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month ago I was suicidal. One Sunday night, when I couldn’t take merely surviving anymore, I took three bottles of pills in an attempt to end my life. There were a lot of reasons why I had gotten to that point — the intense stress that I felt as I’m about to graduate from college without a concrete post-grad plan, experiencing a car accident on the highway, the loss of a best friend, my crumbling confidence as a leader and a person and, most importantly, my depression and anxiety disorders had flared up so badly that I could barely get out of bed. Now, I’m an involved person on campus. After being connected to a sorority, multiple student organizations, honoraries and On The Spot Improv, it wasn’t like me to be so lazy or careless. But, I also realized that I had put up a lot of walls over the years. People see me as the goofy girl who does improv and loves to have fun, which is true. However, I had convinced myself that nobody wants to hang out with the sad girl. So, I couldn’t ever be honest with anyone about how I was feeling because I felt like they wouldn’t accept me
City Commission announces National Preservation Month, Food Drive Day ZAYRA SOTO the collegian
The K-State project funds 2017 budget request was approved with eight different projects, including bike lanes, more lighting and crossing lanes added to campus. Mayor Karen McCulloh announced that May will be National Preservation Month. Cameron Tross, chair of the Historic Resources Board, was present to receive the proclamation. McCulloh announced May 14 as designated Food Drive Day. Red Stork, Food Drive Coordinator of Branch 1018 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, was present to receive the proclamation. The letter carriers will be collecting food for the food drive. Stork said the most needed items are canned chicken, tuna, juice, muffin mix, canned dinners, boxed crackers, rice, macaroni and cheese and canned fruit. May 2016 will begin the Monarch Butterfly initiative. Mayor McCulloh asked citizens to plant native milkweed and nectar plants for food and shelter to create healthy habitats for the Monarchs. During public comments, Stan Herman, Manhattan resident, requested 17 more straight parking spots near the Douglas Community Center. Herman said currently the city has only made 16 spots, and he would like to see 17 more added to the lot. The commissioners said they will continue to look into the spots and will get back to Herman. see page
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Kati Krieg, senior in english and suicide survivor, talks about her experience with attempted suicide and has found security in her “Brain Squad.” anymore. These walls of hidden emotions and fake happiness consumed me and eventually, as they shattered around me, so did my will to live. As I was being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, I contemplated my life thus far and I realized how often I truly felt empty throughout my short 23 years of life. That’s not okay. Luckily, and obviously as I am writing this now, I survived my attempt that night. After my hospitalization post-attempt, I was sent to an in-patient mental health hospital, where I lived for a week. It was not my
choice to go, and in all honesty, even at that point, I refused to believe that I had a problem that needed ultra-professional help. Yeah, I was a brat. I 100 percent needed that kind of help, and for that week I got to spend the time that I’ve never let myself have, to actually try to realize why I was so unhappy with myself and what I could do to help it. The biggest, most helpful nugget of hope that I received from being institutionalized was that I am not alone in this. There are many, many other human beings out there who are in the same ol’ rickety boat.
The comfort that I felt as I got to live, eat, talk and breathe with these lovely people was next to none. Hopefully there are others out there reading this who can relate to my feelings, whether diagnosed or not. I want you to know that while you are a unique individual, your suffering is not. There are millions of others out there who are struggling with depression and anxiety disorders on the daily. You are not alone in this and there is relief at the end of that immensely dark and heavily-graffitied tunnel. see page
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Student shares struggles with anxiety Jessica Robbins | THE COLLEGIAN
Sam Welch, sophomore in secondary education, discusses how he copes with anxiety and loneliness.
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Sam Welch, sophomore in secondary education, said he was ready to take on his sophomore
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year, but shortly after the start of his second year of college, he realized something was wrong and he needed help. “It was the beginning of sophomore year,” Welch said. “I had just come back from the summer, and I was really highly motivat-
ed, ready to take on the semester. Then, some of the symptoms I started experiencing and started dismissing were that I was barely sleeping at all, three to four hours a night.” Welch said it began to affect other areas of his life.
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“Then I noticed it in my classes,” Welch said. “I went but I just wasn’t there. Next it was my grades; they started OK but then they started to fall and that got me really down. I wasn’t sleeping, I was just trying to grind, get a lot of work done and keep myself busy. I didn’t realize until later I was just digging myself into a hole.” According to Welch, he did not know how to explain what he was experiencing, and started to slowly isolate himself and continue with habits he knew were not healthy and only accentuated his problems. “I didn’t know what I was dealing with,” Welch said. “My mind was always racing so I thought maybe I had ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). So I went to a doctor, fully expecting that I would just be diagnosed with ADHD or not, and if not, then I would be out of luck.”
