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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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arts & features
HOROSCOPES
Because the stars know things we don't
Arles (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Work on practical, short-term objectives. Avoid controversy.
Study an issue from all sides.
Break through to a new level of understanding. Attend to career goals today and tomorrow. Take new territory, even in small steps.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 9
Favor study and research today and tomorrow. Some avenues seem blocked, so come back to them later. Change is inevitable. Adapt as it comes, and take time to process. Wash everything in eight.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
Study ways to make and keep wealth today and tomorrow. It may require self-discipline. Study the numbers, and review a variety of scenarios. Ignore provocation and snark. Let your partner take credit. Listen for commitment.
Partnership and teamwork make the biggest impact today and tomorrow. Listen carefully and speak clearly, to avoid miscommunication. Handle your share of the chores (or more). Do what you said you'd do. Bring love home.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is an 8
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an B
The next two days could get busy. Save romantic daydreams for another time. Decrease your obligations by completing tasks and turning down or postponing new requests. Stay respectfully on purpose, despite distraction.
Dress for success.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Get ready to party. Let romance simmer today and tomorrow.
Don't worry about the money (but don't overspend, either). Play just for the fun of it. Practice your game. Do what you love.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is an 8 Stick close to home for a few days. Keep momentum with a creative project. Take a few days for family rest and recreation. Get into iandicrafts and food preparation. Cook up something delicious.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
Today is a 9 Study the angles today and tomorrow. Don't gamble, shop, or waste resources. Be patient Network, and get feedback from trusted friends before making a big move. A female asks the burning question.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Stick to your budget. Gather your resources together over the next few days. Listen for what you can learn from a critic, for the commitment underneath a complaint or opinion. Research a purchase before buying.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 9
Let your confidence propel your projects today and tomorrow.
Don't worry about someone who doesn't understand you. Finish old business so you can get on with the clean-up. A female provides key information.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Study and dig for clues. Stop worrying. Focus on short-term needs, close to home. Fix old problems today and tomorrow. Get methodical. Success comes through diversity. Apply finishing touches for an amazing development.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 9
Extra paperwork leads to extra profits. Team projects go well today and tomorrow. Test your work together. You'll love the result. Friends provide your power source. New opportunities get revealed as current jobs complete.
Twitter account reviews campus bathrooms
DALTON KINGERY
@daltonkingnews
Since the @KUBbathrooms Twitter account was launched Sept. 17, it has gained more than 700 followers.
CONTRIBUTED
Raleigh Prinster, a sophomore from Tucson, Ariz., majoring in sports management, is the founder and current operator of the Twitter account @KUBathrooms. The account tweets reviews of the bathrooms on campus that University students use the most. The reviews are either the work of Prinster himself or submissions from followers.
Kansan: What inspired you to create the account?
Prinster: One day one of my friends was asking where a good place to go to the bathroom was, and we were just talking about it in a group chat on iMessage, and he found a really good one. I thought it would be really funny to make an account, and it just took off really quickly.
kansan: Since starting the account, what has it been like to receive so many followers so quickly? (Less than a week after the account was created Sept. 17, it had surpassed 100 followers.)
Printer: It's pretty cool. I kind of wasn't expecting it to be this big so quick, I mean, I've done little accounts in the
past just with friends and they haven't worked out, so for this one to work out is kind of cool, just to have something go on like that.
Kansan: What do your friends think about it?
Prinster: They like it. They help me out with some of the reviews. If they go to a bathroom they're like, "Oh yeah, go here!" I've actually had friends tell me to not post about bathrooms because they love the bathroom, it's so quiet and all this. I'm like, "OK, I won't, I won't ruin your fun," but yeah, they love it, they take part in it, so it works out.
Printer: My personal fave ... I don't know ... Budig has a nice bathroom; it's big. Kind of reminds me of an airport a little bit. I guess that's the one I go to mainly, just because I have classes there.
Kansan: What's your favorite review that's been submitted?
Printer: There was one about a bathroom in Snow
Kansan: What do you think are the most important qualities for a bathroom to have to earn a good grade on the account?
Hall. I don't know exactly what the review said, but it said there was a window in one of the stalls, and you can just look out over one of the hills. I thought that was pretty cool, I'd never heard of a bathroom having a giant window like that.
Kansan: What's your personal favorite bathroom on campus?
CONTRIBUTED
Prinster: I'd say there's one in Wescoe, I think. I don't remember what floor, and it may have just been the time I was there, but there was only like one stall in it and two urinals and there was like 10 guys in there at once. I was like, this isn't a bathroom I want to be in.
New Twitter account @KUBathrooms reviews bathrooms across campus. It was started by Raleigh Prinster, a sophomore from Tucson, Ariz.
Printer: It's got to be pretty clean. You can't have like, super wet floors or anything. Not super cramped, the stall can't be too narrow. Got to have toilet paper and paper towels to wash your hands, and just be stocked up with all that good stuff. Just have a clean feel, or as clean as a bathroom can feel.
Kansan: What's the worst bathroom that you've used on campus?
Kansan: If you could add one thing to the bathrooms at KU, what would you put in?
Printer: TVs would be nice, just set on SportsCenter or something. That'd be pretty cool.
- Edited by Ashley Peraita
KU Alumni Association's third Hawktoberfest will honor the science behind brewing beer
DYLAN GUTHRIE
@dylangelo785
An unlikely pair, Boulevard Brewing and the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, has teamed up to provide an immersive event to University alumni. Tonight the KU Alumni Association will host the annual Hawktoberfest to honor the science of beer. The hands-on experience will be at Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Mo., from 5:30-8 p.m. All guests will receive a commemorative etched Hawktoberfest pint glass to take home with them.
