Volume 124 Issue 9
kansan.com
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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ASHLEIGH LEE/KANSAN Jordan Milan, a freshman from Kansas City, Kan. writes on a poster about sex-education. "When my grandma was a freshman, there wasn't stuff like this because sex was taboo. Now there's actually education on it," said Milan.
INFO HOOK-UP
'SEXTIVAL' SUCCESS
Students find safe sex information, condoms at event
SARA SNEATH
ssneath@kansan.com
Tabitha Marcotte, a junior from Hays, was handed a free condom and material on sexual education Tuesday. She continued toward her afternoon class, examining the pamphlet and shiny package in her hands.
"The information does go a lot against the sex ed classes you take in high school," Marcotte said. "It tells you a lot that you don't learn there."
"This year we have a lot of information about what's going on
Sextival runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Thursday in a pop-up tent on the Stauffer Flint lawn. The event is put on by the Commission on the Status of Women.
"The purpose is to educate people about safe sex, positive sexuality and healthy relationships," Pavicic said.
Sextival began three years ago as a counterprotest to giant anti-abortion billboards located on campus, said Meredith Pavic, Kansas chapter president of Commission on the Status of Women. Though the billboards are gone, Sextival remains an annual event.
Pavicic said the topic of Sextival changes depending on what's going on in the news.
Sextial moved to an earlier date this year due to Commission on the Status of Women's desire to give new University students knowledge regarding reproductive services and healthy relationships as soon as they get to campus, Pavicic said.
with reproductive rights in the state of Kansas,"Pavicic said.
"Wed like to create an environment where students can talk openly about their sexuality and be able to seek the necessary resources," she said.
Pacific said the recent defending of Kansas' Planned Parenthood and regulation changes to termination clinics have been hot topics this year. A Planned Parenthood representative is attending Sextival to give out info on Planned Parenthood's recent defunding and gather support for its legal battles.
"The clinics in Wichita and Hays were defended of Title X Funding, which is the Family Planning Program," said Planned Parenthood advocacy and organizing intern, Mark Halalastik. "We actually have an injunction right now We are waiting for the next hearing." he said.
However, on Monday a judge ordered Planned Parenthood's funding restored, at least temporarily, the Associated Press reported. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten on Tuesday rejected the state's request that it pay Planned Parenthood monthly and only for services provided while it appeals his Aug. 1 injunction blocking the law.
Last week, Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Western Missouri said it would stop providing medical services Friday, Sept. 2, at its clinic in Hays unless it was told it would soon receive the money, the Associated Press reported. Without the funding, Planned Parenthood also intended to discontinue its sliding fee scale for low-income patients at its Wichita clinic.
Halastik said students should critically analyze information regarding the defounding of Planned Parenthood. He said the regulation changes to termination clinics and the defounding of Planned Parenthood are two separate issues.
"A lot of individuals have argued that the Title X funding is going toward termination services, but it is not. It is illegal for that specific service to be paid for by Title X funding," Halastik said.
Edited by Jason Bennett
CAMPUS
Drivers feel parking pain
ADAM STRUNK astrunk@kansan.com
To enter, drivers must also have an RFID card, or take a ticket from the payment machine that allows them to pay upon departure.
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Amie Young, a junior from Olathe, began to panic. In front of her hung the metal arm of a parking gate. Behind her cars began to pile up.
Some drivers have had trouble getting the gates to recognize the
She leaned out her car window pushing her ticket into the garage's new payment station. Again and again the machine readout flashed "error." The metal arm would not budge.
Scenes of upset drivers and backed up cars have become more common at the Union Parking Garage. The complaints center on the new electronic gates and payment machines added by KU Parking and Transit in a recent $550,000 remodel of the garage completed Aug. 1.
Allison Weis, a freshman from Shawnee gets a free makeover by Mary Kay make-up company Tuesday afternoon in the Student Union. Students could come to get free make up, makeovers and more in an event sponsored by Seventeen and Cosmopolitan magazines.
The electronic gates only lift their arms after the drivers have paid for parking or have a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) card that now comes with a garage permit purchase.
Mary Kay offers women advice and products
BEAUTY
TIFFANY SCHROEDER
tschroeder@kansan.com
Caitlin Walz stopped by the Kansas Union Tuesday because she wanted the free makeup being given away. Mary Kay representatives were giving students free makeups on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
Walz, a sophomore from Garden City, said she was familiar with Mary Kay's line of beauty products.
That put Walz outside Mary Kay's intended audience Tuesday.
The tour aimed at informing college-aged women about Mary Kay products, something few women know about, according to Mary Kay representatives.
"Based on what we heard from the women we interacted with last year, they actually weren't aware of Mary Kay. Very few of them actually knew about Mary Kay or knew about products," Marti Breedlove, manager of advertising, public relations and integrated marketing said.
In addition to free stuff, Mary Kay offers a complimentary personal consultation service. Students traveled around to different stations to learn about Mary Kay products and the colors that would work best with each student's complexion. Independent personal consultants greeted students at each station and assisted them with color selection as well as how to pick out and apply the makeup that complemented each person. In addition to personalized makeup advice, students were also given goody bags with free samples of Mary Kay products, including
mascara and moisturizers. However, the point of the tour
However, tha was not to just expose students to Mary Kay's latest products with makeovers and free samples. Through interacting with
college students, consultants learn about the different makeup
my makeup it's relax- elt kind of
CAITLIN WALZ
Student
needs college-aged women have and how to best fulfill those needs.
While many students enjoyed the interaction with consultants,
some felt that the number of students who attended the event combined with the consultant's attempt to make sure everyone got a turn before having to go to class was detrimental to this process.
"I like getting my makeup done because it's relaxing, but this felt kind of rushed." Walz said. However, students were not
the only ones excited about the free Mary Kay makeup.
"I've been putting off buying mascara for a while and now I'm glad that I did because I got a free bag of makeup," said Megan Vides, a Mary Kay brand ambassador working the event.
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CROSSWORD 4
CRYPTOQUIPS 4
OPINIUN 5
Edited by Rachel Schultz
SPORTS 8
SUDOKU 4
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