KANSAN.COM THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010 / NEWS
3A
Climb on
Spencer Walsh/KANSAN
SPHERICAL WORKS ARKansas Student Recreation Center employee Josh Norgren, a junior from Minnesota, teaches Garek McCowen and York Olzewski, sophomores from Leavenworth, how to Belay for rock climbing. Belay Certification classes are free and open to students at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Rec Center.
LAWRENCE
Help bash 'tiger'car for Humane Society
BY ZACH GETZ
zgetz@kansan.com
If you see a crowd swinging a sledge hammer at a car painted like a tiger in a parking lot this weekend, don't worry. It's just a benefit for the Lawrence Humane Society, Wayne & Larry's, 933 Iowa St. will host the Beat the Tiger benefit Saturday.
For a dollar people will have the chance to take a swing at a '92 Ford Taurus a few hours before the Kansas and Missouri basketball game. All money raised from the event will go to the Lawrence Humane Society, Shawn Hogan, general manager at Wayne & Larry's, said his love for animals was what made him want to do a benefit for the Lawrence Humane Society.
"It's our way of raising money for a good cause while taking our hatred out on Missouri," Hogan said.
The car will be painted in Missouri's black and gold colors, but the glass will be taken out and patrons will be required to wear
BEAT THE TIGER
BENEFIT
WHEN: 10 a.m. Saturday
WHERE: Wayne & Larry's, 933 Iowa St.
safety goggles. Originally Hogan wanted to use a pinata, but he said that wouldn't be enough.
"It's a little easier to use a car than a piñata because a lot more people can take out their anger on that," Hogan said.
While smashing a "tiger" to help animals may make some raise their eyebrows, Robin Evans, office manager at the Lawrence Humane Society, said it was all in good fun. Evan said they had never had a benefit like this before.
"We thought it was a great idea," Evans said. "It showed team support while raising money for us at the same time."
— Edited by Kirsten Hudson
EDUCATION
BY RAY HENRY Associated Press
"We believe the teachers have been scapegoated here," American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said of the Central Falls firings this week.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - When all the teachers were fired from Central Falls High School last week in a sweeping effort at school reform, their superintendent gave them a taste of the accountability President Barack Obama says is necessary.
who work with impoverished children who have been neglected for years.
In Rhode Island, the state education commissioner earlier ordered Central Falls authorities to make radical improvements in
used elsewhere, such as in Chicago and Los Angeles. But while there have been some improvements in test scores, schools where most teachers have been replaced still
It is a strategy that has been
grapple with problems of poverty and discipline. Even advocates of the approach say firing a teaching staff is just one of several crucial steps that must be taken to turn around a school.
"If it doesn't show any sign of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability."
a city where more children live in poverty than anywhere else in the state. Eleventh graders tested at the school in the fall had a 7 percent passing rate in math. Fewer
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Central Falls teachers have appealed the firings and both they and the administration are now indicating a willingness to go back to the table to avoid mass firings. Teachers say wholesale firings unfairly target instructors
School reform leads to firings
Obama referred to the Central Falls firings as an example of accountability during an education speech Monday in Washington.
than half of the school's students graduate in four years.
"If a school continues to fail its students year after year after year, if it doesn't show any sign of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability," he said, citing the school's dreadful test scores.
Danny Anderson, interim provost, was announced as the fifth candidate for dean of
CAMPUS
CLAS announces fifth candidate
Danny
Anderson will meet with faculty, staff, and students at a forum at 3 p.m. March 10 in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Anderson
Annie Vangsnes
Anderson's previous positions at the University have included vice provost for academic affairs and chair of the department of Spanish & Portuguese.
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Thursday.
MUSIC
KU student hosts CD release concert
Brian J. Nelson, a composer and doctoral student from
Madison.
Wisc. will present a concert to release his second CD at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Corpus
Christi
Nelson
Catholic Church, 6001 Bob Billings Pkwy.
Nelson spent the past two years recording the CD, called
Vocalise, which features some of the same performers that will also be featured at the concert. Those include the St. Lawrence Catholic Center Choir, the KU Chamber Choir, Benedictine College Chamber Singers, the Allegresse Trio and KU faculty members Tami Lee Hughes and Ellen Bottorff, as well as KU graduate Sharon O. Campbell.
Alison Cumbow
pipelineproductions.com
Saturday March 27
Patty Griffin
Buddy Miller
Sunday April 25
Pretty Lights
Gift of Gab
LIBERTY HALL
644 MASS 749-1972
Fri March 5
BOOMBOX
EZ Brothers
Sat March 6
DIRTFOOT
Sonic Sutra
Tues March 9
FRONTIER RUCKUS
Sunflower Colonels
Wed March 10
FUTURE ROCK
Deep Machine • Prep School Djs
Thurs March 11
NORTH MISSISSIPPI
ALLSTARS
Hill Country Revue
Fri March 12
SPEAKEASY
Bootney Farnsworth
Mon March 15
DIRTY LITTLE
RABBITS
(saturing Clown from Slipknot)
St. Patrick's Day
KARAOKE
Open All Day
Karaoke starts at 1pm
GLUTEN (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Howard Ting/KANSAN
Gluten, a protein found in grains, is a common ingredient in baked goods. Diagnosing gluten intolerance, or celiac spra, has increased in recent years.
ly as it is now," Chapman said. "It's not something that can be self-diagnosed."
Celiac sprue disease can affect someone more than just
Diagnosis for celiac sprue disease at Watkins is by a blood test, which costs $155.
limiting the foods one can eat
If the test comes back negative, Chapman said, gluten is harmless.
"People should not give up gluten containing products unless they truly have had a diagnosis." Chappan
"People should not give up gluten containing products unless they truly have had a diagnosis."
nosis," Chapman said.
consuming gluten." Chapman said. "People in past years would suffer diarrhea and weight-loss and just didn't know what was wrong."
ANN CHAPMAN Nutrition services coordinator
Some people may go about life and not even realize they have a gluten intolerance, Chapman said.
"You can have it for a period of time and not have overt symptoms, and you could be continuing to damage your intestines by
BOTTLENECK
737 New Hampshire
thebottlenecklive.com
"If I had just got it now, and I
Maggie Burns, a senior from Minneapolis, Minn., found out she had a gluten allergy when she was 17. She was devastated, she said, knowing her career goals would have to change.
was still dealing with it now and still getting sick, then I wouldn't be able to go," Burns said. "But since I've had it under control for over a year, it's fine and not a
"I wanted to have my own bakeery someday, so it hit me really hard at the beginning." Burns said.
Sat April 17
Burns also said she thought she was going to be denied entry into the Peace Corps because of her gluten allergy.
Sat April 17
Citizen Cope
The MIDLAND
1228 Main St.-KC, MO
- Edited by Kelly Gibson
problem."
There have also been complications when Burns travels out of the country because it's hard to communicate food allergies in another language.
"I'm not as tired as much, which is a side-effect of flour, as strange as it sounds." Chervitz said. "I'm really enjoying being gluten-free."
"I wanted to have my own bakery someday, so it hit me really hard at the beginning."
After Chervitz found out that she had a gluten intolerance, she
MAGGIE BURNS Gluten-intolerant student
said was overwhelmed at first with all the changes that she had to make. But now she said the only thing she misses is chalah bread and likes her life better now that she knows she
is gluten intolerant.