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Dr. Timothy Askew, professor at Clark Atlanta University, was the keynote speaker at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. lecture and candlelight vigil in the K Ballroom of the Student Union on Wednesday.
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The College of Arts and Sciences discussed a proposal that would increase student fees at a public forum in Willard Hall Room 114 on Wednesday. The proposal would raise the student per-credit-hour fee for classes within the college from $8 to $16.70. The funds would be used to increase stipends for graduate teaching assistants and to hire more professional academic advisers, according to a PowerPoint presentation shown during the forum. “We want to make sure that we’re not overloading the advisers that we have and thereby decreasing the quality of advising for all the students,” Beth Montelone, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said. “We’ve hosted trainings for (graduate teaching assistants), and faculty attended those, too, to think about ways to improve instruction.” The first half of the proposal uses $5.50 of the $8.70 increase to raise $1.7 million for GTA stipends, according to the PowerPoint presentation. It stated that K-State’s 414 GTAs for 2014-2015 were “behind peer averages by about $4,000 per GTA.” “The continuing challenge that we have is to deliver the best experience we can for all our students,” Peter Dorhout, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said. “We have struggled as a college and as an institution, but primarily as a college, to be able to recruit graduate students into our programs for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is we have not had competitive support compared to many of our peer institutions and our competitors.” see page
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celebrated his life with a vigil in the K-State Student Union on Wednesday evening. The Kappa Tau chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. hosted its 40th annual Martin Luther King Jr. lecture and candlelight vigil. King was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha in the Sigma chapter at Boston
University. this is an image The event featured speakers and several performances. Timothy Askew, professor at Clark Atlanta University, was the keynote speaker for the night. “This is one of the most beautiful events I’ve seen on a college campus,” Askew said.
“I’ll never forget this. This was magnificent.” Askew gave a lecture on the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The lecture focused on the origins of the song and the controversy that often comes with it. see page
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Students work to break bad habits, build better ones EMILY MOORE the collegian
Two of the top three New Year’s resolutions in 2016 revolved around having a healthier lifestyle or becoming thinner, according to an ABC News video titled “The Top New Year’s Resolutions for 2016.” In 2015, losing weight was the No. 1 resolution, with being healthy and active coming in at No. 5 on the list, according to the New Year’s Resolution Statistics on the Statistic Brain Research Institute’s website. Ethan Fort, junior in kinesiology, said people should not have to make the resolution to have a healthy lifestyle more than once. “Everybody does it at the beginning of every year and never sticks to it, and I feel like if that’s your New Year’s resolution, that should be your resolution just one time in your life,” Fort said. “You shouldn’t have to just make that your goal every single year and give up on it two weeks into it.” As people work to get healthy this year, they may have unhealthy habits they need to get rid of, as well as healthier habits to form and develop. Small goals are a more reasonable and reachable start toward a healthier lifestyle, said Kathleen Hoss-Cruz, registered dietitian nutri-
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tionist and instructor for the College of Human Ecology. “I think the biggest mistake we make when we are trying to be healthier is we try to do too much at once, and I think people are surprised by how little we can accomplish at any one time,” Hoss-Cruz said.
Emma Bassette, senior in nutrition and kinesiology, said. “If you take out all the foods you like to eat, it will just cause problems when you get too hungry and want to binge. Just don’t limit yourself too much, or you won’t be able to create healthy habits that you can stay consistent with and keep for a long time.”
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Between going out to dinner with friends and binge eating cheap, sugary snack foods, a college lifestyle can present many opportunities to break a New Year’s resolution diet. Dieting in college does not have to be all about restrictions, though. “Everything in moderation,”
Many of the nutrients people may cut from a diet are necessary to a degree, and cutting them out could have an adverse effect Bassette said. “Other problems and diet misconceptions are cutting carbs or cutting fats because all those things are essential nutrients for your body to digest and run properly, so cutting those out can actually lead to storing
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fat in other ways,” Bassette said. Carbohydrates and fats are not the only parts of a diet people may be concerned about. For example, some diets revolve around monitoring exactly how many calories are eaten in a given day. Hoss-Cruz said that limiting nutrients, like calories, should be done slowly.
