2008 Woodie Awards
Beauty found on Ninth Avenue
Drew Logsdon
Issue date: 11/7/07 Section: Personal Column
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We're a full week into November, and many students feel they've entered the run-of-the-mill weeks of the semester. Students and staff are looking towards some time off with family and food over Thanksgiving break in just a matter of weeks, and it is a time of overload on campus. As we begin loading our IQWeb shopping carts full with the spring of 2008 semester classes, we feel immobilized, still carrying the weight of our current and somewhat boring fall 2007 semester. For many seniors, we've just realized that this is the last time we're going to click that little green check mark and "submit for approval" our online registration. We're now in what is shockingly our last fall in what truly is the beautiful Winfield.
Too many out-of-state friends, I have often attempted to defend Kansas as a great place to live upon the grounds of three main anchoring points. Aside from people carrying the small-town born and raised mindset, and therefore generally of a genuinely friendly demeanor, the two other great features of our state are written in the sky, and man is quite without excuse to miss them.
First of all, in how many other states are the lights and pollution of the city so absent that the sky can be so vastly open and dark that you can see the stars each night? And when it storms in Kansas, it roars. Not to mention tornados. Where else can you see lightning stretch all the way from the east to the west, veiled in all the various colors that lightning can possess? The storms that can be chased here are awe-inspiring experiences, even if your chase doesn't leave the front porch with the family video camera in hand.
A prime example of my second anchoring point of Kansan beauty is actually housed right here on the home front, in Winfield.
You can tell the "most wonderful time of the year" is drawing close in Winfield. The atmosphere on campus has that Southwestern "right" feeling. Mid-terms are over. Leadership teammates are selling and baking apple pies. Soccer and volleyball teams are done with the daily grind, and football is completing their in-season practice calendars as well. The cross country team is flying to nationals. But more specifically special to November is the drive from College Street to Main, via Ninth Avenue. This is the place that literally brightens up our college town.
Too many out-of-state friends, I have often attempted to defend Kansas as a great place to live upon the grounds of three main anchoring points. Aside from people carrying the small-town born and raised mindset, and therefore generally of a genuinely friendly demeanor, the two other great features of our state are written in the sky, and man is quite without excuse to miss them.
First of all, in how many other states are the lights and pollution of the city so absent that the sky can be so vastly open and dark that you can see the stars each night? And when it storms in Kansas, it roars. Not to mention tornados. Where else can you see lightning stretch all the way from the east to the west, veiled in all the various colors that lightning can possess? The storms that can be chased here are awe-inspiring experiences, even if your chase doesn't leave the front porch with the family video camera in hand.
A prime example of my second anchoring point of Kansan beauty is actually housed right here on the home front, in Winfield.
You can tell the "most wonderful time of the year" is drawing close in Winfield. The atmosphere on campus has that Southwestern "right" feeling. Mid-terms are over. Leadership teammates are selling and baking apple pies. Soccer and volleyball teams are done with the daily grind, and football is completing their in-season practice calendars as well. The cross country team is flying to nationals. But more specifically special to November is the drive from College Street to Main, via Ninth Avenue. This is the place that literally brightens up our college town.
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