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VOTE Bollier emphasizes strength of young voters, students’ role in upcoming election
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K-State First Book author shares inspiration for memoir
Page 05 Football team returns home to face Texas Tech after upset win over Oklahoma
Page 06 Soccer team prepares for Sunflower Showdown with reduced roster
Page 08 Mural restoration brings Hale’s Great Room back to life
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Campus COVID-19 strategy to include asymptomatic testing starting next week
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Starting on Monday, COVID-19 tests will no longer be limited to students showing symptoms or who are known contacts of positive cases. As part of a testing expansion plan, interested students can receive free asymptomatic tests. "There [won't] be a lot of parameters around it," Dr. Kyle Goerl, medical director at Lafene Health Center said. "There would be a fairly open opportunity for individuals to come in." Students who want to take an asymptomatic test, however, must make an appointment through the Lafene portal. Appointments are limited from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays, but all students are eligible for asymptomatic tests every two weeks. "We don't have unlimited capacity," Goerl said. "It's not like all 17,000 students can come and get tested in one week." The tests are not the invasive nasal swabs like those administered in disease diagnostic testing, but are still "accurate," according to a press release. Students will give the test to
themselves. "I do think we're coming up with a fairly efficient system that should accommodate the vast majority of individuals who are interested in being tested," Goerl said. Negative results from asymptomatic screenings will be communicated through the Lafene portal. Students who test positive will be alerted by a phone call. All results should be returned within 72 hours. Sam Harper, senior in political science and psychology, co-organized a die-in protest in September that — among other things — asked Kansas State administration to increase testing capacity so that any student could receive one if they wanted to. "I'm happy to see the improvement," Harper said. But they hope the university will consider implementing the other demands raised by the demonstrators, such as mandating students fill out the daily symptom screening survey managed by Lafene Health Center. Something else they want to see is K-State create a mechanism in the campus COVID-19 decision-making matrix that automatically reverts classes to an online-only
setting if the positivity rate surpasses 20 percent. Elliot Young, chief operating officer for university risk and compliance, told Student Governing Association last week that the only way K-State would move to a fully online course modality like it did in the spring semester would be if the state or county ordered it to. Goerl reiterated as well that the university COVID-19 containment plan is “holistic” and focuses on more than just one variable when making decisions. "I think we're backing ourselves into a corner unnecessarily if all we rely upon is positivity rate to make a decision," Goerl said. "I don't think that you should build your plans on one single item." On campus, the positivity rate neared the 20 percent threshold early in the semester, but has since fallen to 5.41 percent. Likewise, in the community-at-large, the positivity rate surpassed 30 percent a few weeks ago, but declined to 9.6 percent last week. "Any good news, I'll take, but we're definitely not done and we're definitely still at risk as a community," Harper said.
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COVID-19 care team supports on-campus students in isolation, quarantine HALLIE EVERETT staff writer
When students living on campus test positive for COVID-19 or are close contact of a positive individual, the COVID-19 care team relocates them to Jardine Apartments to complete their twoweek isolation period. Nicholas Lander, associate director of housing and dining services, said some students choose to go home for their isolation or quarantine time — the situation varies depending on each student’s situation. At one time, the
care team could have anywhere from 60 and 100 students relocated to Jardine. “If they’re in isolation because they’ve tested positive, they actually can be housed with other positive cases, but if they’re in quarantine, then typically they would live by themselves during that time frame,” Lander said. The care team delivers students lunch seven days a week and dinner Monday through Friday, and the apartments are preloaded with extra food and snacks. While the team has around five people involved in day-to-day delivery and
check-ins, Lander said they couldn’t operate without helping hands across campus. “Our efforts are extended out to a lot of people,” Lander said. “So in [housing and] dining services for example, they’re preparing many meals for us to deliver and so they’ve got staff that are dedicated to doing what is necessary to serve these students. Our housekeeping staff, they have to clean apartments way more frequently than usual in order to prepare those.” Anya Pohl, freshman in communication sciences and disorders, tested positive and relocated to Jardine to avoid
returning home and exposing her family. “Some people had said, ‘Maybe go home, then you’re in your own environment and that way you can heal better,’ but I didn’t really want to expose any of my family members because I have high-risk family, so I was like, ‘OK, I’ll just go to Jardine,’” Pohl said. Despite the unfortunate circumstance of contracting COVID-19, Pohl was thankful for the support and noted the importance of this operation to be able to have in-person classes. “I’m glad we have this team because it definitely is
helpful, and because of this system we have and making sure the students are isolated and taken care of, we’ve been able to stay this way so long,” Pohl said. Shenay Atene, a care team member, joined the team a few weeks ago when the team needed more workers to keep up. “I just wanted to be someone there to help in the time of need,” Atene said. “Just being there to be a helping hand and make sure everyone is OK during this time because not everyone has support, like, their families are several states away or across the country or
from a different country so it’s just nice to be there for them.” Atene enjoys having the opportunity to connect with the students. Lander encouraged students to continue making good choices regarding social distancing. “Wearing a mask obviously is important, and I think students have done a pretty good job with that,” Lander said. “The social distancing aspect, especially if they’re eating together, if they can spread out a little bit more, that will help them avoid having to go to quarantine if they test positive or if their friend tests positive.”
