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Making History File Photo by Tommy Theis | the collegian In his 16 seasons at Oklahoma, Bob Stoops has accumulated an 89-5 record at home. After defeating the Sooners 24-19 two years ago, K-State could become the first team to win in consecutive trips to Norman during Stoops’ tenure.

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Sexton on pace for career high numbers during his senior season

By Austin Earl the collegian Senior wide receiver Curry Sexton is proving that perseverance and intelligence can pay off in college athletics. After coming to K-State in 2011, he is seeing himself get involved in the game plan more each week.

"My physical limitations aren't going to change," Sexton said. "I'm not going to grow, I'm not going to get any faster, I'm not going to be able to jump any higher. But being able to run good routes, find soft spots in the zones and just being smart on the field is the way I've been able to have a decent career."

Sexton's journey began in Abilene, Kansas where his hard work earned him a spot on the field in his first year of high school football. His high school coach Jeff Geist said that his intelligence was immediately evident when he walked in the door freshman year.

Sexton proved just how smart he is on the field to his coach in a junior varsity game.

It was his freshman year and Abilene was trying to milk the clock to earn a victory over Clay Center.

"Curry said 'Coach, they know we're just trying to run the clock out, let me take it around the end, no one will be there'" Geist said. "He just saw that and he knew it. Then he went 90 yards for a touchdown and put the game away. He saw the alignments, he knew where to lineup, and it was just kind of fun to see that."

Sexton continued to play well throughout his high school career and earned allstate honors as a cornerback.

He also helped lead Abilene to two league championships.

As his time in high school began to wind down, Sexton was faced with a crucial life decision. He had the opportunity to pursue a degree from Harvard University and he also had the chance to go to K-State and play football.

"That's one of those tough decisions to walk away from," Geist said. "But the kid had

George Walker | the collegian Senior wide receiver Curry Sexton tries to gain yardage after a catch during the third quarter of the Wildcats’ 20-14 loss to Auburn on Sept. 18 in Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

a dream, and that dream was K-State. I knew no matter where he'd go, he was going to get a great education because he was going to put the time and effort in for it to make it happen for him."

Sexton has made the most of his academic endeavors in Manhattan. He is a three-time first-team Academic All-Big 12 member. Playing a collegiate sport and doing well in the classroom is a tough task, but Sexton gets it done.

"Being in this program, you're really taught time management." Sexton said. "Coach Snyder, at the start of every semester, gives us a sheet that lists the hours of the day from

6 a.m. to 10 at night. He tells us 'fill it out, what are you going to do with this hour? Every hour, what are you doing?' I think that allows me to understand that when I get done with practice, I can't go home and lay on the couch. I have to go home and I have to do my homework."

Sexton has learned a lot in his time at K-State. He gets the unique opportunity to impart that wisdom into his younger brother, Collin, who is a sophomore wide receiver for the Wildcats.

Collin, like his brother, was very successful in high school at Abilene. He earned all-state honors in his junior

and senior years, and broke six school receiving records before graduation.

"It's awesome," Curry said. "It's fun to watch him play. I probably get more excited when he makes a tackle than he does. It's been fun to be out there on the field with him.

I know my parents enjoy the heck out of it."

Curry's play so far this season has been something that all K-State fans can enjoy, not just his parents. His success in college has not come easy, though.

In his freshman and sophomore season, he played in a total of 22 games, but saw limited action. Over his first two

years, Sexton accumulated just 11 receptions for 117 yards and one touchdown.

He went through a two year stretch at K-State without scoring a touchdown. Before scoring twice against Texas Tech this season, his last touchdown catch was on Sept. 8, 2012 when the Wildcats played Miami. In fact, in that one game against Texas Tech, Sexton had more yards and touchdowns than he did through his first two years combined.

The newfound production from Sexton is not something that comes as a surprise to senior quarterback Jake Waters.

Waters said at Big 12 Media Days that he expected

to look to Sexton more often this season when second team all-American Tyler Lockett is covered.

Sexton is on track to blow through his previous season bests. Through five games, he has 28 receptions for 335 yards and two touchdowns. In 13 games last season, he had 39 receptions for 446 yards and no touchdowns.

"People talk about his progress, but he's been a good player since I can remember," head coach Bill Snyder said.

"Sometimes you get your opportunities, sometimes you don't. There's just a couple ballgames that he got more opportunities than otherwise."

Big 12 championship: historic victory resonates for players 11 years later

By Adam Suderman the collegian Stepping onto the turf of Arrowhead Stadium on Dec. 6, 2003 for the Big 12 Championship game was nothing short of destiny in the mind of Andrew Shull.

The former K-State defensive end, who sits at No.

shot at winning a conference championship and it was on our minds from that day forward.”

The Wildcats, who entered the 2003 championship game as the No. 13 team in the country, capitalized and then some.

79,451 witnessed what Shull as well as fellow former defensive end Thomas Houchin and fullback Travis

“The hair on my arms is standing up just talking about it now. It was at a different level, how many times are you going to go up against a team that was touted by the media as one of the best teams in college football history.”

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10 on K-State’s single-season sack list with 10.0, remembers the feeling of first playing at the Chiefs stadium on Aug. 26, 2000 for the Eddie Robinson Classic against Iowa. Realizing the conference championship would be there three years later gave he an “We started there and we wanted to finish there,” Shull said. “We knew we’d have a

Wilson did that night in one of the program’s most memorable victories. For the former Wildcat trio, the victory still tastes as sweet nearly 11 years later.

“Coach Snyder was master at planning and preparing and I don’t think there was a doubt in anyone’s mind that we were going to win that game,” Wilson said. “To be

an underdog and to know that we had the confidence that we did, we were prepared by our coaching staff and we were feeling great going into the game.”

A nationwide perception had developed that Oklahoma was maybe even the best team that had ever taken the field in a college football game. Although very talented, it didn’t sit well with Shull and his teammates at how little their team was talked about heading into the matchup.

“We had the mentality that it was us against the world,” Shull said. “We had to prove ourselves and it really made our team gel. On defense, we felt personally attacked and we wanted to prove that were a great football team.”

Kejuan Jones was just one piece of Oklahoma’s strong stable of running backs that season and he scampered 42 yards to give Oklahoma an early lead less than three minutes into the game.

“We were calm and collected from the beginning,” Shull, who exclaimed that the touchdown was a result of broken coverage, said. “If there is anything I learned from coach Snyder, it doesn’t matter if something bad or good happens, you have to be even-keeled. We knew we

could get back in the game within two seconds and we felt comfortable in our abilities to do so.”

It may not have come within the next two seconds, but the next 57:10 of game action fell heavily in favor of the then-ranked No. 13 Wildcats.

“We were great in offense too,” Wilson said. “Of course we might sputter from time to time, but once we maintained a few stops on defense against them, we knew could go out and do our business on our side of the ball.”

After tying the game from 19 yards out on a pass from former quarterback Ell Roberson to tight end Brian Casey, K-State responded on its very next possession on a 63-yard bomb to wide receiver James Terry.

When Darren Sproles, who is K-State’s career leader in rushing yards with 4,979, scored from 60 yards out on a screen pass for Roberson’s third touchdown pass of the game, it was only a matter of closing the second half as well as the game had started.

