K-State gears up to host Big 12 championship
After a regular season that featured only three home competitions for the K-State equestrian squad, the Wildcats, who are 5-7 this year, will kick off the Big 12 Conference postseason by hosting the Big 12 Championships on Friday and Saturday at Timber Creek Stables. The Wildcats are slated to face Oklahoma State on Friday, then [...]
Upcoming sports events
Friday, March 30: Track and field at Texas Relays, 9:30 a.m. in Austin, Texas Track and field at Jim Click Combined Events, 10:00 a.m. in Tuscon, Ariz. Women’s tennis at Texas A&M, 6:00 p.m. at College Station, Texas Men’s baseball at Oklahoma, 6:30 p.m. in Norman, Okla., listen 1350-AM KMAN Women’s equestrian Big 12 Championships, [...]
Young rider enjoys major success
Sarah Mershon is one of the top riders for K-State. She made the final four in the Collegiate Equitation Challenge in Wellington, Fla., where she won two matches. She received the Wildcats’ Hunter Seat Workhorse Award last year for her work ethic. She made the Big 12 Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll in the spring of [...]
Team gains valuable experience
The women’s rowing team competed in Austin, Texas, March 16-18, participating in their second regatta of the season. The Longhorn Invitational started with the Wildcats racing the Texas Longhorns in head-to-head sprints on Friday. Next, they competed against San Diego, Texas and Southern Methodist University on Saturday and finished up the weekend racing the University [...]
Film captures dreamlike style of ‘The Invention of Hugo Cabret’
It’s 1931 in Paris, and “I want you to picture yourself sitting in the darkness, like the beginning of a movie.” And with that, the reader is drawn into the 2007 novel by Brian Selznick, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” which, adapted for film and directed by Martin Scorsese, was released in theaters November 2011. [...]
African-American campus leaders speak out about challenges
In college, positions of leadership can come easily to some people and be more difficult for others. African-American leaders at K-State, a predominantly white campus, face difficulties that others do not. “The biggest thing is that feeling like you have to prove something,” said Vuna Adams III, president of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and sophomore [...]
Graphic novel gorgeous, profound
Confusion, awe and inspiration – I felt all these things reading “Tale of Sand,” a new graphic novel adapted from an unproduced screenplay by the late Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl, the well-known creators of The Muppets. Did you read that and figure you know what you’d be getting into with this book? Well, you’d [...]
K-State named ‘best value’ university by Princeton Review
The Princeton Review has rated K-State as one of the Best Value Colleges of 2012. After compiling information from more than 75 colleges nationwide, the review set K-State apart for having “tremendously affordable” tuition and student fees. “The university is always looking for resources,” said Larry Moeder, director of student financial assistance. “Kansas State University [...]
Country band Gloriana plays first concert held in Weber Hall
Editor’s Note: This article was completed as an assignment for a class in the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Weber Arena, most commonly used for livestock, was center stage for the country band Gloriana on Thursday night. Michael Murray, Union Program Council music co-chair and sophomore in business administration, said this was [...]