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The Fellow launches Student After Hours as alternative study space tan community, Amick said. For example, one of the owners of The Fellow, Derek Richards, is also owner of Alliance Realty and a successful businessman within the Manhattan community. “I have a little bit of knowledge of running a successful business,” Richards said. “So to the younger, new businesspeople, I’m able to speak into their lives a little bit because I’ve been through it.”
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tudents will often frequent Hale or local coffee shops to study and work on assignments, but with the library and coffee shops closing their doors at earlier hours, a budding local business, The Fellow, is taking the opportunity to do just the opposite. Starting Sept. 12, The Fellow will introduce a Student After Hours membership for $20 a month, Monday through Thursday from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. With this $20, students not only are able to have a quiet and collaborative place to work, but they also have access to printing and free Arrow coffee. The Fellow is able to stay open for these after hours by having college student volunteers working the front desk, and would even consider staying open later if they had willing volunteers. The $20 not only gives students a place to go work but also a community. “It’s a membership; you’re part of a community,” Matt
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The starters of The Fellow also strongly believe in the importance of small businesses and helping guide them to success to the Manhattan area. “I think cultivating strong, small businesses is important to Manhattan,” Richards said.
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The Fellow provides spaces for its members to hold conferences and meetings for their business. type of membership inapplicable to their lifestyles. This was one of the factors that influenced The Fellow owners to develop a cheaper and later alternative member-
“Our goal is to create a community more than just a place.” Matt Amick
Community Developer, The Fellow Amick, community developer for The Fellow, said. “We think about you. We’re people who want to help you in business and life.” Aside from the Student After Hours membership, full access to The Fellow is $65 a month for students, but The Fellow staff realize that often college students not only don’t possess that much extra money, but are also at classes throughout the day, thus making this
“We’re seeing small businesses having a pretty large failure rate.” About 50 percent of businesses fail during their first year in business, according to the Small Business Administration. “A reason for that is probably education,” Richards said. “People don’t really know how to run their business. There’s not really a curriculum out there that guides people on how to.” With so many different businesses out there, Richards said he thinks young entrepreneurs go for it, giving it their all with the best knowledge they have, but ultimately run out of cash and have to shut doors because that’s simply not enough.
ship, Amick said. “Working on your own is not fun,” Amick said. “Especially going into coffee shops and dropping five bucks a day on coffee and getting passive-aggressive glares from employees who want more customers to be able to come in. They don’t want people just chilling in one spot all day.”
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create a co-working space for students and professionals alike to build a community within Manhattan. “There’s this disconnect in Manhattan between college students and adults,” Amick said. “Our goal is to create a community more than just a place.” One of the biggest draws to The Fellow for volunteer Ross Allen, besides the coffee, was the sense of community it provides. “One of the biggest draws for me was that there’s a community of other people who are also teams of one or small teams,” Allen said. “There’s just this creative energy.” A similar concept to The Fellow started up in the community of Pennsylvania State University a couple of years ago. On top of providing a place for young entrepreneurs to work and collaborate with other local businesspeople during the day, they also started offering student nights which ultimately allowed them to tie the two groups of people together. This kind of bridging the gap is exactly what The Fellow is aiming to do in the Manhat-
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Opinion: Textbook initiative well-intended; underfunded
KELSEY KENDALL THE COLLEGIAN
At the beginning of each semester, college students can often be swamped with expenses. August can mean having to put down hundreds of dollars for a deposit on an apartment, tuition and textbooks. That’s a lot all at once and can be a struggle for many of us. Brian Lindshield, associate professor in food, nutrition, dietetics and health, and other professors at Kansas State realized this and have started to take steps to offer students some relief by providing cheaper textbooks through the open textbook initiative. “As a student, I had always felt exploited (when buying textbooks),” Lindshield said. So he decided if he were ever in the position to do so, he would do what he could to stop the nickel-and-diming of broke college students just trying to get the required texts for their classes. Lindshield and Andrew Bennett, professor of mathematics, proposed that the Student Governing Association allot some funds for other K-State professors who are willing to create their own textbooks or adopt another alternative to traditional textbooks. This is a lot of work, and the budget for these stipends is decreasing. Professors have to go through an application process to receive a stipend of up to $5,000, according to K-State Libraries “The Open/ Alternative Textbook Initiative” webpage. If approved, that professor would then have hundreds of hours of work ahead of them if they are creating a text from
