1 CENTIMETER = 0.3937 INCHES - 1 METER = 39.37 INCHES OR 3.2800 FEET OR 1.094 VDS - 1 INCH = 2.54 CENTIMETERS - 1 DECIMETER = 3.937 IN OR 0.328 FOOT 1 FOOT = 3.048 DECIMETERS - 1 YARD = 0.9144 METER
DANCE FEVER HITS LAWRENCE
Saturday was 'Dance Across Lawrence Day.' Citizens were invited to take part in classes teaching several different dancing styles.
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》 15 SECONDS WEEK
Idol star urges HIV awareness
BY KATY BLAIR
Students in Hashinger Hall got up close and personal Friday night with former American Idol contestant Frenchie Davis.
Davis came to Lawrence to speak for 15 Seconds, a student group dedicated to raising HIV awareness. As a performer on the Broadway show RENT, Davis had plenty to say about HIV education.
"If you are under the impression that you will go through this life without being affected by this disease, you are lying to yourself."
Davis said.
Davis talked about her first exposure to AIDS from watching "The Real World." Pedro, one of the participants in the 1994 season, died from complications of the disease during the show. Davis said she never watched the show again because of the effect it had on her as a teenager.
"I cried, I grieved for that boy," Davis said. "His story has stuck with me. I've always thought about him."
The founding members of 15
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>> SPIKE TV'S "BRACKET BABES"
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May Davis, Clay Center freshman, is competing in Spike TV* Bracket Babies*, an online beauty contest. The competition was designed to represent the NCAA tournament bracket with female contestants.
Student represents Kansas in sexy Internet competition
BY BRIAN LEWIS-JONES
"Finest Four" and "Wild West" aren't typically referenced when describing the NCAA tournament's regional champions or the University of Kansas' bracket region.
But May Davis, Clay Center freshman, represents the University in a Spike TV "Bracket Babes" competition, where 32 "tanned and toned college co-eds" vie in a looks contest for $5,000 and a trip to New York City for a "sexy photo shoot," according to Spike TV's Web site.
"The picture on the site doesn't even look like me." Davis said. "I'm just like, 'Who are you, and why are you on the Internet?' It's a very awkward feeling."
Voting for Davis' bracket begins today on Spike TV's web site, www.sptketv.com/babes/Bwebt babes/index.html. Viewers can cast their ballots once every hour.
Davis is a philosophy major with plans to attend law school, treasurer
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Ruti Patel, Overland Park junior, applies heena during Elwishorn Hall's "Around the World in 80 Minutes" program Saturday afternoon. Residents had three hours to visit different countries on each floor. Patel talked about the Indian culture and the history behind heena. "It been embedded in us since we were little girls," said Patel of how she learned to apply heena.
BY KATY BLAIR
India and Cuba have never been closer than they were Saturday.
The two occupied the same building as part of "Around the World in 80 Minutes" held in Ellsworth Hall. The new program was open to all students and featured cuisine and activities from 10 foreign countries to get students involved in diversity education.
"I think it's good for them to see
other countries because not everyone has a chance to go," said Jasmine Walthall, program and communications coordinator for Association of University Residence Halls.
Walhall, Texarkana, Texas, sophomore got the program idea from a resident adviser last year but couldn't get funding in time.
Walthall said picking the countries was the most difficult part of planning the program. In the
end, it came down to a vote by the residence hall students who chose countries such as Greece, Cuba, France, Switzerland, Germany, Kenya and Italy.
Each of the 10 floors in Ellsworth was host to one country and had an activity for the students to participate in. To make the event entertaining, the program pulled ideas from tourist attractions and traditions in the 10 countries.
Salsa dancing lessons were the main event for Spain on the third floor, and henna tattoos were popular for India on the fifth floor.
Ruti Patel, Overland Park junior, designed the tattoos for participants. Patel said that she was happy to help with the program since she had been drawing henna tattoos for many years.
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ROTC
Weekend allows for hands-on experience
BY NATHAN GILL
Cadets undergo survival training
superheated rock to charbroid their dinner. That night they slept in tents they had constructed from two parkas and a rope.
A large rock near Clinton Lake sizzled with blood and smelled of cooking meat. Hungry ROTC cadets with government-issued mess kits in hand surrounded it, waiting for the
About 20 Air Force ROTC cadets, most from the University of Kansas and a few from Washburn
ritory and in need of rescue.
Thomas Gray, a training specialist from Whiteman, said that knowing basic survival skills, such as how to find food in nature and perform first aid, would help keep downed pilots alive and make their rescue easier.
One of the skills Gray taught
"I didn't know you could get water from vines, and I didn't know you could cook steak on a rock."
University, underwent survival, evasion, resistance and escape training Saturday and Sunday at Clinton Lake. Air Force instructors from Missouri's Whitenair Air Force Base administered the training and taught the cadets skills they could use if they found themselves in enemy ter-
STEPHANIE KOENIG St. Louis freshman
cadets was how to use emergency communication equipment, such as a PRC112B1, a $9,000 radio a downed pilot could use to send and receive text messages from rescuers.
"It lets us know where
they're at so we can send in our rescue forces and pick them up,* Gray said.
Stephanie Koenig, St. Louis freshman, said she attended the training because she had never been camping
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Daniel Rogers, Hutchinson freshman, chops wood Saturday for a fire at Air Force RCOT训
training. Air Force RCOTE members spent the week learning survival tips near Clinton Lake.
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