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If upcoming March Madness basketball isn’t enough to satisfy students, they can seek to satiate their competitive drive in this year’s Recyclemania competi-tion.

Th is year, 300 universities from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Qatar are participating in the competi-tion, which ranks schools based on their recyclables per capita, the percentage of total waste col-lected that is recycled, the least amount of trash per capita and collective recycling totals. Th e rankings for the second week of competition have not been released, but K-State ranked No. 202 aft er the fi rst week’s totals. In comparison, the University of Kansas fi nished the fi rst week ranked No. 230.

Joe Myers, physical plant su-pervisor in facilities, said that while competition can be moti-vating, it is not the primary pur-pose of Recyclemania.

“It’s good to come out ahead, but that’s not really the goal,” Myers said. “It’s really just to give you an idea of where you are in the scheme of things.”

Th e competition, which

began Feb. 6, will continue until April 2, and Myers hopes that the university’s recycling eff orts will pick up momentum as time passes.

“I think we are steadily in-

creasing. Th ere seems to be more interest in it,” Myers said. “Th ey are just now bringing the dorms online, and I think that will make a big diff erence in it all.”

Ben Champion, director of sustainability, wants to use the competition to increase the uni-versity’s recycling rate. In the fi rst two weeks of competition, the recycling rate has hovered around 20 percent.

“I think we could shoot for 25 percent. Th at would be a sub-stantial improvement over what we’ve been doing,” Champion said. “I know KU is right around what we are doing, so maybe one of the things we can do is shoot to beat KU.”

Students and faculty interest-ed in getting involved can do so with ease, Champion said.

“It’s really as simple as recy-cling,” Champion said. “Every bit that we recycle goes towards our competition total, and with

Recyclemania, we have put out additional bins around campus. You can fi nd those spread all over in metal racks and big blue containers.”

Recycling has become a focus on campus in recent months with the planned construction of an expanded recycling center and a revised recycling program in the residence halls. Despite the additions, Myers said the university needs to continue to look for ways to improve recy-cling eff orts.

“I think K-State has a ways to go. Some universities recycle up to 80 percent of their waste,” Myers said. “We are down around 20 percent, but that’s up from last year so we are headed in the right direction.”

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Th ere are two certainties in life, death and taxes. Maybe one more certainty would be the con-fusion infl icted upon college stu-dents and young adults during their fi rst attempts at fi ling for tax returns.

“It’s frustrating just because the forms are really confusing,” said Matt Janssen, sophomore in computer science.

Anthony Lang, student, also fi les his own tax returns, but he prefers to use a tax service to avoid mistakes.

“My mom is an accountant, so she taught me how to do it,” Lang said. “Turbo Tax does it for me, so it’s not that hard.”

Tax services like Turbo Tax can help to accelerate the fi ling process, but students fi ling their own taxes for the fi rst time can still make some costly mistakes, said Tom Eyestone, franchise owner of a Manhattan H&R Block.

“You really need to prepare for it all year long to a degree,” Eyestone said. “You need to have your W-2s and other payment documents in order that you re-ceive from employers.”

Eyestone said a common mis-take for students occurs even before tax season begins.

“One of the important things is to make sure you have an up-to-date address so that when they send the W-2 out to you in January, they get it to you,” Eye-stone said. “I would probably just recommend using your parents’ home address.”

As tax season approaches, ser-vices like H&R Block and Turbo Tax begin to become fl ooded with tax payers in need of guid-ance. Eyestone had simple advice for all people currently preparing for the upcoming tax rush.

“Th ey need to bring all income documents. Th at in-cludes W-2s, and any savings account that they get interest off of,” Eyestone said.

Taxpayers may also choose to fi le their own taxes without the help of a business. Websites like www.irs.gov and ksrevenue.org can provide useful information on tax forms, protocol and pay-ment options.

“People can do it online,” Eye-stone said. “If they are doing this for themselves, they may have to research for two to three hours. It just depends on how profi cient you are.”

