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For the past few years, from about 2002 til present, Marlatt Hall has had a very bad reputation due to the fact it is the only all-male hall on campus. Prior to this time period, [[Haymaker Hall]] had also been all male, and Marlatt had been a very popular place to live. Due to this negative stigma towards Marlatt Hall, it has unfortunately become somewhat of a joke to live in Marlatt. This is truly sad since it's residents are proud to call themselves "Marlatt Men" and their staff and Director, Mr. David Yoder, are a great bunch of men. Marlatt has a fairly high return rate and a really low number of Incident Reports filled out each year. The residents of Marlatt seem to enjoy the lack of females to some degree, saying that it makes for less drama and a more relaxed living style. <ref>Comments can be found in Kansas State Collegian Forums published during time period.</ref> |
For the past few years, from about 2002 til present, Marlatt Hall has had a very bad reputation due to the fact it is the only all-male hall on campus. Prior to this time period, [[Haymaker Hall]] had also been all male, and Marlatt had been a very popular place to live. Due to this negative stigma towards Marlatt Hall, it has unfortunately become somewhat of a joke to live in Marlatt. This is truly sad since it's residents are proud to call themselves "Marlatt Men" and their staff and Director, Mr. David Yoder, are a great bunch of men. Marlatt has a fairly high return rate and a really low number of Incident Reports filled out each year. The residents of Marlatt seem to enjoy the lack of females to some degree, saying that it makes for less drama and a more relaxed living style. <ref>Comments can be found in Kansas State Collegian Forums published during time period.</ref> |
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Revision as of 07:42, 15 January 2009
Marlatt Hall is the only all-male residence hall at Kansas State University, United States. It is located on the West side of Kansas State's Manhattan, Kansas campus in the Kramer Complex. The other building in the same complex are the Kramer Dining Complex and Goodnow Hall. All buildings in this complex are made of brick, unlike the majority of buildings at K-State which are fronted with limestone.
Marlatt contains a high concentration of Engineering and Architecture majors due to its location on campus. Marlatt is well known for being the most efficient of the residence halls at Kansas State University. As of the summer of 2008 Kipp Van Dyke, former RLC of Goodnow Hall, was promoted to Kramer Complex Coordinator over both Goodnow and Marlatt Halls. The operations and use of resources in Marlatt were headed by the director David Yoder (aka DY or the Commander) until his promotion during the summer of 2008.
Unfortunately, Marlatt is also known for being the most outdated of the residence halls at Kansas State University. This is primarily due to the postponement of much-needed renovations in the late 1990s. In the summer of 2007, the first floor lobby and main desk area were remodeled, along with new furniture for all the Marlatt lobbies. Also during the 2007 summer, new furniture was placed in the basement and on floors one through three in the residents rooms. During the summer of 2008, floors 4, 5, and 6 received new furniture in the rooms.
Marlatt Hall features a computer, television, and exercise rooms each in their respective areas of the hall. An interesting feature is that Marlatt is one of only two Kansas State University Residence Halls that contains a dark room, the other being Moore Hall.[1]
History
Marlatt Hall is named after Washington Marlatt, an early Manhattan settler, minister and administrator at Bluemont Central College, later renamed Kansas State University.[2]
Marlatt did get several suites placed in its basement in 2003. There is a gameroom, television room, exercise room, weight room, dark rooms, study rooms and laundry room.
For many years Marlatt has been teamed up with West Hall for most campus events including homecoming events. This pairing won the overall homecoming award in 2003 and 2004 until it became apparent that West no longer wanted to be paired with Marlatt in 2004. Therefore in 2005 it was decided to switch to Moore Hall, which Marlatt has a better, more "accepting," relationship with. In 2005 the overall homecoming award was won by the "Moore-Marlatt team." The pairings for Homecoing were again changed for 2006, and in 2007 were paired with Goodnow Hall, resulting in Marlatt Hall's fourth win in five years.[3]
The Hall has several traditions that are carried out to this day. Of these traditions, the most well known is the "Marlatt-West Casino Night." This event started in 1984 and has taken place in the Student Union annually for twenty-one years. In the 2005-2006 school year the hall president chose not to secure the room for the event, causing the casino night not to take place after what is known as the "first blackjack." During the 2006-2007 school year however, Casino Night went off without a hitch and was given much praise by all residents who attended. The most recent Casino Night, held during the Spring of 2008 semester, was a large success thanks to the Marlatt HGB and the Ladies of West.
