THURSDAY,OCT.11,2001
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Freshmen use skin-to-win strategy
Shawnee freshman John Graham campaigns for Special K, a group representing four greek houses in the Board of Class Officers. Freshman can vote for their officers through today at Strong Hall.
Kansan staff writer
John Graham said he believed if he ran around almost naked he would help get his friend, Bryan Clark, elected as vice president of the freshman class.
of the freshman class. "We just wanted to go out and bare it all," said Graham, Shawnee freshman, as he helped Clark, who is a member of the Special K group, campaign outside Wescoe Hall yesterday for the Board of Class Officers (BOCO).
Graham said that he originally wore two pairs of boxers underneath the sign, but decided to get some extra attention later in the day.
(BUCO). Special K is the group that represents four greek houses — Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Kappa Psi fraternities, and Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorotites. Special K's opposition group is the Campus All-Stars, which doesn't have greek sponsorship.
day. "I took off one pair and waved it around." Graham said. "Everybody was kind of shocked."
shocked. Bryan Young, Wichita freshman, said the partial nakedness was simply a ploy to grab the attention, and votes, of freshman.
"We're just looking to rock the vote a little bit." Young said.
Samantha Watson, Kansas City, Kan. freshman, said she didn't find much amusement in Graham's skin-to-win approach.
which does have great sponsorship While Graham and three or four other Special K supporters strutted around in the raw partially covered by a sign and two miniature boxes of Special K cereal taped to their chests, the Campus All-Stars stormed down the sidewalk in a shopping cart, singing "Vote for the Campus All Stars."
Graham said he was wearing boxers underneath his homemade sign, which read "Freshmen. VOTE SPECIAL K."
She said she voted for the Campus All Stars.
"When I looked over there and saw the naked guy and it was kind of weird," Watson said. "I was glad I voted for the one's I did."
said. "I was glad I voted for him."
Chris Maugans, Hutchinson freshman and the Campus All Star's nominee for BOCO president, said that the whole process was to have fun and to tell freshman about goals the group wanted to implement if elected.
"We're planning on having some class meetings to unite the freshmen," Maugans said.
Chad Schlaicher, Prairie Village freshman and Special K nominee for treasurer, said he might show up partially naked at Wescoe
today, too.
today, too. "Some of us will put a Jayhawk head on and harass people." he said.
Positions for freshman class officers include a president, vice president, treasurer
and secretary. Freshmen can vote in front of Strong Hall through today.
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