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Cadets on campus gain degrees, training, leadership skills through ROTC CLAIBORN SCHMIDT arts & culture editor

The Kansas State Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps was first formed on campus in 1863. The K-State ROTC program is one of the oldest in the nation and has achieved many goals over the years while training incoming Army officers.

“Essentially what we do in ROTC is we try and develop leaders to become future lieutenants in the United States Army,” Gunnar Ehlers, junior in finance and cadet sergeant major, said.

As students work their way through the program, they learn how to become better officers to help them in the future. Officers are tasked with making big decisions in stressful situations and entrusted with the safety of people under their control.

ficer in the Army. Besides the ROTC program, going to the United States Military Academy Westpoint or taking part in the 12-week long Officer Candidate School (OCS) can fulfill the necessary requirements to becoming an officer.

“You need a bachelor’s degree in order to be an Army officer, and this is a way that the Army kind of adapted so that they can get officers as soon as they graduate,” Austin Grabill, graduate student in business administration and U.S. Army ROTC cadet, said.

ROTC students not only take courses in their interests and majors but also take courses for conceptual leadership in the Army, infantry, platoon and squad tactics. They also take part in Army physical training or PT. These courses take place both in the classroom and in

The focus isn’t necessarily how good of a tactician you are but how good of a leader you are.

Edward Weiner U.S. Army ROTC cadet “Officers are a very important part in the Army, and there are future generals in the program right now,” Sgt. David Brooks, military science instructor, said. “The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is one of the three big commissioning sources for obtaining information in the Army as an officer.”

A bachelor’s degree and officer training are required to obtain a position as an of-

the field where students practice hands-on.

“I connect back to high school sports,” Edward Weiner, senior in mechanical engineering and U.S. Army ROTC cadet, said. “When you’re in high school sports, you condition together, you play the games together and … in general, went through the suck together. In ROTC, there are moments like that.”

Brooks said he enjoys

watching the cadets he mentors grow as he sees them begin to fully understand the topics they cover and the purpose behind them.

“I enjoyed taking that group that doesn’t have an understanding of something I have an understanding of ... and seeing the light bulb turn on when they realize the relevance of what we are talking about,” Brooks said. “I like to see people grow and see them develop skills, and I think that is what I enjoy about it the most.”

Like many others in the program, Ehlers said he knew he wanted to join the Army at a young age.

Some family members informed Ehlers as he grew up about positions throughout the Army and the ROTC programs.

“My father taught ROTC for a little when I was younger so I learned about ROTC at a young age,” Ehlers said. “So just knowing that and then, you know, coming from a family with military officers, kind of always just seemed like the right thing to do.”

Brooks is an active duty member of the Army, which he said helps him in teaching the MS3s — typically juniors — in their courses within the program. Brooks said he enjoys the opportunity to grow himself while using his past experiences to help teach the future of Army officers. see page

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Professor inspiring students to love learning wins award MARGARET LATENSER staff writer

The College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee named Rachel Levitt, teaching assistant professor in the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Department, the winner of the 2021 Davids-Dunham Award.

According to an August KSUnite announcement, the college gave Levitt the award to recognize their excellence as a teacher and scholar. The award also recognizes their support of both Kansas State and the college’s mission to promote diversity through teaching and scholarship.

Susan Rensing, a teaching associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, said Levitt is an empathetic and inclusive teacher who encourages students to share and participate.

“They are really good at getting people wanting to talk,” Rensing said. “That is especially admirable because Dr. Levitt often teaches about very difficult topics such as sexual violence,

trauma and transphobia. Those are topics that are hard to feel good while discussing, but they have a way of getting students to feel affirmed and engaged in the conversation.”

Levitt said they developed this empathetic and inclusive teaching style through their journey as a student, which led them to change their major seven times before deciding on communications.

“I was someone who took a while to figure out what I wanted to do, and when I landed on communications, I realized relatively quickly that I did not do well with guys yelling at me, saying I was wrong,” Levitt said.

“This led me to get very involved in activism and feminism.”

Levitt said their parents were ready for them to settle and graduate after changing their major seven times, so instead of switching again, they added gender studies to their communications major.

“While I switched through so many majors in undergrad, I really frolicked through different ideas and got really excited every

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time I met a professor who loved what they did,” Levitt said. “My love of learning was so thorough that I wanted to do that for students. I wanted to be the person who sparked their love of learning and confidence.”

In their schooling, Levitt said they saw a lot of ways in which people who are supposed to be in charge can either help or hurt power dynamics when there are problems.

“I had multiple friends experience sexual assaults, experience deportation and have a lot of experience with the kind of structural violence that I did not have the language to understand at the time,” Levitt said. “But I had the emotional experience to see that it was a remarkable violation, and the institutions made the trauma even worse because of how they dealt with it.”

So, to receive more training in racism and social justice issues, Levitt said they got their Ph.D. in American Studies and two graduate certificates at the University of New Mexico — one in women studies and the other in racial and social justice.

They also became involved in Native Liberation organizing.

“While I was in New Mexico, as a state, New Mexico was the police-murdering-of-civilians capital of the U.S.,” Levitt said.

