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Students voice concerns about sexual assault on campus ADDIE CHELLBERG staff writer
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rotests against sexual assault at the University of Kansas and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sparked conversations on campuses around the nation. Monday evening, Kansas State students added their voices to those of the neighboring institutions. The Center for Advocacy, Response, and Education and Wildcats Against Sexual Assault held a walk to protest sexual assault and address Title IX at K-State. WASV founder and K-State graduate Paige Eichkorn returned to Manhattan to help organize and lead the event. Eichkorn spoke out about
her experiences and why she founded WASV. “I was raped my freshman year in Haymaker Hall,” Eichkorn said. “So with Wildcats Against Sexual Violence, I wanted to meet other survivors, give them a voice, connect and share our experiences.” During the protest, students walked from Anderson Lawn to President Myers’ residence. A route, Eichkorn said, that made a statement. “By going to the head of the university, we were able to tell him he failed us and his overseeing of the Office of Institutional Equity,” Eichkorn said. “We wanted to let him know he is complicit and responsible.” Myers released a statement
in Thursday’s edition of K-State Today acknowledging student concerns and encouraging students to participate in the sexual assault climate survey, coming out later this month. Myers said he wants victims to know he hears them. “We’re doing our due diligence to make our next steps are effective,” Myers said. “Sexual assault, violence and harassment are abhorrent and one of those things we don’t want any of our students to experience. We have total sympathy for survivors. I see what’s going on, and it’s heartbreaking.” Student Governing Association’s Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Director Sara Haggard, junior in medi-
cal biochemistry and Spanish, helped organize the event and said she was happy with the sparked discussions. “I thought it was excellent that they took the time and effort to address students’ concerns, or at least hear them out,” Haggard said. “The good thing is the administration has definitely heard students’ voices and seen their passion.” Haggard and fellow advocates made their goals clear to administrators. One goal is to make the CARE office’s Sexual & Relationship Violence Prevention Specialist position permanent. Haggard found this especially important, as K-State students have access to one prevention
specialist, while students at KU have access to six. “The CARE office is dedicated to prevention education, but we would like to see them better supported by our administration,” Haggard said. “While we were advocating for the prevention specialist in the CARE office to become permanent, Dr. Lane promised it would be student life’s priority to make that happen.” While students in attendance voiced their concerns directly to administrators, SGA encourages students with further questions and comments to reach out to Sara Haggard at sarajane22@ksu.edu.
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Citizens march, rally for reproductive rights KELSEY VOLK staff writer
In conjunction with the national Women’s March, local organizers held a rally calling for reproductive rights at Triangle Park on Saturday, Oct. 2. The rally began with speaker remarks, followed by a march through Aggieville. Manhattan-resident Megan Hartford organized the rally, which comes as a response to a Texas law that went into effect earlier this month banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. “We’re just a concerned group of women who have been paying attention to what’s going on in Texas and know that there is a strong possibility that the same things could happen in Kansas,” Hartford said. “We just want to make our voices heard and stand up against these restrictive abortion laws.” In her remarks, Hartford said the law would disproportionately affect black women and low-income people. “Because our healthcare system as a whole has been failing black and brown people for as long as we’ve had a healthcare system,
we can only expect this new law to exacerbate these failings,” Hartford said. Hartford said that because the consequence of breaking the Texas law is a fine and not jail time, it is an attack on poor and low-income people. “It’s not only the fine but also the fact that to actually obtain an abortion, one would have to travel out of state or find an alternative method, which is not feasible for most who are at a socio-economic disadvantage,” Hartford said. Rachel Levitt, teaching assistant professor in the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department, spoke about what the law means for Native people. Levitt said Indigenous people were victims of forced sterilization as part of a policy of extermination by the U.S. government. “At one point, we’re trying to stop Native people from continuing on with generations and stop people from the ability to have children,” Levitt said. “Now we’re saying we’re also going to force you to bear children when you don’t want to. They seem opposite, but they’re a part of the same project of con-
