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Due to Collegian error, the parties of three candidates were misidentified in the “2016 Election Results” in the Nov. 9 issue. Roger Marshall is a Republican, Sydney Carlin is a Democrat and Stanley Hoerman is a Republican. The Collegian apologizes for the errors. If you see something that should be corrected or clarified, call editor-in-chief Timothy Everson at 785-370-6356 or email news@kstatecollegian.com.

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SGA officers compensated more than $57,000 combined but I was more motivated by the role of the position than the compensation,” Hunley said.

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tudent Governing Association officers do not serve for free. Each year, around $50,000 of student privilege fee dollars is used to compensate the students serving the Kansas State student body. According to SGA’s Joint Committee on Officers’ Compensation Report and Recommendations, in fiscal year 2016, a total of $57,184 was used to fund 13 student leaders. In fiscal years 2014, 2015 and 2016, the student body president received scholarships and compensation equal to 100 percent of K-State’s in-state tuition rate, or $11,136 in 2016, according to the report. Other student officer positions and their compensation as a percentage of in-state tuition are listed within the graphic accompanying this article. Jessica Van Ranken, student body president and senior in political science, said she thinks the reasoning behind providing scholarships and compensation is to ensure that financial issues do not prevent student leaders from taking these leadership roles. “Student leaders in these positions spend a lot of time on their work serving their fellow students in their role and sometimes that may hinder their ability to have outside jobs,” Van Ranken said. “Part of the goal is to make these roles accessible to students who may need to hold a job if it weren’t for this type of compensation. It also serves as an incentive to run if you know having this position allows for you to serve well in that role and not be hindered by other parttime job responsibilities.” Jonathan Peuchen, privilege fee chair and junior in mechanical engineering, said compensations open the door to people who would not be able to give their role the time commitment it requires without some type of compensation. “If there’s someone who has trouble with school finances, we want people to be able to

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pursue opportunities of leadership within the student body regardless of their financial status,” Peuchen said. “This is one thing that breaks that barrier to entry for someone who would forgo their talents in a student leadership position in favor of spending that time in a student job.”

STUDENT LEADERSHIP COMPENSATION NOT PUBLICIZED

In the SGA officer applications and filing forms of 2016-17, as well as on SGA’s website, the compensation and scholarship amounts are not

mentioned. “The discussions we’ve had is that nobody knows about the compensation, but the thing is, is we don’t want that to be a barrier to entry,” Peuchen said. “A lot of people don’t know about this and that is 100 percent true.” Peuchen said he first found out about the compensation after he was elected to serve as the governmental relations chair and a scholarship showed up on his KSIS account. “I was like, ‘Well, where’d that come from?’” Peuchen said. “I asked Andrew (his twin brother and a student senator) if he got it, thinking maybe it was

something for being a senator, not even realizing it was for the chairs.” Van Ranken said she also did not know about compensations when she first joined SGA. “I know personally in my freshman year of student government involvement, the last time this compensation package was reviewed, I remember being surprised because I was like, ‘Oh, I thought everyone just did these roles (without compensation),’” Van Ranken said. Chance Hunley, a former officer in SGA and senior in agricultural communications and journalism, said he did not know there was compensation

for some leaders of the legislative branch when he first applied for parliamentarian. “I was aware when I applied for senate operations chair,

Every three years, SGA’s joint committee on officers’ compensation re-evaluates the compensations and creates a recommendation for the next three fiscal years. According to the report, the committee unanimously recommended that the SGA treasurer be compensated an amount equal to 35 percent of in-state tuition and the privilege fee chair’s compensation be reduced from 50 percent to 35 percent. The committee also recommends that the senate operations chair, governmental relations chair, communications chair and student senate intern coordinator no longer receive compensation. Van Ranken said she believes the reasoning for cutting the compensations for those chair positions and the intern coordinator position is because the 10 percent they currently receive is not enough to motivate people to apply, so it was not a prudent use of student fees. “A lot of people may not even know that is part of the deal when they are applying for those positions,” Van Ranken said. “It clearly didn’t incentivize them, so they didn’t feel it was a prudent use of student dollars to keep those scholarship packages the way they were.” see page

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Minority groups hang on to hope after elections DANIELLE COOK THE COLLEGIAN

Republican Donald Trump was announced the next president of the United States Wednesday around 1:45 a.m., shortly after Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s concession phone call to Trump. The results of the 2016 presidential election were unexpected, based on early predictions of “battleground” states’ outcomes. To many, the results of this close presidential race were disillusioning. “I felt hopeful to begin with and as it went on throughout the night, it just got more and

more terrifying because there was actually the real possibility that Trump was going to be our president,” Riley Katz, president of Kansas State’s Gender Collective and senior in gender, women and sexuality, said. Katz said Trump’s campaign is not one that is known to have a LGBT-friendly mentality. However, while there may be tough changes in store for the LGBT community, no LGBT individual stands alone, Katz said. There are various supportive resources on campus available to LGBT students, such as the Sexuality and Gender Alliance, Gender Collective and more. The nationwide commu-

