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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27. 2005
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He said he had worked closely with the department to provide student input while the system was being designed during the summer. Sterner said the system was meant to provide students an alternative to waiting in line at the ticket office.
He said continued student input would improve the ticket process in the future.
"This is just version 1.0." Sterner said. "We wanted to build a version we can spring from."
The redemption period beginning Monday is for the first three games against Fort Hays State, Pittsburg State and Idaho State.
After the 3,800 tickets have been picked up, a lottery will be held to distribute the remaining 200. Students who win the lottery will be notified via email. Students who do not win tickets will get vouchers to use if student seating is not full on game day.
— Edited by Theresa Montaño
Marchiony said that all students with vouchers were allowed into the fieldhouse last season.
Enrollment
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The same was true for programs previously thought of as "women's programs," she said. But they still had some ways to go.
"Someday we might have more women in engineering and men in social work," Korschgen said. "But that's not the case today."
Kansas State University has seen rapid growth in the number of women attending college during the past three years, said Pat Bosco, KSU dean of student life.
Kansas State was traditionally known as a male-dominated university.
It still is, with women holding around 45 percent of the student body.
But now, Bosco said women were becoming more prevalent in architecture and engineering, two previously male-dominated fields, and there were more female leaders in student government.
Kansas State has had to make some adjustments because of the growing number of female students. Bosco said the residence halls had to figure out how to make more rooms for women, for example.
Only 44 percent of the students at Iowa State University are women.
It is a concern that there aren't as many women as there are men on campus, said Marc Harding, ISU director of Enrollment Services.
Harding said the predominance of men was due, in part, to Iowa State's engineering school, which is the seventh largest engineering school in the country. Now, Iowa State has taken the initiative to recruit women engineers to the school by launching outreach programs.
Iowa State has active organizations for female engineers, such as the Women in Science and Engineering program, Harding said.
It also has a program that brings grade school girls to Iowa State to study science and math-related courses.
Other programs at Iowa State that were previously male-dominated have started including more females.
This has become especially prevalent in its veterinary school, where women are now the majority, he said.
Harding also said that a new diversity initiative was being launched, and gender would be a hot topic of discussion.
— Edited by Kellis Robinett
Evolution critic set to speak
EDUCATION
BY JOHN HANNA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA — A retired law professor, who's sometimes called the father of the intelligent design movement, plans to speak Saturday at Washburn University, amid an ongoing debate over how evolution is taught in Kansas' public schools.
Phillip Johnson's visit is sponsored by Christian Challenge, a student group on the Topeka campus. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the university's union.
Johnson, who taught at the University of California in Berkeley, is best known for a
1991 book, "Darwin on Trial," a critique of evolution and the work of 19th century British naturalist Charles Darwin, who outlined the theory in an 1859 book.
His speech is only three days before the scheduled opening of a two-year exhibit on evolution at the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas. Also, the State Board of Education expects to vote next month on proposed science standards that contain language expressing skepticism about evolution.
Organizers of the event said they didn't invite Johnson because of the board's discussions on science standards or the evo
lution exhibit, but because they wanted to inform the public about the debate over the theory and intelligent design.
"It isn't a point of view that we really ever hear on campus from professors on campus," said Joe Foreman Jr., Christian Challenge's president and a senior studying economics. "I just hope people get more informed and realize there is credible opposition to evolution."
Intelligent design argues that some natural features are best explained by an intelligent cause because they're well-ordered and complex.
Johnson's "Darwin on Trial"
was important because it en-
larges
couraged younger scientists to get involved in the debate over evolution, said Bruce Chapman, the president of the Discovery Institute in Seattle, which supports intelligent design research.
"He is often called the godfather of intelligent design," Chapman said. "He really had a seminal role in developing this critique of Darwin."
Steve Case, assistant director of the Center for Science Education at the University of Kansas, finds that critique unconvincing, but said Johnson is "the source of the party line" and the "founding father of intelligent design."
Weight Loss
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Joe Donnelly, director of the center, led the study. It took 80 overweight participants and randomly divided them into three groups: a group of 29 people who attended weight loss clinics in person, a group of 29 people who participated in clinics over the phone and a group of 22 people who did not participate in clinics.
The study found that the groups that worked with a clinic lost much more weight than the group that did not.
The group that participated in person lost only a few more pounds than the group that participated over the phone.
Keith Van Gasken, senior trainer for Health Management Resources in Boston, said he had worked a lot with Donnnelly in studies to find effective weight loss strategies. In this study he was in charge of the phone-based clinic while Donnnelly was in charge of the imperson clinic.
He said the major topic of the phone conferences was diet compliance.
He would speak with the participants about their eating habits before each clinic so he could prepare ways to support them in sticking to their diets every day.
The study found that the groups that worked with a clinic lost much more weight than the group that did not.
The phone clinics were in a group format, with anywhere from six to 12 people on the phone at the same time.
He said he led discussions instructing participants how to stay on their diets.
"I've been involved in this kind of research for years, and it boils down to who shows up for classes and who sticks to the diet the longest," Van Gasken said.
Stewart said many participants in the phone group told the center afterwards that they liked the privacy aspect of the phone.
The phone method could also potentially save money for participants. Stewart said they would have no transportation
or fuel costs because they could call from home, as well as no child care costs and no missed time from work.
The study lasted 26 weeks. The first 12 weeks concentrated on weight loss. During this time participants were held to 1200 calorie diets and exercised about five hours per week. The next 14 weeks concentrated on weight maintenance.
During this time, each participant had a structured eating plan designed to meet his or her calorie needs.
Participants had a basic diet of at least three weight loss shakes, two entrees of provided pre-packaged food and at least five one-cup servings of fruits or vegetables per day.
Donnelly's research team recently submitted a proposal to receive a grant to the National Institutes of Health.
The team would use the grant to attempt to replicate the study on a larger scale.
People interested in weight management programs can contact KU Weight Management at 351-4681.
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Premiums
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Jerry Little, Lawrence city prosecutor, said people often visited Lawrence Municipal Court to get their traffic tickets amended to inattentive driving. Little said he had never received any complaints from insurance agents. Drivers must pay double the fine on the first amended ticket and triple the fine on the second. On the third, they pay quadruple the fine and they must meet with Little. Drivers can get up to three amendments in one year; on the fourth, they must pay the fine and go to court, Little said. The practice helps municipal courts save money because trials cost taxpayers more, he said.
"it's kind of a quid pro quo." Little said. "You avoid the trial, we'll keep it off your driving record."
Charlene Bailey, spokeswoman for the Kansas Insurance Department, said the department did not have jurisdiction over whether cities in Kansas engage in the practice. Typically, however, people cannot buy their way out of a major infraction, which might involve a life-threatening accident, she said.
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