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Nathan Jones | COLLEGIAN MEDIA GROUP Junior guard Barry Brown handles the basketball while Wildcat fans are roaring within the walls of Bramlage Coliseum as the men’s basketball team faces off against the University of Oklahoma Sooners on Jan. 16, 2018 in Manhattan, Kan. The Wildcats upset the Oklahoma Sooners with a final score of 87-69.

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Lieutenant Govenor Colyer meets with local mental health service staff RACHEL HOGAN THE COLLEGIAN

Jeff Colyer, lieutenant governor of Kansas and plastic surgeon, toured Pawnee Mental Health Services on a listening tour Thursday morning in Manhattan.

During the visit, staff members shared with Colyer the challenges Pawnee faces in providing mental health and substance treatment services to ten counties in the north central region of Kansas.

The major problems plaguing Pawnee and other similar community mental health centers in the state are difficulties with professional recruitment and tight budgets.

“Recruitment of specialty areas, especially like psychiatry, anywhere outside the metro area is difficult and challenging,” Karen Smothers, assistant clinical director of Pawnee, said.

Robbin Cole, executive director of Pawnee, said the mental health center relies on recruiting clinical and psychiatric personnel with personal ties to communities, but those connec-

tions are difficult to find in more rural areas. Even then, community mental heath centers like Pawnee lose out on recruits due to employers.

“It waxes and wanes, but there are periods of time where we’ve lost numbers of employees to Fort Riley because Fort Riley was able to offer what they viewed as a better opportunity than what they had here,” Cole said. “Part of it, too, is our wages and our salaries. We absolutely cannot compete with Fort Riley.

We cannot compete with private practitioners.”

The recruitment issue is compounded by Governor Sam Brownback’s plans to add hundreds of counselors, social workers and psychiatrists to the public school system in the coming years.

“Where are they going to come from?” Cole said. “Might they come from the community mental health system? Because even the schools are in a better position when it comes to wages and salaries than the mental health centers are.”

Other staff members echoed Cole’s concerns.

“We’re all reaping the same

pool,” said Adam McCaffrey, therapy and recovery services director at Pawnee. “We’re just all recruiting against each other, but we’re trying to do the same job, essentially, to help the people of Kansas.”

Despite staff shortages, Pawnee continues to offer support and service to people across Riley, Geary, Clay, Cloud and other, more remote and rural counties using “tele-psychiatry,” or teleconferences.

Additionally, Pawnee plans to integrate care services using community care teams to treat patients who require multidisciplinary treatment.

“These community care teams will pull together representatives from a variety of organizations in the community, staff those individual cases and take a look at how services from a variety of different providers can be wrapped around that individual to try to reduce their utilization of the services while also enhancing the impact or benefit they seek from the utilization of those services,” Cole said.

After hearing from the Pawnee staff, Colyer ended the conversation by expressing ap-

Winter Activities Fair attracts students, inspires involvement ALEC MADRIGAL THE COLLEGIAN

With more than 140 activity booths to choose from, the Kansas State biannual Activities Carnival had something to offer for every student.

Bill Harlan, director of student activities and services, said the event is planned to give students a look at the many opportunities offered on campus.

“The goal is to provide students who are looking to get involved with student organizations the one place they can go to meet a whole bunch of different groups,” Harlan said. “Whether it’s something specific they are interested in, or as a browsing

opportunity to come see what is available and meet the people who are involved in those groups and see if it’s a good fit.”

Jessica Olday, junior in computer science, said she attended the Activities Carnival for the second time this year. Last semester through the fair, Olday joined Alpha Omega Epsilon, an engineering sorority, as an opportunity for networking within her major.

This semester, Olday said she is considering joining the Creative Writing Enthusiasts club, even though it has nothing to do with her academic aspirations.

Other students attended the event because due to the offering of other forms of entertainment in addition to the activity booths.

Daisy Ralston, senior in ar-

chitectural engineering, said she took part in the event because of the promise of free snacks.

Aside from snacks, Ralston, who was previously part of the Water Ski Club, said she returned for another activities fair to catch up with some friends and because, in the past, she found professional connections after spending time with students in other clubs.

“I have been offered engineering interviews because of parents of the water ski people,” Ralston said.

On top of the variety of cookies and candy to choose from throughout the fair, there were K-State themed gift items such as tissues, hand sanitizer and phone accessories available at the Welcome Desk.

