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Sen. Pat Roberts reflects on time with K-State after announcing retirement
PETER LOGANBILL THE COLLEGIAN
On Jan. 4 of this year, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts announced that he will not run for reelection in 2020 after a 50-year-long political career working at both the state and national level. As a 1958 alumnus, Roberts worked with Kansas State University in a variety of ways during his years in public service, calling his time at K-State a “wonderful experience” in a personal interview. “I credit K-State with an awful lot,” Roberts said. “When I went into public service, I was able to work with the administration and a lot of other people to achieve some great things, but I want to give K-State all the credit for making me feel comfortable as a student and having instructors that would press you and make you aware that you could do more than you think you could do.” Former K-State president Jon Wefald said Roberts was always there whenever he asked the senator for help. “Of all the politicians in the state of Kansas, Pat Roberts is the MVP, most valuable player, of all the governors, senators and congressmen,” Wefald said. “In my 23 years, from 1986 to 2009, Senator Pat Roberts did more for K-State than any politician going back to the Civil War. That’s because he wanted to help.” Roberts graduated from K-State in 1958 with a degree in journalism, and he said it was a positive experience. “K-State at that particular time —
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Senator Pat Roberts (left) and Kansas lieutenant governor Jeff Colyer watch Jeh Johnson, secretary of the U.S Department of Homeland Security, deliver the 167th K-State Landon Lecture on May 27, 2015, in Forum Hall in the Student Union. Roberts announced he will not be up for reelection in 2020.
and I think still today — it’s a family,” Roberts said. “And at that particular time, we didn’t have [enrollment] in the 20,000s, but everybody knew one another. It was a wonderful atmosphere, and K-State and the Marine Corps both taught me I could do more than I thought I could.”
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Roberts was on the swim team during his sophomore year at K-State after a successful freshman year on the team, and even though he had less time to swim than before, he said he would still practice in the pool located in the basement of Nichols Hall at the time. Although he was a not regular on the
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team his sophomore year, Roberts said he still ended up lettering by happenstance.
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OPINION: College advice from graduating senior Macy Davis
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“Against Nebraska, one on our team had the flu and the coach called me on a Saturday morning and said, ‘Come down and swim on the 100 [yard], that’s all you have to do, we just need somebody there,” Roberts said. “We had five people lined up, two from K-State and three from Nebraska,” Roberts continued. “My companion had the flu and he said, ‘I can’t swim,’ so that’s down to four. One Nebraska swimmer, he double-started, so he’s out. Now we’re down to three, then the last two Nebraska swimmers, one didn’t hit the turn right, and was disqualified. That’s down to one — and me. He beat me, but my line was, ‘Well, I took second in the meet against Nebraska.’ And because of that, I think I got a letter. I don’t know what on earth I’ve
done with it.” As a journalism major, Roberts worked for the Collegian during his time as an undergraduate, and he said his veins run with “printer’s ink.” “They would have me cover political events,” Roberts said. “I don’t know why exactly — everybody had a beat. I became wire editor. It was a very good experience. I came from a newspaper background. My great-grandfathers both were editors back in the era of bleeding Kansas.” After working at various newspapers following his graduation, Roberts entered public service and worked his way up the political ladder — from a congressman’s administrative assistant to the U.S. House of Representatives and finally to the U.S. Senate — always representing the state of Kansas. Ron Trewyn, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility liaison for K-State, said a significant part of Roberts’
impact on K-State is his involvement with the Homeland Defense Food Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness Program. The NBAF will be a research facility run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Agriculture after it is constructed in Manhattan in 2022. “Senator Roberts was really responsible for this,” Trewyn said. “He was about to take over chairing the Emerging Threats Subcommittee in the U.S. Senate, and in February [1999], we made our annual trip back there to visit with the delegation members, and that year, he basically felt the proposals we were bringing back for him to support were rather small. He said he wanted to see something big.” The project led to the building of the Biosecurity Research Institute in Pat Roberts Hall on campus. Roberts secured a large portion of federal funding for the
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building. Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Roberts traveled to Russia to visit a “secret city” about 60 miles from Moscow. “When the Soviet Union broke up, there were just an awful lot of things lying around like nuclear subs,” Roberts said. “I went up there [to] a facility there where they had already developed all sorts of pathogens designed to attack a nation’s food supply. If you stop and think about it, if a country had that capability and they really used it, then all of a sudden, our country would be in terrible shape to feed ourselves.” Later on, the Department of Homeland Security put out a message that it was looking for a location to build what became the NBAF. During the duo’s usual tradition of reading the newspaper and having coffee in the university presidential residence
after a ball game, Wefald and Roberts decided to push for the facility to be at K-State. “Jon looks at me in his usual optimistic way and says, ‘Well, we could do that at K-State,’” Roberts said. After years of hard work, the construction of the NBAF would begin on the north end of campus close to Pat Roberts Hall, which was named by Wefald as a way of thanking the senator for all he had done for the university. Looking back on his time as a student, Roberts said he remembers the impact of the K-State Family and encouraged students today to take advantage of it. “During that whole experience, you will find that the K-State family is much larger and bigger, and you run into K-Staters all around the world,” Roberts said. “This really means a lot because your friendships with people will last that amount of time, and we’re talking about 1958 — that’s a lot of years.
