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Black Student Union members sing alongside other BSU members before starting off the “Our Story Kings and Queens” event on Wednesday in the K-State Student Union. BSU hosted the event as a part of its weeklong My Black is Beautiful campaign.

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-State Black Student Union hosted My Black is Beautiful this week, a national campaign created to celebrate black identity. Each day was something different for the BSU. Between hosting events each evening at different locations around campus, presenting videos, conducting activities and holding discussions, everything centered around the campaign’s ideas and the Twitter tag #BlackToTheRoots. Alexandria Smith, junior in

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In addition to approving funding for the Union Program Council and allocations for various student groups, the Student Governing Association commended several people at its meeting Thursday. SGA approved a budget agreement with the Campus Entertainment Fund. It included $150,000 of privilege fee funding for each of the next three years, for a total of $450,000. The money will be used to bring in entertainers, as it has in the past with Bill Nye, Aziz Ansari and Lindsey Stirling. Another budget agreement was approved to give UPC $211,243 of privilege fee funding for each of the next three years. UPC After Hours is earmarked at just under $60,000 of each year’s amount. According to the legislation, “Between the years 2012-15, UPC has reached an attendance of 359,093 people which is an 184 percent increase from the previous three year cycle ... ‘After Hours’ averages about 30 events per year with average attendance of 7,130 people per year,” while UPC holds over 150 events. SGA also made four commendations. Wayne Goins, professor of music, was recognized for his 2014 book “Blues All Day Long: the Jimmy Rogers Story.” see page

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marketing and BSU member on the My Black is Beautiful Week planning committee, said the event was the organization’s way of “celebrating black beauty” not only with each other, but with others from across the nation. “It’s explaining that black beauty is everything that we should celebrate,” Smith said. “It’s not that we should put each other down. It’s getting rid of those stereotypes and stigmas that we have on each other every single day.” Muenfua Lewis, senior in finance and BSU president, said he believes the idea to host a week of events based on the phrase “My Black is Beautiful” is original to

K-State. Many of the individual event names were inspired by “key black enthusiasts and black culture,” he said. “I guess we’re kind of making history with what we’re doing,” Lewis said. “We planned it out ourselves and came up with our own events. I got to work with the coolest committee ever, and these ladies were incredible.” Each night of presentations, activities and discussions had a different theme or focus. “It kind of stemmed from the campaign My Black is Beautiful, which is nationwide, and we’ve never done something like this before,” Smith said. “So we decided to have a week that celebrates us.”

Lewis said that throughout the week, posts to BSU’s Twitter account were tagged #BlackToTheRoots, and he noticed that the hashtag spread quickly across campus, and even to other schools’ campuses. “It’s really been incredible because I’ve seen African Americans from all over K-State that aren’t even always in BSU using this hashtag,” Lewis said. “I’ve seen that now other schools are starting to catch on to it because of something that K-State did here.” According to Casha Mills, junior in English and BSU member, My Black is Beautiful Week served as a time to focus on spreading positivity and supporting identity, especially since it reached so much of the K-State community. “This week is all about making everyone feel like they can walk outside and say, ‘No matter what society thinks or what the media depicts of me, I am beautiful,’” Mills said. Gabby Simms, BSU member and freshman in communication sciences and disorders, said she felt that that My Black is Beautiful Week was a fun way to celebrate the importance of identity throughout all cultures. “A lot of people in society just put down black features and black people and that gets to people,” Simms said. “It hurts their feelings and can make them feel like they’re worth less than they are, so I just think this (My Black is Beautiful Week) is really uplifting to do to educate everyone about it, not just us.”

‘Christmas Carol’ opening night lights up McCain JESSIE PEARSON the collegian

People were greeted by a Christmas tree and festive carolers upon entering McCain Auditorium on Thursday, as they filed in to see Charles Dickens’ tale of Ebenezer Scrooge come to life in K-State’s “A Christmas Carol – The Musical.” In the tale, Scrooge must face his selfish ways when he is confronted on Christmas Eve by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. “When Dickens wrote it, it was to reinforce the idea of charitable giving at Christmas because that was a big thing,” Jerry Jay Cranford, director and choreographer, said. “On Christmas, you gave to the poor. And it’s just as relevant, and the message just as pertinent, today.” Cranford said when the theater faculty was discussing which musical to do this fall, they were looking for something that

THIS DAY IN HISTORY On this day in 1969, in Washington, D.C., as a prelude to the second moratorium against the war scheduled for the following weekend, protesters staged a symbolic “March Against Death.” The march drew over 45,000 participants, each with a placard bearing the name of a soldier who had died in Vietnam.