nity will work to overcome any future challenges with strength in unity, Holly Nelson, president of K-State’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance and senior in anthropology, said. “We’re looking at a lot of possibly big policy changes, but there’s never really been a doubt about the LGBTQ community, we know how to fight and support one another, so that’s what we’ll do,” Nelson said. Chikezie Ehie, K-State alum and former Black Student Union member, said he feels many groups, including blacks, Hispanics, LGBT individuals, Muslims and women will be negatively affected by Trump’s presidency. Women of all back-

grounds may face unique challenges over the next four years, such as sexual assault not being taken as seriously as it should be, Ehie said. “I thought that the America that I believe in would be victorious,” Ehie said. “I never thought that a man who had been on camera, essentially bragging about sexual assault, would win the presidential election.” For Dion Saunders, BSU member and junior in marketing, it was difficult watching Trump take the title of president because the values of his campaign did not match his own, he said. “It just seems like he was

that the best thing they can do during Trump’s time as president is have faith and continue trying to live lives that make them happy. “I still have to go to work every day, still have to pay my rent,” Saunders said. “I don’t know how things are going to turn out over the next four years, or however long he’s in office, but I just know for me, I just have to control what I can control. The president is not the be-all and end-all. You just have to live your life.” Dan Harris, BSU member and senior in criminology, said he would remind Americans that more people than the pres-

people with opposing points of view, Christine Carson, graduate student in biology, spent some of her Wednesday evening chalking messages of compassion and hope on the concrete walkway through Bosco Student Plaza. “With the recent election, I just feel like there’s been a lot of divide in our country between men and women and between different races and between people who love different ways,” Carson said. “I really wanted to come out and spread some positivity in what seems to be a really dark and negative time.” Quoting “Star Wars,” Carson said, “Fear leads to hate George Walker | THE COLLEGIAN

Riley Katz, senior in gender, women and sexuality studies, chalks a reassuring message on Bosco Student Plaza Wednesday, following the results of the 2016 election. bashing all these different groups, minorities — Hispanic people, women — and the fact that it became such public knowledge and people were still willing to stand behind that was just disturbing to me,” Saunders said. “You’d think living in 2016, you’d be living in a more progressive time where people are more willing to accept other people for who they are, but it doesn’t really seem like they are (willing to).” Saunders said he would remind now-fearful Americans

ident hold power in the United States’ government. “At the end of the day, you have to deal with the consequences of what’s going on,” Harris said. “I doubt it’ll take us that far downhill. Everybody has a face (that represents) something, but you have to realize that behind closed doors, (the faces) are not the only ones working. There are a lot of other people who have authority and power.” Determined to encourage positive interaction between

and so the worst thing that you can really do at this point is be fearful of each other. We need to celebrate our differences and we need to love each other. And when have these conversations with people that we don’t necessarily agree with, that leads to an understanding and that will break fear.” Editor’s note: A story on the reactions to the results of the election from members of the College Republicans will be in Friday’s edition of the Collegian.

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College of Ed evaluates how to keep quality without fees Jackson said she has seen different configurations of class sizes due to the cuts, such as combined classes of the elementary and secondary education blocks and it has created an interesting dynamic.

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base cut of about $400,000 and a onetime callback of $360,000 has left the College of Education looking for ways to spend less and still offer a high-quality education without requesting additional student fees. Debbie Mercer, dean of the College of Education, said the cuts and callbacks impact two pots of money. “Having a callback, that’s a one-time budget cut,” Mercer said. “Those dollars are ones that the college has earmarked for certain things — certain initiatives — to move forward. And that’s very different from a base cut. That means you are permanently reducing your budget there.” Mercer said while it was a one-time callback, she is still expecting an additional callback in fiscal year 2018 in addition to more state budget cuts. “We’re looking at those same two types of cuts in the future,” Mercer said. “For a small college (with a) budget our size, those cuts have been pretty severe and certainly impactful in a variety of ways.” The college currently has a general use budget of about $10 million. Anna Jackson, junior in elementary education and a student senator for the college, said budget cuts have affected everyone, but she has seen how the College of Education has been balancing and budgeting the cuts to have a minimal effect on its students.

LESS FACULTY, MORE TASKS

“I think part of the overall mindset that we’re trying to grapple with as an entire university is how do we adapt to a different budget formula,” Mercer said. “Part of our strategy is looking at what will have the least harmful outcome on us.” To do so, Mercer said the college has made many admin-

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istrative cuts. “I think sometimes it’s easy to look at the impact on teaching faculty, but it was very important to me that I wasn’t just impacting teaching faculty,” Mercer said. “I was looking at an entire system — an entire structure — and that I cut where it would have the least amount of impact potentially on students.” As an example, Mercer said she is not filling the positions left open from retirements. In addition, the assistant dean for diversity also now serves as the assistant dean for student and professional services. “Those positions were collapsed,” Mercer said. “Likewise, there was a person that oversaw three very large centers that operate in the college and provided supervision and oversight for those entities. I didn’t fill that position, and I assumed all of those responsibilities.” Mercer said she has managed to spread the duties across all of her current people, but eventually that will reach a tipping point. “One position that I had open last year was an advising position and I didn’t refill that position,” Mercer said. “What that meant was the other advisers that were left in the center each took on more students. So people are most certainly doing

more and adding to their workloads.”

