THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007
STUDENT SENATE ELECTION
5A
You've been handed fliers. Your soles have been dusted with sidewalk chalk. You've read about platforms and promises. But what about some of the personal details of your Student Senate candidates? Read these pages to get a slightly closer look at the people who will be deciding your bus routes, student fees and textbook prices next year.
ARCHITECTURE
Thrash
Name:
Name:
Ricky Thrash
Coalition:
United Students
Hometown:
Kalamazoo, Mich.
Year:
fifth year
Major:
architecture
Favorite K-12
dition or memory: The 2003 men's basketball team making the finals Favorite Lawrence place: New York and Cordley Elementary Schools Political role model: I make my paths with originality
Giebink
Name: Brian
Name: Brian Gieblink
Coalition:
United Students
Hometown:
Rolla, Mo.
Year:
sophomore
Major: architec-ture
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Wavin' the Wheat!
Favorite Lawrence place: Any place that serves food
Political role model: David Palmer the President of the United States on "24."
Name: Kayla Lee
memory: The first time I hung out with Josh, because it was the start to great friendship.
Name: Kayla Lee
Coalition:
Delta Force
Hometown:
Tulsa, Okla.
Year: freshman
Major:
architecture
Favorite KU
tradition or
Favorite Lawrence place: In the company of Jon Jenkins. Political role model: Queen Amidala and Jesus, but more so Jesus.
Coble
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Waving of the Wheat.
Name:
Favorite Lawrence place: Jimmy John's
Katharine Coble
Penning
**Coalition:**
Delta Force
**Hometown:**
St. Louis, Mo.
**Year:** freshman
**Major:**
architecture
BUSINESS
Who is your political role model?
N/A
Name: Nicholas G. Squier
Name: Nicholas G. Squier
Coalition: United Students
Hometown: Lawrence
Year: junior
Major: accounting
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
The Rock Chalk chant after winning basketball games.
Favorite Lawrence place:
Anything on Massachusetts Street.
Political role model: My dad.
Strick
Name:
Name:
Julie Strike
Coalition:
United Students
Seat: Business
Hometown:
St. Louis, Mo.
Year: Senior
Major: Accounting and marketing
Favorite KU tradition or memory: The NCAA men's basketball tournament this year in Chicago and Kansas basketball in general.
Favorite Lawrence place: Clinton Lake
Political role model: David Palmer, the President of the United States on "24"
Zurovsky
Name:
Name:
Sarah Zurovsky
Coalition:
Delta Force
Hometown:
Overland Park
Year: junior
Major: accounting
accounting
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Rasketball
Favorite Lawrence place: Campus Political role model: Golda Meir
EDUCATION
Name: Jill Diederich
Coalition: United Students Hometown: St. Louis, Mo.
Year: senior
Major: elementary education
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
I always get goosebumps hearing
the Rock Chalk chant those last two
minutes of the name
Favorite Lawrence place: Mas
sachusets Street. You get a little bit of everything there... and I'm a sucker for Wa sushi!
Political role model: N/A
Name:
Krell
Name:
Keaton Krell
Coalition:
United Students
Hometown:
Lyndon
Year: senior
Major: English education
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Name: Laura Albert
Going to the Fort Worth Bowl Favorite Lawrence place: Sandbar Political role model: Harrison Ford as the President of the United States in "Air Force One"
Coalition: Delta Force
Hometown: Memphis, Tenn
Year Junior
Year: junior
Major: elementary education
Important Favorite KI tradition or memory
Favorite Lawrence place:
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Freshman year, when my camping group was No. 1 from the Mizzou game!
Name:
Arther
Laura Arther
**Coalition:** Delta Force
**Hometown:** Leawood
**Year:** junior
**Major:** secondary English
education
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
The Rock Chalk Chant, or the hatching of Baby Jay during the 1971 Homecoming football game. Favorite Lawrence place: Allen Fieldhouse during an exciting Kansas basketball game
ENGINEERING
Political role model: George Washington, he gave up his power so our country could continue to be free.
