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The 2015 corn harvest has begun in Kansas. According to the monthly National Agricultural Statistics Service forecast released on Sept. 11, corn production in Kansas is expected to yield 148 bushels per acre in the 2015 harvesting season. Last year, Kansas farmers yielded an average of 149 bushels per acre. In some areas of Kansas, corn production is expected to have lower yields. This is due either to corn production being delayed, planted late or a loss of nitrogen. For most of Kansas, however, corn production is still looking good. Farmers are expecting to see another record-setting year in terms of yields and production. “Around mid-July when corn was
reaching flowering, mild temperatures and good moisture conditions in Kansas allowed the corn crop to catch up ... from the early wet spring conditions,” Ignacio Ciampitti, professor of agronomy, said. “Lack of crop uniformity, poor weed control and nitrogen lost via leaching were the main production issues experienced by corn farmers this growing season.” According to the Sept. 21 weekly USDA Kansas Crop Progress Report, a total of 27 percent of Kansas corn had been harvested. This includes 71 percent in the Southeast Region, 48 percent in Central, only 11 percent in the Northwest and 13 percent in the Northeast. According to Ciampitti, corn is ready to harvest when grains reach maturity, which is indicated when a black layer forms at the bottom section of the grain. This black layer means that the grains have reached their maximum weight. From that point until harvest, the kernel is only loosing moisture, but potential maximum yield is already achieved. “We are seeing better yields this year versus last year on our farm,” Travis Poovey, Wabaunsee County farmer, said. “We have currently harvested about 300 acres with about 500 acres still left. The yield varies on the field and type, but right now we are seeing any where from 110 to 160 bushels per acre.” see page
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Corn stalks stand tall against the sunrise, ready for harvest Tuesday.
Mass communications professor discusses race in media
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The Manhattan Fire Department evacuated several families from their homes after a gas leak on the 900 block of Pottawatomie Avenue filled the air with natural gas. “A large natural gas line was just ruptured in the area of 916 Pottawatomie Street. We are asking residents to stay away from the area and if possible,” a statement was released by city officials on the Northeast Kansas Regional Notification System said. Bryce Morgan, of 916 Pottawatomie Ave., arrived home to his family and neighbors standing around outside. “I just got off work, but my mother and grandmother have been out here for an hour,” Morgan said. “My family had to evacuate and they are not letting us back in.” Morgan’s neighbors and family were left standing in the street for more than an hour before he arrived. “We were evacuated about 10 minutes to 3:00 p.m.,” Judy Jackson, of 922 Pottawatomie Ave., said. Jackson was inside her house with family when she said she believes that workers hit the line causing the leak. “They were out there trying to put a light pole in the ground and they hit a gas (pipe),” Jackson said. Morgan said the scene around the house has changed a lot over the years, houses have been built and torn down. see page
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Kimetris Baltrip, assistant professor of journalism and mass communications, speaks on “The Depth of Devotion: Examining the Space Media Give to a Black Man’s Story” as a part of the lecture series on ‘The Other Wes Moore’ in the Hemisphere room of Hale Library Tuesday. ELASSIA CUNNINGHAMYOUNGER the collegian
Kimetris Baltrip, assistant professor in journalism and mass communication, delivered a lecture on media coverage of the black male in the Hemisphere room at Hale Library on Sept. 29. The presentation was an in-depth look into today’s media coverage of the black
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man in society. Baltrip used the K-State Book Network novel, “The Other Wes Moore,” as an example for the topic. The presentation began with a group activity for those attending the lecture. A photograph of a black man was displayed on a presentation screen in the center of the room. Attendees were to write one word describing their first impression of the photographed man without using
the words “black,” “African American,” “male” or “man.” “I knew it had to go somewhere on stereotypes, on how we stereotype black people,” Andrea Enciso, freshman in kinesiology, said. “I knew it was going to be a talk on how we assume black people are bad, or we always have a negative view on people, so I had a hint on that.” Later, Baltrip read over some of the words the audi-
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ence wrote. Most of the words were negative, like “robber” and “shady” for examples. However, there were less pessimistic words that the audience used to describe the picture like “competitor” and “unique.” “I feel like (minorities) are looked down upon just because of the colors of their skin, especially about blacks, with all things about protest going on, and just the stereotypes,” Catalina Melgoza,
freshman in pre-journalism and mass communication, said. “It’s just sad to see how looked down upon they are because of that.” The exercise was conducted to prove that media has negative effect on how audiences perceive black man. “I’m not black, but I feel like black people go through a lot more discrimintation, compared to Hispanics and to anybody else,” Enciso said. “I feel like black people will always have it harder, just because of the stereotypes that everybody gives into.” Baltrip conducted an investigation on how much and what type of media attention two different men named Wes Moore had gotten in the years 2000 and 2001. Baltrip discussed how Wesley Moore, the author of “The Other Wes Moore” received a significantly smaller amount of media coverage for being named Rhodes Scholar. Meanwhile, the other Wes Moore had gotten months worth of media coverage for participation in a murder of a police officer in 2000, according to a 2001 article in the Baltimore Sun. “I hadn’t looked into that aspect of the book before she raised that dynamic, I hadn’t even thought of it before,” Kyeeton Soukup, freshman in open option, said. “Yes, I think it’s a great representation because high priority, high danger situations get coverage.”