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Students respond to plans for walking-only campus MADISON OBERMEYER the collegian
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-State will prioritize pedestrian movement and campus aesthetic, allowing for flexible management of traffic and access to buildings on campus, according to the Campus Master Plan 2025. Construction modifications across campus, including pedestrian malls and bicycle boulevards, aim to heighten students’ convenience by redirecting traffic networks around campus rather than through it. Caleb Warner, freshman in biology, said he is not a fan of a walking-only campus because the roads are not very busy during the day, and the cars that do use the roads are cautious about students. “It will be definitely be convenient for the students living on or near campus, but not so much for the students living far away from campus because they will have to park far away and then walk to class,” Warner said. Providing functions such as parking and circulation in a way that enables regular and convenient access to students, faculty and visitors, while enhancing the character of the campus is challenging for the university, according to the executive summary of the master plan. The Campus Master Plan recommends a “series of modifications to the campus circulation network” that will encourage crosstown traffic to move around the campus, rather than through it. “Seventeenth Street between Claflin Road and the K-State Student Union and Mid-Campus Drive between Claflin Road and Lovers Lane are closed to daily traffic and redeveloped as a pedestrian priority zone,” according to the summary. “Similar to Mid-Campus Drive, Claflin Road becomes a limited vehicular access drive that is closed to daily traffic, no longer connecting east-west
traffic to North Manhattan Avenue through campus.” The summary said Denison Avenue, Claflin Road, College Avenue, Kimball Avenue, North Manhattan Avenue and Anderson Avenue will remain as perimeter streets, while internal circulation on campus will be limited for daily users. The master plan also described a centralized parking plan that uses the large lots at Bill Snyder Family Stadium instead of the various lots throughout campus, relying on an efficient transit system delivering students to and from campus. “I don’t think that it will work better than parking dispersed throughout campus because the parking lot will always be packed and lines for the transit service may take a while,” Warner said. “Students won’t be able to properly estimate the time it will take to get to their building.” Two injury accidents involving pedestrians at crosswalks occurred early in the academic year, between Sept. 9 and Sept. 16; both cases involved drivers failing to yield to the pedestrian in the crosswalk, according to K-State Today. Converting K-State to a walking-only campus, however, may not curtail accidents as long as bicyclists still share the sidewalk according to Shannon Keith, freshman in early childhood education. Keith, who often uses her bike to get around campus, said she almost hit a pedestrian who was texting and made a sharp step to the right and into Keith’s path to avoid walking into a puddle. Keith said she narrowly missed the walker as she swerved out of the way. “It’s frustrating because you’re in a hurry and people are texting,” Keith said. “Sometimes there is a danger to you or to the pedestrian. Texting will always be an issue. For walking, most people know left from left and right from right in terms of passing slower walkers, but it’s hard to tell people to move when you’re going at a much faster speed.”
Map data courtesy of Google Maps Keith is not the only person to almost be in a bike accident; 66.2 percent of pedestrians said they have nearly collided with bicycles on campus, according to John Scott in his report, “Bicycle and pedestrian harmony: Perspectives on bicyclists’ behavior on campus.” “Bikes are not being used properly on campus,” Keith said. “A walking campus means more pedestrians, giving the possibility of more collisions around campus. It’s hard to enforce, but bikers on a walking-only campus will need to be more aware of places they can
and can’t ride on.” Zachary Bair, junior in operations management, said pedestrian awareness is a large part of safety, even if vehicles are not permitted to drive on campus. Bair said a car almost hit his roommate after she entered a crosswalk without making sure the car had stopped. Snowy weather caused the car to slide after slamming on the brakes, but he pulled his roommate back after seeing the car was unable to stop. “I joked with her that natural selection was going to take her
out,” Bair said. “But really a walking campus wouldn’t change most people’s routines. I feel like most people walk through campus either way, now they just wouldn’t have to worry about getting hit.” Keith said for her it all boils down to parking. “It’s a good step for making campus more beautiful, and it makes the students adaptive toward change,” Keith said. “If there are good parking arrangements, I feel that most students won’t have a problem adjusting to a walking campus.”
Nontraditional, veteran students build community in student center EMILY MOORE the collegian
Over 23 percent of all graduate and undergraduate students in the fall of 2014 were nontraditional, according to the “About Us” page of the K-State Non-Traditional and Veteran Student Services website, and that number is growing. Non-Traditional and Veteran Student Services can provide a variety of accommodations including social events, scholarships, tutoring, a Student Parent Organization for student parents and a center for student use, Joshua Reed, director of the center, said. Reed said nontraditional students are often older and have had more life experience before entering K-State, unlike most traditional students coming directly from high school. “They’ve already had experience prior to coming here, so we’re trying to foster a support network of students like themselves,” Reed said. Those in the center have come to know his job is to help them with any issues they may have, Reed said. He said the center also has the ability to proctor tests, and he is willing to call professors to talk with
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The Veterans Center offers a place where veterans can hang out or study with others in a safe environment. them about individual students’ needs. Heather Kelley, junior in communications studies and student veteran, said the nontraditional and veteran programs as well as the center have shown K-State’s additional effort in accommodating the veteran community. “I feel like a lot of us are slipping through the cracks, and it’s huge that K-State is
starting to pay more attention to it and starting to give more attention to the veteran community here, not only on campus but everywhere around here,” Kelley said. Jennifer Smith, junior in microbiology and treasurer for the Veteran Student Organization, or VSO, said the center has given the nontraditional and veteran student population an opportunity.
