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BRING THE HEAT
‘VILLE REVAMP City plans to redevelop 12th Street, Bluemont Avenue
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Get what you give: Biodiesel Initiative Club powers university trucks Page 4
Tel Wittmer wins student body presidential election Page 3
See Page 5: The Wildcats take on the Jayhawks Saturday in Bramlage.
College of Veterinary Medicine forgoes GRE requirement in application process Page 8
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ELECTIONS
Tel Wittmer wins student body presidential election
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After a monthslong process of preparing and running, the results from the election show that Wittmer and his running mate Lane Lundeen, junior in fisheries, wildlife and conservation science, received 1,821 votes, amounting to more than 55 percent of the vote. "I'm very relieved, but humbled and ready to get to work," Wittmer said. "I'm excited to be in a role that can make a lot of difference for people." Hannah Heatherman, speaker of the student senate and senior in finance and organizational management, fell behind. She received 1,455 votes, good for 44.41 percent of the vote. Additionally, 254 ballots were submitted with a vote for neither candidate. The transition process with start soon, as Wittmer and Lundeen begin meeting with the current executive branch of Student Governing Association. Lundeen said after they won the primary earlier this month, Wittmer's campaign team didn't
Amid growing public health concerns, posters joking about COVID-19 appear in business building KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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Tel Wittmer will be the next student body president. He is joined by Lane Lundeen who will serve as student body vice president for the 2020-2021 academic year. Their key platforms are success, sustainability and service. get complacent. "We tried as hard as we could to keep going keep going to different organizations, kept soliciting at different chapters," Lundeen said. Heatherman said she doesn't regret running and still wants to be involved with SGA next year. "I think that one of my biggest motivations for running was
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actually knowing that if I didn't, it's something that I would regret and so to regret it after the fact just seems trivial," she said. She said that this will give her more time to focus on what she's passionate about in SGA. "I honestly think not winning will allow me more of an opportunity to push those things through because I won’t be so tied into the figurehead type of
things, or answering 60 emails a day," Heatherman said. Wittmer said a lot of people put in a lot of time to make his win a reality. "We're blessed with everybody on our team and everybody who supported us, and I think it's a testament to them and how passionate they are about improving the university," Wittmer said.
Wednesday morning, a poster making a joke about a campus computer being out of order because it has the coronavirus appeared on social media. “Out of order. This computer has been infected with coronavirus,” the sign reads. Michelle Geering, Kansas State’s Public Information Officer, confirmed that the poster was found in the College of Business Administration Building. “It has been taken down,” Geering said. Melanie Horton, assistant to the dean of the College of Business Administration, said the student has been reprimanded. “There wasn’t any malicious intent,” Horton said. “The student didn’t realize the implications.” Thomas Lane, vice president of student life and dean of students, said the poster was a prank by IT staff in the building trying to have laugh, not harm other students. Lane only received one complaint from a student via Twitter. Lane added K-State’s campus climate needs to be discussed by everyone. “This highlights the importance of the campus climate survey,” Lane said. “Right now, there is only a 10 percent response rate. It needs to be higher.” Vedant Kulkarni, junior in management information systems and mass communications, is Student Govern-
ing Association’s director of international student affairs. He said he was made aware of the poster through social media. Kulkarni referred to the posters as disparaging. “I was disgusted, and quite frankly nauseated,” Kulkarni said via text. “It was painful to see this incident happen. While I understand it was posted to be a harmless prank, what people who posted it don’t understand are the microaggressions that follow such jokes.” As the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, continues to spread around the globe, reports of heightened prejudice toward Asian populations have emerged. The virus, which first appeared in the Chinese Hubei Province, has infected tens of thousands of people in dozens of nations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “What we’ve seen with the coronavirus … the racism is spreading faster than the virus itself,” Fanny Fang, graduate student in counseling services and owner of the Manhattan Asian Market, said. “This is incredibly real and heartbreaking for millions of people all around the world.” Recent reports from the CDC and the National Institutes of Health suggest that infection spread in the United States is likely. “It’s not a question of if this will happen, but when this will happen, and how many people in this country
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VEGETABLE OIL TO BIODIESEL Biodiesel Initiative Club powers university trucks CASSANDRA GRIFFING WRITER
The Kansas State Biodiesel Initiative club is using an otherwise wasted resource to make a difference in the environment and community: vegetable oil.
