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etired Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers has been appointed as interim K-State president, as announced by the Kansas Board of Regents Thursday morning. Myers is a graduate of K-State, earning a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1965 and an MBA from Auburn University, according to his K-State online profile. Myers was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the commander in chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command, commander of Pacific Air Forces and commander of U.S. Forces, Japan, during his career, according to his K-State online profile.

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Myers is the chairman of the KSU Foundation’s Board of Trustees and a member of the K-State College of Engineering Hall of Fame. Myers will make a statement and answer questions at a press conference on April 20, according to the Kansas Board of Regents. Jolene O’Donnell, junior in elementary education and German, said she thinks Myewwrs’ passion for K-State will serve the university well during his time as interim president. “I think it’s awesome,” O’Donnell said. “When I was in the Air Force ROTC program, I actually got to meet and get to talk to Gen. Myers, and he’s really enthusiastic about K-State, and especially about the ROTC program, which is important to me. I think he’ll do a great job. He knows what it’s like to be a K-State student. He’s been in our shoes.”

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K-STATE LIBRARIES RECEIVES LARGE DOCUMENT DONATION FROM CONSUMER FEDERATION

The Consumer Federation of America recently donated over four decades worth of organizational records to K-State Libraries’ Richard L.D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections. The federation handed over documents it has collected over the last 48 years, including statements, minutes, congressional testimonies, press releases and surveys. According to K-State Today, this was done in the hopes of “offering research potential for historians and other scholars interested in consumer history.” “When Richard Morse, a K-State professor who served as a U.S. Consumer Advisory Council member under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, gave his professional papers to K-State Libraries, it laid the foundation for what’s become one of our premier research collections,” Lori Goetsch, dean of K-State Libraries, said to K-State Today. “Many of Professor Morse’s peers and organizations he’d worked with followed suit. We’re thrilled that the CFA — a hugely influential organization in the consumer movement field — has also elected to archive its papers at K-State Libraries.” Morse Department of Special Collections librarians plan to digitize the federation’s donation to make it accessible online via links from finding aids on the special collections’ website, according to K-State Today. see page

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Jalen Chance, communications specialist, works in the K-State Police Department’s dispatch center. Sitting in a room with several computer monitors showing surveillance videos, Chance said a typical day for him consists of answering phone calls to the police, running license plates for traffic stops, dispatching police officers to where they need to be and being the face of the police department as people come to him with their questions and reports. It was one of Chance’s first nights working in the dispatch center by himself when he said he received a call from the Riley County Police Department saying a potentially armed subject was on K-State’s campus. This resulted in the September 2015 cam-

puswide lockdown. “It definitely heightened me,” Chance said. “It got me going.” He said this was his craziest day in the eight months he has worked in the dispatch center. Randy Myles, K-State community police officer, said days like this do not happen very often, but when they do, it can be stressful; however, everyone in the police department does what they can to help and give each other support. Maj. Don Stubbings, assistant director of the K-State Police Department, said there are two sides to the department: the support services side and the patrol side. Stubbings works in the support services side doing communications, training and media relations. Stubbings said part of his job is to run the K-State Police Department’s Twitter page, which has over 5,000 followers.

“I really enjoy the social media side,” Stubbings said. On the patrol side of the department, Myles said he works with the community and patrols the K-State campus and other areas around Manhattan. Myles said he was hired about a year ago under a government grant to be part of the community outreach program for the police department. “My role is to build relations with KSU,” Myles said. He said his day starts off with a briefing from his superiors before going to the patrol cars. This includes being filled in on what happened the night before and things the patrol officers should look out for. Before going out, though, he and the other officers have to check all of their equipment to make sure they are not forgetting anything and that everything is working properly. “We’re kind of getting ourselves

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together, checking and making sure all our equipment on us is operational and we have everything that we need to do our job effectively,” Myles said. Along with patrolling buildings and responding to dispatchers, Myles also does traffic stops. He said stops usually involve speeding or handsfree violations, which means people were using their phones while driving. While most people are cooperative during these stops, Myles said sometimes people will be argumentative, and sometimes the situation takes an unexpected turn. For example, a speeding violation stop turned into him giving a sobbing woman advice and recommendations regarding resources for the woman to use after she admitted to being recently sexually assaulted, he said. “I sat and I talked with her for a good while,” Myles said. “It wasn’t the craziest stop, but it was the most realistic. ... It was ‘OK, we had this violation, but this woman was going through something at the time.’” On more routine days, Myles said he thinks of certain scenarios he might come across. This can include assault or welfare checks, which is when the department receives a call saying a person is concerned about another individual and an officer should go check on them. “It helps better prepare you for if something does happen,” Myles said. To keep up with evolving technology and provide more resources for the community, K-State police and police departments nationwide are attempting to transition to Next Generation 911, Stubbings said. Next Generation 911 is what many police departments are moving toward so that the community will be able to text dispatch for 911 calls and access many other resources. K-State police are already moving toward that initiative with the LiveSafe app, which allows users to report accidents, theft and more. Users can also get information on resources available for counseling, such as contact information for the Center for Advocacy, Response and Education office, for “multi-layered safety,” Stubbings said.

