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Sarah Barr is an attorney accredited with the Kansas Bar Association who works with Student Legal Services at Kansas State. SLS is a confidential, free legal advice service for students.
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Ag faculty, staff losing morale due to budget cuts, callbacks KAITLYN ALANIS
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THE COLLEGIAN
While the College of Agriculture has managed to not have to raise the fees charged to Kansas State agriculture students, the college has had difficulties maintaining the morale of faculty and staff due to not being able to offer raises and more competitive salaries. “We haven’t been able to provide salary raises, particularly merit raises, to most of our staff,” John Floros, dean of the College of Agriculture, said. “There has been some support for faculty in terms of promotions, but we haven’t been able to reward our best people, and that has made us vulnerable to losing our best people.” Floros said he has had to take back many of the positions that are vacated, either because of retirement or because somebody left the university, and use those unused funds to fill cuts, allotments and reallocations. Don Boggs, associate dean in the College of Agriculture, said the cuts that impacted the college are complicated compared to the College of Engineering’s cuts and callbacks. “The teaching programs in agriculture had a cash callback of about $380,000 last spring, and then a cut to our base budget of $390,000 this summer,” Boggs said. While the university as a whole saw declining enrollment this year, the College of Agriculture’s enrollment increased. More agriculture students are now taught by fewer faculty. “In essence, we now have less faculty and staff than we did a few years ago,” Floros said. “Student population has gone up, research has gone up, many of the things we do have increased, but we have less faculty and less staff to do the job.” Kris Boone, professor and department head of communications and agricultural education, said the lack of raises seen in the College of Agriculture is a large area of concern, as some of the college’s employees have not seen cost of living increases
for seven years. “It is really frustrating where our hands are tied on how we can reward our faculty,” Boone said. “Our faculty are still fantastically committed, and that is what makes these cuts tough. There is only so much we can do.” Floros said he is doing what he can to preserve the college’s faculty positions, but that the morale of his people is in a decline. “As a result, I’m afraid our students might see a slightly lower quality of work being done,” Floros said. The college has more than doubled the amount of money they bring in for competitive grants and research, Floros said, since they intensified their efforts a few years ago. However, even with their improved efforts, the College of Agriculture still has less faculty teaching than it once did. “We’re trying to preserve our faculty positions as much as possible, because faculty are
our engine,” Floros said. “If we don’t have faculty we can’t do teaching, we can’t do research and we can’t do extension or outreach. So we’re trying to preserve our faculty positions as much as possible, but when you have consecutive cuts, it becomes inevitable.”
In addition to the teaching programs’ cuts and callbacks, other programs within the college have also been affected, particularly in K-State Research and Extension. K-State Research and Extension received a callback of about $2.3 million and a base cut of $2.2
million. “While (K-State Research and Extension) is involved in several college’s, the largest share of their budget supports work in the College of Agriculture,” Boggs said. Dealing with budget cuts Floros said that even the most popular programs in the college will find a way to deal with cuts. “But it is getting harder and harder to find instructors and faculty to teach classes,” Floros said. “The size of our classes has become bigger. Mentoring and advising of students has become more difficult because every faculty member has more students to advise. So everything has become more difficult, and the morale of people and staff is not what is used to be.” Wyatt Pracht, senior in agricultural economics and student senator for the College of Agriculture, said it is unfortunate the college is forced to make these cuts. “As a student, I think it is very negative that we have a less amount of faculty giving less time and attention to students, especially when we’re trying to learn and grow, which is why we came to college in the first place,” Pracht said. “As a senator, I am against unnecessary tuition and fee raises. It’s a burden on students and we should do what we can to lessen that cost.”
Floros said he does not intend to increase any agriculture fees in the near future. “(The deans) are doing everything in their power to make sure students don’t have to pay more,” Emily Beneda, senior in food science and industry, said. “But it’s harder and harder with this growth we’re having; we need more faculty.” Beneda, last year’s College of Agriculture representative on the Tuition and Fees Strategies Committee, said she believes the deans are doing everything they can to avoid requesting a student fee increase from the committee. “We have intensified our efforts to raise money from other sources, such as philanthropy, foundations and private companies that are assisting us to produce a better product,” Floros said. “We’re trying to find more companies that will subsidize instructor positions and scholarships for our students.” Floros said he believes the best way to improve the economy of the state is for people to continue to invest in higher education and to continue to invest in K-State. Editor’s note: This is the second in a series analyzing the effects of budget cuts on the colleges at Kansas State and their students. Next week’s story will look at the College of Business.
