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On gameday, ‘anything can happen’ for local emergency medical responders

KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN THE COLLEGIAN

At the four Riley County Emergency Medical Services stations around the Manhattan area, coffee is brewing as crew members prepare for the last 45 minutes of their shift at 6:15 a.m. In less than an hour, the next crews will be arriving on site to begin their 24-hour shift. During the week, James Marstall, emergency medical technician and community outreach officer, estimated that they respond to about 15 calls a day, depending on the day. It is Saturday — a Kansas State football game day, specifically — and on those days, Marstall said, they expect anywhere from 20 to 24 calls before the shift is over. Although weekends typically bring more emergent and non-emergent calls, Capt. John Talley said there can be a lot of downtime during the day since there aren’t any typical protocols or trainings that need to be completed like during the week. “Sometimes you don’t get any downtime,” Talley said. “Weekends are the busiest, especially at night.” On game day, there are only a couple of crew members on site at the station while the game is still in play with several

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After arriving at the destination, Riley County EMS personnel move a patient over muddy terrain to the gurney on Saturday. at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. The crew at the station rarely gets called to the stadium, but “you never know,” Talley said. Marstall, who has been working in the EMS field for six years in Pottawatomie and Riley counties, said on football gamedays, the population of Manhattan swells to be the third or fourth highest city population in Kansas for about eight hours, which means more people who could potentially

need medical care. Morning games like Saturday’s, Talley said, aren’t nearly as busy as those with 6 p.m. kickoffs. In the warmer months toward the beginning of the season, calls come in more frequently. For the first few games of the 2018 season, Talley said they actually had calls waiting. The calls on game day are not all alcohol related, and EMS doesn’t respond only to

Former Battle of the Bands winner Joy Camp releases debut single

calls concerning college students. Sometimes, the calls are related to the heat or a fall. “It’s a full spectrum, we don’t get to choose,” Marstall said. “It’s the rule of EMS that if you expect something to happen, the opposite will.” “Anything can happen at any time,” Talley agreed. “Certain situations with certain patients can become violent.” There are typically more calls, Talley said, when K-State

wins the game, especially if it’s a big win, like a Homecoming game or the first win in awhile. Both of those describe the Oct. 13 game. In compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and other patient confidentiality laws, detailed reporting of calls to the public is strictly prohibited. Marstall said there is usually a lull after the game until about 9 p.m., but in the meantime, a lot of the care provided by EMS are medical transfers of patients between hospitals or to their residency. Kacie Mallon, EMT and K-State graduate student in nutrition, dietetics and sensory sciences, said weekend shifts have a lot of waiting involved. “What the public perceives this job is as blood and guts,” Talley said. “You’ll see blood and guts maybe one percent of the time.” “You’ll see more blood from starting IVs than anything else,” Marstall replied. Marstall’s grandfather was an early-EMS provider; at the time, his ambulance was a hearse and his medical training was from the military.

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K-State soccer falls to TCU, extends losing streak to six

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Johns Hopkins University to name building for Henrietta Lacks TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE BALTIMORE — Johns Hopkins University will name a new interdisciplinary building after Henrietta Lacks, a Baltimore woman whose cells were the basis of research for numerous modern medical breakthroughs. Hopkins officials announced the plans during the ninth annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture on Saturday. The building is planned for Johns Hopkins’ East Baltimore campus and expected to be completed in 2022, according to a Johns Hopkins University publication. Lack’s cells, dubbed the HeLa cells, were significant for their ability to survive outside of the body and became the basis for research that lead to techniques including vaccines, cancer treatments and in vitro fertilization. They have become the most widely used human cells that exist today in scientific research. “(The building) will be a place that stands as an enduring and powerful testament to a woman who not only was the beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother to generations of the Lacks family, but the genesis of generations of miraculous discoveries that have changed the landscape of modern medicine,” said Ronald Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins.

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Here’s how K-State’s administration fares with staff positions, salaries

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President Richard Myers claps for a speaker during the KSUnite Rally at Anderson Lawn on Nov. 14, 2017.

