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INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Rock climbing, mountain biking, boxing and playing the drums.
TURN-ONS: Eye contact. I like someone who can look me in the eye — that means she's real. Sweet girls with a bad side, and someone that's super spontaneous — I'm not looking for a Tuesday-night girl; I'm looking for a Friday- or Saturday-night girl.
TURN-OFFS: Girls who wear too much makeup and sloppy, annoying drunks.
AWKWARD DATING MOMENT: My friend and I went back to Ellsworth after the bars one night with these two girls. Right when I was about to hook up with my girl, my friend's girl barged in the room to tell me that my friend was projectile vomiting in the hallway. I immediately dipped out with no shirt or shoes on.
CELEBRITY CRUSH: Carla Ossa. . . just Google her.
FAVORITE QUOTE: "I would rather live 40 years of excitement and fun and exhilaration and just... whoa, full volume, than 80 years of la-de-da-de-da, you know, boring. Why not get out there and live it?" -Ammon McNeely, American rock climber.
WHY I'M A CATCH: I'm great with kids, I'm fluent in Spanish, I like to travel and see new places, I'm carefree and a good listener. I pay attention to the small things in women, like wearing a new shirt or getting a new haircut.
// LAURA ERDALL
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brings changes to cupcakes.
An assembly line-style bakery lets the customer pick the cake, filling and topping.
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department only a few months ago.
Facilities Operations also tries to use native grasses in areas that aren't high in traffic, such as the West Campus, and limit the number of flowerbeds. This reduces costs and the number of seed out flowers.
"We keep all of the leaves and any green stuff in a big pile and we just keep turning it," Harding said. "It definitely helps us reduce our cost. We can just fill that in and let it decompose."
SEE FLOWERS ON PAGE 2A
"I'm trying to do stuff that doesn't require a lot of water and I'm trying not to fertilize at all" Harding said. The only fertilizer the University is going to use this year is a selfmade compost mix.
It's just part of the tradition at KU, said Shawn Hardin assistant director of the landscape department. Facilities Operations is in charge of eight flowerbeds that contain about 11,000 bulbs and hundreds of shrub beds. In addition to planting flowers, the crew picks up trash in the morning, mows the grass at least once a week and otherwise maintains the about 1,000 acres of land on campus.
Although some would like to keep the uprooted tulips instead of throwing them away, the University is not allowed to give them away because the flowers are bought with state money.
"I just want to have a nice place for people to come and learn," Harding said. "I want it to be a destination."
TRAVEL
Student to take "freedom ride" across country
BY WESTON PLETCHER wpletcher@kansan.com
The first "freedom ride" took place almost 40 years ago when more than 400 black and white civil rights activists rode from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans on public buses to protest against segregation laws in the South.
Freshman travels the original route
Dale, a freshman from Topeka, is one of 40 students from around the country to participate in Freedom Riders 2011, which is being organized by the Public Broadcasting Service series "American Experience."
William Dale will get the chance to retrace the route of the original "freedom riders" in early May, joining a few of the original freedom riders and learning about civic engagement.
"The students selected are the civic engagers of tomorrow. They are passionate about a plethora of issues," Dale said. "I hope to bring that passion back to KU. I want to learn from them and teach others
From May 6 to May 16, Dale will travel by bus from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans just like the first freedom riders. The students will make stops at many of the locations that the original riders visited, which include Atlanta's Morehouse College; the Anniston, Ala.; Bus Station; Vanderbilt University's First Amendment Center; the historic First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.; and finally will end the trip in New Orleans with a rally to welcome the original "freedom riders."
about my experience."
Dale said he was looking forward to the trip. He said he wanted to be able to discuss current social issues with other like-minded students.
"There is so much to learn, and I look forward to absorbing as much knowledge as I can," Dale said.
Edited by Samantha Collins
William Dale, a freshman from Topeka, was one of 40 students from across the country to be accepted to participate in Freedom Riders 2011. Contributed photo
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