THURS | SEPT 23RD CALENDAR COURAGE TO HOPE... WHILE DANCING: DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, AND SCULPTURES BY RITA BLITT Lawrence Arts Center, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. THEOLOGY ON TAP THEOLOGY ON EIGHT Henry's On Eighth, 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. free, all ages "MAD FOR DANCE" TRIVIA CLASH DANCE Lawrence Arts Center, 6:30 p.m. $20-$25 TRIVIA CLASH Record Bar, 6:45p.m. $5, 21+ MATT AND KIM AND NIM Granada, 7 p.m. $15-$18, all ages FRI | SEPT 24TH FREE PLAY AT THE REPLAY LIVE DUELING PIANOS Barrel House, 8 p.m. 2 a.m., $2-$3, 21+ + Replay Lounge, 3 p.m.-6 p.m., free, all ages OPEN MIC AND JAM Cross Town Tavern, 7 p.m., free, 21+ ISA HIGHLIGHTER SAT | SEPT 25TH ISA HIGHLIGHTER DANCE PARTY Wilde's Chateau 24, 9.00 p.m.-2.00a.m. $5-7,$18+ FREKEY FRIDAY'S AT DUFFY'S WITH DJ BIZ Duffy's, 8 p.m.-2 a.m., free, 21+ LIVE DUELING PIANOS CLASSIC REVOLUTION Gaslight Tavern, 7 p.m., 18+ LIVE DUELING PIANOS Barrel House, 8 p.m. 2 a.m. $2-$3, 21+ THEE OH SEES/AD ASTRA ARKESTRA/ MOUTHREAHTERS/ STRONG SMELLS Jackpot Music Hall, 9 p.m., $8-$10, 18+ LIVE DUELING PIANOS Barrel House, 8 p.m. 2 a.m., $2 $3,21+ OPEN JAM Duffy's, 9 p.m., free, 214 THE DELTA SAINTS Bottleneck, 9 p.m. 18+ set'em Up Jacks, 10 p.m., free KARANKE WOVENHAND/SERENA MANEESH MANEESH Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m., $10-$12, 18+ SUN | SEPT 26TH SMACKDOWN Bottleneck, 7 p.m., free-$5, 18+ SMACKDOWN MON | SEPT 27TH DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Bottleneck, 9 p.m. THE ANGEL SLUTS Replay Lounge. 10 p.m., $2, 21+ ORIGINAL MUSIC MONDAYS Bottleneck, 9 p.m. 18+ MUDSTOMP MONDAYS ORIGINAL MUSIC Granada, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., $2, 21+ VENUES KARAOKE Jazzhaus, 10 p.m. $1, 21+ THE BOTTLENECH 737 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST. THE JACKPOT MUSIC HALL 943 MASSACHUSETTS ST. THE JAZZHAUS 926 1/2 MASSACHUSETTS ST THE REPLAY LOUNGE 946 MASSACHUSETTS ST. THE EIGHTH ST. TAPROOM 801 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST. LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER 940 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST. THE POOL ROOM 925 IOWA ST. THE GRANADA 1020 MASSACHUSETTS ST. WILDE'S CHATEAU 24 2412 IOWA ST. DUFFY'S 2222 W. 6TH ST. THE BOTTLENECK 737 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST. CONROY'S PUB 3115 W. 6TH ST., STE. D TUES | SEPT 28TH HONKY TONK SUPPER CLUB Record Bar, 7 p.m., free, 21+ BLUES TUESDAY WITH BRYAN NEUBERRY Gaslight Tavern, 7 p.m., free, 18+ NICOLETTE PAIGE TUESDAY NITE SWING Kansas Union, 8 p.m.-11 p.m., free, all ages NICOLLETE PAIGE Lawrence Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 549 Slow Ride Roadhouse, 6 p.m. 10 p.m. TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS/ SO COW Jackpot Music Hall, 9 p.m.-11 59 p.m. $13-$15, 18+ LONNIE RAY OPEN JAM WED I SEPT 29TH BOB WALKENHORST DINNER HOUR SHOW Record Bar, 7 p.m. free, all ages LIVE ACTION PUB TRIVIA SHOW AT CONROY'S Conroy's Pub, 7 p.m., $5, 21+ PRIDE NIGHT Wilde's Chateau 24, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., $5, 18+ PRIDE NIGHT BRENT BERRY'S ACOUSTIC JAM 9 p.m.-1 a.m., $2-$3, 21+ $1 DRINK DANCE PARTY Fatso's, 10 p.m., 21+ BRENT BERRY BAND Granada, 10 p.m. I have two very distinct categories of comfort food — each is a godsend in its own way. The first, hands down, is baked goods: what I eat when I'm really stressed out about school. I have no doubt this comes from my mom. I have vivid memories of her yelling at the television when the KU basketball team was losing a game. Her face would turn red and, I swear, smoke would stream out of her ears. Then, like clockwork, she would go into the kitchen during halftime and make cookies. Now, don't get me wrong, I love cookies. I would never complain about someone making me cookies, but I learned at an early age that baking is a good way to deal with stress, whether it be a test or a tragic loss to K-State. In fact, this past weekend, amidst the long and painful stretch that is my quarter-life crisis, I not only made dark chocolate brownies, but also strawberry and blueberry muffins. Sadly, these didn't last long, as my kitten got a hold of a small fraction of them while no one was looking (he also loves baked goods). But there's something about the methodical process of mixing all of the ingredients together, placing them in the pan and waiting for them to be done that's incredibly satisfying — not