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

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t • » s s : t Initially; designed for football, making tracks jy TAKES F our horizontal lines and a paw print with the words Making Tracks easily identified Wild- cat Football ' 82. Steve Falen, graphic designer for University Relations, produced the design for the football ticket sales and fund-raising campaign. The design was originally intended for use only by foot- ball, according to Brian Rassette, ad- ministrative assistant of Intercollegiate Athletics. The idea was to have fun with foot- ball — enjoy it win, lose or draw, Rassette said. This year ' s season ticket sales showed the largest increase over a previous year with sales amounting to 16,000 tickets. It wasn ' t long before the catchy words and logo had dozens of takeoff s. Blue Key, senior honorary, which was in charge of Homecoming activities, chose The ' Cats are Back and Making Tr acks as the theme for the Homecom- ing week. We chose our theme in March. We knew the athletic department was using Making Tracks as a theme and we ad- ded The ' Cats are Back. By incor- porating their theme with ours it gave them added exposure, Dave Mueller senior in agricultural economics aad president of Blue Key, said. The part about ' Cats being be taken two ways — back f the alumni and and back for football team, he said Blue Key chose this theme because, You nee i theme you can play off o Be creative with, Mu e Mueller, nics and f Tom Wilkerson, owner of Balfour House, a specialty store in Aggieville, said that his company took up the new theme quickly. We tooled up for this last year early. It adds some charisma to K-State, he said. Wilkerson said they had lots of people bring in takeoffs of the design to have shirts made. The Senior Class was one of the first groups to incorporate the design into a T-shirt. Leaving Tracks at K-State was its motto. John Breeden, class president and senior in food science and industry, said, Sales went very well. We had trouble filling orders. The Leaving Tracks theme was ex- panded by Theta Xi fraternity for its road trip to Iowa. Members used Leav- ing Tracks at Iowa State as did the food service workers at Derby Food Center, who wore their shirts when ser- ving the football team before it left for Ames, Iowa. The Chi Omega sorority pledge class sold shirts with a Making Tracks logo for the K-State vs. University of Kansas football game. We didn ' t want to use words and we felt the ' Making Tracks ' logo said more than words, said Angie O ' Hara, ' reshman in pre-professional business administrafrfdn and designer of the Chi O shij f Besides using the entire Mak- ing Tracks logo, several designs used only the paw prints, either 4 one or in groups. When seen alone the paw is also identified with Clemson University ' s famous red and or- ange paw print. However, the paw print in purple is beginning to be identified with K-State. Wilkerson said he went through the jewelry pins at Balfour ' s factory, found the Clemson pin, had it changed to silver and purple and sold tons of them. The paws have also climb ed their way on and across several different shirts on campus. They ranged in size and pattern but will prob- ably remain to be seen for several more seasons. It ' ll last for the next couple years — the way purple pride did, Mueller said. —by Marcy Heesch king tracks

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■ . ' • Ar:: MICE . J ■ ' ES ' T ' The convenience store, a familiar spot for college students to purchase snack and drink, stood on the northwest corner of Denison Avenue and Claflin Road. oTears flood the eyes of Melanie Coddard, sophomore in management, and Sondra Holland, sophomore in speech, as the funeral procession mourns the razing of D O ' s Shop Quik. 1 D 0: I SHOP QUIK ' j JV t was a funeral all right, but hard- ly a grave procession, as approx- , imately 55 women dressed in black gave a parting tribute to the D O Shop Quik at the corner of Claflin Road and Denison Avenue. Members of the Gamma Phi Beta, Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Chi Omega sororities displayed their sorrow about the scheduled closing of the convenience store by marching two by two through the store ' s aisles chanting D O is dead! and singing Amazing Grace. Candles were lit and Bic lighters flick- ed as Vikki Watson, sophomore in jour- nalism and mass communications and coordinator of the DO ' s Goes party, gave a short eulogy near the checkout counter. After leaving the store, a crowd gathered to watch as mourners threw .- ;7 '