Bollier emphasizes strength of young voters, students’ role in the election MEREDITH COMAS staff writer
As the race tightens, Democratic candidate for one of Kansas’ U.S. Senate seats Barbara Bollier came to Manhattan for a Lawn Chair Chat. Though it was a chilly morning, Bollier said she was excited to be in town visiting with Kansans who “want something different.” Bollier focused on her campaign platforms of honesty and integrity. She also took a couple hits at her Republican opponent Roger Marshall, who recently sent out a series of attack advertisements against her. Marshall was elected twice to represent Kansas’ first congressional district, which includes Riley County, with more than 60 percent of the vote. “I could not be more saddened to watch my opponent give mistruths again and again and again about me,” Bollier said. “He needs to be able to stand on his own, like I do, and what I will bring to the table.” Polls from The Kansas City Star show Bollier and Marshall within single digits
of each other, placing both candidates within the margin of error. On Wednesday, the Bollier campaign said she was two points ahead of Marshall. While Bollier’s visit in Manhattan was meant to address voter questions, many wondered if the campaign is prepared to lose like Sen. Pat Roberts’ independent challenger did in 2016. “When Pat Roberts was polling neck-and-neck with his opponent, he was running against an independent,” Bollier said. “I’m a Democrat. We have a party. And what I will tell you is I think the opposite is about to occur. I hope Roger Marshall is prepared.” Questions from the community focused on current Democratic platforms, as well as Bollier’s campaign priorities, including healthcare, agriculture, defense and education. Bollier also touched on her jump from the Republican party to the Democratic party and her focus on inter-party cooperation. “We need leadership in Washington that’s willing to put party differences aside and say, ‘What is right for the people? What are they telling me? Let’s work together and get
it done,’” Bollier said. “I am here asking for your support and vote to do that very thing. Kansans need to be able to say, ‘I am proud of the person representing us because ... she listens to the people of Kansas ... and proud to say finally our government is working again for the people.’” During her time in Manhattan, Bollier also visited the Kansas Energy Program located in the Unger Complex. The campaign heard from energy specialist David Carter and his team about K-12 energy education, energy sustainability and what they need from lawmakers to continue their work. “Whatever our infrastructure is, we’ve got to take care of it,” Bollier said. “Not just maintain it, we’ve got to build it up and make it more green, and it’s a perfect opportunity right now.” The Lawn Chair Chat didn’t attract many K-State students, but young voters still turned out. Bollier stressed the need for young people to show up Nov. 3 and vote with their interests in mind. They can change the outcome of this election, she said. “It is time folks, this is your world. If you want peo-
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Kansas U.S Senate candidate Barbara Bollier, meets with K-State students and staff at Unger Complex to view their engineering projects and discuss power usage and carbon emissions. ple who actually follow science, and admit there’s climate change, and are willing to work together and want equality for all. ... We can
and must do better, and their vote will make a difference,” Bollier said. “[Manhattan] is a thriving place with an incredible university. We have
great opportunities. We have to get those kinds of things done, and it takes a candidate like me.”