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Wildcats’ offense refining clock, red zone management SCOTT POPP
THE COLLEGIAN
In the second quarter of the Kansas State football game against West Virginia, a string of plays by the Wildcats led to a delay of game penalty and two timeouts used. The two timeouts were called within fifteen seconds of each other. Scenes like this happened all too often for the Wildcats this past weekend. They used four timeouts to avoid a delay of game. Head coach Bill Snyder said there are many elements involved in getting a play called that need to be perfect. “There are elements of getting a play out of the press box, getting it signaled, getting it to the quarterback and him getting it into the huddle and to everyone else,” Snyder said.
“There are a lot of elements to it, and all of them were not what they needed to be. That is my responsibility and my fault.” On several occasions the Wildcats would get set up for the original play with only 10 seconds left on the clock, leaving little or no time for an audible to come in. Freshman running back Alex Barnes said it can be difficult to run an effective play with such little time to set up. “It is pretty tough,” Barnes said. “The communication’s got to get better. That’s something we’re going to work on this week.” Senior running back Charles Jones said fixing presnap troubles is the number one goal for the team this week. “Coach Snyder set a lot of goals this week that we are
trying to achieve this week and that was the number one goal,” Jones said. “So we’re going through practice and trying to fix that problem so we don’t have it during the game.” Another goal Jones said the Wildcats are working on is scoring touchdowns when they get in the red zone. K-State settled for field goals three times on Saturday, one of them after a crucial dropped pass in the end zone. “That’s another thing (Snyder) has been emphasizing,” Jones said. “It really hurt us last game so that’s something we look to change this coming week.” The Wildcats’ offense will not be able to afford to leave points on the board Saturday against a Texas Tech offense that ranks No. 1 in the nation. The Red Raiders average
George Walker | THE COLLEGIAN
Freshman running back Alex Barnes celebrates with teammates during the football game between K-State and Missouri State on Sept. 24. 664.3 yards per game and are led by arguably the best quarterback in the Big 12, junior
Patrick Mahomes II. The Red Raiders’ defense on the other hand is one of
K-State volleyball set to face Texas Tech AVERY OSEN
THE COLLEGIAN
The Kansas State volleyball team will look to bounce back after a heartbreaking five-set loss to No. 4 Texas Saturday night. The team returns to the court to take on Texas Tech today in Lubbock, Texas, at 6 p.m. Nathan Jones | THE COLLEGIAN
Junior outside hitter Brooke Sassin celebrates after the Wildcats score a point during the volleyball match against Iowa State in Ahearn Field House on Nov. 18, 2015. The Wildcats will be facing Texas Tech tonight.
“It’s a hard situation because we know we fought so hard and played really well against Texas,” senior outside hitter Brooke Sassin said. “It still hurts because we were so close and play your best and still come up short. When we get over this feeling, we will be able to take the good from it and be able to build on that.” The loss to Texas on Saturday marked the 26thstraight loss to the Longhorns dating back to the 2003 season. “We know how good of an opportunity that was on,” Sassin said. “There’s nothing we can do about it now, so being a senior we have to have a short mindset and move on.” The Wildcats have lost their last two matches after winning 10 in a row.
Despite that, K-State is 12-4 this season and 1-2 in conference play and is still receiving votes in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association rankings. Sassin said the team is ready to get back on the floor against the Red Raiders. “There are more good teams in this conference so we need to be ready,” Sassin said. “This is a road match so it’ll be tough, coach Fritz always says good teams win on the road and we need to do that (today).” It has been an up and down season for Texas Tech. The Red Raiders began the year losing their first two, and then won their next 10, followed by a current six-game losing streak. They are 10-8 on the season and 0-3 in conference
play with losses to TCU, West Virginia and Baylor. The player to watch for from the Red Raiders is redshirt senior middle blocker Lauren Douglass who has 199 kills, is hitting nearly .400 and averages 1.19 blocks per set. Last season, K-State didn’t drop a set to the Red Raiders in the two matches played in Lubbock and Manhattan. The last time Texas Tech defeated K-State was in the 2013 season when the Red Raiders won in four sets at home. After tonight’s match, the Wildcats will return home on Saturday when they host TCU at 1 p.m. inside Ahearn Field House. The Horned Frogs are 3-1 in conference play and 10-4 overall.
the worst units in the nation. Barnes said he has faith in the Wildcats’ defense but still senses some pressure on the offense to keep up. “I have confidence seeing as we have one of the top defenses in the country,” Barnes said. “But we do have pressure to score more points than when we did last week in order to win games in the Big 12.” In order to do so, Jones said the team needs to play the K-State style of football, which means controlling the clock. “In our offense, we have to control the ball, and when you run the ball, you can control the clock,” Jones said. “As running backs and the offense line as a whole, we are going to take it upon ourselves to really try to run the ball and have great success in that part of the offense.”