“All we wanted to do was get back on the football field, because we knew were fixing to go step on their throat,” Houchin said of the team’s halftime mentality. “That’s what I have to do this day re-

membered the most in just the excitement that we had and how much we wanted to get back on the field.”

The adrenaline of the potential upset fueled Wilson as much in this game as he can remember from his entire K-State career. Even 11 years later, the Howell, Michigan native can feel the rush of knowing what took place on that cold, December evening.

“We were so confident and trusting in our teammates,” Wilson said. “The hair on my arms is standing up just talking about it now. It was at a different level, how many times are you going to go up against a team that was touted by the media as one of the best teams in college football history?”

As time crept by in the third and fourth quarters, Houchin reveled in the knowledge that he and his teammates had reached their goal and achieved the “unthinkable”.

“We had guys like Darren Howard and Mark Simoneau in front of us that we looked up

to and we wanted to build off of that,” Houchin said. “The camaraderie was as much off the field as it was on. We did feel like those were our brothers, those were the guys that we truly lived with. If anybody needed us at any point in time, those were the guys we were going to call. Out on the football field it just showed that much more because of that. We lived that from day one when we showed up to K-State.”

As Snyder and his No. 14 Wildcats prepare to head to Norman for the 2014 rendition of the matchup, they’ll hope to capture some of the magic that occurred on that special night.

Now as an alum and also a fan, Houchin and his senior-season teammates can’t wait to tune in on Saturday morning.

“I have the ultimate respect for what they do and Coach Snyder for what they’ve done in the past and what they’re still doing today,” Houchin said. “I will not miss a second of that game.”

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Toughness over size for No. 20

By Emilio Rivera the collegian dversity isn't something new for senior running back DeMarcus Robinson, as he has been dealing with it since he strapped on cleats for head coach Weston Schartz at Wichita Northwest High School. Since his senior season for the Grizzlies, he has proven that it isn’t his size that defines him, but the size of the fight. "(Robinson) just wanted to win, he didn't care about personal glory, he wanted his teammates to have fun," Schartz said. "He would joke when it was time to joke and he would kick sombody’s butt when it was time to kick somebody’s butt, he knew the right buttons to push with his teammates."

Robinson amassed over 5,000 rushing yards in high school, including 1,720 rushing yards in his senior season.

His performance was enough to garner a first-team class 6A all-state selection, but he didn’t let it define him. Whether it was teachers raving about him in the classroom or expanding his social boundaries within the school, Robinson became a student that Northwest was proud to have.

"He worked very hard, but I always thought that (Robinson) knew there was more to life then just hat football game, because football is important to him but it wasn't the only

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Emily DeShazer | the collegian Senior running back DeMarcus Robinson stays ahead while Stephen F. Austin players chase him on Aug. 30 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

thing," Scharts said. "He valued his friends, his family, but when it was time to work, he worked hard."

In high school, his 5-foot7 frame scared many coaches from taking a chance on the allstate athlete. Luckily for Robinson, there was one coach in particular who wasn't scared away.

He brought back a memories of

a former athlete that garnered plenty of attention in his college days for the Wildcats, while continuing to excel for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2014.

"I knew that (Robinson) was a Division I player, but so many coaches are hung up on size, I was really worried," Schartz said. "When (head) coach (Bill) Snyder came, he

Emily DeShazer | the collegian K-State senior running back DeMarcus Robinson takes the hand off from quarterback Jake Waters on Aug. 30 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

looked at him and said 'I'll take him.' A lot of people passed on him because of his size, and Snyder looked at me and said 'I had one like that before, his name is Darren Sproles,' Snyder took a chance."

Now for the Wildcats, Robinson is getting the chance that he has waited for since joining the team in 2010. When he first joined, he found himself in a competition at running back. It started with K-State’s third-leading rusher in Wildcat history, Daniel Thomas in 2010. Then he played behind John Hubert, who ranks second all-time in Wildcat history in rushing yards.

Because of waiting in those seasons, and the talent he had around him all those years, he developed talent and experience to make his presence known out of the backfield in 2014-15.

"DeMarcus (Robinson) is the most experienced back that we have and he has been very patient with us up to this time," Snyder said before the season. "(DeMarcus) understands our offense, he can execute our offense. Fundamentally, he is

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just do it all and that is huge for us and huge for my confidence when he's back there (in the backfield.)"

It's not his dual-threat ability or his hard hitting attitude that gets the most attention from his teammates and coaches. It is his ability to put the team before himself and to put the success of the team over any and every personal goal.

"He's great, ultimate team player, I don't hear him complain a bit about 'hey I need a carry' or 'get me into the end zone,'" Waters said. "He'll do whatever it takes, if it takes him blocking a defensive end or a guy blitzing for us to throw, he'll do it. I don't ever hear him complaining."

Paying dues is a term that is thrown around for players who have to work to get into the lineup. Through four years, Robinson has had to pay his dues.

"Obviously, being up (at K-State) he's waited his turn,” Schartz said. “He's never cried, complained or moaned and this year he's finally gotten his chance."

Emily DeShazer | the collegian K-State running back DeMarcus Robinson escapes the UTEP defense for a touchdown on Saturday, Sept. 27 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

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A part of this experience for Robinson is being able to contribute to the Wildcats game plan in the passing game.

Coming into Manhattan, Robinson wasn't known as a big dual-threat running back, but rather a hard hitting player that would give up his body to block a defender.

"He always blocked well, because he's tough, but he couldn't catch a cold in high school," Schartz said. "K-State has done a great job (in helping him) and he's done a great job in developing (what he’s learned).

In high school he didn't have the best hands and he knew that was a weakness."

His dual-threat ability has become one of Robinson’s biggest strengths. He has become another option in the passing game for quarterback Jake Waters and in his limited opportunities catching the ball this season, Robinson averages 10.7 yards per catch.

"He is versatile, he can do it all," Waters said. "(DeMarcus) can catch it out of the backfield, run, or block. He can

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Games to watch: two top-15 matchups highlight Big 12 competition

By Tate Steinlage the collegian

@ No. 4 Baylor vs. West Virginia 11 a.m., FOX Sports 1 (Line: Baylor -8) Baylor senior quarterback Bryce Petty was the unanimous pick for preseason offensive player of the year in the Big 12.

However, West Virginia senior signal-caller Clint Trickett looks like a better candidate for the award six games in.

Trickett ranks third nationally with 2,203 passing yards this season. His 12 touchdowns and 68.5 completion percentage comes as no surprise to this Mountaineers team, but for everyone outside of Morgantown, West Virginia it’s been a star-studded showing for a guy who spent time on the bench last year due to injury.

Behind the play of their quarterback, West Virginia has jumped out to a 4-2 start, with losses only to the then No. 2 and No. 4-ranked teams in college football. A comeback victory against Texas Tech last weekend has the Mountaineers trending upward at the right time.

Baylor, too, is coming off a come-from-behind stunner over TCU last weekend, in which the Bears used a fourth-quarter passing frenzy to spoil the Horned Frogs’ party in Waco.

This clash should be a fun one.

@ No. 15 Oklahoma State vs. No. 12 TCU 3 p.m., FOX Sports 1 (Line: TCU -9) Following the game above on FOX Sports 1, Oklahoma State and TCU will do battle in a matchup of two nationally-ranked teams.