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Darrington Clark, senior in mass communications, and Mark Hay, senior in theater, act out a scene of “A Christmas Carol The Musical” as Ebenezer Scrooge and Marley respectively during production rehearsal at McCain Auditorium on Wednesday. would be family-friendly. Darrington Clark, senior in mass communications, plays the part of Scrooge. He said that even though “A Christmas Carol” is a simple story, he thinks it is a powerful one that has a lot of good, fun-

tion of the play calls for a cast of more than 50 people, which he scaled back to 22. “Everyone in the show has a role or feature of some sort, which is nice because it sort of spreads the wealth,” Cranford

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said. The director, cast and stage management team had six or seven weeks of initial rehearsal, according to Clark. During these weeks, students created the show’s sets, props and costumes. To stage manager Lucy McDonald, senior in theater and history, the stage set is “pretty minimal, actually, for a musical.” Part of the reason for this is to make the ghosts’ visits seem as though it really is Scrooge’s memories or dreams, according to McDonald. “The lack of fluff lends itself to kind of how we see dreams in our heads,” McDonald said. Audience member Grace Baugher, junior in music composition and French horn performance, attended the opening night Thursday and said the musical was impressive.

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New ‘Werewolf’ cat breed makes lasting imprint KARYN ELLIOTT the collegian

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Loki, a rare Lykoi cat, is owned by K-State employees Wendy and Dominic Barnes, who are currently the only breeders in the state of Kansas. In 2011, the Lykoi breed was accepted into the International Cats Association.

or the last few days Lykoi, aka “werewolf,” cats have been trending on Facebook. This new breed of cat is described as “acting like dogs while looking like cats,” according to Wendy Barnes, the online programs coordinator for K-State Counseling Services. “I think they’re very cute,” Dorinda Lambert, director of Counseling Services, said. “I know some people react differently to them, but they’re just so cute ... they’re very sweet cats.” The breed was discovered in the last 20 years by Johnny Gobble and his wife, Brittney. In order for Lykoi to be recognized an official breed, they had to be registered with The International Cat Association. The Gobbles sent the organization paperwork to notify them that they were experimenting with a new breed, and in 2011 Lykoi was formally established. Barnes and her husband Dominic, Fort Riley and Military Student Services coordinator for K-State’s Global Campus, were the first in the Midwest to breed the cats and are currently the only Lykoi breeders in Kansas. “A friend of mine shared one of the Gobble’s images of a Lykoi to my page and she’s like, ‘here’s the cat for you,’” Wendy said. “I was instantly in love.” Information about the breeding practices of Lykoi cats has been met by a torrent of factual inaccuracies. According to Wendy, the Lykoi gene is a natural mutation of a recessive gene. “(They’re) not genetically modified,” Wendy said. “The Gobbles aren’t sitting in their basement with a laboratory acting like mad scientists.”

So Wendy emailed the Gobbles with an adoption request and soon a standard Lykoi cat, Loki, joined the Barnes family. That wasn’t the end, however, as the Gobbles also asked Wendy if she was interested in breeding Lykoi in addition to owning one. According to Wendy, the couple was looking for breeders they could guide for the proper needs and care of a Lykoi cat. “I just never responded,” Wendy said. “I had no breeding and show experience.” The Gobbles reached out to her again in March 2013 to once again ask if she was interested in helping with the breeding program. “They had a little male kitten and it would be available in a couple months time,” Wendy said. “I responded ... saying that ‘I’m in love with the cats, but I understand that you want to have people that know what they’re doing and I guess I’ll just wait until you get one back.’” At that point in time, there were only seven breeders in the world and only 25 standard cats. Lykoi cats can only breed with a black domestic short-haired cat. The Barnes’ cat is considered a “foundation cat,” because he is a standard Lykoi; meaning he has a roan fur pattern. This roan pattern, known as an even mixture of white and pigmented hairs that do not fade as the animal ages, was previously only seen in horses and dogs before the Lykoi breed was discovered. According to Wendy, it took over a year to get the term added into the acceptable terms used in defining these cats. “It has been recognized as an official color pattern with TCIA,” Wendy said. “So they added that color to the accepted colors for the international organization.” Once Loki or another foun-

