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VOLUME 118 ISSUE 18
Fans get points for attendance
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Kansas Athletics introduced Rock Chalk Rewards last week as a new rewards program for University students.
The free program allows students to accrue points by attending regular season home events. Students will be rewarded for attending Kanas soccer, volleyball, baseball, softball and women's basketball games. Points will also be given for attendance in select cross country, golf, rowing, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field events.
The Athletics Department wants to encourage students to attend sports outside of men's basketball and football.
Registration is free, and 3,000 students have signed up.
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Student fans can receive Rock Chalk Rewards points for attending certain sports events.
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BODY MAY BE MISSING STUDENT'S
Police in Provo, Utah believe they've found the body of a BYU student.
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Parenting advisors on call
BY DYLAN SANDS dsands@kansan.com
Researchers at the University of Kansas are working to combat poor parenting with an unlikely tool: the cell phone. University scientists have received a grant to give cell phones to young
"My daily schedule can be pretty hectic, but I have learned how to manage my time, which is one of the most important things." Zarate said. "A lot of people tell me, 'I couldn't do it,' but the truth is they could do it if they had no choice. All of us are dealt a different hand, and how we manage it makes us who we are."
mothers to put them in constant contact with parenting coaches.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation have given $1.6 million to senior scientist Judith Carta and her team to study the how effective the cell phones will be in curbing mistreatment of children over the next four years.
The cell phones will work as an extension of Planned Activities Training, a program designed to instruct mothers at high risk for child neglection. The program is supposed to reduce children's challenging behavior by giving parents knowledge and skills needed to help their children through daily routines such as eating breakfast and getting dressed.
Carta and her colleagues will give the cell phones to young, single, low-income mothers in the Kansas City area who are already participating in parenting programs. Young, first-time parents have many competing priorities that make involvement in a parenting program a lower one, Carta said.
"Cell phones give us a way to stay in touch with them, keep them engaged and remember the parenting skills they are learning in the intervention, and get ideas for how they can apply those skills in their daily routines with their children," Carta said.
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Training is based on home visits by parenting coaches. A recent study, also performed by Carta, showed that nearly 50 percent of home meetings had to be re-scheduled because of mothers' hectic schedules. When cell phones were given to the mothers, meetings occurred as scheduled about 95 percent of the time.
The cell phones and call plans, donated by AT&T, will allow parenting coaches to send daily text messages suggesting a planned activity, giving appointment reminders and making general checkups.
The previous study showed that preliminary use of the cell phones with single mothers had helped to detect and prevent maltreatment. On one occasion when a researcher called an adolescent mother to check on her baby, the mother said her baby was "extra good" because he had not needed feeding or diaper changes and had been sleeping for 24 hours. But the researcher told her she should take the baby to the hospital and used the cell phone to guide the mother and baby to the emergency room. The baby was treated and saved but had almost died from dehydration.
Another case of maltreatment found by a researcher involved a teen who reported that her child had slept under a sink while the baby's grandmother cared for other children.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, maltreatment during the early stages of childhood can cause physical, mental, and emotional problems such as sleep disturbances, panic disorder and attention-deficit disorder. More than 2 million cases of child maltreatment are reported each year in the U.S.
Andrea Zarate, Bonner Springs senior and mother of a two-year-old boy, said she thought the cell phone program would be a good idea. While Zarate is not a single mother, she is still very busy.
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Edited by Chris Beattie
Students can earn college credit by getting involved
Students who are looking for ways to become more involved in the community and earn college credit at the same time can do so with the help of the University of Kansas.
At the Center for Service Learning, students participate in group activities that examine various problems in communities. Students work to help solve those problems by doing a variety of tasks, including going on alternative breaks or becoming a volunteer.
To become certified, students must enroll in a corresponding service learning class, complete a series of directed readings, complete an independent project and submit a reflection that explains what they learned.
Students can also become certified in service learning.
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Students can attend a vigil tonight to remember the events of Sept. 11, on Wescoe Beach from 11 p.m, to 1 a.m. The Collegiate Veterans Association, KU Young Democrats and KU College Republicans have organized the "Vigil For the Fallen" to honor those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks and those who continue to serve the country in the armed forces.
The event will feature patriotic music provided by a band, speeches from campus and elected officials and end with a reflective moment of silence, a candle lighting
Campus groups will hold 9/11 memorial
and a flag folding ceremony. Students are encouraged to bring their own candles to the vigil. Any guest who wants to speak during the service may do so, but all guests are encouraged to leave in silence.
Felix Zacharias, Wichita junior, and vice president of the Collegiate Veterans Association, said the event would stay away from political messages. He said the service was to honor those who had lost their lives.
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