Th is year’s tax deadline is April 18. Students have to fi le a federal return for income tax if their parents are supporting them and they make more than $9,350. Any Kansas resident supported by their parents needs to fi le for the income tax if they make more than $5,250. Workers earning less than those dollar amounts may be eligible for refunds.

In addition to simple income tax procedures, students also need to pay attention to potential tax credits and deductions, Eye-stone said.

“Th ere is what is called an American Opportunity Tax Credit which is a credit that you can get up to $2,500 on your taxes,” Eyestone said. “A Life-time Learning Credit gives up to $2,000 on reductions or credits to your taxes.”

Students are also eligible for credits and deductions if they are paying off student loans or other school expenses, but Eyestone pointed out that not all students would be eligible for tax deduc-tions. Each credit has particular qualifi ers and requirements, and a student working alone may need to do research on which de-ductions are allowable.

“I would think somebody with just W-2s could do their own tax returns online if they are willing to do some studying on their own, but they run the risk of missing deductions,” Eyestone said.

Tax season approaches

College recycyling competition begins to heat upAnnual event helps to raise awareness of the green movement

Jennifer Heeke | Collegian

Joseph Myers, grounds supervisor, sorts through the recy-cling collected over the break at the K-State recycling center Tuesday afternoon.

RECYCLEMANIA TOTALS

Week One K-State recycled:K-State recycled 22,552 pounds of material from 109,952 pounds of collected waste materials, a recycling rate of about 20 percent. That ranks K-State No. 202 out of 300 participating schools. The Uni-versity of Kansas ranked No. 230.

Compiled by Sam Diederich

Week Two K-State recycled:8,470 pounds of cardboard4,380 pounds of mixed paper4,610 pounds of newspaper2,330 pounds of magazines and phonebooks245 pounds of plastic81 pounds of aluminum1,480 pounds of food waste

Weekly Total of 21,596 pounds of recycled material from 101,220 pounds of collected waste, a recycling rate of 17 percent for week two. No standings are available yet.

Austin Ennscoverage editor

Kansas is not the most cultur-

ally diverse place in the world, but on Monday night students gath-ered for the Multicultural Fair and dance jam in the Cottonwood Room in the K-State Student Union to celebrate diversity.

Taylor Johnson, freshman in biology and pre-med, said he heard about the event through his American Ethnic Studies class.

“We’re not required to go to any events, but they off er extra credit and encourage it,” Johnson said. “I don’t know what to expect, I’m just coming in with an open mind and hoping to learn some-thing I didn’t know before.”

As part of the program, a panel of students spoke on how to suc-ceed in college. Th ey entertained questions ranging from how to deal with diffi cult professors, to what is the best way to recover from a bad grade.

Th e keynote speaker, Maritza Segarra, District Judge and K-State alumna, talked about how a counselor at K-State told her she should become a secretary aft er she realized her science grades were not good enough to get into veterinary school.

“Th ere’s nothing wrong with being a secretary, I just wouldn’t be a good secretary,” Segarra said. “I decided to go pre-law because

it was the only other thing I was interested in.”

Segarra said she does not tell that story very oft en, but she does use it when trying to relate to struggling youth that come through her court.

Brian Spooner, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the College of Arts and Sciences is one of the most diverse colleg-es, and he was glad the faculty in the department decided to host events like this.

“It’s nothing you haven’t heard a thousand times,” Spoon-er said. “People won’t express their disappointment, but in a group where they know it’s okay, it’s empowering.”

Spooner said that events like the Multicultural Fair were much more powerful when it was by consensus of the faculty as op-posed to a command.

Aft er all the speakers, there was a drawing for gift cards from various restaurants and stores, as well as a basketball signed by the K-State basketball team. Th e evening ended with food, and a dance jam with the Poize Hip Hop dance group.

Johnson said his favorite part of the fair was getting to hear the collective wisdom of all the speakers.

“It was great, it was a lot of very useful advice,” Johnson said. “I liked the panel, they had a lot of things that related to us as students.”

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Even with most of K-State’s top athletes not in action, the Wildcats still managed to make some noise in their fi nal regular season meet.