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Lieutenant governor Jeff Colyer converses with staff about their needs and concerns at Pawnee Mental Health Services in Manhattan, KS on Jan. 18, 2018 preciation for the work done by Pawnee. As a plastic surgeon who specialized in cranio-facial

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“I want to thank you for what you do,” Colyer said. “It’s important. It hits me. I know it.”

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Men’s basketball ready for TCU after Oklahoma upset AVERY OSEN

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Within the rowdy walls of Bramlage Colesium in Manhattan, Kan., the players of the Wildcat men’s basketball team gather to discuss their next move. K-State faced off against the University of Oklahoma Sooners on Jan. 16, 2018 and won with a final score of 87-69.

The Kansas State men’s basketball team is coming off their biggest win of the season against the University of Oklahoma, ranked fourth in the nation, and the Wildcats are getting ready to face TCU on Saturday at 3 p.m in Bramlage Coliseum.

The Wildcats dismantled the Sooners 87-69 on Wednesday night inside Bramlage and picked up their first win against a top-25 opponent on the year.

“The players are the ones that made this happen,” head coach Bruce Weber said after the game. “Barry Brown has been a big part of keeping this team to-

Diarra steps up as point guard, subbing in for injured Stokes NATHAN ENSERRO THE COLLEGIAN

Tragedy appeared to strike the Wildcats in Lubbock, Texas, when junior point guard Kamau Stokes went down with an apparent foot injury in a loss to Texas Tech. Stokes was averaging 13.4 points for the Wildcats, but more importantly, he was playing over 30 minutes per game.

This K-State team is unusually plagued by a lack of depth; its bench has provided 12.8 percent of the team’s offense this season.

The loss of a very productive only 15 games into the season should spell doom for a team that relies on its starters so much.

Enter redshirt freshman guard Cartier Diarra. Diarra, who missed his first season on campus due to a torn ACL, has stepped up in huge fashion. He has averaged 17 points in his three starts for the Wildcats.

More importantly, Diarra has averaged over 35 minutes in his starts — college basketball is a 40-minute game.

“He has stepped up a ton since [Stokes] went down,” junior forward Dean Wade said after a home win against the University of Oklahoma. “He’s playing with ultimate confidence. He’s big for us.”

Those minutes are invaluable for K-State. Every minute that Diarra plays is one less minute that K-State’s unassuming bench is on the floor.

Diarra has been impacting the game in a different way than Stokes. In moments when Stokes would shoot, Diarra takes it to the basket.

That’s not to say that Diarra can’t shoot. He has been hitting three point shots at a ridiculous 49 percent clip.

“He takes it to the basket strong,” Wade said. “I think it was two or three possessions in a row

where he came off a ball screen and went and scored. That is huge for us.”

Diarra was important in K-State’s win against a top-five Oklahoma. He gave K-State 16 points and five assists.

Diarra isn’t just filling in for Stokes on offense, as he is also doing it on the defensive end. He grabbed a pair of steals against Oklahoma and a pair in K-State’s road loss at the University of Kansas. Stokes was averaging 1.4 steals a game over his 15 starts this year.

“He’s got long arms, he’s getting steals. He’s just playing great on-ball defense,” Wade said.

Even KU head coach Bill Self was impressed with Diarra’s performance in K-State’s loss at Allen Fieldhouse.

“He was great, he was terrific,” Self said. “He controlled the second half for them. He’s really, really good. We’re going to be watching and seeing him over the next three years.”

gether and had practices on his own without us coaches. We had to raise our game up and they’ve stuck together.”

The win against Oklahoma came right after a one-point loss to KU last Saturday, and Weber said it would’ve been easy to hang their heads.

“But they didn’t,” Weber said. “They played at such a high level and it was a great team win for us.”

The Big 12 schedule never seems to get any easier, though — the TCU Horned Frogs will make their way to Manhattan on Saturday.

TCU’s record is 13-4 overall, but the Horned Frogs have struggled in Big 12 conference play, currently with a 1-4 record. The

lone conference win came against Baylor in double overtime, 81-78.

Three of the first five conference games for TCU have gone to overtime, with the Horned Frogs being 1-2 in those three games.

Another astonishing number from TCU’s first five conference games is that all of these games have been decided by five points or less.

As for K-State, the Wildcats have been carried by junior guard Barry Brown, who continues to score in the paint and stand tough on defense.

Brown guarded Oklahoma standout Trae Young, who was held to a total of 20 points in the loss.

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Cartier Diarra has stepped in very nicely for junior guard Kamau Stokes, who could be out for up to four weeks. Diarra has scored double digits in the past three games and has stepped into the starting role with ease.

