8 = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COVER STORY
THURSDAY,OCTOBER 24,2002
Sleep students catch Z's
Campus byways often home for tired nappers
By Kyle Ramsey kramsey@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
A stroll through many campus buildings will uncover squatters on the ground and lining the walls, using coats as blankets and bookbags as pillows. Their stay
may be brief, but these are the ways of
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"I slept on campus all the time," said Brooke Adriance.
student sleepers.
The Stilwell senior said she slept in the hallways of Robinson Center during an hour-long break between classes everyday last semester
"I just slept on the floor," she said. "I used my backpack as a pillow."
Adriance found a favorite spot on Robinson's second floor, where she would sleep most days. But one morning, as Adriance was beginning to fall asleep, gymnastics students filled her hallway. They began their stretching routine
"I'd get to where I would lay down and be asleep in two minutes."
Brooke Adriance Stilwell senior
in her makeshift bedroom.
"It was kind of annoying because I slept there everyday." she said of the experience.
Adriance said the hallway distractions were a problem when she first began napping on campus, but they were something she got used to with frequency.
"I'd get to where I would lay down and be asleep in two minutes," she said. "Sometimes it would wake me up, but not that often."
Lori Haines, Menomonee Fall, Wisc., sophomore, says she sleeps too deeply to feel safe napping on campus.
However, setting up camp on campus seems like an intimidating idea to other students.
"You don't know what people are going to do to you," she said.
Haines said she was worried someone might try to rob her.
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