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friday, april 15, 2016 Guest Editorial: Asking questions of the new interim president Suppose your co-workers call a meeting and make the following proposal: We need to bend the rules in this special case in order to achieve an important goal. Do you go along with your co-workers, even if the rules in question uphold legal and moral standards? Suppose your co-workers make another, different proposal: We need to change the rules so that what is now a crime is no longer a crime; otherwise, we won’t be able to achieve a very important goal. Do you go along with your co-workers in this case? You can reasonably object to these loaded questions with: ‘There is no context.’ Fair enough. Suppose the rules in question include the Geneva Conventions, U.S. treaty obligations that criminalize torture, along with other practices that are essential to the rule of law, for example, a prohibition on exporting prisoners to third-party states when knowing that these prisoners will be tortured. What would you do if your co-workers wanted to do these things? These are questions about ethical leadership. If you play a leadership role in an organization (say, a business, a governmental agency or a university) and your co-workers propose morally and legally questionable compromises, do you stand idly by when the policies are being discussed? How about when the questionable policies come into effect? Suppose a whistleblower raises moral and legal concerns about what your organization is doing. Do you stand idly by while she or he is thrown under the bus or scapegoated so that your organization can keep up an appearance of propriety and law abidingness? In fact, these questions are not hypotheticals. They apply to K-State’s new interim president. Gen. Richard Myers served as an important adviser to George W. Bush, a president whose legacy will be forever tarnished by grave moral wrongs, not the least of which is the attempt to redefine both law and morality in order to make ‘wrong’ into ‘right.’ See, for example, the Human Rights Watch Report “Getting away with torture: The Bush administration and mistreatment of detainees” (July 12, 2011). Do you remember Abu Ghraib? This was a notorious U.S.-run prison in Iraq, where prisoners were sexually abused by American citizens. According to investigative reporter Seymour Hersh (The New Yorker, June 25, 2007), upon investigating reports of abuse at the prison, Gen. Antonio Taguba found, “Numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees . . .(and) systemic and illegal abuse.” Hersh presents a picture of Taguba as someone who stood on principle against the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib. If Hersh’s presentation is accurate, Taguba exhibited real virtues, the kind that require standing on principle in the face of serious pressure from very powerful and hostile authorities. According to Hersh’s characterization of events, Taguba’s report did far more to inspire damage control strategies than it did a serious investigation into the crimes that were allegedly committed. I’m not sure what Gen. Myers, who was a participant in conversations between Rumsfeld and Taguba, could or should have done in this context. But I think we should ask that question. Readers can find Hersh’s article “The General’s Report” on the web here: newyorker. com/magazine/2007/06/25/the-generals-report This is not an isolated example. In an essay about Gen. Myers, “The Complicit General” (New York Review of Books, Sept. 24, 2009), Philippe Sands reports on a number of ways that Gen. Myers participated in discussions about whether the Geneva Conventions applied to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. For example, Common Article 3 strictly prohibits ‘humiliating and degrading treatment’ and insists upon some basic standards of human decency that all democratic states accept as essential to the rule of law. Important members of the Bush administration infamously argued that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. And we know now that the Geneva Conventions were in practice violated in a systematic way. The Bush administration was ultimately defeated on this issue when the Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the Geneva Conventions do in fact apply to prisoners held at Guantanamo. In a remark about Gen. Myers’ memoirs, Sands writes, “The fact is that General Myers’s principled position on the Geneva Conventions was an abject failure.” Those are harsh words. My guess (just a guess, of course, because I did not participate in the selection process) is that questions about ethical leadership in the abovementioned contexts did not arise when weighing the pros and cons of selecting a controversial figure to replace President Schulz. If we don’t ask these questions, who will? Jon Mahoney, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy Kansas State University 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.

Cheerleader overcomes concussions, prepares for next year’s tryouts ISABEL LAUBY the collegian

Jena Goebel, freshman in elementary education, did not allow a concussion to knock her out of the competition for a spot on the K-State cheerleading squad in May 2015. During Goebel’s warmups for K-State cheerleading tryouts, she suffered a hard blow to the head. Unaware of the concussion at the time, the trainer told Goebel that she could either complete the tryout that day or come back in roughly a week to complete it, Goebel said. Goebel made the decision to push on. Despite her head injury, that decision paid off, Goebel said. “Somehow I still made the team,” Goebel said. “It was a miracle.” Although K-State gameday involves lipstick, fake eyelashes and groomed hair for the female cheerleaders, not all of their work is glamorous, Goebel said. “You’re like running a marathon and trying to look cute at the same time and trying to also pay attention to the game,” Goebel said. Her experience as a K-State cheerleader did not fail to present her with struggles early on. During the 2015 football season, just a few months after her first concussion, an accident while cheering resulted in another concussion. Goebel said she had to miss classes and practices for a month; setting her behind academically and athletically. As a first-semester freshman, Goebel said she was still getting acquainted to college-level coursework during the time of her injury. “It was a transition of learning how to study and then trying to play catch up once I was allowed to study again,” Goebel said. Like before, however, Goebel did not let her injury stand in her way. According to her teammates, she continued to encourage them and keep a good attitude. “She was at every single practice even with her concussion,” Martika Chappell, senior in family studies and human services and teammate of Goebel’s,

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just laying on the floor not even wanting to do my homework. Just laying there like, ‘What am I doing with my life?’” Goebel said she was willing to put in long hours in order to “make new friends and grow as a cheerleader, but more to grow as a person because of the commitment and the struggles that are presented.” Juggling several responsibilities between school, cheerleading and her sorority can be overwhelming, Goebel said, but what keeps her going is the reminder that she is living out hundreds of people’s dreams, including her own, by being a cheerleader for a Division I school. “I tell myself that I was given the privilege and the honor to be on the team so I am going to give it all that I’ve got,” Goebel said. Goebel said she was not always interested in cheerleading, though. Her older sister, who had been the captain of her high school cheer team, wanted Goebel to bring her 12 years of experience as a gymnast to their high school cheer squad, and urged Goebel to try out. “I thought it was stupid,” Goebel said. “Then I ended up actually enjoying it.” Goebel said she enjoyed it so much that she decided to continue her cheerleading career at the collegiate level. Her first game was a rush of emotions.

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Goebel said her mother encouraged her to quit cheerleading out of fear of another concussion, but Goebel was determined to finish the season. “I’m not a quitter,” Goebel said. Once Goebel was cleared to practice with her team again, she said her biggest fear was not getting injured, but letting her team down by how far behind she had fallen. “It was almost like I was taking three steps back from the progress I had made,” Goebel said. Goebel impressed her teammates with her hard work and perseverance rather than frustrating them, Justin Staab, senior in kinesiology and teammate of Goebel’s, said. Staab said Goebel handled her situation in the best way she could. “When she came back, she worked her butt off and got back to where she used to be,” Staab said. Goebel said in addition to games, the cheerleaders put in several hours of weights, conditioning and practice, occupying nearly every evening of their week. “It’s definitely time-consuming,” Goebel said. “I remember coming back from practice, getting home at like 10 o’clock and

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Most people love their pets. Without this immense love of our fury cohorts, we would be without long walks, constant companionship and soft, gentle cuddles. Unfortunately, some people do not love their furry friends as much as others and feel the need to neglect or abuse them. “Since the 1970s, research has consistently reported childhood cruelty to animals as the first warning sign of later delinquency, violence and criminal behavior. In fact, nearly all violent crime perpetrators have a history of animal cruelty in their profiles,”Joni Johnston said in the Psychology Today article “Children who are cruel to animals: When to worry.” Despite this fact, animals are still being adopted by people with inadequate history; a problem that could be solved by running a simple background check. A background check can encompass looking at an individual’s criminal record, credit report, driving record and drug test records to name a few, according to the Criminal Watch Dog article, “What shows up on a background check?” Without a background check, people at shelters have no idea who is actually adopting a pet. Each year, about 7.6 million pets enter animal shelters nationwide. Of the 7.6 million pets that find themselves in shelters, only 2.7 million are adopted, according to the “Pet statistics” page on the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ website. Many pets lose their opportunities to live in homes because pets and families are mismatched or not prepared to care for a pet, according to, “The adoption process: What to expect,” page of The Humane Society of the United States’ website. The same article also lists the top five reasons people give up their pets and two of those are lack of time and inadequate facilities. With pets being given up for adoption because they are not receiving enough love, time or care, why should there be a chance of them ending up in a situation equal or worse to their previous one?

