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REACH THE PEAK
VICTORY K-State scores 53 in the second half, beats Monmouth 73-54
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Brewing up goodness: K-State alum brings kombucha business to campus Page 3
Texas moves up as West Virginia slides down in Big 12 power rankings Page 6
Concrete canoe team prepares for regional race Page 12
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Junior quarterback Skylar Thompson runs the ball during K-State’s football game against KU in David Booth Memorial Stadium on Nov. 2, 2019. The Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks in 2019’s sunflower showdown with a final score of 30-10.
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Formula racing: Chem-E-Car Club takes 25th at national competition BAILEY BRITTON THE COLLEGIAN
Student clubs help students develop their skills through hands-on work and experience and the Kansas State Chem-ECar club is no different. K-State’s team took 25th place out of 42 teams last weekend at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Student Conference in Orlando, Florida. They placed second in poster design and explanation and earned the Golden Tire Award, an award for best design mechanism voted on by other teams. K-State took first at the regional conference at Missouri S&T last spring to qualify for the national competition. The team consists of five
students studying chemical engineering: Rodger Black, senior; Ashton Gohman, sophomore; Denea Clark, sophomore; Alex Ortiz, junior, and Rachel Berland, sophomore. “We had some issues during the competition that we tried to get resolved,” Black said. “The car didn’t do so hot in transport,” said Marcel Chlupsa, club vice-president and senior in chemical engineering. A combination of citric acid and potassium carbonate fueled the shoebox-sized car. “They are a weak acid and a weak base,” Ortiz said. “That generates a neutralized salt and carbon dioxide and we utilize that carbon dioxide to build pressure and we use that to pressurize the muscle.” At the competition, the teams had to get their cars to
travel as close to 25 meters as possible while carrying water. The distance isn’t announced until the day of competition, Ortiz said. Then, the team has to recalibrate their car in an hour. The car has 3D printed elements as well as equipment to prevent corrosion. At competitions, safety is a large concern as the students work with chemicals. A lot of design work goes into making a safe and practical car before competitions. “Safety is very, very important to most Chem-E-Car competitions and Chem-E-Car in general,” Ortiz said. “You don’t want to be running really dangerous cars. Once you can figure out whether or not it’s safe or not, then you just have to start looking at practical ways to implement it.”
The team members use concepts learned in lectures and labs to produce their vehicles. “It helps you see past a lot of the material,” Ortiz said. “They’re real world problems. It can be applied to a larger scale system, it’s just a smaller car. So there’s definitely a lot of overlap between our curriculum.” Now that the national competition is over, the team will start preparing for the next regional competition in the spring. “We have to make a 10 percent design change to the car before we can take it to regionals again,” Black said. The team meets twice a week and puts in roughly six hours of work per week, Gohman said. This changes as they get closer to competitions. “In the day to day, it’s not like, ‘Hey I have a wrench and
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Roger Black (left), Rachel Berland, Alex Ortiz, Denea Clark and Marcel Chlupa pose with their Chem-E-Car. The team took 25th place. I’m working on a car,’” Gohman said. “We run a lot of tests and do a lot of like, simulation competitions, where we’re like, ‘Hey, I want to go this distance. Let’s go ahead and try it.’ And if it
doesn’t work, we do a lot of the testing, regroup and get back together, see what the problem is.” Ortiz said the club is open to other majors, not just chemical engineering.
Brewing goodness: K-State alum brings local kombucha to campus DENE DRYDEN
THE COLLEGIAN
At Union Kitchen, students can purchase brown glass bottles of kombucha, a fermented tea drink known for its beneficial bacteria and B vitamins. But there’s more to this bottle than the drink itself. The woman behind the brew, Melinda Williamson, is a 2006 Kansas State alumna and crafts Morning Light Kombucha locally on the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Reservation just north of Topeka. In October, the Kansas Department of Commerce recognized Morning Light as the 2019 Minority Business of the Year in the Manufacturing Firm category. Williamson’s kombucha can be found on campus and across northeast Kansas. The journey toward her business began around 10 years ago, after an autoimmune disease diagnosis. “I was looking at ways to heal with food,” Williamson said. “I started changing my diet, I started reading about fermented food ... and making sure that you’re eating more whole foods, so that’s kind of
how I learned about kombucha in the first place.” Around this time, Williamson worked as a research assistant at Oklahoma State (where she earned her master’s degree in rangeland ecology and management in 2010). There, she said she wasn’t happy, so she returned to northeast Kansas with the dream to start her own business. “At the beginning, I wanted to do a green smoothie food truck,” Williamson said. “Green smoothies were another instrumental thing in my healing. I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to start this green smoothie truck and I’m going to have kombucha, I have to find kombucha companies to have kombucha on tap.’” Williamson was already brewing her own fermented tea, but she didn’t see it as a business interest at first. But friends soon started asking to buy her product. Morning Light Kombucha kicked off in March 2016. Williamson is the sole employee of the company, but she receives help from family. Her sister, daughter, nephew and boyfriend contribute. “I think it’s really good,” William said of having her daughter and nephew involved. “Teaching