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“I think it’s given us a voice,” Smith said. “I know we’re a minority at K-State, but we’re a growing minority and it’s nice that we’re being taken care of.” The center provides a place for all nontraditional or veteran students to come together for academic or social purposes. It has computers, a television, a lounge area and a place for students to study.
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The VSO is an organization on campus for veteran students, and they utilize the center for their meetings, according to Reed. The VSO provides veterans with a group of students like themselves and helps ease the transition from military life into university life, according to the VSO mission statement. Justin Manford, junior in economics and president of the VSO, said there is diversity among those who use the center. “Within the veteran community, you have people from all colors and creeds and sexual orientations and races and religions and none of that matters (at the center),” Manford said. Manford said, however, he believes the only way the current community in the center can get better is through growth. “The more people, whether veterans or traditional students or faculty who come (to the center), the more that people interact with each other, the more we can grow as a community,” Manford said. Reed said the center is growing and while moving to a larger location would help, they are currently trying to make the best use of the available space.
“We have such a great need, but we don’t have the space,” Reed said. “We do need a bigger space and we’re trying to work that out.” The environment in the center is like a family and the people who use it all seem very close, Reed said. Manford said those in the center are friendly to all new or unfamiliar students coming to the center. “Conversely, if we’re (at the center) and somebody walks in and we don’t know them, it doesn’t matter,” Manford said. “Everyone is very welcoming.” While all are welcome, Manford said the veterans easily connect with one another simply by their shared experiences. In fact, if he meets soldiers who served in the same area or country that he did, the connection is instant. “We’ve shed the same blood in the same mud and that kind of bond doesn’t break,” Manford said. “It only grows stronger with time.” In addition to the natural connection formed by veterans, the fact that all the students who use the center are nontraditional is what solidifies their bonds as well, Smith said. “It is our own little piece of dysfunctional heaven,” Manford said.
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Students approve 3 fee increases amid larger fall tuition increase JASON TIDD the collegian
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-State proposed a greater tuition increase than originally planned, and one student percredit-hour fee proposal was approved while two others were rejected at the Tuition and Fees Strategies Committee meeting on Tuesday. The new tuition plan by the university calls for a 5 percent increase as compared to the original 3.6 percent. The committee recommended an additional 0.5 percent increase, which would make the total tuition increase 5.5 percent. A $30 fee by the College of Engineering was approved, while a $1 fee for K-State Libraries and a $2.10 Academic Building Support Fee were rejected. These are in addition to fee decisions made at previous meetings. Fees from the colleges of Business Administration and Arts and Sciences were approved and a university advising fee was rejected. Overall, the committee approved three of the six fee proposals.
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The tuition increase was originally 3.6 percent because of a tuition increase cap set by the Kansas budget passed in 2015. The cap was agreed to on an understanding with the Board of Regents that state funding to universities would not be cut. Then, on March 2, Gov. Sam Brownback cut university funding by $17 million, but the cap remained law. On Monday, the Legislature passed a budget that included a repeal of the cap. In response, K-State added to its requested tuition increase, which must be approved by the board at the June meeting. K-State’s budget for the 2016-2017 school year has a $9 million deficit, April Mason, provost and senior vice president, said. The tuition increase will help defray the hole, but would not cover the entire deficit. Each 1 percent of tuition increase generates about $1.67 million, Cindy Bontrager, vice president of administration and finance, said. The 0.5 percent additional tuition increase was recommended as an alternative to a rejected fee.
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The committee approved a College of Engineering $30 per-credit-hour fee proposal on a 6-4 vote (two members were absent). A $1 per-credit-hour fee proposal that would have affected all Manhattan students for the benefit of K-State Libraries was rejected 2-7 with one abstention. A $2.10 per-credit-hour Academic Building Support Fee proposal that would have been paid by all students to fund costs associated with furnishing the new College of Business Administration building was also rejected on a 1-9 vote. At a previous meeting, the deans of the College of Engineering told the committee that the fee increase was proposed in part to keep accreditation for some of the programs. Accreditors will come in 2017, they said, and some of the programs in the college may lose accreditation if the high student-to-faculty ratio is not reduced. “We could get to the point where we don’t have accreditation,” Jordan
DeLoach, Student Governing Association chief of staff and senior in computer science, said. “I think that would be the worst possible thing for the College of Engineering because I don’t know why a student would ever come here if we’re not accredited.” Kurt Lockwood, former speaker of the Student Senate and senior in agricultural economics, said he thought the possibility of losing accreditation was a “scare tactic.” “I struggle with the fact that administration would ever let us come close to losing our accreditation,” Lockwood said. “To me, I don’t think we’re near that bubble point.” Mason said there is no “April Mason Bank” to give millions of dollars to engineering. “When you say there’s no ‘April Mason Bank’ to give money to, is the College of Engineering too big to fail if we don’t pass this fee?” Candice Wilson, graduate student in agricultural economics, said. “Or will the administration just step back and say, ‘Well, we don’t have the money. Sorry, you lose your accreditation.’ Because I feel like it’s one of those things where they say it now, and then we give them the money. But if we were to say, ‘No, you don’t get the money,’ dollars would appear.” Mason said the university is not playing chicken. “Do you see any millions of dollars in this budget? ... I don’t have it,” Mason said. “We don’t have it at the university. I wish we did.” Mason said the possibility of losing accreditation was not a scare tactic, but a message from the accreditors that the student-to-faculty ratio needed to be addressed. Compounding the student-to-faculty ratio issue is increasing enrollment in the college. Kansas law mandates the College of Engineering increase its enrollment. Mason said recruitment as well as retention factor into the increasing en-
