kansas state A quick read Check out the daily briefs to catch more news that happens in the K-State community. 03 04 Out of the ordinary Stepping out of your comfort zone isn’t always easy, but it can be beneficial. Tip off The women’s basketball team looks to improve for the game against Washburn. 06 Tomorrow: High: 50 F Low: 27 F Thursday: High: 51 F Low: 33 F www.kstatecollegian.com tuesday, november 8, 2011 vol. 117 | no. 56 A quick read Out of the ordinar Tomorrow: Thursday: kstatecollegian.com t t t t t t t t t t t tuesda y , november 8, 2011 co co ll ll egian egian A little competition. See the A little competition. See the dodgeball photo story on dodgeball photo story on page 8. page 8. Jakki Thompson staff writer Willie the Wildcat re- ceived a new platform on which to perform his push- ups and the K-S-U chant at football games. Ap- proached by the cheerlead- ing squad, the College of Engineering decided to run with the idea of creating a new platform for K-State’s mascot. “When we were ap- proached by the cheer squad, they said they had been having problems with the boards they were creat- ing themselves,” said Ray Buyle, adviser of Associ- ated General Contractors, a student group, and as- sistant professor of archi- tectural engineering and construction science. “We used the resources of two different student groups. We used AGC for the con- struction of the new board and Structural Engineering Association of Kansas and Missouri did the architec- ture calculations and mea- surements.” One of the biggest chal- lenges the groups faced with the construction of the new board was the time constraint they faced. They had approximately six days to construct the new board because they wanted it done before the home football game against the University of Missouri on Oct. 8. At the game against Baylor on Oct. 1, the groups repaired the previous board because they needed more time to create and finish the new board. “We contacted a lot of people to have a lot of the materials donated for the new board,” said Kyle Mon- toya, vice president of AGC and junior in construction science. “With the donated materials we received, the cheer squad only had to spend $400 dollars on the new board instead of if they would have had to send it out to a fabricator. If they would have sent it out, the cheer squad would have paid about $2,500 for it.” The AGC group had brainstormed some ideas for the design of the new board. AGC had been no- tified before their weekly meetings, so they had rep- resentatives from the cheer squad come to the meeting and present about what they wanted and expected for the new board. “We had a couple dif- ferent options,” Buyle said. “We know people in the community that would be willing to donate steel fairly easily. Steel is also lightweight. Their previ- ous board was made of ply- wood, but it was a bigger size than what we were pro- jecting for the new board.” Brian Schrotenboer, president of AGC and senior in construction sci- ence and management, said the process for creating the new board was on a time- line determined by how soon they could get dona- tions. After most of the do- nations were in, he said the volunteers had to cut all of the metal studs that create the frame of the new board. The students had to arrange all of the pieces to make sure they were all in position. The group also had to make sure they had received the expanded metal from the steel fabri- cator that donated it. “The entire thing took approximately 40 hours over the course of six days,” Schrotenboer said. “We were grateful enough to be able to use the Bio and Ag Departments’ fabricator machines because we don’t have them in our areas.” The new board was sent out to Green Ford Deal- ership, where it was cov- ered with truck bed liner to make it more durable. The group found corner guards to make the outside corners safer for the cheer- leaders and to protect the board itself. The K-State maintenance department donated the handles that are used on the outside of the board. “We don’t have a big budget to go out and buy materials,” Buyle said. “AGC donates the man power it takes to complete a project like this. We have access to hand tools and power tools, which we are incredibly grateful for. There were a lot of hours that were put in on this board during nights and weekends.” Schrotenboer said it was cool to make the new Willie the Wildcat board because it was going to be such a high visibility project. He said the people working on it wanted to make sure it was perfect because it was going to be so highly seen by the public. “This is a neat thing for our student AGC chapter to talk about,” Montoya said. “It will be a lasting platform. With the welded frame and the special coat- ings we put on it, it is now an all-weather platform. This platform should last for a long time.” Engineering students build Willie the Wildcat’s new platform File photo | Collegian Willie the Wildcat does pushups for the crowd on the old platform, which is made of wood. The new platform, constructed by the Associated Gen- eral Contracters, a student group, is made of metal for durability and has handles and corner guards to make it easier to use. “It will be a lasting platform. With the welded frame and the special coatings we put on it, it is now an all-weather platform. This platform should last for a long time.” Kyle Montoya junior in construction science and management vice president of AGC Ashley Brewer contributing writer Editor’s Note: This article was completed as an assign- ment for a class in the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications. In an effort to support the troops, volunteers at the United Service Organization give their time to help the soldiers at Fort Riley. The USO Fort Riley has an average of 75 volunteers per month who work 40 hours a week. April Blackmon, direc- tor of USO, started the Fort Riley organization from the ground up. “Without the hard work of our volunteers, we would just be another great idea,” Blackmon said. “We want this center to serve as a home away from home for our ser- vice members and families, a place for them to relax and have a fun time.” People who wish to vol- unteer can apply online at usovolunteer.org. After ap- plying, Crystal Tinkey, pro- grams manager of USO, sends an email to invite those interested to their orienta- tion nights. “We will work with vol- unteers one-on-one,” Tinkey said. The USO is a nonprofit organization with a number of free programs to help sol- diers. One of these programs is United Through Reading. Before a deploying service member leaves, he or she reads a children’s book and the USO records it on DVD. A staff member of the USO then mails the DVDs to their families for free. They also give the chil- dren of soldiers who are de- ployed, or about to deploy, care packages using dona- tions from their sponsors. For returning single soldiers, they make homecoming kits filled with toiletries and basic necessities the soldier will need within the first 24 hours they are home. Black- mon puts a thank-you note in the soldiers’ kits to ensure that they feel important and to thank them for their ser- vices. “I call it a hug in a bag,” Blackmon said. Blackmon and Tinkey want their volunteers to stay committed and take their roles as USO staff members seriously. “We might be the only smiling face all day for the soldiers,” Tinkey said. The USO’s mission is to “lift the spirits of troops and their family members.” When soldiers see the USO sign, they know it’s a safe and positive place to be, and they will be taken care of like family, Blackmon said. There are 160 USOs worldwide and every USO has their own basic set of services. The USO serves as a supply center for soldiers and their families. Soldiers are offered free coffee, tea, water, snacks and entertain- ment. USO Fort Riley offers a movie