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

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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

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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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chord cttiiihat local bands compete Five hundred students swarmed the field, flung themselves into an inflatable obstacle course and rocked out to l0 local bands at the annual OPUS Band Competition. The competition was held Sept. 18, and was the closing event to the Union Program Council Awareness week, co-sponsored by UPC and Afterhours. Bands competed for a grand prize and for the first time the competition was in Memorial Stadium. This was actually the 23rd annual competition, said Amanda Hogue, music committee co-chair and junior in hotel and restaurant management. We usually have it in Bosco Plaza, but I think it was a good change to have it in a more open space. The stage was set up on the south end of Memorial Stadium, the crowd gathered on the field and other attractions were set up to the left of the crowd. In addition to the obstacle course, free T-Shirts and free snacks like mini-corndogs were available. Karem Roman, freshman in kinesiology, said he came when he heard about the inflatable game but stayed when he heard the music. This band, CKiss and Tellj, is really good, he said. We stopped to check out how good they are, and they're actually really good. Despite being scheduled the same weekend as Aggiefest, an Aggieville music event, OPU S had more bands than past years. I think overall it was a pretty big success, Hogue said. We usually only have about six or seven bands, so more bands with less playing time kept the crowd more interested. The 10 bands were evaluated by three judges on qualities including crowd participation, originality, creativity and sound. Thomas Bell, assistant professor at Hale Library, Ben Hopper, instructor in the school of leadership studies, and Samantha Clemons, 2009 winner of K-State Idol and former student, were the judges. The S400 grand prize was awarded to Eventide, an instrumental group. Whatever their reason for attending, whether as band members, judges or spectators, the music was what tied the participants together. I like the different taste in music, especially the Indie and alternative. I think it's great that different bands come out here and compete, Derek Hoetmer, sophomore in landscape architecture, said. 'Tm just impressed with all the talent and that people can balance a band and a student life. I really wanted to see what my generation is able to do. I feel like it's a new generation of music. Clad in a Captain America unlsult, Dane Schmidt, drummertor Rughtslclll, belts into his microphone. Fllghtskill performed their ovvn genre, unlcore - a mix ot hard-core punk and the drummers unlsutts. tThe competltlonl vvent really Well, said Courtney Smith, Union Program Council music cofchalr and senior tn management. We had more bands than we usually do. llflsill BNIB! OPVS band competition lk 13