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Cats' Cupboard provides students support to succeed at K-State MARISA LANG

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The number of students using the Cats’ Cupboard food pantry continues to increase, five months after its opening. “When we opened, five [people] would have been a really big day, and now 20 is nothing,” Erin Bishop, Cat’s Cupboard coordinator, said. “The last time I crunched the numbers, which would have been a week ago, maybe, 250 unique students have used the pantry, or more, with well over probably 650 visits.” According to the 2015 Campus Climate Project Final Report, 39.4 percent of K-State students have difficulty affording food. It was for this reason the campus food pantry Cats’ Cupboard opened its doors in Fairchild Hall five months ago. “We serve any student on campus that’s looking for some food,” Bishop said. “Anywhere from getting groceries for the whole week to coming in and getting some breakfast.” All items at the pantry are donations supplied by the community. “We depend highly on donation drives in the communi-

ty,” Bishop said. Most donations come from sources such as food drives organized by fraternities and campus clubs, as well as individual donations from people who just want to give. The most highly demanded items include rice, pasta, pasta sauce, jelly, pancake mix and microwavable to-go meals. The pantry also supplies necessary items such as toilet paper, deodorant, feminine hygiene pads, regular sized tampons, dish soap and laundry detergent. Since Cats’ Cupboard opened in late 2017, the number of students visiting the food pantry has only grown. Jaden Castinado, freshman in food science, said he enjoys the opportunity Cats’ Cupboard gives him to get involved with volunteering on campus. “I’ve always found myself in the past working with food related service,” Castinado said. “I worked with Meals on Wheels or I’ve gone to food pantries or soup kitchens.” Rachel Van Gilder, graduate student in public health, is the newest member of the Cats’ Cupboard team. She said she decided to work for Cats’ Cupboard after hearing

about it in a department email. “The whole educational and food aspect is something I’m really interested in because I’m emphasizing in nutrition,” Van Gilder said. She said she is also excited about the potential to go out and educate people about the services Cats’ Cupboard provides for the K-State community. In the long term, Bishop said she would like to raise awareness of Cats’ Cupboard while decreasing the stigma associated with seeking help. “Our goals are to serve students in need as well as decrease stigma,” Bishop said. “There’s a lot of stigma associated with seeking help, and we don’t want that. We want this to be open for everybody.” In the end, Cats’ Cupboard’s main goal is providing students the support needed to succeed at K-State. “We want to help people graduate because school is really expensive, living in Manhattan is really expensive, books are expensive, being an adult is expensive, and so we want to provide that support,” Bishop said. For more information on Cats’ Cupboard, visit k-state. edu/cats-cupboard.

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Men’s basketball aims move forward against Texas Tech Saturday JARRETT WHITSON THE COLLEGIAN

The Kansas State men’s basketball team will return home to Bramlage Coliseum on Saturday to host the Red Raiders of Texas Tech University after halting a two-game skid on the road against the University of Texas. The Wildcats defeated the Longhorns on the road Wednesday night by a score of 67-64. The game was close all the way through, tied up at 34 at halftime. K-State gave it just enough to come out on top in the hardfought game. Getting a win over Texas was huge for K-State, who had lost its last two games. The play of the Wildcats had dropped off significantly after winning four in a row. A few key components that led to the Wildcats defeating the Longhorns were improved shooting, steals and points in the paint. In its last three games, K-State had shot just 33.5 percent on field goals. Against Texas, K-State shot significantly better, with a 53.7 percent mark from the field. All five Wildcat starters scored in double digits.

They also stole the ball from the Longhorns 10 times and scored 22 points off turnovers. K-State won the scoring battle down low as well, pouring in 38 points in the paint while Texas only had 28. The last time that K-State played Texas Tech was in Lubbock, Texas, and things did not go well. It suffered its second-worst loss of the whole season, falling 74-58. That loss also marked a key loss for the Wildcats, as it was the game that junior point guard Kamau Stokes injured his foot. Stokes would not return to action until Feb. 3 against West Virginia University. Despite the injury to Stokes, the loss to Tech seemed to be a turning point for head coach Bruce Weber’s team. K-State went on to win five of their next six contests, including two wins against top-25 teams. Redshirt freshman point guard Cartier Diarra stepped in to replace Stokes and exceeded expectations. In the eight games that Stokes was absent — including the Tech game when Stokes suffered the injury — Diarra averaged 12 points per game. K-State is currently averag-