rollment. “Bringing a student in and then losing them is not what I’m about,” Mason said. “Bringing a student in and helping them be successful — that’s what we want to do.” Wilson said the problems caused by higher enrollment are “justifications for why the College of Engineering needs more selective enrollment, not a bigger fee.” “When you continue to grow and you continue to pass fees, to me that’s just kicking the can down the road,” Wilson said. DeLoach disagreed, citing K-State’s land-grant mission. “We do not want to become like KU where you have to have a 28 ACT to enroll in the computer science department,” DeLoach said. “We think as our mission as a land-grant institution, we would rather you pay a little bit more in student loans but be able to pursue the degree that you want to pursue.” DeLoach also said engineering students will be investing in themselves with the fee increase. “(The fee increase) is kind of a strategic investment in their degree,” DeLoach said. “It does cost more to be an engineer, but you also make more in the long-term. You have to pay a little more if you want the engineering degree, but the engineering degree will also pay off on its own.” For the Libraries fee, several committee members said they did not see the immediate need for the money and thought the goals were vague. For the Academic Building Support Fee, several committee members said they did not think it was appropriate for all students to pay a fee that would go toward the College of Business Administration building. After rejecting the Academic Building Support Fee proposal, the committee recommended 9-0 the university add another 0.5 percent to the tuition increase to cover the costs.
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Seek professional help and don’t be ashamed. I felt for years that I couldn’t possibly be that girl, I couldn’t be the girl with the messed up head because no one else was like that. But, that isn’t even remotely the truth. Everyone struggles with something, just some of us are lucky (yes, I said lucky) enough to have a name for it. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Your happiness and abili-
ty to live your own beautiful life are the most important things that you can help for yourself. Enlist your very own Brain Squad (again, yes, I call them a Brain Squad). This can include, but is not limited to, a therapist, a psychiatrist, a trustworthy friend, a co-worker, that guy you went to high school with that struggled with depression, a clown to make you smile, etc. Essentially a handful of people who are
on your side. It will help. Be honest with them; it’ll get you far. While I was lying on my bedroom floor right after I had swallowed all of the pills, I thought about my mom. The chief of my Brain Squad. And I knew I couldn’t let myself succeed in what I had already put in action. No one is alone in their disease and there are more people out there who are suffering than you can even imagine.
Mental health issues are extremely real and are an excruciatingly important aspect of many people’s lives. It needs to be taken seriously. Thank you for reading my story, and maybe heeding some of my advice. If anyone needs a new member of their Brain Squad, add me on Facebook. Seriously, I can relate and know that there is no love stronger than a love that you can feel for yourself. You, yes, you there. You are not alone.
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Welch said his psychiatrist asked questions he hadn’t expected to be asked. One question was if Welch had gone through any traumatic experiences in the past, which lead to realization that his feelings of loneliness and anxiety were caused by the brain tumor Welch had survived in high school. The tumor was discovered after Welch was in a near-fatal car accident in high school, he said. He and his psychiatrist decided that much of what Welch was feeling at the start of his sophomore year of college was due to the rehabilitation and health issues that stemmed from his tumor and the accident. Welch said the feelings of anxiety and loneliness were suppressed during his recovery, but the pressure continued through the rest of high school and into college. Welch is joined by 100,736 students across 139 universities and colleges who decided to reach out and get help from the counseling services on their campuses, according to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health’s 2015 annual report. According to the report, some of the most common reasons for students seeking counseling are anxiety, stress, depression, family and relationship problems, academic performance, interpersonal functioning and self-esteem or confidence issues. “Students are so conscientious to do well and meet others’ expectations, that they get into a self-critical and self-demanding view of themselves,” Dorinda Lambert, director of K-State Counseling Services, said. “Doing that can be so draining, emotionally, and truly tie up a person’s ability to move forward. It may sound odd, but sometimes trying too hard at something can keep you from achieving what you want.” Being able to be in tune with one’s self is an lifelong developmental process that for many students is a struggle to find out what exactly it is that they want in life and to discover the most efficient way to think and act on those goals, Lambert said. “I don’t think that it’s too surprising that depression is at this age,” Sherri Massey, licensed marriage and family therapist at Cornerstone Family Counseling Center, said. “There are a lot of transitions with students moving into this world, trying to make new friends and being away from family. From trying to make your own decisions on eating habits to how you spend your time, there are just too many choices and decisions that can make students overwhelmed.” Students are facing more hurdles today than they ever have, and have to keep themselves reminded of reality when they begin to feel overwhelmed, Massey said. Learning to make simple lifestyle changes can make all the difference. “There are different treatments where you can work on cognitive behavior, getting our