dation cat breeds with a black cat, their offspring are considered F1 because they are one generation from the foundation cat. Any black kittens can stay within the breeding program; however, any classified as blue have to be petted out, meaning they will be adopted out instead of used for breeding. “We’re trying to diversify the bloodline,” Wendy said. “We’re trying to keep the cats from inbreeding.” Due to the fact that Lykoi are a new breed, the Barnes and Loki participate in local and national cat shows in order to spread awareness and knowledge of the breed. “(Loki) was the first cat to show in any cat show in (the experimental breed) category,” Dominic said. “We just happened to be the first ones there.” Since there is no prior information on Lykoi, Dominic said that breeders have to educate not only spectators, but also judges at shows. According to Dominic, judges cannot judge a cat without a standard to draw information from. “We had to teach the judges,” Dominic said. “Before all this happened, as a group we decided what the standard would be and then it was published. We took with us copies of the standards for all the judges ... and we had a judge that looked at (Loki) and said, ‘This is not a black cat.’” Since then, Lykoi were established as an advanced new breed by the association. The Gobbles’ website said they are hopeful the cats will be a championship breed by 2016. Despite the challenges the breed faces, the Barnes say Lykoi are very intelligent, sweet creatures. “You either look at them and say, ‘Oh that’s a cool cat,’ or you just don’t like them,” Wendy said.

Facilities plant supervisor grows, thrives ‘playing in the dirt’ JESSIE PEARSON the collegian

Though he shows up at 6:30 a.m. and doesn’t leave until 5 p.m. every day, Tim Brunner, K-State physical plant supervisor senior, said he loves what he does. “I’m probably the one guy that comes to work every day that’s got a smile on his face,” Brunner said. “I don’t care if I’m 10 foot in a ditch. It doesn’t ever bother me.” As the maintenance supervisor for Zone 3, Brunner is in charge of overseeing the maintenance of 14 buildings on the northwest side of campus. “He enjoys playing in the dirt, even at a supervisory level, and some of them wouldn’t do that,” Casey Lauer, assistant vice president of engineering, utilities and maintenance, said. “He wants to be the one in the hole with the shovel, getting dirty, solving the problem.” Brunner’s supervisors said even if a problem occurs that is not in his zone, he’s always willing to help fix it.

“He not only takes care of his zone, he looks to go out and repair issues outside his zone,” Ed Heptig, director of facilities maintenance, said. Troy Bronaugh, physical plant supervisor senior for Zone 5, said he thinks that the more difficult a problem is to fix, the more Brunner likes it. “He’s not one to sit back and just take stuff as it comes,” Lauer said. “He’s one that likes to really take control for his area and sort of push the envelope in terms of what we can do.” Brunner said his maintenance team receives 20-30 work orders every day, and he almost always has over 100 work orders in progress. “I’ve tried to get it under 100,” Brunner said. “I think I’ve done it once or twice, but it doesn’t stay there very long.” For Brunner, maintenance work is “just endless.” “I can keep two guys busy changing light bulbs in Cardwell Hall and Throckmorton Hall 365 days a year,” he said. Brunner has only been

working at K-State for a year and a half. “I haven’t seen too many people move up the ladder as fast as he has,” Bronaugh, who has worked at K-State for 25 years, said. Bronaugh interviewed Brunner for a job in the plumbing department while Brunner was still working overseas as a civil contractor. Bronaugh said Brunner was even more impressive in person than what he was over the phone. “We hired him right off the bat for being a plumber here,” Bronaugh said. Brunner said he applied for the job at K-State after three years of working as a civil contractor in Afghanistan because his wife asked him to come home. “She wanted me to take a job that I didn’t have to bring home with me,” Brunner said. Before this job, Brunner said he had been a construction superintendent all his life, which meant he often worked seven days a week. see page

