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MISSY! Have a great first week, I know you will rock chalk it!
If sleeping in class were a sport, I'd be a gold medalist.
Fellas: if she's stumbling home, that yes is still a no #ConsentisCool
I'm BAAAAACK! 19 credit hours, here we come!
The new school of business building looks like a Jawa sandcrawler.
Is it just me or does it smell like updog in here?
Slept through my delivery driver's call. FML
I made three bad decisions today and all of them were hard-boiled eggs
I made a bad decision
Is it true if you get hit by the bus you get free tuition??
1738 go 'yals
Just realized i have 10 minutes for a 25 minute walk across campus
Did they really just name a dorm after bill self...
Editor's note: Umm, not quite...
Thank god KU is a coke campus and not a pepsi one!! hashtag cokeforever
Anybody seen Straight Outta Compton?
Reunited with pizza shuttle and it feels so goooooooo
Can we get a pronunciation guide on Frazer Hall?
Lord help us to
exterminate the woo
once and for all...
What time is basketball season?
I'm a senior and my calves still don't look that good
David Beaty puts the BAE in beaty ;)
Shoutout to Sasha Kaun
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Good communication is key to roommate relationships
Jessica Gomez
@jessicatayturr
Moving to college is one of the biggest steps we make in our lives. It's an exciting time when we get to start a new chapter. And unless you have the option to get a studio or one-bedroom apartment, one of the things you have to adapt to during the journey is having a new roommate.
During my college experience I've had a variety of roommates: a best friend, an enemy, a boyfriend and other random people I had never met before in my life. With
each roommate I learned different things throughout our time living together, but the one thing I learned that I will keep forever is the importance of communicating with them.
When you have a roommate there are two types of boundaries: ethical and personal. In order for those boundaries to be established, roommates must communicate about likes and dislikes, what is appropriate, and even simpler things, like if you accidentally ate or threw away the food that was in the mini fridge.
was introduce themselves on move-in day, and the rest was history.
According to a study by the Department of Psychology at Pacific University, called "Should I Stay or Should I Go," the two biggest roommate conflicts are sleep cycles and communication styles. As a student, you should know how precious sleep is — especially around midterms or finals. You have to work it out so you know when to be quiet and when to give them their space. It'll make a difference.
I've witnessed and heard about roommate horror stories because all they did
But without good communication, things can turn sour fast. Not only will it affect your
moods and time inside your living space, but it can affect your academic performance
According to an article in the Huffington Post, roommate conflict is actually one of the top five reasons students drop out. There will be conflict some days; even the best of friends have a few feuds, and if you make the mistake of watching "The Roommate" with Leighton Meester right before move-in, it probably doesn't calm your fear. This is why colleges use surveys or online roommate matching services, which, according to the same article, have reduced conflict by 65 percent, and left
48 percent of those conflicts "less severe."
Not all roommates will become a disaster; there are a lot of times you will relate, and they'll become your best friend or someone you hang out with from time to time after you share a tiny bedroom and close together. How that semester or year turns out depends on how each of you communicate and treat each other, and talk it out.
Jessica Gomez is a senior from Baldwin City studying journalism and global and international studies.
Help stop the next wave of antibiotic-resistant superbugs
Abby Petrulis
@apetrulis
Antibiotic resistance is one of those topics that you hear about almost constantly — like global warming, wars, drug abuse, the same old topics about how the world is going downhill, it's our fault, and we're doomed. I think because solutions to these problems seem so far away from us, or so far out of our control, that we categorize them into things we can do nothing about and go on our merry way.
But, much like global warming, education and action can help prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance, a truly massive problem.
First, some background: Antibiotics are only effective against bacteria — they can either kill them (bactericidal) or simply stop their growth and let your immune system slowly flush them out (bacteriostatic). A reason why bacteria can develop resistance to these drugs that we once saw as a miracle cure is simple: Antibiotics come from bacteria.
These naturally occurring antibiotics, some which are still used today, developed as a natural evolutionary tool.
If any given bacteria can produce a chemical that kills different bacteria, then it will have more space to grow and spread its own genetic data. Of course, those chemicals can only work locally — the killing effect of the antibiotic produced decreases the farther away it is from a bacterial target.
When the bacteria that are farther away are exposed to only low levels of an antibiotic, they can evolve to develop resistance mechanisms and overcome that other kind of bacteria.
