Thursday, November 6, 2008
Starting today students can vote on Kansan.com for the five finalists in the Kansan’s “Search for The Shirt” contest after a committee chose five slogans from more than 300 entries that were received in the past two weeks.
The University Daily Kansan is teaming up with the Athletics Department, the KU Alumni Association and the Kansas Union to come up with an official game day shirt for students, alumni and fans to all wear at KU sporting events this year.
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Students can vote for the five finalists on Kansan.com until next Thursday, Nov. 13.
The Swagger is Back
Rock Chalkin’ your socks off since 1865
My favorite subject in school was always Gameday
The University of Kansas: Majoring in Championships since 1865
Fly like a Jayhawk, Sting like a beak
“We’re trying to make this something that we can do year after year,” said Katie Feeley, promotions manager for The Kansan. “We think its something students will like because not only did they submit the slogans, they are getting to vote on which one they want.”
The voting will end a week from today on Nov. 13, and the winner will be announced soon after.
“The best thing about this contest is that it was by the students and for the students,” said Mike Harrity, assistant athletics director for Student-Athlete Development and Community Relations.
“It’s a powerful thing to see the winning slogan on T-shirts on campus and at our athletics events. It shows the influence that students can have when they work together.”
A shirt was created last year to replace the Muck Fizzou shirts, but the group is now trying to start a tradition of having a new shirt selected each year.
They took the idea from the University of Notre Dame, which is in its 19th season of holding a similar game day shirt contest.
“They sold 150,000 of them last year and a made a lot of money for charity and stuff,” Feeley said. “Obviously, this is our first year of trying to do something like that, so it won’t be that big, but we’re really trying to make it ‘the shirt’ for everybody to have.”
Harrity said he hoped someday the project would get as big as Notre Dame’s.
“It’s been inspiring to see the energy and enthusiasm the student leaders from various groups have invested to help make this project a success,” Harrity said. “Notre Dame’s project was started 18 years ago, and our group aspires to establish a tradition as strong as Notre Dame’s has become.”
Feeley said the T-shirts would be in stores as early as the end of November. They will sell for $10.
— - Edited by Brenna Hawley
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