4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2005
CAMPUS
Student charged with sexual battery
KU Police arrested a KU student late Saturday night on charges of sexual battery, battery and criminal damage.
The male jumped in a car occupied by two females KU students, an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old. The females told the male to get out of the car, but as he was getting out, he touched one of the females on her breast, Bailey said.
Sometime between 10:35 and 10:45 p.m. a group of individuals saw a male in KU parking lot 112 by Oliver Hall walking on cars, said Capt. Schuyler Bailey, spokesman for the KU Public Safety Office.
The group confronted the male. He hit a 19-year-old male KU student, Bailey said.
Police arrested the male and booked him in Douglas County jail. Records indicated that he was still in custody yesterday.
Joshua Bickel
A group of KU engineering students and faculty will be the first ever in Kansas to create a satellite.
Students, faculty to launch satellite
The students expect to launch a pico-satellite, or a CubeSat, into orbit at the end of May.
"We're trying to build up a new capability and new industry with the space program in Kansas, and this is the first step," Trevor Sorensen, aerospace engineering associate professor, said.
The satellite is a 10-centimeter cube that weighs less than 2.2 pounds. The CubeSat will be launched inside a larger satellite that will orbit the earth.
The CubeSat will inspect damage on the larger satellite and take pictures of earth and measure radiation in space.
More than 20 students have worked on the CubeSat for the past two years of production.
— Nate Karlin
Almost two-thirds of college students do
That milk on your cereal in the morning may be more important than you think.
Having worked with University of Kansas students and their diets, Ann Chapman, Watkins Memorial Health Center dietician, said that the lack of milk in student diets was alarming.
The bare bones of osteoporosis
Not drinking enough milk can lead to various calcium deficiency-related diseases, including osteoporosis, she said.
Low calcium intake can lead to osteoporosis, a degenerative condition that causes back pain, a decrease in height and easily broken bones.
Low bone density and osteoporosis, a condition where bones become porous and break very easily, are two conditions seen about age 50 as a result of low calcium intake, she said.
"I can't tell you how common it is for students to tell me they don't drink milk." she said.
Nearly 70 percent of college-age women and 60 percent of college-age men don't consume enough calcium, she said. Women have a higher risk of getting osteoporosis, she said.
The University has given students
Lack of calcium in someone's diet can lead to bone problems later in life, Chapman said.
The reasons students don't drink milk are numerous and different, Chapman said. Cost, how quickly it spoils and the fact that many students don't like the taste are a few reasons students skip the milk coolers in the grocery store.
Students don't worry about calcium intake because it does not affect them until later in life, she said. By then, it will be difficult to reduce the damage, she said.
more beverage choices on campus. Chapman said.
Dining services in both unions and in The Underground sell milk. There are vending machines with Nesquik dairy products in several campus locations, she said.
Andy Wolff, Shawnee freshman, drinks about two glasses of milk a week. He thinks this could be a problem in the future.
He drank milk every day when he was growing up, but the trend hasn't continued into Wolff's college life.
"I can't remember the last time I had a real breakfast, much less had milk with one," he said.
immediate physical threat from the problem.
Despite knowing the consequences,
Wolff too worried because there is no
Though Stacy Lendt, Maryville, Mo., graduate student, is also not worried, she is the opposite of Wolff. She drinks at least one glass of milk a day. Lendt said she had always liked dairy products.
Her mom had to tell her to stop drinking all the milk, she said.
Buying calcium-fortified orange juice is one way Lendt hopes to avoid any future bone problems.
She isn't sure how other people will end up in the future with their bones, but she said she thinks that the popularity of coffee shops and drinks such as lattes may ease the problem.
Edited by Kendall Dix
SPEAKER
Professor, literary critic talks about experiences
BY PETER VAN AUKEN
correspondent@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Kansan correspondent Peter Van Auken sat down with Marc Dambre yesterday afternoon. Dambre, a professor of contemporary French literature, gave a lecture on Oliver Rolin and Rolin's novel, "Tigre en papier," yesterday at the Spencer Research Library. Dambre is a professor of contemporary French literature at 'UUniversité de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III. He has taught at university level in the United States, England and Tunisia and is on the jury of a major French literary prize, the Prix Nimier.
Q. You have spent most of your career as a literary critic. Have you ever had aspirations to write fiction?
A. Yes, early on I considered this, but I felt that in order to make a career of writing I would have put writing above all else. This was not the choice for me because I value other things as well, such as an intellectual life and a love life.
Q: Do you have any tips for students who would like to become more effective writers?
A: The experience of diversity, for two reasons: It develops your critical thinking skills and develops your generosity toward others. Being around other cultures allows you to make comparisons to your own and also find the common points of man that lie in all cultures.
A: First of all, read a lot. Reading and understanding what is already there is the first step in creating something new. Second advice: Practice writing in the style of your favorite writer. Imitate writers to understand how they write. And finally, never let a day pass without writing at least one line.
Q: What do value most about your experiences abroad?
A: Yes, the Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel.
Q: Do you have a favorite musician?
- Edited by Lisa Coble-Krings
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