year of college. Fresh-men can receive a maximum$5 500 in federal loans peryear; those amountsincrease to $7,500 for seniorsand more for graduate stu-dents.

If the family needs morethan the FSL can provide,

the student can apply forwhat is known as a PLUSloan (Parent’s loan forUndergraduate Students).This loan has a higherinterest rate of 7.9 percent,but it enables parents toborrow the total price ofgoing to college for the yearexcepting the student’sother financial aids, suchas scholarships and grants.

Up to 30 percent of K-State students receivescholarships. Last year K-State students received $16million in scholarshipmoney.

“There are scholarshipsthat vary from a couple ofthousand dollars for theacademic year up to$20,000,” Moeder said.

Besides strictly acade-mic scholarships, perfor-mance scholarships arealso available. Thosescholarships are based onstudents’ abilities in areassuch as music, speech, the-ater or athletics.

There is no limit to howmuch a student can receivein scholarships, Moedersaid. The only restriction isif a student also receivesfederal financial assis-tance that doesn’t allow astudent to receive morethan it costs to go to school.

“In other words the stu-dent can’t make moneyfrom scholarships and(financial aid),” Moedersaid.

Moeder said most K-State colleges use a unifiedapplication form to applyfor a scholarship. Studentsdo not decide what kind ofscholarship they would

like to apply for. Based ontheir ACT or SAT scores,grades, and/or high schoolclass rank, the amount ofscholarship is determinedby the Office of StudentFinancial Assistance.

For incoming freshmen,the application deadline isNovember 1 of their senioryear at high school. For stu-dents already attending K-State, the applicationdeadline for the next acad-emic year is due to Febru-ary 1.

Students may alsoreceive a grant from thefederal government orfrom the State of Kansas.

Grants are need based, butthey do not have to berepaid. Applicants arerequired to submit anapplication listing familyincome and other informa-tion. About 25 percent ofKSU students qualify forfederal grants that don’thave to be paid back.

Moeder said often stu-dents don’t apply becausethey think they are notgoing to qualify.

“My advice to a studentis to go through the finan-cial aid application at leastone time just to find outwhere they stand and qual-ify for aid,” Moeder said

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When it’s time to hit thebooks and study in soli-tude, students often gravi-tate to the numerous coffeeshops or the public work-space at the new Flint HillsDiscovery Center.

But K-State studentswho want to stay on campusto study also have anoption: Hale Library.

The 550,000 square footbuilding is open 24 hours,five days a week during theschool year. Hours usuallyrun from 1 p.m. Sunday to 8p.m. Friday night. And it isopen during the day on Sat-urday.

With five floors of studyspace, Hale Library hasalmost everything any stu-dent could need for study-ing or even working on biggroup assignments.Library officials say HaleLibrary has the space andservices to help any stu-dent. It also offers areas forstudents and faculty torelax. The café and a bagelshop at the library, Ein-stein Brothers Bagels, is ina central location for peo-ple to drop by and get asnack.

In addition, Hale alsohas three branch librariesthat serve the Colleges ofEngineering, VeterinaryMedicine and Architec-ture, Planning and Design.

“Hale has become stu-dent central on campus,”said Lori Goetsch, dean ofK-State Libraries. “We areheavily used by studentswho come here, obviouslyto study and work onassignments…also I thinkit performs a social gather-ing, function. We are tryingto make it accommodateboth people who have quiet

and individual studyneeds, as well as groupstudies.”

Along with the studyspace, students have accessto a lot of technology insideHale. The library has morethan 240 public computerswith Internet access and thatare hooked up to a printer.Hale also offers laptop andcamera checkout withoutcharge to students. Thelibrary even has a soundbooth for digital recordingsin the Media DevelopmentCenter, where students alsocan do video editing and pro-duction.

“There’s just a wealth oftechnology available herein the library for studentsto have access to,” saidRoberta Johnson, seniordirector of administrationand IT Services of K-StateLibraries.

The librarians of Halearen’t just there to checkout books or watch stu-dents study. They are readyto assist with any studyneed of any student.

This includes thelibrary's online presence,

www.lib.k-state.edu. Thelibrary has a huge onlinedatabase that is helpfulwhen researching for a pro-ject or paper. These databas-es are Google-type searchengines that scan the Web tofind the best resources forwhatever it is a student islooking for. These databasescan be accessed on or offcampus.

The librarians also havemany freshman classes,such as Expository Writingand Speech, come in for aday and learn about how touse the online databases.

“(The databases) get useda lot,” said Marcia Stock-ham, assistant dean of con-tent management at K-StateLibraries. “When I wasdoing instruction (about thedatabase), it seemed thatstudents were eager to learn,they were happy to knowabout it, because they didn’tknow how to go about findingthings (online). I’d say oncethey know about their exis-tence, students use themaffectively for what theyneed. But there’s alwaysmore help they can get from a

librarian.”The library even has an

online feature called “Ask aLibrarian,” which is aninstant message chat thatany student can access onthe library’s website.

Many students use thistool when they are confusedabout how to use the onlinedatabase, when looking for abook in the library, or forresearch-related questions.Students can event text oremail their questions.

Library officials said oneof the things that sets HaleLibrary apart from otherstudy areas around Manhat-tan is the library staff, whosemembers are dedicated tohelping students becausethey know how hard findingstudy or research materialcan be.

“This building is just fullof people who want tohelp…there are people herewho can help with the papersand research, and to helptake work the next level up,”said Johnson. “The dedica-tion to the students, I’mimpressed with it everyday.”



There’s no secret aboutit. Textbooks are expen-sive. But they are also nec-essary for a student’s suc-cess.

Many students havebecome fed up with howexpensive textbooks are atarea bookstores and havemoved to online options.

However, with thatcomes risks. Varney’sBookstore in Aggievillecan guarantee that the text-book a student will pur-chase is the exact versionthat the teacher has posted.Nowhere else can claimthis, at least for KansasState University.

Varney’s general man-ager Steve Levin says thatwhen comparing books,there may be several rea-sons why it appears thatonline is cheaper. Levinsaid it can be hard to tellwhether the version onlineis the one the student

needs.When it comes to the end

of the semester, selling thebook back may also hit asnag. Varney’s won't buyback some books pur-chased online.

“There are internation-al and desk additions,which are free copies thatpublishers give to profes-sors to look at the book andmake a decision aboutwhich book to use,” he said.“It’s illegal for us to buythem back. A lot of timeswe’ll have the real book for$100 and (an online store)will be selling the interna-tional addition for $70, but(Varney’s) can’t buy (inter-national addition) back.

Although there aremany channels out therefor students to find theirtextbooks, whether itwould be an online pur-chase on Amazon.com ordownloading a textbook toan iPad, Varney’s wantsstudents to shop aroundand get the best possible

deal. But the bookstorealso wants students to pur-chase wisely and to makesure if there is a websitethat the professor requiresstudents to use along withthe textbook, that the codeto access the informationcannot be previously used.

“We want people to shoparound, but we want themto be smart when they’reshopping around,” JaymeCarpenter, Varney’s text-book manager, said. “Wetry to give (students) theinformation that we getfrom the professors and wedon’t want you to getburned when you're outthere. We make it clear thatthere’s a code that’srequired…so if they’reshopping elsewhere, theyneed to make sure they’rechecking on that stuff.”

Varney’s considersitself an ally to the studentsand the university when itcomes to textbooks.

“We’ve always thoughtthat (Varney’s) is a part of

the academic mission ofthe university, which is toenhance the students abili-ty to learn,” said Levin.Course materials are a partof that. “We want to makesure students get the bestand most value from thecourse material and knowthey’re going to get theright materials they needfor their courses at a goodprice,” he said.

That’s why when a stu-dent is looking at Varney’swebsite for textbooks thisfall, they will have almostevery option of the righttextbook presented tothem from online websites,such as Amazon, along withthe Varney’s price. Stu-dents can then compareprice, click the option theywish to purchase and buy it– all through Varney’s web-site.

“We are working hard tolet students know whattheir options are,” Levinsaid. “This fall, studentswill be able to go on our

website and all their bookswill come up and will showour prices: new, used,rental and digital. Andthen all the pricing on theInternet, from places likeAmazon and Half.com,everywhere that’s avail-able. So you can scrollthrough and you can actu-ally purchase your bookson our website from thosewebsites.

“So students will be ableto see what the prices areand be able to decided why(which book is cheaper.)”

What textbook pricestend to boil down to is whattextbooks professors ofKansas State Universitydecide to use. Levin saysthat textbooks are lessexpensive when teachersreuse the same textbookedition each semester, andthat is when the studentcan get the most moneyback on the textbook aswell. It’s when the profes-sor changes the textbook ormoves to a different addi-

tion – to get the most recentinformation to their stu-dents – that it becomeshard for Varney’s to buysome books back. Levinsays Varney’s is constantlykeeping in touch withteachers to see which bookwill be used for the upcom-ing semester.

“Having the professorslet us know what is going tobe used, keep it on campus aslong as possible,” saidLevin. “For students, it's thelack of having codes or tornout pages. Those are thethings that drive the cost ofthe book, because studentsthen have to constantly getnew books.”

Levin says when it comesto buy-back time at the end ofthe semester, students willget the best deal by just stay-ing close to home.

“There’s no one who’sgoing to give a student moremoney back for a bookthat’s going to be used hereat K-State than Varney's,”Levin said.

K-State’s study spotStaff photo by:Tommy Theis

Students relax in the nice weather outside of Hale Library

of my department?’ ‘How canI have richer experiences formy undergraduate students?’‘What kind of facilities do weneed?’ So now we got peoplethinking more broadly about‘what do I need 10 years fromnow’ to really help us gethere,” Schulz said.

During Schulz’s tenure aspresident, K-State has seen sgains in its fundraisingefforts – which Schulz made apriority to improve upon.

“We’ve gone from $82 mil-lion, to $92 million, to $107million, to we’ll be substan-tially above that this year (inprivate fundraising),” hesaid.

Schulz said it's importantfor K-State to make gains inprivate donations to helpretain current faculty, bringin new faculty and make facil-ity improvements aroundcampus as well.

“It’s great to say, ‘Well, wewant all this stuff,' or ‘we needhigher salaries,' or 'we needthis or we need that.' You gotto figure out some way to putresources behind that,”Schulz said. “That goes hand-in-hand with privatefundraising.”

He said people like invest-ing in an organization thatappears to be going some-where. “That’s why we’re see-ing some of those resourcescoming our direction,because the governor likeswhere we’re going, the legis-lature likes where we’regoing, our major donors likewhere we’re going,” Schulzsaid.

Going into its second year,2025, has already improvedupon some of Kansas State’son campus facilities, such asthe expansion of Justin Hall,adding scholarships and pro-

viding more support for facul-ty and staff.

“We’ve added somewherearound 200 new, endowedscholarships over the lastcouple of years that havebeen talked about in theundergraduate experience.We’ve added some endowedchairs that provide facultysupport to allow us to retain areally good faculty,” saidSchulz.

But if the university wantsto reach its goal of becoming atop 50 public research insti-tution, Schulz said keepingits professors and attractingothers from around the coun-try are priorities.

“The place that we’regoing to continue to lag is inthat K-State has compensat-ed or paid our faculty andstaff at a below marketamount for 50 years,” Schulzsaid. “If we’re going to be atop 50 public research uni-versity…we’re going to haveto find some creative ways tomake sure that we’re payinga reasonable and nationallycompetitive salary,” he said.

Schulz said that studentsshould get involved in the2025 process. One way theycan do this, he said, is by grad-uating and going out in thework world, and then givingthe university advice on howto prepare current students.

“When people graduate,we need them to continue tobe involved and engagedwith what (K-State) can dobetter. We want to makesure, though, that we’rechecking along the way, thatwe keep that focus on stu-dents – our friendliness, ourgetting to know our stu-dents. If we start losingthose things, then we won’tbe happy with where we are,even if we are No. 48,”Schulz said.

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Once a month Radina’scosy coffee shop in Agievilleturns into a place for discus-sion of achievements in sci-ence and technology. In thatinformal atmosphere, bothdomestic and visiting schol-ars talk to members of thepublic such subjects as thepossibility of a manned mis-sion to Mars, dark energy, orthe dispersal of humans inNorth America.

The idea of uniting scien-tists and ordinary people,which started in the UnitedKingdom as Café Scien-tifique, was adopted byenormous science units allover the globe. Now thou-sands of scientists are meet-ing with locals in coffeeshops, pubs, bars andteashops in dozens of coun-tries, speaking different lan-guages but carrying thesame idea, which is to makescience more accessible tothe public.

The first Science Café inKansas was opened in Haysaround five years ago. In2010 Keith Miller, K-Stateprofessor of anthropology, threwthe first Science Café in Manhat-tan. After his first lecture on thecauses and lessons of the Haitianearthquake, Radina’s hosted lec-tures on the Hadron Collider,GMO agriculture, zoonotic dis-eases, fun application of geome-try and many others.

“It’s driven by the speakers notby the topic,” Miller said. “Wefind a speaker and say what doyou want to talk on?"

Even though most of lecturesare devoted to various aspects ofscience, the trend to discuss sus-tainability is obvious. In the firstthree years, Science Café herehas hosted five lectures on cli-mate change and alternative

energy.“That will definitely be more

talks on that,” Miller said. “Thoseare really important topics.”

Miller said they had to look forspeakers for the first cafés. How-ever, college towns provideaccess to large number of inter-esting speakers. So it wasn’t a sur-prise that speakers started ask-ing to participate in the Caféthemselves.

“We have a lot of expertise inmajor science issues in Manhat-tan, and this is a great way to getthe word out on that,” CarolRegehr, Science Cafe attendantand adjunct Instructor in mathand physics for Barton Communi-ty College at Ft. Riley, said.

Miller said, anyone can be a

speaker. He noted that apolice officer trained inDUI explained the princi-ple behind the alcohol con-sumption device. Anotherperson talked about hisexperience in rescuedrilling in Chili.

While some ScientificCafés are hosted in pubs andrestaurants, Miller preferscoffee shops because theycan be approached by fami-lies. Moreover Radina’s does-n’t require any rents or pay-ments.

The idea of the whole Sci-ence Café is to engage thenon-university public in sci-entific discussions. Mostvisitors by far are universi-ty-related, but some arehigh school students.Michael Herman, K-Stateassociate professor of biolo-gy, said they encourage highschool students to attend byletting their teachers knowthe topic to be discussed.

“We would like to seemore members of the publicattend,” Herman said.

Lowell Bliss said the Sci-ence Café is one of the rareopportunities for local resi-dents to reach K-State sci-entists.

“Even though Manhattanhosts a wonderful sciencefaculty at K-State, peoplelike myself don't necessarilyhave access to them,” Blisssaid. “That is, until ScienceCafe "serves them up," whichI guess is why it's called acafé.”

This is, according to Her-man, the main purpose ofsuch a Café: to educate thelocal community about sci-ence.

“The Science Café isimportant for any communi-ty because science is moreand more a part of our lives,”Herman said.


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Out-of-class activity is asimportant as the studyingprocess itself. The univer-sity’s 23,800 student popu-lation is represented24,000 times in student-runorganizations.

What are those clubs?Gail Spencer, office of stu-dent activities and ser-vices dean, said there morethan 450 cultural, educa-tional, sport, religious andscientific organizations oncampus.

“It’s so spread out,”Spencer said.

Although the universi-ty’s online directory con-tains many professionalclubs, a significant numberare not related to existingmajors. One such organiza-tion is the Creation Club. Itwas born after a lecture in abiology class where thetopic of intelligent design

was discussed. During thelecture, the professor saidthat intelligent design can-not be considered sciencebecause it dealt with his-torical matters. Three stu-dents continued the dis-cussion out of class anddecided to start the Cre-ation Club.

“They wanted to make aplace where people coulddiscuss issues of intelli-gent design versus otherviewpoints,” Josh Wilson,junior in communicationstudies and Creation Clubpresident, said.

Wilson is not the onlynon-science major in theclub. It attracts students ofall interests includingthose studying to becomemusicians and psycholo-gists.

“I just have an interestin the subject,” Wilsonsaid. “I enjoy being able tosee the ways that sciencecan back up.”

Most of the time the clubholds its own discussionsabout topics such as DNAentity and carbon-proteindating. Anyone can bringhis or her own topic to thediscussion.

At the same time theclub has hosted several vis-iting speakers. One ofthem, Jorge Freedom, amolecular geneticist,spoke on the genome.

“What many people callevolution is a variation ofgene frequency all thetime,” Wilson said.

K-State also has an arrayof sport clubs, both tradi-tional and alternative. Oneof them is Cheshire Ulti-mate, a women’s Frisbeeclub.

Stephanie Rupp, juniorin management informa-tion systems, joined theclub in 2010 at her fresh-man year. She fell instantlyin love with ultimate Fris-bee when she began play-

ing it during high school. Shebecame one of two captainslast year. She said no specialskills to join the team areneeded.

“We welcome players ofall skill levels,” Rupp said.“We teach them the thingsthat they need to know dur-ing our practices. At thebeginning of the year westart out at a good pace forthe girls who are new to thesport of ultimate.”

Rupp said she knew K-State had a women's teambut had never heard muchabout it. Then, when she wason K-State's campus for thefirst time, she saw chalk writ-ing advertising the club andtelling those who were inter-ested to come to an activityfair.

“I went to check it out andit was the best decision Ihave ever made!” Rupp said.

Indeed, there are twomain student activity fairshosted by the Office of Stu-

dent Activities and Services.Called Carnival Expo, theyare held in August and Janu-ary. In the fall fair, more than200 organizations are repre-sented.

“We love to go to the falland winter activities fairs inthe K-State Student Union topromote our team and gainnew members,” Rupp said.

Rupp said the club typi-cally gets the interest ofaround 40 to 50 girls at thefall fair, and many of themcome out to practice. Theyalso pass out flyers on cam-pus and throw around thedisc in public to gain theinterest of other studentsand members of the commu-nity.

Those interested inreviewing a complete menuof organizations can stop bythe Office of Student Activi-ties and Services, located atthe ground floor of the Stu-dent Union.

If someone cannot find an

organization of his or hertaste, he or she can easilystart a new one. Students arefirst required to gather atleast five members, identifya faculty, staff or administra-tion member to be thegroup’s advisor, completesome paperwork and pre-pare a constitution.

Organizations shouldalso be sure to attend a regis-tration meeting once a year.

“When I was president ofthe team last year I found itvery easy to get my paper-work done on time andeverything set up for theteam through the office ofstudent activities,” Ruppsaid.

The simplicity of thepaperwork allows K-State toincrease the number ofclubs. According to Spencer,K-State adds about 10 newclubs annually.

“We want to have as manyorganizations as possible,”Spencer said.

Science plus coffee equals Science Cafe

Got an interest? Join a club to feed it

Staff photos by: Tommy Theis

Above: Two kids look onto asheet of paper that is beingused as a backdrop to projectlast summer’s transit ofVenus during a Science Cafeevent. The viewing was sup-ported by the Sigma Xiresearch scientific societyand was designed to getmore locals acquainted withscience.

Right: A closeup of the pro-jection shows Venus in thetop left of the photo; theother dark regions are sunspots.

Anton TrafimovichContributing Wriiter

Vegetables we buy at the grocerystore are mostly shipped into townfrom other states. The producespends 1,500 miles in transit onaverage. To maintain marketableconditions, the vegetables are usu-ally treated with chemicals.

Farmers markets in Manhattanprovide alternatives to buying veg-etables from stores. The first wasbegun in 1979 it has experiencedtremendous growth recently. Nowup to 40 vendors offer their produceevery Saturday at the parking lot atthe intersection of Humboldt and5th St.

“It has grown both as vendorshave grown and customers havegrown,” Christine Cady, FarmersMarket manager, said. “Peoplewant more local, organic.”

Cady said most of the market’sfarmers live around Manhattan.Some of them, however, come frommore distant towns such as BlueRapids, 70 miles away, and Beat-rice, Neb.

A second such market wasopened this July. Elaine Mohr, theowner of Southside Gardens, initi-ated the idea of a strictly regionalmarket. Unlike traditional farmersmarkets, where shipped-in pro-duce is allowed, all products andproduce must be grown or raised bythe vendor who sells it. Moreover,everything must be grown or pro-duced within 100 miles of Manhat-tan.

Mohr has had a farm near Man-hattan since 2000. She sold vegeta-bles at the 5th Street Farmers Mar-ket until opening her own. Mohr’smarketarket hosts about a halfdozen local vendors every Tuesdayfrom 4 to 6.30 at the east parking lotof the Riley County Senior ServiceCenter.

It is common among farmers tovisit several markets in differentlocations within a week. TheWeicke family has a farm in Green-leaf, a town 60 miles to the north ofManhattan. They sell their home-grown produce at several marketsthroughout the state. But theyfocus on Manhattan, selling half oftheir produce here.

Wanda Weicke said they havebeen in business for 10-12 years andfeel the demand for locally grownfood. Some people from surround-ing towns even come to their farmto buy fresh crops right from theground.

“People are more aware of freshproduce,” she said. “They wanthomegrown, without all the pesti-cides.”

Jay Sleichter comes to Manhat-tan from Clay Center on Wednes-days, when the Manhattan FarmersMarket is at CiCo Park. Sleichter isa teacher of math and science, buteach summer he switches to farm-ing. A plot of five acres keeps himbusy all vegetatable season.

“This is my summer slash,” Sle-ichter said. “I enjoy both of them[jobs]. I can’t imagine not doingeither one.”

Craig Oman, Manhattan resi-dent, comes to the Farmers Marketevery other week. He bought asmall box of cherry tomatoes fromSleichter.

“These cherry tomatoes got anoutstanding flavor,” Oman said.“Like the old-time tomato youremember.”

Cady said the market doesn’trequire farmers to sell organic foodonly. The reason is that very fewsmall farmers can afford the expen-sive procedure required to receiveorganic certificates. But still mostof the vendors in Manhattan prac-tice organic growing.

“We try to keep everything asfree of pesticide as we can,” Weickesaid.