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“Calorie restriction, if it does happen, should be very gradual,” Hoss-Cruz said. Another part of dieting that could become problematic is skipping meals. While it may lead to consuming less calories, it may also cause adverse affects, Bassette said. see page
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Body modifications affect 1st impressions in workplace KELSEY KENDALL the collegian
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iews on body modifications in the workplace have become an issue for many students as they decide whether or not changes like tattoos, piercings and colored hair could possibly become a hinderance in future job opportunities. “I think at the end of the day, it’s how (students) authenticate themselves,” Kerri Keller, executive director of Career and Employment Services, said. Keller said the culture of the company is something that job seekers should consider when they are planning their body modifications. “I think it’s not as much of an issue as viewed earlier in a different generational time, though there’s certainly some controversy still,” Keller said. Tucker Claxton, senior in art education and ceramics, said tattoos were previously only associated with sailors and convicts, but that attitude is changing. “The idea of professionalism is changing,” Claxton said. “I don’t want those jobs that are that closed minded.” Ryan Moos, junior in music education, said the career a person wants to go into should be factored in when someone is considering bodily modifications. “Students will see a (teacher’s) nose ring or a tattoo and ask if it hurt,” Moos said. “It would be an everyday occurrence. It would be a distraction in the classroom.” Even though Moos has a tattoo, she said she chose to get it in a place that is easy to cover up. According to Moos, many of her peers do the same. Keller said some students might wait until they are established in their career before getting more visible bodily modifications.
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Timmy Wolfe, senior in ceramics, works in the basement of Willard Hall on Wednesday night. “Making a first impression is not just with their first job,” Keller said. Keller said many students’ first jobs will not be their last. She said she recommends looking at the company’s website or talking with someone within the company, as
each businesses’ culture could be different. An accounting firm might have more restrictive dress and appearance standards than the director of a youth center, where tattoos might actually help someone connect with the youth more, Keller said.
“Society is changing and becoming more accepting (of body modifications),” Timmy Wolfe, junior in ceramics, said. Wolfe said he would like to one day teach at the college level. He said he does not believe his tattoos would be an issue because he has
many graduate teaching assistants and professors with piercings and tattoos. “The main thing is you don’t want to rule yourself out,” Keller said. “If you have (body modifications), you just have to figure out how to help people get over it.”
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“If you skip meals, your metabolism will go down and that makes people more likely to binge or eat more and more calories than they think that they are consuming,” Bassette said. One difficulty for college students in eating healthy can be a lack of funds to purchase the foods necessary to have a full and balanced diet, Fort said. “Money is not readily available, as everyone knows, so healthy foods are more expensive and it’s a lot easier to just pop a pizza in the microwave or in the oven than it is to make yourself eat fruits and vegetables,” Fort said. One other habit many people, not just students, can get into is stress eating. Stress allows the release of a hormone called cortisol that “increases the appetite and may also ramp up motivation,” according to a Har-
vard Health Publications article titled “Why stress causes people to overeat.” The article said that if stress stays consistent, “cortisol may stay elevated.”
Fort said exercising is one habit that can help reduce stress. “I know that’s easier said than done because a lot of people don’t enjoy the ex-
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“When you do little things and you have a routine, one thing leads into another.” Kathleen Hoss-Cruz Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
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ercise, but it definitely does help,” Fort said. “And I notice it with my school work and everything, that it helps when I do exercise.” Bassette said any activity that is enjoyable and engages your body may help. She said to go on a walk or engage in other activities that “aren’t exercising, but some sort of
other physical activity.” There are some less healthy ways students may try to manage stress. Some examples of less healthy practices could be using cigarettes, alcohol or even eating unhealthy foods, Julie Gibbs, director of Health Promotions at Lafene Health Center, said. “Those things can be temporary and they’re not the healthiest ways to deal with stress, so finding something healthier, like exercise, can take your mind away from the stress a little bit,” Gibbs said.