Senior hurdler Denise

Baker continued her con-sistent improvement this season, capturing a fi rst place fi nish in the women’s 60-meter hurdles and breaking the meet record at the KSU Open at Ahearn Field House on Friday. Baker, who is in her fi ft h and fi nal year as a

Wildcat, dominated the com-petition in the event, crossing the fi nish line in 8.32 seconds – just .02 seconds faster than the meet record set by Lisi Maurer in 2006.

“(Baker) started off her fi rst race this season a couple tenths faster than her fi rst race of the preceding year,” head coach Cliff Rovelto said. “Almost every weekend has been a similar type of progression throughout the whole season. You just don’t see that very oft en, especially from someone who’s in their fi ft h year. I can’t say enough.”

While Baker may have stolen the show, several other Wildcats earned fi rst-place fi nishes at the one-day meet. In men’s action, Ben Love fi nished fi rst in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.29 seconds, while Jef-frey Julmis won the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.83 seconds. In women’s compe-tition, Kim Haberman won the long jump with a leap of 5.67 meters, and Mercedes Perry brought home an event title in the 400-meter, cross-ing the fi nish line in 1:00.77.

Th e Wildcats enjoyed a particularly solid day in the women’s weight throw, where they swept the top three spots. Th e trio of Chelsie Bonds, Ali Pistora and Jessica Carter all recorded throws of well over 17 meters to fi nish fi rst, second and third, re-spectively.

“I think the kids in the weight all threw solid,” Rov-elto said. “Some of them threw a little bit better than others, but they all threw solid. I think it was a good weekend for them, going into the conference meet.”

Th ough they didn’t win their events, Rovelto said he was also particularly im-

pressed by Jason Coniglio and J.J. Marshall, who ran in the men’s 60-meter dash. Coniglio fi nished third with a time of 6.93 seconds, while Marshall was just .01 seconds slower and fi nished fourth. Rovelto said their recent im-provement is encouraging, especially since he’ll count on them to perform well during the outdoor campaign.

“I think Coniglio and

Marshall in the 60, both of them ran almost a tenth of a second faster than what they’ve run previously,” he said. “I thought that was good. Th ose are guys that are going to be a major part of our 4x1 relay outdoors, so taking that next step is signifi cant, because I think that relay could be very, very good.”

Th e Wildcats will be back

in action on Friday when they head to Lincoln, Neb., for the Big 12 indoor cham-pionships. Th e two-day meet, which will take place at Ne-braska’s Bob Devaney Sports Center, will begin at 10:30 a.m. with the 60-meter hur-dles portion of the women’s pentathlon. Individual run-ning events will begin at 2 p.m. and fi eld events will follow at 3:30 p.m.

Tulsa ends winning streak

Baker jumps over record in 60 meter hurdles at the KSU OpenWILDCAT GOLD

On Sunday, I was fol-lowing the third game of a three-game series the Wildcats baseball squad had with Pacific to open the season. We fell behind 6-2, and it appeared that after winning both games of a double-header on Saturday, the Tigers were poised to get one game back to salvage the weekend. Then the sev-enth inning came, and the Wildcats dropped five runs to take a 7-6 lead, a lead that they never let go of. And it was none other than Nick Martini, the reigning Big 12 player of the year that hit the game-winning RBI off a single to complete the come-back. It was something truly amazing and I could hardly believe what I was reading on my Twitter feed.

As the game ended though, I realized one thing; this team, al-though it is still very early in

the season, is for real. They overcame so many obstacles just to win at all against Pa-cific, let alone sweep them. The sweep marked only the second time in school history that the Wildcats opened the season with a sweep of an opponent on the road, with the first one occurring in 1959. It also marked the Wildcats first 3-0 start since 2007.

I have covered this team multiple times already during the preseason, and one thing I noticed was how poised they were. They have great leadership from both the coaching staff and the players. I noticed this not only in the answers they gave me to my questions, but also through my ob-servations of how the team acted during practices. The camaraderie is obvious, and the team chemistry is at a high level. This team has the potential to do big things this season.

