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

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0 • Wildcat football fan Robin Battiest, sophomore in music education, cheers the team during the last few minutes of the game. (Photo by Gary Lytle) Just hours before the K-State-KU game, Riley County police officers talk with one of the merchants in Aggieville as shoppers and visitors walk the nearly carless street around them. The streets had been closed off from all motor traffic that morning. (Photo by Chris Assaf) 22

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fans evour concessions The aroma of polish sausage tickles the nostrils. The sound of crunching popcorn makes mouths water, sending surges of hunger pangs through the stomachs of restless fans. Concentrating on the game becomes pointless, and the only thing that will bring is a trip to the stand. Concessions stands aren ' t just traditions at athletic events, they ' ve become necessities. K-State Stadium services spectators with 14 stands and vendors during football and games, and hungry fans take advantage of all of them. It would boggle your mind at the amount of stuff we go through, said Dennis Schwant, concessions manager. It took 40 50-pound buckets of oil to pop enough corn to satisfy customers at the season opener against Austin Peay. During big games, fans eat more than 760 dozen hot dogs and polish sausages, Schwant said. Preparing all this food takes time, and the stands must have a full work crew and be stocked when the gates open two hours before Bill Coiner, sophomore in technology, puts out boxes to be filled with popcorn just before the halftime rush of the K-State- Army game. (Photo by Chris Assaf) the game. Vickie Beckley, stand manager, said it took 21 2 hours to pop six cases of popcorn used in just one stand. The hot dogs must be done when the gates open, Beckley said. That ' s another reason we have to be here so early. E.S. Webb and Co. owns the concession stands and employs 190 people to manage them. But, labor during the game is free. Members of the fraternities, sororities and other organizations volunteer their time to work in order to keep 10 percent of the sales. Kevin Meyerhoff, senior in business administration and member of Phi Kappa Theta, said it ' s hard work. It gets monotonous. If you don ' t talk to people who come in here, you get bored to death, he said. E.S. Webb and Co. not only puts food in the bellies of sports fans, but it also puts the clothes on their backs. The eye-catching stands enticing passersby with sweatshirts, and penants were also owned by E.S. Webb and Co. As long as there are sports and spectators, there will be hunger — and the concession stands will be there to satisfy it. by Audra Dietz 21 concession Stand

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AGGIE CROWD Airs quiet on the Aggieville front after the K-State KU game. One Riley County said he was bored, but gladly so. What had been dreaded was a repeat of the and vandalism of the two previous K-State vs. University of Kansas football games in Manhattan, but that did not happen. That afternoon the football game ended in a tie, 17-17. There was no winner, except for Aggieville. City of Manhattan Street workers put up snow fences on the entrances to Aggieville on the day of the K-State-KU game. The fences blocked off all vehicular traffic and helped police control the flow of people into Aggieville after the game. (Photo by Chris Assaf) Many claimed the reason for the quieted nature of Aggieville visitors was the presence of the police in the core, which included the main four- block area. ' The fact that nothing is going on has a lot to do with the publicity of the preventative measures, and the fact that there is a on every square foot of the block, said Minida Dowdy, owner of the Master Gamer, an Aggieville shop. Officers from Wichita, Salina, Lawrence, Junction City and the Kansas Highway Patrol, policed the area. Some attributed the more mild atmosphere to the game ending in a tie. Dowdy was working that night after the game, as she was the previous year. I think it was fairly tame compared to last year. I think part of it was the score of the game. Both sides felt like they lost. No one had a big victory celebration, she said. I think it would have been more out of hand if it had been a win or a loss, then some people would have been upset about it, Lonnie Augustine, KU student, said. Cy Wainscott, director of University News, said he expected it to be a quiet evening because of the bad publicity from the disturbance the year before, the game ' s result and measures taken. However, many students said they only went to Aggieville out of curiosity, to see what was going on. To party, they went elsewhere. This isn ' t what we came here for. We came here for the game, but decided to come down to Aggieville to see what was going on. I ' m sure most of the people are here for the same reason, Augustine said. by Alicia Lowe Jari Webber, freshman in arts and sciences undecided, takes a nap on her bass drum during the K-State- KU football game. (Photo by Brad Camp) 23