Darrington Clarkmanaging editor

e 57th annual K-State Rodeo con-cluded Sunday with two K-State stu-dents ranking within the top 10 of their

categories. e three-day event was hosted in Weber Arena and organized by the K-State Rodeo Club.

Cally omas, senior in animal sci-ences and industry and agribusiness, tied for second place in barrel racing

with a 12.78 second run, and Elli Ouel-lette, senior in animal science, placed sixth in the breakaway roping event.

With the event beginning Friday at 7:30 p.m., the K-State Rodeo Club was immediately faced with the challenge

of the weather.“First, we had to decide whether or

not to have it,” said Doug Muller, assis-tant instructor of animal sciences and industry and Rodeo Club coach. “With the snowstorm, it was kind of stressful, but we decided to go along with the event.”

Students were present at Weber Arena ursday and Friday afternoon clearing space for the rodeo. e stu-dents made sure that the participating animals were comfortable, and had enough space.

“Our kids had to really pull together to move all the snow,” said Beth Mc-Quade, Rodeo Club adviser. “ e stu-dents did everything, from moving the snow to pushing cattle, everything you saw at the rodeo was taken care of by students.”

A wide array of competitors entered the competition despite the inclement weather, according to Muller. K-State’s Rodeo Club is a part of the Central Plains region, which includes Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Out-of-state competitors made up to eight-hour drives to attend the rodeo. Only a very small percentage of participants dropped out.

“We had over 600 entries,” Muller said. “I don’t think the snow bothered anyone.”

e same was true for the audience.“We had a pretty good turnout all

three days. Friday was light, but Satur-day it was packed,” Muller said.

e event organizers changed the schedule to ensure the health and safety of the participating horses, bulls

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Eli Schooley, senior in political science, and Jake Unruh, junior in fi nance, want to make an impact that students can feel. As running mates for the 2013-2014 student body president and vice presi-dent, they are closer than ever to achieving that goal.

“We want to enact our platform from day one,” Schooley said.

Schooley and Unruh’s platform is made up of enhancements they believe the university needs, ac-cording to Unruh.

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Andy Raoeditor-in-chief

In last year’s Student Govern-ing Association race, only one set of non-greek candidates fi led to run for student body president and vice president. Corey Glaser, senior in mechanical engineering and Michael Hampton, senior in fi nance, won 10.34 percent of the total tally in the primary round, ending their bid for the high-est-ranking offi ces in SGA.

is year, however, two K-Staters feel that they can over-come challenges faced by most independent candidates.

Zaldy Doyunganstaff writer

Will implementing a new re-source help lower the number of students adding and dropping classes at the beginning of every semester? That is what Grant Hill, student body vice president and senior in accounting, and much of the Student Governing Asso-ciation had in mind when they

Mike Stanton assistant news editor

e National Weather Ser-vice has issued another Winter Storm Warning for the plains region, including Manhattan. e warning, which is in eff ect late Sunday evening through Tuesday at noon, is for moder-ate to heavy snow and strong winds.

A wintry mix of snow and freezing rain is forecast to begin Sunday, with 1-2 inches of new snow accumulation possible before midnight. e storm is expected to hit hard-est on Monday, with 10-13 more inches of snow possible throughout the day.

e chance of snow is fore-cast at 70 percent Sunday, and climbs to 90 percent on Monday. Snowfall could extend as far into the week as Wednes-day, with a 50 percent chance on Tuesday and a 30 percent chance Wednesday.

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PRIMARY PLATFORMSPainter, Willen focus on student voices, input

Schooley, Unruh look to improve student life

More snow expected for K-State, Midwest

K-State Rodeo Club saddles up, hosts regional competition

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A bronco rider from Fort Scott Community College fl ips from his saddle while still holding onto the reins during the Sad-dle Bronc Riding competition on the fi rst day of the annual K-State Rodeo Friday night at Weber Arena.

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The primary elections will open Tuesday and go on through Wednesday. Students can vote at sgaelections.ksu.edu, and will need their eID to vote.

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Kyle Nuss, senior in architectural engineering and a candidate for stu-dent body president, says the thing that sets he and running mate Ariel Mendiola, junior in sociology, apart from the other campaigns is experi-ence.

“We’re the only campaign with both members currently in the

Funding is focus for Nuss and Mendiola

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Willie the Wildcat looks down to watch the debate between candidates for student body president and vice president in the K-State Student Union Courtyard on Tuesday afternoon.

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Michael Curtiss Senn, of Topeka, was booked for fail-ure to appear. Bond was set at $159.

Timothy James Taylor Avery, of the 700 block of Crestwood Drive, was booked for failure to appear. Bond was set at $1,500.

Saturday, Feb. 22Marquay Dreshaun

Haralson, of Ogden, was booked for probation viola-tion. Bond was set at $2,000.

Brock Anthony Baker Odell, of the 1500 block of Fairchild Avenue, was booked for driving with a canceled, suspended or re-voked license. Bond was set at $500.

Maurice Alexander Quin-ton, of the 1000 block of Ju-liette Avenue, was booked for domestic battery. Bond was set at $1,000.

Deshun Monique Ramsey, of the 1000 block of Juliette Avenue, was booked for domestic battery. Bond was set at $1,000.

Sunday, Feb. 23

Caleb Alexander Nelsen, of Wamego, was booked for aggravated assault. Bond was set at $5,000.

John Grady Simpson, of the 800 block of Colorado Street, was booked for driving with a canceled, suspended

or revoked license and habit-ual violation. Bond was set at $5,000.

Carlos Sentelle Cur-beam, of Charlotte, N.C., was booked for driving under the infl uence. Bond was set at $750.

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Me and my roommate have spent the whole day in our room hanging out ... in onesies. We look like giant babies.

The people out at Ft. Riley didn’t have work on Friday. They didn’t have army on Friday but we had Skool?!?!

Texas’ home court advan-tage is about as useful as KU’s home fi eld advantage in football. Like putting out fi re with gasoline.