scratch, Lindshield said. If they decide to just alter a textbook available to them, it takes a little less time. It’s demanding a lot from the professors, but students would have access to the finished product for a $10 fee. That sounds absolutely amazing. Just imagine trying to get a $10 textbook under any other circumstances. College students spend an average of $313 on required course material, according to the National Association of College Stores’ “FAQ on textbooks” webpage. The open textbook initiative could change that number to around $10. This is all counting on professors to want to take the time out of their lives to create these textbooks. Some have already. Lindshield said approximately 40 professors have already jumped on board. While this is a great initiative, how can we expect professors to add more work on top of their classes or any research they are doing? This means they could have less time to spend with their families or doing the things they enjoy for a possible stipend of $5,000, which might I add, is the max they can receive. That is just asking a lot from them. While it’s a nice idea, until budget cuts and funding stop
being the major roadblocks they are, I wouldn’t expect the initiative to be fully implemented across campus to really help students. A professor’s job is to make sure his or her students are learning the material, not to create the textbook. If doing so helps professors in the task of cramming as much knowledge as possible into students’ heads, then they should definitely consider putting in that extra work. What’s not the professor’s job is to worry about students’ pockets. Students are told from the beginning how much college is going to cost, which is extremely unpleasant and stressful, but it’s something they should expect. To the professors who want to do it, I applaud you and your dedication to your students. To the others, I don’t blame you for not doing it. It’s a lot of work for so little benefits, and honestly, it is not your job to worry about saving students money. 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.
Kelsey Kendall is a junior in mass communications. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.
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$2.6 million. That’s how much money Kansas State students have saved on textbooks in the last two years, according to an estimate by Brian Lindshield, co-creator of the Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative and associate professor of food, nutrition, dietetics and health. Lindshield, along with Andrew Bennett, professor and department head of mathematics, and Beth Turtle, former associate professor and head of scholarly communications and publishing at K-State Libraries, developed the Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative in 2012 as a way to both reduce costs to students and improve education. “I wasn’t satisfied with the books that were out there,” Bennett said. “So I thought, ‘We can do better.’” As technology drives changes in the learning environment, Bennett said the initiative allows for better understanding of material that can go beyond what is found in a traditional textbook. Bennett himself has replaced the standard textbook with a free interactive one, including a math problem generator to help students learn better.
“I don’t want people to ask what textbook professors are using,” Bennett said. “I’d rather the question be, ‘What resources are you using for your students?’” Eighty percent of the textbook industry is controlled by
five publishers. This lack of competition has led to rapid price increases, according to a report released this year by Student Public Interest Research Groups. Since 2006, textbooks have increased in price by 73 percent.
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friday, septembet 2, 2016 The initiative offers faculty a stipend of up to $5,000 to develop or adopt an alternative textbook. More than 31,000 students have seen their textbook costs go down since the program began in 2013, according to Lindshield. “It’s really been targeted to freshmen and sophomores, though we do have some upper-level classes that are
now a part of it,” Lindshield said. “Our eventual goal is to have 75 percent of freshman and sophomore classes not required to use traditional books.” Lindshield developed his own textbook, called a flexbook, that students can interact with and contains videos, animations, links and texts. Lindshield said although faculty participation dipped
slightly last year, he hopes the new $10 Open Alternative fee will encourage more professors and instructors to develop their own textbooks. The fee applies to those classes that make use of open textbooks and do not require students to purchase a traditional text. “When we started, we received funding from the central administration,” Lind-
shield said. “And (Turtle) from the library gave us matching funds. With the fee, $9 of it goes to the department (of the faculty who develop the open textbook) and $1 goes to the initiative. So we’re hoping it will be successful.” Rekha Natarajan, mathematics coordinator, is one of the early adopters of the program. She said the initiative has worked well for her
college algebra classes. “I thought it was a great idea from the start,” Natarajan said. “In my case, I used an open textbook but developed a supplemental workbook for the class.” In addition to the cost savings for students, Natarajan said faculty also benefit from the initiative. “I think it gives them a chance to create their own
material,” Natarajan said. Bennett said he hopes people understand that the university is serious about making school affordable and offering students the best methods of learning. “I have twice had parents come in to thank me,” Bennett said. “They tell me about the price of all the other textbooks and noticed what I’m offering is different.”