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K-State provides new study assistance program MORGAN BELL the collegian
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tudents now have access to university-supported software designed to support the development of studying, reading, research and writing skills. The program, called Read & Write, has many features that could be useful for a variety of audiences. “It’s just an overall very good study-skill tool for our students,” Rebecca Gould, director of the Information Technology Assistance Center, said. According to Ann Pearce, Student Access Center adviser, the program has 47 features that each include a video tutorial for ease to the user. Any students, faculty or staff with an active eID and password can access the software for free through the Information Technology Services’s software webpage. For Andrea Blair, director of the Student Access Center, the 47 features were a key selling feature in bringing the program to K-State. “It’s productivity software, so there’s many features that would help many students study in a more efficient way,” Blair said. Some of the included features of Read & Write include a vocabulary tool, text to speech, scanning tool, highlighters, dictionary, a pronunciation tool and various other research tools. The pronunciation tool includes a mouth to show the user the way the word is formed. These tools, organized in a toolbar that sits on the user’s computer screen, can be customized to include features specifically useful to the individual. “Many students say they don’t know how to study, and this is a tool
that can give them many ways to study,” Blair said. Matthew Maynard, senior in public relations and employee at the IT Help Desk, has some experience with Read & Write through working to promote the program. He has presented the software within iTAC, but he said he will probably be doing campuswide presentations during the semester. “It’s got tons of features that you can use that really will help with people’s studying, just making them more efficient,” Maynard said. According to Blair, though Read & Write is for everyone, it is particularly helpful for English language learners, athletes and nontraditional students traveling between locations. Pearce added that “people learn differently,” and the software promotes active learning over passive learning. “I would say it’s especially helpful for students who want to hear it (and) want to listen, for whatever reason it is,” Blair said. The goal is to market Read & Write not only to students, but the entire campus, according to Cathy Rodriguez, iTAC communications coordinator. “I think it has advantages, no matter who you are, with the tools available,” Rodriguez said. The Student Access Center first brought Read & Write to K-State’s attention, after which the Division of Student Life purchased it, Blair said. Though it was purchased during the spring semester, the first promotion of Read & Write was during June orientation. iTAC distributed cards with information about the program, which are now available in the library and in other
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Melissa Hostmeyer, freshman in business administration, teaches Kylee Smith, freshman in environmental design, how to navigate and use the new Read & Write program to edit her essay Tuesday. K-State posted the program on their website in late July and downloaded the progam to all library computers for students convenience. “At first I didn’t like it but as I got used to it, it really became helpful in editing my essay,” Smith said. locations around campus. According to Pearce, the site license for Read & Write covers Manhattan, as well as the global, Olathe and Salina campuses.
For Blair, the wide range of available use for the product was a key to bringing Read & Write to K-State. “One reason (we brought it to
campus) is promoting the concept of universal design – providing tools for students, faculty and staff that meets the needs of many, many, many groups of people,” Blair said.
