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

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GJ At 11 a.m., a pile of 1,160 buffalo wings donated by Pat's Blue Rib'n Barbeque sat waiting to be devoured. At 11:04, hundreds of .rings had disappeared into the mouths f team members raising money for new and uniforms. When the Student Government .ssociation announced in fall 2008 that .inding for the marching band would e reduced, the community rallied to elp the marching band meet its need to -eplace the uniforms they had worn for lore than 20 years. 'fThe response from the community as been simply overwhelming, Frank racz, director of bands and music frofessor, said. The employees of KSDB-FM 91.9 aund a way to help. We wanted to have a fundraiser for he K-State Marching Band when we .eard of the trouble they were having, said Kristin Russell, program director and graduate student in journalism and mass communication. We also had the idea of a wing-eating contest, so we paired the two together. Tracz said this was a different idea than anything he had been approached with but was happy to accept. Their fundraiser, Feed the Pride, raised 3696. Aggieville businesses sponsored teams for S100 and student teams of four contestants paid S20 to participate. The wing-eating contest was April 18 during the All-University Open House in the quad. Teams chowed down for four minutes - each member of the team had one minute to devour as many wings as possible. The Poultry Pulverizersu won the contest. The marching band attended to support the teams. We played the fight song, played a couple cheers and really just cheered on all the people who were there to help H -in :by Stephanzfeflflikuls us and support us by eating the wings, Hannah Nunnenkamp, junior in music education, said. Band members participated in different uniform fundraisers throughout the year. 1 did almost every pep band Ceventj that we organized, Robby Avila, sophomore in music education, said. Every time Dr. Tracz did something crazy like bartend or work at a coffee shop, 1 was there. Overall, the band surpassed their original goal of S200,000 by 350,000 The interesting thing is, we don't have - for lack of a better word - a big sugar daddy, Tracz said. lt's just a lot of great, solid K-state people who just donated 5 bucks here, 20 bucks here, 100 bucks, 1,000 bucks saying that they wanted to support the band because this is needed. And it really was. This is the way to do it, because the folks who are K-staters own this band. And that's the way it should be. For a buffalo wing to count towards a teams total, the competitors had to really clean their wings. l-leinz said only about 10 wings were counted toward the Classy Cats' total because they did not get all the meat off. We just didn't eat fast enough, Fry said. Chelsy Luerh wing eating contest ll 11

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is 9 P ln a spontaneous effort to help raise money for nevv band uniforms, Shelly Heinz, sophomore in secondary education, chovys down on buffalo wings with her fellow Classy Cats Jessy Fry, lunior in dietetics, Haley Gamber, freshman in apparel and textiles, and Anne McClain, iunior in secondary education. lThe best partl was the fact that the four of us Classy Cats we-ren't planning on doing it, Heinz said. We were just there to cheer and support the band, but then Dr. lFrankl Tracz, the band director, thought we should do lt. So we stepped up to support the band. Chelsy Lueth i l 'N .sf

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competitors schedule 6:00-6:15 Four Man Mafia 6:25-6:40 Rapid Transit AC 6:50-7:05 Sorrow By Truth 7: 15-7:80 The Canvas 7:40-7: 55 A Perfect Fit 8: 05-8: 20 Eventide QFirst Place - S4005 8:80-8:45 The Low End 8: 55-9: 10 Righrskiii 9:20-9:85 Kiss and Tell CThird Place - S2005 9:45-10:00 McCoy CSecond Place - S8001