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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, November 7,1997
Sunflower House gives students way to share, learn about others
By Sarah McWilliams
smcwilliams@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
Residents of the Sunflower House cooperative stand in line, while other residents serve dinner. The co-op started in 1969, and currently houses 32 students. Photo by Eric B. Howell/KANSAN
It's a big white house at 1406 Tennessee St. where people learn to get along.
Sunflower House, a student housing cooperative, has existed since 1969, when a professor of human development decided to put his theories into practice and see if thirty people could live together peacefully.
Sara Snyder, New Orleans senior and resident co-manager of the house, said it was the only student housing cooperative in Lawrence where the residents own the house.
The house is owned by the University of Kansas Student Housing Association, a group of community members that is independent of the University, she said.
"We do our own cooking and cleaning, as well as our own repairs," Snyder said.
Keith Miller, professor on human development and family life, was instrumental in getting the cooperative started in the late 1960s. Miller said he started the house in an effort to provide an option that offered more diversity than traditional housing such as apartments or University housing.
"I think one of the neat things about the house is the diversity."
Miller said. "There's a wide range of students there, students from Japan to Iran."
Sunflower House has another purpose: cooperation.
"It's been an effort to invent a way for members to run it in a way that works without a boss or a chief," Miller said. "It's taken 25 years to get everything working smoothly, but it seems to be now."
Part of the improvements over the years included making the system more structured. Residents meet once a week to discuss house issues such as maintenance and bills and hand out lists of chores for each resident.
The average room at the Sunflower House costs $215 per month. As part of the lease, a resident is required to work at least seven hours a week in the house, either cooking, cleaning or doing maintenance work. Snuder said.
Residents who repeatedly fail to do their fair share can be evicted, but this rarely happens, she said.
Zach Fallin, Ithaca, N.Y., graduate student, has lived in the house for 14 months. He said he was looking specifically for a cooperative living situation when he moved to Lawrence because he had spent his undergraduate years in a student cooperative at Cornell University.
"It's a very economically and environmentally effective way for people to live." Falin said.
"We control how much we spend on food, utilities, maintenance."
Pennie Crosslin, Tampa, Fla., junior, has lived in the house since February.
"The house works well because the people that live here are all really in tune with each other," she said.
Crosslin said she enjoyed the constant company. Even though residents have their own rooms.
which are separated from the rest of the house, there is still a social atmosphere, she said.
In addition to eating supper together on weeknights, Crosslin said residents watch television, play pool and discuss everything from politics to how to make microtubules out of cow brains. (You put them in a blender.)
"It's a real family," she said.
"You never get bored or lonely."
Flu, cold cases increase near semester's end
By Sarah Chadwick
schadwick @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Class projects and term paper deadlines are not the only things looming in the near future for KU students: peak cold and flu season is around the corner.
"At this time of the year, students are realizing that they still have time to get their grades up and evaluate where they are," said Candyce Waitley, Watkins Health Center health educator. "The late-night cramming increases the stress level, which increases the use of stimulants, reducing the ability to concentrate and making you more susceptible to colds and flu. It becomes a vicious cycle."
One way students can keep themselves from getting too stressed out is to prioritize, Waitley said.
"Students can only do so much in a day," she said. "It's better to schedule less and get a better job done. Ultimately it will reduce their stress."
Getting enough sleep and eating a healthy diet also lowers the risk of getting sick during the upcoming virus season.
"When we get into the project mode, we tend to skip meals or not sleep," said Randall Rock, Watkins chief of staff. "Try to keep things as steady as you can. Take on that workload in a a healthful fashion. Stress probably zaps the immunity."
The average person catches between two and four colds per year. A person who smokes may get up to twice that many colds in a year, Rock said.
When a student catches a virus, the best action to keep it from spreading is a simple task: hand washing.
"The most important thing is hand washing, and, unfortunately, it is the most forgotten." Waitley said. "If a person coughs into their hand, opens the door, then someone follows closely behind, they can pick up the virus."
Rock advised students not to share pillows, towels, food or drink because the virus spreads by bacterial droplets.
The best therapy for a cold is time, but over-the-counter medications such as Tylenol and Advil may alleviate some of the discomfort of cold and flu-like symptoms, Rock said.
Gargling with warm salt water, sucking on hard candy, taking a steamy shower to moisturize the airways, and replenishing fluids are other ways to relieve symptoms.
Gargling moisturizes the throat and can help remove
Flu facts
Peak season starts mid-
November and lasts until mid-
March
- Frequently washing hands, getting enough rest and eating a healthy diet can reduce the risk of catching a cold at the flu.
The average person gets two to four colds per year.
Time, pain relievers, drinking a lot of fluids and aaralina with
some debris and infection, Rock said. The salt may play a soothing role, but it is not mandatory.
"When our throat hurts, we fail to replenish the body's need for fluids," Rock said. "If you get behind and the respiratory tract gets dry, that can cause more discomfort."
warm salt water may help relieve symptoms.
Award to recognize outstanding GTAs
Students, faculty to give nominations
By Corrie Moore
cmoreo@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Graduate School is taking nominations for the ninth annual Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards, and the winners will be announced March 1.
One or two GTAs can be nominated by each department that has teaching programs, or a GTA can be nominated by five or more undergraduate students, said Sara Martin, assistant dean of the graduate school.
There are three different awards that GTAs can receive. Two GTAs will receive the Carlin graduate teaching assistant award and $1,000 dollars each. Five will receive the outstanding GTA award and $500 each, and five will be recognized as finalists with $100 each.
The awards are funded by the Chancellor's office and the Graduate and Professional Association.
The seven GTAs who receive the awards are recognized at commencement each year along with the winners of the faculty teaching awards.
All of the GTAs who are nominated are outstanding in the work they do. Martin said.
"It's a way of recognizing and singling out some of the best GTAs." she said.
The graduate department
Two Carlin Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards-$1,000 each.
Five Outstanding Graduate
GTA awards
Two Carlin Graduate
Teaching Assistant Award- $500 each.
Five recognized finalists $100 each.
Students can nominate
Students can nominate GTAs or departments can nominate one or two GTAs
The On Campus section is now located in the University Daily Kansan's Classified section.
from their department.
collects letters of recommendation and student evaluations from each department. Letters may also be submitted by students, and the GTAs who are nominated must submit a statement of a page or less about their teaching philosophy.
After all the nominations have been turned in, a selection committee reviews the information collected and selects those they believe should receive the award.
The selection committee consists of a representative from the Graduate School, the teaching faculty, the Chancellor's office, Student Affairs and two or three GTAs who have received the award in the past.
Mike Ghedotti, Lawrence graduate student, won the Carlin award last year and said he was surprised when he found out he had been nominated.
"I was honored because the original nomination came from students," Ghedotti said.
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Kansan staff report
'Kansan' inks spring editor
The "University Daily Kansan" named Lindsey Henry its new editor on Wednesday.
Listings must be placed by 4 p.m. two days before the listing is to begin in the section. The University Daily Kansan is not responsible for ads that do not run due to missed deadlines.
Henry, Overland Park junior will assume the position next spring. Currently, she is managing editor at the "Kansan."
Marc Harrell, Wichita junior, was named business manager for the advertising staff.
The "Kansan" interviews applicants for editor and business manager each semester. Four students applied for business manager and three for editor this semester.
Listings are billed on a per-line-per-day basis. Prices are at cost for legitimate University of Kansas organizations.
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ET CETERA
A story in yesterday is "Kansan" erroneously reported that Jayhawk Towers residents are required to pay $15 for a lock-out key if they have been locked out more than three times. The story should have stated that residents are required to pay $15 per key after only one lock-out.
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