“We did a lot of organizing to try and get the local police force to stop killing people.”

Levitt said police targeted Indigenous peoples who were natives of the land, a group with the highest rate of death by police in terms of representation compared to the general population.

“We would be at protests, protesting the most recent person murdered by police, and they would be murdering someone else at the same time,” Levitt said.

These experiences contributed to Levitt’s inclusive and hands-on teaching style.

“A lot of my politics were shaped by being in the classroom with the people whose lives were affected by the very things I was teaching,” Levitt said. “That was when I started the mindset while teaching, to always assume that the things

I am teaching about affect the people in my classroom.”

Adam Carr, project administrator for the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Student Affairs, said Levitt brings that level of inclusiveness to K-State.

“In the education that Dr. Levitt provides, especially when you are speaking about identity in which you do not hold, it can be very difficult to experience authentically when it is not your own,” Carr said. “I think Dr. Levitt does the best possible in trying to incorporate the voices of those identities.”

Levitt uses stories, videos, music and all media that comes from the identity they are teaching about, Carr said.

“This is how Dr. Levitt brings that identity to the classroom, it is not seen as reading a book written by someone who isn’t in that culture talking about them, but instead students will listen and read the words from the people they are learning about,” Carr said.

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room, Levitt spearheaded a feminist pedagogy theory workshop series, Rensing said.

“They have distinguished themselves over the past couple of years as somebody who is an expert on inclusive pedagogy,“ Rensing said. “The feminist pedagogy series is something the Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies Department has launched as kind of a monthly workshop for any instructor to attend to learn how to be an effective teacher.”

According to Rensing’s workshop description, Levitt focuses on helping teachers understand how to teach students material that falls outside the usual boundaries of classroom content.

“When you talk about sexual violence in the classroom, you are going to have students in the classroom who have experienced sexual violence, which can be traumatic,” Rensing said.

“So, Dr. Levitt has offered workshops on these topics for teachers to learn how to talk about these important issues in a way that does not cause harm.”

Besides their work with other teachers, Rensing said Levitt goes above and beyond when helping their students in and out of the classroom.

“I have seen Dr. Levitt spend so much time talking with students, writing letters of recommendations or helping with undergraduate projects. Sometimes these are not even students who have been in class with them,” Rensing said. “These are just students who gravitate to them and are helped by them, which I feel is really special.”

Evan Ricker, doctoral student and graduate assistant conductor for the K-State Orchestra, said he maintains contact with Levitt after taking their course. Ricker said Levitt is both supportive and encouraging.

“I went into Dr. Levitt’s class as a grad student with no knowledge of queer studies, and they were extremely welcoming and helpful,” Ricker said. “I now have them on my dissertation committee, and they have been instrumental in helping me find my footing.”

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Veteran Center changes name, expands focus ALEXANDER HURLA staff writer

The Student Veterans’ Center, located in Student Union 217, recently changed its name to the Military Affiliated Resource Center — or MARC for short.

Justin Frederick, assistant dean for the Office of Student Life, said the name change better reflects the diverse community it serves.

“We’re serving our student population that is more inclusive and representative to who’s using the center and who can benefit from the center,” Frederick said. “So, kind of working with all of the military-connected populations, whether that be dependents, active, ROTC, veterans, National Guard, all those kinds of areas and really being a place

for that community to come together on campus.”

Kevin Nalette, Military Affiliated Resource Center coordinator and 27-year Air Force veteran, began his position this semester. He said he is spending his first months in the position gauging the needs of MARC and K-State’s military-affiliated population.

“In typical military fashion, I’m taking the first six months or so, and I’m evaluating ... what we currently have, and I’m listening to students as they come in to talk about what it is they think they might want to have in the future,” Nalette said. “I will make an assessment over this semester if there is something we need to do differently or do better.”

Nalette said the primary goal of the MARC is to work

with the Veterans Administration representatives on campus to answer questions and provide information about veteran benefits. Additionally, the center provides a space for people in the military-affiliated community — typically non-traditional students — to connect.

“What we’d like to do is provide them a space where they can just take a breath and have a conversation with folks that have shared experiences,” Nalette said. “We all like our shared experiences, and this just happens to be a spot where us who served in the military, in some form or fashion, can just bend a friendly ear if we need to.”

The MARC provides group collaboration and study spaces along with a computer lab connected to

K-State’s network.

“We’ve had study groups,” Nalette said. “But mostly, it’s just a quiet environment for folks in between classes to get a little work done and then go forth and conquer.”

On top of these resources, the MARC hosts the Student Veterans Association, which helps veterans transition into academia. However, the SVA was unable to renew its membership with the national organization this past year during the pandemic.

“What we are working to do is reinvigorate that organization,” Nalette said. “We need to find the right time for the students that are back on campus to meet, reregister the organization and generate some support.”

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“This is the private organization, if you will, that can do different things with veterans on campus and the community,” Nalette said.

“They’re the ones that can do a lot of the different activities with the veterans and community that we’re not able to do as the facility. So, we’re hoping to generate some interest in getting that organization going again.”

While Nalette and his staff are working to restart the SVA, the MARC continues to provide a meeting place for the military-connected community.

Aaron Debolt, senior in finance, said the MARC is vital to K-State and its military-affiliated population.

“It means everything to

K-State,” Debolt said. “It’s absolutely the place to be to chat up other military people, get resources and have a good time.”

Nalette said he believes this collaboration and use of resources fulfills the purpose of the MARC for K-State.

“If you want to connect with your fellow veterans, come over here and hang out with us for a while,” Nalette said. “Have the conversation with your peers and use the space that we have.”

More information about the Military Affiliated Resource Center is on the K-State Non-Traditional and Veteran Student Services website.

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New Beach Museum exhibition provides aesthetic history experience ALEXANDER HURLA staff writer

The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art welcomed a new installation to its building on Sept. 21.

Artist and photographer David Lebrun of Los Angeles created a video animation called 45 Paleolithic Handaxes from Transfigurations: Reanimating the Past, using photographs of Paleolithic handaxes from museums in France that uniquely shows the objects.

Lebrun said he and his team took hundreds of photographs of Paleolithic handaxes at museums in France.

He then put them into a sequence based on likeness and used computer technology to achieve the morphing technique as one handaxe changes into another.

“They become as like something alive and breathing,” Lebrun said. “Changing and evolving, changing in shape over time.”

A computer outside of the installation called the Exploration Station provides further information on what visitors are looking at, including who made the tools and where they were created. It also gives information about the larger project, Transfigurations: Reanimating the Past.

Linda Duke, director of the Beach art museum, said the original plan was to show the entire Transfigurations project in six different alcoves.

However, she said the pandemic made that impossible.

She recalls making the decision to cancel the original show and breaking the news to Lebrun.

“When the pandemic came, at first, I don’t think any of us quite realized how long it was going to be or how bad it was going to be,” Duke said.

“But gradually it sunk in for me that we were not going to put this kind of effort and try to raise the money we would need for the technology to do something when maybe the

museum wouldn’t even get to open or that it would get shut down halfway through. …

And so, it was very difficult for me to make that call to David and tell him.”

Despite the decision, Duke said a new idea emerged to show Lebrun’s work at the museum.

“As we grappled with that disappointment, what we decided to do was that when the museum could reopen, on a smaller scale we would show one of the animations,” Duke said. “And it’s still a premiere.

I mean, it’s never been seen like this in public.”

Cytek Media Systems, a company that provides technology support to K-State, assisted the new plan.

“When I talked with the Cytek folks about this … they wanted to help,” Duke said.

“So when it came time to set up this installation, they gifted us all of the strategies. They sent a team of three guys over here that spent two days running wires through the ceilings.

They donated all of the cabling and connections. … They were our constant advisers on what to buy and then how to set it up and make it work.”

Lebrun collaborated with his own team of advisers when they worked on the larger Transfigurations project in 2009 with a trip to France in 2011 to take the photographs now showing in the Beach art museum.

“One of the things that we do in this project is we work with an advisory board of archeologists, scholars and museum people,” Lebrun said.

This includes archeologist of the Paleolithic, Roberto Ontañón-Peredo, the director of the Museum of Prehistory and Archeology of Cantabria in Spain.

As Lebrun began photographing the handaxes and putting them in the animation, he said he had a revelation.

“What became really clear to me in doing this animation was that at least some of these were works of art,

they weren’t just tools,” Lebrun said. “They were objects of great beauty and power, and made to be that.”

Duke said she hopes visitors have a similar encounter with these objects, which is different than they might have at a history museum where there are labels filled with information about them.

“Reading about something is not the aesthetic experience,” Duke said. “The aesthetic experience is being with it in your senses and finding personal meaning in that.”

Lebrun said he believes the technology used for the animation makes the artwork and aesthetics of the pieces truly shine. An 84-inch 4K screen in the middle of the installation is accompanied by two smaller screens on either side of it that shows each object in actual size.

“I feel like it’s like you’re looking into a landscape,” Lebrun said. “It’s like looking into the desert from the air or landscape forms — you really immerse yourself in it.”

Paige Scott, Manhattan resident and Beach art museum visitor, said the animation allows the viewers’ imagination to run wild.

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David Lebrun and his team took hundreds of photographs of Paleolithic handaxes, then put them into a sequence based on likeness and used computer technology to achieve the morphing technique as one handaxe changes into another.

“It looked otherworldly when [the handaxes] changed into the next one,” Scott said. “They didn’t look like stone tools.”

That type of aesthetic experience is what Lebrun said he hopes his work gives to viewers.

“I try to disappear, as it were, and give the viewer as direct a relationship as possible with the ancient objects,” Lebrun said. “So, I work very hard to make every transition in the work seem as natural and organic as possible, not to call attention

to my own interventions.”

More information about the installation and upcoming events at the Beach art museum is available on the museum’s website.

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OPINION: Next president should be from historically excluded group VEDANT KULKARNI staff writer

President Richard Myers dropped a bombshell earlier in May when he announced his retirement from Kansas State.

With Myers leaving at the end of this calendar year, the position of the President of Kansas State University has been vacated.

The Kansas Board of Regents has formed a committee to get K-State a new president.

