Dear SUA Alumni, Greetings from the 75th SUA Board! My name is Christy Khamphilay, Vice President of Alumni and Community Relations. My position serves to develop and maintain relationships with SUA alumni and the Lawrence community by keeping them updated with current SUA news. Last semester, we successfully kicked off our 75th anniversary with our Homecoming Alumni Reception on Saturday, October 5. Alumni from different decades of SUA’s history celebrated and shared memories of their time with SUA. SUA also began its 75th anniversary scholarship campaign with a goal of $10,000 and we have since reached that goal. Each of our committees also had outstanding events such as two fall concerts featuring up-and-coming artists Haim and Chance the Rapper, SUA’s World Fashion Show, author Max Brooks and Jogging Dead 5K. For the Spring, SUA welcomed comedian Retta from NBC’s “Parks and Rec,” a lecture featuring Laverne Cox from “Orange is the New Black,” KU vs. K-State Rivalry Week, “Wizard of Oz, Journey Through the Land of Oz” and KU’s Got Talent. For myself, this semester marked my last few months as an SUA member. I joined SUA my first month here on campus, and I can say it was one of the best decisions I made. I’ve made so many memories with wonderful people and attended so many great events. I will miss everything about it, but I’m confident in the programs next year’s board will plan. SUA will always be part of my KU family, and I’ve been honored in helping establishing this position and hearing other SUA stories from past members as well. SUA Love, Christy Khamphilay Vice President of Alumni and Community Relations Dear alumni and friends of SUA, STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
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Dear SUA Alumni,
Greetings from the 75th SUA Board! My name is Christy Khamphilay, Vice President of Alumni and Community Relations. My position serves to develop and maintain relationships with SUA alumni and the Lawrence community by keeping them updated with current SUA news.
Last semester, we successfully kicked off our 75th anniversary with our Homecoming Alumni Reception on Saturday, October 5. Alumni from different decades of SUA’s history celebrated and shared memories of their time with SUA. SUA also began its 75th anniversary scholarship campaign with a goal of $10,000 and we have since reached that goal.
Each of our committees also had outstanding events such as two fall concerts featuring up-and-coming artists Haim and Chance the Rapper, SUA’s World Fashion Show, author Max Brooks and Jogging Dead 5K. For the Spring, SUA welcomed comedian Retta from NBC’s “Parks and Rec,” a lecture featuring Laverne Cox from “Orange is the New Black,” KU vs. K-State Rivalry Week, “Wizard of Oz, Journey Through the Land of Oz” and KU’s Got Talent.
For myself, this semester marked my last few months as an SUA member. I joined SUA my first month here on campus, and I can say it was one of the best decisions I made. I’ve made so many memories with wonderful people and attended so many great events. I will miss everything about it, but I’m confident in the programs next year’s board will plan. SUA will always be part of my KU family, and I’ve been honored in helping establishing this position and hearing other SUA stories from past members as well.
SUA Love,Christy Khamphilay Vice President of Alumni and Community Relations
Dear alumni and friends of SUA,
STUDENT UNIONACTIVITIES
SUA SPRING UPDATESThe students behind SUA are always re-imagining the organization and the hundreds of events we host each year. Recent highlights include national recognition of our programming board, hosting the largest LGBTQ event at KU and the success of our live music partnership.
sua and kjhk live music concert successIn its first year, the Live Music committee brought rock-pop quartet Haim and hip-hop star Chance the Rapper last fall. Haim, often compared to Fleetwood Mac, earned recognition as an up-and-coming artist at notable music festival sets before coming to Lawrence. The band performed a highly attended show on October 10 at the Granada. At the end of the year, Rolling Stone named Haim’s “Days Are Gone” as one of the “50 Best Albums of 2013.” Chance the Rapper, a new voice in the hip-hop industry, performed in front of a sold-out crowd on November 10 at Liberty Hall. His mixtape, “Acid Rap” was named one of the “20 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2013” by Rolling Stone. The live music committee closed out the year with Indie-pop band Real Estate at Liberty Hall on April 10 and KJHK’s Annual Farmer’s Ball.
sua recognized as a national award-winning programming boardEarlier this year, the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) awarded SUA its National Student-Driven Program of the Year for SUA’s Election Watch Party last year. This award is presented to a program created and planned by students, and recognizes excel-lence in campus programming. ACUI also named JJ O’Toole-Curran, director of Union Programs, as the Patsy Morley Outstanding Programmer Award. Winners of this award ex-emplifies outstanding achievement in campus programming. SUA won the following regional awards as well:• ACUI Regional Awards for 1st place in t-shirt design for SUA’s promotional “bro tank”• 1st place in pamphlet design for SUA’s fall 2013 event calendar• 2nd place in promotional campaignes for SUA’s promotion of “Zombie Week”• 2nd place in brochures for their Union Pro-grams informational brochure.
sua and queers & allies present laverne coxLaverne Cox, star on the hit show “Orange is the New Black,” spoke to an audience of more than 800 members of the KU and Lawrence communities on February 6 at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Cox is an actress, producer, transgender and transgender advocate. She is the first trans* woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream scripted television show. During her lecture, “Aint I a Woman: My Journey to Womanhood,” she spoke on how the intersections of race, class and gender uniquely affect the lives of trans* women of color by narrating her own personal story. This event became the largest LGBTQ event at KU.
