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Football team set for road test against Vanderbilt BRETT ENGLE
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The Kansas State football team is about to have its biggest test of the season with a Tennessee road matchup against Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt has gotten off to a 2-0 start this year. In week one, the Commodores won 28-6 on the road at Middle Tennessee State, and last week they shut out Alabama A&M at home 420. One player the Wildcat defense will definitely be focused on is junior quarterback Kyle Shurmur. He has thrown seven touchdowns
this year to go along with zero interceptions. Shurmur has also been incredibly accurate, completing 35 of his 46 passing attempts, a 76.1 percent completion rate. Head K-State football coach Bill Snyder has been impressed with Shurmur this year. “Shurmur is a young guy that really plays within himself, I think, quite well,” Snyder said in K-State’s weekly press conference. “He is accurate; he can put the ball where it needs to go. They do not try to reinvent the wheel in regards to what he does.” Sophomore wide re-
ceiver Kalija Lipscomb has been a spark plug for Vanderbilt, as he has three receiving touchdowns on just four catches. K-State’s offense has stayed consistent in its two wins to start the season, scoring 55 points in both wins over the University of Central Arkansas and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Senior quarterback Jesse Ertz, like Shurmur, has been on fire to start the season. Ertz has thrown for 511 yards in the two games with four touchdowns. The senior has also added 111 yards on the ground with one score.
Sophomore Alex Barnes leads the team in rushing with 128 yards, and he is tied for the team lead with junior Dalvin Warmack with two rushing touchdowns each. After not playing in either of the team’s first two games, junior running back Justin Silmon is expected to see playing time against Vanderbilt. The Wildcats have had a number of receivers make an impact. Sophomores Isaiah Harris, Dalton Schoen and Isaiah Zuber and junior Byron Pringle have each caught a touchdown pass this year. Harris leads the team with 138 yards, while Zuber leads the team in
catches with nine. Senior defensive back Brogan Barry is excited about the opportunity to play an SEC team this weekend. “You definitely see things and hear things about the conference and the caliber of teams,” Barry said. “We know the bowl game definitely was not a fluke. If people want to say it is, then we’ll have to go prove it, but I think there is no need to prove it.” The Wildcats and Commodores will kick off in Nashville, Tennessee, at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. The game can be seen on ESPNU.
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Senior quarterback Jesse Ertz runs the ball down the field during the K-State football game against Charlotte in Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Sept. 9, 2017.
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K-State soccer defeats South Dakota, faces Colorado State Sunday JULIA JORNS
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The Kansas State women’s soccer team traveled Thursday to Vermillion, South Dakota, to face the University of South Dakota, where the Wildcats took a 1-0 victory over the Coyotes and are now 4-3-1 for the year. The first half totals for K-State included eight shots, one save, no assists, two corner kicks and five fouls. South Dakota ended the first half with only six shots taken, but three saves, no assists, one corner kick and nine fouls. The second half totals for K-State were one goal, one
assist, 17 shots taken and five corner kicks. South Dakota ended the night with no goals, 13 shots taken and one corner kick. Freshman Hannah Davis scored the only goal, helping the Wildcats improve their offensive totals for the season. This game finished out the non-conference road schedule for K-State. Coming into the match, K-State had a 2-1 record at home. In Manhattan, the Wildcats have scored seven goals and allowed four. On the road, they have allowed three goals, but only scored one this season. Earlier this week, Brookelyn Entz was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week for
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Willie the wildcat dances on the field before the game against Central Arkansas on Sept. 8, 2017, in the K-State Soccer Stadium. K-State after her performance against the University of Central Arkansas. It was the first
time in the program’s history that a player scored two goals in a match. She also recorded
the first assist of her career. Entz and junior Morgan Mauck are leading the team, each with two goals scored so far this season. Junior Megan Kalkofen and freshman Hannah Davis both have two assists for the Wildcats. Entz and junior Tatum Wagner have both taken 22 shots, while Davis follows close behind with 16 attempted. Senior Miranda Larkin has started every game for the Wildcats as goalkeeper. She has 33 saves and has only allowed seven goals from opponents. In their home opener against the University of Nebraska Omaha, K-State won 2-0. Mauck and freshman Christina Baxter scored
the two goals, while Wagner, sophomore Katie Cramer and senior Jaclyn Means recorded assists for the Wildcats. Over the weekend, Central Arkansas and Creighton visited Manhattan. Central Arkansas lost 1-3, while Creighton outscored the Wildcats 3-2. Leading the offense against Central Arkansas, Mauck and Entz scored one and two goals, respectively, with Mauck, Davis and Kalkofen recording an assist. The Creighton Blue Jays allowed two goals by Kalkofen and Wagner, along with assists from Davis, Entz and Kalkofen. The Wildcats’ next game is against Colorado State on Sunday. The game starts at 1 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN3.
Know your opponent: 2-0 Vanderbilt should not be overlooked
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K-State sophomore Carlos Strickland II celebrates after running the ball against the Charlotte 49ers at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Sept. 9, 2017.