TCU lost a heartbreaker over the weekend, while Oklahoma State won on the road, but neither team can feel too good about their respective re-

Parker Robb | the collegian The Oklahoma State Cowboys surge from the tunnel and take to the field before their game against the K-State Wildcats on Oct. 5, 2-13 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

sults. The Horned Frogs blew a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter in their biggest game since joining the conference in 2012.

Oklahoma State struggled on the road in Lawrence against a downtrodden Jayhawks team, pulling out a win late to beat Kansas 27-20.

Junior quarterbacks Daxx Garman for Oklahoma State and Trevone Boykin for TCU have both stepped up to lead their teams to success so far this season. With Saturday looking like a duel through the air, it may come down to defense and turnovers to decide which team remains in the thick of the conference-title hunt.

@ Iowa State vs. Texas 7 p.m., WatchESPN (Line: Texas -12.5) With all this talk about championships and playoff scenarios, it’s easy to forget that some teams are just simply looking for some wins. Such is the case for both Iowa State and Texas.

Iowa State snapped a twogame losing streak last weekend in an unusual out-of-conference game at home against Toledo.

However, the win wasn’t exactly comfortable, as the Cyclones rode the coattails of junior quarterback Sam Richardson and his 351 passing yards to a 37-30 victory.

Texas fell behind to Okla-

homa 31-13 early in the fourth quarter Saturday before scoring 13-unanswered points in a 31-26 loss. The Longhorns will have to hang their hats on that fact if they hope to rebound from a 2-4 start with a win at home against Iowa State in week eight.

@ Kansas vs. Texas Tech 2:30 p.m.

The Red Raiders should be 3-3, coming off a good road win in Morgantown over West Virginia. But alas, Mountaineers quarterback Clint Trickett had other ideas. Kansas should be in the same boat when it comes to record. The Jayhawks nearly took to their goalposts in celebration last weekend, but a 99-yard kickoff return with less than seven minutes to play put that plan on the back burner.

If you’re a fan of struggling football, this game is for you.

(Line: Texas Tech -14) You know things are bad when you let a solid road win slip from your hands late in the fourth quarter. You know things are really bad when you blow a chance to capture your second conference win in three years.

But that’s the reality for Texas Tech and Kansas this season.

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matchup was figured to be a heavy-hitter battle of two top10 teams. However, three losses between the two teams in as many weeks has fans a little less enthusiastic for this one.

Texas A&M enters Saturday on a two-game losing streak, albeit to the No. 1 and No. 3 teams in the country.

Sophomore quarterback Kenny Hill hasn’t quite played to expectations thus far, but he’ll be needed if the Aggies have any chance at knocking off Alabama on the road in a stadium where the Crimson Tide haven’t lost since 2012.

No. 21 Texas A&M vs. No. 7 Alabama 2:30 p.m., CBS (Line: Alabama -12) Just a few weeks ago, this

Q-and-A with senior sports columnist Jenni Carlson of the Oklahoman

By Adam Suderman the collegian Q: Within the last two weeks, Oklahoma’s reputation has shifted from a near playoff lock to one of three or four teams who have a good shot at winning the Big 12. How do you feel head coach Bob Stoops has handled this with the team?

A: Frankly, Oklahoma had so many struggles against TCU that I’m not sure Stoops could focus on the whole change in reputation. He had to worry about why his offensive line was struggling to block and his quarterback was struggling to throw and his defense was struggling to defend the pass.

The warts uncovered in the TCU game have undoubtedly been the focus in the past week, plus that probably helped this team to focus its attention on getting better instead of worrying about the playoff.

Q: Although it wasn’t pretty, winning games like this past Saturday can be huge.

What was the mood like for this team after pulling out a close victory over Texas?

A: The mood after beating

Texas is always upbeat. Now, there was plenty of hand-wringing in the fanbase and the media.

Many of the issues that cost Oklahoma against TCU were still evident against Texas, even though the Sooners beat the Longhorns. So there are still plenty of reasons for concern.

But, for the players and the coaches, they realize that beating Texas is an absolute must. And even though they weren’t always at their best Saturday, they figured out a way to win and that was reason to celebrate.

Q: What has been most impressive in the development of Samaje Perine?

A: The fact that he seems to get stronger as the game goes on has been most impressive to me. Remember, this guy is a true freshman playing running back.

That’s an extremely physically demanding position, but he has managed the physicality plus the learning curve of being a freshman. We heard throughout the summer and preseason that Perine had been impressive in workouts and practice, and yet, I don’t think anyone could’ve imagined he’d be this refined, powerful or effective this early in his career.

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Q: There has always been an interest in Blake Bell in the state of Kansas since he played high school football here. How do you feel he has embraced the change of pace as he progresses toward the end of his career?

A: Would Bell prefer to still be playing quarterback?

If you put truth serum in him, I suspect he’d say yes. But the hallmark of his career has been doing what’s best for the team.

Whether it was running the Belldozer, being the second-team quarterback or moving to tight end, Bell has always done what was needed. And at tight end, he has done well. He is blocking well, catching well and playing well. I’m not sure what this means for his future, but with his willingness to do whatever has been needed during his career – his legacy as a Sooner – is secure.

Q: Simply put, winning in Norman, Oklahoma is no easy task. However, K-State is one of the few to pull it off in recent years. How do you feel that will impact the Sooners as they prepare for Snyder’s crew?

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home a couple years ago? Sure.

But I’m of the opinion that a lot of these guys wake up in a new world every day. They have short memories, so what happened two years ago seems long ago and far away. The thing you can definitely say, though, is the Sooners know that they’re in for a battle. The Wildcats don’t beat themselves, they’re

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Q: Do you have a score prediction for the game? If so, a few sentences detailing that would be great!

A: I’ll go Oklahoma 31, K-State 23. The reason that I’m picking Oklahoma is that we know way more about the

Sooners than the Wildcats.

K-State hasn’t really played anyone good beyond Auburn, and I’m just not convinced that the Wildcats are as good as their ranking. Could K-State win?

Sure. But since we haven’t seen the Wildcats win a road game this big or beat a team this good, I’ll go with the Sooners in a close game.

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Top 5 Big 12 defensive players: TCU’s Dawson takes over No. 1 spot No. 2: Kansas LB Ben Heeney

Austin Earl the collegian No. 1: TCU LB Paul Dawson (Last week: 2) Dawson was not the reason his unit allowed 61 points to Baylor. He was disruptive with two sacks, a pass breakup and a forced fumble. He also had 18 total tackles in the contest.

After Saturday’s performance, he is first in the Big 12 in tackles per game with 11.0 and fourth in tackles for loss with 1.40 per contest.

After facing two top five teams, TCU faces another challenge with No. 15 Oklahoma State. The squad is 25th in the country in points per game (37.2), so Dawson will have a sizable challenge with head coach Mike Gundy’s offensive units.

(Last week: 3) Heeney’s team lost on Saturday, but he had a monster game with 14 total tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and a sack.

The Jayhawks allowed just 3.1 yards per carry, which slowed down Oklahoma State’s prolific offense.

Heeney leads the Big 12 in total tackles and tackles for loss.

His relentless pursuit of the ball makes him a humongous asset for the Kansas defense.

Kansas will face Texas Tech on Saturday and because of Heeney and his presence in the front seven, the Red Raiders will be forced to do most of their offensive work through the air, so Heeney will be forced to make his presence in a different way.