It's not that antibiotic resistance would never happen. It's that the way humanity is abusing antibiotics is speeding up the process. When resistance increases faster than we can develop, test and implement new antibiotics, we have a problem.
Most people don't realize how often antibiotics are used. Of course, there's the typical patient with a bad cold who goes to the doctor and demands antibiotics, even though the common cold is a virus which can't be treated with antibiotics. Sometimes, the doctor will do it because what's the harm?
Dermatologists put many patients on once-daily antibiotics to treat acne, which can last for months. This not only can harm the good bacteria in your gut that help you digest food, but can make the bacteria in your natural environment stronger. This treatment for acne is only useful while you are taking the medication. As soon as you stop, the bacteria will return.
In many cases, patients have outgrown the hormonal stage of their life that causes their face to be oily or attractive to bacteria, but mistake the antibiotic treatment as the reason for a permanent cure.
Antibiotics simply don't work for preventative use. If you take antibiotics to prevent any kind of infection, it won't stop you from getting that infection — it just means that if you do get an infection, it will likely already be resistant to the antibiotics to which you've exposed it. That's why patients in hospitals are at risk for these so-called superbugs like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
medicine, many large farms and livestock companies treat their animals with antibiotics. Not only does that expose the bacteria in the environment to low levels of antibiotics that they can then develop resistance to, but it exposes you to a low level of antibiotic as well.
Because hospitals are extremely sterile environments, the bacteria that are somehow able to survive there are the greatest and strongest, and they're ready to infect.
Even though antibiotics are ineffective as preventative
It's self-defeating — farmers use these drugs to prevent an infection from wiping out a whole herd, but what they're really doing is making that very infection even stronger by giving it a steady stream of antibiotic that it can overcome. Bacteria are ubiquitous
- they are everywhere, and they will usually find a way to overcome.
1. Don't buy meat from farmers who use antibiotics. The chicken company Tyson has recently announced that their chickens will be completely antibiotic free by 2016.
So what can you do? You have some options.
2. Cool it with the hand sanitizer. Your immune system needs to fight off the little bugs to be strong enough to fight off the big infections. That being said, basic hygiene is still important and you should definitely wash your hands and use hand sanitizer to prevent the spread of
infection. You just don't need to be medical-grade sterile all of the time.
3. When you are prescribed antibiotics for a legitimate bacterial infection, take all of them. Even if you start to feel better, it doesn't mean that the infection is gone. If you stop taking them in the middle of treatment, not all of the bacteria will be killed, and the ones that were only weakened will evolve resistance to the antibiotic you first took. A couple of weeks later, you'll be back at the doctor begging for a stronger antibiotic.
4. Finally, if you have a cold or the flu, don't beg your doctor for antibiotics. They won't solve your problem, but will just contribute to making the bacteria in your environment stronger.
If we can stop the over-prescription of antibiotics and its use in livestock populations that only are currently experiencing outbreaks, and take a full course of antibiotics when prescribed, then we will have more time develop the next generation of antibiotics, and reduce overall cases of antibiotic resistant superbugs.
Abby Petrulis is a senior from Olathe in the School of Pharmacy.
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Welcome back to the 'Ask Anissa' advice column
Anissa Fritz
@anissafritz
Whether you are a senior ready to graduate or an incoming freshman, every student hits bumps in the college road.
You may have seen my name appear last semester in this same section, writing opinion pieces or giving advice. Just to refresh your memory, my
Just like classes are handing out syllabuses this week to introduce students to the material, I thought I should do the same. This section is an advice column for students at the University.
name is Anissa Fritz, I am a journalism major with a prelaw emphasis, a junior, and straight out of Dallas, Texas.
You are probably looking at this and thinking, "I don't have any crazy, life-altering
problems,I'm fine." But this advice column is for questions and problems both big and small,a column in which students can text in their issues,including school or relationship troubles,and receive advice.
The number to text is (785)
289-8351, which is the same as the number to text in your FFAs. To distinguish between the FFAs and your questions, please use the hashtag
As students texting in, you have the choice of whether to make your question anonymous. If you choose to make yourself known, add your first and last name along with your year in school in the text.
askanissa. Since there will be several students texting in questions, I will only be able to pick one each week, and it will show up every Monday in the paper.
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tions; the odds are someone else is going through the same thing that you are. I look forward to helping fellow students with a touch of sass, a hint of sarcasm and a load of advice to aid you in this confusing time called college.
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