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The student night coincides with the art museum's exhibit, "Invisible Revealed: Surrealist Drawings from the Drukler."
Surrealism is an early 20th-century art movement that explored dreams and subconscious thought.
Students can play surrealist games like Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse), where they can write and draw to create their own forms of collaborative art. Fondue will be served.
KJHK DJs will play music during the event and local band Apollo 13 will perform outside of the art museum's front entrance.
The event is free and open to the public.
Professor to lead yearly campus tour
Although classes end today, you can still learn about campus.
The traditional marathon Stop Day walking tour will begin tomorrow at 9 a.m.
Ted Johnson, professor emeritus of French and Italian, will lead the tour. Johnson will make stops at campus locations such as the Korean and Vietnam War Memorials, the Campanile and the Chi Omega fountain. The tour will consist of informal Socratic dialogue about various literature and locations on campus.
The tour begins 9 a.m. at the Natural History Museum, which is in Dyche Hall, just south of the Kansas Union, and concludes at 6 p.m. at the Museum of Anthropology, east of the Kansas Union. The tour is free and open to the public. Students are encouraged to join or leave the tour at any time.
Jason Shaad
HEALTH
Contributed by MyPyramid.gov
In the new pyramid tool, the figure climbing the stairs symbolizes fitness as well as a healthy diet and the gradual process of becoming healthy. Each colored section represents a different food group and the proportion that it should make up of a person's diet.
Walk like a nutritionist
BY TY BEAVER
tbeaver@hansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
A new food pyramid was released by the U.S Department of Agriculture last month. Whether students will use it is yet unknown.
Carrie Warner, St. Louis junior, saw the pyramid when it was released last month and was glad to see an emphasis on exercise to lose weight among the other changes made.
Because the tool emphasizes exercise along with a healthy diet, Ann Chapman, Watkins Memorial Health Center dietician, said she likes to think of it more as a food and activity ornamid.
"A lot of people think dieting is enough, but it isn't," she said.
An online aspect of the pyramid, at www.mypyramid.gov, gives users the opportunity to make a personal pyramid for them to use in regards to their own lives.
To apply the pyramid to a person's lifestyle, the USDA developed the Web site so anyone can input their age, gender, weight and activity level to determine what they should eat and how much to exercise.
There's even a function online that allows people to track what they ate during the day and determine where they need to improve their diet, Chapman said.
Chapman said she'd already had a positive response from the students she saw for appointments. Students are amazed when they see how they can manage their own health, she said.
The online aspect of the pyramid may be a disadvantage to those without computer skills or access, but she doesn't think students will be at a disadvantage, she said.
In his work with student athletes, Doug Clark emphasizes the importance of eating right and exercising. The assistant coach for Kansas track and field said he thought the new
pyramid, with its online presence, will make health awareness easier.
"Anything that is interactive increases the chance of it being used," he said.
the chance of being used. We all College students are surrounded by media that encourages them to eat and live unhealthy lives. Serving sizes also have increased, causing people to eat more than they would in the past, he said.
A healthy message in the media makes healthy living competitive, whether it's an advertisement or Web site. Clark said.
Clark was also impressed by the personalized nature of the new pyramid. No longer do students have to take time to visit a dietician or trainer to see what they need to do.
Despite the improvements, Warner isn't convinced that students will use the pyramid more. Only students who were active in a healthy lifestyle before will look into the changes, she said.
Edited by Nikola Rowe
ON THE RECORD
- A 43-year-old KU employee reported to the KU Public Safety Office damage to four light fixtures and three light bulbs between 10 p.m. May 7 and 8 a.m. May 8 in the 1600 block of W. 15th Street. The damage is estimated at $246.
- A 22-year-old KU student reported to the KU Public Safety Office a $4,820 camera support system stolen between 2 and 4 p.m. May 1 from the parking lot of Oldfather Studios, 1621 W. Ninth St.
Lawrence police arrested a 25-year-old man on charges of aggravated assault, battery, theft and criminal restraint. He was booked into Douglas County Jail at 6:01 a.m. on Tuesday.
ON CAMPUS
- Student Union Activities will sponsor a Meditation from 2 to 3 p.m. tomorrow at Danforth Chapel. One KU community member will be selected to deliver a meditation with a song to open and conclude the piece. Call 864-SHOW for more information.
$\diamond$ The department of physics and astronomy will sponsor a lecture by Rex Powell, "Tektite Origins and the Bose Basin," from 7:30 to 9 p.m. tomorrow night at Room 1001 in Malott Hall. Call 864-5163 for more information.
Monarch Watch, an outreach organization dedicated to tracking and conserving monarch habitats, will sponsor an open house and plant fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday at the Foley Building, 2021 Constant Ave. Two thousand butterfly plants will be available, refreshments will be provided and there will be videos, games and show and tell for children.Call 864-5887 for more information.
CAMPUS
University to post course instructor evaluations online
Nick Sterner, student body president, sent an e-mail to all students Monday requesting that they participate in online course and instructor evaluations.
Students can participate in the 10-question survey by logging on to a University of Kansas Web site at https://lark.cc.ku.edu/cgiwrap/acctappl/claseval/course_evaluation.cgi.
Evaluation results have never been available for students. Now, results from the surveys will be posted online before enrollment for Spring 2006.
Sterner said the goal of the evaluations and making the results available was to give students additional information when choosing classes.
Daniel Berk
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN thanks you for all your hard work