room with reclin- ers, gaming rooms with pool tables and video games, like XBox and Wii. A children’s room offers computers and toys for the children to play with while their parents can relax. There is also a “li- brary” of donated books that anyone can take from to read, or even keep, if they like. For their volunteers, the USO has volunteer apprecia- tion events. They give away T-shirts and show various ways to recognize volun- teers for their service they’ve given. “Seeing the volunteers and how much they give to the cause is amazing,” Blackmon said. One of the top volunteers at the USO is Kristen David- son, team leader volunteer at USO Fort Riley. Davidson just hit her 1,000-hour mile- stone in volunteering for the organization. She began vol- unteering the day the USO opened on May 25, 2010. “It feels good to know you’re helping people and 1,000 hours is a lot of time to put in,” Davidson said. “I wanted to serve the soldiers that have served us and it’s nice to see a smile of their faces.” Tinkey and Blackmon said they want to keep the USO up and running until the day it’s not needed anymore. “This is a military family and volunteer family orga- nization, we all look out for each other,” Tinkey said. The soldiers and the vol- unteers get to know each other every day. “Regular soldiers and regular volunteers build re- lationships of trust with each other,” Blackmon said. USO Fort Riley volunteers work to show appreciation for soldiers, families Jakki Thompson staff writer Students, faculty and family of In-A-Chord group members filled most of the seats in the lower section in the K-State Student Union’s Forum Hall on Monday night. In-A-Chord held its fall choir concert, opening the show with Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep.” “It was a great audience,” said Andrew Sweeney, junior in music education. “It was the most amount of people and one of the best audiences we have ever had.” One of the songs the a cap- pella group performed during the show was Bobby McFer- rin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” This song featured soloist Aaron Burke, senior in music education. “I’m getting a little sick,” Burke said. “So earlier today I decided to go out into the audience and say ‘don’t worry, be happy’ to them because I was unable to hit the high notes. But the audience was alive and willing to partici- pate and join in.” Olivia Mohr, freshman in animal science and industry, said Burke’s performance of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” was one of her favorite songs. She said Burke was hilarious and incorporated the audience into the song well. Sweeney was the featured soloist in two songs: Michael Buble’s “Haven’t Met You Yet” and One Republic’s “Apolo- gize.” He seemed to strike a chord with the audience, singing the lead vocals in those two songs. “When Andrew was sing- ing One Republic’s ‘Apolo- gize’, it was flawless,” said Sarah Webb, freshman in music education. “The vocals throughout the entire song were impeccably flawless.” The group performed many different songs, each with their own variation and a little extra flair. The group performed the “Mission Im- possible” theme song, com- plete with choreography to accompany their singing. The music department sponsored this a cappella group’s performance. The choir brought together vocals from men and women in their performances. All of the songs that were performed at the show were composed by ear to be adapted to an a cap- pella group. Their song choices ranged from “Africa” by Toto to “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie. They also performed “Hide and Seek” by Imogen Heap. While performing this song, the group stepped down off the stage and sat on the steps and edge of the stage. In-A-Chord ended with “Someone Like Me” by Kings of Leon. “All of the concert was my favorite part,” said Erin Keeley, senior in pre-nursing. “All of the concert was just so great. All of their voices came together so nicely. All of their personalities came together and were shown in this per- formance.” In-A-Chord serenades audience in Forum Hall For more infor- mation, visit affiliates.uso.org/ fortriley or facebook.com/ usoftriley. “It feels good to know you’re helping people, and 1,000 hours is a lot of time to put in. I wanted to serve the soldiers that have served us, and it’s nice to see a smile on their faces.” Kristen Davidson team leader at USO Fort Riley
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kansas state
A quick read Check out the daily briefs to catch more news that happens in the K-State community. 03 04
Out of the ordinary Stepping out of your comfort zone isn’t always easy, but it can be benefi cial.
Tip off The women’s basketball team looks to improve for the game against Washburn. 06
Tomorrow:High: 50 FLow: 27 F
Thursday:High: 51 FLow: 33 F
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Jakki Thompsonstaff writer
Willie the Wildcat re-ceived a new platform on which to perform his push-ups and the K-S-U chant at football games. Ap-proached by the cheerlead-ing squad, the College of Engineering decided to run with the idea of creating a new platform for K-State’s mascot.
“When we were ap-proached by the cheer squad, they said they had been having problems with the boards they were creat-ing themselves,” said Ray Buyle, adviser of Associ-ated General Contractors, a student group, and as-sistant professor of archi-tectural engineering and construction science. “We used the resources of two different student groups. We used AGC for the con-struction of the new board and Structural Engineering Association of Kansas and Missouri did the architec-ture calculations and mea-surements.”
One of the biggest chal-lenges the groups faced with the construction of the new board was the time constraint they faced.
They had approximately six days to construct the new board because they wanted it done before the home football game against the University of Missouri on Oct. 8. At the game against Baylor on Oct. 1, the groups repaired the previous board because they needed more time to create and finish the new board.
“We contacted a lot of people to have a lot of the materials donated for the new board,” said Kyle Mon-toya, vice president of AGC and junior in construction science. “With the donated materials we received, the cheer squad only had to spend $400 dollars on the new board instead of if they would have had to send it out to a fabricator. If they would have sent it out, the cheer squad would have paid about $2,500 for it.”
The AGC group had brainstormed some ideas for the design of the new board. AGC had been no-
tified before their weekly meetings, so they had rep-resentatives from the cheer squad come to the meeting and present about what they wanted and expected for the new board.
“We had a couple dif-ferent options,” Buyle said. “We know people in the community that would be willing to donate steel fairly easily. Steel is also lightweight. Their previ-ous board was made of ply-wood, but it was a bigger size than what we were pro-jecting for the new board.”
Brian Schrotenboer, president of AGC and senior in construction sci-ence and management, said the process for creating the new board was on a time-line determined by how soon they could get dona-
tions. After most of the do-
nations were in, he said
the volunteers had to cut all of the metal studs that create the frame of the new board. The students had to arrange all of the pieces to make sure they were
all in position. The group also had to make sure they had received the expanded
metal from the steel fabri-cator that donated it.
“The entire thing took approximately 40 hours over the course of six days,” Schrotenboer said. “We
were grateful enough to be able to use the Bio and Ag Departments’ fabricator machines because we don’t have them in our areas.”