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trolling people’s bodies.” The law also affects transgender and non-binary people. Levitt said trans people are at particular risk of missing the “tiny window” before an abortion is not legal in Texas. “For those of us that are on high-dose hormones or gender-neutral level hormones, some of us will ovulate but not have periods,” Levitt said. “So if we do get pregnant after either consensual sex or non-consensual sex, we don’t have periods to indicate whether or not we’re pregnant.” Organizers of the rally encouraged attendees to conduct research and vote in local and federal elections. “Whatever your political persuasion, what we need are people in power that are open to learning and changing their minds if they get new information,” Levitt said. “We can’t have leaders that have foregone conclusions and are unwilling to take in new information. I think that’s where voting is important.” After the speaker remarks and a march around Aggieville, rally attendees returned to Triangle Park chanting “My body, my choice”
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Manhattan community members gather at Triangle Park to defend reproductive rights on Saturday, Oct. 2. while facing their signs toward Anderson Avenue. “Politicians have no business in my body, your body, any persons,” rally attendee Jennifer Byarlay said. “This is not a political
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issue. It’s my choice, your choice. We fought this back in 1973. Put some responsibility on men, don’t put it all on women.”
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K-State President, Richard Myers, and Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students, Thomas Lane, meet with students and alumni over concerns on bodily autonomy and Title IX allegations outside Myers’ residence.
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St. Isidore’s preparing for new era with a $14 million renovation project ALEXANDER HURLA staff writer
With steel beams rising from the ground at the intersection of Denison and Anderson, St. Isidore’s Catholic Student Center is amid a three-part, $14 million upgrade project. Father Gale Hammerschmidt, St. Isidore’s chaplain, said the project stems from the need to properly serve the growing Catholic community in Manhattan. “When I arrived, and really for a decade or two prior to my arrival, on Sunday mornings we would have the former church fill, and then we would have to send people into spill-over sections within the student center itself, and they would be watching Mass on a screen,” Hammerschmidt said. “It just wasn’t big enough.” After beginning his service as the chaplain in 2017, Hammerschmidt said it became clear to him and the parish
that a larger church was needed. “My first day here was July 1 of 2017, and by November of 2017, we’d already met our current architect,” Hammerschmidt said. “There were a lot of people getting pretty excited about the project.” That excitement led to the practical need for funding the project. “Throughout most of 2019, we held a pretty large capital campaign where we went out to our donors throughout the state of Kansas and beyond, a lot of Kansas State graduates, people who had come to St. Isidore’s when they were here at Kansas State,” Hammerschmidt said. Nearly $14 million was raised during the campaign and was combined with money previously saved as funding for the project. The project consists of three parts. The first is a new kitchen and other added space and is already
complete. The second is the student center renovation, which will open on Oct. 18, 2021, and the third is the new church scheduled to open around Christmas of 2022. Witnessing the transformation of St. Isidore’s is something that Adrie Nordhus, sophomore in psychology, said she cherishes about her time at K-State. “As a sophomore, I feel very blessed at coming in as a freshman, getting to see the church before it was torn down and the student center before it was renovated,” Nordhus said. “So, it’s fun that my junior year the church will be done. I get to see the progression, and I get to encounter both the old and the new and get to appreciate what it was and what it’s to become.” Hammerschmidt said the renovation of the student center would make it more inviting for students. Previously, the basement was only accessi-
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The construction at St. Isidore’s is in full swing, with the Student Center almost complete. ble from a stairwell in the rear of the building. There were also no windows in the limestone walls along Denison Avenue for people to look into. “Much of the redesign is to put in larger windows to make sure people can see where the basement is located,” Hammerschmidt said. “We’ll
now have a balcony where people can spend time lounging or studying on nice days.”
