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

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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?

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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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by Lindsay Porter and Alex Yocum T-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, flowers, banners, signs, mugs, ties, folders, pens, ice cream, letterhead and even cars embodied the personality of the university. From the K-State Student Union to Wagner Field, and classrooms to offices, purple was seen everywhere, every day. I thought there was a lot of purple when I first came on campus, Adam Wildhaber, freshman in civil engineering, said. All that wearing of purple, it was a little overwhelming. After a while, I knew it was representative of school spirit and pride. In a country dominated by reds, blues, golds, oranges and greens, K- State was among a handful of Division I universities with purple as its official color. Kent Hildebrand, 2005 Student Ambassador and senior in mass communications, said the school color contributed to K-State ' s public image. You see a lot of it when you step back and take notice, he said. There are very few other schools that have purple as a dominant color. Wildcats young and old, past and present wore purple to show school support. Before the football game against the Kansas Jayhawks, Dustin Kucerik, freshman In computer science, has his friend Lane Goodin, freshman in open-option, paint him from his waist up. Kucenk along with his fellow purple- painted friend Bill Gepford, freshman in open-option, began tailgating at 4:30 a.m. for the 11 a.m. game, Joslyn Brown At Bill Snyder Family Stadium or around campus, K-State ' s colors remain as popular as ever - more than 50 years after they became official Purple is a sense of pride, Danielle McManigal, junior in sociology, said. Everywhere you go on campus you see someone wearing purple. I think we are very proud to be a part of Kansas State University, and purple is a way to represent that. The essence of purple transcended the physical color and became a sense of community. The first thing I think about is the family atmosphere and the community that everyone has, Hildebrand said. When you see someone on the sidewalk, it feels like you have a connection to them. It ' s a sense of family - how we ' re unified at K-State. We share a bond of being Wildcats. Although purple reigned on game days and at university events, its presence was an integral part of the university ' s culture, not because it was the official school color but because of what it represented. I wear purple everyday, McManigal said, not because I have to - because I want to and I love K-State. Among the crowd, Crystal Childress, sophomore in apparel and textiles, cheers during the Sept. 24 game. Purple was the color of choice, though there were other colors of K-State apparel. What ' s the deal with all these hoodies that aren ' t purple? said Kent I Hildebrand, senior in mass communications. It ' s fine, but purple definitely has its place. Christopher Hanewinckel n m tonieo Sstudent life