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Chancellor presents HOPE Award
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Matthew Buechner won the award, which is decided completely by students. EDUCATION | 6A
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GREENING UP GAME DAY
Colete McCoy, Wichita sophomore, and Sarah Brummet, Overland Park junior, pick up recyclables for local non-profit Cans for the Community Saturday afternoon before the football game between the Jayhawks and the Comhuskers. McCoy and Brummet were part of a campus and community effort to collect empty bottles and cans that would have been thrown away.
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Environmental touchdown
Record number of cans recycled by student volunteers
BY ALY VAN DYKE avandyke@kansan.com
After a close miss in a game of washers played while tailgating with friends before the Nebraska game, Eric Friesen took a long, final pull from his can of Strongbow.
Rather than tossing the can into the trash can to his left, the Hesston junior crossed to the other side of the front lawn and placed the empty can in a black recycling bag hanging from the wooden fence.
It was the first can hed ever recycled
on game day
This was thanks to the efforts of community and student volunteers who distributed recycling bags to dozens of tailgating parties before Saturday's game. The same volunteers returned throughout the game to collect the cans. One volunteer was Ben Hornung, president of the student organization Students for Bar Recycling.
Day, which fell on Nov. 15 this year.
"It's only slightly more inconvenient to recycle," said Hornung, Council Grove senior. "So if we give them bags and let them know we'll pick them up, most people are happy to recycle."
Hornung and 25 other student volunteers from Environs and Students for Bar Recycling took shifts before, during and after the game to pass out recycling bags, sift through trash bins and collect cans from tailgaters. The students volunteered in recognition of America Recycles
The student volunteers joined forces with Cans for the Community, a local non-profit recycling organization that has recycled at football games for the past five seasons.
"We are all astounded," said Linda Klinker, chairwoman for Cans for the Community. "This is the most volunteers we've ever had. It's hard to find people who really want to do this. Pickling through garbage isn't very glamorous."
Klinker said her volunteers — usually a team of eight to 10 people — typically collected about 300 pounds of aluminum cans on game days. Volunteers then take the cans to 12th and Haskell Bargain Center, 1146 Haskell St., which purchases the cans for 30 cents per pound. This means that on typical game days, the volunteers might earn about $90, most of which is then
SEE CANS ON PAGE 3A
THANKSGIVING
Home away from home for holidays
BY MEGAN HEACOCK mheacock@kansan.com
When she was a freshman, Nancy Xiao Liang realized that her scholarship hall would be closing for Thanksgiving break. Unlike many other students, Liang couldn't go home — she is from Luoyang, China. So Liang decided to follow a friend's suggestion and sign up for the Betty Grimwood Thanksgiving Homestay Program.
Through the program, offered by International Student and Scholar Services, an international student can sign up to spend either the entire week or a day over the holiday break with an American family. For international students like Liang, the program is a chance to engage in an American tradition firsthand.
"It's a really neat opportunity to get to know about the culture and to give a little bit of the feeling of family," she said.
Liang, who is now a junior, looks back at the experience fondly. She said she had remained in contact with her "family" throughout her college experience. The program gave her a home base outside of China and allowed her to have an intimate encounter with an American tradition.
The program is one holiday option for the University's -more than 1,700 international students, many of whom, like Liang, have nowhere to go when dorms and scholarship halls close for the holidays.
Ece Gurler, program coordinator, said the response from those who participated in the program, either as hosts or guests, was generally very positive.
"So far I haven't heard anything negative. They always enjoy it," she said. "Most of the time, the people who apply for this program are already interested in different
SEE EXCHANGE ON PAGE 3A
LAWRENCE
Politician draws diverse crowd at appearance promoting cigars
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT rsegebrecht@kansan.com
Kinky Friedman, prolific author, satirical country singer, philanthropist and candidate for governor of Texas — all in one — visited Lawrence Saturday night.
Friedman, who finished fourth as an independent in the 2006 governor race and is running again as a Democrat in 2010, has also recorded more than 30 satirical country albums and published more than 25 books, fiction and non-fiction, including National and New York Times bestsellers.
He spent three hours Saturday night in Centro Cigars, 1520 Wakarua Drive, with a cigar and
"From little kids wearing 'Kinky' shirts to a guy that came in on a walker earlier, we got a wide variety." Spangler said. "We had someone come in earlier with one of his old vinyl albums."
a Modelo Especial beer in hand, offering his words and autographs as part of a more recent interest — a Kinky Friedman line of cigars. Centro Cigar's co-owner Rich Spangler said Friedman visited his store once before in 2006 to promote the company. This time Spangler said roughly 150 of Friedman's fans came out for his second Lawrence appearance.
Friedman, wearing the black cowboy hat and western shirt that, with his mustache and cigar, have
become his trademark, came to Lawrence as part of a national tour. The tour is promoting his music, his cigar business and his books — "Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files" and "Heroes of a Texas Childhood" — published this year.
Friedman is traveling with Little Jewford, an original member of the Kinky Friedman and the Jewboys band who plays keyboard, and Washington Ratso, a rhythm guitar player from Lebanon. The three will continue the trip Sunday when they play in Philadelphia.
"Ratso and I represent the last hope for peace in the Middle East," Friedman said, jokingly
SEE CIGAR ON PAGE 3A
Kinky Friedman has run for governor of Texas, recorded more than 30 satirical country albums and written more than 25 books, including National and New York Times bestsellers. Friedman, who is running for governor of Texas again in 2010, visited Centro Cigars in Lawrence Saturday night to sign autographs, meet local fans and promote his cigar line. Kinky Friedman Cigars.
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
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