THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009
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our bodies are meant to do, but I don't feel like hookah is as bad as cigarettes."
A study conducted in 1991 found that some shisha smoke contains significantly fewer chemicals than cigarette smoke - 142 compounds compared to 4,700. However, given the prolonged exposure to smoke in a usual hookah session, experts have warned that hookah can be as, if not more, dangerous than cigarettes.
Hellebust said every type of tobacco product, including vela can be dangerous.
Several studies have confirmed the dangers of hookah smoking:
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Horwitz said his parents would stop paying for college if he started smoking cigarettes or cigars, and he has dutifully obliged.
He said they were all right with the hookah mainly because his father is Jewish and because he told them health risks depended on the coal and tobacco used.
tobacco is literally to never get started," Hellebust said. "If you have started, do your best to quit."
Horwitz was right, to an extent. Herbal shisha, which claims to be free of tobacco, nicotine and tar, does exist. However, studies have not yet determined whether health risks from these
products are reduced.
Regardless of what is in the shisha, the coal used to burn it poses health risks of its own. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the hookah charcoal "increases the health risks by producing high levels of carbon monoxide, metals, and cancer-causing chemicals"
Another myth about hookah smoke is that the water in the pipe removes harmful chemicals, said Ken Sarber, health educator with Student Health Services at Watkins Memorial.
On that point the CDC says, "Even after it has passed through water, the smoke produced by a hookah contains high levels of
toxic compounds."
Chahine said the shisha made at the Hookah House contains tobacco and a small amount of nicotine. He said he tried to encourage people not to smoke every day and to not stay more than an hour and half for one sitting. He also said he was aware hookah could pose health effects if people spent too long smoking, but said the same principle goes for everything else, be it alcohol or chocolate.
"Everything has a limit," he said. "Anything you abuse will damage your health."
— Edited by Alicia Banister
DANGERS OF HOOKAH SMOKING
Several studies have confirmed the dangers of hookah smoking:
A 1997 study found that a 45- to 60-minute session of hookah exposed a smoker to an amount of nicotine equivalent to chain smoking 15 cigarettes.
- According to a 2005 World Health Organization release, a person inhales between 100 and 200 times the smoke volume in a typical one-hour hookah session than from a single cigarette.
A study published in 2003 found that hookah smoke contains higher quantities of toxic heavy metals, such as arsenic, nickel and lead, compared to cigarette smoke.
Studies throughout the world during the past 17 years have found evidence linking hookah smoking use to several health issues, ranging from various cancers to herpes.
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walked into each floor of every building on campus with the potential vendor. But he said the carriers would ultimately need to buy into the several-million-dollar project to make this work.
"The University has no business in the carrier business" Crawford said. "So getting them to buy this themselves and build this themselves is crucial to this moving forward. They have to opt in and buy it."
Crawford said the office was close to having an initial design completed, as they continued the campus walk-throughs. He said the dead spots on campus were obvious to students.
"Wescoe Hall: Ouch," Crawford said. "Strong Hall is a bunker. A lot of these buildings are bunkers on campus."
IMPORTANCE OF CONNECTIVITY
The antennas would go in places such as shingles on roofs, bushes and light posts, Crawford said. The University would also receive revenue from the possible project and be able to use the fiber-optic cable for additional data services.
"It's always been bad down here," Goddard said.
Darci Goddard, Logan senior,
sat for lunch in the concrete-heavy
Underground in Wesco Hall last
week. With no Verizon Wireless
service, she used her phone as a
paperweight.
Linzy Kirkpatrick, Wichita senior, was able to send text messages and use the Internet on her Sprint phone in the Underground, but no phone calls.
Sarah VanGorden, Dallas freshman, said she never had a connectivity problem with her iPhone back home. Now, she doesn't get AT&T Inc. network service in the Underground, so she eats lunch outside and only surfs the Web.
Cell phone companies have already taken notice and increased signal capacity on campus.
Marisa Giller, regional director of corporate communications for AT&T Inc. in Kansas and Missouri, said the company increased voice communication capacity last week, targeted for the northeast end of campus. She said additional upgrades to multimedia capacity, such as Internet, would be coming in the next few weeks.
Brenda Hill, media contact for Verizon Wireless in Kansas and Missouri, said her company had boosted its latest-generation wireless network near campus as recently as September. But she
said getting a signal inside of buildings was a challenge for all providers.
"More and more people are using data," Hill said. "They're using their phones for more than voice calls. And you've got to have a faster signal to handle all those data speeds. Students are heavy users of data."
WI-FI ALMOST COMPLETE
Students who can't receive signals on their smart phones on campus may be able to switch to the University's Wi-Fi option for the time being. That network is almost done.
Karen Nicholas, communications and public relations manager for KU Information Technology, said Student Senate had given it a list of buildings to complete its coverage of Wi-Fi on campus. They include the atrium area of Strong Hall, Smith Hall and the Burge and Kansas Unions. Crawford said that work was nearly completed.