Although the market has existedfor more than 30 years, not every-one knows about it. The ever-chang-ing nature of the community, withits college and military population,forces Cady to remind about themarket repeatedly. That is whyCady brought to the farmers marketlast year two festivals. The biggestone is the National Farmers Mar-ket Month in August.

“Customers and the communityare happy, especially when we havean event,” Cady said.

Staff photo by:Tommy TheisAbove: Timothy Weicke bags producefor some customers attendingthe Farmers Market in CiCo Park.

Below: A grouping of home-made honey sticks sit ready for sale at theFarmers Market.

Right: Jay Sle-ichter had homegrown toma-toes in thebeginning ofJune. To growthem so early heputs tomatoplants in hightunnels.

“It’s not like goingto the grocery store.It’s almost like goingto a little festival.”

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One of the uniquethings about Manhattan isthat the city has a broadspectrum of restaurants,many with unique fea-tures. Local Friends andFood is one of those.

Sure, you may find yourburger or pizza, but a lot ofthings on their menu youmay be hard pressed tofind elsewhere. But whatmakes Local reallyunique is its profit strate-gy, 100 percent of whichgoes to a different charityevery month. Restaurantoperators see it as justtheir way of giving back tothe community.

“Local is a full profitrestaurant, that we use asa vehicle to try to raisemoney for local chari-ties,” general manager,Tommy Sol, said. “That’swhere the name, Local,derives from; we spendour money locally on goodand worth charities herein Manhattan.”

Local picks a differentcharity to donate its profittoo every month. In July,profits were donated tothe Homecare & Hospice.The month before the

beneficiary was the FlintHills Breadbasket.

“I believe next monthwe’re doing Boys andGirls Club,” said Sol.

Local Food andFriends has a diversemenu, full of items thatyou would find at manyrestaurants.

“We have burgers,wraps, pizzas and salads,for the most part,” he said.“We always try to have onespecial every month, kindof geared directlytowards our charity.

Pizzas and salads arepopular, as is a Phillysandwich. “We call it our‘Farm House Philly,’which is a big deal, withjack cheese, red peppersand onions, it’s a reallygood sandwich,” said Sol.

Local also offers someplates that make therestaurant unique, andadd a nice touch to themenu. That includes a dif-ferent take on a fanfavorite, Mac-n-cheese.

“Our Mac-n-cheese, weuse a jack cheese saucethat we make here andbake it off of Panko breadcrumbs,” Sol said. “Ourjalapeño beacon and

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Staff photos by: Tommy TheisA local couple walk into EarlyEdition in the Candle wood Shop-ping district near CiCo Park.

The Wild Waffle from Early Edition. It is a pair of waffles topped with different fruits, whippedcream, and powdered sugar.


Breakfast is oftencalled the most importantmeal of the day. Luckily,the residents of Manhat-tan and the surroundingarea have a locally ownedrestaurant that has estab-lished itself as not onlythe best breakfast restau-rant in town but one of thebest overall restaurants aswell.

For 13 years, David andMarcy Uphoff have beenserving breakfast andbrunch at Early Edition.Both quit their jobs to bringManhattan something thatthe city didn’t really haveat the time: A good break-fast restaurant.

“We saw a need forbreakfast in Manhattan,”said David.

Whatever David andMarcy saw missing fromManhattan must have beenwhat residents were crav-ing, because Early Editionis now in its 13th year in theCandlewood shopping cen-ter. The Uphoffs have sinceopened another Early Edi-tion on the east side. Theycredit their success to theemphasis they put on theircustomers, and the rela-tionships they’ve built,something you wouldn’tsee at the bigger chainrestaurants around thecountry. Early Edition hasbeen voted the Mercury’sbest breakfast and friend-liest restaurant eight yearsin a row.

“We develop relation-ships with our customersand have gotten to know alot of them through theyears,” said David. “Wereally focus on our cus-tomers and really focus ongood service and goodfood.”

Early Edition’s hoursare from 6 a.m. to 2:30p.m., Monday throughFriday, and 7 a.m. to 2:30p.m. on Saturday andSunday. Their menu fea-tures many popularitems that a typicalbreakfast restaurant mayfeature. There are alsolunch options.

“We’re really customer-focused with our food, wetry really hard not to say noto our customers, anythingthey want to do, we’ll do it,”David said. One populardish is called The Colonel;it’s a skillet with potatoes,cheese, diced ham and pep-pers, crispy chicken andegg cooked however youlike it.

“Our Chicken Pecansalad is very popular andour chocolate chip muffinsare also very popular,” saidMarcy.

Early Edition is trying toconstantly add new ideas.They have a few new sand-wiches along with wrapsand salads.

“The newest item is a

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crispy chicken sandwich;we have a smoky bluecheese wrap coming out,that’s really fresh and real-ly popular with ouremployees, so we’re goingto put that on our menu,”said David. (Some new sal-ads) raspberry chickenthat is incredible and thenwe have raspberry salmonsalad that really good aswell.”

“We also expanded ourburger recently, we’vealways had a couple (on themenu), but now we havesix,” said Marcy, “andthey’re very popular.”

Early Edition pridesitself on the friendly atmos-phere that has been creat-ed over the years. Peoplealways seem to run intosomebody that they know,which adds to the commu-nity feel that the restaurantaims for.

“The majority of peoplewho come in here know thatthey’re going to see some-body they know,” saidMarcy.

Although the restau-rants are a little bit awayfrom the campus of KansasState, David and Marcy saythat they are amazed howmany college studentscome in.

“Our portion sizes …we have football playersthat come in, back in theday, John McGraw, cameinto eat every day,” Marcysaid. “Now Collin Kleinusually comes in with afew of his buddies, andthey leave not hungry.”

tomatoes (as well), it’s offthe charts.”

Another unique thingabout Local is that theyemphasize health. Theygrow their own garden, toensure that customers getthe freshest ingredients.

“We do use our own gar-den for as much stuff aspossible,” said Sol. “Weuse beets, our cucumbersalad is all from the gar-den, and our potato soupall the ingredients forthat are from the garden.We’ve got a two-acre gar-den that we’ve tried ourbest to utilize.”

Local is partneringwith Max Fitness, whichis right next door, toencourage fitness.

“We try to … offer a cou-ple of discounts to mem-bers,” said Sol.

The restaurant servesbreakfast, lunch and din-ner, every day. Their busi-ness hours are 7 a.m. to 9p.m.

“We do all the standardbreakfast fare from eggsyour way to biscuits andgravy,” said Sol. “We dohave a couple things thatwe think are very specialin our breakfast sand-wiches that are all servedon croissants…. we alsodo our ‘juevos rancheros,’that’s served in a bakedtortilla shell, (which has)potatoes, eggs, meat,cheese sauce and pico. It’sa full blown breakfast, ifyou’re hungry.”

Sol says everyone atLocal is excited for thestudents to return, and forK-State football games, sothey can show off theirdiverse menu and feedtheir customers right.

“We’ve got a greatmenu, with a differentflair and different flavorprofile, that you wouldn’tfind any place in town,”Sol said, “we think ourprices are right, we thinkour portions aregood…plus you’re donat-ing to charity as well.”

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Students comprise a sig-nificant portion of thoseseeking an apartment torent in town. Many apart-ments are still operated bytheir owners, although ithas become more commonfor a managing company totake care of finding tenantsand performing mainte-nance.

Jeff Connell, directorof Manhattan residentiallistings for McCulloughDevelopment, said morethan 50 percent of hiscompany’s clients are stu-dents. The vast majorityof the property that thecompany manages isclose to the K-State cam-pus and is targeted pri-

marily to students.The demand for one-

bedroom apartments andstudios outpaces supply, asthere is a trend for peoplewanting to live by them-selves.

“The one-bedroomsthere are in tight demand,”Connell said.

According to Connell,about 46 percent of studentapartments this year wereoccupied by continuingresidents, which meansonly around half of theirapartments was availablefor new clients. He said thebest time to start research-ing apartments for the nextschool year is in the winter.He said McCullough Devel-opment managers beginleasing for the June andAugust time frames on Feb.

15.“I just recommend start-

ing the search early,” Con-nell said. “For people notfamiliar with this marketor if they are coming fromother cities, it’s eye-open-ing how much housing is indemand here.”

As with most apart-ments in town, McCulloughoffers unfurnished hous-ing. The price varies anddepends on the location,the number of bedroomsand condition of the apart-ment. Studio apartmentsstart at around $500 and goup to $600. One-bedroomswill cost from $550 to $1,000,the average being roughly$650 and $700.

Two-bedrooms usuallycost around $700.

The high demand on

housing produced by thecollege and the militarybase has caused prices tobe above the average inKansas.

“Some people are sur-prised by the prices too,”Connell said. “The militarypresence here certainlyhas emphasized demand.”

There are several issuesresidents should keep inmind when choosing to livein an apartment. First isthe location. There aremany apartments avail-able for rent aroundAggieville. Residents whochoose to live in Aggievilleshouldn’t expect extreme-ly quite nights during theweekend.

Another thing that peo-ple often forget is thatapartments are multi-fam-

Heavy demand for off-campus space

ily housing. “There are neighbors

that you share walls with,you share ceilings with,”

Connell said. “Therepotentially will be noisetransfer between apart-ments.”


Growing demandfor housing is result-ing in a constructionboom all aroundtown, along with adecision by K-State tobuild a new residencehall. The result is anexpanding number ofoptions for where stu-dents can live.

Up to 25 percent ofK-State students areaccommodated oncampus. According toNick Lander, assis-tant director for resi-dence life, althoughK-State has norequirement forfreshmen to live oncampus, most living atthe residence hallsare first-year stu-dents.

“I think they likethe convenience ofliving on campus,”Lander said. “And weare able to maintain alevel of affordabilitythat allows the students tochoose to live with us.”

Lander said having anon-campus living spacemakes it easy to meet newpeople, creates a shorterdistance to classes, andcomes with a meal plan.Electricity and trash ser-vice are included. All resi-dential areas are also pro-vided with free wired and

said. “Our staff isgoing to have a varietyof things to helpenhance the students’academic experi-ence.”

The price for thedorm depends onamenities studentsget in their rooms. Themain factors are thenumber of roommatesand the number ofmeals per week. Thecheapest optionwould be living in adouble/triple/quadroom with 10 mealsper week. That willcost a student $3,268in fall semester. A sin-gle suite with a sepa-rate bathroom and 20meals costs $4,406 infall semester. Theprice for springsemester for mostrooms is $400 more.

Jardine apart-ments are also avail-able for K-State stu-dents. Prices on thoseapartments also vary.

A two-bedroom fur-nished traditional apart-ment, for instance, costs$475. The same conditionsfor renovated apartmentscost $550. There are alsohighly renovated apart-


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wireless internet. The onlything students might payfor is cable. There is a cablealready installed in everyroom, so if some studentswant they can subscribe forthe cable individually. Foran extra payment, they canalso have a landline tele-phone in their room.

Lander said nationalresearch indicates thatstudents tend to do better

academically if they live oncampus for the first year.Being surrounded by otherstudents who are goingthrough the same processalso pushes individuals tostudy more.

“There is a bit of sharedexperience within thatcommunity that I call a pos-itive peer influence,” Lan-der said.

Besides the peer influ-

ence students have accessto various resources andtrained staff that will assistthem in organizing theirstudy process in the resi-dence halls. There are resi-dence assistants and full-time graduate level staffavailable 24 hour a day,seven days a week.

“We really try to focusour programming on stu-dents’ success,” Lander

Dorm space is popular among KSU freshmen ments (preference is givento families) and new con-struction apartments withhigher rates.

Scholarship houses, fra-ternity and sororities arean alternative to tradition-al on-campus housing.Most fraternities andsororities are operatedindependently, so studentswanting to try this optionshould contact those hous-es.

To apply for springsemester rooms in the resi-dence hall or Jardineapartment, students areasked to apply in late fallsemester.

Lander mentioned thatone advantage of on-cam-pus housing is flexibility indealing with the contract.If students have to leavetheir room before thesemester is over and theyhave an excuse for it, thelease can be cancelled. Ifthe documentation of aninternship or studentteaching is provided, theuniversity will not chargethe student a cancellationfee.

“It’s a lot easier for themto cancel a contract with usthen cancel a lease off cam-pus,” Lander said.




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Many Manhattan resi-dents know Danny Fang’sBamboo buffet on FortRiley Boulevard.Although this businesswas successful, in Octo-ber 2010 Fang alsoopened Asian Market,one of six ethnic groceriesoperating here. Thedemand for internationalfood has grown as thenumber of foreign stu-dents at K-State hasincreased.

Three of the ethnic gro-ceries are Asian andthree are Hispanic. Thatreflects the compositionof the minority presence.According to CensusBureau, Hispanics (5.8percent) and Asians (5.1percent) are the mainminorities in the city’sapproximately 52,000 res-idents.

Fang initially decidedto target the Asian popu-lation, most of whom wereChinese, exclusively. Buthe found customers com-ing to him from otherAsian countries. He was-n’t aware that many ingre-dients in Chinese cuisineare similar to those inKorean and Japanese.

“The thing is every-body eats the same thing,”Fang said “I didn’t knowit.”

When non-Chineseshoppers started to askwhether Fang could bringin foods they couldn’t findanywhere else, heexpanded the number ofcommodities he carried.That expanded the natureof the market.

“You can see the sign; itsays international. Weadded it later,” Fang said.“We bring more and morepeople.”

Today the Asian mar-ket sells foods from allover the world. You canfind Middle Easterngrape leaves, Jamaicanbeef patties and oystermushrooms. The varietymakes the grocery uniquein the region. The closestinternational grocery of

the same type and size is inKansas City, which is why agood number of customersare residents of othertowns. Fang estimates thatas much as 30 per cent of allshoppers come from Junc-tion City.

“Because of the mili-tary…the military is a mix-ture of everybody,” Fangsaid. “I can’t wait when the(roadwork between Man-hattan and Junction City) isdone. It will help.”

Students make up onlyaround 20 per cent of AsianMarket customers. One ofthe reasons is its locationon Fort Riley Boulevardsome distance from cam-pus. An Asian grocery inAggieville serves predomi-nantly students. It is run byDongchen Hao.

Hao opened the ChineseGrocery Store three yearsago at the intersection of12th and Moro St. targetingChinese students. Many ofthe foods are frozendumplings and wontonsthat can be easily boiled.

“Some students don’tknow how to cook. Theirparents cooked for them inChina,” Hao explained.“Some students know howto cook, but they are toobusy; they have to studyevery day. They do not haveenough time.”

Both groceries’ ownersnote that Americans shopin their groceries as well asinternationals. Hao is real-izing he need to go beyondChinese food.

“Local residents pre-fer to cook Japanese orKorean food,” Hao said.“Sometimes I think theydon’t know too muchabout Chinese foodbecause it’s a little bitcomplex to cook it.”

Starting from August,Hao is going to sell Indian,Korean and Japanesefood. Although his tinygrocery in Aggieville can-not fit new stores, he isgoing to sell new com-modities online.

“I think it’s hard to do itbut I want to try,” Haosaid. “In the future I thinkevery business will dothat.”

Staff photos by:Tommy TheisA look at the variety of peaches that the Eastside Market offers.

Danny Fang talks to a customer at Asian Market.


Michelle Obama recentlyreleased a book designed toget Americans to pay moreattention to the food they eat.That is what the K-StateFarm Club has been doingsince 2007 at the Willow LakeStudent Farm. Using sus-tainable methods of planti-ng crops, the Farm Club pro-vides a place to learn farm-ing and promotes organicagriculture.

Rhonda Janke, associ-ate professor of horticul-ture, co-founded the Stu-dent Farm in 2007 withLani Meyers, a senior inhorticulture at the time.Meyers researched 60 stu-dent farms over the countryand found that only 20 ofthem were at agriculturalschools; the others were atliberal arts colleges.

“Here we are at an agschool. It’s better to haveone,” Janke said.

Students obtained atwo-acre plot where paidinterns and the club mem-bers practice sustainableand organic methods. Theyuse compost instead of fer-tilizers, weed by hand andmulch to control weeds.Watering is by a drip sys-tem rather than overheadirrigation.

All products harvestedat the farm are sold at the

Farmers’ Market or to localgroceries and ventures.One example: Little Applebrewery buys garlic fromthe farm. Janke said thatover 10 years consumerdemand for organicallyproduced products hasincreased more than 20percent a year.

In spite of the demandfor the farm produce,Janke had to change thebusiness model. Prior thisyear the farm had five paidinterns who were mainlytaking care of crops, doingrecords and monitoringfarm expenses. But themoney spent on interns’salaries could never bepaid off by selling vegeta-bles.

This year, therefore,Janke decided to sell plotsat $30 each. Owners get tokeep the profit from theproducts produced ontheir plots. Janke said astudent can make $50 to$300 from one plot.

“That’s more like real-life farming,” she said.

The farm remains aneducational place. Janke,who teaches vegetablecrops and food crops class-es, spends several classperiods at the farm. Shealso tries to get students inher fall organic agricul-ture class to come to thefarm.

“A lot of what happens at


In the 1970s it was a tinyshack on the edge of Manhat-tan. Today Terry Olson’s EastSide and West Side Marketsare well-organized busi-nesses on opposite sides oftown. But the idea that dri-ves Terry Olson hasn’tchanged. She strives to pro-vide the most tasty produceavailable on the market atthe moment.

Olson has roots in truckfarming. Her parents livedin Manhattan, but alsoowned a garden out of town.Her dad sold produce door todoor and his nine childrenhelped. “Our St. Bernardmonster’s dog pulled ourcart full of vegetables,”Olson recalled.

When she was in a middleschool, her parents pur-chased a tiny greenhousethat became a beddingplants business. Again thesiblings were the work force,learning the bedding plantsbusiness.

Knowing the hardship ofthe farming business fromher childhood, Olson wasdetermined to go to college.“I watched my parents worryso much whether the weath-er would be good for sellingplants, whether the weatherwould freeze their crop,” sheexplained.

She studied pre-medi-cine at KU , but by her ownadmission was not a goodstudent. “I wasn’t reallyinterested in saving people’slives or taking care of sickpeople,” Olson said. “I lovedplants and produce. Andeven when I was at school inLawrence, I was visitingnurseries and trying to con-vince them to sell my par-ents’ plants.”

Once she realized shewasn’t really interested

being a doctor she came backto Manhattan and enrolledin the horticulture programat K-State. However she did-n’t finish her degree as theopportunity be a fruit mar-keter came along and over-took all her other interests.

Beginning as a part-timeemployee at the EastsideMarket, Olson bought it in1976. Five years later sheopened Westside Market.After the redevelopment ofthe downtown in the mid1980s, she rebuilt Eastsidemarket, and the formershack became a heated andair-conditioned groceryoperated year-round.

She gets the produce fromvarious suppliers, both localand shipped from otherstates. There just two condi-tions she considers: tasteand the value. That’s why inJuly she ships peaches fromMissouri and California, in

August from Colorado andlater in the fall from Idaho.

Along with the idea ofselling tasty produce, shefound other niches. In thespring she specializes inbedding plants that shetakes from her parents’greenhouse at Kaw Valley. Inthe fall she is mostly busywith presents for Christmas.

Her favorite part of thejob is still working one onone with customers. Like abeginning gardener, she isfascinated helping them tofind vegetable plants thatare recommended for thisarea, then hearing fromthem tell what success theyhad.

“It’s a rewarding experi-ence sharing my hobbieswith customers,” she said.

Lennis Holle, Marysville,came with his wife, Janice, toshop at the Eastside marketfor the first time. “I think it’s

wonderful,” Holle said.“The selection is fantastic.”

Sometimes Olson has tostop selling certain items ofproduce due to competitionfrom large retail chains. Butshe has her niche, which istasty produce.

“You back out of thethings that you can’t com-pete well,” Olson said “Yougive it and say I can’t do that,but what I can do and whatI’ve always have done well isdeliver great tasting pro-duce.”

Olson doesn’t think con-sumers should shop at herstore just because it’s local.

“I don’t want them to do itbecause they feel guiltybecause I’m a little guy,” shesaid. “I want them to do itbecause I’ve got what theywant, what they want to payand I deliver it with the greatservice.”

the farm or principles in thescience behind organicfarming tie into a lot of thingsthat I learn in my classes,”Joseph Hong, senior at horti-culture, said.

There are a lot of volun-teers, mainly among theFarm Club. Club membersdo not necessarily major inagriculture or horticulture.The club even has even regu-lar community members.Hong, who is also the presi-dent of the Farm Club, saideveryone is welcome.

“I’ve seen architecturestudents, sociology stu-dents, people from all overdifferent departments,” hesaid.

The student farm is alsoan open space for otherdepartments. Thus, a historyprofessor took her class tothe farm to teach Americanagricultural history.

“She just wanted them tosee what farming is like,”

Janke said. Another time the art stu-

dents came over. Their inter-est was to make art materialsfrom farm products.

They used some of thesoil, and also soil collectedfrom a road-cut near the damto make water color paints.They used that and some bio-char that was made at thefarm for their figure drawingclass

Janke emphasized thateven though the StudentFarm is supposed to be acompetitor to the Farmers’Market, local farmers actfavorably toward studentsand don’t treat them as com-petitors. Some of thembecame informal mentorsand visit the student farm toevaluate students’ work andgive advice.

“It’s kind of a partner-ship, a way for K-State to beseen as a part of the foodcommunity,” Janke said.

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Asian grocery optionsincreasing in town



After a more than 50 yearabsence, public transporta-tion in Manhattan features afixed route system. Prior tothis past spring, the city wasthe only one of its size inKansas that didn’t havefixed bus routes. Now thereare two routes connectingdifferent parts of the city.

The Flint Hills AreaTransportation Agency(ATA) is the public trans-portation provider. Toexpand the city coverage thecompany needs better fund-ing, sai d Anne Smith, ATAbus director.

“We’ve had numerousrequests to add stops to theroutes,” she said. “We can’tgrow quicker than we havemoney to fund it.”

Within the past five yearsthe amount of ridership hasgrown tremendously.According to Smith, in 2007ATA transported 21,512rides. Last year, the compa-rable figure was 72,139 rides.

