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Sparrow Specialty Coffee sees more students, sales months after move

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Barista Layne Stafford prepares a cortado using espresso and milk at Sparrow Specialty Coffee.

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Sparrow Specialty Coffee, a local Christian-based coffee shop, has experienced an increase in both customer traffic and revenue since its recent move from downtown to 1437 Anderson Ave. The new Sparrow location officially opened its doors on Feb. 5, continuing its sales of

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pour-over coffee, loose-leaf teas and café-style food options. The coffee shop’s updated location now offers a capacity of 50 and a room that patrons can reserve as a meeting space or a study location in addition to its slow bar specialty style of coffee. “It’s been an unbelievable move for the business because we’re right smack-dab in the middle of twenty thousand people nine months out of the year,”

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said Layne Stafford, Kansas State alumnus and self-proclaimed “barista-extraordinaire.” Stafford said he has talked to Manhattan residents who were unaware of the coffee shop’s existence until it’s recent location change. “You feel like you’re a little bit more in the loop of the busy part of Manhattan,” Stafford said. “There’s more traffic down here.” Like most businesses in Manhattan, Sparrow has experienced a decline in customers over the past couple summer months. “I think this can be in the same bubble as Aggieville in regard to seeing a change in revenue in the summer months,” Stafford said. Overall, however, location change has proven successful in terms of an increase in revenue. “There have been days where the revenue is upwards of three times what it we’d make over there,” said Stafford, referring to Sparrow’s previous location at 4th and Pierre streets, where Pool House Kitchen & Bar is now located. Students have been credited to the increase in customer traffic at the coffee shop due to the change in location. “We get more students here than we did at our previous location because they can walk here from campus,” Stafford said. Some students have differing opinions, though. “A few students have said they missed Sparrow being down there because they could get away,” Stafford said. “If they’re

here, they’ll see people they know and not get anything done.” Reese Fisher, junior in management information systems, said he was first drawn to Sparrow for the coffee, but his favorite part about the shop is the people. “I’m a huge people person,” Fisher said. “I love the community that comes in. There are those people who want to talk for hours, and it’s amazing to hear people’s stories, and just get to know them. “I’m an anthropology minor, so I love all the different cultures, not only Christian-based-coffeeshop-wise, but seeing where different people’s backgrounds come from gives an outlook of ‘How can we introduce Christ to them?’ if we please,” Fisher continued. The goal of the coffee shop, according to Sparrow’s website, is to “connect people with the love of Christ. We do this by focusing on community. Giving each and every person a place to belong and feel welcome allows a conversation a chance to begin, grow, and thrive.” Sparrow’s mission is to “create community and conversation,” which the business hopes to do through a cup of coffee and a partnership with the Church of the Nazarene. “They want to be a ministry first for people,” Stafford said. “To be a place where ministry can happen, whether it’s that other ministries on campus can use the space, or they can minister to people.” Sparrow is currently open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, Saturdays 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and is closed Sundays.

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Tattoo apprentice Freyja tattoos a patron at Mash Up Gallery on Friday. The gallery partnered with the Purple Power Animal Welfare Society for Furday the 13th, an event to benefit pet adoption. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Mash Up Gallery offered $50 flash tattoos and $13 haircuts, and the proceeds benefitted Purple P.A.W.S. There were also tables set up for a silent artwork auction. Purple P.A.W.S had multiple dogs that were up for adoption in attendance for the event.

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Hughes hires last baseball coaching staff member

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City commissioners are considering an increase of the pet licensing fee. After backing off a plan to require veterinarians to report unlicensed pets to city officials, commissioners have focused in on a new proposal that would create fines for owners of unlicensed cats and dogs over four months in age, the Manhattan Mercury reports. Licenses for unsterilized pets would be approximately doubled due to “issues more associated with those animals.” Another change would have the pet’s rabies tag used as their license num-

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ber, since the shot is required for the pet to be licensed. The mural honoring Brown vs. Board Historic Site in Topeka inches closer to its finishing touches. WIBW reports that ArtsConnect, the organization that created the 22-foot-wide painting, invited community members to participate in its creation. Controversy struck the project in June when an artist painted an immigrant mother clinging to her child, but the image was painted over by ArtsConnect, saying it didn’t represent the site’s historic message.

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Kansas State baseball players look out from the dugout as the team takes on Missouri State at Tointon Family Stadium on March 13, 2015.

