I grew up watching Fort Hays State basketball games at Gross Memorial Coliseum…read more I remember Raymond Lee, Mike Miller, Mark Willey, Dennis Edwards, Steven McKelvey, Alonzo Goldston, Bill Morse and Gary Garner. I also remember celebrating NAIA championships in 1984 and 1985 and then a NCAA Division II championship in 1996. The Coliseum is also home to the women's basketball team, who won an NAIA championship 1991. The volleyball team plays here, too. There's other events, which include high school state basketball and wrestling tournaments, Kansas Special Olympics, graduations and concerts. The University has done a good job over the years investing and upgrading the venue.  It's updated the court, replaced the lower level seating with chair back seats and added a modern scoreboard with a videoboard. Concessions, while not overly abundant, are available and easy to access. Restrooms are also easy to find and kept clean. Parking is available in a lot to the north of the venue. It can back up a bit for a big game, but otherwise it's easy to enter and exit.

This is a nice little ballpark in a small college town where if you're lucky, you might catch an up…read moreand coming superstar. It's a busy little facility. It's home to the local university's team and also hosts games for the public high school team, summer American Legion teams and a summer semi-pro team of college players. As such, to help with wear and also to help withstand the volatile western Kansas weather, the infield is made of FieldTurf while the outfield is normal grass. The grandstand will give you a good view of the whole field. The venue has also added some plastic seatbacks to the metal bleachers to help out with your posture and to also help keep feeling in your lower extremities if the game runs long.

This place is one of the worst experiences I have ever had as an online student. They only have…read morelimited classes for what is needed. Their advisors are a joke that send out blanket emails that help no one. Their special education department will not make any exceptions to adding you to a class even though special ed is all about helping people. Instead of helping they ask you to take another class even when you let them know that without this class you will lose your job. THEY DO NOT CARE.

Stayed here for several weeks over the summer, while working on a project. I roomed with 3 other…read moregirls from other universities and I couldn't wait to switch rooms- as the girls were loud, walls paper thin, and beds like sleeping on a bale of hay (and sharing bathrooms with said girls). That being said, it was close access to music venues, parks, and restaurants nearby. Some of the architecture was also very nice, but it was hard getting from one side of campus to another (and especially without a key). There's a beautiful picnic area on the back side of campus, where I spent many a days eating dinner with a family of raccoons. I also enjoyed the rainy days at Starbucks (and, even getting featured in the FHSU Viewbook drinking said Starbucks. Go Tigers!), the empty dining halls during the summer, and the SW chicken wrap (something spicy like salsa, chicken, beans, corn, cheese, lettuce, tomato) from Mondo's Quick Subs. A little expensive for "university prices", but it will have to do

As a self-proclaimed Hippie and a Wanna-Be Child of the 60's...this is heaven! Psychedelics or not,…read morethis is a gooood time! The music, the art, the sun, the grass, the nudity, the liberated peoples!!! Last year (2009) was the celebration for the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock. Oh my word! I shouted along with Country Joe McDonald as he performed "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die," his infamous Woodstock sing-along song. I abandoned my belongings on the grass near the main stage to explore the festival and returned to see my items untouched. I hung out in a tent staring at the rapid-pace fingers of performers from India playing string instruments I don't know the name to. I crawled through several hippie buses and talked to the inhabitants of the buses and the artists that make them pretty. I was given a personal demonstration of a vehicle powered solely by walnut shells. I watched a band play for hours while festival goers volunteered to pedal the stationary bikes that produce the energy for the show. I didn't go anywhere near the vendors since there were so many scattered artists throughout the field. I don't know what else more I can say. I was in heaven!!!

Rolling Plains Motor Speedway is one of the best dirt race tracks around. Great racing and…read moreconfession stand food. Will be back to watch races again!!