Wednesday, April 19. 2000 The University Daily Kansan Section A • Page 5 Students win TV show tryout Two get chance at acting parts on Baywatch Brielle Bjorke, Montrose, Minn., freshman, and Doug Klepper, Great Bend senior, won a trip to Austin, Texas to tryout for a spot on Baywatch Hawaii. The two will leave in a week for the semifinals. Photo by Aaron Lindbergh/KANSAI By Jessie Meyer writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer Brielle Bjorke and Doug Klepper will head to Austin, Texas, to try out for a spot on Bowatt Hawaii on April 29. They both won the all-expenses paid, two-day trip to Texas through a contest at Naismith Hall — a contest neither expected to win. Klepper, Great Bend senior, said he stumbled across the event while eating at the cafeteria in Naismith, 1800 Naismith Dr. "I kind of got talked into it by my roommates," Klepper said. "Next thing I know, they tell me I am going to Austin." Bjorke, Minnetonka, Minn., freshman, who lives in Naismith, said she didn't take the contest seriously. "I kind of did it as a joke." Bjorke said. "It's just an experience and a chance to go and have fun." The contestants were filmed as they read scripts at the Rock Chalk Café, and judges selected the two winners based on their tapes. Eleven people — four women and seven men — tried out at Naismith. A swimsuit competition was not part of the audition. Dawn Kovel, Naismith representative and Overland Park sophomore, will act as liaison for the trip. She said she thought there probably would be many more contestants in Texas, where at least one representative from Baywatch will watch the nearly five-hour event. Kovel, Bjorke and Klepper all said they had not received specific information about what would happen once they arrived in Texas. But Kovel said there probably would be a tryout session similar to the one at Naismith but larger and more detailed. "if they do well in Austin, they will be flown to Los Angeles for the nationals," Kovel said. "And if they win that, they will go to Hawaii and be on the show." But Hawaii seems more than an ocean away for Bjorke and Klepper. "I don't really think anything is going to come of it," Bjorke said. "I'm pretty sure I won't be going to Hawaii." Klepper agreed and said he was excited for the vacation. "I am just going down there and halve fun with it," said Klepper, who said he didn't know Baywatch still was on the air. "I'm not planning on making the trip to Hawaii unless I get really lucky. I might have a chance with my acting ability, but it's Baywatch, so I'm not really sure how much actual acting they are even looking for." Vending machines secured for safety By Doug Pacey writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer On May 7, 1989, Lance Foster, a Stillwater, Okla., honor student, died of internal injuries when a soda machine fell on him in Stephenson Scholarship Hall. The Lawrence Journal-World reported there were no witnesses to the accident, but Foster apparently rocked the vending machine in an attempt to free a can of soda or get his money back. As a result of the death, the University bolted all vending machines to walls in December 1989 and January 1990, the Journal-World reported. But 11 years later, not all of the 205 vending machines on campus are secured. "I think they're supposed to be bolted to the wall," said Warren Corman, University architect. "If they're not secure, that's "I think they're supposed to be bolted to the wall. If they're not secure, that's something we should find out and fix." Warren Corman University architect something we should find out and fix." Corman said he thought it was part of the University's deal with Coca-Cola that the vending machines be secured. "It's a good practice to secure them," he said. "I think the ones in Strong Hall are secured because they're pretty tall. Not that I've tried rocking them, but they're pretty secure." that operates all snack vending machines on campus, said it generally secured its machines. If there is an unsecured machine on campus, he said Treat America would secure it. Jack Mitchell, president of Treat America, the company Robert Derby, University concessions manager in 1989, said securing the vending machines was done in response to Foster's death. Statistics from the Consumer Public Safety Commission reported there were 1,813 vending machine-related accidents in 1998 treated in emergency rooms across the country. CPSC reported that 92 percent of people injured by vending machines last year were treated "I sense on the part of the University community an awareness resulting from the tragic accident... that if the machines are not handled properly they can be dangerous," he said. and released, while 7.8 percent were hospitalized. Hope Barrett, technical information specialist for CPSC, said it didn't have any figures on vending machine-related deaths for 1998 because it only recorded the incident and not the outcome. The CPSC released a warning on Nov. 2, 1995, that said rocking soda vending machines could cause injury and death, and that seven vending machine companies had put warning stickers on the machines. Some, but not all, of the vending machines on campus have stickers. The release said the CPSC knew of 37 deaths resulting from vending machines in the United States since 1978. Students or faculty can report unbolted vending machines by calling 864-COKE for Coca-cola machines, or Treat America for snack machines at 1-800-727-6092. 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