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Kansas State head baseball coach Pete Hughes finished selecting the coaching staff that will stand by his side for the next era of Wildcat baseball. On July 12, Hughes hired Ryan Connolly as the director of baseball operations. Connolly will be in charge of the recruiting efforts for K-State baseball. He will also manage summer camps and the team’s travel. Shane Conlon and Colin Greaser will remain in the positions of volunteer assistant coach and director of player and program development, respectively. “Ryan Connolly is a tremendous addition to our program,” Hughes told K-State

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Pop economics: Why Pepsi is K-State’s soda provider

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The Cats’ Den convenience store in the Kansas State Student Union stocks a large variety of Pepsi products, including soda, coffee and juice.

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Every year, Daniel Kuester, professor and director of undergraduate studies in economics at Kansas State, starts off the school year with a demonstra-

tion to show how consumer surplus and producer surplus work. It displays how much people are willing to pay for something. “Oh, I have something that you’re not supposed to sell or have on campus,” Kuester said. Kuester pulled out the illegal contraband that he in fact

should not have or sell on campus. What was it? A can of Coca-Cola. Since July 2000, K-State and Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Marysville, Inc. have had a sponsorship agreement benefiting both groups. In exchange for a payment of $400,000.00 per

year, Pepsi has exclusive rights to beverage and snack sales on campus, as well as the exclusive right to provide its vending machines with full trademark panels on all sides, among other promotional rights. According to the contract, Pepsi has been made available throughout campus facilities and should be the only product brand sold on campus, at concession stands, in vending machines or served at special events held anywhere on campus. Pepsi provides the machines, but K-State is responsible for all electrical hook-ups and cost of electricity. Pepsi also has exclusive rights to decide what snacks are sold in the vending machines. These snacks have a set price determined initially by Pepsi, but prices can change in later years of the contract depending on material and product pricing. Pepsi-brand soda is also served in the three dining centers. These machines will have a fixed price on the syrup for the first three years of the current contract, 2015-2018, and after that will be reconsidered and determined by Pepsi’s National Account Price. With this contract in place, K-State receives 45 percent of

the gross sales prices on carbonated beverages and soda. For all non-carbonated sodas and/or “new-age” beverages, K-State receives 25 percent of the gross sales price. For snacks, K-State receives 10 percent of the gross sales price. In addition to the $400,000 per year Institution Support Fee paid directly to the KSU Foundation, another $300,000 for the Annual Advertising Fee is paid to K-State Athletics. Fran Willbrant, assistant vice president for Financial Services, said an exclusivity contract, like this one with Pepsi, is fairly common at large universities like K-State. Willbrant said that division of fee disbursement between the KSU Foundation and K-State Athletics was due to the promotional opportunities K-State Athletics offers for Pepsi. “A lot of the recognition comes from Athletics,” Willbrant said. The contract also offers up to $50,000 in marketing support and free product for the university. The marketing support can include logo placement on cans or other promotional supplies. Willbrant also said the total amount coming from Pepsi was almost $1 million annually

across all facets of the contract. Pepsi has used this sponsorship as a way to support K-State in its efforts to become a more environmentally friendly campus. Pepsi specifically contributes up to $5,000 annually for sustainability efforts and also supports the campus by including recycling dialogue on machines and advertising materials. When asked, many students did not know about the contract that Pepsi held with K-State. “I just thought we sold their products because they supported us financially,” Hannah Fry, junior in agricultural education, said. “I didn’t know we had a contract or anything.” Some students did not know that Pepsi was the exclusive beverage provider for campus. “I didn’t realize you couldn’t buy Coca-Cola on campus,” Katie Andrews, sophomore in secondary education, said. After the initial nine-year contract expired, it has been renewed twice, with the most recent amendment and additions finalizing in 2015 and expiring in 2022, unless it is amended to an earlier time or terminated.