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Letter to the editor: Student group demands diversity action Kansas State University, The students of the American Ethnic Studies Student Association recognize that Kansas State University is an institution that supports the continued marginalization, exploitation and silencing of those who have been historically oppressed and underrepresented, including the following groups: Mexican-Americans, Latinxs, Native Americans, Africans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Arab-Americans, LGBTQIA+ folks and disabled folks. However we also recognize this list is nowhere near exhaustive or complete. The recent blackface incident is not an isolated episode of one racist gone wild, but rather a symptom of the global disease of racism. However, not all racists necessarily wear blackface. Although this blackface incident is deplorable, this incident has only one small difference from the daily racism we experience in classes, in student organizations, on committees, during meetings, at work, in the grocery store, and on the streets — and that is that this incident has been visible and in the media. As a response to the media, Kansas State University has added insult to injury by wrongly insinuating that they expelled Paige Shoemaker, when she was not a student at the time of the incident. The media has misrepresented the story and Kansas State University has failed to officially clarify. This is of no surprise, because KSU has been determined to “put the fire out” as we have witnessed the institution double down on its strategy of paying lip service to diversity while tokenizing and continually marginalizing people of color. We demand a true commitment to anti-racism in 2016. • We should not and will not wait until 2025 to be seen
as human. We should not be forced to be in the same classrooms with people who view us as less than human. This requires cultural education. • The language of “diversity and inclusion” has obfuscated the real need for a commitment to recruit faculty of color. This institution cannot continue to claim a commitment to “diversity and inclusion” when it has failed to retain and increase faculty of color. • We demand that Kansas State University institute a university-wide American Ethnic Studies overlay requirement and hire faculty of color to teach these required courses without burnout. Students have expressed a need for cultural competency, and yet the American Ethnic Studies department remains the smallest department on campus with only two tenured professors. In reality, the American Ethnic Studies department is a token department with minimal resources. American Ethnic Studies professors are teachers of color teaching courses on communities of color. In this sense, cultural competency courses already exist and yet Kansas State University continues to exclude this department from our core curriculum. Students of color are required to learn about white culture every single day in order to survive. We demand that American Ethnic Studies courses be added to the core requirements for graduation for every student at Kansas State University by Fall of 2017. We will not accept no for an answer.
• We demand that Kansas State University fully fund the development of a multicultural student center. We demand that Kansas State University show written commitment to start construction of a multicultural student center by fall of 2017. We will not wait any longer. Kansas State University is the only Big 12 school without a multicultural student center. We understand how much of a difference it can make for students of color. However, what is lacking is institutional financing. If you are going to continue to claim our work as your own, then pay us. The KSU Black Student Union hosted a meeting the night that the Snapchat blackface incident occurred, and many students of color broke down in tears because they must shoulder the burdens of racism every day. This can no longer be a problem for students of color alone to bear. We cannot wait any longer. We demand true diversity in 2016. We reject Kansas State University’s false and misleading claims regarding “diversity and inclusion.” We call upon all taxpayers, civic organizations, churches, alumni, donors and students to openly support our demands. Sincerely, American Ethnic Studies Student Association Alonso Pena, President Asia Upton, Vice President Kia Harris, Communications Kowan Russell, Historian Lyssa Peralta, Secretary Lani Sandoval, Public Relations
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Attorney helps students tackle the question: Do you know your rights? EMILY MOORE
THE COLLEGIAN
You have the right to remain silent. It is more than just a line on law enforcement reality shows. It is a part of your Miranda rights. It is one of your rights as a student and as a U.S. citizen. You also have the right to an attorney.