The new board was sent out to Green Ford Deal-ership, where it was cov-ered with truck bed liner to make it more durable. The group found corner guards to make the outside corners safer for the cheer-leaders and to protect the board itself. The K-State maintenance department donated the handles that are used on the outside of the board.
“We don’t have a big budget to go out and buy materials,” Buyle said. “AGC donates the man power it takes to complete a project like this. We have access to hand tools and
power tools, which we are incredibly grateful for. There were a lot of hours that were put in on this board during nights and weekends.”
Schrotenboer said it was cool to make the new Willie the Wildcat board because it was going to be such a high visibility project. He said the people working on it wanted to make sure it was perfect because it was going to be so highly seen by the public.
“This is a neat thing for our student AGC chapter to talk about,” Montoya said. “It will be a lasting platform. With the welded frame and the special coat-ings we put on it, it is now an all-weather platform. This platform should last for a long time.”
Engineering students build Willie the Wildcat’s new platform
File photo | Collegian
Willie the Wildcat does pushups for the crowd on the old platform, which is made of wood. The new platform, constructed by the Associated Gen-eral Contracters, a student group, is made of metal for durability and has handles and corner guards to make it easier to use.
“It will be a lasting platform. With the welded frame and the special coatings we put
on it, it is now an all-weather platform. This platform should
last for a long time.”
Kyle Montoyajunior in construction
science and management vice president of AGC
Ashley Brewercontributing writer
Editor’s Note: This article was completed as an assign-ment for a class in the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
In an effort to support the troops, volunteers at the United Service Organization give their time to help the soldiers at Fort Riley.
The USO Fort Riley has an average of 75 volunteers per month who work 40 hours a week. April Blackmon, direc-tor of USO, started the Fort Riley organization from the ground up.
“Without the hard work of our volunteers, we would just be another great idea,” Blackmon said. “We want this center to serve as a home away from home for our ser-vice members and families, a place for them to relax and have a fun time.”
People who wish to vol-unteer can apply online at usovolunteer.org. After ap-plying, Crystal Tinkey, pro-grams manager of USO, sends an email to invite those interested to their orienta-tion nights.
“We will work with vol-unteers one-on-one,” Tinkey said.
The USO is a nonprofit organization with a number of free programs to help sol-diers. One of these programs is United Through Reading. Before a deploying service member leaves, he or she reads a children’s book and the USO records it on DVD.
A staff member of the USO then mails the DVDs to their families for free.
They also give the chil-dren of soldiers who are de-ployed, or about to deploy, care packages using dona-tions from their sponsors. For returning single soldiers, they make homecoming kits filled with toiletries and basic necessities the soldier will need within the first 24 hours they are home. Black-mon puts a thank-you note in the soldiers’ kits to ensure that they feel important and to thank them for their ser-vices.
“I call it a hug in a bag,” Blackmon said.
Blackmon and Tinkey want their volunteers to stay committed and take their roles as USO staff members seriously.
“We might be the only smiling face all day for the soldiers,” Tinkey said.
The USO’s mission is to “lift the spirits of troops
and their family members.” When soldiers see the USO sign, they know it’s a safe
and positive place to be, and they will be taken care of like family, Blackmon said.
There are 160 USOs worldwide and every USO has their own basic set of services. The USO serves as a supply center for soldiers and their families. Soldiers are offered free coffee, tea, water, snacks and entertain-ment. USO Fort Riley offers a movie room with reclin-ers, gaming rooms with pool tables and video games, like XBox and Wii. A children’s room offers computers and toys for the children to play with while their parents can relax. There is also a “li-brary” of donated books that anyone can take from to read, or even keep, if they like.
For their volunteers, the USO has volunteer apprecia-tion events. They give away T-shirts and show various ways to recognize volun-
teers for their service they’ve given.
“Seeing the volunteers and how much they give to the cause is amazing,” Blackmon said.
One of the top volunteers at the USO is Kristen David-son, team leader volunteer at USO Fort Riley. Davidson just hit her 1,000-hour mile-stone in volunteering for the organization. She began vol-unteering the day the USO opened on May 25, 2010.
“It feels good to know you’re helping people and 1,000 hours is a lot of time to put in,” Davidson said. “I wanted to serve the soldiers that have served us and it’s nice to see a smile of their faces.”
Tinkey and Blackmon said they want to keep the USO up and running until the day it’s not needed anymore.
“This is a military family and volunteer family orga-nization, we all look out for each other,” Tinkey said.
The soldiers and the vol-unteers get to know each other every day.
“Regular soldiers and regular volunteers build re-lationships of trust with each other,” Blackmon said.
USO Fort Riley volunteers work to show appreciation for soldiers, families
Jakki Thompsonstaff writer
Students, faculty and family of In-A-Chord group members filled most of the seats in the lower section in the K-State Student Union’s Forum Hall on Monday night.
In-A-Chord held its fall choir concert, opening the show with Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep.”
“It was a great audience,” said Andrew Sweeney, junior in music education. “It was the most amount of people and one of the best audiences we have ever had.”
One of the songs the a cap-pella group performed during the show was Bobby McFer-rin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” This song featured soloist Aaron Burke, senior in music education.
“I’m getting a little sick,” Burke said. “So earlier today I decided to go out into the audience and say ‘don’t worry, be happy’ to them because I was unable to hit the high notes. But the audience was alive and willing to partici-pate and join in.”
Olivia Mohr, freshman in animal science and industry, said Burke’s performance of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” was one of her favorite songs. She said Burke was hilarious and incorporated the audience into the song well.
Sweeney was the featured soloist in two songs: Michael Buble’s “Haven’t Met You Yet” and One Republic’s “Apolo-gize.”
He seemed to strike a chord
with the audience, singing the lead vocals in those two songs.
“When Andrew was sing-ing One Republic’s ‘Apolo-gize’, it was flawless,” said Sarah Webb, freshman in music education. “The vocals throughout the entire song were impeccably flawless.”
The group performed many different songs, each with their own variation and a little extra flair. The group performed the “Mission Im-possible” theme song, com-plete with choreography to accompany their singing.
The music department sponsored this a cappella group’s performance. The choir brought together vocals from men and women in their performances. All of the songs that were performed at the show were composed by ear to be adapted to an a cap-pella group.
Their song choices ranged from “Africa” by Toto to “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie.