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Students, faculty report mixed opinions on university contact tracing through Lafene Health Center ETHAN THIMMESCH staff writer
Kansas State recently partnered with the Riley County Health Department to expand COVID-19 contact tracing to student athletes and on-campus students. The response from students, faculty and staff is mixed. Contact tracing is a public health tool created to alert individuals who have been in contact with a positive case of an illness like COVID-19. The
process involves identifying individuals at risk, contacting them and asking them to test and quarantine. Previously, the county didn’t have access to trace cases in on-campus students. However, on Sept.16, Lafene Health Center expanded the initiative to provide on-campus contact tracing information to the health department. The health department previously used this method to keep track of off-campus students and faculty members. The partnership with Lafene creates a wider bandwidth of information for the county to work with.
While many people are open to the idea of contact tracing, some consider it a controversial topic. Dan Biles, Kansas supreme court justice and visiting professor of practice in journalism and mass communications, said giving up some privacy in these times is worth it to fight COVID-19 in his personal opinion. “I have no personal objection to having an app loaded on my phone to track me,” Biles said. “People can track me all they want if it helps fight this virus.”
Biles’ daughter works at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and he said she’s spoken to him about the benefits of contact tracing. “She told me that contact tracing helped [the medical center] keep an eye on the virus and how it spread, so I can imagine bringing [contact tracing] to campus would help fight it quite a bit,” Biles said. Some students directly oppose Biles’ position on contact tracing, claiming it’s an overreach by both the university and local government. “It is an invasion of privacy, espe-
cially when the student lives off-campus,” Matt Kirkland, senior in construction science, said. Jack Roenne, senior in agricultural economics, said he feels taking private information without consent shouldn’t be the government’s role in fighting COVID-19. “I don’t live on-campus, but my little sister does, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable with anyone in my family, especially my little sister, having her private information given to the government by Kansas State,” Roenne said.
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K-State First Book author shares inspiration for ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ JOSIE WHITAKER
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art is a good place to spend a day
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Kansas State staff and students welcomed William Kamkwamba, author of this year's K-State First Book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind," for a virtual lecture Wednesday night. Tara Coleman, associate professor and K-State web services librarian, introduced Kamkwamba. “When the pandemic started, I was sad we wouldn't be able to meet the author,” Coleman said. “While doing everything virtually isn't ideal, I'm really glad we have the opportunity to hear him tell his story and get an update on his life." Kamkwamba shared his backstory, from growing up in a farming village all the way to becoming a globally recognized author. There was a point in Kamkwamba’s life when his parents, who were farmers, weren't able to afford his schooling because a drought killed their crops. Rather than giving up, he
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If you only had one tank of gas to get you to a destination of your choice, where would you go? Due to COVID-19, traveling options are limited, but there are still some really cool things you can do within social distancing guidelines. Obviously, how far a tank of gas will get you varies from car-to-car, but the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art is well within most people's range. The Nelson is located in Kansas City, Missouri. It's about a two-hour drive and approximately 110 miles from Manhattan. So why is the Nelson such a great option? It provides activities to fill your schedule for the entire day. Not only are there
around 40,000 works of art to look at, there is also a sculpture park, a large lawn outside for activities, the Rozzelle Court restaurant inside and it's conveniently located just down the street from the Country Club Plaza. Currently, some featured exhibitions include enamel portrait miniatures; Gordon Parks X Muhammad Ali photographs; a multimedia series called 30 Americans that emphasizes themes of race, history identity and beauty; and 15th to 17th-Century Italian and Spanish Textiles, just to name a few. After exploring 68,000 square feet of art exhibits, you can either pop into the restaurant for a quick meal or even have a picnic on the lawn, where you can also play games, get lost in their
glass maze or explore the sculpture park. If those options aren't appealing to you, the Plaza is only a 15-minute walk and offers shopping, food and entertainment. Both the Nelson and the Plaza require a face mask and are enforcing social distancing. The museum is also taking precautions such as checking employees' temperatures, sanitizing surfaces frequently, setting up hand sanitizer stations and closing water fountains, so it is a safe place to go on a free day. The Plaza is also enforcing COVID-19 regulations, but they can vary from business to business. Next time you are looking to escape Manhattan for a day with only a tank of gas, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art is an excellent option.
