Outdoor Rental Center rents a wide variety of outdoor recreational and camping equipment. Intramural sports are the scheduled competitive activities of the recreation program. More than 40 different intramural activities are offered for competition. Kansas State University is a member of the Big Twelve athletic conference. KSU men and women compete with major schools around the country in track, cross country, golf, rowing, rodeo, and basketball.
Women also compete in volleyball and tennis, and men participate in football and baseball.
Whether it's Bach or Broadway, David Copperfield or Marcel Marceau, Mel Torme or the St. Louis Symphony, the Houston Ballet or the New York City Opera National Company, Wynton Marsalis or Itzhak Perlman, McCain brings the best in the performing arts to campus each year. The K-State Union is one of the centers of social, recreational, and cultural activities on the KSU campus. The Union Program Council presents more than 300 programs annually for the cultural, educational, and personal growth of students. Since 1966 the Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues has featured more than 80 speakers, including former US Presidents Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, as well as Walter Mondale, Dan Rather, Robert and Edward Kennedy, Pat Schroeder, President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Lesley Stahl, Tom Brokaw, Tom Bradley, George Shultz, Nancy Kassebaum, President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, Sandra Day O'Connor, Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell, Aba Eban, Janet Reno, and President Violette de Chamarro of Nicaragua. The University Convocation series features nationally and internationally known speakers several times each year.