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Sunset Zoo exhibit to help conservation efforts of endangered species ALEXANDER HURLA staff writer
Leopards and tigers and bears, oh my! With the goal of conservation for endangered species, Sunset Zoo’s $4.3 million project — Expedition Asia — is opening spring 2022. The twoacre addition will be home to Amur leopards, Malayan tigers, and sloth bears. Savannah Brethauer, head keeper at Sunset Zoo, said protecting these species is one of the project’s main objectives. “We do want to breed for conservation when it comes to all three of those species,” Brethauer said. “The Amur leopard itself is the most critically endangered large cat in the world. So, anything that we can do to help with the conservation of these species, we try.” Melissa Kirkwood, mar-
keting and development officer at Sunset Zoo, said the exhibit set-up would also care for the animals’ offspring. “Every single exhibit will have birthing dens because that is the overall plan or mission, to not only care for these species but also to be able to breed and further the species in that way,” Kirkwood said. Sunset Zoo has been an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums for over 25 years. The association governs breeding practices for hundreds of zoos and aquariums worldwide. Kirkwood said the AZA recommends partnering animals from different zoos for breeding. “They’re tracking the genetics of each animal we have so that there’s not crossbreeding, and there are no health issues, but that an animal is at the best health quality it can
be,” Kirkwood said. Besides helping with the conservation of these species, Brethauer said Expedition Asia would be a place for the public to see these animals in a new way. “It will be unique in its own way because we have a lookout deck that we will be hosting events for,” Brethauer said. “That lookout deck is actually in the center of all three of these exhibits towards the back. So, you’ll be able to look directly out into the yards of all three of these species.” Not only will Expedition Asia be a unique experience for the public, but Brethauer said it would be unique for the animals living in it. “The cool part about it is our tiger and sloth bear exhibits are actually going to be something that our animals can be shifted back and forth
from. Not at the same time, but for enrichment purposes,” Brethauer said. Kirkwood said Expedition Asia will demonstrate how far zoos have come in constructing exhibits for their animals. “The project is really bringing forward modern zoological standards for animals,” Kirkwood said. “That’s what we’re working towards ... bringing atmospheres that bring you closer to the animals but also give the animals room to explore.” The zoo has plans to continue building exhibits with these aspects going forward. “These are the exhibits of the future,” Kirkwood said. “We want to create new homes, not only for animals we already have, but we’d love to create homes for animals we don’t have.” The groundbreaking for
Expedition Asia took place on Sept. 25, 2020, and should conclude later this fall. However, the exhibit will not open to the public until April 9, 2022, as the animals will need to adapt to their new homes. Some of the animals are already at the zoo, while others are coming from other zoos. “Through the late fall months and winter, we are going to spend time with our keepers and animals to acclimate them,” Kirkwood said. “So, pretty much November through March, we will be doing training with the animals.” The zoo also chose April 9 to open Expedition Asia in order to be ready for Earth Day, Kirkwood said. “We celebrate Earth Day here in a big way, but we wanted to be open as early as we could in the spring for our families, our members, our
visitors and also make sure that it was warm enough for everyone to come enjoy the exhibit,” Kirkwood said. Of course, the project could not have happened without proper funding. Janet Cooper serves as president of the Sunset Zoological Park & Wildlife Conservation Trust. She said Expedition Asia is the largest project the zoo has ever done at one time. “We had the start of a $500,000 gift from a donor and we also had leftover funds from a city tax that had gone specifically to city pools and the zoo,” Cooper said. “From that, we still had to raise a lot of money.”