No. 3: Baylor DE Shawn Oakman (Last week: unranked) Oakman earned a spot in the power rankings this week because of his play earlier in the season. He had a nice day on Saturday, which added to an impressive list of games for him so far in 2014. He had seven tackles and one tackle for loss in his team’s wild victory against TCU.

He also recovered a fumble.

Oakman has been very disruptive in the backfield throughout the season. He ranks second in the Big 12 in sacks per game, as well as fifth in tackles for loss per game.

The junior pass rusher must get to the quarterback this week when his team faces West Virginia. The Mountaineers earn the seventh most yards per game through the air, so Oakman’s pass rush will be vital for his unit’s success.

No. 4: Oklahoma CB Zack Sanchez (Last week: unranked) Sanchez’s season has been all about creating havoc in the secondary. He has intercepted a pass in each of the Sooners’ victories this season.

Last week against Texas, Sanchez turned his interception into a 43-yard touchdown. His five takeaways this season are the most in the Big 12. He has broken up three additional passes, which brings his total of passes defended to eight. That is tied for the third best in the Big 12.

The Sooner’s opponent this week is K-State. A lot of the pressure for the defense to play well falls on Sanchez’s shoulders. If Sanchez can disturb the Wildcats’ offense, Oklahoma has a good chance of earning a victory.

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Big 12 sports editor picks The campus sports editors of the conference release the week 8 edition of their power rankings

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4. K-State, 81.4 ypg

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2003, 108.8 ypg

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1999, 111.0 ypg

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9. Boston College, 99.8 ypg

2012, 126.8 ypg

10. Stanford, 99.8 ypg

Top 5 Big 12 offensive players: West Virginia’s White makes his debut Waters is the most mobile quarterback in the Big 12. TCU’s Trevone Boykin comes in a close second, however. Even with the strength of his legs, Waters’ ability to step back and throw is one of the conference’s best. Overall, his ability to create yardage in both offensive platforms is an extremely valuable asset.

Waters leads his team and ranks eighth in the league in rushing yards per game, averaging 64 yards on the ground. Add in Waters’ ability to get out of the pocket and find an open target and you have as well-rounded of a quarterback as you’re going to find.

No. 5: Texas DT Malcolm Brown (Last week: 1) After starting the season strong, Brown has had pedestrian numbers in in his past two games. He has not had a sack or a tackle for loss since the Longhorn’s matchup against Kansas.

Brown is still a force in the middle of the field. It is difficult for defensive tackles to accumulate many stats because it’s easy to double team them with a center and a guard. Brown’s ability to command double teams frees up his teammates to make plays.

That’s why Texas is tied for the conference lead in sacks.

Brown could start making plays for himself again on Saturday against Iowa State. The Cyclones offense has not been good, so look for Brown to have a big day.

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Emilio Rivera the collegian No. 1: Baylor QB Bryce Petty (Last week: 1) After a hard test against an upset-minded Texas team two weeks ago, Petty silenced his critics and threw for 510 yards and six touchdowns against a TCU defense that was being hailed as one of the best defenses in the Big 12 and in the country.

He stands as the lead of Baylor’s potent offense that ranks first in every – yes every – offensive team statistic in the Big 12. He carries an impressive 17-2 record as the starter for the fourth-ranked Bears. The bad news for the Big 12 is that with his back coming closer to full strength, Petty’s arm will keep his team in the hunt for a potential national championship playoff berth.

No. 2: West Virginia QB Clint Trickett (Last week: 4) Consistency has been Trickett’s greatest asset in 2014-15. While he doesn’t strike much respect out of the media for being in the category of Petty and Knight, he has proven that he is a legitimate threat to any defense.

Behind an average of 367.2 passing yards per game, Trickett tops the list in the Big 12 for that statistical category. Many assumed that once the Big 12 season was in full swing, his passing numbers would have dropped off. While he hasn’t responded with another 500-yard game like he showed against Maryland, he has yet to drop below the 300-yard mark in a game this season.

No. 4: Oklahoma QB Trevor Knight (Last week: 3) Simply put, the sophomore standout has once again slipped into the “pressure zone” that comes with playing for Bob Stoops and Oklahoma. Keeping the Sooners out of the loss column against Texas has aided his standing within our rankings. He has been criticized recently for his play when the stress gets turned on and that criticism is more than valid. He is significantly worse on third downs than on any other down, only completing 44.2 percent of his passes and throwing three interceptions.

Against the Longhorns, the Oklahoma offense struggled mightily on third down, converting only one of 11 attempts. However, a key conversion on the final drive of the game sealed the victory for Knight and company.

No. 5: West Virginia WR Kevin White (Last week: unranked) In an often overlooked offense, White has become a standout next to his senior signal-caller Clint Trickett. He has a six-game streak of 100-plus receiving yards and has become his quarterback’s favorite target.

Already racking up 888 receiving yards, White is on top of the nation’s rankings in both receiving yards and yards per game. The senior wide receiver is a deep threat for any secondary he faces and can cause significant mismatches with his tall, physical frame. He will have his chance to prove how good he really is this weekend against one of the Big 12’s best defenses as Baylor steps into Morgantown, West Virginia.

No. 3: K-State QB Jake Waters (Last week: 2) In a league full of the pro-style, pass-first quarterbacks, you could make an argument that

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Junior wide receiver Sterling Shepard’s total receiving yards through six games

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K-State fans often boast about their star-studded senior wide receiver, Tyler Lockett. Sooner fans do the same, only for Sterling Shepard.

The Oklahoma junior is off to a hot start, averaging 119 yards a game. Shepard may only have four touchdowns, but that’s hardly alarming when he’s coming up big in big-time games — his 215 yards against TCU being one example.

Unfortunately for Oklahoma, Shepard has been about it when it comes to receiving. The next four receivers combine for just 651 receiving yards and two touchdowns. So far Shepard has done well with the bullseye on his back, but defenses will find a way to slow him down at some point this season. This has everyone in Norman asking: Who will step up then?

Through five games, K-State has faced the No. 14-ranked rushing offense and the No. 15-ranked leading rusher in the country (who was ranked fourth prior to facing K-State). Yet, the Wildcats are only giving up — what seems like — a microscopic average of 81.4 yards per game. That’s good for fourth-best in FBS, in case you weren’t aware.

To say this K-State defense is good at stopping the run would be an understatement. It’s downright dominating. Auburn was held to their worst rushing total since head coach Gus Malzahn took over the program prior to last season. Stephen F. Austin, UTEP and Texas Tech rushed for 69, 59 and 46 yards, respectively.

As the last entry shows, if you can stop Oklahoma’s running game, there’s a good chance you’ll still be in the game in the fourth quarter with a chance for glory. That may be all K-State needs to pull out a big road win.

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Bob Stoops’ home win total in 16 seasons at Oklahoma Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma has been a deathtrap for opposing teams for nearly two decades under head coach Bob Stoops. In fact, you can count on one hand the times Oklahoma has lost at home since 1999, Stoops’ first year.

At just over 82,000 seats, Memorial Stadium is big enough to intimidate and small enough to make opposing teams feel like the crowd is breathing down their necks. That’s why when K-State pulled off a major upset in 2012 over the then-sixth-ranked Sooners, so many around the country began to call the Wildcats National Title contenders.

Turnovers played a major part in that 24-19 K-State win two years ago, and will likely be a deciding factor Saturday in front of another packed house.

