UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 1, 1995
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Find Internet love, Vivarin-style
Taking a simple quiz can locate your cyberdate
By Craig Lang
Kansan staff writer
What's the laimmest thing to say on a date?
"Is that your real hair?" Do these handsice.com
"You're really nice,but...
"Do those handles come with a bike?"
"Boy, you sure do eat a lot!"
By answering questions like these, finding dates could now be easier, thanks to a new page on the World Wide Web.
Earlier this month, the makers of Vivarin announced the creation of a "Date-Ability Index" on its World Wide Web homepage. Michele Klingensmith, brand manager for Vivarin, said the paper offered dating advice to college students and the best places for students to find dates based on their answers to a series of multiple-choice questions.
Klingensmith said Three Rivers Group, the makers of Vivarin, created the page because college students were one of Vivarin's top consumers, and Vivarin wanted to create a homepage that would be of interest to their customers.
"We want to provide something that speaks their language," she said. "Something that's fun for them."
Klingensmith said the page also contained links to other pages about products that might help college students
while on their dates. Links included are ones for 1-800-FLOWERS, Godiva Chocolates and condoms.
"We know what goes on," she said. "Better safe than sorry."
Jill Bredahl, Topeka freshman, said she thought the page could be interesting to college students. She said that students probably would already know about most of the information the page had about dating but that it might offer new inout about the subject of dating.
"There might be stuff out there people haven't thought of trying," she said.
Mark Lawlor, Augusta senior, said he thought a page about dating was a good idea because dating was an issue that affects students and because finding a date could be hard for busy students.
"Everybody's always looking for a date." he said.
Julie Koger, Holton senior, said she thought the idea of a "date-ability" test was funny but probably completely ineffective.
"I would hate to think college students would really need to use it to find a date," she said.
Koger said the idea of a multiple choice test was inefficient, because the choices would probably not represent student's real answers. She said an analysis of a student's answers would probably be based on stereotypes about dating.
“You'd have to write out a whole essay explaining your answer to really let them know about you,” she said.
Through the new "Date-ability Index" offered by Vivarin on the World Wide Web, students can find advice on dating in a college environment. By accessing the Vivarin homepage at
Testing your date-ability
http://www.vivarin.com/date, students can answer the questions like the following:
What is your biggest pet peeve?
Your date continually mispronounces your name.
Your date never stops talking about
her/her/itself.
*Your date chews with mouth open.
*Your date brings along his/her pet.
What's the worst part about dating?
- Making that first phone call
- Finding clean underwear
- The goodnight kiss
- Filling out the police reports
- Where's the best location for a date?
- The library
- The beach
- The local sushi restaurant
- The couch
Program lets students volunteer during break
Although spring break is 144 days away, some University of Kansas students are already planning their seven-day vacations.
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
Though some students will rest and relax, others are planning to volunteer in the Alternative Spring Break Program, March 25 to 31.
Student Senate's Center for Community Outreach sponsors the program, which is in its second year at KU.
Ron Chen, Topeka sophomore and codirector of the program, went to an impoverished El Paso, Texas, community last spring break with seven other KU students.
During their four days in El Paso, the students worked in a medical clinic, helped people apply for citizenship and painted over graffiti.
They were not there to rack up volunteer hours or to save the world, Chen said. The goal was to help the community.
"You feel like you're part of that other community," he said. "You're able to see the problems that exist and realize that other people live differently than you."
This year's program sites are El Paso, Texas; Ivanhoe, Va.; Washington, D.C.; and either Denver, Chicago or Dallas.
In the spring semester, students participating in the program take Human Development and Family Life 606, Special Problems in the Community, for one to three credit hours. The class meets one hour a week to
discuss the challenges that each community faces.
Abigail Hankin, Overland Park sophomore and co-director of the program, said preparing for the trip made the time spent in the communities more valuable.
"I think it's a very powerful educational experience," said Hankin, who will be leading the Ivanhoe trip. "Most people have never interacted with people in poverty-stricken areas."
Chen said the impact of living and working in a community, even for four days, affected the volunteers and the people they helped.
"This program is a trigger for people. So, when they come back, they want to make community service a part of their lives," he said.
The success of last year's trip and increased interest led Hankin and Chen to expand the program from one to four sites. Chen said he envisioned the program growing to 20 or more sites.
Eight volunteers will travel by van to the four sites. The program is seeking about 25 volunteers and would like to have one faculty member on each trip. Trip costs $75 per person.
Anyone interested in learning more about the program can attend an informational meeting at 9 p.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union.
An application and an interview process may be required. Hankin said that if interest was overwhelming, more locations might be added.
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