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Industries should also take responsibility by placing warning labels on packaging of players that specified safe volume levels for adults and children, he said.
Candice Bondank, Overland Park junior, listens to her boyfriend's MP3 player as she studies on her laptop. Bondank loves music and says listening to music while studying helps her relax. She is not worried about hearing loss that comes from frequent use of headphones.
Sarah Ferguson, assistant professor in the department of speech, language and hearing, said if a player's volume was so high that one couldn't hear environmental noise over the music, then it was loud enough to damage hearing.
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Hearing loss caused by continuous exposure to noise, such as an MP3 player, is a slow process, she said. One can lose hearing because of a single, traumatic exposure to a high sound level.
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Susan Megerson, audiologist at the KU Medical Center, said that music players were not the number one risk. Single exposures to loud noises such as blasts from firearms and continuous exposure to noise in the workplace can cause hearing loss as well.
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When Reid arrived, the defense was one of the worst in the conference. In the past year, Reid has been an integral part of one of the nation's top rushing and overall defenses in the country.
Reid
The Derby native wasn't even expected to be a linebacker when he was recruited to play for Kansas. He was originally recruited to play quarterback.
Reid credited co-defensive coordinator Dave Doeren for helping him with the transition to linebacker.
"I have come a long way. Coach Doeren has been wonderful to me." Reid said. "Coming in, I didn't know anything about linebacker. I really owe a lot of credit to him. He has really taught me everything I know."
Other players on the team also helped Reid, including fellow senior linebackers Kevin Kane and
Banks Floodman.
"I have learned a lot from them, Kevin and Banks, those guys who have been playing linebacker their whole lives," Reid said.
Reid has exemplified the definition of a team player all season, and Tuesday was no different. He said other players on the team were also good enough to win the award.
Reid wasn't the only player to receive recognition from the conference's coaches. Junior punt returner Charles Gordon and senior defensive lineman Charlton Keith were named to the first team All-Big 12. Gordon has averaged 10.3 yards per punt return and Keith leads the conference in tackles for loss with 21. He also has nine sacks.
Senior defensive end Jermial Ashley and Gordon, for his work at cornerback, were also selected to the second team. Twelve players were named honorable mention for the All-Big 12 team.
Edited by Katie Lohrenz
ACADEMICS
Choosing LSAT courses proves confusing
BY JOHN JORDAN
jfordan@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Students signing up for practice LSAT courses should be aware of who they are signing up with.
Seventeen students filed a complaint with the New York Consumer Protection Board about a company misusing a name to steal their business.
The students thought they were taking courses with Test-Masters, a Santa Monica, Calif., company started by a man who had the world record with 12 perfect LSAT scores. Actually, they signed up with the Houston-based Test Masters — with a space between the words.
The confusion comes from the companies' Web sites. The company the students wanted, Santa Monica based TestMasters Web site was www.testmasters.net or www.testmasters180.com. Houston-based Test Masters has www.testmasters.com, a domain the company got to keep in the state of Texas after a lawsuit in
The students accuse the Houston-based company of canceling classes at the last minute, having unqualified instructors and not refunding their money after they realized they were in a different course.
2003. The Santa Monica company has the rights in the 49 other states.
Sharron Kaim, in-house legal counsel for Santa Monica's TestMasters, called the Houston-based company's practice "the greatest scam in the world."
The University of Kansas's pre-law advising has not heard any complaints about the company, said Wendy Rohleder-Sook, assistant director of the advising center and pre-law coordinator.
Houston-based Test Masters is planning on a course in Manhattan on Dec. 18 and 19. The company could not confirm whether the class would happen. No students have signed up.
Dineil Diaz, a senior at Pace University in New York City, heard good things about
the California-based company She went to www.testmasters. com and inadvertently signed up with Houston-based Test Masters.
Diaz said during the third day of class, there was a "mutiny" when a student came into class and said all of them had been "duped." Twenty students dropped and enrolled with the Santa Monica company. Diaz said she couldn't change courses because she had spent more than $1,000 and couldn't afford to switch.
The Houston-based company also made Diaz sign a waiver saying she couldn't get a refund. After staying in the course, she got the same score as when she took the diagnostic LSAT without the help of a course. She said she had not been able to get a refund or another course.
The waiver said there were other companies with similar names, but did not mention the Santa Monica company by TestMasters. The company has now changed the waiver to include the name.
"It's ridiculous," Diaz said.
"I just got ripped off $1,100. I wasted all that time."
She said she must take the LSAT later, and because of this she will miss the application deadline for five law schools.
These complaints are unfounded because students sign a waiver that acknowledges there are two companies operating under the name, said Jordan Brient, a spokeswoman from the Houston-based company.
"They lost twice in court, and now they're trying to try it in the press," said Brient.
Instructors from the Santa Monica-based company do not have to take an actual LSAT course, but an online test administered by the company.
"These two companies should keep the best interests of these students in mind as they wait for the courts to resolve the question of who owns the 'Test Masters' name," said CPB chairperson Teresa A. Santiago in a press release.
Edited by Kellis Robinett
Illuminating the holiday spirit
Jarrod Mann stretches a set of holiday lights over the bushes in front of his home in Middletown, Ohio as he decorates his house Tuesday.
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