“KNOW YOUR RIGHTS”
At Kansas State, through Student Law Services, students have free access to Sarah Barr, K-State’s students’ attorney. In addition to serving students in legal needs, Barr said she also gives presentations called “Know Your Rights.” This presentation allows students to learn about their rights in a variety of circumstances. Last week, Barr said she presented the program for an event organized by Pi Beta Phi sorority and Delta Upsilon fraternity. Sami Powers, junior in communication sciences and disorders and vice president of administration for Pi Beta Phi, said there are only positive things to say about Barr’s presentation on student rights. “She did a great job,” Powers said. “We had a lot of great feedback from my chapter, from (Delta Upsilon’s) chapter and from our guests that joined with us.” Powers said she personally gained knowledge from the presentation and all students should be able to do the same. “If I ever do get in those situations, I definitely can say that I feel more confident and I think that every student should be able to feel that way,” Powers said. “So,
if (students) ever do get the chance to learn more about their rights, then I definitely think that they should take that opportunity.” In addition to the information provided through the presentations, Barr said she always strives to entertain. “My goal is also to inform them in a way that’s entertaining and that they’ll remember because some of the comments that I make about certain rights, they may not remember specifically ‘don’t be shady in public,’ but they’ll remember the story that I told about that,” Barr said. Grant Hill, K-State alum and former Student Governing Association vice president, worked with Barr during his time at K-State. He said that Barr’s attitude and day-to-day interactions were helpful for students using her services. “Her positivity and encouragement to these students whenever they can only see the darkness, and she helps them find the light and turn it into a positive, a learning experience,” Hill said. However, Barr said that she would like to be able to help students prevent legal situations before they occur. She said she hopes to accomplish that through giving presentations such as “Know Your Rights.” “If you don’t learn them in a safe way, like in a presentation or through one of my marketing items, it’s possible you’re going to learn them the hard way,” Barr said. “I’d rather help kids learn them before they need them and you may never need them. You may never need to know that you have the right to remain silent. I hope that’s the case, but you know what, you
Austin Fuller | THE COLLEGIAN
Sarah Barr is an attorney accredited with the Kansas Bar Association who works with Student Legal Services at K-State. SLS is a confidential, free legal advice service for students. may and I just want students to learn those lessons before they need them.” Hill said Barr’s passion for helping students showed through in her educational and preventative measures. “Every day was just a blast,” Hill said. “She made every day a lot of fun. She had a passion to educate students and get the information out so that she could be more proactive in their lives instead of being reactive when they have to come in and ask for her services.”
MORE THAN AN ATTORNEY
By providing these informative and proactive presentations Barr becomes more than an attorney, she said she also becomes a teacher. This is one reason that Barr said her job is perfect for her, as it combines her interests in law and teaching. She said she originally discovered the job opportunity by seeing an advertisement in the paper. “I thought wow, that would be great because —
not teaching in a classroom at all, but having that connection with students, and it just sounded like a perfect job for me, and it has been,” Barr said. “It is a perfect fit.” She said she originally went to college to become a teacher, but ended up deciding to go to law school instead. In fact, she has several members of her family who were also lawyers. “My grandfather, my dad’s dad, was attorney general of Kansas and was chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court,” Barr said. “Then my dad and his older brother were both lawyers and my dad went on to become a judge, then my brother and I are both lawyers.” Because of all of this, Barr said that she has many perspectives while working in Student Law Services. “I basically wear three hats: I’m a teacher, I’m a lawyer and I’m a mother,” Barr said. In addition to enjoying the responsibilities of her job, Barr said that she also appreciates the campus culture. “I just love this environment,” Barr said. “I went to Fort Hays, so when I came to work at K-State that was the first time I’d really been on campus and I like the energy of a college campus. There’s always something going on,
there’s a protest about this or a speaker about that and that’s absolutely as it should be on a college campus.” However, she said one of the most difficult parts of her job is that not all students are aware of the services she provides. “I suppose the other difficult part of my job is having somebody come in and say ‘I had no idea you were here,’” Barr said. “I just wonder, is there a kid somewhere who’s scared? Because in five minutes, I can calm them down, reassure them, get them focused back on what’s important, which is school and it just makes me sad that maybe there’s somebody who I could be helping, that doesn’t know I’m here.” Despite this, Barr said that she is grateful for the opportunities her job gives her at K-State. Barr said working with and educating students about their rights is what she loves about her job. “I am the luckiest lawyer because I get to do something that I’m passionate about, and that’s teaching students and representing them, and I get to do it on the best college campus in the nation,” Barr said. “Look at me, I’m tearing up. I truly, truly believe that. This is the best job in the world. I look forward to coming to it every day.”