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Oklahoma’s average rushing yards in their last two games Oklahoma’s typical two-pronged offensive attack has been limited in their last two games due to their inability to consistently run the ball. The Sooners racked up a mere 103 yards on the ground last weekend against Texas, 30 of which came on one run by a wide receiver.

A week prior, Oklahoma rushed for 151 yards in a 37-33 road loss against TCU. With a first-year back running behind a laboring offensive line, it’s no surprise the Sooners have stumbled out of the gate in conference play, especially against two of the conference’s best defenses. K-State has shown the ability to stop the run this season, so expect Saturday to be “gut-check time” for the Oklahoma rushing attack.

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Midterms foreshadow success, failures

By Kaleigh Lorenz the collegian Midterms are meant to evaluate students on the information they’ve learned by the midpoint of the semester. Its distribution is a beacon of hope that the end is in sight for some. For others, however, it triggers the realization that they should be paying more attention in class.

The weight midterms carry, however, varies on how professors utilize it.

“Midterms are different in every class,” Noah Parsons, junior in wildlife and outdoor enterprise management, said. “Some classes only have a midterm and a final to make up the entire grade, that makes the midterms in those classes a lot more important than just another test.”

Haylee Wiggins, sophomore in elementary education, said she has had to pull several all-nighters to be prepared for her midterms this semester.

“I always seem to wait until the last couple of days to start studying,” Wiggins said. “Doing that probably hurts my grade, but I am just a procrastinator.”

Some students, like Wiggins, wait until the last minute to cram all of their studying in. Other students take a different approach, though, and prepare themselves for their midterms.

“During lectures, I do my best to take detailed notes that illustrate what we are learning,” Parsons said. “Then, when midterms come around, I have a solid amount of notes to study. Teachers spend all semester teaching what

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By Adam Suderman the collegian When stepping into Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas on Oct. 13, 1973, all Robert Lipson could prove was that he was there to see the Sunflower State rivals hook up in their Big Eight openers.

Now, 41 years later, the super fan

carries a streak of attending 161-straight road conference games that began on that second Saturday of the month.

For the Sullivan County, New York native, coming to Manhattan, Kansas was a road to a potential career in biology with an emphasis in protozoology and virology, which were two of his biggest interests at the time.

Though an academic career didn’t seem to fit for Lipson, his interest in K-State football still stands unparalleled

to this day.

Other than Bill Snyder, four coaches have stepped to the forefront of the Wildcats’ program since Lipson first attended games. When he first began his attendance stretch, Vince Gibson was in the midst of his seventh year in Manhattan and Lipson is the first to admit that K-State was the lowest of lows in the college football world.

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Student groups, alongside organizations who occupy the K-State Student Union, met with the architects from Bowman Bowman Novick, Inc. and Workshop Architects Inc. Thursday to discuss the coming renovation.

Workshop Architects described itself as a 20-person “boutique” firm based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jan van den Kieboom, owner of Workshop, led the discussion.

“Our real interest is in social ergonomics, or how space impacts socialization patterns, and it’s driven us towards a practice that’s heavily involved in student centers,” van den Kieboom said.

Workshop is interested in creating a more experiential path, in order to keep students in the Union instead of having them just pass through. Another priority of the firm is making the building more visually permeable, so that people can see what’s going on inside and outside the Union.

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An analysis of the Union’s facilities was completed by Bowman Bowman Novick’s team. The facility-condition assessment determined that the building’s mechanical systems,

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SwiftKey keyboard application: a swipe in the right direction, intuitive

Brian Hampel the collegian When my Verizon provider told me that keyboard phones had gone out of style, I was distraught until SwiftKey keyboard app came to my rescue. The default Google Keyboard was frustrating to me. I use punctuation when I text (don’t judge me) and Google Keyboard’s punctuation interface was clunky and inconvenient. I also couldn’t use it at all with one hand or finger. Typing coherent texts required both hands and my full attention. After a few days of not texting my girlfriend because it was too much trouble, I searched around for something more usable – SwiftKey was the answer.

I tried all of the major keyboard apps, and most of them had some fatal

quirk. Swype had the great Swype-typing feature that worked wonderfully for typing one-handed, but it, too, had a difficult relationship with its punctuation marks. Minuum, as its name would suggest, had a minimalistic interface that could condense the three letter rows of a keyboard into a single small row at the bottom of the touchscreen, but in doing so, it relied heavily on autocorrection and autocorrection has trouble with unusual words. If I wanted tell a friend that I had just played an epic game of Settlers of Catan, fixing the word “Catan” was more trouble than it was worth. Kii Keyboard was great and tremendously customizable, but its punctuation bar never knew which sign I was trying to tap and the punctuation layout on the keyboard wasn’t always intuitive to me.

SwiftKey doesn’t have everything, but it comes close.

Like some keyboards, SwiftKey has a useful system for punctuation and special characters. Each letter on the keyboard has a symbol associated with it (e.g. K and L are also home to left and right parentheses respectively), and you can type the symbol by

Google Play Store simply holding down the letter instead of tapping it. SwiftKey also has an option to set the length of time to trigger the symbol, and I find the default 450 milliseconds to be comfortable.

Unlike some keyboards, SwiftKey’s symbol layout makes intuitive sense. Frequently used symbols like the apostrophe, quotation marks

and dollar sign are grouped together. Minus, plus and equal signs are all next to each other on the G, H and J keys.

Left and right parentheses are next to each other, as are left and right brackets. These seem obvious, but it’s surprising how many keyboards can miss the mark on their symbol layouts.

SwiftKey was the most

intuitive of the bunch to my mind, but that’s not to say it’s perfect. Not everything can be customized. For example, the symbol layout, sensible though it is, can’t be changed, even though I’d like to move the underscore. SwiftKey will always make a space after a punctuation mark or an auto-completed word, even if I don’t want it to. The punctuation shortcut in the bottom right cannot be customized, so it will have a period, comma, question mark, exclamation point and nothing else. I want to add parentheses and colons, both for complex sentences and for making smileys, but no such luck. The special character system works well, but that little bit of customization would have been nice.

SwiftKey’s developers like to tout its word prediction system, calling it “the keyboard that learns from you” because it can make educated guesses as to what I’ll be typing next based on how I have written in the past. It can also look through Facebook and Gmail to improve its guesses, though I never allowed it to.

The smart predictions aren’t inaccurate, but I don’t use them often. SwiftKey displays

three possible predictions for the word I’m going to type next, and even if one of them is right, looking at the three predictions and tapping the correct one usually takes more time than just typing the word manually.

It’s Swype-style gesture typing, called SwiftKey Flow, is very usable, though I still prefer pecking letters in most cases. Flow almost always knows what I’m trying to type when I’m being lazy (even the unusual words like “Carcassonne”), which might actually be a good example of SwiftKey’s ability to “learn from you.”

SwiftKey is well supported by its development team, but I wish they would put more effort into the little customizations instead of the smart prediction system I hardly ever use. Still, SwiftKey’s punctuation layout, gesture typing, the existing customizations and even its graphic design make it the best Android keyboard on the market.

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Sampling: musical version of plagiarism, digital piracy

Patrick White the collegian The music industry has made a big deal of digital piracy being a crime since the dawn of the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America shared a study by the Institute for Policy Innovation, which put the losses from piracy at over $12 billion annually, with more than 70,000 behind-the-scenes workers losing their jobs.