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Early Saturday morning, four women danced in a studio in Ahearn Field House, practicing a belly dance routine. In the last 10 minutes of the session, the group sat down to stretch and debrief. One of the women said she had traveled an hour to get to class that morning. The class’s teacher is Kathryn Harth, program associate in the College of Human Ecology. Her course, Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, is offered through UFM Community Learning Center, a creative educational program that has served the Manhattan

community for 50 years. Harth said she first tried belly dancing when she lived in Denver, having never danced before and seeking new friends. After working her way through leveled classes, she performed with a belly dance troupe before moving to Manhattan. “I ended up moving to Manhattan and was ecstatic to find we had a belly dance troupe here,” Harth said. “I danced with them, and how I kind of got teaching through UFM; it gives us the opportunity to teach.” Though the local belly dance troupe is currently inactive, Harth said she continues

teaching because she can introduce people to something she loves. “I think that’s something UFM offers Manhattan that a lot of communities don’t have, some risk-free opportunities that are pretty inexpensive to try something new,” Harth said. “On the flip side, it allows people who are passionate about something to share it with anyone who wants to listen.” UFM provides several non-credit courses every year like Harth’s belly dance class. The organization is also partnered with Kansas State’s Global Campus to provide fitness and recreational classes for

K-State credit, said Linda Teener, executive director of UFM. Teener said UFM was founded in 1968 by K-State faculty and students. “They, at that time, felt the walls of the university were pretty narrow and prescribed, and they wanted opportunities to discuss things in an open, free way without having to have grades and requirements … so they could just talk about stuff with each other,” Teener said. “The mission became to bridge the campus and the community to allow conversations to flow both directions.” UFM facilitates credit courses with four universi-

ty departments: Horticulture and Natural Resources, Music, Dance and Kinesiology. When UFM’s partnership with K-State first started, Teener said, the university was looking for courses to enrich park management students’ education. “They didn’t have faculty that were trained, necessarily, to teach canoeing or backcountry skills or camping and recreational things like golf,” Teener said. “They asked us to organize that; it was a nice fit because we were already doing that in the non-credit area. We recruited, on the behalf of the departments, faculty that became adjuncts with the skills needed.”

Now UFM offers about 100 credit classes during the academic year, each for one hour of K-State credit. Combined with the non-credit class options, Teener said UFM coordinates approximately 250 different classes each semester. The non-credit course offerings vary each semester, but Teener said UFM consistently offers recreation courses such as golf and yoga. The rest depend on the interests of the community and instructor availability.

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Indian Students Association holds UFM annual Cricket Cup over weekend

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It’s a humid July night at World War I Memorial Stadium. Most Kansas State students are gone for the summer, but it’s not quiet. A rather large group of students have gathered on the field. They’re bowling, but they’re not rolling strikes. In fact, they’re not rolling anything at all. Bowling, on this particular night, means something different. In the game of cricket, the bowler is comparable to a pitcher in baseball. The bowler’s job is to throw the ball and knock the wickets off the stumps while simultaneously preventing the batter — or the batsman — from hitting the ball. The batsman stands in front of the stump and tries to hit the ball and run to the other stump in an area of the playing ground known as “the crease.” These K-State cricket players participated in the Indian Students Association’s annual Cricket Cup Tournament Friday through Sunday. Arvind Kannan, graduate student in civil engineering and ISA president, said there is a good turnout every year for the Cricket Cup. As a participant of last year’s Cricket Cup, Kannan said not everyone who plays is Indian. “Most of them are from India,” Kannan said. “But we also have people from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, too.”

Kannan said when faculty and their families are included, ISA consists of about 600 members, but there are 14 executive staff members who help organize the events. Jayendra Amamcharla, ISA’s faculty advisor, said the students who volunteer for ISA put forth a great deal of time and effort. They organize everything themselves. Amamcharla said a key role of the organization is to welcome the newcomers from India and help them with tasks such as getting to campus from the airport. “The organization is made so the students don’t miss India,” Amamcharla said. Prashant Kapopara, a fourth-year Indian student at India’s Shree Swami Atmanand Saraswati Institute of Technology, arrived in Manhattan in mid-August to study engineering for the summer. Over 8,000 miles away from his residence in Gujarat, India, Kapopara said he never expected to be playing cricket when he arrived. “It’s good to see,” Kapopara said. “It feels like home.” Kapopara said he is one of 35 students from Gujarat who came to K-State for the summer. The group of Gujaratis formed two teams at the cricket tournament. Meetha James, ISA event planner and graduate student in sensory science, said the Cricket Cup was intentionally planned to take place during the summer

