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Shelby Lolley, sophomore in political science, chalks pro-abortion rights messages in Bosco Plaza Monday.
JON PARTON the collegian
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halking is a popular way to advertise events on campus. On Monday, however, it also became a way to make a political statement. The College Republicans chalked anti-abortion messages throughout campus Sunday night, according to Laura Meyers, junior in mass communications and College Republicans president. "In response to the House Republicans defunding Planned Parenthood, the College Republicans wanted to give a pro-life message and bring awareness to the issue," Meyers said.
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DANIELLE COOK K-STATE STUDENTS BRING VOTER REGISTRATION TO CAMPUS
Student Governing Association, the Staley School of Leadership Studies and the Department of Communication Studies will host voter registration booths, which will be stationed at multiple locations around campus on Tuesday in honor of National Voter Registration Day, according to the Little Apple Post. This K-State event is part of a citywide effort to up Manhattan's voter registration numbers and is headed by Manhattan-Riley County League of Women Voters.
K-STATE POLICE MAKE ARREST FOR HIT-ANDRUN INCIDENT
The K-State Police Department arrested the driver in a hitand-run case, which took place on Sept. 11 at the crosswalk on Claflin Road between Throckmorton Hall and Chalmers Hall, according to a K-State today news release. The driver was identified as Samuel Harris, sophomore in mechanical engineering. Harris was charged with battery, leaving the scene of an injury accident, driving while suspended, failure to render aid and failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. His bond is reported to be set at $2,000.
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On Friday, House Republicans in Congress voted to halt taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood for one year. Some of the messages included, "Dear Planned Parenthood, go fund yourself," and a list that compared abortion numbers to the genocides committed by the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong. "There was some talk about one of our messages today," Meyers said. "We used the word 'fund' and not any explicit language." Meyers was referring to an overnight incident where it appeared that parts of the chalking were washed away, leaving an impression that the message originally contained obscenity. "There's been a lot of backlash," Meyers said.
George Walker | THE COLLEGIAN
"Our purpose was not to bring about a negative response, but if that's the student response, that's the student response. We're just trying to bring about a pro-life message." On Monday night, a group of pro-choice students chalked their own messages about the issue supporting abortion rights. Shelby Lolley, sophomore in political science, said she wanted to chalk because she thought the College Republicans' message was too negative and one-sided. "I wanted to offer another voice," Lolley said. "Instead of spreading hate, I want to teach tolerance." see page
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Gift of life club saves lives one swab at a time ELASSIA CUNNINGHAMYOUNGER the collegian
Being swabbed for a bone marrow donation may not seem like such a big deal at first. It’s simple and easy. However, becoming a match for a victim of blood cancer means that you have the opportunity to save someone’s life. When Brittany Husong, senior in communication studies, was swabbed as a freshman, she said she didn’t think too much of it. “Kappa Kappa Gamma was hosting a (bone marrow) drive, and it was one of those things, I was passing by and I thought, ‘Oh I’ll do it, whatever,’” Husong said. Husong was contacted by the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation and offered an internship position for the organization shortly after being swabbed. “I got involved with Gift of Life,” Husong said. “I went through the interview process and got the job.
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Brittany Husong, senior in communication studies and campus ambassador for K-State, holds a Gift of Life banner up to raise awareness about bone marrow and stem cell donation on Sept. 16, 2015.