thoughts in order,” Massey said. “Sometimes we deal with lies and just need to get back to what is true.” There are different selfhelp tools available for students for specific areas of stress such as academic anxiety and stress management, Lambert said. Medication should only be used as a secondary method for coping with stress and depression, Massey said. “There is a chemical component which could help with imbalances, but I would always start with God and the spiritual component first, then the personal counseling, talking things out, then consider supplements and exercise, then medication last,” Massey said. Balancing his mental and spiritual life with his medications have helped significantly with his feelings of anxiety and loneliness, Welch said. “It helped me see when symptoms were coming on and how to deal with it, like when I wasn’t sleeping as much or pushing myself too hard with school, closing myself off from friends,” Welch said. “It was really good. Knowing those things helped me to be alert; to know when they were coming and figure out ways I could combat it.” According to Welch, the greatest sources of strength he has experienced are his faith and relationships with others, which he stated helped move him out of isolation and into community that wanted to help him. One of his favorite verses from the Bible helps remind him of what he believes. “First Peter talks about casting all my anxieties on God because he cares,” Welch said. “That’s exactly what I have and that’s exactly what I need. When I see symptoms coming that I might hit a valley or a period of anxiety, relying on God for me is crucial in combating it.” In addition to focusing on his spiritual health, placing himself around people he loves and cares about was a key for success, Welch said. He realized his condition made it easy for him to isolate himself, so he took proactive steps to place himself around positive influences and close friends by opening up to them about what he was dealing with, and sought professional help from a psychiatrist at Lafene Health Center. “Don’t close yourself off from people,” Welch said. “Whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, that can’t help you. You can’t just shut yourself off from people. If nobody knows about it and you’re wallowing in that, it is so detrimental to every area of your life, even from a spiritual standpoint if you’re in a dark time.” Welch said he appreciates the people in his life. “For me, it is absolutely crucial that I have people in my life to know what to look for in my attitude and my behavior so that I know how to fight that, and it’s been really effective,” Welch said. “I’m really grateful for the friends that I have that know.”
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Ted Morgan, Manhattan resident and member of the Flint Hills Human Rights Project, asked to bring attention to the non-discrimination ordinance. He said he asks that the city set enforcements to protect the LGBTQ community from being discriminated against in the workforce. Morgan said creating ordinances to protect that community will make Manhattan a place where individ-
uals want to come for future jobs. The commission decided to make a work section on May 31 to address this issue further. There was a final change order for the Manhattan Regional Airport terminal project. The original claim was $152,56, leaving a balance of $344,018 and was not eligible for FFA participation sustainability and will need to be covered 100 percent by the city. The motion was approved.
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Sun sets on 16-year K-State equestrian program LIZ HEATH the collegian
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purple Powercat is painted on the side of a weathered barn, facing the sunset. It’s an iconic symbol of Timbercreek Stables, home to the K-State equestrian program. Timbercreek has been home to a program that has seen three reserve national championships and had five riders take individual national championships in its 16-year history. If you’ve ever attended an equestrian meet here, you’ve witnessed something special. The spectators are loud, cheering on the student-athletes as they work with horses they very well could be riding for the first time. The final score comes down to the opinion of the judges. The louder the crowd, the more confidence the student-athlete has in her performance. “All that energy and all that enthusiasm and that momentum just really builds together and really helps motivate you,” head coach Casie Maxwell said. Two back-to-back undefeated seasons at home highlight K-State equestrian’s time competing at Timbercreek Stables. In those seasons, Maxwell said one win just spiraled into another. “You get kind of in defensive mode when you’re at home and you really want to defend your home arena,” Maxwell said. But the competition is only a small sampling of the amount of work the equestrian team and coaches put in. The student-athletes practice for three to four hours per week. Unlike other Division I sports, the “equipment” is a living animal. The horses must be cared for before and after practice in rain, snow or shine. The care of the horses falls completely upon the student-athletes. That all goes on top of 15-18 credit hours in the classroom and volunteer hours. “We make it a part of our team to volunteer and give back to our community,” Maxwell said. Maxwell experienced three
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File Photo by Nathan Jones | THE COLLEGIAN Teammates cheer on other riders during the K-State Equestrian Purple vs. White Scrimmage on Sept. 20, 2015 at Timbercreek Stables. reserve national championships during her coaching career at K-State. All three, she said, were unique. The most exciting part of the equestrian national championships is making it into the semifinals and being one of the last four teams standing. Maxwell said once you reach the championship match, the hard work is over. “To be able to do it with a different group of people each time was really neat because they all accomplished it a different way throughout the season and had different ups and downs,” Maxwell said. Maxwell said her path to the head of the equestrian program happened sooner than she expected. “That’s just being in the right
what’s
place at the right time with the person who was in front of me moving on to something different,” she said. From there, Maxwell started to build the program in her own way. Her goal with recruits was to let them fall in love with K-State, Manhattan and the team by themselves without a sales pitch from her. Mainly, she would let the student-athletes sell the program to recruits. This way, the feedback is honest and the questions aren’t censored. Maxwell said she believes this method has correlated with the program’s success. “I think it definitely speaks for the kind of team we have,” Maxwell said. “If the girls get a feeling
happening at K-State
that someone’s not going to fit in here or not follow the values of the program, then they’ll speak up about that.” After a recommendation from the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics, K-State announced it would be discontinuing the equestrian program in October 2014. The team had a choice to make. As student-athletes, they could either dwell on the fact that the program would be coming to an end, or they could make the most of their opportunities. “They’ve accepted it and moved on to building relationships and appreciating great experiences,” Maxwell said. “We’ve had our mourning period.” The 2015-16 season marked the last for K-State equestrian. The
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team fell in the NCEA National Championship quarterfinals to No. 1 ranked Auburn, finishing the season out at 5-11. The team is holding on to the memories, the connections and the experience. “They’ve had a ton of success over the entire 16 years there’s been a program, especially since I’ve been here,” Maxwell said. “That’s a lot of hard work. I hope they’re remembered as being really hardworking. It’s been a great experience.” The sun sets on the barn with the Powercat painted on it. Timbercreek Stables is quiet now, as this chapter in K-State Athletics’ history comes to a close. The memories made here will last for a lifetime.
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Off the golf course: Junior Madison Talley TIMOTHY EVERSON
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Junior Madison Talley strikes the ball from the fairway of hole 15 at Colbert Hills on Oct. 13 during a team practice.
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he Collegian sat down with junior golfer Madison Talley, who is representing K-State at the NCAA Regionals in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Thursday and Friday for a chance to head to Eugene, Oregon, for the NCAA Championships later this month.
THAT YOU HAVE PLAYED?
“My last round at Big 12s a week ago. My first round was better than my last round but I felt like I just floated around the golf course. It felt like I really didn’t do much. But in the last round, I fought for my score and I caught myself actually playing golf and being strategic and I loved it. It was really fun.”
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN GOLFING AND HOW DID YOU START GOLFING? “I’ve been golfing since I was 8 years old, so 12 years now. My family doesn’t really play. My dad just took me out one day, and I hit the ball and he was like, ‘Wow, you’re good. We’re going to try to get you into this.’ And it just kind of happened.”
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE GOLF COURSE THAT YOU’VE PLAYED?
“I have a bunch, but I know we went to Seattle, Washington, last semester and that course (Sahalee Country Club) was unbelievable and one of the craziest courses I’ve ever seen. I didn’t play well on it but it was just awesome to play and to see the views and to see something completely out of the element that I’m used to.”
BEING AN ARKANSAS NATIVE, WHAT LED YOU TO K-STATE?
“It’s actually funny, whenever you’re looking at colleges as an athlete you look at a bunch of different ones and you figure out what best fits you. I didn’t want to come to K-State before I saw it and on the drive up here I was like, ‘I’m not going to go here.’ But then the I saw it and my coach gave me a tour. I think just the town and the atmosphere really sold it for me.”
WHY DO YOU PLAY GOLF?
“I don’t know, I’ve never really
WHAT’S A COURSE THAT YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED BUT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PLAY? thought about it I guess, but I just play and it’s fun. I don’t know, I mean there are those rounds of golf where I’m just like, ‘Why do I do this?’ But then you have a good
round you realize that’s why you play golf.”
DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE ROUND
“Definitely St. Andrews (in Scotland). They hold the British Open there, and it’s just so intimidating and I would love to play it one day.”
YOU HAVE THREE
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ON YOUR TEAM (ONE FROM CANADA, ONE FROM IRELAND AND THE OTHER FROM SCOTLAND), HOW HAS THAT EXPOSED YOU TO SOME NEW PERSPECTIVES?
“It’s definitely different. Especially on the golf course because they bring in things that I’ve never thought about. Or just in daily life; they think differently than an American does and it’s fun to see me think more like them but also they take on a more American feel of life. It’s just really fun to interact with them.”
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY PROFESSIONALLY ONCE YOU GRADUATE? “I want to try. I definitely would like to try. I don’t want to give all of this effort and then not try. I still have one more year so I’ll see where I am at the end of it and just try to get there any way that I can and if not, try to get into coaching.”
WHAT IS YOUR GOAL FOR REGIONALS THIS WEEK?
“Last year I went into it and I was more nervous I think. This year, after learning some lessons from last year, I’m just more excited to play my game. I’m more relaxed because it’s more familiar and I feel more confident in my game.”
Big 1st, 6th innings propel BatCats in a win against the Shockers fielder Tyler Wolfe both drove in single runs. After that, sacrifice flies from junior outfielder Quintin Crandall and freshman outfielder Brooks Zimmerman allowed the last runs of the inning to come home, providing a five-run lead after six innings. The Wildcats continued to add on to their lead in the seventh when freshman catcher Josh Rolette scored on a
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Not long ago, the K-State baseball team was not doing the little things right to win games, according to K-State head coach Brad Hill. The Wildcats were 16-22 and had just lost three straight games after a loss to Baylor. But something has changed recently in the play of the Wildcats, boosting them to a current 22-23 record, and a 9-5 win over the Wichita State Shockers, 1628, on Tuesday night at Tointon Family Stadium. “We’re just doing the little things better than we were doing earlier,” Hill said. “Earlier we were doing little things to get beat, and now we’re doing little things to win games. I think it all starts on the mound, we’ve pitched it a lot better. The bats are coming alive. All phases of our game have improved a little bit over the last few weeks.” K-State’s win did not look promising from the start, however. The Shockers took advantage of Wildcat freshman Brogan Heinen, who started his first-ever game tonight, and got started scoring early in the game as they had the bases loaded in the top of the first inning. Freshman infielder Alec Bohm was hit by a pitch, allowing freshman outfielder Dayton Dugas to score. The very next at-bat, sophomore catcher Gunnar Troutwine
fielder’s choice. The Shockers scored single runs in the eighth and ninth innings, but it was not enough to avoid their thirdstraight loss. The two teams will go at it again tomorrow in Wichita, making up a previously cancelled game, before K-State travels to Norman, Oklahoma, this weekend to take on the Oklahoma Sooners. The upcoming games are
ones that could be critical for the Wildcats as they look to make a charge toward the Big 12 Tournament and possibly the NCAA Tournament. “This is monumental for us,” Moore said. “We’re going to try to get back to .500, that’s the first step. We can’t overlook Wichita State tomorrow. But this Big 12 series is going to be big for us. We need to go win two or three down there in Norman.”
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Senior pitcher Levi MaVorhis pitches during the baseball game between the University of Texas and K-State on April 9 at Tointon Family Stadium. grounded into a double play, but the play allowed the Shockers to score another run and lead 2-0 after the top of the first. Heinen went five innings, giving up four hits, three runs and striking out three before advancing to a 2-0 record on the year. “I give him a lot of credit,” Hill said of Heinen’s outing. “He was very nervous in the first inning, this being his first college start. Didn’t really have command. Then we scored four and that really settled him down a little bit.” The Wildcats were not defeated by the quick strike, and responded with four runs in the bottom of the inning. Junior first baseman Jake Scudder doubled, and senior catcher Tyler Moore singled, scoring one run each. Then on a wild play due to errors from the Shockers,
freshman outfielder Cade Bunnell drove in Moore and scored himself, giving K-State a 4-2 lead after one inning. Moore was the star for the Wildcats on Tuesday. He went 2-4 at the plate, scoring two runs and driving in three. “The whole team has been swinging the bat well,” Moore said. “Hitting is contagious and this whole month all the hitters have been doing well. I’ve been seeing the ball pretty well these last couple of weeks, and I just try to keep it going.” Wichita State cut the deficit to just one run in the fifth inning, thanks to a one-run shot from sophomore infielder Trey Vickers. K-State quickly dismissed the Shockers’ rally, though, and exploded for four more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. A double from Moore and a single from senior in-
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WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS AFTER GRADUATING?
ANDRES MENDEZ
AUSTIN GREEVER freshman, psychology
CANE PETERS
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CHEYANNE DANIELS
EMILY PURIFOY
“To work and travel. I’m learning German so to be able to work in Germany is the goal.”
“My ultimate goal is to go to Columbia for graduate school, but it’s expensive. I would love anywhere in Texas because there’s a lot there for what I want to do.”
“I want to move to Houston to build houses for a construction company and maybe travel to a different country all the time.”
“My plans are to help the environment because I’ve always wanted to. I want to work on the wind farms.”
“I’m planning to have an important career in my field where I can help kids less fortunate.”
JACK CURTIS
KAYLA OHLDE
NICHELLE WILLIAMS
PETRA POSLEDNIKOVA
SAMANTHA ALEMAN
“Army. I want the leadership, pride, and purpose that comes from serving my country.”
“Good question! I want to work with kids, like at a pre-school.”
“I really want to go to a graduate law school somewhere.”
“I want to travel and explore the world because I settle down.”
“Going onto grad school, but I’m still deciding for what field of psychology, so I’m honestly not sure yet.”
ABIGAIL DILLON
CARLOS FLORES
GRACE HAMMER junior, agribusiness,
senior, biological systems engineering
PETER MASTERS
DEJA TAYLOR
“I am attending mortuary school to become a funeral director.”
“I am potentially going to be going to grad school or law school.”
“Work for a progressive commodities or ag lending business.”
“After I graduate I am going home to farm on my family’s farm.”
“I am not sure. I know I am going to move out of Manhattan.”