the kids values and hard work, and they’ve been able to see the progression of business from an idea.” Making kombucha involves the art of patience. To start a batch, Williamson said she brews one of Morning Light’s two primary recipes: green tea or a green tea/black tea blend. Williamson places the sweetened tea into a fermenter and adds kombucha culture. The mixture ferments for four and six weeks in a warm room, while bacteria consumes most of the sugar and probiotics, B vitamins and antioxidants form. “When it’s ready, we transfer it to a secondary fermenter that’s smaller, and then we flavor it,” Williamson said. Those additional flavors — from ingredients like strawberries, cinnamon or lemon juice — marry and ferment with the kombucha for another week, or until the kombucha reaches an ideal pH factor, Williamson said. “Every batch is unique,” Williamson said. “We have a lot of fun experimenting with seasonal flavors and whatever we can get our hands on through the year.” About 90 percent of Morning Light’s ingredients are local,
Williamson said, which builds into her focus on sustainability. “That’s why we only do our refillable bottles,” she said. Williamson’s business also gives back to Native American communities across the United States for various projects and causes. As an individual, Williamson is involved in her community as a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; she team-teaches Potawatomi language and culture to children three times a week. “We have about 200 students that come through weekly,” Williamson said. “We teach language and we teach culture, just making sure that the traditions that we have are passed on to our children and the next generation.” Morning Light is available in 11 locations across northeast Kansas; in addition to Union Kitchen, the product is on tap at Pool House Kitchen & Bar in downtown Manhattan and Hoja, a new plant shop on Juliette Avenue. Having Morning Light on tap on K-State’s campus is important to Williamson. “It’s so huge because that’s one of the biggest things I wanted: To have the support and to be able
to offer it to students here, because this is where I went to school,” Williamson said. It took years to get her product on campus, but she eventually got in contact with Jeff Clark, Union assistant director for retail/ food service, who Williamson said advocated for Morning Light. In the future, Williamson still has her green smoothie business in mind, but she also said there are “endless possibilities” for Morning Light. “If I could have it across campus, or have the athletics department — having it for their
athletes before or after games,” Williamson said. “We have a lot of athletes that use kombucha as a pre-workout and post-workout to help with inflammation.” Health benefits from kombucha go beyond inflammation relief, Williamson said. “It’s helpful for boosting the immune system,” she said. “It’s hydrating, so people use it — I know this is crazy, but a lot of people will use it for hangovers.” Williamson said she will continue hosting monthly sampling events in the Union sharing the drink that altered her life.
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Melinda Williamson, K-State alumna, began brewing kombucha as a way of healing.
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The Burrow celebrates spirit of ‘Harry Potter’ with annual dessert theater event REBECCA VRBAS THE COLLEGIAN
Harry Potter fans can “expecto” lot of magical surprises at the dessert theater Friday evening. The Harry Potter Dessert Theater is an annual event co-sponsored by the Union Program Council and The Burrow. The event is one of the group’s main events each year. The Burrow is a chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance, an international nonprofit organization run primarily by fans who channel their passion into activism for literacy, equality and human rights causes. While its members are comprised of fans, The Burrow is about more than just geeking out about the “Harry Potter” series. The group uses community to facilitate philanthropic community events like craft sales, book drives, hurricane relief fundraisers and even a wizard rock concert. “I like how we’re a group that can combine something we’re fond of, ‘Harry Potter’ and fandoms in general, with the desire to help people and make the world a better place,” Allison
Adams, graduate student in mechanical engineering, said. Adams is the most senior Burrow member and helped plan this year’s dessert theater. The event includes volunteers from Sunset Zoo, K-State Insect Zoo, On the Spot Improv and the College of Education. This year will feature a more interactive collaboration with On the Spot, K-State’s student improv group, who will teach “wizarding” classes, said Stephanie Wallace, Burrow treasurer and graduate student in English. Guests will be instructed in a “Care of Magical Creatures” class featuring owls and spiders, and “Transfiguration,” which will have origami and other crafts. “So everyone gets to see On the Spot one on one, as they play the role of ‘Harry Potter’ characters,” Wallace said. Katherine Sundgren, graduate student in history, said what she continues to enjoy about “Harry Potter” is the depth of characters and the philanthropic efforts of the cast that portrayed them in the movies. “The characters always just ... find something new to capture you and make you keep thinking,” Sundgren said. “Especially
Student leaders discuss compensation disapproval KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN THE COLLEGIAN
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A view from the sorting hat stool from a Back to School Harry Potter Feast in the Great Room. The sorting hat was one of the most popular and memorable options of the event. as always, the cast members of the people who worked on the movies, they’re always ... doing something new to help people.” The Burrow asks attendees to bring non-perishable goods for a food drive to support Cats’ Cupboard. “I really wanted an event that we spend so much time planning to actually do good besides just entertainment,” Wallace said. Wallace encourages people
of all ages attending the event to feel free to come in costume. “It’s family friendly, it’s all about K-State fun,” Wallace said. “I know some people like to think ‘Oh, it’s just my kids will dress up.’ It’s like, no, everyone dress up! It makes it so much more fun.” The Harry Potter Dessert Theater will take place 7 p.m. Friday in the K-State Student Union Ballroom and is free to the public.