NATHAN ENSERRO THE COLLEGIAN
The Kansas State Wildcats face their first road test this weekend against Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt has long dwelled in
the SEC East cellar, but this year the Commodores are a team that shouldn’t be overlooked. The Commodores finished their season 6-7 last year, earning a spot in the Independence Bowl against North Carolina State. They boasted a win over the University of Tennessee and a close
road win at the University of Georgia in their 2016 campaign. They return 18 starters from last season. One of those returning starters, junior quarterback Kyle Shurmur, is someone that the Wildcats need to be wary of. He’s thrown for 498 yards and seven touchdowns this season, and he completed 83.3 percent of his pass attempts last week to set a new school record. Shurmur was one of the top arms in the conference through the first two games and ranks ninth in school history in career passing yards. He is also the son of the Minnesota Vikings’ offensive coordinator, Pat Shurmur. Senior running back Ralph Webb owns nine school rushing records and is sixth amongst active rushers in career yards in the country. He put up 103 yards on 37 rushes for two touchdowns last week against Alabama A&M. Derek Mason, head coach, is in his fourth year at Vanderbilt. Mason was a defensive coordinator under David Shaw at
Stanford and coached some top 15 defenses while he was there. Mason is one of two head coaches in the country that also serves as defensive coordinator. The Commodores’ defense this year ranks number one in the country in red zone defense and opponent third down conversion percentage. They have recorded eight sacks already this year after only sacking the quarterback 15 times last year. Senior linebacker Emmanuel Smith is who the Wildcats need to be worried about on the Commodores’ defense. Smith leads the team with 16 total tackles this season. The Wildcats, with senior quarterback Jesse Ertz and sophomore running back Alex Barnes, certainly have a big task on their hands if they want to move the ball. Likewise, the defense will need to have a good day if they want to limit Shurmur’s effectiveness. The Wildcats are kind of a wild card coming into the game. They outmatched an FCS team
and a Conference USA team in Manhattan to start the season, but didn’t show much of their playbook in either game. The Wildcats boast a num-
ber 18 ranking in the Associated Press poll, but Saturday will be the first chance for the world to see if K-State is really a top 25 team.
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K-State takes down Mavericks in four set win, faces weekend games AVERY OSEN
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The Kansas State volleyball team started the weekend in Omaha, Nebraska, off right after they beat the University of Nebraska Omaha Mavericks in four sets on Thursday night. The first set was very back-and-forth, but it was the Wildcats who finished the set strong. With the Mavericks up 22-21, K-State won the final four points and took a 1-0 lead in the match. It was all K-State in the second set, as the Wildcats won it 25-18 after running away from the Mavericks in the middle of the set. Omaha came back in the third set and rallied to win it 25-18, but K-State won the fourth set 25-18 to take the match 3-1. On Friday, K-State, who is now 6-5, will take on former Big 12 rival and number 10th ranked University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Cornhuskers started the season off with two straight losses but have followed that up
with five consecutive wins including a straight set win over number 11 ranked UCLA. The Wildcats will have to keep a close eye on junior outside hitter Mikaela Foecke, as she is averaging 3.54 kills per set while her freshman teammate Jazz Sweet is right behind her at 3.52 kills per set. The final match of the weekend for the Wildcats will be against Northern Iowa. The Panthers come in with lots of momentum, as they are coming off a win against Iowa State, who was previously unbeaten before facing Northern Iowa. As a team, K-State comes in with some confidence, as they have won four of their last five matches and had 23 service aces last weekend in Atlanta in three matches. A major reason for the Wildcats success lately has been middle blockers junior Macy Flowers, sophomore Elle Sandbothe and freshman Peyton Williams, who combined hit over .400 and more than 2.00 kills per set. After this weekend, K-State will begin conference play when they travel to Oklahoma on Sept. 20.
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Assistant coach Trent Sorenson explains a new play to the players at the Kansas State vs University of MissouriKansas City game on Sept. 12, 2017.
2017 U.S. Open: Nadal and Stephens crowned singles champions CAROLINA LEWIS THE COLLEGIAN
The 2017 U.S. Open recently concluded with Rafael Nadal and Sloane Stephens crowned as champions. The U.S. Open is one of the most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world, held in Flushing Meadows, New York, from Aug. 28 to Sept. 10. The women’s portion of the singles tournament included an all-American semifinals
for the first time since 1981. Sloane Stephens, Venus Williams, Coco Vandeweghe and Madison Keys were part of the historic semifinals, with Stephens advancing to become eventual champion over Keys in the final. Although Stephens had a convincing score of 6-3, 6-0 over Keys, she was unseeded and had previously suffered a foot injury six months ago. Stephens' injury required surgery and left her in a wheelchair, causing her to miss 11 months
of tournaments in total. "There are no words to describe how I got here, because if you told someone this story they'd be like, 'That's insane,'” Stephens said to BBC News. On the men’s side of the singles tournament, first seed Rafael Nadal of Spain claimed the championship over surprise finalist Kevin Anderson of South Africa. Nadal’s win at the U.S. Open means he is the holder of 16 Grand Slam singles titles, with 10 of them being from the
French Open in Paris. Nadal is only three Grand Slam wins behind the all-time winningest tennis player: the legendary Roger Federer of Switzerland. Federer fell in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open this year. “So here I am. I’m very happy and I’m going to keep working hard to try and come back a lot of years,” Nadal said in a post-match interview with Metro UK. The 2017 U.S. Open displayed many shocking exits and upsets from big name seeds
in the early rounds. Second seed Simona Halep fell to unseeded Maria Sharapova in the first round. Sixth seed Angelique Kerber also lost her first match. The following round, fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki and eighth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova suffered losses. In men’s doubles, 2016 U.S. Open champions Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares fell in the quarterfinals to Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau, who went on to win the cham-
pionship. The pairing of Rojer and Tecau defeated Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez in the final 6-4, 6-3. Martina Hingis and Chan Yung-Jan won their way to a U.S. Open women’s doubles title by outlasting the Czech duo of Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova. Hingis had also claimed the mixed doubles title a day earlier with Jamie Murray. The 2018 U.S. Open will begin next August.