went the extra mile to stay ahead of his education. “I didn’t want to become a farmer like my father,” Kamkwamba said. “[The people from my village] are not farmers by choice, but because of the circumstances they are in. That life was very difficult for me to imagine myself in.” To stay on the right track, he would ask his friends what they learned at school each day and try to solve the homework by himself, later comparing the graded assignments with his. After realizing he was interested in science, he decided he wanted to build a windmill that pumped water to help the farmers in his village. He was able to return to school in Malawi to build solar panels and build windmills with students as a learning lesson. “The idea was to teach others how to build [the windmills], too. They can take care of the windmills when I’m gone,” Kamkwamba said. Kamkwamba said he wanted readers to know you don't
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have to start too big to make an impact in your community. “I was hoping people who are going through the same situation that I went through, or even a completely different challenge that they are facing, that they are going to be able to learn from my book,” he said. Faculty shared the impact Kamkwamba's story had on them, as well as their students. “'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' is an inspiring tale from which we can all learn," Jeannie Brown Leonard, vice provost for student success, said. Gregory Eiselein, professor of English, taught 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" in his first-year seminar this month. “After talking about it with my students, I was impressed with how much the book resonated with them and with our own moment," Eiselein said. "They saw it as a book about how great things can emerge from hard times and adversity, for those with a vision and a desire to make life better for their community.”
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GAMEDAY GUI DE CODY FRIESEN
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The football team aims to continue their momentum during a matchup against high scoring Texas Tech after taking down Big 12 Conference favorite Oklahoma. The Wildcats hold an 11-9 alltime record over the Red Raiders. Kansas State pulled off an incredible 38-35 upset over Oklahoma last Saturday. The 21-point comeback is tied for the largest in school history. A win over Texas Tech will put the Wildcats at 2-0 in the conference for the first time since 2014, which would be a remarkable turnaround after their opening loss to Arkansas State. Senior quarterback Skylar Thompson threw for 334 yards and four total touchdowns, which earned him an Offensive Player of the Week nod against Oklahoma. Thompson needs 12 passing yards to reach the 5,000 passing yards milestone. The passing offense had to step up early in the season when the Wildcats were held to 66 total rushing yards against the Sooners. Both Arkansas and Oklahoma held K-State under 100 rushing yards. Oklahoma dominated the time of possession. The K-State offense only had the ball for 27:52 of the game. Freshman running back Deuce Vaughn proved he can be a threat and was an essential part of the comeback in Norman, Oklahoma, with 129 receiving yards and one rushing touchdown. He became the fifth running back in school history to have 100 receiving yards — the first freshman ever to do it and the first Wildcat since 1970. Vaughn was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week for his performance. Senior safety Jahron McPherson was named the Walter Camp and Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week. He was also named the
Jim Thorpe Award Player of the Week. McPherson had 11 tackles, a forced fumble and an interception, which also earned him the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week. The Wildcats hold a four-game-winning streak over Texas Tech, which began with a 4438 win in 2016 over the Patrick Mahomes-led Red Raiders. The matchup has been a scoring frenzy in recent years — the winner has scored 40+ points in seven of the last nine matchups. The teams have scored 75+ combined points in
five contests since 2011. Texas Tech dropped a 63-56 overtime thriller against Texas last Saturday. Sophomore quarterback Alan Bowman threw for 331 yards with five touchdowns, but it was also a three-interception night. Sophomore running back, SaRodorick Thompson opened the ground game for the Red Raiders. Thompson has 222 yards and four touchdowns in the young season, which ranks him third in the Big 12 in rushing.
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Senior quarterback Skylar Thompson heads off the field against Iowa State in Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Nov. 30, 2019. The Wildcats finished their final home game of the season with a win against Iowa State, 27-17.
Football team returns home to face Texas Tech after upset over Oklahoma PLAYERS TO WATCH
Junior defensive back Justin Gardner made an impact on both sides of the ball against Oklahoma. Gardner recorded an interception and had a crucial 78-yard reception. If the Wildcats continue to be low in numbers for positions, look for number six to step up. Senior tight end Briley Moore is a remarkable addition to the K-State offense this season. The grad-transfer documented ten receptions for 85 yards and a touchdown so far. Moore ranks fourth nationally among tight ends in catches per game. His six receptions against Arkansas State were the most catches in a game by a Wildcat tight end since Travis Tannahill in 2012. Through two games, Sophomore quarterback Alan Bowman threw for 761 yards and seven touchdowns. The Wildcats haven’t faced the gunslinger, who has had an injury-riddled college career since 2018. Senior wide receiver TJ Vasher opened conference play with four receptions for 74 yards and two touchdowns. The 6-foot-6inch Texas native has already notched 153 yards through two games this season. He is similar in size to Arkansas State wide receiver Jonathan Adams, who dominated the K-State secondary with eight receptions for 98 yards and three touchdowns. The Wildcats enter the matchup as a 2.5-point favorite, and the Over/Under is set at 64 points. Kickoff at is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on FS1.