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In college, many things can interrupt a sleep cycle, including homework, stress and social obligations. When striving for a healthy lifestyle, however, Bassette said sleep can tie into other aspects of health as well. “If you don’t get enough sleep, stress will cause your
body to store fat also in other ways,” Bassette said. Sleep, or lack of it, can affect metabolism and hormone function, which Gibbs said could cause someone to eat more after consistently losing sleep. “We tend to think we are more hungry the next day if we are not getting enough sleep,” Gibbs said. Aside from simply getting more sleep, Bassette said it can help your body to be on a sleep schedule. “I think waking up at the same time and going to bed at the same time every day keeps the regulation and helps your body adapt more,” Bassette said. “And it can reduce stress that way instead of being so inconsistent with staying up all night and pulling all-nighters.” As a student, there can be many complications when trying to begin a healthy lifestyle, especially after the new year begins.
“It’s really hard balancing studying and maybe jobs, but I think it’s most important to change your lifestyle as a whole, as opposed to trying crash diets or working out a lot at the beginning of the year because it does burn you out, and that doesn’t instill habits that you can keep with your daily routine,” Bassette said. There are ways, however, to develop healthy habits that will help lead to a healthier lifestyle. For example, HossCruz said it may be beneficial for students to visit www. choosemyplate.gov, a website that shows portion sizes and nutrition for each food group necessary in a well-balanced diet. “When you do little things and you have a routine, one thing leads into another,” Hoss-Cruz said. Developing these healthy habits could be the key to not having this resolution on the list again next year.
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Social media: What students are really doing at night VINCE LAMAS the collegian
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fter school, work and extra curricular activities, unwinding before bed by checking Facebook and watching Snap stories can seem harmless, but these habits can prevent students from getting sufficient sleep at night. A common ritual some students have before they go to bed is checking social media. Students today live in a time where everyone knows what everyone is doing, and they have many different platforms to find out. “I check Twitter before I go to bed because I follow many different sports announcers, and I want to see what they have to say about the games that were on throughout the evening,” Samuel Tagtmeyer, senior in construction science and management, said. Social media can be used for more than news updates, according to Tagtmeyer. He said he follows comedic sites and often watches “fail” videos before going to sleep. Social media can do people more harm than they know, John Gever, managing editor of MedPag-
eToday, said in his article “Social Media and Sleep: Is There a Problem?” Sleeping habits of students from Texas were studied, revealing that those who said they check social media before going to bed showed significantly more signs of sleep and mood disorders. People in the study suffered from insomnia, daytime sleepiness and risk for sleep apnea, according to the article. For some students, taking naps is one of the easiest ways to stay energized throughout the day. “I never really took naps until last year, but they’ve really helped me stay awake throughout the day,” Tim Rodden, senior in sociology, said. “Before I started (taking) naps, I would always feel terrible around 5 p.m.” Some students have rituals before they even get into bed at the end of the day. “I always grab ice water before I go to bed, just in case I wake up in the middle of the night thirsty,” Tagtmeyer said. Natalie Gonzales, junior in public relations, said she needs a companion with her while she is sleeping. “My cat is always crawling into bed with me, and if she isn’t there with me I can’t go to sleep,” Gonzales said.
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Jacob Ginder, freshman in electrical engineering, falls asleep while trying to get some studying done at Hale Library during dead week on Dec. 10, 2015.
FEES | Increases ‘will enhance opportunities’ for K-State students
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The PowerPoint stated that the second part of the proposal uses $3.20 of the $8.70 increase to raise $1.8 million for more academic advisers. The goal is to have the student-to-full-timeadviser ratio below 300-to-1. To accomplish this, 18 more
full-time advisers are needed, according to the PowerPoint. The funds would be spent on $40,000 salaries and fringe benefits. “The numbers that we came up with are based on department heads coming to me and saying, ‘We want money from the college, we want to be
able to hire more, or any, professional advisers,’” Dorhout said. “There isn’t a department that hasn’t come to me and said, ‘I want to do something in terms of professional advisers.’” Dorhout said faculty will still advise students. This proposal will just provide funds for more advisers.
