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Cuts prevent college from fully utilizing new building KAITLYN ALANIS THE COLLEGIAN

Despite the appearance of a “big, expensive building” that was recently built for Kansas State’s College of Business Administration, the college is struggling to provide a stellar experience in its new home due to state cuts and a university callback.

“People are like ‘oh you guys aren’t struggling’ (because of the building),” Eric Higgins, associate dean of the College of Business Administration, said. “Well we are when it comes to people and those salaries and that kind of thing because it’s all harder to raise money for. That’s the challenge that we have.”

Higgins said that due to a cut and callback of about $700,000 total, the college has had to do “some rearranging” of staff. While not necessarily permanent, he said the college leaders have done what they can to keep the positions they currently have.

To do so, the College of Business Administration proposed a fee through the Tuition and Fees Strategies Committee that would be phased in over three years.

“The surcharge plan was a three-year plan with the caveat that we go back to the students (through the fees committee) each year,” Higgens said. “So we went back last year and they said OK. This will be the third year coming up. And you know we can’t predict how that (fee request) will be perceived, but we do plan on going back.”

As reported last spring by the Collegian, the fee requested an additional $45 per credit hour to be added over three years, with $15 added each year. The college estimated a revenue of $2.25 million per year after full implementation

at the end of the three phases.

ADDED FEE MINIMIZES IMPACT FROM CUTS

Patrick Kennedy, senior in finance and president of the Dean’s Student Advisory Council for the College of Business Administration, said the fee is needed and it is a way to combat the increase in cuts while allowing the college to hire more faculty and staff.

“This fee has allowed for us to reduce class sizes and focus on offering new electives to our students that will allow them to be more marketable upon graduation,” Kennedy said. “If we didn’t need this fee we wouldn’t have it, but sadly it is our way of combating cuts while increasing the value of our education as a business student.”

With the fee directly affecting students, both Higgins and Kennedy said they have done what they can to ensure they are acting in students’ best interest.

“Each year before proposing each phase we make sure to get student voice through open forums and constant discussion with our organizations’ presidents,” Kennedy said. “We want to make sure we are transparent with everyone and hear what students have to say about this.”

Higgins said that while the fee was intended to increase faculty and staff and while they have been able to do so thus far, he is not confident that he will be able to avoid cutting faculty after there has been talk of another 5 percent cut looming over the near future.

“We didn’t necessarily have to lose anybody yet,” Higgins said while knocking on the wood table. “But the reality is that this next round of cuts is going to make it harder

and harder, and most likely if we got that 5 percent cut, we would for sure be losing three to four positions.”

Celeste Bartels, junior in marketing and management, said she believes the fee has been justified, as the College of Business Administration has been dedicated to its students despite the cuts it has faced.

“We’ve already seen the benefits of additional faculty in one of our hardest courses, Finance 450,” Bartels said.

“Previously a very large lecture with one instructor was teaching most sections of the course. Now, about 34-40 people are enrolled in the sections with an additional instructor.”

ALUMNI MADE BUILDING POSSIBLE

Higgins said with the new building, he hates having to make cuts that will not allow the college to fully utilize its new space.

“You know we’ve tried over the last several years to reduce class sizes and do different things as we came to this new building and to utilize these cool learning facilities that we now have, but if we don’t have the folks to do it then we can’t,” Higgins said.

“And that’s the problem we got.”

Higgins said he is thankful for the alumni support, but as the state keeps cutting funding, there is only so much he can do.

“More than three-fourths of the building was funded by donations outside of the university,” Bartels said. “The budget cuts facing the university have certainly affected the College of Business and our students. However, thanks to many incredibly generous alumni from the College of Business, the effects have been

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The Business Administration building, finished in August, occupies 160,143 feet of space behind the President’s Residence on the east side of campus. minimized.”

Due to the cuts and callbacks, Higgins said he has had no choice but to rely on different sources of funding, and he is doing what he can to make it clear that the building was funded almost entirely from private money.