Defensive tackle Jaylen Pickle makes immediate impact on Wildcats’ defense ADAM MEYER staff writer
There are plenty of well-known members on the football team, but there are also members who are finding the spotlight and getting the chance to contribute. Sophomore defensive tackle Jaylen Pickle is one of those players. Pickle got his first start against Oklahoma last week and immediately made an impact. Pickle redshirted in 2018 and only saw playing time against Bowling Green in 2019. He was injured in the Wildcats’ season opener against Ar-
kansas State, and got to show his skills for the first time against Oklahoma. While others might have struggled with nerves after realizing their first career start would take place in one of the most hostile environments in college football, Pickle said he was prepared for his first glimpse of Big 12 Conference action. “I don’t think I really felt nervous; I felt I was prepared for that,” Pickle said. “You know how like sometimes you get butterflies in your stomach? I never really felt like I got those. Maybe it was just because I thought I prepared well.” His performance backs that up. On the Sooners’ first drive of the
game, Pickle tipped freshman quarterback Spencer Rattler’s pass at the line of scrimmage — and the ball landed in senior linebacker Elijah Sullivan’s hands for an interception. “I thought [Jaylen] did some really good things against Oklahoma,” head coach Chris Klieman said. “He has great length. He was able to deflect the pass early in the game when Elijah had the interception. He [also] did some really good things in the run game” The 6-foot-4-inch, 313-pound defensive back said there were a lot of emotions going on. “It felt good. It felt amazing actually to be out there with all my
brothers, especially coming away with a win, and especially against a top-tier team like we played,” Pickle said. Pickle said he thinks the Wildcat defense is improving, and said they prepared better for Oklahoma than for Arkansas State. “I feel like we attacked better when we were preparing for Oklahoma,” Pickle said. “I feel like everybody’s mindset was completely different. I feel like we just attacked everything that was thrown at us the whole week. Obviously, we had a lot of adversity with people being out and everything, and I feel like we attacked that very well and our mindsets were just different.”
Creating turnovers was critical for K-State’s defense against the Sooners “Turnovers going into every game is big for the defense,” Pickle said. “We obviously don’t score, so we wanted to give the ball back to the offense and get off the field.” Klieman said he’s excited about Pickle and expects to see big things from him in the future. “[Pickle] needs to continue to work on his game, but I see great improvement from him,” Klieman said. Pickle’s next chance to shine is at 2:30 p.m. Saturday against Texas Tech at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
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Texas Tech’s speed, size a threat
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three interceptions to the Longhorn defense. Bowman has some large targets, led by 6-foot6-inches, 215-pound senior TJ Vasher, who recorded a pair of touchdowns last week against Texas. Sophomore Erik Ezukanma is a 6-foot3-inches, 220 pound big-play threat at the wide receiver position. In terms of scheme, Texas Tech is a fairly vanilla hurry-up spread team. They put their big, speedy receivers out wide and try to create lateral space in the middle of the field by forcing defenses to commit resources to the boundaries. They are a pass heavy team, but not in the way they were under previous leadership. They definitely pass to set up spaces for Thompson to run the ball through and like to throw short to the edges to both receivers and backs. On defense, they run a 3-3-5, which is becoming more popular in the Big 12 to try to stop high-tempo passing attacks. It features three down linemen, three linebackers, two cornerbacks, two safeties and what they call the “SPUR” which is a linebacker-safety hybrid. The Wildcats struggled to run block against 3-3 fronts last season and have continued to do so this year. Senior linebacker Riko Jeffers holds down the strong side of the offense. He’s a four year contributor on the defense and has already recorded 19 tackles on the year, including 10 against Texas.
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Then-freshmen receivers Malik Knowles and Phillip Brooks celebrate a touchdown against Texas Tech at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas, on Nov. 23, 2019. The Wildcats defeated the Raiders with a final score of 30-27.
