12A the university daily kansan
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thursday, april 8, 2004
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Carrie Wilson, Beloit senior, Bethany Chmelka, Overland Park senior, and Sidnee Dyke, Wichita senior, attended the auditions for The Bachelorette and The Bachelor at Jeremiah Bullfrogs Live in Topeka. All three girls said they went as a ink, but Chmelka admitted it would be to get a call. She said she still would not go on the show.
Abby Tiffany/Kansas Jacinecla Zwerner, Las Vegas sophomore, waited in line to be interviewed for an opportunity to be on reality television. Zwerner said she was not nervous, but was instead excited something like this took place so close to Lawrence.
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ROSES: Contestants auditions for many reasons
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adjectives that best describe you," and "Why haven't you met your dream guy/girl yet?"
Leah Newby, creative services producer at KTKA ABC 49 in Topeka, said that all kinds of people showed up for the event.
"We've had a really great turnout," Newby said. "But nobody's gotten crazy, yet."
Crazy or not, the applicants were all given numbers and then interviewed for about three minutes on camera. Tapes of interviews and applications will be sent to California for evaluation by ABC, then contestants will be chosen from the lot.
Humorous, entertaining and unpredictable Jacqueline Zwerner said she wanted to be on the show not to win, but to take a chance.
Many of the people who attended the event were students from the University of Kansas, looking for love for all different reasons.
"I'm just waiting to get on the show," the Las Vegas sophomore said. "If I don't get on, I don't get on. There's always The Real World."
Zwerner said the show could bring her to find true love.
"If it's love, it's love," Zwerner said. "If it's going to happen, it could happen anywhere, why not on TV?"
For the application's dream guy question, Zwerner said that he hadn't found hers.
Easy going, optimistic and fun Sidnee Dyke, Wichita senior, and her friends wore T-shirts that said
Dykes said that they were attending the casting event to have fun, rather than to find true love.
"I came on the condition that I wasn't going to be picked," Dyke said.
Another of the bachelor-bailshirted friends, adventurous, spirited and caring Carrie Wilson agreed.
"I really just wanted to see what kinds of people were going to be here," the Beloit senior said. "We wanted to see mullets."
Some students, like calm, confident and reliable Kevin
Muoschalen, went to the casting event looking for a soulmate. The St. Louis senior was one of about 10 men hoping to get on the show.
"I want to find my one true love," Muoschalen said. "I'm hoping that I'd be more considered for the bachelor."
Compassionate, dedicated and crazy Denise Augustine said that she thrived on the competition.
"I have that killer instinct," the Wakeeney sophomore said. "There's fire within me."
-Edited by Paul Kramer
PARKING: Residential parking not a priority
going to have to try and accommodate as best we can and work around it."
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People who are concerned about walking up the hill at night still have the option of calling the KU Public Safety Office or Jaywalk, who will escort them to their destination, Ford said.
Another alternative would be for students to park in the red portion of the lot behind JRP and then move their car over to the yellow section by 7 a.m., he said. Ford said exercising this option would be the similar to commuters who arrive at the lot early to get a good parking spot.
"If they're willing to get up and move their car at 7 in the morning, we think that mitigates a little bit of the complaint from the education people," Ford said.
Ford also said that if the commission had accepted the sorority members' proposal, it could have been perceived as favorable treatment.
"If we did that, someone could look at that and say, 'Why are you carving out a special exception for these sororities that don't even live on campus?'" Ford said.
The parking situation behind JRP is a genuine problem, said Angie Carr, coordinator for Fraternity and Sorority Life. But she said she was having a hard time accepting the proposed policy as a fair solution. Carr said she did not understand why the concerns of the students from JRP who have complained were seemingly more important than the students who park in the lot overnight because they've purchased the same pass.
Sororites on West Campus Road have limited space in the chapter house parking lots, with 50 to 80 members using the yellow lot behind JRP Hall as a parking alternative. There are 182 yellow spaces in the JRP lot.
PARKING CRUNCH
Sorority, Live-in members Chapter parking spots
Chi Omega, 84, 40
Gamma Phi Beta, 80, 48
Sigma Kappa, 68, 30
Source: Parking Commission and chapter presidents
"Providing parking for off-campus residential units is not really one of the Parking Department's charges."
Allen Ford Parking commission chair.
It comes down to the fact that the sororities are not on University property, Ford said.
"We are obligated, primarily, to people who come back and forth to the campus," Ford said. "Providing parking for off-campus residential units is not really one of the Parking Department's charges."
It's true that it's the responsibility of those chapters to find parking for their members, Carr said, but their houses were built in the early 1900s.
"Things have grown up around those houses, and there's nowhere to park," Carr said.
"That's why they purchase those parking passes."
Kyle Johnson, Wichita senior, is a student representative on the Parking Commission. He said that regardless of where they live, the sorority members were students and permit holders, and kicking them out of the lot between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. would not solve the problem.
He also said that he thought the policy was one of the worst that had been created in his three years on the Parking Commission, and that he planned to petition the restriction and speak with the Provost about overturning the commission's proposal.
"I think it's a lot less to ask of JRP and Carruth O'Leary patrons to walk up the stairs in the morning than it is for the girls to walk up the stairs at night," he said.
Enforcement of the policy will be discussed at the commission's next meeting, and the commission will send its report and proposed restriction to the Provost by the end of the semester. If the rule change is approved, it would go into effect in August.
DEBATE: Students not allowed to ask questions
- Edited by Donovan Atkinson
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They might have the edge in mechanics, but nothing beyond that."
The candidates will answer questions from four panelists. A panelist will ask one coalition a question, which the candidates will then have three minutes to answer. Their opponents will then be given a chance to respond. This year's panel will be made up of two students and two faculty members.
Last year each panelist was allowed one question and then the floor was opened for questions from the student audience.
This year elections commissioner Dane Hague decided to eliminate the open questions portion. He said students would be able to question the candidates at the informal debate so he wanted to reserve the formal debate for the panelists to ask questions. Hague said he expected the formal debate to last about an hour.
Dunlap said he and Munch did a practice debate where they had their candidates and supporters ask them the hardest questions they could think of to prepare for tonight's debate.
Swenson said he and McKenzie examined their platform issues and those of KUnited to prepare. McKenzie said he was looking forward to the debate.
McKenzie said students shouldn't expect politics as usual.
"It's going to be pretty aggressive," McKenzie said. "We're basically going to be taking the gloves off and getting into details."
"It will be about 1,000 times more interesting than Bush vs. Gore," he said.
— Edited by Guillaume Doane
CORNERS: Intersection presents problems for KU on Wheels buses
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submit it at the traffic safety commission's May 3 meeting, Wooslev said.
commission.
If the traffic safety commission decides the intersection poses a problem, they will present a recommendation to the city
corner of 12th and Indiang streets.
The corner especially presents a problem for buses making turns, said Tim Akright, Overland Park fourth-year student and manager of KU on Wheels, the campus bus system.
Akright advises bus drivers to be cautious by driving slowly when making turns around the
Hesaid that removingparking spots in front of Yello Sub, 624 W. 12th St., would be a good idea. Adding a stop sign at 12th and Indiana streets would also be good, he said.
Workers at Yello Sub find traffic problems with both intersections.
Kevin Mulcahy, baker at Yello Sub, has problems getting to and from work.
"I have to slam on my brakes and honk at people who always try to jump that stop sign," Mulcahy said.
Jake Strickbine, Yello Sub delivery driver, said all of the delivery drivers have problems.
"People just fly around that corner without looking," Strickbine said. "I have had a few close calls."
Vice mayor-elect Dennis "Boog" Highberger did not think the corner presented a huge problem, though it was dangerous.
When they park along the west side of the building, they have to back out of a blind corner.
As of now, the city is stalling decision until it gets a recommendation at the May 3 meeting.
"I'm sure there's minor problems all over the place," Highberger said.
— Edited by Stephanie Lovett
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