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Coach Snyder, Kraken Books look forward to releasing children’s book "Take It from Me"
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DEAUNDRA ALLEN THE COLLEGIAN
When we were little, we all had a favorite children’s story. The books we read as children can have an impact on us as we grow older, whether they change our attitude on something or make us look at the world in a different way. This October, “Take It from Me” could become that cherished, special book for many children. Bill Snyder, Kansas State head football coach, is working with Kraken Books to impact many young sports fans throughout the United States. Kraken Books is a small publishing company based in El Dorado, Kansas. In 2016, the company published “You’re Too Big to Dream Small” in collaboration with Ron Baker, former Wichita State basketball player. Jefferson Knapp, owner of Kraken Books, decided he wanted to step it up a bit. “After I did Ron Baker, I wanted somebody else even bigger,” Knapp said. “My stepson, Josh, is in the Kansas State
marching band ... I asked him and Josh said, ‘Well, what about Bill Snyder?’ and I wish I would’ve thought of that. Bill Snyder is probably the most-liked person in the state of Kansas.” Knapp almost immediately sent his proposal to Snyder, eagerly awaiting a response.
“Last August, I got a package together,” Knapp said. “Three weeks later, I got a letter from him, and he said that it sounded interesting and to get ahold of him after [the] season was over. I priority mailed him a letter the day after the Texas Bowl. I didn’t hear back from him, and then soon after, news broke about his cancer.” Right as Knapp began losing hope, things started looking up. “I didn’t hear back, and then in June I missed a call, and it was his secretary,” Knapp said. “I’d never been so nervous in my life. Knapp said Snyder was fun to talk to on the phone. “On the phone, he was so apologetic,” Knapp said. “I remember thinking, ‘Why are you apologizing? I think you’ve got a legitimate excuse, and plus, you’re Bill Snyder.’” Working with Snyder on ideas for the book was an experience Knapp will never forget. “I’ve never met a more respectable man in my life,” Knapp
said. “He approved everything, and he did have some say. He was just the grandpa for everyone in the state.” During the process of creating “Take It from Me,” Knapp hand-picked Tim Ladwig, a local 65-year-old artist, to draw the illustrations. Ladwig grew up in Emporia, Kansas, and lost an eye at the age of eight. As Ladwig got older, he became an artist to show his talent. Together, Knapp and Ladwig finished work on Snyder’s book in five weeks and one day.
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Snyder's Windbreaker: Beyond 140 characters MADISON OBERMEYER THE COLLEGIAN
Bearing the name of Kansas State’s head football coach and the unmistakable game day attire that “graces the Legend’s upper body,” Snyder’s Windbreaker is a self-described parody account that covers all things EMAW. The account has been active on Twitter @KSUWindbreaker since January 2012. Reaching the phones and laptops of over 20,900 K-State fans, Snyder’s Windbreaker calls “The Hat, KS” home on his Twitter profile. Now a business development manager at a company based out of Overland Park, Kansas, the K-State alumnus graduated in December 2015 with a degree in marketing and a minor in leadership studies. Snyder’s Windbreaker decided to remain anonymous in order to maintain a professional environment in his career. The parody tweeter said he created the account his freshman year after seeing similar accounts for other teams and schools, but not for K-State. “I thought I would just get a couple thousand followers, that was my initial goal,” he said. “There just wasn’t really anything like it at K-State, so I figured I would draw a few followers just from that.” Five years later, follower counts and growth rates are not things he thinks about anymore, Snyder’s Windbreaker said. “When I first started out, I was focused on growing into a decent following, and I was really focused on hitting daily goals I set for myself of getting a certain number of retweets or getting a certain amount of followers,” he said. “Eventually it just kind of snowballed, and I stopped caring about that.” According to his private Twitter analytics, the account earned 767,600 impressions,
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garnered 3,600 retweets, collected 13,700 likes and averaged a 2.7 percent engagement rate in the last 28 days. Alec Butenas, senior in kinesiology, said sports parody accounts are practically all he follows on Twitter. “It’s the memes … that make sports so much more fun,” Butenas said. “You can send your friends a picture of what [the accounts] said. I think
with the Windbreaker account, it’s doing that exact thing.” Attempting to parody the “soft-spoken Bill,” the initial name of the Snyder’s Windbreaker account was Pimp Bill Snyder, the tweeter said. However, after a Big 12 Football Media Day his sophomore year, his username was called into question. “Someone had casually asked Snyder, ‘Hey, there’s
someone kind of impersonating you online, do you have any thoughts about that,’ and I don’t think Snyder really understood the account at all, but he was just like, ‘I’d appreciate if anyone was impersonating me they would stop that,’” Snyder’s Windbreaker said. He said his phone “blew up” one night while he was eating dinner when followers asked him what he was going to
do about Snyder’s request. “I couldn’t really ignore that or say no to Bill,” he said. “I also had some of the local sports writers reach out to me and the general agreement was [to switch] over to ‘Snyder’s Windbreaker’ and not necessarily say I’m directly Bill Snyder. Just transitioning from there, it seems to have gone well. I haven’t heard anything from Athletics, and I’d like to keep it that
way.” Snyder’s Windbreaker said in the early days of the account when it plateaued at around 400 followers, Tysyn Hartman — a 2012 K-State graduate and former football player — quoted one of his tweets.