“The K-State family is just incredible,” Roberts continued. “If you can know that and appreciate that and really keep in touch, it will serve you for a lifetime.”
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Graduation & Finals Guide McKenzie twin duo leads the Wildcat track team by example, coach says
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The McKenzie twins laugh together on the R.V. Christian Track in Manhattan. The pair came to Kansas State University from Jamaica to compete on the track and field team.
ANNA CHRISTIANSON THE COLLEGIAN
For the first eighteen years of their lives, Ranae and Shanae McKenzie did everything together. As identical twins, the pair said they were rarely seen apart throughout their childhood and adolescence as they grew up in Jamaica. All of that changed in fall 2015 when Ranae made the long trip to Manhattan all by herself
to run with the women’s track and field team at Kansas State University. Brought in as a sprinter, Ranae said she enjoyed being around her teammates, but she struggled being so far from her twin sister who was still back at home. “It was a really tough time because we’d never been away from each other for that long, and I had to spend an entire semester without her,” Ranae said. “I was kind of reserved, shy, wasn’t outgoing at all.”
The McKenzie twins said they had always wanted to stay together after high school and attend the same university, but Shanae’s transfer process was slowed down when her NCAA Clearinghouse application was delayed. By the time she was deemed eligible to compete, most of the scholarship money for K-State’s track and field athletes had already been distributed, so she opted to wait for the outdoor season in the spring. Despite the difficult semester apart, the twins said they remain as close as ever, and consider themselves each other’s biggest fans. “[Ranae] pushes me to work harder,” Shanae said. “Being here with my sister, she’s always been here to support me, motivate me, encourage me always.” While the track and field team has seen sets of twins before, head coach Cliff Rovelto said the McKenzie twins are the closest pair he’s had yet. Both seniors are kinesiology and nutrition majors, and they spend nearly all of their time together. “[They’re] always out there supporting each other,” Rovelto said. “It’s very clear they have a very, very close relationship.”
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As the McKenzie twins head toward the end of the track season, they are continuing to rely on each other’s encouragement. Ranae ran the top 400-meter hurdle time in the country in April at 56.11 seconds, and she said she has high hopes for the Big 12 Championship and NCAA Tournament in the next few weeks. “I’m hoping to defend my Big 12 title [and] move on to the national championship,” Ranae said. After her collegiate career is over, Ranae said she hopes to compete on the Jamaican national
team. Shanae said she is looking to improve her high jump to 1.8 meters at this year’s Big 12 Championship. This would require beating her current personal best of 1.76 meters, which she set at the Big 12 Championship in 2017. In her last indoor track and field season next fall, Shanae said her goal is to continue setting personal records in her high jump. During their time competing for K-State, the McKenzies have come a long way in their athletic careers. Rovelto said the twins have developed into leaders as
they gained seniority on the team. “They’re always leading by example,” Rovelto said. “Always competing at a high level, always willing to do what it takes to help the team out.” While the demands of being a Division I student athlete can be tough, Ranae and Shanae agreed it’s a much better experience with a twin by their side. “I have my best friend with me, so it makes everything better,” Shanae said. “We live together, we go out together, we do everything together. Everything’s better with my sister.”