ATA hopes to come closeto 100,000 rides this year.

“ATA is trying to run agood system,” Karen Davis,community developmentdirector, said. “They seem tobe successful.”

ATA provides three mainservices in the city . Demandresponse service used to bethe most popular. It is simi-lar to a taxi service exceptthat the rider needs to call 24hours in advance to arrangethe time the shuttle will pickhim or her up. Also the ridershould wait for the shuttle atthe curb.

The new fixed route ser-vice has become popular.Two routes link up the east-ern and western parts of thecity, passing downtown, K-State and shopping areas.The schedule of both routesis available online.

The problem ATA is tack-ling now is non-visibility ofthe public system in thestreets. Even though theoperation was startedmonths ago, the bus stops arestill not identified becausethe City Commission has notallowed the installation ofmarking signs

“Hopefully we’ll be ableto work with the city andthey’ll give us permissioneventually,” Smith said.

Davis said the problem isthat the City Commissionwants a better-developedplan for the signs.

The hope is to installboth signs and benches.Smith said ATA has gottenfunding for that. Also thereare some businesses will-ing to have bus stops infront of their buildings.

The demand responseride costs $2, and a fixed

route ticket is $1. Monthlytickets costing $30 (fixedroutes only) are available,as are 50 percent discountsfor seniors, disabled andlow income.

Fees cover roughly 13percent of the cost of thefare, but ATA is not going toraise the cost of the ride.

“We are pretty much atthe top of what we chargeamong providers of oursize,” Smith said. “A lot ofproviders don’t chargeanything.”

Another ATA service isfree of charge for K-Statestudents. This is Safe Rideshuttles, which operatefrom 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. Thurs-day through Saturdaybetween Aggieville andseveral districts of the city.The purpose of the SafeRide is to prevent studentsfrom driving while intoxi-cated.

ATA started anotherprogram with K-State thispast winter. The Jardineshuttle takes K-State IDholders for free from Jar-dine throughout campus.Another route is Universi-ty Crossing. It runs backand forth from ManhattanArea Technical College, toUniversity Crossing Apart-ments and the K-State Stu-dent Union.

There is also a free shop-ping shuttle for K-State stu-dents. Targeted at interna-tional students, a van takesthem to Wal-Mart onWednesday night. The firstSaturday of the month thevan takes students to thedowntown, Target and theAsian Market. The scheduleis available on the web site.

There are designatedspots for picking up studentson campus at Moore Hall,Jardine and the StudentUnion. On the way back thedriver will drop off everyoneat the curb of his or herapartment.

“Not just to the bus stopbut to the actual residence,”Maria Beebe, InternationalStudent and Scholar Ser-vices assistant director,said. “So they don’t have tocarry all those packages.”

Manhattan had a devel-oped public transit systemin the first half of the 20thcentury. In the 1920s therewere street cars circulatingbetween campus and up toPoyntz Avenue. Its support-ers see the return of fixedroute service as an indica-tion that a new era for publictransportation is starting.

“We are excited about theopportunities that are infront of us,” Smith said. “It’sa good time to be looking forpublic transportation inManhattan. We we hope thatfolks will be interested intrying it out.”

Staff photo by:Tommy TheisA huge dump track returns to get re-filled as part of the construction on K-18. The highway is down to two lanes of traffic due tothis construction, but will be opened up back to four lanes during winter construction.

Jackhammers, large scoops, and dumptracks are just a few pieces of heavy equipment being usedto move the massive amounts of earth needed to finish the K-18 construction.


A stretch of K-18 high-way leading out of Manhat-tan will be under construc-tion for at least the next twoyears. The work is part of athree-phase constructionprocess, turning K-18 into afull four-lane freeway,from Manhattan to Ogden.

The first phase was com-pleted in 2011. It included anew exit, K-114, to Ogden,56th Avenue interchangeand drainage improve-ments around the highway.

The current work isphase two of the project. Itmeans that Scenic Drivecannot be accessed from K-18 due to the redesign of theScenic and K-18 intersec-tion, which will nowinclude an interchange.Parts of Manhattan arebeing affected as well. TheMiller Parkway and DavisDrive interchange is beingconstructed, limitingaccess to both roads, fromK-18. Construction on Sky-way Drive and EurekaDrive will also impact dri-ving in 2012.

This project is expectedto wrap up by the end of2013. K-18 will remain aone-lane highway untilthat time, and will beimpacting commuters for aeight-mile stretch.

Kim Qualls, publicaffairs representative forthe Kansas Department ofTransportation, says com-muters on K-18 will facemany changes to the rout inthe upcoming months, dueto the constructionprocess.

“Drivers have trafficchanges to deal with, newcrossovers put in, inter-changes opening,” saidQualls. “There is a lot ofupdating to keep informedon, what impacts are takingplace, so that drivers knowthere’s roadways that havebeen closed at times.”

The Riley County PoliceDepartment has beenwatching this stretch ofroadway closely, due to theconstruction. OfficerEmmitt Smith says therehave been a number ofcrashes due to inattentivedriving.

“I’ve noticed a lot ofaccidents have occurredbecause of following too

closely,” Smith said. “ A lotof the accidents that I’veseen out there are user-operated error.”

The RCPD has put anextra emphasis into look-ing for cars that are notkeeping safe distances.

“(We’re looking for) fol-lowing too closely, cellphone (usage), and inatten-tive driving, things likethat. We want to make surethe vehicles are followingat a safe distance, at a safedistance to where (vehi-cles) can stop before theycollide with another vehi-cle.”

Qualls says the mostimportant thing formotorists to do is to juststay informed about theinformation coming out ofKDOT and potentialchanges in what construc-tion may do to the route.

“I would highly suggestthat (motorists) check onKDOT’s website for trafficupdates, or we can also addthem to our list to stayinformed on trafficupdates.” Qualls said.

Qualls noted that traffic

switches can occur. “Justbecause you go one day(doesn’t mean the routewon’t change the next),”Qualls said. “There aretraffic changes that occurthroughout constructionprojects.”

Qualls credits the city ofManhattan and media out-lets for doing a good job inhelping to keep driverssafe and informed.

“The city and the Mer-cury are great partners inhelping to keep driversinformed and updated.”Qualls said.

Whether it’s the con-

struction workers,motorist or anyone elseaccessing the highway,Qualls says that they justwant everyone to be safeand obey the laws.

Officer Smith says dri-vers need to be more cau-tious and always be alert.

“Just drive like you nor-mally would as far as obey-ing the speed limit,” hesaid. “Always allow your-self enough room betweenyou and the driver in frontof you, so that in case thedrive in front of you has tostop, you can stop safelywithout colliding with thatother vehicle.”

K-18 will be under con-struction for much of thefirst semester of school.However, motorists will geta little bit of a break duringwhat KDOT calls “WinterShutdown.” That is whencrews will do any work offor surrounding the road-way, returning the roadwayback to two lanes, eachdirection, from Thanksgiv-ing weekend to March orApril, depending on howthe winter goes.

ATA buses have become a familiar sight around town.

Fixed route systemdebuts in the city

K-18 work ties up western access

“Drivers have traffic changesto deal with, new crossoversput in, interchanges opening...There is a lot of updatingto keep informed on, whatimpacts are taking place, sothat drivers know there’sroadways that have beenclosed at times.”

—Kim Qualls, KDOT Public Affairs


Jeremy BohnStaff writer

For years, Manhattanarea residents made thetwo-hour journey down I-70 to the Kansas CityInternational Airport inorder to fly into majorhubs for travel, businessand other events.

However, in 2009, a newdeal was struck betweenAmerican Airlines’“American Eagle” flightsand the City of Manhattan.The deal meant that Man-hattanites could fly toDallas/Ft. Worth out of thecomfort of their home-town airport, the Manhat-tan Regional Airport.

In 2010, another dealallowed people to fly fromto Chicago. That was big,because O’Hare Interna-tional Airport has routesthat go around the world.

Today the ManhattanRegional Airport has twoflights a day to ChicagoO’Hare and three to Dal-las/Ft. Worth Internation-al Airport.

For decades, the air-port was just known for itsflights to Kansas City.Peter Van Kuren, Manhat-tan Regional Airportdirector, says that the newflights came to Manhattanbecause of the growth andexpansion to the city overthe past decade.

“It was a combinationof things (bringing theflights here), first andforemost it’s the mar-ket…our number one goalwas to show them that thesurrounding region hashad significant growthand the population issuch that it could supportservice.” Said Van Kuren

Van Kuren also creditsgrowth to Ft. Riley,Kansas State Universityand the coming of NBAFto bringing the flights toManhattan. But other fac-tors sealed the deal.

“What put (AmericanAirlines) over the edge,was working with thestate of Kansas and thecommunity of Manhattanwere able to offer the air-line a revenue guaran-

tee.” Van Kuren said.Basically, the revenue

guarantee meant that thecity and the state werewilling to share the risk ofbringing the flights to, atthe time, an unprovenmarket.

This presented Man-hattan and the surround-ing area with a tremen-dous advantage, says VanKuren.

“I think the mainadvantage is just the con-venience to many people,not just in Manhattan, butJunction City and othersurrounding communi-ties,” Van Kuren said.“We have quite a few peo-ple west of here using ourairport instead of otherairports.”

Van Kuren points to areport done by the KansasDepartment of Trans-portation in 2008, donebefore the air serviceswere offered, showingthat the airport has anearly $23 million impacton the region aroundManhattan.

Van Kuren said that theairport being as small as itis presents anotheradvantage to that of thebigger alternatives inWichita and Kansas City.Manhattan is able to offersmaller lines and less of acrowd, which can makethe experience much eas-ier.

He said they receive

many compliments on thesecurity and TSA person-nel as well, in what he con-siders another advan-tage.

“Our security folks areour neighbors, these arepeople who live in ourc o m m u n i t y … w e ’ v ereceived a lot of good com-pliments because ofthem.”

The service can be uti-lized well by students ofKansas State, especiallythose who are out of state,or those looking to go on atrip or even looking to stayin Manhattan after gradu-ation, job hunting.

“For the students thatare enrolled, from statesfurther away, flyingdirectly into Manhattan,or having family membersfly directly into Manhat-tan, is a huge conveniencefor them,” VanKurensaid. “We see quite a bit ofstudents here.

“When a student gradu-ates (and is looking for ajob), now there maybe anopportunity to remainhere locally, stay in thecommunity and get a real-ly good job,” Van Kurensaid, because of the air-port.

However, Van Kurendoes say that the airportneeds improvements inorder to continue to suc-ceed. He said an expan-sion is in the mix for the13,000 square foot termi-

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In the end, the resi-dents in and around Man-hattan do seem to be veryhappy with the airport’sservices. Van Kuren sayshe has gotten a lot of feed-back from customers.

“(We’ve had) over-whelmingly positivefeedback right from theget-go,” says Van Kuren.

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On March 31, Bruce Weber wasintroduced as the 24th men’s bas-ketball coach in Kansas State’s

history. Weber will lead a team thatreturns all but one scholarship playerthis coming season. Here’s a Q&A withCoach Weber to help K-State fans get toknow the new head man of Wildcat bas-ketball.

Q: What are your thoughts of Manhat-tan so far?

Weber: “I think it’s a good Midwest-ern town, people are very, very friendly.Obviously they love K-State, there’s pur-ple everywhere and it’s just a good placeto live. If you’re a student seems like afun place to go to school.”

Q: Is there anything about Manhattanthat makes it unique from Champaignand Carbondale, Ill.?

Weber: “I’ve been very fortunate tobe in a lot of college towns…as a dad andfor having a family, I think it’s a greatplace to grow up, (it’s) great for familyand to be around the university, there’susually a lot of opportunities for yourfamily. I think for me, Manhattan setsitself apart. The friendliness of the peo-ple — it’s been amazing how warm thewelcome has been for myself, my familyand staff. It makes you feel good, itmakes you feel wanted and feel goodabout being at a place.”

Q: What is the most common questionK-State fans have asked you, so far?

Weber: “I think the biggest one cur-rently was, ‘Are all the players going tocome back?’ That was the questionbeing at most places. I think we’re goingto be OK. I think we’re very fortunate tohave a good group, an experiencedgroup, a talented group, but I’m hopingthat (the players) are all there and readyto go. If things go right, we should be oneof the top 25 teams in the country, nowyou got to go prove it.”

Q: How is the construction processgoing on the Basketball Training Facili-ty?

Weber: “It should be done by the timeschool gets going and we should be inthere. The goal right now is late summer,late July, early August. I would say by thetime we get back from our Brazil trip,August 18th, and when school starts thatnext week, we should be in there full go.(The facility) is a great selling tool forour basketball program, it’s going to be a

great recruiting tool, (it has) all the bellsand whistles you need for when the kidsand parents come on campus. But just asimportantly, it’s going to be great for ourcurrent players, both the men’s andwomen’s teams. It’s just a great opportu-nity for practice, to get in and workoutand train. The players are excited, andwe’re excited as a staff to have anotherthing to sell to potential recruits.”

Q: Have you and your team set a goal forthe upcoming season?

Weber: “We’ve talked about takingsome steps further than they did a yearago, that’s the biggest goal. In life, you’realways trying to get better and I thinkthat’s the biggest thing. Are far as justsetting goals right now, it’s going to waitto see how the summer goes. We havethat trip to Brazil, which will be a greatopportunity in late August, (we’ll) have10 days a practice, get to know the guys,some games over there. I think whenthey come back; I’ll have a little betterfeel of what the goal should be as a team.But right now it’s taking what they did, ataking it a step further than what theydid a year ago.”

Q: In the limited time you’ve been withthe team, do you see a ceiling on what theycan do? Is it sky’s the limit?

Weber: “I don’t know about “sky’s thelimit,” but I think we have chance to bevery good. To have a successful team incollege, to me, you got to have experi-ence, and we do have experience. Wehave four seniors that have all played,some of them major, major minutes. Yougot to look at Jordan (Henriquez) as oneof the better big men in Big 12, andmaybe in the country. And then Rodney(McGruder) of course, one the betterswing players, big guards (in the coun-try). He could be a preseason All-Big 12Player of the Year possibly. But you alsowin in college basketball with guardplay. You got Angel (Rodriguez) who hasa year under his belt, you got WillSpradling who is one of the better shoot-ers, and he’s also a good ball handler.Martavious (Irving) is an experiencedsenior. I think the big thing would bedeveloping some depth. Whether it’s atthe big guys with Thomas Gipson andAdrian Diaz, and then at the guards, whois going to be that fifth or sixth guard orswingman that can help us be success-ful.”

Q: What different coaching styles willwe see between you and Frank Martin?

Weber: “First, Frank did a great jobhere, coach Huggins got it going, he

reenergized the program, he got sometalented players. He brought in a cul-ture of toughness, defense and rebound-ing, we hope to continue that. We’vealways taken pride in our teams beingvery good defensive teams. When I wasan assistant at Purdue, under coachKeady, he was one ofthe great defensivecoaches. I learned alot from him; mySouthern Illinoisteams were some ofthe better defen-sive teams, alongwith my Illinoisteams. I also feellike, if you look for adifference, I hopeoffensively, we’re alittle more up-tempo. We do havesome experience;we do have someguard play, somaybe push the ball a little bit more anduse our defense to create some offense.”

Q: From what you’ve seen, what aresome of the major differences in Big 12play to Big Ten play?

Weber: “I think there’s probably a lit-tle better athletes in the Big 12, not thatthe Big Ten doesn’t have good players,but I think you get a little better athlete,and I’m not sure why that is, whether it’sTexas influenced, a lot of (Big 12) teamshave gone out east to get some of the prepschools. I think it’s a little more up-tempo in the Big 12, a lot of it is becauseof the coaches that have been in there along time. (The Big Ten) very much a pos-session and defensive league. You havesome of that in the Big 12, but it’s a littlemore athletic, a little more up-tempo.”

Q: In the limited relaxation time thatyou find, what do you like to do?

Weber: “One, I want to be around myfamily, as a coach you don’t get thatopportunity much, you’re gone so much,your days are long and that free time isvery valuable, you hope that you canreally have quality time when you getthose free days. But (my family) love thebeach; I like the water, I like the beachand the walk, to just swim and to justrelax. That’s my favorite thing whetherit’s Florida or the beach in South Caroli-na, just get bikes and ride. Just kind ofrelax and enjoy each other. Ironically,people think I’m nuts, one of my favorite,relaxing things is to cut the grass. I don’tget to be outside much. I can get out andcut the grass and sweat a little bit, be out

in the sun, and no one bothers me. Peo-ple think it’s crazy, but I tell them I enjoythat.”

Q: What’s your favorite Wildcat Tradi-tion you’ve learned?

Weber: “I just know the crowds aregreat, the cheers,the students being(right next to thecourt), the cheersthat they have. I alsoreally appreciatethe relationshipwith Ft. Riley andthe soldiers. I had achance to go to Ft.Riley and saw thechanging of the com-mand. I hope to stayinvolved with themas a basketball pro-gram and I thinkthey appreciate it, tohave the soldiers at

the games, that’s great. (K-State) hasgreat fans, the student following, wehope we can continue them cheering forthe Wildcats.”

Q: How excited are you that the Big 12Basketball Tournament will remain inKansas City, at the Sprint Center?

Weber: “Well, it’s a great advantagefor us. We played Alabama there lastyear, we got Florida there this year, wehope to continue to have a game thereover the holidays there every year. It’s agreat advantage for our fans to be thereand it’s a great venue. Kansas City is agreat city, the Plaza, the arena, there’s alot of things there for Big 12 Basketball,and especially for K-State.”

Q: Last question, will fans see a purplesuit this season?

Weber: “Yeah, there’s no doubt. I waspresented one at my press conference.Whether it’s that one or I find anotherone. I’ll pull it out for a big game, andthen continue that tradition of wearingthat periodically throughout the sea-son, once or twice a year. I think it’simportant, there’s a lot of pride, there’spurple everywhere. I’m just amazedhow much purple there is; I went to oneof my first events at an auction. I calledmy wife, I said ‘there’s purple dresses,scarf’s, skirts, anything you can think of.’I didn’t know there was so much purple.We want to keep that pride and theschool colors, and we’ll definitely sup-port it.”

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“One of my favoritethings to do is to cut thegrass. I don’t get outsidethat much. I can get outand sweat a little bit, beout in the sun, and noone bothers me.”

— Bruce Weber

Staff photo by:Tommy TheisBruce Webber as he takes his first public questions as the new Kansas State basketball coach in the Vanier Complex.

Contents of this specialKSU edition of The Mer-cury were prepared bythree KSU students.

Jeremy Bohn is a seniorin digital journalism andmass com-m u n i c a -tion. He isfrom Man-h a t t a n ,and is a2009 grad-uate ofM a n h a t -tan HighS c h o o l .Since hegrew up in Man-hattan, Bohn is familiarwith the important issuesabout the community; how-ever, he said he had tochange his perspective inorder to direct some of hisstories to people who mightnot know very much aboutManhattan and the sur-rounding area. Bohn notesthat he grew up playingsports, and wants to coversports after graduation.His dream job is to do play-by-play college footballand basketball some day.

Anton Trafimovich is aninternational student fromB e l a r u swho hasjust com-pleted aone-yearp r o g r a min jour-n a l i s mand com-m u n i c a -

tion at K-State. Eventhough he’s alreadyworked for the KansasState Collegian in thespring, he says he has foundworking for a city newspa-per to be very different.

Along with the journal-ism experience heacquired, Trafimovichsays he really enjoyed get-ting to know the local com-munity during his intern-ship. He said that inter-viewing residents whohave been lived here theirentire lives and those whojust settled after graduat-ing from K-State helpedhim to better understandthis town’s soul, somethingthat was hard to do on cam-pus.

Tommy Theis is a seniorin computer science atKansas State University.Theis says he has alwaysbeen attracted to photogra-phy, and always carries acamera with him. “Thereare justtoo manythings inlife thatsimply getlost intime if notr e c o r d -ed,” hesaid. Hehopes tobe able to make a career inphotography while usingthe tools he has learned incomputer science to helphim excel in making newand exciting content.


Kansas summers such asthis most recent one, withdaily temperatures around100 degrees, are rough. Butthey do have advantages.Solar energy researcherssay the very hot and sunnyconditions give them moreopportunities to studyways of obtaining energyfrom the sun.

This past spring AyomiPerera was selected to pre-sent her research on pro-tein-based solar cells at theKansas Capitol. A doctoralstudent in chemistry whoworks with Prof. StephanBossmann, their researchfocuses on solar technolo-gy that doesn’t require anexpensive silicon panel.

Bossmann said in thefuture proteins for solar cellapplications wil be grown inalgaes, which can convertwaste water. The proteinthe scientists use in theirresearch is unusually sta-ble and is able to remainbelow 120 degrees, a tem-perature that woulddestroy most known pro-teins.

“It has a potential,”Bossmann said. “The con-cept is definitely revolu-tionary. It’s just a matter ofrealizing it and commer-cializing it.”

The simple conditionsmake this technology avail-able in any state. BecauseBossmann chose to publishhis discovery beforeobtaining a patent, thetechnology will also beavailable in poor coun-tries.

“Sometimes you have togive something to the worldcommunity,” Bossmannexplained.

He hopes poor countrieswill be able to build theirown cells not be dependenton expensive technologies.

The technology doesn’trequire cooling, as classicsolar cells do. To cool con-ventional solar cells, wateris needed. Water can be arare and valuable com-

modity in hot, dry places. “This seems so much

more heat resistant, whichmeans you could put themthere [in deserts],” Boss-mann said.

The technology hasn’tbecome commercial yet,however. Perera said theyare investigating differentsurfaces to accommodatethe protein complex. Ifthey receive sufficientfunding, they can push themodel toward commercialproduction.

“Basically, when youhave a working system it’s amatter of funding to scale itup, optimize it; that’s whyit’s crucial that we havemore funding,” Pererasaid. “Right now we arelimited. We have to doeverything in nanoscale.”

Perera’s presentation tothe House resulted in manycalls for interviews. Sheand Bossmann empha-sized that Kansas can be anappropriate place to com-mercialize this idea.