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Election 2016: Rise of the Outsider

AUSTIN MCCAMPBELL the collegian

The 2016 election cycle is one that is already destined for the history books. When future political scientists and historians look back on this time, which aspect will be focused on the most? It won’t be the who or what of the cycle that will be scrutinized, but rather the why. Illustration by Savannah Thaemert

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Context is crucial when analyzing any political landscape, so what makes the 2016 election cycle different from previous ones? In similar fashion to the 1896 and 1960s elections, political anti-establishment has risen once again. So what has caused anti-establishment feelings to flare up in this election cycle? How is it that people like Donald Trump or Ben Carson are leading the Republican polls along with Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, sitting with a solid third of the Democratic polls? As much as I like seeing political outsiders shake up the process to an extent, I feel it needs some explaining. The road to why this electoral cycle is the way it is cannot, however, be confined to a single opinion piece. Therefore, three factors will be discussed as to why I think anti-establishment sentiment has come up again. If we want to go back far enough, we could look at several decades to see why the political climate is the way it is, but I think an overview of a 15-year long process will suffice. Through government action, sensationalist media and the rise of a new voting generation, I believe 2016’s election cycle will be remembered and studied for decades to come.

OUTSIDER INFLUENCES The first major instance in this process is the disillusionment many feel toward the government. A Gallup poll shows that as of September, 61 percent of those that participated had little

to no trust in the federal government to handle domestic issues, with only 4 percent believing the government is completely trustworthy in this regard. Why do these numbers reflect such a poor opinion Americans have toward their government? This problem lies in recent history. The government, under the Bush and Obama administrations, has not sown goodwill among many Americans, myself included to a degree. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan under Bush, the former being of more suspicious causes, have become the present-day equivalent to the Vietnam War in that we got entangled in centuries-old conflicts and just can’t seem to completely detach from the region. As for the Obama administration, the government has seemed less and less trustworthy by the year. Between TSA surveillance, spying on allies, increased usage of drones, the Edward Snowden kerfuffle and America’s shrinking influence in places like East Asia and Eastern Europe, many are questioning the reliability of government efforts. With the government and those working within it proving themselves less trustworthy, the media has always been quick to jump aboard the government hate-train. When one thinks of political news outlets, the usual suspects are brought in. Fox, MSNBC, CBS and the rest of the news acronym party gets invited for their

political input. When it comes to political discussion, however, all those stations crave ratings generated from political outrage. The government shutdown in October 2013 over the national debt ceiling was a prime example of the media trashing government workers in Congress. A CNN broadcast from Oct. 16, 2013 states that “ ... it’s not that the United States can’t pay its bills ... But the government is not capable of making a decision that allows it to pay its bills.” Such was the narrative from all news stations, with each one pointing fingers at what they thought was to blame for the shutdown. Fox News pointed the finger to Obama and the Democrats in Congress while MSNBC blamed the Republicans. If you ask me, so much mud was thrown that no one came out clean. So, after trumpeting that the government was useless and gridlocked by stubborn politicians for so long, doubt became instilled in the American public as to the government’s effectiveness. In no demographic is this more the case than in the youngest voting generation that is just beginning to be roused: the millennials. As a fellow member of this generation, I take pride in the political activism millennials have become engaged in so far. Being in the Information Age certainly has its benefits like mindlessly watching hours of YouTube videos and gaining endless amounts of knowledge from the likes of Google and Wikipedia.

With politics, though, it also opens some unusual doors. Social media and online news outlets like Buzzfeed, Vice, FiveThirtyEight and all other political branches of the Internet tree have fed this generation with all kinds of political fruit to taste. I think the yield of this electoral year has left a sour taste in many peoples’ mouths. According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2014, 50 percent of millennials consider themselves independent with 27 percent aligning with the Democrats and 17 percent with Republicans. Why is that? From what I’ve seen, it’s the tiredness of same-old sameold politics. The most eligible candidates come up, give their memorized lines, promise “hope and change,” and so on. In come a few political outsiders that don’t have to toe the party line, don’t mind a few gaffes and suddenly it’s no longer boring. So in combination with a government-bashing media and the untrustworthy dealings of the government, a large portion of the up-and-coming millennial vote wants no part in partisan politics and would rather search for an alternative. Enter the political outsiders of the 2016 electoral cycle.

