8A the university daily kansan
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wednesday, october 22, 2003
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Jenny White, Topeka, junior, posed with two I-70 Speedway officials after a race. White finished second in total points at the speedway this season.
RACER: Student driver shoots for stock car success
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years old, the Topeka junior has been driving circles around her competition.
Growing up in Topeka; White raced in the Quarter Midgets, a racing group for four to 16-year-old kids. White compared the racing to go-cart racing.
White has been in the premier racing division at 1-70 Speedway since July 2000.
She said she was still in contact with her childhood racing buddies, one of whom is now on her pit crew.
Her schedule includes races every Saturday and practices on Wednesdays during the racing season, which runs from March until October. Her father is her crew chief and car owner and all the crew members are volunteers. White said she even had a built-in fan club that travels with her.
"The sponsorship required to race professionally is enormous."
Jenny White
Topeka junior
made up of family members and friends of her crew.
White and her team also maintain their own Web site, www.jennywhitemotorsports.com, and do their own media relations.
White said racing at 1-70 Speedway was the first step toward professional racing. The rest of the steps require convincing sponsors to pour money into supporting White's team, something White said was easier said than done.
she and her team have worked tirelessly sending out proposals and talking to business owners to recruit new sponsors.
Her list of sponsors includes A.J.'s Import Garage and MAC Tools, both in Topeka. White said
For White, the situation is at stalemate. To attract sponsors, she needs to travel to bigger races and gain more exposure, which she can't do until the team gets more money.
"The sponsorship required to race professionally is enormous," White said.
She placed second in points this season at I-70 Speedway, which she said was good, but not good enough to get more sponsorships.
Despite the obstacles, White remains focused on her racing goals. While most students were watching the Jayhawks take on Baylor last weekend, White was racing at Nashville's Fairground Speedway.
- Edited by JJ Hensley
Saturday protests planned
WASHINGTON - Anti-war groups are planning their largest demonstrations since after the start of the war in Iraq, with thousands expected at rallies Saturday in Washington and San Francisco.
The Associated Press
Protesters are expected from 140 cities in the United States and Canada, organizers said yesterday. They hope to foment public pressure that will force the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
With Congress poised to authorize $87 billion for Iraq's reconstruction, "Now more than ever it is critical that we stand united in our effort to turn this all around," said Leslie Cagan, an organizer for United for Peace and justice.
The protests are being organized by Cagan's group and also
International ANSWER, or Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, which led earlier protests. Their largest was in January in Washington, where police said 30,000 participated. Organizers said nearly a half million protested.
protested
The last protest in Washington,
in late March, drew only a few
thousand people. Organizers
hope to attract far more this
weekend.
weekend Police are planning for more than 40,000. The department has canceled days off for its officers, and will have extra horse and motorcycle patrols.
Fear said organizers have been working with authorities, and the protests should be mostly peaceful.
In March, about 65 people were arrested after climbing police barricades closing off
Lafayette Park, which is across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
The protests in Washington are scheduled at 11 a.m. EDT at the Washington Monument, followed by a march to the White House and Justice Department at 1:30 p.m. Speakers will include former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Martin Luther King III, Bob Edgar, president of the National Council of Churches, and Fernando Suarez del Solar, the father of a Marine who was killed in Iraq.
Presidential candidate Al Sharpton and Rep. John Conyers, (D-Michigan), will lead a Black Voices for Peace march.
In San Francisco, organizers are expecting thousands of protesters to participate in a 2 p.m. EDT rally followed by a march through downtown.
PARKING: Free on weekends
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"Anybody who read the article would probably quit paying on the weekend, so we've got to make a decision," he said.
Bengtson said he understood why students who had been paying for parking on the weekends would feel ripped off after reading the article.
Parking commission members said the department could afford to go without the revenue the garage had been generating on weekends. The department discovered an average of more than $300 per week was being deposited during a typical weekend, when workers conducted special collections in response to the Union's request for free weekend parking.
Commission members still haven't made a decision about parking rates on weeknights.
"From a student's perspective, I think it'd be great," he said. "It doesn't look like we're making loads of money from it."
Kyle Johnson, commission member and Wichita senior said he supported free night parking.
Other commission members said making the Union garage free at night could force them to make the Allen Fieldhouse garage free at night as well. They weren't sure how much revenue was generated through ticketing illegal parkers in both locations.
The commission delayed voting on the issue until its next meeting on Nov. 18.
Pat Beard, building services director for KU Memorial Unions, said he was pleased with the outcome of the meeting.
Beard had been proposing free parking on weekends and at nights since Sept. 16 to provide safe parking for Union patrons who didn't want to spend a dollar an hour for parking.
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MISSISSIPPI STREET GARAGE INCOME
Without ticketing cars, the parking department still made money from the Mississippi Street garage on the weekends and at night this semester.
WEEKEND INCOME
Date Checked Amount
Found
Sept. 15 $524.15
Sept. 22 295.95
Sept. 29 331.65
Oct. 6 338.50
Oct. 20 213.05
Total 1,703.30
EVENING INCOME
Date Checked
Found
Oct. 7 $81.20
Oct. 9 64.70
Oct. 10 126.00
Oct. 14 133.00
Oct. 16 61.60
Oct. 17 44.80
Total 511.30
Source: Parking Department
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