But the $5 wireless implementation fee that students pay is set to expire at the end of this year. Crawford said technology had already changed so quickly that keeping up was difficult. Once the Wi-Fi network on campus is finished, there's no clear plan to fund ongoing maintenance of the network.
"One of the problems with implementing a huge infrastructure like wireless is the ongoing maintenance," Crawford said.
WI-FI COMING
SOON:
Common areas targeted by Student Senate for Wi-Fi implementation. All of these projects are under way.
All of the libraries
Burge and Kansas Unions
Burge and Kansas Unions
Dole Institute of Politics
Strong Hail (atrium area)
Dole Human Development Center Smith Hall
Templin Hall — KU Visitor's Center
Visitor's Center
Information Technology
He also said there were no recurring funds that allow for updates to these new technologies. He said the campus needs to figure out a funding model.
Haverkamp said Student Senate had not devised a plan to fund ongoing maintenance.
Crawford said his office would be making recommendations on the maintenance issue to University administrators. He said otherwise the University would continue to chase outdated technology
"It's like 'open the floodgates, shut it, it gets outdated, open the floodgates, shut it, it gets outdated,' Crawford said. "We need a nice sustainable model."
Edited by Anna Kathagnarath
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invited back for another directing stint at the University.
The production will also feature new original music by award-winning New York composer Fabian Obispo.
"The KU students have been brilliant, and I rarely use that term," Thompson said. "The audiences are going to find that they will hear and understand the words largely because you can tell the actors are enjoying themselves. I think they'll have a great time."
"He has written a great score," Thompson said. "In between each scene there is music that I feel propels the play and is the heartbeat of the production."
"Macbeth" has received a lot of input from guest artists. Many members of the production staff, however, are from the area.
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Jeremy Riggs, a 2009 KU graduate, is fight director for the play. He has been working with the actors to choreograph and make the major fight scenes and other "violent acts" look realistic and as if they belong in certain spots.
"The challenging part is interpreting the text and finding the places where we can solidify what is being said with the action we bring onto the stage," Riggs said.
"It kind of gives me a headache just doing it." Salamat said of playing the part of Macbeth. "He's a walking contradiction. Every line he says is contradicted by the next. It's difficult, but it's also kind of fun."
"Macbeth" is said to be Shakespeare's most tragic play. It was written in the early 1600s and was supposedly first performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London in 1611.
Salamat said since auditions, the practices have been going practically nonstop. He said he and Buchanan were ready to perform what they have been rehearsing for weeks now.
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"I've never been in a play with so much history," Buchanan said. "Working with Taz has been a great experience."
"It's so fun to play because that's not how I am at all," he said.
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Salamat said his favorite part of the play was in Act Five when Macbeth "turns into an animal and essentially is an insane killing machine."
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Students will also have the chance to see a screening of Chuck Workman's 1991 documentary "Superstar: The Life & Times of Andy Warhol."
"It's a really cool way to get students involved," Bray said. "We're all excited to see the end result."
Edited by Sarah Kelly
Original music composed by Fabian Obispo Directed by guest artist Tazewell Thompson
Reserved seat tickets are on sale in the KU ticket offices: University Theatre, 864-3982, and Lied Center, 864-ARTS, and online at www.kutheatre.com. Tickets are $18 for the public, $17 for senior citizens and KU faculty and staff, $10 for all students. All major credit cards are accepted for phone and online orders.
7:30 p.m. October 8,9,10,13,2009 2:30 p.m.October 11,2009 Crafton-Preyer Theatre
MACBETH
The University Theatre is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee; funding is also provided by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a national agency.
by William Shakespeare
Something wicked this way comes.
A food drive will also be set up for students interested in donating a can of food to Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen in exchange for a Polaroid picture and their name entered into a raffle for a screenprinted shirt or other prizes.
Macbeth is an associate entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival XLII.
Students will have a chance to enjoy free screenprinting and nostalgic food this evening. The Spencer Student Advisory Board is hosting its biannual Student Night at 5:30 tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Bray said if students bring their own shirts, the screenprinting will be free, but there will be a charge for shirts at the event. Live music by Blow Chi and candy and food inspired by the 1980s will also be available.
Chase Bray, president of the advisory board, said the theme this year, WARhol and PEACE, was inspired by the current Andy Warhol and graphic imperative exhibits featured at the museum this Fall.
Members of Asteroid Head Art Club, co-sponsored by Wonder Fair Art Gallery, will be doing live T-shirt screenprinting at the event.
CAMPUS Museum to celebrate 'WARhol and PEACE'
"It's going to be really exciting to have screenprinting being done in front of everyone," Bray said. "I'm excited to see what the artists came up with in response to the exhibits."
"Remember candy cigarettes?" Bray said. "I haven't actually seen any since junior high, but we'll definitely have some there."
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