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REBUILDING BRIDGES How SGA members are addressing representation in student senate
KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN THE COLLEGIAN
Tension filled the room — and it wasn’t just because the Wildcat Chamber in the K-State Student Union was pushing maximum capacity. In fact, the general unease in the room hung in the air on Nov. 8, 2018 because students poured in to voice their frustration in front of the leaders they elected to represent them. In fall 2018, it seemed Kansas State was gearing up to deal with yet another racially-charged incident. Earlier in the week, a K-State student reported that a poster saying “Beware N*****s Live Here!!! Knock at your own risk,” was tacked to his on-campus apartment doorway. The incident in question was later confirmed to be a hoax when the student who reported the sign also admitted to posting it, but it reignited questions of race relations at K-State — specifically, what role does student government play in ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion on campus? Out of those conversations in SGA, there emerged a new approach to tracking the quality of student representation, and with it, a new standing committee: the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. The new committee, which took the place of the former Special Committee on Membership and the former Standing Committee on Student Engagement, was estab-
lished for a number of reasons, said Mathew Orzechowski, inaugural committee chair and senior in industrial engineering and political science. But chief among them was to bridge the gap between the student body and its leaders. As for testing the quality of representation present in SGA, the governing body re-legislated a task that had fallen to the wayside: the SGA demographic survey. The survey, which hadn’t been completed since 2016, asks questions of participants to gauge how they are classified demographically — ethnicity, disability status, religion and more. In this governing term, Orzechowski said, the survey was filled out using the Google Form platform. He estimated an 80 percent response rate, and the majority of respondents were student senators. Key exclusions from the data might include many members from the executive branch and judicial branches of SGA. “Basically it’s just reaffirming the general [assumptions,]” Orzechowski said in regards to the findings of the survey. The majority of the respondents — a little more than 77 percent — self-identified as white. According to data provided by the Kansas Board of Regents about K-State’s fall 2019 enrollment, that supersedes
the percentage of students in the general student population who self-identified as white by more than two percent. “Demographically speaking, certain groups of individuals dominate what the K-State student body really looks like,” said Vedant Kulkarni, SGA’s international affairs director and junior in data analytics and mass communication. Specific racial groups that are under- represented in SGA com- pared to their makeup of
the student body are Hispanic/Latinx students (who make up a growing number of the population at K-State), multiracial K-Staters and students who self-identify outside of the parameters provided by the SGA demographic survey. Non-white groups in SGA that outweigh the statistical value represented in the
student body include students who self-identified as Black and Asian. Kulkarni said having appropriate demographic representation in SGA is important for several reasons. “When you see a particular student group that dominates, they don’t see the problems faced by marginalized communities or the minority communities,” said Kulkarni, who is an international student from India. “The problems we face are generally not brought up in SGA, and students who are in SGA from these communities don’t know exactly how to voice their opinions and their problems. “SGA could be a lot more diverse; it could be more inclusive toward other students,” Kulkarni continued. “Student leaders need to take that initiative toward students they know are not represented in SGA and try to bring them in and bring their opinions and bring their challenges to SGA so that the student government can find a solution for them.” However, representation in SGA, Orzechowski said, needs to be more than just checking boxes. “I think the issue we run into [is people] can dismiss and say like, ‘There are 10 percent of students on campus who are international students. As
long as we have 10 percent in SGA, we’re good.’ I don’t think that’s how it works, and I don’t think it’s how it should work,” he said. Orzechowski said the goal should be to allow students that are historically underrepresented — or not represented at all — enough of a space so that their voice has weight as well. “We can look at it high level, but is it meaningful with representation and input and all these other things?” Orzechowski said. But it goes farther than racial demographics, Kulkarni said. “Similarly, there have been issues with students of color and students with disabilities and students from the LGBTQ community getting into SGA and how there are certain aspects that prevent them from the leadership positions,” Kulkarni said.
