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Student Union Activities looks to more entertainment
Big name comedian and end-of-year show are its goals
Marc Ingber
minger@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
After bringing in a range of speakers from political analyst James Carville to comedian Mo Rocca last year, Student Union Activities is gearing up for another round.
The student-run group, which is in its 66th year, sponsors a variety of activities including guest speakers, poetry slams, movies, comedians, concerts and tea servings.
Rachel Peart, Overland Park junior and president of SUA, said the group was an outstanding social outlet for its staff.
When she came to the University of Kansas she already knew a lot of
the people from high school. When Peart joined the SUA, she made a new group of friends.
She said joining SUA led to her to become involved in other activities such as leadership conferences and Student Senate.
"I do a lot of stuff that I never in a million years thought I would when I was just a committee member," Peart said.
Peart said one of her goals for this year was to have less events that reached a larger group of people than last year.
She is more interested in quality over quantity, because the number of events the group organized last year stretched them a little thin, she said.
"Eight events a week is a lot and some of our events began to suffer," she said of last year's schedule.
SUA is also going to scale back the amount of committees it has from nine to six.
Rebecca Swick, McPherson senior and SUA summer coordinator, said they were cutting back so the committee members would have more say in what the group was doing.
The six committees will be social issues, comedy and concerts, cultural arts, games and novelty and films and traditions.
Swick said a couple of SUA's goals for entertainment this year were to have a big end of the year concert at Memorial Stadium and to get a bigger-name comedian than Mo Rocca, although he enjoyed him.
Peart said she wasn't sure how well-known Robca was when they got him, but he turned out to be one of the highlights of the year.
Other highlights of last year were getting Patty Jenkins, director of Monster, and Steve Perry, former lead singer of Journey, Peart said.
"He did a little of the 'Don't Stop Believing' lyrics onstage, so that was
SUA is planning on spending more money for entertainment events this year than it usually does, so it should pay off, Peart said.
a highlight," she said of Perry.
It's still too early to confirm any specific entertainers for this year, though, she said.
Jamie Labrier, McPherson senior and vice president of SUA, said this year's staff was looking in good shape compared to past years.
The group has about 35 reliable committee members, she said, whereas they only had about 10 to 15 at this time last year.
They could always use more, Labrier said, and the best way to get involved is to stop by the SUA office on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union or to come to one of the committee meetings.
For more information go to www.swaevents.com.
Edited by Amanda O'Toole
Kansan File Photo
Satirist Mo Rocca watches a video of his appearance on The O'Reilly Factor along with the audience. He spoke last year to a full ballroom in the Kansas Union at one of the SUA sponsored events.
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