They also performed “Hide and Seek” by Imogen Heap. While performing this song, the group stepped down off the stage and sat on the steps and edge of the stage.
In-A-Chord ended with “Someone Like Me” by Kings of Leon.
“All of the concert was my favorite part,” said Erin Keeley, senior in pre-nursing. “All of the concert was just so great. All of their voices came together so nicely. All of their personalities came together and were shown in this per-formance.”
In-A-Chord serenades audience in Forum Hall
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“It feels good to know you’re helping people, and 1,000 hours is a lot of time to put in. I wanted
to serve the soldiers that have served us, and it’s nice to see a
smile on their faces.”
Kristen Davidsonteam leader at USO Fort Riley
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Military Appreciation Day will be celebrated at Sunset Zoo this Friday, Nov. 11 with free ad-misison for everyone in honor of the military.
Manhattan Good Neighbors will be holding a community “Kickoff Clean Up” on Sunday, Nov. 13 from 1 to 3 p.m. begin-ning in Triangle Park in Aggiev-lle. This community clean up will focus on the neighborhoods around campus to pick up trash leftover from football game day festivities. For more informa-tion, or to volunteer, visit hand-son.ksu.edu or email [email protected].
There will be a Saxophone
Studio Recital by the students of Anna Marie Wytko on Thurs-day, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Comedian and impressionist Brandon Styles will be giving a free performance for K-State-Salina students tonight at 5 p.m. in the College Center Cafeteria. Free dinner will be provided to students without a meal plan, courtesy of the Programming Board.
There will be a nation-wide test of the Emergency Alert System on Wednesday at ap-proximately 1 p.m. All TV and radio stations across the country will be testing the EAS around this time.
At the city commission work session tonight, K-State Presi-dent Kirk Schulz will be giving an update about K-State.
Th e African-American Re-sources Survey will be presented to the commission at this work session. Th is survey will fa-miliarize the city and the com-missioners about the African-American cultural resources in Manhattan.
Th e Manhattan Public Li-brary will be presenting at the meeting with possible recom-mendations. Th ese recommen-dations will be related to the structure, governance or fund-ing of the library. Th e city ad-ministration requested the city commission discuss with the li-brary board about any concerns or questions they may have.
Th e meeting begins at 7.
A University of Wiscon-sin graduate student and teaching assistant said she is shocked at the response her feminist blog has re-ceived, turning what began as a joke for her students into an overnight national sensation.
Danielle Henderson, a member of the Gender and Women Studies Department at the University of Wiscon-sin, created the Tumblr blog “Feminist Ryan Gosling,” which features pictures of the actor Ryan Gosling ac-companied by information concerning popular femi-nist theories.
According to Henderson, her blog is a play off of the original “Hey Girl” meme, “F**k Yeah Ryan Gosling!”, another Tumblr site pairing Gosling with quirky sayings — oft en in regards to things he would like to do with women.
Henderson said the blog originated as a study tool to work through dense materi-al. On her blog’s FAQ page, she explains she was just trying to keep track of the theorists she was studying and thought feminist fl ash-cards would be a funny idea.
Henderson said she be-lieved only a few people would see the blog when she fi rst posted it.
“I created the Tumblr as a joke for my classmates,” Henderson said. “Juxtapos-ing serious intellectual pur-suits with silly things kind of breaks down a wall and allows people to laugh at themselves a little bit.”
Since launching on Oct. 8, the blog has already an excess of more than 50,000 Facebook views with nearly 20,000 followers on Tumblr, according to the site.
It has also received na-tional press attention, being featured on such news sites as the Huffi ngton Post, Newsweek, CBS News and Jezebel, along with many others all listed on the blog’s
main page.“It’s incredibly surprising
to see such a reaction to the site,” said Henderson.
Henderson said despite the overwhelming positive reaction, she most enjoys when her students under-stand the posts, explaining they have a deeper connec-tion to the jokes as students of feminist theory.
Kelly Fox, a fellow mas-ter’s student in the depart-ment at UW and a friend of Henderson’s, said she was equally surprised by the blog’s success.
Fox explained she and Henderson were joking when Henderson posted the blog, and by the next morning it had completely exploded.
Fox added she and Hen-derson were afraid viewers would not understand the feminist context of the posts and said it was great to see people understanding the blog’s humor. She added the blog is a great example of how feminist issues can be both fun and accessible.
Fox says she is especially excited the blog has allowed the UW masters program to gain national attention.
“One of my friends is famous for creating some-thing we thought only fi ve people would see,” she said.
Th e buzz of Henderson’s blog has also traveled to the UW Campus Women’s Center.
Ashley Walton-Stamps, the fi nance coordinator for CWC, said it has been a main topic of conversation among the coordinators there.
Walton-Stamps said she enjoys how the blog brings feminist issues to the fore-front by using humor, unlike the harsh tones characteriz-ing other feminist blogs.
Walton-Stamps said she believes it was a great ap-proach to use Gosling, re-ferring to him as “Holly-wood handsome” and said it is the blog’s main comical aspect.
“We appreciate it and think it’s wonderful,” Wal-ton-Stamps said.
SUNDAY
Ethan Lee Ericson, of Em-poria, Kan., was booked for driving under the infl uence. Bond was set at $750.
Miguel Gomez, of Liberal, Kan., was booked for driving with a canceled, suspended or revoked license and unlawful transportation of an open con-tainer. Bond was set at $2,000.
Christian Jamal Harris, of the 5400 block of Stone Crest Drive, was booked for no driv-er’s license. Bond was set at $750.
Jamie Machelle Beeks, of Houston, Texas, was booked for criminal damage to property. Bond was set at $1,000.
MONDAY
James M. Millar, of Junction City, was booked for failure to appear. Bond was set at $195.
Christie Faye Coleman, of the 1400 block of Flint Hills Place, was booked for driving under the infl uence, unlawful possession of hallucinogens and battery. Bond was set at $1,500.
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Life is but a collection of experiences that one acquires on a daily basis. The more diverse one’s experiences, the fuller the life. What diversity could one possibly achieve out of the mo-notonous and mundane existence that most of us are so used to?
I think if we want to have diverse experiences in life, we have to get out of this so-called comfort zone that we so fervently hold on to. We have to seriously start thinking outside the box and be brave enough to experiment.
