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STEP SHOW: Rhythm shows African influence
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Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and Zeta Phi Beta sorority won their respective categories last year.
Dolce said the awards came second to the philanthropic aspect of the event. All the money raised from ticket sales and entrance fees to the after party will go toward scholarships and operating costs.
Dolce said 1,200 people attended last year's show, but she expects even more people this year.
The show brings in collegiate chapters, graduate chapters and outside step groups, Dolce said.
Robert Page, multicultural affairs, said stepping began in the '50s and '60s. He said the steps are a rhythmic dance with an
African influence that show how Africans communicated.
The show is comparable to Rock Chalk Revue in regard to the performances and time commitment. Page said.
"It takes tons of work," Page said. "Practice can range from two to three hours a night Monday through Friday."
Edited by Michelle Rodick
STEPSHOW
Tickets for the show are $10 and can be purchased.
By phone — 864-ARTS
Online — 864-ARTS
Online — www.tickets.com
SUA and Lied Center box offices
Admission for the after party is
$10 at the door or $5 with a Step
Show ticket stub. The after party
begins at 11 p.m. at the Kansas
Union Ballroom
Source: National Panhellenic
REPUBLICANS: Members say chairman gave too much time to Taff
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barely mentioning other candidates,
"I see it as a suggestion for a change in direction," Flynn said of the censure.
The neutrality rule has been an important tenet of the College Republicans on both a local, state and national level, Findley said.
"It's important, especially, in the 3rd District for College Republicans to be neutral," Findley said.
Taff is running against Rep. Patricia Barieri-Lightner (R-
Overland Park) and Kris Kobach, Overland Park city councilman, to vie for the 3rd District candidacy seat.
Flynn also said that McFarland had been lax in scheduling meetings with the group and the other 3rd-District candidates. McFarland was turning the group into what Republicans across the state now saw as "Jayhawks for Taff," he said.
this past year. He said the group normally would have been invited by former College Republican chair Ward Cook, if it had not been for McFarland's perceived support of Taff.
Flynn said the College Republicans were not invited to a debate among the three Republican candidates for the congressional seat for the 3rd District
McFarland said he had been completely neutral, but supported members of his group working for whichever candidate they wanted to work for.
The censure also might make people think there is a rift between the moderate and the conservative sides in the Republican party. Findlev said.
"Our goal is to invite all
Republicans," Josh Steward,
College Republicans vice chair
and Haws junior said.
"Itdoesn'tmean anything," Steward said. "The state board doesn't have any authority over the local board, or local group."
Steward didn't see the state censure as a major issue.
To McFarland, this censure was just a consequence of politics.
"When people are behind, then they will attack the front-runner," McFarland said, "to level the playing field."
- Edited by Louise Stauffer
SECRETARY: Rhodes says she values her experiences with students
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Rhodes has voluntarily expanded her job duties since she took over five years ago. She started a lost and found in the Senate office that now has boxes full of sweaters and baseball caps. At the end of July every year, she takes everything that isn't claimed, washes it and donates it to social services.
The students Rhodes works with appreciate the personal approach she takes to helping them. If one of them has a problem, it becomes her problem. When Kaelyn Fox, treasurer of the Student Legislative Advisory Board, realized that SLAB was getting charged for some things that it hadn't used, she went to Rhodes for help.
"She'll call relentlessly, and they take her more seriously," Fox said. "Diana brings clout."
When Tyler Longpine, junior/senior CLAS senator, mentioned he was having trouble with a Spanish class, Rhodes was quick to provide advice.
"She remembered that one former student body president used to commute to Johnson County Community College and take it there to help his grades," Longpine said. "I'm thinking about doing that this summer."
Memories are important to Rhodes, so she spends her downtime in the office putting together scrapbooks for some of the executives that are bulging with hundreds of articles from The University Daily Kansan, the Lawrence Journal-World, and a few other papers.
She used to put in only Senate-related articles, but in the past few years she's begun including important events that mark the executives' college careers. For former Student Body President Justin Mills, she included an article on Sept. 11, 2001. For Knopp, who loves basketball, she included an article on Roy Williams' departure for North Carolina.
Knopp, who ran with KUnited, and Mills, who ran with Delta Force, were on opposite sides of Senate's political spectrum. But Rhodes said she had enjoyed working with all the different administrations that have come and gone during her five years as secretary.
"I don't look at it as political, I look at it as people," Rhodes said. "I'm older than a lot of these
kids' mothers, I'm not saying I treat them like a mother, but maybe I do a little. I like students regardless of where they stand politically."
It is the students who keep Rhodes coming back willing to face the mountains of paperwork day after day, year after year. She gets satisfaction from helping them overcome the bureaucratic hurdles of a major university and watching them transform from flustered freshmen with lost bus passes to confident adults ready to graduate.
"I love being around the students," Rhodes said. "I hold the administrators in esteem, but getting to work with students is what I really enjoy."
- Edited by Henry C. Jackson
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