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Take a walk "On the Wildside" in Aggieville STEPHANIE WALLACE THE COLLEGIAN
On the northeast corner of North 12th Street and Moro Street in Manhattan, residents and visitors alike can stop by a unique, family-owned and operated store called On the Wildside. Julie Stutheit, owner of On the Wildside, said it is a “cultural gift store … for the
open minded.” Past a glass door with bells and a wall covered in stickers, shoppers can find handcrafted jewelry, incense, crystals, clothes and much more to decorate their homes or dorms. “We have all different stones, crystals,” Stutheit said. “We have a little bit of Wiccan stuff, [and] of course, incense. I think we have the best incense in town and the biggest variety. … We just try to have
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Farther into the store, a wide table in the far left corner holds hundreds of different beads for customers to make their own bracelets. “We make macramé,” Stutheit said. “We have some made up, and if somebody wants to come in and pick out beads and pick out what kind of weave they want, we’ll make it for them.” For those over 18, On the Wildside has a separate room specifically for tobacco products. “The back room is the
most [popular] because we do sell tobacco pipes, and we sell hookah supplies,” Stutheit said. People of all ages can get henna tattoos from Ann Warren, a local henna artist and Kansas State alumna who sets up a table in On the Wildside every Monday. “I’m here every Monday from March through October, as long as the weather is really well,” Warren said. “If it starts getting really cold early in October, then I’ll wrap things up. Nobody wants stuff on their skin if they can’t show it off.”
Warren said she appreciates that Stutheit and Megan Springer, Stutheit’s daughter, manager of On the Wildside and K-State alumna, allow her to work in their store. “These ladies have been more than generous to let me come here and work,” Warren said. “There are some people who would have never known I was here if they weren’t coming here to the store, so I owe them a lot.” Springer said they like being a local business and try to have something for everyone. “We have a small amount
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All-University Career fair to host over 300 companies MADISON OBERMEYER THE COLLEGIAN
The upcoming All-University Career Fair will host representatives from over 300 companies in Bramlage Coliseum for three days next week, providing Manhattan residents with an opportunity for networking and job hunting. Sept. 19 will host companies related to agriculture, arts and sciences, business and human ecology. Sept. 20 is catered to all majors, with businesses looking for multitalented students in a variety of majors to meet specific qualifications. Sept. 21 will conclude the fair
with companies recruiting engineering and technology majors. The fair will last from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on each date. Following the fair, employers will hold next-day interviews for qualifying students. These interviews will take place Sept. 20 — 22 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tyler Benson, senior in marketing and finance, said getting exposure to interviewing tips and being able to make connections with professionals is a great experience offered by the fair. “I think that the career fair gives you the opportunity to talk with companies that you may not have known even existed, and that alone will broaden
your horizons to so many more options post-graduation,” Benson said. According to a Sept. 13 K-State Today article, Cerner, Koch Industries, Textron, LiveWatch, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland and Netsmart will be among the companies present at the fair. A full list of participating employers can be found on the K-State mobile app or students’ Handshake accounts. During the fair, a shuttle will run from the Student Union to Bramlage Coliseum in 20-minute increments from 10:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students can receive a free name tag and bypass non-regis-
tered students by pre-registering in person for the fair at the Career Center in the Berney Family Welcome Center until Sept. 18. The K-State Career Center will offer multiple events leading up to the fair to help students prepare. “Daytime Drop-ins” for quick resume critiques will be available from noon to 4 p.m. every Monday through Thursday, except for the week of Sept. 18 – 22, where drop-ins are only available on Monday. Later on Monday night, there will be a “Late Night Resume Madness” event from 7 – 10 p.m. at the Berney Family Welcome Center for students
needing a last-minute review the night before the fair begins. Students, alumni and Manhattan community members attending the fair should dress professionally and bring multiple copies of their resume, according to tips listed on the Career Center website. Students should also bring their student ID. “The All-University Career Fair is such a great opportunity, not only for those looking for a career, but internships as well,” Kelli Holder, junior in philosophy, said. “The ability to network with companies from all over the country who are in search of students like us is an experience like no other.”
