Volume 124 Issue 5
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
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GOOD FOR YOU BAD FOR YOU// NASAL SPRAY
> Sometimes it's hard to tell.
You have the cold from hell. Your nose is stuffed, your head is heavy and all you want to do is breathe again. Then, you remember the bottle of medicated nasal spray tucked away in your medicine cabinet. But, before you squirt and sniff away your symptoms, does nasal spray actually help you get well?
Jessica Stafford, a junior from Lawrence, used a medicated nasal spray when she caught a cold last year. Stafford says the spray worked so well that she used it all 10 days that her cold persisted.
Mark Smith, a pharmacist at Orchards Drug in Lawrence, says decongestant nasal
Photo by Chrristy Nutt
Sniff Wisely: Nasal spray can slow a cold if used too often.
sprays can have a quick and severe effect on a stuffy nose. "It can really help open you up, and fast, like a stick of dynamite," Smith says. This can help people with severe congestion to get through the initial phase of their colds.
Using more than three consecutive days, however, can cause rebound congestion, where the symptoms return soon after usage, and are often worse, Smith says. "The only way to get rid of the symptoms again is to use the nasal spray, creating a vicious cycle." This is exactly what Stafford began to experience while using medicated nasal spray. "The more I used it, the sooner it stopped working," Stafford says.
Other possible replacements wouldn't be worth their share of the television contract. It's a sticky situation, to say the least. A situation that will probably doom the 16-year-old conference.
Then again, the remaining schools could sing "Kumbaya" and tell us everything is fine in the heartland. That seemed to work really well last summer.
Although sprays don't consist of any addictive ingredients, people can feel like they have to continue using it to get rid of their symptoms. Because the medicine restricts blood vessels in the nose repetitive use can be harmful on the nasal passage, Smith says.
CHRISTY NUTT
Verdict: Good for you, if used correctly for a short period of time.
> Dude...gross.
Photo by Corriss Nutt Don't bug out: Booklice can be easily eliminated.
Students expect to find certain things in their textbooks: a table of contents, chapter summaries and pages of text. But what about tiny, creepy, crawling bugs? That's right, I'm talking about booklice- or, as your nerdy science friend might say, psocoptera.
THAT'S DISGUSTING // BOOKLICE
These tiny bugs get their nickname because of their lice-like features, but don't be confused, they are not lice. According to a professional report from Pennsylvania State University, these wingless bugs feed on mold and fungi that grow on the starchy paste used to bind books and in book ink. Besides
being disgusting, these little critters don't pose much of a threat. The report says they don't bite, transmit disease or cause damage to fabric.
CHRISTY NUTT
Ken Eldredge, entomology graduate student from Tokyo, occasionally finds booklice scurrying inside of old books at his house, but they don't bother him. "I might be biased, but I actually think they are kind of cute," Eldredge says.
If you don't view booklice in the same way as Eldredge, control the pests by eliminating moisture around your books.
Edited by Mike Lavieri
There isn't a single BCS conference school that would join the Big 12 right now, so remove any ideas of poaching a team like Louisville. And if you think Arkansas would leave the SEC — as I've heard a few Kansas fans mention for geographic reasons — you must live in a nice world because that isn't happening.
Big 12 has been on the support for at least 12 months and there's not many legitimate options to replace Texas A&M, if and when it leaves.
sophomore adus numor, new spin to old sport
LAURA DRUMMOND
Idrummond@kansan.com
and reservation. But for KU golfer David Catt, a sophomore from Shawnee, the game is
To many avid golfers, who require silence during putting and teeing off, the sport is one of concentration
bit of a different spin.
Catt
KU golf Coach Kit Grove can attest to this.
"He's got a really unique sense of humor," Grove said. "He doesn't
always try to be funny but he is
way funnier than he thinks he is"
"He is from Kansas and I saw
In addition to his sense of humor, Catt also brings key golf skills to the KU golf team.
Catt joined the team as a freshman last year but did not get into the lineup very often because of more experienced upperclassmen. However, Grove has high expectations for him after watching his performance at KU as well as in high school.
"As far as from a golf stand point he's a really good putter." Grove said. "His biggest strength is definitely his putting. He also has a really great attitude, which is very important to the game of golf."
him play a hand full of times in high school and I was actually quite happy to give him a spot on the team during his senior year of high school."
Catt played high school golf for Shawnee Mission Northwest being named to the All Metro golf team as a junior and senior. He also broke a 30-year-old school record by shooting a 5-under-par 62 as a junior.
Catt's intelligence was also a draw for the KU golf team. Catt was National Merit Scholar finalist. "Hes a really, really smart kid," Grove said.
SEE GOLF 16
Russian pro team
The man with the most assists in Kansas basketball history is off to Russia.
KUAthletics.com confirms that
Aaron Mines, former Jayhawk point guard, has signed with Krasnie Krilya, a professional team in Samara, the sixth most populated city in Russia.
Miles, who is already working out with his new team
Miles
In the 2006-07 season, Miles
in Italy, spent last season in the NBA Developmental League with the Reno Browns, a team affiliated with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies and Sacramento Kings for the 2011-12 season.
Orthez of Pau, France, and won the French Cup. He then played for Cajasol Sevilla, of Spain, in the 2007-08 season; Panionios of Greece, in the 2008-09 season; and Aris BC, also of Greece, in the
Miles will join former Jayhawks Sasf Kaun and Keith Langford in Russia. Kaun is a center with CSKA Moscow and Langford is a guard with Khimi Moscow.
2009-10 season.
In his junior season in 2003-04. Miles was
member of the Big 12 All-Defense team and third team All-Big 12. H was the first recipient of the Dann Manning Mr. Jayhawk award and a starter in every game except senior day of his freshman year.
- Max Rothma