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FIVE QUESTIONS // BRAD WITHERSPOON AND JUSTIN SPRINGER > Two people. Five questions. See how they stack up. | ELLEN SHEFTEL
BRAD WITHERSPOON
> BRAD WITHERSP00N IS A KU ALUM FROM HUMBOLDT, KAN. HE GRADUATED IN 2009 AND WAS A GUARD FOR THE KU BASKETBALL TEAM.
I'm going to go with October. I mean basketball starts in October, so really it should be everyone's favorite month.
I mostly stick with macaroni and cheese. Noodles and cheese just go together, right?
This is a tough one. I'm going to go with a chimp. It's one of the smartest animals out there and they look like a ton of fun.
Tomorrow, or is it tommarow? That's definitely it. I can't even spell it right!
I'd say a flight attendant. You're on a plane all day, so that seems like it would be pretty cool to me.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MONTH?
WHAT'S DO YOU EAT WHEN
YOU ARE TOO LAZY TO COOK?
IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY TYPE OF
ANIMAL FOR A PET WHAT WOULD
IT BE?
4 WHAT IS ONE WORD YOU CAN NOT STAND?
IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB FOR A DAY WHAT WOULD IT BE?
JUSTIN SPRINGER
> JUSTIN SPRINGER IS A LINEBACKER FOR THE KU FOOTBALL TEAM. HE IS A SENIOR FROM LOS FRESNOS, TEXAS.
My favorite month is definitely February. I like how it's cold and it's also my birthday month.
I will always make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They're always so good and fill me up. I also love waffles at midnight. It's my favorite.
A monkey. They seem like they would be really fun to play with. They're also really badass.
I can't stand the word "pop." Just say the name of the drink, like Coke or Pepsi. I can't stand it. Maybe it's just a Midwest thing.
I think I would have to go with doctor. To save somebody's life would be amazing.
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en a story about one night that changed her life.
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.
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
2. Mood Swings - People who become easily angry often turn out to be controlling
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Other Signs:
3. Putting you down – The controller doesn't only want to be in control of your actions, but also your emotions.
board of
leadership
to its
opinions.
- Isolating you from friends and family
- Perpetually blaming you for his or her own actions (anger,
- Discouraging you from pursuing outside interests
cheating, yelling, etc.)
- Constantly discounting your feelings
- cheating, yelling, etc.)
- Embarrassing you in public
- Cycling through moods
Adapted from The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety
little fun in college.
"I just wanted somebody to hold me at that point," Tebow said. "I was crying for my dad."
Thursday night, Tebow took back that night from those seven
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men and her "friend."
Incidents like Tebow are not uncommon. And just like Tebow, survivors of sexual assault, rape,
Dalton Gomez/KANSAN
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.
HEALTH
Filling the gap in children's scoliosis treatment
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.
University researchers are working on a more accurate spinal model
BY MEG LOWRY
mlowry@kansan.com
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,
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.
Lisa Friis, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, said there are no available spines from deceased children with scoliosis to be modeled off of.
"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.
"Unfortunately, a 75-year-old
A federal grant of more than $1 million was awarded to the engineering department to fund spinal replica research. Friis, who has worked as a research scientist in orthopedics since 2001, said the grant was well-founded.
"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."
"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," Friis said.
"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."
Scoliosis surgeries involve
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.
don't have as high of success rates as other surgeries, so these are the types of things we are looking at now."
The lab has successfully created a model of an adult lumbar spine, which has enabled researchers to now begin creating a pediatric model spine.
These kinds of surgeries include spinal implants and fusions, which are used to treat scoliosis.
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Designs made by students won the top three spots at the Aviation, Technology Integration and Operations conference in Texas.
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