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Graduation & Finals Guide OPINION: Looking back, here’s some advice from a graduating senior MACY DAVIS
THE COLLEGIAN
Graduation is quickly approaching, and it’s safe to say I’m excited for the next chapter in my life. My four years studying English at Kansas State University have been phenomenal. But even if it’ll seem like it was all a walk in the park by the time graduation arrives, that’s not remotely true. Making it through my undergraduate
degree has meant a lot of coffee, a lot of stress and so many papers. I’ve learned a lot in college, both in and out of the classroom, and as I get ready to leave Manhattan behind me for graduate school in Boston, I wanted to share some of my biggest tips for making the most of your time at K-State. Now, I’m not the ultimate authority on things to do at college, so take this advice with a grain of salt. College is a different experience for everyone.
1. JUST FILL OUT THE APPLICATION
This is the one thing that I’ll stress over anything else. If you’re looking for a job or an internship and you find an opportunity you’re interested in, apply even if you don’t think you have a shot in the dark at getting it. In 2017, I interned at the Library of Congress; when I applied for the position, I didn’t think there was any chance I would actually be hired. However, I ended up not only getting the position, but having an expe-
rience that changed the trajectory of my entire college career. Last summer, I almost didn’t apply for the summer history curator position at Camp Kawanhee for Boys because I thought I would be too far out of my comfort zone, but I ended up finding a welcoming community of coworkers and counselors. If I hadn’t applied for this position, I wouldn’t be headed back for my second summer shortly after graduation. The worst thing that can happen when you apply for a po-
sition is that you don’t get the job and you move on to something else. But if you don’t apply in the first place, you never even have the chance to undertake what could potentially be one of the best experiences of your life.
2. BE WILLING TO SAY YES
There are a lot of opportunities out there for you at K-State, and when opportunity comes a-knockin’ on your doorstep, say yes! If I hadn’t said yes, I wouldn’t have ended up writing and edit-
ing for the Collegian, serving as a research intern at the Chapman Center for Rural Studies or becoming a published poet. Saying yes means taking a chance on a group, a class or a position even if you don’t feel 100 percent qualified. If someone asks you to do something, chances are they’re asking you for a reason.
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WellCAT Ambassadors provide health education through presentations JULIA JORNS
THE COLLEGIAN
The WellCAT Ambassadors are a departmental student organization at Kansas State University under the leadership of Lafene Health Center. The ambassadors are representatives of Lafene and provide scientific research on how to stay healthy to students across campus. Before becoming an ambassador, students go through an application process involving an interview. If selected, ambassadors take a three-credit hour, semester-long class called EDCEP 360, or Peer Health Education and Leadership. The course trains students in both first aid and CPR and explores many health and wellness topics promoted through the organization. Abigail Hess, junior in psychology, credited the WellCAT Ambassadors with help-
ing her develop stronger public speaking, leadership and communication skills. “The class provides us the opportunity to learn in a supportive environment and shows us how to become more comfortable speaking about health-related, sometimes sensitive, topics,” Hess said. Each ambassador is required to do a minimum of five service hours every semester, and one of those hours must be a presentation for students over a health-related topic. Holli Woodyard, junior in gerontology and nutrition and health, said the WellCAT Ambassadors try to keep their presentations interesting. “We try to get feedback from the students as we’re giving the presentations so we can make corrections if we need to or make it better and help them learn more,” Woodyard said. Annie Dillon, junior in microbiology, said she really
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WellCAT ambassadors discuss health and safety in Hale Library on March 15, 2018.
enjoys being able to give these presentations to groups that request them. “I really like getting to talk to people and share information,” Dillon said. The types of presentations ambassadors give can include topics such as drug and alcohol use, food safety, relationships, sleep, mental health and more. In the groups that request these presentations, many of the students attending have misconceptions about health and wellness topics, Dillon said. “I think it’s really helpful that we’re able to present all the information in a clear and concise manner,” Dillon said. Dillon, Hess and Wood-
yard agreed they enjoy being WellCAT Ambassadors because of the relationships they form with others through educating students on health-re-
lated topics. “I am so thankful I took a leap to interview and was accepted, because my time with WellCAT Ambassadors has
taught me what a peer educator is and how integral we can be as advocates for an understanding of health and wellness on campus,” Hess said.
Professors celebrate the 150th anniversary of ‘Little Women’ at K-State
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Anne Phillips (left) and Greg Eiselein, both professors of English, created the “Little Women 150” project to celebrate the enduring novel by Louisa May Alcott.