Name: Chad Kozicki
engineering
*Location: Students' Rights*
*Hometown: Wichita*
*Year: N/A*
*Major: chemical engineering*
*Favorite KU tradition or memory*
*Basketball games*
Name:
David Green
Coalition:
United Students
Hometown:
Lawrence
Year: freshman
Major:
architectural
Green
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Political role model: Bob Dole
Favorite Lawrence place: Allen Fieldhouse
Full name:
West
Hometown:
Ellsworth
Year: sophomore
Major: computer
science
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Coalition:
United Students
Favorite Lawrence place: Allen Fieldhouse
Favorite No. 1
Singing the alma mater before every home basketball game
Favorite Lawrence place: Allen
Retailhouse Political role model: Josh Svaty
Caster
Political role model: Josh Swayy (local representative in Kansas legislature)
Kodi Caster
Coalition:
United Students
Hometown:
Riley
Year: sophomore
Major: aerospace
engineering
Name
Singing the Alma Mater at basketball and football games.
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Favorite Lawrence place: Massa-
Political role model: Harry S. Truman
Major civil engineering
Coalition: Delta Force Hometown: Lawrence Year: junior
Major: civil engineering
I'll never forget the all night cram sessions with my friends, then the celebrations when the tests are finally over
Favorite Lawrence place: Any-
initial role model: I don't have a particular person, I look towards people who stand their ground and follow through on their promises.
Political role model:
Robbins
Name: Emily Robbins
Coalition: Delta Force
Hometown:
Overbrook
Year: Sophomore
Major: civil and
environmental engineering
no tradition or memory:
Living in Oliver Hall and having a good time freshman year before the engineering classes set in.
Favorite Lawrence place: Downtown and Massachusetts Street
Political role model: Jim Carter
Name: Aurom Mahobian
Who is your political role model?
Major: mechanical engineering
Favorite KU memory or tradition:
N/A
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
I got to play the cymbals of the KU
pep band on a Friday night. It was
the most intense experience ever.
Favorite Lawrence place: Massachusetts Street in general. I love the atmosphere.
**Coalition:** United Students
**Hometown:** Joliet, III.
**Year:** Sophomore
**Major:** metalsmithing and jewelry
design
Who is your political role model?:
Hannah Love.
Hoogstraten
Favorite KO tradition
Going to basketball games with my
dad when I was younger
Favorite Lawrence place: Allen Fieldhouse
Name:
David Green
Coalition:
United Students
Hometown:
Lawrence
Year: freshman
Major:
architectural
Political role model: Bob Dole
Schlageck
Name: Sam
Coalition: Delta Force
Hometown: Manhattan
Year: junior
Major: industrial design
Favorite KU tradition or memory Storming the field after we beat Missouri.
Favorite Lawrence place: the bridge next to Potter's Lake Political role model: Bob Dole
Faletra
Name:
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Running through the tunnels and onto the football field with the Marching Jayhawks on game day.
The adrenaline rush is simply unexplainable.
Amanda Faletr
**Coalition:**
Delta Force
Hometown:
Lawrence
**Year:**
junior
Major: music education
Favorite Lawrence place: Downtown: parks, shops, music, food and friends.
Political role model: Madeleine Albright
JOURNALISM
Walberg
science
**Loyalism:** United Students **Hometown:** Sunnyvale, Calif. **Year:** sophomore **Major:** journalism and political
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Favorite No. 14 football of memory.
The Kansas v. Oklahoma basketball game in 2006. We were down by 16 with less than 10 minutes to go and won by one point.
Wheel (downstairs pizza)
Political role model: Ronald Reagan
Name:
Nicholas Jay
Benedict
Coalition:
United Students
Hometown:
Roseland
Year: sophomore
Major: journal-
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Following the band around on the nights before football games and playing the cymbals.