Illustration by Savannah Thaemert “Animal adoption groups say they want to avoid giving pets to owners who will abuse them and, perhaps more important, to make sure an animal that has been given up once will find a permanent home,” Anna Bahney said in The New York Times article, “So you think you can just adopt a dog?” There should be no chance of them ending up in any situation that is not centered around love and care, and animal shelters allowing and encouraging back-

ground checks before adoption can make sure that does not happen. On the other hand, there are some shelters that make it nearly impossible to get one of the 7.6 million animals a home because of their strict requirements. “People are heartbroken when they are told they can’t adopt because they can’t offer a ‘good’ enough home,” Lindsay Stordahl said in the ThatMutt.com article, “Too difficult to adopt a dog?” Without background checks

before animal adoption, shelters are giving people with animal abuse backgrounds the opportunity to be cruel or abusive to animals, thus ultimately allowing a cycle of abuse and violence to continue. At the same time, some shelters are being too strict and taking a perfectly good home away from an animal. Animals are one of God’s greatest gifts, and we need to do everything we can to protect them. I, however, feel the animal adop-

tion system is either too strict or too lenient, and it’s time we found an in-between. 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.

Jena Ernsting is a sophomore in agricultural communications and journalism. Please send comments to opinion@ kstatecollegian.com

Traditional country music losing battle to modern country BRANDON FAIT the collegian

It is fair to say that when we look back on certain times of our lives, there are always going to be songs or genres of music that stamp it. Every time I hear “Mama Tried” or “The Roots of my Raising” by Merle Haggard, I think about my days as a youngster working on my grandpa’s Christmas tree farm. The influence Haggard’s music had on my life was strong, and his death on April 6 has left a hole in my heart too large to explain. Merle Haggard boasted 38 No. 1 hits throughout his career, which ranks

third most in country music history, just behind George Strait and Conway Twitty, according to Gary Trust’s Billboard article “Merle Haggard notched 38 No. 1s on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart.” When I started to think about what a great country music artist he was, I couldn’t help but ask myself the same question many people are asking: Is traditional country music dead? In my opinion, the country music industry is facing a battle between traditional and “bro-country” artists, a battle that traditional country seems to be losing. Traditional country music, however, is distinct for two reasons: its sound and lyrics. One reason I think tradi-

tional country music is dying is because you rarely ever hear the steel guitar or fiddle anymore. These two instruments propelled country music to its greatest heights. It made the music distinct from other genres, and it gave the music an identity. “It’s not that I’m against all that’s out there. There’s some good music, good songwriting and good artists out there, but there’s really no country stuff left,” Alan Jackson said in Billy Dukes’ Taste of Country article “Alan Jackson: ‘There’s really no country left.’” Jackson is completely right. There are plenty of country music artists out there doing their best to keep traditional country music alive; however, they just cannot seem to break through in

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the industry. Country music has prided itself on being the genre of music that the everyday, hardworking person can relate to for a very long time, Sterling Whitaker said in The Boot article “Is traditional country music dead?” “It’s still the music of people’s real lives — it’s just that those real lives are more and more about partying with your friends and cruising around town showing off in your truck, as opposed to losing your crop to an early frost, or burying your brother because he died from tuberculosis,” Whitaker said. The rawness of traditional country music is something that shaped me as a person. Now the only thing I am learning from new country music is how to handle a

breakup or what type of cup to use when I drink. These artists are insulting all the legends who paved the way for their success today. These artists are making country music look shallow, which is something traditional country never was. Some artists, however, are defending the “bro-country” movement and claim they are only making the genre more appealing. “I feel the initial term ‘bro-country’ was created to be kind of a little degrading to what’s popular, to what country artists are doing right now,” Luke Bryan said in the Cleveland.com article “Luke Bryan: ‘Bro-country’ label offensive, says star who plays FirstEnergy Stadium on Saturday.” That’s where Bryan

and I have a fundamental disagreement. I understand that music progresses over time; however, it is important that we keep traditional country music alive. Traditional country music offers benefits to a lot of people that modern-day country cannot. Artists like Merle Haggard have been too influential to have their music replaced by red Solo cups and beer. 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.

Brandon Fait is a senior in mass communications. Please send comments to opinion@ kstatecollegian.com

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“It’s a good decision. He’s going to be interim so it will be interesting to see who the actual president will be. Hopefully they’ll offer him the position as the president eventually.”