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K-State cross-country team opens season at Augustana Twilight RYAN REED
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The Kansas State men’s and women’s cross-country teams will begin their respective seasons today at the Augustana Twilight in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The women are set to run three miles, and the men will run four miles. Friday will be the sixth annual running of the Augustana Twilight and will feature over 30 different schools, including the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the 2015 Junior College National Champions, Iowa Central. The men’s squad looks stronger than ever, with every runner from last year returning. In total, the team will consist of four seniors, four juniors and three sophomores. File Photo by Cassandra Nguyen | THE COLLEGIAN
Kansas State men’s cross country team warms up on a trail during an early morning practice at Frank Anneberg Park on Oct. 8, 2015.
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“We see The Fellow as an advocate to allow small businesses to not bite off as much at the beginning,” Richards said. “Big expenses, when you first start a business, are rental space and all the overhead costs. We provide a much more moderate rate.” Richards encourages small businesses that are just starting up to use the facilities The Fellow provides and collaborating with other people in the community. “In fact, it actually might get you down the road faster because we have so many different professionals and all the networking,” Richards said.
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The university provides students with a more theoretical sense of connections with professors who might know people later down the road, but for example, someone who is studying business should actually be talking to someone who is running a business in town and making those connections early on, Richards said. On top of providing this outlet of collaboration, Amick said the idea of an “un-career fair” is in the works to further connect students to local businesses. Students wouldn’t have to dress up for the fair, allowing them to show up in a T-shirt and leggings and actually talk to local businesspeople, rather
than showing up at a booth and handing them a resume, she said. “[At a career fair] your impression is all based on your resume,” Amick said. “They don’t really get to talk to you and get to know who you are as a person.” Overall, The Fellow is not only providing budding businesspeople and students alike with a space to get work done but also a place to bridge the gap between the 20-somethings and the professional world. “Our real hope at the highest level of vision is to create a space where we bring in professionals, businesses and college students, and we’re able to connect those through this space,” Amick said.
The Bachman brothers, Brett and Jeff, return for their senior year and hope to help the team improve on last year’s sixthplace finish at the Big 12 Championships in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Junior Colton Donahue will also be key to the success of the Wildcats this season, after he finished 16th at last year’s Big 12 Championship. The women, meanwhile, are bringing in a wealth of new potential talent as they have seven freshmen on the roster. This is the perfect opportunity for the star returning senior Morgan Wedekind to lead and teach this group of youngsters. Wedekind finished the 2015 season in 10th place at the Big 12 Championships and 23rd at the Midwest Regional Championships.
She is vying to improve on that. Junior Kayla Doll will also be an excellent returning outlet of talent after her 40th place overall finish at the 2015 Big 12 Championships. The women will have to find a way to deal with their youth, and head coach Ryun Godfrey said he’s hopeful some youngsters step up. “We have three solid girls at the top, but we do not have a fourth, fifth and sixth runner on the women’s side,” Godfrey said to K-State Sports. “It is wide open. I do not know how we will fill in that gap yet. Hopefully some of the freshmen can step in there and fill those spots.” The women’s race begins at 8:30 p.m. and the men’s race begins at 9 p.m., both at Yankton Trail Park.
