FRIDAY,OCTOBER 11,2002
HOMECOMING
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5B
Can'struction helps needy represents homecoming
Kyle Schafersman, Lenexa junior, builds a model of the Campanile from cans. Schafesman said he used about 200 cans in the tower.
Anton Bunovskiy/Kansan
By Elizabeth Moss
correspondence@kansan.com
Kansan correspondent
Six thousand cans decorated Wescoe Beach Wednesday, beating last year's total of 2,000 cans in the second annual Jayhawk Can'struction contest.
The Jayhawk Can'struction was one of 50 competitions in the United States this year supported by Can'struction, Inc., a nonprofit company with the Society of Design Administration.
Genevieve Gordon, Homecoming committee co-chairwoman, said students who participated in the Can'struction met the goals of the company's ideals, to "provide an artistic, creative endeavor in which every nation on earth can join together to participate regardless of national, political, racial or religious ideologies," and to contribute to the spirit of homecoming.
"It is a physical way to represent homecoming, and it is one way to give back to the community," she said.
Thirteen organizations created sculptures on Wescoe Beach from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and each had its own reason for doing the project.
"This is our first year participating, and we wanted to be seen a little bit more on campus," John Tran, Overland Park junior and Asian American Student Union member, said.
Fritz Heffinger, Wheaton, Ill., sophomore and Delta Chi fraternity member, said Delta Chi and Zeta Tau Alpha sorority created a fountain with flowing water.
"We wanted to be different," Heffinger said. "For one of our annual parties we built a fountain and a pool like this."
The projects had to be related to the KU tradition. Finished products included a football stadium, a March Madness bracket and the Campanile.
The participants were judged in three categories: adherence to
this year's theme, expression of idea and originality of idea. Organizations needed to find cans and other items that local food banks could use and they needed to have enough cans to complete the art work.
Some groups received contributions from supermarkets and stores. The winners of the contest, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Delta Gamma sorority, received donations from Kmart, Wal-Mart, Food 4 Less and HyVee for their Campanile sculpture. Groups that did not receive help spent hundreds of dollars on cans.
Matthew French, Kansas City,
Kan., junior and Homecoming steering committee co-chairman, said he thought the homecoming committee's goals for Can'tstruc-tion had been met.
"There was just better involvement," he said. "They saw what was done last year and just started to do better."
When the event ended Wednesday afternoon, students loaded Pelanthe Community Resource Center's trucks with the cans. The Resource Center provides meals to families throughout the Lawrence community.
— Edited by Nicole Roché
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