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

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rof cello players ' Kansas State Orchestra work through a piece during their performance in McCain Auditorium, Sept. 13. The concert was the first of the season for the orchestra, with dance students performing during three of the songs. Read about cellist Michael Harte-Mitchell on page 38. Christopher Hanew ' mckel When natural disaster struck Louisiana many residents lost everything. They were left with nowhere to live and no place to finish their education. K-State professors, who once lived in Louisiana, made a call to students to give them a fresh start. Campus officials took initiative to help students with the transition. Read more on page 20. The K-State Student Union celebrated its 50th anniversary. The Union Program Council, Union Governing Board and Union organizations hosted events throughout the year to honor the event. Read more on page 60. As a university, K-State was defined by steller academics and noteworthy professors, but for the 23,182 students who attended classes, K-State was also tailgating, purple pride and home. The K-State community was ever changing, with students and faculty on campus one semester but studying abroad or at another university the next, having only their time together as a bond. Alumni returned for football Saturdays only to find K-State eerily the same and yet utterly different from the school they had left. I Bill Snyder Family Stadium was the place football fans congregated hours before football games began. Families and students brought tents, barbecue grills and games to pass the time and live a football tradition. Read more on page 12. It was that convergence of the university and the supporting community that broadened perspectives and exemplified the diversity of students and their interests. Students, staff and the K-State community played distinct roles in the development of the university, but they also affected one another. While many on campus found a niche to devote their time and energy; involvement, awareness and impressions of multiple facets of campus life were key to project, program and personal growth. Read more on page 32.

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Kjl ' K ( 1 EvA T IB 1 1 « A L. Am J 1 A L W l l Strechmgher legs, Gabby Listening to the salsa music. H • mA 1 m S I H Hunter, senior in theater, Vitaline demons, graduate v v r 1 M M prepares to perform the student in English, laughs with K llk T. H H dance Liberated Restraint, Grace Vergara, freshman in V H r i H I B for the Spring Dance 2005, psychology, as they relax at H K fl (I K I Spring Dance was performed the Little Apple Jazz Festival, 1 H April 6-7 in McCain July 23, The festival featured B i hi mI ' H Auditorium. Students, faculty traditional, contemporary and l t L L and guest artists performed salsa jazz, I ' m really excited Bh B H w M a variety of dance styles from about It, demons said. It 1 M tap and ballet to modern gave us something to do I HN ■ ■i V k H jazz and international styles besides going to the bars. It M I E j k J I as part of the Department IS a little more sophisticated. IF M I HHH HHi l of Speech. Communication, 1 like the salsa group because T 1 Theater and Dance ' s final it is different from what 1 B V H recital. typically listen to. 1 ' | Catrina Rawson Catrina Rawson A.t « ;«p •»■• « ■ •%.« S 4 T ' ' ' tt j liinaiaU rt families. Island - students were often separated by only a few degrees, Others found opportunities in Kansas, remaining close enough to as facebook.com reminded them. cheer on the Wildcats in person on Saturdays. Wildcats hailed from the smallest towns in Kansas, the No matter where a student originated or where his final largest cities in the world and everywhere in between. destination, time spent at K-State was the common denominator I After graduation, students scattered across the globe to intersection

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? : ' iv j:.: l i, i m V , ' ' The night before the Saturday Manhattan Farmers ' Market, J.T. Slate, freshman In secondary education, cuts flowers for his stand. I try to cut everything the night before, and I spend about 2.5 hours cutting and four hours bundling them all together, Slate said. I usually end up going to bed around midnight. Read more about Slate on page 10. Catrina Rawson In a truck bed full of water, Michael Schroeder, senior In agribusiness, stays cool in his homemade pool. Schroeder and his fellow tailgaters invited passersby to relax with them, Sept. 24. We figured It would be hot that day and It would be a good way to cool off, Schroeder said. At the next home game, they set up a slip ' n slide. Read more about tailgating on page 12. Christopher Hanewinckel X v.r I «ft ' ;; ? ll student life?