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

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by Nancy Chartrand GHOSTS OF THE NIGHT Halloween celebrat ions have students dressing up in costumes and carrying on stories of campus ghosts and legends. 12 Halloween

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Little Apple Triathlon tested the endurance of over 150 athletes at Tuttle Creek State Park last fall. The triathlon, an annual communi- ty event sponsored by KSU Recrea- tional Services, consisted of a swim, a 10.5-mile bike ride and a 1.3-mile run. Race participants had to be 14 years old to enter and then competed in categories based on age. The oldest division was over 50, and this year two Participants in the Little Apple Triathlon get a quick drink of water while running up the path from the swimming stage to the bicycling stage. (Photo by Gary Lytle) Little Apple Triathlon participant Larry Mah slides his shirt on over his helmet while getting ready for the bicycling portion of the race. Mah finished the race — which took place at Tuttle Creek Reservoir — 10th in his division. (Photo by Chris Assaf) men and one woman finished in that division. The 1987 Little Apple Triathlon affected participants differently. For some, the race was easy. Talking and laughing among themselves, some participants jogged the last three miles of the course. For others, the race was a serious test of endurance and a challenge to the finish. And for a few, the race proved to be too much, as 37 contestants withdrew before finishing. Michael York, Topeka, successfully completed the course in less than an hour to win the men ' s overall divison. York, who was competing in his seventh triathlon of the summer, in 53:00.01 minutes. Jim junior in veterinary medicine, finished 2:12 behind York to capture second place. The competition gets better every year, Nelson said. I competed last year, and this year I was trying to win. Although he did not win, Nelson said he improved his time. Paula Smith, Topeka, won the women ' s overall division with a time of 1:05.14. Second place went to Lynn Biggs, Kansas City, who missed first place by 31 seconds and crossed the finish line in 1:05.45. Third place went to Diane Compton, Wichita, who Bradley Fagan, senior in business nears the end of the bicycling stretch in the Little Apple Triathlon. Fagan finished 13th in his 25-29 age group. (Photo by Jim Dietz) finished in 1:08.38. While most participants competed individually, some chose to enter as a team. The teams consisted of three members, and each member in one leg of the course. Both the men ' s and women ' s in this category were based on the combined ages of the team 100 and younger or 100 and older. Three K-State students captured the men ' s 100 and younger title for the second consecutive year with a time of 55.20. Martin Dannatt, senior in competed in the swim, Rob Wilkerson, senior in engineering, handled the cycling, and Mark senior in nuclear engineering, participated in the run. The trio is already making plans for the 1988 triathlon. We had to come out to prove the fact that we could do it (win) again. We will probably do it again next year, Dannatt said. Local competitors believed the sport was here to stay. The sport has proven itself, said. I continue to look for new challenges, and the sport continues to offer them. Most everyone I know that competes likes the action. It is a fast-moving event, and even if you get injured in one area, you don ' t have to completely give up training. Training in different areas really makes for a well-rounded athlete. 11

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alloween, This holiday u sually conjured up images of clad in costumes, running door to door in an attempt to gather Perhaps it also presented images of teen-agers dressed in costume, playing pranks and stealing jack-o-lanterns. Most people might have thought that by the time one reached college age, such foolery would be out of one ' s system. However, every year the students of K-State proved this wrong, through their antics and legends. Janelle Zimmerman, sophomore in bakery and management, and Rachele Gagliano, junior in business administration, react with surprise to the Halloween costumes of Brian McCallum and Rob Caffey, both freshmen in arts and sciences general, as they walk through Kite ' s Bar and Grill. The two were dressed as East German women wrestlers. (Photo by Jim Dietz) Aggieville was a hot spot on Halloween night. Bars in the area were packed with students dressed up in everything from Ronald Reagan costumes to grapes. It is an escape from reality, which is what we need up here. It is a good way to blow off pressure and be a kid again, Ken Schmidt, senior in engineering, said. For the past two years on Schmidt entered a room, applied extensive stage makeup and exited as Freddie Kruger, the villain from the horror film A Nightmare On Elm Street. Last year Schmidt, in his frightenly real Freddie costume, made an appearance in Aggieville. Guys would say, ' that ' s cool, ' and girls would cower and refuse to talk to me, Schmidt said. People I know didn ' t even recognize me. However, if a college student with a lot of theater makeup didn ' t send a chill up your spine, maybe some of the local ghost stories would. Polly Pi Phi was said to roam the halls of the Lambda Chi Alpha house. The Pi Beta Phis occupied the current Lambda Chi house in the 1940s. Legend had it that one member, who was referred to as Polly, died in her sleep at the house. I myself have never seen her, Bob Stuart, senior in biology, said. But some of the guys and one of our housemoms claim they have. Allegedly, early one morning the Lambda Chi housemom went down into the basement to get ice. As she was about to ascend the stairs she saw a young woman enter the house ' s chapter room. When she went to the door and looked in, she found no one. The woman had vanished, for there was no other exit to the room. The Purple Masque Theatre, located in East Stadium, was said to be home to a ghost named Nick. In the 1950s, East Stadium was an athletic dormitory. As the story went, Nick was a football player who was injured during a game. He was carried into the cafeteria, where he died on a table. It was said that he haunts the theatre. The years between 1964 and 1969 seemed to have been Nick ' s most active years. Clanging pipes, vanishing costumes and dimming lights were all attributed to Nick. During the summer, four students spent a night at the theater in hopes of making contact with Nick. Answers to questions they posed to Nick via a Ouija board sent chills up their spines. They also claimed to have heard footsteps in the corridor above the theater. So next Halloween, if you are look- ing for something scary, you need not look far. The K-State campus and Aggieville could be two of the scariest places on earth. Visitors to the Putnam Hall Haunted House react to the work of mad doctor Andy Van Blarcum, freshman in architecture, as he works on Sandberg, sophomore in engineering. (Photo By Brad Fanshier) 13 Halloween