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

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is ESSENTIAL This year, Housing and Dining Services was becoming more popular than ever. With over 700 likes on Facebook, events, promos, and contests, students became increasingly more involved. The goals are to provide programming that is engaging and fun for students, Dell Ann Upp, coordinator for Marketing and Communications within Housing and Dining Services, said. A popular contest Housing and Dining provided to students was the Wildcat Room of the Year? A total of 25 students and their roommates completed entries by simply uploading a photo to Facebook showing what made their room unique. The votes were placed according to how many likes that room received. For Iasmine Bannister, freshman in early childhood education, the contest instantly caught her attention. One thing that makes our room unique is that we have a close-line with pictures hanging from it on our window and all the close-pins we have decorated ourselvesf' Bannister said. We are in marching band, so we go through a lot of clothes, and our laundry expenses are already racking up. We are definitely wanting to winf' Bannister and her roommate, who have been best friends since childhood, placed second in the contest. I got a lot of my ideas during rush week. l got ideas from looking at other girls' rooms and then I just put my own little spin on themf' Brooke Lawver, freshman in art, said. 'Tm really looking forward to getting a tailgating grill because I tailgate at a lot of games and it would come in handyf' Lawver placed first in the competition. She used purple lights, which bordered the room and decorated it opposite from her roommate. They wanted to give everyone a feel for who they were and let their personalities show. When it came to rules, the contest was open to any student, from any housing complex, including Iardine Apartments. The week of August 22-28 students were allowed to decorate their rooms in anyway they would like, through Aug. 29 through Sept. 4 students would submit photos on the Housing and Dining Facebook page. Following the week of Sept. 4-9, other students would vote for the room they believed to be the best. Winners were placed in first through third based on highest amounts of votes, then preceded given prizes of their choice, which were donated by Pepsi. by Shelby Brunk We are very pleased with the number of entries this year. We have far exceeded other universities contests, and the Facebook following has doubled from last year. Our purpose with the website this year is to refer our students to a page to provide quick updates from the departmentf' Upp said. There were many girls, mainly from Ford Hall, who applied for the contest with free laundry for a year being their main goal. Yet, two brave men, Daniel Dorsett, sophomore in chemical engineering, and Patrick Burns, freshman in mechanical engineering, came up with an idea that seemed hard to compete with. We decided to theme our room as Yoda's hut from Star Wars. We both love Star Wars and thought it would be cool and uniquef' Dorsett explains. Our room is unique because it has a definite theme.The Star Wars theme really sticks out to people who are also fans of the filmf' Even though Dorsett and Burns received plenty of votes because of their theme, they did not place enough votes against the girls' sets of rooms. The winners were announced on Monday, Sept. 12. First place was received by Brooke Lawver, second place Iasmine Bannister and third place Katie Riedesel. All three women were excited that they placed in the contest. Gaining recognition was another step Housing and Dining Services took. We wanted students to get the recognition for the awesome rooms they createf' Upp said. We decided to draw traffic to the social networking site, which would become a future help for students for various and future events for programmingf' To get students to notice all the events, past and upcoming, the staff took other initiatives and reached out to students. We've sent out a series of post-its that went on doors of all the students, which was simply a mini version of the poster to refer people to our Facebook page for all detailsf' Upp said. We pushed a lot with the room assistants in each hall, which they encouraged their floors to participate as well as advertisement for programming of events at Iardinef' Students became increasingly involved with the services Housing and Dining provided campus wide. With involvement directed in a way students were directly connected with, including the Facebook page, this department of the university was reaching out to all divisions of the student body in any way possible.

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1 A member of Kappa Alpha Theta holds up her smaller version of a shot book, an 8-by-8-inch memory book with stickers, photos, printed scrapbook paper and notes. Erin Poppe ,,. g A shot book's page shows what shot, ' Southern Comfort 1 and Lime, the time, 12:10 3.l'Yl., the ' buyer, Mitch, and V V F, , K 1, the place,Tubby's T , L Barand GrilI,the V I Qi I, .al maya., birthday girl took on my ' shot seven. W T K , f Erin Poppe T T llvlrclr 2 W t 7? ,W 1 ,, . Luft books from 21 of their friends and make them truth or dare books instead of shot booksf' There were water or hydration pages in between every few shot pages where the woman taking the shots were supposed to drink water to make sure the alcohol didn't make her sick. Some women made challenge pages, truth or dare pages, puzzles, or other games on pages in the book. The woman had to do the challenges as the night went on with the intention that they would be funny or difficult for her the more she drank. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of shot books is just girls acting like a hot messf' said Chloe Browne, senior in sociology. I've never talked to someone that just hasn't been out-of-their-mind drunk when they filled out their shot book on their 21st birthdayf' Most women didn't even make it to 21 shotsg they either got sick or were too drunk to finish the last their shot books. 'Anyone that is too drunk or anyone that's sick we cannot serve them any alcoholf' said Ryan Neiswender, .. - ager of Kite's Bar and Grill. If someone is stumbling aroun slurring their words we won't serve them alcohol, and know they've gotten sick they'll be escorted outf' Some bar owners had even been held liable for the damage and intoxication of drinkers. If someone came into a bar who was clearly heavily intoxicated, the law stated that a bartender was required to deny that person the sale of any type of alcohol. Girls shouldn't underestimate the effects of alcoholg they need to realize it affects everyone differently so if you're friend can drink a lot it doesn't mean you can, tool' Brown said. You need to think about your safety firstf' shotbooks I Z , L-.........i

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