Parents and Family Guide 2018-2019

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Table of Contents

4 About This Guide

6 Welcome from Student Leaders

8 Career Center

10 K-State First

12 K-State Traditions

14 Student Involvement

16 K-State Proud

18 On-Campus Housing

20 Parents and Family Association

22 Campus Safety 24 Student Spirit

26 Around Manhattan

28 Calendar About This Guide

The K-State Parents and Family Guide is a collaboration between the Parents and Family Association and the students of Collegian Media Group. Our goal is to provide families with the information and messages that they care about most. The content is crafted by students to target the interests of K-State parents and their new Wildcat students. Please refer to the Parents and Family Association at k-state.edu/ parentsandfamily and k-state.edu for updates about the university. If you have questions about this guide or suggestions for its content, please contact us at [email protected]. Collegian Media Group makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information in this guide.

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- 24-hour, on-site emergency maintenance - Upgrades include granite, tile, - Nationally-recognized, award-winning stainless steel and wood flooring customer service staff - Fireplaces and patio decks - In-unit washer and dryer - Private garages available - Spacious walk-in closets - 24-hour fitness center Lacy Pitts, Student Body Vice President, left, and Jordan Kiehl, Student Body President. Welcome from Student Leaders It is with great excitement that we to the State of Kansas in order to welcome you and your student(s) help the state grow in both culture to Kansas State University. Our and industry. Through academic university is known for its sense of excellence and exceptional career community, and we are thrilled to preparation, we are confident that the add you to the family. Whether your experience your student will embark K-State story goes back three decades, on at K-State will empower them to or you are on campus for the first achieve their greatest aspirations for time, there is a place for you here at the future. K-State, and we are sure that this decision will serve as beneficial to With nine colleges, over 250 academic your family for years to come. majors, and more than 475 clubs and organizations, there is truly The K-State tradition is that of a something at K-State for everyone. In well-rounded collegiate experience addition to a great variety of academic which builds on generations of programs, K-State continues the success and dynamic aspirations for tradition of “putting students first” the future. The decision to enroll through numerous student success is a commitment to the land grant programs, social entertainment mission, by bringing premiere outlets, and nationally ranked education and elite research programs Division I Athletic programs.

6 Kansas State University This year, as Student Body President experience is one which is constantly and Vice President, we are fortunate striving to improve. Working with to represent one of K-State’s student university administration to enhance organizations, the Student Governing our campus through emphasizing Association.Through engaging in the affordable textbook alternatives, dialogue of important decisions being advocating for the creation of made in the university, SGA serves a multicultural student center, as the communication link between improving campus transportation as students and administrators. One well as advising technology. of our most important decisions is the allocation of over $16 million in Once more, please accept our warm student privilege fee dollars, which welcome and we look forward to are essential to our university’s the year ahead. And as always, go efforts to provide a “home away from ’Cats! home” for your student through the Jordan Kiehl support of campus entities such as the Student Body President K-State Student Union, Lafene Health Senior from Fairway, Kansas Center, Chester E. Peters Recreation Complex, campus entertainment Lacy Pitts funds, and much more. Student Body Vice President Senior from Buhler, Kansas As students’ representatives, we will work to ensure the student

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1129 GARDEN WAY, MANHATTAN, KS 66502 | PH (785) 320-6363 WWW.MANHATTANRUNNINGCO.COM collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 7 Shopping the Career Closet. Photo by Saya Kahim, Collegian Media Group Career Center The Career Center facilitates the and a staff committed to assisting career readiness of all students students in the career development throughout the K-State community. process. The Career Center also It offers free assessments for provides students with opportunities exploring majors/careers, job search to attend career fairs, interview on- training, career advising, employer campus with employers, and enroll in connections, interview preparation, credit-based courses for

