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THE UNIVERSITY OF DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2009
ALCOHOL (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
but they're not mandatory. People don't have to come to them. So with this there's just some information that students have to see."
Matt Tomlinson, Olathe freshman, questioned the usefulness of the program, given all of the other opportunities to learn about alcohol use.
"Iithit it's pointless," Tomlinson said. "I feel like we all know about it, and with orientation and stuff, we've all heard the same stuff."
Sean McDaniel,Baltimoresenior, said the test might help younger students, but he, as a 21-year-old transfer student, should not have to take the course.
"I have gone through that stuff many times before, being at other universities, being a transfer student," McDaniel said. "I graduated high school in Germany, so it was easy to drink over there. I was 18 and they made it work over there."
The information will be combined to look at drinking trends and to see what students do and
don't know, Roney said. However, Roney said student information would remain anonymous.
"There's no way to connect what you do on AlcoholEdu with your name," Roney said. "My hope is that it will create an environment of trust. We're really wanting students to understand this is a great benefit."
Busteed said that the program relies on honest answers to get an aggregate point of view on students' drinking habits.
"The program is both confidential and anonymous," Busteed said.
"The more honest they are to the program, the more beneficial a program will be to them."
Busteed also said that the program stressed overall alcohol education, not just the black-and-white law of drinking at age 21.
Megan Palame, communications specialist for Outside the Classroom, said the program could help schools see whether drinking behavior increased a lot or a little
from the first assessment to the second.
"The results from the confidential surveys allow your school to understand the effectiveness of its prevention efforts following the completion of AlcoholEdu," Palame said.
Roney said the first part would take 90 minutes to 2 hours to complete, and that the second part would take about 15 minutes. She said the course had interactive components and videos.
Roney said the course was informative and provided an understanding of the "real mechanics of what's going on." She said the course taught her some things about alcohol, and that she and a few of her colleagues failed their first pre-tests when they took them earlier this year.
"I had some things to learn," Roney said. "I did pass the final test with flying colors."
—Edited by Sarah Kelly
an incoming freshmen have to complete this two-part alcohol survey available online. The new requirement was implemented Monday and the University will e-mail a link to the test soon.
HEALTH (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
ducing this diet while also laying off high-fat and spicy foods for a while.
MUSCULOSKELETAL
Number three on Quinlan's list of start-of-semester Watkins visits is broken bones and sprained or twisted ligaments and muscles.
One way students injure themselves is by playing pick up games in the gym.
"It can get rough without referees, so students need to protect each other," she said.
High heels are also a common factor in Watkins visits, according to Quinlan.
Students can protect themselves from these injuries by stretching beforehand and staying in shape.
"They're cute, but they're not practical for the hills of KU," she said.
Quinlan recommended resting the injured area and applying ice every 20 minutes or three to four times a day for as long as symptoms persist. Ibuprofen or Acetaminophen reduce swelling and pain.
LACERATIONS AND ABRASIONS
Quinlan also sees many students
with cuts, which she attributes to attempts by students to channel their inner chefs.
"A lot of individuals are cooking for the first time and using kitchen gadgets they haven't had to be aware of," she said, listing bagel cutters and cheese graters as examples.
She said people with cuts should keep the injury out of stagnant water, which means no baths or hot tubs. She said the restriction did have its perks — especially if the cut was on a hand.
"You get out of doing dishes," she said.
Quinlan advised cleaning the wound with hand soap and water and applying antibiotic ointment.
STAYING HEALTHY
Students can kee p themselves out of Watkins by following a few, simple rules: eat healthy, exercise daily, cut down alcohol intake and get sleep.
Quinlan emphasized that practicing good respiratory hygiene, such as covering your mouth when coughing and washing hands thoroughly with soap and water, was also important to staying healthy.