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When looking at the anti-establishment runners in the electoral race, it is easy to see how one can hope for a nomination to

go to any of these candidates. On the Republican side leads Donald Trump, the casino-owning multibillionaire and TV show host. Instead of telling people they’re fired, he’s the one applying for the job with the American people, though in his familiar position of boss (minus the obscenely manicured hair. Or is it a toupee?). Second for the Republicans is Ben Carson, a man with a mind for neurosurgery and a heart for God. Then there is Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Together, these three political outsiders have accrued an average 52.2 percent of Republican votes, according to RealClearPolitics.com. In the Democratic polls, Hillary Clinton is currently ahead of the competition, but this does not dismiss the anti-establishment wave the Democrats are experiencing too. Bernie Sanders, a lifelong politician from Vermont, challenges Clinton with 32.6 percent of Democratic polls, also according to RealClearPolitics. While he’s nothing new to politics in Washington, D.C., it’s his unique message that makes him stand out. His energetic messages of European ideals, democratic socialism and anti-Wall Street populism differs from the usual Democrat message. Because of this, he has given something new for both the politically jaded and the younger voters to stand behind. With so much support for political outsiders in the polls, it is without question that there is an anti-establishment wave washing through this electoral cycle. As stated before, I believe 2016’s election season will be one to be remembered and analyzed for decades. While the factors listed haven’t been the sole causes, they carry much of the weight as to why the political landscape is the way it is. Having this in mind, I will sit back and watch to see what happens, preferably with some popcorn in one hand and crossing my fingers with the other. 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.

Austin Mccampbell is a senior in history. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.

Hope dwindles as Kansas Speaker Merrick boots moderate Republicans

JONATHAN GREIG the collegian

The Kansas government continued its lurch to the extreme right on Wednesday, when state House of Representatives Speaker Ray Merrick further weakened any influence moderate Republicans might have in our state’s legislature. “Three moderate Republicans who support Medicaid expansion have been removed from a Kansas House committee that oversees health care issues,” Bryan Lowery reported

for the Kansas City Star on Tuesday. Merrick also removed moderates from key committees dealing with the budget and education. And so the great conservative experiment marches forward, undeterred and unencumbered by the extremely unhealthy state of the Kansas economy or education system. This is a time when the Star is also publishing articles like “Group estimates Kansas budget shift will cut money to early childhood programs by 6.5 percent.” This is a time when the Kansas Health Institute is reporting that $25 million in Medicaid funds from the federal government, that could have potentially gone toward medical waiting lists or Kansans with disabilities, will instead be used to fill in the deficit in the

state budget. In its Nov. 9 article “Federal budget deal yields Medicaid savings,” the institute points out that “while facing a tight budget in the last year, the state has used increased federal money from the Children’s Health Insurance Program and a prescription drug rebate program to fill gaps.” This is the time of Gov. Sam Brownback’s incredible tax cuts, and it hasn’t been pretty. In the Washington Post article, “Kansas reaps the whirlwind of its right-wing experiment,” its author claims that “Kansas’s leaders have already frittered away state reserves, shortchanged investments in education and infrastructure and played around with its pension fund, all in service of a simplistic anti-tax orthodoxy.” Similarly, in The New

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York Times Magazine article “The Kansas Experiment,” author Chris Suellentrop (nephew of Kansas Rep. Gene Suellentrop) detailed the huge cuts in Kansas education our conservative economic petri dish has brought us. He also described the significant loss of highly respected moderates in the vein of Dwight Eisenhower or Bob Dole. “In the past four years, Brownback has remade the Kansas Republican Party in his likeness,” Suellentrop said in his article. “The party’s once-powerful moderate wing has withered after steep losses in consecutive primary elections, the main battleground where policy is determined in a one-party state.” This right-wing power grab continues still in the hands of Brownback, Secretary of State Kris Kobach (of whom