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Last week in student senate, Student Governing Association officially voted to reject the recommendation made by the Joint Committee on Officer Compensation. The recommendation from the committee gives total SGA leadership compensation a 17 percent decrease overall. JCOC makes a recommendation every three years to SGA about compensation for upper leadership positions like the student body president and legislative branch committee chairs. this is an image Creighton Glasscock, a student senate appointee to JCOC and sophomore in computer science, debated in favor of the Bill of Disapproval, saying the recommendation from the committee needs more work. "I will say that I have no problem passing a Bill of Disapproval on this one. This I think, mainly takes issue with how the report was presented, and I'll say I too had some issues. I wasn't quite pleased with how ... the decisions turned out," Glasscock said. "I have no problems with going back and revisiting it." Carson Tjelmeland, chair of the travel allocations committee and junior in chemical engineering, was the primary author of the first Bill of Disapproval that passed through student senate on Nov. 7. “The biggest concern I have is it kind of has very ambiguous details about what the funding allotments were," Tjelmeland said. The report, Tjelmeland said, lacked concrete reasoning for decisions and failed to outline what considerations went into deciding compensation for each position. “But there wasn’t like a basis for how did we get [to
that],” Tjelmeland said. There was also some confusion, he said, when it came to recommending compensation for his current position and the On-Campus Allocations Committee chair. In 2016, when the last recommendation for SGA leadership compensation was completed, the committees had different names, but JCOC thought the two committees used to be one committee. With that in mind, they decided to split the compensation for one of the committee chairs between the two committee chairs, believing they were doing half of the job previously done by one committee chair. Tjelmeland said he’s okay if the compensation for his position is cut in half, but he doesn’t want to see it cut due to faulty reasoning and misinformation. It’s not the recommended amounts of compensation that the authors of the bill of disapproval had, Tjelmeland said, but the lack of clear reasoning. “If they came back with the [cut], but with good reasoning, I would be fine with it. I just want the rubric to show the reasoning,” Tjelmeland said. Glasscock agreed there were some discrepancies and faults in the initial report. Another reason to get this report right, Tjelmeland said, is because the person who typically serves as chair of JCOC, Larry Moeder, executive director of student financial aid, will retire at the end of the year. “Whoever takes control of that position will have to use this report to basically decide the funding in three years because none of us will be here to help them,” Tjelmeland said. “I want the report to have adequate descriptions.”
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‘We have to be better’: Football aims to redeem record against WVU CODY FRIESEN
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Coming off a 27-24 loss to Texas, the Wildcats return home to play West Virginia on Saturday. The Mountaineers have had a difficult season and are on a five-game losing streak. The Longhorns limited the K-State offense to only 51 rushing yards. Junior quarterback Skylar Thompson entered the matchup with seven rushing touchdowns in the previous two games but walked away with seven carries for zero yards. “We have to be better, and you have to give Texas credit because they really blitzed us an awful lot and ruined a lot of line stunts,” head coach Chris Klieman said at Tuesday’s press conference. “At times we picked them up well, and at times we didn’t. “They just had us outnum-
bered at the point of attack,” Klieman said. “So, I know, just as a whole — offensive line, tight ends, fullbacks and our backs — are excited to get back home. Because you’re right, we have to be able to rush the football because it sets up everything that we do.” Thompson has not defeated West Virginia in his time at K-State and is looking to get revenge against the Mountaineers. “I am 0-2 against West Virginia, and we haven’t beat them the last three years since I’ve been here,” Thompson said. “So, it’s definitely something that we have thought about.” The new coaching staff gives the Wildcats confidence going into the matchup. “We obviously have a new coaching staff, and a lot of things are different, but we are definitely going to be coming out with a lot of energy and confidence,” Thompson said. “We are going
to play together and play one play at a time.” The Mountaineer defense is second in the conference in sacks with 26 on the season. “They are a great front, you watch the Baylor game they had the ability to really able to get after the quarterback,” senior offensive lineman Adam Holtorf said. The Mountaineers recorded eight sacks in a 17-14 loss to Baylor in week ten. Junior defensive lineman Darius Stills is second in the conference in sacks with seven. “They are a physical group,” Holtforf said. “They have the ability to show a number of looks and bring different pressures, so they are going to show a lot of looks out there and are going to be fast and physical doing it.” Despite the sack totals, West Virginia is ninth in the conference in rushing defense, which
could pose an advantage for K-State. Klieman said the biggest factor working against the Mountaineers’ is their tendency to give up the big play. “I think that’s probably their biggest thing that they’ve had hurt them is the big play, and getting down quickly in a couple of games,” Klieman said. “I caution the guys again, you can’t compare scores. You can’t worry about what was done last week compared to what’s going to be done this week. It’s all in your preparation/process. It gives you an opportunity.” K-State Athletics announced a new helmet decal to celebrate the 150th year of college football. The Wildcats will wear the white helmet that debuted earlier this season with a single purple stripe with a scripted ‘Cats’ decal on the side. “We’re celebrating 150th year of college football through-
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Willie the Wildcat leads K-State fans in cheering on the football team during the game against TCU at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Oct. 19, 2019. The Wildcats took the Horned Frogs 24-17. out the season,” Klieman said. “One of our ways to do it here, just for this game, to do a throwback and wear the ‘Cats’ on the helmet.”
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Texas moves up as West Virginia slides down in Big 12 rankings CODY FRIESEN
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10. KANSAS JAYHAWKS
Kansas returns to play after a much-needed bye week. Senior quarterback Carter Stanley has thrown for 2,015 yards, 19 touchdowns, and seven interceptions on the season. Sophomore running back Pooka Williams is third in the conference in rushing, averaging 96 yards per game. The Jayhawks will have to win out to clinch bowl eligibility, but they have shown improvement in the first year of the Les Miles era. The Jayhawks will play Oklahoma State at 11 a.m. Saturday on Fox Sports 1.
9. WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINEERS
The Mountaineers suffered at the hands of Texas Tech in a 38-17 loss last Saturday. Junior quarterback Austin Kendall threw for 355 yards and two interceptions. Kendall has ten interceptions with 12 touchdowns on the season. Junior quarterback Jarret Doege and sophomore quarterback Isaiah Esdale threw one touchdown each. West Virginia’s defense is tied for first in the conference with 26 sacks, but is still ninth in terms of rush and total defense which will be a factor against Kansas State. The Mountaineers will face the Wildcats on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN.
