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

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heb a night in the life of Corey MacCallum As Corey MacCallum enters the bar around 8:15 p.m. to start his shift, he greets the bouncer with a smile. He gets to the bar, programs his cash register with the night ' s spe- cial and counts the money, making sure he has $200 in fives and $100 in ones. Then closes the register drawer, muttering to himself; This thing never wants to shut. A girl walks up to the bar asking MacCallum if Tubby ' s Sports Bar still had her credit card from the night before. He smiles, asking her to wait, then grabs an index cardholder sitting next to the register. He thumbs through the numerous alphabetically organized cards search- ing for her name, turns around and returns it to her. It is 9 p.m. Tubby s is almost empty with only one man sitting at the bar drinking his beer. During this lull, MacCallum, senior in marketing, checks that his essentials — ice, vodka, rum, gin, pre-mixed Crown and peach and SoCo and lime — are topped off before the rush. Suddenly an order receipt prints, MacCallum ' s first of the night, a bottle of Bud Light. He grabs it out of a cooler behind him, hands it to the waitress and with a You ' re welcome, turns to greet new custom- ers. The once-empty bar is full at 1 1:30 p.m., of pub-crawlers, birthday groups and regulars. People crowd the bar, holding money out, trying to catch MacCal- lum ' s eye. While he is in the middle of pouring a few wells, someone in the bar yells out, You ' re the man, Corey, you ' re the man! MacCal- lum looks up to see who said it, but just starts laughing when the other bartender asks him, Don ' t you love doing this job? MacCallum turns and gives him a joking response. 1 am just trying to do the Lord ' s work, he says, serving beverages to 19 — 1 mean 21-year-olds. A group of his friends walk up to the bar and begin talking to him about the previous weekend. The next thing he knows it ' s 2 a.m., and the bouncer yells across the bar, Everybody get out! With a tired sigh, MacCallum cleans up, shaking his head when one of the waitresses says it smells like beer. He looks up and asks her, What else would a bar smell like? I Then, all the employees pull up a stool around the bar, split tips ind talk about the night. |- He returns to the register he had been fussing with the entire night nake sure he has accounted for all the sales and logs out. says good-bye to the waitresses and tells them it is going to be ind the energy to get up for his 8:30 a.m. class. He exits tl ■ ° lititered, giving a tired smile to the bouncer. K; — Alex Yocum — iiiiiat »l li DVD 12 Student Life

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GREEN SLIME and a day of games — ContinueJ from pa«e 9 The reason tor the excitement was Nickelodeon ' s Let ' s Just Play event April 22 at City Park. Let ' s Just Play is just so children across the nation get up out of their seats, get active and become healthy, said Annie Timmons, director of Manhattan ' s Let ' s Just Play and senior in mass communications. To achieve this, Nickelodeon, along with the greek communit ' , set up a fun-filled day of slime, music, stage shows and games. I think it ' s a good idea, Timmons said. It gets kids out of their rooms and playing sports instead of playing violent video games. Nickelodeon came up w-ith the event in 2003, hut this was the first time it was co-sponsored hy a uni ' ersit ' , Timmons said. This also marked the first time the entire greek community worked on an e ' ent together. I wanted people to see the greeks as role models in the Manhattan community , Timmons said. If we were outside and active, we want the kids to be u I think it ' s a good idea. It gets kids out of their rooms and playing sports instead of playing violent video gannes. — Annie Timmons, senior in mass communications Other members of the greek community said they were happy to see e ' eryone working together for a bigger, better cause. I ' m new to greek lite, but I think it was good to get people from different houses together, said Scott Fischer, member of Sigma Pi and sophomore in engineering. Not to mention there was no competitive edge, just fun. Eleven stations, headed by the 11 sororities with help fr ' cl i the 25 fraternities, were set up throughout the park There was never a time where we were bored, said Kather e E ans, member of Chi Omega and first-year veterinary medicine student. We got to play at every station; there was ne -er a dull moment or a time you did not have so me form of slime on you. Timmons said not only were the greeks and Nickelodeon happy with the e ent, the communis ' was impressed as well. It turned out the way 1 wanted it to. she said. The parents w thankful and the kids just could not have been happier covered in slime. — Alex bcum

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It ' s a lof iraper back behind the bar so when I go out it ' s somethin more patience because I know how hard the bartenders re-wi thing that can stink is when I see bartenders I know, then I pay more, give therr bigget tip?, because they would do the same for nne, it ' s like a bartenders code. MacCallum, senior in marketing, pours a beer. MacCallum said he enjoyed making up his own drinks. like tine American shot. It helped me get confidence and break out of my shell. MacCallum said. It also brought me networking. and when I go out I see all the people I bartend for. - Phoios by Josl n Brown - Bartender 13)