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Web site fills gossip void
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Citing plummeting advertising
Message board takes over where JuicyCampus leaves off
After advertisers pulled the juice from juicyCampus.com, all that was left for the controversial gossip Web site to do was fizz out.
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
rburchfield@kansan.com
"The Anonymous Confession Board, or the ACB, is quickly becoming the central hub of college campuses around the country, giving students the freedom to voice their opinions and ask questions about any facet of college life," a press release on CollegeACB.com said. "It is the campus center, the dorm room, the cafeteria, and the lecture hall, all combined into a single, easily accessible forum where everyone is invited to converse openly, without fear of reprisal or reprimand."
So it is out with JuicyCampus and in with CollegeACB.com, where JuicyCampus.com visitors will be redirected if they try to visit the Web site. Anonymous Confession Board is the answer to JuicyCampus regulars who still need to get their fix.
revenue and dissolving venture capital funding. JuicyCampus folded on Feb. 5, despite its more than one million visitors every month.
Mark Campbell, Leawood sophomore, said he used to visit JuicyCampus about once a week and that he would miss the Web site because of the anonymity it brought. Campbell used to look for posts on his fraternity and said he would only switch his loyalties to CollegeACB if the Web site became well known.
"If it gets popular I'll visit it, but if no one knows about it then I'm not going to waste my time." Campbell said.
Matt lvester, founder and CEO of JuicyCampus, said in a Feb. 4 press release he hoped the Web site — which sparked its share of lawsuits and, more commonly, hurt feelings
would be remembered fondly.
"While there are parts of JuicyCampus that none of us will miss — the mean-spirited posts and personal attacks — it has also been a place for the fun, lighthearted gossip of college life,"'bewer said. "'I hope that how is it remembered."
CollegeACB, owned and operated by Peter Frank, a freshman at Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn., offers new features missing from JuicyCampus, including a user-moderation button, where any post deemed by any user to be threatening, libelous or otherwise illegal is immediately brought to the webmaster's attention.
Pam Botts, associate director of, the University's Counseling and Psychological Services, said JuicyCampus' maliciousness seemed pointless to begin with.
"We always encourage people to treat other people with respect, and anything that interferes with that is probably negative," Botts said. "It sounds like JuicyCampus was a negative activity that served no useful purpose."
Ivester said the JuicyCampus faithful didn't have to worry about having their identities exposed.
"junicyCampus will maintain the same policy we have always enforced — IP addresses will not be released without a lawful subpoena," Ivered say.
Edited by Sam Speer
HEALTH
On obesity, panel chimes in
Life Span Institute hosts discussion on keeping weight off
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
Caleb Sommerville/KANSAN
Dr. Cary Savage, right of the University of Kansas Life Span Institute, explains how food portions have gotten bigger over the years in a panel discussion Wednesday at the Edwards Campus. The panel featured presentations by Dr. Savage, Christie Befort, left, Dedra苏华和 Joseph Dunneley.
"Remember the commercials saying, "This is your brain on drugs?" Cary Savage, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, asked an audience at the KU Edwards Campus Regnier Auditorium on Wednesday night. "Well, this is your brain on food."
Savage, a researcher at the Edwards campus, was one of four guest panelists at the KU Life Span Institute's biannual community conversation. "Considering Obesity: Brain, Body, Behavior." John Colombo, director of the Life Span Institute, said there were two goals for this year's conversation.
"One is to raise consciousness about the issue of obesity." Colombo said. "And the second goal is to make the community aware that there is research going on."
Savage is one of these researchers. He uses magnetic resonance images, commonly called MRIs, to look at how a person's brain reacts to various pictures, called cues, before and after they start a diet.
He uses photographs of "appetizing foods," such as brownies, and "unappetizing foods," such as live animals, to monitor brain activity in response to the photographs. Savage said cues could be pictures of any addictive substance, like drugs and alcohol, depending on the study.
STAYING ON TRACK
Obesity is characterized by a
"Most diets are proven successful, but only a minority of people are able to keep the weight off," Savage said. Savage's previous studies have shown 70 to 90 percent of dieters are successful in their programs, but 79 percent usually gain the weight back.
Set goals: Make specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound goals.
"I've been here many years and I'm noticing an increase in obese students," she said. Chapman said she consulted with patients throughout the week who were concerned about their weight. While most of her patients are self-referred, she said a number of them came in because of a doctor's request.
Recommendations from Debra Sullivan, KU associate professor of dietetics and nutrition & Christie Befort, assistant professor of preventative medicine and public health
Monitor yourself: Document what you eat and how you exercise. "It increases awareness of what you're doing." Befort said. "Our memories of what we eat are fairly forgiving."
According to the Oct. 2008 edition of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, young adults in college are more likely to gain weight than the rest of the general population. It reported that the average weight gain among college students is four to nine pounds during freshman year. Ann Chapman, KU registered dietitian, said she wasn't surprised.
Make small changes: Eat healthier snacks, drink lots of water and cut down on dining out.
Cut the fat: Fats have twice the amount of calories of carbohydrates.
Stick with your plan: "it doesn't matter what weight loss strategy you try, it matters if you stick with it." Sullivan said.
body mass index of 30 and above. A BMI is the measurement of body fat based on height and weight. People with BMIs of 25 and above are considered overweight.
"You have an increase for disease with a high BMI," Chapman said. "It's a huge issue on campus." To avoid weight gain and obesity, Chapman said developing healthy eating habits was crucial, especially during the first year of college.
Chapman said college students usually had a difficult time managing their weight for a number of reasons. She said boredom, depression, anger and stress were common emotions that triggered eating.
"Eating to soothe an emotion is an automatic response," she said. Chapman recommends that people who eat based off of an emotion replace foods for different, healthier behaviors.
"It can't just be exercise" she said. "It has to be more specific."
"If you're a stress eater, that's tough because you'll have to come up with alternative behaviors to soothe stress," she said. She recommends taking a bath, watching a clip from a funny movie or jumping rope for 30 minutes.
Savage said people use the limbic system, a set of brain structures that determine behaviors and
emotions, to make health-related decisions every day. Healthy eating and regular exercise are not priorities for college students, and strong emotions put them at a high risk for rapid weight gain.
Wilcox lives in Corbin residence hall. She said she exercised portion control when she ate in the GSP cafeteria and always walked to campus.
Marie Wilcox, St. Charles, Ill., freshman, said she thought a number of people were obese, but that there were a number of resources on campus for students to stay in shape.
"I've seen girls on my floor gain the freshman 15," she said. Wilcox said she didn't think the frequent buses on campus were doing any one any favors.
The discussion Wednesday evening also featured KU professors Joseph Donnelly, Debra Sullivan and Christie Befort, who gave advice to students about how to keep off the weight they have successfully lost. Donnelly directs the Center for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Weight Management, which provides clinical treatment aimed at helping people keep weight off in the long term.
Edited by Justin Leverett