“We also worry about advising,” Dorhout said. “And part of the challenge that I think everyone has faced is that, while you love your faculty to death, it is often hard to get in to see them for advising as majors.” The current $8-per-credithour College of Arts and Sciences instructional fee is used for several purposes, according to the PowerPoint. The fee brings in about $2.2 million per year. Of this amount, $250,000 is spent on undergraduate teaching assistants, $537,000 is spent on large equipment grants and $1.06 million is spent on instructional supplies, small equipment, classroom improvements, technology, instruments and other uses. Student equipment purchased using student fee funds can be identified by a special purple sticker. “We feel as though our mission is to be very good stewards of the students’ investments,” Montelone said. “We’ve tried very diligently to keep the tuition and the fees relatively low at Kansas Sate University, and we’ve tried to do that while at the same time trying to deliver the best experiences for you,” Dorhout said to the students in attendance at the forum. Most of the approximately 30 people in attendance said they were undergraduate students in arts and sciences when asked by Dorhout. Several were also Student Governing Association senators from the college. There is an instructional fee
advisory committee comprised of faculty and students, according to the PowerPoint. “My hope is that we feel like we are being as transparent as we can with the resources that you all provide,” Dorhout said. Dorhout said the fee was instituted because students and alumni were saying something needed to be done to improve the arts and sciences learning experience in classes. “We’ve discovered that students and alumni were telling us that their experiences within our college were not what they had anticipated or expected, so we turned to several different mechanisms to try to improve that,” Dorhout said. “And in the end, we turned toward a fee.” Dorhout also said this proposal is not a knock against the current GTAs. “Not to suggest that we don’t have great graduate students now, but I’m sure many of you have experienced great TAs over labs and studios and classrooms, but we want to get them to use the motto of 4-H: ‘To make the best better,’” Dorhout said. After the presentation, Dorhout held a question and answer session. Several students spoke up in support of the proposal, citing the expected benefits for students. “I think that providing competitive stipends for graduate teaching assistants is really a good thing because I work in a lab alongside a lot of graduate students, and teaching is a burden that semester that they are
involved with teaching,” James Houghton, junior in biochemistry, said. One student voiced concerns over future attempts to continue raising the fee. “I can’t say (fees won’t be raised again),” Dorhout said. “I don’t want to come back (and raise the fee again). This is a function of the political situation we’re in with the state. I’m not going to cast dispersions on any one person or party, I’m just saying that’s the hand that we’re dealt.” According to the K-State Admissions’ website, several of the colleges have per-credithour fees. Agriculture’s is $20, Architecture, Planning and Design’s is $40, Arts and Sciences’ is $8, Engineering’s is $54, Human Ecology’s is $20 and Business Administration’s is $35 with an additional $100 fee per semester. The PowerPoint presentation stated that for all 120 credit hours needed for graduation, the average total cost for arts and sciences students would be $960. The total fee cost for students from other colleges taking arts and sciences courses would average a total of $432 by the time of graduation. “I think it will enhance the opportunities that we have in terms of supporting our graduate students here on campus,” Dorhout said. “I think it’s going to make a huge difference.” The proposal will be sent to the provost’s office on Monday. If approved, the fee will go into effect for the fall semester.
Big 12-SEC Challenge provides breather for men’s basketball
TIM EVERSON the collegian
The Big 12-SEC Challenge is fantastic, and the fact that the powers that be decided to move it to January is genius. No, I’m not being sarcastic. The Big 12 does a lot of dumb stuff that I don’t agree with, but despite the coaches’ chagrin, I really like that we get a little breather in the middle of conference play with one day of fun matchups against another Power 5 conference. The SEC is not nearly as competitive or grueling as the Big 12. Out of 14 teams, two are ranked, one is ranked in the top 10 and five teams have overall records that are .500 or worse. The Big 12 has five ranked teams, three of which are in the top 10, and only one team has a .500 or worse record. I’m not saying SEC leader and No. 5 Texas A&M isn’t good, because the team definitely is. K-State fans can say that firsthand because A&M soundly beat the Wildcats in December in College Station,
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Junior forward Wesley Iwundu keeps the ball from Missouri forward Kevin Puryear during the first game of the CBE Hall of Fame Classic between K-State and Mizzou at the Sprint Center in Kansas City on Nov. 23, 2015. Texas, in a game that would’ve been a blowout had it not been for junior forward Wesley Iwundu’s second-half explosion. What I am saying is that I’m sure