To do so, there is no better place than a college setting. With abundant activities to do both on and off campus, thronging cultural diversity in the form of students and reasonable time to spare, this is the perfect time to step out of the circle and go get some life experiences.
Education is a big part of life, but a good education and a good career alone will not make life whole. Rekin-dling your lost creativity and trying out new things that you have never done before is a great way to start on the whole gaining life experience deal.
In my time here at K-State, I did my bit toward this goal. Whether I did it by cautiously trying to step out of my comfort zone, or because I was at the right place at the right time, or because I had the resources to do so, I do not really know. I do not think it is important, either.
I have always had a passion for singing. While I was overshadowed by far better singers in my class and school, and, later on, in my university, I got the oppor-tunity to go onstage and sing here at K-State. Some perfor-mances went well and some not so much, but it is all a learning experience and I owe a special thanks to all those patient audiences for enduring my torture.
Writing for the Collegian
itself was a major experience for me. When I started out as an opinion columnist, I never thought I would write anything more than that one article I was asked to do. Neither did I know back then that I would be on the staff for the newspaper for over a year and write a lot more. Writing truly is a previously unknown aspect of my persona. I hope I can continue writing, even after I am done working for the newspaper.
On that note, I used to write amateur poetry when I was in high school. I fell out of it when I en-tered col-lege and I got a
chance to revisit my old passion here at K-State. Things that hap-pened to me or to others around me inspired the words out of me and I poured them out as poetry. I am now a regular these days at Auntie Mae’s Mighty Fine Poetry Night.
I was also exposed to the hi-larious world of stand-up comedy. Names like George Carlin, Russell Peters and Jim Breuer were new to me when I came to the U.S. and watched their shows on TV or the Internet. It fascinated me so much so that I traveled to Dallas, Texas, last year to watch Russell Peters live. It also kindled a deep desire within me to try my
hand at it. My first attempt was at K-State’s international talent show, but it didn’t go well because my time was cut short and I was ner-vous, I guess. I
spoke too fast and my act was too distorted. Later on, I found the chance to try and get better at it again through Auntie Mae’s Open Mic Night, which gave me a smaller, yet encouraging stage to try my funny side. I’m a lot less nervous now when I go on stage and I think that is a start.
Finally, one thing I am really happy I got to do is to make a short film. I have always wanted to make movies and, thanks to some wonderful people, that dream was realized earlier this year. It might not be very profes-sional, but it was my first attempt and
made me realize the amount of
time and effort that goes behind making a movie. I am most certainly hoping I would get a chance to do another one and develop in that area, too.
This might sound like a long, drawn-out, bragging soliloquy, but that is exactly not what this is. I would be happy if one reader out there would take inspiration from this and go try something they have never tried before. One rekindled passion, one lost love realized, one deep craving sated and I would think my time writing this article was well spent. Good luck to you all.
Balasubramanyn Meenakshisundaram is a graduate student in electrical engineering. Please send all comments to [email protected].
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In September 2011, the Obama administration launched “We the People” – a program that allows anyone to submit a petition directly to the White House. Th e proj-ect was ostensibly intended to “make government more open and accountable to its citizens.”
A petition is displayed on WhiteHouse.gov when it gar-ners 150 signatures, according to a Sept. 1 Fedscoop article. When a petition accumulates 5,000 signatures, the White House issues an offi cial reply.
Th e petition “Legalize and Regulate Marijuana in a Manner Similar to Alcohol” was signed by 75,000 people. It rapidly eclipsed all its com-petitors and earned the high-est slot on the White House website, according to an Oct. 31 article in the Wall Street Journal by Laura Meckler. Four other petitions call-ing for an end to marijuana prohibition also rocketed into the top 10.
Rather than acknowledge the petition’s legitimate concerns, the White House eff ectively ignored it. A dismissive and condescending reply from Obama drug czar Gil Kerlikowske trivialized the petition and turned a deaf ear to the tens of thousands of Americans who signed it. Talking about account-ability, it seems, is easier than actually practicing it.
Kerlikowske’s reply cited only two scientifi c studies that directly attributed harmful eff ects to marijuana. To dem-onstrate that marijuana caused “cognitive im-pairment,” Kerlikowske cited a 1996 study by Harrison Pope. Pope’s study examined 65 college students, most of whom had smoked marijuana at least 27 out of the previous 30 days. Accord-ing the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Pope found “the residual cognitive impair-ments detected in the study were not severe.”
Kerlikowske also cites a 2008 ScienceDaily article that found marijuana smokers develop bullous lung disease faster than tobacco smokers. But Matthew Naughton, who conducted the study, conclud-ed that this happens because marijuana is “held for as long as possible before slow exha-lation” — not because of any property actually possessed by the plant. Kerlikowske would know this if he’d actu-ally read the article he cited. It seems the best justifi cation that Obama’s drug czar can off er for continuing to waste billions of dollars mindlessly destroying marijuana is the manner in which it is tradi-tionally smoked.
Even if marijuana did cause one kind of lung damage faster than tobacco, using this as grounds for prohibiting it would still be unfathomably hypocritical. According to a Sept. 18, 2003, WebMD article by Daniel J. DeNoon, two large studies have found no correlation between marijuana use and mortality. Unlike Harrison Pope’s science project, these extensive studies surveyed 65,177 and 45,450 people.
Conversely, the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention report that tobacco causes 443,000 deaths annually, or one in fi ve
deaths in the United States. Combine all the deaths from HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, car accidents, suicides and murders and you’d still have fewer deaths than are caused each year by tobacco.
Alcohol is the third leading cause of mortal-ity, causing 75,000 deaths a year, according to a Juny 25, 2005, MSNBC article. Our government allows us to buy deadly substances like alcohol because it recognizes that prohibition simply diverts money to cartels that would otherwise go to legitimate businesses. Yet marijuana, ap-parently, is the magic excep-tion to the rule. Our bloated monstrosity of a government is convinced it can eventually produce diff erent results by doing the same thing over and over again.
In its defense of marijuana prohibition, the White House claimed to recognize that “we are not going to arrest our way out of the problem.” Yet roughly 45,000 state and federal prisoners are currently incar-cerated for violating laws against mari-juana, according to the National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws. Americans widely equate our prison system with what amounts to institutionalized sexual assault; it’s diffi cult to imagine how the people our government wants to protect from improper smoke inhala-tion are safer in prison than out of it. But if most politi-cians didn’t think this was the case, 45,000 Americans would no longer be in jail.
