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Seasonal student staff shortage hits Kramer RAFAEL GARCIA THE COLLEGIAN
Slightly longer wait times and unavailability of some services at Kramer Dining Center are not the result of budget cuts, but rather the effects of the typical shortages in student staff members the dining centers undergo each year, according to Missy Schrader, unit director at Kramer Dining Center. “From a staffing standpoint, it is typical for us, at ... Derby, Kramer and Van Zile to start out with fewer students than we actually need to operate,” Schrader said. “That’s because we rely heavily on students that live in the residence halls to be student employees.” Starting off with a low number of employees is typical at the beginning of each school year, Schrader said. However, some employees do stay on staff between years. “We do carry over some employees from the freshman to sophomore year,” Schrader said. “Typically, those students — if they have the leadership skills and they like working at Kramer — they’ll be promoted into supervisory positions or
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Kramer workers prepare food in the Kramer Dining Center on Feb. 1, 2017. “Some students want to come to ... K-State and ‘get their feet wet’ before committing to a job, and then they’ll sign up.” As the dining center hires more students to reach the 280 employees needed to operate over the next few weeks, Schrader said students might see longer wait times at lines.
Some students want to come to get to K-State and “get their feet wet” before committing to a job, and then they’ll sign up. Missy Schrader
Unit Director at Kramer Dining Center student leadership positions.” A potential cause of student staff shortage at this time of year is students’ desire to “settle in” at college before tackling an on-campus job. “Because we rely so heavily on the residence hall population to be student employees, not all of them are ready to sign up for a job before they get to campus,” Schrader said.
“Some of the effects that customers might recognize [are] slight delays in service,” Schrader said. “For example, if instead of having three servers we have two, it’s going to take a couple seconds longer per customer to get them through the line.” Apart from the limited number of student servers, delays might occur in other areas
of food production. “It could be with refilling of products,” Schrader said. “Some of our students, like in our food prep areas where they help the cooks prep food and make food — when you don’t have those students, it requires the cook to handle more products than they usually would and work harder and faster than they might normally work. ... We have students doing a couple of jobs at once.” Students largely said the delays at the dining center have not been substantial. “I’ve had to do the regular long wait in the southwestern line or in the pizza line or in the grill line, but it hasn’t been too bad of a wait,” SJ Murff, freshman in criminology, said. “I haven’t been starving to death because of the wait, so it hasn’t been too bad.” Murff said the dining center could attract more employees by offering a higher starting wage. Currently, employees who start at the dining center make $8 an hour and are eligible for semesterly raises. Carter Brasel, sophomore in mechanical engineering, said lines have occasionally been long at the dining center, although they were long last semester, too.
“It’s just busier everywhere, especially on weekends, but there are times where there are like 14 people in line,” Brasel said. “I know of times when the taco bar and the classics lines are busy, so it’s always busy. And it was pretty busy last year, too, so it doesn’t seem anything too out of the ordinary.” Schrader has also noticed a shortage of employees in local restaurants and shops. “I realize that it’s a challenge all over Manhattan this year to find staff,” Schrader said. “Looking at some of the restaurants ... I think it’s interesting that everyone is hiring. Everyone seems to be experiencing a need for staffing that I haven’t noticed in the past.” A second factor that contributes to staff shortage is student hesitation to seek employment in college due to the current substantial cost to attend a university. “Students are making such a large financial investment now in college, they want to hold off and make sure they understand the expectations of their classes before they really decide what else they can handle, whether it be a job or an activity or whatever,” Schrader said. “That’s part of my theory.”
News Briefs: August 30 Hurricane Harvey continues to bring devastation to southeast Texas, with floods spreading to neighboring states. The National Weather Service predicts the rains to continue. Rainfall totals in some areas have surpassed 50 inches, making Harvey the greatest rainstorm in U.S. history since Tropical Storm Amelia hit Texas in 1978. Tens of thousands have evacuated their homes, and ABC News reported Tuesday that at least 1,000 people are waiting for rescue in Houston alone. As of Tuesday afternoon, the death toll stood at 15 confirmed fatalities.
