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Eating well and college don't typically go hand-in-hand. As classes and social lives busy our schedules, home-cooked meals turn into faint memories and convenience becomes the theme of our diets.
For many, pizza, beer, Easy Mac and Jimmy John's make up the food pyramid, but for the health-conscious students, their pyramid consists largely of fruits, vegetables and other whole foods.
As a firm believer in the "you are what you eat" mantra, I identify with the latter. Since starting college, I've always made an effort to buy groceries and eat healthily, but when school's in full swing, the balance of my diet goes out the window. With little time (OK, and maybe a lack of energy) to really prepare anything, I would consistently eat salad, fruit, yogurt and other on-the-go snacks, not realizing the insubstantiality of it until I crashed.
In more extreme cases, such eating habits mightteether on the line between being health-conscious and disordered eating, medically recognized as "orthorexia." For more on what this disorder entails, read Bre's story on page nine.
My dad likes to call this eating like a rabbit. This rabbit-like diet got me through the week all right, but I couldn't help but notice how weak or tired I felt after only a few protein-deprived days. And it became even more apparent just by how much better I felt anytime I would eat a burger, piece of fish or even some almonds.
While it's important to get an adequate amount of the stuff on the bottom of the food pyramid, it's even more important to not take creative control of the pyramid and overdo or entirely omit a food group.
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DESIGNERS | ALEX MILBOURN,
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Students know the challenges of waking up for that 8 a.m. class. But some students — much younger students — understand a different struggle. These students, along with getting up early, must make their way from the Lawrence Homeless Shelter. In the morning, a group of 17 children woke up and shared two showers and two toilets along side 14 adults. After getting ready they went upstairs and waited with 40 more adults for breakfast, or walked to school and received a free meal at school.
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"Kids are so adaptable. The stressors we see are getting used to a new school and the stigma that may come with the label 'sheltter kid' or 'homeless kid,'" said Jennifer Davis, the case manager at the Lawrence Community Shelter. "Luckily, so many of them are going to the same school that they
Johanna Moon, a student at Cordley Elementary, leans on the front door of Lawrence Community Shelter early Thursday morning as she waits to go to school. There is a large number of families with children elementary age that are currently living here.
the past, it would be just one new kid coming from the shelter. He or she would stand out a little bit more."
According to the Kansas Point in Time Homeless Count for Douglas County, a biannual report, the Lawrence school district counted 100 children ages K-12 who were homeless in 2009 and 149 in 2011, accounting for a 49 percent increase.
The shelter began its Family Program at the end of 2008. In 2009, there were 14 families with 24 adults and 24 children in the program. In 2010, there were 50 families with 67 adults and 83 child-
Davis has seen a dramatic increase in family homelessness in Douglas County.
The school district defines homeless under the McKinney-Vento Act, which includes families that are double-up or staying with family or friends.
viduals here struggling. Their self-esteem is being damaged each day they're here. Their self worth is
dren. So far this year, the shelter is serving 11 families with 14 adults and 21 children, 17 of which are in school.
"We have families andindi-
The main goals of the week were to increase awareness and educate the campus about sexual assault. Each day this week, volunteers had a table on Wescoe Beach set up where students could take a pledge to hold others accountable for their actions and try to put an end to sexual assault.
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Students could also decorate bandanas in honor of a victim of sexual assault and learn more about what sexual assault is and what resources are available for assistance with a different
tion about the issue up front rather than waiting until the end of the year would help them navigate potentially dangerous situations better, she added.
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Today, volunteers will discuss the importance of bystander intervention. The GaDuGi SafeCenter will also host two events over the weekend to raise awareness and money to prevent sexual assault.
"We want to make sure they know how they can help and how they can be an advocate," said Heath. "And we want them to know its not just a women's issue. We want to make it okay for men on this campus to be able to talk about it seriously and try to help prevent it on our campus."
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