Bossmann believes pro-duction of this type of cellwould stimulate theKansas economy since itrequires a lot of mid-payjobs.

NanotechnologiesChemistry professor

Jun Li is building solar cellpanels, utilizing nanotech-nologies.

Li said that most oftoday’ solar cells are madeof silicon. They are highlyefficient but are too expen-sive for wide usage.

To decrease the price ofthe solar cells, Li is explor-ing chemical methods com-bined with nanomaterials.

“Chemists and biolo-gists know how to makesolar cells cheaper bylearning from the naturalphotosynthesis,” he said.

Unlike the traditionalapproach, Li puts dye mol-ecules onto a verticallyaligned brush-shapedmaterial so that they cancapture more sunlight andthus generate more elec-

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Top 10 People Of K-Stateto Follow On Twitter

1. President, KirkSchulz @kstate_pres: Stayup-to-date on everythinggoing on with K-State. Pres-ident Schulz is very goodabout posting updatesfrom every aspect ofKansas State University.

2. Athletic Director,John Currie @John_Currie:Everything you will need toknow about K-State sportsvia John Currie

3. K-State News@KState: Kansas State Uni-versity’s official news out-let for everything involvingK-State.

4. K-State Athletics@kstatesports: All latestnews and results regardingWildcat athletics.

5. Bruce Weber @coach-bruceweber: Head Men’sBasketball coach, in hisfirst season at K-State.

6. Gopowercat.com@GoPowercat: For all lat-est news, results andrumors regarding K-State

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7. The Big 12 Conference@big12conference: Followall latest news, results andinformation about K-State’s home conference,the Big 12.

8. Bill Snyder @coach-billsnyder: while coachSnyder may not be alwaysposting, he will put someinspirational notes upfrom time-to-time.

9. Doug Powell @barf-blog: K-State professor offood safety. Has a prettyentertaining twitter page,with lots of good informa-tion and pictures. Beware;most of his posts have to dowith food recalls.

10. Eric Stonestreet@ericstonestreet: Actorfrom ABC’s “Modern Fami-ly.” Stonestreet is a K-Statealum, and avid Wildcat fan.His twitter page will keepyou laughing as he postsmultiple times a day.

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Making solar power cheaper, more practical

Staff photos by:Tommy TheisA student places her newly made solar cell into a machine that will simulate the sun’s power in order to asssist researchers in con-trolling tests of the efficiency of cells.

A close look at one of the students’ solar cells. The cell in theback has a tube that allows the student to inject gases of vari-ous types into it.

tricity.“This nanostructure

makes the solar cells moresimilar to the photosynthe-sis systems of greenplants,” Li said.

Similar nanomaterialwas also used to make moreefficient Li-ion batteries,which can store more ener-gy, last longer, and operateat higher rates.

PhotosynthesisProfessor Ryszard

Jankowiak looks on thesolar energy from the per-spective of physics andbiology. Using the princi-ple of photosynthesis, heexplores how scientistscan learn from nature todesign efficient artificialphotosystems for solarcells.

Jankowiak said of par-ticular interest to hisresearch group is under-standing how solar pho-tons are absorbed by pho-tosynthetic antennas anddelivered to the reactioncenter for charge separa-tion.

The goal research is tobetter understand energytransfer and charge sepa-ration pathways in naturaland artificial photosys-tems. This may enable sci-entists to produce futuresolar cells with animproved quantum effi-

ciency. “The challenge is how to

integrate proteins intooptoelectronic circuits atthe nanoscale,” Jankowiaksaid.

One way might be cou-pling photosystems to car-bon nanotubes

WorkshopsTo enhance society’s

awareness of renewableenergy technologies, K-State also organizes manyworkshops for middle andhigh schools students.

This summer K-Statehosted the EXCITE work-shop for high school girlsand the GROW workshopfor middle school girls. Thestudents were able to gethands-on experience withsolar cells and other elec-tronic components to learnhow energy was trans-formed among light, elec-tricity, wind, and sound. Inanother experiment, stu-dents used the electricityfrom batteries or solarcells to electrolyze waterinto hydrogen and oxygen.These gases were then feedinto a fuel cell to drive amotor car.

“These new technolo-gies work together to pro-vide sustainable solutionsfor utilizing the energyfrom renewable sources,”Li said.

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Kirk Schulz is always onduty. As president ofKansas State University,he will be recognized justabout anywhere he goesaround Manhattan. Stu-dents, alumni or the citi-zens of the city will stop andstart a conversation withhim, which is somethinghe’s prepared for.

“You’re on all the time(as president),” Schulzsaid, “whether you’rewalking through HomeDepot buying lumber oryou’re out speaking in frontof an alumni group — ifyou’re in Manhattan,you’re on.”

Schulz knew that wouldbe part of the gig when hetook the job four years ago.Although he and his familyhad to get used to it, it’s oneof the many aspects of hisjob that he enjoys.

“That’s all a part of it. Tome, that’s part of the fun ofbeing a college president,”said Schulz.

Longtime Kansas StatePresident Jon Wefaldretired in 2009 after 23years on the job. TheKansas Board of Regentsthen hired Schulz, whocame from MississippiState University.

Schulz said when hecame to K-State, he foundthe university lacking inseveral areas, includingthe recognition of faculty

and students for their suc-cesses and achievements.

“One of the things I real-ly wanted to do (when I gothere) was make sure thatwe were recognizing ourfaculty for the kinds ofthings that they are doingin terms of their success-es,” Schulz said. “I don’tthink that we had done areally good job of that (inthe past). We’d have a facul-

ty member win anaward…and I would go toTopeka and nobody knewanything about it.”

Schulz said he reallywanted to work on brand-ing and marketing studentand faculty successes to theworld.

“One of the things I’mvery proud of is that we nowhave a Division of Commu-nications and Marketing

and we have increased ourability to publicize, in aneffective way, the thingsthat our faculty, our stu-dents, our staff are doing.(We’re) doing so much bet-ter than we have before,”said Schulz.

Schulz also saw the needfor improvement of facili-ties around campus. Alongwith the athletic facilityimprovements, K-State is

expanding Justin Hall.Renovations are alsoplanned to the Seaton Hallcomplex and a new resi-dence hall is in the mix.

Schulz’s No. 1 goal whenhe arrived was to put in aplace a long-term plan thatwould move the universi-ty's national image for-ward. He came up with the2025 plan, which is K-State’s goal to become a top50 public research institu-tion by the year 2025.

“(The goal was) to put in aplace a long-term visionaryplan…and I think we’realmost there,” Schulz said,“The colleges are workingon their plans, departmentsare starting to work on theirplans, and the idea at the endof our planning processes isevery person, faculty, staff orstudent at K-State has gotsome plan that relates to himor her every day.”

Schulz said there aremany things about K-Statethat he enjoys. Whether itbe its proximity toAggieville, the Kansaslimestone buildingsaround campus, to even theweather, Schulz said has noproblem boasting aboutthe university and what itdoes for people.

But Schulz says the peo-ple and the pride they showare what make K-Stategreat.

“I love the people associ-ated with the university, thepassion. You walk throughcampus any day of the week,

and just think about howmany people are wearingpurple…. You go to a lot ofother universities across thenation, you won’t see that (asmuch). I think the pride peo-ple have with the institutionis really the thing I like themost about Kansas State,”Schulz said.

It’s that pride that Schulzhopes new students toKansas State will display. Itis his hope that they getinvolved with some aspect ofthe university. From Greeklife to a club, he wants everystudent to find something todo.

“I tell our students alwaysto be involved on campus,”Schultz said. “I want our stu-dents to be active in ourclubs …because I think thatmakes it a richer experi-ence.”

He enjoys meeting stu-dents and their familiesand hearing about theirexperiences.

“I hope that I comeacross as pretty approach-able,” he said. “I try tointeract with people onsocial media, Facebookand Twitter. But I like thatfact that I’ll be sitting at arestaurant and a student ortwo will come up and intro-duce themselves or intro-duce their parents who arewith them. I want to be apretty approachable presi-dent, one that people willcome up and have a conver-sation with, even if they’venever met me before.”

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Entering his fourth yearat Kansas State University,Athletic Director JohnCurrie has seen a lot ofchange while leading Wild-cat athletics.

He's had hectic sum-mers of conferencerealignment that resultedin four schools — Colorado,Nebraska, Texas A&M andMissouri — leaving the Big12. And he's been throughthe process of gaining newconference members —TCU and West Virginia.

On his arrival at the uni-versity, K-State athleticfacilities were well behindother schools in the Big 12.Now, K-State athletics hastwo new multimillion-dol-lar projects under con-struction that will put theschool on par with the restof the conference.

Currie has seen successon the playing field as well.Just this past season, thatsuccess included a trip tothe Cotton Bowl for thefootball team, another tripto the NCAA tournamentfor both the men’s andwomen’s basketball pro-grams, a Sweet 16 volley-

ball team appearance, andErik Kynard winning hissecond consecutive highjump national champi-onship. Currie has alsoseen the departure of bas-ketball coach Frank Mar-tin and led the hiringprocess of Martin'sreplacement, BruceWeber.

“This has been an excit-ing year and a year of greatprogress," Currie said.

"From this time lastyear, we were still inthe process of deter-mining the contrac-tor plan for the WestStadium project, wehad just brokenground on the Bas-ketball TrainingFacility and welaunched K-StateHD.TV. We were oneof only five schoolsin the country tohave a football teamin the bowl gameand have our volley-ball and men’s andwomen’s basketballteams win games inthe NCAA tourna-ment. It’s been a very

exciting year."It’s been a lot of

hard work for Currieand his staff since hejoined K-State. In 2009,Kansas State was given ahuge black eye when it wasrevealed that former ath-letic director Bob Krauseand former football coachRon Prince had a secretagreement that would payPrince more than $3 mil-lion in a three-year timespan following Prince's fir-ing in November 2008.

The university eventu-

ally settled out of courtwith Prince. The damage,however, had been done,as the new administrationunder President KirkSchulz and Currie hadhuge debts to deal withand not much to offer inthe way of an athletic bud-get.

“The budget (Schulzand I) were handed whenwe walked in the door forathletics showed a $10million deficit for thecoming year. We wereable to over come that. Wehad some other issueswith past contracts andlawsuits that we inherit-ed that we workedthrough,” Currie said.

“We’ve really tried tolook forward and be verytransparent with ourfinances so our fans andcontributors know whatthey’re investing in whenthey send K-State a few dol-lars,” Currie said.“Whether it’s $50 or $50,000,we want folks to know howthe money gets spent.”

It’s the fan support thatCurrie points to that hasmade a big impact on theuniversity's nationalimage. Currie says thatwhat really tells the story of

K-State, more than any-thing, is seeing the studentsection packed at footballor basketball games. Thisshows the country just howimportant the university isto its students, and it canonly lead to more exposurefor K-State.

“Our students have ahuge, huge role in distin-guishing K-State,” Curriesaid. “When that televi-sion camera comes on andwhen that student sectionis completely packed,that sends an unbeliev-able message across thecountry about what ouruniversity is allabout…that tells more ofa story, nationally, thanalmost anything else wecan do.”

K-State soon will havetwo brand new facilitiesin the Basketball Train-ing Facility and the WestStadium Center that willhelp the fan experience,student-athlete experi-ence, and help recruitingin almost all sports, Cur-rie said.

K-State has also seen alot of success financiallyon Currie’s watch. Hecredits the generousdonations K-State fans

have given to the student-athlete experience, aswell as the net surplus ofmoney the athleticdepartment has built tosustain K-State athletics.

“We’re one of only 22programs in America thatoperates at a net surplus,”Currie said.

But Currie is not satis-fied; it’s his goal, alongwith the rest of the athlet-ic department, to becomenational leader in the stu-dent-athlete and fanexperience for collegeathletics. It’s a goal thatCurrie says K-State hasnot reached yet, but is onthe way to achieving.

“We want to be theschool when peoplearound the country aretalking about who does itthe right way, and thatmeans winning, thatmeans graduating, thatmeans service to the com-munity and being a greatuniversity unit that wewant people to use as anexample of a model pro-gram,” Currie said.

“It is also a goal that younever stop working on,”Currie said. “You’ll alwayshave to be focused on thatgoal.”

Athletic department is a fast-changing entity

Athletic director John Currie

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Pat Bosco has beeninvolved with K-State forthe better part of fourdecades. He has seen theWildcat football team gofrom a laughing stock toone of the best in the Big 12,and has seen the universi-ty’s enrollment jump from17,000 to 24,000 students.

Bosco, who enrolled asan undergraduate in edu-cation in 1969 and who hasbeen vice president for stu-dent life for about 25 years,has also seen a change inthe students as well. Stu-dents are more concernedfinancially, than what theyhave been in the past.

“The students, today,are concerned aboutfinances, so affordability(of college) is a huge con-cern for our students,” saidBosco. “The other is jobs,the opportunity to havechoices after graduation isa big deal for our students.”

Bosco says that thosetwo issues were also impor-tant 20-30 years ago, andthey continue to be “para-mount, in they eyes of thestudents.”

In dealing with thoseand other issues, Kansas

State and Bosco have beenworking to do whateverthey can that will aid thestudents of K-State. Boscopoints to improvements tothe student union, recre-ation facilities and the Jar-dine housing develop-ment.

He says there are stillmany projects in the works.

“We’re raising moneyfor a new facility, called awelcome center, to houseour Career and Employ-ment Service area, whichwill be in Memorial Stadi-um.” Bosco said. “We havea drive underway right nowfor scholarships, which hasalways been our numberone priority.”

Bosco said the universi-ty would also like to moveits recruiting efforts to theWelcome Center once it iscomplete.

He also calls for moreimprovements to the Stu-dent Union and rec com-plex.

“I would like to add anaddition on to our StudentUnion, I would like to add afourth addition on to ourrecreation complex, anatatorium,” he said.Bosco said the hope is toseek student approval of areferendum that would

replace the current natato-rium. No date, however,has been set for such a stu-dent vote, and he dscribedit as “years away.”.

If you think Bosco’s lifehas been dedicated to K-State, you would be right.He graduated in 1971. As anundergrad, he was elected

student body president.His two children alsoattended and graduatedfrom K-State, where hesays both distinguishedthemselves as studentleaders, like their father.

Still, Bosco worksseven days a week.Whether it’s a purple tie

he wears every day, to hispurple car he drives,Bosco tries to build a rela-tionship with studentsand their parents.

“We embrace the phi-losophy of putting stu-dents first. We work veryhard to build relation-ships with not only stu-dents, but their families,”said Bosco, “I’m proud ofthe relationship I’veenjoyed with thousandsof K-State students andtheir families, over gener-ations.”

Bosco takes a greatdeal of pride in what theuniversity has done forstudents. He is mostproud of continuing thelegacy of involving stu-dents at all levels, the cor-nerstone of all he hastried to accomplish at K-State. He’s also proud ofthe overall pride, the stu-dents take in their school.

“That ownership hastranslated into projectslike the renovations of theresidence halls, like therecreation complex orour student union renova-tion,” he said. “Withoutthe continued interestand ownership in our stu-dents, the involvement, ina genuine way, in the plan-

ning and the execution ofevery thing we do withinthe university, we would-n’t have that kind of own-ership. Our studentswouldn’t be wearing pur-ple everyday.”

Students showingpride in their school col-ors is what makes Boscothe most proud, becauseof the sense of spirit and“ownership”, the stu-dents have in their school.

He finds it importantfor the new students to getinvolved as well. He hasbeen welcoming incom-ing new students for morethan 40 years, and theadvice he gives them is tofind someone to connectwith or someone to lookup too, to make it worththe stay.

“The most importantadvice, I would hope thatevery single one of themwould find somebody whoknows (the new students)are here,” he said. “Theinstant connection mightbe resident assistant,upperclassmen, advisoror club sponsor from oneof our 475 student organi-zations. There ought to besome kind of connectivi-ty.”


Even as a graduate stu-dent in the 1960s, DanielY.C. Fung was an innovatorin food safety. As a widelyknown professor of foodscience at Kansas StateUniversity, he has wonnumerous awards andtitles, while enhancingKSU’s reputation as one ofthe foremost schools infood safety and microbiol-ogy detection methods.

Fung believes the key tosuccess is to appreciateyour job and work hard.That’s what he has tried todo. Born in Hong Kong, hereceived a scholarship tostudy at InternationalChristian University inTokyo. His first year therewas devoted to learningJapanese. Five days a weekforeign students spent atleast 18 hours a day atstudying the new language.Fung said several studentsquit because they couldn’thandle so much informa-tion. He recalled one stu-dent who graduated from atop university in the U.S.but literally cried at havingto study so hard.

As a student in Japan,Fung hoped to continue hisgraduate education in theU.S. , something he wasable to do when he pursuedhis master of science inpublic health degree at theUniversity of North Caroli-na.

There he focused onefforts to miniaturize theentire microbiologicalprocedure. As a doctoralstudent at Iowa State, hedeveloped what is knownas the rapid method,enabling him to study hun-dreds of bacteria isolatesat a time.

“I said it’s stupid to study

300 unknown organismsusing the conventionalmethods,” Fung said.

One day while shoppingin Ames, Iowa, Fung hadhis Aha! moment. Henoticed ice cube trays withabout 100 compartments.Suddenly he thought ofgrowing microorganismsin similar small compart-

ments instead of using con-ventional Petri dishes. Theinnovation enabled Fungto miniaturize everythinghe was working on and tosqueeze his projected fiveyears of research into oneyear.

“We bought the ice cubetray for $2,” Fung said.“Those two containers wehave at home in our muse-um.”

In a similar way, Fungadapted a plate widelyused in immunologicaltesting to hold many moretest organisms at once. Healso developed a devicethat could transfer 96 dif-ferent bacteria onto thesurface of a single largeagar plate rather than mul-tiple plates. This enabledthe study of hundreds ofbacteria more efficiently.

Fung said his wifeencouraged him. Havingher own degree in counsel-ing and being curious bynature, she was supportivefor Fung’s scientific inno-vation.

“She is very intelligent,very innovative in thinkingabout all kinds of ideas,”Fung said.

The invention of rapidmethods was a decisivepoint in their lives. Afterpublishing papers on hisdiscovery, Fung was invit-ed to many universities andconferences in the U.S. andabroad to present and dis-cuss rapid methods.

“I was completely crazy

at that time in terms ofwork”, he said. ”I knew itwill revolutionize microbi-ology. And it actually did.”

After completing hisdoctorate at Iowa State, hewent to Penn State. In 1978he got a job offer from K-State. He said the decisionto come here was impor-tant. K-State gave him theopportunity and facilitiesto develop his teaching andresearch program effi-ciently. In 1985 he became afull professor of food sci-ence and animal sciencesand industry.

“K-State is absolutelythe right type of universi-ty,” he said.

In Manhattan Fung wasable to continue hisresearch, publish papersand work with students. Hehas been a major professorto 34 doctoral and 84 mas-ter’s graduates, and hasbeen on more than 100 MS

and PhD committees ofother professors’ graduatestudents.

Fung believes that to besuccessful in academia,one needs to be unique. Heworks a lot with studentsand wants them to come upwith their own ideas.

“You just have to dosomething that is unusualand creative,” he said. “Itell my students don’t justfollow somebody, createsomething new.”

Also he admonishes hisstudents not be afraid offailures. If you fail, he said,you might get a new per-spective on the trivialthings. Observing whatwent wrong can take stu-dents to something undis-covered.

“By understanding whatdidn’t work one can pavethe way for the most imor-tant developments,” hesaid.

Noted food professor’s advice: Be original, work hard

Bosco pushes agenda for an ever-improving K-State

Staff photos by Tommy TheisDaniel Fung: Internationally known KSU foods professor as heshows off his inovative solution to test for bacteria in foodproducts.

Daniel Fung sits with his wife, Catherine holding the very sameice cube tray that inspired Fung on creatuon of the rapid moth-od in the 1970’s.

Pat Bosco stands next to his purple car just outside of his officein Anderson Hall.

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What some people callrecycled paper, archivistsview as significantresearch material. That iswhy you can find the posi-tion of archivist at publicand private entities.

Cliff Hight is thearchivist for Kansas StateUniversity. He first consid-ered becoming a historyprofessor, but the marketsituation changed hismind.

“My undergraduateadviser warned me thatthere were a lot of unem-ployed people that hadPhDs in history... I realizedprobably I should be look-ing for something a little bitmore employable,” hesaid. “That’s why I went toarchives.”

Archivists still havevery strong ties with thehistory field. Hight said healso became an archivistbecause it’s connecting thepast and the present.

“When I think about whyI decided to become anarchivist, I recognized thathistory is a great connec-tor,” he said. “It helps toconnect me to what’s hap-pened in the past.”

Being an archivist caninvolve working with localhistory museums and uni-versities, individuals orgiant corporations.

“Historic items willhelp them to make deci-sions about future direc-tions or products,” Hightsaid.

His first real job in thefield was at the NationalBaseball Hall of Fame inCooperstown, NY. Heworked on the project ofdescribing the records ofAugust “Garry” Herrmann,president of the CincinnatiReds and chairman of theNational Commission, inthe early 1900s. In the latterpositi0on, Herrmann wasperhaps the most impor-tant figure in baseballbetween 1903 and 1919.

Hight’s job was to makethose rare old notes avail-able for researchers. To doso, Hight first appraises thematerial and determinesits research value. Theneach record goes into a spe-cific box according to thetype of information and thetime period. Finally, therecord should have anavailable format andonline location so morepeople can find it.

“That’s part of the idea,and a recent trend in thefield is to make as much of

what we have in our hold-ings available to anybodywho has web access,” Hightsaid.

To be able to work withspecific computer soft-ware, archivists arerequired to have either amaster’s in library or infor-mation science. Theirundergraduate degree,however, can be in anymajor.

After one and a halfyears at the Hall of Fame,Hight moved to Cañon City,Colo. to manage a regionalhistory museum. Staying ina small town, he had theopportunity to be involvedin many different aspects

of the job.“That really helped to

flesh out some of the skillsthat I have,” Hight said.