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Enrollment decline causes budget Religion Directory deficit for Student Services fee KELSEY VOLK staff writer
The Student Services fee faces a budget deficit of approximately $2 million for fiscal year 2022, resulting in various callbacks for organizations that benefit from the fee, Max Harman, senior in biochemistry and global food systems leadership and Student Services Fee Committee chair, said. According to the Student Governing Association website, the Student Services fee — previously known as the Campus Privilege fee — is a campus-wide fee set by the Kansas Board of Regents. The fee supports non-instructional student service activities such as Lafene Health Center, the K-State Student Union, Counseling and Psychological Services and others. A decline in enrollment caused the deficit, prompting the Student Services Fee Committee Chair, Speaker of the Student Senate and Student Body President to enact the insufficient funds’ process. The committee gave all fee-funded entities 10 business days to submit an impact statement describing the implications of various decreases in their budget. After vetting the impact statements, Harman said the committee would send budget recommendations to the Student Services Fee Committee for further review. “Insufficient funds is definitely not normal,” Harman said. “We really hope to never have to use it except in emergency scenarios like we’re in, and [that] was accelerated because of [COVID-19] and enrollment decline.” Harman said the callback process mirrors the university’s system for other departments on campus. “The goal of the insufficient funds’ process is to look at the nuances and to try and minimize the hard impacts of these cuts,” Harman said. “Using the
information that the entities give us, we try and make decisions of where we can make cuts without impacting, too significantly, the student experience.” Harman said KBOR dictated the Student Services fee cannot go up, making budget cuts necessary. “At the end of the day, students are paying less, and that’s a good thing,” Harman said. “But because of that, you’re not able to use that tool to cover those deficits.” However, Harman said the committee has other tools, such as a bond surplus account set aside for unusual circumstances to help prevent the deficit from being covered entirely by callbacks. “We’re trying to minimize the amount of harm that’s caused to entities, especially services facing students and the student experience on campus,” Harman said. Harman said the impact of the callbacks on students is unclear, but that is why they are gathering statements. “A lot of these entities employ student workers, so that is a big priority in our mind to try and really mitigate the loss of student worker positions,” Harman said. Kelli Farris, executive director for the Center for Student Involvement, said student programs would likely get cut after the last round of budget cuts caused CSI to lay off student staff. “The percentages are challenging. A large majority of our budget is staff positions,” Farris said. “When we faced cuts last, we ended up having to cut and eliminate our student staff. None of us want to lay off students, particularly in this time when people are needing jobs in order to pay for school.” Farris said CSI already operates on a slim budget, making it challenging to decide what will get cut. “That’s really disheartening, especially for an office, as
a unit, who is here to create a student experience on campus,” Farris said. “We may get to the point where we’re not able to provide that student experience. It’s tough to balance a professional staff person’s livelihood with whether or not a student has a good experience on campus.” Farris said the callbacks contribute to a cycle. “You have less people who are paying less fees, and you have less budget. In order to make up for that, you’re cutting programs on campus.” Farris said. “Students who are here aren’t having the same type of experience, so are they going out and saying ‘K-State is the best time of my life, you should go to school there’ or maybe not, so then it doesn’t recruit more students for the next situation.” Kennedy Kaufman, freshman in business administration and marketing, said she is nervous about the budget cuts changing the campus experience. “I get to meet people in my community, and without that, I wouldn’t be as happy to go here and be a part of K-State if they didn’t have good extra services,” Kaufman said. “Those are the reasons why people pick to go here.” Harman said the Student Service Fee Committee will try to make the best decisions possible for the students who work there, the students on campus, and the “entities who are trying to do really good work.” Harman, along with Student Body President Michael Dowd and Speaker of the Student Senate Blake Phillips, will evaluate the impact statements before presenting their decisions to the Student Service Fee Committee on Oct. 18. If the committee approves the decisions, the legislation will be submitted to the Student Senate on Oct. 21 and up for debate vote, with final action the following week.
