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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WWW.KANSAN.COM News WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2008
>>SMART AND SEXY
Women of KU Calendar still sizzles in 10th year
BY RUSTIN DODD
dodd@kansan.com
Cassie Rupp lies on her stomach, resting on the back of a white motorboat, wearing nothing but a black bikini.
Leona Lewis' latest song hums in the background, as the 7 p.m. sun dances on the Clinton Lake waters surrounding the boat.
Rupp tosses her hair back, repositions herself and looks 15 feet across the dock at a man holding a camera.
"Slide this way a little more," the photographer says, "hold that right there. You're going to love this. This is killer."
A few minutes — and a few dozen rounds of photographs — later, Rupp climbs out of the boat as onlookers stare curiously at the senior from Dighton. Rupp's exhausted. She's been outside for nearly 10 hours.
Rupp's not alone. She's here at the Clinton Lake Marina on this Sunday with four other bikini-clad KU students.
Tanya Voshell, Wichita junior, is a pre-business major. Voshell was born in China and moved to Kansas when she was 11-years-old.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Addie Fike, Shawnee sophomore, will appear in the 2009 Women of KU Calendar. Fike is majoring in health and exercise science and said she would like to become a physical therapist.
Together, they make up five of the 12 girls who were selected in May to appear in the 2009 Women of KU swimsuit calendar. The quintet, including Rupp, Jenni Henslee, Shawnee senior, Tanya Voshell, Wichita junior, Nicki Zimmerman, Iowa City, Iowa, sophomore, and Addie Fike, Shawnee sophomore, spent Sunday with calendar photographer Dave Gillispie. They scouted locations and posed for test photoshoots, practicing for the real thing in early August.
It's the 10th year for the calendar, which makes it the longest running University calendar of its kind in the country.
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Sitting on the dock at Clinton Lake, Tanya Voshell leaned back after her first day of swimsuit modeling.
But watching television and movies helped her learn the language and the culture.
Earlier this year, a friend cut an
Voshell, a pre-business major, could be the most unlikely model in next year's calendar. Voshell was born in China and lived there until she was 11 years old. But Voshell left her hometown in Northeast China and moved to Wichita, where her mom had taken a job. She said she didn't talk much that first year in Wichita. She couldn't speak English.
advertisement out of the newspaper. The Women of KU calendar was looking for models. Voshell was one of more than 200 students to send in
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