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

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Campus 10 0 by Eric Hostetler The university scrambled to find housing for more than 405 students who were part of a housing and dining overflow. As 4,100 freshmen showed up on campus Aug. 24, Tony Linden, freshman in park management and conservation, headed to the Pittman Building, home of Housing and Dining Services instead of going straight to the dorms. This was due to a letter he received after notified he was part of an overflow. For 70 of the students in overflow, their temporary home was on Fort Riley Boulevard: The Clarion Hotel. Our goal is to house every single student that is admitted to K-State, Chuck Werring, vice president of Housing and Dining Services, said. However, there are a limited number of beds on campus and in the Iardine community, so we try to make sure that those students have the ability to live on campus. Linden was just one of the many students who were considered part of the overfiow. Derek Iackson, associate director of Housing and Dining Services, estimated the maximum capacity for residence halls was 3,750, which left 210 students living in the Iardine Apartments, 45 students living in study rooms and 80 students living with RAS. We've been in overflow, Werring said. This is not the first time. We think there's an unanticipated number of people that try to sign contracts very late in the process. Although the process of overflow had been seen in the past, there had never been an overflow this extreme. Werring said this was the biggest overflow since the 1990- 1991 academic year. lt required the use of a hotel operation to house extra students. Iackson said that 90 students were assigned to the Clarion Hotel and 70 of them showed up. I didn't expect it to be this nice, that's for sure, Linden said. You can do pretty much whatever you want. You've got a nice huge bed, free cable and free Internet. The use of facilities at the Clarion Hotel also added a strain to the costs that Housing and Dining Services had to pay for. Iackson estimated that every student living at the hotel was costing the department 510 per day. 'gWe are losing money on the Clarionf, Iackson said. But if you've got 70 students living in the Clarion that would otherwise not be at K-State and not paying tuition, the ballpark number is 100 students is 551 million in tuition. In the big picture, itis actually beneficial to the university, even though Housing and Dining is initially going to lose money on the contracts. It's a win for the university from a financial standpoint. Even with a large increase in the number of overflow students, Werring stated there was no justification in building a new residence hall. He estimated the university would absorb most of the overflow by the holiday period, which meant there was no need to burden students with a facility that was not needed. Being in overflow right now might be a bad thing, but it's good that you're here as a student, Werring said. The key part of it is we want that student to be a K-State student. And that's important. That's the experience. 17,

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In II Cllld CDIIIECYC g byErinPoppe At the young age ol I6 comedian Bo Burnham knew what his true calling was in life. He traveled to Kansas to perform in front of residents and students at McCain. He started off on YouTube with his comedic songs. He then frequented local comedy clubs performing stand-up, wrote a screenplay and won Comedy Central's Stand-up Showdown, all before he reached the age of 21. This man was Bo Burnham. Towering at 6'5 , the 20-year old found his passion of comedy at the young age of 16, something most high school students wouldnlt necessarily consider at such a young age. Burnham headlined for a UPC sponsored event at McCain Auditorium Feb. 7 with comedianfactor Rob Riggle opening. Attendance boomed as 1116 tickets were sold. Burnham really knew how to play to the Wildcat crowd. Muck Fizzou?,' he asked the crowd about a t-shirt of a woman in the front row. i'What is this witch talk? Oh, another rival? Well MUCK iEM.n On stage, Burnham appeared to be aggressive, even angry as he paced around the stage like a madman. But prior to the show during sound check, Burnham lounged around in sweatpants, a common outfit from his YouTube videos, and cracked jokes with the workers. He seemed like a completely different person. I'm not myself on stagef' Burnham said. 'iOn stage lim abit more aggressive...a character of myself. That character thinks he knows everything. People think 1 would be a douche in real life. I would think it toofl Burnham was just a guy doing what he loved. He didn't need to go to college either to know it. After being accepted to several different colleges, including New York University, Burnham decided to follow his passion instead. He planned on taking sporadic classes in the future, to keep his mind sharp. U1 would have been a junior now, Burnham said. But I feel like l am learning a lot, even though I am not in schoolfi And yet school is where it all had started. His freshman year of high school he learned his first instrument, piano, and from there he had taken off. His YouTube songs such as uPerfect Womanu, a love song for Helen Keller, and 'Tm Bo Yon elicited a combined total of 18,822,428 views since being posted in 2008. However, Burnham didn't reminisce in the past. G1 didn't look back on the stuffl wrote at 16, it would be pointless, Burnham said. Going from 16 to 20, that is the largest four year jump of your life. You grow so much during that time you become a different person. One who doesnit believe or need what they had at 16.8