as ISA anticipated the summer visitors. “We want to have them feel belonged,” James said. “So we planned this event in the summer so that they could play with us.” James said this is her first large event since becoming an event planner, but the executive staff works well together to split up the responsibilities, and it’s been a success. She said she has a passion for photography and takes all of the photos for ISA events as well. In a traditional cricket match, each team is given one chance to bat and one chance to field, referred to as innings. In each inning, the batting team is allowed six legitimate bowls (pitches) per batsman. Six bowls is known as an over. Cricket is traditionally played with 20 overs, but the Cricket Cup is played with only eight overs due to time constraints. Kannan said cricket is a game of unity, and the love of the game is what brings people together, so he said it is important for ISA to continue the Cricket Cup. Kannan said his goal as president of ISA is to spread the culture of India and create a community atmosphere for other Indians and students alike. “People have come from all the way from India to here and different parts of the world to here,” Kannan said. “We want to create that atmosphere of a family in Manhattan at K-State.”

“We have international students quite often teaching language classes that go very well,” Teener said. “We have some K-State faculty who share things out of the box, such as beer making. We have people from the community who just know and share things. We have people of all ages who have taught for us. Our youngest instructor was six, who taught a course on how to take care of rabbits with her older siblings. ... Our oldest was 98, and she taught a class on healthy living.” The length of every non-credit course depends on the subject matter, the instructor’s capabilities and if students will build upon skills learned in previous classes. A class might meet one time or have several sessions over a few weeks, Teener said. “I teach some sewing and

some needle art classes,” Teener said. “For example, if I’m teaching a crochet class, I try to set at least three or four classes so they come, they get the basic skills and they can come back and practice and get questions answered, and we build on that.” The cost of each non-credit course also depends on the course length and the materials needed for the class. Teener gave an example of a one-time cooking class, where the cost of the food needed is factored into the price students pay for the class. While for-credit class instructors are required to hold a bachelor’s degree (as they are hired by K-State as adjunct faculty), Teener said people interested in teaching a non-credit course have to show UFM that they can effectively teach others about the proposed subject matter. “For non-credit, just about anyone can teach,” Teener said. “That’s our philosophy: anyone can teach, anyone can learn.

With some basic conversation with our education coordinator, you can teach.” Harth said she has taken some UFM courses in addition to teaching. One class she took earlier this year was on photography. “I didn’t know anything about photography, and while I don’t want to be a professional photographer and I don’t even own a very fancy camera ... I learned how to use my phone camera better,” Harth said. “I do believe that I now take better pictures, and it doesn’t take any longer to take a better picture. I’m just more informed.” Harth noted that a photography course through K-State would have cost more money and would have been a bigger commitment, but through UFM’s six-week photography course, she said she could learn about something just because she likes learning.

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Grape expectations: Hospitality Women’s basketball team eyes class covers wine tasting, serving next season at Mid-Summer Bash OLIVIA BERGMEIER

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If you think the phrase “fruit-forward, foxy, buttery, burnt and chewy with a barnyard odor” sounds like something from a random wine review generator, you wouldn’t be alone. But, Kansas State’s Introduction to Wines course, HM 442, offers a light at the end of a dark tunnel of pretentious wine tasting phrases. The classes range in size from 35 to up to 100 students per class and are offered every semester in the hospitality management department. Michael Claus Ottenbacher, professor and Department of Hospitality Management head, teaches the wine tasting course, and he said he believes it is vital for those looking for work in hospitality. “I think wine is an important aspect of the hospitality industry and for restaurant and food service,” Ottenbacher said. “Not to just sell the wine, but to really understand it, and very often customers might have questions.” Ottenbacher said a solid understanding of the intricacies of wine opens the door to financial profit. “You can also give recommendations to match wine with food because if that is not well done, you cannot really lose money but give up the opportunity to make extra revenue and profit and then to also enhance the customer experience,” he said. To get to the point of really utilizing wine in the industry, Ottenbacher and sommelier Cristina Milostan, who helps to direct the classes, teach an introductory course beginning with wine basics, moving to a more advanced understanding of food pairings

Players from Kansas State’s women’s basketball team met young fans and their parents at game booths and signed autographs Sunday from 5-7 p.m. at the Mid-Summer Bash in celebration of the coming season. “We spend a little bit of time at each station, trying to get to see different people, different kids,” said Alisa Wiggins, sophomore guard and kinesiology student. The evening at the Ice Family Basketball Center was a little more than a chance to win prizes and have fun, however. It was also a chance to sell tickets and get fans excited for the upcoming basketball season. Last year, K-State concluded with an 18-16 overall record and reached the postseason for the fourth consecutive year under head coach Jeff Mittie. Wiggins said she is looking