“People just kind of go, ‘oh,’” Higgins said. “If we didn’t have the alumni support, we would not be able to do what we’re doing here.”

LOOKING FORWARD

While Bartels said students are lucky to have a new space for the college to grow, Higgins said the outlook for the future of the college is “not good” due to not having the ability to be strategic with the cuts.

“You know it’s hard for us to be strategic,” Higgins said.

“Because they make the cut and it’s like what’s open ... So

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there’s no time to be strategic, you just have to react. We try to be strategic over a period of time, but you’re playing catchup and never able to do what you really need to do.”

Higgins said he has run a couple different scenarios of possible cuts and none of the scenarios look bright, as they will result in permanent loss of positions.

“I can’t tell you today

what positions are going to be cut because when they make the cut I don’t know what positions will be open,” Higgins said. “We’ll just have to wait and see, but we’ll respond to what is given to us.”

This is the third 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 Human Ecology.

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Indigenous Peoples Day celebration replaces Columbus Day at K-State JASON TIDD

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On a day traditionally marked by celebration of Christopher Columbus’ 1492 discovery of the New World, the first Indigenous Peoples Day at Kansas State saw a daylong conference, including discussion of changing the Manhattan High School mascot.

Leaders from #ReImageMHK, a campaign to change the MHS Indians’ mascot, said this is the fourth attempt in the past 30 years to change the mascot.

The leaders of the campaign include Lisa Tatonetti, professor of English, LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin, director of the Multicultural Engineering Program, Kerri Keller, executive director of the Career Center, and Sonya Ortiz, coordinator of the College of Engineering Project IMPACT Kompass. They all said their roles in #ReImageMHK are separate from their positions at K-State.

Bitsie-Baldwin said Indigenous Peoples Day is celebrated “to reclaim a narrative, because the only narrative that people are taught within the schools is the poem, ‘In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”

She and the other leaders said Columbus should not be celebrated, due to the sex trade, murdering of children, castration

Emily Starkey | THE COLLEGIAN

Attendees of the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration in the Hemisphere Room of Hale Library play “Hide the Bone” on Monday. of men and other wrongs inflicted on the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

They also said the schools teach little about the Americas prior to Columbus.

“We had our own urban cities prior to Columbus coming and supposedly just landing on us and us just being savage,” Ortiz said.

WHOSE LAND ARE WE ON?

“There are a few classes (on Native American history and culture) at K-State,” Tatonetti said.

“Personally, I think it should be required of all students, because I would ask your readers, ‘Do they know whose land we are one?’”

Tatonetti said K-State and Manhattan were settled on Kaw, Osage and Pawnee homeland, as protected by a government treaty.

“It was taken illegally by white settlers,” Tatonetti said.

“And I don’t mean just a little illegally, they moved onto (the land) knowing it was Kaw land.

But they knew that if there were enough of them came, they would get the treaty overturned, and they did.”

Bitsie-Baldwin said the situation was detailed in “The Darkest Period,” a book by Ronald D. Parks.

Now, the Indians mascot, which was originally intended as

an honor to a former MHS football coach of Native American ancestry, may be removed. “(The campaign) is called ReImageMHK because it’s not just the high school that has the image,” Bitsie-Baldwin said. “It’s everywhere. It’s the whole community.”

Bitsie-Baldwin said the mascot is not a good way to honor Frank Prentup, the former coach, because it makes no specific reference to him or connection to the individual.

“It’s team spirit,” Bitsie-Baldwin. “But when that team is a race of people, it’s time for a change ...

Would you cheer for the Cleveland Caucasians or the Cincinnati Jews?”

Keller said the mascot perpetuates an inaccurate stereotype that she still sees in today’s youth.

“The use of a mascot raises a native people in an image that’s not true for them today,” Keller said. “And as you saw here (at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration) tonight, it’s very different than ‘bare chested man riding a pony,’ which is what a child commented on when I did a children’s word in my church just this weekend. So we have a long ways to go to educate our next generations.”