The RIAA also pointed out that music sales shrank to half its size since 1999 when Napster was launched, from $14.6 billion to about $7 billion last year.

Much like piracy is hurting the music industry, another kind of theft is going on.

As piracy continues to plague the music industry, another culprit has emerged disguised under the blasé name of “sampling.” This is where a new song is composed of bits of other songs – often popular songs.

A famous example of sampling is when rapper Vanilla Ice sampled Queen’s “Under Pressure” back in the ‘90s to create “Ice Ice Baby.”

Sampling is the musical version of plagiarism, where the parts that sound good get taken by those who don’t want to do the work to be original or respectful. And since the music industry on the whole seems to be very okay with the practice, it

sounds like a very hypocritical stance to have while blaring the horn on piracy.

Sir Mix-A-Lot said to Billboard that he really likes what Nicki Minaj did with his song “Baby Got Back” when she remixed it to create “Anaconda.” Marvin Gaye’s family has been less than thrilled with Robin Thicke’s use of a “Got to Give It Up” riff in “Blurred Lines,” so much so that Marvin Gaye’s estate has been embroiled in a lawsuit with Thicke for over the past year.

We, as consumers, can see this go on, just as it happened before with Vanilla Ice sampled Queen, and with MC Hammer and others before them. There is even a website, called WhoSampled, which uses crowdsourcing via user submissions to track the practice as much as possible.

It’s understandably

confusing, since we’re c told that one form of stealing is wrong by the same industry that engages in i another. The argument of o “sampling harms no one” works as well as when o pirates use it as their catch p phrase, nor does saying it’s p free publicity. f Why does it not work?

The generation gap. w Thicke’s fans weren’t alive T when Gaye’s work was w popular.

Unless Thicke spep cifically said his new song c was w inspired by Gaye’s song, no one would know unless a very attentive DJ u or o listener pointed it out.

While we can use Google W to t prevent plagiarism, it takes a familiar ear to hear t sampling.

When it happens, nobody knows because n of o the musical divide between generations. b This isn’t exposing the T past p to the young folk in a constructive way though c – it’s more akin to robbing musicians blind by reselling i their songs to people who haven’t heard them before. And h it doesn’t need to be years past; it could be a popular musician taking songs from lesser known musicians. If you are a fan of the oldies, you might have noticed how similar Chuck Berry’s

Forbes, from the F original artist o before he goes b onto make o something like “Handy,” l his h parody of Iggy Azaela’s I “Fancy.” “ Also, sampling isn’t a cover.

A cover c is i a wholesale reproduction of r the t original. In both of those b cases, everyone c knows that this k is i a homage paid to the p original artist. o Nobody thinks N that Korn was t the t original composer of c “Another Brick “ in i the Wall” – it i was Pink Floyd.Those F who w don’t ask for f permission before repurb posing part or p all a of a song under the guise u of o sampling are a flat out stealing. By not calling it what c it i is, the music industry is i making it hard m for f people to care one way or c the t other.

“Johnny B. Goode” sounds to the Beach Boys song “Fun Fun Fun.” If you don’t, you might recognize Chuck Berry as the artist Marty McFly stole his hit from when he went back in time and invented rock music. The joke from “Back to the Future” was that here is another guy that was made famous from Berry’s work.

Sampling is a straight ripoff, unlike parodies. Weird Al’s parodies are protected under the doctrine of fair use. But that really isn’t a problem since he asks for permission, like he told

The views a opinions and expressed in this ccolumn are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of The Collegian.

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Vehicles can be a beneficial asset on campus if managed responsibly

Chloe Creager the collegian A 2008 study conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute indicated that the amount of young licensed drivers has been decreasing steadily over the past 25 years.

Two years later, a follow-up of the study showed the trend remained consistent; the amount of 19-year-olds with a driver’s license dropped from 87 percent in 1983 to around 70 percent in 2010.

Despite this drop, it is more important now than ever for students to have access to a vehicle or easily accessible transportation.

There are many benefits

to owning your own vehicle, if you can afford one.

More than 7,500 K-State students are from out of state, and without a car these students would be stranded in a unfamiliar city, completely reliant on others for transportation.

Another positive aspect of car ownership is being free to travel whenever you need or want. If a student has a job more than a couple miles away from campus,

needs for travel nonschool related activities, or needs to get back home in case of some sort of emergency, having a car can be extremely important.

With this freedom,

however, comes a large list of responsibilities.

There are several things to consider before bringing your vehicle with you to college. According to CollegeView, students need to be aware of their

K-State Parking Services.

According to CollegeView, you also need to ensure that your driver’s license and car insurance are up to date. It also recommends ensuring all

sells more permits than there are students, finding a parking spot can be a rarity.

Bringing a car to campus isn’t students’ only option, however. Riding a bicycle, motorcycle or moped mop are some possible alternatives.

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school’s parking policy and other restrictions.

K-State’s parking policy allows any student to bring a vehicle to campus if they wish; however, parking on campus is a costly venture.

Annual parking permits range from $170 for a student parking pass to $610 for a reserved stall in the parking garage to $1,300 for a 24-hour reserved stall on campus, according to

car maintenance is taken care of before arriving on campus, always keeping your vehicle locked and leaving no valuables in it, and knowing your policy on loaning your car to others or driving them around.

It’s also helpful to have an awareness of campus traffic. Attempting to drive between classes is a guaranteed hassle, and as K-State

ideal for a student who needs to travel outside of Manhattan, it can be more convenient for those who simply need transportation within city limits.

K-State also offers shuttle transportation with the Park ‘n’ Ride Area

Transportation Agency and Jardine ATA bus routes.

Although these operate on a set schedule and primarily transport students around campus, ATA bus routes are a valuable resource.

Students could also use one of many local taxi services for transportation across the entire town, although these can get costly very quickly.

Having a vehicle on campus can be a valuable asset to a college student, if they know how to handle it.

There are many risks, costs and a responsibilities associated with owning a o car c or truck, t but b in many m ways the t benefits will outweigh these.

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.

Chloe Creager is a freshman in agricultural communication and journalism. Please send comments to opinion@ kstatecollegian.com.

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Q: “What are you dreading most about winter?”

Tasha Barker freshman open option “The weather because I do not like the cold and I don’t want to break out my coveralls.”

Caroline Toler senior family studies and human services

Sierra Melendez sophomore fish and wildlife management

Justin Edwards junior kinesiology

Valley Scharping sophomore construction sci.

“The fact that I’m going to have to walk to class in the snow, not a fan of that.”

“I love winter, I’m dreading nothing about it; I love everything about it! It makes campus look beautiful, and I love wearing winter clothes.”

“I don’t like the cold. I’m from Canada so I’m used to the cold but coming here I’ve gotten used to the warmth. I just don’t like the cold because I have to walk in it.”

“I’m not looking forward to seasonal depression, not being able to go outside, and a lack of being able to tan my chiseled body.”

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K-State awaits showdown with undefeated Texas

By Timothy Everson the collegian On the heels of a four-game winning streak, No. 25 K-State (17-2, 4-1) volleyball will face easily their biggest test of the season as they welcome Texas (13-0, 5-0) on Saturday.

K-State is coming off of a clean sweep of TCU in Fort Worth, Texas on Wednesday, while Texas brings a resume that includes a sweep of Arizona, who gave the Wildcats one of their two losses earlier in the season.