RACHEL HOGAN THE COLLEGIAN

The Kansas Board of Regents recommends about 150 positions manage the academics and finances of thousands of students — Kansas State has about 400. Based on the number of budgeted institutional support positions Kansas universities reported to the Kansas Board of Regents for the 2018 fiscal year, the regents recommend 149 people manage student accounts at universities with several thousand students. Out of six major public universities in the state, including the University of Kansas, Wichita State University and Pittsburg State University, K-State has a middle amount of administrators, with 197 positions falling into direct administration categories. K-State has an additional 215 institutional support positions. Only KU has more with more than 350. Using enrollment numbers from last spring,

K-State’s ratio of administrators to students comes out to one administrator per approximately 106 students. Pitt State has one administrator per 412 students. WSU has the fewest students to administrators with a ratio of one per 79 students. In 2017, university president Richard Myers tasked Cindy Bontrager, vice president of administration and finance, and Jeffery Morris, vice president of communication and marketing, with forming an administrative efficiencies review committee. According the the minutes from the Feb. 8, 2017 support staff senate meeting, the committee’s purpose is to “identify cost saving measures or organizational effectiveness while maintaining quality service for our students, faculty and staff.” Additionally, a document of budget reduction suggestions lists “combine redundant administrative offices and increase efficiencies in all administrative offices” as a means of conserving funds. K-State added three

new administrative positions: chief diversity and inclusion officer, assistant vice president for university risk and compliance and a security and safety information officer, Bontrager said. However, the numbers in budget reports and reports to the regents do not necessarily reflect the number of people who occupy administrative positions, accounting only for the number of positions that are full-time equivalent. “We could have part-time positions,” Bontrager said. “We could have four people in five part-time positions, but when we total that up, it could be two FTE even though there’s four heads.” Bontrager also said some of the budgeted positions account for vacant positions waiting to be filled while some losses may come from the elimination of vacant positions.

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Local rock band releases debut single, ‘Eyes’ PETER LOGANBILL THE COLLEGIAN

In 2016, a group of four longtime friends decided to compete in the OPUS Battle of the Bands, a yearly event put on by the Union Program Council. The band formed after the members had known one another for years playing together in church and just for fun. “We spent a lot of time at the church [back home] practicing music, and a lot of the times we would continue to play long after practice was over,” said drummer Blase Pivovar, junior

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“They would literally go pick up [the patient], throw them in the back of the hearse, run around the front, both people would jump up front and go to the hospital as fast as they could,” Talley said. “What we’re doing now is the same thing in peoples’ living rooms that they’re going to be doing to you in the ER.” Modern EMS equipment allows them to see so much more of what could be going wrong inside the body than ever before. “We’re to the point where, not only can we tell if they’re having a heart attack, but we can tell where at in the heart it is and the highest probability of which artery is affected,” Marstall said. “It speeds up that process light-years compared to what it was 30 years ago.” On the day of the floods over Labor Day weekend in Manhattan, Marstall said the crews were on standby as individuals were being evacuated from their houses. The EMS crews didn’t necessarily aid in the water rescues but were prepared to offer medical treatment as needed. On Saturday, a call took took the crew 30 minutes outside of Manhattan to northwestern Riley County. There are volunteer first responders in the town, but EMS is called out and stays en route

in marketing. “That’s where all four of us started playing together, just messing around.” Although the band did the competition just for fun, they had an unexpected result. “We kind of just showed up and played it as a joke,” said bass guitarist Nate Ward, Kansas City, Missouri, resident. “We had one 15-minute practice before the first Battle of the Bands we played. We ended up doing really well. We won. So, we decided to just keep on writing music together.” Although the band wanted to continue playing together, they had not yet decided on a

