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GRADUATION
Nora Burt, a senior from Libertyville, Ill., and Katie Goron, a senior from Joliet, Ill., order graduation announcements at the Grad Finale Wednesday afternoon. The finale provided a one-stop opportunity for graduating seniors looking for caps, gowns and graduation announcements.
Caps, gowns are still available
BY SAMANTHA FOSTER
sfoster@kansan.com
Graduating seniors who missed this week's grad finale at the Kansas Union don't need to panic. There are still plenty of opportunities to buy caps, gowns and graduation announcements around Lawrence.
Caps, gowns and tassels are always available at KU Bookstores in the Kansas and Burge unions, where gowns are $20, caps are $5 and tassels are $5 each.
The University Book Shop, 1116 W. 23rd St., also keeps graduation accessories in stock.
Colby Venema, store manager of the University Book Shop, said the shop carries cap and gown sets for $25 and tassels for $3.50 each. It also carries diploma frames that range from $100 to $250.
Lauren Adams, a senior from Olden, Texas, and Casey Smith, a
senior from Williamsburg, are both pharmacy majors. They said that because this is just their undergraduate graduation, they weren't concerned about purchasing anything but the basics.
"I'll spend more on the big ceremony when I graduate from pharmacy school," Adams said. "That's going to be the important one."
At the grad finale, Jostens representatives were also taking orders for graduation announcements.
Basic announcement packages from Jostens cost about $78 for 25 announcements, and a package of 25 announcements with tissue inserts costs about $98. A package of 50 announcements costs about $172.
Students who didn't go to the grad finale can still order announcements on Jostens' website. Jostens has a three-week delivery time.
- Edited by Michael Holtz
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Students must apply for graduation through Enroll and Pay. The graduation application deadlines are March 1 for undergraduates and law students and April 28 for graduate students.
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SUA to announce film fest winners
BY ALISON CUMBOW alisonc@kansan.com
CAMPUS
Tonight, there is a possibility Selee's film might win over the SUA judges when the top three winners of the festival's competition are announced.
It took Nate Selee the better part of a weekend to shoot the short film he entered in the Student Union Activities' film festival. His film is about how different people see their lives; how perspective differs from person to person. And these perspectives had to fit into 15 minutes of a short film.
"There's always a good chance," Selee, a junior from Garden City, said about his possibilities of winning.
Student Union Activities is hosting its Second Annual International Film Festival starting tonight and running through Saturday. Along with showcasing several short films from the Expression en Corto
Film Festival, SUA will present the student-made short film winners.
Beginning in December, SUA opened a competition for filmmakers, and all majors were eligible to enter.
The third place winner will be announced tonight,the second place winner on Friday and first place on Saturday.
Thirty students submitted entries to the competition. In each film, the writer, director or producer had to be a KU student, according to the program organizer, Nancy Hoch.
Hoch wouldn't say what the prize for winning will be,but she said prizes last year included editing systems, hard drives and other
materials that would help students continue to make short films in the future.
"It's a great place to show your films to other students, which is rare and great."
ALEX BACKUS Lawrence senior
Alex Backus, a senior from Lawrence, also submitted a short film to the contest. Selee helped him write it, even though he eventually entered his own project. Backus said his film was more serious than the ones he typically made.
"It's about a father telling his son that his mother died on Christmas Eve," he said. "We shot with a little kid, and it was a blast."
Hoch said the festival was a good opportunity for aspiring student filmmakers because it gave
"Any festival is a great opportunity for KU students." Backus said. "It's a great
place to show your films to other students, which is rare, and great."
Both Selee and Backus said they hoped SUA would show all the students' films this year and not just the winners.
"It could be better suited for students," Selee said. "It would be better if they would show all the films."
The screenings will be shown in the Woodruff Auditorium on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union at 7 p.m. each night. All screenings are free and open to the public. After the students' films, SUA will show up to an hour and 15 minutes of the International Film Festival's short films. Food will be provided each night.
them a platform for short films at the University. She also said it was good experience for students planning to enter the film industry.
— Edited by Anna Archibald
NATIONAL
Small plane hits building, 2 killed
AMARILLO, Texas — A twinengine plane crashed into a concrete storage building in the Texas Panhandle city of Amarillo on Wednesday, killing the pilot and his passenger, authorities said.
Texas Department of Public
Medrano identified those killed in the crash as pilot William Runyan Ellett, 59, and passenger Andrew Arnold Hanson, 57.
Safety Trooper Gabriel Medrano said the two Amarillo men died when their plane went down shortly after 7 a.m. A witness at the scene told investigators it sounded as if the plane's engines stalled, he said.
Associated Press
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