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Ag student’s farm employer pays tuition with loan
PETER LOGANBILL THE COLLEGIAN
It’s the beginning of a new semester and a new year, and with that comes the ongoing question of how to pay tuition. The process of trying to get scholarships, working long hours, figuring out student loans and seeing if financial help is available is a grueling process. For some students, a helping hand can change everything. Isaac Evans, junior in agricultural economics, is from Scott City, Kansas where he worked on a farm throughout middle and high school. Once he graduated, he went to Colby, Kansas to start at Colby Community College and work as an assistant tennis coach at Colby High School. Classes hadn’t started at CCC yet, so the head tennis coach said he could stay at her family’s farm until the dorms opened. This farm was Frahm Farmland, Inc., located just outside of Colby. During his first day there, Evans began talking with Lon Frahm, CEO and owner of Frahm Farmland, Inc. “I went down for breakfast the first morning and got talking and they figured out I was an ag major and offered me a part-time job during the school year,” Evans said. After the school year, he was offered a summer job. When he was thinking about transferring to K-State, Frahm offered to help with whatever Evans needed. What he needed was something all college students are looking for, and what made him start out at a community college: money.
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Isaac Evans, junior in agricultural economics, is thinking economically about his future. Evans smiles outside of Waters Hall on Sept. 2, 2019. “They asked me exactly what I did need, and I told them the only thing I didn’t really have covered was tuition,” Evans said. Evans was offered a long-term position following his graduation from K-State to pay off the loan if he decides to return to work at Frahm Farmland. If he decides not to return, he can just pay the loan off.
K-State aims to maintain momentum in week two
For Frahm, this is a regular, informal thing. He said he doesn’t see people as a commodity. “All my employees, I help with education as much as I can,” Frahm said. “I view labor as a long-term, fixed asset. Long-term, fixed assets, you maintain them and you improve them.” Frahm said he believes helping employees with tuition is an invest-
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ment with the “highest return and the longest life.” His farm is also a place that tries to manifest a family environment, as the Frahm’s have been in Colby for six generations, totaling about 100 years.
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Student leader aims to address rural struggles by Bailey Britton Kansas State University prides itself on being “a comprehensive, research, land-grant institution serving students and the people of Kansas, the nation, and the world” as stated in the university mission statement. Many programs exist to assist first generation students, such as K-State First, in achieving their academic goals, but none are specific to helping a group that one student senator says is at-risk: students from rural communities. Noah Ochsner, sophomore in agricultural communications and journalism, is a student senator for the College of Agriculture concerned about rural student success at K-State. Ochsner grew up in Tribune, Kansas — a small town located in Greeley County, the least populated county in the state. “I noticed the moment I set foot on campus that it’s very different for students from those school districts,” Ochsner said. Ochsner’s goal for Student Governing Association this year is to create a committee aimed at helping students from rural communities. A bill to create the Special Committee on Rural Student Success will be introduced in the first student senate meeting of the fall 2019 semester on Thursday. The goals of the committee will be to see how many rural students attend K-State, create a method for counting rural students and to implement programs to encourage their success on campus.
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“I think this is a pressing enough issue at K-State that we should be able to get it through senate,” Ochsner said. “It’s becoming more and more relevant on a national scale.” Thomas Lane, vice president of student life and dean of students, said he agrees that the creation of an SGA committee is a positive goal. Lane added that one of the first tasks should be creating an agreed upon definition of “rural student,” as the definition differs depending on the government department.
ISSUES FACING RURAL STUDENTS
Ochsner said students from smaller, rural schools may get confused when they first arrive on campus. They come from schools where they know everyone’s name, where they live, what their classmate’s dog’s name is and more. They have always felt like they belong. When they arrive at a large university, they get lost in the shuffle of bodies headed to class. Lane, in his short time at K-State, has seen these issues already. “I have had conversations with students from rural areas who have expressed feeling initially overwhelmed by the size of the university or a lecture hall class environment when compared with their hometown experience,” Lane said. These students also don’t know the types of resources available to them on campus. The classes they took in high school weren’t as rigorous as their peers from urban areas. Soon, rural students could fall
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“I’m the only family member currently involved, but some of the people have been there so long, they [may] as well be family,” Frahm said. “No one’s ever quit. We’ve had one retirement, and no one’s ever
behind and drop out. Ochsner learned more about this issue from an NPR article. “That study shows that students who graduate from rural high schools in parts of the country are going to be the first to drop out typically,” Ochsner said. “They are the most at risk, which to me was alarming.”