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fter a number of offseason questions, the Kansas State Wildcats are ready to provide some answers as they open the 2016-17 season in Palo Alto, California, against the Stanford Cardinal. After another three-way quarterback battle throughout spring and fall practices, on Monday, head coach Bill Snyder named junior Jesse Ertz the starting quarterback for Friday’s game against Stanford. “He’s in all reality just been more consistent than the other two (quarterbacks competing),” Snyder said in the weekly Big 12 teleconference. “The consistency part of it going into the first ballgame is extremely important to us and (Ertz) has demonstrated that to a greater degree.” A year ago Ertz won the same competition and was set to lead the Wildcats before an injury sidelined him for the season after two plays. Ertz has the offense down and the confidence of his teammates, yet still lacks real game experience. Still, Snyder said he’s confident in his quarterback. “Obviously we feel com-
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Iowa State sophomore wide receiver Jauan Wesley attempts to run past K-State then-sophomore linebacker Elijah Lee during the football game against Iowa State on Nov. 21, 2015, in Bill Snyder Family Stadium. K-State defeated Iowa State 38-35. fortable with (Ertz), in regards to how he can throw the football as well as manage the offense, but again you know he hasn’t been on the field yet,” Snyder said. “I think he has that poise that’s just part of his demeanor that’ll allow him to work through any of the short-
comings one might have by being a first-time starter.” The line in front of Ertz will be a work in progress against the Cardinal; all five linemen will be new starters to their positions. Sophomore Dalton Risner started all 13 games last year at center but
was moved to right tackle in fall practices to accommodate junior Reid Najvar into the lineup. “They don’t have the experience that you’d like, but they’ve had a significant amount of practice experience,” Snyder said of his young
linemen. “So we’re doing the kind of work that we need to be doing and the practice with the environment and how we organize it. I think there will be some carry over for them into the ballgame.” Offensive experience may be in question, but no such thing can be said about the K-State defense. Experience is abundant on the defensive side of the ball with nine starters returning, the most Snyder has returned on that side of the ball in his second stint as head coach. Included in that returning group is senior safety Dante Barnett, who was injured in the opener a year ago and sat out the rest of the season. Barnett said he is ready to lead the defense, and even more ready to play. “They all mess with me and act like I’ve been here for eight years but I let it go; I’ve seen a lot while I’ve been here so they kinda listen when I tell them things,” Barnett said. “I feel like I haven’t missed a beat since I was out.” Barnett and his teammates are excited about facing Stanford standout and Heisman trophy candidate Christian McCaffrey. K-State defenders are wary of his talent but ready for
the challenge. “He’s very versatile; he’s a great runner, he’s quick on his feet, he has good jukes, he’s just an all-around great running back,” senior linebacker Charmeachealle Moore said. “We have to do what we have to do to stop him. We cannot let him get loose in open space and everybody has to fly to the ball. That is what we talk about, everybody getting to him, all 11 players on defense getting to him.” Junior linebacker Elijah Lee said they need to approach McCaffrey like he’s any other player. “He puts his pants on the same way we do, he ties his cleats the same way we do, so you just have to be confident in your abilities and what you can do,” Lee said. After a long offseason, the Wildcats are ready for the one of the biggest nonconference games in recent history. “I have great respect for Stanford, and we all know where they are in the rankings, certainly well deserved,” Snyder said. “It’s obviously a challenge, but it’s an excellent opportunity for the young people here.” K-State kicks off the season against Stanford on Friday at 8 p.m. CST in Stanford Stadium.
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K-State defense ready for tough test against Stanford’s McCaffrey SHELTON BURCH THE COLLEGIAN
A strong team with College Football Playoff aspirations awaits K-State this Friday in No. 8 Stanford. With that comes a matchup with 2015 Heisman runner-up running back and 2016 Heisman candidate Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey’s statistics from the 2015 season read like something from a horror film created specifically for college football defenses. He ran for 2,019 yards in 14 games last season. That’s more than the total yards of K-State’s top four rushers last season combined. And it wasn’t just his rushing numbers that traumatized defenses. The Heisman runner-up finished with 3,864 all-purpose yards last season, which broke the single season all-purpose yards record set by Barry Sanders in 1988. Sanders went on to become what many consider the best professional running back of all time. To put it another way, McCaffrey’s all-purpose yards last season gave him more yards than all K-State’s rushers and top five receivers combined. Still, K-State players remained confident when they addressed the media Tuesday. Senior linebacker Charmeachealle Moore said McCaffrey’s status as a former and current Heisman candidate excites the defense.
