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Wednesday, October 13. 1993
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Rowers rent themselves out to raise money for crew team
By Anne Felstet
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas crew club is out for hire. On Oct. 23, crew members will be out in full force doing manual labor from washing windows to shoveling snow — if any should fall — in order to raise money for the club.
An "employer" pays $60 for each rower hired for an eight-hour day.
Junior James Mardock said this fund-raising project started at least five years ago. The money raised helps offset travel and other expenses that the club incurs.
Kim Roddis, assistant professor in civil engineering, said this would be her fourth time participating in the Rent-A-Rower project. She started out hiring one person for half a day. This year she plans on hiring two rowers for a full day because she has wood furniture that needs to be stained for the winter.
"I get quality work at a reasonable price from enthusiastic, polite people," she said. "What more could a person ask for?"
She said she remembered that one year, even a rower who was afraid of spiders was polite when he was supposed to sweep out her basement. He asked if she had anything else he could do so he painted her cellar door, a job she also needed done.
Sophomore coxswain Mary Beth Kurzak said the project was beneficial to both the crew club and the employer. Most of the employers are Kansas faculty and staff members, she said.
"It benefits faculty and staff at KU because they get eight hours of help, and it is a really good fund-raiser for the club," she said.
Roddis said she had never requested the same rower back, but Mardock said it was common for a rower to get called back to the same house. He said for the most part, all the jobs had been a pleasant experience.
Crew president Michael Amick said this was a good fund-raising campaign because of the large number of participants. Sometimes there are more jobs than rowers, so the club has to turn people down.
Last year about 130 people signed up to rent a rower. This year 20 to 30 people have already signed up, said Amick.
Mardock has rented out his talents five times. He said his most memorable experience was the winter drive
of 1991. He and three other crew members stood in the snow stacking shingles from a pile at the side of a house in Oskaloosa.
Another time Mardock said he was supposed to wash windows. He said the place was a beautiful mansion, but it rained that day so he could not do it. The next weekend he ended up scrubbing floors. Mardock said an inch and a half of bacon grease lined the floor, and he had to get on his hands and knees to scrub it off.
Mary Michaelis, professor of pharmacology, said she liked to work with the people who came out to help her. She said she had participated in the fund-raising campaign three times and was satisfied each time.
She said she had recommended the rowers to other people because it was an opportunity to get big tasks finished and support a cause for which students were willing to work.
Crew president Amick said he had never heard of any problems of people requesting help with dangerous work.
Mardock said this fund-raising campaign brought visibility to the crew team while making money for the club.
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