8A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY.JANUARY17,2003
Dan Nelson/Kansan
Exercising resolutions in the new year
Daniel Sailors, Perry sophomore, and James Howard, Muncie, Ind., sophomore, use the workout facilities at Robinson Center. They said they planned to make fitness a priority in 2003.
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Kansan staff writer
Bv Nikki Overfelt
After the fabulous food-filled holidays, many students come back to the hill with the New Year's resolutions to get in shape.
The outcome?
"It never works," Leigh Baker, Wellington sophomore, said.
But despite her failure to stick with her resolution in the past, Baker said she was going to try again this year.
"I ran in high school," she said. "I just need to get back into it."
Hillary Friend, Plano, Texas, freshman, said she had found success in the past with keeping up with her exercise resolution until winter came again.
Friend said her motivation for getting in shape was spring break.
James Howard, Muncie, Ind., sophomore, and Daniel Sailors, Perry sophomore, also want to find their way to the gym more often.
"I plan on running and going to the gym," she said.
Howard said he wanted to play basketball to lose weight.
Sailors said he planned to lift weights and use electrical machines, such as the stair climber, to get fit.
Both Howard and Sailors said girls were their main motivation for keeping trim.
For health-cognizant students, there are several options for working out in Lawrence.
Robinson Center is the main on-campus option for students. One of the highlights of Robinson's offerings is free personal trainers for students.
Heather Hellman, KU Fit instructor, said Robinson offered 40 free one-hour sessions per week on a first come, first serve basis. Students are allowed to sign up for two sessions per week and then pay a fee for additional sessions.
frellman said the trainers would assist students by giving them individual attention.
"They plan a program to fit your needs and help you reach your goals," she said.
Hellman also said Robinson would offer new KU Fit classes this semester, with new times and instructors. Robinson will sponsor an intramural basketball tournament at the beginning of the semester and other intramural sports and tournaments throughout the semester.
Students also have the option to join an off-campus gym.
Shannon Garner, manager of the
Lawrence Athletic Club's north and south locations and the assistant aerobic coordinator, said her club offered classes in aerobics and yoga.
For students, Garner said she thought the dance aerobic classes and yoga booty ballet class would be especially appealing.
An off-campus option without membership fees is the Lawrence Parks and Recreation facilities.
Tim Laurent, facility operations supervisor, said they offered two different weight rooms that were free for students at the East Lawrence Center and Holcom Park Recreation Center.
If students want to play basketball in the gym, Laurent said the centers offered open play times.
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Hybrid CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
ered engine and a nickel-metal battery, according to Toyota. At a stop, the gas engine will shut off completely, but, like a golf cart, depressing the accelerator engages the engine again. Each 10-gallon gas tank can carry the car around town for more than 450 miles. Jimenez estimates that he has filled up around 15 times since he began using the car for housing inspections last March.
Those numbers are exactly
what city manager Mike Wildgen and city garage manager Steve Stewart were looking for when they began shopping for a hybrid car more than a year ago.
"We need to be real environmentally conscious here anyway. We are so close to Kansas City and there are several areas of concern up there," Stewart said.
The hybrid cars have turned out to help more than the environment. With each one costing about $20,000 through a Toyota-offered subsidy program, and doubling the fuel efficiency of other city vehicles, the benefits are starting to show up on the city's strapped books. too
"I'm sure it's already made an impact in the fuel budget for building inspection since they've got two of the cars," Stewart said. "I don't know whether they will realize that until next year when they've had a chance to compare numbers. Of course everything we can do to save on the fuel budget helps now."
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Snow
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"There is no one key factor there that's more important than the others." Long said. "They all add up."
Wheels to determine road conditions and transportation capabilities, Long recommended that campus remain open.
One factor that made the decision easier was the condition of roads on campus. Because of Wednesday night's men's basketball game, campus crews were
treating streets and sidewalks as the snow fell, said Larry Rawlings, assistant director of facilities operations and construction. The pretreatment left less to clean up when plowing began at 3 a.m.yesterday.
"We have a lot of hills up here so we have to get after it early," Rawlings said. "If they aren't clear, we're going to hear about it first up here."
Screams of a different sort could be heard on Campanile hill where Lawrence residents took advantage of the snow and the day off to get in some sledding
before the snow melts.
Graduate research assistant Dev Ravindran, who is from a part of southern India that rarely receives snow, got school out of the way before he made his inaugural run on his sled.
"I've never been sledding before, so I didn't really know what I was missing." Ravindran said as he eyed his second run down the hill. "I like it though. Next time I might have to skip class."
— Edited by Ryan Wood
Social service groups warn reductions could be harmful
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Reductions in state payments for services to disabled Kansans will hurt service providers and their clients alike, a lawyer said in trying to persuade a judge to block the cuts from taking effect today.
But an attorney for the state countered yesterday that budget decisions were the province of the executive and legislative branches and should not be subject to court interference.
Shawnee County District Judge Frank Theis must now decide whether to bar the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services from reducing its reimbursements to groups that serve the developmentally disabled.
After hearing final arguments yesterday, Theis said it was unlikely he would rule on the request for a temporary restraining order before today, when SRS begins issuing the smaller reimbursement checks.
Five service agencies from around the state sought the order after SRS, under then-Gov. Bill Graves' emergency directive Nov. 25, made plans to cut $26.6 million from its $2.1 billion budget.
Two-thirds of the cuts would be restored on July 1, when the next fiscal year begins, under a budget proposed Wednesday by new Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
But an official of the statewide advocacy group Interhab said the legal fight would continue anyway. Interhab executive director Tom Laing said Sebelius' plan would still leave SRS with one-third less money than expected in the current budget year.
"We can't walk away from the funding that we need," Laing added.
Service providers will lose $6 million in budgeted funds between now and July 1 under the cuts taking effect today, according to Interhab.
The providers also fear they could lose their licenses if they failed to serve clients adequately and were accused of abuse, neglect and exploitation, he said.
"If we can't comply with the legal duty of serving people, we'll lose our license. And if we lose our license, people won't get services anymore," Murrow said.
But attorneys for the state questioned whether the service groups had the legal right to sue as advocates for the disabled. They also argued that the court had no role in a budget matter.
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