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By Ross Fitch
rfitch@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Students confused as to what the Center for Campus Life was and its purpose may not have to be anymore. It's got a new name and new leadership.
On Aug. 9, Rueben Perez, assistant dean of students, became the new director for the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, located on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. The name of the center used to be the Center for Campus Life, but some members of the center felt the name was confusing.
"Students would hear Center for Campus Life and ask us, 'So, what do you guys do?' said Carla Woody, Hutchinson junior and employee of the center.
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Perez said the new name better represented what the center did.
Woody worked for the center for two years. She said the name of the center was Organizations and Leadership, or O and L, when she first started working there. She said the name later changed to the Center for Campus Life, and now it was Student Involvement and Leadership Center.
Perez said Organizations and Leadership changed its named to the Center for Campus Life in order to incorporate the Emily Taylor Resource Center, men's outreach, Nontraditional Student Services and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Resources into the center's area. He said the addition of the four population focus groups made Organizations and Leadership no longer seem appropriate.
Perez said the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, or Student Involvement for short, was an active part of the University of Kansas. He said Student Involvement was a home to many University organizations including Student Senate, KU on Wheels and the Center for Community Outreach.
Perez said he has two main goals as the new director. He wanted to continue doing what the center has been
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ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICES HOUSED IN THE STUDENT INVOLVEMENT AND LEADERSHIP CENTER
Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
Fraternity and Sorority Life
Optional Campus Fees KLL on Wheels
Leadership Programs Lesbian-Bisexual-Gay
Center for Community Outreach
Transgender Services
Nontraditional Student Services
Student Involvement also hans scheduling for the Danforth Chapel and coordinates the University Events Committee
Student Senate Men's Outreach
Socrure: Student Involvement and Leadership Center
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Big Jay surfs over the student section after Kansas scored a touchdown during Saturday's game against Tulsa, 40,600 fans showed up for the team's home opener at Memorial Stadium, compared to last year's showing of 27,775.
Attendance soars
Season opener attracts a nearly full stadium
BY MIRANDA LENNING
mlenning@kansan.com
KANSAN STAR WRITER
It was 80 degrees and sunny and the band played throughout the day. Blue and white tents decorated Campanile hill anticipating a flood of tailgaters. Kansas fans couldn't have asked for a better way to spend Saturday afternoon. They went to see the football game and a basketball game broke out. Both teams got convincing victories over their opponents.
About 6,000 fans went to Memorial Stadium to see the Kansas basketball team beat British Columbia 82-51. More impressively were the 40,600 fans who turned out for the football game against Tulsa, more than the 27,775 who turned out for last year's season opener against Northwestern.
"The day was perfect," Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said. "It came off just as we had planned."
He said the increase in attendance could be attributed to the success the football team experienced last year and a strategic marketing campaign that began last spring.
The gates to the stadium opened at 1 p.m., but some students came as early at 11 a.m. to get front row seats for the games. The tie-dye clad group who call themselves "super fans," sitting in the front row of section 43, were some of the first to arrive at the stadium. The 13 person group of Baldwin City sophomores said they sat in one of the front rows of every football and basketball games last year. They're on track to do the same this year.
"It's football time right now," said
Dan Hamilton. "Basketball is just an added bonus."
The basketball team, which played in its practice jerseys, held a decisive lead throughout the game but the fans held out until the end. All five freshman played and showed the potential fans hoped to see. The basketball game ended at about 4 p.m., and most fans exited the stadium to the sound of the band playing the alma mater. The blue and white tents and the parking lots surrounding the stadium filled up fast as fans went to celebrate the basketball team's victory and waited for the season opening kickoff. They didn't go far however, as there was a great crowd for the 6 p.m. kickoff. By the middle of the first quarter, students were pouring into the student sections, which were almost
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Band uniforms debuted
BY AUSTIN CASTER
acaster@kansan.com
ACASTER STARF WRITE
Marching across the field during the halftime show on Saturday, Kitty Rallo didn't have to worry about her pants staying up.
"Last year I had to use duct tape on the inside of my pants to hold them together." Rallo. Albanv junior. said.
Because of the success of the Feather the Flock campaign, a campaign to raise money for new marching band uniforms last semester, Rallo and other members of the Marching Jayhawks unveiled brand new, perfectly tailored uniforms at Saturday's football game.
The trumpeter said because of travel, band uniforms usually last only about 10 years. This year the KU Marching band purchased its first set of uniforms since the set bought in the early 1980s.
Stephanie Mendenhall said she thanked everyone who contributed to the campaign. The color guard member
"They were soaked with sweat and tarnished," Rallo said. "They had to be retailigned and reheamed every year."
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Freshman Anne Giesel plays before the Tula game on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The marching band debuted their new uniforms, the result of the Feather the Flock
Coed GSP not likely for years
BY KRISTEN MAXWELL
editor@kansan.com
SPECIAL TO THE KANSAN
It's been circulating a while, the nasty rumor.
But the rumor is just that: a rumor. The all-women hall will stay that way for at least the next few years.
"I heard that GSP was going to go coed just by word of mouth," said Whitney McNeil, Overland Park junior. "But I've also had lots of my friends, mostly just girls who lived with me in GSP-Corbin, ask me if the same rumor is true."
Although more women are requesting the coed renovated residence halls, such as Lewis, Templin and Ellsworth, the housing department has no plans of changing the gender requirement of GSP, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing. The rumors are a product of one meeting with a lot of ideas.
Figures on the first day of school revealed Corbin Hall was filled to capacity, with Oliver Hall and McCollum Hall at a close second with only one vacancy in each resident hall. GSP, however, had only 412 of its 418 spots occupied, the lowest of all the resident halls with six vacancies available, which would have been unheard of in earlier years, Stoner said.
Residence Halls demand shifted as early as 1997 with the renovations of Templin and Lewis Halls, said Diana Robertson, associate director of student housing. The increasing demand for renovated halls came despite the $562 increase in prices for a double room.
"It was a new thing that people were interested in and that makes a difference in their decisions," said Robertson.
At a weekly meeting held last year with the associate and assistant directors of housing, Stoner said he discussed this new trend and challenged his staff to think of ways to accommodate the demand.
Other ideas presented in the meeting included turning all the rooms in GSP to single occupancy rooms, in order to adjust to the overwhelming number of students who have their own rooms at home, Stoner said.
Renovating the hall into suite-style rooms was also suggested along with an unrelated idea of perhaps offering meal plans to sororities on campus.
"What started out as a bunch of what-if ideas turned into rumors," Stoner said. "Most people responded to the ideas by asking me what I was thinking."
Not only are there no set plans to deal with the shift in demand, but GSP is not even next on the list for renovations. Hashinger Hall will be renovated first, starting this summer and ending next year, Stoner said. Unlike the other renovated halls, Hashinger Hall will stay the traditional two-person rooms.
Look for the development of a new Hashinger Hall next year and other changes in student living situations in years to come.
But don't be surprised when GSP desk assistants still enforce the rules concerning visitation hours for men in 2005.
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