Kaitlyn Alanis

Surrounded by students eating $5 plates of spaghetti and meatballs at Beta Theta Pi and Delta Chi fraternity’s first “Meatball Madness” Thursday evening, Kansas State head football coach Bill Snyder thanked the fraternities for donating all of the event’s proceeds to the V Foundation for Cancer Research in Snyder’s name.

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Snyder was diagnosed with throat cancer earlier this year but said doctors have projected a positive outcome. 

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“I know (Snyder) says that K-State is full of good people who really care about each other, and I think that is what we have here today,” said Nick Edwards, junior in marketing and vice president of Delta Chi. “We have a bunch of good people here to help and support Coach Snyder.”

The gavel fell for the first hearing of the 2018 Farm Bill just minutes after 2 p.m. in Kansas State’s McCain Auditorium.

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K-State hosted the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, chaired by Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Dodge City, for “Hearing from the Heartland: Perspectives on the 2018 Farm Bill from Kansas.”

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Eighteen producers and professionals in the agriculture industry gave three-minute testimonies about what is and is not working in the current Farm Bill and what they believe should be the priorities of the 2018 Farm Bill.

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“Together we will blaze a trail to a new Farm Bill,” Roberts said.

Blending in among 105 students in his purple K-State windbreaker, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., listened to a review of the most missed questions from an agricultural policy quiz by Barry Flinchbaugh, agricultural economics professor, before making his class interruption.

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“If we had a better teacher, do you think the quiz scores would have been better?” Moran asked as students whispered their “oohs” and “aahs.”

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Aubrey Davis, junior in agricultural economics, said she was surprised at the question and was not sure who it came from.

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“At first I was afraid what Flinchbaugh was going to say,” Davis said.