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Lauren Pollmiller and Thomas Harms were partners for a game of Monopoly in an accounting lab in 2008. Although they didn't talk much, they couldn't take their eyes off each other.
For the next year and a half, the couple would have awkward run-ins at the grocery store or on Mass Street. "Neither of us had any idea that we were both crushing on one another pretty hard," Pollmiller, Lenexa senior, says.
In November 2009, Pollmiller and Harms were both at the Jazzhaus. For nearly an hour neither Pollmiller nor Harms, Winfield senior, said anything while sitting next to each other. Finally, Pollmillier spoke up. "For the next two hours, I talked for an hour and 55 minutes while Thomas talked for five," Pollmiller says. They quickly discovered each other's true feelings, among other things.
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Before they started talking, Pollmiller and Harms had nicknames for each other when talking to their friends; Pollmiller was known as the accounting babe; Harms was the artsy guy. Since they began dating, Pollmiller and Harms have enjoyed several road trips to the Southwest and have avoided playing Monopoly.
BECCA HARSCH
CATCH OF THE WEEK // MATT RODRIGUEZ
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: I like to dance a lot. Hip-hop is my passion. I can also do jazz and modern dance. I love to sit and talk with people and find out about them and what they're into. I also like finding out about new music and how to dance to it.
NOTICES FIRST IN A POTENTIAL
NOTICES FIRST IN A POTENTIAL
PARTNER: I notice her eyes. Not the color of her eyes, but the way they look and how I connect with them. And then I work my way down. I'm an ass guy. I like a thick girl who has a little bit to hold onto.
TURN ONS: I like a girl that is confident enough to approach me. She has to be funny and be able to laugh at herself. She has to have a good time without putting walls up.
TURN OFFS: I don't like girls that are too proud or stuck-up. And I don't like a girl who plays games. It's not about the game. It's about being real and true.
WHY I'M A CATCH: I'm a down-to-earth, intelligent kind of guy. I like to let loose and I try not to be what the outside world wants me to be. I try to avoid the norm and give people a different perspective on life.
BECCA HARSCH
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Donations increase despite economy
ENDOWMENT
BY STEPHEN GRAY
sgray@kansan.com
When Evy Struttman received the e-mail that she was going to receive a $20,000 scholarship through the Kansas University Endowment Association last year, she knew immediately that the University of Kansas was the place for her.
"Thanks to this scholarship, I don't have to have a job and I don't have to worry about a huge debt hanging over my head after graduation." Struttman said.
Struttman was one of more than 6,500 students to receive scholarships last year from the association. In the 2010 fiscal year, which ended June 30, it gave $28.9 million in scholarships as part of the $110.2 million it donated to the University.
Fiscal year Contributions Number of donors
2010 $110.2 million 45,192
2009 $106.4 million 45,186
2008 $94 million 45,014
2007 $77.7 million 43,403
KU ENDOWMENT FUNDRAISING
Dale Seuferling, the president of the Endowment Association, said
Struttman, a sophomore from Topeka, was given the financial support by the privately-funded Chancellors Club, which awards renewable scholarships to 16 National Merit finalists each year. The club helps recruit top-performing students to the University.
This year, more than 6,500 students received scholarships from KU Endowment funds. The total amounted to $28.9 million.
Cathy Daicoff, a managing director at Standard and Poor's in New York City, graduated from the University in 1977. She was one of
In addition to student scholarships, the association funds salaries for distinguished professors, teaching awards and academic programs. It also provides facilities and equipment for the University. In fact, the association has helped to fund more than two-thirds of campus buildings and 85 percent of its land.
students could benefit from scholarships, fellowships and awards through the association.
the 45,192 donors last year for the University. Daicoff has been donating for more than 25 years and gives to two causes, the Chancellors Club and a scholarship fund in memory of her father, Darwin Daicoff, a former economics professor at the University.
"The University of Kansas provided
daicoff with a superior education,
Daicoff said. "I believe we all have
a responsibility to make that same
education possible for other individuals in the next generation."
"With the funding cuts faced by KU due to the reduction in state support, private giving has become even more critical to the University's future." Seufler said.
Edited by Lisa Curran
According to Giving USA, an annual report on philanthropy in the United States, contributions to higher education in 2009 declined by 3.6 percent. The Endowment Association was an exception to this trend and had record contributions for the third year in a row. Seuferling credited the desire of the University's alumni and the hard work of the fundraising staff for this accomplishment.
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and graduated this year. amber, her task several ways to ad graduation itsy. Its report early advising oated general education requirements, raising admission standards and increased student engagement.
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graduation rate is an important goal."
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Gray-Little said one of the first things she noticed when she came to the University last year was its unusually high requirement for graduation. The requirement was set at 124 in 2003 and had not been altered until now.
This reduction was one of the many recommendations given by Chancellor Bernardette Gray-
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implement the rule.
"That will mean less classes that we'd have to take and more money saved," Flax said.
rement degrees inences or fields was us. ment is 120 her states our mini- others ed adoptie.
Jesse Flax, a freshman from Bison, said he was in favor of the change.
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Marcus Morris emerges from camp a vocal leader
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With the notable absence of Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich. Marcus Morris has made many improvements this season, including taking on a leadership role with the Jayhawks. Morris fellow players are looking to him for support.
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