Kansas has uniquely given prosecutorial powers which he has in turn used to suppress voting rights) and Merrick, who is strongly diminishing the influence of Republican moderates. In theory, it makes perfect sense that if you philosophically believe in smaller and smaller government, you must garner power over said government in order to reduce its reach. But in practice, this pursuit of power and influence, all the while taking away influence from everyone else (like your own party’s moderates) paints a much scarier picture than inefficient bureaucrats or higher taxes. Is this what conservative Kansas voters wanted? Is this experiment living up to its supposed windfalls? Even though I don’t agree with conservative economic, small government or trick-

le-down strategies, I might not argue so vehemently against them if their grand experiment seemingly gave me, a child of Kansas, any greater hope for my future and the future of my home. I have big-city, liberal dreams of academia or journalism or environmental work. My younger sister has incredibly vivid dreams of owning a farm out in the beautiful Kansas fields. I won’t stand by while this experiment fails us both.

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.

Jonathan Greig is a senior in anthropology. Please send comments to opinion@ kstatecollegian.com.

IF YOU COULD BE ANY DISNEY PRINCESS WHICH ONE WOULD YOU BE AND WHY?

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“Mulan; she thinks of her family first and takes initiative to keep her family safe. She’s not your average girl.”

“Ariel, so I wouldn’t have to wear pants.”

“Aurora (Sleeping Beauty). It’s always been my favorite Disney movie; the music is spot on and Prince Phillip is a dreamboat.”

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“Belle, have you seen the library she gets?”

“Ariel, because everything’s better under the sea.”

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“There were just so many cool elements that just took it to a whole other level,” Baugher said. Roselyn Korb, from Sutton, Nebraska, came to see the show because her daughter played a backstage role in the production. “We know that the talent is here, because we’ve seen a lot of the other productions,” Korb said. “And so we know when we

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come, we’re going to see outstanding productions.” “A Christmas Carol - The Musical” will be showing in McCain Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday, and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. “It’s a great experience,” Angela Merwin, junior in human nutrition and dietetics, who attended the show, said. “You get to just be in the moment of the Christmas spirit, the holiday spirit.”

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Goins won the Living Blues Magazine readers’ poll for the Best Blues Book of 2014 and was also awarded the 2015 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in the Blues, Gospel, Rhythm and Blues category by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Ivy Calvert, Michael Fibelkorn, Kage Edgar, Cooper McGuire and Noah Linquist were commended for their success at the West Central National Association of Teachers of Singing Regional Auditions, held at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Calvert, senior in applied music, won first place in the Senior Women Classical division and was named the Singer of the Year. Fibelkorn, senior in music education, won first place in the Junior Men Classical division. Edgar, sophomore in music

education, won first place in the Sophomore Men Classical division. McGuire, freshman in music education, won first place in the Freshmen Men Classical division, and Lindquist, sophomore in music education, won first place in the Lower Division Musical Theatre Men division. SGA also commended the Kansas City Royals for their 2015 World Series championship. The K-State Design Build Team was commended for winning second place in the design build division of the Region IV Associated Schools of Construction 2015 Student Competition. SGA also allocated privilege fee funding to three student groups. The Institute of Industrial Engineers received two allocations. One was $800 for students to tour industrial engineering companies in the Topeka area. The other was $3,920 to host the

Regional Technical Paper Conference at K-State on Feb. 26-28. The event will include K-State students and students from other Midwest schools. It will allow students to present their research, participate in workshops, interact with future employers and listen to speakers from Walmart, FedEx and Hallmark. The Theriogenology Club will receive $300 to send five students to compete at the Student American Veterinary Medicine Association Symposium in Ames, Iowa, next March. The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers will receive $1,000 to travel to the organization’s annual winter conference in Orlando, Florida, next January. SGA introduced legislation recommending uses for over $600,000 in City/University Special Projects Fund money for cal-

endar year 2017. Included in the recommendations are $100,000 for North Campus Corridor improvements, almost $150,000 for the realignment of the intersection at Lover’s Lane and Thurston Street, $200,000 for K-State Student Union Forum Hall ADA renovations and improvements, $30,000 for Colbert Hills special assessment support, $100,000 for lighting additions to the path from Jardine to College Avenue, $15,000 for a rain garden study at Hale Library, $35,000 for the Pioneer Lane sidewalk expansion between Manhattan Avenue and McCain Lane and $2,500 for bike repair stations at Hale Library and Cardwell Hall.

We’re not finished yet To