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RCPD seeks information on men missing since ’80sAccording to a press release on their website, Riley County Police Department is seeking information on two men who disappeared after leaving a birthday...
View ArticleFreshmen make huge strides in win over Ole Miss
Andy Kennedy, Ole Miss head basketball coach, summed it up pretty well after his team fell to K-State in Bramlage Coliseum last night. “When you’ve got freshmen, every day’s a learning experience,” he...
View ArticleStudent body presidential candidates square off in Union Courtyard
With the primary elections just around the corner on Feb. 25, the two candidates for student body president took the stage with their running mates in the K-State Student Union Courtyard Wednesday...
View ArticleStudent Senate debates on Diversity Programming Committee representation
At Thursday’s meeting of the Student Governing Association’s Student Senate, K-State’s Vice President of Communications and Marketing Jeff Morris spoke to the body about an upcoming campus dialogue on...
View ArticleKays, Kennedy win student body presidential primary in landslide
Newcomers Jarrett Romine and AJ Davis have been considered the underdogs in the race for student body president and vice president since declaring their Student Governing Association candidacy. After...
View ArticleK-State professor, former Manhattan mayor declares Congressional run
Last month, K-State professor of history and former Manhattan mayor Jim Sherow officially declared his intention to seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in Kansas’ 1st...
View ArticleYour education. Your Passion. Your Life. Your Kays & Kennedy
With the widest margin of victory since the Student Governing Association began posting election results online in 2000, Reagan Kays and Cody Kennedy were elected Wednesday to serve as the next student...
View ArticleSchooley tells Senators of proposed fees before Tuition Strategies Committee
Roughly 24 hours after his successor was elected, Student Body President Eli Schooley took the floor of the Student Senate for his weekly director’s report. According to Schooley, senior in political...
View ArticleHigh school student’s lawsuit against parents indicates sense of entitlement,...
Our generation has somewhat of a bad rap. We’re often perceived as technology addicted, selfish and naive. Now, while I disagree with these stereotypes wholeheartedly, situations like the one that’s...
View ArticleSenate debates academic competition team funding
Teams of students that travel across the country to compete for national awards, and the recognition for K-State that comes with them, may find it easier to obtain funding through the Student Governing...
View ArticleOpinion: Raising minimum wage counterproductive to success of national economy
One of President Barack Obama’s biggest initiatives lately has been his quest to raise the federal minimum wage. He argued in the State of the Union Address in January that “no one who works full time...
View ArticleOpinion: Plane coverage overblown, especially considering other world events
Unless you spent your spring break under a rock, you’re probably very familiar with the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. It’s been called “the greatest aviation mystery of all time,” and...
View ArticleMarathon Senate meeting sees boatload of legislation
As members of the Student Senate’s technology committee continued to promote a survey aimed at garnering student input on the development of a K-State mobile app, Ben Dewberry, co-founder of...
View ArticleOpinion: Obamacare advertisements hard to take seriously, especially...
Since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law just over four years ago, President Obama’s signature achievement has been surrounded by controversy. The sweeping legislation, commonly referred to as...
View ArticleTallgrass Brewery seizes growth opportunity, eyes eventual national expansion
Tallgrass Brewing Company, a local brewery that distributes a variety of beers and ales to 13 states in the midwest and the south, is preparing to expand its operations in two directions. Last month,...
View ArticleSports opinion: Northwestern union decision the first step away from the...
Last month, an official of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that scholarship football players at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. are employees of the school, and are therefore...
View ArticleKays and Kennedy take office as new Senate term begins
In the Big 12 Room of the K-State Student Union Thursday night, former student body president and vice president, Eli Schooley and Jake Unruh, passed the torch onto their successors Reagan Kays, senior...
View ArticleThree dead in shooting in Overland Park
A suspect wielding a shotgun opened fire at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and the nearby Village Shalom assisted living facility, killing three, Sunday afternoon. Video from KMBC...
View ArticleGuest editorial: Kays, Kennedy aim to hit the ground running during first 100...
Since winning the election for student body president last month by the widest margin in at least 14 years, Reagan Kays said he and vice president Cody Kennedy, junior in education and mathematics,...
View ArticleMobile app Yik Yak should be taken with several grains of salt
Over the past few weeks, yet another social media network has taken K-State and other college campuses by storm. I was hanging out with a few friends when I first heard of Yik Yak, an app that’s...
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