Four and a half yearslater, Hight found an open-ing at K-State’s HaleLibrary. He was very skep-tical about Manhattan, ashe still had a memory of dri-ving through westernKansas where there is lessvariation in the geography.

“How am I going to livein Kansas?” Hight thought.“It’s flat.”

He changed his mind ashe saw the Flint Hills ter-rain. Also the interviewitself promised him agrowth opportunity at K-

State. One year after mov-ing to Manhattan, he saidhis family really likes thistown.

“We have been here overa year and we really like it,”he said. “It has got more tooffer, such as culturalopportunities and flexible

recreational activities. It’snice.”

At Hale Library, Hight isin charge of the university’shistorically importantrecords. His job is toensure that the archivesstaff is effectively main-taining records, and to fig-ure out how to capture therecords and make themaccessible via electronicmedia.

Many documents arerequired to be kept just acouple of years. However, ifarchivists think somethingis worth keeping forever,they do it. The same type ofactivity occurs with docu-ments that some graduatesor faculty bring to thelibrary.

“If it helps describe thestudent or academic expe-rience of the university, wewill keep that,” he said.

In many ways, an archiveis like a museum. The dif-ference is that they acceptonly documents, and veryfew objects. For example,if someone offers a profes-sor’s desk, the archives

would take only the docu-ments it might contain.

Right now Hight is busywith administrative workand special projects andhas less time to work withrecords. While he likesboth parts of his job, hestrives to carve out time towork on the collections.Working on them, he canobserve the epiphaniesthat occasionally takeplace among researcherswhen they find exactlywhat they are looking.

“That‘s one of the mostfulfilling experiences.Then I know I’ve done myjob.”

Hight said being anarchivist and working withthe past helps him tounderstand how to betterapply lessons in the future.

“If people have tried tohandle these patterns inthe past unsuccessfullyand we are still dealingwith them unsuccessfullytoday, what can we learnfrom them to try and makeit different for future,” hesaid. “Or conversely how

Cliff Hight: K-State’s keeper of the records

Photos by Tommy Theis

Cliff Hight: In charge of access to valued research material. He is seen here looking at one of thefirst ever deplomas that was given to a student at Kansas State University.

This is just a small section of the KSU archives, the archives holdeverything from finacial records, records, to even photographsfrom over 100 years ago.

Staff photo by Tommy Theis


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Greg Peterson doesn’t get towork on his farm as much as hewould want these days. Much ofhis time is spent elsewhere.

“I’ve been talking on thephone and answering emails, Ihaven’t had a whole lot of timeto get much work done,” Peter-son said. “I’ve lost productivity,and probably lost some money.”

It’s part of the sacrifice thesenior in Ag Communicationsand Journalism has had tomake since posting his Youtubehit, “I’m Farming and I Grow It,”a parody of the LMFAO song,“I’m Sexy and I Know It.”

The video features Petersonand his younger brothers,Nathan, 18, and Kendal, 15,showing what their typical dayon their farm is like through thesong. It starts with them walk-ing through a field of grass, therising sun in the background. Ata few points in the video, Peter-son can be seen wearing differ-ent K-State shirts.

The Peterson brothers havebeen farming all their liveswith their father on their familyfarm, which might be viewed asthe stereotypical Kansas farm,near Assaria.

“We’re primarily, beef, cat-tle,” said Peterson, “we have allthe typical Kansas crops;wheat, corn, soybeans, alfalfa,all that.”

The spoof idea started as a

joke. Greg and his friends wereat a Sonic in Manhattan whenthe LMFAO song came on, andGreg started singing his ownversion to the song, just off thetop of his head. His friendsthought it was so hilarious thatthey told him to film it.

“I finally got around to it inthe summer, with my broth-ers,” he said.

“It started off as a joke…but

once it started to come togeth-er, we realized it had poten-tial, so then we put more of aagriculture focus on it. Sowhen I posted the video, it wasto promote agriculture,”Peterson said.

Since Peterson posted thevideo, it has enjoyed a whirl-wind of popularity. Majormedia outlets, among themthe Associated Press, FOX,

NBC and CBS, all had somesort of story about the video,and its popularity.

“Pretty much all the biggestones have posted an articlefrom somebody. I’ve spoken tothe Associated Press quiet abit,” said Peterson, who notedthat USA Today and the NewYork Daily News have donethings as well.

All this attention, from

across the country, is new toPeterson, and something has-n’t gotten used to yet.

“It’s been crazy, that’s pret-ty much the only word I cancome up with,” Peterson said,“it’s been harder than Iexpected, but it’s been fun atthe same time.

“It’s weird (being a celebri-ty), you go places and peoplestare at you,” he added. “I don’tunderstand why that happens,we’re just normal people.”

Peterson thinks that thevideo became so popularbecause many people couldrelate to it, whether throughfarming, agriculture or just thesmall town feel of the video.

“You know there’s all sorts oflines in there, that can make aconnection with people, and Ithink that’s why they like it,” hesaid.

Peterson did the video toshow that farmers are one of themost important assets to theAmerica. He also wanted toshow what a day in the life of afarmer is like to those unfamil-iar with farming and agriculture.Peterson posted the video sofarmers can get the kind of cred-it that they work so hard for,every day.

“Farmers are normal, hardworking people, like everybodyelse,” he said. “If you’re eatingfood every day, then you need tothank a farmer, you need to real-ize that farmers made that hap-pen.”

Video gone viral a plug for farmers and also for K-State

Greg Peterson and his brothers in a screen grab from their viral YouTube hit, “I’m Farming and I grow It.”

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Anton TrafimovichContributing writer

The first time Skylar Januaryjumped with a parachute was in2010. But even before that, he

already knew he would keep skydiving.In the two intervening years he hasjumped 134 times and become presi-dent of the K-State Parachute Club.

“As soon as I got into my first jump, Iwanted to go up again,” January said.

Skydiving was a family matter forJanuary. His brother, sister and uncleall skydive. As soon as he went to K-State he decided to join skydiving club.

Most, although not all, club mem-bers are K-State students. Some heli-copter pilots from Fort Riley train withthe K-State club as well.

The club goes to Abilene MunicipalAirport, the closest place for skydiving,to jump every weekend. Anotherreachable spot is in Osage south ofTopeka.

The K-State club is a non-profit orga-nization so it charges only the fare thatcovers organizational expenses. Fornewcomers the first static line jumpwill cost $170. The price includes a

four-hour class on Friday night andSaturday morning ground training.

A jump with the instructor cost $185.But the more a person jumps, thecheaper it becomes. After 25 jumpseveryone gets a license and pays $15 to$20 per jump.

“Once you’ll understand how to con-trol your canopy and land properly andpool your parachute on time, we starttaking you higher and higher, until youare jumping at 10,000 feet by yourself,”January said.

Unlike jumping with a static line,those who choose to jump in tandemwith an instructor go to 10,500 feet and

free fall for about 30-40 seconds.January said all newcomers are

intimidated when they see an opendoor. But after watching others jump, itgets easier.

Paul Visser, junior in business andtandem instructor at the K-State Para-chute club, said which type of jump Isbest depends on the person.

“I think people are going to bescared with either method justbecause it’s not done,” he said.

As an instructor, Visser assists first-time jumpers, who are attached to himall the way.

“If a person doesn’t want to carry asmuch responsibility or if somebodydoesn’t want to be doing it all on theirown, a tandem would probably be lessscary for them.”

Visser also added that first-timejumpers are anxious until they jumpoff the plane. Once they are outside,they feel more confident.

“They don’t know what it’s going tobe like, what it’s going to feel like butwhen their feet get outside the air-plane they forget about that all,” hesaid.

January said there are no reasons to

worry about equipment safety. In thelast decade, skydiving has become verysafe. If for some reason a skydiver for-gets to open a parachute, at the heightof 750 feet the computer will automati-cally canopy the parachute. The onlyinjury skydiver might get is from land-ing inappropriately.

“It is not as dangerous as it seems,”January said.

Sometimes jumping can be delayedor canceled because of the weather.Jumping is prohibited when clouds aretoo low or when it is windy or rainy. Stu-dents don’t jump when the wind speedis 15 miles per hour, and licensedjumpers stop jumping with the windspeed is 25 miles per hour.

January said he is still intimidatedby every jump. Now he is working onperfecting the free fall. He explained,that while skydiving the ground doesnot seem to get any closer until about4,000 feet. Before that moment ajumper presenting his legs to the windand further extending them can do aforward drive.

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The main bike trail inManhattan was started in1987 when the flood protec-tion levees along the Blueand the Kansas rivers wereadjusted for recreationalneeds and turned into whatnow is known as the LinearPark trail. Since then thetrail has been extended tonine miles connecting thenortheast and westernparts of the city.

The Linear Park trailremains the most accessi-ble and the most popularbike trail in the city. It is amultipurpose, partiallypaved trail. Dogs are alsoallowed there. The portionof the trail to the west fromManhattan Avenue goesthrough a forested part ofthe city, through severalbridges across WildcatCreek and eventually leadsto Anneberg Park on theedge of the city.

There is an exit from theLinear Park trail under theU.S. 24 bridge leading toforest. This is where theRiver trail starts. The trailhas been known amongbikers since 1990s. Beforethat time people used it toaccess fishing spots on thebank of the Blue River.

In 2008 Clint McAllisterand Aaron Apel, mechan-ics from Big Poppi’s bikeshop, started ManhattanTrail Works, the volunteerorganization for local trailcreation and maintenance.Together with a group ofvolunteers they startedextending the trail.

Equipped with suchhand tools as shovels, axes,machetes, loppers, and

hand saws, volunteersthreaded through thedebris of the riverside tocreate the path. The trailhas grown from 1.5 miles to6.

“It has become extreme-ly popular.” McAllistersaid. “Almost every time Igo out to ride the Manhat-tan River Trail, I see some-one else out there eitherbiking or hiking.”

Another project Man-hattan Trail Works hasdone was the extension ofthe Fancy Creek Trailcrossing the Fancy CreekPark to the north from Man-hattan. Unlike the Rivertrail, this one is not accessi-ble to an ordinary cyclist.Rocks on the way and steephills and intense climbsmake it approachable justby advanced bikers. But

like any other trail in thearea, the Fancy Creek trailserves hikers’ needs.

“It’s good for hiking,”McAllister said. “It’s a veryworthwhile trail to goexplore.”

There are also severaltrails within the city wherewide sidewalks are adapt-ed for bikers and hikers.Hudson trail runs west ofCiCo Park. The Meadow

Park trail goes along Kim-ball Avenue and NorthManhattan Avenue.Anneberg, Marlatt, Warn-er, North East parks andColbert Hills also havemultipurpose trails.

“And you’ll find thatmost trails in the city aredual purpose. Bikers andhikers can use them at thesame time,” McAllistersaid.

More trails will appearsoon. Apel said they havestarted developing a trailin Sunset Zoo Park. Theonly issue in their way isthe paperwork. As the parkbelongs to the city, volun-teers need to get permis-sion to work there. Once,that’s done, 2.5 miles of thetrail in the middle of Man-hattan will be completed.

Another project McAl-lister and Apel areinvolved in is a trail at FortRiley. The militaryapproached ManhattanTrail Works to assume anadvisory role in creatingthe 25-mile trail system onthe base. Because of thetrail length, it will mostlikely take up to five yearsto create an entire trail sys-tem there.

A paved trail betweenManhattan and Wamego isalso expected to be built.That is an expensive pro-ject, and fund-raising hasbeen underway for adecade. The initiative isdesigned to connect twocities via the 20-mile pavedtrail.

McAllister has exploredmany other parts of thestate to ride mountain biketrails and has found thatKansas has some very nicetrail systems. He believesManhattan has very goodpotential as a trail commu-nity.

“I have to say that ourtrails are very nice whencompared to others aroundthe state,” McAllister said.“If we continue to work aswe have been, we will havemore trail systems to offer,more diversity in the Man-hattan community in thenext five years.”

Linear Park trail serves a variety of interests

Out on the water: The varied life of a kayakerAnton TrafimovichContributing Writer

Since they are virtuallysurrounded by reservoirsand rivers, Manhattan res-idents have opportunitiesfor kayaking. Scott Lake isone local resident who hastaken advantage of hisopportunity.

Lake, an accountant atSink, Gordon & AssociatesLLP, became a fan of kayak-ing after trying it in Bran-son, Mo. in 2003. He boughthis own kayak so he can useit any time.

“I just found kayakswere a lot of fun becauseyou can really move on thewater,” Lake said.

Since then Lake hasbeen kayaking severaltimes a season in lakes andrivers. Ponds, he said, areeasier as theydon’t requirepreparation.

“It’s easy goto the lakeeven in theevening afterwork,” he said.

K a y a k i n gdown a river,according toLake, is morefun but usual-ly takes morep l a n n i n g .Since youkayak just indirection, oneneeds a vehicle waiting atthe other end.

Another problem kayak-ers might expect is thewater level, whichdepends on rainfall. Forinstance, this year Kansasdidn’t have melted waterand then experienced alack of rain in the spring.That is why the KansasRiver this year is very shal-low, making it more diffi-cult to kayak.

“It’s difficult not to getstuck and have to drag yourkayak for a while,” Lakesaid.

He said anyone can dokayaking. People don’tneed special skills for ped-aling, and the kayak itself ispretty stable on the water.

“I think anyone who has-n’t done it before shouldgive it a try. It’s easy, it’s funand if you got your life jack-et it’s safe,” Lake said.

He said he doesn’t knowmany people kayaking inManhattan. He thought thelack of activity has to dowith a stereotype that lakesand rivers are places forfishing and waterskiing.

“It’s amazing how manypeople I’ve met who saidthey’d like to try it but theynever ever kayakedbefore,” he said.

At the same time he con-

vinced many of his friendsto try kayaking. Lake hasorganized several grouptrips down the KansasRiver, at Tuttle Creek Lake,and at Milford Lake.Although most of hisfriends have their ownkayaks, there are severalfacilities around Manhat-tan where they can be rent-ed.

The rental prices, Lakesaid, are pretty reason-able. It costs $5 an hour atTuttle Creek, $10 per day atK-State Rec Service and$15 for 4 hours at Milford’sAcorn Resort.

“There are places to getthem but they are not quiteas available,” Lake said.“You need to reserve themin advance.”

A few years after buyinghis first kayak, Lake bought

a second sothat he can gowith a friendand not have torent one.

“You’ll bespending a fewhundred tobuy it,” Lakesaid. ”For meit’s a lot cheap-er than a lot ofother outdoorequipment.”

Lake has nospecial advicefor kayakingother than

using sunblock all the time,as there a lot more sun onthe water. It also would begood to take a bottle ofwater and a snack.

Besides reservoirs andrivers around Kansas,Lake has kayaked in otherstates. He has been to theNiobrara River in Nebras-ka. It is a national scenicriver, narrow but fast flow-ing. He also kayaked in Mis-souri, and in the swamp inNorth Carolina, sailingthrough trees debris andseeing some snakes.

“I just can’t describehow different it is fromKansas,” Lake said. “Itreally fascinated me thatthere is no sediment in thewater. It is clear, but it isdark.”

Still Lake appreciatesthe opportunities forkayaking Kansas has. Hisfavorite part is when he canjump in the water some-where in the middle of thepond. To do so, however,one needs the type of kayakwhere a person sits on thetop of it, not inside.

“It is one of the reasons Ilike my type of kayak whereyou sit on top,” Lake said.“You can’t bring as muchstuff with you but you canjump into the water to cooloff.”

Staff photo by Tommy TheisStephen Mossberg, a KSU student in milling science, jogs in the mid-day sun on Linear Trail near Aldi’s.

“I think anyone whohasn’t done it beforeshould give it a try.It’seasy, it’s fun and ifyou got your life jack-et it’s safe.”

—Scott Lake,kayaker

Photo courtesy Doug Walter

Kayakers make thieir way down the Kansas River during an event organized last November by Scott Lake. Kayakers started atsunrise from the Blue River and kayaked to Wamego.

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Aggieville can be a placeto demonstrate your intel-ligence. For almost adecade, several local barshave hosted trivia nights,allowing attendees to com-bine a glass of beer with aquiz.

Auntie Mae’s Parlor isknown as the grandmotherof live trivia games in Man-hattan. Nine years ago Jef-frey Denney, the bar owner,hosted the first one. Den-ney’s friend fromLawrence, where bar triviawas already popular,helped to establish thegame at Auntie Mae’s.

At Auntie Mae’s, teamshave to show up early sincethere are only 12 tables.

“I have fun with it,” saidJeffrey Kreuser, who hashosted the trivia nights atAuntie Mae’s for the pasteight years. “I have prettygood ideas pop in my headfor categories.”

Kreuser spends two tofour hours preparing foreach game. He said hecomes up with all ques-tions by himself, findingthem though Google,Wikipedia and some spe-cific websites to make surethat different topics arecovered.

“I just try to keep a vari-ety,” Kreuser said. “Sur-prisingly I haven’t run outof ideas yet.”

Questions can be on anytopic, so regular teams tryto have players with vari-ous interests. As Kreusersaid, the teams usuallyhave a movie person, a sci-ence person, and a geogra-phy person.

“Our teams are veryintelligent,” he said.

Some teams have beenplaying trivia for severalyears. Jason Roberts, a con-tent developer at Civic-Plus, said his team, “Apolo-gy is policy” has been play-ing for two or three yearsalready. Every week theytry to read up on the news,to know about big eventslike the Academy Awardsor major sport events.

“They usually ask aboutthat,” Roberts said. ”Oth-erwise you just come andknow what you know.”

Jason gives Kreusercredit for keeping ques-tions at on a good level.Kreuser said tries to com-bine easy, medium, and dif-ficult questions.

“You want to try to findthe whole range for every-body.” Kreuser said.

Kreuser said many peo-ple knows each other onlybecause they met at trivianights, which has become ameeting place for studentsand residents. He said theregulars inspire him towork on his questions.

“The teams that playevery week is what helpsmotivate me every week tokeep doing it,” he said.

Electronic aids such ascell phones are strictly pro-hibited. “Just your brainsand a marker,” Kreusersaid.

Other than competition,trivia is just a place tospend time. Hosting thegame in the bar createslight and fun atmosphere.Sarah Waugh is not con-

cerned a lot about competi-tion, but enjoys the game asa way to spend spare time.“It’s a fun thing to do,” shesaid.

The participation fee is$5, the money being backedout to winners. Teams thatget first and second placesshare 67 and 23 percent of

the pot and a third placeteam shares a $25 gift cardfrom the bar.

Trivia are hosted onWednesday nights, a dayDenney never reserves forother events. “It’s a won-derful break in a week,”Kreuser said.

Wednesday games are no trivial pursuit


Above: A view from behindthe question master duringtrivia night at Auntie Mae’s.The basement was filled withparticipants ready to showtheir intelligence in a varietyof topics.

Middle: Members of team“One does not simply WakkaWakka” discuss the answer totheir trivia question on arecent Wednesday evening.

Bottom: Jeffrey Kreuser asksquestions to the variousteams at trivia night.


Salsa has become one ofthe most popular dances intown. People of differentages and occupations come toweekly salsa nights held inlocal bars.

Isaac Falcon, senior infamily studies, moved toManhattan from Kansas City,Mo. In 2010. Originally fromMexico, Falcon danced salsafor a decade before cominghere. In Manhattan, hehelped organize salsalessons.

“I like to teach what I loveto do, which is dancing,” Fal-con said.

After changing severallocations, salsa nights arenow a feature at Cat Tracks.Every Saturday Falconteaches salsa, the lessons fol-lowed by a regular salsanight.

“We always have new stu-dents coming,” Falcon said.

Every week up to 90dancers fill an open floor todance salsa and some otherLatin American dances. Mostare women.

“Ladies like to dance alot,” Falcon said. “I alwayshave a lack of guys.”

He believes it takes new-comers eight lessons to learnsalsa. But he believes every-one can learn the dance.

“It’s simple,” he said. “It’sjust like walking.”

To motivate students whothink they can’t dance, Fal-con shows a YouTube video ofa guy dancing salsa on crutch-es.

Falcon also teaches salsaat K-State Swing and Salsa

Club dances on Tuesday atSalsarita’s in the K-State Stu-dent Union. At K-State he cansee people from everywherewilling to learn salsa.

Nervalis Medina, a seniorin wildlife management fromthe University of Puerto RicoHumacao, came to K-Statefor a summer program. Shesaid she found salsa in Amer-ica much different. Peopleare more distanced whiledancing here than in theCaribbean, where peopledance closer to one another.

“It’s full of flavor in Puer-to-Rico,” she said. “We havemore spice.”

Nevertheless, she has metmany in the U.S. she saiddanced salsa perfectly. InBoston, she was impressedwith how well some non-Latins were at Latin Ameri-can dances.

“I danced with a Russianguy and he was dancing real-ly good,” Median said.“There was a Chinese guyand he was incredible.”

Medina also said mostsalsa dancers in Puerto Ricoare in their 30s and 40s. Sheguessed that’s because sin-gles of that age find salsanights a good place to meetpeople.

Falcon said salsa is a verypassionate dance that Basedon how a dancer moves, stepsand turns can help to view adancer’s personality.

Falcon said he is going tokeep teaching. As busy as heis with classes and startinghis graduate program thisfall, he finds salsa relaxing.

“For me it’s charging mybatteries after a week,” hesaid.

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About three miles northof the city of Manhattan, isthe second largest lake inKansas: Tuttle Creek.

For 50 years now, thereservoir has been in placeon the Riley-Pottawatomiecounty line, on the Big BlueRiver, for flood control.The U.S. Army Corps ofEngineer-owned dam andlake also houses one of themost unique state parks inKansas, with a plethora ofactivities for almost anyage group.

The majority of TuttleCreek State Park sits belowthe south side of the dam,and is where you can findactivities ranging fromfishing to a four-day coun-try music concert.

Tuttle Creek State Parkdirector Todd Lovin sayswhat sets Tuttle Creekapart from the other stateparks around the state isthe wide variety of activi-ties it offers.

“Here, we have a diver-sity of things,” Lovin said.“You name it, we’ve got it.”

