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MONDAY, JAN. 16, 2017 | VOLUME 133 ISSUE 01
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
FINALS GUIDE
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Lightly Salted: Don't just survive finals week, surTHRIVE it
► WILL ADMUSSEN
@wadmussen
3. 4.
1 Disconnect from technology. You've heard that you should stay off social media. You've heard that you need to stop checking FarmersOnly.com every hour. But if you want to thrive you need to take it one step further — totally shun technology by converting to an Amish lifestyle. Sell your car, cancel your electricity bill and buy one of those Mumford and Sons style hats. Aside from helping Jedediah milk the cows, you'll have plenty of time to study. Be sure to print out all of the research and notes you'll need to study from.
2. Be efficient. There are lots of things
that can
that can get in the way of a
get in the way of a good grade on that final exam. Thriving during finals week is all about throwing out what's holding you back. One of those things is ethics. Don't be afraid to ask your "brothers" for past exams to study from. Don't worry about the fact that this is an unfair advantage as well as a blatant cutting of corners. With resources like past test files, there is absolutely no reason why you or your house should be placed on academic probation for low grades.
3 Embrace University resources. Everyone's kissed the therapy dogs at Watson Library during finals week. While those are helpful, they often get crowded and have been known to
growl at you when you hum Nickelback songs. Instead, take advantage of the Malott therapy spiders! These soft tarantulas are hardly ever played with and do wonders to soothe anxiety. Located in the basement, the spiders are kept in a small, dark room so that you can slip into deep relaxation away from the retina-burning lights.
4 Go on a cleanse. Rather than just survive during finals week on beef jerkey and leftover gravy from Thanksgiving, you can surfTHRIVE by ridding your body of harmful toxins known to cause memory loss. To do this, I recommend a cleanse. One of the most effective ways to do this is with sugar-free Haribo gummy bears (see top review on Amazon). Bad toxins will come rocketing out of
4. Go on a cleanse.
Rather than jus
your body (butt), making way for new information to be safely stored in your brain and other places without fear of harmful toxins.
5 Quote the Common Book. A little known secret at KU is that if you quote the Common Book on any of your exams, regardless of the subject matter, you will earn extra points. Don't give up on the Common Book and it will never let you down.
6. Take up smoking.
Think of it this way:
Do you drink it? Four Loke? Eat chocolate (which has caffeine in it?)
Smoking forces you outdoors. It clears your mind and forces you to be thankful for the time you have left on this earth. Plus, there's nothing like nicotine coursing through your veins to calm that final anxiety. Stay away from vaping, it has been known to cause personality problems.
You're obviously not addicted to those things, so there's no way you can get addicted to cigarettes.
7 Balance your time.
• Reading articles on how to study has actually been proven to be more effective than studying itself. Be sure to devote plenty of time to browsing credible websites like Buzzfeed and HuffPost to equip you with the right knowledge to
surTHRIVE finals week.
Motivate yourself with a life coach.
Your friends will fail you.
During finals week, you can't afford to be let down. That's where I come in as your life coach. I'll help you surTHRIVE finals week by inspiring you with phrases such as "I'm not moving out until you graduate" and "Wow, that looks really hard you must be really smart."
I will play my signature motivational song on the recorder: "Hot Cross Buns." Packages start at $700. You can sign up at my table next to the therapy spiders in Malott.
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Hannah Edelman/KANSAN needed in the new chancellor.
Hannah Edeman/KANSAN Bill Funk, search executive, speaks at a public forum seeking opinions on qualities needed in the new chancellor.
What's next in the chancellor search
EMILY WELLBORN @em_wellborn
The chancellor search committee has been picked and is starting to meet, but many members of the University are unsure what the committee will be looking for during the closed search. Before starting the search, the committee wants to keep the University as involved and represented as possible.
The 25 committee members were chosen by the Board of Regents after speaking with deans, different organizations on campus, community leaders in the Lawrence area and even current chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. The committee members were
Many members of the University have raised concerns about being properly represented while the search is closed, but David Dillon, chair of the search committee, feels the committee is large enough to represent all of the Uni-
"We think that there could be a chance that there could be more cases when students come back," said Mary Beverly, the epidemiology director for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department.
Beverly said all nine individuals have recovered and are no longer contagious. They will return to campus for the spring semester along with the rest of the student body.
The mumps virus
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es students to wash their hands regularly, cover their mouths when coughing or sneezing and to avoid the share of food, drinks, cigarettes or other objects that involve the exchange of saliva.
The nine students at the University who contracted mumps last month have been confirmed by the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, and no new cases have been found. However, it is possible that new cases may develop.
announced on Dec. 14.
"[The virus] concentrates in the saliva, so we want students to keep their hands clean and cough into their sleeves," Beverly said. "But it's primarily going to be in the saliva, so the close contact activities is what we want to stress."
If students experience mumps symptoms — fever, headache, muscle aches and fatigue followed by swelling of the cheeks and/or jaw — they are encouraged by both the Watkins Health Services and the
diately and contact a physician.
Only one of the nine students affected by the virus lives in on-campus housing.
Aramis Watson, the director of residence life for Student Housing, said Student Housing encourages its residents to follow the preventative guidelines disseminated by Watkins Health Services and the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, and that there is protocol in place for students who may need to isolate themselves in university housing.
A mumps outbreak also occurred at the University in April 2006, when 16 cases were recorded.
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