Diverse panel discusses reasons for banning books From the president’s desk DANIELLE COOK the collegian
As part of this fall’s Banned Books Week, a panel of speakers gathered in the Hemisphere Room at Hale Library to speak to students, faculty and community members about banned books. The panel was organized by Dan Ireton, undergraduate and community services librarian, and Naomi Wood, professor of English. The panel included speakers from different areas of expertise, each of who was able to share a different viewpoint on the issue of banned books. The panel included Vicki Sherbert, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction; the Rev. Patrick McLaughlin, First United Methodist Church; Brandon Haddock, coordinator of the K-State LGBT Resource Center; and Charissa Powell, assistant professor and undergraduate and community services librarian. Wood moderated the panel. The panel discussion focused on reasons for censorship in literature, including education, the LGBT and religious themes and ideas specifically in young literature. “Well, we looked at the most frequently banned books of the last year, and we realized that
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Left to right: Naomi Wood, K-State English professor, Charissa Powell, assistant professor and undergraduate and community services librarian of K-State Libraries, Vicki Sherbert, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in the university’s College of Education, Brandon Haddock, coordinator of the university’s LGBT Resource Center, and Reverend Patrick McLaughlin of First United Methodist Church answers student’s questions on “Sex, Age, and Religion” in response to censorship challenges as a part of a panel discussion for Banned Books Week in the Hemisphere room of Hale Library Tuesday. they were most often children’s to young adult books, and that they were most often banned because of their content,” Wood said. “So, we thought we should have a panel of people who can speak directly to these issues.” According to Wood, she hasn’t personally crossed paths with any book ban issues in quite some time. “It’s been a long time since that’s happened since I work
in a university where freedom of speech is the default and freedom of information is the default,” Wood said. However, Wood said that she runs into issues with book censorship in students who come from backgrounds that may not have allowed them to be exposed to certain literature. “Students who come from those kinds of backgrounds, it sort of stunts their growth,”
Wood said. “It stunts their mental growth. It stunts their empathetic growth if they’ve never had the opportunity to read about a certain experience or read about a certain period in history.” Powell said that her experience with banned books as a child was minimal, aside from when friends of hers weren’t allowed to read books from the “Harry Potter” series. “For me, I think not being allowed to read something that could be really, really crucial to your growing up is really, really sad,” Powell said. Anna Meyer, junior in creative writing and psychology, said that she attended the banned books discussion to gain perspective and insight from the diverse group of speakers on the panel. “I saw the people that were on the panel, and so I knew that there was a religious standpoint, there was a queer standpoint, and I was really interested in seeing kind of what everyone thought because I don’t get a lot of exposure to hearing about the same censorship situation from different perspectives,” Meyer said. According to Powell, Banned Books Week activities will continue through this Friday with readings from banned books each day between noon and 1:00 p.m. in Bosco Student Plaza.
ANDREW HURTIG & JOE TINKER, student body president and vice president
Fellow K-Staters, Hope you all are doing well. We know it’s almost exam time and you’re all busy studying for your upcoming tests, so we’ll try our best to keep this one short. A big thank you to the K-State Career and Employment Services for a very successful All-University Career fair. We hope all students had a fruitful time visiting prospective employers and putting their best foot forward. Over the past few months we have been working with K-State Di-
vision of Communications and Marketing to create a video further explaining our Open Textbook Initiative. The OTI has been instrumental in helping hundreds of students at K-State save on textbook costs and we’re looking forward to sharing some of their experiences with you. The video is scheduled to be released in the coming weeks so keep an eye out for that. As always, we hope you’ll wear purple this Friday in support of the ‘Cats as they go down to Stillwater to take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys. We look forward to hearing from you via twitter at @KStateSBP_SBVP or by email at sga@ksu. edu. Thank you and Go ‘Cats, Andrew Hurtig, student body president senior in accounting Joe Tinker, student body vice president senior in psychology
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On a national scale, corn production in the U.S. is down 4 percent as a whole when compared to the record production 2014 harvest numbers. The average yields for the 2015 season are expected to be 167.5 bushels per acre, a decrease of 3.5 bushels from last year. Some farmers, however, are experiencing harvests that are still producing high corn yields. “We have harvested about 580 acres and only have about 60 left,” Brandon Kerwin, senior in animal sciences and industry, said. “When it comes to yields, we have been surprised. We farm a lot of hill ground and with the moisture we have had, it has been really good to us this year. Corn in our area has been averaging about 130 to 140 bushels an acre. We did have some valley ground, though, that was short of its normal yields and that was mainly caused by flooding, but in all our corn crop has exceeded our expectations.” Even with yields estimated to be lower when compared to 2014, this will be the second highestyield to date for the U.S. and third largest production on record.
