Volume 124 Issue 111
kansan.com
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
TRANSPORTATION
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Determining your priorities: expenses or community
LANNA WENNER
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It's not uncommon for students to complain about the walk to and from Daisy Hill, but many students face a greater challenge while traveling to class.
Some students choose to avoid Lawrence housing and commute to campus from surrounding areas like Topeka and the Kansas City metro.
"I chose to commute mostly because it was much better for me financially," said Allison Mueller, a freshman from Topeka. "I also don't mind the drive at all."
Mueller lives with her parents and her boyfriend. She spends about $40 per week on gas and drives to Lawrence five days a week.
"It's cheaper because the cost of gas isn't as much as living on campus would have cost me," Mueller said.
On the other hand, Courtney Newman, a junior from Leavenworth, said that she has lived on campus for her entire time at the University.
"I feel like if I didn't live on campus, I wouldn't go to class," Newman said. "I definitely wouldn't go to anything that's not class."
To Mueller, commuting makes it harder to
get involved in campus activities.
"I don't feel like a part of the KU community," Mueller sad. "Because of the limited time I'm on campus, I'm not a part of anything at KU. I go to class, and I go home. I pretty much feel like a high school student still."
However, Mueller still prefers the commute.
"The best part is being able to live at home with all its comforts: family, homemade meals and laundry." Mueller said.
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that having a friend or worker 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.
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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.
"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."
Research also shows that in the time between freshman and senior year, students generally become more tolerant of gays and lesbians, Egan said.
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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
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.
The drug has seen effectiveness and safety for testing in mice, rabbits and most recently, primates. The animal testing has also shown the offspring produced by former users
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"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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