until those first responders have triaged the patient. The call was initially code yellow, meaning the patient likely needed to see a physician in 30 minutes, but was updated to code red, which is more urgent. Talley, who goes on calls in an SUV separate from the ambulance, said in these cases, he turns on the sirens and begins driving around 20 mph over the speed limit. “We will get them there as quick as we can,” Talley said. “Depending on [the situation] we might use the sirens on the way to the hospital.” About 20 percent of the calls are outside of the city limits of Manhattan, Talley said. “Most of the time when the patient says something is wrong, something is wrong,” Talley said. William Dunn has been a paramedic for 29 years, having previously served in the military and in law enforcement. He said he likes to sleep in the common room in front of the television and pace around the station while the crew waits for calls. When he was 18 years old, Dunn broke his neck diving off a dock and, though he wasn’t paralyzed, he said it shaped his decision to go into public service. “I knew I was given a second chance, and so I wanted to spend the rest of my life helping people,” Dunn said. “I know what pain is like, and that’s why I enjoy bringing people comfort.” Dunn said one Thanksgiving

name. Lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Kurtis Blunt, Kansas State alumnus, had heard the words “Joy Camp” and was intrigued by the concept. The band defined the term “Joy Camp” as when a group of people gather with intentionality to share life together and for an increase of joy and happiness. Joy camps can take place wherever people experience increases of life, encouragement and laughter. “My word for 2017 was ‘joy,’” Blunt said. “The way that I define joy is it’s an eternal thing, it’s not just a feeling of temporary happiness. It’s an

night, his crew was able to bring back a man who was in cardiac arrest. From that point on, the crew was invited to Thanksgiving supper at his business for many years to follow. “EMS is EMS across the board everywhere you go, but I guess I wish they just knew the conditions that we operate out of,” Dunn said. Station one, which is on Claflin Road, Dunn said is not wellsized for the demands of the facility. There are two bedrooms with multiple bunks in them, a small kitchen space, an office space, the common area, two bathrooms and the garage where supplies and vehicles are kept. At a high point in the day, such as when the game day crew is coming through the building before leaving, there can be more than a dozen individuals crowded into the building. “I’ve worked at four different agencies and this is the only one that has been this way,” Dunn said. Talley said though he had intended to leave EMS to go into a different medical field when he first started close to 20 years ago, the job “trapped” him because he fell in love with how unpredictable it is. On one call, he said, you can be delivering a baby in someone’s living room, and on another you could be dealing with a patient in cardiac arrest. “I think, personally, every call holds some kind of memory in your mind because there’s no two calls ever the same,” Talley said.

everlasting, ongoing feeling of contentment, fulfillment and carrying a lightness about you.” Later that year, Joy Camp started playing shows whenever they could find an opportunity. The band have played in Manhattan, Lawrence and the Kansas City area. Its most notable show was opening for Taylor Phelan, who was on “The Voice,” at the Bottleneck in Lawrence. “There are more bands that we know in Kansas City that we play with,” said lead guitarist Andrew Carnes, junior in business management. “Kurtis has so many different connections, he’s the one that’s gotten most of our shows. We didn’t have any music out and we still were getting shows.” Joy Camp seeks to spread the joy they feel whenever they play. “We’re all pretty spiritual guys and have a personal

Album artwork for Joy Camp’s single, “Eyes.”

faith with Christ and that’s where we would say our joy comes from,” Blunt said. “We wanted to create an atmosphere wherever we went and played that allowed people to have an

increase of joy in their life.”

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K-State soccer falls to TCU, remains winless in Big 12 play NATHAN ENSERRO THE COLLEGIAN

The Texas Christian University women’s soccer team beat Kansas State on Sunday by a score of 2-1 in Manhattan on the Wildcats’ senior day. TCU got the scoring started early when senior forward McKenzie Oliver slid a shot between the post and Wildcat sophomore goalkeeper Emma Malsy from eight yards out in the 23rd minute. This was Oliver’s second goal of the season. The Wildcats were outshot 14-to-one in the first half; that lone shot was a shot on goal that came from senior forward Tatum Wagner in the ninth minute. It was saved by TCU’s sophomore goalkeeper Emily Alvarado. TCU managed to force Malsy into four saves in the first half and nine overall. K-State took a 1-0 deficit into the halftime locker room. In the second half, K-State found a quick equalizing goal in the 47th minute. Senior defender Hali Sutter got her head on a corner kick taken by sophomore forward Hannah Davis and sent it into the back of the net. It was Sutter’s second goal of the year. “It’s always nice to get a goal in the Big 12 level,” head coach Mike Dibbini said to K-State Sports.