IMPACT ON STUDENTS

Outside of administration, Mercer said part of her strategy has been re-evaluating the graduate-level curriculum by looking at three factors: class sizes, course rotation and sequencing of courses. Classes that have traditionally been offered every fall may now only be offered every other fall, Mercer said. “It puts pressure on very accurate and timely advising for our graduate students so that they know if they want to get done in two or three years, they may only have one opportunity to take a specific course,” Mercer said. As for the undergraduate level, Mercer said it is more difficult because they need every class offered every semester. “There are too many students to do that and they need those courses in sequence,” Mercer said. “The same strategies just don’t make sense.” Despite that, Mercer said the college has been forced to look at offering fewer sections, increasing class sizes and offering more classes through K-State Global Campus. “Smaller classes are also able to be a lot more interac-

tive, which is something I feel is important in a lot of education classes,” Tyler Cates, senior in agricultural education, said.

“I know that some colleges have chosen to backfill some of their cuts with additional student fees and for those colleges it might make sense,” Mercer said. “For our college it does not make sense.” Education is somewhat unique, Mercer said, because there are so many options for students who want to major in education in the state of Kansas. “If you want to become an architect, for example, you have two choices,” Mercer said. “If you want to become an engineer, you have three choices. If

you’d like to become a teacher, there are 25 other choices.” Mercer said this makes the competition across the state very difficult for the College of Education, which is one of the reasons why she does not want to increase the cost of coming to Kansas State. “(Student fees) are a last resort and not something the college has on the table right now,” Mercer said. Cates said it has been reassuring to know the college is not looking at increasing student fees. “The fact that they’re still trying to keep fees the same is satisfying, knowing that they’re still trying to make classes as affordable as they can for students,” Cates said. Editor’s note: This is the seventh and final story in a series on budget cuts and their impact on the various colleges at K-State.

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“It is very difficult to stop this report based on the timeline put in there,” Peuchen said. “If student senate does nothing, the report gets approved and that’s how it is going to be. So that is why you’re seeing the disapproval of the JCOC recommenda-

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tion.” According to the disapproval of the joint committee on officers’ compensation salary recommendation bill that will be debated Thursday in the student senate, SGA disapproves of the set of salary recommendations because the committee did not necessarily take into account the work an SGA officer will

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the senate parliamentarian and secretary have been the hardest roles to fill and they are the two officers on the legislative branch who are not compensated. “I feel that for the senate operations chair or governmental relations chair, those positions will be particularly difficult to fill if there’s no compensation,” Peuchen said.

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Wildcats rally to beat Mountaineers in 5 sets AVERY OSEN

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The Kansas State volleyball team picked up a five-set win over the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown, West Virginia, on Wednesday night. The Wildcats are now 18-8 overall and 7-6 in Big 12 play while the Mountaineers are 1214 overall and 3-9 in conference play. “We are happy about it for sure,” assistant coach Trent Sorensen said after the match in a radio interview. “A win is a win, especially anywhere on the road is nice to get.” The first set was back and forth most of the way. The score went to 24-24, but it was the Wildcats who won the next two points to take the opening set to 26-24. Both teams were even again in the second set with the score tied at 12, but the Wildcats dominated the rest. K-State won the next four points to take a commanding 16-12 lead. The Cats wouldn’t look back the rest of the set as they went on to win it 25-19 and take a 2-0 lead. West Virginia responded. The Mountaineers won the third set 25-22, winning the final three points of the set after the game was tied at 22. The Wildcats were down

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Senior outside hitter Brooke Sassin passes the ball in the game against Baylor on Oct. 29 in Ahearn Field House. by as many as four in the fourth set and got within one, but eventually lost the set 25-22 to force a decisive fifth set. In the fifth set, K-State jumped out to a 3-0 lead before going up 8-3 later in the set. The Wildcats went on to win the set 15-10, which broke a two-match losing streak and completed the sweep of West Virginia this season. “I think we might have got a bit too comfortable after the first two sets,” Sorensen said. “We were able to regroup and got a win, which is good.” The Wildcats were led in kills by senior outside hitter

Brooke Sassin, who had 14, while senior middle blocker Katie Reininger and junior opposite hitter Bryna Vogel both had nine. Senior setter Katie Brand had 40 assists and senior libero Kersten Kober had 25 digs in the winning effort. “Sassin had a great night and so did Katie Brand,” Sorensen said. “It was a great team win tonight and hopefully we can build off of this with a bye this weekend and get ready for our next match.” The Wildcats have three matches left in the regular season and have one week before they host Oklahoma on Nov. 16.