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VOLUME 121 ISSUE 48
DRINK IT UP
Ryan Kriss, Overland Park junior, and Andrew Whittle, Milwaukee, Wis., sophomore reach for some free milk cartons after working out at the Ambler Student Recreation Center. H.O.M.E.B.A.S.E. set up a table offering free milk, information about calcium and the opportunity to pose for a photo with a milk mustache.
Students often overlook milk
Importance of calcium stressed at health event
BY ALY VAN DYKE avandyke@kansan.com
Stefan Froelich has joined the ranks of Michael Jordan, Mischa Barton, Taylor Swift and almost every other A-list celebrity known to man.
Standing in the lobby of the Ambler Student Recreation Center,
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Froelich, Lansing junior, proudly posed for a Polaroid photo yesterday, a white milk mustache clinging to his upper lip.
Froelich and several of his peers who visited the Ambler Recreation Center Tuesday had a chance to get some free milk and the chance to pose with a stick-on milk mustache as part of an effort to promote calcium consumption.
"A lot of students don't get the calcium they should daily," said Jessica Neuhedel, Overland Park junior and active member of Healthy Options for Movement. Exercise; Body Acceptance and Savvy Eating, the student group that sponsored the event.
H. O.M.E.B.A.S.E. came to the recreation center armed with 200 free samples of regular and soy milk, information packets, two Polaroid cameras and several stick-on mustaches. Although only a handful of students opted for the photo, several stopped by the information table and even more grabbed a carton of milk on
their way out of the gym.
"We wanted to make it fun," Ann Chapman, coordinator of nutrition for the Wellness Resource Center, said. "I think we all have a child in us, and it's fun to let the students wear the mustache."
Froelich said he drank about a gallon of 1 percent milk a week, mostly with his favorite cereal, Honey Bunches of Oats. He said he wasn't worried about whether he got enough calcium.
"I think a gallon a week does the trick," he said.
Chapman said.
But a gallon a week falls desperately short of the quart-a-day recommendation for young adults,
If current consumption rates continue, half of all Americans older than 50 will be at risk for complications from osteoporosis and low bone mass, according to a 2007 study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
According to a 2009 study by the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, only about 53 percent of young men and 21 percent of women ages 19 to 30 consume the recommended amount of calcium.
Chapman said the college years
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HEALTH
University forced to cancel its flu clinics
BY JESSE RANGEL jrangel@kansan.com
In addition to the focus on H1N1 and its pandemic status, even the interest in seasonal flu vaccinations has spiked increased demand on campus.
Traffic has been so heavy at the seasonal flu shot clinics this month at Watkins Memorial Health Center that supplies ran out Tuesday and the remaining clinic was canceled. The University has administered nearly 700 doses of seasonal flu vaccine this fall, up from 368 doses in 2008. The University also announced Tuesday that they have scaled back five planned H1N1 clinics to just one, with only 500 available doses being for the Nov. 6 clinic.
Mai Hester, marketing coordinator for Student Health Services, said that before the University announced that vaccines had run out, the office had received feedback from students who said they wanted to get both the seasonal flu shot and the H1N1 vaccination.
"A lot of people have come in and want to get the seasonal flu shot," Hester said. "We're putting the message out there that getting both is the best way to protect yourself this season."
Jimmy Wernel, Overland Park junior, got his seasonal flu shot early on Tuesday. He said it would be good to get both shots because he is going to shadow in a hospital, but he was concerned about the H1N1 vaccine supply available.
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MUSIC
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String quartet to play new tunes at Lied Center tonight
BY DANIEL JOHNSON djohnson@kansan.com
Tom Stone's creative impulses surge when he plays violin at the Lied Center. He loves the way the notes sound in the building.
"You can do anything with sound in that room." Stone said. "We can make the softest whisper on our violins or create a really strong and forceful sound."
Stone, a violinist with the Cypress String Quartet, will perform at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Lied Center. The performance will be a unique one for the group, which is playing in more than 90 venues this year. The quartet will perform an original piece commissioned by the Lied Center and the Library of Congress for only the second time.
The group will perform "Lento Assai," a project financed in part
by the Lied Center. The work is a product of the quartet's annual "call and response" series. For the series, the quartet enlists a contemporary composer to create a musical reaction to major classical works. The pieces are composed specifically for the quartet to perform.
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Stone said "Lento Assai", the final product of this collaboration, invoked deep and passionate feelings.
This year, the group employed New York City composer Kevin Puts to write a piece in response to Mendelssohn's first string quartet and Beethoven's last string quartet.
'A CELEBRATION OF MENDELSSOHN'
Tickets are $24 for adults and $8 for students and children. They can be purchased at the Lied Center ticket office or online at liedku.edu.
WHO: The Cypress String Quartet
WHERE: The Lied Center
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. tonight
Tim Van Leer, Lied Center executive director, said the Lied Center
"It's incredibly beautiful, lyrical and even romantic," Stone said.
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The Cypress String Quartet will play tonight at the Lied Center. The performance will include the new collaborative piece "Lento Assai."
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