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The Weekly Weather Forecast
THURSDAY
HI: 69
LO: 52
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014
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Thunderstorms. Highs in high 60s and lows in the low 50s.
SATURDAY
HI: 58
LO:49
Partly cloudy. Highs in the high 50s and lows in the high 40s.
Mostly cloudy. Highs in the high 50s and lows in the high 40s.
SUNDAY
HI: 68
LO: 51
FRIDAY
HI: 59
LO: 46
Partly cloudy. Highs in the high 60s and lows in the low 50s.
Wednesday, Oct. 8
Calendar
What: UGRA Information Session
When: Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Where: Noon to 1 p.m.
About: Learn details about Undergraduate Research Awards which provide $1,000 for students to complete faculty-mentored research.
What: Undergraduate Reading Series When: 7-8:15 p.m. Where: English Room, Kansas Union About: Student poetry, fiction and nonfiction will be featured in the reading series.
Thursday, Oct. 9
What: Fall break begins
When: All day
Where: All campus
About: The mid-semester break extends until next Wednesday.
What: Cafe Castellano
When: 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Where: Henry's Coffee Shop
About: New, experienced and native Spanish speakers can engage in conversation.
What: The Midtown Men
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center
About: A production that celebrates music of the '60s.
Saturday, Oct. 11
What: Architecture Open House When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Where: Marvin Hall, The Forum About: An information session for prospective graduate architecture students.
Friday, Oct. 10
What: Human Migration Series
When: Noon to 1 p.m.
Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons About: A forum for presentations on the nature and consequence of ancient and contemporary patterns of human mobility.
What: Science Saturday: Earth Science Week When: 1-3 p.m. Where: Dyche Hall About: Three events will promote appreciation of Earth science and research with the theme Earth's Connected Systems.
StudyRoom lets students form online study groups
ALLISON CRIST
@AllisonCristUDK
Students have discovered a new service that not only allows them to interact with their peers, but possibly raise their GPA at the same time.
StudyRoom attempts to socialize tutoring and study groups by letting students make posts and send messages to those registered with the University, even though the program is not officially partnered with KU
However, users can still choose between posting on a main page to all registered KU students, or with their specific classmates in groups that are split up based on the courses offered here.
Emerson Malca and Pindi Albert are the co-founders of StudyRoom. Malca is the chief executive officer and Albert is the chief technology officer. The thought process behind launching this program came while they were helping a friend study for physics. The two found the physics student only had two students' phone numbers out of a huge class.
Sarah Hannon, a junior from Lansing, said she knew
"It was very clear we needed to build StudyRoom to connect students with their classmates and leverage social learning to allow every college student with the help they need right when they need it," Malca said.
Since the official launch at the beginning of this semester, StudyRoom has reached more than 100 universities across the country, he said. More than 1,500 KU students visit the website weekly, Malca said.
"Students most likely saw promotions for StudyRoom on social media and after trying out the program themselves, they referred their friends," Day said.
Since the University did not do anything to promote StudyRoom, the program took off due to the efforts of students, said David Day, director of IT External Affairs at KU.
a lot of people were caught off guard when they received an email about the website.
While she also knows a lot of people who have ignored the program entirely, Hannon checks the website at least once a day. Additionally, she's been in a few study groups that were organized via StudyRoom.
"I think it's a great program. It'll improve when more people realize its existence. With more people online, it will provide more documents and be similar to Koofers and StudyBlue," Hannon said.
Ashley Gray, a sophomore from Erie, is another student who visits StudyRoom daily. After being invited by a friend at the beginning of the year, she began posting her own notes after every biology class.
"I didn't think people used it until I began posting my notes online and people started thanking me for them," Gray said.
As she continued doing this, Gray found that her friends started asking what program she was using, which led to them registering.
Although Hannon and Gray have both connected with a multitude of students like themselves, there are many non-traditional students that utilize StudyRoom as well.
"I am a wife and a mom, and I work part-time. My schedule doesn't really allow me to plan study groups. This website allows me to still share notes and ask questions with fellow classmates as I would in a physical study group;" Hight said.
Char Hight, from Atlanta, Ga., is one of these nontraditional students.
Daniel Whedon is also a non-traditional student from Winchester who also recently started using StudyRoom.
Hight said she feels the website prevents any awkwardness in asking for help that might occur in person.
new to it but I attempt to use it as a resource for help to understand topics when the materials provided are not enough," Whedon said.
Whedon said he thinks the website could be especially useful when discussing classes in general, as professors are hard to reach sometimes.
If classmates are unable to answer questions, some students might be seeking something that goes a step further than StudyRoom by incorporating professors.
Blackboard Collaborate, a program that is directly affiliated with KU, launched around the same time as StudyRoom.
"Blackboard Collaborate is very similar to the functionality of StudyRoom." Day said. "Although, with this, an instructor for a course can set up group study rooms, or there can be exchanges between students all within the already existing Blackboard."
As far as how I utilize StudyRoom, I am rather
Like Day said, Blackboard Collaborate is comparable to StudyRoom because of the collaboration between students for particular courses and the sharing of documents.
Both programs will continue to be optimized for student use.
Edited by Logan Schlossberg
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Hazardous material cleaners prepare to hang black plastic outside The Ivy Apartments in Dallas where Thomas Eric Duncan stayed when he began showing Ebola-related symptoms.
EBOLA FROM PAGE 1
Symptoms include weakness, fever, aches, diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pains. More advanced cases might also experience difficulty breathing or swallowing and internal bleeding. Symptoms typically appear between eight and10 days after exposure to the virus, according to research by the World Health Organization.
So far more than 3,400 people have died from Ebola in West Africa. Despite this, Dechaio doesn't think the United States is at risk for an epidemic because of our high levels of sanitation and health care.
not an airborne virus.
"The countries you need to worry about are the third-world countries who don't have proper hygiene and sanitation," Dechairo said. "Exposure is on a whole new level there."
There is currently no vaccination for Ebola, but two vaccine candidates are being
"You are more likely to get malaria or influenza abroad than you are to get Ebola," Dechairo said.
evaluated, according to the World Health Organization website. Both vaccinations are going through the first phase of clinical trials.
International travelers are at the most risk for contracting the virus, but even those chances are minimal.
"The vaccinations are in such an early stage of testing that they are not readily available", Dechairo said.
While Dechario thinks the vaccination would be beneficial in epidemic areas, he wouldn't currently recommend people unaffected by the virus to get it like they would a chicken pox vaccination.
CeCe Alexander, a freshman from Portland, Ore., is not concerned about the virus spreading. "It's not an airborne illness and I'm nowhere near the two people in the country who have it," Alexander said.
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