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Students say Yik Yak gives users an anonymous outlet to express themselves CLAIBORN SCHMIDT arts & culture editor
Yik Yak is a free app founded by two college students that has spread through college campuses around the world. The reborn social media platform is an outlet of live feed posts from people in the surrounding area, posting whatever they would like anonymously. Since coming back, the app has brought a source of news and gossip to its users. “I would explain it as an anonymous Twitter where people say almost whatever they want without personal repercussions,” Frank Schleimer, fifth-year senior in human resource management and political science, said. Students like Madalyn Manning, senior in early childhood education, say they enjoy flipping through the yaks or posts from time to time for entertainment from the people around them. “Most everything is in a joking man-
ner, so I think college kids are harmless on this app. It’s just another source of entertainment,” Manning said. While some use the app to talk about gossip or rumors, many write yaks about the funny stuff they have heard, thought, seen or happened to them. “I do yak, and usually, it’s about complaints about class or a funny thought I had,” Schleimer said. The app has given college students a way to come together and express themselves through sharing, sending, talking about posts or posting yaks themselves. “College kids are definitely using it as a way to express how they feel about school and life or to make jokes about something or someone,” Schleimer said. Yik Yak lets users up-like and downlike posts so people can see the most popular yaks locally and nationwide. Although some enjoy reading through the most popular, others find live stream posts
are more relatable to them. “I think my favorite yaks to read are just the random ones. I have enjoyed finding the weird ones and sending them to my friends,” Paige Anderson, sophomore in psychology, said. “Sometimes people post incredibly relatable things regarding college life, and those are great.” The app carries both positive and negative effects on people and topics talked about. However, students say the positivity of being real with one another outweighs the negatives. “I think it brings us closer together because we are able to be unfiltered for the most part and find commonality with each other,” Manning said. Because the app is anonymous, posts are not always accurate and can negatively affect topics and people talked about on the app. “It is just fun to pass time scrolling through it with my friends,” Anderson said. “I do think there is a negative side,
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however. Because of the anonymity of the site, people can post whatever they want without consequence. This has led to a few name drops and potentially the spread of false information that can come back to hurt someone’s reputation.” In 2017, the app was shut down because of low user engagement and growing criticism around anonymous cyberbullying and threats. Since the revival of the app, some concerns about the removal of the app have come up again. “I think it should be able to outlast backlash as it’s still very popular and it seems they have some measures to mitigate any online harassment or bullying, but obviously some things slip through the cracks,” Schleimer said. For now, students say they enjoy using the outlet to anonymously relate, post, like and read with others, offering an escape from the typical social constructs of normal social media. “I think it’s funny and a different way to pass time,” Schleimer said.
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Netflix’s ‘Britney vs. Spears’ looks into Spears’ ongoing controversies ELENIA HENRY staff writer
When Britney Spears sang, “All eyes on me in the center of the ring / Just like a circus,” she might not have realized how pervasive that attention would become. The belly-button-baring icon of the early ‘00s has spent this year publicly entangled in a legal battle with her father, who has held a conservatorship over her since 2008. Netflix’s “Britney vs. Spears,” created by filmmaker Erin Lee Carr and journalist Jenny Eliscu, provides a look into the legal and emotional intricacies of Spears’ fight for freedom. The documentary begins with a montage of the pop star’s performances, ranging from singing in church as a child to performing on a world tour in front of hundreds of thousands of people. The film doesn’t spend extensive time on the story of Spears’ rise to fame or the brighter days of her career. Instead, it jumps to her infamous decline in mental health following her 2007 divorce from Kevin Federline. This feels taunting, as Spears herself has spoken
many times about the discomfort of the media attention she received at that time. Where the filmmakers could have inserted a testimony to the artist’s impressive career, they — perhaps unintentionally — just added fuel to the tabloid fire. While describing how invasive paparazzi attention took a toll on Spears, the documentary shares famously unflattering images and videos to a huge new audience, making one wonder if the film really had her best interests at heart. The film’s slightly gimmicky style, unfortunately, counteracted its content a little, with an apocalyptic soundtrack, excessive camera flash effects and lots of footage of Eliscu somberly rifling through files. While the topic at hand is undoubtedly serious, this true-crime style editing evokes a school project that was taken a little too much to heart. Nevertheless, footage of Spears in obvious distress while being hounded by paparazzi makes a harrowing impact on the viewer. Carr and Eliscu effectively addressed Spears’ struggle to maintain joy while living under a public microscope and
an oppressive family regime. The documentary defined conservatorship as “a legal process for taking somebody’s ability to make their own decisions away from them and giving them to some third party.” Interviews with former backup dancers, partners, lawyers, assistants and managers shed light on the inhumanity of her father’s dictatorship over her life. Under this dictatorship, Spears lost jurisdiction over her own finances, children, love life, contraceptive choices and just about everything else that defines an autonomous human. One of Spears’ lawyers remarked that conservatorships are seen as “tantamount to a civil death” by some. The documentary thoroughly depicted the limitations this placed on the star’s wellbeing. Released just days before the termination of Jamie Spears’ role as conservator of his daughter’s estate, “Britney vs. Spears” is a good place to start for anyone curious about the story—but it shouldn’t have the final word. The documentary is now available to stream on Netflix.