8 Kansas State University major/career decision-making and internship experiences. Students can also visit the Career Center to: We’re hiring! • Shop the Career Closet’s wide Mornings | Evenings selection of professional attire and accessories. Weekends Overnight-awake • Learn about personal branding and maintaining a professional online presence. Starting at $11.00/hour. • Look up K-State curriculum guides, or obtain graduate school Up to $12.50 in 3 information. months! Additional resources include employment profiles, salary information, relocation tips, advice from K-State grads, job offer guidelines, career reference books, and career planning workshops. The Career Center hosts career fairs in the fall and spring semesters, which bring a multitude of employers to campus to recruit K-State students for internships, part-time jobs, co-ops, and full-time jobs. In October, the Career Center also holds a browsing Big Lakes fair to explore more than 250 majors, minors and certificate programs, Development Center is... known as the “Majors, Minors and Teamwork • Respect • Integrity More Fair.” Quality Care • Making a Difference After registering their free Handshake account, students can apply for jobs and internships, schedule an (785) 776-9201 appointment with their career adviser, www.biglakes.org sign up for events, workshops, 1416 Hayes Drive | Manhattan, KS information sessions and interviews with employers coming to the K-State campus. For more information about the Career Center, visit www.k-state.edu /careercenter. collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 9 Hale Library. Photo by Olivia Bergmeier, Collegian Media Group K-State First K-State First is the University’s first- A group of 22 students enroll in two year experience program, our way general education courses and a one- of helping students establish a great hour connections course during the foundation for the rest of their college fall semester. The two main courses career. The program offers seminar count toward graduation in most courses and learning communities programs, and the friendly faces designed specifically for first-year in the CAT Community make the students. Home to the university’s larger, mostly lecture-based classes common reading program (KSBN), feel a lot smaller. To apply what a one-on-one mentoring program they have been learning, students (GPS), and other unique opportunities meet once a week in the connections for first-year students, K-State First course with this core group of is deeply committed to academic classmates and a professor from excellence, community, diversity, and one of the main classes. Students the empowerment of students can enroll in Residential, Non- Residential, and Study Abroad CAT CAT Communities Communities. Connecting Across Topics Residential CAT communities provide Communities are designed around an added opportunity for first-year student interests, and offer mentoring students to connect with others who from a professor, as well as an share their academic interests by advanced undergraduate Learning placing them in the same on-campus Assistant who shares the students’ residence hall along with their interests. They are an ideal place for Residential Learning Assistant. Like students to meet each other and to the other CAT Communities, first- study together. year students take a group of classes together, and also live, eat, sleep, 10 Kansas State University study, and socialize near each other, have the opportunity to connect on too. their own, or at GPS-sponsored events at least three times per semester. First-Year Seminars K-State Book Network The First-Year Seminar program (KSBN) provides students with the chance to take small, exciting classes that are The motto of KSBN is “A campus taught in a lively, interactive way. on the same page.” The program Students have the opportunity to ask is designed to provide a common questions, interact with the professor experience around a book to help first and the other students, and challenge year students transition from high themselves with personalized, school to college, grow academically hands-on attention. All of the classes and socially, and share something carry general education credit, and with all other first year students. they meet the program of study requirements for most students and The KSBN book for 2018 is “The most majors. Many of the courses Hate U Give,” by Angie Thomas, fulfill K-State 8 requirements, as about a sixteen-year-old girl whose well. life is up-ended when she becomes the sole witness to the shooting of Guide to Personal Success her best friend by a police officer. (GPS) K-State holds guided academic and social events that go along with GPS is K-State First’s first-year the novel, which are geared to help mentoring program that matches students bond over their common guides (or mentors) with first- reading experience, as well as learn year students. The guide serves as new things about the book, related a professional point of reference themes, K-State, and the Manhattan throughout the student’s first community. year at the university, providing information outside of academics K-State First is dedicated to assisting and class selection. Guides share new students with the transition to their knowledge of campus resources university-level learning and college and provide support and feedback life. For more information, check out as needed. Students and their guides www.k-state.edu/first.

collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 11 K-State Traditions K-Staters have been creating purple- windows in Aggieville and building tinted traditions since the university’s parade floats. inception in 1863. ‘Wabash Cannonball’ Purple Power Play Get on your feet, clap, bend and Go crazy for the football team, watch twist to this rousing anthem. After fireworks and sample local cuisine at a fire destroyed the home of the the annual Purple Power Play in the music department in 1968, the band Park. Manhattan’s City Park is home performed the only music that was to this exciting citywide rally on the left: “The Wabash Cannonball.” Thursday and Friday nights before the Now doing “the Wabash” is a rite of first home football game. passage. Recently, the Wabash was named the No. 1 pregame tradition in Homecoming the Big 12 by ESPN. Students compete in various events KS Letters to generate K-State spirit throughout Homecoming week. Today’s High on a hill overlooking Manhattan, activities include designing banners, they are hard to miss. Engineering performing group chants, painting students plotted the 80-foot-tall 12 Kansas State University “K” in 1921 and later added the “S” on 1903. Students, alumni and Wildcat K-Hill. The “U” was never added, but fans alike can be seen swaying back students still whitewash the letters and forth as the melody progresses, every year. connected by the powerful loyalty expressed through the lyrics. Call Hall I know a spot that I love full Our campus dairy bar offers more well than 30 flavors of student-made ice cream, including espresso ecstasy, ‘Tis not in forest nor yet in dell, chocolate brownie delight and a Ever it holds me with magic campus staple — purple pride. spell, Open House I think of thee, Alma Mater. More than 20,000 visitors show K-S-U, we’ll carry the banner high. up every April to check out majors and campus life. Experience K-State K-S-U, long, long may thy colors through performances, eating fly. contests, science experiments and Loyal to thee, thy children will swell more. the cry. Willie the Wildcat Hail, hail, hail. Alma Mater. Our fearless mascot, Willie the University Fight Song Wildcat, does a pushup for every point scored at K-State football games and Written in 1927 by Harry E. Erickson, electrifies fans with his famous K-S-U Wildcat Victory is the official fight pose. He may not say much himself, song of Kansas State, and it is a but he sure gets the crowd to make rousing anthem of Wildcat Pride and some noise. pure fandom fun. Clap along to the playful melody and do not forget to Royal Purple pump your fists along to the final line! The school color Royal Purple was adopted in the fall of 1896. Although Fight, you K-State Wildcats K-State’s only official color is royal For alma mater fight-fight- purple, white has been used as a fight! complementary color for many years. The university’s yearbook is Glory in the combat also named after this prominent For the purple and the white. color. Faithful to our colors. Alma Mater We will ever be, K-State’s Alma Mater was written by Fighting ever fighting for a H. W. Jones in 1888 and was later selected to represent the university Wildcat Victory! during a campus contest held in Go State! collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 15 Students learn a dance before a screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Student Involvement Beyond your student’s academic area of focus at K-State, experiences outside of the classroom including extracurricular activities, community service events, and other involvement opportunities help to ensure that your student finds their niche within the K-State community. “K-State is special because of the ownership that students feel for campus,” said CJ Steiner, junior in mechanical engineering. “By taking the time to volunteer with Black Student Union members watch an organizations on campus, I’ve had the inspirational video during their meeting. ability to grow and develop myself Photo: Cassandra Nguyen, The Collegian professionally. Doing college visits and interviewing to be in these clubs and Theta Xi Fraternity. are great practice for when you’re in an interview setting for an internship During the Week of Welcome, as or job in the future.” Steiner is well as in the spring, there is an involved with the CLUE Program Activities Carnival that all of the Program, Engineering Ambassadors, campus organizations attend, offering 14 Kansas State University quick and easy access to information Michelle Anderson, senior in finance about K-State’s many involvement and accounting and K-State Student opportunities. Ambassador, said, “I am involved with several organizations on campus, With over 500 clubs and and each group is very different organizations to choose from, from the others. This has allowed students are bound to discover an me to meet so many impactful and activity they are passionate about. unique people, and these experiences One of them, the Black Student have expanded my horizons. Being Union, received the Clarence Wine involved on campus has pushed me Award for Outstanding Big 12 Council far outside my comfort zone and given of the Year in 2018 for the tenth time me the resources to learn and grow in 13 years. both inside and out of the classroom.” Students can explore their interests Anderson is a member of Business through honor societies, intramural Ambassadors, Gamma Phi Beta sports teams, fraternities and Sorority, Student Alumni Board, and sororities, academic groups, major- Student Finance Association. specific clubs, and hobby groups. For a list of student organizations and All K-State student groups have more information, visit something to offer students, both new www.orgsync.ksu.edu. and returning.

