five questions
By Carly Halvorson
Jeriney DJ on 96.5 The Buzz
What's the story behind your name?
I wish there were one! My parents didn't find out if I was going to be a boy or a girl before I was born. If I would have been a boy, my name was going to be Larry Dean. Totally redneck!
Who would play you in a movie about your life?
It would have to be someone who is really tall, because I'm six-foot-one.
What band would you love to see in concert?
I've pretty much seen all my favorites, including Incubus—seven times! I think it would have been interesting to have seen Nirvana.
Who would win in a fight: Obama or McCain?
I would have to say Barack Obama, just because John McCain is older than dirt.
Where is the farthest you have been from home?
I was my high school mascot and I won a spot to perform in the halftime show of the Hula Bowl. I took my giant Wildcat costume to Hawaii and danced on the 50-yard line of Aloha Stadium.
I was named after the character Ashton on the television show North and South.
Angelina Jolie. I may not look like her, but I love her. She's a great actress.
I have always really liked Journey. I'd love to see them.
Barack Obama. McCain is older; and he blinks too much to fight well.
I guess college would be the farthest I've been away from home without my family. But with them, it would be on a cruise to the Bahamas.
CONTACT
Ashton Thompson Louisburg sophomore
HOWWEMET
It was a case of '80s mistaken identity for recently engaged couple Talitha Jennison and Tom Rhein.The two met at Rieger Scholarship Hall's'80s dance in August 2005 as they were both beginning their freshman year at the University.
Rhein, Ann Arbor; Mich., senior, had just returned from Europe the weekend before school began. He asked Jennison to dance, and Jennison says he talks really quietly, and so she thought he said he was from Europe. She says she thought she was dancing with a foreign exchange student for most of the night.
"I was in this really nasty '80s dress and had my hair all crazy, and he was wearing an all blank, kind of weird outfit," says Jennison, Wichita senior.
The air was eventually cleared when the two met up again a couple weeks later during an engineering study group in Rhein's scholarship hall, Grace Pearson. They began spending more time together, and just celebrated their four-year anniversary on Nov. 3. The couple's wedding is set for June 29, 2009.
Matt Hirschfeld
Contributed photos
(Top) The couple at Talitha's older brother's wedding in June 2006. (Right) Talitha and Tom pose in fall 2005 for their first picture together.
November 13,2008
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