KATHLEEN ANDREWS THE COLLEGIAN
Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic novel “Little Women,” originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, celebrat-
ed its 150th anniversary of publication in the fall of 2018 and the spring of 2019, which students and faculty in the English department at Kansas State University were eager to celebrate. To commemorate the novel’s so-called sesquicentennial,
Gregory Eiselein, professor of English and director of K-State First, and Anne Phillips, professor of English, launched their project “Little Women 150.” As longtime Alcott lovers, Eiselein and Phillips said “Little Women 150” was a dream project for both of them. Their goal was to promote the relevance and significance of Alcott and her work 150 years later. Last fall, the Department of English hosted two guest lecturers, Beverly Lyon Clark and Anne Boyd Rioux, who presented academic lectures related to “Little Women.” Other elements of the project included an article coauthored by Eiselein and Phillips for the biography “Invincible Louisa,” extensive research on Alcott’s life and a 700-level class focusing on Alcott and her works. On April 25, Phillips and Eiselein hosted a celebration at the Dusty Bookshelf bookstore,
which included a readers’ theater version of “Little Women,” as well as students and faculty members presenting scholarly and creative work inspired by Alcott and her work. Eiselein and Phillips also began a blog for the project “Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women: A 150th Anniversary Celebration,” featuring weekly posts by guest authors. Each author wrote about a chapter of the novel. “It’s just been really, really fun to have people give us new ideas about each of those chapters or to see them in fresh ways,” Phillips said. Phillips’ love for Alcott and her work began early in her life, she said. The first time Philips encountered “Little Women,” she was 9 years old. “I was home sick in fourth grade,” Phillips said. “My mom handed it to me and I was in the club from there on.” Unlike Phillips, Eiselein said
he did not discover Alcott and her work until much later. When he was in graduate school, each member of his teaching class had to sign up for a book to teach over. Initially, Eiselein said he wanted to teach over an entirely different book, but when the sign-up reached him, the only remaining book was by Alcott. “I signed up for it, and I became really fascinated by Alcott’s place in history,” Eiselein said. “[Phillips and I] came to Alcott from different directions.” Kristen Emig, senior in English, worked with Eiselein and Phillips on the project. Emig’s primary role was helping with their research, she said, as well as conducting her own research about Alcott. “They were fantastic to work with,” Emig said. Emig added that she read “Little Women” for the first time when she was in eighth grade.
“My mom recommended it to me,” Emig said. “We had similar reading interests, so I took her word for it.” Eiselein said “Little Women” is still important to many people in the U.S. 150 years later. “The book still resonates,” Eiselein said. “This book is incredibly important to American culture.” Eiselein offered examples of different ways “Little Women” has influenced American culture, from television shows like “Girls” and “Sex and the City” to punk rocker Patti Smith. “I think a lot of the components of our ‘Little Women 150’ are about causing more public conversations about this book and keeping it more in the public eye and causing more people to read it and talk about it with each other,” Phillips said. “I’m enjoying every moment of our special year.”
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REVIEW: ‘Exploded View’ is a K-Stater’s homage to western Kansas MACY DAVIS
THE COLLEGIAN
When the Department of English hosted creative nonfiction writer Dustin Parsons and his wife, poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, for a reading of their creative works this past fall, I managed to obtain a copy of Parsons’ essay collection, “Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams.” Though “Exploded View” has been on my shelf since November, when I finally got around to reading it this past weekend, I devoured it in just two sittings. Parsons, a Kansas State University alumnus, grew up in western Kansas — not far
from my own hometown of Scott City, Kansas. He earned his master’s degree in English from K-State before going on to get another master’s degree from Bowling Green State University. I loved Parsons’ work from the beginning for its descriptions of western Kansas and unique use of diagrams, but what truly won me over was the humanity of the collection. In the first portion of “Exploded View,” titled “Dispatches from the Fifty-First State” Parsons simultaneously considers a 1990s secessionist movement that took place in western Kansas, the economy of oil in the area and his relationship with his father.
