Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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l : 4 V r - .-.--A Si • K » 1 Wl J ) ) ) . 5 Discussing the evening ' s agenda, Katie and Lucas talk with Matt Wagner, privilege fee chair, and Gayle Spencer, Office of Student Activities and Services coordinator, as they sit in a weekly Student Senate meeting. Spencer said she had not previously seen a brother and sister presidential pair during her 28 years in higher education. Christopher Hanewiiickel In KSDB-FM91.9 ' s radio station, sister Kara, niece Olivia, mom Patsy and niece Madeline, listen to Katie address the student body on the Maddys ' weekly show An Hour of Accountability. We were listening (to the radio) and we started jumping up and down and crying, Kara said about finding out Lucas and Katie had won the election on March 8, 2006. Christopher Hanewinckel U ' ' M 20

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by Adrianne DeWeese MORE THAN nas Lucas and Katie Maddy stay busy with family, school and executive duties but remain close after becoming the first presidential siblings. Lucas and Katie Maddy came from a family of six children. They spent their childhood playing in a Radio Flyer wagon on the family farm in Norton, Kan. She was the engine for our race car, Lucas, senior in agricultural technology management, said. The Maddys made history March 8, when they became the first brother and sister student body president and vice president at K-State. Despite being from a close family with strong values, Lucas said he and Katie ' s business life was their main interaction. We don ' t have a whole lot in common, so you don ' t catch us hanging out together, and when we do, you won ' t catch us talking about work, Lucas said. That is one thing we do have in common — we can turn off our business sides and just enjoy ourselves. Two days a week, the Maddys were guaranteed to be together — Thursday nights for Student Senate meetings and Sundays for their KSDB-FM 91.9 radio show, An Hour of Accountability. THURSDAY They sat front row, center, in the Big 12 Room in the K-State Student Union, next to Matt Wagner, Privilege Fee Committee chair; and Gayle Spencer, coordinator of the Office of Student Activities and Services. Lucas and Katie ' s interaction was minimal; they sat focused and quiet, and glanced at the evening ' s agenda throughout the Student Senate meeting. Spencer said Lucas and Katie had a traditional big brother and little sister relationship. I think he tends to look out for her and be a little protective of her, Spencer said. I don ' t know that you can ever separate that brother-sister relationship. You have an intuitive relationship, especially with closeness in age. That intuition, Spencer said, was an advantage of having a brother and sister as student body president and vice president. They ' re professional, but that relationship is always there, Spencer said. They ' re a team — the vice president has one or two specific duties and can go in where needed. If you know that person well, you can use that to your advantage, and there ' s a certain trust. ? Wagner, senior in management information systems, also said the pair had its complementary roles and knew the other ' s strengths and weaknesses. continued on 20 BO ?r a m 3 a a. a. ■ 19

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continued from 19 Of course you get to know your running mate during the election, but as a brother-sister pair, they already knew each other and that played a huge role in their campaigning, Wagner said. Katie is more of the quiet leader, and Lucas is more out there and the voice, and I think that really works. Trust was the main factor that drove Lucas to ask Katie to be his running mate in the election, he said. We ' re not really a traditional brother- sister pairing; we don ' t share a lot in common, Lucas said. We ' re very complementary, and our strengths and weaknesses are very different. Katie, senior in animal sciences and industry, said she was initially shocked when Lucas asked her to run with him. I had quite a few reservations at first, until I figured out what his plans were, Katie said. The thing that I was concerned about was that we hadn ' t been in SGA before; the whole brother-sister thing wasn ' t a main topic. Lucas and Katie ' s mother, Patsy, said the leadership roles did not affect Lucas and Katie ' s relationship. They ' re brother and sister, and sometimes they get along and sometimes they don ' t, Patsy said. That ' s typical of any brother and sister Lucas said family members didn ' t treat him or Katie any differently during the election. To be honest, the way that they treated us was that they really didn ' t care if we won or lost, he said. Obviously, they hoped for the best, but they weren ' t going to treat us any different, and we were still going to be the same people to them. After culling Katie and her liioiulson his cell (ilicino, Lucas waits U r his sister to arrive lor An Hour of AccouiUahilily. Katie was stuck in tralhc on Bluemont Avenue. She arrived 20 minutes after her older l rother. i ' liristcphcr Hdiicwinckel Not all election memories were pleasant for the family — Patsy said she remembered crying about offensive comments made about Lucas and Katie in the Collegian ' s Fourum in the election ' s aftermath. It hurt, and it was hard, Patsy said. I talked to Lucas, and he said, ' It ' s just the Fourum, and it ' s just kids being kids, ' but it still hurts sometimes. SUNDAY During the Sunday noon-hour, Lucas and Katie went on the air to address issues students faced. They took turns talking about upcoming events at the university and answered calls from listeners. Katie said one disadvantage to working with her brother was that each expected so much from the other. It ' s hard, since we hadn ' t been in SGA before, for him to expect so much out of me as far as daily duties, Katie said. A lot of it was just trying to get used to what we were supposed to be doing and what was expected out of us. Lucas said he agreed the competition between them was the biggest detractor You always want to do better than your siblings, he said. It ' s a completely different environment when you ' re both going after the same goal. Overall, Katie said she and Lucas were past worrying about how each would come off to the other We ' re pretty secure in who we are and what we believe in, she said. It doesn ' t matter how you change it — we ' re always going to be brother and sister, and we ' re not going to have a falling out over this. a c BO Bl to 3 a. 21