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Couples long-distance, long-term engagement ‘hard but worth it’ face the challenges. After one year of being together, it proved to me that our love was strong and true. When another successful year came by, I just felt deep down that she was the one for me. We discussed that this would be a long-term engagement, that way it doesn’t interfere with college or career goals.” McNeill and Carias also said they are excited to live in the same place again once they get married. “Obviously we’ll be living together, because that would be weird if we didn’t,” McNeill said. “We plan on having a house, have an apartment first like anybody else. We’ll definitely settle down wherever we can both get jobs in the same general area. Since I’ll get done first, it’ll probably be wherever I’ll be at first and then move on from there.” Until then, they will continue to endure and enjoy their long-distance relationship, knowing they have some of their favorite things to look forward to on their next visit.

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When Diamond McNeill, senior in computer science and music theory, met Ramon Carias, a student at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska, in high school, she said she didn’t know they’d end up together. “We were both in show choir; I was the dance captain and he did set,” McNeill said. “We talked a little bit, we were friends, but we never actually dated in high school. It wasn’t until I came to college that we actually started talking about maybe being in a relationship.” From the time they started dating, McNeill and Carias have been together four years. “It was about two and a half years into the relationship when I decided to ask the ultimate question,” Carias said. He proposed on Oct. 24, 2015. When McNeill came home for the weekend to take her car to the mechanic, he got off work, came to her house and tried to blindfold her. “Of course, he doesn’t know how to blindfold people very well, so I had to help him blindfold me,” McNeill said. He then drove her to a park she had never been to before, where he had already set up the scene. “We walked for a little bit and he stops me in this area, he takes off the blindfold and I see two tiki torches and a heart made by rose petals,” McNeill said. “Along the way past that, there’s a creek area and he had blankets laid out and he had a radio. We went over there and he had a radio and played our song that we danced to.” After they shared a dance, he asked her to marry him. “I was crying and I didn’t know what to do,” McNeill said. “I was trying to say yes, but the

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words didn’t come out, so I’m shaking my head yes, but he wouldn’t put the ring on my finger until I actually verbally said yes.”

A LONG-DISTANCE ENGAGEMENT

For now, some miles separate the couple. Home for the couple is Omaha, where Carias said he works full time at an eye specialist’s office, in addition to attending school full time to earn his business administration degree. McNeill and Carias both said the distance is hard, but it is worth it. “Our relationship is a unique one,” Carias said. “We knew from the beginning that the distance would pose as an obstacle, but we were ready to

“Her brutal honesty, cooking, similar nerdy interests and her goofy moments are to name a few (favorite things),” Carias said. McNeill said her favorite thing about Carias is probably his corny jokes. “Even though sometimes I say I don’t like them or that I think they’re stupid, I still think they’re funny,” McNeill said.

WEDDING PLANNING

The couple plans on getting married in 2019, after they have both graduated. McNeill, whose graduation is anticipated for December 2017, said she is looking forward to being done with school before working on the wedding details. “I’ve had some friends get married while they’re still in school and I commend them for that,” McNeill said. “For myself, I cannot deal with having to plan a wedding and school and studying for tests and work at the same time. It’s just too much for me.” see page

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ENGAGEMENT | Family of couple supports long-term engagement

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McNeill also said she is grateful to have understanding people surrounding them and their decision to push the wedding off until they have less on their plates. “I get questions of people saying when you’re engaged, it’s normally within a year you get married,” McNeill said. “Most people understand the fact that we are both in school and want to wait to finish school. So there’s not very many, little to no ‘are you crazy?’ looks when I tell

them that we’re waiting until after we finish.” When the time comes, though, McNeill said she has at least one person interested in helping her make plans. “My family, they were really happy about it,” McNeill said. “My mom didn’t want him to propose until we were both done with school, but she was still okay with it, so that’s all that matters. They were really excited. My sister definitely was the first one to say, ‘I’m going to plan your wedding.’” However, during breaks the

pair has been making some progress on planning the wedding. “We did decide that we’re going to have (the wedding) back home,” McNeill said. “We decided that we were going to have it sometime around 1 p.m., just so that we don’t have lunch and don’t have to pay for dinner. Food is probably one of the most expensive parts of a wedding, so trying to keep that cost down to a minimum. We’ve narrowed it down to two places, so it’s just a matter of when I go home next, going and looking at those places.”