EDUCATIONAL GAP
Ochsner said the students who drop out and return home can create educational gaps in rural communities, which could lead to a wealth gap if it continues for too many generations. Ochsner said this contributes to oppression in rural areas. “What’s going to happen with me, for example, is that I am going to graduate from college and I probably won’t return to my hometown because my degree is not worth it to return after I spent thousands of dollars here,” Ochsner said. “This is a problem nationwide, but we also don’t want to get in a cycle where people are coming here and dropping out with no education.” Without students returning to their hometowns following graduating from a university, the population in rural areas will dwindle, contributing to educational and wealth gaps. Hannah Heatherman, senior in finance and speaker of the student senate, said that universities were originally created for rich, white males. Over the years, this has changed. However, if dropout rates of rural students continue to be an issue, there will be less diversity on K-State’s campus. “The more work we can do as student leaders to be sure that we never return to having that same problem is re-
been dismissed. So, Isaac kind of fell into a family.” While Evans said someone doesn’t necessarily need a degree to do farm work, he thinks it’s a good safety net. “You don’t need a degree to go run a sprayer, run a combine, but what happens if you’re working for a smaller corporation and they go under?” Evans said. “They have
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Noah Ochsner represents the College of Agriculture in the Student Governing Association. ally important,” Heatherman said. “Because oftentimes, yes, there’s a lot of money in those rural communities. But there’s also the flip side, when that educational gap starts to come into play.” Ochsner said the money in rural communities are held a bad year, and then you’re let go and you don’t have a degree that you can fall back on to go to a company?” To Frahm, the real question is “Why would I not do it?” and Evans is happy to have met him at the right time. “I just got lucky that, while I was there, I found a farm corporation that cared about furthering education,” Evans said.
by a few people who had a successful couple years. The majority of people in rural communities have not had that success, such as in Scott, Greeley and Ness counties in western Kansas.
GOALS FOR THE COMMITTEE
One proposed way to perform a census would be to track which school districts students come from. The downside of this solution is that it would primarily work for in-state students. Ochsner also said state legislators’ focus on expanding K-12 education to help students be better prepared for college would greatly decrease the
dropout rate. He said he hopes that SGA and rural committee members would get to talk to legislators about this issue. “I think one of our other goals is getting state legislators to realize that this is an issue, getting lawmakers to buy into this and getting university administration to buy into this,” Ochsner said. “That this isn’t just a K-State problem. This is going to be happening in every state university in Kansas.” In addition to the census and talking to legislators, Ochsner wants to emphasize that K-State administrators and students want these rural students to succeed. “We need to make sure that we’re really drilling it in the students like we do have
resources, we have a success center that’s absolutely free,” Ochsner said. “We have tutoring that’s free. All of our professors have mandatory office hours and are willing to meet with you. And then our staff and faculty are here to help in any way, shape or form. We’re here to help as student leaders. We’re here for you, we’re here to help. We’re here to make sure that you have a place on campus.” Ochsner’s goal is for the committee to have students who are both in SGA and from other groups on campus. Students from rural communities would be preferred, but, Ochsner said, having a diverse group of voices would be beneficial.