— Edited by Brenna M. T. Daldorph
Casino plans endorsed by lottery commission
KANSAS
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Lottery Commission endorsed two competing plans Wednesday for a new state-owned casino in the Kansas City area but delayed action until next week on a pair of proposals for a casino south of Wichita.
The commission approved proposed contracts for Wyandotte County for a project backed by Penn National Gaming Inc., of Wyomissing, Pa., and another from a partnership involving Kansas Speedway, the NASCAR track in Kansas City. The panel's unanimous votes forwarded the agreements to a state review board that is set to pick one applicant before the end of October.
The Lottery Commission has the power to block proposals from moving forward because, under the 2007 state law authorizing the casinos, the Lottery will own the rights to the new games. The arrangement is unique for non-tribal casinos in the U.S., but the Kansas Constitution does not allow privately owned casinos
action until Tuesday on the two proposals for Sumner County in south-central Kansas so that the Lottery's staff has more time to review financial information for a group of developers behind one of them.
The commission postponed
Foxwood Development Co., of St. Louis, originally had a proposal competing with another from a partnership involving Kansas investors and two former executives of Las Vegas-based Mandalay Resort Group. But Lottery officials said Monday that they'd combined forces to push only the Foxwood plan.
"We just got some additional financial information," said Ed Van Petten, the Lottery's executive director.
A proposal from Lakes Entertainment Inc., of Minnetonka, Minn., is competing with the Foxwoods plan.
Last year, the casino review board picked a partnership involving Harrah's Entertainment Inc., to build a casino in Summer County. But it dropped its plans in November because of the economy, forcing the state to restart the selection process.
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ENTERTAINMENT
In this Feb. 2, 1976 photo released by CBS, "60 Minutes" creator and producer Don Hewitt poses on the set in New York. Hewitt, 86, the newsman who invented "60 Minutes" and produced the popular news magazine for 36 years, died, according to CBS.
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He died of pancreatic cancer at his Bridgehampton home, CBS said. His death came a month after that of fellow CBS legend Walter Cronkite.
NEW YORK — Don Hewitt,
a TV news pioneer who created "60 Minutes" and produced the popular CBS newsmagazine for 36 years, died Wednesday. He was 86.
'60 Minutes' producer and creator dies at 86
Hewitt joined CBS News in television's infancy in 1948, and produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960.
His lasting legacy took shape in the late 1960s when CBS agreed to try his idea of a one-hour broadcast that mixed hard news and feature stories. The television newsmagazine was born on Sept. 24, 1968, when the "60 Minutes" stopwatch began ticking.
He dreamed of a television version of Life, the dominant magazine of the mid-20th century, where interviews with entertainers could
co-exist with investigations that exposed corporate malfeasance.
Hard-driven reporter Mike Wallace, Hewitt's first hire, became the journalist those in power did not want on their doorsteps. Harry Reasoner, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Diane Sawyer and Dan Rather were among others who also reported for the show.
Hewitt often said the accepted wisdom for television news writers before "60 Minutes" was to put words to pictures. He believed that was backward.
"60 Minutes" won 73 Emmys, 13 DuPont/Columbia University Awards and nine Peabody Awards during Hewitt's stewardship, which ended in 2004.
Hewitt often said he was proud of his show's ability to exonerate innocent people through investigations, such as when a Texas man sent to jail for life for robbery was freed after Safer discredited the evidence against him.
ENTERTAINMENT Opera singer dies of aneurism in Japan
TOKYO — Hildegard Behrens, one of the finest actors on the opera stage during a professional career that spanned more than three decades, died Tuesday. She was 72.
Behrens, who felt unwell while traveling in Japan, died of an apparent aneurism at a Tokyo hospital, said Jonathan Friend,
artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in an e-mail sent Tuesday to opera officials.
Friend's e-mail was shared with The Associated Press by Jack Mastroianni, director of the vocal division at IMG Artists.
Behrens, a soprano, made her professional stage debut in Freiburg as the countess in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" in 1971.
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