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Michael Ottenbacher, head of the Department of Hospitality Management, holds up a bottle of wine in front of the sign at Justin Hall. The wine tasting classes Ottenbacher teaches are offered in the fall and spring semesters. and specialties. “They learn the basics about wine, which is how to serve wine, how to open a bottle of wine, how wine is produced, what has impacts on the taste and the quality of the wine and then also how to taste wine, how to describe wine and also how to match wine with food,” Ottenbacher said. Ottenbacher said he believes his class is not only for students involved in the hospitality, but for a wide variety of programs at K-State as he said it imparts students with refined knowledge. “When you’re going out for a business meeting you also should understand or know the

basics of wines,” he said. “It helps you to feel more comfortable.” Ottenbacher touched on the topic of wine appreciation. There are many aspects of the production process that goes unnoticed to the public eye. “I think if you also have more knowledge, you also see how many steps, how much hard labor and how much expertise goes into winemaking and really appreciate the product much more,” Ottenbacher said. When asked what his favorite wine was, Ottenbacher said he prefers a dry Riesling, which has a lower level of alcohol.

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for postseason success to be repeated again, but she wants to go all the way. “I’m just looking forward to competing for a Big 12 title in the NCAA Tournament,” Wiggins said. “We started off last year with a great season. Finished around .500, but we definitely have some great players this year and we’re looking to really make a push in the Big 12.” Joining the roster this year are four freshmen from the highest-ranked recruiting class during Mittie’s tenure: Christianna Carr, Ayoka Lee, Laura Macke and Savannah Simmons. “People should come out and watch just to give our freshmen a little bit of a taste of how supportive K-State actually is,” said Mary Lakes, sophomore center and psychology student. “Also we need support like anyone else needs support.” Wiggins said this season the team will bet on three-pointers, which guards have been drilling in practice.

“We have really been working on pushing in transition and looking for threes,” Wiggins said. “That’s one of our main strengths of our team right now, three point shooters, and we’re really trying to exploit that against other teams this year.” As a center, Lakes said she has been drilling “defensive things and a lot of rebounding” in practice. “We have a lot of different personalities on the team, so I feel like on the court it will be good and off the court its also gonna be great, too,” Lakes said. Editor’s note: Mary Lakes was arrested Monday morning in Manhattan and was charged with domestic battery, as reported by the Manhattan Mercury and the Wichita Eagle. As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, K-State Athletics has not released an official statement concerning Lakes’ arrest and her status as a women’s basketball team member.

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wednesday, july 18, 2018

OPINION: Top 5 horrible fashion trends of the ‘90s KYLE HAMPEL

of the ‘90s, ranked from worst to most worst.

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If you’re in college today, you were probably born sometime in the 1990s (unless you’re one of those 10-year-old supergeniuses). Even if you didn’t spend much time being alive before the 21st century started, the bad hairstyles and horrible fashion trends of the ‘90s still crept into the 2000s like an insipid plague that couldn’t be cured. With that in mind, why not sit back and laugh at the stuff your parents and older siblings were wearing in your baby pictures? Here are the five fashion trends

5. SLAP BRACELETS

They’re like regular bracelets, except you’re encouraged to injure yourself with them. Nothing’s cooler than being dangerous, right? While a bracelet that you can slap onto your wrist sounds like a fun concept, in practice, they usually had patterns that came straight out of your crazy aunt’s abhorrent closet, limiting their appeal.

4. JELLY SHOES

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3. HAMMER PANTS

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and more popular since their invention around 1300 B.C. Hammer pants, by contrast, are an abomination of the lower body that turn their wearer into a deflated hot air balloon that shines like a perpetual sun. M.C. Hammer might have found an audience that loved his dance moves, but why his signature pants became a fashion statement eludes me to this day.

2. FROSTED TIPS

Dying your hair in such a way that it’s light on top and dark on the bottom can certainly look good if you do it right — after all, it worked for Lt. Natasha Yar in “Star Trek: The Next

Generation.” Unfortunately, frosted tips are the ultimate example of what not to do to your hair. Ask yourself, people of the 1990s: did you really, really have to spike the tips up like your head was a thorny bush in Death Valley?