DOING THE WORK
In addition to facilitating and analyzing the demographic survey in SGA, the DEI Committee has a few added responsibilities, said Hannah Heatherman, speaker of the student senate and senior in finance and management. The committee might look at student senate attendance policies or propose changes to governing documents to correct current practices to affect the “organizational culture” of SGA. see page
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O’Malley’s and owner named in negligence lawsuit related to 2018 rape
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K-State given ‘green light’ rating by campus free speech nonprofit Page 3
Some Manhattan locals hope to honor K-State ‘icon’ Robert Lipson in a special way Page 4
Following Sunflower Showdown brawl Big 12 issues official suspensions, reprimands Page 6
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“The second role is to conduct outreach to all parts of campus and especially to groups of students who are historically underrepresented in SGA,” Heatherman said via email. A big part of that so far, Orzechowski said, is identifying the biggest barriers to joining SGA: time and perception. The two factors go hand in hand with one another. “For a lot of students, the perception is that it’s not a meaningful use of their time. When they have limited time, they don’t get involved,” Orzechowski said. “The reason I put them together is because I think they are two sides of the same thing because if they saw it as worth the time, they’d make the time and do it regardless, or they’d be more willing to do it.” Kulkarni said when he was the chair of the now-defunct Student Engagement Committee in the previous term, he noticed some of the same things. “I saw that people did not know about SGA at all or they were confused over what student government is,” Kulkarni said. “Some of them thought it was way too political and they didn’t want to get involved with that. And there were students that quite frankly told me that they don’t trust SGA or they have problems, they don’t believe SGA does work that is impactful.” Right now, DEI is focusing a lot of its time during and outside of meetings reaching out to student organizations that fall under the umbrella of the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Student Affairs. “We have a lack of repre-
sentation in this pod, basically, but really it’s about rebuilding those relationships. It’s saying, ‘We value having these relationships and we don’t have them right now, so we need to rebuild them,’” Orzechowski said.
MOVING FORWARD
Since the objectives of the DEI differ from the legislated roles of other standing committees in SGA, there aren’t clear metrics to measure its success. “It’s all vibes,” Orzechowski said. “There aren’t really numbers to measure success by.” That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have ideas about the final goals of the committee. For one thing, Orzechowski said, ideally students would never flood the Wildcat Chamber again when there is a campus crisis. “The [final] goal is like making DEI the kind of buffer between everyone on campus and SGA. So the idea would be that in the future … if an issue arises on campus and someone says ‘Oh, who do I go to to solve that,’ one of their first thoughts should be here,” Orzechowski said. “For better or worse, I don’t think senate is or should be that place necessarily, so this is kind of a buffer because it’s scary to go into that space and also it’s not really designed to be a low-key conversation. This, DEI, could be and that’s what the goal is to make it that.” As for Kulkarni, he said he has a pretty solid idea of what success will look like for the DEI and other initiatives to diversify the governing body of SGA. “My vision for SGA is in the next 20 years, there should be an international student becoming the student body president,” Kulkarni said.
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STUDENT LIFE
K-State only Kansas school with ‘green light’ rating from FIRE
PETER LOGANBILL THE COLLEGIAN
In 2017, Kansas State earned a “green light” rating on free speech from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. It is still the only university in Kansas to receive this rating. FIRE is a non-partisan nonprofit that defends the free speech of college students and faculty members, said Laura Beltz, senior program officer for policy reform at FIRE. The organization works to defend constitutionally protected speech by the standards of the Supreme Court in ways such as policy reform, direct defense work as well as litigation. “To get the green light rating, it means that all of the policies that are on the books that regulate expression are not restricting speech that is constitutionally protected,” Beltz said. “The red light policies are ones that clearly and substantially restrict free speech. The yellow light policies are more ambiguous or narrow restrictions on free speech.” Michelle Geering, public information officer for the K-State Division of Communications and Marketing, said via email that K-State’s statement on free speech and expression is based on the University of Chicago’s statement, which many other universities adopted. “The purpose of the statement is to explain free speech and expression and highlight the importance in higher education,” Geering said. “The ideas of different members of the University community will often and naturally conflict, and some individuals’ ideas will even conflict with the University’s values and principles. But it is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable or even
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No other school in Kansas has been given FIRE’s green light rating for free speech besides K-State.