Th e Reauthorization Act of 1998 legally requires the President’s drug czar to “take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legal-ize” any illegal drug. It’s pos-sible that even Kerlikowske recognizes that there is simply no conceivable reason to continue the futile disaster that has been marijuana prohibition. Its continued existence seems to stem from a lazy societal unwillingness to question and confront the status quo.
Ian Huyett is a junior in political science and anthropology. Please
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Among Tea Partiers and the Occupy Wall Street movement, mentions of Ayn Rand and her ideas have always been fl oating around. A spiritual adviser to President Obama, Jim Wallis, said recently, “I distrust a movement that lift s up [an] ... atheist - Ayn Rand — as their philosophical guide.” Th ough he is probably not a Tea Partier, I presume his position is shared by many religious conservatives within that movement. On the other hand, the Occupy Wall Street crowd’s disdain for capitalism pits them opposite the woman who penned “Capitalism: Th e Un-known Ideal.” Th e criticisms and attacks persist, yet Rand remains relevant. Why?
Ayn Rand was the author of two timeless fi ctional novels but her non-fi ction work was equally prolifi c. She minted a new philoso-phy, objectivism, from the ideas she developed. Within that framework, the political-economic condition she advocated is laissez-faire capitalism.
In a nutshell, the cur-rent political-economic system holds many captive by its complexity. Capital-ism simplifi es everything. Rather than attempting to govern the complexity with supercomputers and super-committees, the load is distributed to billions of individuals worldwide interacting freely with each other. It is uncontrollably effi cient. Billions of decisions are calculated per second without the impositions of central planning. Individuals think for themselves, gain through productivity, lose by their mistakes. Th e essence of capitalism is personal responsibility, or more broadly, justice. Injustice is why people are camping in Manhattan to condemn the wealthy and marching on our capitol to oppose legisla-tion. People sense injustice. Rand defi nes what justice is and explains how to achieve it.
Her skill at explaining economic justice has at-tracted conservatives among the Tea Party movement. Predictably, since she only relies on reason to validate her ideas, the religious are threatened by her anti-faith position. Th is leads them to pick and choose which of her ideas suit their needs. Th is is her connection to Libertari-ans and the Tea Party crowd.
Th e Occupy Wall Street crowd are antagonistic. But why? Her logic didn’t start off ensively with, “How can I become rich?” or even, “What is the greatest good for the greatest number?” She started with, “How do I protect the individual?” From there she recognized capitalism as the only moral social system since it means protecting voluntary ex-change among free individu-als. Ironically, this is missed by the Occupy Wall Street crowd, who affi x evil con-cepts to the word capitalism. Th ey need to understand what it means before they vilify it. It would not allow a billionaire to be destroyed by a mob. It would not allow a broke-ass to be evicted for a development. Rich or poor, minority or majority — the individual is the standard.
Th is is a mixed economy. Nobody can point to capital-ism and say, “Look, here it is and it works,” or, “Look, here it is and it is evil.” It does not and has never existed in its pure form. Accept-ing that fact, Rand rose to the challenge illuminating capitalism time aft er time in public appearances and lectures. As unsettling as that was to many, she continued in the hopes that her ideas would lead eventually to individual liberty. Looking now at our contemporary protesters, want of individual protections are what they all have in common. Th at is why Rand’s ideas are alive and well.
Mark HoltonFourth-year architecture studentKSU Objectivist Club member
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EDITORIAL BOARD
What is something you have done or would like to do that is outside your comfort zone?
“Streaking.”
Skye LeSage, design editor
“I would sky-dive because
I’ve always wanted to,
even though I’m afraid of
heights.”
Kelsey Castanon, edge editor
“Go to church and vote
Republican. Just kidding, I don’t
want to do either of those things,
but they are way out of my comfort zone.”
Laura Thacker, opinion editor
“I would like to go bungee jumping.
Heights really scare me, but it would push me
out of my comfort zone, which is
normally limited to the ground.”
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would want to feed pigeons
in Trafalgar Square.”
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“Find happiness.”
Karen Ingram, coverage editor
“I’d like to try to be nicer to
stupid people, but it’s so hard.”
Tim Schrag, editor-in-chief
“I would like to go to a diff erent country, a place
where people do not speak the
same language as I do, and see
how I would handle it.”
Mark Kern, sports editor
“I’m very afraid of the ocean, but this
summer me, my mom and brother went jet skiing in
Florida to see dol-phins. It was pretty scary but defi nitely
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Amer TalebArizona Daily Wildcat, University of Arizona
On the rare event that a star gets too close to a black hole, gravity will pull the star un-evenly on one of its sides. The stretching will continue until the star tears apart and shat-ters, said Dennis Zaritsky, a professor of astronomy in the Steward Observatory who co-authored the study. The study was published in the Astro-physical Journal.
After analyzing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project that took images of the sky, a handful of objects were found that resembled stars being partially swallowed by a black hole. The process of a star being shredded and fall-ing into a black hole is called a tidal disruption event, Za-ritsky said.
Most of a star’s matter spi-rals into the black hole where nothing, not even light, can escape. The remaining mate-
rial was examined by a team of researchers.
Black holes are located near the center of the galaxy, which is where the star remains were found. Their location is strong evidence that these were indeed tidal disruption events, and not one of the many pos-sibilities that resemble them, Zaritsky said.
After more analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s data of a few million galaxies, they settled on two tidal dis-ruption events.
“Could there be some other kind of exploding star that we’ve never seen? Perhaps, but it would have to always happen at the center of gal-axies,” Zaritsky said. “Then again, the universe is usually weirder than you think.”
People have been looking for tidal disruption events for at least the last decade, Za-ritsky said.
“It’s hard to say this is the first time they’ve been dis-covered, because other people
have put out claims of find-ing them,” he said. “But this is the first large optical survey where you look for variability and find them that way.”
What if a human fell into a black hole?
“That’s a standard problem we give in class to figure out how stretched you get,” he said. “If you didn’t rip apart initially, you’d get stretched hundreds of feet until you did.”
Under Arizona Stadium, a telescope’s mirror is being fin-ished that will revolutionize the way this type of research is done, Zaritsky said.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s 8-meter mirror will take images of the entire sky every few nights. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey used a 2-meter mirror telescope.
Zaritsky said the LSST might be ready by 2020.
