Graduate School Viewbook
Student Life
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL
This body of elected representatives is composed of graduate students from each of the academic colleges. Under the leadership of its elected president, the council works with the graduate dean in advancing matters of campus-wide impact on graduate students.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
Graduate studies are intense and time consuming, and many graduate students find they are unable to maintain the same level of co-curricular activities they did as undergraduates. Still, the life of a graduate student is not all work, and you may wish to join one of the more than 300 student organizations on the KSU campus. There is something to meet everyone's needs, from intramural competition to theatre.
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES/ATHLETICS
Recreational Services provides the intramural, recreational sports,
and fitness programs for the campus.
One of the finest fitness and recreation facilities in the region, the Chester E. Peters Recreation Complex houses 14 handball/racquetball courts; two squash courts; three gyms containing 10 basketball courts (convertible to volleyball, badminton, and tennis); a large weight and fitness room equipped with a variety of cardiovascular, selectorized and free weight equipment; aerobic/ multi-purpose room; two walking/running tracks; combative room; table tennis room; locker rooms; saunas; lounges, and administrative offices.
Outdoor facilities feature lighted tennis and handball/ racquetball courts, multipurpose playfields, sand volleyball courts, and a fitness cluster with fitness trail. Outdoor Rental Center rents a wide variety of outdoor recreational and camping equipment.
The natatorium at the Ahearn Sports Complex has two 25-yard swimming pools, one diving pool with two one-meter and two three-meter boards, and a sun deck.
Intramural sports are the scheduled competitive activities of the recreation program. More than 40 different intramural activities are offered for competition.
Kansas State University is a member of the Big Twelve athletic conference. KSU men and women compete with major schools around the country in track, cross country, golf, rowing, rodeo, and basketball. Women also compete in volleyball and tennis, and men participate in football and baseball.
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
McCain Auditorium is an 1,800 seat hall known for its fine acoustics
and first-rate programs. Whether it's Bach or Broadway, David Copperfield or Marcel Marceau, Mel Torme or the St. Louis Symphony, the Houston Ballet or the New York City Opera National Company, Wynton Marsalis or Itzhak Perlman, McCain brings the best in the performing arts to campus each year.
The K-State Union is one of the centers of social, recreational, and cultural activities on the KSU campus. The Union Program Council presents more than 300 programs annually for the cultural, educational, and personal growth of students. The Union houses a cafeteria-snack bar; 576-seat auditorium; 280-seat Little Theatre; full-service book store; facilities for bowling, billiards, and video games; art gallery; central information desk; lounges; banquet rooms; and copy center.
LECTURES
Since 1966 the
Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues has featured more than 80 speakers, including former US Presidents Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, as well as Walter Mondale, Dan Rather, Robert and Edward Kennedy, Pat Schroeder, President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Lesley Stahl, Tom Brokaw, Tom Bradley, George Shultz, Nancy Kassebaum, President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, Sandra Day O'Connor, Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell, Aba Eban, Janet Reno, and President Violette de Chamarro of Nicaragua.
The University Convocation series features nationally and internationally
known speakers several times each year. Speakers have included Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan Sontag, Henry Cisneros, Julian Bond, Noam Chomsky, Bella Abzug, Ralph Nader, Aaron Copland, and Joseph Heller.