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OPINION tuesday, september 22, 2015
Student selection: the mysterious invention of love wars, starting the cycle of killing yet again. As millennia go by, though, humans have learnt to let love trump fear: we greet our new neighbors with pie and pancakes, we aim to impress a potential lover with flowers and chocolate, we try to win a friend’s favor and be part of a larger social circle. Did we really grow a conscience, or was it because the abundance of food and assurance of safety rendered useless the need to live in fear? Were conscience and love just accessories to existence so we could put a reason on it, simply made easier by the copiousness of it? Will we impale and tear our fellow travelers apart the day we run out of crops and cows? Perhaps we did grow a conscience. Perhaps there are no strings, no agendas. Conscience is a beautiful enigma, and maybe a necessary one, too. Without it, we simply exist. And because we are slaves (not masters) of reason, we cannot “simply” exist. On the other hand, maybe for now it’s terribly “science-less” that we are inherently programmed to be nice. In an otherwise fleeting lifespan that’s easily forgotten once it’s over, tangible entities don’t last and memories do no good building up in the past, but conscience is immortal. Maybe imperceptible, but definitely present. Besides, we would rather live in a penthouse clad in Chanel and build rockets and sing songs than eat our brothers’ flesh and hold with a heavy grip the spear. Although, in hindsight, one can’t help but contemplate, if he not only has that rose in that hand, but also a gun hidden in the other.
PRIYARSHINI GHOSH the collegian
Since when did we get seduced by altruism? Mankind, that was once born with a spear in his hand, has quietly been dethroned by his prettier descendant, now standing erect with a rose in that same hand. From neighbor-eating beasts we have become genuinely nice persons, offering our hard-earned money and sweat to the hungry, impoverished souls (aptly termed “charity”) in Malawi simply out of the kindness of our Neolithic hearts. As the ice age melted away, so did our cold shoulders. Our newly crowned dominant trait has changed us from our cannibalistic ways to adding friends on Facebook. In their days, a “social status” was “individual status” ― which meant fighting for only your own survival. Perhaps it might have also extended to their mother, or father, or children, or siblings, but outside of those closest, survival was nothing short of strike and impale and kill and eat. Nobody was “nice” to each other; they simply existed to kill and eat, and be killed to be eaten. Killed even for protection, out of fear, for the desperate need for survival. Yet it seems that they started trusting each other, living with each other, why even growing to love one another. The basic survivor’s instincts somehow gave way to inherent friendliness. Could it be that the basic human anomaly ― conscience ― obliterated fear and good finally reigned over evil? That theory should charm a child away into bliss, but as goes the age-old adage (and with good reason to boot), how clear is our conscience? Perhaps fear seeped in so deep in the Homo habilis he felt numbed by it. He was paralyzed and unable to think: should he kill the unsuspecting, sleeping cretin or should he befriend it, ally with
Illustration by Savannah Thaemert it, wondering perhaps if it really does take two to tango. And just like those divine moments of revolutionary thought, in one such moment the first idea was born. He could now think, in addition to existing. He maybe had
a thought, “Now there’s another fool like me…may I call it my fellow traveler? Can he think as I just did ... can he take a risk as I am? Can he be my ... friend?” With that they shook the first hands, letting down their spears
and inventing friendship. That, my friend, would have been the real end of the ice age. Then man went on to build empires, introduce hierarchy, gather food, treasures, get greedy, annex lands, get greedier and wage
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.
Priyarshini Ghosh is a graduate student in nuclear engineering. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian. com.
Stop paying so much damn attention to celebrities
JONATHAN GREIG the collegian
As you have probably already heard, the Emmy Awards were Sunday night. This actor beat out these other actors for best acting, and your favorite show lost out to your other favorite show. Famous people that have spent time in your TV box at home wore clothing, and reporters asked them about that clothing. I personally didn’t watch for reasons that I’ll get in to, but according to Vulture, 11.9 million viewers did tune in. According to their article
published Monday, “Last Night’s Emmys Were the Least-Watched Ever,” this year’s Emmy ratings fell “below the previous record-low viewership of 12.2 million in 2008.” The article reasoned that “No doubt hurting tunein: The Emmys had to battle both a prime-time football game on NBC and a new episode of AMC’s nascent hit Fear the Walking Dead. Both those factors drove viewership down nearly 4 million viewers from last summer, when 15.6 million caught the TV kudos on NBC.” But I, for one, hope that there is more to it than that. I sincerely hope that this is part of a larger trend. A revolutionary trend of paying (and I know this is shocking) less attention to celebrities. Right now, they dominate our cultural landscape. Actors, actresses, musicians, comedians and even surely-famous-for-something people
like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian all suck up huge swaths of our collective attention and energy. I’ve never quite understood why. Every trip to the grocery store I still see tabloid magazines and candid pictures of celebrities walking down the street with a yogurt and sweat pants. And we buy these. To find out what kind of berry flavor they look for in their yogurt, or maybe if they’re carrying a second, we can gossip about potential relationships. A 2013 study from Rasmussen Reports found that 81 percent of U.S. adults “think their fellow Americans pay too much attention to celebrity news and not enough attention to news that has real impact on their lives.” Encouragingly though, they also noted that this percentage is down from 87 percent in July 2010 and 86 percent in March 2011. Does this indicate a significant national trend? Am I just seeing what I want to see?