deeply offensive,” the K-State statement reads. It also makes clear that there are restrictions. “The freedom to debate and discuss the merits of competing ideas does not mean that individuals may say whatever they wish, wherever they wish,” according to the statement. “The University may restrict expression that violates the law, that falsely defames a specific individual, that constitutes a genuine threat or unlawful discrimination or that unjustifiably invades substantial privacy or confidentiality interests. In addition, the University may reasonably regulate the time, place and manner of expression to ensure that it does not disrupt the ordinary activities
of the University or endanger safety.” Geering said K-State interprets the First Amendment based on federal courts. “First Amendment rights are established in the U.S. Constitution and interpreted through long-standing case law by federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court,” she said. A presentation entitled “What Can (and Can’t) Universities Do about ‘Hate Speech’ on Campus?” made in November 2017 by the Office of General Counsel explains part of the reasoning behind the university’s ideas on free speech. “There is an understandable instinct to protect people from words that hurt, insult
or offend them,” the presentation states. “So sometimes the first impulse is to suppress or censor those messages. But history has taught us that censorship is used mostly (almost always) to restrict and harm the most vulnerable, the most powerless and the most marginalized in our society.” Beltz said the policies at K-State right now do not restrict protected speech and follow the legal standards. “We’re hoping that other schools in the state will follow suit and revise their policies so they can also get this green light rating,” she said. “It’s great that K-State has revised all their policies and went above and beyond and adopted that statement on free speech.”
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LEGACY KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN THE COLLEGIAN
Since 1972, Lipson has attended every home football game, and in 1973 he added away conference games to his calendar as well. His dedication, even when K-State was dubbed the most losing team in college football history, more or less speaks for itself. "The dedication he had at
that time, especially on the football side of it, oh my gosh, we were not fun to watch," Karl Kunz, a K-State alumni, said. "He went above and beyond during the time when it would have been hard to have that dedication.” And now, a group of Manhattan locals hope to make sure Lipson's presence is felt in Bill Snyder Family Stadium and Bramlage Coliseum for generations to come.
Some Manhattan locals hope to honor a K-State superfan
"For us to not try to do something now while he’s alive here I think would be ignorant of us, to not recognize the commitment, the dedication and the loyalty," Brad Drewek, a Manhattan local, said. “I think us as fans, to give credit to Robert for the sacrifices that he’s [made], I think it would just be a great token and a great class act by us as a community.” Inspired by the Buck O'Neil Legacy Seat in Kauffman Stadium and the new
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K-State superfan Robert Lipson, who travels to almost every road football and basketball game, flashes a sign claiming the state of Kansas for K-State in KU’s Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence during the women’s basketball game against the Jayhawks in 2016.
Lamar Hunt Legacy Seat in Arrowhead Stadium, Kunz said they want to honor Lipson's dedication to the K-State family by introducing a legacy seat named after him in both of K-State Athletics' major sporting complexes. "What the Royals did with Buck O’Neil and the Chiefs also have a Lamar Hunt one, that was kind of where the talk amongst tailgates always was," Drewek said. "If this was a bridge, he’s that keystone. He’s holding the bridge from generation to generation of fans.” But this conversation about honoring Lipson is not new. Kunz said the idea has been floating around at tailgates for years. "This has been talked about before, but nothing ever came of it," Kunz said.
This time around, it all started with a post in the "You know you are from Manhattan if..." Facebook group. The post, Drewek said, was like a foot in the door. “In one day, [we got] 345 likes," Drewek said. Kunz said the volume of responses and support for the idea was unexpected. “That wasn’t my intention to start with, but I like the direction it went," Kunz said. If the seats were to be established, Kunz and Drewek have some ideas of who could be nominated to sit in Lipson's Legacy Seat. For starters, they want to be sure individuals who would watch a game from that seat are selected for their commitment to the K-State family and the community. “I like it to be that idea of charity, and all I mean by that is who’s giving back to the community. Not so much in money, but in time. I would hate for something … associated with this seat to be about giving money somewhere,"
Kunz said. "I want it to be tied more to what they gave back to their community." Right now, K-State Athletics has not been included in the conversation about designating the seat, but Drewek and Kunz both said they are excited about the new momentum in the community to get it done. “We’d be interested to hear, if K-State wanted to take over this thing, what ideas they’d have," Kunz said. For now, Kunz and Drewek say they're looking forward to seeing Lipson recognized for his commitment to the Wildcats. Maybe someday a seat can be added to the baseball stadium as well, Kunz said, since Lipson recently added several of the baseball games to his regular traveling calendar. "It gets me excited because this is like the beginning," Kunz said. “While this thing has got momentum, let’s see if we can keep pushing it. This is just the tip of the iceberg.”
