Wednesday, March 1.2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
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The Rayguns preform in front of some Delta Force representatives. The concert hosted three bands and was the kick off party for the Delta Force campaign. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
Senate could create new seat
Nontraditional position proposed
By Erinn R. Barcomb
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Nontraditional students could get additional representation in Student Senate if a bill is passed tonight.
Nontraditional students have two Senate seats — less than three percent of the total — even though they make up about 20 percent of enrolled students, Michael Henry, campus director, said.
Deena Hardie, Lawrence senior and nontraditional student, said nontraditional students needed more seats.
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system offers in terms of a place for recourse," Hardie said. "If you don't live on campus because you're commuting, how are you getting engaged in the process?"
senator and one of the bill's sponsors, said the seat was needed because nontraditional students didn't get the cross-representation in Senate given to traditional students.
J. D. Jenkins, Nunemaker
When the bill went before University Affairs last week, some committee members, such as Mike Kaufman, McPherson senior, argued that it might be difficult to fill an additional seat.
Most nontraditional students are too busy with jobs or families to run for office, he said.
By Mike Hoffman writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Students create new Coca-Cola campaign
Coca-Cola's new advertising campaign, "2002 prizes in 2000," is just one of many promotions that were devised last semester by KU students in two classes, Business Communications Projects and Advertising Campaigns.
Last fall, Chuck Marsh and Bob Basow. associate professors of journalism assigned their students to go out and conduct research and create promotions to help Coke sell more of its products on campus.
"Every semester we have the students do a major project for a real-world client with some kind of local tie," Basow said. "We had heard that Coke was having all sorts of problems that was keeping them from meeting their sales expectations."
Basow said he and Marsh knew the project would cost money and did not want their students working out of their own pockets. Coke gave the classes a grant so the professors could reimburse students for expenses. Basow said the amount of the grant was confidential.
Biehler said the students found that the KU community liked to have more chances at winning smaller prizes rather than one-in-a-million chance of winning a jeep. Several research techniques were used, she said, including interviews with students and faculty, polling sales of vending machines and visiting the bottling plant.
Jennifer Biehler, Wichita senior, continues to work with Coke this semester. She serves as an intern at Coca-Cola Bottling of Mid-America in Lenexa.
"We're thinking ahead of time to try to develop some mechanisms to make sure
Theresa Klinkenberg, university director, oversees the University's contract with coke. She said she hoped the new promotions would work.
just how successful the promotions are," she said.
Klinkenberg said there was a possibility that factors such as good weather could contribute to increased Coke sales. It's also important to make sure that the University's best interests are being met, she said.
Susan Gronbeck-Tedesco, assistant to the provost and chair of the Coca-Cola promotions committee, also worked with the classes.
"We're trying to build a better relationship between the University community and Coca-Cola." she said.
Coke is following another student recommendation in addition to the "2000 prizes in 2000" promotion. Biehler said that approximately 15 more vending machines would be added on various locations throughout campus during spring break.
"More vending machines will help to take some of the sales pressure off of current machines so they will not run out of the product as quickly because they will have more support," she said.
A third student Coke promotion, the start smart program, will start at the first new student orientation in April.
At orientation, new students will receive $5 in credit on their smart cards and a pamphlet containing information about Coca-Cola. The start smart promotion will cost $78.783.
Biehler said that the University and Coke hoped this would encourage more people to use their smart cards at vending machines, so there would be fewer problems with change.
Basow said he was pleased with the students' work.
"I'm proud of them, not just because they offered their own opinions, but because of all the research they conducted. They earned the right to recommend solutions," he said.
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