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Students able to utilize K-State Career Closet STEPHANIE WALLACE THE COLLEGIAN
With the All-University Career Fair coming up Sept. 19 – 21, students may be pleased to know that the Career Center at the Berney Family Welcome Center can help them dress for interviews, thanks to the Career Closet. “The Career Closet basically is a program for students,” Anne DeLuca, assistant director of the Career Center, said. “There’s no strings attached to it. Essentially, you can come in, pick out an outfit — you can even try it on in our dressing room — and then you take it home. You don’t have to pay for it. You don’t have to bring it back.” Students, alumni, Manhattan residents and even contributors outside of Manhattan support the Career Closet with donations of gently used business attire. “We get all sorts of business clothing ... suits, ties, skirts, pantyhose, jewelry,” DeLuca said. “That’s really what we’re run off of — do-
nations from the community. We’re also sponsored by Koch Industries as well. The combination of those two things are what allow us to have such a great program for students.” Ellee Schmitt, sophomore in apparel and textiles and Career Center intern, said she enjoys working with the students who use the Career Closet. “The biggest thing with working with students directly that I’ve gotten to enjoy is helping them style and choose outfits that are appropriate,” Schmitt said. “A lot of students aren’t aware of what would be the most professional [attire] for certain events, like going to a career fair versus going to an interview. I get to be hands-on and help them with my knowledge of styling and help them choose something that makes them feel confident and makes them feel good about whatever they’re planning for.” Students like Lati Horton, junior in sociology, appreciate what the Career Closet has in its selection. “I actually thought that some of them were really nice,” Horton said. “You
don’t expect much because they’re donated. I didn’t expect that I would find things that I would really, really like, but I found a suit, a nice skirt and a nice shirt.” The Career Closet is a program that can help students with a variety of needs. “It’s really great [for] getting ready for the Career Fair, if you have a job interview coming up or even if you don’t really know what to wear for your first day of work,” DeLuca said. Students can visit the Career Closet as needed and pick out a few items of their choice. “Typically, we say three items per visit, and we count a suit as one item,” DeLuca said. “So, if somebody finds a jacket and a skirt that goes together, typically if it’s a set, that will be one item.” Schmitt encourages students to take advantage of the Career Closet. “Always utilize your resources,” Schmitt said. “This is free clothing that [students] can come and get. When you think about the cost of buying a suit for an interview or buying a nice dress and a blazer, you’re
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“He said something like, ‘Hey, if you’re not following this account, you need to be following this guy,’” Snyder’s Windbreaker said. “I doubled my followers basically after that, and that’s when it really started kicking into gear.” Riley Gates, head staff writer for GoPowercat.com, said he thinks it is more likely for college students to follow parody accounts than actual sports writers and publications that cover games on social media. “Not that having someone follow us on Twitter is super important to our coverage, but it just shows what a certain age group is looking for when they go to Twitter during a game,”
Gates said. “I follow so many professional accounts for work that it’s nice for me to have a good laugh every now and then when I’m scrolling through my tweets at a timeout.” Today, instead of curating content and setting goals, Snyder’s Windbreaker said he just “shoots from the hip,” focusing more on having fun with the account. “My freshman year, I tried to tweet twice a day,” he said. “I had a goal of 100 retweets a day, twice a day, and that was in the off-season. During the actual season I would try and get 1000 retweets a day on a game day.” Although he has amassed over 20,000 Twitter followers, the parody tweeter said he does not have much interest in tweet-
ing sponsored content. “It’s kind of toeing a fine line ... I feel like I could always receive a cease and desist because I’m basically using Bill Snyder’s likeness,” he said. “So [sponsored content] has never really been something on my mind, because again, I just don’t really take it that seriously. Making money off of it isn’t really worth it to do just completely sponsored content.” When reminiscing on one of his favorite tweets, he thinks back to the 2012 loss to Baylor that elicited a succinct tweet: “Well, f***.” “I feel like I actually tweet better when I’m just melting down,” Snyder’s Windbreaker said. “I want to say I got about 500 retweets off that. It was a funny one, but that was a real
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“I wrote the story in one long day in a secluded camper on our family farm, and the illustrations took five weeks,” Knapp said. “It was the [fastest] job my team has ever accomplished. It usually takes three to five months. ... Coach Snyder, however, wrote his part many years before.” Once the book was completed, Knapp went to Snyder’s office to show the finished product. “When I showed Bill, he smiled so big, and it was nice to see him so pleased with it,” Knapp said. “We put a couple
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surprises in there for K-State fans. It doesn’t matter if you’re a young fan or if you’re 90, it’s a legacy book for Bill Snyder that’s gonna be preached from here on out. There’s only one Bill Snyder.” During the book’s production, Knapp and his family had a lot of special moments with Snyder. “I’ve always heard of how respectful and genuine [Snyder] is, and he really is; he is the most amazing man,” Knapp said. “He saw my daughter and picked her up and hugged her. When we were leaving, he said
he needed another hug.” Knapp was so excited to work with Snyder, he put the fifth book in his own children’s series, “The Kingdom at the End of the Driveway,” on hold. “This was by far the most excited I’ve been,” Knapp said. “I have four books and I’m working on my fifth, but when Snyder said yes, everything was put on hold. We needed it to come out during football season.”
