Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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CARRYING ON family tradition, Jim Sheik, of Bern. Nan., talks with an acquaintance while tail- gating. Sheik preselected the spot in 1967 after the KSU Stadium and field were built. — Photo by Nicole Donnert Tailgating 15

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Friends, food, purple make tailgating a popular activity before football games by Kristen Day Matt Gamey OUTSIDE KSU STADIUM, the smell of hamburgers on an open grill wafted through the sea of recreational vehicles. A football bounced off the pavement almost clipping a pedestrian. Grabbing the ball, a child passed it back to his grandfather as me-game tailgat ing shifted into high gear. Fans came for quality tailgating time as much as the game. Kelly Sheik, freshman in open-option, and her family had been tailgating for 34 years. Arriving at the stadium hours before game time, they pulled their Chevy Suburban into spot 513 — the same spot they had filled since 1968. grandpa bought that spot right after the stadium was built, Sheik said. Our family has had it ever since. Wildcat fans participated in cookout festivities. Conversation ranged from personal lives to a bad referee call at a previous game. 4111) Pre- game activities soared when fans knew the game would be televised. Extreme fans showed off artistic ability by painting bellies and faces. They arrived three hours early to get front row seats at the K-State versus USC game, Sept. 21. While waiting, seven friends painted KSU loves TBS on their stomachs. On their backs, players names and numbers mocked jerseys. Mike Edwards, freshman in open-option, stood as the middleman with the heart drawn on his stomach. Every time we turned around the camera guy was in our f aces, Edwards said. My dad said he saw us on TV and we were on the JumboTron a lot. A field northeast of the stadium provided an area for HOPING FOR a better view of other tailgaters Bryce Mongeau, junior in biology, climbs the ladder of a 1971 antique Segrave nretruck before the K-State versus USC ball game, Sept. 21. While Mongeau was on top of the firettuck, he took vantage of the improved cell phone reception by ailing a friend of his. — Photo by Matt Stamey BEFORE THE USC GAME, Blake Vanleeuwen, more in art, paints a single Wildcat on the torsos of fans Greg Layton, more in business. and Craig Garrett, sophomore in business ment. Body painting was one form of fan support. —Photo by Nicole Donnert greeks, among others, to tailgate. Ben Davis, freshman in civil engineering, said tailgating pumped him up for the game. Fans filled the stadium to capacity at opening kickoff. Supporters screamed as shaking keys and pompons added to the atmosphere. The clock counted down to the start of thegamc. For the next four quarters, fans got what they came for: a Wildcat victory. As the game ended, lines of people swarmed out of the field and traffic jammed the streets. After the games, we didn ' t want to leave early because of the traffic. Sheik said. So we played some more catch and tried to get rid of all the food. 14 Student Life

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SIKAYCAI !At wo and Body Piercing customer Aaron Snyder displays his body art. He received his first tattoo at age 16. ' Your body isa temple, you might as well rate: Snyder said. — Photo by Jenny Braniff creating pieces of art using skin as a medium, tattoo artists reveal the workings of their craft by Lindsey Imes GROWING UP, Robert Miller, award-winning tattoo artist, knew he wanted to be a master of the art that intrigued him. He said he drewon himself with markers, fascinated with the skin-and-ink combination. Inspired by his uncle, a tattoo artist, Miller received his first tattoo at 13. At 27, he had acquired tattoos over most of his upper body. He had tattooed most of his left arm himself and created many original designs. I draw a lot of my own, custom work right on people ' s skin, Miller said. I like doing portraits of people. I can reproduce an actual photograph on the skin. As testament to his claim, a print of Marilyn Monroe hung on the parlor wall among hundreds of other designs. Beside Monroe hung a picture of the identical image — on a woman ' s thigh. Miller said he ' d tattooed just about every body part. I ' ve gotten some odd (requests), but who ' s to say what ' s odd? Miller said. If you can imagine any area on the body where there ' s skin, I ' ve pretty much tattooed it. The more difficult areas to tattoo were the lower back, stomach and breasts said Chris Tessin, a tattooist at Fine Line Tattoo. Kevin Watke, another tattoo artist at Stray Cat Tattoo and Body Piercing, said common designs were Old English and Japanese writing, flowers, suns, butterflies and tribal images. They also had requests for names. Usually, when it ' s a name, it ' s regretted, Tassin said. Every week, we cover up names. Watke said customer anxiety caused some problems. I do a lot of hard tattoos: he said, but mainly they ' re hard because people won ' t sit still for them. Though the idea of getting a tattoo could be frightening, Miller said the process was not terrible. Peoplewill tell you that they hurt a lot to make themselves look tougher for having them, Miller said. I compare it to being scratched by a mechanical pencil. I think stories about getting tattoos are actually worse than getting tattoos. It ' s really not as bad as most people say it is. 16 I Student Life