Wednesday, February 20, 1980
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Students help sell KU to athletes
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporter
With football recruiting season in full swing and scores of potential recruits visiting the University of Kansas each month, the university has a lot of that. That KU students often are its best salesmen.
The athletic department's host and hostess organization, made up of student volunteers, is effective because students can provide information and answer questions that coaches cannot, according to the Athletic Department, Bruce Mays, assistant athletic director.
"It's a very worthwhile organization because it sells the University of Kansas," Maya said. "They sell the University to men and women, and they answer some questions that we can answer."
TWELVE MEN and 26 women are in the program this year. In addition to showing the University community to recruits, hosts and hostesses represent KU during the Big Eight Conference Skyrviker's Tour, the Celebrity Golf Classic and other events.
Mays said he thought students became
involved in the group because they enjoyed athletics and wanted to belin the University
"It's nice to be a part of something that plays with a large part of the University, and I think you enjoy being able to brag about KU," he said.
Charlotte McFall, a Wichita sophomore in her first year as a hostess, said she enjoyed meeting people through the group.
"I get to meet a lot of people from other parts of the country. I like to ask them how we compare with other schools," McPall said. "I don't want to have students with students than with the coaches."
SCOTT GRAHAM, El Dorado sophomore, said he also like being a host and said the group worked well.
"We've gotten nothing but good reports from recruits and their parents," he said.
Before last spring, the organization was known as the Sunflower Girls and was open only to women.
McFall, Graham and David Knowles, El Dorado junior, all said they thought the addition of men to the program had been a plus.
"I think a lot of times," Knowles said,
"the men in the program—not including
myself—whose in high school athletics can relate to the prospects much better than the women and make them feel more at ease, and make of the game—making them feel at home.
THE ADDITION of hosts to the program also may help the group dispel a reputation that plagued the former Sunflower Girls.
"Nine out of 10 people think we're running an inexpensive whose house, to be real blunt, for athletes," Mays said. "That's the connotation most people have."
But that is not the case, he said.
"The image we portray is very important. That's why we want to portray a good image."
"We are a very above-board organization," he said. "We're not the athletes' social organization. We don't run a daina service for them."
Mays said there would be no reason for the athletic department to establish a dating service.
"I don't believe we'd want to set up
something like that because, if the athlete had a bad date, that's all he would remember." he said.
MAYS SAID the host and hostess organization became available to all sports this year. Before last spring, the Sunflower girls wlocked only with football recruits.
New hosts and hostesses will be selected in the spring, he said. Selection is based on a written application, an interview, personal appearance and communications skills.
About 99 percent of the group's work comes from football, but Mays said that figure was misleading because other major sports had not yet been recruiting.
Some schools with similar organizations, he said, provide tuition and fees for participating students.
Applicants must have attended KU at least one year and have at least a 2.0 grade point average.
At KU, the athletic department gives hosts and hostesses free tickets to most athletic events.
Bendover Coalition takes 8 grad seats
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER Staff Reporter
Flexibility appears to be the strategy of the Bendover presidential candidates Tim Salter and McRodwell, who rebounded with Student Senate Graduate campaigning unsuccessfully for the Senate presidency in last week's election.
Salter and McDowell won the greatest number of graduate senator write-in votes, with 27 apiece.
McDowell said yesterday that the Bendover Coatition intended to give the Senate a second chance. Bendover will next eight of the 24 Graduate school seats.
"You never know which way Senate will go from one year to another," McDowell said. "We won't guarantee we'll be as patient as last year."
Salter and McDowell were elected senators last year. They said that their experience in Senate budget hearings led to the creation of the Bendover Coalition.
Library bid selection expected next month
Other Graduate School write-in senate seats went to:
Gretchen Arnold, Independent (26); Chan-Kuo Tung, Independent (23); Robert John, Independent (22); Carol Robert John, Independent (22); Karl Aardin, Independent (21); Krupadanam Billa, Independent (21); Rachel Schaffer, Independent (21); Susanne Prochnow, Independent (21); Sandy Ciebold, Bendover (19); Robyn Hale, Bendover (19); Paul Kopsick, Bendover (18); Carlisa Corollini, Independent (18); Chris Holen, Bendover (17); Mark Yarlot, (17); Terry Van Ende, Independent (17); Marvin Wood, Bendover (16).
Selection of the winning construction bid for the $2.2 million renovation of Watson Library is expected sometime in mid-March.
The Board of Regents approved final renovation plans Friday, enabling the state purchasing director to take kids on the project.
Removal is scheduled to begin in May. Last year the state Legislature approved one-half of the construction money for the new schoolmaster is part of this year's budget request.
Plans approved Friday by the Regents call for a total renovation of the library's interior. Changes also are planned to bring compliance with fire and safety standards.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said the renovation construction would take about two years.
Wiechert the project's architect, India and other Architects and Engineers of the city, and suggested alterations could be made in increments, allowing some area of the library to remain accessible.
"We've been extremely" pleased with them, and they complained to the problems and come up with solutions," said, "and with the quickness with which they accomplish this after they were given their task."
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said the architects had spent a lot of time here and been very cooperative.
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