MASCOT STEREOTYPING LEADS TO POOR SELFESTEEM

Bitsie-Baldwin said it has been 15 years since the last push to change the mascot. Tatonetti said there has been “an incredible amount of research” on mascot usage since then.

“There is no question that mascot usage harms the self-esteem of not just indigenous kids, but minority students generally,” Tatonetti said. “Studies have shown that it makes non-native white students less empathetic to minorities ... So basically we are teaching our kids to be racist.”

Tatonetti said she tried to find opposing research, but could not find any.

“All those studies that were connected to self-esteem, that connects that to academic performance,” Bitsie-Baldwin said.

“Academic performance is directly related to self-esteem. So if you are creating an environment where native students have a consistent stereotype threat, then you’re linking their ability to that mascot directly.”

Ortiz said this creates a hostile learning environment for students. Tatonetti said research shows that even if indigenous students support the mascot, it still hurts their self-esteem.

“Any stereotype is bad,” Bitsie-Baldwin said. “Every stereotype is bad ... whether it’s a positive stereotype or a negative stereotype. They all affect the learning environment.”

Wedekind attributes success to family, coaches RYAN PORTER

THE COLLEGIAN

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Then-sophomore cross-country and distance runner Morgan Wedekind leads a line of Tulsa runners around a corner en route to a win in the women’s 8000-meter run at the DeLoss Dodds Invitational track and field meet in Ahearn Field House Jan. 24, 2015.

The women’s cross-country season is coming to a close. In just three weeks, the Wildcats head south to Lubbock, Texas, for the Big 12 Championship.

When they get there, they hope to rally behind Morgan Wedekind, senior in communication sciences and disorders.

According to teammate Kayla Doll, junior in kinesiology from Garden City, Kansas, Wedekind has become comfortable filling the leadership role within the cross-country team this year,

with seven of the 13 girls on the team being freshmen. Doll said she has benefited greatly from Wedekind’s mentoring.

“Morgan taught me a lot since she was a year older when I came in as a freshman,” Doll said. “She helped me with the transition out of high school and always is setting a good example.

She knew a lot more than I did when I came in. I’ve learned a lot from her.”

Wedekind began her running endeavors in Valley Center, Kansas, in the seventh grade.

She attributes most of her success to her support system, including her family and her past

coaches throughout middle and high school.

“My parents and sisters have been a very big support system, along with my two high school coaches,” Wedekind said.

“My parents try to come to all of the meets, except for when traveling gets in the way. My coaches from middle school and high school still text me to this day before every meet to wish me good luck and then they always ask me how I did.”

Wedekind’s support system has helped lead her to a decorated career at K-State. Last year, she placed 10th overall in the Big 12 and 23rd in the region.

She has also been named Big 12 Runner of the Week twice this season.

Wedekind said much of her success comes from the training that they endure throughout the season.

“Every day kind of changes,” Wedekind said. “It depends what our focus is. Usually about two times a week we will have a workout which includes mile repeats, 1000’s repeats, lactate thresholds or progressive runs.”

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K-State hoops shooting for another chance at NCAA Tournament

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Sophomore forward Dean Wade acts as a reporter with other members of the media as they interview freshman forward Isaiah Maurice during media day on Monday.

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A year ago, the Kansas State men’s basketball team started three different freshmen, who definitely showed inexperience at certain times.

But the core of that K-State team is back and hungry for a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

“It’s high up there on our goal list,” senior forward Wesley Iwundu said. “We know what we have to do this year to get there, so we’re preparing every day to get to that spot at the end of the year.”

The Wildcats were 17-16 a year ago but only 5-13 in Big 12 play. Though the 5-13 Big 12 record is a little deceiving as nine of the Wildcats’ Big 12 losses were within 10 points, including two double-overtime games, one overtime game and a last-second loss to Texas.