While the committee has an unfair representation of students compared to the overwhelming representation of the privileged bourgeoisie class, it does have some good leaders serving on it.

As this committee searches for the new president, it should prioritize electing an individual who belongs to a historically excluded section of the society as the next President of K-State.

K-State has an unfortunate history of racist and discrimina-

tory incidents happening on our campus. Whether it is xenophobic posters being posted across campus in 2017, the dastardly hijack of KSUnite by bigots led by a former K-State student or the vandalization of whiteboards in the Morris Family Multicultural Students Center, K-State is not new to bigotry on campus.

As the university moves ahead, it needs a leader who understands student struggles on campus.

The webpage about the president’s position profile on K-State’s website talks deeply about how the president needs to be a “visible and engaged leader.” This means that the president should also be visible and engaging with students and participate in rallies and marches that students host to promote equity and inclusivity on campus.

This is something that did not happen for the past few years.

When it comes to issues of bigotry and hatred on campus,

all university leaders are against it. However, suppose the person in the position belongs to the dominant campus community.

In that case, they cannot relate to students who are the unfortunate recipients of the hateful attacks on campus. It is not something that the leaders do on purpose.

However, it happens indirectly through their actions or inactions because they have never experienced what underrepresented students experience on campus every day. The institutional, systemic discrimination that exists wildly everywhere benefits members from the dominant communities in ways they do not completely comprehend.

To counter this, the K-State Presidential Search Committee must prioritize filling the position by hiring an individual belonging to a historically underrepresented community. If the new president is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrant,

belongs to a different socioeconomic class, has ability differences or a combination of any of these and other intersectional identities, it would be heavily beneficial for K-State.

An individual belonging to a historically underrepresented identity has experienced struggles that a dominant community member has not. A cis, white, straight male from the baby boomer generation cannot relate directly to a student on campus.

Therefore, a president from an underrepresented community would be a more “visible” and “engaged” university leader.

An example of this can be how many members and university leaders are absent when students protest discrimination on campus. Soon-to-be former President Richard Myers claims to support underrepresented identities on campus. However, he was absent from the BLM protest on campus this past July, even after

saying he would be there.

When Myers was asked why he was absent from the public forum with Dr. Lane, Dr. Samuels and Dr. Rodriguez that took place in the wake of the vandalization of the whiteboards on the Multicultural Students Center, he said in an ILC meeting that it was because he was “not invited.” It is important to note that the public forum with the leaders mentioned above and the public forum that President Myers had with the help of ILC on April 30, 2021, cannot be located anywhere on K-State’s website or YouTube channel.

Wonder why?

This statement was hurtful and unfortunate. In complete honesty, it is not completely Myers’ mistake. His privilege did not make him realize that his presence was needed at that meeting. His cabinet members, most of whom belong to the dominant community, did not realize that they should advise

him to attend the event, again because of their privilege.

These problems will be reduced drastically if the new president is a member of underrepresented communities. The reasoning for this is that this person would have probably experienced the same things that minority students on campus do. This person would be able to recognize microaggressions from a thousand miles away.

This individual would relate to students’ pain and participate in protests that students put up to fight bigotry on campus.

This person would not be afraid to come on camera as soon as an issue happens, unequivocally condemn discrimination in front of the world and not be afraid to call out racism.

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“Being involved in ROTC was a good opportunity to stay tied into something relevant for me in the Army, in training future officers and progressing my own education,” Brooks said. “Having an opportunity to influence them at a very early stage in their lives and in their careers is great for everybody.”

Grabill is running for the Navy Federal All-American Award, showcasing the best cadets in the program.

Like Grabill, his father went through the ROTC program and also placed within the top 100 cadets in the nation.

Earning the award as one of the best in the nation opens doors for more choices in the future.

“I’m in the top four for that right now and the top one will be released in December sometime,” Grabill said. “It

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gives me more of an ability to choose what occupation I want in the military, which is another great opportunity that ROTC offers.”

Similarly, Weiner has also placed at the Navy Federal All-American this year and was awarded the best cadet this past year.

“Last year I won the ‘Army Cadet of the Year’ in the Navy Federal ROTC All-American competition/ program they have,” Weiner said. “This year, among the national ranking of all the cadets, I placed third.”

ROTC allows many students to work through college while teaching them leadership skills useful in their future commissions. ROTC has many opportunities for traditional and non-traditional students, from scholarships to programs that allow them to pivot attention on their studies.

“It was nice to know that I could focus on my studies, not worry about [expenses] because the Army will help

take care of the finances of it so that you can focus on school,” Ehlers said.

ROTC not only strives to build great leaders to help defend the United States but also gives these students confidence in themselves and their team.

“ROTC pushed me to do things I didn’t think that I could do, and as a result, I have gained confidence in myself through experiences I wouldn’t have been able to have any other way,” Weiner said.

Students like Weiner are already planning where they hope to go after K-State to continue the education that will benefit them as Army officers.

“Hopefully, I will go to Fort Sill and become an artillery officer because that is where the artillery course is,” Weiner said. “Then, off to wherever my first duty is after I complete that.”

