WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2007
STUDENT SENATE
Vote to deal with fee increase
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Student Senate will vote on an increase of $19.15 per semester to student fees tonight.
Riley Dutton, chair of the finance committee, said that the increase was to compensate for rising inflation costs at the parts of the University that were funded by student fees.
He also said that this was one of the two times this year that Senate would look at changing student fees. The fall semester is when Student Senate votes on student fee changes due to inflation and, during the spring semester, Student Senate will,look at changes to student fees because of changes to University services.
Entities of the University asking for an increase in student fees include Watkins Memorial Health Center, the Student Recreation and Fitness Center and the Parking Department.
Student Senate meets tonight at 6:30 in the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
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Users post secrets online, on cards
Web site lets strangers share private thoughts
BY SARAH NEFF
sneff@kansan.com
Chantal Montrone wrote one of her secrets on a post card and malled it to a complete stranger.
Montrone, Overland Park senior, was one of thousands who anonymously sent a post card to PostSecret. com. The PostSecret blog was started by Frank Warren, 43, Germantown, Md., in 2004. He sent out 3,000 blank self-addressed postcards to random people in the Washington D.C. area asking them to write down a secret and decorate the postcard. He got about 100 postcards back.
He said he started the blog to explore his own secrets. It grew into four books and a Web site that gets 3 million hits per month. His latest book, "A Lifetime of Secrets", was released in October.
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“There are two kinds of secrets, the ones that we keep from others and the ones that we keep from ourselves,” Warren said. “I think there are some secrets that, because they are painful or we don't want to think about them, we forget them; we hide from them. I think there are parts of our lives that we hide from. This project helps illuminate that hidden landscape that we share but people don't talk about.”
Montrone said she heard about PostSecret from her roommate. She said she was initially attracted to the gossip aspect of reading other people's secrets.
"Now when I am thinking by myself I am always constantly trying to think of a secret that I can send in." Montrone said.
Montrone would not reveal the secret she sent in, but she said it was a happy secret that was posted about a month after she sent it in. She said she intended to send another one soon, this time with a darker secret on it.
Warren reads about 1,000 postcards a week, about 100 e-mails per day. Warren said he received post cards from people of all ages, and they had a variety of secrets: some were happy, some were hopeful, some were shocking and some were sad.
He also travels around cities and college campuses across the United States sharing the story of how he started PostSecret and a few secrets he has not posted on the Web site or published in his books.
"When you see the courage strangers are showing in revealing themselves it inspires you and it makes you realize that sharing a secret is something that can bring you closer to somebody," Warren said.
Edited by Luke Morris
》 HEALTH
Task force offers nutritious food
Students can make healthier choices when eating on campus through the Better Bites program.
Better Bites includes foods that contain fewer than 600 calories and 24 grams of fat, and prepared specific ways, such as with low-fat cheese, egg substitutes or lean ground beef.
The program was started by the Healthy Options for Movement, Exercise, Body Acceptance and Savvy Eating (HOMEBASE) task force. Better Bites options include the MegaVega wrap, sushi, select smoothies and select sandwiches, all with noticeable Better Bites logos on their wrappers or containers.
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Better Bites offers free Mega Vega wrap samples at the Burge Union Tuesday afternoon. Better Bites menu items contain less than 600 calories and less than 24 grams of fat.
PARKING
Recreation center spots open next semester
The Parking Commission voted yesterday to open about 50 parking spots in front of the Student Recreation and Fitness Center. Students can use the spots during the day if they want to use the recreation center.
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The lot is currently only available for students with a yellow parking permit. Yellow permit owners will not be allowed to park in the spots that are opened for Center users once the plan is implemented.
The change was proposed by Student Body vice president Ray Wittlinger, who said that he was excited to call the plan a success.
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The new parking system will especially benefit freshmen, who cannot own yellow parking permits, and students who own permits in the Park and Ride lot.
Wittlinger said that the change would take effect by the start of the spring semester.
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