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As a writer, I frequently bring up memories of the western Kansas landscape and the people that live there. This first section of Parsons’ book resonated with me — not only because I recognized familiar surroundings, characters and experiences, but learned new things about them. That’s one of my favorite things to find in a book: a sense of comfort and an expanded mindset at the same time. However, I think this book is just as relevant to those who don’t have a nostalgic connection to western Kansas. Parsons’ consideration of humanity and relationships through diagrams and images makes the book a compelling
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experience for any reader. Parsons plays with the concept of the exploded view, a diagram that shows the components of an object slightly separated from each other to demonstrate detail. “Exploded View” weaves together exploded view diagrams with texts in a poetic manner. This unconventional format brings intrigue to these essays as explanations of an object are replaced with exploratory, nonfiction text. One of my favorite essays, “How to Make a Cardinal in Five Easy Steps,” features a diagram for how to draw a cardinal alongside an essay that considers Parsons’ and Nezhukumatathil’s sons in a larger conversation about race.
The stories Parsons shares about his sons are both humorous and incredibly touching at the same time. I’m not a parent, and I probably won’t be for a long time, but I can appreciate the care Parsons takes when considering the relationship between himself and his sons. This is the last book I have the honor of reviewing for the Collegian before graduation. It’s fitting that it’s a book by a K-State alumnus who writes about not only the state I love, but the part of Kansas that I know best.
All of these essays, whether about Kansas, India, travel or fatherhood, are emotionally touching. They prompt a larger consideration of the things you know to be true, starting with diagrams and ending with yourself. Macy Davis is the culture editor for the Collegian and a senior in English. The views and opinions expressed in this review 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.
LETTER: K-State should be solving housing issues This letter to the editor was written by Jonathan Cole, senior in mechanical engineering. If you would like to write a letter to the Collegian, send us an email at letters@kstatecollegian. com or visit kstatecollegian. com/contact. In his State of the Union address in 1944, then-president Franklin Roosevelt proposed a second Bill of Rights so that “a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all regardless of station, race or creed.” Among the proposed rights were the right to a job, the right to a decent education and the right to a decent home. In a time where it’s estimated over one in three college students are housing insecure and almost one in ten students are technically homeless, we must fight for the most vulnerable members of our Kansas State family. This not only includes students, but facilities staff on our campus who work hard to make our campus great. In Manhattan as a whole, facil-
ities staff are paid on average below the suggested $25,000 livable salary recommended by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a community organizer for housing justice, I ask the question: does K-State do enough to meet the housing needs of students? Time and time again, I hear the answer is a resounding “no.” Instead of addressing the fundamental needs of students and underpaid staff on campus, we see administration costs seeming to increase every year. This is an unconscionable course of action. I feel that, oftentimes, students and underpaid staff forget the power they truly have. We run this campus and the city of Manhattan, but don’t even realize it. If we are to address the housing injustices that are happening on our campus, we must begin altering the relations of power to where it serves us.
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K-State’s land-grant history still prominent today JUSTUS GAPHARDT THE COLLEGIAN
Kansas State University was founded in 1863 as the nation's first land-grant university. The school was founded to improve the lives of all Kansans through classes, research and outreach beyond the campus. "When land-grant universities were formed, the idea was to take the research and the work that was done at the university and share that with the common people," said Gary Fike, director of Riley County's K-State Research and Extension Branch. Land-grant universities
are institutions designated by the state to receive benefits from the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. The first Morrill Act, passed by the United States Congress, established landgrant institutions in every state to educate citizens in the fields of agriculture, home economics, the mechanic arts and other professions. The second Morrill Act provided annual appropriations to each state to support its land-grant institution. Emma Claybrook, junior in food science and industry, said she understands K-State's history as a land-grant univer-
sity and the impact it has on not only herself, but others as well. "Personally, I help teach a class that focuses on university resources and we go over the land-grant history," Claybrook said. "A lot of the resources that help minorities and underrepresented groups are funded from that money. The office that my scholarship group is housed in recently formed thanks to government funding and corporate sponsorship." K-State continues to work to fulfill its obligations as a land-grant university, primarily through Research and Extension, which has an office
in all 105 counties in Kansas. Through these offices, Research and Extension conducts informal education programs for consumers, families, farmers and youths. "We're able to conduct research across the entire state in areas that are highly important to farmers," said Spencer Casey, business manager for Research and Extension's Southwest Center. As K-State moves forward, Casey said research will continue to be important to Kansas. "I think land-grant universities were valuable back in 1860 and I think they're just as valuable today," Casey said.