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MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
OPINION
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do you think?
REBEKKA SCHLICHTING
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BAILEY WHITE senior from Salina
What is the hardest part about moving from a dorm to an apartment?
"It can be hard if you don't want to pay for a moving van."
Have you ever had a good experience moving?
"One year I had about seven friends help me, and it took about an hour total to move everything from one place to the other."
vnat do you miss about living in the dorms?
"I miss having everything paid already and I miss free cable."
If there was one thing you could change about the dorms, what would it be?
"The wall coloring is pretty dull."
COURTNEY SCHOOLER senior from Blaine
What do you not miss about the dorses?
"I don't miss not having a kitchen or a washer and dryer."
What the hardest part of moving from a dorm to an apartment?
"Moving a futon is the hardest thing ever. My parents came up to help, thank goodness."
If there was one thing you could change about the dorms, what would it be?
"The size of the rooms or that I could have my own room."
ERIC COLANGELO former KU student from Eureka
What do you miss about the dorms?
"I miss a close proximity to everyone. I also sort of don't miss that. I miss it because it sort of forced social interactionit's something I don't get a lot of, as a shy person, and the dorms help."
LINDSEY PURCELL sophomore from Topeka
What do you not miss about living in the
dorms?
"People partying and making noise at four in the morning. I don't miss having to fight for a parking spot. I don't miss having to have a meal plan."
What do you miss about living in the dorms?
"I do miss having the social atmosphere though and having parties on the floor and getting to meet new people."
What was the hardest part of moving from a dorm to an apartment?
"Taking the time to do it. Just having to get all my stuff out of the dorm and having a set time, where you only have the nine months and then you need to move."
If there was one thing you could change about the dorms, what would it be?
"I loved my floor because I know a lot of people didn't have a really cool RA. My RA was really awesome and made sure that we had social gatherings every week. I would say make that more of a well-known thing and have all RAs do something like that because it helps the residence get to know
If there was one thing you could change
'be the residence get to know each other better.'
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that insisting a member or mother or family member who is gay positively affects a person's views about people who are gay.
Advocates have been optimistic about the trend and the possible reduction of prejudice, but Egan explored several problems with the hypothesis and its conclusion. Data gathered in polls and studies does not fully examine the factors that might make a person more likely to have a relationship with a gay person, which can produce biased data.
But the biggest problem is disclosure. Most research on the contact hypothesis doesn't consider whether or not the gay friend, co-worker or family member actually said they were gay or if it was assumed.
Egan pointed out that straight people can fairly accurately deter-
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Jake Longraker, a graduate student in political science from DeSoto, said Egan's research was very current and showed the dramatic attitude shifts regarding gays and lesbians. It's a topic that he explores in his own research of LGBT communities in Latin America.
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Research also shows that in the time between freshman and senior year, students generally become more tolerant of gays and lesbians, Egan said.
Patrick J. Egan, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New York University, delivers a lecture called, "Frontiers in Research on Attitudes Among and About Gay People," at Watson Library Tuesday afternoon. The lecture was part of the Clifford P. Ketzel Speaker Series for the Expression of Minority Opinions.
"Knowing what the attitudes
"My guess is that when students first come to college, it's often the first time they encounter a gay or lesbian person who acknowledges their identity," Egan said. "By every indication, that should be a pretty powerful predictor and changer of attitudes."
are of people, and how you can improve the situation so that you can make those positive changes and you can make changes in laws, is important," Longraker said.
Donald Haider-Markel, chair of the Political Science department, said Egan's presentation was part of a lecture series featuring controversial speakers. Egan's presentation was controversial not only because it discussed gays and lesbians, but also because it challenged the common understanding of how the contact hypothesis applies to the LGBT community. Although the lecture series hasn't been going on in recent years, he hopes to make it an annual event.
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public broadcasting network. The Colbert Report also ran a clip about it, according to C. J. Janovy, director of communications at KU Medical Center. "This is obviously a topic of wide interest," Janovy said.
For over a decade, Tash and collaborators developed a compound that blocks sperm production and was originally part of a cancer treatment. The side effects from this included infertility.
The term "infertility" may seem scary, but if men are taking the pill and decide they want to conceive, they just stop taking the pill.
"It's not only 100 percent effective, but 100 percent reversible, which is the holy grail of a contraceptive," Tash said.
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be paving new DA," Tash said. a graduate stu Camaroon, is researching on disrupting sperm development as another form of non- hormonal male contraceptive. While Agbor's work is still preparing for animal testing, Agbor sees the importance of increased options for male contraceptives.
"By producing more male birth control, it's going to help males contribute to family planning." Agbor said.
The development of these drugs could potentially impact the world, said Tash. Tash cited that half of all pregnancies are unplanned and in the US, half of those unplanned pregnancies occurred while under supposed use of contraceptives. Tash recently presented to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation as an expert in contraception.
"The simpler a contraceptive is to use, the more desirable and easy it is to distribute and use" Tash said.
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