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Anthropologists, observers of human behavior, have even ventured to study this obsession of ours. In the BBC June 26, 2013 article “Viewpoint: Did our brains evolve to foolishly follow celebrities?” the idea of celebrity’s prestige status is proposed. The article said of celebrity culture that it “is rooted in much more basic human instincts, which have played a key role in our acquisition of culture and have been crucial to the evolutionary success of our species.” The article argues that while other social hierarchies in primates are based on dominance, our hierarchies have evolved to be largely designed around prestige instead. “The modern world is very different from the one in which our brains evolved, and I believe that the originally adaptive bias for imitating successful people has today morphed into an unhealthy obsession with celebrities, who we give far more attention to than
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they deserve.” Many of you might have also tuned in to Stephen Colbert’s introduction to Late Night the past few weeks. He’s had his fair share of actors and actresses, but he’s also featured politicians Joe Biden, Jeb Bush and Bernie Sanders. He’s had innovators like Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla Motors and Travis Kalanick of Uber, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and even United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Colbert said at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in August that “I love artists, whether they’re actors or musicians. I want to have politicians of all stripes on the show. ... But if somebody is not famous and they’ve got something to say and they can present themselves on camera, I think that would be a perfect guest to have.” Could this be a marking of a shift in the public’s attention? How might our
society change if we paid less attention to our superficial indulgences and more to our substantial society-builders? What if we gave our scientists and our teachers the chance to charm us and serve as our role models? I’m not saying that actors and actresses don’t contribute a great deal to society – they produce beautiful art and wonderful entertainment, and I’m not trying to take away from that. All I’m saying is maybe a bigger share of our attention should go to some other societal contributors that could really put it to good use. 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.
Jonathan Greig is a senior in anthropology. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.
IF YOU HAD TO DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY AS A TYPE OF FRUIT, WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHY?
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ANDREA JAVIEL-WOOD SOPHOMORE, POLITICAL SCIENCE
SOPHOMORE, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
CAMERON JURGENS
MACKENZIE PENNY FRESHMAN, BIOCHEMISTRY
SOPHOMORE, INTERIOR ARCHITECURE
“Peach. I’m Peachy.”
“Pomegranate. I’m weird but interesting.”
“Strawberry. I go with everything.”
“Grape, I’m small, but I pack a punch.”
“Pear. I’m not often served.”
