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BETTER OPTIONS FOR BAD SITUATIONS //
> If you're going to do it, be smart. NOT USING A TOOTHBRUSH
Photo by Kylie Nutt
Brush Up: Using your finger or eating foods,
such as celery and apples, helps remove plaque
and freshens your breath.
Photo by Kylie Nutt
When John Myers was running late for an interview, he forgot to brush his teeth. Myers, a senior from Topeka, needed a way to clean his teeth and freshen his breath. "I grabbed a pack of minty gum from the Koch Commons (a lobby in Summerfield) and had a piece," he says.
Chowing a piece of gum isn't the only or best way to clean your teeth. Justin Anderson, a dentist at Wilkerson, Saunders and Anderson in Lawrence, says almost anything you eat creates some type of plaque. The sticky, colorless deposit of bacteria is constantly forming on the tooth's surface. This is why it
is important to brush your teeth two to three times a day, especially after meals.
Carrying a toothbrush with you on campus is the best way to keep plaque from building up, but there are alternatives, Anderson says. "Celery might be something you can brush your teeth with if you crunch on the end of the celery and soften the ends making it brush like," he says. Celery is a good option because it's made almost entirely of water.
Celery is similar to the original toothbrush too. Thousands of years ago it was believed that cavemen used sticks to brush their teeth. "If you can imagine taking a kind of soft branch of a tree and chewing the end of it until it was just a bunch of little fibers, and then using that to brush your teeth," Anderson says.
Apples can help too because they're fibrous, so when the apples rub against your teeth they remove some of the plaque. But, since apples contain sugar and bacteria eat sugar, they are not ideal.
Putting toothpaste on your finger and rubbing your teeth with it, or rubbing a piece of gauze or cloth on your teeth, works well too.
KYLIE NUTT
You know the guy you see around campus wearing a shirt or holding a sign that says, "Free hugs?" They follow people up and down the sidewalk, arms stretched out wide, inviting anyone in for an embrace—a quick gesture that many would rather replace with a simple handshake.
GOOD FOR YOU, BAD FOR YOU// HUGGING > Sometimes it's hard to tell.
It turns out that these guys, the free-hug lovers, will likely have lower stress levels and better immune systems than many of the casual handshakers. It may sound like a hippie mentality, but studies prove the benefits of touch. The University of Miami opened up the Touch Research Institute in which director Tiffany Field researches the benefits of human touch. "Hugs stimulate the pressure receptors under the skin which release built-up stress hormones," Field says. Because stress hormones kill your immune cells, hugging is a good way to keep your cells healthy.
Hugging doesn't mean that you have to sport a tie-dye t-shirt. Tell your friends that you're lowering your stress when they make fun of you for hugging a room full of people at a party.
While some may raise their eyebrows at huggers, Elizabeth Boresow, a senior from Leawood, doesn't have a problem with it. In fact, she prefers to hug. "Hugs are a more active way I can show someone I care about them. Handshakes are short, and that's not as fun or meaningful," she says.
Verdict: Good for you. Hug away.
BRE ROACH
Contributed photo Hugs =Happiness: One study shows that hugs help lower your body's stress levels.
Fortunato
Sheanon Zenger didn't hire Gill. I doubt he feels any loyalty to the hire and probably wants to find his one guy for the job. And as a former assistant under Bill Snyder at Kansas State, Zenger knows football. In his search for a new head coach at Illinois State as athletic director there, Zenger once told a central Illinois newspaper that he consulted a number of former colleagues while searching for a head coach. That included the aforementioned Snyder, Mark Mangino, and former Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach. That's an impressive group of football minds to get advice from. Zenger knows what he's doing, and if he can somehow get out of that horrendous contract handed out by his predecessor, Kansas football will be in good shape.
— Edited by Lindsey Deiter
in the penalty kick round as they defeated Kansas 5-3 at Blossom Soccer Stadium in San Antonio last night. At the end of regulation the score was tied at 3-3.
"I think you just have to keep it together and when something like that happens you need to be confident," junior midfielder Whitney Berry said.
Attempting to stay poised in a stressful situation like this is key for the Jayhawks.
Kansas coach Mark Francis said it was frustrating for the match to come down to penalty kicks because the team should have won the game when they had a 2-0 advantage.
Kansas forward Ingrid Vidal was stopped in the fourth round of penalty kicks, putting the game out of reach. However, many factors led to the result coming down to penalty kicks.
The Jayhawks eventually were down 3-2, but when all hope seemed lost, the Jayhawks made one final charge before time
After several solid attempts, junior forward Whitney Berry finally broke through with a goal in the 35th minute, giving Kansas a 1-0 lead. The strike was her eighth of the season. The assist on the play was from junior midfielder Shelby Williamson.
Kansas was the aggressor for most the first half, pushing the tempo on Texas A&M.
The Jayhawks continued to put out an aggressive defensive effort, only allowing six shots and one goal shot for the Aggies in the first half.
The Aggies came out in the second half with a purpose, and eventually drew a hand ball in the box when it accidently hit a Jayhawk defender's hand.
Kelley Monogue, a freshman from Texas A&M, then lined up for the penalty kick and striped a ball into the right corner of the goal. However, Kansas freshman goalkeeper Kaitlyn Stroud grasped the ball before it could touch the end line.
TRAVIS YOUNG/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
In the 75th minute, Texas A&M tacked on another goal when Annie Kunz found a ball near the net, tying the game.
Freshman defender Caroline Van Slambrouck covers her face in disappointment after a foul against Missouri that would lead to a penalty kick. Last night, the Jayhaws lost the game to penalty kicks in the final moments.
The first came in the 74th minute when Allie Bailey completed a cross to Merritt Mathias, putting the Aggs on the scoreboard.
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The Aggies then went on and scored for the third time when Big 12 scoring leader Monogue made a goal in the 79th minute.
"They scored three really good goals," Francis said. "They'd been attacking us out wide all day and we did a great job defending it, but we didn't on those three occasions."
goals of their own in less than five minutes.
In the second half the wind also began to blow violently against the Jayhawks, but the team realized that was nothing they could control.
Francis said it was a little factor that allowed the Aggies keep the pressure on the Jayhawks end of the soccer field.
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Now the Jayhawks hope the effort on Wednesday will be good enough for them to get an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament.
"I think we just try to keep our heads up," Kastor said. "This team
deserves to go to the NCAA. I'm hoping we're going to keep playing."
Edited by Sarah McCabe