University professors will explain biological processes that go into the brewing of beer while Kansas alumni enjoy Boulevard's brewing with an evening of beer tasting. Kansas alumna Jen Humphrey is the director of external affairs at the University's Biodiversity Institute and organizer for the event.
Humphrey said the reason that the biodiversity institute is partnering with the Alumni Association for Hawktoberfest is because many people are not aware of the work that more than 120 graduate students and faculty participate in. This event aims to highlight some of the University's achievements in the biodiversity field. One curator who will be speaking at Hawktoberfest is University professor Mike Mort, a botanist who works in the ecology department. Benjamin Sikes, a University professor and microbial ecologist, will also speak at the event. Sikes works in the same department as Mort and spe-
"This is an opportunity for us to meet people who have a passion for the craft of beer, and are interested in the science of that, and for them to learn about the science of biodiversity at the same time."
JEN HUMPHREY Director of external affairs at Biodiversity institute
cializes in fungi.
"Most of the work I do is on fungi that live in soil, and certainly we talk a lot in the biology of fungi class about yeast, and about how we use different kinds of fungi every day, everything from bread, to beer, to wine," Sikes said.
process of brewing beer. Sikes added that his personal favorite Boulevard beer is Boulevard Wheat, but he said he'll also drink a Tank Seven from time to time.
Sikes will focus on fungi while Mort will speak more about hops — both of which are integral ingredients to the
Humphrey said at Hawktoberfest people can drink Boulevard beer while KU professors show the plant materials that go into beer such as hops. These scientists will have information about hops and other plants that are biologically related to hops, such as cannabis. A microscope will be available for people to look more closely at hops.
"There will be a table set up for specimens so that people can get a little hands-on experience and that people can see how biodiversity plays a part in brewing," said Jaime Keeler, the assistant to Leonard Krishtalka, the director at the KU Biodiversity Institute.
Humphrey said although she is not personally a scientist, she's become interested in the biology of beer ever since she got on board with the planning of the event this year.
"One can study the relationship of a hop crop to all other plants that are known," she said. "By the same token, one can study yeast species and existing species to determine the relationships evolutionarily, as well as the relationships
of the past and today."
though Hawktoberfest is one of many events the Alumni Association does across the country, it is the center's most immediate Kansas City Chapter event, Humphrey said.
The Biodiversity Institute is also doing an event with the Alumni Association about the science of beer in Hays on Oct.16 and in Wichita on Nov. 19.
"This is an opportunity for us to meet people who have a passion for the craft of beer, and are interested in the science of that, and for them to learn about the science of biodiversity at the same time," Humphrey
said.
Humphrey said the KU Biodiversity Institute will be hosting a similar event for students who are of legal drinking age Oct. 18 called Party in the Panorama. The event will be hosted at the KU Natural History Museum. The panorama that the event's title refers to is a 120-year-old wildlife exhibit that is visible immediately when entering the museum. Tickets are $40 per person and $75 for couples. Humphrey said Party in the Panorama will be the Institute's biggest event of the year.
Edited by Ashley Peralta
UPCOMING EVENTS
Hawktoberfest:
Oct. 1 at Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Mo.
The Science of Beer and Biodiversity:
Where: Gella's Diner & Lb. Brewing Company in Hays
When: Oct. 16, 6 p.m.
Where: River City Brewing Company in Wichita When: Nov. 19, 6 p.m.
Party in the Panorama:
KU Natural History Museum
Oct. 18, 7 p.m.
WWF study: Wildlife populations plummet for 3,000 species, blame human threats
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA — About 3,000 species of wildlife around the world have seen their numbers plummet far worse than previously thought, according to a new study by one of the world's biggest environmental groups.
The study Tuesday from the Swiss-based WWF largely blamed human threats to nature for a 52 percent decline in wildlife populations between 1970 and 2010.
It says improved methods of measuring populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles explain the huge difference from the 28-per
cent decline between 1970 and 2008 that the group reported in 2012.
"This damage is not inevitable but a consequence of the way we choose to live."
KEN NORRIS Science director at the London society
Most of the new losses were found in tropical regions, particularly Latin America.
WWF describes the study it has carried out every two years
"There is no room for complacency," said WWF International Director General Marco Lambertini, calling for a greater focus on sustainable solutions to the impact people are inflicting on nature, particularly through the release of greenhouse gases.
The latest "Living Planet" study analyzed data from about 10,000 populations of 3,038 vertebrate species from a database maintained by the Zoological Society of London. It is meant to provide a representative sampling of the overall wildlife population in the
since 1998 as a barometer of the state of the planet.
Much of the world's wildlife has disappeared in what have been called five mass extinctions, which were often associated with giant meteor strikes. About 90 percent of the world's species were wiped out around 252 million years ago. One such extinction about 66 million years ago killed off the dinosaurs and three out of four
It reflects populations since 1970, the first year the London-based society had comprehensive data. Each study is based on data from at least four years earlier.
world, said WWF's Richard McLellan, editor-in-chief of the study.
species on Earth.
In the new WWF study, hunting and fishing along with continued losses and deterioration of natural habitats are identified as the chief threats to wildlife populations around the world. Other primary factors are global warming, invasive species, pollution and disease.
"This damage is not inevitable but a consequence of the way we choose to live," said Ken Norris, science director at the London society. "There is still hope. Protecting nature needs focused conservation action, political will and support from industry."
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