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What's the weather, Jay?
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013
Tuesday
Sunny Zero percent chance of rain. Wind W at 10 mph.
HI: 38
LO: 17
Perfect inside weather.
HI: 40
LO: 20
Wednesday
HI: 31
LO: 11
Sunny. 10 percent chance of rain. Wind S at 14 mph.
Mostly sunny. Zero percent chance of rain. Wind S at 10 mph.
Thursday
Quite literally freezing.
I see you, Stop Day eve.
Calendar
Monday, Dec. 9
What: "From Jayhawk to Diplomat:
Careers in International Diplomacy"
When: 1 p.m.
where: Kansas Union, English Room About: Cassandra Payton will speak about her experiences as a foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department.
What: Reimagining the City Seminar:
"Suburban Opposition to District
Reorganization. The 1968 Spain-
hower Commission and Metropolitan
Kansas City and St. Louis"
When: 3.30 to 5 p.m.
Where: Hall Center, Seminar Room
About: Open to faculty, staff, &
graduate students
Tuesday, Dec. 10
What: SenEx - University Senate Executive Committee
When: 3 to 5 p.m.
Where: Strong Hall, Provost's Conference Room
About: Executive committee of the University Senate
Wednesday, Dec. 11
What: The Maderati
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: William Inge Memorial Theatre,
Murphy Hall
About: The comedy, directed by Jeanne Tiehen
is $14 KU faculty/staff and $10 for students.
What: Ecumenical Christian Ministries Faith Forum. Queering Christianity - Celebration and Evaluation
When: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Where: ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave., Main Floor
CAMPUS
About: Come hear stories from people who have realized in their faith journeys that there is nothing wrong with being queer and Christian.
What: The Maderati
When: 7:50 p.m.
Where: William Inge Memorial Theatre,
Murphy Hall
About: The comedy, directed by Jeanne
Tieben, is $14 KU faculty/staff and $10 for
students.
Thursday, Dec. 12
What: Last day of classes
When: All day
Where: All university
What: SUA and the KU Memorial Unions
Present Tea @ Three
When: 3 to 4 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union Lobby, Level 4
About: Free tea and treats.
Mrs. E's to offer students kosher food options
MADDIE FARBER
mfarber@kansan.com
Ekdahl Dining Commons, more popularly known as Mrs. E's, is now meeting the needs of students with dietary restraints. A partnership between KU Chabad and KU Dining Services has made kosher food an option for Jewish and Muslim students at the University.
According to Mark Maranell, general manager of the dining center, Mrs. E's is now serving kosher meals to 50 to 100 people every Monday evening in the newly constructed "KYou Zone" in the dining center.
sa. Utensils that have come into contact with non-kosher food may not be used. Meat cannot be eaten with dairy and only certain parts of permitted animals can be eaten. Pigs and other split-hooved animals are not considered kosher, along with certain types of
To start, utensils used for cooking kosher meals that have come into contact with meat may not be used with dairy and vice ver-
In order to ensure a meal is kosher, the food must be prepared in accordance with Jewish law. Travis Fell, culinary assistant manager at Mrs. E's, explained the many ways that preparing a kosher meal is different from any other.
"This took hours of work with many technicalities, but it has been met with tremendous response."
RABBI ZALMAN KU Chabad
tor of KU Dining Services.
fish and birds. The "KYou Zone" is fully equipped with various utensils to ensure the proper preparation of kosher meals.
BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
The recent renovation of Mrs. E's and cooperation with KU Chabad presented an opportunity for KU Dining Services to expand on its kosher meals services, according to Sheryl Kidwell, assistant direc-
"This concept within Mrs. E's provided us the ability, along with the Rabbi's assistance, to buy, prepare and serve kosher meals from this specific location," Kidwell said. "We are starting small by offering kosher dinners on Monday evenings to gauge the overall satisfaction and popularity of this pilot program."
photographer Rabbi Zalman of KU Chabad expressed his excitement with the new option at Mrs. E's
Ekdahl Dining Commons general manager Mark Maranell and culinary assistant manager Travis Fell are working with KU Chabad to add kosher food options to Mrs. E's.
"This took hours of work with many technicalities, but it has been met with tremendous response." Zalman said. "This has made it so much more accessible for Jewish students at KU to have an option where kosher food is available."
Miriam Mechache, a freshman from Minneapolis, is a student who keeps kosher.
"I have been so blessed to have the KU dining staff be so accommodating and helpful towards my (dietary) needs," Mechache said. "I understand it's a work in
progress and I hope the program is successful so more Jewish and Islamic people can enjoy eating at Es."