Tuttle Creek Reservoirhas about 100 miles ofshoreline, covering most ofthe eastern border of RileyCounty. The state park cov-ers a pretty large area aswell — more than 1,200acres.

Tuttle Creek offerswater activities, hiking andhorseback riding trails,fishing and other wildlifeactivities, disc golf,canoe/kayak rentals andmuch more. It also has fouroutlet parks, surroundingdifferent points along thelake, all of which offer avariety of activities.

A lot of wildlife livesaround Tuttle Creek.Whether you’re looking fora place to hunt or watchbirds, the state park has atremendous group of ani-mals to come and see.

“River Pond is just amecca of bird life, year-round," Lovin said. "In thatsame area we have a coupleof bald eagle nests…. andthen you go around and youhave all the typical animalsyou would see around theFlint Hills.”

Lovin says that TuttleCreek has worked to attract

a college-age crowd. Thepark hosts several mud vol-leyball tournaments at thebeginning of every schoolyear and it has a beach andeven an indoor archeryrange, which is new to thepark.

“We’ve spent time anddedication on our beaches,we have mudvolleyball…the canoes andpaddles boats are popular,disc golf is usually ayounger item," he said.

“Our archery is actuallyreally popular… As stu-dents, if you live in a dormor have a place in town, youprobably can’t shoot there,so it’s a great way to getout.”

The park even has a dogpark that is very popular.Lovin says many studentswho have dogs use the parkoften so their dogs can playwithout being on a leash.

Lovin says that TuttleCreek also hosts severalevents every year thatmany people don’t knowabout, and that all of themare a good way to have funand meet new people.

“We offer a lot of athlet-ic events for people inthat range that’s usually ayounger group,” saidLovin, “So far this year,we’ve had two or three 5Kand 10K runs.

“We can tailor pro-grams and events to spe-cific groups…over twodays we had 192 4H kidswith some outdoor eventsand stations. That’s onething we can do. Peoplelooking to do something,but not sure what, some-time we can tailor a pro-ject,” said Lovin.

With all Tuttle Creekhas to offer, Lovin saysthey are always looking toimprove the amenities.Although there are nomajor projects plannedas of now, there are alwaysimprovements needed, socertain amenities or facil-ities can operate the wayTuttle Creek users expectthem too.

“If you’re not movingforward, you’re movingbackward,” Lovin said.“Generally (there aren’t)a lot of major programs or

projects going on rightnow – just a lot of smallerindividual-type of itemsto make the park just a lit-tle bit nicer. (We’re) tak-ing what we have and fix-ing it up a little bit.”

Lovin says Tuttle Creekoffers young people mem-ories that will live withthem for the rest of theirlives by way of exploringthe great outdoors andgetting in touch witheverything the surround-ing area has to offer.

“(There are) great out-door activities, and it willcarry through with you fora lifetime. If you’re com-ing to the area, or new tothe area for the first time,we have a lot of offer….there’s a lot to see, a lot todo,” Lovin said. “There’sgreat fishing, great hunt-ing, great places to camp.

“It’s a great way, if youare a student, to get out forawhile, get away fromcampus or the dorms andgo camping for a week-end. We’ve got a lot of dif-ferent things you can dowhile you’re out here.”

The varied opportunities of Tuttle Creek Lake

Staff photo by Tommy TheisBoaters blaze through the water while towing a skier. Tuttle Creek Park hosts a plethora of activities — hiking, tubing, fishing, birdwatching and camping, to namea few — for those wanting outdoor time.

Tuttle Creek Lake also offers a variety of fish. Seen here is a garthat was caught in the Rocky Ford fishing area. Gars are a preda-tor fish equipped with a large snout with teeth; most of thosecaught by fishermen are just killed.


To get more studentsbiking on campus, a newbike rental program isstarting this August.

Wildcat Cycle, a non-profit student start-up,together with the K-Stateclub Bike State Collectiveis going to offer studentsand community membersrentals and opportunitiesto fix up bicycles.

Kaleb Anderson,senior in electrical engi-neering and WildcatCycle president and CEO,said the terms of rentingwill be eithersemester/yearly, and alsosome couple day rentalsas well.

“It really depends onthe demand,” Anderson

said.Rental rates are still

being determined. Fornow Wildcat Cycle isgoing to ask $40 for thesemester so this price cancover the shop support,some parts, and payingwages to a staffed repair-man. Also making repairswhen the bikes arereturned as needed.

As a non-profit project,Wildcat Cycle relies onsponsors help. They havejust a few so far and areexpecting to get more ofthe community beinvolved. They are alsolooking for monetarydonations, in which indi-vidual and business namecould be put on t-shirts,the bikes, around thegarage and campus.

“Anything and every-

New bike rental program starting on campus

Biking is becoming a very strong hobby in town with more andmore bike racks being seen around local businesses.The recreation com-

plex’s outdoor rental cen-ter will be closed untilnext spring, according toinformation posted on therec complex’s website.

John Wondra, Recre-ational Service programsassociate director, saidthe center will be closeddue to an upcoming tenniscourt renovation/con-struction project. The

tennis and basketballcourts that are right nextto the rental center willbe demolished.

Wondra said the plan isto update some of thefacility’s inventory ofkayaks and canoes withnew models by thereopening next spring. Asan alternative, he recom-mended Tuttle CreekState Park facilities.

thing will help to get usstarted!” Anderson said.“If you have a bike that isjust sitting outside or inyour garage that doesn'tget used, we would appre-ciate any donations!”

By late August they arelooking to acquire around

40 donated or auctionedbikes, and fixing them upto great working condi-tion. In the future, howev-er, Wildcat Cycle wouldlike to obtain higher qual-ity, standardized bikesthat would be moreappealing to the renter.

Rental center to close until spring

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Parks are very much apart of the lives of residentsof the city as well as studentsat Kansas State University.

The city has 16 parks andother facilities open to thepublic, with three of thebusier parks being CiCo,City and Anneberg parks.CiCo and Anneberg parksare on the west side of town,away from the Kansas Statecampus. However, City Parkis right next to Aggieville,and very short walk for mostK-State students. Thismakes City Park one of themost used parks in Manhat-tan.

The use is especiallyheavy by students, many ofwhom live in areas close toboth the campus andpark.That fact as well asthe existence of a fund topromote improvementsdesigned to benefit uni-versity students ttrans-lates to the prospect ofmore improvements atCity Park.

“Thanks to the City/Uni-versity fund, we’re going tobe adding pedestrian-scaled lighting around that(walking/running) trail tolight up the exterior of thepark,” Curt Loupe, directorof Manhattan Parks andRec, said.

The goal of the projectbeing to make students feelsafer while using the trail atnighttime.

“Safety for students is aconcern of ours…not thatwe’ve had tremendous prob-lems,” Loupe said. “But hav-ing a place where the policecan drive around the out-side and see students, it’sreally going to be a greataddition.”

Another example of thecity and K-State partneringto improve parks is what hasbeen done with TrianglePark in Aggieville, which isactually K-State propertythat the city controls.

The city and universitypartnered to do some muchneeded improvements to

the park.“We had a leadership

group come in and we set aproject where they came inwith new trees and stainedthe benches,” Loupe said.“They cleaned up the parknicely.”

In the past the two havealso partnered for othergood causes. The past fewfalls have seen the CysticFibrosis Club at K-State useBluemont Hill or “Manhat-tan Hill,” to showcase itsmessage.

“It’s a fundraiser, wherethey cover the letters in pur-ple to raise funds for CysticFibrosis research,” saidLoupe “I think that’s a greatfundraiser, completely stu-dent driven and it doesn’t doanything permanent to therocks.”

Loupe said some parksthat don’t see as much trafficas the three largest ones maybe seeing more in the verynear future, especially fromthe student population. Hesaid Warner Park is alreadya popular place for some K-State students because of itsdisc golf course.

“It’s a nine hole course,more challenging than (theother ones around town),”said Loupe, “the word’s get-ting out, a lot of people areplaying it.”

Another park that couldsee more action from the col-lege crowd is Douglass Park,near downtown Manhattan,because of the improve-ments that will be going to itsoutdoor basketball court.

“There’s an outdoor bas-ketball area that’s going tobe getting lighting, so thatwill be a great area to use fornighttime (play),” Loupesaid.

Loupe hopes the city andKansas State Universitycontinue their good rela-tionship in regard to parks.

“I really appreciate theleadership from the univer-sity to work with the city,”Loupe said. “Things thatblend the university and thestudent life together withthe community are reallypositive things.”

Staff photo by Tommy TheisJosh Smith, a KSU graduate student in kinesiology as he takes his afternoon jog in City Park. One loop around City Park is rough-ly one mile so it serves as a good way to keep track of your distance.

Manhattan Hill, pictured, has been used by the Cystic Fibrosis Club at K-State. The organization annually covers the letters of“Manhattan” to show progress toward their fund-raising goal.

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The first thing to knowabout the Flint Hills Dis-covery Center is that it's nota museum.

“We consider ourselvesa learning institution…we’re not a museum,we’re a discovery center,”said Jaclyn Collins, thefacility’s public affairsdirector. “Museums houseand grow their own collec-tions, and we do not. We’reconsidered a science andtechnology center.”

It’s been a common mis-conception of those aroundthe area. But the Flint HillsDiscovery Center, whichopened April 14, is an edu-cational facility that hasseen more than 10,000 visi-tors in less than twomonths.

Labeling aside, theAssociation of Science andTechnology-approved cen-ter seems to be makingquite a buzz not just in Man-hattan, but all of the FlintHills. In fact, in its first fewdays of existence, the cen-ter saw everyone from thelocal Boys and Girls Club,to Gov. Sam Brownback.And the response has beenpositive.

“We’ve been gettingsuch wonderful feed-back…we’ve had over 60school groups visit us in theprevious couple ofmonths,” said Collins."They've loved it.”

The Discovery Centerwas built not just to attractthose around the LittleApple and Flint Hills, butfrom all around the coun-try. That is why the city ofManhattan spent morethan $24 million on the cen-ter as a part of the down-town redevelopment pro-ject.

The 35,000 square-footbuilding houses every-thing from a gift shop to10,000 square feet ofexhibits, as well as an out-door terrace open to thepublic. There is Wi-Fithroughout the building,including the public ter-race. That way anyone frombusiness people to stu-dents can come, as a placeto relax or study, while get-ting a special view of theLittle Apple, from all ofdowntown Manhattan to“Manhattan Hill” and “KSHill.”

The Discovery Centeralso houses a theater andan underground forest,both for educating all ofthose who come through.

Although much of theDiscovery Center is aimedtoward youth, particularlyelementary age, Collinssaid much of the facilitycan be used by those col-lege age and above.

It also has been a collab-orative place for the state'sthree largest universities.

On the second story ofthe building is an exhibitcalled the “Traveling

Exhibit Space,” createdwith Kansas State Univer-sity, Wichita State Univer-sity and the University ofKansas.

This exhibit shows thescience and technologyinvolved with agriculturalpractices found around thestate. It is also in partner-ship with the National Sci-ence Foundation, Experi-mental Program to Stimu-late CompetitiveResearch. The hope is toobtain a grant from theNSF that will enable thestate to obtain researchfunding. It's an education-al exhibit to attract highschool and college stu-dents, with professors fromthe three universitiesinvolved.

Along with the publicterrace and travelingexhibit space, the Discov-ery Center also has twomultipurpose mediaspaces that could be usedfor weddings, banquets,meetings and more.

It is Collins’ hope thatthese rooms will be usedfor fraternity and sororityor club functions as well.

“Those (rooms) are real-ly designed for meetings,but I think they could beused for birthday parties,”Collins said. “I think the'Immersive Experience' isgreat, where we do own ourown triple high definitioncamera, which would begood for a watch party.”

The “Immersive Experi-ence” is projected on a 67-foot wide screen and avail-able for rent.

“We hope that peoplewant to hang out here,”Collins said, “It’s a commu-nity space.”

What makes the Discov-ery Center unique, Collinsadded, is its content.

“When people firstheard about the DiscoveryCenter, they were expect-ing a museum with up-and-coming science exhibits,and what’s different aboutours is we’re about the com-munity around us,” Collinssaid. “You cannot find adiscovery center like thisanywhere else in theworld.”

“We are the only discov-ery center about the FlintHills,” she said.

That's why the FlintHills Discovery Center’sgoal is not just to educatevisitors about the Manhat-tan area, but also to openup the door to all of the restof the Flint Hills, whichstretches from Manhattansouthward past the Okla-homa border.

“We’re telling a storythat is hundreds of thou-sands of years old, thatranchers, farmers andcommunity members havebeen dying to tell foryears,” Collins said.

Another one of the Dis-covery Center’s goals is tomake the experience onepeople will want to repeat.

“We really want to

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Staff photo by Tommy TheisThe new Discovery Center, which opened this year at 315 S. Third Street downtown.

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The number of visitors to theBeach Museum of Art grew to32,000 last year. Linda Duke, the

museum’s director, said she is thrilledto find that Kansans have such aninterest in art. To meet the demand forthe art and art education, the BeachMuseum willcontinue to dis-play its perma-nent collection,bring outstand-ing exhibitionsin from all overthe country, andhost programsfor the public.

Duke said theBeach museumhas several main activities. The firstis exhibiting. Along with the perma-nent collection the museum has sev-eral galleries for temporary exhibi-tions. This fall and next spring thosegalleries will be occupied by Good-night Moon: Selections from the Per-manent Collection, Patrick Duegaw’sInadvertent Arson, The Museum ofWonder and the kinetic sculptureKonza.

Besides exhibitions, educationaland public programs are an importantpart of the Beach Museum’s offerings.Over the last year the museum hasinvited well-known artists to presenttheir books, movies, and ideas. Toattend and enjoy those events onedoesn’t need to be knowledgeableabout art.

“We try to put together programsthat will be of interest of anyone whois intellectually curious,” Duke said.“People don’t have to know a lot aboutart. They can simply be curious.”

Eames Demetrios is a good exam-ple of an artist/speaker many will findinteresting. As an artist, he has creat-ed a fictional history and geography ofthe world. All over the globeDemetrios installs historical mark-ers and even small museums relatedto this history. For an upcoming pro-ject he hopes to build an undersealabyrinth. Putting together all of hisalternative history sites, he has pub-lished a guidebook that allowstourists to find and visit them.

The College of Architecture, Plan-ning, and Design is a partner in invit-ing Demetrios. The current directorof Eames Office in Santa Monica,Calif., he will talk on the legacy of hisgrandparents, iconic 20th centurydesigners Charles and Ray Eames.Later in the year, a similar partner-ship between the College and theBeach Museum will bring MaheshDaas, an architect who applies designideas to all kinds of other enterprises,including business models.

Duke said other than coming to themuseum to see and learn about art, itis also a great place to study. Theupper floor is supplied with chairs,tables and wireless internet. Stu-dents can drink coffee as long as theydo not bring it into the galleries.

“We would like to be the livingroom of the city,” Duke said. “Youdon’t have to be dressed up, you don’thave to have some special reason.”

To reinforce this message offriendliness and comfort, the BeachMuseum plans to serve free refresh-ments during the home game days thisfall. Coffee, bagels, cookies, or othersnacks will be offered all day.

Duke pointed out that the BeachMuseum is the only museum of thistype in the area with a collecting focuson art by regional artists. Duke point-ed out that Kansas has a long history ofcollecting and valuing art. Forinstance, many public school districtseven in very small towns and ruralareas were already collecting art inthe early years of the 20th century sothat students could be exposed to it.

“I am really impressed by howenthusiastically people in Kansaspursue the arts,” Duke said. “I thinkit’s a very art-interested state.”

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Artist Patrick Duegawis a K-State alumnus and afounding member ofWichita’s Fisch Hausartists’ cooperative. Thisinstallation is the latestin a series the artist hascalled “The Painted The-ater Project.” Duegawincorporates paintedportraits, props, and setsas surrogates for livingactors, three-dimension-al objects, and a stage.

Inspired by myths andiconic stories in variouscultures, Duegaw’s char-acters have tragic flawsthat cause them to under-mine themselves. This“play” is all about actionsthat are intentional andaccidental at the sametime.

The Museum of WonderFeb. 12 - Oct. 13

The idea of the Muse-um of Wonder is rooted inthe 16th century Cabinetsof Curiosity.

In RenaissanceEurope science, art andtechnology were not asseparated as they aretoday. Collection displaysof that time often con-tained things peoplewould not likely puttogether today.

For K-State’s 150thanniversary, the BeachMuseum plans to create amodern take on this visu-al feast.

“We are borrowing allthose fantastic thingsfrom departments allover the university,”Duke said.

ToyganticPermanent collection

Toygantic is work byWichita artist RandyRegier. Although it lookslike a rusted toy from the1950s, Toygantic is a con-temporary piece. There isalso a box underneaththat makes one believethat the “toy” is real andmay have belonged to achild in the 1950s.

“He is an artist whouses our cultural memo-ries, our nostalgia,” Dukesaid of Regier. “The 1950swas a time period whenproducts could makeboasts about their perfor-mance that wouldn’t beallowed nowadays. Andsometimes when we lookback at toys from 1950s,they don’t even seem verysafe.”

A day at the Beach

Mercury file photoThe arch of the Beach Museum of Art at K-State welcomes visitors to its galleries and to campus. Some 32,000 people cameto the museum last year, Director Linda Duke said, to view exhibitions, to participate in educational programs and to study.

KonzaJuly 13 - Summer 2013

The Beach Museum ofArt commissioned thiskinetic work by John Pow-ers. Titled Konza, itreflects the artist’s fasci-nation with the KonzaPrairie and the movementof the prairie grasses. Sur-prisingly, it is made ofmetal and powered byelectricity.

“The Konza sculptureby artist John Powers isinteresting to me becausethere is nothing about itthat is natural,” LindaDuke, Beach Museumdirector, said. “And yetthe inspiration and thethoughts that it tends tobring to our minds are allabout the natural prairielandscape and the grassesthat grow on the prairie.”

Director wants art museum to be a place for students to spend time

The museum isopen Tuesdaysthrough Saturdays from10 a.m. to 5p.m. and Sundays fromnoon to 5 p.m.


When Larry Ericksoncame to K-State in the late1950s, there were just threetelephone lines per fraterni-ty or sorority, with studentssometimes standing in a lineto place a call. Only a few stu-dents drove their cars tocampus, while some facultymembers rode a city bus towork. It was common tosmoke in the offices on cam-pus, and some faculty mightsmoke even during class.

Those are among themore noticeable changessince Erickson, now a pro-fessor of chemical engineer-ing in his 56th year at KSU,arrived as a 19 year old fromWahoo, Neb., to study in thatdepartment. His brotherwas already studying veteri-nary medicine here.

“I decided that it was agood place for me to come,”Erickson said.

Erickson’s father was afarmer and his mother was ahousewife. They had someeducational backgroundand encouraged both chil-dren to go to college.

The out-of-state tuitioncost was $199 per semester.Engineering students paidan additional $100 on text-books. In those days gasolinecost about 19 cents per gal-lon, and a meal in a cafe wasabout $2. For working on thefarm, Erickson was paid $1per hour.

“We could get 5 hamburg-ers for a dollar,” he said.

But even at what soundlike low rates, tuition was aburden for his family, soErickson applied for theNational Defense Educa-tion Act loan program.

Getting good grades wasas tough as finding money forschool, maybe tougher.Erickson’s recollection isthat professors graded morestrictly. He recalls onesemester when a classmatecomplained about the Bgrade he got. As it turned out,Erickson had received theonly A, there was just oneother B, while six studentsreceived Cs, and six others inhis class got Ds. He said Cwas an average grade for that

time, while today a lot of stu-dents receive A and Bgrades.

“In general we were goodstudents and took our educa-tion seriously and worked atit,” Erickson said. “I thinkwe certainly worked a littlebit harder.”

The educational processdidn’t differ a lot from theone in place today, Ericksonsaid. Typical undergraduateloads were 15 to 17 credithours. Out-of-class activitiesand more full developmentof the person were alsoencouraged. Erickson, alongwith most of his peers, wasactive in student activities.

He lived in Beta Sigma Psifraternity and typically hadsome activity there as well asat engineering organiza-tions and at the LutheranStudent Association reli-gious group.

Erickson recalls withfrustration the limited num-ber of available telephonelines in a day long before thearrival of cell phones.

“And you went to call agirl at the sorority and a typi-cal thing was that the linewas busy and you get a busysignal,” Erickson said.

Another opportunity tocommunicate was writingletters and mailing. Erick-

son. An average studentwrote and mailed one letterevery other week.

“I’d say there was moredirect conversation withinyour living group plus con-versation outside,” he said.“We certainly did not surf onthe Internet.”

In their spare time stu-dents played intramuralathletics, bridge and othercard games. The StudentUnion provided social activ-ities such as dancing in theballroom. There were con-certs, theater and movies.They also had TV in the fra-ternity, “but it was not aplace where we spent much

time,” Erickson said. When Erickson came to

college the K-State StudentUnion was just one year old.Now it is a common meetingplace, but in the late 1950sthe library was the placewhere most of people met.

“In my fraternity wewould often have a place inthe library where we couldfind one another,” he said.“If we had an hour betweenclasses, we would go to thatarea and study, say hello topeople.”

The food, Erickson said,hasn’t changed a lot. Most ofit was inexpensive in a sensethat students didn’t have

things like steak and expen-sive cuts of meat. They hadmore hamburgers, chicken,and soup.

“The cuisine hasn’tchanged very much,” Erick-son said. “The taste is thesame.”

Unlike cuisine, the atti-tude toward smoking andsmokers has changed dra-matically. Now it would beunacceptable, but back inthe 1950s many facultysmoked in their offices, andothers smoked even duringclass.

Erickson thought around20 percent of students hadcars, predominantly themale students. The car wasneeded to get home, while oncampus most studentswalked. He and his brothershared a green Plymouth. Toget around the city manyused the bus. Even some fac-ulty would catch a bus to getto work at that time.