to mention the sweet sugary aroma that fills my house afterward. I forget about the mountain of homework I have to do and momentarily stop thinking about becoming an actual adult in two and a half months (scary!). But, as yummy as brownies and muffins are, they don't always do the trick. The second category of foods I have a very close relationship with can be summed up quite easily: potatoes — of all varieties. A good starchy potato holds the answer to many of my problems. It's what I eat when I go into bouts of deep depression. For example, when FOX cancelled *Firefly*, I ate a family size bag of potato chips. When I'm feeling nostalgic (aka terrified of graduation), I eat potato wedges. And when I really start to miss my boyfriend, who goes to school in Colorado, I bring out the big guns: mashed potatoes. I eat a lot of mashed potatoes. Throwing a full stick of butter in the mix doesn't hurt, either. After all, cardiac arrest would undoubtedly put a halt to all of my problems, anyway. For more on comfort food, check out Jacque's article on page 11 and afterwards, eat up. ANNA ARCHIBALD | ASSOCIATE EDITOR EDITOR | KELCI SHIPLEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR | ANNA ARCHIBALD DESIGNERS | ALEXANDRA AVILA, MORGAN STEPHENS CONTACT | SARAH GREGORY, BECCA HARSCH, ELLEN SHEFTEL MANUAL | JON HERMES, BRENNA LONG, ANAMDA KISTNER NOTICE | MOLLY MARTIN, JOSH HAFNER, SPENCER ALTMAN PLAY | AMANDA SORELL, ASHLEY BARFOROUSH, KATE LARBARFE HEALTH | MEGAN RUPP, JACQUE WEBER REALITY | MEDAN ROPT, HYDRA WEBER CONTRIBUTORS | MIKE ANDERSON, BRITTANY NELSON, SAVANNAH ABBOTT, CHANCE CARMICHAEL, LANDON MC- DONALD, ALEX TRETBAR, ZACK MARSH, THOMAS C. 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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 Other Signs: 2. Mood Swings - People who become easily angry often turn out to be controlling. 3. Putting you down - The controller doesn't only want to be in control of your actions, but also your emotions. in or board of tendrils to its opinions. - Isolating you from friends and family - 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 N|6A Adapted from The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety Thursday night, Tebow took back that night from those seven Incidents like Tebow are not uncommon. And just like Tebow, survivors of sexual assault, rape, "I just wanted somebody to hold me at that point," Tebow said. "I was crying for my dad." little fun in college men and her "friend." 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. Dalton Gomez/KANSAN HEALTH SEE AWARENESS ON PAGE 3A Filling the gap in children's scoliosis treatment Lisa Fris, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, said there are no available spines from deceased children with scoliosis to be modeled off of. 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. "Unfortunately, a 75-year-old University researchers are working on a more accurate spinal model BY MEG LOWRY mlowry@kansan.com 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. ers "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. 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. "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 lab has successfully created a model of an adult lumbar spine, which has enabled researchers to now begin creating a pediatric model spine. don't have as high of success rates as other surgeries, so these are the types of things we are looking at now." "The spinal industry is about 15 to 25 years behind other areas of orthopedics," Friis said. "Some spinal surgery procedures still Scoliosis surgeries involve 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, "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." These kinds of surgeries include spinal implants and fusions, which are used to treat scoliosis. 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. 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. SEE SPINE ON PAGE 3A stinho made tions. E t n m three slots at contest Designs made by students won the top three spots at the Aviation, Technology, Integration and Operations conference in Texas. INDEX TODAY'S WEATHER Classifieds...6A Crossword...4A Cryptoquips...4A Opinion...5A Sports...10A Sudoku...4A HIGH Check out our interactive guide for the different areas of the spine at kansan.com/ HIGH 77 LOW 50 X SATURDAY SUNDAY 67 44 Few Showers ← weather.com All contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2010 The University Daily Kansan