First serve for K-State and Texas is at 7 p.m. on Saturday at Ahearn Fieldhouse.

Simply put, the Longhorns have dominated the series both in Austin and in Manhattan with K-State last getting a win against them in 2003.

So far, K-State has found success on the wings of great defense and steady, while not always efficient, offense.

K-State ranks first in the Big 12 in total blocks and has two players in the top five, senior middle blocker Natali Jones at first and sophomore middle blocker Katie Reininger at second.

Reininger was also recently named the Big 12 offensive player of the week for her games against TCU and Iowa State.

Arguably the greatest one-two punch in the Big 12 has started to throw more punches.

Freshman outside hitter Kylee Zumach has torn through the season, ranking third in the conference with 252 kills. Following close behind her, sophomore outside hitter Brooke Sassin continues to be a force to be reckoned with ranking eighth with 216 kills.

K-State middle blockers, Jones, Reininger

and senior outside hitter Chelsea Keating have been able to put up some key points and at times have been dominant.

Keating’s serving has been on point so far this season with 24 total aces putting her at fourth best in the Big 12.

Libero Kersten Kober has also been a key asset for the Wildcats this season with her ability to sacrifice her body in attempt to keep plays alive. The sophomore ranks fourth in the conference with 267 digs on the season.

Sophomore setter Katie Brand, who was the defending Big 12 defensive player of the week, ranks third in the Big 12 in both total assists and assists per set with 780 and 11.14, respectively.

Texas has been the most efficient team on both sides of the ball in the Big 12 this season as it ranks first in hitting percentage, hitting percentage allowed and blocks.

They are last in both total kills and kills per set, but they have also played the least amount of sets this season.

The Longhorns are led offensively by sophomore middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu, who leads the Big 12 in hitting efficiency with .410 percent. Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman leads the Longhorns in kills with 117.

Defensively, junior middle blocker Molly McCage leads her team and is ranked second in the Big 12 in blocks per set. Ogbogu is also ninth in the Big 12 with 53 blocks.

Emily Deshazer | The Collegian Senior middle blocker Natali Jones serves to Iowa State on Oct. 8 in Ahearn Fieldhouse. The Wildcats will take on the Texas Longhorns today in Ahearn in a top 25 match up.

Cross country prepares for largest meet of season

By Emilio Rivera the collegian

Taylor Alderman | the collegian Morgan Wedekind, sophomore runs during a morning cross country practice on Sept.

10.

After performing well at the Chili Pepper Festival in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the K-State cross country teams are preparing to take part in one of the largest cross country meets of the year: the Pre-National Invitational.

In the annual event, teams from around the country get to see the course that will play host to the national championships in little over a month. The La Vern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course, which has hosted 10 of the last 12 national championship meets, will host 168 teams for Saturday morning and afternoon competition in Vigo County, Indiana.

The Wildcats will see their fiercest competition of the year. The women, participating in the more advanced blue race, will take on six of

the top 25 cross country teams in the nation, including three of the top five programs.

The women’s team is coming off of a race against No. 5 Arkansas and K-State head coach Ryun Godfrey, who will be heading into his second competition at the helm of the team, learned a lot from the experience of taking on the best the nation has to offer.

“For Arkansas, this is the best team that they’ve ever had,” Godfrey said. “It was good to see Arkansas (last meet). It is kind of like taking steps with each meet, because this will be a great meet to run at (as well).”

While the last race proved that the Wildcats top five might be the best all around team that they’ve had in a while, it also measured the amount of improvement of senior runner Erika Schiller.

In her first race of the season, Schiller finished 35th and helped add much-need-

ed depth to the Wildcats’ top five.

“I was impressed with Erika because she hadn’t been racing, so she kind of just fit right in there with the top four girls,” Godfrey said.

“We just have to try close the gap between fifth and our top four.”

Schiller’s teammates also found it positive that their teammate picked up where she left off last season.

“For her first race, it was pretty good,” Wedekind said.

“We definitely need her racing, because she helps out our team a lot.”

The Wildcats hope that their top five runners, bolstered by the experience of senior Laura Galvan and sophomore Morgan Wedekind, can manage to run with the front group in the very competitive blue group.

“There is going to be a lot of ranked teams (at this meet),” Wedekind said.

“We’re all going to work our hardest and compete.”

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LIPSON | Superfan to

exceed 100,000 traveled miles for away games a year,” Lipson said. “I’ll start a new one for basketball, but I have enough to keep me through this decade and into the next. I’ll probably have to make some by myself out of cardboard or whatever when I run out. I’ll have to look for them at K-State’s Super Store if they have them there or the Cat Claw or something like that.”

Lipson didn’t specifically mention how the door to the Vanier Football Complex opened for his increased exposure to the team, but he’s grateful for the trend that began in the late 1970s.

“When Jim Dickey was here, I would go to practices; I was unemployed and drawing (workers) compensation,” Lipson said. “I’d come to (Vanier) and watch practice and attend team meetings and know the players and coaches really well.

I did some of that with Stan Parrish and it carried over into Bill Snyder. I guess he knew who I was at the time and let me hang around here.”

Hunger for K-State football isn’t all that brings Lipson to the complex. He also serves as a salesman for Brown & Bigelow, a local distributor of pens, calendars and office supplies.

Outside of his business ventures, Lipson carries close ties with the equipment department for the team. In fact, he’ll often assist with the loading and unloading of the game equipment for home and away games.

Traveling in his own car, Lipson often finds his own way to and from each road contest,

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 “When Stan Parrish was the coach here, and even Jim Dickey before him, the only two games that I bought tickets for were Kansas and Nebraska,” Lipson said. “They always sold out. Nebraska traveled and filled up our stadium and the Kansas game sold out because it was a big deal even when both teams sucked.”

When he first attended games as a student, he was without his, now customary, purple foam finger, but a tradition that led to the modern versions of Lipson’s gadgets began with a homemade creation. this is an image “When I was a student I would always buy the (K-State) pennant,” Lipson said. “I’d tie them to a stick and bring them to games. But when (they) came out with foam fingers, I purchased those. When Ballard’s Sporting Goods was still operating, Steve Ballard used to order foam hands for me and I’d ask for overrun samples. So I have a supply. I have to have something in my hands when I go to games and this identifies me in some way. I always carry it around when I’m at bowl games, tournaments, road games and home games.”

Not known to be the most durable of fan necessities, foam fingers have a rather short lifespan. However, with demand comes supply, and Lipson is armed and ready with extras for the present and future.

“I use about one of them

Nov. 15, 2003 - K-State defeats Nebraska 38-9 on the road for the fist time since the 50s.

Hannah Hunsinger | the collegian Robert Lipson talks with Auburn fans before the game on Sept. 18 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

while spending the night in his vehicle as well.

“I always leave in advance,” Lipson said. “I help (football equipment manager) Al (Cerbe) unload and set the equipment truck and set up the locker room. I help out on Fridays before most road games that I attend.”

The lone exception to Lipson’s plans comes when the Wildcats make their trip to Lawrence once every other year.

The salesman conducts business in Lawrence and Topeka as he works his way to Memorial Stadium for the game.

For the die-hard K-State fan, being a part of the process

that helps “set the table” for a road game is just as exciting as when he first stepped alongside the equipment staff. “(They) pull in that great big equipment truck and I wave at them all excited,” Lipson said, imitating his wave with his famous foam finger in hand.