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K-State aims to stay focused ahead of trap against Bowling Green NATHAN ENSERRO THE COLLEGIAN
Kansas State’s 49-14 domination of Nicholls State on Saturday was a big-time, emotional win in head coach Chris Klieman’s first game at K-State. For players and coaches alike, there was a huge emotional weight for the first game. On Sept. 14, the Wildcats will venture to Starkville, Mississippi, for a rematch of last year’s home drubbing at the hands of Mississippi State, another game that holds huge weight on K-State’s schedule. But between the two games lies possibly the easiest game on the Wildcats’ schedule — Bowling Green. In the sports world, having an easy game sandwiched between two emotionally important or significant games is called a “trap
game.” The fear is that players and coaches may overlook the lesser opponent by focusing too far forward and also have a letdown compared to the built up energy they had in the first game. Sophomore defensive end Wyatt Hubert, for the record, does not think that that let down will happen. “I do not think [recreating the week one energy] will be a problem at all because we have been so excited for this,” Hubert said. “Week one is over, but we have so many weeks ahead of us.” The Wildcat coaches and team leaders are trying to avoid a letdown as much as possible, and that seemed to be a consistent message during media availability on Tuesday. Klieman, for instance, made several references to his
philosophy of “stacking good days” on top of each other, a twist on the old “take it one game at a time” cliche that coaches and players overuse in press conferences across the country. Still, K-State team leaders seem to have bought into the philosophy. “I think guys realize last week is in the past and that we have to continue to build on it,” senior offensive lineman Adam Holtorf said. Holtorf added later that he had not heard any talk about Mississippi State in the locker room this week and that it was all focused on Bowling Green. “The coaches, they hound to us ‘Don’t be seduced by success,’” junior defensive back AJ Parker said. “That game doesn’t matter anymore, so we have to come in, focus and get prepared for the next week.”
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Junior running back Harry Trotter runs the ball in for a touchdown during K-State’s football game against Nicholls in Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Aug. 31, 2019. The Wildcats took the Colonels 49-14.
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REVIEW: ‘Boscology 101’ podcast has something for everyone ANGELA SAWYER THE COLLEGIAN
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Pat Bosco, former vice president for student life and dean of students, speaks at the unveiling of the Morris Family Multicultural Student Center on April 29, 2019.
Post-retirement life is typically a time to slow down, but not for Kansas State’s former vice president of student life and dean of students, Pat Bosco. A little more than a month after finishing his final academic school year, he launched his new podcast, Boscology 101, on July 11, with three episodes ranging from three to four minutes. The first episode is called “The Culture of K-State.” The history of K-State is information many students may already know: we were the first landgrant school in a time when opportunities were only open to the wealthy few, and K-State was the first one to open its doors to all students. Listening to this episode was a good trip down memory lane. I always learn something new every time I go through the school’s past, and it just makes me prouder of our school.
In the second episode, “The First Question Should Be ‘Why?’” Bosco said that this idea specifically applies to leaders. Personally, I noticed in my life and in my college experience that I find myself doing a lot of things and could never really answer this simple question. Was I doing something because I really wanted to or was I just going through the motions? This episode hit home for me and I think its message is one that everyone needs to hear. If you can’t answer the why in doing something, then what’s the point in doing it? In the final episode in season one, “The Power of Listening,” Bosco told a story about his daughter and when he learned that no matter how old they are, people still want to be heard. One of the things that stood out the most was when Bosco referred to listening as the greatest psychological hug you could give to someone. The episode reminds the listener that no matter how old they are nothing
beats the feeling of someone really listening to you. Boscology 101 is great podcast for any K-Stater to listen to. Bosco’s insight on leadership and his love for the school is heard in every episode. I would encourage any person, not just current students, but anyone who is interested in coming to K-state or an alumni to subscribe to this podcast. Everyone can get something out of it, and since the first three episodes came out in July, Bosco has released four more. If you have extra time to list to some words of wisdom I would hit that subscribe button. Listen to "Boscology 101" wherever you find your podcasts. 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.