Ahh, women. Can’t live with them, and they can’t pee standing up.

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For many students, a hike from ompson Hall to Dole Hall or a trek from Hale Library to rockmorton Hall is a daily occurrence. When the weath-er is sweltering or dips below freezing, backpacks are heavy or shoes are uncomfortable, trips across campus can seem like a workout.

But how much are those walks actually doing? e K-State Health and Nutrition Society re-searched how many calories are burned walking between many common locations on campus. ey published the results on K-State’s website.

“We got together and just started brainstorming ideas about what we could do to help students on campus, and what would really benefi t them,” said J.P. Sibbitt, December 2012 grad-uate in nutritional science.

e process to calculate each calorie amount was com-plex and included calculating the amount of calories-per-kil-gram-per-minute burned for the average college student (both men and women), and calcu-lating distances between points using Google Maps satellite images. ey used an average walking speed of 2.2 miles per hour with a book bag.

e group used informa-tion published by the National Health and Nutrition Examina-tion Survey, or NHANES, which is run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While it wasn’t feasible to cal-culate the distance and calories between every single building on campus, the group members felt they chose the most popular destinations.

“We kind of had to vote on stuff . I had a list of every building on campus, and we took votes on which were the most important, which had the most traffi c, and which would be the most perti-nent,” Sibbitt said.

e group had several goals they hoped to accomplish when they set out to create the graph.

“We wanted to get the Health and Nutrition Society’s name out there, but we also wanted a tool for people who want to know more about their health,” Sibbitt said. “Also, many people don’t actually know much about how many calories they are burning. It’s nice to have that tool so they can know for sure.”

In addition, the map features estimated walking times be-tween buildings, a feature Sibbitt hopes students will use.

Brian Lindshield, assistant professor of human nutrition, undergraduate nutritional sci-ence adviser and adviser of the Health and Nutrition Society, was excited to see the project

completed.“It was really rewarding to

get it fi nished and made public,” Lindshield said. “I hope people gain an appreciation for the amount of calories they can burn by not necessarily exercising, but just walking around campus.”

Burning calories is not just reserved for the gym, Lindshield stressed.

“When many people think of burning calories, they think of doing things that are very high-intensity exercise, and they don’t think of just walking across campus, but that burns calories too,” Lindshield said.

Although the graph is cur-rently published on the K-State website, there are plans to soon make it accessible on the go. Jesse Bailey, senior in computer science, is working on a mobile app version of the graph.

“I’ve only just begun the de-velopment at the beginning of this semester, so I’m in the design aspect,” Bailey said. “ e goal is to have the mobile application emulate the information on the map, but use GPS software to track where you are and how many calories you’ve burned based on where you move.”

Bailey is looking into adding additional features to the app.

“We are looking at where you can add how many [calories] you consume, and then measure how many you burn walking around campus, and allow you to kind of keep track of those,” Bailey said.

Bailey decided to design the graph in a digital format after seeing the work Sibbitt had done.

“I’d helped him out a little bit and seen the map and chart while he was working on it,” Bailey said. “I fi gured if it was on the mobile application, it would be a little easier to access. e chart can be a little diffi cult to read the fi rst time. A mobile app allows people to know where they are and how many calo-ries they have burned. It’s more usable.”

Bailey’s goal for the mobile ap-plication is simplicity.

“I want to make it simple to use and straight forward,” Bailey said. “I don’t want to put any bar-riers between the students and information. ey should be able to get it quickly and easily.”

Bailey anticipates fi nishing the project and releasing it on the Android Marketplace by the start of May. e application will be free of charge, Bailey said. If

time permits, he plans on creating an application for the iPhone also.

Rick Rosenkranz, assistant professor of human nutrition, assisted the students during the research and graph-making process. Rosenkranz was happy to see the fi nished product pub-lished, and is enthusiastic about its potential for further develop-ment.

“We talked a lot about inte-grating healthy options for food so that the person could see — if they walked somewhere for food — they could see not only how many calories they burned, but also what is the best choice for lunch or a snack when they get there,” Rosenkranz said.

Rosenkranz sees the project eventually expanding beyond the K-State campus.

“We would also like to bring in Aggieville and some of the sur-rounding walkable areas — areas where students wouldn’t have to necessarily drive, but would like to know how far it is away, how long it would take to get there, and what are some healthy op-tions once they got there,” Rosen-kranz said.

e Health and Nutrition So-ciety is part of the department of human nutrition, and is open to students who are interested in nutrition. According to the website, students can “explore all areas of human nutrition and enhance your knowledge/skills as an individual preparing for a career in this fi eld. is group gives students a wide perspec-tive on human nutrition at the in-dividual, community and world-wide levels.”

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John Zetmeirstaff writer

e K-State women’s bas-ketball team (13-14, 4-11 Big 12 Conference) entered Sat-urday’s game trying to put an end to a two-game losing skid, while Iowa State (19-6, 10-5 Big 12) entered as one of the hottest teams in the Big 12. e Wildcats dug themselves into a hole early as they went into halftime down 39-17. Despite outscoring the Cyclones in the second half, the defi cit was too much to overcome, and Iowa State walked away with the 69-50 victory.

“Unfortunately, today we were not very good on the of-fensive end of the fl oor, and you might say the same thing about the defensive end,” said K-State head coach Deb Pat-terson. “I felt like the diff erence for us was that we did not com-pete very well on the boards, and off ensively we just were not at our best. Against a team like Iowa State you have to be all over your game, and tonight we were not.”

In the fi rst half the Wildcats shot 18.5 percent from the fi eld and 17.6 percent from behind the arc, while the Cy-

clones were 48.4 percent from the fi eld and 50 percent from behind the arc.

“I think it was a little bit of everything. Shots were not falling, and we did not play hard,” said senior guard Mariah White about the fi rst half.

White, alongside senior guard Brittany Chambers, combined to score 35 of the Wildcats’ 50 points in the game.