8.TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS
Texas Tech rode a 21-point first quarter to defeat West Virginia 38-17 in a road rout on last Saturday. Junior quarterback Jett Duffey threw for 354 yards and one touchdown. Sophomore running back Ta’Zhawn Henry rushed for 67 yards and two touchdowns. Freshman running back SaRodorick Thompson also rushed for two touchdowns on 27 yards. Thompson is tied for fourth in conference touchdowns with 10 on the season. The Texas Tech defense forced four turnovers and lead the
conference with 13 interceptions. The Red Raiders also lead the conference with a +9 turnover margin. Texas Tech will host TCU at 11 a.m. Saturday on ESPN2.
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3. TEXAS LONGHORNS
7. TCU HORNED FROGS
TCU came close to ruining Baylor’s perfect season but fell short in a 29-23 triple-overtime loss last Saturday. Freshman quarterback Max Duggan threw for 140 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions. The TCU defense recorded three sacks in the game with eight tackles for loss and held Baylor to nine points in regulation. The Horned Frogs need to win two of the next three games to become bowl eligible after a two-game losing streak. The Horned Frogs are threepoints favorites against Texas Tech on Saturday.
6. IOWA STATE CYCLONES
The Cyclones rallied with a 20-point fourth quarter but fell just short of a comeback after a failed two-point conversion to lose 41-42 on the road against Oklahoma. Sophomore quarterback Brock Purdy threw for 282 yards and five touchdowns with one rushing touchdown. Purdy leads the conference in passing yards per game, averaging 316 per game and is second in total offense with 3,100 yards this season. The Cyclone defense recorded eight tackles for losses including three sacks against Oklahoma. Iowa State sits at 5-4 with three games remaining and will look to clinch bowl eligibility at home against Texas. The Cyclones will host the Longhorns at 2:30 p.m. on Fox Sports 1.
5. OKLAHOMA STATE COWBOYS
The Cowboys come off a bye week at 6-3 (3-3) with a chance to impress the bowl committee. Sophomore running back Chuba Hubbard leads the nation in rushing yards with 1,604. Hubbard averages 178 yards per game and has 18 touchdowns this season. He will be a challenge for Kansas’s last place rush defense.
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Junior running back Harry Trotter runs in a touchdown against KU in David Booth Memorial Stadium on Nov. 2, 2019. The Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks 38-10. Hubbard is a crucial part of the Cowboy’s conference-leading rushing offense. Junior wide receiver Tylan Wallace leads the Big 12 in receiving yards per game averaging 113 with eight total touchdowns. Oklahoma State enters the matchup with the Jayhawks as 17.5-point favorites.
4. KANSAS STATE WILDCATS
The Wildcats lost a 27-24 heartbreaker decided by a field goal in Austin on Saturday. Junior quarterback Skylar Thompson threw for 253 yards
and two touchdowns. Freshman wide receiver Joshua Youngblood had a 98-yard kick return touchdown. K-State is second in scoring offense limiting opponents to 21 points per game. The Wildcats also have the number one pass defense in the Big 12, allowing only five passing touchdowns all season. With three losses, the Wildcats are likely out of the championship race but K-State is bowl eligible in Chris Klieman’s first year as head coach. The Wildcats are 14.5-point
Texas defeated K-State 2724 on a game-winning field goal. Junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger threw for 263 yards, one touchdown and one interception. Ehlinger is third in the conference in total offense with 3,042 total yards this season and is one of three Big 12 players over the 3,000-yard mark. Sophomore running back Keaontay Ingram rushed for 139 yards and two touchdowns. The biggest star of the game for the Longhorns was the defense that limited K-State to only 51 rushing yards. With the win over K-State, Texas has a chance to squeak into the conference championship but will need some help. The Longhorns are seven-point underdogs on Saturday against Iowa State.
2. BAYLOR BEARS
Baylor improved to 9-0 with a 29-23 triple-overtime thriller against TCU last Saturday. Junior quarterback Charlie Brewer threw for 195 yards, two touchdowns and one interception and rushed for one touchdown. The Baylor defense keeps the Bears in games, limiting opponents to 19 points per game
which leads the Big 12. Their defense also leads the conference in sacks with 29. The Bears had three sacks in the win over TCU. Baylor is in a good position to reach the Big 12 Championship but has yet to play Oklahoma and Texas. The Bears will have to put up points despite being fifth in the Big 12 in scoring offense. The Bears will face off against Oklahoma on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. on ABC.
1. OKLAHOMA SOONERS
The Sooners survived at home in a 42-41 win over Iowa State. Senior quarterback Jalen Hurts threw for 273 yards, three touchdowns and one interception with two rushing touchdowns. Junior wide receiver CeeDee Lamb had two touchdowns including a 63-yard touchdown reception. Lamb has 13 touchdowns this season which leads all receivers in the Big 12. The matchup against Baylor will feature the Big 12’s best with the top-scoring offense in Oklahoma against the top-scoring defense in Baylor. The Sooners sit outside the College Football Playoff but are in a good position for a conference championship bid. The Sooners are 11-point favorites in the matchup against Baylor.