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With midterms in full swing, Uncorked Inspiration is a great place for students whenever they need a study break or want to be creative. It gives customers the freedom to be creative, paint and drink alcoholic beverages. The people behind Uncorked Inspiration believe it’s a great place for students to use their study breaks. Uncorked Inspiration has been in business since 2015 and has continued to grow. Owners Andrea and Neal Wollenberg both have a passion for art, teaching and the ability to allow others to be creative. Their goal for Uncorked Inspiration is for customers to have as much fun as they do at the Uncorked events.
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Students seek emphasis of inclusion in presidential search LANDON REINHARDT staff writer
With President Richard Myers retiring at the end of the semester, the Kansas Board of Regents is searching for his replacement. Some Kansas State students shared their thoughts on what values the new president should hold. “Definitely somebody who is pro-student and pro-education,” Carson Ackerman, sophomore in mass communications, said. Daniel Lopez, senior in engineering, said he would
like to see more programs that suit his area but would also like a curriculum that better fits today’s society. “More of a focus towards STEM,” Lopez said. “I hope [they] like to promote change. A lot of the courses at K-State are slowly becoming irrelevant as the world changes. So, hopefully, it’s someone who is open to change and willing to make things more relevant to the changing world.” Ackerman said while it is not the most important factor in finding the president, adding some youth to the office might be beneficial.
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“I definitely feel like a change of pace could be beneficial,” Ackerman said. “Someone younger, better in touch with the students. Somebody who empathizes with the students at a greater level.” Lopez said on top of youth, a driven and non-typical president would be helpful to the campus. “Somebody younger would be great … just somebody who is really passionate about doing it,” Lopez said. “It would be cool to get somebody different. The president is more of just an image. Which is why it might be
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better to have someone from a different background because that could promote K-State to showing change unlike the [~76%] of student body that is white.” John Klimiuk, junior in mathematics, said he thinks the new president should be strong in fulfilling the campus’ needs. “They probably need to have a strong personality to be able to fight for what we need on campus,” Klimiuk said. “If they’re nice, they’re just going to be a pushover.” Klimiuk said he thinks the search should be more
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why it should be a focus of the presidential search. “I would want the new president to increase the focus on making all students feeling included at K-State,” Weigel said. “The diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are increasingly important. [It’s important] they are open to and appreciate listening to people who look and act all different ways and have different beliefs.” The Kansas Board of Regents is currently accepting applications through Oct. 15, with the new president set to take over in January 2022.