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“I’m looking forward to seeing all my peers graduate, and I look forward to making the program as competitive as possible so that when they graduate, they will most likely get the jobs that they want and need to be successful in their career,” Grabill said.

The ROTC program benefits many cadets over the years at K-State.

“The focus isn’t necessarily how good of a tactician you are but how good of a leader you are,” Weiner said.

“ROTC is all about developing leaders.”

More information about ROTC opportunities and other Army programs is on the U.S. Army website.

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2005 Pulitzer Prize winner ‘Gilead’ holds up just as strong today ALEXANDER HURLA staff writer

Marilynne Robinson’s novel “Gilead” found its way into my shopping bag recently as I walked through a used book sale. I had never heard of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner before, yet something caught my eye from the beginning. Plus, having the main character being born in Kansas helped a lot, too.

The main character is John Ames, an elderly pastor who knows he is dying. He has a wife who is significantly his junior and a young son. Because he is aware his end is near, he begins writing a letter to tell his son about himself and the family history so the boy can live a full life grounded in his roots.

This letter is the story presented in “Gilead.” As readers, we have the first glimpse at the letter as Ames intends for his son to read it when he is older.

With that, this style is unique as the story does not flow linearly but rather bounces around as Ames’ thoughts meander around different topics, winding back to a storyline.

The story takes place in the mid-20th century in the town of Gilead, Iowa. Pastor Ames’ father and grandfather were both ministers, with his grandfather being acquaintances with John Brown and Jim Lane during Bleeding Kansas. His grandfather preached that the men in his congregation should join the Union in the Civil War. This iron-and-brimstone preaching impacts Ames’ father and he becomes a pacifist himself, which causes strife between the two men. These two different worldviews influence Ames in his ministry as he is conflicted as to which one is truer to Scripture.

Even at his age, he is still working out the theology of both sides, which he expresses in the letter.

Ames married as a young man, but after losing his wife and young daughter, he lived most of his life as a bachelor. During this time, Ames’ best friend and fellow pastor he affectionately calls by his last name of Boughton, names his own son after Ames so that his lineage might continue in a way. The author does not introduce John Ames “Jack” Boughton to the reader until later in the novel, but Ames hints at

a dubious character leading up to the introduction.

It is Jack who causes the most anxiety for Ames as he knows what his namesake did years before, which forced him to flee Gilead in shame. So, when Jack comes back and starts hanging around Ames’ family, the pastor worries. Will the younger man swoop in and steal his family once he dies? What are his true intentions?

Above all, this strife comes down to questioning whether men can change if damnation is set in stone and asking who decides what is true repentance.

These questions swirl around Ames’ mind as he learns of more revelations about Jack. This all leads to an ending that made me feel great sympathy for both men.

“Gilead” is a reflective story that — almost paradoxically — is forward-looking at its core. As readers, we are looking back on a man in the 1950s who, in turn, is looking back on a life that began in the previous century and on those of his father and grandfather before that. Yet, all of this reflection is geared toward his son so he can know where he came from and who he is to keep him

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rooted in his family history for the rest of his life going forward.

Its reflective nature leaves time for the reader to join Paster Ames in looking at what matters most. It’s not an action-packed book, nor is it a book with great suspense or surprises. Instead, it’s a book that knows exactly what it is: a story that highlights the beauty that can be found in the mundane of most people’s lives.

It’s the average, everyday

life that “Gilead” champions. For Ames, despite his anxiety and struggles in his old age, he is looking back on a well-lived life, hoping what he has done can provide for those he loves after he is gone.

Yet, as a Christian, he knows it was only ever temporary.

That is the most important takeaway from “Gilead,” I think: this life is transient. That’s not something to be scared or terrified about. Instead, it’s something

to be used to live and love deeply, boldly and passionately.

As Pastor Ames shows in the story, there is so much to love in this world. Therefore, as he did even in the small town of Gilead, it is better to live a full life and experience all that is possible now so, hopefully, you go into the next life with little regret of things left undone. For myself, especially, that proved to be a valuable reminder.

Wildcat 91.9 Classroom Series back from pandemic hiatus with more concerts, artists than ever before

separate YouTube channel and Wildcat 91.9 posts to its website and YouTube channel.

Max Lansdowne, junior in communication studies, is the music director and morning show co-host of Wildcat 91.9. He said he is looking forward to the reemergence of the Classroom Series.

“Classroom Series will create community, and I am excited about that,” Lansdowne said. “I think Classroom Series will become more of a big deal. It can be something that a lot of people care a lot about.”

Balthazor said he agrees with Lansdowne.

“I love the variety of acts that they have,” Balthazor said. “Every single time that I have been on a Classroom Series shoot — which has probably been at least a dozen times — it has been

a different band of a different genre it seems. ... I like that every time I go, I can expect something different and new.”

The next Classroom Series is Oct. 15, featuring the band, Same Sounds. Following is a live show from Same Sounds at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at Public Hall.

“What I love about Same Sounds is they structure their music in a way that the chorus, bridge and sequence give a lot of different energy to dance to,” Berland said. “It is incredible house music.”

Updates on upcoming Classroom Series dates will be on the Wildcat 91.9 Twitter.