For the next 23 minutes, it looked like K-State might eke out a non-loss result for the first time in Big 12 play this season, despite being totally dominated for most of the game by TCU. In the 70th minute however, TCU would get their own setpiece goal. This time, sophomore midfielder Yazmeen Ryan sent a corner in that found the head of sophomore forward Natalee Heiser and went in past Malsy, making the score 2-1 TCU. Ultimately, the Horned Frogs would outshoot K-State 25-4 and put 11 shots on goal to K-State’s feeble three. K-State fell to 4-9-2 on the season and 0-6-0 in conference play. They have not won a game since a 3-0 road romp over Tulsa on Sept. 16. K-State’s home crowd said goodbye to seniors Morgan Egan, Krista Haddock, Megan Kalkofen, Morgan Mauck, Haley Sutter and Tatum Wagner before the match during the senior day ceremony. Those six seniors combined for 15 goals in their time at K-State. “It was extremely special,” Dibbini said. “We honored and celebrated them today. They helped pave the way and set the foundation. I will always have a piece of them in my heart.” The road does not get any easier for K-State, which will

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Crouched down and ready to defend, freshman defender Emily Crain watches as Texas Tech forward Ally Griffin kicks the ball forward. Kansas State went on to lose the game 2-0 on Friday. head to Waco, Texas, to play the Baylor Bears, who won the Big 12 Tournament last season as a five seed.

Baylor is ranked 14th by the United Soccer Coaches poll and sits at 12-4-0 on the year. They are 5-1 in the conference

and 7-0 at home and are tied for first place in the Big 12 with West Virginia. The Wildcats will then

head to Austin, Texas, to take on the Texas Longhorns and then Ames, Iowa, to finish up their season against Iowa State.

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NO. 6 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT NO. 24 MICHIGAN STATE

After a 24-17 loss to No. 4 Notre Dame in the season opener, the Michigan Wolverines have won their last six games, including defeating then-ranked No.15 Wisconsin. The Wolverines offense is led by junior quarterback Shea Patterson, who has thrown for 1,311 yards and 10 touchdowns on 109 completions in the first

seven games. Along with Patterson is senior running back Karan Higdon in the backfield. Higdon has accumulated 687 yards on 120 carries and has also found the end zone six times on his 120 carries. The Spartans’ offense is led by junior quarterback Brian Lewerke, who has thrown for eight touchdowns along with 1,587 yards, although he has thrown seven interceptions. Sophomore running back Connor Heyward has been big for the Spartans’ offense, 191 yards on 50 carries, scoring

three touchdowns. This is a big game for Michigan, as this their second true road game of the season since Notre Dame in week one since they sit in a tie with No. 2 Ohio State University at the top of the Big 10 East. This game will kick off Saturday at 11 a.m. on Fox.

NO. 16 NORTH CAROLINA STATE AT NO. 3 CLEMSON

The two undefeated teams of the ACC Atlantic collide to fight for the top spot. A low-scoring matchup likely as the Wolfpack have lim-

ited their opponents to just 16.8 points per game, and the Tigers have limited their opponents to just 14.5 points per game. Along with a lockdown defense, the Tigers also have a high-powered offense averaging 42.2 points per game. True freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence has lived up to the spotlight in the first six games. Completing 69 of 100 passes for 868 yards, throwing 11 touchdowns. Sophomore running back Travis Etienne has made the Tigers’ offense even more dangerous as he has matched Lawrence’s touchdown with

11, along with 761 yards on 83 carries. Senior quarterback Ryan Finley has led the Wolfpack offense, he has thrown for 1,621 yards and 10 touchdowns on 130 completions. This game will kick off Saturday at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN.