ing 74 points per game, which is 6.4 more than it is allowing its opponents to score. The Wildcats shoot an average of 47.5 percent from the field, and 36.1 percent from behind the three-point line. K-State’s leading scorer is junior forward Dean Wade, who averages 16.4 points per game. A weak spot for this team is rebounding. They average 30 rebounds per game, which is approximately three less than their opponents get. This season the team has been great at stealing the ball and scoring off turnovers. The Wildcats average 8 steals per game and average 18 points off turnovers. Since defeating K-State in January, Texas Tech has a 6-3 record. After suffering a devastating 70-52 loss at the hands of Iowa State on Jan. 20, the Red Raiders have won their last five games. Senior guard Keenan Evans is the team’s leading scorer, averaging 18.4 points per game. Offensively, the Red Raiders average 76.7 points per game. Their defense holds opponents to an average of 62.7 points per game. That mark, as well as their 14-point scoring margin, are

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Fighting hard, freshman guard Cartier Diarra throws in the ball as the men’s basketball team plays against KU in Bramlage Coliseum on Jan. 29, 2018. The Jayhawks took the lead and the win over the Wildcats with a final score of 70-56. good for first in the Big 12. Texas Tech has an advantage over K-State in rebounds, averaging 36.4 per game. Like K-State, Tech also has a knack for stealing the ball, averaging 7.9

steals per game. Both teams are strong defensively, so the contest will be decided by which offense comes with the hot hand. Texas Tech is tied for first

in the Big 12 with Kansas, while Kansas State is tied for third with the University of Oklahoma. The Wildcats (17-7, 6-5) and Red Raiders (20-4, 8-3) are set to battle Saturday at 7 p.m.

Women's basketball to face Texas Longhorns in Austin this weekend JULIA JORNS

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The Kansas State women’s basketball team will travel to Austin, Texas, to play the Texas Longhorns tomorrow with tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. The Wildcats are coming off an 83-69 win at home against Texas Tech. Coming into this game against the Longhorns, the Wildcats are 13-11, 5-8 in con-

ference games. The Longhorns are 19-4 overall, 10-2 in Big 12 play. K-State is 4-4 on the road, while Texas has only lost once in Austin this season. In the first matchup against Texas this season, K-State lost in Bramlage Coliseum, 75-64. In that game, sophomore forward Peyton Williams and junior guard Kayla Goth combined for 29 points. Goth scored 17, Williams had 12. Goth added five rebounds and

five assists. As a team, the Wildcats made just 25-57 field goals and were 6-18 from three-point range. Texas forced K-State to give up 19 turnovers. Texas shot 29-72, 40 percent from the field in the contest. The Longhorns also out-rebounded the Wildcats 47-26. The last time the Wildcats beat the Longhorns was in Feb. 2015, when they won 66-57 in Manhattan.

The Wildcats are averaging 66 points a game this season. They shoot 40 percent from the field, with an average of 23 field goals per game. From the freethrow line, they average 69 percent and 12 made free-throws per matchup. This is the fourth consecutive season where head coach Jeff Mittie’s team has 100 or more blocks. Goth sees 35 minutes of playing time per game and has started every game this season.

Leading the team in scoring, she provides 16 points a game to go along with four rebounds. Freshman guard Rachel Ranke has made 63 three-pointers, shooting 32 percent from beyond the arc. Only starting 16 of the 23 games she’s played in, Ranke has stayed strong on the defensive end of the court with 70 defensive boards. Williams leads the Wildcats with 54 percent from the field and is second in free-throws at 82 percent only behind senior

guard Shaelyn Martin’s 83 percent. Martin has contributed 80 assists toward K-State’s offense to go with her 39 steals. Senior forward Kaylee Page has 18 blocks for the Wildcats and 70 defensive rebounds this season. To be able to win in Austin, K-State will have to get a lot of rebounds and step up its defense. The Longhorns and the Wildcats will meet Saturday at 7 p.m. on Texas’s home court.

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K-STATE Letter: Abdul-Jabbar callous to Middle East in Tuesday talk Editor’s note: This letter is in response to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s comments on sexism in Middle Eastern countries in his public talk on Tuesday. Mr. Abdul-Jabbar, I am writing you to ask you a question, one that I wish I had the courage and time to have asked you Tuesday. However, there are some things I have to say first. Thank you. Thank you for all that you have done, for your advocacy, for social

justice and for coming to speak with us at Kansas State. I am writing you because your words left an impression on me. Tuesday night, you spoke of the need for us to use our voice to speak out against injustices to battle intrinsic discrimination and inequities. Your words carry substantial weight both to me and many around me. For that reason, I would regret walking away from that event without using my voice. The words you say and use as

an activist, a role model and an influencer of your caliber cannot and should not be taken lightly. The words you use have immense power that transcends identities nationwide. Your words can help us move forward — or backward — as a nation. Tuesday night, there were words you used that ignited a fire within me and many others present at the lecture.

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Nathan’s Notes: K-State football’s recruiting strengths, weaknesses NATHAN ENSERRO THE COLLEGIAN

Kansas State officially announced the transfer of former Michigan State wide receiver Hunter Rison on Wednesday. Rison was once a four-star recruit coming out of high school. The son of former Kansas City Chief Andre Rison will have to sit out the 2018 season due to NCAA transfer rules. He headlines the 2018 recruiting class that features 24 future Wildcats. K-State’s best high school

recruit is a three-star offensive lineman out of Humble, Texas: Christian Duffie. K-State’s 2018 recruiting class is rated 67th in the country by 247Sports. That is ninth in the Big 12 and one of the worst classes of all Power 5 conference schools. This is part of what head coach Bill Snyder is known for: taking transfers and three-stars and turning them into stand-out players. Snyder’s been doing it for 26 years, but is it sustainable beyond the 78-year-old coach? Maybe it is, other teams in

other sports have shown that finding diamond-in-the-rough-type players is possible. Bill Belichick does it in New England, Dayton Moore did it in Kansas City and the Oakland A’s are an entire organization built around it. Unless there is a Moneyball-esque formula for finding and developing that type of player, a formula that Snyder could pass on to his son, Sean, or another assistant coach, K-State is going to have to figure out how to recruit better. The strengths on K-State’s recruiting front are its facilities,

reputation and atmosphere. The Vanier Football Complex is impressive, and Kramer Dining Center and Wefald Hall are great places to show incoming freshmen. However, Bill Snyder Family Stadium is relatively small and unexciting when compared to Texas’ Memorial Stadium or even Oklahoma State’s Boone Pickens Stadium. K-State has a reputation for developing undersized and underappreciated players into stars. Names such as Darren Sproles and Jordy Nelson are all a recruit needs to hear to be reminded of this. The problem here is that this reputation is tied to Snyder, not K-State itself. When Snyder retires, the next coach will have to prove that he can do the same thing. K-State Family is an easy sell to people who are traveling from far away to visit Manhattan,

which let’s face it, is somewhere of more interest. Players from the most talent-rich states such as Texas, California, Florida and Georgia are going to be a long way from home. Which brings me to K-State’s weaknesses: location and program history. Location is a huge problem for K-State’s recruiting efforts. Kansas is one of the least fertile football recruiting states in the country. The only geographically close place Kansas would be able to realistically challenge for top talent is Texas. And everyone else, including top recruiting classes, recruits Texas. Oklahoma has some good football players, but with two great programs in the state, K-State needs to find talent in a place with talent to spare. K-State also has very minimal program history. Highly competitive players want to play for a highly competitive team, and

unfortunately, there is not much to point to in the way of football success in Manhattan. This year’s recruiting class was in middle school the last time K-State challenged for a Big 12 Championship. They were not born yet during most of Snyder’s successful seasons in the ‘90s. For these players, unless they were a K-State fan growing up, they likely were not exposed to K-State much, and especially not to a great K-State team. There is not much to differentiate K-State from a host of other Midwest schools with the same issues, except Snyder. Schools such as Colorado, Iowa State and Minnesota are all in similar positions. Recruiting needs to be in the forefront of Athletic Director Gene Taylor’s mind when he hires the next football coach after Snyder decides to retire, or else K-State football may be in for a tailspin.