EDEN BROCKMAN staff writer

Classroom Series — Wildcat 91.9’s live, over-theair concert series — will begin again later this month, adapting from the pandemic with more ways to view and listen to the performing bands.

Brahm Berry, senior in vocal performance and cohost of the afternoon show, said the Classroom Series are sets of in-house concerts that Wildcat 91.9 puts on throughout the year.

“We have our live studio, Studio E, and we invite bands to come in and play live, and

we stream that live over the air,” Berry said.

The Classroom Series production started up again after pausing in March 2020 because of the pandemic.

Jackson Berland, junior in theatre and film studies, is the promotions director and morning show co-host of Wildcat 91.9. Berland said the Classroom Series intends to show the Kansas State community-artists in their own community.

“Most of the Classroom Series are bands that people do not know the names of, but they have incredible music,” Berland said. “I

want to be able to share with [K-State] these incredible bands that are right in your backyard that are doing incredible stuff.”

Berland said he has put a lot of work into improving the Classroom Series by creating more opportunities to promote the visiting artists.

“Now, if [artists] travel to Manhattan, Kansas, you will get a live show [on the air], a live interview, a live performance [at a venue] and a video or content of your choosing, which is a lot of promotional material,” Berland said.

There are a lot of ways

to listen to and watch the Classroom Series. The series is broadcasted live between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Wildcat 91.9’s morning show.

Connor Balthazor, senior in political science and Wildcat Watch president, said Wildcat Watch partners with Wildcat 91.9 during the events.

“We go there and collect footage of the event while it is happening, and then after the event, we collect audio from 91.9 and we compile that into a video that we give back to 91.9 and the performers,” Balthazor said.

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Coffee Hour gives cultural immersion of other countries from home ELENIA HENRY staff writer

Five times a semester, Kansas State students and faculty can sip up more than just coffee during the International Student and Scholar Services’ Coffee Hour. This program allows international students to present their country and culture to others.

Lauren Benavidez, K-State graduate student in agricultural economics, presented her home country of Nicaragua on Sept. 24. Benavidez gave insight into everything from geographical facts to beloved holidays. Viewers could interact with the content through polls and trivia quizzes during the presentation.

Benavidez, born in Estelí, Nicaragua, highlighted national traditions like performances of El Güegüense and the celebration of La Purísima.

El Güegüense is a fusion of theater, song and dance that pays homage to colonial-era folklore. The feast of La Purísima, or the Virgin Mary, is celebrated on Dec. 8 and honors the country’s Catholic influences with treats and dance.

Benavidez also spoke on traditional foods like the quesillo — white cheese wrapped in a tortilla and topped with pickled onion — and gallo pinto — a combination of red beans, white rice and diced onions.

She said preparing a presentation for Coffee Hour gave her the opportunity to revisit her favorite things about home. “[My favorite part was] the opportunity to share my country from the perspective of being abroad,” Benavidez said. “At first, I was nervous, but then I relaxed during the presentation and really enjoyed it.

Coffee Hour participation is not strictly limited to the Wildcat community. Nadeeshani Ratnayaka, graduate assistant of International Student and Scholar Services and head of the program, said participants tune in from all over the world.

“Coffee Hour is open for anyone who’s interested,” Ratnayaka said. “We’ve been hosting sessions virtually since March 2020, so we’ve actually had people joining from different countries as well — especially the friends and family of our student presenters.”

Past meetings have featured many different parts of the globe as K-State’s international students represent over 100 countries.

Ratnayaka said the prog ram gives viewers the chance to explore other countries without the financial burden and public health res trictions acting as barriers.

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Students listen to Yasameen Akbasri, then-sophomore life sciences and pre-dentistry, during International Coffee Hour in Manhattan on Sept. 22, 2017.

“I believe the Coffee Hour program sort of lays the foundation for people to be excited and interested in learning about another country, and its culture and traditions because they are all very different from one another. … Personally, I have been very inspired,” Ratnayaka said.

The Coffee Hour program will continue virtually and meet from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on select Fridays throughout the fall and spring semesters.

Prospective participants can learn more about Coffee Hour and tune in to the next gathering on Nov. 5 for a presentation on Ghana.

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Know Your Opponent: Sooners not as impressive, still top Big 12 contender NATHAN ENSERRO asst. sports editor

The Kansas State football team (3-1, 0-1 Big 12) will return home on Saturday to host the No. 6 Oklahoma Sooners (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) after being routed by Oklahoma State (4-0, 1-0) on the road this past weekend.

The Sooners are 4-0 coming off a last-second win against West Virginia (2-2, 0-1 Big 12) in which they never really looked impressive. In fact, Oklahoma has wins of five points, seven points and three points against some pretty mediocre FBS opponents this year.

The fourth win came in a 76-0 blowout of an overmatched FCS squad.

Headed once again by Mike Leach protégé Lincoln Riley, the Sooners also return a lot of the skill-position talent off this past year’s Big 12 Championship squad.

DEFENSE: The Sooners look like a 3-3-5 defense on paper, but in practice, they are a 4-2-5 team with the fourth “lineman” — they call the position “RUSH” — filled by 6 foot 3 inches, 240-pound linebacker Nik Bonitto.