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Baseball releases fall schedule: First up, Omaha Mavericks CHASE HAGEMANN staff writer
Kansas State head baseball coach Pete Hughes announced the team is hosting exhibition games against the Omaha Mavericks and the Crowder College Roughriders in addition to its annual ALS Halloween game and Fall World Series. The Wildcats will face off against the Mavericks at Tointon Family Stadium at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 15. It will be the 14th matchup between the two teams, with K-State leading the all-time series 12-2. The Mavericks finished narrowly under .500 this past season with a 22-25 (1412 Summit League) record, while the Wildcats finished with a 34-23 record, ending the season strong with two top-10 wins against No. 5 Texas Tech and No. 8 TCU in the final three games of Big 12 tournament play. K-State takes on Crowder College at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22. The Roughriders placed in the semi-finals of the 2021 NJCAA Division I Baseball World Series as the number one overall seed in the tournament after racking up a 55-8 regular-season record. The Wildcats will wrap October up with their annual ALS Halloween Game on Saturday, Oct. 30 (TBD). The game is part of the program’s 19 Ways, which helps raise money and awareness for ALS and consists of players and coaches dressing up in Halloween costumes for a friendly scrimmage. The Wildcats will finish the fall schedule with their annual Fall World Series, a three-game intrasquad series set for Nov. 5-7. The Fall World Series opener is scheduled for a 6 p.m. first pitch on Friday, Nov. 5, and Game 2 is set for 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6. If a Game 3 is necessary, it will take place at 1 p.m. on
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Football gets chance to work on itself in bye week NATHAN ENSERRO asst. sports editor
The Kansas State football team (3-2, 0-2 Big 12) will look to regroup during its bye week this week after two straight losses to start Big 12 play. “Bye week’s coming at a good time for us,” head coach Chris Klieman said. “We’re in essence about halfway through when you think about all the practices we had in fall camp four weeks prior to playing Stanford. … I’d rather have it come after a win so you don’t have a bad taste in your mouth for a couple of weeks.” K-State lost this past Saturday to Oklahoma (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) by a touchdown. The Wildcats will pick their schedule back up with Farmageddon against Iowa State (3-2, 1-1 Big 12) in two weeks. In the meantime, they look to work on getting healthy, g e t t i n g younger players s o m e reps and prepping for the Cyclones. “This week we’re going to spend some time on Iowa State and then quite a bit of time
on ourselves with our younger players,” Klieman said. “Just kind of shoring up some things, doing some self-scout and some technique work. These kids also need some rest, they need to get their bodies right.” Klieman identified a whole host of young players that he wanted to get a better chance to see in practice this week. Most notable are Andrew Leingang, a true freshman OL w h o is already what
Klieman calls “the varsity,” and true freshman quarterback Jake Rubley. K-State’s youth will go against each other extra in practice this week to get more reps. For K-State’s starters — especially on defense — the name of the game will be getting back to basics. “Tackling and getting off blocks were the two biggest [issues] and letting the guys play faster,” Klieman said. “As coaches [we’re] probably trying to do too much. We’ve talked about that as a defensive staff of letting them play a little bit more like they did against Stanford. … Just let them go out and play and execute.” Klieman also indicated that K-State would be more aggressive on offense on fourth and short in the future after success holding onto the ball against Oklahoma. K-State’s matchup against Iowa State is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Oct. 16 and will be broadcast on ESPN2.
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How soccer overcame weather delays, overtime to beat KU COLIN SETTLE sports editor
With the Kansas State soccer team’s 2-1 overtime victory this past week in the 2021 Sunflower Showdown against rival Kansas, the team had to deal with more than just the opposing team during the match. “The leadership came through in critical moments, so we talk about key moments and details, and that was one of those games that fell our way,” head coach Mike Dibbini said. Before the team ever had a chance to take the field, the game was delayed by an 85-minutes rain delay. “It was a physical match,” Dibbini said. “The delays, it was an emotional rollercoaster throughout the game, but our players stayed relaxed, stayed composed, stayed focused and stayed disciplined throughout the game, and it showed there at the end when we needed that one [goal] and they came through at the right time.” The rain delay didn’t damper the team’s spirits, though. Instead, it fueled the team to go out and get the win. “It definitely kept the adrenaline going high,” sophomore goalkeeper Alaina Werremeyer said. “There was never a lull, which is kind of weird to think because we had so many stoppages, but every time you would stop you wanted to be back on the field, so I think it kept the momentum up and kept it high, and I think we saw that on the field with our physicality and our grittiness.” Werremeyer finished the match with a career-high 10 saves as the Jayhawks only posted eight total shots in the first half. Even with having to play in non-friendly conditions, Werremeyer still put together a career day. “It’s slippery,” Werremeyer said. “It’s hard, but I mean, honestly getting the early touches, early holds is a good confidence boost, and I think you just have to work with what you have and we had the wet ball, wet field, wet gloves so I looked really good and everyone else did too.”