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Key factors behind learning a foreign language EMILY DYE the collegian
Having multilingual abilities allows for having a competitive edge over others in school and in the workplace. Many students at K-State are required to take some form of foreign language throughout their time at the university. However, it is widely questioned why some students have a more challenging time learning a foreign language while other students seem to pick up a second or third language fairly quickly. Laura Kanost, associate professor of Spanish, said she believes that students’ motivation to learn affects how well they will succeed in a foreign language class on campus. “We all have our unique strengths and weaknesses when it comes to different types of learning and developing new skills,” Kanost said. “Our brains differ in the way they process and retrieve languages. Therefore, to be successful in a language class, work habits and organizational and
study skills are very important.” Lameese Madi, senior in French and political science, is fluent in four different languages including French, Arabic, Berber and English. As a result of her language abilities, Madi said she has come to learn that being multilingual is partially correlated with a student’s level of confidence. “I think when it comes to languages it’s really how you approach the idea of learning another language,” Madi said. “Because I already went in with three languages I knew how to speak, I didn’t feel like it was impossible for me to learn another language (French). Your attitude has a lot to do with your level of success.” Mary Copple, associate professor of modern languages, said the human brain also plays an intricate role in how successfully a student retains a foreign language. She said the brain must learn to make sense of the new language by consistent exposure to the specific language. “Exposure allows the brain to break a stream of speech sounds into meaningful words and phrases and to catalog how those words
can be combined and re-combined,” Copple said. “Exposure also allows the brain to learn social aspects of language. For example, it tracks how and when speakers use words in a particular situation so that learners may acquire linguistic conventions for ‘appropriate behavior.’” Foreign language professors at K-State have said they make it a top priority for students to have as much exposure to language as possible because they know how important it is in fully retaining the language. “Our foreign language program here at Kansas State University truly makes sure that we have at least one hour a day or every other day that is dedicated to us being exposed to the new language that we are learning,” Madi said. Whether students have a more challenging time learning a foreign language or a fairly easy time, it is good to note that having good study habits, confidence and consistent exposure to a new language can all be factors that potentially help along the road to becoming multilingual. Parker Robb | THE COLLEGIAN
Jesse Gilmore, senior in agronomy and horticulture, practices writing in the Japanese script for his Japanese class Monday.
Tuition plays important role in decision processes, crowdfunding MORGAN BELL the collegian
Cost is an important component in the college decision process for students, and it is leading to new ways of funding the college experience. When asked whether or not cost played a role in their college decision processes, many K-State students answered yes. The annual tuition for Kansas residents is $7,949 and $21,090 for out-of-state students, both based on 14-credit hours per academic term, according to K-State Admissions. Miranda Snyder, junior in mass communications, said she chose K-State specifically because it offered her a scholarship. “Cost was the entire reason I chose K-State,” Snyder said. “K-State paid for my entire first two years.” Before deciding on K-State, Snyder said she also considered the University of Kansas and Johnson County Community College because of their proximity to her hometown of Kan-
sas City, Kansas. According to the CNN Money website, the University of Kansas’s total annual cost is $22,037.58, including in-state tuition, fees and room and board. JCCC’s annual tuition rate, on the other hand, is $2,548 for Johnson County residents and $2,968 for residents of other Kansas counties, according to the JCCC website. In comparison, CNN Money lists the annual cost for K-State, including in-state tuition, fees, room and board, as $21,529. While JCCC’s tuition ended up being lower than K-State’s, Snyder said she chose K-State because it was close to her home, but not too close like JCCC. Like Snyder, Paige Nickell, junior in wildlife fishery and conservation, said she also decided on K-State due largely to tuition and available scholarships. Nickell, however, said she did not even consider other universities before deciding on K-State. “My family attended K-State, so it has always been a part of me,” Nickell said. “I
wasn’t sure at first, but when I visited on a Senior Day, I fell in love. It fit me perfectly.” Nickell said she received a scholarship from K-State during her freshman year, making the tuition cost a doable investment for her. “I absolutely made the right decision in coming to K-State,” Nickell said. Desmond O’Grady, sophomore in marketing and economics, is also a K-State student who made his decision based on tuition cost. Originally, O’Grady said he wanted to attend the University of Missouri, but the out-of-state-tuition cost – which is $24,460 annually, according to CNN Money – was too expensive. O’Grady said he receives approximately $12,000 from K-State annually, which brings his tuition under $10,000 each year. With rising education costs, some students have turned to popular crowdfunding websites to raise money for their higher education. By definition, crowdfunding is “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising
From the president’s desk
ANDY HURTIG & JOE TINKER,
student body president and vice president
Fellow K-Staters, What a great weekend! Congratulations to our band, The Pride of Wildcat Land, on being presented the Sudler Trophy and the football team for a great win in triple overtime. As you might have heard, K-State Athletics has begun work on Phase III-C of the Bill Snyder Family Stadium upgrades. Upon completion, the northeast side of the stadium will sport new seating and a second video board which will provide audiences a truly exceptional fan experience come game time. We are currently working with Athletics to discuss the future of funding with regards to their privilege fee allocation. We are grateful to be working with an organization like K-State Athletics that is open and responsive to the needs of the students, and we appreciate them collaborating with us to find a solution that is best for K-State moving forward. We have officially started work on a K-State app. Our Technology Director Cody Clair attended the first mobile app com-
mittee meeting last week where he will be representing the students’ interests and advocating on our behalf. We aim to build an app that meets the needs of students at K-State so your feedback is invaluable. Please reach out to us via Twitter or email with your suggestions, questions or concerns and we will try to address as many as we can. Following the feedback we received, we have also begun working on finding a solution to the issue of parking spots on campus. We will be meeting with Parking Services this week with Executive Advisor Mike Stanton to explore potential solutions both in the short and long term. Good luck to all students attending the All University Career Fair today and tomorrow. We hope you have a productive time and make a strong case as job and internship candidates. Lastly, we would like to recognize the new group of SGA interns as they begin their assignments this week. We are excited to have such committed and driven future-leaders be a part of the decision-making apparatus at K-State and are looking forward to watching them grow as people and As always, we would love to hear from you and receive your feedback via Twitter at @ KStateSBP_SBVP or by email at sga@ksu.edu. Hope to see you in purple on Friday. Thank you and Go ‘Cats, Andy Hurtig, student body president Joe Tinker, student body vice president
many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.” Friends, family members and other individuals can donate, and some college students have used this as a mechanism to help fund their tuition. Benefits of crowdfunding include the ability to access thousands of investors, the ability to share and promote the project across social media and the ability to be more efficient by centralizing fundraising efforts, according to the business crowdfunding organization Fundable. GoFundMe is a crowdfunding site used for medical, educational, volunteerism, personal emergencies, sports and teams fundraising efforts, the organization’s website said. GoFundMe operates on a 5 percent deduction from each donation received. These deductions are common for other crowdfunding sites also. It is difficult for students to cover the higher cost of going to college, according to Larry Moeder, vice president for student life and director of student financial assistance and admis-
sions. Though Moeder said he does not personally know any K-State students using crowdfunding sites, he encourages all students to search for scholarships outside of K-State, which is similar to crowdfunding in this regard. “I think that almost – I say almost – any opportunity the student finds to fund their college education, they should go for it,” Moeder said. “(Crowdfunding is) not a whole lot different ... it’s just another source that the students might use to find funding.” According to Moeder, students should continue to apply for scholarships throughout their college years because they continue to accomplish new things that could qualify them for more scholarships. At K-State, the average loan per student with an undergraduate degree is just over $24,000, while the national average is $27,000, Moeder said. Because undergraduates are eligible for more scholarship and grant assistance from the federal and state governments, graduate students typically have much higher loan debt, accord-
ing to Moeder, who said that an in-state graduate student can typically borrow $18,000 per year. Working while obtaining a higher education can help both undergraduate and graduate students, though. “For graduate students, there are many assistance-ship opportunities working in their academic field, either through teaching or research, that help pay a monthly stipend,” Moeder said. “At the undergraduate level, student employment is a huge option. Our student payroll is approximately $16 million a year. And that’s just on campus, so students are working a lot of hours to help manage their debt, (and) keep the debt down.” College decisions can be based on cost, family history or something else entirely, but overall, O’Grady said he believes students end up making a good university choice in the long run. “I definitely made the right decision, but I also acknowledge that ... odds are you end up enjoying wherever you go,” O’Grady said.
