FRIDAY,APRIL26,2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
Perspiration nothing to sweat
By Summer Lewis Kansan staff writer
After the long walk up to campus, some students may find themselves dripping with sweat as they take a seat in class.
Sweating, of course, is perfectly normal. It is one way the body maintains its temperature. People sweat when it is hot or after exercising vigorously. When the sweat evaporates, it cools the skin and the body's temperature.
Sometimes this cooling system can cause problems though. As many as one in 100 people suffer from excessive sweating. Just the thought of stress causes the sweat to start flowing, usually on the palms, feet, face and underarms. Some people can undergo extreme stress and not sweat at all. Others find themselves drenched with perspiration from just having to say a few words in class.
Lee Bittenbender, dermatologist at the Dermatology Center of Lawrence,
said that the problem of excessive sweating was called hyperhidrosis. He said it was not known why one person's threshold for sweating was different from another's.
"It is typically something that affects young adults," Bittenbender said. "We don't know for sure why people have overactive sweat. It could be due to genetic factors, but typically it just goes away as students get older."
He said that it was a problem that he treated quite often.
"It affects various parts of the body, such as underarms, hands and feet," Bittenbender said. "I have seen students who sweat so much in their hands that when they take a test, they sweat through the test paper. A lot of people complain that all of their clothes are stained."
He said that some people sweat so much in their underarms that their clothes were deteriorating.
"They may feel embarrassed, and the
problem can get in the way of a social life." Bittenbender said.
Fortunately, many forms of treatment are available.
John Thyfault, graduate teaching assistant of exercise physiology, said that sweating was often incorrectly associated with being out of shape.
"The most basic is a strong antiperspirant called Certin Dry that is available over the counter," he said. "Drysol can be prescribed and is applied at bedtime. There are many more aggressive forms of treatment available also."
"With exercise, well-trained people sweat more during exercise because their bodies are more efficient at cooling," Thyfault said. "The students that stay hot longer and don't stop sweating once they get to class are the ones with a problem."
Contact Lewis at slewis@kansan.com.
This story was edited by Gillian Titus.
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She said a feminist press was created in Chile during Pinochet's dictatorship so writers and artists could get their work out. The book objects Cordone owns books that were disguised as objects, like a shoebox, so they weren't censored by the government.
Cordone said one book object was a set of tarot cards with a drawing on one side and a poem on the other.
She said she went to Chile to write her senior thesis and ended up staying with the founder of the artisan book press.
"She gave me some of her book objects," Cordone said. "Some of them were her only copies."
Students entering collections had to write a two-to-eight page essay
about their collection, said Sarah Goodwin Thiel, chair of the Snyder Book Collecting Committee and digital project librarian at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
She said the essay dealt with what they were collecting, why they were collecting it, and other aspects of the collection.
Thiel said it wasn't necessarily what the students were collecting that made them the winners.
"Both of these collections had strong essays and were thorough collections," she said.
Thiel said 26 students submitted collections this year. The most ever submitted was 27.
Contact Gilligan at
mgilligan@kansan.com. This story was edited by Brooke Hesler.
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SOBEL
"I was interested to hear her feelings toward science and religion," she said. "She was very positive toward both."
Bailey said Sobel's talk was everything he hoped it would be.
"It opened up the subject of the relationship between science and faith, and notably, Galileo's resolution of that tension, a resolution that seems to be way ahead," he said.
Sobel said that at the end of her research, she agreed with Galileo's work.
"I'm with Galileo," she said. "Of all the things he had done, at the end of his life, he was excited that a new way of science had opened up. You had to do the math. It wasn't just a gimmick anymore."
Contact Hill at shill@kansan.com
Students get swept away with television selections
By Jessica Tims Kansan staff writer
Will Ross and Rachel get married in a Friends season finale? That has become one of the most-asked questions on the University of Kansas campus since Drew Gooden announced he was headed to the NBA.
Last night, television series began to debut all new episodes in an attempt to attract more viewers with hotter and more outrageous story lines. It is what people in the television industry call "sweeps," the period from April 25 to Mav 22
Lauren Basham, Conroe Texas freshman, said "sweeps" were successful at attracting viewers.
Basham said after the new episodes began to air, the show truly was "must see TV." She said although the 7 p.m. Thursday time slot was difficult to catch with a busy college schedule, she would tape shows she misses.
Matt Tatham, senior communications analyst for Nielsen Media Research. said the ratings a show earned during "sweeps" helped determine the show's time slot and advertising rates for networks and local stations.
"The ratings are taken with diaries and set meters," he said. "There are one and a half million diaries used during sweeps. We also use 20 to 30 thousand set meters."
Tatham said diaries were sent to random people though the mail. The people who receive the diaries record what shows they watch and return them to the Nielsen company. He said set meters are installed to television sets and automatically record what shows are being viewed.
Some meters also include a feature that records who watched the show that person's age and sex. Tatham said that networks lured viewers to their
Shows ending their small screen run:
*X-Files: the finale is scheduled for Sunday, May 19 on FOX.*
Ally McBeal: the finale will air Monday, May 20 on FOX.
Dharma and Greg: the finale will air Tuesday, April 30 on ABC.
Roswell: the finale will air Tuesday, May 14 on FOX.
Felicity: the finale will air Wednesday, May 22 on the WB.
shows by teasing them with television spots that dropped hints as to what would happen in the weeks to come. An example of this is NBC's promotion of Cher as a special guest star on the season finally of Will and Grace.
Will and Grace star, Sean Hayes, who plays a gay character, Jack McFarland, said in television interviews that Cher would come to his character in a dream and tell him something that would change his life forever. Anthony Yannotta, Paola freshman, said he hoped Cher did not tell Jack to change his sexuality.
"It wouldn't be funny if Jack weren't gay," he said. "He plays such a good gay guy."
As Basham's six best Friends, she said she was expecting a surprise ending to the season, bigger than a previous sweeps show when Ross said Rachel's name at the alter during his wedding to Emily.
"I think it will be something shocking," she said. "Some one may move away, something huge. Or Ross and Rachel may be getting married."
Contact Tims at jtims@kansan.com This story was edited by Brooke Hesler.
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