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Students may struggle with budgeting due to ‘spending leaks’ KELSEY KENDALL THE COLLEGIAN
Most of us do it. We’ll say, “I’m going to save money,” then turn around and buy a taco or burrito bowl. We justify it saying it’s only $5 or so. It’s no big deal. This is what Tim Stricker, graduate assistant at Powercat Financial Counseling and graduate student in accounting, calls “spending leaks,” and they can be one of the greatest unforeseen costs while in college. Miscellaneous costs include clothing, food, activities, parking permits and more according
to Kansas State’s “Paying for college” webpage, but more often than not we don’t really think about how all of that adds up. The webpage says these costs can range from $800 to $2,000 per semester. I’ll admit my biggest “spending leak” is coffee, as I’m sure it is with many college students, and it terrifies me to think I could be spending so much on it. Powercat Financial Services might be able to help students create a budget plan, but Stricker said it takes discipline to actually save money and stick to that plan. Maddie Hammett, junior
in accounting and Powercat Financial Services secretary, said keeping receipts of things she buys gives her physical evidence of the money she has spent and reminds her to not spend so much. Personally, I try to keep cash to spend so that I see exactly how much money I’m giving up, and I’m not just swiping a magic card. It’s easy to remember to save money for the big things like tuition, rent and bills. What might sometimes slip our minds are the hidden costs. Suzanna de Baca’s Time article “The 12 hidden college expenses,” gives
a pretty thorough list of some things we don’t really consider such as the costs of entertainment, furnishings, electronics, travel and getting involved. Getting involved is a hidden expense because clubs, intramural sports and memberships can cost money, according to de Baca’s article. Club membership fees can be the one thing getting in the way of a really enriching, social experience in college. Joining a club is a great way to be happy and meet people, but if there’s a membership fee, those “spending leaks” might be getting in the way of actually joining the fun.
If you’re not careful, “spending leaks” make it seem like you are not making enough money to do the things you enjoy. Finding a way of noticing exactly how much your spending on those late-night McDonald’s runs could mean saving more money than you ever thought you actually had. Seriously, I try not to think of how much my coffee addiction has cost me. I’ve been trying to brew a pot at home instead. Whether you earn a paycheck working a part-time job or get financial help from the folks, having a budget, even one with a little wiggle room for treats every
now and then, can be the difference between spending $2,000 in miscellaneous costs and $800. If you need help figuring out how exactly to do that, there’s help at Powercat Financial Services or online sites like mint. com, geese.com and wesabe. com. 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.
Kelsey Kendall is a junior in mass communications. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.
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Concealed carry being permitted on campus causes various reactions
In Memoriam
JACQUELINE WALLACE THE COLLEGIAN
Currently, there are only five states in the nation where the concealed carry of guns on university campuses is permitted by law. Come July 2017, concealed carry will also be allowed on the Kansas State campus. K-State faculty and students are currently warned at the entrance of every campus building about the prohibition of weapons on campus, as directed by the Kansas Board of Regents’ policy. The policy states, “To the extent allowed by law and except as otherwise provided herein, the campus of each state university shall be weapons-free.” Because of a Kansas law, the K-State Weapons Advisory Work Group has drafted a new policy, which would allow the possession of concealed guns on campus. After a forum in September, the work group sent the revised weapons policy draft to Interim President Gen. Richard Myers for review. In October, the amended K-State weapons policy will be submitted to Kansas Board of Regents for approval. And finally, on July 1, 2017, the current exemption in state law for Kansas universities will expire, and concealed carry on campuses will begin. Elizabeth Dodd, professor of English, does not support the law. “I feel that I am being treated as a participant in an experiment that I don’t choose to participate in,” Dodd said. She described the policy as a “gamble,” relating to the possibilities and scenarios in which accidents may occur. The law will not require students or faculty to have training or a permit to possess a concealed gun on campus. Dodd said there is a hazard of guns being kept inside
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Fred Gusek, professor of arts, science and business, answers questions about the weapons policy during the open forum regarding the campus weapons policy in Forum Hall on Sept. 15. backpacks, which are usually placed on the floor in the aisle of other students’ paths. She also challenged the effectiveness of stopping a shooter on campus when students are not required to take proper training of gun usage themselves. “It seems to me that the stress on students is often enormous: academic stress, financial stress, emotional stress, relationships,” Dodd said. “A campus is often a place that is emotionally intense. Again, I think it is a dangerous experiment to bring guns into that atmosphere.” Dodd said changes will be made regarding her own accessibility to students. “I have an open-door policy,” Dodd said. “I am available to the university community — that will stop.” Lt. Brad Millington, an officer in the K-State Police Department, was asked how his job as a police officer would be affected and if there would be any changes. Millington said there will be no changes concerning police. There will not necessarily be tighter security on the campus.
As far as his personal thoughts on the issue, he said he simply views the law as law, and does not wish to argue for or against it. Rose Micke, sophomore in chemistry, said the law could make campus safer. “It has the potential to make people more comfortable with the fact that if there was an on-campus shooter, there’s more people that can bring them down as opposed to just campus security,” Micke said. She said she supports concealed carry in every situation and said the new policy will be more helpful than harmful in self-defense. The new gun policy has not been fully implemented yet, but people of Riley County are still applying for concealed carry licenses. According to Kansas Concealed Carry Handgun Database Reporting updated on July 5, there were 1,926 applications submitted from Riley County. In 2015, Kansas passed a concealed carry law allowing people who are 21 or older to carry a concealed weapon in public without a license or permit.
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