NO. 22 MISSISSIPPI STATE AT NO. 5 LOUISIANA STATE

Two good defenses in Baton Rouge as the Bulldogs have limited opponents to just 12.7 points per game, and the Tigers’ have limited opponents to just

16.9 points per game. For Mississippi State, senior quarterback Nick Fitzgerald has led the team with his arm and his feet. He has thrown for 709 yards and four touchdowns, while also leading the team in rushing yards with 513 yards along with seven rushing touchdowns. For the Tigers’ offense, star senior running back Nick Brossette has had a very successful senior campaign through the first seven games. He has rushed for 640 yards on 134 carries, finding the end zone nine times. This game will kick off Saturday at 6 p.m. on ESPN.

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OPINION: Have a conversation — it might change your perception PETER LOGANBILL THE COLLEGIAN

I am afraid. I believe we are losing our ability to have debate and dialogue. Constant, clear communication is the best method humanity has used to solve its interpersonal conflicts. It’s this or violence or at least some type of force. Forceful solutions only ever sweep the situations under the rug. Countries would rather negotiate than fight a war. Couples would rather talk out an issue than start finding small ways to ruin the other’s life. Or, at least, that’s what it would be like in an ideal world. We hate hearing ideas we don’t want to hear. All of us have experienced this; speech can be so much worse than physical pain. On the other hand, overpowering someone through brute force or action

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Representatives of the university could not immediately be reached for comment Monday. The university has a complicated association with the HeLa cells, which were originally collected without Lacks’ permission or knowledge during a diagnostic procedure in the 1950s. Lacks died from cervical cancer in

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“In my own area, we have eliminated vacant positions because we had to make cuts because we couldn’t afford to hire replacements,” Bontrager said. “Thankfully, we haven’t had to do layoffs yet, but we have had to eliminate accountants, proj-

is empowering. When that’s done, the other can lose his or her capacity to counter. While it may be easier to attempt to shut down your opponent, this method never solves any issues. However, we would often do this rather than hear out the other side. All sides of the political spectrum are guilty of this. Last month, the mayor of Kenner, Louisiana, declared that recreation facilities in the city were not allowed to purchase Nike products in response to the company’s engagement with Colin Kaepernick. In 2016, Canada’s Bill C-16 put into law that, in certain instances, those who identify as transgender must be referred to by their preferred pronouns. Similar bills are starting to emerge in the U.S. Both of these are hard issues that require hours of dialogue. An overarching government policy is not the correct way to go about these issues as they once again just sweep

the problem under the rug. If someone cannot express their thoughts, no conclusion will be reached, but the ideas will still be there. If an argument is never settled through speech, it will only return. Germany was weakened after the first world war, but the Treaty of Versailles settled nothing in their hearts. This is why Hitler so easily rose to power; he appealed to an unresolved issue. Never assume the person you are speaking to has bad intentions. Don’t get me wrong, they very well might, but don’t assume that right from the beginning. We can’t assume we know everything, or that we and our closest friends know everything. Try to make friends with people whose ideas differ greatly from yours. You might learn something if only you listen. Thomas Jefferson said, “To preserve the peace of our fellow citizens, promote their prosperity and happiness, reunite opinion, cultivate a spirit

1951. Johns Hopkins officials contend that when the cells were taken there was no established practice for informing or obtaining consent from cell or tissue donors, nor were there any regulations on the use of cells in research. The National Institutes of Health came to an agreement in 2013 with some of Housing/Real Estate Lacks’ family that required scientists to get permission from the government agency Rent-Apt. Unfurnished to use her genetic blueprint. ect managers within facilities and a variety of different positions.” Deciphering administrative position numbers is further complicated by categorical differences; some positions are budgeted under general use funds while others fall under restricted use funds.