One unique story of Lipson’s travels began when he waved goodbye to Jack Hartman’s basketball team in 1981 as they headed to Columbia, Missouri and he was there when they arrived.

“I took off right after the team bus left and I waved them goodbye and told them good luck and then I hitchhiked to

Lipson’s Notable Travels

Lincoln, Nebraska

Sept. 29, 2012 - No. 15 K-State upsets and defeats No. 6 Oklahoma 36-35 for the first time in Norman since Bob Stoops took over.

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Columbia on the Friday before,” Lipson said. “I got there before the team did, because kids pick up kids and they like to go fast.

We’re going 80 miles per-hour on the interstate and we got there before the team bus did.”

Conveniently enough, he ran into Hartman prior to the team’s departure for Manhattan after the game.

“I told him (Jack Hartman) that my car broke down and he asked me where my car was, which was in Manhattan,” Lipson said. “He said, ‘Get on, get on.’”

To say the program was in dark times prior to Snyder’s arrival is an understatement. Once William the Conqueror (as Lipson has personally labeled Snyder) took over, the direction of K-State football turned from the cellar to the heavens.

“What you have to remember (is) Kansas State football was in worse shape than the Kansas Jayhawks are right now and ever will be,” Lipson said.

“Nobody thought he’d get it done. This is just another guy who’s going to come in here and go. This was a graveyard for coaching. He had such a gentle, easy-going and placid demeanor. He wasn’t one of these rough-tough mentalities and image of toughness that most coaches and players had.”

Lipson’s relationship with Snyder has been well documented and lead to a perspective of the program that few can compare with.

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ball program,” Lipson said. “I did that (by) looking around and coming inside a lot, being with the teams, observing and noticing the difference between good coaches and bad coaches.

I learned a lot of things and I’m still learning.”

As any dedicated fan would say, Lipson still dreams of what it would be like to see a national championship trophy in the Little Apple. Once it happens, it’ll be unlike anything he has seen over the last 41 years.

“All I ask for is to win the national championship just once in my lifetime, either in football or men’s basketball,” Lipson said. “Once I accomplish that, I’ll be satisfied. I don’t need to win another one. I’ll go to the games and I’ll feel like my destiny has been fulfilled. It’ll be much easier to do so.”

The process hasn’t always been smooth for Lipson. Working to become more financially stable, he contemplated his approach to his streak in 1993.

“I had to keep it going,” Lipson said of the strenuous times. “If I missed a road game, then I would have thrown away four decades of my life. I couldn’t do that.”

Lipson’s infamous streak will be stretched to 162 consecutive road conference games after Saturday’s 11 a.m. game at No. 11 Oklahoma. By the end of the year he will tally more than 100,000 miles, stemming from total ground covered in between trips from Manhattan to stadiums in other Big Eight/12 communities.

As the Wildcats sit at 4-1 on the season, obviously a full season’s evaluation has yet to be made. However, Lipson has his sights set on Jan. 12 when the national championship game will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

“The Wildcats will be in Jerry’s World on Jan. 12 playing a football game, so that when it actually happens I’ll have egg on my face and it’ll certainly taste delicious,” Lipson said.

“I look forward to seeing you there.”

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014

State, local talking points

By Shelton Burch the collegian Students advised to be more careful picking health insurance According to Roberta Riportella, professor of community health, students do not spend as much time as they should when picking out health insurance.

“According to a recent consumer report, people spend about 15 minutes choosing a health insurance plan, which is significantly less than the two hours spent on average choosing a television,” Riportella said in a K-State news release Thursday. “Health insurance is one of the most expensive items we purchase in a given year. Since policies often change from year to year, it’s important to spend time considering your options.”

In the article, Riportella explains how from year-to-year, insurance networks change, meaning a doctor who took a certain type of insurance one year may not. According to Riportella, this has been that way since before the current health care laws to effect. Those shopping for insurance should mainly be concerned with three things: the deductible, the network of providers and the cost-sharing amount.

Two patients removed from isolation at Topeka Hospital Two patients are out of isolation at Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka, according to the Topeka Capital Journal.

The two had been isolated after telling medical personnel that they had been to countries currently fighting Ebola. According to the Capital Journal, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment was contacted due to hospital policy.

Neither patient was tested for the disease, either because they were not showing symptoms consistent with the disease or because they had not actually travelled to a country that is fighting the outbreak.

Fired Kansas Police officer awarded $1 million by jury verdict Jurors found the city of McPherson, Kansas had discriminated against a former police officer when the city fired him for being found asleep while on duty because of sleep apnea, according to an Associated Press article.

The city was ordered to pay Matthew Michaels $921,637, in addition to interest, court costs and attorney fees. The sum amounts to back wages, pain and suffering damages and future wages.

According to the article, the city is asking the judge to overturn the ruling. The city also plans to appeal the ruling if it is not overturned.

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MIDTERM | Student preparedness, instructor involvement affect outcome

George Walker | the collegian Kalin Watson, freshman in pre-health, and Kelsey White, sophomore in ceramics, study in Hale Library on Wednesday for an American ethnic studies midterm.

will end up on the test.”

Although Brimal prepares his students from the first day of class for this exam, he said he knows that some take the exam more serious than their peers.

“The effort varies amongst the students,” Paul said. “It is easy to tell the

ones who are well prepared and have studied apart from the ones who just do not care.”

However, not all professors do the preparation for the midterm the way Brimal does.

“Some professors don’t do anything but remind you

about the midterm,” Wiggins said. “As students, we appreciate the ones who give study guides and put on review sessions outside of class.”

Parsons, who’s morning routine consists of studying for his midterms and drinking lots of coffee, said he understands the importance

of this week’s tests and is hoping his preparation will pay off.

“In the majority of classes I have taken, the midterm has been similar in grading points to the final,” Parsons said. “I think the midterm is as equally important as the final.”

UNION | K-State architecture students

cially during the schematic design phase of the project.

“What we want to do is provide assistance where ever we can,” Jeremy Migneco, sophomore in architecture, said. “Some of the things we discussed were making it feel the way that students want it to feel. A lot of them mentioned that it should be a family room, not a living room,

and to make it feel family-oriented just like our students are.”

Van den Kieboom said he planned on continuing to meet with architecture students in order to get their ideas and allow them to see the process.

“It is such an asset to have students, who understand design and language, help,” Peter van den Kieboom, an

architect for Workshop, said.

Bowman Bowman Novick and Workshop will have a booth in Bosco Student Plaza on Oct. 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to talk with K-State students.

“This is K-State’s heart,” Migneco said. “It’d be amazing to have a hand in saying what it looks like, how it feels, and how people use it.”

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 will be on the midterms, so I feel it is our responsibility as students to be prepared.”

It is not only the students who have to prepare themselves for the midterms, but the professors that pass it out

as well.

“I try to prepare my students all semester,” Brimal Paul, professor of geography, said. “Each time we finish a chapter, I will pass out a review sheet with about 20 multiple choice questions to review. Several of the questions form the review sheets

discuss changes, improvements CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 kitchen, windows, furniture and technology all need to be replaced.

The budget is set at $25 million and, according to van den Kieboom, the Union could use closer to $50 million in renovations. Due to budget limitations, a majority of what

needs to be determined is what the priorities are.

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