Campus police activity: Aug. 27-Sept. 2 TUESDAY, AUG. 27
Incident: Vehicle vs. motorcycle minor injury accident Location: Denison Avenue and College Heights Road Time: 7:20 a.m. Disposition: Investigation complete, citation issued
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28
Incident: Driving while suspended, cancelled or revoked, operating a vehicle without ignition interlock device, three failure to appear warrants Location: 1100 Denison Ave. Time: 9:33 a.m. Disposition: Investigation complete, arrest made Incident: Theft by deception was reported from Aug. 18 Incident: One vehicle non-injury accident Location: 701 Beach Ln. Time: 1:10 p.m. Disposition: Investigation complete, citation issued
THURSDAY, AUG. 29
Incident: Burglary, criminal threat and criminal damage to property was reported from Aug. 19 Incident: Domestic battery Location: Manhattan, KS Time: 1:30 a.m. Disposition: Under investigation Incident: Theft (under $1,500) Location: 1117 Mid-Campus Dr. Time: 8:00 p.m. (reported Aug. 30) Disposition: Under investigation Incident: Theft and criminal damage to property (under $1,500) Location: 1804 Denison Ave. Time: 10:00 p.m. (reported Aug. 30) Disposition: Under investigation
FRIDAY, AUG. 30
Incident: Vehicle vs. pedestrian minor injury accident Location: North Manhattan Avenue and Campus Creek Road Time: 1:45 p.m. Disposition: Investigation complete, no citation issued
SATURDAY, AUG. 31
Incident: Two vehicle non-injury accident Location: 2200 Kimball Ave. Time: 11:42 a.m. Disposition: Investigation complete, citation issued Incident: 12 instances of minors in possession of alcohol Location: 2100 Kimball Ave. Time: Between 1:53 and 8:19 p.m. Dispositions: Investigation complete, citation issued in each instance Incident: Criminal trespass Location: 2100 Kimball Ave. Time: 7:10 p.m. Disposition: Investigation complete, arrest made
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Incident: Two vehicle non-injury hit-and-run accident Location: 1500 Denison Ave.
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Time: 1:27 p.m. Disposition: Investigation complete, citation issued Incident: Two vehicle non-injury accident Location: 1700 Denison Ave.
Time: 8:52 p.m. Disposition: Investigation complete, no citation issued
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Biology course offers hands-on research experience to underclassmen JULIE FREIJAT
THE COLLEGIAN
Human beings are made of more than just skin and bones — entire planets spin inside our bodies, each composed of thousands of different microbes. These microscopic worlds have been a subject of curiosity for years, and now a course at Kansas State University gives students the opportunity to discover these worlds
from up close. Phage Hunters is a biology course that teaches students to find, isolate and learn about a bacteriophage, a virus that kills bacteria. Christopher Herren, biology professor, said the class gives younger students a chance to get hands-on lab experience early in their college careers. “The idea was most people do research when they get to college and they’re like a
junior or senior, let’s pull it all the way down to freshmen, and into community colleges, and even maybe into high schools — get people right into science,” Herren said. The concept was born out of the Science Education Alliance at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Graham Hatfull, a University of Pittsburgh professor who studies bacteriophage, spearheaded the idea. Hatfull wanted to get students involved in sci-
I was looking forward to every single day [in] that class to put on the lab coat and gloves and get to work... Jordan Block
junior in microbiology, pre-medicine
ence while also creating a bank of phages found by students. HHMI formed a standardized educational program to aid in the project. The process begins with students finding dirt across campus. “We take the dirt, we soak it in a liquid and then we filter that liquid and apply it to a bacterial culture, and we look to see if that bacterial culture dies,” Herren said. “If it does, there’s a virus in there, [and] we do further experiments to isolate the virus.” Jordan Block, junior in microbiology and pre-medicine, took the course last year. Block said that while the new terminology was difficult to learn at first, the class provided an easy avenue for learning. “It’s not something that’s just taught, you’re learning it as you go,” Block said. “You’re able to understand it more that way, like having an actual plate in front of you where you can see all the different formations [and] you can understand what it is, it’s easier to learn that way, I guess.” The students get to take a photo of their phage with an electron microscope, and later get the opportunity to name it. There are a few restrictions on the names students are allowed to choose. Herren said the names are run through Urban Dictionary to weed out any profanity — students are also prohibited from using any variation of Nicholas Cage in the name of their virus. Block named her own phage StillBlue. Herren said the entire process is safe and most of the safety mechanisms they use — lab coats, gloves and eyewear — are actually used to keep the virus safe from human contamination. “These are viruses that infect bacteria, and the bacteria we work with are dirt bacteria,” Herren said. “It’s the same bacteria in your garden, on the bottom of your shoes, or what are called BSL-1’s, which means there’s no safety precautions at all.” Block said she enjoyed her experience working with the
phages. “I was never stressed in the lab,” Block said. “I was looking forward to every single day [in] that class to put on the lab coat and gloves and get to work with my phage and try to learn more about it through lab practices.” The class is year-long — the first semester focuses on isolating the virus, while the second semester deals mostly with annotating the genome of a select few phages from the fall semester. “The viruses we work with have anywhere from 50 to 120 genes — that’s not an unreasonable number for a dozen people,” Herren said. “We’ll go through each of those genes using software and be sure that the computer has annotated the genes properly. We’ll finally submit those to the National Archives. The students will then permanently have their name on a viral genome sequence that will live in the government repository forever.”