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Soukup said he thought the criminal case received more publicity because it was a criminal aspect. “Seeing how long it was in the media was also crazy,” Soukup said. “Comparing that to any other ‘white’ crime I couldn’t think of anything that had gotten that huge publicity.” Enciso said she also believed that there is more negative attention
toward black people in the media rather than positive attention. “I think it’s mind blowing that you never see accomplishments of people as much as you see crime in the news,” Enciso said. “It’s not really touched equally. I know that it’s wrong to discriminate people, and I don’t think I’m ignorant about it, but I like how she touched on it. It made me realize that it’s not good to be so negative.”
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“It must be an old line,” Morgan said. “There used to be houses in these lots right here before I was born. But that’s about it, that’s all i know.” According to the Fire Department’s twitter, the leak was capped two hours after the leak began, and the buildings were safe to re-enter. The Collegian is awaiting a statement from the Fire Department to determine the cause of the rupture.
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n the last few years, the K-State Recycle Center has undergone many changes. Bill Spiegel, program manager of facility refuse and recycling, said he has tried to make the recycling center more environmentally friendly and cost-efficient for the university since he took over in 2012. These changes have included the use of biodiesel fuel made by students, adding more recycling bins around campus and the implantation of the new motto, “one stop drop.” “I thank (the students) every day for making the university more environmentally friendly,” Spiegel said. The K-State recycling center uses trucks to take recycling to Howie’s Recycling and Trash Services, but these trucks do not fill up their tanks at the gas station. The Biodiesel Initiative, a student organization, uses cooking oil from the dining halls and Student Union to make a biodiesel fuel to run these trucks. Rachel DeMyers, senior in chemical engineering, co-founded the Biodiesel Initiative her freshman year and has continued trying to grow the organization. According to DeMyers, production and manpower have increased since the organization’s founding and 2,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel have been produced for the recycling trucks. “I always have been into renewability and sustainability,” DeMyers said. “I wanted to make the campus more green.” Set up in a converted greenhouse by the recycling center, DeMyers and approximately 20 students convert cooking oil from around campus into biodiesel fuel through a process called transesterification. Students filter the food particles out of the oil and mix different chemicals and petrodiesel, similar to what is available at a gas station, into the final product to keep the recycling center’s trucks moving. “To see (the Biodiesel Initiative) grow from an idea to application has been really awesome,” DeMyers said. DeMyers and Edwin Brokesh, graduate student and instructor in biological and agricultural engineering and faculty adviser for the Biodiesel Initiative, have long-term and shortterm goals for the organization as it continues to grow. They said they would like to see the organization
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Zane Beatie, freshman in civil engineering, and Thomas Finley, freshman in general engineering, take out their recycling on Monday. There are many opportunities students and organizations can be involved in helping the K-State Recycle Center make campus a greener place. branch out into different products, such as making soap from a byproduct of the biodiesel fuel called methanol glycerin. “My focus at the moment is building an organization that will go for many years,” Brokesh said. “It’s a more modest goal, but it’s the shortterm stuff that needs to get done.” With many of the members of the Biodiesel Initiative nearing the end of their college careers, Brokesh hopes to build up the organization with new members. Although DeMyers said she hopes to set up a more stable work environment for the organization in the future, she said changes in temperature in the greenhouse where the organization currently works can cause problems with the transesterification process and that a lab would be better for production. “It’s a lot of work for the students because they volunteer,” Spie-
gel said. “We have great students that work (with the Biodiesel Initiative).” Not only has Spiegel started working with the Biodiesel Initiative, he has increased the amount of recycling done around campus by adding more bins. In addition to more bins, “one stop drop” refers to what Spiegel calls “single-stream recycling”. Instead of having students and faculty separate their recycling by paper, glass, plastic, small pieces of cardboard, tin and aluminum, all recycling besides glass and large cardboard pieces goes into a single bin. According to Spiegel, not only is this method more convenient for students and faculty, but also for the recycling center. It is also more cost efficient by saving on labor, since no one has to sort through the recycling for long periods of time. Glass is separated for safety reasons, but all other recyclable materials get baled together to be shipped to Howie’s Recycling
and Trash Service. “It’s hard to get (approximately) 20,000 students to do what you want,” Spiegal said. Since implementing “one stop drop,” there has been a 30.85 percent increase in recycling on campus according to the recycle center. Spiegel said this is due to the convenience of not having to sort the recycling and the number of clearly labeled bins around campus. “Numbers don’t lie,” Spiegel said. According to Spiegel, there has been an increase in recycling of most recyclable materials on campus. The total amount of recycling on campus increased from 1,310,822 pounds in 2012 to 2,085,656 pounds in 2014. Paper, plastic, tin and aluminum recycling increased by 20.54 percent, scrap metal recycling increased by 142.19 percent and glass recycling increased by 88.45 percent according
to the recycling center. “We do (recycling) all together as a team,” Spiegel said. “It’s not one person who does it. We all do it.” Many student organizations and different groups around K-state volunteer with the recycling center. According to Spiegel, there is an average of 50 to 100 Greek volunteers on game days. The recycling center also teams up with Housing and Dining Services. “You’ve got to work with everyone,” Spiegel said. The recycling center also works around Manhattan in order to get everyone thinking about recycling. Spiegel said he coordinates with off-campus events as well as on-campus. From Fake Patty’s Day to movein day for the dorms, the K-State recycling center is involved. “It’s like the recycle symbol,” Spiegel said. “It never stops and just keeps going.”