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HELPFUL HINTS MONICA DIAZ
THE COLLEGIAN
Being a roommate can be tricky for some and easy for others. Learning to live with someone and respect their way of life can be challenging, but not impossible. Living in a space with a plethora of opinions, beliefs and odd habits may be difficult, but these five tips can help you be a better roommate.
1. HELP OUT AND CLEAN
For some, leaving dishes in the sink is OK, but for others, it isn’t. Some can live with dirty clothes piled on the floor and others need a tidy area. Whatever your preference is, I suggest you talk about it with your roommates. Setting up a cleaning chart or having a plan for cleaning your place will help avoid future conflict. My roommates and I agree to keep our place clean. Rather than creating a chore list, we clean whatever needs to be cleaned at that moment. Sure, sometimes we will choose to binge-watch
the Bachelor and postpone cleaning, but we have still established an understanding. Whatever your cleanliness habits are, talk with your roommate about what they are from the beginning to avoid future conflict. If you do have differing habits for cleanliness, establish a game plan to work together.
2. BE MINDFUL OF QUIET TIMES
When living with others, you must be mindful of “quiet times.” Some roommates go to bed early and start their mornings at the crack of dawn — others are night owls and need to sleep in. Whatever your preferences are, tell your roommates. Not only are sleep habits important, but quiet times for studying or downtime are important as well. A tip to follow is clarifying sleep schedules and quiet time preferences if needed. All of my roommates have similar sleep schedules, so quiet times are not an issue. Whatever you choose for quiet times, address it with your roommates and respect those hours.
3. HAVE "YOU" TIME
Roommates are great and are fun to come home to, however you still need to have “you” time. Being with your friends is great, but sometimes being constantly by people 24/7 can be a lot. Alone time is normal and healthy and is often forgotten when living with your roommates. Find time to go workout, read a book or watch Netflix for some “you” time. Prioritize alone time for yourself, but also let your roommates have some time as well. With the stress of school and jobs, it is easy to get overwhelmed. This “you” time will be very beneficial to de-stress and breathe.
4. PAY YOUR BILLS ON TIME
If your roommate is the one collecting rent, make sure to get them your portion of money on time. Don’t wait to pay your roommate back or have them continuously ask you. Don’t wait for the last reminder to pay — make sure you have it done on time.
Money is tight and you can’t pay on time? Come up with a game plan with your roommates to avoid any problems and to avoid any late fees because of your bills.
5. HAVE ROOMMATE DATES
In the midst of all the chaos from college, find time to breathe and enjoy what is around you. Learn to appreciate your roommates and have “roommate dates.” Go grab dinner together or pick a series to watch and have
Want to be a better roommate? Here are five tips to set good cohabitation habits a weekly watch party. Cook a meal together when you can or do activities together outside of your normal routine. Oftentimes we get so busy that we forget to love on those around us and appreciate them. It may seem unnecessary, but find time to hang out with your roommates. As you figure out how to be a better roommate, consider these tips. Before implementing any of them, have a time to talk to your roommates and establish some ground rules. Will you
be doing communal or separate groceries? Who is going to clean the dishes or the bathrooms? Is it okay to crank the heat to the highest temperature and run a high bill without consulting your roommates? Ask questions beforehand to help avoid future conflict.
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SUNFLOWER THROWDOWN Following fight on the floor, Big 12 hands down official suspensions, reprimands KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN JULIA JORNS THE COLLEGIAN
Kansas sophomore forward Silvio De Sousa, who was also at the center of the KU pay-for-play scandal, was dealt the most severe punishment, facing a 12-game suspension. There are only 13 games left in Kansas’ regular season. De Sousa issued a public apology on Twitter Wednesday afternoon. “I displayed highly unacceptable behavior,” De Sousa wrote. “There is no excuse for my behavior, and I cannot justi-
fy the unreasonable choices that I made yesterday on the court.” Kansas freshman forward David McCormack faces a twogame suspension. K-State players were handed a smaller punishment, the heaviest falling on the shoulders of redshirt junior forward James Love III, who will be suspended for eight games. Love has seen only two minutes of play so far this season. Freshman forward Antonio Gordon will sit out three games. This season, Gordon has played a big role on the court for K-State. He totals more than 300 minutes of play and averages five points a game.