After receiving his bache-lor’s degree, Ericksonearned his PhD at K-State.He had a chance to continuehis career at the Universityof Pennsylvania in Philadel-phia, where he worked as aresearch fellow in 1967-1968.He got an offer to stay atPenn, but Erickson chose tocome back to Manhattan.One of the reasons was hisfeeling more comfortablewith K-Staters, many ofwhom were from rural areascompared to the people ofPhiladelphia and New York.

“I felt I had more rapportwith the students at K-State,” he said.

Erickson believes thatengineering education hasbecome more orientedtoward scientific aspects. Inhis undergraduate years itwas targeted on technology.Industrial application wasimportant and greateremphasis was placed ondoing something practical toadvance commercial activi-ties.

“There’ve been a lot ofpositive developments in K-State during this period thatI’ve been here,” Ericksonsaid. “The university hasgrown and I think it’simproved in its ability toserve the needs of students.”

Photos from K-StateArchives

Left: An aerial view ofK-State campus in the1960s gives a sense ofhow much the cam-pus has expandedsince then.

Below left. Studentssitting near the clocknext to Eisenhowerhall on campus.

Below right. A groupof K-State studentswalk toward Ander-son Hall.

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One of the perks ofbeing light on cash is if itprompts you to look atfree attractions.

The KSU Gardens isdefinitely one place tolook. The gardens are freeto the public, day or night,rain, snow or shine.

The gardens, on thewest side of the K-Statecampus on DenisonAvenue, are a collectionof plants, flowers, insectsand water fixtures thatoffer a beautiful scene,great relaxation or even aquiet place to study, on anice day.

The gardens bringrelaxation in an educa-tional manner, accordingto Scott McElwain.

Director of the KSUGardens for 15 years,McElwain says they aremore than exhibits on theoutside. Their education-al purposes make the gar-dens a high-traffic area,as many of K-State’sdepartments — architec-ture, horticulture,forestry and recreationresources to name a few –utilize the facility.

“We do have a lot ofinstructors that will usethe garden for education-al purposes, like horticul-ture on the teachingside,” McElwain said.“Entomology, they bringstudents out for identify-ing insects and butter-flies. We will also havefolks from the art depart-

ment and architecturecome through. There are alot of other colleges at K-State that come throughand utilize the facility.”

For the general public,it is mainly the plantexhibits that will belooked at. McElwain saysthere are many popularplants that people willcome by to check out atdifferent points in theyear.

“When the collectiongardens are in bloom,they’re pretty popular,”he said. “We finished upwith the iris, which is typ-ically around Mother’sDay when its peak is.We’re at the tail end of ourpeak bloom for the daylilies. The roses will comeback when temperaturescool down and the plantsstart growingagain…they’ll grab a lot ofattention as well."

KSU Gardens don’t justshowcase the typicalplants. There is also anadaptive, native garden,which shows peopleplants that grow wellaround the Manhattanarea. People can then goto their local nursery toget the plants and usethem in their own land-scapes.

“That’s what we’re try-ing to do is show plantsthat are a little easier tofind in this region,” McEl-wain said.

The gardens stretchfrom the plants and sci-ences headquarters,Throckmorton Hall, at the

corner of Claflin Roadand Denison Avenue,north to just south of thecorner of Jardine Driveand Denison Avenue. Thecurrent space of the gar-dens is about five acres.

There is developmentplanned, however. Theplans call for expansionacross Jardine Drive tothe area south of the vet-erinary complex, whichwill bring the gardens'size to 19 acres.

McElwain said the planwill turn the campuscreek by the vet complexinto two larger lakes andwaterfalls, with land-scaping and other fea-tures surrounding thebodies of water. Theselakes will have a rock,quarry feel and some fea-tures that are similar tothat of Pillsbury Crossing,where people can walkacross a shallow point inthe water. This is plannedto be finished sometimewithin the next 10 to 12years.

“From getting fromone side of the lakes to theothers and the design con-cept, we had a lot of our K-State alumni helping usdo that design work,” saidMcElwain. “They wantedto create a PillsburyCrossing feel. So we’llhave a limestone shelf soyou can walk across (thelake).”

Also being planned area children’s garden andan amphitheater that can


Broadway might not be sofar away after all. Who needsthe bright lights of NewYork? Manhattan has its veryown arena that has broughtin popular acts from theband, Kansas, to famousstand-up comedians, right inthe middle of the KansasState University campus.

McCain Auditorium hasbeen serving Kansas Stateand the city of Manhattansince 1970. The auditoriumhas more than 1,700 seats,and is a spot for cultural andartistic engagement that youmight not find at this size,anywhere else in the FlintHills.

Todd Holmberg is in hisfifth year as executive direc-tor of McCain Auditorium.He was previously held thesame position, with the Cor-pus Christi, Tex. SymphonyOrchestra. Holmberg hasbrought a wide variety ofevents to the venue, includ-ing acts similar to ones thatyou could find on Broadway.

“We have a huge variety ofevents,” Holmberg said, “allthe way from the best inBroadway, popular music,innovative theatre perfor-mances, dance, ballet, clas-sical music, you name it.”

McCain Auditorium hashosted some big names in thepast. In fact, in early 2011, theband, Kansas, performed atthe auditorium for the 150thanniversary of the state’sbirthday.

“They were also backedup by the K-State Orchestraand that was just an unbe-lievable concert,” saidHolmberg, who described itas “one of my favorite acts.”

Some other famous acts tocome to McCain Auditoriuminclude, Bill Cosby, LilyTomlin and Lucas Nelson,the son of Willie Nelson. Allof them, Holmberg says, puton phenomenal perfor-mances.

The McCain PerformanceSeries is jam-packed withbig names for the 2012-2013season. McCain will wel-come acts such as, LyleLovett, Bill Engvall, Beautyand the Beast, Shrek TheMusical and Rock of Ages.

Holmberg expects thatshow, which recently was inmovie theaters across thecountry, to have specialappeal for the younger, col-lege-aged students. “That’sreally timely, because of therecent movie starring TomCruise,” he said. “What’sreally cool about ‘Rock of

Ages’ is that musical honorsthe tradition of heavy metalrock bands.”

Holmberg brought up K-State students because hewanted to make it very clearthat K-State student’s ticketsare 50 percent off from nor-mal general admission tick-ets, for all McCain Perfor-mance Series shows. Thatcan be a great deal, consider-ing that if you went to NewYork, you might be spendingmore than $100 for just oneticket. “A student can seethat for as low as $22.50 (atMcCain),” Holmberg said.

Holmberg said ticketprices will vary from show-to-show, but “Rock of Ages,”will be one of the moreexpensive shows. There willbe some performanceswhere students will be pay-ing less than $15 for a ticket.

The director has put outmany brochures featuringthe schedule of McCainSeries performances(including one in this Edi-tion.) But the most up-to-dateinformation comes throughsocial media.

“The best way for stu-dents to keep track of whatwe’re doing here at McCainis become of friend ofMcCain Auditorium onFacebook or Twitter; that iswhere they can get the mostup-to-date information,”Holmberg said.

McCain is the only venueof its size between Topekaand Salina that can host bigname performances. Thatmeans it not only attractspeople from the Flint Hills,but some performancesattract people from all overthe region.

“We get people fromWichita, we get people fromOklahoma,” Holmberg said.He said a group a couple ofyears ago, Los Lonely Boys,drew people all the way fromTexas. “If there’s an artistthat has a certain fan-base,they’ll travel great distancesto see some of these artist,”he said. “For Kansas, we hadpeople fly in from all overthe country.”

McCain features manystudent performances,including the K-State band,orchestra, and jazz group.

But Holmberg was reallyexcited to point toward oneshow featuring K-State stu-dents and their talents onFeb. 10, 2013. That’s theMcCain Student Showcase.

“It features the best of K-State theatre, dance andmusic,” Holmberg said.“The reason I say it showcas-es the best is because theyeither have to audition to geton that concert or go througha process and get approvalby the directors of thosedepartments.

“(The students featuredare) part of a world classseries. I think it’s somethingthat is a great learning toolfor those students, and some-thing they can put on theirresumes,” Holmberg said.

It’s no surprise that withall these big name perform-ers, McCain Auditorium,consistently sees its showssell-out, and they are start-ing to create some buzzaround town.

“I’m doing more Broad-way musicals, I’m bringingin more shows with a littlebit more name recognition,”said Holmberg. That said, headded, the number one pri-ority is to maintain artisticintegrity.

“There are some nameartists that have been fea-tured the last few years, andI think that has generatedmore excitement in the com-munity,” Holmberg said.“But I’m not doing that at thesacrifice of artistic integrity.That’s always been our con-stant goal.”

His top goal is to sparkinterest and inspire thosearound campus and the com-munity. He hopes thatsparked inspiration is whatwill bring people back tomore and more shows atMcCain.

“I would hate for a collegestudent go for four years,graduate and never realizethat they have a tremendousopportunity to be exposed tosome incredible artists andbe inspired…That’s a part ofthe mission of McCain Audi-torium,” Holmberg said.

McCain opens the 2012school year on Aug. 26, withLyle Lovett and His LargeBand at 7:30 p.m.

McCain’s Broadway feel

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Opened in 1996 andmaintained since then byvolunteers and donations,the Manhattan Art Centergives residents the oppor-tunity to reveal their owntalents while contributingto the community’s variedcultural life.

The MAC, at the west endof Poyntz Avenue about sixblocks south of the KansasState University campus, isrun largely by volunteers.Other than three staff mem-bers and several paidinstructors, the vast major-ity of people involved in allkind of activities work forfree. Penny Senften, MACexecutive director, said thegoal is to let people laearnand excel in arts. Profes-sional artists hold work-shops for beginners andsupervise them in theirprojects.

“Our aim is to make itaccessible both for profes-sionals and amateurs,”Senften said.

The focus of the center’slive performances and artexhibits is strictly local.All of the actors are Man-hattan residents. Eachtime when a new play is tobe directed, the boardannounces auditions andpotential cast members gothrough the selectionprocess. Senften said thereare plenty of exampleswhen people with no actingexperience acted very pro-fessionally.

“We’ve had some reallygood people who have notbeen on the stage before,”she said.

Locals can also try todirect a play. To become adirector, however, previ-ous theater experience isrequired. But once a per-son shows an ability to deal

with the theater throughparticipating in readingsor assisting a director, he orshe can apply for a directorposition. All directors areprovided with a smallstipend.

“We want to make surewe are putting on a goodproduct,” Senften said.

MAC’s theater seasonusually consists of threeplays and one musical.They are based either onlocal scripts or composi-tions by famous authors.

Along with the mainstage theater, MAC has astudio theater where read-ings are staged. Those aremore experimental, withcontemporary plays beingread. The studio theaterallows the presentation ofnewer plays that may havelanguage unsuitable for aregular stage season.

Another importantMAC activity is hostingexhibitions. Anyone canapply for exhibiting his orher art at the MAC gallery.The MAC committee willconsider the application.If approved, originalpaintings, photography,pottery, sculpture or anyother medium will be puton exhibit for two months.

Most of the items shownat the MAC are madeavailable for sale. But thebiggest sale is held inNovember and Decem-ber. It’s called “Wrap itup,” and it usually invok-lves 70 to 80 artists work-ing in different mediaoffering their craftsbefore the holiday sea-son. “With “Wrap it up”you buy it and we wrap itup for you,” Senften said.

Residents can not only

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One Act Play FestivalAugust 17 and18 at 7.30

All My SonsBy Arthur MillerSept 28-30 & Oct 4-7Directed by Jordan

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Becky’s New Car By Steven DietzNov 2-4 & 8-11Directed by Kim Riley

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Kansas State UniversityTheatre and Dance willpresent a variety of music,comedy, drama and danceproductions for the 2012-2013 season.

The season begins withTime Stands Still. Perfor-mances will be October 11-13 at 7:30 p.m. and 18-20 at7:30 p.m. in Nichols The-atre, with a matinee onOctober 21 at 2:30 p.m..Dwight Tolar will direct.

The classic Broadwaymusical, The Music Manwill follow as the secondshow of the season. TheMusic Man will take placein McCain Auditorium,November 8-10 at 7:30 p.m.and November 11 at 2:30p.m. with direction by Jen-nifer Vellenga, vocal direc-tion by Amy Rosine and theK-State Orchestra led byPaul Hunt.

WinterDance 2012 is ashowcase of many talentedK-State students in areas

such as jazz, tap, modernand ballet. WinterDance2012 will perform atNichols Theatre Novem-ber 29 and 30 and Decem-ber 1 at 7:30 p.m, with amatinee also on December1 at 2:30 p.m.

In February, the K-StateTheatre presents BengalTiger at the Baghdad Zoo inNichols Theatre. BengalTiger at the Baghdad Zoo isperforming at Nichols The-atre on February 7-9 and14-16 at 7:30 p.m, with amatinee on February 17 at2:30 p.m. Dillon Artzer willdirect.

In March, the KSUOpera program presentsMozart’s The Marriage ofFigaro in McCain Auditori-um. Reginald Pittman willdirect with performancesMarch 7-9 at 7:30 p.m.

SpringDance 2013 offersan evening of tap and jazz,ballet, and modern dancepieces performed by tal-

ented KSU students. It isApril 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m.

The last production is,The Heiress based on theHenry James novel Wash-ington Square. CharlotteMacFarland will direct.Performances are April 25-27 and May 2-4, all at 7:30p.m., as well as a matineeon May 5 at 2:30 p.m. inNichols Theatre.

Tickets for all perfor-mances are available at theMcCain box office from11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. week-days or at the K-State Stu-dent Union Little Theatrebox office Wednesday-Fri-day from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00p.m. Tickets are also avail-able by calling the McCainBox Office at 532-6428 Mon-day through Friday duringbox office hours. Ticketsrange in price from $8 to$16, which includes dis-counts for students,seniors and military fami-lies.

Theatre, dance has full lineup set

Arts Center promotes cultivation of local talent

buy art, but learn how to doit themselves. There areseveral classes taught bylocal artist at MAC. Kidsand adults can attenddrawing, painting, watercolor and clay classes.Local artists are ready toreveal anyone’s talents.

Linda Rae is a localpainter and sculptor. Sheteaches kids and adultshow to paint and draw. Herfavorite part is to work withkids.

“You see their uniqueapproaches and their cre-ativity,” Rae said.

Senften said they alwaysneed more volunteers andanyone can find involve-

ment at MAC. “Then we trymatch up their interests tosee if someone is interest-ed in doing something withtheater, or doing some-thing with the galleries,”she said.

Senften started withthe MAC as a volunteer.When she moved to Man-hattan in 1989, she joineda local theater that wouldlater become a part of theArts Center. After a timeas an interim staff mem-ber, she has been execu-tive director for 10 years.

“People come herebecause they want to beinvolved in art,” she said.“It’s really a people place.”

MAC’s 2012-13 season

host events.McElwain says the

KSU Gardens is already aspecial place, not only tohim, but to many people inthe community as well. Hesays that there aren’tmany days that you won’tsee people walkingaround the gardens andchecking out what theyhave to showcase.

“There are so manypeople who talk about(the gardens) being a ‘hid-den gem’ here in Manhat-tan,” McElwain said,“The Manhattan Conven-tion and Visitors Bureau,when they give tours (forvisitors to the city), we’reone of the most requestedtourist spots for peoplecoming into Manhattan.So we host a lot of folksthat come in from all overthe country.

“There are also a lot offolks here in the commu-nity that visit on regularbasis, because there issomething (different) tosee every time they comehere. It’s a great place tocome in and relax andenjoy,” said McElwain.

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When President Kirk Schulzand Athletics Director John Cur-rie came to Manhattan threeyears ago, Kansas State Universi-ty was in need of a face-lift on itsathletic facilities. Under theleadership of Schulz and Currie,as well as fan support, K-Statewill open two new athletic facili-ties in the next two years, startingwith the Basketball TrainingFacility that is expected to openlate this summer.

As that facility nears comple-tion, a $75 million constructionproject on the west side of BillSnyder Family Stadium – knownas the West Stadium Center – isbeginning. Both facilities bringopportunities to student-ath-letes and fans alike, along withthe potential to help recruiting inall K-State sports.

“The (new) facilities certainlymake a statement about our com-mitment at Kansas State to inter-collegiate athletics at the highestlevel,” Currie said.

“The actual physical pres-ence of outstanding facilitiesshows the commitment. From arecruiting standpoint, that’s ahuge factor,” Currie said.

K-State was in dire need ofextra space, particularly for thebasketball teams. In fact, the uni-versity is the last in the Big 12 tobuild a basketball practice facil-ity.

Now K-State can show off afacility that is comparable toother schools in the Big 12 andacross the country. It is also aboost to the men's and women'sbasketball teams when it comesto practice. No longer will theyhave to share Bramlage Coliseumfor practice time, as the new facili-ty has two full-sized courts that canbe used year-round, along withother strength and training fea-tures.

“It is a very legitimate, dailyneed for practice, skill develop-ment, etc., for both our pro-grams,” Currie said. “We’re for-tunate we are one of handful ofschools in the country where boththe men’s and the women’s teamshave played in the NCAA tourna-ment in the last couple ofyears…to continue that, we've gotto continue to provide great facili-ties for our teams."

Currie says that with the com-pletion of the new BasketballTraining Facility, the K-State bas-ketball programs, both men’s andwomen’s, will be set in a good placein the Big 12 and nationally.

“Overall, K-State, with thisfacility completed, will look prettygood,” said Currie. “We have atremendous arena, a great home-court advantage…when you couplethat with the sold-out arena and theproximity to the BasketballTraining Facility…we’re going tolook pretty good.”

Earlier this year, K-Statebroke ground on another projectbenefiting student-athletes: theWest Stadium Center. This pro-ject will also lead to an improvedfan experience, which hasalways been a goal at K-Stateunder Schulz and Currie.

“The West Stadium Center hassomething for every fan…200 per-cent more restrooms and conces-sion facilities than the existingfacility. On the main level, theHall of Champions will reflectthe history of all of our programsand the history of the university.From a revenue generationstandpoint, there’s premiumseating in the building that hasthe potential to generate signifi-cant annual revenue to sustainour program,” Currie said.

Going along with the fan expe-rience, Currie says that the WestStadium Center will also serve asa landmark to the university – orthe fan’s first look at the universi-ty – as well as be representative ofthe university's history.

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It’s been awhile. In fact,Kansas State University's classof 2013 hasn’t been to the reccomplex without any construc-tion going on since 2010.

But the center, located justeast of Bill Snyder Family Sta-dium, will soon start to openspace that hasn’t been usedsince the project's $23 millionrenovation project started infall 2010.

“During this school year,we’re going to slowly startopening up in phases,” saidJason Brungardt, assistantdirector of the facility knownon campus as the Rec.

The problem for Brungardtand the rest of the staff at theRec is that the construction

process takes time – more timethan anticipated when the pro-ject was announced.

“We’re getting there…withconstruction there’s alwaysdelays,” Brungardt said.“We’re not going to shut downthe Rec so no patrons or stu-dents can use the Rec…thatcauses things to be a little bitslower with construction.”

The original completiondate was May 2012, but workremains to be done. However,the Rec has just opened up anew locker room and expects toopen the entire south side,including an additionalentrance, weight room andcombatives room, sometimethis school year.

With all this construction

“The West Stadium Center isnot just an athletics’ facility; it isindeed the new, northwest gatewayto our beautiful campus,” Curriesaid. “The exterior of the facility isbuilt to reflect the beauty of ourhistoric campus at K-State with allthat state of Kansas limestone. Aspeople come around the corner,come up Kimball (Avenue) from thewest, or down College (Heights)from the north, it is intended to givepeople that first impression thatthey see and feel when they seeAnderson Hall or the library oncampus.”

Currie emphasized that not asingle cent of student tuition orstate funds is being used foreither project. Both are com-pletely financed by the revenuegenerated by the athleticsdepartment and private dona-tions from K-State fans.

Currie said it has been his goalfrom day one to build a world-class experience for K-State’sstudent-athletes. He said thatthey are very excited and verygrateful to have some space dedi-cated to just them.

“K-State student-athletes lovethe support they receive from theK-State community and lovebeing apart of the community.They’re very excited about bothfacilities,” Currie said.

Building boomStadium expansion is only one of several projects now under way or just completed

Rec complex expects to open reconstructed space soon


Materials planned for use in the construc tion of the basketball training facility (in background) are stackedoutside Bramlage Coliseum.

Mass amounts of dirt are being moved to make room for the renovations at Bill Snyder Family Stadium

SEE NO. 1, PAGE F2 Construction approaches its final stages at the Recreation Centerexpansion.

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Good-bye, to theHuskers and Buffaloes.So long, to the Aggies andTigers.

Hello, Horned Frogsand Mountaineers.

College realignmenthas been going on for thepast three years. In thesummer of 2010, Nebras-ka and Colorado both leftthe Big 12 conference forthe Big Ten and Pac-12,respectively.

The Big 12 remained at10 members for the 2011season, when Texas A&Mand Missouri bothannounced their depar-tures for the Southeast-ern.

That’s four members ina little more than a year toleave the Big 12 confer-ence, home to the KansasState Wildcats.

However, the Big 12reacted by welcoming twoschools with proud BCSfootball histories. Bothwill be members begin-ning in 2012. The confer-ence first added TexasChristian University outof Fort Worth, Tex. The“Horned Frogs,” hadbecome a dominatingforce in the MountainWest. Led by K-State gradGarry Patterson, TCUwent to two straight BCSbowls. After dropping the2010 Fiesta Bowl to BoiseState, TCU came back andwon the 2011 Rose Bowlover Wisconsin, 21-19.

The Big 12 then lookedeastward, and added theWest Virginia Moun-taineers, via the Big EastConference. Hailing fromMorgantown, WV, theMountaineers have hadthree BCS bowl appear-ances in their history. Thefirst came in 2006, at theSugar Bowl against Geor-gia, a game that saw WestVirginia stun the Bull-


K-State tennis may not bewell known throughout thecountry, or even on campus.However, the 2011-2012 ten-nis season saw the Wildcatswith an 8-14 overall recordand finishing in the top 70 inthe country.

