By From 6 a.m. on Friday through noon today, the Phi Delta Theta fraternity is conducting their annual Pole Sit. Since 1985, they have raised more than $55,000 for S.O.S. (Services Offering Safety – for victims of domestic violence.) Basically, Phi Delts take turns sitting on that pole (!) and others collect money from kind folks …
The Rog
Tonight, our friend Roger Heineken received the University Service Citation from Emporia State University. Dave and I were honored to be guests of his. We were happy to meet members of Roger’s family and some of his many friends. I must have been out of my head because I didn’t have my pen and notepad …
Wooster Lake
Wooster Lake in the center of the ESU Campus. Wooster Bridge.
ESU Power House
ESU flowers
Flowers at the Memorial Union, Emporia State University.
Plumb Hall
Emporia State University. Marigolds and black-eyed Susans add some color to this gray day, this gray week, this gray month.
Food Fest
Going on until 8 p.m. tonight is the International Food Festival in the basement of the ESU Union. Dave and I just got back, tummies full of Korean food. It all was tempting though. The Korean platter for $5. The guys from Saudi Arabia.
Dreary Market
If it’s the Farmers Market, it’s raining. This has been the rainiest market season ever. Rainy and cold, 57 degrees again today. Rain and 57 degrees doesn’t stop Steve Graham from wearing shorts and flip flops. That’s Rand on the right. He’s a member of the Crazy Men in Shorts Club and is thinking about …
International Foods
There’s a lot going on in Emporia on Saturday. Downtown all day is the flea market – the Great American Market. And Chalkfest, I think. At Las Casitas Park is the Mexican Fiesta. There’s a home game at ESU. And after that home game, from 4 – 8 p.m., behind Morse Hall and the Union …
Hornet Express
New this semester to the Memorial Union at ESU is the Hornet Express. This was previously just a snack shop, but it’s been renovated and expanded and now serves real food – like burritos.
Half-staff
Beautiful beds of flowers will greet students for the fall semester which begins next Wednesday. The flags flew at half-mast today at the the request of Governor Sebelius in honor of Specialist William Mulvihill of Leavenworth. Mulvihill and three other soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on August 1.