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collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 15 Photo by Parker Robb, The Collegian K-State PROUD The spirit of family runs deep at completed 12 annual campaigns, K-State. The K-State Proud campaign raised more than $1,140,000, is all about students helping students and distributed more than 600 — about students taking care of awards to help students stay at the the K-State family. Guided by the university. leadership of Student Foundation, K-State Proud is a student-led, Money raised by the campaign goes nationally recognized fundraising toward Student Opportunity Awards, campaign for K-State. All student which are allocated to students who campaign donations establish demonstrate extreme financial need. awards for K-State students who Awards are given to students whose are struggling financially, as well as future at K-State may be in jeopardy scholarships for outstanding students. and to students who have exhausted K-State proud has successfully all other forms of aid. 16 Kansas State University Students and faculty members are and celebrate the success of the encouraged to nominate students campaign. in need, or students may nominate themselves. Applications are received As a new student, your student can get online on a continuing basis and involved by donating, volunteering, awards are allocated year round. or serving on a committee. K-State Proud is a unique, student-led K-State Proud’s annual campaign philanthropy led by the KSU Student takes place each spring, helping Foundation, and is designed to bring in donations and raise recognize outstanding K-State awareness throughout the university students and help students stay in the and community. During K-State Wildcat family. Proud Week, an online or in-person donation of $20 or more earns the To learn more about K-State Proud, donor a K-State Proud shirt. Other visit www.found.ksu.edu activities occur over the course of /k-stateproud. the academic year to raise awareness

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Open 11:00am - 10:00pm Sunday-Thursday 2301 Tuttle Creek Blvd. 11:00am - 11:00pm Friday-Saturday 785-587-5258 collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 17 Wefald Hall dormitory. Photo by Timmerman Photography Inc. On-Campus Housing More than 5,000 students call the traditional-private rooms with K-State campus home. The university multiple single-use bathrooms per features ten residence halls, a floor, and suite-style rooms with leadership/scholarship house for private bathrooms. Residents can live women, a hall for honors students, alone in single occupancy rooms, or and a large apartment community. with one, two or three roommates. Each option provides different Community bathrooms are cleaned amenities to help students get the each weekday. most of out their K-State experience. The newest residence hall, Wefald All residences are staffed 24/7 by Hall, opened in fall 2016 along with front desk staff, maintenance staff the state-of-the-art Kramer Dining and resident assistants. Resident Center. It is a great time to live on assistants are upper-division students campus! who are trained to help with common issues such as stress, relationships Residence hall room styles vary and classes. All entrances to residence by hall, and include traditional halls are locked 24 hours a day and rooms with community bathrooms, require residents’ K-State ID card

18 Kansas State University to unlock. Guests must be checked floor plans. Jardine is available to into residence halls and accompanied undergraduate and graduate students, by a resident at all times. as well as single students, married couples and families. Students who Meal plans are required as part of the live in Jardine are not required to residence hall contract. An award- purchase a meal plan, but several winning dining program offers a wide plans are available. A popular range of nutritious foods through a restaurant, as well as a convenience choice of meal plans to use at any of store and coffee shop, are on site. the three dining centers, as well as In addition, the sports complex 12 retail operations to accommodate and recreation center are right next residents’ unique backgrounds and door. busy lifestyles. Dining Services’ Cultivate You and Nutrition Now Students who wish to live in the programs is focus on wellness, Jardine community also have the community and sustainability, option of a hybrid apartment. This and offer a variety of healthy meal model allows students to live in a selections. Registered and licensed four-bedroom Jardine apartment, but dietitians are available at all dining to rent the room as an individual. No centers to assist with nutritional need to confirm roommates, no meal choices and medically necessary diet plan requirement, and no need to buy plans. bedroom furniture (bed, dresser and desk are provided). The Jardine Apartments community provides flexible housing with For more information, visit: 790 apartments and 76 different www.housing.k-state.edu.

