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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22 2008
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Designers get large grant
BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
bentsminger@kansan.com
Andrew Kuttler, El Dorado senior, left, Kayla Heckman, Shawnee senior, center, and Amy Rottinghaus, Baileyville senior, right, are part of the design team that received a $25 000 grant to bring its project for Design for Non-Profits to life. The design idea aims to reach out to a younger generation and make them aware of healthier living choices.
Allison Richardson/KANSAN
Design students at the University of Kansas are using their skills to combat the bad eating habits of teens.
A $25,000 grant from the Sappi Fine Paper's "Ideas That Matter" program will help students print and distribute a toolkit to 6,000 schools around the country.
The toolkit is called "Step Up for a Healthier School." It outlines how teens can promote healthy living and will be used in an initiative by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a collaboration between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation. The Alliance works to promote healthy habits and prevent childhood obesity.
Amy Rottinghaus, Baileyville senior, Kayla Heckman, Shawnee senior, and Andrew Kuttler, El Dorado senior, began working on the project with five other students in a special topics class co-taught by Patrick Dooley, professor of design, and alumnus John Wilson last semester. They will design the new toolkit this semester.
The toolkit will focus on putting the power to change health habits in the hands of teens. It works to get them thinking about bad eating habits and what they can do to make a difference in their schools.
Heckman said the toolkit would help teens address one of the leading health problems in the country: childhood obesity.
"I'm excited to see our work out there in the hands of teenagers across the country and to see them make a difference in their schools," Heckman said.
Dooley said the work was challenging because it addressed a complex problem. The design had to be authentic so teens could relate to it and react to the message.
Wilson said college students, such as those working on the project, would be able to relate to the teens better because they were closer to them in age.
"I think it translates what could be a boring message to terms they can understand and connect with," Wilson said.
Wilson worked with the Alliance at the Clinton Foundation in New York before returning to Lawrence. He said he wanted to give design students the opportunity to improve their skills and find ways to help the community.
Students in the design class began by researching childhood obesity, looking over the existing program and researching brands that were popular with teens.
After conducting the research, the students put together a style manual with fonts, colors and textures for the Alliance.
Originally, the Alliance used a character called "Hugo" in pro
motional materials to help deliver its message about eating healthier. "Hugo," a brightly colored smiley face, had been successful with elementary school students, but the class redesigned him to appeal more to older students.
The manual also outlines the goals of the "Step Up for a Healthier School" initiative. The alliance added information to the manual and will send it out to schools and organizations around the country so that it can be used as a blueprint for future programs.
"Not only are we making it a cool experience, but we're making it a clear experience." Dooley said.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
It's sexy time
KU students dance, dance, dance to celebrate the Sex on the Hill publication at Abe & Jake's Landing on Thursday Night at 8 E. 6th St.
Students had been working on the publication and the party nonstop for the past three weeks.
Julianne Kueffer/KANSAN
FINANCIAL
Treasury Secretary advises bailout bill's quick passage
Paulson says Dems' proposals are unnecessary
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is resisting a Democratic push to add additional help for households to the $700 billion bailout bill.
Paulson said Sunday that because financial markets remained under severe stress there is an urgent need for Congress to act quickly without adding other measures that could slow down passage.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson departs the Newseum after being interviewed on the financial crisis on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on Sunday in Washington. Paulson said that the nation's credit markets remain frozen and that Congress must move quickly to pass a $700 billion bailout package for financial firms.
"We need this to be clean and to be quick," Paulson said in an interview on ABC's "This Week."
Paulson resisted suggestions being made by Democrats that the program be changed to include further relief for homeowners facing mortgage foreclosures and to include an additional $50 billion stimulus effort. Some Democrats have also suggested capping compensation of executives at firms who get the bailout help.
Paulson said he was concerned that debate over adding all of those proposals would slow the economy down, delaying the rescue effort that is so urgently needed to get financial markets moving again.
"The biggest help we can give the American people right now is to stabilize the financial system," Paulson said.
However, Sen. Charles Schumer, D.N.Y., said that he believed there would be changes to the three-page Paulson plan and that agreement could be reached quickly.
Schumer said that he was pushing to get a provision where the government would receive stock warrants in return for the bailout relief and for creation of a government oversight board to supervise the huge operation, which under Paulson's plan would be run out of the Treasury Department. He said Paulson seemed receptive to changes when he had discussed his ideas with him.
Paulson said that the nation's outdated regulatory system for financial markets must be overhauled but the first job is to get the most sweeping rescue package since the Great Depression passed
Paulson said in the interviews that he had been talking to other governments about the need for them to offer similar relief because the current financial crisis is global.
"The credit markets are still very fragile right now and frozen." Paulson said in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press. "We need to deal with this and deal with it quickly."
Paulson made the rounds of the television talk shows on Sunday to stress the need for speed in getting the bailout package approved. The administration was negotiating the details of the proposal with members of Congress with the expectation that it can be passed in the next week.
Paulson said that "it pains me tremendously to have the American taxpayer put in this position but it is better than the alternative."
"I have told him ... we need changes related to housing, we need to put the taxpayer first ahead of bondholders, shareholders," Schumer said on "Fox News Sunday."
Both Paulson and President Bush have argued that the alternative would be credit markets that remain frozen, meaning that businesses will fail because they can't get the loans they need to operate and the economy will grind to a halt.
by Congress in coming days.
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