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She was joined by her sister Kendell Lolley, senior in horticulture. Kendell said she thought the group’s message was meant to elicit negative reactions from students. “They were looking for a fight,” Kendell Lolley said. “It was pure hate.” Evan Steckler, sophomore in architectural engineering and secretary of the College Republicans said the group did not intend to offend anyone with their messages. “We weren’t looking for a negative response,” Steckler said. “We weren’t looking for any response other than to inform.” On the student group’s Facebook group page, however, Steckler wrote about how to respond to pro-abortion chalkers Sunday evening, encouraging College Republicans to write over pro-abortion messages. “We did a pretty good job of covering campus tonight, but as long as you’re always more civil and respectful than them, please go for it,” Steckler wrote. “Throughout this week, feel free to go out every night and edit the bad stuff and add new good stuff. Spelling and grammar are key too.” The pro-abortion rights messages in Bosco Plaza written on Monday night were written over later in the evening by members of the College Republicans, according to their Facebook page. In a post written by Jacinta Bergkamp, freshman in agri-
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Laura Meyers is the president of Kansas State University College Republicans and a junior in mass communications. The College Republicans were the group responsible for the inital anti-abortion rights campus chalkings on Sunday, Sept. 20. business, she wrote, “Decided to do one more chalking before I call it a night. Hope all goes well tomorrow morning!” Meyers said the group received a lot of backlash on the social media app Yik Yak. Steckler said the response was not entirely unexpected. “Whenever you present any sort of opinion, you’re going to have people who disagree with it,” Steckler said. “There’s going to be people who disagree disrespectfully.” Steckler said the messages were meant to inform rather than inflame. “Some people don’t under-
stand the issues,” he said. “The big problem is not in having an opinion, it’s in not having enough information to form an opinion.” However, Steckler wrote in the Facebook group Sunday night about a pro-abortion message added to one of their anti-abortion messages, “And there we have it, folks, taking the form of two words hastily scribbled onto the concrete at 9:00 at night: the purest and most concise form of campus leftism I’ve ever seen. Tomorrow should be fun.” Shelby said she felt the messages debased women. “It’s insulting,” Shelby Lolley
said. “There’s a large amount of women being degraded by this.” Trevin Garcia, junior in English literature, was one of the students chalking their own messages in Bosco Student Plaza. He said he wanted to provide more information to K-Staters than what was given by the College Republicans. “I really just want people to have a full picture of what’s going on,” Garcia said. “The information that was chalked by the College Republicans really skewed to the right. I wanted to give people the full story.”
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SPORTS
tuesday, september 22, 2015
What we've learned so far about K-State encounter next week starting at Oklahoma State. In the time that K-State has become 3-0, a few other teams have put some impressive wins together as well. West Virginia is currently undefeated and so is Texas Tech, who recently gave the Big 12 its second straight win in as many weeks over an SEC school by defeating Arkansas Saturday. So, don’t be surprised if the apparent “Death March” for the Wildcats is extended a few weeks.
ANDREW HAMMOND the collegian
The Wildcats are 3-0, as the college football season reaches the quarter pole. So, what have we learned about this team that entered the season with questions all over the place?
1. JOE HUBENER IS THE GUY AND WILL BE THE GUY FROM HERE ON OUT
3. THE SECONDARY PLAY WILL DETERMINE HOW THIS SEASON GOES
After the crazy quarterback race that lasted from the spring into fall camps, it was the biggest question being asked. Now, we have the answer in Joe Hubener. Now Hubener isn’t anywhere close to Michigan State’s Connor Cook or USC’s Cody Kessler, but he’s what K-State has as of right now; with true freshman Alex Delton sitting out with a knee injury and only one other QB sitting on the depth chart, it’s the Joe Hubener show from here on out.
2. THE BIG 12 WILL BE TOUGHER THAN ANTICIPATED
We knew going into the season that the Big 12 would be tough, especially with the death march that the Wildcats begin to
Entering next week’s conference opener, the Wildcats are currently without All-Big 12 standout senior safety Dante Barnett who is out with an injured shoulder. The secondary has shifted around with guys like senior safety Nate Jackson and sophomore safety Kaleb Prewett getting extended playing time. Last Saturday the Louisiana Tech offense led by Florida transfer Jeff Driskel put up over 300 yards passing against this secondary. With TCU’s Trevone Boykin and Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield coming to Manhattan over the next few weeks, if that trend continues the Wildcats will be entering the month of November facing an uphill climb.