Rumbaugh rides in style to Miss Rodeo Kansas 2016 title DANIELLE COOK the collegian
A girl in an evening gown strutting downstage in heels is most likely the image that comes to mind when thinking of your average pageant, while cowgirl boots and dirt-floor arenas are tucked far away for recollections of rodeos. Beauty pageants and rodeos are a seemingly unlikely pair, but the Miss Rodeo Kansas Pageant turns the two into a match made in heaven for young Kansas women who hold both close to their hearts. For Lauren Rumbaugh, senior in animal sciences and industry, riding to victory on her valiant steed wasn’t just a fairytale dream she had as a child. Participating in the Miss Rodeo Kansas Pageant allowed Rumbaugh to use her riding and rodeo background to impress the judges right into the Winners Circle. The Miss Rodeo Kansas Pageant, according to Rumbaugh, is a test and show of the ability of women involved in the agriculture industry to compete well and advocate for sportsmanship in rodeo, while being poised and positive influences in the agriculture industry. “(The Pageant is) mainly about women in agriculture and in the rodeo industry being poised and being a spokesperson for the industry to the rest of the world (and) the general public,” Rumbaugh said.
She also explained that rodeo queen pageants have more to them than what appears. “There are a lot of people that think all we do is sit on a horse and it’s typically just a
horsemanship during pageants because it shows her skill. “I love to watch her in horsemanship because I think she’s a beautiful rider,” Lisa said. “She’s very correct in
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“There are a lot of people that think all we do is sit on a horse, and it’s typically just a beauty pageant including a horse, and it’s really so much more than that.”
Lauren Rumbaugh Senior, Animal Sciences and Indusry
beauty pageant including a horse, and it’s really so much more than that,” Rumbaugh said. “It’s more about the education and the advocating for the agriculture industry and the sport of rodeo; anything that we feel is important.” Rumbaugh, who has been riding since age eight and got her own horse at age 10, said her history with horses led her naturally into the sport of rodeo and other activities that require horsemanship skills. “It was just kind of fate, I guess, that I ended up barrel racing with the horse that I had, which led me into rodeo and showing 4-H,” Rumbaugh said. Lisa Rumbaugh, Lauren’s mother, said she enjoys watching her daughter compete in
the way she sits on her horse and in the way she holds her arms, and that comes from all of the practice and time spent in 4-H.” Just as Lauren knows her way around a horse, she is no stranger to pageantry. Previously a two-time rodeo queen titleholder, Lauren said that although her favorite category in this year’s pageant was horsemanship, the personal interview category came in at a close second due to its display of what contestants stand for. “(The judges) just ask us about us and get to know us, and I think that’s really important as far as deciding who will get to be the next Miss Rodeo Kansas, is to actually get to know the girls themselves and where they come from,” Lau-
ren said. As Miss Rodeo Kansas 2016, Lauren said she will have the privilege of traveling all over Kansas, and even to other states, to make public appearances at professional rodeos and schools. “We go all over,” Lauren said. “We spend most of our time in Kansas doing the professional rodeos and the KPRA rodeos here in Kansas, as well as traveling outside of the state. I was really big involved in 4-H when I was younger, and so that’s kind of one of my main focuses is to stay involved with 4-H and advocate for them during my reign as well.” Debra Fox, former Miss Rodeo Kansas in 1980 and founder of Queens in Jeans, an organization that offers free information for young women who wish to compete in rodeo queen pageants, said that traveling as Miss Rodeo is a way pageant winners can make impacts on their home states. “(The state queens) travel, not only within their own states to promote the sport of professional rodeo, but they all get together and they travel across the country to rodeos to promote their home states,” Fox said. “It just shows that a young woman in agriculture can make a difference.” Lauren said that being crowned Miss Rodeo Kansas 2016 is an honor, as she now has the ability to represent Kansas, the sport of rodeo and the industry of agriculture while making a positive differ-
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Lauren Rumbaugh, senior in animal sciences and industry, was recently crowned as Miss Rodeo Kansas 2016. By participating in the pageant, women involved in the agriculture industry compete and advocate for sportsmanship in rodeo.