Iowa State was able to ex-ploit K-State’s lack of size with 6-foot-7-inch senior center Anna Prins, scoring 18 points, a majority of which came in the paint. e Cyclones outscored the Wildcats 32-20 from inside the paint and 13-6 on sec-ond-chance points.

e Cyclones’ junior for-ward Hallie Christoff erson and senior forward Chelsea Pop-pens fi nished the game with a double-double. Christoff erson fi nished with 12 points and 10 rebounds, Poppens also scored 12 and led the team with 11 rebounds. Freshman guard Nicole Blaskowsky nearly managed a double-double as well but came up just short fi nishing with 11 points and 6 rebounds.

“Obviously, we had an advantage there with Prins,

Poppens and Christoff erson. We wanted to see how they were going to guard us,” said Cyclones head coach Bill Fen-nelly.

is was the Wildcats’

third-consecutive loss that has come by double-digits. K-State will next travel to Morgantown, W.Va., where they will take on the Mountaineers on Tuesday night at 6 p.m.

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White, Chambers combine for 35 points, still fall to Iowa State Cyclones

Mark Kernsports editor

For K-State fans, Saturday’s men’s basketball game was looking simi-lar to last season’s game in Austin, where the Texas Longhorns (12-15, 4-10 Big 12 Conference) won in large part due to shooting 36 more free throws than the Wildcats (22-5, 11-3 Big 12).

However, even though the Long-horns attempted 11 more free throws than the Wildcats on Satur-

day, it did not aff ect the game’s out-come. e Wildcats led from 17:58 of the fi rst half, leading up to a the 81-69 victory at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.

After the game, K-State head coach Bruce Weber discussed how ball movement played a key role in his team’s success.

“ ey moved the basketball,” Weber said. “Texas was more aggres-sive on defense this time than the fi rst time. We kept our composure, made the extra pass that got some

easy goals.”A layup by sophomore guard

Myck Kabongo gave Texas an early 2-0 lead, but a 3-pointer by junior guard Will Spradling gave K-State a 3-2 lead that the team would never relinquish.

Seven Wildcats scored in the fi rst half, with junior forward Shane Southwell capping off the half off with a 3-pointer at the buzzer, giving the Wildcats a 40-32 lead at halftime.

Texas freshman forward Ioannis Papapetrou spoke after the game

about how Southwell’s shot changed the feeling on the court.

“ at was big,” Papapetrou said. “Coach talked about it after the game. It changed the momentum. Instead of a one-possession game, it was a three-possession game.”

e second half consisted of more of the same for K-State, stretching the lead to 19 points before coasting to the 14-point victory.

Senior forward Rodney McGrud-er paced the team with 20 points and six rebounds, while Southwell

had a complete game of 11 points, six rebounds and six assists.

Kabongo led the Longhorns in only his third game of the year with 24 points and six rebounds.

e win keeps the Wildcats tied atop the Big 12 with the Kansas Jay-hawks, as both teams are 11-3 as they enter their respective games tonight. e Jayhawks will travel to Ames to take on a very diffi cult Iowa State, while the Wildcats host the Texas Tech Raiders in Bramlage to-night at 6 p.m.

Cats take out Texas, stay at top of Big 12 Conference

Spencer Lowstaff writer

After losing 2-1 to Coast-al Carolina in the fi rst part of ursday night’s double-header, K-State’s off ense led the baseball team to a 7-5 win over eighth-ranked Kentucky in the second game of the night.

Sophomore fi rst baseman Shane Conlon gave the best performance of his career when K-State needed it, going 5-5 with a two-run homer in the eighth inning that proved

vital to the win.K-State went into the

bottom of the fi fth inning down 3-0, but fi ve runs in the inning put them ahead by two. Juniors center fi elder Jared King, second baseman Ross Kivett and designated hitter Damion Lovato each knocked in runs for the Wild-cats.

“We had the one big inning where guys just really got locked in and had great at-bats,” said K-State head coach Brad Hill. “We started hitting

the ball fl at again after really getting long with our swings in the fi rst game. When you do that, Shane pops one out of here because he just makes hard contact, and we needed that at the end.”

Conlon’s big shot in the eighth put K-State up by four — a lead it needed, as Kentucky would bring in two more runs in the top of the ninth off of senior in-fi elder Tanner Witt. Witt came to the mound after playing left fi eld

Wildcats go 1-2 over weekend

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Junor guard Shane Southwell struggles for a shot against Baylor in Bramlage Coliseum on Feb. 16. Southwell had 11 points, six assists and six rebounds against the Longhorns on Saturday.

John Zetmeirstaff writer

No. 45 K-State was able to end their two-match skid over the weekend as they returned to Kansas to take on No. 65 Wichita State and No. 20 Purdue.

e Wildcats defeated the Shockers 4-2 on Saturday. Wich-ita State started the match with an early lead, as they grabbed the doubles point before K-State won two singles matches to tilt the score 2-1 in K-State’s favor. Wichita State would earn one more point by winning the No.

5 singles match, making it 2-2 before K-State won the next two singles matches, taking the over-all victory.

However, Sunday’s match up did not go as well, as the Wild-cats lost to No. 20 Purdue by a score of 4-2. Junior Petra Nied-ermayerova and freshman Ivana Kubickova were both able to grab victories against the Boiler-makers.

Niedermayerova continued her climb to the top of the all-time K-State singles record as she added two more victories over the weekend. She has now

won seven consecutive singles matches, as well as reached a season record of 21-5, giving her over 20 wins in all three seasons as a Wildcat.

She now carries an overall record of 69-28, which puts Niedermayerova in a tie for fourth on the all-time list. With four more singles victories this season she could also set a new season win record.

e Wildcats will take to the courts again on Saturday as they travel to Lincoln to take on former Big 12 Conference foe, Nebraska.

