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"I realized that I need to work and take just a little bit of time off in order to get my stuff together, get my money situation sorted out, and then I can go back and have a renewed vigor for school," Bear says. "Working is an important part of being a student or going into that adult stage that college pushes you into."
Some students find a job simply for that reason; it pushes them into the work force and offers them insight and experience. Alix Santa Maria, Overland Park senior, doesn't have to pay her rent or bills during the school year. But she says working 25 hours a week at Commerce Bank teaches her to structure her schedule and prioritize, even when the job hinders her free time and keeps her from participating in social events like football games. She says being employed is worth the time commitment and helps her save money for after graduation.
Of course, finding a job can be difficult, particularly with the economic downturn. David Gaston, director of the University Career Center, says that the recession causes more people to need jobs at a time when there are fewer jobs to fill, and on-campus part-time jobs are no exception. Gaston says that even students who find a job on-campus might discover that they're working fewer hours.
The Job Location and Development program was one of the steps the UCC took to overcome the downturn and ensure that students could still find employment by helping them find jobs off-campus, Gaston says. He believes that students who are able to work in college will benefit from being able to consider their future. Earning income, taking classes and applying the skills they learn in school to their jobs can be an important step toward whatever those students do after college.
"I think you can do both, but you have to be smart. Know yourself, know what you're able to handle, and then try to put yourself in that position if possible," Gaston says.
Steven Hawley, professor of physics and astronomy, agrees that it's important to know how much work is too much, and to ask for help when it's needed. He says he's lenient with his students because he understands that it's difficult to work while at school, and advises students to realize that discipline is key to time management.
Barker, Hamilton senior, smiles goodnaturedly about his busy schedule, and feels confident with what he can handle. Finding time for work, school, and a personal life will always be a challenge.
But whether he's laughing with a customer on a quieter day or laboring through a busy, demanding work shift, Barker knows it will all be worth it in the end.
"I haven't made my folks take out a loan for college, and that's something when I get my diploma that I can think about," Barker says. "That I got through it and I paid for this myself."
Hard at work: Clockwise left: Kristi Scott, Columbus, Ohio, junior, shows off jewelry at Bauhaus. Kenny Hitchcock, Wichita junior, helps customers at Pita Pit. Elise Langtry, Overland Park senior, busses tables at Ingredient.
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out to be controlling.
The next morning she woke up naked in a hotel room just outside Manhattan, covered in bruises and scratches. Seven naked men slept on the floor around her. The men paid Tebow's friend to drug and bring her to the hotel. Her friend set her up for a night she would never forget. She turned into a victim of sex trafficking that night. All she wanted to do was have a
Other Signs:
3. Putting you down - The controller doesn't only want to be in control of your actions, but also your emotions.
Kristen Tebow, a woman from Manhattan, just wanted to make friends her freshman year at Kansas State University. On a typical weekend night, she made plans with a new friend from marching band. She and her newly found friend visited a typical bar on the outskirts of Manhattan. Tebow's friend got her a drink; a few moments later she felt like the "world went crazy" and passed out in the bar's bathroom.
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- Discouraging you from pursuing outside interests
- Perpetually blaming you for his or her own actions (anger, cheating, yelling, etc.)
- Embarrassing you in public
- Constantly discounting your feelings
- Cycling through moods
little fun in college.
Adapted from The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety
Thursday night, Tebow took back that night from those seven
"I just wanted somebody to hold me at that point," 'Tebow said. "I was crying for my dad."
Incidents like Tebow are not uncommon. And just like Tebow, survivors of sexual assault, rape,
men and her "friend."
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The Clothesline Project was a visible contribution to Take Back the Night Thursday evening. Victim and supporters created shirts to hang on the clothesline to tell their stories or to send a message about domestic violence.
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Filling the gap in children's scoliosis treatment
University researchers are working on a more accurate spinal model
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HEALTH
BY MEG LOWRY mlowry@kansan.com
For every 1,000 children in the United States, three to five will develop scoliosis severe enough to require surgery. However, there are zero model pediatric spines to guide the course of treatment.
Lisa Friis, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, said there are no available spines from deceased children with scoliosis to be modeled off of.
Erin Lewis, a graduate student in bioengineering from Fort Scott, said medical device companies rely on a scaled-down model of an adult spine, which can lead to error and confusion.
"Babies are much more flexible, for example, and in some places have cartilage instead of bone," Lewis said. "Those kinds of properties just don't change overnight, so we are trying to find out how surgeries can work with that."
"Unfortunately, a 75-year-old
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"The spine is a series of connected joints," Friis said. "If you do something to one level, it will affect all levels up and down. If we can create models and find how treatment influences functions on adjacent levels, we will be able to design implants better."
Lewis leads a group of graduate students and undergraduate students who help with the research. The group works closely with a pediatric surgeon from Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City,
don't have as high of success rates as other surgeries, so these are the types of things we are looking at now"
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A federal grant of more than $1 million was awarded to the engineering department to fund spinal replica research. Frits, who has worked as a research scientist in orthopedics since 2001, said the grant was well-founded.
The lab has successfully created a model of an adult lumbar spine, which has enabled researchers to now begin creating a pediatric model spine.
Mo., and medical device companies, which offer their insight. Creating a pediatric spine replica with nothing to work off of and measure from creates many challenges. For example, the engineers know that children are more flexible and their tissues are less dense, and that they will grow. However, they do not know to what extent.
"The spinal industry is about 15 to 25 years behind other areas of orthopedics," Friis said. "Some spinal surgery procedures still
male's spine does not really represent a 12-year-old girl's, but this is what they are using to test spinal implants on," Fries said.
These kinds of surgeries include spinal implants and fusions, which are used to treat scoliosis.
"It's extremely difficult to create a model of a spine when we don't know the target values and also incorporate somehow the physiological changes that occur in kids," Lewis said.
Scoliosis surgeries involve
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