Tour of Cotton, Inc. headquarters shows material truly is the fabric of our lives
This semester, I was selected for a grant research team that was funded by Cotton Incorporated and implemented by Deborah Brosdahl, the fantastic associate professor of apparel textiles and interior design. She also was awarded the 2008 Dean Barbara S. Stowe Endowed Faculty Development Fund Award from the College of Human Ecology recently. (No, I’m [...]
Tony-winning tap dancer to perform on Sunday
Savion Glover, Tony-award-winning tap dancer, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday in McCain Auditorium as a part of the 2008-09 McCain Performance Series, according to a recent press release. Glover will team up with fellow hoofers Bare Soundz to feature the dancers as the musicians; the performance will showcase Glover’s ability to choreograph dances [...]
Week-long pumpkin carving contest displays skills, concludes with student prizes and recognition
The week-long contest that tested student and faculty creativity ended Thursday night. The Great Pumpkin Carving Contest sponsored by Union Program Council invited K-State students and staff to show their skills in both pumpkin carving as well as decorating. “We gave away 55 pumpkins, 30 of which were turned back in,” said UPC community [...]
‘Dance For a Cure’ ties art form to awareness, fund raising
Girls in “Tough Enough to Wear Pink” shirts and black tights leapt across the Union Courtyard, arms spread wide, as if they were letting go of sorrow and inviting hope. Dance for a Cure featured dances choreographed to various songs among other speeches as a Breast Cancer Awareness month celebration in K-State Student Union’s courtyard [...]
Mid-Campus Drive to be closed
Mid-Campus Drive will be closed today beginning at 6 a.m., Facilities Project Manager Jack Carlson said. Carlson said the street will be closed from Anderson Avenue to the K-State Student Union. The street will close to give workers access for concrete pumping for the parking structure being built south of the Union, he said. Carlson [...]
Department reviews endangered species list
The black-footed ferret is one of 59 species on the threatened and endangered species list in Kansas. Through the help of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, the black-footed ferret – until recently extinct in the wild – was bred in captivity and re-released in western Kansas. The KDWP is currently reviewing the threatened [...]
Economic crisis cannot be blamed solely on Bush
Americans are well aware of the presidential election that will take place in just a few short days. They are equally aware of the current economic crisis and the different approaches Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain intend to use to fix it. In his acceptance speech for his presidential nomination, Obama discussed the [...]
ACORN’s faulty acts leads to financial troubles for citizens
Last week I wrote on ACORN’s voter fraud cases and the Cloward-Piven Strategy they seem to be using to undermine the legitimacy of elections. The same day, the New York Times ran an article wherein they revealed that 400,000 of ACORN’s registrations were rejected, out of the 1.3 million they sent in. The Cloward-Piven Strategy [...]
K-State Wildcats welcome in-state rival to Manhattan
After Wednesday night’s nail-biter against Texas A&M, head volleyball coach Suzie Fritz said she could sense her team was starting to wear down. “That was our third five-game match in a row,” Fritz said. “We were on the road for two of those five-gamers last week, so just coming off that week, there was of [...]