“We’ll see a lot more tidal disruption events,” Zaritsky said. “We’ll find all sorts of weird things, I guarantee it.”
University of Arizona study fi nds black holes might destroy stars
Countdown to ‘Th e Adding Machine’
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Mark Kern sports editor
What makes college sports so great is the passion with which they are played, as well as the passion that the fans have for their teams.
Never has a team’s passion been so evident than in the volleyball and football teams’ games on Saturday.
In Saturday’s volleyball match, the Wildcats had every reason to just pack it in. Texas A&M entered the match in third place in the Big 12 Conference and had already swept the Wildcats in their previous matchup.
To make things worse, All-Amer-ican candidate Kaitlynn Pelger went down on the very fi rst play of match with an injury.
Th e Wildcats struggled aft er her injury as they lost both of the fi rst two sets, each by double digits.
What happened next is what makes
college sports so great. Th e Wildcats were able to battle back against the talented Aggies and win the next three sets and the match, a feat that seemed almost impossible an hour earlier.
Sophomore Courtney Traxson took over when Pelger went out and had the match of her career with 13 kills, a performance that head coach Suzie Fritz said was vital to the team’s vic-tory on Saturday.
“I think Courtney Traxson was the big diff erence for us,” Fritz said. “We felt that was an area we needed to attack them and we gave her some balls to hit and she did a great job.”
Down in Stillwater, Okla., the Wild-cat football team was getting ready to take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
Th e Cowboys entered the game ranked No. 3 in the country and a three-touchdown favorite over the Wildcats.
Coming off a 58-17 loss to Okla-
homa, the experts gave the Wildcats no chance against the high-powered Cowboys’ off ense.
Aft er a quick 14-0 start, it appeared that the Cowboys were well on their way to blowout victory.
However, the Wildcats would not go away easily and went on to score the next 24 points to take a 10-point lead.
Th e rest of the game was a back and forth battle as the Wildcats had the ball at the 5-yard line with one second left and a chance to tie the game. Collin Klein’s pass fell to the ground, giving the Cowboys a 52-45 victory.
Aft erwards, in the press confer-ence, the players were visibily upset about the game, and this was where the passion and pride that they have for their sport could be seen.
All of these athletes prepare throughout the week for their game or match. When teams are unable to
go out and get a victory, it hurts them a lot.
We, as fans, get excited or upset de-pending on the outcome, but we never truly understand the reaction of the players.
Both of these teams are in great shape at this point in the season. Th e volleyball team is 17-8 on the season and receiving votes in the latest vol-leyball rankings. Th e football team is 7-2 and is still ranked No. 14 in the last Bowl Championship Series stand-ings.
Th e volleyball team has a great op-portunity to get back to the NCAA tournament for the fi rst time since 2008, while the football team has an opportunity to win 10 games in a season for the fi rst time since 2003.
Saturday was an exciting sports day as a Wildcats fan, and it was be-cause of the eff ort and passion that the teams put on the playing fi elds.
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Mark Kernsports editor
MLB
On Monday, the Kansas City Royals traded Melky Cabrera to the San Francisco Giants for pitch-ers Jonathan Sanchez and Ryan Verdugo. Cabrera is coming off a career year with the Royals by hitting 305 with 44 doubles, 18 homers and 87 RBIs in what ended up being his only season with the Royals. Sanchez was injured for most of the season last year, but was a key pitcher during the Giants World Series run two years ago.
NCAAF
Ole Miss football coach Hous-ton Nutt will step down as the head coach at the end of the season. Nutt, 54, has coached at Arkan-sas and Ole Miss and has a 24-23 career record at Ole Miss, includ-ing having lost his last 12 SEC games. At the press conference on Monday, Nutt talked about why he needed to step down.
“Th e thing about the SEC that I know,” Nutt said, “they pay you to win.”
NBA
Commissioner David Stern gave the players until Wednesday to accept the latest proposal or off ers, which will not be as good as previous ones. However, on Monday, president Derek Fisher indicated that this is not going to be accepted by the players. “Right now, we’ve been given the ultima-tum, and our answer is that’s not acceptable to us,” Fisher told a group of reporters.
BOXING
Former boxing champion Joe Frazier died at the age of 67 aft er battling liver cancer. He had been in hospice care for the past couple of weeks until he passed away late Monday night.
Frazier, known for his fi ghts with Muhammad Ali, will go down as one of the greatest boxers ever to live. His signature moment was when he handed Ali his fi rst loss in 1971.
Kelly Mchughstaff writer
Aft er defeating the Oklahoma City University Stars on Th ursday night during their fi rst exhibition game of the season, the K-State Wildcats will take on Washburn University’s Lady Blues tonight at 7 p.m. in Bramlage Coliseum.
In the same way OCU came out strong and ready to play, the Wild-cats can expect the Lady Blues to put up a good fi ght aft er the NCAA Division II school spent the weekend at the Disney Tip-Off Classic, in Anaheim, Calif., where they placed fi rst.
Currently sitting at 3-0 aft er their tournament, Washburn’s preseason national rank is polled
at No. 11, according to the USA Today ESPN Division II Top 25 Coaches’ Poll, which was released on Nov. 1.
In their conference, the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, Washburn University women’s basketball sits at No. 1 and is expected to have another strong season with four of last year’s starters returning for the 2011-12 season.
Last year, the Lady Blues went 22-7 and placed second in the MIAA at 17-5.
Returners for Washburn — center Cassie Lombardino, a 6-foot-3 senior, and forward Stevi Schultz, senior — made a huge impact on the team’s success last
season, both averaging 15 points per game. During their last game against Hawaii Pacifi c, on Nov. 6, both Lombardino and Schultz played a big part in the team’s
45-point win, for a fi nal score of 90-45.
Lombardino scored 11 points
and with her nine rebounds she earned All-Tournament recogni-tion, while teammate Schultz went 5-7 from the 3-point line.
Th e Lady Blues have shown that they are not afraid to take shots and can score from the fi eld, proving this against Hawaii Pacif-ic as they shot a 54 percent.
However, making shots is an area K-State’s coach Deb Patterson said the Wildcats need to improve on aft er scoring only 36 percent during Th ursday night’s game. Th e Wildcats did not have problems fi nding makeable shots; it was just a case of missing those shots.
