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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 14, 1994
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Brian Vandervliet / KANSAN
Jason Hatfield, Salina senior, looked over a selection of prints for sale in front of Stauffer Flint Hall last week. Businesses that sell products on campus, such as "Wholesale Art Prints," must be sponsored by a student organization which receives some of the businesses' profits.
Campus groups cash in on businesses
By James Evans
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Kansanstaffwriter
Credit cards can be applied for in front of Wescoe Hall, Spin Foncard applications can be filled out in the Kansas Union. And all last week, art prints could be bought in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
It's all in the name of money. Businesses make money from KU students on campus, and student organizations receive some of their profits
Businesses that come on the campus to sell their products must first find an organization willing to sponsor them, said Ann Eversole, director of the Organizations and Activities Center. Each business that is sponsored by an organization must be approved by the University Events Committee.
The companies are required by the University to give a portion of their on-campus profits to the student organization, she said. The standard fee that the University Events Committee recommends each organization ask for is 20 percent of the profits made.
"Student organizations have been doing it more in the past five years because it's a very creative way to raise funds," Everso said.
Many student organizations agree to sponsor businesses to help finance activities.
"We really needed money for our leadership conference and our Asian-American Festival," said Lisa Nguyen, treasurer of the Asian-American Student Union. She estimated that the union's festival would cost $8,000, and the cost for the leadership conference for Asian-American high school students was not yet determined.
Nguyen said that her group decided to sponsor Wells-Fargo Bank Card, the PNC Bank Cards, and the Total Gas Card this week to help pay for the coming events. She said that the union learned about the companies through a mailer that offered student groups the opportunity to earn
money by sponsoring the companies on campus.
The credit card companies are paying the union $1 for every two applications that students fill out, Nguyen said. She said that 120 applications were filled out by students on Monday, and that the union would receive their money from the card companies in three weeks.
Wholesale Art Prints, which sold prints outside of Stauffer-Flint Hall last week, found a sponsor by contacting the University Events Committee, said Kevin Harmon, independent contractor for the Kansas City, Kan., business. He said that the committee helped him find the University of Kansas League of Undergraduate Art Historians, which sponsored the art sale.
Harmon said that prior to coming to KU, Wholesale Art Prints had sold prints at nine other universities. All the universities that Wholesale Art Prints has sold art at had a similar student organization sponsor program, Harmon said.
Vending it
The following lists organizations that have sponsored businesses to come onto campus since the beginning of the semester.
Student Unit Activities
Art Print Sale in the Kansas Union
Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs Lawrence Journal World
Alpha Chi Omega Sorority
American Passage (credit cards)
Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity
Citibank (credit cards)
Asian American Student Union Wells Fargo Bank, PNC Bank, Total Gas Card (credit cards)
KU Bookstores
Sprint Collegiate Foncard
Source: Kansan staff reports KANSAN
Open house gives football tickets
Kansanstaffreport
Food and free tickets to Haskell Indian Nations University's next football game will be available at an Indian Center of Lawrence open house tonight.
The center, 1423 Haskell Ave., will be open to the public from 6 to 8 tonight to show how it helps in the education and betterment of Native Americans in the Lawrence community.
BRIEFS
The center, a United Way agency, also will feature players from Haskell's football team and give away tickets to its home game tomorrow against Benedictine College.
Chancellor's Club scholars
named
Kansan staff report
When Heather Whitney, Lawrence freshman, was named as a Chancellor's Club Scholar in July, she went straight to her father's office to give him the news.
"I was ecstatic," she said. "I was jumping off the walls."
Whitney is one of 10 incoming freshman to receive a Chancellor's Club scholarship this year.
"In my family, it's considered the best scholarship you can get at KU." she said.
Fred Conboy, director of the Chancellor's
The scholarship was important to her family for financial reasons, Whitney said.
Club, said the club was a group of alumni and friends of the University who contribute money for students and faculty to use.
He said the 10 recipients were chosen by the Department of Educational Services based on their academic merit, including their scores on the American College Test and the Scholastic Aptitude Test. All 10 of the recipients also were recognized National Merit finalists for their scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Five of this year's scholars were from Kansas.
Each of them received a $1,500 scholarship,
Coboy said. The five out-of-state students
received a $2,000 scholarship.
