THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11,2004
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Women of KU calendar features original look
BY AUSTIN CASTER
acaster@kansan.com
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The Women of KU calendar is back under a new ownership that promises to put swimsuit back in a swimsuit calendar.
Topeka-based radio station WIBW bought the ownership rights — a two-year contract — in March. WIBW served as co-sponsor with the Lawrence Journal-World and Sunflower Broadband last year. The 2004 calendar marked WIBW's first involvement. Kelly Pierce, special events coordinator for WIBW, said when the opportunity to buy full promotional rights came up in January, the radio station jumped on it.
"We really saw what a tremendous asset it was," Pierce said.
"I wouldn't say it's risqué," Pierce said. "I'd say it's beautiful and classy."
With the change in ownership, the 2005 edition reverted to the original swimsuit format, Pierce said.
"Everyone has a story to tell," Lara Greczyn, one of this year's models, said of the variety of women in this year's calendar.
The Leavenworth graduate student said she thought more calendars would sell this year because the calendar now features models sporting swimsuits.
which were more revealing than the outfits of the past.
Greezyn said she auditioned for the calendar on a whim. She saw the commercial on television the day before, she said.
"I just did it for the fun of it," Greczyn said. "It's my way of still being feminine."
"I just heard a lot about it and it seemed like a lot of fun," said fellow model Andrea Horyna.
Erin Lawless, Leawood junior, and Bryn Maughmer, Garden City junior, sign 2005 Women of KU calendars for fans yesterday afternoon at the University Book Shop. 1116 W.23rd St.The women were out promoting their recently released calendar.
She said she did not plan to pursue modeling but thought it was a good experience. Horyna, Moscow junior, said she was chosen because of her involvement with intramural volleyball and her grade point average.
"It's a good reason to keep our grades high." Horyna said.
She said models were not paid in cash.
"It's not a paying job." Horyna said. "We get other perks like gym memberships, free tanning and hair."
The calendar went on sale yesterday at University Book Shop, 1116 W.23rd St., where models signed copies for fans.
"Last year's calendar we had to re-order because we sold out," Morgan Sims, assistant textbook manager at the University Book Shop, said.
An hour into the signing, Greczyn and Horyna said they had signed about 75 calendars.
The KU Bookstore on the second level of the Kansas Union will not offer the calendars.
"It's actually nothing we've
ever been asked to carry," said Tim Norris, director of the bookstore.
Models will sign calendars at
Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420
Crescent Road, from 9 to 11 a.m.
on Saturday, said Thomas
Ramirez, the bookstore's advertising and marketing manager. Calendars sell for $9.95 each.
— Edited by Steve Schmidt
KU alum, author to discuss civil rights activists' impacts
BY NIGLA ROWE
nrowe@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
Author, civil rights activist and University of Kansas graduate will speak today in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and the people who made a difference in our nation.
"I want students to have an understanding of how far we have come as a nation," author
Deric Gillard, 1977 William Allen White School of Journalism graduate, said.
Gilliard speaks from 5 to 6 tonight at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
It is a great opportunity to have Gilliard at the school, Jennifer Kinnard, coordinator of Journalism Administration, said.
"It is amazing all of the things he has done,"Kinnard said.
Earlier this year Gilliard was
featured on CNN and in a full page story in The Dallas Morning News Aug. 23.
He works as the Public Affairs Director at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Secretary, Region IV, and also is the communications adviser to the Regional Director.
His work includes establishing communication between media and political, community, faith-based and industry leaders
throughout the region.
Gilliard's book, Living in the Shadows of a Legend: Unsung Heroes and 'Sheroes' who Marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., focuses on 20 of the heroes behind the civil rights movement, whom Gilliard interviewed.
"They've changed the thought process of the nation and have all given sacrificially," Gilliard said.
In 2003 Gilliard was the first
keynote speaker in the Rosa Parks Library and Museum in Montgomery, Ala., for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Parks is just one of the heroes that he has had the honor to meet, he said.
Meeting so many civil rights movement activists, Gilliard said, was an exceptional opportunity because they won't be around forever.
Gillard came to the University as a frustrated athlete.
"Irealized I wouldn't be a pro athlete, but I always had an ability to write," Gilliard said.
He is excited to come back to the University and wants to set an example, which he never had when going to school, he said.
"We all need role models," Gilliard said. "We all need to understand that everyone gains from a diversified work force."
— Edited by Neil Mulka