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North Korea fired a missile into Japanese airspace early Tuesday morning. According to CBS News, the ballistic missile flew over northern Japan before landing harmlessly in the Pacific Ocean, 650 nautical miles from the island of Hokkaido. The launch is believed to be in response to continued joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea. A White House statement issued on Tuesday said
Kite’s Bar and Grill is on sale for the third time in two years. The Manhattan Mercury reported that Rusty Wilson, the restaurant’s current owner, first sold the establishment to Hill Management Group in 2015 before re-acquiring it 14 months ago. Wilson is now accepting sealed bids through Belinda Snyder, the former owner of Aggieville’s Shear Dynamics. Kite’s is expected to be sold sometime in October.
Danny Duffy, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals, was cited and arrested with a DUI Sunday in Overland Park, Kansas. According to the Kansas City Star, the incident took place at a Burger King near the intersection of 137th Street and Metcalf Avenue around 8 p.m. The Royals lost 12-0 in Cleveland that same day, but Duffy was not present. He is on the 10-day disabled list with a “low grade pronator strain” in his left arm. His first municipal court appearance is Sept. 19.
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A quiet campus corner buzzes, blooms in volumes near McCain MADISON OBERMEYER THE COLLEGIAN
Tucked in between the jagged architecture of the Beach Museum of Art, McCain Auditorium and All Faiths Chapel, the Meadow is a wild patch of floral growth in the midst of a meticulously trimmed campus. Sprouting from an idea to showcase a more natural landscape outside of the Beach Museum in 2012, the Meadow is now concluding its fourth growing season. Linda Duke, director of the Beach Museum of Art, said the idea for the Meadow began in a number of conversations with Katie Kingery-Page, an associate professor of landscape architecture and now the Meadow projects director. In order to get permission from Kansas State University to tear up the sod, they began discussions of a collaborative effort to create a curated project, not a prairie restoration project. “A lot of research went into choosing the plants,” Duke said. “For example, the campus didn’t want us to put the tallest of the grasses, so we don’t have big bluestem, we have little bluestem out there. We also prioritize some things like dye plants, native medicinal plants and things like that because we were thinking from the start about teaching and student research.” It was in these initial discussions that the plan for the Meadow was mapped out, such as paths through the landscape, a large place to meet for teaching and places to sit in the shade. “We started with a charrette on the existing site, so the planning team went out one day onto the site — the way it looked before the Meadow was there — and we really just tried to envision how it would appear from different views and what would be needed,” KingeryPage said. Duke said enlisting the help of K-State Facilities for grounds maintenance was crucial to the planning process.
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The Beach Meadow on the Kansas State campus in Manhattan, Kan. on Aug. 29, 2017 “If they hadn’t really been in favor of this, I don’t think we could have ever done it,” Duke said. “It required them to agree not to mow this, to be patient with us, because there was a long period where it just looked pretty ratty out there.” In terms of plant communities, Kingery-Page said they started with a list from the Konza Prairie, which included more than 600 species of plants. “It wasn’t hard to narrow because we knew that we wanted a certain aesthetic there, and also a certain ease of maintenance,” Kingery-Page said. “We were able to narrow that list to only about 50 plants that were seeded, and now we’ve documented almost 40 that have actually grown on this site. There may be more that we will begin to notice; it’s always amazing
how things we thought weren’t going to come to life from the seed, maybe they’ve just been growing very, very slowly.” Today, the Meadow is abundant in native grasses and wildflowers, and a chorus of singing insects dominates the grounds. Kingery-Page updates a blog solely dedicated to keeping up with the project and documents the Meadow’s progress and events. “We write about the Meadow as a contemplative space, and what we mean by that is it was designed to be a place where someone can take a break in nature,” Kingery-Page said. “In the heart of campus, we don’t have that many places where you can sit comfortably in the shade and just be surrounded by green natural
materials, natural environment. That’s why we talk about it as contemplative; it has a lot of other uses, but I think that is one of the more significant services that it provides to everybody on campus.” Following an initial donation by the family of Professor William C. Hummel that made the project possible, KingeryPage said memorialization within the Meadow has given onlookers a chance to experience a living memorial. “When people want to memorialize someone or think of ways to move through grief and toward a deeper sort of sense of memory, they think about landscapes,” Kingery-Page said. “I think landscaping is really powerful in that way, in terms of memory. It’s living and changing, and it’s healing.”