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Don’t look past Wildcat volleyball
AVERY OSEN the collegian
Baylor barely had enough time to get off the bus, see Aggieville and grab a bite to eat before the Wildcats sent them packing back to Waco, Texas after a straight set win for K-State Saturday night in Manhattan. The Bears had played a fairly soft schedule but were still 11-2 in the young campaign going into Saturday night’s match. But there’s one secret that opponents need to know about K-State. This team is dangerous. They have strong hitters in sophomore Bryna Vogel, junior Katie Reininger, freshman Alyssa Schultejans and junior Brooke Sassin. On Saturday night, these four accounted for nearly 80 percent of the team’s kills in the match. Libero junior Kersten Kober will get to just about any ball that is hit her way. Toping off the list is junior Katie Brand. One of the best setters in the country, Brand was selected to compete for the United States National Collegiate Volleyball Team this past off-season. The depth of this K-State team still stands strong even after starter and All-American Honorable Mention outside hitter Kylee Zumach went out with what appears to be a season-ending injury.
Another thing that this team has on their side is team chemistry, and they’re very selfless. After Saturday night’s win, Reininger’s first words after being told she led the team in kills were about how good her teammates were. “When you have a middle player that has a good game, it’s because you have a really good setting, really good defense and good passing,” Reininger said following the match. “It shows the team played really well, too.” When the Wildcats are on the court, they are as supportive to one another as a team can be. This shows the great leadership from the coaching staff, and it shows that the players are bought into the system and want one another to succeed. The Wildcats’ record can be very deceiving at 9-5 as they have played anything but a cupcake schedule. All of their loses have come to teams that are over .500 at the current moment including three teams that are either receiving votes or ranked in the national poll. “We haven’t been playing poorly, but have just gone through a gauntlet of really good volleyball teams,” head coach Suzie Fritz said in a press conference following the game. With no seniors on this team, the future looks good in this already very successful volleyball program at K-State. The Wildcats will take on TCU on Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas at 3 p.m. as they look to win their first true road game of the year. Avery Osen is a junior in mass communications. Please send comments to sports@kstatecollegian.com
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Junior setter Katie Brand sets the ball for junior middle blocker Katie Reininger during the volleyball game against Baylor University in Ahearn Field House Saturday.
K-State hopes to force more turnovers against Oklahoma State LIZ HEATH the collegian
K-State football opens conference play this Saturday against Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Wildcats are coming off a bye week that junior quarterback Joe Hubener said came at a beneficial time. The extra week allowed K-State to study Oklahoma State while the Cowboys were focusing on Texas. “I think the week for us has been productive,” said head coach Bill Snyder. “We’ve truly invested a lot of time and effort
to try to improve in the obvious areas.” One aspect Snyder wants the team to improve on is forcing turnovers. “We haven’t created enough turnovers regardless of how they might come up,” Snyder said. K-State is yet to make an interception this season. Junior Linebacker Will Davis believes that the Oklahoma State game will present an opportunity for interceptions. “Anytime you have an offense like Oklahoma State who’s not afraid to throw the ball around, it is going to give us opportunities,” Davis said. “We are looking to get one and
hopefully change the momentum of a game.” Oklahoma State’s sophomore quarterback, Mason Rudolph is ranked in the top 10 nationally in passing yards and yards per pass attempt. Rudolph is also ranked in the top 20 in passing yards per completion, passing yards per game and passing efficiency. “He doesn’t get rattled and has pretty good poise and seems to go through progression well,” Snyder said of Rudolph. “He’s just a good quarterback.” Senior defensive tackle Travis Britz will look to create turnovers on the running game.