Name: Alan Shaw Years involved with SUA: 1976-1979 Roles with SUA: Special Events Chairman, Com-mittee MemberCurrent job: Managing Director of EPIC, currently working on 2016 Rio Olympic Games
How did you get involved with SUA?
I thought it would be fun to participate in SUA. The first year I applied to bon on the Special Events committee. The second year I applied to be the chairperson of Special Events, and I didn’t get it. Then, I applied during my junior year to do it for my senior year and I got it!What events did you plan while being the Special
Events Chairman?
We had some great concerts back in the sev-enties. We had the Beach Boys, ZZ Top, Natalie Cole, Steve Martin, George Carlin and Heart. The special events we had were mostly concerts. What is your favorite SUA memory?
I think it was the opportunity when I met Steve Martin. I was on the hospitality crew, and he was doing his juggling act with some oranges, and apparently they weren’t firm enough. So, we had to get in the car and go to Dillons to find him three really firm oragnes. And I came back and showed him, “Here are the oranges, what do you think?” He tried them out and said “They are perfect.” What did you take away during your time in SUA?
It gave me exposure to a lot of stars and celeb-rities that I never had before, and it gave me confidence that I could work well with anyone. Another thing abour SUA that stands out to me is because I applied to be the head of Special Events and I wasn’t successful the first time, I applied again because I really wanted to do it. And that persistence was important; if you want to do something, never give up.
How did you get involved with your current company?
I decided back in the early eighties not long after I graduated that I wanted to be involved in the event industry. I sought out that opportunity to get involved with the 1984 Olympic games. After quite a bit of persistence, I was fortunate to get a job working on the games. That led to several opportunities with a sports marketing company in the 1991 US Olympic Festival. Then, that led to an opportunity to the 1994 World Cup and the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Since then I’ve been fortunate to find opportunities with a variety of organization committees and other major sporting events. I’ve worked on the last nine Olympic games, a total of 11 Olympic games in all. I have worked on two FIFA World Cups, Candadian Games, Pan Am Games and a variety of other special events.What advice do you have for current SUA members?
Get involved. It’s such a great outlet from studying and learning so many different things that you can apply later to your career. You never know when you get involved in an extracurricular activity what’s going to happen in whatever role you’re in and how that might apply to what you’re doing later in life. But the more you get involved in any activity and the more you apply yourself in something you like to do it’s really remarkable how much that will translate to you later in life. One of the keys to life is making mistakes and then figuring out whcih ones to improve upon.
SUA leadership for the 2013-2014 year at the End of the Year Reception.
SUA ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Dear Alumni and Friends of SUA,
SUA and its campus programming run on student volunteers. Donations to our scholarship funds are our sole source of support for student leadership opportunities.
In the past several years, we have built on the success of our rich 75-year history to more than double our ranks. Donor support is essential to SUA’s continued growth.
Our 75th anniversary scholarship campaign began in July 2013. Thanks to our generous alumni support, we have raised $4,200. Along with a recent donation of $25,000 from the Panda Express contract agreement between KU Memorial Unions, we have surpassed our goal to raise $10,000 in contributions to the SUA Academic Scholarship Endowment.
Your donation is an investment that will help shape tomorrow’s officers and coordinators, and will help keep those students in school. There are two types of scholarships available to our dedicated students:
• SUA Academic Scholarship Endowment: This is a general endowed fund that provides modest, but essential, scholarship assistance to SUA members. •Private Endowments: Additional scholarship funds are secured and are named in honor of past campus leaders or SUA members, or can be named in honor of the donor. •Current scholarships include the Frank Burge Scholarship, the Katherine Giele
SUPPORT SUA’S STUDENT LEADERS
Scholarship and the Warner Ferguson Scholarship.
Your gift will provide SUA’s future student leaders the opportunity to develop and thrive, and will allow them to carry the lessons they learn with them long after they leave KU.
Support our students and their program-ming efforts for the KU community by
visiting suaevents.com/giveback.
This scholarship fundraising effort is part of Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas. For information on the campaign, please visit www.farabove.org.
Thank you for supporting a mainstay of the KU campus experience. Let’s work togeth-er to continue this tradition for another 75 years.
Talk to us: Connect with fellow SUA alums online with our SUA Alumni Facebook group (search “SUA Alumni” and request to join) and on LinkedIn (we’re at “KU Student Union Activities Alumni”).
Keep up with the latest SUA news: Visit us at suaevents.com/alumni for event updates and opportunities to stay up-to-date with all things SUA.
Questions about an upcoming event? Call the Programs Box Office at (785) 864-SHOW. Visiting campus? Stop by and see us at the Union Programs Office, on level 4 of the Kansas Union. Student Union Activities1301 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 472Lawrence, KS 66045www.suaevents.com(785) 864-SHOW
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