RESEARCH THAT SAVES LIVES
With antibiotics on the downslope, phages as a method of killing bacteria has gained interest as a way of clearing infections, Herren said. He said one of the more recent and famous cases involved Hatfull treating a young girl with cystic fibrosis who had contracted a bacterial infection after a double-lung transplant. “She was dying. And so out of desperation, her parents just started Googling on the internet,” Herren said. “The name of the bacteria comes up in our research program, because it’s one of our hosts, [and] they contacted him.” Herren said a mechanism in the federal government allowed an experimental treatment to be used on the girl because she was terminally ill. “He screened all the phages that all the undergraduates have ever collected and found one or two of them that killed this particular strain of bacteria, prepared a bunch of it, flew it over to Britain, they injected her with it — cleared it right up,” he said.
While there have been multiple success stories regarding phage treatments, Herren said they still don’t fully understand exactly how it works. Researchers are beginning to look at it as a treatment, potentially in lieu of antibiotics.
BUILDING A FUTURE
Block said she applied for the course because she thought it would be a great experience that could introduce her to the lab work she wanted to be involved in. She also said the class gave her a lot of practical experience that she uses in her research lab now. “I was lucky to be one of the first people to find a phage and continue on in the protocol faster than the others,” she said. “And so, I got to be a little bit of a guinea pig when it came to experimenting with protocols [and] trying to find a better way to do something for the rest of the class. It really helped me see how to evolve and change what the protocol is to better work for your situation.” Herren said the course is exciting for students because as freshmen, they can have handson experience in working in a lab. This experience can help them when they go on to look for research jobs, he said. “We put out 20 students a year that can walk right into undergraduate research and [are] ready to go,” Herren said. “We sort of feed into all the research labs, also to the vet center, also to the USDA and the Bioterrorism Institute.” At the end of the spring semester, Block was chosen to attend a conference at HHMI and present a poster of a phage to students from across the country. The phage Block presented was called Faith5x5. Block said one of her favorite experiences from the class was having the opportunity to attend the conference and listen to the keynote speakers. “It’s one of those situations that you always kind of dream of being in until you get there,” Block said. “And then it’s like, ‘Wow, I’m here — I’m a part of something bigger.’”
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OPINION: Student debt crisis? Bad. Eliminating it? Worse.