“Our defense is ready for him,” Moore said. “We’re very ready.” Which is not to say the defense is unaware of what McCaffrey brings. Moore said the team talks consistently about how they need to flock to the ball and not let McCaffrey get any open space. “(McCaffrey’s) very versatile,” Moore said. “He’s a great runner, he’s quick on his feet, he has good jukes, he’s just an all around great running back.” Senior defensive end Jordan Willis said McCaffrey’s patience is what has most
impressed him, particularly the way McCaffrey waits for his blocks to develop before breaking free. “Once he gets open, he just goes,” Willis said. “He doesn’t rush into anything.” Yet while the Wildcats are well aware of what makes McCaffrey special, Moore wasn’t the only defensive player who said the defense was ready to face McCaffrey. Moore said the team has faced good running backs before, and senior safety Dante Barnett said many of the skills McCaffrey brings are similar to those the team has
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encountered in running backs they have played. Friday’s game, of course, will not be won or lost solely by McCaffrey. Football is inherently a team sport, and junior linebacker Elijah Lee said the team’s game plan is created based on the entire opponent, not just one player. “You have to game plan their whole team because they have a whole team full of playmakers,” Lee said. “If you just focus on (McCaffrey) then that’s just going to take the focus off the receivers or the tight ends, and they’re also pretty good players.”
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Then-freshman running back Justin Silmon carries the ball during the game against Louisiana Tech on Sept. 19.
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Stanford then-sophomore running back Christian McCaffrey takes the ball downfield during the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1.
Since 2009, Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder has started six freshmen in the first game of the season. All six being offensive players and three of those being being linemen. This Friday, four freshmen will play their first snap of college football under the lights of a hostile Stanford Stadium versus the No. 8 Cardinal, the highest-ranked opponent the Wildcats have ever opened a season against. Defensive end Reggie Walker, defensive tackle Trey Dishon, left offensive tackle Scott Frantz and left offensive guard Tyler Mitchell, who all redshirted during the 2015 season, will step on the field and start with only a wealth of practice experience and lessons learned from the sidelines
in their arsenal versus veteran Stanford linemen on both sides of the ball. It’s not how the 76-yearold head coach probably would’ve drawn up his 25th season but Snyder has confidence in his young talent. “It’s not necessarily the most desirable thing but I like the way they have come along and progressed,” Snyder said about the freshmen starting on the offensive line. “They’ll probably see the brunt of Stanford’s defense and movement and all that goes along with it.” That’s not to say that the four won’t be ready. They’ve reached this precarious position by impressing both their coaches as well as their fellow teammates throughout their redshirt season and throughout the past offseason. see gameday
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“There are some guys who play like they’re not freshmen,” junior linebacker Elijah Lee said. “That’s what I’m excited about because I’ve seen them grow in the offseason, so I’m ready to see what they’ll do this season.” Having said that, once kickoff hits, the kid gloves come off. Inexperience will not be accepted as an excuse for failure. Expectations for starters are equally high whether it’s your first or 30th game in a K-State uniform. “Some of the younger guys, as older guys, we’ve talked to them and say, ‘You have to mature quick,’” Lee said. “There’s not ‘I’m young; I made this mistake.’ Once you get put out there with us you have to know what you’re doing. That’s the way you’re going to get onto the field.” And while those four will be playing their first game, 25 Wild-
cats in the two-deep offensive and defensive depth chart released earlier this week are underclassmen, some of which are sophomores who saw time with the rash of injuries that crippled K-State throughout the 2015 season. Snyder summed up his roster succinctly on Tuesday. “We’re young with a certain degree of experience,” he said. And while that degree may not be nearly as high as Snyder would like for it to be, this is still a team that accelerated its maturation process during last season. In result of that, sophomores who played significant time as freshmen like sophomore right
offensive tackle Dalton Risner or sophomore running back Justin Silmon will be expected to take the next step in a major way, while freshmen like the four new starters and the others sitting behind upperclassmen on the depth chart look to establish themselves and give credence to their elevated status. That process starts Friday, two time zones away. “It is a really huge game,” Silmon said. “We have been working so hard ever since the offseason, so we just want to go in there and win. That is our only goal, and that is what we are going to try and do on Friday.”
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