Wednesday, September 21. 1994
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
I KNOW WHAT I KNOW. WE COME & WE GO. IT'S IN THE BACK OF MY EYES
Jay Thornton / KANSAN
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Mark Sockwell, Topeka graduate student, rips up his kite and enjoys the last of the summer skies over the Robinson fields. Summer officially ends at 1 a.m. Friday.
Watkins health fair aims to inform students about their bodies and the center's programs
By Megan Poplinger Special to the Kansan
When Janine Gracy was a freshman in 1981, all incoming students were forced to endure a physical that included weight measurements and a urine test.
"I was mortified when they gave me that cup and told me to go to that bathroom and fill it." Grace said.
From this experience, Gracy knew that the KU initiation gave students a terrible first impression of the Watkins Memorial Health Center. So, when she became coordinator of health education at Watkins, she created an event that would give students a better impression of the health center.
The horrifying physical Gracy expe-
That was six years ago, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow and Friday, the seventh-annual health fair will be held outside of Watkins, rain or shine.
the health fair was beneficial to students because they learned so much about their bodies.
In addition to health information, students with a lucky dot on the back of the brochures they receive can win T-shirts from Christie's Toy Box, along with merchandise from other local retailers. Popcorn, ICBIY yogurt, non-alcoholic beverages and condoms will be given away.
rienced has been abolished — students must now mail in their immunization records and health histories. But they still can receive the benefits of a personal physical by participating in the health fair.
Gracy said she aimed to convince college-aged people to begin leading healthy lifestyles while they are young, so they can be successful when they are older.
The health fair's newest attraction this year is an over-the-counter drugs booth. Gracy said that many people over self-medicated and were unaware of the repercussions.
Although Gracy hopes to reach many more people, she said she had experienced some success. A doctor told Gracy that one of his patients had lost 65 pounds after attending the fair and learning the importance of changing his lifestyle.
Free screenings of body fat, blood pressure and cholesterol counts, as well as nutritional analysis and career advice from Counseling and Psychological Services, also will be available.
Many students have become aware of blood pressure and cholesterol problems in past years, Gracy said. It always catches students by surprise because college-aged people do not think they can be affected by such problems.
"When a physician comes to you with a story like that, you think - Yes!" Gracysaid.
Lisa Trownsell, Chicago junior, who volunteered last year, said that
City says no to additional traffic lane
By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
City officials last night put the brakes on a proposal to build a fifth lane on North Second Street.
Missing one member, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-0 last night to continue with a $1.6 million road-widening project on North Second Street without the addition of a fifth lane. The vote followed a presentation by Jeffrey Morrow, traffic engineer with George Butler Associates, Inc., the company contracted to widen the street.
"It's really not necessary," Morrow told the commission.
Commissioners earlier had asked the firm to look into the possibility of a fifth lane, a left-turn lane. The proposal would have been added to the plan, which will widen the current four lanes from 10 to 12 feet wide each.
Morrow said George Butler Associates, Inc., had looked at three different projections for Lawrence traffic 20 years from now. The report said business along North Second Street would increase moderately, drastically, or to the point where the street would overload completely.
The results, he said, pointed toward keeping the road-widening project to its original scope. He said even at its busiest, the street's estimated traffic still did not warrant a turn lane.
Morrow also said finding the room for the fifth lane would be difficult. Currently, retail development along North Second Street is squeezed between the Kansas River levee on the west and North Lawrence residential areas on the east.
Another lane also would destroy the atmosphere surrounding North Second Street and the North Lawrence business district. Morrow said.
"We want to try to preserve some of the rural characteristics of the North Lawrence corridor," he said.
Bob Moody, city commissioner, said a fifth lane also might have brought undesired commercial growth to North Lawrence.
REDNECK CHECK YOUR NECK!
You Might Be a Redneck If..
Someone asks to see your I.D. and you show them your belt buckle
You consider a six pack of beer and a bug-zapper quality entertainment
Directions to your house include "turn off the paved road"
You have ever been too drunk to fish
JEFF FOXWORTHY
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