Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday, October 3, 2011
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 201
MIKE GUNNDE/KANSAN (ABOVE) Rob Underwood, a sophomore from Great Bend, placed a water bottle in Delta Chi and Delta Delta's design for one of the contests in an event for homecoming on Tuesday. "Everything will be recycled and it's a blast and good bonding with the brothers," says Underwood, "Whatever we can do to help."
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(MIDDLE) Murals are displayed on Wesco Beach Thursday afternoon for a mural contest as part of homecoming week. The murals were painted by greek and student organizations. Students had the opportunity to vote for their favorite entries to win the United Wavet contest.
(BOTTOM) Buckets holding donations sit on a table on Wescoe Beach Thursday afternoon for a mural contest as part of homecoming week. Each bucket is assigned to a mural. The bucket holding the most donations will be the winner of the "People's Choice contest," and all donations will go to the United Way.
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CAMPUS
Students chalk Beach to rock competition
KU students use the oldest and newest drawing materials to leave their mark on Wescoe Beach as they competed in the Chalk n' Rock homecoming competition Wednesday afternoon.
Delta Gamma and Phi Kappa PSI used 3-D chalk in their design. Laken Rapiper, a junior from Texas, created the design for the joint effort this year. She said the group has never used 3-D chalk before.
"I think it's really going to set us apart from everyone else," Rapier said. "I don't see any other 3-D chalk out here."
Other groups put their focus on the design. Elizabeth Miller, a senior from St. Louis, created the design for Student Union Activities. Miller said the idea of a quilt came from the homecoming theme."From Lawrence with Love".
Rapier's sorority, Delta Gamma, won the chalk competition last year. She said the key to winning is not running out of chalk.
"It's easy to do," she said. "We're already running out of white."
Alpha Epsilon Pi went with older material and used charcoal in its design. Brandon Wagner, a freshman from Overland Park, said charcoal staves longer and produces a dark black color.
The designs were judged at 2 p.m. Chi Omega and Delta Upsilon took first place in the Greek Life category and the School of Engineering took first place among the Student Life category.
— Sara Sneath
CAMPUS
Students' walks to class last Tuesday may have been accompanied by a whole lot of trash. The Resculpture Recycling Drive started Tuesday on Wesco Beach as part of next weekend's work.
Recycling drive kicks in for homecoming
Large recycling bins were placed on campus not only to promote recycling, but also so students could compete in competitions. Groups collected recyclables all school year to build sculptures for the competition.
"We've had a lot of phone books that we've collected so far this school year and we brought a whole of them out," Lenax freshman Matt Smith said. "And we're building our fort."
The winners of the drive's Resculpture competition were Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Sigma in the Greek Life division, and the School of Engineering in the Student Life division. Alpha Chi Omega and the School of Engineering took home the prizes for the Recycling competition of the drive in the Greek and Student Life divisions, respectively.
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Some of the groups represented were fraternities, sororites and different majors.
"Throughout the week we've actually been collecting recyclables from either the hospital, the School of Engineering, and different dorms on campus," said Lauren Lacey, a senior from Troy, Mo., in mechanical engineering. "We're going to use our cans and our cardboard and we're going to make it into a gun barrel with the Jayhawk in the middle of it."
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Student authors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, con-
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vinced him to participate in the arduous contest.
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Held said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story. I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
Held will discuss his book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
that dream." Honn said. "That what everybody who writes does it for, that 'I hope somebody reads this someday.'"
Edited by Josh Kantor
student writers about students' writing experiences.
Student Author Reading Jason Held will read from and discuss his new novel The Write Message.
Index CLASSIFIEDS 11 CRYPTOQUIPS 4 SPORTS 12 CROSSWORD 4 OPINION 5 SUDDOKU 4
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