Coach Dibbini praised his goalkeeper for her performance and stepping up and improving as the season has progressed. “She’s able to do that and she’s capable of doing that,” Dibbini said. “It showed, really, how far she’s come from bouncing back from a few games earlier in the Big 12, so it’s good confidence for us.” Junior forward Kyler Goins echoed Werremeyer’s thoughts on the team keeping the adrenaline high during the delay. “In the locker room, we were in there for a while, and we were kind of just like, ‘We can’t let ourselves sit in here and just lay on the ground,’” Goins said. “It didn’t really affect us much. We were glad to be there. We wanted to play KU. We lost last year and we wanted to come out for blood, so I would say that our mindset still remained the same from when we got there — we were ready to play.” The game was swung in K-State’s favor early when Goins found the back of the net with help from the weather elements seven minutes into the game. “[The shot] was whatever it needed to be in the moment,” Goins said. “It wasn’t that it wasn’t a shot, and it wasn’t that it wasn’t a cross. I felt her coming up on me, and I needed to get it off my foot quickly and I looked around and I saw out of the corner of my eye that there weren’t many players around me. It was wet and I was hoping that it would go through her hands like it did — and it did — but it was whatever it needed to be in the moment.” Not only did the team have to deal with the weather and rain delays, but late in the game, the power went out at Rock Chalk Park. However, Goins said the outage didn’t have much of an effect on the team. “Our adrenaline was pumping, it was 1-1 and everyone was like, ‘Let’s go, we’re ready for overtime, let’s go,’ so I wouldn’t say that it affected us,” Goins said. The Wildcats ultimately came out on top during overtime when redshirt sophomore midfielder Caylee Thornhill found the back of the net off an
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Players walk toward the sideline during a break in the Kansas State soccer game against Kansas at Buser Family Park on Oct. 2, 2020. assist from Brookelynn Entz to end the game. “I don’t really remember, but I’m trying to,” Thornhill said. “There was so much adrenaline going on. We were already delayed so long, and then we had the power outage, and then it’s overtime, and it was just like, ‘We are not going home with a loss right now. We are soaking wet and we have so much adrenaline we’re just finishing this game however messy the goal is, the ball is going in the back of the net somehow.’” Thornhill said the game-winning goal is one of the best plays in her career so far at K-State. “I think that one might be number one now,” Thornhill said. “With the rivalry and with just how crazy that game was, I think that might be the top one, and I don’t know if it can be topped. Hopefully it will, but I think for a while this one is going to stay top tier for a while.” No one is more deserving
of scoring the game-winning goal than Thornhill, Dibbini said. “She definitely deserves that,” Dibbini said. “That girl has been working really, really hard and is such a sweet young lady. Comes in and does everything right, and having her go through those injuries and those setbacks only made her better. She showed some strong resilience this year in coming back, and we saw her keep getting better each and every game, and she’s earned everything that she’s achieved up to this point. But that goal — couldn’t have asked for a better person to put that ball away in that key moment, so I’m very happy for her.” With this win over Kansas, K-State is now 6-6 overall and 1-2 in Big 12 play after starting 0-2 to open Big 12 play. “It’s massive,” Dibbini said. “The Big 12 is a gauntlet and having, you know, a victory on the road under those conditions and
the adversity that we had to go through, shows a lot of character and if we can continue to build
off of that and have that momentum going into the next matches, I think we’re in good shape.”
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