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Under Klieman, K-State football focuses on daily improvement NATHAN ENSERRO THE COLLEGIAN
When Kansas State head coach Chris Klieman came to K-State he brought with him a philosophy that was not new to him, but nonetheless was new to K-State. In the summer, Klieman brought in motivational speaker Ben Newman to see his team. Newman brought with him a new slogan: “Pound the stone.” Klieman coined his own slogan early in his tenure at K-State. In his introductory press conference, he summarized his introduction to his new team for the gathered media and finished that summary with a “win the dang day.” Between “pound the stone” and “win the dang day” there is a philosophy
that should not be unfamiliar to K-State fans. Sure, the program has a different face and modernized fan access and game day activities, but at its core K-State football still strives improve day-over-day just like it did under former head coach Bill Snyder. Klieman calls it “stacking good days.” A major difference, though, stems from Newman, whose clients include K-State, North Dakota State and Alabama among others. He espouses the idea of focusing less on the results of the game and more on the process. “It’s what I believe in, and what the program believes in and what our staff believes in,” Klieman said during Tuesday’s press conference. “I said this to the players [Monday]: ‘Everybody wants
to win and everybody is disappointed when they lose, but if the only thing they did is come to Kansas State … and play football and get a degree, boy I failed them.’” Klieman said he wants players to get more out of their football careers at Kansas State than a degree and playing time. “That’s still all a part of the process of battling for one another,” Klieman said. “So that when times are tough — whether it’s on the football field or in life — you have the tools to get through the adversity.” K-State’s players seem to have bought in to the new focus on the process instead of game results.
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Both K-State and KU fans cheer on their football teams during the K-State vs. KU game in David Booth Memorial Stadium on Nov. 2, 2019. The Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks in this year’s Sunflower Showdown with a final score of 38-10.
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K-State scores 53 points in the second half, beats Monmouth 73-54 CODY FRIESEN
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The Wildcats struggled in the first half against Monmouth Wednesday night but rode a 53-point second half to defeat the Hawks 73-54. The Wildcats opened the game shooting one for seven from the floor in the first six minutes. K-State also struggled from three-point range, a trend which lasted the entire first half. “Some were forced and rushed, and some were not part of our offense, and there were other ones where we were wide open,” head coach Bruce Weber said. Monmouth jumped out to an early 11-4 lead with four turnovers from the Wildcats. The Hawks then dropped four turnovers of their own in a nearly five-minute long scoring drought to give K-State their first lead of the game, 14-13. The drought capped off a 12-2 run by the Wildcats in the middle of the first half, but Monmouth regained the lead with a three-pointer by junior guard Deion Hammond. K-State finished the first half with a three-minute scoring drought and a 7-0 run by Mon-
mouth. The Wildcats ended the half trailing 29-20, going 0-10 from beyond the arc and shot a total of 29 percent from the floor. The Hawks ended the first half shooting 54 percent from the floor and 43 percent from the three. Senior forward Xavier Sneed led the Wildcats at the break with six points. Monmouth’s redshirt junior guard Ray Salnave led all scorers with nine first half points. “I feel like we just come out and take things for granted, but we have to come out in the second half and just always play hard. So, we should just come out and play harder in the first half and lock it in,” freshman forward Montavious Murphy said. The second half was a different story for the Wildcats, who outscored the Hawks 53-25 to snag a victory. Sneed hit the first three-pointer of the game for the Wildcats at the start of the second half. Then Murphy hit a three to take a 32-30 lead followed by a steal and layup by redshirt junior guard Cartier Diarra to bump the lead to four points. Once the Wildcats took the lead, they never looked back K-State went on a 14-0 run to take a dominating 57-35 lead
with six minutes remaining. The Wildcats iced the game with a jump from freshman forward Antonio Gordon on an assist from junior guard Cartier Diarra to take a 65-48 lead. The Wildcats finished with 29 points off the bench, led by junior guard David Sloan’s 8. “I think it’s just at halftime, before the coaches come in, we talk and the guys on the bench see what the guys on the floor are not doing,” Sloan said. “We just communicate, and they go in there the first five minutes and adjust. Then we come off the bench and try to just pick up where they left off.” “It’s pretty balanced if you look at it, our bench has pretty good numbers,” Weber said. K-State forced 25 turnovers and 17 steals, five by Sneed. The Wildcats scored 21 points off turnovers. The 17 steals tied for third in program history. Sneed led Wildcats with 15 points, while Salnave led all scorers with 20. The Wildcats shot 64 percent in the second half and 44 percent from three, which was drastically different from the first half. Monmouth finished the game shooting 27 percent from the floor.
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Senior forward Xavier Sneed charges the basket during K-State’s men’s basketball game against Monmouth in Bramlage Coliseum on Nov. 13, 2019. The Cats came out with a 73-54 win against the Hawks. K-State will play Arkansas-Pine Bluff as 7 p.m. Tuesday
on ESPN+. It will be the last tuneup game before the Wildcats
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Volleyball swept in 3 sets, prepares for second KU match this weekend CAMERON BRADLEY THE COLLEGIAN
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Redshirt junior middle blocker Peyton Williams celebrates with her teammate on Nov. 2, 2019. The Wildcats defeated the Horned Frogs in five sets in Ahearn Field House.