Elegant colonial setting two blocks from campus. For a single or couple. www.moorehouse-bnb.com 500 Denison Avenue Innkeeper Tim Lindemuth collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 19 Parents and Family Association Welcome to the Family! When those who apply themselves to their your student enrolls at K-State, you studies to remain in school, recognize automatically received membership academic achievement, and promote into the K-State Parents and Family diversity in the student body. Association. The PFA serves as your connection to the university, other Emergency fund for students in K-State families, and students. crisis K-State PFA allows you to feel The emergency fund is utilized when actively engaged with your student’s faculty and staff notify the Dean of college experience by participating Student Life that an urgent situation in campus programs and activities has occurred for a student needing specifically geared towards families, immediate financial assistance. The while at the same time letting your funds are awarded at the Dean’s student make the most of their college discretion. experience. Alcohol-free programming PFA is funded solely by private for students at K-State After contributions, which help to Hours provide: K-State’s Union Program Council is Student scholarships responsible for organizing events and entertainment for the campus. The Nearly 70% of K-State students Parents and Family fund supports receive some sort of financial aid. the UPC “After Hours” initiative, Donations to the Parents and Family which provides substance-free fund support scholarships for entertainment and activities every undergraduate students and enable Friday night. 20 Kansas State University Campus Safety Awareness award, Putting Students First award Video and the Extraordinary Student award. The PFA sponsored the Campus Safety video, which provides valuable Your gift to the PFA will support tips and information for how students programs at K-State that enhance can stay safe and prevent crime on student life in all aspects — academic, campus. social, and professional development. Your donation is an investment Alcohol and Sexual Assault in the future of K-State. While Prevention (ASAP) your membership is automatic, we All new students under the age encourage you to become active of 22 are required to complete a members of the organization. web-based Alcohol and Sexual Parents volunteer to serve on the Assault Prevention Program. The PFA advisory board, represent the PFA provides funding encouraging association at information booths, students to have a healthy and safe attend recruitment events, and college experience. serve as a connection to new K-State families. Family Day Engage with PFA Family Day has been a K-State tradition for more than 90 years. www.k-state.edu Family Day includes numerous /parentsandfamily programs and activities. The (785) 532-2222 K-State Family Tailgate and the K-State Legacy Pinning Ceremony www.facebook.com/kstatepfa are two signature events. For more information regarding the schedule of @kstatepfa events, visit www.k-state.edu [email protected] /familyday. Mark your calendars: Orientation and Enrollment Family Day Orientation and enrollment is an opportunity for new students to September 15, 2018 prepare them for their first day of college. Activities include meeting K-State Family Day is a special with their advisor, enrolling in tradition. The 2018 event will classes, visiting with other new celebrate 90 years of welcoming students, and learning about campus families to the campus for a day of resources. activities designed around family, togetherness, and pride. Participants Awards will enjoy a variety of events showcasing the history, tradition, and Other programs funded by the special connection between K-State, Parents and Family fund include our students, and their families. the Outstanding Graduating Senior collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 21 A Blue Light Phone Box at Kedzie Hall. Photo by Evert Nelson, The Collegian Campus Safety Your student’s safety is a top priority and damage to property by offering at K-State. Faculty, students, and staff students and their guests a safe approach campus safety as a shared alternative to drunken driving responsibility, which allows K-State and other threatening situations. to be among the safest universities SafeRide provides free buses that run in the Big 12. Together we make designated routes from 11 p.m.-3 a.m. K-State what it is: a safe, supportive, Thursday through Saturday. and caring community where the well-being of each of us is the LiveSafe App responsibility of all of us. LiveSafe is a smartphone app for the Wildcat Walk K-State community that provides safety resources and communication If your student is ever uncomfortable tools. LiveSafe users can anonymously walking on campus alone, Wildcat share information and safety concerns Walk can provide an escort to meet with K-State police via text, with them and walk with them to another picture, video and audio attachments; on-campus destination or up to two use peer-to-peer location tracking blocks off-campus. Ensuring they with group chat; access emergency arrive safely to their destination, the help, telephone numbers, and service operates 24 hours a day, seven important safety information and days a week. Wildcat Walk can be resources; and see where the latest contacted at (785) 395-7233. campus incidents have occurred and nearby safety locations. The free app SafeRide can be downloaded through iTunes The mission of the SafeRide Program and Google Play, and is available to is to save lives and prevent injuries students, parents, faculty, staff, 22 Kansas State University campus visitors, and community quick access to emergency services. members. You can also use these boxes to ask for directions, or report a crime or Campus Police accident. The campus police department Lafene Health Center includes commissioned and non- commissioned officers available to Lafene Health Center is an on-campus respond to emergencies 24/7, 365 medical facility where students in days a year. Campus police can be need of general medical care can contacted at 911 or through their non- see a healthcare provider free of emergency number: charge. Lafene also has a pharmacy, (785) 532-6412. along with additional services such as X-rays, nutrition counseling Campus Wide Emergency and an immunization clinic, which Notification System are typically discounted below the K-State’s emergency alert system rates of a regular doctor’s office in sends emergency signals to police Manhattan. officers in the case of an emergency. Counseling Services The alert system also notifies students through email and on the K-State Counseling Services has licensed website. Students can sign up for text clinical psychologists and other message alerts, or “K-State Alerts,” professional resources who attend at www.k-state.edu/its/eid. Friends to students’ psychological needs, and family can also sign up to receive promote their well-being, alleviate these emergency messages. concerns, facilitate problem resolution, and enhance their overall Blue Light Phone Boxes success. Four individual counseling KSU Police monitor numerous blue sessions are provided free of light phone call boxes located at charge to students every fiscal year; numerous spots throughout campus. additional sessions run $15-$25 per These phone boxes are placed outside visit. Counseling Services also offers of buildings in heavily traveled areas resources for parents at www.k-state to allow campus community members .edu/counseling/parents.

