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

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Encouraging her teammates. Shell! Hamon, junior in elementary education and Alpha Delta Pi sorority member, cheers during the mud volleyball tournament, Sept. 16. Wass and Co., an independent team, won the women ' s title and Fiji fraternity won the men ' s title. The tournament raised about $250 for the Phi Kap philanthropy, Kansas Wildscape, an organization that preserves state parks and wilderness areas. (Photo by Gary Conover) -Opening- 3

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ootball tailgate parties, concerts and campus organizations gave students opportunities to share the common core of K-State with each other regardless of where they lived, worked or studied. But in April the Manhattan-Junction City area shared information with the rest of the world. Following the bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, investigators made connections to Timothy McVeigh, a former Fort Riley soldier living arrested for his part in the bombing that lational I believed Manhattan to be examined by Michael Finnegan, professor of social anthropology and social work. Finnegan and other scientists used bone and teeth fragments to verify that the body buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Kearney, Mo., was James. Students returned to school in the fall to discover the core of campus remained under construction. Farrell Library and the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art construction continued to give them a common headache with even more closed parking lots and detours around the closed Mid Campus Drive. Construction may have made getting around campus a hassle but communication with each other was easier than ever. More than 3,200 students started email UNIX accounts in the first weeks of school, up from 200 accounts the previous year. Colleges and universities faced a possible .85-percent charge on federal loans to students in a bill sponsored by Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan. Students formed a core of resistance against the proposal that could have caused a $382,000 charge to K-State students who received federal loans. (Continued on page 4) L -Opening- Phi Kappa Theta fraternity member and junior in con- struction science, Corey Black naps at the Phi Kappa Theta Mud Bowl volleyball tournament. Ten teams competed in the first year of the event. (Photo by Cary Conover) Before the first home game, Andrew Erichsen, 6, writes his name with chalk on the asphalt outside KSU Stadium. Parking lot gates opened before games so fans could tailgate with friends. (Photo by Steve Hebert)

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(Continued from page 2) The University faced its own financial difficulties when enrollment figures fell to 20,476 --a drop of 188 students from last fall. The enrollment decrease meant a $986,000 cut in state funding for 1996, President Jon Wefald said in the State of the University address. Through the financial cuts, the common thread was that programs and financial aid could be in danger. t I t H . a record number of fans attended the last tball tjdfcts % M Ma lied I f I the ' ! lt s Minia Vr- I i ( l StucHthletes, coaches and the community found a common core created in the memories of the highest ranked football team in school history. With the University of Kansas and K-State ranked in the top 10 nationally, the intrastate rivalry became stronger than ever. Meanwhile, students and alumni faced problems when police cracked down on alcohol at tailgate parties in the parking lots outside KSU Stadium. Parking patrols began confiscating alcohol from students and alumni after the second home game, removing the core of many tailgate parties. However, alcohol in the K-State Union became a common sight following a spring 1995 Union Governing Board decision allowing 3.2 beer to be sold in Union Station and the recreation center. For the first time women were seen on the fourth floor of Marlatt Hall. The all-male residence hall provided temporary housing for more than 80 female students during renovations to the first and second floors of Goodnow Hall. In September the women moved from Marlatt to Moore and Ford halls for the remainder of the year. As the campus adjusted to the national spotlight, falling enrollment and different alcohol policies, students found a common core in a changing university and the end of an era. T 9 ' 4 -Opening- ' -