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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday. March 28. 2001
Spring break-up
Freshman aids couple's split on MTV show
By Sarah Smarsh
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
One University of Kansas student did more than lay out and drink alcohol during her spring break vacation in Cancun, Mexico — she played a part in the breakup of a relationship on national television.
Khadija Abuyouiss, Overland Park freshman, found her way onto MTV as one of singles on Spring Break Survivors. The show, a combination of FOX's TEMPORATION and CBS Survivor, was a segment of MTV annual spring break programming.
MTV selected 10 girls and 10 guys from the island to put a New York cou
ple to the test. The pair picked three dates from the "spring flingers." Abuyousif was one of them.
She said she and her date, Chris, who had been seeing the same girl for one and a half years, hit it off during their date on the "Island of Women." He was so
"He was a really cool guy," she said.
Christhought
Abyouisif: helped break up couple on MTV while in Cancun
she was cool, too — he later selected
Babyouvis as his "dream date."
The date consisted of a fancy dinner, dancing at a nightclub and a lot of drinking. It concluded in a hotel room, where the two kissed.
"We had a total blast," she said.
Chris and his girlfriend reconvened onstage after their respective dates —
After being dumped, the girlfriend shouted insults at Abuvousif.
and called it quits.
"She called me ugly on national television," Abyouvous said, adding MTV assigned her a bodyguard for the hour following the show.
Elaine Abuyousif, Khadija's mother, accompanied her daughter to Cancun. She said both of them were wary about the show because of MTV's notoriously raunchy spring break programs.
Elaine said the network used clever editing to paint her daughter as a calous tempress.
"Shedidn'treallydoanything—the guy had made up his mind on his own," she said.
Abuysouf said she and Christ had no plans for a relationship. She said she would do the show again, but was surprised by its outcome.
"It was kind of awkward, because they did break up," she said.
Edited by Jay Pilgreen
Kansan staff writer
By Danny Phillips
By Danny Philips
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
MRC gets equipped with new computers
Students looking for a quiet computer lab on campus in a less-congested location can now find solace in the Multicultural Resource Center.
When the lab is completely furnished, it will include four PCs, an iMac, a scanner and free printing services. Internet access and the layout program Adobe Pagemaker will be available.
Once home to only a few aging Macintosh computers, the MRC, thanks to a partnership with Academic Computing Services, is now equipped with three new computers and is expecting to receive two more in the upcoming weeks.
MRC program director Santos Nunez said the lab was smaller than most of the other public labs on campus, but the size was one of its advantages.
"This particular lab has a more cozy atmosphere," she said.
She also said it was convenient because students being tutored in the MRC who needed to type something
quickly would have the lab at their disposal.
As word of mouth spread about the new lab, which has only been operational for a few weeks, more students have began to use it, Nunez said.
She said one student commented about the unreaded computers.
"He likes them because they're fast," she said.
Nunez stressed the lab was open to all students at the University of Kansas, not just those who used the MRC for additional services.
That was the primary reason ACS agreed to extend its computing services to the MRC, said Cathy Smith, assistant vice chancellor of academic computing.
With the addition of the MRC lab, there are now six public labs on campus in addition to 12 restricted labs and seven residence hall labs.
"It's an opportunity for them to promote diversity," she said. "I'm hoping this will increase the visibility of the MRC."
Nunez said the lab benefited both ACS and the MRC.
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The MRC was established in 1995 in part to "create an environment in which individuals could learn to respect and appreciate cultural diversity," according to the center's Web site. Other features of the facility include a small auditorium, a resource room with video and print libraries and meeting spaces.
The MRC is located next to the Military Science Building.
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