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Last week, the football team upset Oklahoma and now looks toward a visit from the 1-1 Texas Tech Red Raiders on Saturday. Texas Tech is one of four Big 12 Conference teams who hired a new head coach before the 2019 season, along
with Kansas State, Kansas and West Virginia. The Red Raiders snatched Utah State head coach Matt Wells. A former quarterback himself, Wells spent most of his time at Utah State as an assistant coach for quarterbacks or wide receivers before being promoted to offensive coordinator and later head coach. His all-time record as
a head coach is 49-43 and he’s 5-9 at Texas Tech. The Red Raiders barely beat a bad FCS team in Houston Baptist out of the Southland in week one and then forced overtime against the Top-10 Texas team. Texas Tech’s offense boasts talented sophomore running back SaRodorick Thompson. Thompson ran
for more than 100 yards in both games this season with four total touchdowns this year. Sophomore quarterback Alan Bowman improved from last season, but still struggles with decision-making. In the Texas game, he completed just shy of 60 percent of his passes for 331 yards and five touchdowns, but also threw
Short corner K-State’s secondary has been an interesting unit to follow this season. They got eaten alive by Arkansas State and their target Jonathan Adams Jr., but turned around and held their own against potentially the most talented wide receivers corps in the conference against Oklahoma. The Wildcat secondary needs to find a way to keep Vasher and Ezukanma at bay, especially in the endzone and short yardage jump-ball situations. The cornerbacks and
safeties need to find a way to make up for their size disadvantage on the edges. If K-State can pressure Bowman with just the front four, they could force him into some major mistakes. Stay explosive The Wildcat offense is built around possessing the ball and keeping the opponent’s defense on the field. They want to have long sustained drives that end in touchdowns and keep the hands out of the more potent offenses in the league. Against Oklahoma, though, K-State found a new explosiveness the offense has not shown the past few years. They had seven “BIG” plays — or plays of 15 yards or more — against Oklahoma. Those plays helped spark the Wildcat’s furious comeback. Methodical, conservative offense is a good way to beat fast-paced Big 12 teams, but if the Wildcats can continue to mix long strikes into the offense and spread the defense vertically, they will be much more difficult to defend. Ground and Pound The K-State offensive line was a major topic coming into the season. They recently graduated five seniors and it was clear from the start they were going need some work. They were hampered by injuries in the opener, but, according to senior center Noah Johnson, they really came together in the second half of the Oklahoma game. K-State still struggled to move the ball on the ground, but they were not in many running situations for the much of the third and fourth quarters. K-State’s offensive line will have to do a better job opening up running lanes for the running backs this week to be in control of this game.
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K-State’s offense comes out flat, but the defense keeps them in it until the running game gets going. A big special teams play and some heavy pressure on Bowman down the stretch give K-State the edge, 35-24.
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SUNFLOWER SHOWDOWN K-State soccer prepares for Friday night match with reduced roster CAMERON BRADLEY sports editor
After two weeks without play, the soccer team will get back onto the pitch Friday night at Buser Family Park to square off against in-state rival Kansas in the annual Sunflower Showdown. The Wildcats’ last match was supposed to be played Friday, Sept. 26 against TCU, but was delayed after Kansas State had to postpone the match per Big 12 soccer game interruption guidelines. Each team must have 14 players available to play — one of those players being a goalkeeper. The Wildcats had enough field players to play last Friday, but struggled in their goalkeeper position. Senior Rachel Harris is out for the season with an injury and the other three goalkeepers were in quarantine after close contact with COVID-19, leaving K-State without a goalkeeper for last Friday’s match. At the moment, K-State still has 13 players out due to either injuries or COVID-19 precautions, leaving a total of 18 players available for Friday night’s match. “It’s always tough and challenging from the coaching perspective just from the fact that you prepare all week with certain personnel with more reps and then all of a sudden the night before you leave you may lose three or four of that personnel,” head coach Mike Dibbini said. “That really impacts a young team that has depth, but not experience and that’s the situation that we’ve had in the past couple of games.” Among the 18 players available to play against KU, the Wildcats have one goalkeeper in redshirt freshman Cameron Illingworth, who hasn’t seen game action
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Senior midfielder Christina Baxter charges up the field in an attempt to make a late push in the 3-0 loss to Oklahoma State at Buser Family Park on Sept. 13, 2020. Baxter is one of the seniors on the team who previously played in a victory over the Jayhawks. in goal since she arrived in Manhattan in 2019. Because of the situation, Illingworth will have to play in her first-ever match as a Wildcat against the No. 6 ranked team in the nation. “Honestly, I think she’s going to be pretty nervous because it’s her first start against your rival,” Dibbini said. “If she can get to the point where she can relax and play confident, I think she can bring some things to the match that will help us be confident.”
