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

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Even though tuition costs rose for the 12th straight yea enroHment hit an all-time high at the university ranked W 16 in Consumer Digest ' s Top 50 Best ' alues for Public C Bges and Universities. President Jon Wefald, in his State of the UnivejfSK ' address, announced his plan to move K-State into the toa all land-grant universities. m The 23,151 students paid $125.45 per cred our for in-state and $417.45 per credit hour for out-of-state tuitioru Tuition as a whole increased by double-digits for the third co Kutive year. In his address, Wefald acknowledged that K-Siate could not continue to impose double-digit tuition increases upon students. Despite these increases, enrollment at K-State in Manhattan increased 9.9 per- cent, while enrollment at K-State-Salina decreased bv 9.3 percent. More students took classes ii the College of Arts and Sciences than any other college in the i Ksity. Stephen White, Arts and Sciences dean, said 56 percen Hall credit hours generated came from the College of Arts dn mences. Since 1986, the universn HTproduced more Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater and IJdall S( holars than any of the other 500 public universities. Ethan Baughnian recei ' ed a 2004 Goldwater Schol- arship and Brooklyn I .ippelnian received a 2004 Truman Scholarship. 1 think that oin students come to K-State well prepared and, more importanth jj La serious desire to learn, Wefald said. They ' re energed Hmusiastic, hard-working and friendly. The faculty are just dtitsMnding, with many, many faculty involved in world-class research. Wefald said K-State faculty found an effective wav to combine faculty research and teach in a wav that best benefited students. I notifiied r ht away that the students .md faculi seem to have a good balance in life, Michael Holen, dean of the College of Edu- cation, said. They like to work hard airalike to play hard. They know how to be serious and how to KBe fun. They have traditional values but are willing to look a way of working at things. Holen said a good, remad re relationship existed between the corpmunity and the ly ity. Mentor programs, such as Big Br oth rs and Big Siste de Manhattan a good place to live, and those programs wer enhanced by students. . The communitjf-uouldn ' t be able to do a lot of those things pre-university students without the help of college students, Tolen said. The relationship between the community and the iniversitv is good. ; Students participated in other activities that benefited element tar , junior high and high school students. Acacia ' s pillow fight, S a 25, needed 1,500 participants to break the world record. Ition fees were collected and donated to the Manhattan Si 6ol Strict to help leadership programs. J. At n a.m. Sep 25, Cecilia Knapp, ■ sophomore in business administration, swings her pillow at other pa ' ticipants in the Pillow War. Acacia froternih organized the event hoping to break the world record, but fell short. The event was a fundraiser for leader- ship programs in local schools. I was a little disappointed in the turnout, Knapp said. I loved hitting with th e pillow. It relieved tons of stress. Photo by Nicole Coleman continuec page 5

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While enjoying the spring weather, Tyler Dirks, senior in graphic design, swings on a tire swing in front of his house as his room- mates watch from the porch, April 15. The tire was retired after four months of use. We just got bored one day, Dirks said. Then we decided to use my roommate ' s old tires from his truck to swing on. Photo by Kelly Glasscock Completing her early morning workout, Kristin Ricklefs, gradu- ate student In human nutrition, runs along the west perimeter of Memorial Stadium, Sept. 24. The old stadium provided a place for students to exercise since its remodeling two years ago. As a part of the renovation, a new track was added to the stadium and the field was redone. Photo by Drew Rose Itlifc