K-State moves to 4-3 on season

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At the end of last year, the West-boro Baptist Church was the subject of a petition on the website “We the People,” which allows individuals to place petitions directly in front of the White House. e goal of the petition was to classify the Topeka church as a hate group, and the eff ort was well-received.

e petition, which garnered over 340,000 signatures, far exceeding the 25,000 needed, was submitted as retaliation to the church’s decision to protest the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. I, for one, completely support this decision and welcome this initiative to rid society of the menace that this church has become.

e fact that the WBC is an intolerant institution is pretty well known. Everything from the URL of its homepage to the picketing of innocent victims screams intoler-ance. e group fi rst rose to prom-

inence in 1998 when members protested the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a college student who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered near Laramie, Wyo., due in part to the fact that he was gay.

e group brought signs saying “Matt in hell” and containing homophobic slurs. Since then the “church” has gained notoriety for similarly-staged protests and hate speeches during tragedies such as mass shootings in schools and the deaths of military personnel or notable politicians.

One of the best ways you could argue against classifying the WBC as a hate group is to contend that they have the right to freedom of speech and expression as guaran-teed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. While I do believe that freedom of speech is a fundamental right for everyone, it does come with its own set of conditions — the most crucial of which is responsi-bility.

Saying something is easy, and everybody is allowed to express what they deem fi t, but the law is only eff ective if individuals take responsibility for the outcome of one’s words, and that is where the WBC fails.

e WBC repeatedly expresses its opinions with utter disregard

for the emotions and sentiments of those whom they protest against. Gay rights or the death of a murdered child or soldier are all emotionally-charged social issues. To picket and protest funerals and peaceful rallies with signs using derogatory terms and coarse lan-guage, in my view, is unacceptable.

A second means of arguing against the petition would be to argue that, as the WBC claims to be a church, it would be illegal for the government to restrict a religious organization. But is it really? A religious organization, by defi ni-tion, is affi liated with a religion, in this case Christianity, and would hence hold true to at least the basic tenants of one, which in this case would include charity, kindness and tolerance, which the WBC does not seem to do.

To my knowledge, the only form of charity that WBC partakes in is the insistence that they are “educat-ing” the public on its shortcomings. Its hatred and repeated protests against quite literally everything, (a detailed list can be found on the group’s website, godhatestheworld.com) along with its restricted membership and indoctrination of children into an intolerant environment, speaks volumes for the lack of tolerance and kindess.

Furthermore, the use of invective and often hurtful language against families highlights the group’s lack of kindness.

e WBC therefore does not meet the basic criteria to be called a church. It does, however, meet sev-eral of the criteria to be considered a cult, including an over-zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and supposed elitist status for its members. Cults are not inherently bad, but a cult mentality coupled with hate speech makes for a dangerous combination.

Some in the media consider the WBC’s protests a way to get atten-tion, similar to a child throwing a tantrum, and suggest that the group will go away if we simply ignore it. ere is a very legitimate concern, however, that if we did stop giving the group attention it would be better able to go through with its plans.

For instance, in the past two months the WBC has announced plans to hold protests at the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, as well as the funeral of Aaron Swartz, In-ternet activist and co-founder of the website Reddit. In both instances the public was able to garner sup-port against the WBC and prevent the protests.

How would classifying the WBC as a hate group improve the situa-tion? To begin with, a classifi cation as a hate group would imply recog-nition of its status as a cult instead of a church, and would therefore strip the group of its tax-exempt status.

is would be instrumental in decreasing the amount of revenue (and hence expendable income) available to spread its hate speech. Furthermore, it would allow monitoring agencies such as the Southern Poverty Law Center to in-vestigate its actions and begin legal proceedings against the group.

is would by no means erad-icate the problem posed by the WBC, but the solution has to begin somewhere. I fi nd it disturbing that members of society let this organization function as it does under the pretext of free speech, all the while disregarding the victims of the emotional trauma this speech causes. While I don’t believe we truly tolerate this organization, I do believe there is still room to go a step further and send a proactive message to the Westboro Baptist Church by labeling it a hate group.

Som Kandlur is a sophomore in mar-keting and public relations. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecol-legian.com.

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Many students who make it to college worked hard in middle and high school to be accepted into the university of their choice. A student’s work ethic in school sets them up for either potential success or potential failure at the collegiate level. But working hard is something that is pulled from within. If one does not work hard to try to achieve the grade they want or need, then the ramifica-tions are on that individual.

Working hard and getting assistance when needed are two of the most important lessons for success when it comes to academics. When these are combined with time management, success is almost guaranteed. On the other hand, students often tend to be bitter about grades on assignments they

feel they should have done better on.

I feel that people who don’t get the grade they think they deserve shouldn’t sue any school, teacher or district for monetary benefit, except in extreme cases, such as Bowen Bethards’.

According to a July 2012 Albany Patch article by Steven Lau, 17-year-old Bethards and his mother Laureen filed a lawsuit against the Albany Unified School District in California after Bethards’ was unable to make up a chemistry lab and then felt he was unfairly graded on his final exam-ination.

This resulted in his grade dropping from an A to a C+. Bethards claimed that he missed class to attend a court hearing for the adop-tion of his younger sister. Later, when he came in on the agreed day to make up the missed lab, the teacher told him he would not be able to and that she was going to fail him, according to Bethards.

My biggest issue with this supposed situation is

how the grade dropped so dramatically after missing one lab and failing his final examination. Dropping two full letter grades is not unheard of when it comes to failing final exams, but I don’t understand how someone can supposed-ly maintain above a 100 percent in a class for almost all of the semester and then completely fail a final. How-ever, it would make more sense if the teacher graded the exam unfairly.

I have never had an adopted sibling, so I don’t know the emotional impact that can have on an individ-ual or a family as a whole. However, if academics were this important to Bethards, he should have been there for that chemistry lab.

As I am not a judge or a member of the jury for this case, I haven’t the slightest clue who is at fault. Howev-er, I am someone who cares about my academics. I care about how those letters look on my transcripts and how my GPA will look to future employers. I care about my work ethic and how it is portrayed to others.

