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》 ENDOWMENT
Funds reach highest total yet
The Kansas University Endowment Association reached a benchmark this year when its total funds topped $1 billion.
The mark represents a 10 percent increase from 2005. Endowment Association officials said the increase was consistent with the rate of growth in recent years.
"This achievement really is the sum of many, many years of working to bring funds to the University," said Dale Seuferling, president of the Endowment Association.
Seuferling said the number represented the value of all the permanently restricted endowed funds for the University. That figure includes money given for purposes like scholarships and professorships.
"What it provides is a permanent source of support," Seufler said.
Endowment money was used to create 62 new scholarship funds in 2006, with a total increase of 7 percent in money provided for student support.
The Endowment Association has provided $99 million to the University in the past year.
Rosita Elizalde-McCoy, senior vice president for communications and marketing for the Endowment Association, said the growth was mainly due to the successful investment of the money the Endowment Association already had; the total the Endowment received in gifts slightly decreased from 2005.
Elizalde McCoy said the decrease could be attributed to less money coming in from gifts given upon death. The simple explanation, she said, was that fewer graduates died during the past year. Contributions and pledges from the living rose by 15.6 percent.
"Our alums and friends are showing they care about the University of Kansas and that's the most important thing." Elzalde-McCoy said.
"The endowment's function is to assist KU and were just incredibly grateful for the close partnership and all the ways endowment helps students and faculty." Bretz said.
Lynn Bretz, director of university communications and government relations, said KU administrators were pleased with the continued growth of the Endowment Association.
Kansan staff writer Danny Luppino can be contacted at dluppino@ kansan.com.
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》 NIGHTLIFE
Trent Tiemeyer of Lawrence, door manager of Abe & Jake's, explains to a woman trying to enter the club Saturday night that she is already too intoxicated for him to admit her. "You can usually tell what stage they're at just by the way they walk," Tiemeyer said. "Like her, she had two people helping her walk. We catch it all the time."
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The odd world of a nightclub bouncer
Lawrence doormen see variety of behaviors: fighting, intoxication, even oral sex
BY DAVID LINHARDT
Bouncer D.J. Gregory had checked hundreds of IDs and dragged a number of drunken fighters out the door, but he had never broken up a blowjob until recently.
While making his rounds one night at It's Brothers, 1105 Massachusetts St., a fellow bouncer told Gregory that a woman was
giving a man a blowjob in one of the booths.
No one else was near the couple as Gregory approached. The woman's head bobbed up and down on the man's lap as he leaned back in the booth.
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"Uh, you can't do that here"
Gregory told them.
The woman quickly stopped, sat up and laughed with embarrassment. The man grinned, adjusted
himself, stood up and zipped up his pants right in front of Gregory. The couple walked out.
Welcome to the life of a night-club bouncer. Gregory and at least a dozen other beefy KU students are hired to keep the peace and enforce rules in Lawrence's favorite bars. Each weekend, bouncers spot local celebrities, meet hundreds of people, break up fights and stop the occasional oral sex act.
But once in a while the job of the bouncer does require the rare fistfight.
interview questions "quickly and confidently, with authority and friendliness," Tiemeyer said. "Size is a plus, but it's not necessary."
Trent Tiemeyer, door manager at Abe & Jake's, hires the bouncers at the popular nightclub at Sixth and New Hampshire streets. He said he looked for potential bouncers who could calm down intoxicated hotheads rather than beat them senseless.
No bar allows its bouncers to carry weapons. If a fight gets too intense, bouncers call the police.
The best candidates answer his
"If one of us gets hit, we try not to hit them back but sometimes it
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BY KIM LYNCH
Drivers can now be ticketed for helping out their friends
Philip Davis, Overland Park junior, gets dropped off by a friend Monday afternoon near the Chi Omega fountain. Because of heavy traffic in that area, the KU Public Safety Office and the Parking Department decided to put up signs Friday to prohibit people from using the area to drop off or pick up their passengers.
Dropping off or picking up friends in the roundabout drive circling the Chi Omega fountain is no longer allowed.
Danny Kaiser, assistant director of the Parking Department, said the department brought the issue up with the Public Safety Office, which agreed the rule was a good idea. Signs that had "no parking" symbols and that read "No Standing" were posted Friday in the circle drive near the Chi Omega sorority, 1345 West Campus Road.
Many people were stopping their cars to drop off or pick up people, which was causing congestion. The stopped cars forced buses and other cars to stop, creating a line of traffic. He said the area had heavy traffic and wasn't designed for dropping off or picking up passengers.
Kaiser said it was one or two people taking advantage of a convenience that was inconveniencing everyone else.
Sarah Kruse, Leavenworth
senior, said she was on a bus on Monday that had to stop because someone was being dropped off. She said she didn't think people would obey the signs because people also parked in restricted campus lots without permits.
Krause said that it bothered her when students stopped to drop off their friends, but that she did
Lindsey Powers, Minnetonka, Minn., senior, waited by the Chi Omega fountain Monday for a ride. She said she didn't know about the signs and would try to find an alternative place to be.
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Students have many options about when, where to vote
BY ERIN CASTANEDA
If KU students can't make it to polling sites on Nov. 7 they can begin voting on Oct.18.
In Kansas, absentee voting is called advanced voting. In Douglas County, anyone can vote in advance.
Keith Campbell, Douglas County deputy of elections, said there were two options for advanced voting. A person can vote at the Douglas County Courthouse beginning Oct. 18 and voters can also request a ballot by completing an advanced voting application. The ballot will be sent by mail to a voter's residence and must be mailed back to the election office.
Marek Brzozowski, Prairie Village freshman, said he would be voting
in Johnson County. He said that he didn't know how to register in another county and that it was easy to vote in his hometown since the drive wasn't that far.
"I think both are wonderful tools for students to use because it gives you time to vote in advance if you're busy Tuesday," Campbell said.
The applications are available on the secretary of state's Web site, www.kksos.org, and at each county courthouses' election. Web site. Ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on election day.
Now that he knows it's fairly simple to register at another location, he said he would most likely do it.
Ian Staples, Student Legislative Awareness Board director, said it was incredibly easy in Kansas to submit an advanced vote ballot.
"Student lives are hectic and if you can do it on your own time it makes voting easy and efficient," he said.
First-time voters in a county must present a copy of a photo ID or a copy of a utility bill, paycheck, bank statement or any government documentation that confirms the voter's name and address. If none of these are available, students can use their Kansas driver's license number.
Kansan staff writer Erin Castanea can be contacted at ecastanea@kansan.com.
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