Riccardo Prudenti, special projects coordinator at the Beach Museum of Art and graduate student in landscape architecture, said besides the fact that people are planting life in memory of someone else, the plants should be inherently inspiring for anybody. “It’s a small effort, but not only for someone who’s planting — there’s a joy in planting something that comes alive and stays alive — but also, you know that other people are going to enjoy that plant, singularly or among many, for a long period of time,” Prudenti said. Although other donations, such as the Henley Meadow Maintenance Fund established by K-State alumni Fred and Judy Henley, have helped the project prosper, Kingery-Page said one of the biggest challeng-
es the Meadow faces is maintaining the site. “We maintain the site predominantly through volunteer service, and so gathering and having that constant core of volunteers is a challenge,” Kingery-Page said. “This was a grassroots effort; it was funded not at all by state money. This was funded by private donations, so this is something that a group of people who care has done for campus, but we need to keep it going. That takes volunteer time and it quite honestly could use input from people who are willing to donate resources needed.” The Meadow’s next volunteer day is Oct. 15, when volunteers will have the chance to scatter seeds and weed the pathways in the space. Prudenti said as the plants grow and produce seeds, they are given a “free” source of seeds from nature for those species. “What we’ll do is have people take them off of the plants and toss them into areas where they are most needed on site and then next year, hopefully, they’ll get into the ground, stay there and grow,” Prudenti said. Volunteer days always include free discussion of plants or identification of plants, Kingery-Page said, but they are always looking to make it about more than volunteering. “If students or faculty see a way that their class can benefit from doing something with the Meadow, then they should contact us because it is a resource for everyone at K-State,” Kingery-Page said. “That is the purpose of the Meadow. It is for everyone at K-State. Everyone.” Whether people are studying the environment, water, weather, crop science or even cowboy history, the Meadow acts as an umbrella to bring people together who have a deep knowledge about the region, yet do not always get to talk to each other, Duke said.
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“I feel really strongly that art and science are kindred spirits,” Duke said. “They are not opposites. The kinds of thinking that we do in art and science are really similar in some ways; both domains value careful looking, really keen observation and being able to wonder about details and question, ‘What does this mean? And why does this look that way?’ That’s the process that we know scientists go through when they’re looking at evidence and testing theories, but it’s what artists welcome us to do when we look at works of art, too. I felt like it was really natural for science and art to help us together understand the prairie.” With future plans to incorporate signs on the site
providing information and dedicating donors, the Meadow’s constant environmental adaptability promises more seasons of growth and education. “When you think about the offerings that the Meadow provides, it’s quite extraordinary,” Prudenti said. “It provides not just aesthetics, or just science or just a contemplative, therapeutic environment; it is all of that at the same time.” To volunteer at the Meadow, contact KingeryPage at kkp@ksu.edu. To donate resources to the Henley Meadow Maintenance Fund, contact Natalie Gordon at natalieg@found.ksu.edu. The Beach Museum of Art will hold a festival to honor conservation on Oct. 7 from noon to 4 p.m.
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The Beach Meadow on the Kansas State campus in Manhattan, Kan. on Aug. 29, 2017
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Football walk-on turns into scholarship recipient DEAUNDRA ALLEN THE COLLEGIAN
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Brogan Barry, senior defensive back, on Aug. 29, 2017.
Whether it is a promotion or a scholarship, many college students dream about the day that can change their careers. Soon, one Kansas State football player will get to experience that change as a recipient of an athletic scholarship. Brogan Barry, K-State defensive back, has been on the football team since 2013, and in 2015 he joined the Wildcat lineup as a walk-on player. With no expectations of getting a scholarship, he took the news head-on. “It was during a punt-return drill, and I actually had a bad rep and kind of screwed
Game-by-game predictions for K-State football BRETT ENGLE
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Another football season is upon us, and here are some predictions about how the Kansas State Wildcats will do this year.
CENTRAL ARKANSAS
K-State starts off its season with a bang against Central Arkansas. The Wildcats dominate from the opening kickoff and never look back. Offense and special teams will find a way to get touchdowns to go along with a shutout from the defense. Final score: KSU: 55 Central Arkansas: 0 Bold prediction: Alex Barnes and Justin Silmon each have over 100 yards and two touchdowns.