“We are a group of students that go pick up what is called waste vegetable oil from the dining centers on campus,” Molly Smith, president of the club and junior in biological systems engineering, said. “We’ll take that into our lab, and we’ll convert it basically
from that to biodiesel. “Our lab is actually connected to the recycling center, which is what our biodiesel goes to,” she said. “If you see those around campus, that’s partly us powering them.” The biodiesel is better for the environment because it is a
RECYCLING K-State collaborates with Fort Riley to reduce waste REBECCA VRBAS C U LT U R E E D I T O R
Have you ever wondered what happens to whatever you drop in one of the little blue receptacles on campus? Bill Spiegel, supervisor of the Recycling Center, has all the answers. “You gotta make [recycling] easy, you gotta make it convenient,” Spiegel said. Spiegel has accomplished this by implementing ‘one stop drop’ receptacles around campus where students can recycle plastics No. 1-7, paper, newspaper, magazines and aluminum/tin cans. When the program made the switch to one stop drop in 2013, volume exploded. The program manages the sheer amount of recyclables with the help of Fort Riley’s recycling facility, which has been around for about three years. “We take ours to Fort Riley loose in our trucks that we have out there, and they separate it because they have a machine with people that separate it,” Spiegel said. From Fort Riley, the materials are sold and can be used to make new products. Recycled glass can be used to make fiberglass insulation and tires are shredded up and
used for mulch. “I have a good relationship with Fort Riley,” Spiegel said. “We’re very fortunate because we don’t have to pay to get rid of it.” Cost remains one of the main barriers to recycling. “To get rid of a ton of recycling is about $90 to $100,” Spiegel said. “Now if you took that same weight to the landfill, it’s only $50.” As countries in recent years have stopped accepting the United State’s recycling exports, the demand for recycled materials has decreased. “That affected everybody, not just K-State but across the whole nation. Before, the market was real great,” Spiegel said, “About two years ago, the market started going down a bit. “[Fort Riley] used to take a lot more people, but they downsized a little bit, too, from the market,” Spiegel said. “They said ‘Well Bill, since you were the very first customer from two and a half years ago, we’re going to keep you, as long as your [product] stays clean.’” Centers prefer materials to be as clean and free from contaminants as possible. K-State’s is roughly 85 percent clean, which Spiegel said is still really good. The center’s website specifies
it cannot accept adhesives, binders, carbon paper, paper towels, cling wrap, food wrappers, styrofoam cups and wax-coated drinking cups, which contaminate the recyclable materials. However, Spiegel said the main offender when it comes to ruining recycling is usually food contamination. “If it has food in it, we just don’t even want it,” Spiegel said. However, food waste still has a role to play at the Recycling Center. The extra food that gets thrown away from the dining halls also finds a home thanks to Spiegel. The Recycling Center works with Housing and Dining and Throckmorton to compost both food waste and soil from the greenhouses. For composting, however, the goal is to reduce rather than increase the amount. “We don’t want a lot of high numbers in compost, because that means a lot of food waste,” Spiegel said. Spiegel said the goal is to reuse, repurpose and recycle as much as possible so K-State doesn’t pay for it down the road. “We’ve come a long way,” Spiegel said. “Some universities say they’re zero waste. It’s hard to be zero waste because everything is not recyclable.”
renewable plant source. “Because our feedstock is a plant, it takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Whereas, cars, when they use fuel, they emit carbon dioxide,” Christina Griese, vice president of the biodiesel club and junior in chemical engineering, said. The students also take methanol from the vegetable oil to create soap which has been sold at the farmer’s market and events for Earth Day, Smith said. “There is a collaboration event with … American Chemical Society,” Griffin Karr, lead lab manager of KBI and senior in chemical engineering, said. “Next month, we’re going to host a soap workshop. It’s going
to be a weekend event where students and members of ACS come to a lab down at the CBC building, and we’re going to teach them how to make soap.” Karr joined the club as a freshman hoping to gain some experience within the College of Engineering. He appreciated the hands-on experience the club gave him. “It’s more of you get out whatever you put in,” Karr said. “I’ve enjoyed the freedom of being able to go into the lab and play with pumps and equipment … and I really liked that learning experience. “I think it is inspiring for students who are looking to see what it’s like to be in this industry… they get a chance to help out and give some oil
to do some fun things for students,” Karr said. “I think it’s a cool opportunity for those who want to get into fields that help the environment, or want to do more [with] biofuels when they graduate. It’s a great stepping-stone.” Karr said the best way to get involved is to join them in the lab and participate in what they’re doing. Griese said their work shows how people can work together, take a little bit from each other and give it right back. “I think it’s really good that we’re able to take something from the university that that would have just gotten thrown out…and be able to give it back to the university as actual fuel,” Griese said.
