UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursdav, September 12, 1996
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Let's get physical
GR Gordon-Ross / KANSAN
Brad Neese, physical therapy assistant at Watkins Memorial Health Center, checks the body fat of Dawanna Mitchell, Canton, Ohio, freshman.
Body fat and condoms were the most popular attractions yesterday at the KU Health Fair, said Janine Gracy, health educator at Watkins. The fair, which was sponsored by Watkins, gave students an opportunity to learn about Watkins and catch up on their health. Students having their body fat checked had to remove their shoes and lay on a table with their right foot and hand
hooked to electrodes. The percent of body fat was assessed with an electrical independence machine. The machine input a small amount of electrical current through the body and measured the amount of resistance to the electric current flow, said Neese. Neese said the test had a positive or negative three point accuracy range, but dehydration, exercise, and alcohol and food consumption were all factors that decreased accuracy.
Kansan staff report by Ashleigh Roberts
Campus minimum-wage jobs safe
By Spencer Duncan Kansan staff writer
Resolution passed to support pledge that protects jobs
The University of Kansas Student Senate unanimously passed a resolution last night that supported Chancellor Robert Hemenway's pledge to protect campus jobs that
Jeff Stowell, holdover senator,
wrote the resolution and thought it
would send a strong message, he said.
could be threatened by the minimum wage increase.
"This is not a battle, there is no fight to pick." Stowell said to the senate. "The Chancellor agrees with us. However, I want to make sure that the Chancellor does not renege on his pledge."
Hemenway has said that the University won't cut any student campus jobs because of the minimum
The only argument concerning the resolution came from Jason Anglian, graduate senator.
wage rise.
However, in the end, Angilan said that the resolution had been important, and he voted for it.
"I think a resolution needs to be on matters of utmost importance," Anglian said. "Maybe in this case there are better ways to do this than a resolution."
The Senate also voted unanimously on a bill to create a student environmental advisory board.
The bill was proposed by Grey Montgomery, student body president.
In a speech to the Senate, Montgomery introduced Victoria Silva, University recycling coordinator. He also said that the Senate needed to help improve campus environmental protection efforts.
"Every decision at the University has environmental implications," Montgomery said. "This board would help discover those implications and ways to deal with them."
City will hire firm to study public transit
By Spencer Duncan
Kansan staff writer
A five-person committee yesterday whittled to two a list of prospective consultant firms that will examine Lawrence public transportation alternatives.
The committee chose Philadelphia-based Chance Management Advisors and Westland Consulting Services of Belvue, Wash., as candidates for examining Lawrence's public transportation alternatives.
The committee will interview the firms, which were selected from a list of eight, and decide on one next
week. The committee will then recommend a firm to the city.
Fred Sherman, Lawrence city planner, said he expected the city commission to negotiate a contract with a firm as soon as they had received a recommendation.
Lawrence Mayor John Nalandian has said he would like the chosen firm to have a final report by April 1997.
The plan will study factors involved in developing a system and answer the city's and other group's questions, Sherman said.
grave mistake for them to give us a specific plan. Everyone, from the University to the Lawrence school system to the Lawrence residents, need to be brought to the table. This will bring all the groups together to discuss our options."
"The consultants need to facilitate discussion," he said. "It would be a
Sherman said the city would use the report to determine the next step.
"There are many alternatives out there," Sherman said. "In the end, Lawrence may decide not to do anything."
Bob Grunzinger, KU on Wheels coordinator, represents the Student Senate on the selection committee.
He said it was too early to tell what the long term effects of hiring consultants would be.
However, he said that a potential city transit system would not be combined with KU on Wheels.
"This is a city project and they have invited some of us from the University to participate," said Grunzinger, a St. Louis, Mo., senior. "What we see today is not going to be around five years from now. But we are not doing a proposal on any joint bus system."
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