Culture
The False Stigma
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For the past few years, from about 2002 til present, Marlatt Hall has had a very bad reputation due to the fact it is the only all-male hall on campus. Prior to this time period, Haymaker Hall had also been all male, and Marlatt had been a very popular place to live. Due to this negative stigma towards Marlatt Hall, it has unfortunately become somewhat of a joke to live in Marlatt. This is truly sad since it's residents are proud to call themselves "Marlatt Men" and their staff and Director, Mr. David Yoder, are a great bunch of men. Marlatt has a fairly high return rate and a really low number of Incident Reports filled out each year. The residents of Marlatt seem to enjoy the lack of females to some degree, saying that it makes for less drama and a more relaxed living style. [4]
Awards
1970s
1972-1973
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Second Floor
1980s
1981-1982
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Second Floor
1985-1986
- Intramural Cross Country - Marlatt Hall
- Intramural Volleyball - Sixth Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Third Floor
1986-1987
- Intramural Cross Country - First Floor
- Intramural Volleyball - Third Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Third Floor
1988-1989
- Intramural Flag Football - First Floor
- Intramural Cross Country - Marlatt Hall
- Intramural Volleyball - First Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - First Floor
1989-1990
- Intramural Cross Country - Sixth Floor
- Intramural Volleyball - First Floor
- Intramural Basketball - Fifth Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Third Floor
1990s
1990-1991
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Fifth Floor
1991-1992
- Intramural Cross Country - Fifth Floor
- Intramural Softball - Second Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Fifth Floor
1992-1993
- Intramural Flag Football - Fifth Floor
- Intramural Volleyball - First Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Fifth Floor
1993-1994
- Intramural Cross Country - First Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - First Floor
1994-1995
- Intramural Cross Country - First Floor
1995-1996
- Intramural Cross Country - Second Floor
1996-1997
- Intramural Basketball - Second Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Sixth Floor
1997-1998
- Intramural Cross Country - Sixth Floor
1999-2000
- Homecoming Winner (with West Hall) - Residence Hall Division
- Intramural Flag Football - Second Floor
2000s
2000-2001
- Intramural Flag Football - Fourth Floor
2003-2004
2004-2005
- Homecoming Winner (with Strong Complex and West Hall) - Residence Hall Division
- Intramural Flag Football - Second Floor
- Intramural Bowling - Second Floor
- Intramural Volleyball - Second Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Second Floor
2005-2006
- Homecoming Winner (with Moore Hall) - Residence Hall Division
- Intramural Flag Football - Fifth Floor
- Intramural Basketball - Fifth Floor
- Intramural Softball - Fifth Floor
2006-2007
- Intramural Flag Football - Third Floor
- Intramural Bowling - Fifth Floor
- Intramural Volleyball - Fifth Floor
- Intramural Basketball - Sixth Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Fifth Floor
2007-2008
- Homecoming Winner (with Goodnow Hall) - Residence Hall Division
- Intramural Bowling - Fifth Floor
- Intramural Volleyball - Fifth Floor
- Intramural Divisional Team Point Champions - Fifth Floor
2008-2009
- Intramural Volleyball - Fifth Floor
External links
- Kansas State University homepage
- Marlatt Hall homepage
- KSU Housing & Dining Marlatt Information Page
References
- ^ "Hall Comparisons". Kansas State University. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
- ^ "Building History". Kansas State University. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
- ^ "2008 Homecoming". Kansas State Collegian. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
- ^ Comments can be found in Kansas State Collegian Forums published during time period.