Although Mrs. E's is intended for student housing, other students, faculty, and visitors can pay cash to eat at the dining center and try some of the new kosher options.
Kosher hot dogs and other meals can be found at a concession stand in Allen Fieldhouse and at the Market in the Kansas Union.
Edited by Casey Hutchins
STUDY BREAK
Students must manage finals week stress
MADDIE FARBER
mfarber@kansan.com
With finals looming ahead, test anxiety seems to take its toll on many University students. However, in a recent TED talk, psychologist Kelly McGonigal went over a Harvard University study that found when telling participants to view their stress response as helpful, they were less stressed.
"We create stress. Outside events certainly influence it, but it's how each of us processes that stress that determines in what way it will affect us." Strother said. "Use the positive focus of stress to prioritize"
After viewing the TED talk for herself, Dr. Myra Louise Strother, a family physician at Watkins Health Center who specializes in mental health issues, gave her opinion in hopes to help ease students stress.
When your body experiences stress, it causes your blood pressure to rise and makes your heart
rate faster. This creates more blood flow to your brain, which then increases your ability to focus. However, as Dr. Strother explains, this is only good at a controlled level.
DR. MYRA LOUISE STROTHER
Watkins Health Center Physician
"Fear is the strongest human emotion, so you have to be careful
"Use the positive focus of stress to prioritize."
how you use it. Use the power of stress to focus and not to terrorize yourself." Strother said.
Strother explained other factors that help make the body view stress as either something positive or negative. The more sugar, caffeine and energy drinks you consume the faster your focus will go
down, and thus can foster the bad effects of stress.
"Too much sugar, caffeine and energy drinks actually become distracting and make you lose focus," Strother said. "It's important to eat proteins and complex carbs before studying or taking a test. These give you the most even release of blood sugar that helps your brain function."
Students commonly experience test anxiety when they first start taking a test. Strother encourages students to "relax and realize you're going to get through it. Your anxiety will come down as you're taking the test. Come back to things you couldn't focus on at the beginning before you turn in your final."
Despite the common consensus among University students, pulling all-nighters at the library can actually do more harm than good. Strother said that there is such a thing as too much studying.
you exceed 1.5 hours of studying at a time," Strother said. "Break up studying. Go work out, call a friend, or hang out with someone. This brings your oxytocin levels up, and helps you put things into perspective. Good studies show that exercising pushes new oxygen to the brain, and a new focus will come back."
"Your brain can only study for so long. You will not do as well if
Alex Beer, a sophomore for Dallas, recalls a time where he found stress was motivating
"Last year, I had two finals on the same day. I was so stressed out I wanted to crawl into bed and give up," Beer said. "But after moping, I studied and kicked those tests to the curb because I was driven."
Lastly, Dr. Strother reminds students to "get your stress up just to focus, but not to get in the way of studying. Give yourself the reaffirmation you can do it."
— Edited by Casey Hutchins
Libraries change hours to stay open later during finals week
- **Watson** will remain open until 3 a.m. on weekdays and until 10 p.m. on weekends.
Anschutz is open 24 hours a day from 10 am, Dec. 4 through 5 pm, Dec. 16, for 24-hour study, with extended checkout services until midnight on all nights.
Spahr Engineering Library is open noon Sundays through 8 pm Fridays as a 24-hour study facility while classes are in session.
Along with the extended hours,
Anschutz and Watson will offer
free coffee and hot chocolate each
night between 10:30 and 11 pm on
Sunday, Dec. 11 through Thursday,
Dec. 15.
The Hawk Food Stops in Anschutz, Watson and Spahr will also have extended hours during finals; for details, visit www.union.ku.edu/schedules.shtml
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MANDELA FROM PAGE 1
"You don't have a Nelson Mandela of your generation," Gibson said. That's why it's especially important for us to remember him.
Most people have heard Mandela's name or are familiar with his words, but Gibson said that everyone should know Mandela and students in particular should remember him, even though many of them weren't alive during his imprisonment or able to see his influence in the civil rights movement.
His influence not only affect ed South Africa, but the world.
Gibson said that the ability to associate freely is, in many ways, a direct result of Mandela.
"Nelson Mandela has affected your life," Gibson said. "He's affected the life of everybody on this campus in ways you don't understand."
Mandela influenced every person in the world in some way and Gibson said he's afraid that young people may not recognize his influence.
Just by being there, Mandela was a symbol of freedom, even while he was imprisoned, Gibson said.
"We should all be, not sad about his passing, but we need to recognize how important it was that he was here and what he did in his lifetime," Gibson said.
—Edited by James Ogden