UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 27. 1995
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Fair promotes good health
By Kristie Blasi Special to the Kansar
People will be passing out drugs today in the Union.
But the people are really University of Kansas pharmacy students who are promoting their field with information booths and free over-the-counter medication.
The second annual pharmacy fair will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the Kansas Union lobby. All students and faculty are invited to the fair, which is sponsored by the Academy of Students of Pharmacy.
Pharmacy students will distribute information and drugs at 12 information booths on a variety of health care topics including STDs, sleeping disorders, smoking cessation, skin cancer, alcohol dependency, depression and women's issues.
Samples of pharmaceutical supplies will be distributed, and there will be a free raffle for passes to the Lawrence Athletic Club. The pharmaceutical company Wyeth-Ayerst is providing shower kits for the women's issues booth, which have information on birth control and breast self-examinations.
"The purpose of the pharmacy fair is to educate students and faculty about the proper use of medications and how a pharmacist can be used for your health-care needs," said Mike Cattaneo, Mission fourth-year pharmacy student and pharmacy-fair chairman.
In addition to the information
booths, free blood pressure monitoring will be available, and people will have the opportunity to test their glucose tolerance. Pharmacists from Watkins Memorial Health Center will make appearances at the fair.
"I think the fair is an excellent opportunity for pharmacy students to promote their profession," said Marrianne Lentz, Oberlin fifth-year pharmacy student and president of the Academy of Students of Pharmacy. "It also gives us an orientation to practicing our profession. We study so much science, the fair gives us the opportunity to relay what we've learned."
Student Senate helped finance the fair by allocating $300 to the academy for publicity.
Magazine sells out to advertisers
By Craig Lang
Kansan staff writer
Jen Gordon thinks too many magazines are nothing but ads.
"In any magazine these days, there are barely any articles to read," said Gordon, Marysville sophomore. "You almost have to search for the stories in them."
Although many magazines have sold out to advertisers, the staff of one magazine, *Might*, has tried to survive in the print business without lowering its standards to that level, vice president Lance Crapo said. However, Crapo said, the magazine was losing money fast, so it had to sell out.
"We didn't actually get bought out," Crapo said. "We blanketed our next issue with ads."
Might is a bimonthly magazine based in San Francisco that satirizes many Generation X, twenty-something magazines on the market. Crapo said the magazine started in 1994 when its three founders noticed a glaring lack of magazines that spoke in an intelligent way about issues.
"We don't take ourselves too seriously," Crapo said. "We try to deconstruct the magazine format."
"We have an ad on our cover, for Christ's sake," he said.
In its October-November issue, known as the Sellout Issue, the staff of Might decided to poke fun at the way a lot of magazines sold themselves as a vehicle for advertisers.
As part of its selout, Might has stories that plug the advertisers who appear in the magazine. In fact, the music section is filled with record reviews written by the artists' own publicists.
Arlo Ovitt, assistant professor of journalism, said he
thought the idea of a sellout issue was funny and that it
was a good commentary on the way twenty-somethings are bombarded with advertising.
He said the number of advertisements young people were exposed to increased each year.
"It's a lot like violence," he said. "The more we see it, the more desensitized we get."
The Sellout Issue of Might is available at Terra Nova Books, 209 Massachusetts St., for $3.95.
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