If I were in high school and was attempting to get accepted into an Ivy League school, I don’t know wheth-er the lesser of two evils would be suing my school district for a better grade or taking the C+. Potential schools might be skeptical of you if they knew you had a background of suing schools, whether the grade was fair or not.

Working hard and getting the grade you feel you de-serve is something to which I feel everyone can relate. As presented, it appears the teacher is at fault for mis-grading the final exam and for not allowing Bethards to make up the missed lab, but Bethards could be at fault in some aspect as well.

At the end of the day, it’s about whether or not the high school’s and class-room’s policies were fol-lowed by both the student and the teacher.

Jakki Thompson is a sopho-more in journalism and mass communications and American ethnic studies. Please send comments to opinion@kstate-collegian.com.

Student has good reason to sue over grade

Jakki Thompson

Westboro Baptist Church should be labeled hate group

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We asked you: “Do you mind paying a sales tax to help improve your community? Why?”

Pat Folwell: Too many times people enjoy the benefi ts offered by the local municipalities without paying for them through real estate taxes. A sales tax gets monies from out of city, out of state users. I don’t like it but it does work.

Lindsay Tubbs: I want to pay higher sales taxes in Manhattan. This is my home and my community for four years. They have given so much to us as students the least we can do is pay a little more for to go back to them!

Kelly Connell Ribble: I prefer sales tax to property tax.

Brandon Evans: I would pay more sales taxes dependent on what was going to be improved in the community. (Ex: infrastructure, parks, etc.)

Bryan Averill: Increase sales tax to capture more students since they don’t pay property tax or register vehicles to Riley County. Also put money towards improving existing roads, new roads such as a loop around MHK, and public transport.

Twenty years ago I was a student at K-State. Two decades. Two hundred and forty months. Seems like yesterday in my head and my heart that I was a fresh-faced “Fraternity Man” in charge of party favors and social functions.

Stick with me here for a minute while we take a trip in our way-back machine as I’m going to blow your mind: When I was in college, I didn’t have a cell phone or the internet. It’s true. I had to actually use the phone in my room to call Pizza Shuttle. Finding friends in Aggieville meant walking around until I actually found them. If you knew the numbers for Ford Hall and a few sororities you could get ahold of almost every girl on campus. It was glorious!

In my role as social chairman (t-shirt buyer) I had a few options: Ballards in Aggieville or Walson Ink. N Zone Sportswear didn’t exist yet, nor Threads. I had a few mail-order catalogs that fi lled my mailbox each week, so we’d browse the catalogs for design ideas and then go to one of the two shops in town and order our shirts. Ordering through the catalog was tedious and never gave much confi dence, so we dealt face-to-face. It was…easier.

Twenty years later, I’m a member of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce and I chair the newly-formed Small Business Council. I’ve had the opportunity to spend time in meetings with fellow local business managers and owners. Invariably, the topics within our group usually turn to face the concept of buying local as opposed to buying products online. The conversations get pretty heated at times and a little depressing as well.

Thinking back to my days on campus, it’s amazing how much the business world has changed in twenty years. Twenty years ago there wasn’t the concept of “competing against the internet”. Twenty years ago the options were local or mail-order.

This brings us to the fi rst subject in our four-part series on buying local—taxes and the internet.

As pretty much everyone has fi gured out, when you buy something online from an out of state company you don’t have to pay sales tax. The immediate discount of roughly 8% is a pretty strong motivation to shop online, especially when added to the fact that many online e-tailers also offer free freight. On larger purchases like consumer electronics it can result in hundreds of dollars of savings–plus the item shows up on your doorstep--for free.

But is it really free?

The problem that very few saw coming, and seemingly even fewer care about, is that the sales tax that’s happily being skipped is damaging to cities like Manhattan. Sales taxes pay for our schools, our pools and the shiny fi re trucks and fi refi ghters that save our lives. They pay for streets and social services, parks and parades. As city budgets get tighter across the nation our hometowns will be forced to make due with less. That’s not exactly my defi nition of “free”.

It probably won’t be noticed at fi rst to many people–an extra pot hole here or there on the way to school or maybe a public transportation system that only gets used by the elderly…but eventually it’ll be bigger things, I promise.

The estimates are staggering. For 2013 the state of Kansas anticipates it will lose (read: not collect) nearly $240,000,000.00 in sales tax revenues. For the sake of this article I’m not going to delve into the differences between property, sales and income taxes or the complicated formulas of how those dollars are distributed. What I will say is that I’m willing to bet a state like Kansas wouldn’t be in quite the budget crisis if it collected another $240M in 2013.

I’m as anti-tax as the next guy. I’m also skeptical of where our money goes and I make every effort to save a buck when the chance arises. This being said, it’s important that you know that the sales taxes collected at the local level directly help the local economy.

Your decision to (hopefully) shop local makes a difference. The 8% you skip isn’t always a big amount in dollars, but that 8% certainly adds up.

I’ve given you 240 million reasons why spending your dollars in Kansas is a good idea. It benefi ts your local towns and your local schools. I’m sure many of you have families who own businesses in towns like Parsons, Pratt and Paola. I guarantee they’d appreciate your business more than an online store based in Portland, Paducah or Palm Springs. Not only would they appreciate the business, but those pennies you pay in taxes will help to keep the towns alive.

Next time we’ll talk about what buying local means to Manhattan and K-State. I’ll spare the boring tax talk and instead talk about boy scouts and ball teams and how buying local matters to them, too. It’ll make sense, I promise.

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“We are not greek, but we can defi nitely bring fresh, new perspectives to an organiza-tion that needs change,” said Blair Wilen, SGA presidential candidate and junior in mar-keting.

Wilen and his running mate, Brandon Painter, junior in mar-keting and entrepreneurship, have been involved in various organizations on campus, and said that their experiences will allow them to run SGA more effi ciently. Between the two, experiences range from raising $10,000 for K-State telefund, serving as Internet chairper-son for Alpha Kappa Psi profes-sional business fraternity and founding a sole proprietorship.