Favorite Lawrence place: The Wheel for its "Wang Burgers"
Political role model: Colin Powell
Connor
Full name:
Major: journalism; strategic communications
Coalition:
Favorite KU tradition of memory
Beating Mizzou in everything
Favorite Lawrence place: Clinton
Lake
Hometown:
Overland Park
Year: junior
Political role model: Alistair Leslie
Graham (Ali G)
Morgenstern
Favorite Lawrence place:The
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Political role model: Ronald
The Kansas v. Oklahoma basketball game in 2006. We were down by 16 with less than 10 minutes to go and won by one point
LAW
Name: Eric Foss
Name: ERC FOSS
Coalition: United Students
No information available
Name: Brian Hardouin
Coalition: United Students
No information available
Name: Chris Scott
Hometown: Topeka
Year: Second year
Coalition. Delta Force
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
taking through campus on a sunny summer or spring day.
Favorite Lawrence place: Quinton's, The Hawk, or Massachusetts Street in general.
Political role model: N/A
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Name: Mark Pacey
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
The Kansas v. Georgia Tech game on New Year's Day 2005
Coalition: Independent
Hometown: Manhattan
Year: First year graduate
Major: mechanical engineering
Favorite Lawrence place: El Mezcla
Political role model: N/A
Name:
Elmer
basketball game I attended as a graduate student
tradition or memory: The first
Hometown:
Hometown:
Topeka
Year: graduate student
Major:
philosophy
favorite KU
Favorite Lawrence place: Biggs Barbeque
Political role model: Governor Kathleen Sehlius
Name: Tyler Young
Name: Tyler Young
Coalition: Delta Force
No information available
Name:
Amy Murphy
Coalition:
Delta Force
Hometown:
Kansas City, Mo.
Year: second-year law student
Favorite KU
tradition or memory: Football and basketball games with all my law school friends and hitting the bars with my boys.
Favorite Lawrence place: The
Political role model: Harry Truman. He's my hometown boy.
SOCIAL WELFARE
Name:
Rebecca Holmes
Holmes
Hometown:
Topeka
Year: junior
Major: social welfare
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Kansas Rasketball
Favorite Lawrence place: Munchers Bakery
Political role model: Colin Powell
Kelly
Name:
Name:
Maggie Kelly
Coaliton:
United Student
Hometown:
Leawood
Year: junior
Major: social welfare
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Men's Day and Dad's Day.
Favorite Lawrence place: Zen Zero Political role model: Mother Teresa
NON- TRADITIONAL STUDENTS
Name: Steve Peyton Coalition: United Students
Name: Jennifer O'Neill
O'Neill
sociology
Coalition: United Students
Hometown:
Orlando, Fla.
Year: senior
Major: American studies and
Political role model: I admire
Favorite Lawrence place: Love Garden
Favorite KU tradition or memory I love hearing the Rock Chalk chant in Allen Fieldhouse. There's absolutely nothing else like it.
Political role model: I admire anyone who stands up for what she or he believes in; anyone who is willing to work with those who may not have the same viewpoint in order to create a brighter future for all.
Jacobs
Name: Aaron
Jacobs
Coalition: Delta
Force
Hometown:
Leawood
Year: junior
Major: political science
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
"Bring Justin Home," the effort by Student Senate to raise money for individuals and families who were victims of the Sept. 11 attack. Favorite Lawrence planner.
Favorite Lawrence place: The Replay Lounge Political role model: Jon Stewart
CAMPUS HOUSING RESIDENTS
Heilman
Name: Mason Heilman
Coalition: United Students
Hometown:
Lawrence
Year: freshman
Major: political science and sec-
ondary education
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Riding my bike through campus during the summers of my youth.
Favorite Lawrence place: All of downtown
Political role model: Jimmy Carter and Barbara Ballard
**Name:** Andrew
Kong
**Coalition:** Delta
Force
Hometown:
Lawrence
Year: sophomore
Major: percussion performance
Favorite KU tradition or memory:
Throwing newspaper during player introductions at a Kansas basketball game
Favorite Lawrence place: Free State Brewery
Political role model: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger