Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday, October 3, 2011
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Black Student Union Vice President Rebecca Neville crowns DaNeale Diggs as this year's homecoming queen. BSU is the only organization on campus that still crowns homecoming royalty. This year, the organization also crowned a homecoming princess.
BSU continues homecoming week traditions
MONISHA BRUNER
mbruner@kansan.com
The University of Kansas Black Student Union combined old traditions with the new for homecoming week.
Stan Parker II, a senior from Kansas City, Kan. and DaNeale Diggins, a senior from Topeka, earned the titles of homecoming king and queen. The first ever title of homecoming princess went to Paige Alexandria Whiteside, a freshman from Jefferson City, Tenn.
"It feels good to represent such a great group of black students," Diggins said after she was crowned. "I just felt honored that I was chosen queen."
"It's an amazing feeling, a great honor that I don't take lightly," Parker said after he was crowned. "I'm definitely going to carry out my duties as I should. It feels great to represent my fraternity as the homecoming King."
The Black Student Union is the only organization on campus that still crowns homecoming royalty, and BSU Vice President Rebecca Neville, a sophomore from Merrillville, Ind., said the pageant's history goes back a long way.
"In 1969, that was our last campus-wide pageant," Neville said. "There was a black woman nominated and they decided to end the whole thing all together. The Black Student Union decided that they'd nominate their own homecoming Queen."
Contestants had to introduce themselves with a song that represented them and an item that stood for what they believed in. They also had to answer questions from the judges.
Parker and Diggins will ride on the BSU's float in the homecoming parade on Saturday.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
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LAWRENCE
Businesses face homecoming
STEVEN SMALL
ssmall@kansan.com
Homecoming is here, which means that more local business customers are in Lawrence. Businesses are preparing accordingly for the increased traffic.
Oread general manager Nancy Longhurst said the hotel is doing all it can to get ready for the weekend rush.
"All the hotels, of course, are full a year in advance," Longhurst said. "When people are here, they're in a great mood and they want to remember their college days."
This year's homecoming game is scheduled for 11 a.m., which is beneficial for most businesses. However, one business that won't profit from the early game time is the KU Bookstore in the Kansas Union. KU Booksbooks director Estella McCollum said the time of the game is more important than its accompanying events.
"When we have a 6 oclock game, it seems like people make an event of the day, come in to time to tailgate as well as do some shopping and spend more time on campus," McCollum said.
Bars and restaurants, however, will probably benefit from the early game time, most opening their doors early to serve customers. The Nest, a bar located on the ninth floor of the Oread, always has a large crowd on gameday.
"They just flock up here." Longhurst said. "We have two bars up here and they're both very, very busy. But we do well in both of them because everybody's got to talk about their college days and the game they just saw and it's a lot of fun for people to exchange stories."
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KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
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, convinced 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.
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
"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."
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
"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.
Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
that dream." Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that I hope somebody reads this someday."
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
"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."
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CROSSWORD 4
Student Author Reading Jason Held will read from and discuss his new novel "The Write Message."
student writers about students writing experiences.
CRYPTOQUIPS 4
OPINION 5
Monday October 3, 2011
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Ticket Cost: Free
SPORTS 12
SUDOKU 4
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