During Monday’s basket-

ball media day press conference, head men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber said it was just a few little things that did the Wildcats in a year ago.

“We were very close last year,” Weber said. “When you really look at it, whether it’s (sophomore guard) Kamau (Stokes’) injury or the close games. We were probably three or four possessions away from being in the NCAA Tournament, but we did not get there.”

Thankfully for the Wildcats, they return almost all of their key players from a year ago. Sophomore forward Dean Wade and sophomore guard Barry Brown played big minutes, as did Stokes before a knee injury forced him to sit out most of the second half of the season. Senior forward D.J. Johnson, senior guard Carlbe Ervin II and Iwundu will also return.

Weber said a year of maturing should make the difference in so many close games.

“I think the one common thing if you go back and watch almost every game: Who shot the last shot?” Weber said.

“They were all freshmen. Now they’re a year older, hopefully a year more confident and now can they step up and make the shot or play.”

Ervin said the team has improved from a year ago.

“I’m very confident,” Ervin said. “We have more depth and right now an eight-player rotation. We’ve got a lot of people that know what they are doing now and experience. (Johnson) is really, really healthy, and (Iwundu) is shooting the ball well. Everything is going well right now.”

The Wildcats will still have about a month to improve before the season officially starts.

K-State will have its first of two exhibition games on Oct. 28 against Pittsburgh State, with the regular season starting Nov. 11 when the Wildcats take on Western Illinois at home.

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Don’t be surprised when a friend comes to you for advice this week. I mean, usually people don’t because your advice tends to be kind of unconventional, but perhaps your weird perspective is just what this world could use a little more of.

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LIBRA Sept. 23 - Oct. 22

You’ve been sulking around campus for weeks, annoyed that everyone has been too busy to hang out with you. Cut it out and go make some new friends! Let’s be real, it’s not like that’ll be much of a chore for you anyway.

SCORPIO Oct. 23 - Nov. 21

You’ve been feeling overworked lately, but never fear. A much-deserved day off is in your near future.

Just watch out for anything that could ruin your day of relaxation! The stars say to avoid sandwich shops on your day off.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22 - Dec. 21

Your coffee addiction is about to worsen. Take shelter in your favorite coffee shop immediately.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22 - Jan. 19

Are you done yet? (Don’t read your unusually short and direct horoscope and pretend you have no idea what it’s referring to. I see you, Capricorn, and so do the stars. The shadiness ends here.)

GEMINI May 21 - June 20

You like being in your own little world, but the stars say it’s time to step out. Smell the roses, notice the sunsets, actually care about the feelings of people who aren’t you — you know, that sort of thing.

CANCER June 21 - July 22

Don’t wear, eat, drink or touch anything orange this week. The stars say failing to avoid the color orange at all costs until next week could land you in a very messy situation.

What is life if not full of surprises? You don’t really seem the type, but you secretly love surprises and this week is sure to have tons of them in store for you. But obviously not all surprises are good ones, so have fun on your weeklong, emotional rollercoaster ride.

ARIES March 21 - April 19

LEO July 23 - Aug. 22

You’ve been highly motivated to eat healthier in the past couple of weeks, but this week, you’ll be tempted by all kinds of tasty evils, including pizza, cake, candy and more. The stars wish you good luck.

TAURUS April 20 - May 20

Don’t try to grow any plants right now. The stars say while you don’t have much of a green thumb as it is, this week you’re bound to kill off any plant in your care no matter what you do.

Feeling a little hostile lately? Don’t worry, the stars say you’re sure to mellow out soon, which the rest of us will greatly appreciate. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but really aggressive behavior tends to freak people of other signs out.

VIRGO Aug. 23 - Sept. 22

Your library books have been overdue for, like, four weeks now. Get it together.

