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E.X.C.E.L. award winners will find new leadership roles awaiting them
Two busy KU students just got busier.
San Martin is a biology and environmental studies major with a 3.36 grade point average. She has been involved with the All Scholarship Hall Council and was once president of the council.
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Carmen San Martin, Wichita senior, and Trevor Thompson, Shawnee senior, are the recipients of the annual EX.C.E.L. award for Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership.
The award, created in 1991, recognizes students for their academic and leadership achievements. The two recipients will be introduced during the homecoming parade and the ceremonies before tomorrow's game.
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Kansan staff writer
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She also has been a volunteer in community programs such as the University Blood Drive and the Lawrence Interfaith Nutritional Kitchen, which provides food for low-income and
with Keli Zuel, assistant director of OAC, to discuss the types of projects that they will work on during the school year.
San Martin and Thompson will each receive 5500, which will come from the campus activity fees paid by students each semester. They will be required to work with OAC on leadership programs.
Zuel said that working with the students was a learning experience for her.
The winners are chosen on the basis of their academic performance, their involvement in activities at KU, leadership skills and their ability to work with a wide variety of students.
"It gives me a chance to see what kinds of things students are interested in," she said.
Thompson is looking forward to working with the Organizations and Activities Center despite his already full schedule.
"I'll have to do some creative time management," he said.
She said she considers the award a great honor.
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"I'm still kind of in shock about it," she said.
such as the Boys and Girls Clubs and United Way.
Applicants who are nominated must complete an extensive application and an interview. This year, 42 students were nominated. Seven made the final cut.
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Despite long hours of studying, she said.
The other finalists were: Kristy Abel, Englewood, Colo. senior; Brian Anderson, Wichita senior; Heilen Cheng, Wichita sophomore; Kelly Dunkelberger, Woodland Park, Cole. senior; and Shanda Vangas, Derby senior.
Thompson said he was busy with his studies but also enjoyed his involvement in different campus organizations.
she still finds time for activities she enjoys.
He is a chemical engineering major with a 3.52 grade point average and plans to study medicine. He is the treasurer of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and has been active in several Student Senate committees. He also has been a volunteer for programs
Thompson
"Getting involved in things is part of being balanced," San Martin said.
Last year's EX.C.E.L. winners created a program that promoted leadership activities for freshmen and sophomores and encouraged those students to share their experiences with peers.
The winners will meet next week
KU dethroned its homecoming queen long ago
23 years later, awards such as E.X.C.E.L. replace coronation
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
The queen is dead.
Actually, she has been dead for 23 years.
The coronation of a homecoming queen during halftime of each homecoming game began in 1933 at KU and became an annual event until the homecoming committee ended it in 1970.
The committee said selecting one woman as homecoming queen to represent a diverse university such as KU was inappropriate.
Sue Morrell, adviser of Student Union Activities, said KU did not have a queen anymore because the selection process would amount to a popularity contest.
"We didn't want to fall along those sexist stereotypes," Morrell said.
SUA has been in charge of homecoming for the last three years.
When the queen coronation was eliminated in 1970, the homecoming committee said it should recognize people who embody the academic spirit of KU. So the committee replaced the queen's halftime coronation with the presentation of the Honor the Outstanding Progressive Educator, or H.O.P.E. award, by the senior class.
Even though the queen coronation was replaced by another award ceremony, there was no recognition for
students. In 1991, the student award for Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership, or, EX.C.E.L., was established.
Every year a male and female student each receive $500 for showing leadership and academic excellence at KU.
Morrall said the EX.C.E.L. awards recognized both male and female students, not just female students as the queen ceremony did.
KU has never had a homecoming king.
"This award shows people giving something back to the community of Lawrence," said Brian Hopkins, Wichita junior. "This shows it's not just a popularity contest."
Patty Cavallaro, Wichita junior, said that even though she did not want a
homecoming queen, the selection would not be based on popularity.
"It would be hard to become a popularity contest with a school this size," she said. "I really don't think it would mean as much."
Amy Garrelts, Overland Park senior, said KU did not need a homecoming queen.
"I'm a fifth-year senior, and it seems so high schoolish to me," she said.
"College is for learning, and a homecoming queen seems like a high school idea," he said.
Garrelts said homecoming should be for alumni to come back and see the campus.
John Hollis, Madison sophomore, said there should not be a homecoming queen because KU was an institution of higher education.
Alumni and alumni-to-be find weekend fun
By Scott J. Anderson
Kansan staffwriter
For Andy Pitts, St. Louis senior,
homecoming is more than just a football game. It's a chance to learn the history of the University of Kansas from the people who lived it.
Pitts is president of the Student Alumni Association, which is organizing several events for alumni during the weekend.
"By visiting with alumni at homecoming, I have learned why things on campus are named what they are, where the hangouts used to be and what they used to do on dates," Pitts said.
"Often what happens is the alumni end up giving the students the tour
The first event SAA will be involved in is a chapter leaders' seminar for the Alumni Association tonight. Jodi Breckenridge, SAA adviser, said the alumni would give club members names of high school students in their hometown who are interested in the University. The members then will write letters to those students encouraging them to attend the University.
Tomorrow, SAA members will give alumni walking tours of the campus. Breckenridge said the tours were an educational experience for everyone involved.
SAA members also will serve as hosts for alumni before the football game at a picnic tent on the tennis courts near the stadium. Breckenridge said alumni who lived in Hashinger Hall from 1972 to 1975 were planning to meet at the tent. SAA also will assist in staging the home-coming parade.
"Last year I met a guy who was a neighbor of mine in St. Louis whom I'd never met before," Pitts said. "He
instead of the other way around," she said.
For Pitts, it's the interaction with the alumni that makes the weekend unique.
had been gone from the University for 60 years, and I found out he lived just two blocks from my parents. We had a good time talking at homecoming, and then I saw him this summer and we remembered each other."
This is the third year SAA has been involved with homecoming events, Breckenridge said.
She said the club was formed in 1987 to help teach students how to lead before they graduated.
"We look at SAA as alumni in training," Breckenridge said. "Working with something like homecoming gives students the experience now to know how to volunteer for KU when they graduate."
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