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collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 23 Cheering with Willie at a football game. Photo by Hannah Hunsinger Student Spirit To see K-State school spirit, you don’t student organizations, the Manhattan have to look very hard. community will always be, “One big happy purple family.” You might see students at the basketball games shaking their shoes School spirit also comes shows up in the air before tip off. You could run in organizations including K-State into a sea of purple walking through Proud, a student philanthropy which the quad. You can’t miss hundreds of has raised over $1 million over the last students lined up more than 30 rows 11 years and gives the money back to deep at Bill Snyder Family Stadium students who need temporary help to rocking back and forth to “The continue their education. Wabash Cannonball.” And there are plenty of other ways But one thing you will never see: a that the students and faculty at lack of school spirit at K- State. K-State show their love and passion for being a part of the Wildcat Whether it’s at athletic events, on family. campus between classes, or through 24 Kansas State University “People take pride in that family slogan,” said A. J. Krehbiel, freshman in business. Welcome Krehbiel also mentioned that the school spirit and family community at Students! K-State made his big move to Kansas after high school in Spring, Texas, We Have What much easier. Adam Houghton, a sophomore in Students Need animal science, has seen the K-State school spirit through being a student ambassador on campus. Futons w/ 10” pads Twin Mattresses Starting at Starting at “One of the best ways you can see school spirit and the Wildcat way $349 $128 is the way that students interact with people that they don’t know,” Houghton said. Computer Desks Sofa/Loveseat Sets Starting at Starting at Houghton, from Stillwell, Kansas, said that learning the fight song, singing $169 $699 the alma mater and the “Wabash Cannonball” are some of his favorite traditions at K-State. 4 Drawer Chests 4 pc. Bedroom Set (Dresser, Mirror, Queen/Full, Starting at Headboard, Nightstand) “We’re happy here,” Krehbiel said. Starting at $99 “It’s something that you kind of share $559 with everybody, the whole student body.” Andre Vila, a sophomore in sociology, transferred here from Fort Hayes State University. A Topeka native, he said the adjustment to K-State went smoothly thanks to the community and spirit around campus. “I think everybody here is pretty proud of their university and really happy to be here,” Vila said.