Painter owns a social media site called JubeoSocial, which provides social media brand-ing services to businesses look-ing to reach online audiences. Wilen is Painter’s new business director and is involved with the marketing aspect of the company.

“Running a business defi -nitely has given both of us a lot of relevant experience that we would use if we were elected,”

Painter said. “It’s not just about money though. It’s about learn-ing how to lead and work with people, which defi nitely is part of being a student body presi-dent and VP.”

Wilen and Painter said their platform includes various propositions for improvement in and outside the classroom, including raising standards for GTAs new to teaching, bringing a farmer’s market to Bosco Stu-dent Plaza and increasing the “feeling of family” at K-State.

“As president and VP, we want to make sure that stu-dents are involved with making the decisions that they feel aff ect them,” Wilen said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re greek, non-greek, in certain majors or whatever. You deserve to have a voice at this university, and we can make sure that hap-pens.”

us far, Wilen and Painter have taken advantage of their knowledge of social media and have released a campaign video called “Be the Diff er-ence.” e video, which as of 9 p.m. Sunday night had 1,185 views, includes student testi-mony and endorsements from various students, the most no-

table being football players Ty Zimmerman, Tre Walker and Tyler Lockett.

“We just released the video on [Feb. 12] and its gotten a lot of views already,” Painter said. “We just want students to know what we’re about, and that’s enhancing the Wildcat experi-ence. One of the best ways to reach people is through social media, and we feel like the video is doing a good job help-ing people understand what we can contribute to SGA and K-State.”

One major area Wilen and Painter said they would like to improve on is funding alloca-tions. ough they acknowl-edged that the current admin-istration has limited tuition and privilege fee increases, the duo said that some details needed to be revised.

“We don’t want to restrict any organizations from acquir-ing the money that they need to go above and beyond,” Wilen said. “Instead, we want to make sure that we reduce, and eventually eliminate wasteful spending. e more waste we can reduce, the more we can actually allocate to things that really matter to the students.”

difference at K-State, enact a real change that makes stu-dent life at K-State better,” Unruh said.

Unruh said that his early experience in the Student Governing Association gave him a working knowledge of its functions.

“I got involved in SGA in a number of different ways. I interned for a year as a fresh-man, now I work as the local relations director,” Unruh said. “I’m also president of the Union Governing Board.”

Schooley also had SGA ex-perience from the beginning of his time at K-State, serving as an intern his freshman year and eventually becoming the SGA chief of staff for current president Nate Spriggs.

“I was the person in charge of enacting the platforms that the past president was elect-ed on,” Schooley said. “Now I want to pursue the role that I worked so closely with and make more of those tangible impacts.”

A background in SGA is one of the qualities that brought Schooley and Unruh together.

“I was excited when Eli ap-proached me for his running mate,” Unruh said. “I’d seen his leadership qualities in a number of different areas, and he’s got a good background in SGA. I think we make a great team.”

Schooley and Unruh’s team platform centers entirely around students. Their three-point system for benefitting K-State encompasses technol-

ogy and reformation of cur-rent standards.

“Our platform is essen-tially three pieces,” Unruh said. “We want to empower relationships, enrich student experience and enhance our mobility.”

The first point in Schooley and Unruh’s plan involves the school-wide implementation of a system that one branch of K-State already uses.

“Right now the College of Business has a really suc-cessful program,” Unruh said. “They partner students with professionals in their field that have at least 10 years of expe-rience. We think it’s a great program and it should be ex-tended to everyone at K-State, whether you’re in agriculture or advertising.”

Schooley and Unruh also

plan to restructure the TEVAL system, so more accurate information is sent from stu-dents to faculty.

“TEVALs don’t seem to have a lot of impact on the students or the teachers,” Schooley said. “We want to break down that communi-cation gap between students and faculty in the classroom.”

To harness current tech-nology, Schooley and Unruh are proposing the creation of a K-State app for smartphones and tablets, giving students access to webmail, iSIS and K-State Online in a mobile form, in addition to sending notifications when grades are updated or when the park-ing lots are full, among other functions.

“We want to be mobile, because we are in a mobile

time,” Unruh said.As president and vice pres-

ident, Schooley and Unruh said they would be focused on increasing funding for events and groups that contribute educational value to students.

“We’d like to see student dollars go to things students want and need,” Unruh said. “Finding programs that will serve as many students as possible and making sure they have funds is our priority.”

Schooley said that he wished to ensure that the entire funding allocation process was objective and representative not only of tra-ditional students, but also of minority and non-traditional student interests.

“The most important thing that comes to allocating SGA money is that those commit-

tees looking at funding re-quests look at each proposal with fresh eyes,” Schooley said. “If we focus on commit-tees full of objective people, the allocation process will continue going smoothly.”

Schooley and Unruh’s cam-paign is fueled by a desire to make change, Schooley said, and the two candidates have worked to make sure that change is what would happen if they were elected.

“We put a lot of time in last semester meeting with ad-ministrators on campus and making sure that what we’re running on is measurable and can be enacted,” School-ey said. “It was important to use to make sure that what we’re proposing can actually happen. It’s more than just words.”

discussed the topic of having syllabi readily avail-able to students prior to en-rollment.

“We were looking out for freshmen and transfer students that don’t really know anyone on campus,” Hill said. “A syllabus provid-ed before the class can give a student an insight and a snapshot of what a course entails for next semester.”

SGA hopes, by imple-menting this measure, to help students determine which classes they will have the most success in. Hill said students learn and excel in many different ways and styles; with this measure students would be able to evaluate classes based on differences in teaching style or philosophy, for example, or whether grades are based more on papers or exams.

Having more information available prior to enroll-ing could save students the hassle of realizing they may not do well with the class format after the semester has begun, dropping the class and scurrying to find another to fit their schedule.

“We’re still brainstorming on what avenue we would want to go through,” Hill said. “We’ve pitched our ideas to the professors and the Faculty Senate, so it’s still in the works.”

Implementing this mea-sure could potentially give students a bit of an edge when considering classes for their next term.