K-State is 3-3 in Big 12 play and in fifth place among the teams in the conference. The three losses in the conference have all come against teams that are ahead of the Wildcats in the Big 12.

“I think momentum will carry over on Saturday for us,” junior forward Dean Wade said following his 21-point performance against the Sooners. “Hopefully we continue to play at a high level, and the atmosphere was great to play in so we hope to see them back on Saturday against TCU.”

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K-STATE Women's basketball will face challenge against Baylor Bears BRETT ENGLE

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After starting Big 12 conference play off with a 3-4 record, the Kansas State women’s basketball team will be looking to even out its record with an upset win on the road against No. 4 Baylor on Saturday at 6 p.m.

The Wildcats are 11-7 overall this season, and they recently fell at home to the University of Oklahoma 76-71. The team has picked up two wins against ranked teams in conference play with a victory on the road against No. 12 West Virginia University and a win at home against No. 20 Oklahoma State.

Unfortunately for the Wildcats, the Baylor Bears

have been nearly perfect this year. The team’s only loss in its 16-1 record came on the road against No. 8 UCLA, 82-68. K-State played UCLA earlier in the year and lost as well, 64-55.

Junior guard Kayla Goth has been a catalyst for the Wildcat offense. Goth currently leads the team in scoring at 16.3 points per game.

She also leads the Wildcats in assists, averaging 6.5 per game.

Sophomore forward Peyton Williams has been putting in work on both ends of the court, averaging 14.1 points per game and 7.3 rebounds.

She also leads the team in blocked shots with 23 and is first on the team in field goal percentage, shooting 55.6 percent from the floor.

Senior guard Shaelyn Martin stuffs the stat sheet every time she steps on the court. Martin is averaging six points per game and four assists per game, and she is leading the team in rebounds per game with 7.4. Martin also leads the team in steals with 36.

Whether Martin will be available to play against Baylor is unclear — she has an ankle injury that she sustained in the loss to Oklahoma on Wednesday, according to Andrew Hammond on Twitter.

After the trip to Waco, Texas, the Wildcats will return home to face off against the TCU Horned Frogs on Wednesday at 7 p.m. before a trip to Lawrence to face KU on Jan. 28 at 4 p.m.

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On the court of Bramlage Coliseum, Wildcat Peyton Williams takes charge of the paint against the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Trojans on Dec. 16, 2017. The sophomore forward, Williams, towers over the competition at 6’4”, and she has a mean game while down by the goal.

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Former Wildcat punter Nick Matthew Snyder, grandson of Walsh sets sights on NFL, music Bill Snyder, found dead at 22 JARRETT WHITSON THE COLLEGIAN

For the last four years, Kansas State fans have been familiar with number 14 running onto the field on fourth downs.

Unfortunately, that familiar sight will be no more. There will still be a number 14 on the squad, of course, but it won’t be the same one that fans have known so well.

Nick Walsh has been the starting punter for the K-State football team since 2014.

He became a starter during the second game of his redshirt freshman season, and he held that position all the way through his senior season.

Walsh hails from Lyndon, Kansas. Lyndon is a small town of around 1,000 people that can be found approximately 32 miles south of Topeka.

Walsh started his football career as a second grader. He played running back and linebacker in his early days, and he eventually learned to kick, too.

Walsh said it was not until his junior year of high school that he became the starting punter for the Lyndon High School Tigers.

For a player that had only become a starting punter two

years prior to joining a Power Five conference team, Walsh has had an impressive career.

Walsh can be found in the K-State record books with the second-most career punting yards (9,187) and tied for the third-best average yards per punt (42.3).

Walsh has also made his presence felt in the Big 12 conference, residing at 13th on the all-time list for punting yards and 17th in yards per punt.

In 2017, Walsh finished fifth in the conference for his 2,487 punting yards, and took second for averaging a career-high 43.6 yards per punt.

In each of his four seasons at K-State, Walsh finished in the top 10 of the Big 12 in terms of both punting yards and yards per punt.

Walsh has twice been a Ray Guy Award candidate, the award for the best punter in college football. In 2015, Walsh earned Honorable Mention All-Big 12 honors. He would then work his way up to third team in 2016, and second in 2017.

This past December, Walsh completed a milestone off the field: graduating college with a degree in finance.

Since graduation, Walsh has signed with an agent and

will pursue his dream of playing in the National Football League.

