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THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 2016 | VOLUME 130 ISSUE 9
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
VALENTINE'S DAY
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Remington Miller (right) proposed to Alli
Voorhees at ESPN college gameday.
Alumni couple gets engaged in Allen Fieldhouse during ESPN Gameday
▶ LARA KORTE
@lara_korte
Alli Voorhees thought she had the proposal all figured out. From the date to the location, Voorhees thought she knew where her boyfriend, Rernington Miller, was going to ask her to marry him.
On Jan. 30, when the producers of ESPN's
College Gameday asked Voorhees and Miller to come down to the court in Allen Fieldhouse, Voorhees said she thought nothing of it.
"I jokingly said as we walked down, 'If I have to shoot a basketball or toss a Frisbee I'm going to kill you,' and he just started laughing." Voorhees said.
The couple stood on the court for about 10 minutes,
waiting for the production staff to give them the signal for when they were to smile and wave. Voorhees said she could tell something was off about her boyfriend, but she was not sure why.
"I just saw him getting more nervous and more nervous, but I just thought he didn't want to be in front of everyone." Voorhees said.
Soon the couple was
the couple was being told to get ready and the cameraman began counting down. That's when Voorhees saw her father walk onto the court, she said.
"I look at him and I'm like, 'Remington, why is my dad here?' and he just whispered, "You know how much I love you, right?"," Voorhees said. "Then I immediately knew what was happening."
Over the roaring cheers of the student section, with family, friends and the entire a u d i e n c e of College Game day watching, Miller
got down on one knee and asked Voorhees the big question.
"I was just kind of speechless. I couldn't even talk." Voorhees said. "Everyone was laughing at me because I was just standing there. I was so surprised and in awe of how he did it. It was just really really special."
Little did Voorhees know, she did actually have the proposal all figured out. Up until the night before, Miller said he planned to take his girlfriend down to Potter Lake, the exact place she thought he would propose. However, when ESPN producers got wind of his plans, they stepped in.
"When I got to town Friday, I went and sat down with all of them in Horejsi, which is the volleyball stadium, and they just kind of told me what they would like, and I told them what I would like, and we just kind of came up with it all," Miller said.
Over 40 friends and family members flew into town to watch the proposal. After running the idea past them, Miller said he decided a proposal in Allen Fieldhouse was "too good of an opportunity to pass up."
Miller, a 2013 graduate and Voorhees, a 2014 graduate, said Kansas basketball has been an important part of their lives,
both growing up and as a couple attending school together.
The couple first met in fall 2010, when Voorhees, a Gamma Phi Beta, was hanging out with some friends at Miller's fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi.
"She stood out to me but it wasn't anything that I really thought too much of, and the next time we went out we saw each other, recognized each other, hung out, and the rest is history," Miller said.
After a first date at Jefferson's, a few more at basketball games and a walk by Potter Lake, the two officially started dating in February 2011.
"Many of our dates, and one of our first dates, was to the fieldhouse for certain games, and both our families have been season ticket holders for a while, so we've grown up going to games," Miller said
Voorhees said their shared love of basketball made a proposal in Allen Fieldhouse that much more special.
"It's just something that he and I love to do together and we love to talk about it together and we both are very passionate about KU, especially KU basketball." Voorhees said. "It couldn't have been more perfect for him to do it on KU's Naismith court."
Michael Lissack, a 2013 graduate and friend of Miller and Voorhees, said he helped set the couple up in 2010.
"I just think they're two of the nicest people I've ever met, so I thought it would be awesome if they went out and it just worked out," Lissack said. "Remington, he's like the small-town kid but he's friends with everybody, and then Alli is just the most easygoing person ever."
Lissack said he and Miller had a tradition of getting up at the crack of dawn to tailgate before football games, and that Voorhees was always a good sport about it.
"Alli always did come up a couple hours later, but the fact that she put up with us, I knew that was a good sign," Lissack said.
Right now the two are living in separate cities, with Voorhees in Shawnee and Miller in Salina.
Voorhees said she's looking forward to moving in together, getting married and she also hopes that one day they can send their kids to the place where it all started.
"That's definitely the hope — that all of our kids will attend the University of Kansas," Voorhees said, "and be just as big of fans of KU as we are."
-Edited by Matthew
roots could be on President Obama's short list for the next Supreme Court Justice seat, following the Saturday death of Justice Antonin Scalia at 79 years old. Sri Srinivasan, 48, and Kannon Shamnugam, 44, are both Lawrence High School grads and notable for their legal experience.
Srinivasan has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia since his appointment in May 2013 by President Obama. Shamnugam heads the Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice for Williams and Connolly LLC and has argued 17 cases before the Supreme Court, according to his profile on the firm's website.
After graduating from Lawrence High School, Shanmugam went on to receive his undergraduate degree from Harvard, his master's from Oxford and his law
Journal, Shanmugam, an "ardent Jayhawks fan," compared his legal practice to the Kansas basketball team.
Srinivasan and Shanmugam's possible appointments to the Supreme Court are rumored alongside other notables including Paul Watford, another circuit judge appointed by Obama in 2012.
Srinivasan was born in India before immigrating with his family to Lawrence, where his father taught as a math professor at the University. In a recent article in USA Today, friends and family members also described him as a "fanned University of Kansas basketball fan."
The potential Supreme Court justice graduated from Lawrence High School and went on to attend Stanford University for his undergraduate, as well as his law degree and a Master's of Business.
a distinguished professor in the University School of Law. McAllister has appeared before the Supreme Court multiple times and hosted Scalia at the University twice during his time as a Supreme Court Justice.
"He was a boot with the students, great in a big group, smart, quick and a great sense of humor," McAllister said.
In terms of political legacy, McAllister said Scalia was a prominent conservative
The professor said he thinks Scalia's big personality and quick will be hard to match in a replacement.
"I think the next person will be a hard press, because he was rare." McAllister said. "Just the strength of the personality was unique and unusual, was the kind of person, if he was in the room, you knew it generally."
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