Kansas State volleyball took on two teams who were ranked No. 1 in the country at one point — Baylor on Oct. 5 and Texas on Wednesday night. K-State fell to both teams in three-straight sets. K-State last defeated the Longhorns in its first and only Big 12 Championship in 2003, followed by a 33-match series losing streak. That dominance held up Wednesday, as Texas (18-2, 12-0) held K-State (8-16, 3-9) to a .118 hitting percentage. The Longhorns finished the night with a .346 hitting percent-
age with 11 team blocks and just nine errors. Freshman libero Loren Hinkle had a strong night on defense, recording a career-high 18 digs, while redshirt junior middle blocker Peyton Williams led the team with four block assists. On the offensive side, redshirt sophomore outside hitter Brynn Carlson led the team in kills with nine of the team’s 29 total. Texas showed why they are the top team in the nation as far as hitting percentage goes, recording 45 kills on 104 attacks. Texas had three players score in the double digits, with senior outside hitter Micaya White leading the way with 14 kills and
18.5 points. Texas held the Wildcats to a .133 hitting percentage in the first set while recording six blocks, but four kills from Carlson forced Texas into a timeout after coming within two points at 19-17. That deficit only grew as Texas proceeded to score six of the set’s final seven points and took the first set 25-18. Both teams hit match-highs in the first set, as Texas finished with an impressive .452 hitting percentage. The second set started with more hope for the Wildcats that slowly faded away. An 8-0 Longhorns run killed any K-State momentum. Texas ended the set with five of the final seven
points, taking the set 25-16 with a .303 hitting percentage to the Wildcats’ .100, a match-low. The Longhorns finished K-State off 25-17 in the third set with a match-low .300 hitting percentage. The loss marks the second straight time opponents swept K-State, dropping the Wildcats to 0-6 in three-set matches. Up next for K-State is the second edition of the Sunflower Showdown this Saturday in Lawrence. K-State sits just one spot above KU (7-15, 3-9) in the Big 12 standings at seventh. Both teams enter the matchup with two-straight losses. Game time is set for 1 p.m. on ESPN+ and KMAN.
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K-State professor studies social behavior with student researchers NATALIE LEONARD THE COLLEGIAN
A Kansas State professor, along with a team of researchers, is studying social psychology to gain a greater understanding of human behavior and its societal impact. “I have a fundamental need to want to know why people do what they do,” Donald Saucier, professor of psychological sciences, said. He started this research during graduate school in 1996. As a social psychologist, Saucier studies the psychology of human interaction. “The overarching description of the research that I do is that I look at the justification and suppression of pro-social and anti-social behavior — which is a fancy way of saying the study of why and when do people do good and bad things,” Saucier said. Collaborating with a team of student researchers, Saucier looks at different ideological components potentially related to pro-social behavior versus antisocial behavior. He then studies how these components relate to concepts like masculine honor ideology — the belief that men need to defend their honor through any means necessary, justifying the use of aggression — and beliefs in pure good and pure evil. He researches how individual differences affect how people see the world and how they treat other people. Saucier’s team observes and reacts as world events unfold, attempting to understand and explain behavior and decisions. His team researched various events, such as responses to government said to Hurricane Katrina victims, perceptions of the NFL protests and the Holocaust. Saucier said measuring variables and running analyses explains some behavior.
“At first it doesn’t make sense to you because you’re not that person, but if you have a different belief system, suddenly it makes sense,” Saucier said. “If you have a different ideology, suddenly it makes sense. If you have different personal experiences, suddenly it makes sense. Understanding the logic behind this makes you think, ‘I wouldn’t have done that, but I understand why that person did.’ I’m not condoning it, I’m not saying it was okay that they did that, but it wasn’t truly random.” Saucier said he believes sometimes it is easier for people to believe the explanation to a problem is that whoever committed the crime is just a bad person, rather than investigating social or physiological factors. “It’s really interesting to see how people make sense of the world, and they don’t all do it in the same way,” he said. “It’s my job to explore that.” Saucier said — whether they know it or not — the way people understand their world relies on their individual differences, like if they subscribe to masculine honor beliefs. Evelyn Stratmoen, graduate student in psychology, studies this concept in-depth. Stratmoen said she is interested in looking at masculine honor beliefs, especially as they apply to violent reactions in cases of romantic rejection. Stratmoen studies this violence and the ways it is expressed: online, verbally and physically. “I want to understand where this aggression from rejection comes from, and how we can handle it better,” she said. Going forward, she said she wants to examine how women can handle these potentially dangerous situations. Her research indicates this aggression changes those who are affected. For exam-
ple: women sometimes use deception to reject men to avoid retaliation. Stratmoen said she thinks that honor beliefs are not isolated to men or heterosexual dynamics; these behaviors and beliefs affect people of all backgrounds, including members of the LGBTQ+ community. Katie Hutson, sophomore in psychology, works on her own research on these beliefs affect LGBTQ+ athletes and how they are perceived compared to heterosexual athletes. Hutson said, as a member of the LGBT community, she wants to understand the way prejudice affects her community and why people think the way they do. Hutson will present this research in February at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans. Hutson was recently awarded a research grant to look at organizational justice (how employees perceive fairness) and women in the workplace. Hutson said women in the workplace aren’t discriminated against because they aren’t following the rules of their job, but because they don’t follow the rules of their stereotypical gender norms. “If we’re not being kind enough to you, you don’t like us because we aren’t following the prescriptive gender stereotypes of how you think we should be acting,” she said. Hutson said she believes that if we can pinpoint where a prejudice lies, we can then find ways to combat it and make societal strides — such as closing the wage gap. “I think that my research allows for conversation to be had that allows people to think about how they want to interact in their world,” Saucier said. “You can’t tell them what to do, but I think the research empowers them to think more about the consequences of their behavior.”
