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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10. 1996
Student Senate Elections 1996
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Taking advantage of the warm weather, roofers apply a coating of tar to the Computer Center's roof. The
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center will remain open while the work on the building is being finished.
Students taste stardom
Tim Burton chooses two local students for new alien film
Jenny Nichols, Lawrence sophomore, and Sean Holland, Kismet senior, will play two lovers having sex while being spied on by alien invaders.
By R. Adam Ward Kansan staff writer
Some KU students are going to spice up Tim Burton's new movie, Mars Attacks.
Holland said his character then would ask, "Sorry, honey, was that too hard?"
The Warner Bros. film will be a take on what would happen if aliens invaded Earth. It will star Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.
Nichols said she and Holland would simulate making love in a trailer decorated with furniture from the 70's. Her character would see an alien at the window and start shouting. "Mike, Mike!"
The two will shoot the scene on
"I don't think they'll ask for a tit shot. But if they do, I'm going to ask for a lot more money."
Jenny Nichols
Lawrence sophomore
Monday and Tuesday in El Dorado.
Nichols said that the audition for the part, which was in Kansas City, was awkward. But the fact that she knew Holland made it easier.
Holland said that because the scene was comical, it was low stress.
"We just had sex while the stars were watching," he said. "The stars are the aliens."
be or what the movie would be rated but that he thought the sex would be secondary because it was more about people noticing the aliens.
Nichols said the Kansas production company for the movie, based in El Dorado, hadn't contacted her about nudity.
"I don't think they'll ask for a tit shot," Nichols said. "But if they do, I'm going to ask for a lot more money."
She said she would be paid union scale, which is $625 a day.
He said that he didn't know how graphic the sex scene was going to
The students were contacted about auditioning by Jack Wright, theater and film professor and part owner of Wright and Laird Casting, which did the casting in Kansas for the movie.
Wright said the movie came to Kansas because of the active recruitment of the Kansas Film Commission and because Kansas locations were what they were looking for.
After their audition, the video of their performance of the scene, a photograph and their resumes were sent to casting agents in Los Angeles, Nichols said. It was narrowed down to three couples, and Burton made the final decision.
Candidates voice visions of leadership
Debate explores Student Senate's importance at KU
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
Vision and Voice coalition candidates for Student Senate shared their views on Senate's importance and their coalitions' strengths in a debate at 7:30 last night at 3140 Wescoe Hall.
Grey Montgomery, Vision coalition candidate for student body president, began with a two-minute introduction about his coalition.
"What we've emphasized throughout the campaign is leadership," Montgomery said. "It's not just leadership for the sake of titles. It's leadership with results."
Montgomery said that Vision members were working to improve student life.
Cesar Millan, Voice coalition candidate for student body president, emphasized the representative leadership of Voice members.
"This coalition is made up of leaders from all across campus," Millan said.
He said that this was the first time
in Senate history that a coalition had a full ticket of students from more than 50 student organizations.
Millan said Senate held power to lobby for students.
Allan Cigler, professor of political science and debate panelist, asked candidates why Senate was important.
"I believe that student government is important because it's a vehicle through which the students can voice their concerns to the administration, the Board of Regents and even the Legislature in Topeka," Millan said.
Montgomery said senators were the people to whom students could turn with concerns.
"There is no limit to what Student Senate can do both in advising or real results," he said.
About 100 students attended, and some said they already had decided who they would vote for. But Nick Bartkoski, Baseher freshman, said he was disillusioned by the process.
"I'm a little tired of the whole thing, to be honest," Bartkoski said. "These are all day-before-election promises, and you have to take them with a grain of salt. You almost wonder if these same people will be listening to every student who comes into their office a few months from now when they've been elected to office."
Kassebaum to speak at KU
Senator's speech to address variety of education issues
By David Teska Kansan staff writer
Kassebaum, the Republican junior Senator from Kansas and KU alumnus, will give the J.A. Vickers Sr. and Robert V. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. to morrow night in the Lied Center. Her address, A Washington Update, will touch on several issues, including her perspective on legislation pending before Congress and the upcoming presidential race
Nancy Kassebaum is coming home.
Nancy Kassebaum
Mike Harper, a Kassebaum administrative assistant, said Kassebaum was contacted last fall by the School of Business. The speech likely will include topics of interest to KU students, such as student loans and education, he said.
"She particularly likes to get on campuses," he said.
The Vickers lecture series, began
in 1971, seeks to stimulate public discussion on topics central to a market economy and has brought leaders in business, politics and journalism to the University of Kansas. Past speakers include journalist Hugh Sidey, political commentator Patrick Buchanan and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The series was started to honor a pioneer in the Kansas oil industry, J.A.V. Vickers Sr., who died in 1940. His son, Robert, administered the series until his death in 1995, whereupon the series was renamed.
Harper said Kassebaum likely would address her reasons for departing the Senate. Last fall, Kassebaum announced she wouldn't seek re-election in November.
**Who:** Sen. Nancy Kassebaum
**When:** 7 p.m. tomorrow night
**Where:** Lied Center
A Washington Update
The lecture is free. Advance tickets are not necessary
Because of Kassebaum's involvement in legislation, Val Renault, publications director for the school, said she thought Kassebaum might talk about the health-care bill she co-sponsored with Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
"She's going to talk about what's going on now in Washington," she said.