One of the obstacles they overcame this preseason was the weather. With all the snow Manhattan saw

this winter, the team was forced to practice indoors longer than expected. In fact, they

were only able to hit the field for outdoor practice less than a week prior to their departure towards Stockton, California for the season opening series against Pacific, a team that has been practicing outside in California weather for the past month.

Nevertheless, the team rose to the challenge and may have even surprised themselves about by sweep-ing the Tigers. Regardless, head coach Brad Hill, who has proven to be charis-matic and a great leader in his tenure here at K-State, must be happy. He stated during my interview with him last Tuesday, just four days before their first game against the Tigers, that the most important games would be the first ones; to establish a tempo within the team and to set the tone for the season. Well, for now at least, the tone going into the team’s four-game trip to South Carolina will be that of an undefeated one. They’ll play four different teams; Coastal Carolina on Thursday, Western Kentucky on Friday, a rematch with Pacific on Saturday and then California on Sunday. This four-game showcase gives the Wildcats an excellent opportunity to show the country that they are for real, and that they deserve to be mentioned among K-State’s best athletic pro-grams.

Sean Frye is a freshman in pre-journalism and mass communi-cations. Please send comments to [email protected].

Danny Davissenior staff writer

Th e Wildcat Women’s Tennis team suff ered its fi rst loss of the season on Sunday, ending a streak of seven straight wins to open the year. Th e loss came against No. 37 Tulsa and leaves K-State with a 7-1 record.

Th e Golden Hurricane won the doubles point early in the day. Doubles has been an area of particular trouble for K-State this season. Sophomore Karla Bonacic and senior Antea Huljev were the only duo to not lose their doubles match. However, they did not win the match, either, as they fi nished with the score tied at 5-5.

Bonacic went on to win her eighth straight singles match bringing her career record to 24-21. Her win came in the third lineup position where she has a 10-0 career record.

Freshman Petra Niedermay-erova’s singles win streak was snapped this weekend. Play-ing at the No. 1 position, she lost to Tulsa’s Alexandra Ki-choutkin in a three-set match. Niedermayerova has been a formidable player for K-State this spring. Her performance oft en ends matches before the third set.

Nina Sertic’s loss to Ewa Szatkowska gave the Golden Hurricane the win with a 4-1 mark.

On Saturday, the Wildcats defeated the University of Ar-kansas at Little Rock, record-ing their seventh win of the season by a score of 7-0.

Coach Steve Bietau used the same doubles teams from the match against North Texas the previous weekend. Th e dou-bles performance has been an

area of focus for the Wildcats throughout practice aft er it fal-tered against Louisiana-Lafay-ette. Bietau wasn’t available for comment following the week-end matches.

Th e doubles teams won every match on Saturday, giving K-State the early lead against the Trojans. Th e trio of Niedermayerova, Bonacic and Huljev once again led the team at the top of the lineup. Niedermayerova recorded a 6-1, 6-1, victory against Yana Kakovkina, UALR. It was her tenth win of her past 11 matches.

Bonacic improved her career record at the third lineup position to 9-0 with a win against Viktoriya Pluyta. Her 6-1, 6-1 win was her sev-enth straight singles victory.

Both Huljev and junior Petra Chuda won straight-set victories against scoreless op-ponents.

Following a week off from competition, the Wildcats will compete in their next match on March 4 against Houston. Th e location for the match is cur-rently undetermined. K-State will also face No. 61 Wichita State on March 6.

First games set season tempo

Sophomore pole vaulter, Deszo Szabo looks up at the bar while pole-vaulting on Friday afternoon in Ahearn Fieldhouse.

Senior sprinter, Jason Coniglio sprints toward the fi nish line in the men’s 60 meter dash Friday afternoon in Ahearn Fieldhouse. Coniglio place second in the men’s 60 meter dash with a time of 6.87 seconds.

Senior Antea Huljev, returns the tennis ball against a Tulsa player on Sunday afternoon at Body First Tennis and Fitness Center.

Photos by Anthony Drath | Collegian

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Women’s basketball vs. Iowa State 7 p.m. at Bramlage Coliseum

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I’m sure that when Charles and David Koch — pronounced like “Coke” — read about the Republicans’ most recent budget cuts, they smiled with joy. Th ese bil-lionaire brothers own Koch Industries of Wichita and have long supported libertar-ian and conservative political causes.

Both Republicans and Democrats agree that the federal government needs to reduce its spending in order to decrease the defi cit, though they diff er on imple-mentation. While Obama proposed budget cuts across the board that would end many small and ineffi cient programs, including those backed by liberals, Repub-licans in the House passed budget cuts obviously in-tended to anger Obama and the Democrats and please their Koch overlords.

The Republican plan in-cluded cutting funds to the Environmental Protection Agency and other environ-mental regulations, energy efficiency programs, parts of the recent health care legislation, family planning centers and other areas. It’s almost as if the Repub-licans were taking their cues right from the Koch brothers who, according to a Aug. 30, 2010 story in The New Yorker magazine, “are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social servic-es for the needy, and much less oversight of industry — especially environmental regulation.”

Th e Koch brothers’ sup-port of these ideas makes perfect sense for the owners of a huge corporation that

would ben-efi t from less regulation. Th e Republicans, however, don’t stand to gain much from these budget cuts until you realize what the Koch brothers have been up to.

Politico.com reported on Feb. 11 that “the billionaire Koch brothers plan to contribute and steer a total of $88 million to con-servative causes during the 2012 election cycle.”

Th at must be a huge incentive for any Republican hoping to run again in 2012 to do just about any-thing to please the Koch brothers.

Sadly, even with the Republicans’ inane budget cuts, the defi cit and the national debt will continue to rise. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are willing to talk about the three 800-pound gorillas sitting on the fl oor of Congress: Social Security, the health insurance

programs — namely Medi-care and Medicaid — and defense spending. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report from April 14, 2010, each of these programs accounts for about 20 percent of the federal budget. Unless the politicians deal with these three sectors, little can be done to curb the defi cit.

I’m not necessarily sup-portive of cutting Social Security, Medicare or Medic-aid, but these programs need to be addressed in the long run. While I fi nd the myriad of military programs to be a much easier target for budget cuts, others disagree. In the end, however, ideologies must be put aside before we can ever hope to tackle the three areas of the budget that add up to more than 60 percent of the whole.

In the meantime, the political fi ght over the budget brings us even closer to a potential crisis. If the government doesn’t pass a new budget by March 4, then the whole government will essentially shut down. Th e government only funds itself through a certain date, aft er which government employ-ees and programs will stop working.

Th is is made no easier by the fact that Congress just went on a weeklong break, giving legislators only a few days when they get back to work out a new budget. I doubt they’ll let the entire government shut down, though; Democrats and Republicans will either work out a compromise or pass a resolution that continues funding until they get their act together. But having only a few days to work out such a complex problem means the solution will likely be nowhere near ideal. Some-where, the Koch brothers are laughing.

David Rose is a sophomore in political science and international studies. Please send comments to [email protected]

People are oft en surprised to hear that I voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Obama and McCain, how-ever, had nearly identical policies on the environment, the drug war, gay marriage, Israel, immigration and Iran. I decided on Obama aft er I heard the candidates’ diff ering stances on the War in Iraq.

McCain infamously remarked that he’d be willing to “maintain a presence” in Iraq for 100 years. In contrast, then-Senator Obama said on Oct. 27, 2007, “I will promise you this. If we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am presi-dent, it is the fi rst thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war.” He gave us a withdrawal date of about 16 months and insisted “we will not have permanent bases there.”

Th e website obamabodycount.org reports that, since Obama’s election, our bloody and futile occupation of Iraq has claimed the lives of roughly 10,000 Iraqi civil-ians and hundreds of American soldiers. In fact, President Obama’s stated plan is the opposite of candidate Obama’s promise: 50,000 troops consigned to remain in-defi nitely on permanent bases. He might as well have said “gotcha” at his inauguration. At least McCain’s “100 years” promise was honest.

Interestingly, Obama’s base doesn’t seem to care that he said one thing and did another. A study by Heaney and Rojas found that attendance at anti-war protests has declined by more than 90 percent since Obama took offi ce. Quin-nipiac Polls show that in 2010, 78 percent of Democrats said they approved of U.S. policy in Iraq, compared with only 22 percent in 2003. Th at means that more than 50 percent of Democrats either never had a principled stance against the war or, more disturb-ingly, reversed their position because of one man.

Have Republicans similarly changed their position? Dick Cheney certainly hasn’t. In a Jan. 17 interview with NBC, the former vice president praised Obama’s de-cisions to maintain Guantanamo, launch covert air wars in Pakistan

and expand the Patriot Act. Th e only Republicans I hear oppos-ing the war are those who did so before Hillary Clinton temporarily pretended to.

Increasing the debt more than every president in history combined, Obama has laid out a record-breaking war budget. Th e candidate for change hasn’t let the recession stop him from maintain-ing expensive military occupations around the world and fi nancially supporting the same repressive regimes that Bush did. He even marked the acceptance of his peace prize with an unashamed defense of war a week aft er consigning an additional 30,000 soldiers to shed their blood in Afghanistan, where our ongoing military presence has become a recruiting tool for terrorists.

Saying that the President has little real power is a weak excuse. Last year, a Forbes study named Obama the second most powerful man on earth aft er Hu Jintao. Th e President can override Congress and issue executive orders, a power that Cornell University Law School describes as “almost limitless.” As commander in chief, Obama could wake up tomorrow morning and order a bombing run in Malaysia while having his coff ee. Th e presi-dent has the fi nal say in what the military does, and he can end wars with phone calls as surely as he can start them.

Saying that we should trust any secret information Obama may have obtained since his election isn’t much better. Many of the people I’ve heard employ this argu-ment didn’t trust Bush’s invasion

of Iraq any more than I did. Even if you view Obama as infallible, we can’t claim to have a representative system of government if the people get the opposite of what they voted for.

Since the administration of Woodrow Wilson, our govern-ment has policed the world at the expense of American tax dollars and lives. Th e founding fathers gave us a military to protect America, not serve as babysitters in 135 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe. Th ose more concerned with Obama himself than his policies should not discount the many Americans who still want the change they voted for.

Ian Huyett is a sophomore in political science and anthropology. Please send comments to [email protected]

OUT OF HOPESTREET TALK

Is voting in SGA elections worth it? Why or why not?

“Yes, who you put in offi ce determines

how your student funds will be spent.”

Pharamond Guice

STUDENT SERVICES COORDINATION OF THE

UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM

“I didn’t even know the elections existed. I

thought SGA was just an-

other student group.”

Chris Shelton

FRESHMAN IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND

PRE-LAW

“Yes, it is. I regret not voting. It

gives students a chance to

have a voice. It’s defi antly

worth it.”

Suave Wesson

SENIOR IN PSYCHOLOGY

“Yes, it is. SGA handles your money and if

you want your money spent

wisely you have to vote in the right people.”

Tyrone Williams

JUNIOR IN DANCE, BUSINESS MANAGEMENT,

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THE KANSAS State University Wheat Breed- ing Project is looking to fill two student positions. Both positions would be for the summer with the possibility of continuing through the school year. Duties will include, but not be limited to a combination of field and greenhouse projects. Starting salary is $10/ hour. Interested parties can leave a cover letter and resume at the front desk of the Agronomy office, 2004 Throckmorton by March 9.

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Remix promotes new type of school spirit, video fi lmed in Aggieville on Rusty’s Last Chance’s roof

Stephanie Carrmultimedia editor

Th e concept of viral videos is nothing new in today’s media hungry society. Th anks to websites like YouTube, K-State pride is spreading around the world faster than ever.

Several remixes of Wiz Khalifa’s song “Black and Yellow” have been made to show support of various ath-letic teams like the Green Bay

Packers, Kansas City Chiefs and Boston Bruins.

Aaron Bell, senior in man-agement, Mike Hodge, senior in public relations and Dah-rnaz Tigner, junior in busi-ness, took it upon themselves to add the Wildcats to that list, but had no idea what they were starting.

“We weren’t even taking it seriously,” Hodge said. “We just did it.”

Bell and Tigner were work-ing on new songs in the studio when the idea hit for “Black and Purple.”

“We were pretty much look-ing for something that K-State could relate to,” Tigner said. “We just wanted to give K-

State a reason to hold their heads high.”

Th is is not the fi rst rap song mentioning the Wildcats to be released this school year. Joe Goll, freshman in business ad-ministration, Ray’Vonne Free-man, sophomore in creative writing and Tyler Keast, junior in marketing released their original song “K-State Stand Up” on YouTube last fall. It generated interest and air time on local radio stations.

“Even though we are an ag school, that’s not what every-one’s about here,” said Jymie Graham, junior in biology. “We do have diff erent sides and diff erent diversities.”

Fans of the University of

Kansas posted their own re-mixed version called “Red and Blue” on Jan. 24, which Hodge said made their version neces-sary.

“We are such bitter rivals,” Hodge said. “If we do some-thing, they try to imitate us and try to do it better. I think if they do something, we need our own version. We aren’t trying to cause confl ict with KU. We just want to make K-State people smile.”

Th e release timing of “Black and Purple” could not have been better due to the rivalry. It was posted hours before the men’s basketball team knocked off then No. 1 Jayhawks in Bramlage Coliseum on Feb. 14.

Hodges said Rusty’s Last Chance Other Side was one of the fi rst places the remix was played.

“A few people heard about it, but as soon as the game was over, it shot from like 2,000 to 10,000,” Hodges said. “Th en I got a text that they were play-ing it here, then at Kite’s and then at Ale House. It’s crazy

how the game infl uenced it.”Following the victory,

“Black and Purple” was well received by large groups of fans in Aggieville.

“Th e fi rst time I heard it was Monday night when we beat KU,” said Richard Galli, man-ager of Last Chance. “We had about 250 people in here on Th e Other Side and everyone just went crazy.”

As the popularity of the song grew, the next step for the rap crew was to create a music video. Aft er a 30 minute plan-ning session, the guys rounded up some friends and headed to Aggieville Sunday aft ernoon.

“We were just chilling in our apartment above Kite’s,” Jake Copp sophomore in busi-ness said. “Randomly Aaron walked by and yelled at us that we should be in the video, so we were like why not be in a rap video? It gave us some-thing fun to do. We went for it and had tons of fun showing some school spirit.”

Tigner, a safety for the Wildcat football team enlist-ed the help of his teammates

when it was time to fi lm the performance.

“Th at just shows what kind of teammates I have,” Tigner said. “Everyone played a real good part in making this video happen.”

In their planning ses-sion, the three guys decided to thank the bars for helping launch their song by featuring them in the video. Th ey re-ceived more help on location than they expected.

“Th ey said they wanted to go outside and I was trying to fi gure out what would be the best angle,” Galli said. “I was like, might as well throw them on the roof and see what happens. I was kinda nervous for the most part, but once it was done and everybody got down, I was pretty excited.”

Bell expects the music video will be posted on his YouTube channel, AaronBellTV, by Wednesday and is very grate-ful for all the support they have received thus far.

“I just feel blessed,” Bell said. “I’m enjoying every minute of it.”

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kansas state collegianpage 6 tuesday, february 22, 2011

Rap trio remakes popular song

Dahrnaz Tigner (K-State hoodie) and Aaron Bell are pictured performing during

the shooting of the music video “Black and Purple.”

Photos by Carlos Salazar | Collegian

Dahrnaz Tigner, David Garrett, Mike Hodge, Aaron Bell and Jymie Graham sit on the roof of Rusty’s Last Chance in Aggieville on Sunday. They were recording a music video for “Black and Purple,” a remix of the song “Black and Yellow.”

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