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For food delivery, KU students turn to apps
► EMILY WELLBORN
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W with limited time and dining options,
many students are using food apps to save time and make their lives more convenient.
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The new Joy Run app is joining the ranks of Tapingo and EatStreet, all apps that partner with local Lawrence businesses and KU dining services to make money and make students' hectic schedules easier.
"Either it's the inability to get somewhere or the time to get somewhere and so these entrepreneurs have figured out a way to capitalize on that," said Alecia Stultz, assistant director of retail dining. "I think with the apps in general, once one person came out with one or one
company came out with one, everybody had to have one."
The University Dining services is partnered with Tapingo, a third-party service that allows customers to order their food early and pick it up without waiting in lines for a fee. The company is planning on rolling out delivery services in the next few weeks. Couriers like these
have been around since the 1990s, and she said that these new apps are fulfilling these same needs in a different form.
The University's Dining services decided to partner with JoyRun because it is designed for college campuses. It has appeared on other college campuses, like Ohio State University and Texas Tech University.
The company started promoting their app in January and is available at 23 campuses nationwide, including the University. Justin Turner, a senior who is a campus representative for the app, says that the company hopes to expand to 50 campuses total by the end of the year.
"I definitely see the company expanding even more," said Turner. "I
think at the rate they are going they will exceed that number."
Joy Run makes their money by tacking on a delivery fee of, at most, $5 to the retail price of the food, depending on what time the order was placed. Whomever is making the food run will pay for the food and then be reimbursed by the app.
Tapingo and Eatstreet
work similarly. The restaurant gets the full price of their products without having to split profits with the apps.
"It's been great," said Deb Tagtalianidis, the owner of the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Lawrence. "They've been good to us."
Mad Greek has been using Eatstreet for the last six months after being approached by a marketing representative. She said she wanted to try out the app because the restaurant didn't have an online option and wanted to expand its customer base.
Tagtalianidis thinks that more apps like these will be coming in the future.
"There's probably going to be more and more of them," Tagtaliandis said.
Why some students choose to tie the knot and some don't
▶ HAILEY DIXON
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For most students, the Campanile is simply a reminder of campus traditions. But for others, it can be a reminder of wedding bells.
Despite recent studies pointing toward people waiting until later in life, some University students still choose to get married while in college.
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"People are indeed marrying later, especially women," Kevin McCannon, a sociology lecturer, said in an email. "I think the average is 28."
McCannon said he thinks this is due to women being decreasingly dependent on men for their economic well-being.
"Opportunities in the workforce have become more available to women, not just any opportunities, but leadership positions and high wage, high skill occupations like medicine, engineering and law," he said.
However, McCannon said that he thinks being married in college is positive for some couples.
"Although, as someone who was married throughout his entire graduate career, my work quality never suffered, and in fact, I felt motivated to do well and succeed, because I had another person depending on that success, to an extent," he said. "I might be an anomaly."
High school sweethearts Jon and Rachel Podschun, both juniors from Winfield.
tied the knot in December. Rachel said that they fell in love in high school and have been together ever since.
"We definitely talked about it [getting married]," she said.
"It's not a hasty decision," Jon said about getting married younger and in college.
The couple said that transitioning from dating to engagement to marriage was not a huge difference, as they had been living together prior to their wedding.
"The only thing with marriage is that if you get mad, you can't leave," Rachel said. "This is forever."
The couple said that they think people should not be so negative about others that get married young in life.
"I feel like there's just a stigma if you're settled down in college, you're weird," she said.
The only thing with marriage is that if you get mad,you can't leave. This is forever."
Rachel Podschun Junior
For sophomore Carley Blevins, who met her boyfriend, Zach Shepherd, in an English 102 class last spring, waiting to get married until later on in life makes more sense to her now.
"Marriage is obviously a huge commitment," she said.
She said that she thinks that students like her can be independent and become financially stable prior to a wedding.