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low point. Now it’s kind of funny in hindsight.” Snyder’s Windbreaker said follower interaction will always vary, but making light of situations or taking a more comedic approach to whatever is going on with K-State Athletics will get good results. “There is definitely a direct correlation to how good the team is doing and how many retweets I’ll get,” he said. “When things are rolling and I’m tweeting funny stuff that is supportive and positive, those are going to do a lot better than after a loss when you’re like, ‘Well, I’m just going to go drink some bleach or something.’” Gates said he has seen many parody accounts that are really funny, but he has also seen parody accounts that just don’t work. “I like Snyder’s Windbreaker,” Gates said. “Now, I thought it was better a few
years ago when it was @PimpBillSnyder, but it still has some quality tweets. I can’t say I follow it incredibly close, but when I see the account tweet, I can always count on a good laugh.” The parody tweeter said he decided years ago that he would make a habit of looking at his mentions. “I occasionally peruse there, but you’ll always find some not-so-great comments,” Snyder’s Windbreaker said. “That usually is from insulting other teams like KU or something, but every fan base is going to have dumb people on Twitter.” From a marketing standpoint, there are a lot of people within the K-State Twitter community who are really good at tweeting, who use their normal names, but they are going to hit that limit of how many followers they have because people don’t want to follow
a generic account, Snyder’s Windbreaker said. “When you create an account and you specifically lay out that this account is for K-State humor and K-State updates, stuff like that, people are going to be more inclined to follow that,” he said. “With all the reporters and professional sites out there, people just want a comedic take on things. They want more lighthearted content.” Though his content sometimes warrants negative comments from opposing teams’ fans, the parody tweeter said he would not tweet anything on Snyder’s Windbreaker that he would be embarrassed to tweet from his personal account. “I just don’t really see any benefit from people knowing that I run that account,” he said. “I work with a lot of KU fans, so ... that would be an awkward day in the office.”
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OPINION: “Alt-right” movement is built on lies, misinformation
OPINION: Some sports traditions aren't always good
KYLE HAMPEL
JASON DEFISHER
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Like most of you, I woke up this morning to find out that some posters were put up around the Kansas State campus. Unlike the usual assortment of ads for special lectures and discounts at Pie Five, these posters were a lot uglier. They cited scary statistics in poor font choices, implying that America is only for white people and 20 percent of Muslims are terrorists. Oh, boy. Where do I even start? The “alt-right” is a racist, degenerate political movement that wants to put big “whites only” signs over the gates to America by any means necessary. They have been called terrorists and neo-Nazis by many, and the official guidelines of the Associated Press state that “alt-right” should be reported in quotation marks because it is merely a PR term to make white supremacy sound less awful. Hopefully most of the people reading this would agree with me that people are not defined solely by their skin color or their place of origin. How could you possibly hate someone, or lots of someones, if you haven’t even gotten to know them? This is not a political agenda — it is common sense. This begs the question, then: how are neo-Nazis gaining traction in 2017? What could the “alt-right” possibly be telling
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people to convince them that America, land of the free and built by immigrants from every corner of the Earth, is a white supremacist haven? Simply put, they’re telling lies. The doctrine of the neo-Nazis who run the “altright” movement is logically inconsistent and only backed up by misinterpreted (or outright fabricated) science, and I have proof.
AMERICA IS NOT A “WHITE COUNTRY”
While it’s true that the United States was a country founded by rich white dudes with bad hair, our Constitution guarantees civil rights and equality for everyone, and the definition of who counts as “everyone” has thankfully been getting more inclusive as time goes on. The latest U.S. Census predictions about the country’s population diversity indicate that only about 62 percent of Americans are white people of European descent, meaning that two in five Americans are Hispanic, Asian, black or multiracial. Further, the same census predictions estimate that less than half of America will be white by 2050. White people will still be the biggest slice of the pie graph, but even with a majority-white population, America is clearly not a “white country.” Oh, and here’s a good question. If America really is a country for white people, then why were Native Americans living here for thousands of years
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DIVERSITY DOES NOT MEAN “LESS WHITE PEOPLE”
This is a perfect example of the faulty logic used by racists to justify blind hatred. Diversity is defined by Merriam-Webster as, among other things, “being composed of different elements or qualities.” The word doesn’t mean less white people, or less of anything. Diversity in America is not the subtraction of a majority, but the addition of a minority. Remember how I said that less than half of America will be white by 2050? This prediction is not based on some kind of mass exodus or a plague that only affects people who get sunburns easily; it’s based on the worldwide trend of population growth. In fact, the white population of this country will have grown by 2050. The key thing to understand is that every minority population is also growing. There will be more black people and more Asian people in the future, but there will also be more white people to join them. If neo-Nazis are worried
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I think we can all agree that head football coach Bill Snyder has made Kansas State football one of the best things Manhattan has to offer. Under Coach Snyder, the Wildcats have had over 200 wins and countless amazing memories. However, there are some things that have worked their way into K-State football that not all of us are happy to see. I refer to two things here: the “F*** KU” chant and the way many of us choose to finish singing the national anthem before football games. Let’s start with the obvious one first. Chanting “F*** KU” has become a sort of tradition at K-State sporting events. While it’s usually a tradition to have some sort of chant to belittle our rivals, I think we could have a bit more class when doing it. In my lifelong experience as a sports fan, I have found that the most enjoyable insults are the ones that are clever and don’t involve swearing. Resorting to a two-word chant that begins with the queen mother of dirty words isn’t exactly
about white extinction, they have nothing to fear.
