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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAIRY GANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2009
ATHLETICS
Sports teams perform in annual talent competition
BY ADAM SAMSON asamson@kansan.com
Each KU sports team brought a different flavor of talent Tuesday night as they competed for bragging rights in the fourth annual JayRock, a talent competition for student athletes.
Rivalries flared as the teams performed a total of 14 skits during the event, which The Student Athlete Advisory Committee, or SAAC, sponsors.
"We just saw — how many skits and all of them couldn't have been more different, but all of them are fun in their own right," said Mike Harrity, assistant athletics director for student-athlete development.
JAY ROCK RESULTS
In the end, the swimming and diving team dethroned men's track and field, taking home the best overall performance.
After winning the best overall performance in the first three years of layRock, men's track and field was the team to beat.
Best overall performance Swimming & diving
In its skit, "Eat to the Beat," the swimming and diving team used a fusion of food-related songs to create a skit about a team that loved
Most talented Men's track & field
Volleyball junior setter Katie Martinicinch, center, leads the volleyball team in a dance during JayRock on Tuesday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom. JayRock is an annual talent competition out on by the athletic department.
Most entertaining Softball
Funniest Baseball
food.
Aside from choosing the best overall performance, three guest judges also selected winners and handed out awards for the funniest skit, most talented skit, and most entertaining skit.
The judges included Paul Heferon, former track student athlete and two-time JayRock champion, Gwen Perkins, who is the wife of Athletics Director Lew Perkins, and celebrity judge Jennifer Widerstrom, 2005 KU graduate and former track and field student athlete. Widerstrom is now known as Phoenix on the NBC show "American Gladiators."
administrators, Harrity said he wouldn't rule out the possibility of it becoming an event open to campus in the future.
Although lawRock is open only to student-athletes, coaches and
"The originalasion for layRock was to eventually get a quality show that you can open up to the public," Harrity said. "I don't know if the group is there yet, but this year is definitely a big step in that direction."
Hannah McMacken, diver and chairwoman of the Big 12 Conference SAAC, said about 100 people attended the first JayRock, but that more than 300 athletes, coaches, and administrators attended last year's JayRock.
"It's a pretty big event for SAAC, and each year more people are coming," McMacken said. "It's a night celebrating hard work, athletics, the talents and relationships that we build."
Matt Baysinger, chairman for the NCAA Division I SAAC and former KU track athlete, said Jay-Rock was a great opportunity for student-athletes to spend time outside their sports and academics to relax and have a good time.
"We have so much time dedicated to the things we already do
that it's really easy to be narrow-minded as far as what your day is." Baysinger said. "But when you realize that it's all a part of a bigger picture and that KU Athletics is a part of a bigger community, then things like this are really great for everyone involved."
JayRock began four years ago when SAAC wanted to create a
camaraderie-building event for all of the athletic teams.
Harrity was inspired to create JayRock by a talent competition the SAAC at the University of Michigan sponsors. Michigan started the competition, Mock Rock, in 1999 and it has been a hit since.
Michigan's SAAC donates the proceeds from Mock Rock to the
The KU SAAC, which is known for participating in community outreach events such as the Special Olympics, is aiming to make lay-Rock a fundraiser and donate proceeds to charity in the future.
C. S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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RENTALS (CONTINUED FROM TA)
than 50 years will be required to have a license for each rental space. Hampton Court, 1704 W. 24th St., for example, would reach the 50-year mark next year and Cedarwood Villa Apartments, 2411 Cedarwood Ave.,
would require a license in five years.
Landlords could pass the cost on to tenants by increasing the price of their rentals. To cover the cost of the license, landlords could raise rent $5 per month for
a currently unlicensed property.
Though a jump from $25 to $60 seems significant, the price for the license is typical compared to other counties and states.
If an inspector appears unexpectedly, Limenez said, the tenant has the right to refuse entry, even if the landlord is present for the inspection.
The revision of the ordinance will also ensure there is a local agent acting as a correspondent for each rental property, even if the owner lives outside the city or state. This confirms the tenant is aware of future inspections and has someone to contact locally about concerns.
Most reports of code violations, however, come from the student population, Jimenez said. The city does not actively seek out code violations other than the inspection every three years for currently licensed rental properties.
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MUSEUMS (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Saralyn Reece Hardy, director of the art museum, said that the financial situation was a primary factor in reducing hours, but that it was not the first time the museum had considered the well-being of the environment. Hardy said the museum began working with the Center for Sustainability and was making an effort to think about energy conservation by dimming and turning off lights whenever possible.
"We all in the museum have been thinking more deeply about conserving energy and being responsible citizens," Hardy said.
Talbott said the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., also shortened its hours, and said saving energy and cutting costs in that way was a spreading trend.
Jennifer Talbott, assistant to the director of the art museum, said administrators took care in deciding how they would reduce the gallery hours.
Although the museum tracks visitors every week, Hardy said it took about two weeks to put the information together and decide when to cut hours.
Talbott said the art museum used weekly visitor courts to determine the best time for conserving energy. She said faculty found that the lowest amount of people visited the
museum of art between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.
"This is not the exception to the rule right row," Tallbott said.
Though the gallery hours were reduced, Talbott said the rest of the staff at the art museum would continue to work normal hours. Hardy said the art museum's business offices, classes and library would not be affected by the change.
"This was not taken lightly," Talbott said. "We tried to track our audience."
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said students learned life skills they couldn't in a normal rental property. Gleeson, like Paden, said living in a co-op had been educational as well as helpful to his own lifestyle.
"It's nice to have a system where you're not just treating the house well to get your deposit back, but you're treating the house well because it's yours," Gleeson said.
"Most people
could do it," Tadlock said. "It takes adjusting, but then again you need to take care of a regular home."
housing resident, moved into The Sunflower House last August and said that although the duties could seem daunting, cooperative living didn't require any more work than traditional housing.
Jones said living with 10 people was easier because they had a list
Chris Jones, Lawrence graduate, lived in The Ad Astra House when it opened in 2005. He said the division of responsibilities improved how his housemates functioned as roommates as well as friends.
of duties they could reference.
"There was a lot of diverse and different kinds of people there," Jones said. "I think it made it an educational experience."
Gleeson said sharing the space had its challenges, but the challenges weren't unique to cooperative living.
"Living with seven people can be difficult," Gleeson said. "But the problems I've run into in a
"Most people could do it. it takes adjusting, but then again you need to take care of a regular home."
CHRIS TADLOCK Co-op resident
co-op are the same problems you would run into with everybody else."
Paden said that as' with all living arrangements, cooperative living wasn't perfect. He said he thought cooperative living would continue to
thrive as well as enrich society.
"In a recession, people think that if they were to pool resources they would do much better in general, and I think we'll see more of that given the recession," Paden said. "It's an exciting time to be working with co-ops."
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