“Given his leadership experience as joint chiefs of staff and chair for the visionary foundation, he’s a good fit for the position.”

“I just started at K-State, the most I know about Richard B. Myers is that there is a building named after him.”

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oming off their first conference victory over West Virginia, the Wildcats are preparing to take on in-state rival the Kansas Jayhawks. The Jayhawks are coming into the matchup ranked No. 35 in the country with a 14-5 overall and 4-2 conference record. The Jayhawks currently have a commanding lead in the overall series against the Wildcats. Kansas leads the series 41-13 after winning last year’s matchup in Lawrence by a score of 4-0. “KU has a great team this year,” K-State head coach Danielle Steinberg said to K-State Sports. “They are very well coached, and we know

that they will come out with a lot of energy and a fighting mentality. We will have the home-court advantage and are feeling good after our win (at West Virginia), so I am anticipating a great college match on Saturday.” The Wildcats will be looking toward doubles to build momentum. They did exactly that in the victory over the Mountaineers. Freshmen Ana Garcia Navas and Millie Stretton have formed quite the partnership over the last few weeks as the No. 1 doubles team. The two have won three straight matches as a pairing. K-State will need one of the other two pairs to come through if Stretton and Garcia Navas are successful on Saturday. “Our doubles play has improved a lot in the last few weeks, and just like most of our matches this year, the doubles point will be very im-

portant,” Steinberg said to K-State Sports. “Other than that, I am just expecting us to come out with great energy and resolve and, as always, control the things we can control well.” Both Kansas and K-State have young teams. The Jayhawks only have one senior on the roster. Freshman Anastasiya Rychagova is the No. 1 singles player for Kansas. She is coming into her first rivalry match with a record of 13-4 this spring. If Garcia Navas is in the No. 1 position, then this matchup could be a preview between two of the best No. 1 singles players in the country by their senior years. K-State will next be in action on April 22 for a doubleheader. The Wildcats will be hosting Southern Illinois in the morning and Big 12 foe Oklahoma State in the afternoon.

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Senior catcher Tyler Moore comes off the field during the baseball game between the University of Texas and K-State on April 9 at Tointon Family Stadium.

A fresh ballpark could be all K-State needs to get a fresh start on its 2016 season. Monongalia County Ballpark in Morgantown, West Virginia, a location where the Wildcats have not played yet, will be the site this weekend where K-State looks to turn itself around 180 degrees. Coming off a series-ending win over Texas, K-State, 14-19 and 1-8 in the Big 12, will square off against the West Virginia Mountaineers, who are 17-14 and 4-4 in the Big 12. “You try not to look at your record,” K-State head coach Brad Hill said after Sunday’s win. “But where we’re at right now you just try to go out and play each day and not look at your record. When you look at your record, you get a lot of worry and nervousness and then you really

can’t perform.” The Wildcats’ hopeful charge to success will be led by senior catcher Tyler Moore. Moore is on a five-game hitting streak and 12-game on-base streak. He couples that success with a .327 batting average, 16 runs, 36 hits and 25 RBIs. His success recently had him listed as one of 13 catchers added to the 2016 Johnny Bench Award Watch List earlier this week, which is an award given to the top Division I catcher in the month of June. For West Virginia, it is the play of a freshman that has led the Mountaineers to their 17 wins. Freshman outfielder Darius Hill has started all 31 games for his team in 2016. In those games, he leads his team in nearly every category, tallying a .328 batting average, 23 runs, 39 hits and 23 RBIs. History is not on the Wildcats’ side this weekend, as they

enter the weekend trailing the all-time series against the Mountaineers, 3-6. K-State has also lost five of the last six games to West Virginia. Junior pitcher Parker Rigler will start the series off pitching for K-State. Rigler enters tonight’s game with a 2-6 record and a 4.69 ERA. Senior Levi MaVorhis will follow up on Saturday afternoon. MaVorhis will pitch with a 3-3 record and a 4.60 ERA. Senior Corey Fischer will finish up on Sunday with a 1-3 record and a 5.60 ERA. For West Virginia, 1-3 junior Chad Donato will take his 3.81 ERA to Friday’s game. Senior Ross Vance will be the next man up with a 4-1 record and 4.23 ERA, and sophomore BJ Myers will close out the series with a 3-3 record and a 2.86 ERA. Game one will take place at 5:30 p.m. tonight, Saturday’s game will begin at 3 p.m. and Sunday’s finale will start at 11 a.m.

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