tuesday, September 16, 2003
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the university daily kansan
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Throughout Learned Hall, signs have been posted to indicate the change in room numbers. Students said the changes could be confusing at times.
Room numbers confuse students
By Maggie Newcomer
mnewcomer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Austin McKune was armed with his trusty class schedule when he arrived at Learned Hall on the first day of classes this semester.
The schedule failed the Lansing senior when he saw all the room numbers had been changed.
School of Engineering administrators decided last summer to remove the old numbers and replace them with new numbers to make Learned and Eaton halls seem more like a unit and to ensure room numbers weren't repeated in the two buildings. The project was paid for with money from Eaton Hall's construction, said Rob Sorem, associate dean of engineering.
Sorem refuted the rumor that the $40,000 project started because Stuart Bell, dean of engineering, wanted his office to be 1 Eaton Hall.
"That is absolutely not true." Sorem said, laughing.
The dean's office is 1 Eaton Hall because the first level of the building is below the first level of Learned Hall, technically making it the basement.
if the site has more than 500 signs will be replaced in both halts by Oct. 15, said Jennifer Schmitendorf, administrative specialist in the dean of engineering's office.
Temporary numbers written on paper are outside each room. The old numbers are handwritten on the bottom of the cards.
"The first day was confusing. Once we found those sheets, though, we figured it out."
Austin McKune
Lansing senior
Sheets with every room's old and new numbers are on each floor to help students find their classrooms.
"That first day was confusing," McKune said. "Once we found those sheets, though, we figured it out."
Besides schedules being printed with the old numbers, Schmitendorf said she didn't think there had been a lot of problems.
Bell said any confusion students had at the beginning of the school year was minimal compared to the confusion over the last 20 years. Learned Hall's old numbers start at the elevator in the middle of the hall, go down to one end of the hall and start over at the opposite end. When rooms were added throughout the years, their numbers were just stuck in the middle of the others, he said.
"It's probably more of a mix-up for the students who have been here for a while," Schmitendorf said.
Although some Learned Hall students were still confused, Sorem said everyone was getting used to the changes.
—Edited by Cate Batchelder
By Danielle Hillix
dhillix@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
Freshman 15 makes students loosen belts
Late-night pizza deliveries six-packs of Budweiser and all you-can-eat dining halls add up; the "freshman 15" is for real.
In a study released this summer researchers at Cornell University found that college freshmen gain an average of 4.2 pounds during their first 12 weeks on campus.
much they eat and when they eat often results in the extra pounds."
"They're constantly being confronted with food, Levitsky said. "Hc
During the 12-week study at Cornell, participating freshmen gained an average of .3 pounds per week. That is almost 11 times the weekly weight gain expected in 17- and 18-year-olds. It is 20 times the average weekly weight gain of American adults.
But freshmen can avoid the extraweight. Ann Chapman, dieti
—Edited by Abby Sidesinger
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