08 Sooners continue leading in Big 12 power rankings tuesday, october 11, 2016

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1. OKLAHOMA (32) (LAST WEEK: 1) (NEXT: KANSAS STATE)

Oklahoma might be back on track to take the Big 12 title this season after all. The Sooners are off to a nice 2-0 start in Big 12 play with a 45-40 win over Texas in the Red River Rivalry behind junior quarterback Baker Mayfield, who had three touchdowns passing, and junior running back Samaje Perine, who had two rushing touchdowns.

2. WEST VIRGINIA (4-0) (LAST WEEK: 4) (NEXT: AT TEXAS TECH)

West Virginia didn’t play this last week, but jumped two spots due to the play of last week’s teams in front of them.

The Mountaineers, led by senior quarterback Skyler Howard at an average 318 passing yards per game, will get a chance to pick on a Texas Tech defense that is allowing 265.6 yards through the air.

3. OKLAHOMA STATE (4-2) (LAST WEEK: 2) (NEXT: BYE)

Oklahoma State just doesn’t want to stay put in the power rankings this season. And the 38-31 win that the Cowboys had over Iowa State on Saturday was the cause of this week’s adjustment. Junior quarterback Mason Rudolph threw for four touchdowns, but Oklahoma State’s defensive struggles against the lowly Cyclones raises concerns.

4. TEXAS (2-3) (LAST WEEK: 3) (NEXT: IOWA STATE)

The Longhorns fought hard in their loss to rival Oklahoma, but it just wasn’t enough to get the job done, despite freshman quarterback Shane Buechele’s three touchdowns through the air. Texas has now lost three games in a row, so the matchup with Iowa State this week couldn’t come at a better time.

5. BAYLOR (5-0) (LAST WEEK: 5) (NEXT: KANSAS)

The Bears took the week off and are essentially taking this week off, too. Baylor hosts Kansas on Saturday, and it could get ugly. The Jayhawks are allowing opponents 33 points per game.

Baylor is scoring 42.6 per game.

Whatever Vegas sets the “over” at, take it.

6. KANSAS STATE (3-2) (LAST WEEK: 6) (NEXT: AT OKLAHOMA)

K-State got a much-needed win over Texas Tech on Saturday and avoided a 0-2 start to Big 12 play. The Wildcats scored on offense, defense and special teams, guiding them to a 44-38 win over the Red Raiders.

Scoring like that will be needed if K-State wants to knock off Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, this weekend.

7. TEXAS TECH (32) (LAST WEEK: 8) (NEXT: WEST VIRGINIA)

Texas Tech might have lost to the Wildcats, but the Red Raiders put on an impressive

performance in the loss. Junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II threw for 504 yards and two touchdowns against a very stout K-State defense. His performance alone boosted the Red Raiders after a loss.

8. TCU (4-2) (LAST WEEK: 7) (NEXT: BYE)

TCU might be the most deceiving 4-2 team in the entire country. The Horned Frogs won their matchup on Saturday by a mere one point against Kansas.

The same Kansas team that has won one Big 12 game since the 2014 season? Yes, that Kansas.

And had the Jayhawks connected on a late-game field goal, the Horned Frogs probably would’ve given the Jayhawks the second win. TCU has a lot of problems to fix on this bye week.

9. KANSAS (1-4) (LAST WEEK: 10) (NEXT: AT BAYLOR)

For as bad as TCU played in the game, the Jayhawks deserve some credit. KU went to the halftime break trailing by just four points and took a 23-14 lead into the fourth quarter. KU is not good, but competing with TCU down to the wire gets the Jayhawks out of the cellar of the power rankings.

10. IOWA STATE (15) (LAST WEEK: 9) (NEXT: AT TEXAS)

Iowa State is showing some promise as of recently. The Cyclones have played their last two opponents, Baylor and Oklahoma State, to three and seven points, respectively. But the fact is, they were both losses. Iowa State is facing a Texas team that is desperate for a win, so don’t expect the Cyclones to pick up win number two this weekend.

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