The Big 12 also said both teams will be further “reprimanded for violations of the Big 12 Sportsmanship Policies.” “This kind of behavior cannot be tolerated and these suspensions reflect the severity of last evening’s events,” commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. “I am appreciative of the cooperation of both institutions in resolving this matter.” In a statement made to K-State Sports later in the evening, K-State athletics director Gene Taylor weighed in as well. “There is no place for this type of conduct in the game of basketball, or any sport, and
in particular this great rivalry,” Taylor said. Head coach Bruce Weber touched on plans moving forward with the consequences from the Big 12 in mind. “I’m extremely disappointed in our team’s actions in the aftermath of last night’s game at Kansas,” Weber said. “They do not reflect what our program is about here at K-State. Our team will live with the consequences of those actions and move forward in a positive manner. Our focus going forward is to help our players learn from this situation and ensure that it never happens again.” Luis Villarreal-Reyes | COLLEGIAN MEDIA GROUP
Kansas sophomore forward Silvio De Sousa received a 12 game suspension for involvement in the brawl that broke out in the final seconds of the Sunflower Showdown Jan. 21.
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BLOCK BY BLOCK BAILEY BRITTON THE COLLEGIAN
As “Joker And The Thief ” by Wolfmother plays in the background of his YouTube video, Andrew Sheridan, junior in civil engineering, shows off his Minecraft creation: the Kansas State athletics complex. Slowly, Sheridan flies around Bill Snyder Family Stadium and Bramlage Coliseum — a project that took him approximately seven months to complete. “I’ve actually been making stadiums for a long time,” Sheridan said. “Since I was 12 years old. I have made several that were OK — they weren’t wonderful but they were OK.” None of these have been shared before, but he enjoys making them. Sheridan said he attempted to make a full-scale model of the stadium several years ago, but it didn’t go as planned. “It was a horrible idea — a humongous, horrible idea,” Sheridan said. “I quit on that after a little while.” When he started to make
the athletics complex last spring, he began with Bramlage, but soon decided to add the football stadium. The field and basketball court, he said, is to scale: one block equals one yard. However, everything else is Sheridan’s best estimate. “I looked at Google Maps and pictures online,” Sheridan said. “K-State also has a 360 degree virtual tour inside that shows certain rooms.” Sheridan said he selected songs for the YouTube video that would be recognizable to most K-State Football fans. When “Joker And The Thief ” ends, “Proud of the House We Built” by Brooks and Dunn begins, and the tour continues through the locker rooms, offices and other rooms of the complex. Following the tour, Sheridan — who plays in the drum line for the Kansas State University Marching Band — simulates the route the band travels around the stadium before home games. “The traveling cadence is what we march to to the stadium,” Sheridan said. “Being in the band, I thought, ‘That
Filing deadline for student body president extended After review of election codes and regulations and a hearing with Student Tribunal, the filing deadline for the student body presidential election has been pushed back a full week. The deadline, initially set for Friday, Jan. 24, will now be at 4 p.m. on Jan. 31. Per regulations, the filing deadline should fall on the last Friday in January, said current student body president and senior in industrial engineering Jansen Penny. Most years, the deadline
Student recreates athletics complex in Minecraft
would be pretty cool. I can simulate the march we do before the game.’” Sheridan released the
athletics complex video in November. He uploaded his video of the Liberty Bowl on Jan. 17, but began creating it soon
rushed.” As a busy student, band member and Peters Recreation Complex employee, Sheridan doesn’t have a lot of time to dedicate to creating stadiums, but he enjoys spending some free time on Minecraft when he can.
Photo courtesy of Andrew Sheridan
The Bill Snyder Family Stadium and Bramlage Coliseum are to scale in this K-State student’s Minecraft model.