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Student reactivates club dedicated to assault prevention
Book Network panel discusses athletes, mental well-being
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Every university has its own policy when it comes to crimes involving sexual violence, though some students disagree — these students often take the initiative to spread awareness about it. Paige Eichkorn, senior in journalism, reactivated a club dedicated to the prevention of sexual violence. “I reactivated Cats Against Sexual Violence my sophomore year,” Eichkorn said. “We’ve been on campus for about a year-and-a-half now.” Another Cats Against Sexual Violence club existed on campus in 2014 — so the new club adopted their constitution and bylaws. Eichkorn said it is important to be active bystanders in potentially dangerous situations. “We all have that little voice in the back of our minds telling us, ‘This isn’t right,’ or we have a gut feeling that something is going on here,” Eichkorn said. “It’s so easy to be like, ‘Someone else will go stop it, and someone else will go help that girl,’ but you have to be the one grabbing your friend and being like ‘Look let’s go stop this from happening right now.’ You have to be strong enough to just go ask and if they’re both consenting then that may be embarrassing for
On Thursday, the K-State Book Network hosted a discussion panel in the K-State Student Union as part of the fall lecture series related to the common read “Darius the Great is Not Okay” by Adib Khorram. The panel focused on the relationship between athletics and well-being. The featured panel members were Dr. Kyle Goerl, a physician with Lafene Health Center; Kennedy Felice, a graduate assistant in kinesiology; Dr. Annie Weese, K-State Athletics director of sports psychology; and Brianna Presutti, professional counselor with Counseling Services. “Obviously, the theme through ‘Darius the Great is Not Okay’ ... is how well-being and mental health play a role in our lives, and one of the things that plays a central role in the book was his participation in athletics,” Goerl said. “I thought that the author did a nice job weaving into the book how athletics can play a role in well-being.” Well-being, Goerl said, is a relatively new term in the medical world, and therefore has a loose definition. “Well-being, I think, involves many different aspects of functioning, whether it’s physical, emotional, spiritual ... I think that
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Wildcats Against Sexual Violence President Paige Eichkorn stands outside the K-State Student Union holding her “My Perpetrator Still Walks This Campus” shirt. Eichkorn reactivated the club in 2016 to promote active bystander prevention. you, but that’s so much better than not preventing a crime.” Eichkorn said alcohol should not be held responsible for sexual violence. “Alcohol does make you make poor decisions, but it is never an excuse to rape someone,” Eichkorn said. “Individuals could be like ‘Oh well, she shouldn’t have drank so much and then she wouldn’t have gotten raped,’” she continued. “That’s just not a
way to look at it ... It makes me so mad that anyone would say that about a woman or a man.” Eichkorn expressed anger at communities who don’t pay attention to the issue. “We say we’re a K-State family, but do we really look out for each other like a family does when these crimes are happening literally every day and so many are often brushed under the rug at our university?” Eichkorn said.
having overall well-being means having resilience in all of those aspects,” Persutti said. “I think that athletics are an absolutely incredible opportunity,” Felice said. “There’s a lot of really great things that come from being an athlete, especially at the collegiate level. You have such a great support system. The negative aspect comes when you’re so wrapped up in being an athlete.” Felice is a former member of the K-State rowing team. While the panel agreed that athletic programs are generally progressing, they also expressed concerns with the current system. “Especially with college athletics, we’re not doing a good enough job with financial literacy,” Weese said. “We’re trying, but I think from the outside world it looks like athletes are just getting everything. But, I don’t think, when they leave us, that they have a good grasp of finances.” “I am living that transition right now, and it’s a hard transition, let me tell you,” Felice said. “I think for me, looking back, I had a great support network throughout, but I wish that people had more conversations about what was next for me a little bit sooner.” The panel continued by discussing possible solutions. “I think that ... we can real-
ly benefit these young men and women by allowing them opportunities to fail, and to allow them to problem solve their way out of that failure; to accept responsibility for maybe what created that experience for them; and to allow them to find a way out of that,” Weese said. “I worked with college-aged students, who are athletes and non-athletes ... I think we have to shift that power-making, and that power of control, as much as possible.” “We all hope, at some point in time, that we can assist patients to the point where they’re able to stand on their own two feet, either not needing us anymore or needing us a lot less than they did previously,” Goerl said. “A lot of these things are life-long illnesses like depression, anxiety ... those patients that are willing to do the lifestyle things, the lifestyle changes, they tend to do a lot better in the long-term, in my professional experience.” The panel also touched on healthy male relationships in the athletic world, both in the story and at K-State. “I do think that’s one of the amazing things about sports, how you can rally around people in their good times, and maybe more importantly, really rally around them in their challenging times,” Goerl said. “I’m proud to be part of a university that’s been really supportive of its people.”
Know Your Opponent: K-State faces no challenge in Mountaineer offense NATHAN ENSERRO THE COLLEGIAN
Kansas State will get its second taste of the three other Big 12 schools with new coaches when they host West Virginia Saturday in Manhattan. West Virginia’s new coach, Neal Brown, replaces Dana Holgersen who is now the head coach at Houston. Brown and Holgersen are very similar in coaching pedi-
gree. Both played wide receiver for Hal Mumme and Mike Leach and spent their formative coaching seasons alongside other members of the Mumme/ Leach Air Raid coaching tree. Brown was the offensive coordinator under Leach’s replacement at Texas Tech, Tommy Tuberville, and he ran an offense that focused on being as fast as possible. They tried to snap the football within eight seconds of the end of the preceding play.