4. THE FUTURE IS NOW They’re young, unproven and the future of K-State football. Redshirt freshman running back Justin Silmon, sophomore linebacker Elijah Lee and redshirt
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Junior quarterback Joe Hubener looks for receivers during the Louisiana Tech football game at Bill Snyder Family Stadium Saturday.
freshman wide receiver Dominique Heath have made a huge impact with their plays this season, and Wildcat fans should be happy they will be around for a few more seasons. Silmon’s impact on a struggling offense has grown from the season opening game against South Dakota to this past weekend against Louisiana Tech where he gained 114 yards on the ground,
making him the first K-State running back to do so since John Hubert’s last game in the 2013 season. Dominique Heath has stepped up in the return game along with contributions as a receiver. However, the biggest impact may be from sophomore Elijah Lee, whose play has improved each game. Lee had his best game
yet this past weekend against Louisiana Tech. With 12 tackles and two sacks, including a game-saving sack of the Bulldogs’ QB, Lee along with the other young Wildcats give this team a bright future. Andrew Hammond is a sophomore in mass communications. Please send comments to sports@kstatecollegian.com.
Big 12 power rankings: the same top players make the list again Striker was dominant on Saturday as he had five tackles against Tulsa. This makes 16 total tackles for him on the season, and it shows why he is one of the top defensive players in the Big 12.
7. MARQUEL BRYANT, DEFENSIVE END, KANSAS STATE (6)
AVERY OSEN
Bryant and the Wildcats struggled this past Saturday in a win versus Louisiana Tech. Bryant only had two tackles in the triple overtime win. He will have to step up next week in order to stay on the leaderboard after only having one tackle against UTSA on Sept. 12.
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As every week goes by, we see who is stepping up on the defensive side of the ball in the Big 12. Here is a look at the top 10 defensive players so far this season.
8. ZACK SANCHEZ, CORNERBACK, OKLAHOMA (8)
1. EMMANUEL OGBAH, DEFENSIVE END, OKLAHOMA STATE (1)
Sanchez has had a great start to the season as he has 14 tackles on the year. He had a good game against Tulsa with five tackles, three of which were solo. He will be looked toward as a leader for the Sooners’ defense this season.
Ogbah had another good game on Saturday as he led the defense, which only gave up 14 points to UTSA, and he had a sack in the game. He tacked on four more tackles, which brings his season total to 13. He and the Cowboys will travel to Texas to take on the Longhorns on Saturday.
9. NICK KWIATKOSKI, LINEBACKER, WEST VIRGINIA (10)
2. KARL JOSEPH, SAFETY, WEST VIRGINIA (3)
Kwiatkoski had a huge weekend when he added seven tackles against Liberty to his season total. The week before, he had seven tackles en route to a 44-0 win over Georgia Southern. He will probably be moving up the leaderboard in the coming weeks.
Although he had a week off, Joseph passed Dale Pierson for the second spot. He appears to be the best safety in the Big 12 and has 11 tackles in two games this season. The Mountaineers will need him to step as they host Maryland Saturday.
3. DALE PIERSON, DEFENSIVE END, IOWA STATE (2)
Pierson and the Cyclones had a disappointing week as they lost to Toledo, and Pierson didn’t have his best stuff. He only had three tackles in the game, all of which were assisted. He will need to step up; otherwise, it could be a long season for Iowa State.
4. SHAWN OAKMAN,
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K-State offensive lineman Travis Britz and linebacker Ryan Mueller pressure Texas Tech quarterback Davis Webb on Oct. 4, 2014 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
DEFENSIVE END, BAYLOR (4)
Shawn Oakman was a beast in his lone game this season, which was against Lamar. Oakman had six tackles including a sack. I can only see Oakman moving up the leaderboard, but since this past week Baylor had a bye
week, that will have to wait.