1. JNCO JEANS

Where do I even start? Blue denim jeans have been some of the most popular clothing items in the 20th century and beyond, and for good reason. They’re stylish and incredibly practical — the ultimate pair of pants, if you ask me. JNCO jeans are like jeans that were made for Rubeus Ha-

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grid to wear after a night eating nothing but microwaved burritos. If you fell out of a plane wearing JNCO jeans, you’d probably float down safely thanks to your oversized leg parachutes. Of all the baffling things that happened in the 1990s, I think these stupid Liberty Bell-sized pants remain the most baffling of all. Kyle Hampel is the opinion editor for the Collegian and a senior in English. 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.

wednesday, july 18, 2018

REVIEW: ‘The Blade Itself’ is a wonderful, painful fantasy read

Cover of “The Blade Itself.”

MICAH DRAKE

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“The Blade Itself ” is a fantasy novel by Joe Abercrombie. As far as fantasy novels go, this is a relatively recent one, released in 2006. Because of this, many so-called modern fantasies, such as A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin or the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan set up a vast wall of expectations toward this and other newer fantasy books. The plot itself follows three major characters: an inquisitor who finds himself in the inner circles of the country’s government, a fledgling military officer looking to make his mark and a Northman warrior, Logan Ninefingers, who is still wondering how he got caught up in this mess. These characters experience political turmoil as their country wages a new war with an unknown foe, and not to mention the return of an ancient wizard left by most to legend and myth. Does this book fall to the trappings of the stories set before it, or does it do enough to position itself as the start to a distinct and new step in such auspicious

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company? If there’s one way to describe Abercrombie’s narrative style, it’s “cinematic.” The perspective is honed very close on its characters and their immediate thoughts, rather than trying to have you buy into this big wonderful world. This style also facilitates this novel’s crown jewel: its fight scenes. It doesn’t take long to find out how hard this novel is willing to hit. This, in conjunction with the book’s obsession with making sure you’re as close to its characters as possible, makes each hit hurt as much as it can. One example of this is Logan Ninefingers, one of three main point-of-view characters in this novel and holder of most fight scenes. At the end of each one, he stumbles away murmuring to himself “I’m still alive. I’m still alive,” like he has a thousand times before. Despite an ever-present tone of hurt and grime, one that can be felt in many fantasy novels of its kind, what distinguishes this book is that it never feels cruel to its reader. “The Blade Itself ” knows it’s the very first book in a trilogy and is restrained by pairing every intense event, from fight scenes to intense strides in intrigue and conspiracy, with one of release and reassurance that everyone is going to be, in some shape or form, OK. This balance is also honed by its audiobook narrator, Steven Pacey. I will also say at this point that I read this on audiobook, and if you’re neutral on how to read books, this is the way I would recommend. Pacey succeeds in being engaging while still holding the cadence that the material requires.

The truly remarkable and helpful aspect of his performance is how he gives voices to each character. Pacey successfully gives voice to each character without being distracting in himself, and every voice and accent lands, being consistent enough that you can remember someone by their voice as you try to remember their name. The only drawback to my experience with this book was some substantial exposition dumping to explain the world. The characters who should know everything about their country and the recent war and the oncoming threat feel the need to tell each other about it for the benefit of the reader. This is excusable, but most of the information is teased out when its relevant in the rest of the book anyway. If you do read this book, which I do recommend, keep in mind that most of this is settled up by the time that the enormous bald man with half his body tattooed in runes shouts “ANGLAND.” There are two more proper novels in this book’s series, as well as a series of novellas and the promise of a sequel trilogy in the works at the time of this publication. If you need an engaging fantasy about people having a harder go at it than you, I recommend “The Blade Itself ” by Joe Abercrombie, maybe more so than the books that inspired it.

different local projects. Some active projects include Project EXCELL, an educational program for special needs adults; the oldest community garden in Kansas; the Manhattan Nonviolence Initiative, which first started at K-State; and the Lou Douglas Lecture Series, which focuses on social justice issues.

“We can move fairly quickly on the things that we do, and we are always looking for projects and ideas that can advance enrichment in our community,” Teener said. Information about UFM’s course offerings, how to teach a course and the organization’s other projects can be found at tryufm.org.

Micah Drake is a senior in English. The views and opinions expressed in this review are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Collegian.

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