“It would definitely help manage the course load just because you don’t really know what you’re getting into,” said Jayne Westhead, junior in kinesiology. “It also helps with planning out what your semester will look like.”

Eli Schooley, senior in political science and candi-date for student body presi-dent, believes this approach would help professors early in the semester, but could give them a challenge as well.

“There’s a whole bunch of flux in and out of classes, and there’s a lot of shifting going on which is crazy for the professors that have to deal with it,” Schooley said. “The downside is that profes-sors would have to prepare for their classes a couple months in advance, and it would be hard to know what their classes would look like in a couple months.”

Professors such as Mike Finnegan, instructor in the School of Leadership Stud-ies, support the idea, but realize the challenges that may come with this notion.

“The syllabus is pre-de-termined for the 16-week semester, and it doesn’t factor in space for student

learning,” Finnegan said. “If the students aren’t ready to move from module to module, then the syllabus pressures the professor to keep going in the class, even though the students might need more time with the content.”

One of the worries pro-fessors may have with this approach is that if students are able to access the syl-labus while enrolling, they end up taking the class be-cause of what they see in the syllabus. That would leave no room for the professor to improvise lessons, and could end up causing them to feel pressured to follow the schedule of the syllabus as much as possible.

“Absolutely I’d support it,” Finnegan said. “Yet if we move in this direction, there can’t be any student back-lash about the content of the syllabus.”

If this motion passes and syllabi were available for student access at the time of enrollment, Hill envisions that the documents would either be available through iSIS or on the specific de-partment’s website. Either way, Hill and Schooley both believe this approach would benefit future students.

“The positives would definitely outweigh the negatives,” Schooley said. “I would absolutely support it for sure.”

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Student Governing Associa-tion,” said Nuss, who serves as speaker pro tempore of the Stu-dent Senate, making him the fourth-highest ranking offi cer in SGA.

Nuss, in his third term as a senator for the engineering department, has been involved with the executive branch of SGA for three years. He is the chair of the Student Aff airs Committee and the Diversity Programming Committee, and has previously chaired the Col-lege Council Allocations Com-mittee.

Mendiola, who serves on the Student Review Board, off ers experience in the judicial branch. He has also been in-volved with the K-State Student Foundation, working for Wild-cat Warm-Up, New Student Services and K-State Proud.

Nuss and Mendiola say their campaign focuses on three dis-tinct areas: enhancing the ex-perience of the K-State Student Union, updating smaller, gener-al-purpose classrooms and in-creasing funding opportunities for student organizations.

“ e Union is one of the main buildings on campus where students spend time, and it could use a lot of up-dates,” Nuss said. “We’d like to make it more energy effi cient, bring in more retail options and create a better study envi-ronment.”

According to Mendiola, if the study environment in the Union were enhanced with more space, computers and books, it would give students

another major location to work, relieving the congestion often found in Hale Library. He also mentioned that the two would like to bring a post offi ce and Redbox consoles to the Union.

“ e university has also done a great job renovating large lecture halls, like Umberg-er, but most students spend a majority of their time in smaller classrooms,” Nuss said, adding that many of these rooms are old and technologically out-dated. “We’d like to reprioritize some of the money going to lecture halls to renovate gener-al-purpose classrooms.”

e student body president is in charge of about $15 million per year in student privilege fees. Nuss said that, although much of this money is already allocated by privilege fee com-mittees, he intends to increase funding opportunities for SGA.

“We’re looking to clear a lot of money into the [university] President’s budget and other places, giving us more fl exibili-ty,” Nuss said.

Nuss and Mendiola also want to establish a General Programming Committee to cater to non-multicultural stu-dent groups in the same way the Diversity Programming Committee serves multicultur-al groups.

“SGA has the DPC as an avenue for diversity groups to hold big-time events,” Nuss said. “We’d like to establish the GPC to allow groups from more traditional backgrounds to have their own events.”

Another focus of Nuss’ and Mendiola’s campaign is ensur-ing that SGA accurately rep-

resents the entire student body.“As an organization, we don’t

necessarily represent the stu-dent body as well as we could,” Nuss said. “We’re working to see how we can reach out to groups that are underrepre-sented.”

Nuss and Mendiola both mentioned their diversity as running mates. Along with his extensive SGA experi-ence, Nuss said he is not affi l-iated with a fraternity, which makes him a minority in the greek-dominated SGA. On the other hand, Mendiola, a member of Delta Sigma Phi, has the chance to be the fi rst Hispanic to hold the offi ce of vice president or president.

“ ere’s never been a His-panic or Latino in the offi ce, and I’d defi nitely love to be the fi rst,” Mendiola said. “ e last multicultural student to hold the offi ce was in 1986.”

Mendiola added that he and Nuss want to show how diverse K-State is, as they see it as a top choice for multicultural students in the state of Kansas. A long-term goal of the cam-paign is to relocate the Multi-cultural Student Center from its cramped location in the Union to Holtz Hall, which will be vacated when Career and Employment Services moves to the new Welcome Center that will be built as part of the university’s 2025 plan.

“All in all, we’re a diverse set of candidates willing to work with underrepresented stu-dents,” Nuss said. “We’re not willing to sit with the status quo, and we intend to be true repre-sentatives of the student body.”

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Muller and McQuade said

that the event was a success largely due to the student work eff ort, but even the students had a surprise in store for them. In addition to winning 6th place in her event, Elli Ouel-lette also roped herself a man.

“Elli was proposed to by her boyfriend Saturday night at the event,” McQuade said. “Her now-fi ance, Daniel Unruh, is a

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plans to participate in sever-al more events in the season. Despite the initial stress, Mc-Quade said the weekend was a reminder of what a strong community that rodeo can build.

“Rodeo is not just a sport, it’s a family,” McQuade said.

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HOWE LANDSCAPE INC is currently seeking laborers for several of our divisions. This is for full-time and part-time

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, , $765. 714 Humboldt , two- bedroom, $720. Dish- washer, laundry facility, no pets. June or Au- gust. 785-539-0866.

