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University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 9, 1991
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Lowden also will get a $440 a month salary for being president and works 20 hours a week as a business statistics teaching assistant for approximately $400 a month.
Sardonically, Lowden says he has a very independent family.
But being independent does not mean he is not involved.
Mitchell Foster, Lowden's high school math teacher, said that although Lowden was never a great athlete, he nevertheless played guard for the football team, kept statistics for both the women's and men's basketball teams and was the manager of the baseball team.
Lowden also was student body vice president for one year and president of the Student Body.
His involvement has continued in college despite a vow he made before his freshman year.
Lowden said he at first intended to be an electrical engineering major
"I was going to keep my nose to the grindstone," he said, "not get involved and make up the money for school. That changed in about two weeks."
Two weeks into his freshman year, Lowden became involved in extracurricular activities for his fraternity. Phi Gamma Delta.
"Iwaspledgeclasskitchenmanager," he said.
This seemingly innocuous stint as kitchen manager would prove to be the beginning of a therapy for Lowden. He said getting involved helped him adapt to the overwhelming student population at KU.
"There's so much out there and you learn so much outside the classroom."
Dean Newton, Lowden's roommate at the fraternity house and one of his friends, said that he and Lowden had similar convictions before the start of their freshman year.
"We were talking during Hawk Week about how we weren't going to do anything for the house or the University, and then we just started to get involved," said Newton, SUA student and Kansas City, Kan, senior.
"We always get a lot of crap because Alan and I never have any time to go out," he said.
Lowden joined the Finance Committee of Student Senate his freshman year, was a co-chairperson of the committee his sophomore year and was the chairperson of the University Affairs Committee his junior year.
Heskett, Lowden's girlfriend, said Lowden and she were so busy that Senate meetings often were like dates.
Lowden became student body vice president last April.
Although he had no intentions of running for vice president at the
beginning of last year, friends and student senators had convinced him to run.
There were two coalitions in the race: FACTS and Impact!, Lowen's coalition.
Jason McIntosh, presidential candidate for FACTS and senior senator, holds no grudges against Lowden for the election loss.
He said he admired Lowden for his tenacity and commitment.
Lowden's leadership skills as head of Senate thoroughly have been tested during the semester.
With Senate's motion to remove Fulcher 12, Lowden's position has been under enormous scrutiny.
Presiding over Senate, Lowden is able to vote only in the cases of a tie. Therefore, he did not vote when Senate decided to remove Fulcher.
Nevertheless, Lowden says he has been accused of plotting against the president.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, says Lowden has been nothing but fair.
"You can't help but be impressed with the calm manner and the sensitivity he has demonstrated with every individual who is involved with this issue, the primary issue Senate has dealt with this fall," he said.
"Frequently, there are people like Alan, and you wonder if they remember they are students as well."
Lowden has not forgotten. A high school valedictorian, he has
remained a scholar while at KU.
Except for his first semester of his freshman year, Lowden has maintained a 4.0 grade point average.
"I had a little too much fun my first semester," he said
However, this semester has taken a toll on Lowen
A triple major in psychology, business and math at the beginning of the semester. Lowden had to drop his business major because of the semester's time demands.
He said he was looking forward to concentrating more fully on academics next year when his term of office was completed.
"I'd like not only to make the grades, but also to understand what I'm learning," Lowden said.
One thing Lowden has learned this semester is how to be graceful under pressure.
"Iknow, despite the exterior calm, it's been a traumatic and stressful period of time for him," Ambler said. "The manner in which he has performed, therefore, is even more astonishing."
McIntosh agreed.
"He has to be objective," he said. "He's handled it superbly."
Although he prefers to be vice president, Lowden says he will act as president with equal vigor.
"Iknow it sounds cheesy,but I want to make KU a better place," he said.
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