Th ough the scoring percent-ages were low for the Wildcats, teammates Jalana Childs, senior,
and Brittany Chambers, junior, both said that they understand last Th ursday was the team’s fi rst game, and the new players are still adjusting to a new level of play.
During tonight’s second ex-hibition game, K-State will have the chance to, once again, give the new players a feel for the court, and the team will be given the op-portunity to connect and work out any kinks before their conference play begins.
Aft er the game on Th ursday night, Childs expressed her ex-citement in getting back on the court.
“I don’t think this game was anything near what I can do, what I can really do,” Childs said.
Two- minute drill
Wildcats look to build from last game against Lady Blues
Logan M. Jones | Collegian
Junior guard Mariah White looks to pass in K-State’s fi rst game of the season on Nov. 3, when they beat Oklahoma City 63-51. The Wildcats play Washburn tonight at 7 in Bramlage Coliseum.
Volleyball, football teams show passion on field
“I don’t think this game was anything near what I can do,
what I can really do.”
Jalana Childssenior forward
Tommy Theis | Collegian
K-State players gather together during Saturday’s game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys. After coming from behind, the Wildcats ultimately lost 52-45.
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MANHATTAN CITY Or- dinance 4814 assures every person equal opportunity in hous- ing without distinc- tion on account of race, sex, familial sta- tus, military status, disability, religion, age, color, national origin or ancestry. Vio- lations should be re- ported to the Director of Human Resources at City Hall, 785-587- 2440.
1219 KEARNEY, two- bedroom across from campus. No pets. Avail- able January through July or longer. $760/ month. 785-539-5136.
VERY NICE four-bed- room, four bath located next to Aggieville, three great roommates, $375 a month. Available Jan- uary 1. 785-764-2414.
$300/ MONTH plus utili- ties. Clean, five minutes from campus, two other friendly roommates, no pets, non-smokers. Call 316-990-3350.
THREE, FOUR-BED- ROOM, three bath- room. Central air, dish- washer, washer/ dryer, garage. 785-539-5800.
TWO THREE-BED- ROOM houses, side-by- side on Jarvis Drive. Available December 1. Call 785-293-5584.
ONE BEDROOM avail- able in five-bedroom house. Female room- mate needed immedi- ately. $280/ month plus shared utilities. Call 620-640-4613.
ONE-BEDROOM, ONE bathroom apartment next to campus. Stove, dishwasher, refrigera- tor, huge bedroom closet, large utility closet and two bal- conies. Sublease Jan- uary 1, 2012- July 31, 2012 $605/ month.
BARTENDING! $300 a day potential. No experi- ence necessary. Train- ing provided. Call 800- 965-6520 extension 144.
TWO BEDROOMS available in a five-bed- room house. One block from campus. Available mid-December. Call 913-375-4163.
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Students in Introduction to Leadership Concepts displayed some of their service projects outside the K-State Student Union on Monday afternoon. This group chose to do their “Holding to Purpose” project on valuing the worth of an individual. They started with a blank piece of wood with only the title “I am...” and students fi lled out name tags with one-word responses that represented themselves.
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Radhika JainHarvard Crimson, Harvard U. via UWIRE
Harvard U. dropout and Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckerberg addressed Face-book’s future and the potential for a Facebook offi ce in Boston at a packed press conference at Harvard on Monday aft ernoon.
Zuckerberg emerged from the Loeb House, where he was meeting with University Presi-dent Drew G. Faust, at 4:30 p.m., and answered three questions from the press before going di-rectly to an exclusive discussion at Farkas Hall with 200 students.
Clad in jeans and a navy hoodie, Zuckerberg bumped fi sts with an excited student to cheers and the constant click of cameras before making his way to microphones set up outside Lamont. Surrounded by the press on one side and a crowd of students armed with cam-eras and iPhones on the other, Zuckerberg kept a smile on his face throughout the press con-ference.
“Oh, we’re just getting start-ed,” Zuckerberg said enthusias-tically when asked what Face-book still had to accomplish.
“Th e original goals for the company are to make it so that
the whole world can be more open and connected. And you know the last fi ve years have really just been about helping people get signed up and stay connected with their friends,” he added. “But I think the next fi ve or 10 years are going to be about all of these diff erent prod-ucts and industries that can be rethought.”
Citing recent developments in social games, music and tele-vision on Facebook, Zuckerberg explained that Facebook would provide a platform through which “diff erent industries can be rethought in diff erent ways so that your friends are there
with you.”In response to a question
about why Facebook had not followed in the footsteps of Mi-crosoft and Google and started a Boston branch, Zuckerberg struck a hopeful tone but con-fi rmed that there are no imme-diate plans to do so.
Facebook has opened one development offi ce in Seattle, Wash., according to Zucker-berg, in large part because it is in the same time zone as the company’s Palo Alto, Calif., offi ce.
“We want to really get the culture there right before we start opening up other offi ces,
but at some point hopefully down the line we will do that,” he said.
Students submitted resumes in advance to the Offi ce of Career Services to take part in a discussion on Facebook mod-erated by Computer Science Senior Lecturer David J. Malan ‘99 aft er the press conference, and about 200 students were accepted on a fi rst-come-fi rst-served basis.
Applications closed as soon as the theater reached capacity, but students who did not receive tickets were placed on a short waiting list. All students from the standby list who showed up
prior to the event were accom-modated, according to Kevin Galvin, Director of News and Media Relations at the Univer-sity.
Zuckerberg’s visit to Har-vard is part of a three-university recruiting trip along the East Coast that includes MIT and Carnegie Mellon University.
“Th ere’s a lot of really smart people here,” Zuckerberg an-swered when asked why he chose to recruit at Harvard and MIT. “And a lot of them are making decisions about where they’re going to work when they graduate in the next couple of weeks.”
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg returns to Harvard University
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Sunday fun-day: students take old-school approach to exercise
Ryan Mustain, freshman in business administration, and John Allison, freshman in political science, coordinate a synchronized throw in hopes of eliminating an opposing player during a dodgeball tournament on Sunday.
ABOVE: Derek Laughman, freshman in biological system engineering, and John Allison, freshman in political science, prepare to throw their dodgeballs at the opposing team during a dodgeball tournament Sunday.
LEFT: Michael Porter, freshman in agricultural business, quickly retrieves dodgeballs for Laugh-man to hurl at the opposing team during Sunday’s dodgeball tournament.
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