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TRISTAN KORFF
ADAM MEYER
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Chances are if you’re reading this right now, you have student debt. According the Institute for College Access & Success, more than 65 percent of college seniors graduated with student loan debt in 2017. Among them, the average loan debt totaled in at a whopping $28,650. Nearly $30,000 of debt is a huge burden to carry when coming out of college. It represents money that could go towards a down payment on a house, a new car or an investment towards your financial future. With all of this debt, it comes as no surprise that millennials are refusing to buy homes and that the auto industry is having trouble selling upscale cars to people our age. We simply can’t afford those luxuries. Presidential hopefuls like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both rolled out plans to have Wall Street pay to eliminate this debt. While this would no doubt help the millions of us who currently hold student debt, the process of eliminating all student debt would have harmful unintended consequences. Let’s focus on what got us here in the first place: rising college tuition rates. Students are paying 213 percent more to attend public universities today than they were paying in the late 1980’s. There are more people going to college than ever before — demand is higher than it has ever been. An increase in demand always results in an increase of prices. However, this alone can’t explain the dramatic rise in tuition rates. In the 1970s, when college was extremely af-
fordable compared to today, financial aid programs were almost non-existent. Then, at the tail end of the decade, Congress passed the Middle Income Student Assistance Act, which was effectively the start of federal financial aid for college. Ironically, almost as soon as the government started assisting students with paying for college, tuition started to rise. Richard Vedder, a professor at Ohio University, explained the problem: “Knowing that students will get financial-aid money, the university raises fees ... to capture that themselves.” Universities know that most students can’t afford college. But they also know that the government will help pay for what students can’t afford. So why not raise tuition? Students will still attend, the government will pay the higher tuition rates and the university can suddenly build a new football stadium or hire an “assistant dean of pedestrian crossings.” This is perhaps the most frustrating feedback cycle facing our generation today. The more the government pays to try and help students, the more universities raise their tuition. No one benefits but the colleges themselves. By paying off all student debt through a tax on Wall Street, the government would yet again be handing over a blank check to universities. If students are willing to accept any price and the government is willing to pay entirely for college, universities have no reason not to continue increasing tuition. While eradicating the student debt one time may mean our generation gets off scot-
free, the next generation of college students would face higher tuition than ever. Instead, our government should focus on lowering the cost of tuition by implementing policies such as faculty-to-student ratio caps, which help ensure that the bulk of student’s tuition isn’t spent on administrative bloat. Even more radically, the government could actually limit access to federal student loans. Why does the government make it so easy for an unemployed twenty-year-old to take on six figures of student debt in the first place? Everyone should have a right to attend college if they want to, but there’s nothing wrong with forcing them to think long and hard about paying for it. I believe that we have a crisis on our hands when it comes to student debt. However, I fear that simply having the government pay it all off will only worsen the issues that got us here. There are other steps to take that will create lasting change, rather than just allowing one generation to win the federal financial-aid lottery by having their tuition paid for. Our generation owes it those who follow us to focus on solutions that will create real, lasting change. Eliminating all student debt for one generation isn’t a permanent solution: it’s a death sentence for the students to come. it’s a death sentence for the students to come. Tristan Korff is a sophomore in economics and finance. 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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VOLLEYBALL
The volleyball team will be in for a busy week as they prepared to host the Kansas State Invitational. The invitational begins on Thursday, and the Wildcats will be playing Clemson in the first match at 6 p.m. Then on Friday the Wildcats will play Omaha at 7:30 p.m. Then on
Saturday they will take on Central Arkansas at 5 p.m.
SOCCER
will begin their 2019 season in Wichita at the JK Gold Classic hosted by Wichita State.
CROSS COUNTRY
After starting the 2019 season with a 49-14 win over Nicholls State, the Wildcats will host Bowling Green. Following a dominating win in the opening game, the football team will look to carry that momentum into week two. Kickoff for the game is at 11 a.m.
The soccer team will be traveling to Northridge, California, to take on California State Northridge. This game will begin at 7 p.m. on Sept. 6. The Wildcats are coming off their first win of the season 2-0 on Sunday against South Dakota State. The Cross Country team
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PART TIME SALES POSITION at Faith Furniture. Afternoon and weekend position open for honest, energetic and self-motivated person. No experience necessary. A great part time positoin, please apply in person at 302 Poyntz Ave. in Manhattan or send resume to fum302@hotmail.com.
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Empoyment/Careers THE COLLEGIAN cannot verify the financial potential of advertisements in the Employment/ Opportunities classifications. Readers are advised to approach any such business opportunity with reasonable caution. The Collegian urges our readers to contact the Better Business Bureau, 501 SE Jefferson, Topeka, KS 66607‑1190. 785‑232‑0454.
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wednesday, september 4, 2019
Logan Wassall COLLEGIAN MEDIA GROUP
K-State’s football team took on Nicholls State in Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Aug. 31, 2019. In the home opener of the season and the start of a new coaching era, the Wildcats dominated the Colonels 49-14.
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