5. ANDREW BILLINGS, DEFENSIVE TACKLE, BAYLOR (5)
Just like Oakman, Billings will climb the ladder on this leaderboard during the year. He has eight tackles
this season in just two games, and the Bears host Rice this Saturday. Billings will be key in this game, and I expect him to step up and do his part.
6. ERIC STRIKER, LINEBACKER, OKLAHOMA (7)
10. TRAVIS BRITZ, DEFENSIVE TACKLE, KANSAS STATE (9)
Britz had two tackles in a win versus Louisiana Tech on Saturday. He has 10 tackles and two sacks on the year. The Wildcats take this week off before starting Big 12 play on Oct. 3 against Oklahoma State. Avery Osen is a junior in mass communications. Please send comments to sports@ksttecollegian.com.
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Cantele named Big 12 Special Teams Player TIMOTHY EVERSON the collegian
Senior place kicker Jack Cantele was named Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday after a impressive performance on Saturday, going 4-4 on field goals in K-State’s 39-33 win in triple overtime. Cantele hit from 20, 33, 38 and 44 yards in his 12-point performance. After the game, Cantele’s field goal total for his career was 23, which ranked him 10th all time in school history. This is Cantele’s second player of the week honor after he knocked in a game winner in 2013 at home against TCU. Cantele sat out for the majority of the 2014 season after missing three field goals in the Auburn game. Cantele retook the helm after former starter, sophomore Mathew McCrane, went down in the UTSA game. Cantele is perfect so far on the season going 7-7 in the past two games. George Walker | THE COLLEGIAN
K-State junior wide receiver Collin Sexton holds the ball for senior kicker Jack Cantele during the football game against Louisiana Tech Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
K-State women’s golf tied for seventh during Schooner Classic RILEY GATES the collegian
The K-State women’s golf team finished seventh in the Schooner Fall Classic at the par-71 Belmar Golf Course in Norman, Oklahoma on Monday afternoon. Although the tournament began on Saturday, Monday’s round was only the second round of the tournament because Sunday’s was canceled due to inclement weather. The Wildcats’ team score of 581 tied them with Florida State for seventh out of 12 teams. Just 27 strokes separated the Wildcats’ score from that of Oklahoma State’s 554, which won the tournament. But it was the play of junior Madison Talley that was the highlight for K-State. Talley carded a 1-under-par 70 on Saturday, which had her tied for 10th place after the first round, but it was Monday’s round that propelled her. Talley shot a 5-under-par 66 to finish the tournament in third place individually behind Oklahoma State’s Chih-Min Chen and the University of Kansas’s Yupaporn Kawinpa-
korn, who took second and first places respectively. Head coach Kristi Knight spoke highly of Talley after the tournament. “This was a great event for Madison,” Knight said to K-State Sports. “I am very proud of her. We were looking to move up today. There was a rough stretch during the round and it slowed us down, but we held on for a solid finish. They kept playing and competing and that’s what it takes when the going gets tough.” Sophomore Connie Jaffrey had the next best individual finish for the Wildcats as she shot a 70-75 to finish tied for 30th place. Senior Scotland Preston was not far behind Jaffrey, finishing tied for 33rd with scores of 75-71. Rounding out the individual scoring for K-State was junior Paige Nelson who tied for 59th and junior Katherine Gravel-Coursol finishing in 62nd. Nelson shot an 82-75 and Gravel-Coursol showed consistency shooting back-toback 79s. The team will be back in action Sept. 28-29 for the twoday Johnie Imes Invitational in Columbia, Missouri. The tournament will be held at the Club at Old Hawthorne. Evert Nelson| THE COLLEGIAN
Madison Talley, junior, powers through her stroke off hole eight at Colbert Hills on Sept. 8, 2015 during the Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational.
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