While things have been rough for the Wildcats early in the 2020 season — two postponed matches and two losses on their record by a combined score of 7-1 — senior defender Shelby Lierz said the team is focused on what is ahead and not the past. “It’s been hard with the postponement of games, and with just how the season has started off,” Lierz said. “Every day though we get out here and try to get better and like Coach says we want
to get 1 percent better every day, so after 100 days we’re 100 percent better. So just having that mindset of next thing, next thing, don’t worry about what happened in the past, we’ll learn from our mistakes and be able to move forward.” Things have been especially tough for senior midfielder Brookelynn Entz — she had to sit out the Wildcats season opener due to an injury and has only gotten to play in one match this year, a 4-1 loss at West Virginia.
Entz said the extra week off gives the Wildcats an advantage in their upcoming match against the Jayhawks. “I think we’ve had the ability to go hard in practice and work on what we need to work on,” Entz said. “We've been able to prepare for two weeks now for KU and I think that will be an advantage for us.” K-State has fallen to KU two years in a row — most recently they suffered a 3-0 defeat in Lawrence last year. However, the seniors who
have been on the team since 2017 know the taste of victory against KU. The Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks 1-0 in the first-ever meeting between the teams three years ago. The seniors, who were freshmen at the time, want to be able to have that same feeling again on Friday night. “We’ve been preaching beat KU, we know what that feeling was like and it was amazing,” Lierz said. “I think just instilling into the freshmen and underclassmen’s minds that it’s going to be tough, but we’ve been through it before, we’ve beaten them, so it’s definitely possible.” Dibbini also noticed the team’s desire not only to play on Friday night, but to come away with an upset against the No. 6 team in the country. He thinks the opportunity is motivation enough for the girls. “As far as the motivation I don’t think I can say much more than their understanding that it’s the sunflower showdown and that they're ready to play, they want to have fun,” Dibbini said. “Having the opportunity to play the defending Big 12 conference tournament champions and a top 10 team right now, I think that itself provides motivation.” Friday night’s match against KU will serve as the team’s unity game. The team will wear Black Lives Matter patches on their jerseys, among other things to show the team’s support for the movement. Game time is 7 p.m. on Friday at Buser Family Park with a crowd size that has been reduced to 25 percent capacity. The match can be seen live on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and listened to on 101.5 KROCK and on the K-State Sports website.
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Mural restoration brings Hale’s Great Room back to life MEREDITH COMAS staff writer
Since the 2018 fire left Hale Library damaged — including the historic Farrell Library — the beloved institution undertook the process of repairing and restoring its rooms and books. Most recently, the 86-year-old murals of the famous Great Room are being restored, after they were nearly lost in the fire. Rachel Gilberti, fine arts conservator with John Canning Company, is leading the restoration process. “[The Great Room] has been a different one for me,” Gilberti said. “Every single conservation project is different than the other, so you never know what you're going to encounter. This was fire and water.”
Gilberti has worked with the library’s murals since the fire. She first arrived with her team to assess the fire and water damage caused to the murals, and stabilized them during construction. Two years later, she's back to begin the visual restoration process. “When I first came, I was doing more like triage really,” Gilberti said. “I was trying to keep the murals on the wall, because we didn't know really how much damage the water infiltration was going to cause it over the years. So, fast forward two years later, and we're actually on the process of doing the aesthetic part of it, as well as the consolidation on the wall itself.” According to the K-State Libraries website, the murals depict the four areas of study at K-State from the 1900s — “Science and Industry,”
“Agriculture,” “Arts” and “Home.” They were originally commissioned in 1933 to David Overmeyer, a Topeka-based artist whose work is also found in the Kansas Statehouse, as part of the Great Depression’s Public Works of Art Project and were the largest group of murals in the state at the time. The murals' condition in 2018 was not the worst Gilberti had seen. However, she said, they received significant water exposure, both due to sprinkler malfunctions from the initial fire and rain falling through open portions of the ceiling. Gilberti said because the walls of the Great Room have sandstone embedded in between them, they absorbed the water at a higher rate, which caused the drying process to take about two years.
