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The Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center fitness assessments measure fitness levels based on cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body fat percentage
Student rec offers fitness level assessments
SHERYL MILLER
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The Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center at the University offers a fitness assessment for students interested in learning their fitness level.
The assessment, called Fit4U, measures current fitness level based on the five components of fitness (cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body fat percentage) in addition to your resting heart rate, blood pressure and movement assessment.
All assessments are completed by a trained, nationally certified student
personal trainer. Kelsey Stoskopf, a senior from St. Louis, is one of the trainers who conducts assessments
"The assessments are excellent for any student, from someone just starting their fitness journey and wanting to get an accurate starting point, to someone who has been working out for years and wants to see what all their hard work has done for their body." Stoskopf said.
Stokopf said an assessment will help students recognize if they have any muscle imbalances. Knowing what muscle imbalances you have can help prevent injury, she said. A body fat analysis is also included in the assessment.
The center recommends a follow-up assessment to check on health progress, which costs $10.
"A lot of people rely on the scale or BMI to measure progress, and those aren't always the best ways to do it," Stoskopf said.
Body fat analysis is more accurate because it measures both muscle and fat mass, giving you a percentage of each, she said.
"Two people weighing 130 pounds could look completely different, if one has 20 percent body fat as opposed to 13 percent," Stoskopf said.
To sign up, go online to www.recreation.ku.edu/fitness-assessments and
complete a Fit4U Health History Form, then visit the administrative office in the ASRFC. You may call 785-864-1370 to schedule an appointment. Assessments are available for student
members for $15,or $20 for non-members. Payments must be made before attending.
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While Brooks said the University is making strides in the right direction, there's more to be done.
"It just was something that we needed to do along with others on this campus," Arnold said. "We're not the only one that has done this, and we wanted to be inclusive of it for all the right reasons."
"I think the conversations are slowly starting to grow at the University level in general," Brooks said. "Gendered spaces are something we're accustomed to, and I think the conversation is starting to
build consciousness around different gender identities other than just male and female."
Brooks said the implementation of a fulltime assistant director and coordinator for the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity spurred the University to start working for increased understanding of the importance of these issues.
"We're starting to see programming and it be part of conversations that bring attention to why these issues are important in higher ed." Brooks said.
In light of March 31 being the sixth International
Transgender Day of Visibility, Brooks said the more allies and people advocating on behalf of trans individuals and the LGBT community, the more likely they are to feel confident and capable of the same kind of success.
"That makes a difference when you have folks that are being visible and open and they've found a sense of social capital to be where they are, it opens up the gates for others to be like. 'That's cool. I feel more comfortable knowing someone else is living their life the way I want to,'" Brooks said.
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Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center changes three restrooms to gender-neutral restrooms. Graduate student Hugo Macias Jr., who works at the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, headed the change. The three restrooms are located in the basement, across from the locker rooms. One is ADA-accessible with a shower and a toilet; the other two do not have a shower.
Elections Commission to hear violations Thursday
The Elections Commission will hear two violations over social media filed in the current Student Senate election this Thursday, according to Dylan Unrein, outreach director of the Elections Commission.
Of the two possible violations, one is filed against Advance KU and the other against Imagine, the two current coalitions in the Student Senate election.
The elections chair from the Elections Commission filed the violations, which both involve social media for the two coalitions.
The Elections Commission is the body that oversees the Student Senate election process. The Commission can file violations against the coalitions as they learn about potential violations, and the coalitions can file violations against each other as well.
Imagine has a YouTube
account that was not registered with the Commission, and Advance KU advertised a social event without receiving permission first, according to Nikki Marcotte, the Elections Commission chair.
This is the second hearing of this year's election race. Last week, the Elections Commission filed two violations — one against each coalition — because the vice presidential candidate from Advance KU and the presidential candidate from Imagine didn't attend the training that all candidates were required to attend.
Both were cleared with no violation once they explained they were traveling home from spring break.
The hearing will take place Thursday at 8 a.m. in room 108 in Green Hall.
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old coal-mining community so there are abandoned strip mines all over the place. All around me were examples of negative human environment interaction, so I decided at a really early age that I wanted to be a part of solving that problem and really bettering the relationships that communities and industries can have with the natural world.
KANSAN: What are your goals for the future pertaining to your involvement with environmental studies?
MURNAN: I would like to get a master's in public policy with a focus on the environment and then become a policy analyst. I want to collect and analyze data in order to propose environmental actions and policies. So basically how can we take
Jennifer Stern, a graduate of Free State High School in Lawrence, is an ecology and evolutionary biology major. Stern is a member of the University Scholar Program and Peer Led Undergraduate Supplements in Biology program. She has conducted research on climate change with Joy Ward and Leo William Smith, associate professors of ecology and evolutionary biology, and was also a 2014 Honorable Mention for the Udall Scholarship.
these big ideas about climate change and scientific data and turn it into something everyone can understand and most importantly, decision-makers can understand.
KANSAN: What inspired you to pick ecology and evolutionary biology as your main focus?
STERN: "I have an ultimate
I'm really interested in arctic ecosystems and how that affects a beluga whale, and so when coming into college I immediately started in the climate change lab. After two years of working in that lab I wanted to get a little bit more of a marine perspective, so now I work with Dr. Leo Smith and research the evolution of venom glands in sharks.
goal of going to graduate school to research beluga whales.
KANSAN: What are your goals for the future pertaining to your involvement and your research?
STERN: "I really want to partner with an aquarium and couple science and outreach to really make research -accessible to the public and really involve the greater community in the conservation of the beluga whales."
Ashlie Koehn, a graduate of Remington High School in Burns, is an economics, environmental studies, and global & international studies major. She is a member of the KU Global Scholars Program and a member of the Kansas Air National Guard, where she was named the 2013 Kansas Air National Guard Airmen of the Year.
KANSAN: How did you become interested in environmental studies?
KOEHN: "My interest in the environment was started by my family. My dad took my sister and I out to the woods often, my mom always has a huge garden and my grandparents shared their Dust Bowl stories with me as a child. This background, combined with a desire to serve, led me down the path to environmental studies."
KANSAN: What are your
KOEHN: "So, long term, my hope is to work in environmental diplomacy in the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Within their Office of Environment and Natural Resources, I hope to shape trade agreements and leverage action on global environmental issues."
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goals for the future with your involvement with environmental studies?
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