Tuesday, April 20. 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Student Senate seeks applicants
Six non-political positions to be filled for StudEx
By Nadie Mustafa
mmustafa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Less than a week after elections, Student Senate already is building next year's staff.
Korb Maxwell and Dede Seibel, student body president and vice president-elects, will conduct interviews for Student Senate executive staff positions from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Governors Room in the Kansas Union.
Any students enrolled in six or more hours can apply for the positions of treasurer, assistant treasurer, StudEx chairperson, executive secretary, Student Legislative Awareness Board legislative director and SLAB campus director.
Maxwell said that all StudEx positions were non-political. He said that applicants should have leadership qualities and should be team players.
"The executive staff is supposed to be a close-knit group with a philosophy of working together toward certain things as the leaders of Senate," he said. "I want Senate to function like a professional legislature next year."
Maxwell said that the treasurer and assistant treasurer would pay bills and monitor finances, and the StudEx chairperson would be the "chief of staff" to the student body president and vice president and would ensure accountability within Senate. Also, he said that the StudEx chairperson would be responsible for scheduling, monitoring committees and would be Senate's representative to StudEx.
Maxwell said that the executive secretary would record minutes, maintain other records and facilitate legislation; the legislative director would assist the student body president and serve as students' voice to the state Legislature; and the campus director would represent students at the city level.
The campus director, a position created last year, would be involved in implementing a joint citywide public transportation system between the city of Lawrence and KU on Wheels, he said.
Julie Numrich, StudEx chairwoman, said that after Senate approved the StudEx appointees at a joint session April 28, they would begin work for next year.
Applications are available in the Senate Office at the Organizations and Leadership Center in the Union and are due by 5 p.m. tomorrow.
'Pregnant lady days' affecting Witherspoon
NEW YORK — Reese Witherpoon was having what she called a "pregnant lady day." It was the kind of day when she was likely to cry over anything.
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"Like television commercials make me cry, for like 30 minutes or an hour," she said, as a makeup artist and hair stylist put the finishing touches on the young actress so she could do an interview and a photo session.
The kewpie-doll cure 23-year-old is pregnant with her first child and is experiencing the full range of emotions that often accompanied pregnancy.
She can slip into a down-home "yall" or the girlish verbal tick of "like" at times, but she mostly talked in the straightforward manner of an erudite young woman — a debutante, the daughter of a doctor and professor of nursing in Nashville, Temn., the product of an exclusive all-girls school, a Stanford University English lit major.
Yesterday morning, she was talking about her latest film, Election, and suggested that it didn't neatly fit into the usual silly teen flicks that flooded the market.
And she was right. The main character is a teacher, played by Matthew Broderick, going through a midlife crisis — which mainly manifests in his intense dislike for one student (played by Witherspoon), an overachieving blonde running for class president.
"I think everybody has somebody in their life that they absolutely can't stand. And all your friends like them, and you're just like, 'I don't know why but that person just rubs me the complete wrong way.' "Witherspoon said, citing her own school experience.
"I had a particular girl in junior high that I didn't like. She just drove me nuts. She was always pretty and had lots of
dates and was always putting other people down, surreptitiously, and really rubbed me the wrong way.
"And now she's like wildly successful...
...It's depressing. And here I go, playing pretend for a living."
Not that it's a bad living, she conceded.
Not that it's a bad living, she conceded. Since early last year, she's had a run of notable movies: Twilight, in which she co-starred with Paul Newman, Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon; Pleasantville, where she played a slut turned bookworm; and Cruel Intentions, an updated Dangerous Liaisons, with her real-life fliance and father of her child, Ryan Phillippe, playing her seducer. She recently finished filming American Psycho, and still in the can is Best Laid Plans.
Her performances have garnered lots of notice in recent months, with magazines putting her on their covers or naming her to their "It List" or "Hot Squad."
But Wittherspoon took all of the up-and-coming-ingene hype in stride.
"I think it's important to have the right perspective about it," she said. "I have an entirely new perception of magazines — which is that people pick it up, flip through a couple of pages, throw it on the floor and never look at it again."
So while it's flattering, you can't rest
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"You just have to do the work to match the publicity."
Despite the next-big-thing breathlessness of some publications, Witherspoon aimed to be in this business for the long haul; she already has displayed staying power.
She started 16 years ago, at age 7, appearing in local TV commercials for a flower shop owned by neighbors.
"I just had a great time," she said. "I was just so star-struck. And I told my mother that what I wanted to do."
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