With plenty of time on his hands now that he is no longer going to school, Walsh has big plans in the upcoming months to train for a career in the NFL. In February, Walsh will travel to Phoenix and attend a combine specifically for specialists. In March, he will spend more than a week in California to train with retired NFL placekicker John Carney, who runs his own training program.

Carney played 25 seasons in the NFL, and was a “kicking consultant” for the New Orleans Saints when they won Super Bowl XLIV. Walsh will also prepare for K-State’s Pro Day coming up in the spring. He said he will be training at K-State for the first few days of each week and then will spend the rest of the week in Topeka.

While in Topeka, Walsh will spend time with his personal trainer, Colin Nichols.

Nichols is not only a physical trainer, but also a musician.

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Matthew Snyder, the grandson of head football coach Bill Snyder and the son of assistant head coach Sean Snyder, was found dead Wednesday, according to a report from the Manhattan Mercury.

Athletic director Gene Taylor released the following statement: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the Snyder family during this very difficult time. We are deeply saddened to learn of this news and ask that the family’s privacy continue to be respected. Sean, Wanda, and the entire Snyder family are greatly appreciative of the outpouring of support displayed by the K-State Family as they cope with this tragedy.”

Emergency personnel arrived in the 3300 block of Claflin Avenue in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. At that time, Riley County police confirmed that there had been a death but declined to give any further information.

The house at 3309 Claflin Ave. is owned by Sean and Wanda Snyder, according to county records.

According to the Wichita Eagle, police spokeswoman Hali Rowland said that they are currently investigating an unattended death.

“A suicide does fall under that category, but at this time, ‘unattended death’ is the language that we are using until we can further investigate,” Rowland said to the Eagle.

Matthew Snyder lived in Manhattan, but did not attend K-State.

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Coach Bill Snyder reflects as the Wildcats played Texas Christian University in Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Oct. 14, 2017. The Wildcats lost with a final score of 26-6.

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News briefs: Jan. 19 KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN THE COLLEGIAN

Missouri governor Eric Greitens remains the object of speculation after admitting to having cheated on his wife in 2015. According to the Kansas City Star, Greitens now faces allegations of attempted blackmail from the

woman involved in the affair, who claims he took a nude photo of her and threatened to leak it if she came forward about the affair. Since the allegations emerged, five Republican lawmakers have called for his resignation. Meanwhile, Greitens continues to work on tax cut proposals and budget recommendations.

Widespread flu infections continue to be reported by most American states, particularly the most crippling seasonal strain, H3N2. According to The New York Times, this flu season is similar to the 20142015 flu season, when H3N2 was the most prevalent strain.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Jan. 7 that about 78 percent of tested samples from this season have been genetically marked as H3N2.

Governor Sam Brownback’s nomination to become ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom advanced through the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday.

If confirmed by the full Senate, Brownback will become a part of the Trump administration.

According to the Kansas City Star, Brownback was previously nominated in July 2017 but had to restart the approval process as he failed to gain the full Senate’s

approval before the end of 2017.

Wyatt Thompson, playby-play commentator for Kansas State’s football and men’s basketball teams, was named Kansas’ Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. Thompson, who has served as the “voice of the Wildcats” for 16 years, has previously been awarded the title in 2011 and 2013, according to the Manhattan Mercury. He will officially receive

the award June 23 in North Carolina during the National Sports Media Association Awards Weekend.

USD 383 is working to craft a bond measure to be voted on for the Nov. 6 ballot.

The resolution could kickstart a financial plan to reduce crowding of Manhattan-Ogden elementary schools. According to the Manhattan Mercury, there are five solutions in the works, all of which could cost the school district around $100 million.

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Thursday, Jan. 25 MLK Week Lecture with Martin Luther King III and Candlelight Vigil 12:30 p.m. | K-State Student Union Forum Hall Contact Mirta Chavez at mirta@k-state.edu or Brandon Clark at bclark@k-state.edu Hosted by Office of Diversity and Kappa Tau Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha

As the oldest son of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King III serves as an ambassador of his parents’ legacy of nonviolent social change.

He is president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference — co-founded by his father — as well as president of Realizing the Dream Inc., sharing nonviolence training in Bosnia Herzegovina, India, Israel, Kenya, Sri Lanka and the United States.

Tickets are available in the Center for Student Involvement, 114 K-State Student Union.

Metal detectors will be in use. Backpacks and purses will NOT be allowed. Possession of weapons, including the concealed carrying of handguns, is prohibited at this event.

Two overflow seating areas will be available in the K-State Alumni Center’s Banquet Room and K-State Student Union’s courtyard.