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Future of K-State’s 2025 Plan looking strong RYAN MANRING the collegian
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ven with the recent resignation of Kirk Schulz, K-State’s 13th president, the K-State 2025 plan drafted under Schulz's supervision and direction is still in full swing, according to April Mason, K-State provost. Mason said she believes the future of the university and its 2025 plan are as bright as ever. “Even though our president is leaving, K-State 2025 will absolutely be in place," Mason said. "This summer marks the first five years, and we would have been starting in 2017 to re-look at the plan. When a new president is selected, it will be an almost perfect time." Schulz, who will begin his new presidency at Washington State University this summer, helped propose and build the original foundation of the plan over five years ago. He helped forge the vision of K-State becoming one of the country's top 50 research universities, according to the 2025 Plan website. “In our mind, 2025 is going full steam ahead," Jeffery Morris, vice president for Communications and Marketing, said. "We tend to move forward. We've been working on it for five years, and in the short term, we will see very little change,” Despite Schulz's involvement, inspiration and direction for the plan, Mason said that it was a collective effort from students, faculty, staff and alumni to form the final version of the plan that is in place currently, and that the same effort that drafted the plan is still seeing it completed today. “President Schulz really helped us set that vision, but the campus community is a substance of our strategic plan moving forward," Cindy Bontrager, vice president for Administration and
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President Kirk Schulz looks on as his wife, first lady Noel Schulz, associate dean for engineering research and graduate programs, fields questions from Collegian reporters on Friday, April 8, 2016. Noel and Kirk are leaving K-State after accepting positions at Washington State University. Finance, said. "We are committed as an institution to that plan. We've gone through five years, and we need to reevaluate to see what we've been successful with and what we have not been successful with and what changes we need to make moving forward." Bontrager and Mason both said the staff and faculty initially had hesitations with the loss of a respected president and the start of the process of looking for a new president, but said they have full
confidence in, and excitement to work with, Interim President Richard Myers. Mason said there have been a number of successes as well as areas of weakness in the progress of achieving the goals stated in the 2025 plan. “I think we've been very, very successful at moving our retention rate of freshman to sophomore forward, which was one of our goals," Mason said. "We set a goal at doing better with our infrastruc-
ture and facilities, as well as getting sponsored research funded by external foundations and federal agencies, which we have all been successful. I think our annual report card is looking pretty good." Despite the achievement, there were also other areas that Mason, Bontrager and Morris said they agreed needed improvement, such as allocation of funding to graduate students, tuition waivers for graduate teaching assistants and gaining salary increases for
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“President Schulz really helped us set that vision, but the campus community is a substance of our strategic plan moving forward. We are committed as an institution to that plan.” Cindy Bontrager Vice President, Administration and Finance
faculty. Mason said much of these problems are a state-level budget issue. “Unfortunately the budget cuts of the university have huge effects," Mason said. "What we are trying to do is be strategic to pass those cuts on the budget to increase the revenues." Morris said there is potential for a new president to make a shift in the focus and direction for the plan, but it would more than likely be a positive thing, and would have to be approved by the entire community and staff. “I’m optimistic, even if (losing Schulz) is hard,” Mason said. Mason said she is looking forward to working with Myers during this transition period of searching for a new president. “The attributes that I would really like to see continue is the positive attitude and the willingness to come in and build on our strengths," Bontrager said. "They are going to need to have a strong shared governance philosophy, and make sure they are really inclusive in making decisions to help move the school forward."
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Hammocking in the “home tree”, Kenton Rogg, junior in architecture engineering, enjoys the mild weather on Thursday with friends Chandler Klamm, junior in mechanical engineering, Page Black, junior in family studies, Hannah Deardorff, senior in family studies, and Tony Rost, alumnus ‘15.
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Finals: The 5 stages of a meltdown RACHAEL CASTELLINI the collegian
STAGE 1: SHOCK AND DENIAL
It is the realization that the semester is nearly over. Your chest constricts and settles into a dull ache. You decide to check your grades. Maybe you are barely passing some classes and can't fathom how this has happened. Maybe you are only a few points away from a higher letter grade but firmly tell yourself that there will be a curve so you will be fine.
STAGE 2: ANGER
Like a fire burning from the inside out, it drives you to conclude how unfair the school system is. How dare they give you a cumulative final. Is this what your tuition gets you? Why are your classes so much harder than your friends'? Maybe your anger turns inward. You should have studied harder instead of going to Aggieville and sleeping it off the rest of the weekend.
STAGE 3: BARGAINING
Just breathe, you got this. It is the paradox of being frantically calm. What do you need on the final? You may have gotten no higher than a 75 percent on all of the tests before, but you convince yourself that you can get an 88 percent on the final. Are there any chances for extra credit? Maybe you create a deal with yourself on how the next semester will be.
STAGE 4: DEPRESSION
Who were you kidding? You can't do this. A sense of drowning sets in. You say farewell to your GPA and hope that it rests in peace. The thought of your parents seeing these grades and being disappointed overwhelms you. What graduate program will ever accept you?
STAGE 5: ACCEPTANCE
There is nothing. You feel absolutely nothing. You are like a robot instead. Your only focus is getting through exams. It's peaceful almost, the sense of being there but not being in control. You surrender the responsibility to the gods of final exams. "(I'm at) bargaining and acceptance," Lizvette Sanchez, junior in psychology, said. "It's like, 'Oh, I'm just going to fail anyway.'"
DEALING WITH STRESS
Many students handle the stress of finals in different ways. "Honestly, the entire semester (is stressful)," Mark Woolard, senior in psychology, said. "I equally distribute the amount of stress I feel." Cliff Rone, psychologist at K-State Counseling Services, said to avoid pulling all-nighters and instead take time to eat, sleep and, in general, take a break in between studying. "Take it one hour at a time, one day at a time," Rone said. Counseling Services will be hosting a presentation on surviving finals at 4 p.m. today in Leasure Hall Room 13.
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