This was coming off one ofK-State tennis’ best seasonsin 2010-2011, when the teamfinished at 16-7 overall.

In 2012, a Wildcatreached the Sweet 16 of theNCAA tournament for thefirst time since 1998. PetraNiedermayerova upset theNo. 16 ranked player in thecountry, from Baylor, toadvance to that level earlierthis spring.

Much of the credit goes totennis head coach SteveBietau, who is entering his29th year as the head of theWildcats. Bietau has builtthis program into arespectable one that is con-sistently challenging for thetop half of the Big 12 confer-

ence.Bietau's assistant coach

also brings many advan-tages to the K-State tennisprogram.

Olga Shaw grew up inBrno, Czech Republic, andis entering her fifth year asassistant coach of the Wild-cats. Shaw came to the Unit-ed States to play tennis for K-State in 2004 and has been aWildcat ever since.

In the Czech Republic,tennis is one of the most pop-ular sports in the country,along with volleyball andtrack and field, especiallywith women.

“A lot of young playersdecide to play tennis, espe-cially on the women’s side,because for men it’s mostlysoccer or ice hockey," Shawsaid. "For women, it’s volley-ball, tennis and track andfield. We have a wide base ofyoung players playing.”

Shaw has always beenathletic. She started playingtennis competitively whenshe was 10, and still hasn’tput the racket down.

Tennis coach making a continental impact

and expansion comesanticipation.

“I go to the Rec aboutfour times a week,” saidJared Hagadorn, a seniorin architecture. “I play rac-quetball and basketballthe most (when I go). I amprobably most excited toplay on the new basketballcourt since there’s some-times long waits to playbasketball."

Like Hagadorn, Brun-gardt and the Rec staff areexcited to see some of thenew equipment in use.Brungardt said that thenew weight room will be apoint of focus, as the Reccomplex will now havesome very good technolo-gy.

“A lot (of the exerciseequipment) will behooked up to a television,so this way you couldwatch on-demand movieson your treadmill. We willalso have Wi-Fi, whichwill be very useful for stu-dents,” Brungardt said.

Along with the newspace and new equipmentwill be a new parking lotin the south side of thecomplex, which Brun-gardt says should addmore than 100 spots.

Although students arepaying for this renova-tion, Brungardt said usefees are low compared toother schools.

“If you put it in compar-ison to other Big 12schools, we are towardthe bottom in the amountthat goes toward the Rec,”Brungardt said. “I knowthat Missouri just left theBig 12, but their studentsare paying $375 a semes-ter (in Rec expenses) –we’re not even at $100yet.”

Brungardt said he andthe staff are excited to getto be done with construc-tion sometime this com-ing year and show off thenewly renovated Rec.

“I am really excited forwhen it all opens up, sothe students can reallyutilize the facility to thefullest,” he said.

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Rec complex to openreconstructed space

"I’ve been playing sportspretty much my whole life,”she said.

Shaw is heavily involvedwith recruiting players,especially out of the CzechRepublic. Eight of the nineplayers on the 2012 K-Statetennis roster are fromEurope, and three are fromthe Czech Republic.

“Obviously, both Steveand I recruit, but it’s a littlebit easier for me to recruit inthe Czech Republic becauseI speak the language and Iknow the Czech system,”Shaw said. “I can go on theCzech website and findwhere the tournaments are,so it’s a little bit more conve-nient for me.”

Bietau and Shaw have

had success in recruitingthe players out of Europe bytelling them about the histo-ry of the K-State tennis pro-gram and the values that K-State instills in its students.

“First we need to makesure that they are a good fitfor K-State, because if theyare not, then it’s just notgoing to work out,” saidShaw. “You just talk to themabout the school and wedo…and if they buy intowhat we do, then they usual-ly decide to come to K-State.

The recruiting processcombines tennis and theacademic side. “As far astennis, we have a record ofimproving our players; theytend to get better and that’sa big selling point,” Shaw

said. She also talks torecruits about the history ofthe program.

The NCAA tennis seasonis a little bit different thanwhat you may find in foot-ball or basketball season.Tennis season lasts year-round, and the team plays inone to two tournaments amonth in the fall, starting inSeptember. Team memberstake off December forfinals. They come back inJanuary, playing singleteam matches mainlyagainst other Big 12 teams.The Big 12 and NCAA tour-naments are in May.

Shaw says that the lengthof the season can grind onyoung players.

“Obviously it is diffi-cult,” she said. “They haveto stay focused during thefall and spring midterms.But you can see at the end ofspring season that they’regetting tired. At the sametime, if you go to the NCAA(tournament), all the othertennis players are there,too.”

Shaw has seen her fairshare of challenges duringher time with K-State. Shewas injured her freshmanyear. “I tore my ACL when Iwas a freshman and had torehab in order to keep play-

ing,” she said.She sees recruiting as

the biggest coaching chal-lenge. “For me, the most dif-ficult part about recruitingis picking someone who youlike, and then they tell youthat they don’t want to cometo K-State,” she said.“That’s always a disap-pointment in any sport youcoach.”

Shaw and Bietau expecta lot out of their players,including transitioningfrom high school or Euro-pean school and perform-ing in the classroom. Theyalso always expect theirplayers to compete at thehighest level.

Most tennis playerswho come through K-Stateare most likely not going togo pro. Most of the out-of-country players will have tofind a job here after collegeor go back to Europe oncetheir tennis-playing careeris over.

“Most players, after col-lege, go home or they stay inthe States and work…it’seasier than trying to make itin the pros for three yearsand then fail,” Shaw said.

The K-State tennis teamwill open up the 2012-2013season in Lawrence at theKU Tournament on Sept. 21.

A brief sketch of theBig 12’s two newestmembers, WestVirginia and TexasChristian.

Conference welcomes two to membership

dogs, 38-35.West Virginia then

slammed Oklahoma in the2008 Fiesta Bowl, winning,48-28 over the Sooners. TheMountaineers were also inthe BCS in 2012, after win-ning the Big East. West Vir-ginia destroyed Clemson,70-33, in the latest renewalof the Orange Bowl.

The additions to the con-ference have a combinedfive BCS bowl appearanceswith four combined BCSwins. That’s more appear-ances than Nebraska, Col-orado, Texas A&M and Mis-souri combined.

Along with the footballsuccess, West Virginia hasbeen a constant in theNCAA Men’s BasketballTournament, including aFinal Four appearance in2010. And TCU has been aconstant as well in theNCAA Baseball tourna-ment, including an appear-ance in the College WorldSeries at Omaha, in 2010.

Photo from WikicommonsA picture of West Virginia’s Football stadium, Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium . West Virginia fans are known for theirpassion on all things Mountaineers. West Virginia plays its first season in the Big 12 Conference, joining TCU.

Kansas State tennis coaches, Olga Shaw and head coach SteveBietua, talk strategy during a tennis match this past season.

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The Kansas State Wild-cats women’s basketballteam is entering ita 17th sea-son under head coach DebPatterson. The Wildcats arecoming off their second con-secutive NCAA appearance,and will now look to seniorBrittany Chambers to carrythe load.

Chambers, a 5-foot-8-inchguard, was second on theteam in scoring a season ago,averaging 14 points pergame. She was named first-team All-Big 12 and hasplayed major minutes allthree years of her Wildcatcareer.

Chambers is from a smalltown in Big Ten country, Jor-dan, Minn. The town has only5,000 people.

“(Jordan) is in the middleof a farming area, right out-side the cities,” Chamberssaid. “It’s a really small-townatmosphere; everybodyknows everybody.”

Sports are a big deal to theChambers family. Herfather, Lance, was a prospectin the Twins minor leaguesystem, while her mother,Colleen, played junior col-lege basketball and coachedBrittany’s high school vol-leyball team. Coming fromthat athletic family, Brittanygrew up playing a wide vari-ety of sports.

“I tried everything grow-ing up small,” said Cham-bers. “I tried soccer, LittleLeague and gymnastics forawhile.”

However, Chambersstuck to three sports in highschool.

“My three main sports inhigh school were track, vol-leyball and basketball,” shesaid.

Although she grew up nottoo far from the University ofMinnesota, Chambers felt athome during her visits toKansas State and reallyliked Patterson and hercoaching staff. She choseKansas State over a couple ofBig Ten and Big 12 schools.

“Colorado, Minnesota,Wisconsin, Iowa State andIowa (were talking to me),kind of a lot of Big Tenschools,” Chambers said. “Icame here for a visit and Ireally enjoyed the campusand the school, but most ofall was the coaching staff. Ireally clicked well withthem and a lot of their moralsand values, and the way theylike to coach were things thatI was looking for.”

An adjustment was need-ed when she first came to

Kansas State in 2009,because she was coming to abigger school of more than20,000 students and into abigger community than whatshe was used to.

“Coming from (Jordan) to(K-State) was like night andday, feeling like you’re a bigfish in small pound, to a min-now in a huge ocean,” Cham-bers said.

She seems to have adjust-ed well to being a student-athlete at a Big 12 university.She says that staying on topof school work is the key toallow her to focus on basket-ball games – usually two perweek during the season.

“It hasn’t been quite ashard as I envisioned (being astudent-athlete). I kind ofenvisioned the worst (com-ing in), but we get a lot of helpwith tutors and academicadvisers,” Chambers said.“It can be tough during theseason when you’re travel-ing and missing class…it canbe hard to do homework inyour hotel room (beforegames). As long as we cankeep on top of things, it’s notas tough.”

Chambers, a life sciencesmajor, is planning on gradu-ating in four and half years.She could graduate in four,

but she decided to really puta lot of her efforts into herfinal year of eligibility in col-lege basketball. After gradu-ation, she plans to continuethe dream of playing basket-ball professionally. “I’llenter the draft here and tryout (for the WNBA), and ifthat doesn’t happen I’ll gooverseas,” she said.

Chambers though doeshave a backup plan in casebasketball doesn’t work outfor her after college. “If thebasketball thing doesn’thappen, I would go to medschool for dermatology,” shesaid.

The Wildcats, who went20-14 overall and posted a 9-9Big 12 mark last year, willhave to replace the scoringproduction of key graduatesJalana Childs and BransheaBrown with some youngerplayers.

“We’re going to be veryyoung this next year. We havea brand-new team,” Cham-bers said. “We lost three ofour starters, one of which is afirst team, All-Big 12 selec-tion in Jalana. So we’re defi-nitely a much smaller,younger team, but I’m excit-ed to try something new anda new style of basketball.”

Although K-State will be

young, Chambers and herteammates are still expect-ing to make the NCAA tour-nament, which is always theteam goal.

“We always strive to beatop of the Big 12 and make itinto the NCAA tournament. Ithink it’s something that wecan do,” Chambers said.“We’re going to need to buck-le down and have youngerplayers step up.”

The coaches and olderplayers are helping the newplayers learn the system.

“(Summer workouts)have been going well. We’vebeen playing lots of pickup,running a lot and trying to getthe mental part of basketballincorporated into ouryounger kids and keeping itwith our older kids, and alsomaking sure the toughnessstays and we don’t relax dur-ing the summer,” said Cham-bers.

Chambers will have to bethe leader of this team. Shehas already played a schoolrecord 1,247 minutes in 2012– something she will proba-bly have to do again if theWildcats expect to make arun at the NCAA tourna-ment.

“It’s definitely a lot ofweight…this year we’re try-ing to get players to help meand step into a role wherethey can be leaders,” Cham-bers said.

Last season the K-Statewomen’s team played infront of some big crowds atBramlage Coliseum, includ-ing a sell-out crowd againstnational champion Baylor.Chambers and her team-mates are happy to receivethe support that they do fromthe students around cam-pus, and the faculty and staffas well. It adds to the familyfeel that is always the goal ofK-State athletics.

“Everybody talking to youand congratulating you…it’ssomething that makes youfeel good,” she said. “Whenthings aren’t going as well,they always have your back,even if you lose, they’realways there. So it’s definite-ly a support system andalmost like a family atmos-phere.”

Seeing Bramlage Colise-um packed with purple issomething that alwaysmakes her feel special.

“It’s not that small of aschool, but it almost feelssmall because people areso supportive,” Chamberssaid. “Even if people don’tknow you, they’ll take thetime to congratulateyou…they’re just so friend-ly and so nice.”


Up to 90 percent of the K-State Badminton clubmembers are studentsfrom Asia. Jing Han, doc-toral student at humannutrition department andclub president, thought thereason Americans arereluctant to play might bein underestimating theintense energy required toplay badminton. Han saidthe game gives one enoughexercises to keep in shape.

According to Han, mostof people in China knowhow to play badminton. It’sa top-4 game along withbasketball, soccer andtable tennis. The Chineseare famous for winning allkinds of international tour-naments.

Han started playingbadminton in 2007, aftershe went to college. Hanexplained that eventhough it’s a national game,no student in high schoolcan afford to take the timeto play it.

“Chinese education isvery stressful and we don’thave free time, especiallyin high school,” she said.

But once a studententers college he or shewill most likely have sometime to play badminton.

“College is paradise forus. We can do whatever wewant,” Han said.

As in the United Statesthere are many sport clubsin colleges in China. Butnot only college studentsplay badminton. Han saidpeople of any age know thebasics. Her parents, forinstance, as many otheradults, play badminton forfun.

“Most people know howto play,” she said.

While some people playit at a very a slow pace andcautiously, others will runseveral miles during a set.

It requires many skills.The K-State badminton

club was created in 2008,and Han was elected presi-dent this past April. Thereare 40 members, each ofwhom pays $20 annually.

Every Wednesday andFriday from 8 to 11 p.m. andon Sunday from 3 to 6. theBadminton Club has sixcourts available at the K-State Rec Center.

Han said players do notneed any previous back-ground. The club hasadvanced players who vol-unteer to teach beginners.They start with showinghow to hold the racket.Thomas Lin, dentist andbadminton player, will alsoadvise on equipmentchoices.

Lin explained that thebadminton equipment atthe Rec center is gearedtoward recreational play-ers, not for individuals whowant to excel in their skills.All the well-made racquetsare composed of carbon orgraphite material thatmakes them lighter andstronger than regular steelor aluminum.

“All the players want theextra edge to their play,and these materials do givethem that extra advan-tage,” Lin said. “The com-bination of players' skilland advanced materials,powerful shots, quicknessin defense, and precisiondrives are all possible.”

Even though the clubwelcomes everyone, mostof the players are fromAsia. The best-represent-ed countries are China,India, Thailand, Malaysiaand Vietnam. There aresome Europeans andAmericans as well.

Besides training, Hansaid the badminton club isalso a great place for meet-ing friends.

“It’s over my expecta-tions,” she said of the rela-tionships she has made.

A racket and shuttlecock used to play badminton.

Staff photos by Tommy TheisBrittany Chambers puts in a layup against Texas last season.

Chambers a key to women’s hoops

Badminton is bigamong KSU’s Asians

Baylor. This led to K-State’s game-winningfield goal.

Malone led the Big 12with seven interceptions.Also returning are defen-sive backs Allen Chap-man and Ty Zimmerman.The defense will have toget used to a new defen-sive coordinator as TomHayes replaces ChrisCosh, who left for SouthFlorida.

There is still plenty ofspeculation circulatingaround the 2012 team.Although the 2011 teamdid win 10 games, it lostthe Cotton Bowl toArkansas, 29-16. The Wild-cats also won eight gamesby a touchdown or less.

This has sparked someto label the Wildcats as“fool’s gold” for the 2012season predictions. TheWildcats were pickedsixth in the Big 12 pre-sea-son media poll; they werepicked eighth in 2011.

Some doubt Klein’sthrowing ability, ques-tioning whether he cantake the beating he took ayear ago running the ball.

Although it took placeagainst the second stringdefensive unit, Klein com-pleted 47 of 56 passes for480 yards and six touch-downs in Kansas State’sspring game. Klein alsoshowed that he could com-


What an unbelievablerun the 2011 Kansas Statefootball team had: A goal-line stand; heart-stop-ping, last-second victo-ries; a four-overtimethriller. It all added up toa second place Big 12 fin-ish, 10 wins and a CottonBowl berth.

The 2012 college foot-ball season arrives withhigh hopes for K-Statefans, many of whomexpect the Wildcats to be atop 10 team, contend forthe Big 12 and perhaps aBCS bowl berth. Highexpectations, but Wildcatfans have good reason tobe excited.

The Wildcats return 16starters from their 2011campaign, includingquarterback Collin Klein,linebacker Arthur Brown,cornerback Nigel Maloneand wide receiver TylerLockett. All of them havebeen frequently men-tioned on award watchlists. The 2012 K-Stateteam has set a schoolrecord for 14 total candi-dates for major collegefootball awards. Oh, andBill Snyder is returningfor his 21st season as headman for the Wildcats, thefifth since he came out ofretirement.

On the offensive sideof the ball, Klein will belooking to carry the loadagain in his senior sea-son. Last season, Kleinwas the heart and soul ofthe team, willing them tovictory and throwing for1,918 yards, while rush-ing for 1,141. He was, nodoubt, the most valuableplayer.

However, Klein didfind help, most notablyrunning back JohnHubert. Hubert wasunder the radar cominginto 2011, as many fansand media expectedBryce Brown to be thestarter in the backfield.Hubert quickly turnedthat thought around,eventually falling justshort of 1,000 yards rush-ing.

Along with Hubert,expect to see more actionout of running backsAngelo Pease and RobertRose, and fullbackBraden Wilson.

K-State will returnwide receivers Lockett,Tramaine Thompson,Chris Harper and CurrySexton, and tight endsTravis Tannahill andAndre McDonald. Lockettwas one of K-State’s mostexplosive players a yearago, as he also had a cou-ple of kick returns. How-ever, he sat out the lastpart of the season due to akidney injury.

Harper was Klein’s go-to receiver at times a yearago with 40 receptions for547 yards and five touch-downs. But Thompson,Tannahill and McDonaldall had productive sea-sons as well, and look toadd to the passing attackin 2012.

What Klein meant toKansas State offensivelyis about the same as whatBrown means to the Wild-cats defensively. There’sno doubt that he was themost important Wildcatdefensive player a yearago.

The senior recorded101 total tackles in 2011,and used his speed tomake big plays to spark K-State’s defense, includingan interception of Heis-man trophy winnerRobert Griffin III in thefourth quarter against

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Staff photos by Tommy TheisFootball coach Bill Snyder shakes hands with Collin Klein just before the K-State Wildcats take the field for this year’s spring game.

2012 KSU scheduleSept. 1 Missouri State 6p.m.Sept. 8 Miami (FL) 11a.m.Sept. 15 North Texas 6p.m.Sept. 22 @Oklahoma TBAOct. 6 KU TBAOct. 13 @Iowa State TBAOct. 20 @West Virginia TBAOct. 27 Texas Tech TBANov. 3 Oklahoma State TBANov. 10 @TCU TBANov. 17 @Baylor TBADec. 1 Texas TBA

Collin Klein, K-State quarterback, makes a handoff during thespring game.

Football can make another run in 2012

CoachingInformation

Head Coach — Bill Snyder(159-83) 21st Season.

Co-Offensive Coordinator-Del Miller.

Co-Offensive Coordinator-Dana Dimel.

Defensive Coordinator-Tom Hayes.

plete clutch passes in 2011as well.

Klein completed longtouchdown passes toHarper in the final min-utes of both the EasternKentucky and Texas A&Mgames. Klein also hadclutch throws in the Bay-lor and Missouri games,which if he hadn't com-pleted could have meantdefeat for the Wildcats.

Other question marksthis year are both theiroffensive and defenselines. K-State returnscenter B.J. Finney, offen-sive guard Nick Puetz,defensive ends MeshakWilliams and AdamDavis, and defensivetackle Vai Lutui.

However, the Wildcatswill have to replaceClyde Aufner, Zach Han-son and Colten Freeze onthe offensive line, alongwith Jordan Voelker,Raphael Guidry and RayKibble on the defensiveline.

Replacing the offen-sive linemen will be keyfor the 2012 Wildcats, asthey will need to keepKlein up right and leadthe way for the K-Staterunning attack. Runningthe ball is part of K-State's way of controllingthe ball and the game.

The Big 12 is full ofpotent passing attacks.Therefore, the defensiveline must put pressure onthe quarterback. No mat-ter how good of secondarya team has, the quarter-backs in the league will

pick apart defenses ifthere is no pressureapplied. That was part ofthe problems K-Statefaced a year ago. In lossesto Oklahoma, OklahomaState and Arkansas, theopposing teams' quarter-backs had way too muchtime in the pocket andwere able to pick apart K-State’s secondary.

The Wildcats will alsoface a gauntlet of a sched-ule. TCU and West Vir-ginia replaced Missouriand Texas A&M. Bothhave rich football historyand a combined five BCSbowl appearances. TheWildcats will be on theroad for both games.

There's no questionabout the toughest gameon K-State’s schedule.The Big 12 runs throughNorman, Okla., which itusually does every year.The Wildcats will have totravel to Norman to facethe Oklahoma Sooners,who return quarterbackLandry Jones, in K-State’sfirst conference game onSept. 22.

This game is likely to bea nationally televisedcontest and could sparkwhat could be a Big 12 titlerun. K-State has to belooking for revenge for theCats’ worst loss from ayear ago, as Oklahomawon 58-17.

On Oct. 20, K-State willtravel to WestVirginia,and play in frontof one of the rowdiest fanbases in the country. WestVirginia will rely on quar-

terback Geno Smith andwide receiver TavonAustin. The Moun-taineers plan to be con-tending for the Big 12.

K-State will also havetough conference homegames with OklahomaState, which returns run-ning back Joseph Randle,and Texas, which willmost likely have the bestdefense in the Big 12. Thatdefense shut down K-State one year ago.

K-State will play Texason Dec. 1, and that couldbe a game to decide the

Big 12, as both teams areexpected to have goodyears.

K-State has a chance tocontend and perhaps winthe Big 12 this year, withall the talent returningfrom a 10-3 team. Howev-er, K-State’s defense hasto find a way to improveand bring more pressureto the quarterback if theCats want to bring homethe trophy.

K-State kicks off the2012 season with MissouriState on Sept.1. Gametime is at 6 p.m.

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