Conboy said all of the scholarships were renewable as long as the recipients maintained a 3.5 grade point average.
KU alumna joins service program
Clinton's program offers travel, cash service experience
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
From the front steps of the White House yesterday, President Clinton swore in the first recruits to AmeriCorps, a national version of President Kennedy's international service program, the Peace Corps.
But Shanda Vangas, a May 1994 graduate of the University of Kansas and an AmeriCorps recruit, wasn't at the ceremony in Washington, D.C. She was at her home in Derby flipping through the T.V. channels to see if she could find a live broadcast of the ceremony on television.
"I never did find it." she said.
But that didn't bother Vangas, who was concentrating more on leaving for Denver, Colo., this Saturday to begin her 11 months of service with the National Civilian Community Corps, a branch of AmeriCorps.
"Definitely, the trip is more important than the little PR rally," she said.
She and her team will clean polluted rivers, tutor children in the Head Start program for low-income children, and do whatever else they are asked to do.
After joining 250 other recruits in Denver, Vangas will travel to cities and towns across the Midwest with a smaller team of about 19 recruits.
Community service is not new to Vangas. Before graduating from KU,
she co-directed the Student Senate's Center for Community Outreach, a program that supplies community service groups such as the United Way with students who want to volunteer.
Last year, Vangas went to an Ameri Corps conference in Washington. D.C. and applied to work in the program soon after.
"I decided I wanted to do something in the non-profit sector," she said.
"Plus, I get money for graduate school."
AmeriCorp recruits who complete the 11 months of service get a $4,725 educational voucher to pay off college loans or pay for more education.
Vangas said that she would like to get a master's degree in non-profit administration.
That goal will be helped by Vangas' decision to sign up with AmeriCorps, said Laura Bellinger, staff secretary for Student Senate. Bellinger worked with Vangas for Senate's Center for Community Outreach program last year.
"She was over at my house last week, and I told her this was the perfect opportunity," she said.
Vangas does not know exactly what jobs will be assigned to her. But they will have to do with education, health, the environment and public safety — the four areas of Ameri-Corps service outlined by President Clinton.
Vangas said not knowing the specifics of her job didn't bother her. This wouldn't surprise Bellinger.
This wouldn't surprise Bellinger.
"Shanda is one of those people who's happy doing whatever she's doing," she said.
Three suspected in three car burglaries
By Manny Lopez
Kansan staff writer
Two 18-year-old men were arrested early yesterday, and a juvenile was questioned after three cars were broken into at the Jayhawker Towers parking lot within a span of 30 minutes.
Mark Purcell, Lawrence, was arrested about 1:30 a.m. yesterday, and James Roberts, Lawrence, was arrested about 10 a.m., after Purcell gave police information about Roberts whereabouts. The third suspect was questioned, but because he is a juvenile, charges against him will be decided by the courts, said Sgt. Rose Rozmiraek of the KU police.
Purcell was charged with burglary, three counts of criminal damage and possession of drug paraphernalia. Roberts was charged with burglary and three counts of criminal damage. Both men are being held at the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center without bond.
"We were investigating a call about activity in the parking lot at the Towers," Rozmiarek said. "That's when police saw the three men."
When the suspects saw the police, they ran. Rozmiarek said Purcell was captured in the courtyard on the south side of the Jay-
hawker Towers after a short chase. The other two suspects originally got away.
After capturing Purcell, police found a marijuana pipe in one of his front pockets. He was arrested at the scene and later gave police information about Roberts and the juvenile, police said.
Three KU students' cars that were parked on the lower level of the Jayhawk Tower Parking lot had damage totaling $2,250, police said. The three men apparently broke into the cars with their hands because no tools were found. Rozmiarek said. It appears they tried to steal a car stereo from one of the cars but were unable to pull it out of the dash, police said.
The first car was broken into at 1:14 a.m., KU police reported. Police said damage to the rear window, scratched and chipped paint, damage to the dashboard and damage to a cassette radio was valued together at $1,450.
Within minutes, the men ripped a black vinyl convertible top causing $500 damage, police report
Then, athird car was broken into and the front passenger seat was torn causing $300 in damage, police reported.
Rozmiarek said it was too early to tell if yesterday's break-ins were related to other recent auto burglaries on campus.
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