"It's personally really important, especially being in college, and only being a sophomore in college, I think it's really important to live out your college life independently," she said. "I feel like this is really the time to accentuate our independence and figure out who we are personally like as individuals before we completely commit to another person."
Junior Aaron Morris and
his wife Karla Gonzalez, a senior, have been in each other's lives for a while, as they met in middle school, before they decided to date. They married in September 2015.
Gonzalez said that people are always surprised that she and her husband have done so much while still being students.
"Most college kids are broke, for you to be like, 'You got married, you went on a cruise, you're doing so much and you're still in college,' that's kind of crazy," Gonzalez said.
The pair lives on campus and is currently enjoying their married life.
nior Alex Robinson and his husband, Luis Lopez-Santiago, recently tied the knot, in January.
Like the Podschuns, se-
"Honestly, it's very odd [getting married young] because it's usually straight couples who tend to get married very young," Robinson said. "I only know of one or maybe two other gay couples our age, and they don't even live here."
The couple met in 2013 and moved in together in Lawrence in November 2013. They will have been together for four years in April 2017. The engagement and marriage took place within two months, Lopez-Santiago said.
ried in college is not ideal for every relationship, the couples who did choose to tie the knot early in life are happy with their decisions.
"At the end of it, find someone that makes you happy, and don't do it for everybody else," Lopez-Santiago said. "Because if this person's right for you, they're more important than even family, I would say."
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Zoya Khan, a sophomore from Overland Park, also hosted the campaign launch and talked about the importance of inclusion to the coalition.
"Diversity and inclusion cannot be limited to a single platform issue," Khan said. "This is a conversation that needs to happen in every single policy idea, every single conversation that we have surrounding this campaign."
The name "KUnited" received the most votes to become the coalition's name. Barack Chalk and
United Students were also suggested at the event. However, Victoria Snitsar a junior from Santa Clara California, felt KUnited fit the goal of the coalition.
"Our message is uniting students," Snitsar said. "It's part of our name. We've seen a lot of division both nationally and on campus, so that's our main message."
Every student who voted on the name, either for or against the eventual winner, joined the newly formed coalition. Voting on decisions like this one serves as a binding contract to be part of the coalition, according to Student Senate Rules and Regulations. Those who
abstained from voting on a name have no obligation or link to the coalition and are free to explore other options, according to the same rule.
A central theme of the launch was the contribution of ideas from students. Justin Kim, a junior from Derby, touched on student participation and what he hopes students will bring to the coalition.
will bring to the coalition. "We're only as strong as the people we hear from and participate with us," Kim said. "The more ideas and the more input and vantage points we have to see for issues, the better we'll be."
The second campaign launch of the election
season, this event laid out KUnited's pillars: diversity and inclusion, advocacy and governance. Green, Snitsar and Khan presented these pillars and described them as the most important part of their coalition.
Platforms of affordability, success community and sustainability were also promoted at the launch. Green emphasized that although both are important and will work together, the pillars and platforms are different.
"There's a difference between platforms and pillars," Green said. "Pillars are what we stand on. They're the things we
want to encourage in our community. Then there are the actual platforms.The actual things we are going to run on."
Along with discussing pillars and platforms, the coalition nominated and approved Emma Anderson. a senior from Lindsborg, as the Election Commission Liaison. Anderson, who saw no competition in her election as a liaison, will serve as the go-between for KUnited and the Elections Commission. Similarly to coalition name, those who participated in the liaison vote are also officially part of the coalition.
Although KUnited filed paperwork for the campaign launch, they
have yet to form official coalition paperwork with the Elections Commission, according to Snitsar. Along with filing official paperwork, nominating a president and vice president are the next steps for any coalition and are likely to be voted on at their next meeting this Thursday.
"I've been a part of change at this University," Green said. "I've seen what committed students can do to make a difference here. That's why I'm excited to get started on this process."
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