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SUNFLOWER SHOWDOWN
As Wildcats and Jayhawks meet for the second time this season, K-State looks to avoid another loss ANDREW LIND
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Ten games ago, the Kansas State Wildcats (9-19, 2-13 Big 12) were in Allen Fieldhouse and felt the wrath of the Kansas Jayhawks (25-3, 14-1) losing in a 81-60 blowout. With a 1-9 record, K-State will try their best to hold off the Jayhawks as Kansas makes the 87 mile journey to Bramlage Coliseum with hopes to sweep the season series, and force the ‘Cats into their ninth straight loss. In the first meeting, all eyes were turned to the dying seconds of the game, where a brawl involving both teams broke out and stole the headlines — overshadowing the play of Kansas freshman guard Christian Braun. Braun scored a career-high 20 points knocking down a game-high
six threes. K-State transfer junior guard David Sloan also had a K-State career-high, knocking down 17 points, and surging as the main offensive powerhouse. The Sunflower Showdown will be one of the least anticipated games this rivalry has seen for awhile. Kansas enters this contest as the No. 1 team in the nation after taking down the previous No. 1 team Baylor one week ago. As K-State’s season has been thrown out the window, a win in this game would be a great ending to what was a poor season performance.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR: KANSAS: Senior center Udoka Azubuike: “Dok ‘’ is argu-
ably one of the best bigs in the country. At 7’0” and 270 pounds, this big gets it done down low. Azubuike is averaging a double-double, scoring 13.4 points per game, while also pulling down 10.4 rebounds a game. And to put a cherry on-top, Azubuike sends an average of 2.6 shots into the seats. Junior guard Marcus Garrett: What does this dude not do? Garrett is the jack-of-alltrades, however, he is known across the country as a top-defender. There aren’t many stats on the box score that champion a defender, but the “steals” category can do some justice. Garrett averages 1.9 steals a game, and you should trust me when I say this guy can guard. KANSAS STATE: Transfer junior guard David Sloan: With inconsistent play this season from redshirt
ANALYSIS
Harris leads revenge victory over Iowa State
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Senior guard Angela Harris looks across the court for an open play during K-State’s women’s basketball team’s Play 4 Kay Pink Game to promote cancer awareness. K-State played against TCU in Bramlage Coliseum on Feb. 19. The Horned Frogs defeated the Wildcats 54-52.
junior guard Cartier Diarra, Sloan has been able to showcase his point guard abilities. Sloan has low averages in most categories on the year, but that is primarily due to the low minutes he experienced early in the season. The guard is shooting 39.6 percent from the floor, while averaging 19.3 minutes of play for the ‘Cats. If Sloan can get some early shots to fall and keep his man in front of him, he might become the spark this struggling Wildcat team needs. Senior forward Makol Mawien: The play of Mawien this season is not what any fan would have expected. It’s not that Mawien is the only Wildcat player struggling this season, but he is one of the most surprising. With the strong post-play that the Jayhawks utilize, Mawien’s inside presence will be crucial to K-State’s success on Saturday. If Mawien
“We’re a team that never forgets stuff, and the last time we played them—in Ames—I thought it was disrespectful. … It was like five seconds left on the clock and their point guard threw the ball up,” Harris said. Senior forward Peyton Williams has a different memory of the game. “I didn’t even notice that — that’s funny,” senior forward Peyton Williams said through laughter. “I didn’t either,” Kansas State's head coach Jeff Mittie added with a smile. “I remembered,” Harris said.