“WHITE CULTURE” DOES NOT EXIST (AT LEAST NOT LIKE THEY THINK IT DOES)
creative. Unfortunately, the chant isn’t even limited to when we play the University of Kansas. Many football and basketball fans hear the dreaded three syllables at games where KU isn’t even present. How does a chant targeted at our in-state rival have anything to do with a football team from another state? And why, just why do people insist on using the chant when the Wabash Cannonball is being played? The Wabash is a beloved piece of K-State history, and has been called one of the greatest pregame traditions in the Big 12. There’s no need to drag that reputation through the mud just to express how much we hate our rivals. On the topic of songs, let’s talk about the pregame national anthem. I absolutely love the fact that K-State has the entire football stadium join in to sing the national anthem. However, I have noticed a pervasive problem with the singing of my peers. Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star Spangled Banner” to end with the lyrics, “and the home of the brave.” A multitude of K-State fans, however, choose to change the last word One of the “alt-right” posters hung today said, “We have a right to exist.” I paid a visit to the websites advertised on the posters (a search that I sincerely hope Google doesn’t remember), and a lot of their rhetoric seems
to “Chiefs” in reference to the Kansas City Chiefs. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for supporting the Chiefs. I’ve been a Chiefs fan since the day I was born, and I was part of the crowd that broke the record for the loudest outdoor stadium in history. The problem that I see with this pseudo-tradition is that we aren’t the Chiefs. We’re the Wildcats, and we’re in Manhattan. This isn’t the home of the Chiefs. No matter what kind of lunacy we decide to participate in, we’re still one big K-State family. At the end of the day, Bill Snyder is still the greatest coach ever and Willie the Wildcat still does an insane amount of push-ups. As long as we can keep Bill Snyder Family Stadium and Bramlage Coliseum packed, K-State will continue to be a home for all of us who love our Wildcat sports. Jason DeFisher is a junior in animal sciences and industry. 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. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com. to be about “white culture” and their fear that it’s somehow being extinguished.
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Students, faculty rally for diversity in Bosco Plaza
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Vice president of student life and dean of students Pat Bosco speaks about encouraging and expanding diversity on campus at the solidarity rally at Bosco Plaza on Sept. 14th,
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About 500 students and faculty from a variety of racial backgrounds gathered in Bosco Plaza at 8:30 p.m. Thursday to voice their opinions and unite against the spread of white nationalist posters on campus.
Paloma Roman, senior in athletic training and president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, said this was the year the Latino community was going to get involved with social justice. “These past years, I was blind to these microaggressions on campus,” Roman said. “Let’s get in front of it before we fall
behind and we lose our campus.” Like Roman, other students agreed that being proactive was the next step needed to combat the racism on campus. Various presidents from different student organizations spoke, and students rallied in favor of inclusion rather than exclusion. Students spoke in solidarity while they expressed the desire to make the
campus more accepting and diverse. Darrell Reese Jr., sophomore in mechanical engineering and president of the Black Student Union, spoke to the crowd of about 500, saying white supremacy has no place on this campus and that the university needs to take action. Reese said there needs to be an environment where students can feel safe, but incidents like the “alt-right” fliers conflict with that goal. “I would like to thank Pat Bosco for being here tonight and showing his concern, but I cannot glaze over the fact that there has been a silence and no response from our administration and our president,” Reese said. “Your silence speaks volumes, and your silence is a part of the problem.” Reese later said it was necessary to implement a multicultural student center for students to have access to on campus. Reese followed this suggestion by stating that K-State was the only Big 12 school without a multicultural center for students. In response to Reese’s speech, Pat Bosco, vice president of student life and dean of students, gave his first public statement on the matter to students. Bosco said he found out about the white nationalist fliers at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday morning after he had left a meeting; a student informed him about the incident. Bosco was apologetic
about the university’s slow response. “We need to come together not with words, but with actions,” Bosco said. “We’re not perfect, and we want to do a better job.”
Following the speeches from faculty and organization members, the crowd took a moment of silence followed by an open floor for students to express themselves and make declarations for change.