“For me, it was more like trying to make sure that none of the paint layers popped off the wall,” Gilberti said. “And so we did a lot of consolidation treatment to the paint layer and the surface of the mural. Because back then it was wet, so we couldn’t really estimate what kind of damage was going to happen to the wall itself.” In addition to the preventative measures Gilberti and her team took to keep the murals on the walls, they also had to undo the work of past conservationists. This included stripping previous layers of varnish that, while protecting the murals from element exposure, had mixed with the water and began blooming — a process where varnish mixes with moisture and creates a clouded area over the artwork. “[The murals] were fair-
ly recently conserved, so the varnish that was used here was something we were already familiar with,” Gilberti said. “Unfortunately, the work of the previous conservator had to go to waste. We had to remove everything she did because the water was separating the paint layer from the varnish layer. It was visually impairing the murals.” Now, Gilberti’s team has begun the final parts of the restoration, and are preparing to start the inpainting process, where they will reestablish any paint losses the murals suffered. This process focuses on conserving the original artwork by matching exact colors to the underlying murals, and only painting the small paint losses as they appear. “The idea of conservation is exactly what the word explains, is to conserve the
original artwork,” Gilberti said. “So inpainting is just us touching up any losses that we have, but we just stick to that one little area. We don't actually go over any of the original artwork. We just got to match every single color. It’s fun.” Darchelle Martin, director of communications and marketing for K-State libraries, said Hale plans to have the Great Room, along with the rest of the library, fully open to students by the start of the spring semester. “It’s been amazing to see everything come back and better than ever,” Martin said. “It was not something we'd ever want to repeat, a very awful situation, but we are making it better because of it. It's really been neat to watch.”
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If isolation is triggering unhealthy eating habits, you’re not alone
PEYTON FROOME staff writer
Lately, eating disorders seem to be a mainstream focus. People are sharing their experiences, their recoveries and their relapses. Everyone talks about how planning their diet, incorporating healthy exercise and finding time for self-care is the best way to develop a sustainable and enjoyable lifestyle.
Those suggestions are great, if they work for you. What people are not talking about, though, is over-planning and how the repetitiveness of COVID-19 isolation and quarantine creates an environment ideal for relapsing into old, dangerous habits. Ignoring the lack of social interaction, enforced quarantine creates the perfect setting for healthy living. People can set their alarms in the morning, cook healthy food and have plenty
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sively. By not planning, I could breathe again. Since COVID-19, my old habits are pushing me to plan my meals, exercise and every other aspect of my life. If I eat too much one day, I immediately feel the compulsion to eat less the next day. I know I am not alone in this battle. Planning is not fun. By planning “healthy meals” and workout routines, it becomes easy to forget about intuitive eating and start focusing on the amount of food going in and out of your body, and whether or not you meet society’s image of healthy. Eating can quickly become the center of your life during COVID-19 because there is not
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much else to do. With eating at the forefront, people with sensitivities to changing lifestyles are in a precarious position. Less social environments and more structured eating habits are also encouraging mindfulness. Sometimes, though, mindfulness can become obsession. Instead of focusing on creating a healthy lifestyle, one worthy of Instagram posts and body-positive selfies, I encourage anyone with a history of eating disorder struggles to forget about being healthy. Instead, eat when you want, and listen to your body and emotions. If you eat too much sugar one day and feel gross the next, your body will adjust and learn to not inhale too many sweets later. If you put on a few pounds and notice a lack of energy, then go right ahead and make adjustments. If you can keep up with your daily priorities, though, and still have some energy left over, then I think you are handling life perfectly fine. If you enjoy exercise, then go for it, but if working out begins to feel like a drag, or is a way you convince yourself you “deserve” more food, the habit is probably becoming unhealthy. If your days are built around tracking your food intake, then I suggest finding a way to channel the compulsions towards food into something that adds joy to your life, like a hobby or seeing friends. I know for many, eating can seem like the most daunting task on earth. Are you eating too much or too little? Are you thinking about food too often or not enough? If these thoughts become obsessive, check in with yourself. Is meal planning becoming an issue? Are you centering your days around eating? I encourage everyone to be wary of the habitual thoughts that can occur with meal planning and complete control of eating habits. If you notice your eating habits are worrying you, then you are not alone. Plenty of people are struggling with eating during this pandemic. Peyton Froome is a freshman in English.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. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.
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