University Daily Kansan / Monday October 8, 1990
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Ron Brown rallies Democrats for Finney
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Prominent Democrats from across the state rallied around Democratic National Chairman Ron Brown on Friday night in a show of party unity and support for gubernatorial candidate Joan Finney.
"We're a diverse party," Brown told about 30 Democrats at the Ramadafm downtown. "Our diversity is what makes us strong as a nation." America strong as a nation. We need to start showing more pride in this."
Brown and Finney were flanked on stage by Democratic candidates for most of the statewide offices.
In her comments to the audience,
Finney thanked former Gov. John
Carlin for coming to the event.
Finney defeated Carlin in the June primary.
Brown blamed the nation's budget woes on the Reagan administration and said that the Bush administration was a continuation of the Reagan
"There is some new jargon, and there is some kinder and gentler language, but there is no change in direction," he said. "There is no change in public policy. There is no new vision of the future."
Brown said that Democrats could change the direction of the United States and make it compete again before it was over. "We first have to unify as a party."
"We are the only institution I know in the world where the members of this institution are harder on each
other than they are on our real enemies," he said.
"If we don't believe in ourselves as Democrats, how can we convince others to believe in us. Clearly we've been wrong in state because this is a unified party."
Brown also attacked Gov. Mike Hayden for his property-tax policies.
"The Republicans cannot be credible in using the tax issue against the governor in this state who doesn't even know how to handle the problems of real estate. The guy youve got is an embarrassment. He's got to go."
Finney spent about 15 minutes before the reception answering reporters' questions. She denied that her advisers had taken her campaign
Hayden has said that Finney had been dodging the press and questions from the public since she made a series of statements recently that angered some women's groups and pro-choice advocates.
"I have always run my campain," she said. "I just run them very differently than any other candidate."
out of her control
Finney denied that the abortion issue was causing her to lose support among Democrats. Finney is opposed to abortion except in cases in which pregnancy endangers the mother's life.
"The party has never been more united." she said.
Finney also denied that a shortage of money was hampering her campaign efforts, and she said she was used to running bare-bones campaigns.
"You never have enough," she said. "But I'm going to have enough to win."
The Democrats took the opportunity to honor one of their veterans of party politics, Georgia Neese Gray, of Topeka. Gray has been active in the democratic party for more than 60 years.
Gray was the first woman to serve as U.S. Treasurer. She served during the Truman administration.
She served on the Democratic National Committee for 28 years, from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Ron Brown has cast his support for Joan Finney for governor.
Wheelhawks win once in tourney
Wheelchair basketball team competes for the first time since it was created
By Chris Oster
Kansan staff writer
The Northeast Kansas Wheelhawks, a wheelchair basketball team based in Lawrence, won one of two games against the Iowa Holcom Sports Complex.
Competing for the first time since the team was organized three weeks ago, the Wheelhawks opened the tournament with a 65-46 loss to the Kansas City Rolling Pioneers. The Wheelhawks then defeated the St. Louis Rams 61-38, who already had lost to the Pioneers 60-20.
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This is just preseason.
Win or lose, it doesn't matter. We've got a tournament coming up in November that we will need to win.
Ted Decker Wheelhawk
A fourth team, from Champaign,
Ill., that was scheduled to play in
the tournament backed out. Gary Scott,
representative of Lawrence Parks
and Recreation, said the team pulled
out Friday.
Because of the fourth team's absence, the tournament, originally scheduled for Saturday and yesterday, was completed Saturday.
Ted Decker, a player and one of the organizers for the Wheelshaws, said the tournament was only a warm-up for the team.
“This is just preseason,” he said.
“Win or lose, it doesn't matter.
We've got a tournament coming up in November that we will need to win.”
He said the Kansas City team was tough for a number of reasons. Unlikle the Wheethawks, it has a history with experience and outside shooters.
"They have one guy, Steve Burger, who is really, really good," Decker said. "We shoot inside, but they can shoot out and something else in what he put up went in. That's tough."
He said that the veterans on the Pioneers staked the Kansas City team to an early lead and that it was tough for the less experienced Wheel-
The Wheelhawks, who practice every Saturday at Holem, are improving quickly, Decker said.
"We have been coming along real well in the past weeks," he said. "We've got some players who have played long way in the last week alone."
The Wheelhawks' next tournament is Nov. 8-9 in Champaign, Ill.
Chuck Gambill, left, attempts to grab a rebound in the Wheelhawks' 65-46 loss to a Kansas City team.
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By Courtney Eblen Kansan staff writer
Having a high cholesterol level may seem like the least of worries for most KU students, especially during midseason. But nutritionists say a national preference for grease has brought a new generation into the heart-disease arena.
More people than ever have high cholesterol levels, according to the American Heart Association. A sustained diet of high-fat food can make a 20-year-old a walking time bomb of clogging arteries.
Fad diets, such as oat bran and mail-order cholesterol absorbing pills, will not cut the grease, said Watkins Memorial Health Center.
There is no remedy for high cholesterol except a healthy diet, Davis said.
But for college students, the alternatives are not always practical, nor are they desirable. Students raised on fast food are the most likely to have elevated cholesterol levels, and suddenly going on a no-grease diet is not easy, Davis said.
"We've got proof that cloaking of the arteries starts in childhood." Davis said. Smoking and alcohol cause higher alcohol levels.
Davis said that fats, or lipids, were composed of both high- and low-density proteins.
High density proteins are beneficial because they act as scouring agents to keep particles from building up inside the arteries. Their number is increased with aerobic exercise.
Low-density proteins, affected by the amount of fat intake, are the particles counted in a cholesterol profile. A normal profile level for college students ranges from 120 to 200, Davis said.
She said the reason more people had elevated cholesterol levels was that the cholesterol-level standard recently was lowered because of lifestyle changes with a level of 200 or more were at risk for heart disease.
Treating college students with elevated cholesterol is usually part of Davis' daily routine, she said. Students with extremely high cholesterol levels are referred to a physician.
Ruth Gillgannon, who owns Diet Center of Lawrence, 935 Iowa St., said clients were placed on a low-risk path regardless of their cholesterol count.
Davis said that a proper diet and exercise were the only remedies for a high cholesterol level. The exercise would increase the amount of scouring, high-density proteins in the bloodstream and decrease the risk of a heart attack.
"You can't go wrong working on both these areas," Davis said of the diet-and-exercise combination.
Fat permeates favorite foods Kansan staff report
Gilligan said many of her clients were trying to cut down their cholesterol intake rather than trying to lose weight. For those clients, eggs, shellfish and other high-fat foods are removed.
The same amount of fat present in a stick of butter is hidden in one serving of fast food that many KU students live on. But other foods, which have reputations for being "good for you," also contain high levels of fat.
Imagine biting into a stick of butter.
Ann Davis, diettian at Watkins Memorial Health Center, uses the butter comparison when she counsels students. She read about it in a book called "The Run," by Evelyn Tribole.
"They say it's not good to use negative reinforcement, but this is one I can't resist," Davis said of the butter comparison.
The book, which features nutritional information for people who do not have much time to spare for meals.
Davis said that she approved of the switch to pure vegetable oil but that it did not make much difference calorie-wise.
National fast food franchises recently converted to deep-trying foods in pure vegetable oil instead of the beef tallow vegetable oil combination they had been using.
Spokespersons for McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's said the restaurants also offer wiches for the health-conscious, such as Burger King's grilled chicken sandwich. Salads have become increased food options as well.
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