West Virginia’s offensive coordinator, Matt Moore, is another Mumme/Leach disciple by the name of Matt Moore. Moore played for Mumme, Leach and Holgersen at Valdosta State. He also coached offensive line under Leach at Texas Tech. The offense looks like what you might expect given that pedigree. They like to run up to the ball, diagnose the defense and then attack it. They are a little less reliant
on the pass game as one might expect when looking at raw snap numbers, and they run the play clock a lot more than West Virginia has in the past. I would not quite call it air raid. They have the worst offense in the Big 12 by total yards, points per game and rushing yards. They only average 75 rushing yards per game. Their offense sits in the middle of the Big 12 in passing yards per game. The problem on offense
is a lack of talent. Redshirt junior quarterback Austin Kendall is one of the worst starting quarterbacks in the conference based on efficiency and yards per game. He does not get much support from the running back room either. No Mountaineer appears in the top 10 in the Big 12 in rushing yards per game. On the defensive side of the ball, they run a lot of 4-3. They are statistically a very middling defense in the Big 12. They give up the sixth-most yards per
game, but are second-to-last in points per game allowed. The good news for K-State fans is that West Virginia really struggles to stop the run game. They rank ninth in the conference — above only Kansas — in rushing yards allowed per game. PREDICTION: K-State comes out a little extra motivated after the Texas loss. Once they settle into the game, West Virginia can’t stop the run game. K-State wins 31-24.
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ANALYSIS: Team effort overwhelms Monmouth in second half ANDREW LIND
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The Monmouth Hawks came out the gates firing from all ends and pushing the ball in transition in a 73-54 loss to Kansas State. That speed and pressure lead to offensive and defensive breakdowns for the Wildcats. These breakdowns resulted in the Wildcats shooting 28.6 percent from the field in the first half with eight turnovers.
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“I think we came with a good mindset, but it didn’t go easy,” head coach Bruce Weber said. At the end of the first half, Monmouth held a convincing 29-20 lead over the Cats. Redshirt sophomore guard Ray Salnave lead the Hawks’ charge with nine points and four rebounds in the first half. Unselfish play by junior guard Cartier Diarra played a large role in K-State’s comeback victory. Cartier dished out seven assists while pocketing four steals,
four rebounds and eight points. “Their point guard [Diarra] is a really good player. ... He never let them panic, I don’t know if he is a big-time scorer, but he kept them calm and ran things,” Monmouth head coach King Rice said. The K-State bench held their own in this game with all five players contributing with at least a bucket. The bench combined for 29 points, and junior transfer guard David Sloan lead with eight points in 17 minutes of play off the bench.
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K-State’s concrete canoe rowing team prepares for regional race NATHAN COX
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Kansas State’s concrete canoe team may not be well-known, but it has a long history. The concrete canoe team is preparing for a regional race at the University of Missouri in April. The team began preparing for the race against other Midwestern schools at the beginning of the semester. If the team finishes in the top three out of 12 schools, they will qualify for the national competition held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May. Although K-State’s concrete canoe team has never qualified for a national competition, they hope to be eligible for the 2021 national race, when K-State will host the tournament in Manhattan. “This year we are trying to raise the presence of K-State’s concrete rowing team,” said Maddy Akers, team president and sophomore in civil engineering. “Over the last two years, we have progressed in where we placed at regionals, so we are trying to build off of that.” The process of making a concrete canoe float is not easy; the students must change the property of the concrete to allow it to float by adding glass and other compounds. The students perfect the concrete mixture over the first semester of the school year and, once back from winter break, pour the concrete into a canoe mold. To get the concrete canoe to float, the students use the experience they have learned in the classroom. As if getting a concrete compound to float isn’t hard enough, the
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The K-State concrete canoe team designs and builds a canoe made of concrete for competitive racing. The concrete canoe is displayed inside the Engineering Complex. students also mold and sand the canoe down to make it faster in water. “Its the organization and the problem-solving set of skills that are the most beneficial for these
students and I think that’s a useful set of skills we sometimes miss in the classroom,” Christopher Jones, associate professor of civil engineering, said.
The concrete canoe team allows new generations of engineers at K-State to compete with the best in the country. “This club has allowed me to
meet so many people at K-State in the engineering department that have the same interests and goals as me,” Akers said. “The club has definitely impacted me positively.”
City Commission hears from Konza Prairie Community Health Center BREE MAGEE
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In a Manhattan City Commission work session, Lee Wolf, director of the Konza Prairie Community Health Center, presented about the center. Wolf is the CEO of both the Junction City and Manhattan locations. The health center provides "affordable, acces-
sible, quality, and value-based health care to millions of people regardless of their ability to pay" according to HRSA. "I have great insurance and sometimes when we would have medical problems, I couldn't afford the deductible," Usha Reddi, pro-mayor tempore and city commissioner, said. When Wolf joined the center in 2005, there were only 15 employees. Now, even though
the community health center is a non-profit foundation, there are over 100 employees and are continuously adding services. "Our goal [is] to keep patients out of emergency rooms that don't really have emergency situations that are uninsured," Wolf said. "It is important [to] spend time with those patients and show them the options available to them." The center "wears multi-
ple hats," Wolf said. It receives federal funding and also patient service revenue. Wolf says they are able to get people back to their jobs or to get jobs. Konza Community Center has had over 13 thousand patients in both Junction City and Manhattan. They would like to continue to move more into rural areas where health care might not be as easy to
get to. Even though it is a support system to the hospital, they do receive referrals from private practices, social services, emergency services and the hospital. The referrals are sent to case managers for review. "The most important thing here is that you got to inform and network so people see that this is available to them," Mayor Mike Dodson said.
Wolf also said another important thing to note is they want to make sure their patients understand the benefits they have. Benefits include discounted medicine and medical devices provided through the facility. The center hopes to continue to inform and educate people in the Manhattan and Riley County area that services are available to anyone in need.