Aggie fans don’t miss having to travel to Ames, Texas; Lawrence; Norman, Oklahoma; Manhattan; or even Lubbock, Texas. Big 12 teams should accept this
game with open arms. It’s sweet, sweet relief in the desert that is Big 12 play. Do you think TCU isn’t excited to play Tennessee instead of traveling to Morgantown, West Virginia, or Man-
hattan? Do you think that, deep down inside, Bruce Weber isn’t just a teensy bit glad he gets to play 13-7 Ole Miss instead of 15-4 Baylor? Yes, the game could be considered
an unneeded distraction in a season where all focus needs to be on getting that next elusive conference win. But at the same time, Big 12 teams need to enjoy this game. The Big 12 has won the past two series with a record of 13-7. The SEC has some great players. Ben Simmons at LSU, Stefan Moody from Ole Miss, and Skal Labissiére and Tyler Ulis from Kentucky are all dynamic players. But as of now, the only team they have is Texas A&M, with South Carolina showing some signs of real growth. The Big 12 has teams. Teams one through nine are all dangerous in the Big 12. Sure, Buddy Hield, Georges Niang and Wayne Selden Jr. are all also Player of the Year candidates, but they’re all backed up by a pretty good supporting class that’s made the Big 12 so good this season. Will the Big 12 pull off a clean sweep? As impressive as that would be, I think it’s rather unlikely. But even just barely squeaking out a win against the SEC would continue to do wonders for the Big 12. Plus, playing these games pays dividends come March. Celebrate the fact that the conference managed to not screw something up because eventually, they’ll get back to not expanding the Big 12 and banning depictions of other schools’ mascots on your field, and what will you be left with?
Tim Everson is a junior in English. Please send comments to sports@collegianmedia.com.
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Deian Brooks, senior in marketing and president of the Kappa Tau chapter, said it was important for everyone, especially the Black Student Union members in attendance, to hear Askew talk about the origin of the Black National Anthem and to learn why they sing it before every BSU meeting. “We thought it was so important before Black History Month,” Brooks said. “Without Martin Luther King Jr. and his final speech here, this wouldn’t be happening. We have to truly understand not only the backgrounds of each other, but ourselves.” Along with Askew’s lecture, members of United Black Voices performed, and chapter
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The indoor track and field season is in full swing, and senior Akela Jones is well on her way to another successful season. Jones earned the Big 12 Female Athlete of the Week Award, and she was named the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Athlete of the Week for the second time. After taking the NCAA title in the heptathlon last season, Jones has taken the 2016 season head on. In her last performance at the DeLoss Dodds invitational, Jones was just 35 points shy of the NCAA record for the pentathlon. Jones had first place finishes in the 60-meter hurdles and the high jump, which brought her score total up to 2,114 points after just two events. She added to the point total in shot put and a career-best performance in long jump with a jump of 21-9 1/2 to move her score to 3,894 points. Her 2:25.63 time in the 800-meter run finished off the pentathlon at 4,643 points. Nationally, Jones leads the way for collegiate athletes in the pentathlon and high jump, is ranked No. 2 in long jump and is No. 4 in the 60-meter hurdles. On a world scale per the
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members Dominic White, senior in architecture, and Gerrid Harris, junior in industrial engineering, put on a mime show. Emma Owens, junior in family studies and human services and member of Black United Voices, said programs like this are significant for the K-State campus. “It’s important to help students understand and grasp the concept of why Martin Luther King Jr. was important to us,” Owens said. Before the closing words, seven Alphas lit a candle for the vigil and gave reasons for lighting the candles ranging from love to hope. After the program ended, everyone in attendance was invited to enjoy cookies and refreshments sponsored by the Staley School of Leadership Studies.
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Senior pentathlete Akela Jones competes in the long jump on her way to breaking the K-State and Ahearn Field House pentathlon records with a total score of 4,643. Jones came in just short of breaking the collegiate pentathlon record in the DeLoss Dodds Invitational track and field meet Jan. 22 inside Ahearn Field House. International Association of Athletics Federations, Jones is the leader in the pentathlon
and is No. 3 in long jump, No. 7 in high jump and No. 16 in the 60-meter hurdles.
Students watch Martin Luther King Jr. speak to a crowd of 7,200 inside Ahearn Field House on Jan. 19, 1968. King was picketed on his arrival by faculty and student protesters.
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