2326 Sky-Vue Lane 785.537.2288 One Block S. of Ft. Riley Blvd. Behind Briggs Auto Lane www.the-furniture-warehouse.com collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 25 The Flint Hills Discovery Center. Around Manhattan Take just a few steps off the K-State City Park campus and you will find museums, nature trails, shops and more. The City Park is located in the east central Manhattan community is home part of Manhattan, close to downtown to a unique variety of activities and Aggieville. Home to the statue and attractions that will be sure to of legendary Johnny Kaw, the park entertain everyone in the family. is a place for anyone who loves the outdoors. A playground, picnic tables Aggieville with grills, tennis courts, a basketball and volleyball court, a mile-long Since 1889, Aggieville’s variety of multi-use trail, rose garden, seasonal quirky shops and trendy restaurants splash park, aquatic center, and has made it a family-friendly ice rink make City Park a spot for environment during the day and a everyone. For more information, visit: college hot spot at night. Hosting www.mhkprd.com/175 events like the K-State Homecoming /City-Park. Parade and Pep Rally, and the Little Apple New Year’s Eve Celebration and Flint Hills Discovery Center Ball Drop, “The ‘Ville” is the place to experience Manhattan’s cozy, small- The Flint Hills Discovery Center town feel. Learn more at showcases the geology, ecology, and www.aggieville.org. cultural history of the Flint Hills. 26 Kansas State University Discover what makes this area so at the shopping districts in town. special through interactive and Poyntz Avenue, which is anchored interpretive exhibits, and learn how by Manhattan Town Center, along you can help preserve the last major with Westloop, Town East, Seth Child stand of the tallgrass prairie. The Commons, and Fort Riley Boulevard, museum is located just 2 miles from are just a few of the shopping areas campus and is an engaging activity around Manhattan. For more for the whole family. For more information, visit: information, visit: www.manhattancvb.org/. www.flinthillsdiscovery.org. Sunset Zoo Historical Sites Open year-round, Sunset Zoo offers Dive into Manhattan’s rich history by up-close views of more than 200 visiting the numerous historical sites animals from various continents. located throughout the community. From April to October, visitors can Take a step back in time by learning experience daily feedings and attend about the area’s early settlers, 19th- zookeeper chats. Sunset Zoo also century pastimes, and influential city hosts special events, including Brew at residents, like Isaac Goodnow. The the Zoo, SPOOKtacular, and Wine in Riley County Historical Museum, the Wild. To learn more, visit: Goodnow House, Pioneer Log Cabin, www.sunsetzoo.com. and Wolf House Museum offer unique opportunities to experience what Tuttle Creek State Park Riley County was like more than 200 Outdoor adventures await at Tuttle years ago. Learn more at Creek State Park, located less than 10 www.rileychs.com. miles from campus. The park offers Konza Prairie nature trails, a mountain biking trail, a scenic equestrian trail, picnic areas, Experience the vastness of Kansas’ an 18-hole disc golf course, volleyball rolling hills by walking through this courts, horseshoe pits, shooting and native tallgrass prairie preserve, open archery ranges, and a swimming to the public from dawn to dusk. beach. Fishing is also a popular Located off McDowell Creek Road, activity in Tuttle Creek Lake, as well trail lengths vary from about 2.5 miles as in the river above and below the to longer than 6 miles. While there, lake. Looking to stay overnight? The it is important to observe and follow park offers a campground with more the rules, as most of the Konza Prairie than 600 sites, as well as 11 reservable is a privately owned research station. cabins. Visit www.ksoutdoors.com to Learn more at www.keep.konza learn more. .k-state.edu. For a complete list of attractions, Shopping Centers visit the Manhattan Convention and Visitors Bureau at Needing to do some back-to-school www.manhattancvb.org/. shopping? From furniture to clothes to groceries, find everything you need collegianmedia.com/kstate-parent-guide/ 27 Calendar

Fall 2018

AUG Fall 2018 Term begins 20

SEPT University Holiday 3

SEPT Family Day 15

NOV Student Holiday 19-23

DEC Fall 2018 Term ends 7

DEC Commencement 7-8

DEC Fall 2018 Term examinations 10-14

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MAR Student Holiday 11-15

MAY Spring 2019 Term ends 10

MAY Spring 2019 Term examinations 13-17

MAY Commencement 17-18

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