NORTH CAROLINA
In week two, K-State will look a little more human, but will have no problem with UNC Charlotte. The defense allows its first points of the year, but it won’t matter as Jesse Ertz leads the Wildcat offense to an easy win. Final score: KSU: 41 Charlotte: 10 Bold prediction: Reggie Walker records three sacks.
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it up, so I was kind of nervous,” Barry said. “Then I hear Coach Sean Snyder call me over. He had told me, ‘If you haven’t already, you need to go down and fill out some paperwork for a scholarship.’ I said, ‘Are you serious?’ and he said, ‘Yes.’ I hugged him and I jumped up in the air. I had a bunch of guys around me and they hugged me and celebrated with me. It is a feeling you really cannot describe.” As a now former walk-on, Barry reflected in a press conference on the dreams he had for himself. “It really felt like my experience had come full circle,” Barry said. “As a walk-on, it is that moment you always dream about and are working for every day.” Barry took time to mention his role models and how he respected them. “There are so many,” Barry said. “If you go way back, Ty Zimmerman was a great guy that I looked up to as a freshman. Guys like Weston Hiebert, another walk-on that ended up earning a scholarship. My roommate, Trent Tanking, has been another role
model that I always looked up to. There are so many great people in this program, and I am sure I am leaving a bunch of people out.” Before Barry came to K-State, he attended Hayden High School in Topeka, where he was named to the All-City First Team during his senior year. During that time, Barry learned about the importance of hard work and success. “I learned the value of hard work,” Barry said. “My head coach Bill Arnold really instilled that in us. You had to work hard to be successful. The motto there is ‘enter to learn, leave to serve,’ and I learned that, too.” Barry graduated from K-State with a degree in biology in May 2017, but he is staying here a little longer to achieve a minor in business. He plans to go to medical school once he achieves the minor. “My biggest goal right now is to get into medical school,” Barry said. “I sent in my secondary application for early admission to KU Med not too long ago. Now I am just waiting to see if I have
Christi Hospital every Friday and has thoroughly enjoyed it over the past few years. To other walk-on players, Barry tells them to stick to it and always put their best foot forward. “I try to tell a lot of guys to just keep working — hard work is always rewarded around here,” Barry said. “There’s a lot of guys that are walk-ons that are being very successful, and I know they deserve a scholarship, so I just tell them to stick with it and that it’s worth it.” As an optimistic and influential member of the football team, Barry believes there are no limits for the Wildcats. “I definitely think that if this team takes it day by day, practice by practice, there’s no limits of what this team could do,” Barry said. “If we keep working hard like we have been since January, it’s one of those things that’ll pay off. I have high expectations, and I hope everyone else on the team feels the same way, too.” The Wildcats will host the University of Central Arkansas at home this Saturday. Kickoff is planned for 6:10 p.m.
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an interview, so that’s kind of what’s weighing on my mind.” Barry noted that his mother, Jana Barry, is a KU graduate. “To all my K-State friends, I’ll call myself a ‘Jay-Doc’ instead of a Jayhawk, but I’ll let her decide what she wants to call me,” Barry said. Matthew McCrane, kicker for the Wildcats, was happy to see a scholarship go to a confident individual on his team. “Brogan was excited — he deserves it, he just has spirit,” McCrane said. “During the games, he’s the one that’s most energetic. He’s confident, and that’s what we need. I just wish his scholarship announcement was more prominent.” Barry’s roommate, tight end Dayton Valentine, was more than happy for Barry. “Brogan is one of my best friends,” Valentine said. “I couldn’t be happier for him, he’s been here for a long time and he comes out here every day. He’s like a spark plug — when it comes to morale, he boosts the team’s morale more than anybody on this whole team.” Barry volunteers at Via
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The Vanderbilt Commodores are a big step up from their previous two games, but Bill Snyder will have his Wildcats ready. Vanderbilt should be 2-0 coming into the game, but will go home 2-1. Byron Pringle puts on a superstar performance, electrifying on both offense and special teams. Vanderbilt scores late to keep it close, but the Wildcats finish non-conference play 3-0. Final score: KSU: 27 Vanderbilt: 21 Bold prediction: Pringle racks up over 150 receiving yards to go along with over 100
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Charlie Strong is out in Austin, Texas, and Tom Herman is in. Herman, like at Houston, will find success with the Texas Longhorns, but it will take a few years before he can bring the Longhorns to the national pedestal. Texas lost All-American running back D’Onta Foreman, but quarterback Shane Buechele is gearing up for a big sophomore season. The K-State secondary will give Buechele a big test early in the season. The Wildcat offense will turn its wheels a few times, but
put up plenty of points to earn the victory. Final score: K-State: 31, Texas: 21 Bold prediction: The Wildcat defense picks off Buechele four times.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN
With the Oklahoma Sooners waiting next week, some could call this a trap game. Bill Snyder will have his team ready to play against a well-coached Gary Patterson team. Patterson, a former assistant coach under Snyder, will have a few wrinkles himself that will give the Wildcats a few problems, but the
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D.J. Reed, sophomore defensive back, celebrates after a tackle against KU during the Wildcats game at the Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Nov. 26, 2016. apprentice will not be able to out-coach the teacher this time.