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Freshman Linda Toledo passes on her flame to sophomore DeAngelena Terrell at the solidarity rally at Bosco Plaza on Sept 14th, 2017.
University unveils “Cats’ Cupboard” student food pantry RAFAEL GARCIA THE COLLEGIAN
After years of coordination and hard work, the new K-State food pantry is officially named the Cats’ Cupboard. Coordinators with the campus food pantry initiative officially revealed the name of the pantry Thursday afternoon in an open forum held in the Student Union courtyard. The new Kansas State food pantry is officially known as the Cats’ Cupboard.
Sarah Barrett, Clery Act federal compliance coordinator, and Erin Bishop, K-State food pantry coordinator, presented the history and need for the pantry to the crowd. Barrett was an author on a spring 2014 survey that found “students’ needs continuously outpaced the resources they had, and that caused a high level of stress for them.” Barrett said that according to the results, students responded to this financial instability on a continuum. “On one end of the continu-
um, our students might sell books back, or they might choose to not buy the book,” Barrett said. “Or they may drop a class, if necessary.” In the middle, students took to more severe measures. “Our students were indicating that they were selling [blood] plasma,” Barrett said. “They’d be willing to get a payday loan, and some indicated that they had.” In more drastic cases, Barrett said students were willing to take part in illegal behavior, rely on unhealthy relationships or even skip
meals entirely. “This wasn’t information in a national survey. This wasn’t Manhattan in New York. This was Manhattan, Kansas, on our campus. These were our students — our community,” Barrett said. Pat Bosco, vice president of student life and dean of students, said the university had no choice but to respond to students’ needs. “When you see the stats … that’s enough for us to respond in an intentional way to make sure every member of the university family has a chance to be success-
ful,” Bosco said. “That’s what equity is about. “It is a specific, intentional way for us to define family at our school,” Bosco continued. “There are students who are hungry, and it obviously affects their ability to study, go to class, to be healthy. When you think about what this university stands for, the food pantry is more than a symbol — it’s a basic student life service that I’m very proud we’re celebrating. It’s the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people.” In her capacity as coordina-
tor, Bishop will work as a full-time employee for Cats’ Cupboard and will oversee volunteers, stock the shelves and fundraise for the pantry, among other duties. “The success that I envision is that we have fully stocked shelves, we have a thriving volunteer network, we have a campus that does not have a stigma when it comes to utilizing our service,” Bishop said. “We all need food, so anyone that is hungry can come in and get something, whether it’s just for breakfast or something to tide them over for the week.”
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But what is “white culture,” anyway? If you ask me, it’s something that does not exist. “White” is not a culture or a place of origin. It’s just a skin color. I’m not proud of my white
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SGA introduces resolutions on DACA, white nationalist posters RACHEL HOGAN THE COLLEGIAN
The Student Governing Association met as a sea of purple Thursday night to introduce resolutions in support of students affected by the repeal of DACA and the white nationalist posters that surfaced on campus Wednesday morning. Ryan Kelly, student senator and sophomore in civil engineering and communication studies, introduced the resolution regarding the white nationalist posters that appeared on campus. “In addition to denouncing all the hateful speech that we saw, like in the form of the ‘alt-right,’ we also denounce any intimidation or any tactics that inhibit academic success,” Kelly said. The resolution begins by
aligning the senate in agreement with the First Amendment and the university’s stance on freedom of speech, but ends with a condemnation of “hateful, intimidating rhetoric” that “leads to an uncomfortable environment for students at Kansas State University who already feel their voices and perspectives are not adequately represented.” The resolution was referred to the senate executive committee. The senate was also addressed by: Savannah Rattanavong, president of the Asian American Student Union and senior in mass communications; Madeline Ames, president of the KSU Young Democrats and sophomore in political science; and Jon Cole, executive board member for Cats for Inclusion and senior in mechanical engineering.
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“As much as we want to uplift this message of a
K-State family, we really need to be better in showing that
we are united against this sort of hatred, this sort of ignorance, these people trying to divide us,” Rattanavong said. Another resolution regarding DACA recommends “congressional legislation to establish permanent protections” for those that could be negatively affected once protections are removed. Stephen Kucera, student support director and graduate student in accounting, drafted the initial DACA resolution. He said he believes that legislation to establish permanent protections could feasibly be passed by Congress. “I think that there is a lot of popular sentiment in the country right now that we need to not have the DACA protections be determined by each and every president, or depending upon which side of the bed somebody happens to wake up on on a particular
day,” Kucera said. “We need something that requires a significant legislative endeavor to overturn.” In addition to the resolution, Mary Abounabhan, director of the multicultural affairs committee and senior in business management, addressed the senate to suggest students write letters to senators. “This is an opportunity for students to share personal stories, to tell our senators how they feel,” Abounabhan said. “It would be an opportunity to stand united in support of DACA students affected by the situation.” The resolution was referred to the governmental relations committee. The senate’s meeting also preceded a rally for solidarity in Bosco Plaza. The rally is a response to the white nationalist posters that appeared on campus.
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