THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2014
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HEALTH
Campus website aids healthy eating endeavors
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Lucy Edmonds, a sophomore from Kansas City, Mo., said that gaining the "freshman 15" worried her as a senior in high school. She used Net Nutrition her freshman year to stay aware of what she's eating and how many calories she's consuming.
The University of Kansas created Net Nutrition in 2007 to help students maintain a healthy lifestyle. The website, netnutrition.union.ku.edu, helps students track calorie intake and lists a complete nutrition label for every food product on campus.
"With Net Nutrition I can add up every beverage I drink and even the amount of syrup or ketchup I use on a meal,"
Edmonds said. "There are so many dining areas on campus and Net Nutrition has every single one listed so I don't worry about what I'm eating anymore since I can just look it up."
Mary Rondon, KU Dining Services registered dietitian has focused on increasing Net Nutrition's popularity this past year by marketing the website in the dining halls.
"A lot of the students move away from home and think they can eat everything they want," Rondon said. "I tell the incoming students and their parents to use Net Nutrition to help them choose healthier options. It teaches how to incorporate food in moderation."
An article on Psychology Today by Sylvia R. Karasu said
that college students tend to eat more unhealthy food during finals week. Net Nutrition addresses this issue by showing students the availability every dining area has so that they don't immediately turn to the
"It's never easy to start eating healthy. Net Nutrition definitely made that process easier for me."
LILY BAKKER
St. Louis sophomore
unhealthy choices.
Students can choose from dining halls, cafes and food services at the University and immediately get linked to the schedule for the week.
Not only does Net Nutrition show the breakfast, lunch and dinner options, but it also has the everyday selection options so beverages, fruit and even condiments can be added.
KU Dining Services oversees all 22 dining facilities on campus, both residential and retail. Net Nutrition stays updated with all of these facilities and changes often to preview the upcoming week.
Rondon also works with students who have dietary restrictions. She said that these restrictions are on the rise lately in college students and KU Dining Services can provide options to meet all their needs.
Students can check off their allergies or other dietary preferences on Net Nutrition to better organize their
experience with the website. Kosher, organic, vegan and vegetarian are some of the dietary preference filters students can mark so they know what not to eat.
"We have a wide population to serve," Travis Fell, head chef at Mrs. E's, said. "We want to have a balance back in the kitchen, so even though some of the unhealthier choices are popular, some people have diets that they need to follow."
Lily Bakken, a sophomore from St. Louis, likes to cook healthier and leaner meals in her sorority. Bakker uses Net Nutrition when buying products on campus so she knows how much food is enough and how many calories she needs.
"It's never easy to start eating healthy," Bakker said. "Net
Nutrition definitely made that process easier for me."
Students can review all of their meals at the end of the day. They can edit their portions, look up all nutrition information, and even print their daily meals. Rondon said Net Nutrition is a great resource for helping students control their weight and diet, although they need to stay active as well.
"Students nowadays are becoming more health-conscious so they are looking for tools like Net Nutrition," Rondon said. "This healthy lifestyle is a domino effect. Net Nutrition really meets the needs of our students."
— Edited by Amber Kasselman
CRIME
Two toddlers killed during exorcism
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GERMANTOWN, Md. A Maryland woman charged with killing two of her children has told investigators that she thought an exorcism was necessary to remove the presence of the devil and evil spirits, a police captain said Sunday.
Zakieya Latrice Avery, 28. of Germantown, is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of the children, ages 1 and 2.
Montgomery County police responded to Avery's home Friday morning following a neighbor's 911 call. Police said they found the two children dead and two other siblings, ages 5 and 8, injured with stabbing wounds.
"She thought the devil was in the kids, and that's sort of the thing she centered it around as to why she had to conduct an exorcism," said Capt. Marcus Jones, director of the police department's major crimes division. "She just thought that there were evil spirits within the kids."
An undated photo released by the Montgomery County, Md., police department shows Monifa Denise Sanford. Sanford and Zakieya Latrice Avery are accused of killing two children. Police say the women thought they were performing an exorcism.
Another woman charged in the killings, Monifa Denise Sanford, 21, made similar statements during questioning police said.
Sanford was arrested Saturday. The two women had been living together at the house in recent months.
Jones said the father of the children does not live in the area and is separated from Avery, but was returning to be with the surviving children, who remained hospitalized Sunday.
Both women were being held without bond on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder and are not expected to appear in court until Tuesday afternoon. Court records do not list lawyers for the women.
Police said officers went to Avery's row house community north of Washington, D.C., early Friday when a neighbor called 911 after noticing a car with the door open and a knife lying outside of the vehicle.
Officers recovered two knives from the home. The children died from multiple stab wounds, Jones said.
Jones said the women are believed to have met each other at a church, which he identified as Exousia Ministries in Germantown.
The pastor of that congregation, Darryl Jones, declined to discuss the case after services at an elementary school Sunday or even confirm that the women worshipped there.
Avery's stepgrandmother, Sylvia Wade, told The Washington Post that Avery was "humble and meek" and said she loved her children.
"This is a tragic situation. We're keeping the family in (our) prayers and we are
"I don't know what triggered it. She wasn't herself. When a person is not of themselves, they are not responsible for what they are doing. They are in another zone."
respecting the privacy of the family", he said.
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more complicated and a more compassionate perspective. I would also say that Evelyn is a budding scientist.
DUK: What did coming to KU as a student mean for you?
LM: I loved my time as a student here. I went to high school in a small town in Montana, and it wasn't exactly diverse regarding people or politics or ways of thinking about the world. I didn't even know how suffocated I felt until I arrived in Lawrence, and I encountered so many different kinds of people and ideas; to me, it felt like oxygen coming in.
UDK: What did coming to KU
I remember I requested a room in McCollum Hall because that was where most of the international students stayed, and I wanted to try to meet some of them. I went to all the speakers I could. I went to hear Elie Wiesel when he spoke at Murphy Hall. I saw Spike Lee at the Lied Center. I watched Timothy Leary debate G. Gordon Liddy at the Union, which was just sort of comic, but fun. My boyfriend at the time got both Liddy and Leary to sign the back of his driver's license as witnesses he was an organ donor. I remember I freaked out when I heard that Grace Paley, one of my favorite writers, would be coming to KU, and I somehow talked someone in charge into letting me drive her back to the airport. I kept looking over at her and thinking, "Oh wow, I'm in a car with Grace Paley!" She was probably thinking, "Focus on the road, sweetie."
I also occasionally indulged myself by taking impractical electives that had nothing to do with my major. I took Peoples of Africa. I took Economics. I took horseback riding — still the lowest grade on my transcript, but I survived, as did the horse.
And of course, I learned a lot from my professors. Some of them had perspectives I'd never heard before. They seemed free to say things my high school teachers couldn't have gotten away with back home. I didn't agree with everything everyone said, of course, but I appreciated being exposed to the ideas.
I also saw my freshman year at KU as a fresh start. I wasn't exactly a dedicated student in high school, but when I got here, I decided it might be a good time to take studying seriously and see what happened. I just wanted to take everything in, and though I certainly had my difficulties, I remember those years as an exhilarating time of my life.
UDK: Is there anything else Kansan readers should know about?
LM: If they're fans of "Downton Abbey," they might be interested to know that my newest novel, "The Chaperone," was optioned by Elizabeth McGovern and sold to Fox Searchlight; "Downton" creator Julian Fellows is writing the screenplay, but that's all I know for now. Also, an important scene near the end of "The Center of Everything" takes place on Jayhawk Boulevard and the Natural History Museum.
— Edited by Alec Weaver
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