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Campus food pantry online petition gains over 600 supporters MEGAN KOCER

THE COLLEGIAN

An online petition through Change.org to start a student-run campus food pantry has been gaining attention throughout the Kansas State student body. The idea for a campus food pantry was created in order to combat the results following the Campus Climate Survey conducted in 2014. The survey discovered that roughly 40 percent of K-State students identified as food insecure or lacking a consistent source of nutritious food. Christine Rock, senior in food science and industry, is one of the many K-State students behind this petition. “Two years have passed, and our students are still lacking substantial resources to fill this constant need,” Rock said. K-State still remains one of the only Big 12 schools without an established food pantry for its students. Talk of having an on-campus food pantry has been taking place for the past six years, but the conversation began to gain more attention and momentum following the 2014 Campus Climate Survey results. Trenton Kennedy, student body vice president and junior in entrepreneurship, said getting food in the hands of hungry students is important. “The biggest priority right now is to just get food in the hands of hungry students,” Kennedy said. “That needs to be addressed first and foremost.” The Office of Student Life,

a supporter of the food pantry, currently has a small-scale food pantry that anyone can donate to located in Holton Hall 101. Nate Faflick, sophomore in family studies, said the K-State family community is important in this circumstance. “K-State prides itself on family,” Faflick said. “To me, family means the people that are there to support you regardless of your position or circumstances. The campus not having a food pantry means that there is an unaddressed student need.” This unaddressed need for food is well known by Lorena Juanez, sophomore in economics. “I remember going to bed hungry and waking up hungry,” she said. “I would go to school hungry because my parents didn’t have money for food and I would not eat until lunchtime came.” Juanez said she signed the petition. “I think having a food pantry will help tremendously in more ways than just one,” Juanez said. “Not only financially, but physically and mentally. I have had my fair share of moments with food insecurity.” Faculty members alongside a team of students are working together to serve the campus by making sure the needs of each student are met. These students include: Rock, Garrett Wilkinson, senior in nutritional sciences, Nick Bouzianis, sophomore in nutritional sciences, Dietra Sober, freshman in open option and Kennedy Hackerott, freshman in

open option. Wilkinson and Bouzianis wrote the petition, “Call to Action: Establish a Campus Food Pantry” and Rock put the petition together on Change.org. The petition reached over 600 supporters by Tuesday and has numerous comments, from

students struggling with food insecurity to those wanting to make a change on K-State’s campus. The petition description urges those reading to not allow students or faculty members to make the choice between food and other life essentials. It provides an example of students who

are able to put their financial resources together to cover tuition, books, transportation costs, rent, electricity and other necessities, but once those bills are paid, they have nothing left to cover the cost

of food. The idea of having a campus food pantry does have some downfalls, however, Rock said. “We’ve identified several resources to begin to stock the pantry with food, but start-up costs related to the infrastructure of the proposed pantry facility won’t be free,” Rock said. “Next steps include securing a location and then equipping that space to be able to serve both perishable and nonperishable food products.” However, a concern about the definition on the petition is a concern for Juanez. “The word ‘poor’ kind of rubbed me the wrong way,” Juanez said. “There is no one way a ‘poor’ person looks. Maybe ‘underprivileged’ would be a better use.” Kennedy also serves on the Student Centered Tuition Enhancements Fund Committee, which will be deliberating in the spring for the 2018 fiscal year. On the agenda is the proposed campus food pantry. Receiving the fund from SCTE would cover the startup costs for the pantry, Kennedy said. “KSU is closer than we ever have been to establishing an on–campus food pantry,” Bouzianis explains, “If you think that over 8,000 food insecure students at K-State is too many or you struggle with food insecurity, please reach out to Dr. Pat Bosco and show the university that you care.”

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