The Wildcats got their revenge for both the ball throwing and the 73-59 lashing Iowa State gave them, but Harris turned in a cool 11 points in both games. On a team with two dominant forwards that command a lot of the attention from defenses, media members and their own teammates alike, Harris has been a stable point guard for her team. The Houston transfer averages 11 points per game and has team-high numbers for assists and steals. “The play of Angela Harris has been really big for their team moving forward. I thought she played great,” Iowa State head coach Bill Fennelly said. “Senior guards are amazing. They’re a gift from God and when you don’t
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Junior guard David Sloan dribbles the ball up court during the game against the Universtiy of Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 21. The Wildcats fell to the Jayhawks with a final score of 81-60. can hit his averages, play with high-intensity and stay out of foul trouble, he will be the player to watch. Bramlage Coliseum is
ready and so are the Manhattan faithful. Saturday afternoon with tip-off at 12:30 p.m., K-State will host Kansas on CBS.
have one, you’re going through hell half the time.” Harris provided two big specific lifts for her team against Iowa State: decision making and defense. Harris, who finished the game 5-11, passed up a number of open shots to move the ball around the perimeter, seeking a hole in the Cyclone zone to get the ball to her forwards. “Early in the shot clock, [it’s not hard to pass up shots] because as a team we’ve found our identity later on in the season,” Harris said. “We know we’re trying to get the ball inside, whether it’s a pass in to the post or drive to the rim from a guard.” Throughout the season, Harris has found herself with the ball in her hands in last-second situations more than once, a testament to the trust Mittie has in her. Harris also managed to turn in a game-leading six steals tonight. One of which helped to kill any Cyclone momentum at the
end of the first half. Iowa State had cut the lead all the way down to four. A pair of free throws had stretched it back out to six, but Iowa State was still making a run. Harris picked her moment to strike. She jumped a pass and went down to the other end of the floor, draining a fast-break layup and claiming the last basket of the half. The steal-and-score was so easy for Harris that she did it two more times, including another momentum-shifter. This time, with a four-point lead in the third quarter, she picked off senior forward Adriana Camber and raced down for a bucket. Harris hit a transition three the next time down the floor. Her 30 second 5-0 run forced a Cyclone timeout and pushed the lead to nine. Harris and the Wildcats have a tough test this weekend when they head to Waco, Texas, to take on the 26-1 Baylor Bears Saturday evening.
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REVITALIZING ANNA WEIGEL WRITER
The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce plans to proceed with redevelopment of the south side of Bluemont Avenue and 12th Street between Bluemont Avenue and Moro Street. Deputy City Manager Jason Hilgers said the plan eliminates traditional curbs as well as parking stalls on both sides of 12th Street, replacing them with brick pavers. The street will remain open to two-way traffic when construction is completed. The plan also allows for new lighting, landscaping, shade structures, trees, plant-
ers, outdoor seating and bollards, which provide an option to close down the street for special events. “We are way past due, but we’ve had an Aggieville vision project in the works for probably almost 10 years,” Dennis Cook, director of the Aggieville Business Association, said. “[We have] the idea of redeveloping Aggieville into something that’s a little bit more up to date, a little bit more inviting.” The redevelopment of 12th Street and the south side of Bluemont is expected to cost a little more than $1.7 million. In total, Hilgers said the city is looking at investing over $30 million in Aggieville through this project, which
We are way past due, but we’ve had an Aggieville vision project in the works for probably almost 10 years. Dennis Cook
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will provide for many more improvements including a new parking garage. “In the comprehensive plan there’s an option for a new parking garage that is currently under final design,” Hilgers said. “We anticipate action from the commission later this summer or early next fall to ... authorize us to go ahead and construct the parking garage. It will have 450 new spaces in the garage, so the 10 stalls that are being taken off 12th will be replaced there.” Jason Smith, president of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, said the Chamber is interested in retaining students and attracting young professionals to Manhattan to encourage growth in the community and economy. “We have to make sure that we are making the proper investments that show that we are the kind of community that you can live in while you go to school, and then also stay in when you graduate,” Smith said. Smith said he hopes the changes are practical for the district, but also attract new businesses to make Aggieville an all-day destination and bring in more visitors. “[People] need an exciting, invigorating entertainment district, and to do that we need to be redeveloped,” Cook said. “So I think it’s now in everybody’s interest -- the city, the chamber — to get this work going.” With all phases of the plan included, Hilgers said
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The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce plans to proceed with redevelopment of the south side of Bluemont Avenue and 12th Street between Bluemont Avenue and Moro Street to bring Aggieville back to life. redevelopment and construction will take around five to seven years. “We’re going to do everything we can to have [businesses] hold on and still be successful during construction, but after the construction’s over with and we have this redeveloped, I think Aggieville is going to hit a real growth spurt again,” Cook said. Cook said the brick pav-
ers, landscaping and outdoor seating on the south side of Bluemont Avenue will provide a much more prominent entrance to Aggieville. “What I’ve discovered in talking to people that … went to school here or have visited here, [is] that Aggieville holds a special place with most of them,” Smith said. “I think that we have to make sure that we don’t allow for the infrastructure to deteri-
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orate to such a point that it can’t live up to that promise anymore.” In the meantime, Cook said he encourages people to continue supporting Aggieville by attending the St. Patrick’s Day parade and race on March 14 and Fake Patty’s Day on March 21. “We would like to invite everybody to come on down and be a part of Aggieville,” Cook said.