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of candor, moderation, charity and forbearance towards one another are objects calling for the efforts and sacrifices of every good man and patriot.” This type of conversation is so difficult. It’s hard to look at our friends and call them out on a character issue or a hurtful action, much less tell them their religious worldview or political philosophy is all wrong. Jefferson had a different mindset. He said, “I never considered a difference of opinion, in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” The most difficult conversations I have are with my family and closest friends, and yet, if both parties stick to it and want an outcome of peace, it always just brings us closer in the end. When we listen to each other and keep moving forward with honesty, real resolutions can be found. This is a process that has to be finished, and not brought

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to a halt midway. This was the Founding Fathers’ idea behind the First Amendment. Conversation was key to them. They knew free speech could always solve more problems than force, whether it be between individuals or movements. We cannot sacrifice dialogue to our feelings. Some scary ideas are out there that at least deserve our attention. There are some who believe socialism has only ever destroyed countries, and that this ideology is taking route in many young minds. There are some who believe the police force is disproportionately shooting African Americans just because of their skin color. Allow me to go deeper. There are some who believe that when we die we cease to exist completely. There are some who believe that when we die we sit in a pit of hellfire for eternity. All of these would be, or are, horrifying realities. But we will never reach any con-

clusion if we do not talk to one another. This is a university, and the point of a university is to hear new ideas, and test your old ones. What a great place to do it — there is so much diversity of thought here. We might need to hear, digest and accept some brutal ideas. We need to stop being so afraid of offending one another and being offended ourselves. Although this may be painful, it is well worth it. There is truth out there, and an answer to our questions, which can be found through dialogue. Peter Loganbill is a Collegian staff writer and junior in public relations. 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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MACY DAVIS

THE COLLEGIAN

Web comics are my one of my favorite things for many reasons, and I just binged “Stand Still. Stay Silent” this past week. Yes, you can binge read something. I like web comics because they’re convenient. I can read them on my computer and they’re free. Most web comics are serialized, and their creators update on the same day of the week. I like that because I can get on and read one page at a time and follow along with a story. The only hard part is it can take a time to catch up to the current point of the web comic if it is ongoing. “Stand Still. Stay Silent” started in 2013 and its current page count is 974. That’s right, in the last week I read 974 pages of a web comic because I just couldn’t look away from the story that creator Minna Sundberg is telling. “Stand Still. Stay Silent” is the story of a dystopian society where the surviving population of the known world is located in Ireland, with other small settlements in other Nordic countries. It’s been 90 years since the rash illness took hold of the world,

leaving terrifying creatures to inhabit the Silent World, the area outside of safe settlements. Sundberg introduces six main characters who are on an exploration into the Silent World to explore its territory and to collect books and other materials to bring back into society. This band of misfits is quirky, and it’s hard to pick a favorite because they all bring something different to the story. My favorite character is Lalli Hotakainen, a Finnish mage who works as a scout. He experiences feelings of alienation more than anyone else in the comic, and he’s such an expressive character that it was easy to love him. But honestly, I felt the same way about all of the characters. The most masterful part of “Stand Still. Stay Silent” is the world building. Sundberg brings in informational pages to help us understand the lore of the society that exists after the end of the world. Her world includes mages and trolls and assorted other threats that she explains super well. She even builds miniature language lessons into her comics. Many novels and graphic novels don’t have incredibly detailed backgrounds and line art,

but Sundberg luxuriates in the details. I was constantly in awe at just how well-drawn this comic was. If you appreciate art, this comic could definitely be for you. If I could think of flaws of this comic off the top of my head, I would share them with you. But, I’m just so enamored that I can’t come up with any. It’s also difficult for me to critique this story more heavily because Sundberg isn’t done with it yet. She just finished the first adventure of the comic and is getting ready to start the second. I’d love to come back and review this story more completely once the comic is complete. The second adventure of “Stand Still. Stay Silent” is scheduled to start in late October. When it does start, Sundberg will update Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. You can binge “Stand Still. Stay Silent” at www.sssscomic.com. Macy Davis is the assistant culture editor for the Collegian and a senior 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