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I am a proud Middle Eastern woman who is also a student at Kansas State University. Your words Tuesday night painted a picture of my home and culture as one that is only incompetent, brainwashed, radicalized and purely problematic to the United States. Your broad strokes barely cover a corner of the diverse and complex painting that encompasses the Middle East. For

I am strong, powerful, capable and have lived a very different narrative. I am not saying the Middle East is void of the issues you described. However, the words you used generalized the population and region when you yourself said that stereotypes are the tools of racists and bigots. This is a point in time when Middle Easterners are already fighting an uphill battle attempting to bridge the gap between cultures and omit the derogatory and ignorant stereotypes associated with people in the Middle East. Your words have immense

power, so I ask if you will choose your words with consideration and intentionality for all of those you are choosing to advocate and represent. Will you walk alongside me and many others toward a more just and equitable world? Mary Abounabhan is a senior in business management and the director of multicultural affairs for the Student Governing Association. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Collegian. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.

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Letter: Decisions about guns on campus should be individual ones On Feb. 1, student body president Jack Ayres sat in the gallery of the Kansas House of Representatives as the body debated House Bill 2042, which sought to recognize the concealed carry licenses of other states as valid in Kansas. Ayres wasn’t in Topeka for that reason alone, however. There was drama afoot: there were several efforts planned to restrict concealed carry at Kansas’ public colleges and universities through the amendment process. First, Rep. Barbara Ballard, a Democrat and longtime friend of the anti-campus carry movement, introduced an amendment that would once again ban firearms on campuses. This effort, not really standing a chance, was defeated. However, Rep. Clay Aurand, a Republican, introduced a successful amendment that would require permits for concealed carry on campus. Ultimately, the bill passed with the support of over 70 percent of the House. Those who oppose campus carry, including Ayres and Ballard, didn’t get everything they wanted out of HB 2042. They’re likely dismayed that, if enacted, it would also lower the age to carry concealed firearms from 21 to 18. Despite this, the drama surrounding the bill makes it clear that they’ll continue to scratch and claw away at campus carry until college students are once again left with only fists, call boxes and whistles to defend themselves on campus. On Wednesday, Ayres was again in Topeka, this time to represent Kansas State University at State

Higher Education Day. He was distributing a handout with a section titled “Localized Concealed Carry.” Underneath the title, it states that in “19 of the 27 states that allow campus carry, the institution has the right to allow or forbid weapons on campus.” That makes about as much sense grammatically as it does politically. Instead of “localized concealed carry,” the handout allegedly advocates localized decision-making about campus carry. The anti-campus carry cadre seeks to disguise their quest to re-ban guns on campus as a noble endeavor to return control over whether students can carry to each individual university. Is this actually localized control? Not at all. Right now, each and every eligible individual has the right to make a personal decision about carrying a concealed firearm on campus. Some students and faculty choose to do so. Others don’t. This is local control. The type of “localized concealed carry” Ayres advocates wouldn’t localize decision-making about campus carry. It would centralize it. Individuals would no longer have the right to decide for themselves. Such decision-making power would be seized from students and faculty and given to university administrators. We all know how they’ll decide. The push for granting universities the right to make their own decisions about campus carry is just another dishonest attempt to limit the rights of students and faculty. We ought to continue this debate, but we need to be honest about the goals we have in mind.

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Some people don’t think that carrying a concealed firearm on campus is a good idea. Some people do. That’s great! We can educate each other on the pros and cons of carrying concealed firearms. Ultimately, though, the final decision needs to be localized. It needs to be individualized. It’s true that universities have unique needs and operate in unique circumstances. There is a host of issues on which the state of Kansas shouldn’t be blanketly making decisions on behalf of every university. It’s also true, however, that individuals have unique needs and live in unique circumstances. There is a host of issues on which a university administration shouldn’t be blanketly making decisions on behalf of every student. Concealed carry is one of those issues. Someday, I envision having more administrators, student leaders and representatives who recognize the unique circumstances of individual students. Until that day comes, it’s imperative that each of us does our absolute best to protect individual rights against attacks from administrators, student leaders and representatives who instead seek to advance an agenda of centralized control. Evan Steckler is a senior in architectural engineering and event coordinator for the College Republicans at Kansas State. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Collegian. Please send comments to opinion@ kstatecollegian.com.

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