ONE AND two-bed- room apartments and condos. www.emerald- propertymanagement.- com. 785-587-9000.

NEWER FOUR-BED- ROOM, two bath du- plex. With washer/ dryer. No pets. 785-556- 0662.

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NEWER THREE and four-bedroom apart- ments and duplexes close to KSU! June and August leases. No pets. Washer and dryer pro- vided. Marlene Irvine 785-341-8576

T H R E E - B E D R O O M APARTMENT with washer, dryer, and all appliances. Off-street parking, close to cam- pus $990/ month. June or August leases. No pets. Call or text 785- 632-0468, email brian- j@pab-inc.com.

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THE PAVILION Apart- ments at 1121 Thurston. Now leasing. Two-bedroom, two bath- room. Washer/ dryer, free internet, water and trash included. Close to KSU/ Aggieville. Call Marcie, 913-269-8142.

THREE AND four-bed- room apartments. Close to campus. Washer and dryer in- cluded. Call Emily at 785-410-4783.

SPACIOUS THREE and four-bedroom apart- ments. Newer construc- tion, stainless steel ap- pliances. Near shop- ping. June leases. 785- 632-4892.

ONE-BEDROOM, ONE bath, basement apart- ment close to campus, $495/ month, NO PETS, shared laundry area, available August 1. Contact Megan Willich 785-410-4291.

KAPPA DELTA is host- ing our annual Sham-

March 2 from 5 pm to 8 pm. Come to Kappa Delta at 1220 Centen- nial Drive to enjoy an all you can eat buffet com- plete with Chipotle, Planet Sub, Mr. Good- cents, Dominoes, and Little Ceasars. Tickets cost $6 or 2 for $10. Buy them from a Kappa Delta or in the Union, February 25th through the 28th. 80% of the money will stay in Man- hattan and go to the

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TWO, THREE, and four- bedroom apartments, close to campus and Aggieville. 785-539- 5800. www.somerset- mgmtco.com.

TWO, THREE, and four- bedrooms available for August with great prices. Close to KSU Football Stadium and Bramlage. Close to KSU Sports Complex. Pool with sundeck. On- site laundry. 2420 Greenbriar Drive. 785- 537-7007. woodway_a- partments@yahoo.com.

TWO-BEDROOM with washer and dryer. $660/ month. Trash and water paid. No pets. 785-556-0662.

TWO-BEDROOM, ONE bath.

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T W O - B E D R O O M APARTMENT. Close to campus. Washer/ dryer hook-ups. Clean and neat. Must see. $595/ month plus utilities. Im- mediate opening. 785- 317-6461.

AVAILABLE NOW! Three-bedroom, one bath. Washer/ dryer hook-up. Trash/ lawn care provided. Near campus. No pets/ smok- ing, off-street parking. 785-532-8256.

F I V E - B E D R O O M HOUSES. Great loca- tion. Pet friendly. Call Alliance today. 785-539- 2300. www.alliancemhk.- com.

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F I V E - B E D R O O M , THREE bath house and six-bedroom, three bath houses. Parking and laundry. June lease. Contact 785-539-5800 or www.somersetmgmt.- co.com

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O N E - B E D R O O M HOUSES. Great loca- tion. Pet friendly. Call Alliance today. 785-539- 2300. www.alliancemhk.- com.

JUST A couple of blocks from campus. Three and four-bed- room for lease. $975- $1200 available immedi- ately. 785-539-1554.

ROOMMATE NEEDED now. Close to campus. Washer, dryer and all kitchen appliances in- cluded. www.wilksapts.- com. Call 785-776- 2102, text 785-317- 4701.

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NEWER FOUR-BED- ROOM, two bath half duplex. With washer/ dryer. Trash paid. Close to campus. No pets. $350/ bedroom or $1400/ house. 785-556- 0662.

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BASEBALL | Cats take down No. 8 Kentucky, 7-5 Continued from page 4

Jonathan Alexander Garcia, of the 1900 block of Crescent Drive, was booked for disorderly con-duct and resisting arrest. Bond was set at $1,500.

Latrice Danielle Douglas, of the 2200 block of Praire Glen Place, was booked for disorderly conduct. Bond was set at $750.

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in the game and racking up two hits from the leadoff spot in the lineup.

K-State senior starter Joe Flat-tery pitched four innings in the matchup, allowing two runs off four hits, while walking two and striking out two. Freshman Levi MaVorhis earned his fi rst win as a Wildcat in two innings of relief, giving up just one unearned run.

Sophomore A.J. Reed was Kentucky’s starting pitcher as well as their designated hitter, batting third. Reed, a presea-son All-American, suff ered the loss after giving up four runs off

seven hits in 4 1/3 innings, but went 2-4 at the plate, including a two-run homer in the ninth.

Before playing Kentucky, K-State battled through a pitch-er’s duel with Coastal Carolina, falling 2-1. Sophomore starter Nate Williams turned in another good start for the Wildcats, allow-ing two runs — one unearned — off seven hits, striking out three and walking two. Yet, as good as Williams was, his opponent was stellar. Junior Tyler Herb pitched eight innings, giving up only one unearned run off just three hits, while striking out fi ve and walk-ing three.

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three hits in the game, one each by Witt, Conlon and Kivett. e Chanticleers, on the other hand, mounted eight hits, including multi-hit games by senior Alex Buccilli and junior Colin Hering.

K-State’s fi nal game came on Sunday morning after being rained out Saturday. e Wild-cats fell 5-4 to Elon University after leading for much of the game.

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ninth to get the win, falling to 3-3 on the season.

K-State got a great start from sophomore righty Matt Wivin-is, who pitched six innings and allowed only one run off three hits, adding three strikeouts and walking no one.

“Matt had a good start. I was really happy for him,” Hill said. “ at’s the fi rst time he has gone six innings, and you feel like you’re good for the seventh, eighth and ninth.”

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