“When we get the ball carrier wrapped up, we’re going to go for that ball, punch it out and do anything we can to get more turnovers,” Britz said. “You’ve got to consciously think about what you’re doing when creating turnovers.” Britz sees the Big 12 opener as a way to measure where the team is at. He said the defense is hungry to return to Big 12 play and see where they stack up against Oklahoma State. K-State will look to shut down an offense that has ranked in the top 10 nationally in scoring offense, yards per play, total offense and passing offense since 2010.
“With these offenses scoring 50-plus points, (forcing turnovers) is just something that we need to do in order for us to get off the field and give the offense another chance to score,” Britz said. K-State will look to slow down Oklahoma State’s up-tempo style of play by maintaining possession of the football. Coach Snyder said time of possession is usually in K-State’s favor based on patience when snapping the football. Snyder said being able to avoid the three-and-out and get the first down is what makes possession time valuable. “It gets them out of their
rhythm,” Hubener said. “The less they have the ball in their hands the less they can score. If we control the time of possession, they’re not getting as many opportunities.” Oklahoma State leads the series with Kansas State 37-24. The Cowboys have won their last four games when facing the Wildcats in Stillwater and hold a 20-9 edge. Britz is not letting the idea of playing Oklahoma State on the road get to him. “You can’t get over-hyped about anything,” Britz said. “You can’t take anything for granted. It’s going to be interesting to see what we respond to this week.”
Women’s golf finishes top three at Johnie Imes Invitational RILEY GATES the collegian
After day one of the Johnie Imes Invitational, the Wildcats were in fifth place of 18 teams with scores of 296 and 284. On Tuesday’s round the Wildcats fired another team score of 284, which was good enough to finish in a tie for third-place with the University of Iowa. The total score of 864 carded at even-par at the Club at Old Hawthorne in Columbia, Missouri. Head coach Kristi Knight said she was very pleased with the team’s persistence in finishing well at this tournament. “It was a strong finish with three players under par today,” Knight told K-State sports. “At one point yester-
day we were tied for 11th, so to stay poised and turn it around to tie for third is a great job by the ladies.” The top finishers for the Wildcats were junior Katherine Gravel-Coursol and sophomore Connie Jaffrey. Jaffrey shot scores of 71-70-73 and finished at a two-under par total score of 214. Katherine Gravel-Coursol had no rounds over-par as she had scores of 72-71-71 which, like Jaffrey, was a two-under par 214. The golfers tied each other for 10th place individually. Junior Madison Talley tied for 20th place, finishing at one-over par. She carded rounds of 76 and 71 on Monday, but fired her best round on Tuesday shooting a 70 which totaled to 217.
Fellow junior Paige Nelson finished tied for 33rd at five-over par. Nelson’s scores of 77-74-70 totaled to 221 and tied her with four other competitors. Senior Scotland Preston and freshman Chloe Weir were not far apart on the final scoreboard. Preston had scores of 82-72-73 totaling at 227, 11-over par, and tied for 61st place. Weir carded rounds of 77-73-79 to finish at a 13-over par 229 tying for 65th place. The Wildcats will be back in action next week on Oct. 6 and 7. The team will travel to Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Washington for the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational. The tournament will have 12 foes for K-State, including fellow Big 12 Conference member TCU.
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Katherine Gravel-Coursol, junior, tees off of hole three at Colbert Hills during the the Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational on Sept. 8.
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On The Spot Improv Club’s first fall performance
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K-State On The Spot Improv Club members inform the audience of the next performance of “Television Series” at Forum Hall on Tuesday.
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K-State On The Spot Improv Club member Michael Lee, senior in animal sciences and industry, during the performance of “Movie Scene.”
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K-State On The Spot Improv Club members William Ash, senior in English, Kati Krieg, senior in English, Jasmine Bannister, senior in music education, and Maureen Barry, senior in economics, perform “Slide Show”.
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K-State On The Spot Improv Club members Michael Lee, senior in animal sciences and industry, and Casha Mills, junior in English, perform “Television Series.”
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K-State On The Spot Improv Club members Casha Mills, junior in English, Maureen Barry, senior in economics, and Jasmine Bannister, senior in music education, perform “Interrogation”.
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