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What to watch, Week 2: Auburn vs. Clemson BRETT ENGLE
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NO. 12 AUBURN VS. NO. 5 CLEMSON
After starting last season 1-2, Auburn went on a six-game winning streak. The following four games did the Tigers no favors, as Auburn went 1-3 down the stretch, including a loss at Alabama and to Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. Transfer quarterback Jarrett Stidham will take over quarterbacking duties for the Tiger offense. Stidham had a stellar freshman year at Baylor University, where he started three games for the Bears. In Stidham’s first start, he threw for over 400 yards and had three touchdowns against Kansas State. Clemson, the reigning national champions, are com-
ing off a year where the only blemish on their resume was a one-point loss to the University of Pittsburgh. The Tigers beat three Top 4 teams last year. Clemson will have to replace a number of impact players, including starting quarterback Deshaun Watson, leading rusher Wayne Gallman and leading receiver Mike Williams. Kelly Bryant was named Watson’s replacement as quarterback. Bryant saw action in four games last year, passing for 48 yards and one touchdown.
NO. 7 OKLAHOMA VS. NO. 2 OHIO STATE
This could easily be one of the most exciting matchups of the entire season, and it is only week two. After a 1-2 start last year, including a loss to Ohio State in
File photo by George Walker| COLLEGIAN MEDIA GROUP Football game between K-State and KU at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Nov. 26, 2016. Norman, Oklahoma, the Sooners won out and finished the season 11-2 with a Sugar Bowl win over Auburn University. Heisman Trophy candidate Baker Mayfield is back for the Sooners, who accounted for 40
touchdowns last year, but OU will have plenty more to make up. OU lost not one, but two thousand-yard rushers in Joe Mixon and Samaje Perine. The Sooners also lost Dede Westbrook, who had 1,524 receiving
yards and 17 touchdowns. Ohio State was one game away from the national title last year, as the Buckeyes finished the regular season 11-1, but were shut out by Clemson in the playoffs 31-0. Senior quarterback J.T. Barrett will lead the Buckeye offense this year, as Barrett passed for 24 touchdowns to only seven interceptions last year. Barrett was also second on the team in rushing yards last year with 845 yards and tied for the team lead with nine touchdowns.
NO. 14 STANFORD VS. NO. 4 USC
Stanford quietly had a nice season last year, finishing the year on a six-game winning streak after a 4-3 start with a win over the University of North Carolina in the Sun Bowl. Stanford will have to replace
one of the most explosive players in college football last year, Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey accounted for almost 2,000 yards on offense, finding the end zone 13 times on the ground and three through the air. USC was headed towards a disappointing season last year, starting with a lackluster 1-3. After that, the Trojans were golden, finishing the season on a nine-game winning streak, including a 52-49 win over Pennsylvania State University in the Rose Bowl. In his freshman year, Sam Darnold threw for over 3,000 yards and 31 touchdowns for USC. With his performance in the second half of the season, Darnold emerged as a Heisman Trophy candidate and a potential number one pick in the NFL Draft if he chooses to enter.