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EDUCATION College of Veterinary Medicine forgoes GRE requirement in application process ABBY LACY WRITER
After several years of requiring the completion of the Graduate Record Examination for prospective graduate students, the Kansas State College of Veterinary Medicine will be eliminating the exam from the application process effective in the 2020-2021 application cycle. The college wants to focus on a more comprehensive application process focusing on academics. The GRE is used at several other universities. However, according to Callie Rost, assistant dean for admissions in the College of Veterinary Medicine, many of these institutions are disaffiliating the GRE with their application process as well. “I serve on the AAVMC (Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges) Admissions and Recruitment Committee, and several of the representatives from other vet schools on that committee have dropped the GRE,” Rost said. “It’s been a conversation that I’ve been involved in for two years.” The GRE consists of 3 sections: verbal, quantitative and analytical writing. According to Rost, the exam is able to indicate a good overview of the applicants in those areas, but did not necessarily demonstrate the applicants’ understanding of science. “Our program is science-based and really that exam does not tell us anything about the science background knowledge that applicants have,” Rost said. “There really isn’t an exam specifically written for veterinary admissions like there is for medical schools like the MCAT or the LSAT for law school. We don’t have anything like that for veterinary medicine, so we’ve used the GRE in place of a specific exam for veterinary programs.”
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Then-fresmen, Austin Hobbs, Shade Hirrons and Trevor Mullen study for a test. The College of Veterinary Medicine is discontinuing the GRE requirements for applicants Despite the removal of the GRE, Rost said this does not suggest the application process is any easier. “We are really wanting to look more towards a holistic type of admissions where academics will still be a really big part of it,” Rost said. Among other qualities, Rost said the Admissions and Recruitment Committee will look at the applicant’s experiences during their undergraduate and during high school years, past veterinary experience, community involvement, leadership, rigor, research experience and employment as well as many other criteria. “We want to look at the entire applicant,” Rost said. According to David Hoffman, recruitment coordinator for the College of Veterinary Medicine, the decision to remove the GRE was discussed in depth and not taken lightly. “It was a combination of efforts of wanting to fully examine the admissions process,” Hoffman said. “It was wanting to remove what we saw as a significant barrier to applicants applying and possibly being admitted to the program as well
as understanding what the data had told us in that the GRE was not necessarily predictive of academic adjustment in the first year and success on the national board examinations.” Although the GRE was required in past years, there was a time in which the K-State College of Veterinary Medicine did not require the GRE for acceptance into the program. Rost said this is an indication that the exam did not necessarily guarantee success in the graduate program. “We have K-State students in our program who have graduated, who are very successful veterinarians, who never took the GRE,” Rost said. “At those other schools, they really have not noticed any students who have needed any extra help or a higher number of students who have not been successful once they dropped the GRE. It really did not effect their success.” Hoffman said communication and collaboration, among many other factors, are the qualities they look for from an admissions standpoint. “People are the most important part of veterinary medicine,” Hoffman said.