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MONDAY, DEC. 5, 2016 | VOLUME 132 ISSUE 31
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
Campus pays respect to Nick Herren with vigil
▶ HAILEY DIXON
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Nicholas "Nick" Herren will be remembered for his beaming crooked
"He was really great," Prins said, "Words can only say so much about the character of Nick."
Prins said Herren
adored those around
DAY IN THE LIFE
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Tim Schlosser stands under the athletic department's motto in Wagnon Student-Athlete Center.
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Tim Schlosser is the assistant athletic director for student-athlete development and leadership. **Baxter Schanze/KANSAN**
TIM SCHLOSSER KU Athletics 'life coach'
Baxter Schanze/KANSAN leadership.
By Chandler Boese
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Tim Schlosser doesn't call himself an athlete, despite having once been a silver medalist in the world tumbling championships - he calls himself a coach.
"Even when I was an athlete myself, I would love to train, but what I really liked to do was help other people train," he said. "So, I would love to learn how to spot. I was young and I had learned how to spot. I always wanted to be an assistant for the other sessions other than my own training session."
Schlosser got his first coaching job at the age of 16, coaching tumbling, then eventually transitioned into gymnastics. Now, he works in the University's athletic department, but he would
classify himself as a "life coach."
"Even though I don't coach a sport anymore, I feel like I still sort of coach," he said. "I feel like I still have the same impact, in a way."
Officially, Schlosser is the assistant athletics director of student-athlete development and leadership. This entails meeting one-on-one with student athletes for much of his day to talk about pretty much anything, he said.
"What's great is that I'm not their coach, so I have no control over their playing time. I'm not their academic counselor, because I don't choose their classes," he said. "So it's really both helping them transition in and then having someone that's here to have their back."
Carrah Trimble, the senior director of stu
dent-athlete development, has worked with Schlosser since he came to the University five years ago and she said he's one of her favorite people in the whole world.
"I've never met anyone else who always sees the good in people like he does," she said. "He positively sheds his wisdom on whoever he's talking to."
When he's not talking to students, Schlosser teaches a leadership class, does team-building activities for teams that need them and serves on several committees.
"I think coaching and teaching are very similar and I think, for me, the reason I like it so much is because when you can inspire and empower young people — any people — to do what they don't even know is possible yet, it's so exciting," he said. "I mean, who wouldn't want to do that? What a cool day!"
When he meets with student athletes—which he says is his favorite part of the job—he tries to work with them on building leadership skills, like effective communication and conflict resolution.
"Most of our student athletes will be athletes for a very short time,but they will be citizens of the world for their lifetime," he said. "Our biggest payoff is when the call comes 20 years from now and we hear, 'I'm really happy with what
I'm doing and I love my life."
When it comes down to it, Schlosser said everything he does is about helping young people realize what that future might look like for them, or "realizing possibility," as he puts it. It's a philosophy that Schlosser would attribute back to his background in coaching.
"Coaching has a big influence on how I look at the world. To me, a coach is someone who is there to inspire and open up possibilities that maybe the athletes don't even realize are possible
yet," he said. "I think it has to do with going back to making yourself open and vulnerable to your athletes — whether you're life-coaching or regular coaching."
Trimble said that's definitely something she's seen him do since she started working with him.
"He shows people that they're amazing, that they can make a difference," she said. "He has mobilized that belief in a lot of people."
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Minear
Most of our student athletes will be athletes for a very short time, but they will be citizens of the world for their lifetime."
Tim Schlosser
year's DEI report, which suggested "that the University place the Student Senate under immediate review and restructure the organization of student governance at KU."
According to the proposal, the committee shall "consider, draft, and/or propose amendments to the relevant governance documents." Essentially, this means that the members will
The rationale for the new ad hoc committee, according to the proposal, was that while a Multicultural Student Government could benefit students, leaders should take a look at how the Student Senate system functions as a whole.
One of the biggest issues that was empha-
rently held by Student Senate. The proposal was tabled.
and Science senator. "Most important of these is that I worry about how it is going to affect the autonomy of our governance structure ... It will say to Student Senate that 'We are going to violate your autonomy and tell you what you have to do with your rules,' and I think that is totally unacceptable."
"The implication of the diversity committee's report is that the coalition system is discriminatory," she said. "It is incumbent upon us to say 'OK, let's have someone go deep in on it and see what
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Pam Fine, a Faculty Senate representative and journalism professor, said looking into another election method could benefit minority students.
night, and decided to look up the 2002 tuition cost, and compared it to this year," he said "I saw how large of an increase there was. I was pretty upset, so I started talking about it with people."
According to a University press release from 2002, the cost of in-state tuition per semester was $1,741.75, while out-of-state was $5,343.25. Current-
her. We're fighting for lower tuitions prices at all of these schools, not just KU."
Co-founder Lev Comolli, a Lawrence native, approached the University's Amnesty International chapter at the beginning of this semester to pitch KUART.
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