Kansas State University - The Royal Purple Yearbook

“Mv Own Game The K-State v. Nebraska football game on Saturday Oct. 1 4 was also known as Chaz Clark Game Day. Clark won the honor when she received the most votes on Alltel ' s website. Clark won many other prizes Including a KSU jersey, her own private skybox and a memorabilia signed by Coach Ron Prince. Page 49 Biq Red Oilr The 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One) returned to Ft. Riley in August. More than 14,000 soldiers and their families were expected to arrive in the Manhattan community over the next five years. The Big Red One was stationed in Germany for 1 1 years prior to its return to Ft. Riley. Page 60 . > .%^¥^^^: It was different for all of us. With more than 23,000 students from all 50 states and more than 90 countries, any one student ' s perception of life at K-State could be vastly different from another student ' s. To one person, it meant opportunities to learn about different cultures and explore issues of race through performances like N*gger, Wetb*ck, Ch*nk. To another, student life was finding a favorite Aggieville bar and dreaming up creative ways to date on a budget. To still another, it meant the bright lights of football games and staring up at thousands of fans cheering for a perfectly executed baton-throwing halftime performance. Life was something different to everyone, but it did guarantee one thing to all: how we chose to involve ourselves in it inevitably affected our states of being. Our experiences altered our opinions, interests, personalities and perceptions of the world. Our environments made us question who we were and who we wanted to become. Though life at K-State was always evolving, always growing, what was important was how we chose to involve ourselves in those changes, how we adapted. Our involvement, whether we wanted it to or not, would forever change us as individuals. And those personal changes were the most important of all. After all, it was our collective states of being — the combination of each student ' s relationship with his or her environment — that made this university K-State. ”