Bonitto anchors the short-side edge of the line and has one job — get to the quarterback. They also use him as a decoy, dropping him into coverage and bringing a fourth rusher from somewhere else.

They use a lot of presnap motion on the defensive side to throw off offensive lines and try to disguise blitzes and coverages. That pass

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rush also features stunts and twists to try to get to the quarterback quicker.

West Virginia had success this past week with quick slant and out-routes as well as read options to try to take the edges and pass rushers out of the game. K-State should be more than capable of that, regardless of who is at quarterback.

OFFENSE: Quarterback controversy in Norman? No. Despite the OU student section chanting for former No. 1-recruit Caleb Williams to be put in this past week, Spencer Rattler is one of the best quarterbacks in the conference. He showed it in the final possession of the game against West Virginia, where he was 6-for-6 and took the Sooners from their own 8-yard line to the WVU 12-yard line for a game-winning field goal.

Rattler has elite weapons to target out of their primarily shotgun, spread formation.

They tend towards a single running back next to Rattler and four receivers out wide.

The Sooners also will use a fullback/tight end hybrid called an H-back to add a little beef when needed.

Against WVU, they rushed for just 57 yards but threw for 256 wand a touchdown in a pass-heavy attack.

However, they have struggled this year on offense — FCS-blowout notwithstanding — rushing for 2.4 yards per attempt and throwing for just 6.3.

KEY MATCHUPS: Keep up the trend: K-State’s defense looked like a wet paper sack at times

against an otherwise anemic offense this past week. They could not keep a bad offense bad. This week, the defense will need to do just that by limiting Rattler through the air.

K-State’s secondary will need to be much better in coverage and probably intercept Rattler at some point. He’s a gunslinger and K-State has shown the ability to be opportunistic this year.

Ground beef: This is a game K-State can compete in from the trenches. The Wildcat offensive line has the size to compete with the Sooners’ tackles, and their defensive line has been a stalwart to rushing offenses all season.

K-State will need to push around the Sooners in a physical, low-scoring affair if they want to have a chance.

Non-offensive touchdown: This should go without saying, but until Skylar Thompson is back (his status is still unclear for this weekend) K-State will need to find ways to score that don’t rely on second and third-string quarterbacks.

A kickoff return, punt return or defensive touchdown early could give K-State the momentum it needs in a close battle.

PREDICTION: K-State is vying for a third-straight win over the Big 12’s top program. I don’t think the Wildcats get it with their current slate of injured players. Rattler and his receivers run circles around K-State’s decimated defense for a 24-14 win.

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Can K-State take down the Sooners three years in a row?

LANDON REINHARDT staff writer

The go-to guy for Kansas State since Thompson’s injury, Deuce Vaughn, was held to just 22 yards on 13 carries with no scores on the ground against Oklahoma State. He did still manage a 55-yard reception touchdown. As Vaughn becomes more recognizable as the person K-State wants to feed touches with, will plays be drawn up to give

him more room?

There are a plethora of options for the team, but with an all-time talent like Vaughn, it’s hard to steer clear of him. Coming up against this high-caliber Oklahoma team, what will coaches do to give Vaughn a playing field to work with?

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The Kansas State men’s golf team finished one stroke shy of a top-five finish, claiming a sixth-place finish at the Old Town Collegiate Invitational with the help of redshirt freshman Cooper Schultz’s first individual career top-10 finish.

K-State started out strong with four players in the top 30 through two rounds on Monday. Those players included top-performer Cooper Schultz, sophomore Luke O’Neill, senior Will Hopkins and junior Tim Tillmanns.

With the help of those four Wildcats, the team set themselves up for success, ending day one in seventh-place at the par-70, 6,966-yard Old Town Club. The team finished with an overall score of 10-under par 550 — six shots out of the top five and enough to earn early praise from head coach Grant Robbins.

“I thought we played pretty well today,” Robbins said to K-State Athletics. “The greens

were much faster today than they were in the practice round and it took us several holes to get adjusted. We were all pretty solid off the tee all day, which helped set up several birdie looks.”

K-State stayed consistent on day two, finishing in sixth place behind a 5-under par 275 round three to finish off its performance at the course in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Wildcats’ 54hole total of 15-under 825 vamped up the competition, but they still finished one stroke shy of fifth place.

Schultz, Tillmanns, Hopkins and O’Neill all performed well on day two. Schultz wound up finishing tied for seventh place with a 2-under par 68 during the final 18 holes.

Tillmanns climbed 10 spots on the leaderboard Tuesday after duplicating his second-round 2-under par 68 during the final round. Tillmanns finished the invitational with a seventh-career top-20 finish, as well as Hopkins.

Hopkins, the only senior on

the team, used his third-straight score of 1-under par 69 to accomplish another top-20 finish, tying with Tillmanns in 19th place at 3-under par 207.

Luke O’Neill shot an even-par 70 in round three to score a 2-under par 208, finishing not far behind Hopkins to tie for 26th place.

“We made a lot of birdies, and we had a couple of guys who, even though they weren’t playing their best, showed a lot of fight and were able to grind out some solid rounds,” Robbins said to K-State Athletics.

