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vol. 124, issue 68
This is what the Multicultural Student Center could look like, K-State says
JANELLE MARNEY THE COLLEGIAN
Earlier this week, the Office of Student life released new concept graphics to show what the upcoming Multicultural Student Center will look like at Kansas State University. “We’ve actually had the images since about a week before spring break,” said Trumanue Lindsey, director of diversity and multicultural student affairs. “We decided to wait to release the images until after spring break, since all the students will be back.” The new center will feature a variety of rooms, including “gathering, meeting and performance practice spaces, student and multicultural student organization group spaces, a kitchen, office spaces, a prayer/meditation room and additional core support spaces.” “The project action team was formed a few years prior to now,” Lindsey said. “The team formed focus groups and gathered recommendations from current and former K-State students when deciding what types of features and rooms to include.” The renderings show that everything included in the proposed room list will be available in the completed building. “We wanted to include plenty of space for the multicultural
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Courtesy Photo by Kansas State University
A concept drawing of the Multicultural Student Center as seen from the northeast near the roundabout on Mid-Campus Drive. The center will be located on the east side of the Student Union. organizations and student groups across campus,” Lindsey said. On the ground level, there will be office spaces for diversity and multicultural student affairs staff, a large meeting space for organizations and student clubs to use and/ or reserve for activities, meetings, rehearsals and more. “A lot of student and multicultural organizations run into problems with reserving meeting and rehearsal spaces,” Lindsey said.
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“We wanted to help make things more accessible for them while creating the new multicultural center.” Construction of the Multicultural Student Center is anticipated to begin this summer, but there is still an additional $1.2 million needed in fundraising money. “If all goes well with fundraising and weather permitting, we should be groundbreaking July 15, 2019,” Lindsey said. “The goal is
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to have the building finished by the fall of 2020.” The building will be named after Jim Bob Morris, a K-State graduate of Cherokee descent. Morris is the lead donor on the project. The building will be located on the east side of the K-State Student Union. To see all the graphic renderings, visit the Multicultural Student Center’s page at k-state.edu.
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Cats’ Cupboard grows in popularity among students as fundraising day nears by Bailey Britton If you were to wander into Fairchild Hall, you would be surprised by how calm it is. There are offices for the University Honors Program, the Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships, study abroad offices and much more. But past these offices, down some stairs to the basement, around a few corners and down a white, empty hallway, you will come to a hidden gem: the Cats’ Cupboard food pantry. Cats’ Cupboard assists students on campus who are struggling with food insecurity by providing free food items, and it is the focus of the Kansas State University Foundation’s first “Day of Giving” event, All In for K-State. Erin Bishop, food pantry coordinator, said Cats’ Cupboard sees about 21 students per day on average, Sunday through Friday. “This is a big improvement from when we first opened,” Bishop said. “Then, we were lucky if we got two customers.” In the time since the pantry opened in September 2017 to March 1 of this year, the pantry has had 4,568 visits. Those visits are divided among 805 “unique students,” which are what Bishop and other Cats’ Cupboard employees call individual visitors.
see page 4, “PANTRY”