ELECTION
falls around Jan. 24. “The real question came of how we deal with precedent versus what is exactly written in our statutes,” Penny said. Penny said current elections commissioner and senior in political science and communication studies Hayley Spellman and deputy attorney general and senior in geography and history Ashton Hess asked him to bring the question of the filing deadline to Student Tribunal. “I believe the meeting was
after the announcement that K-State would play Navy on Dec. 31. “I was hoping to have it out by the time the game happened,” Sheridan said. “I thought it would be cool, but that didn’t happen. I would rather it look good than
pretty succinct in that fact too, but also necessary for us to get a hardline stance on what that’s going to be for this year,” Penny said. “[We really] wanted to make sure that what we are doing — and also setting a precedent for how the rest of the elections are going to go — that what is in our election code is followed very strictly.” The last two student body presidential elections were marred with controversy and debate over election codes. Last year in particular, there were 13 total violation
complaints filed against the three of the four candidates who originally filed for the primary. Of the two candidates that made it through the general, one was ultimately disqualified, leaving one candidate running for student body president. In the year before that, fewer than 10 violations were filed. “Personally, I’m very glad of the position they came up with,” Penny said. “It allows for one entire extra week for students to file to run for student body president,
and I think that does a lot in creating a greater access to that.” Additionally, the new filing system on OrgCentral has presented some barriers. Penny said there’s been some confusion about documentation and how the new system operates. “Some of those forms look a little different. We are making sure those kinks are being worked out online,” Penny said. “Really it’s about eliminating as many barriers to entry as possible for students interested in this position, which I think is crucial.” Students interested in running for student body president or in any of the other races can find the filing forms on OrgCentral. The deadline to file for the student senate race is on Feb. 7.
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O’Malley’s and owner named in negligence lawsuit related to 2018 rape KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN MOLLY HACKETT THE COLLEGIAN
O’Malley’s and affiliated individuals are named in a civil lawsuit filed in the District Court of Kansas on Tuesday. A former Kansas State student, who says she was raped in the establishment’s bathroom in February 2018, alleges the “negligent and wanton operation of the bar,” combined with overcapacity and low security played a role in her assault. In the suit, the plaintiff says the security camera was not working on the night of the incident, the lock on the bathroom was not functioning and employees of the defendant had “swabbed the bathroom clean before evidence could be gathered.” In the documents related to the case, the plaintiff alleges that she went to the bathroom and locked the door. However, the door was not adequately secured, the documents read, because two assailants entered the bathroom. The plaintiff says she was then raped while her mouth was covered. When the assailants left, she contacted the police. A rape kit was
completed at the nearest hospital that provided that service, but the assailants were never apprehended. In the account detailed in the complaints filed, the plaintiff also alleges that the employees working at the bar were consuming alcohol and the establishment lacked “trained and competent” security and employee supervision. “As a direct result of Defendant’s conduct, Plaintiff suffered serious physical injury, pain and suffering, devastating emotional distress, past and future medical expenses, out-of-pocket expenses and diminished earning capacity,” the documents read. The documents also state, that given the environment, the defendants “had reason to anticipate an assault against a female patron.” The plaintiff is requesting $75,000 in compensatory damages. “I want these two men to be found and to answer for what they did. I want O’Malley’s to do better. You should be able to be safe at a bar,” Dan Curry, of Brown & Curry, LLC, said in an emailed statement on behalf of the plaintiff. Attempts to contact O’Malley’s for a comment were unsuccessful.
week of obersvance events
monday Jan. 27, 5:30 p.m. 16th Annual Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Diversity Student Leader Reception Waters Hall, Room 137
wednesday Jan. 29, 2:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sixth Annual Civil Rights Teach-In Staley School of Leadership Studies, Town Hall 4 p.m. 20th Annual College of Business Administration Diversity Lecture Business Building Auditorium, Room 1008
friday Jan. 31, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Affinity Group Brown Bag Lunch K-State Student Union, Bluemont Room 2 p.m. Laying of the Wreaths & Candlelight Ceremony K-State Student Union Courtyard & MLK Bust Illustration by Julie Freijat
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O’Malley’s Bar awning in Aggieville on Nov. 18 2019
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Jan. 25, 8:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. MLK Day of service Leadership Studies Building
tuesday Jan. 28, 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Commerce Bank & W.T. Kemper Foundation Presidential Awards for Diversity Alumni Center Banquet Rooms A&D
thursday Jan. 30, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Second Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Presidential Luncheon Alumni Center Ballroom 4:30 p.m. Working Smarter: How to Achieve Mastery Lecture Engineering Hall, Room 1109 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Buffalo Soldiers screening Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, UMB Theater