K-State finished second out of 13 teams in the home opener at Colbert Hills before the sixth-place finish on Tuesday, and the Wildcat’s plan to continue their hot streak.

“There is definitely lots to build on as we prepare for Rich Harvest Farms this weekend,” Robbins said.

K-State will travel to Sugar Grove, Illinois, from Oct. 2-4 for the Rich Harvest Farms Intercollegiate, hosted

by Northern Illinois University.

Women’s golf struggles, finishes 14th at Schooner Fall Classic CHASE HAGEMANN staff writer

It hasn’t exactly been the start to the season that the Kansas State women’s golf team wanted. The Wildcats have placed in the bottom three in two of the three tournaments they have competed in this season.

This past weekend’s result was one of those two.

After starting in a big hole on Sunday, shooting a 32-over par 592 and sitting in 14th place, the Wildcats could not improve their position on Monday afternoon, shooting

an 11-over par 291.

Those two finishes totaled out to a 43-over par 883 for a 14th place finish overall.

“Not a good result for us overall,” head coach Kristi Knight told K-State Athletics.

“We dug a hole in the first round, or really the last few holes of the first round. In a field like this, it is difficult to recover and move up.

We can’t waste shots like that.”

Even with the poor performance, there has been a bright spot on the team in freshman Remington Isaac. The newcomer has led the team on the individual leaderboard in the

past two tournaments.

Isaac shot a 4-over par 144 over the first two rounds on Sunday and a 1-over par 71 in the final round on Monday for a 5-over par 215 total, putting her in a tie for 24th place individually.

Senior Heather Fortushniak shot a 3-over par 73 on Monday, which — added on to her 9-over par 149 on Sunday — was enough for a tie for 51st place. Fortushniak finished with a 12-over par 222 overall. see page

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Teammates Haley Vargas and Gabriela McNelly finished tied for 65th place. Both finished their tournaments with a score of 16-over par 226.

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shooting a 14-over par 154 on Sunday, the sophomore shot a 2-over par 72 on Monday, which tied a career-best.

Junior Manon DoncheGay finished at 73rd place with a 9-over par 229, after carding a 14-over par 154 on Sunday before finishing with a 5-over par 75 in the final round on Monday.

K-State finished behind five conference foes, including Oklahoma State (1st), Baylor (3rd), TCU (6th), Oklahoma (7th) and

Iowa State (9th).

“We will have a couple of days to rest and recover,” Knight said. “Then it’s back to getting better.”

After a week-long break from competition, K-State will return to the courses competitively on Oct. 10, when they compete in the Dale McNamara Invitational in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The competition is scheduled to run through Oct. 12.

Tennis finishes strong with twelve wins at Ole Miss Invite ALEXIS LETTERMAN staff writer

The Kansas State women’s tennis team was invited to the Ole Miss Invite over the weekend of Sept. 24 through Sept.

26. Among the competition were two NCAA tournament participants the previous year.

The first day started off great for K-State, with four singles victories and two wins in doubles.

“I’m pleased with our start today,” head coach Jordan Smith said in an interview with K-State Athletics. “Always hard to know where we stand with only reps against each other. Breaking even in singles and doubles shows we have a good foundation, but still not at our peak. Up to our ladies to see if they can push a little more the next two days and extend their ceiling.”

Maria Linares/Karine-Marion Job and Ioana Gheorghita/Florentine Dekkers saw doubles victories. The team also suffered two doubles losses with Dinara Alloyarova/Anna Turco and Rosanna Maffei/Manami Ukita.

Dekkers and Alloyarova both won and had a strong performance in the singles match in their first-ever collegiate singles matches.

“Happy that Dinara and Florentine got their first college wins for K-State today,” Smith said. “I applauded them for not

being overwhelmed at the moment and acting like seasoned college players.”

Turco and Gheorghita both clinched singles victories as well.

On day two, Job beat Kelsey Mize from Ole Miss, Gheorghita lost a hard-fought three-set match to Elysia Pool and Dekkers also lost in three sets. The team suffered some other hard losses on day one.

“Our ladies responded very well in singles today, which they should all be very proud of,” Smith said. “We weren’t able to pull out a few close ones, but we competed as well as we could today.”

Unfortunately, K-State had a hard day in doubles competition, going 1-3 overall.

“If we can get a better start tomorrow in doubles and capitalize on our leads, then we should have our best day tomorrow,” Smith said.

The third and final day of

the competition saw two doubles and two singles victories for K-State.

“We had six sessions of competition throughout the weekend,” Smith said. “The team competed extremely well in five out of six of them. Never easy playing against a title contender like Georgia. I was very pleased by how well we competed and know we came out of this weekend to be proud of.

Especially after winning a majority of our matches against a school like Alabama.”

K-State walked away with eight singles victories and four doubles victories against three teams that made the NCAA championships this past spring.

Next up for the tennis team is the ITA All-Americans tournament in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, starting on Monday, Oct. 4, and going through Sunday, Oct. 10.

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$15 Pounder Buckets $4 Premium Vodka

Kite’s

$6.50 Philly Cheesesteak $2 you call it (3-6pm)

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