MONDAY, DEC. 10, 2001
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
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A touch of Irish in downtown Lawrence
WRESTLING FOR A BASEBALL TEAM
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National Wrestling Association member Bashel Brad stomps on fellow member and opponent for this match, The Intimidator. The battle was one of six that took place Saturday night at the Coffin Complex of Haskell Indian Nations University to raise money for the school's fledgling baseball team.
Rare closed class openers sought after by students
By Eve Lamborn Kansan staff writer
A student once stood in the doorway of Sally Roberts' American Sign Language I class holding a $100 bill and offered it to anyone who would drop the class and let her take their spot.
let her take the course. Roberts, assistant professor of special education, said her sign language classes were so popular that students sat in the aisles on the first day every semester because the room was filled with students hoping to get a closed-class opener.
Students hoping to get into a full class need a closed-class opener, which they must get from the instructor of the class or the department, said Cindy Derritt, associate registrar.
That means that students wanting to get into the most popular classes on campus sometimes need to convince the instructor to let them in.
Roberts said she received at least 10 e-mails a day from students trying to get into her classes. There are at least 60 students on the waiting list right now for next semester's American Sign Language I and Introduction to Sign Language classes, neither of which have prerequisites.
Her voice mail message tells hopefuls that her classes are closed, but persistent students continue to flood her with messages anyway. She said the most common excuse she heard was that students had to get into her classes to fulfill their foreign language requirements so they could graduate on time.
"It's gotten so I dread enrollment." she said.
Derritt said some departments issued closed-class openers as spaces became available, while others issued them in advance, knowing that some students would drop. Some don't issue them at all because the classroom has a strict capacity. She said all students had the option of going through add/drop at the beginning of next semester.
George Lottes, instructor of health, sport and exercise sciences, teaches Basic Fire Arms, a class which instructs students how to handle and care for different types of guns. He said he regularly turned away students who wanted to take the class, which
only enrolled 18-20 students.
Students begging for closed-class openers usually tell Lottes they need to get in to obtain a hunting license. He said he had a student last year who wanted to learn how to handle a firearm because was going to Russia.
"I didn't tell him that he'd get in trouble for handling firearms in Russia." Lottes said.
Skylar Frasier, Burr Oak sophomore, needed to take a Spanish grammar class this semester, but the class was full when he enrolled last spring. Undeterred, he talked to the Spanish department and attended the class in August. He said he even purchased the books for the class and started doing the homework. The books cost him about $60 and could not be returned once he opened the shrink wrap.
He said the department would not let him into the class, which only had one section, despite his persistence.
"Buying the book and doing the homework does not help apparently," he said.
Creatine: Drug's side effects studied
letes. However, Magee said less than half of KU football players used Creatine then, and fewer of them are using it today after the NCAA banned institutions from supplying the supplement in the spring of 2003.
Contact Lamborn at 864-4810
The only significant increase reported in the study was leg volume. Body mass, body fat and blood pressure did not significantly increase because of supplement use. Carper said that one possible reason for the large increase in leg volume was fluid retention.
He said that after 28 days of no Creatine use, lower leg compartment pressure began to decrease back toward normal
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Carper explained that besides compartment pressure, Creatine generally has little or no proven side effects. He said if too much Creatine is ingested, the body often excretes or metabolizes it.
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Clint Wynn, Kansas City, Kan., senior, took a liquid form of Creatine before workouts. "It helped me work out longer and not feel as tired," Wynn said.
Wynn said that he didn't think Creatine was dangerous and would use it again.
And he only noticed one side effect — it made him "jump."
"I don't recommend Creatine to anybody. I don't think you can get anything more from Creatine than you can from a balanced
But Magee has his doubts.
"Creatine only affects high-intensity exercise and has no effects on endurance athletes," he said. High intensity exercise includes weight lifting, sprinting and activities involving explosives movements.
diet with lots of meat and fish in it." Magee said.
Roll agrees with Magee and said he didn't encourage his players to take any form of supplements.
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4810
Carper said that only some athletes benefit from Creatine.
Carper's study has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Athletic Training.
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