THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
THURSDAY MARCH 20, 2007
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Hall combats students body image problems
BY KATY BLAIR
Almost every woman deals with it sometime in her life.
Many women struggle with low self-esteem because of negative self-image. A new campaign, "You are Beautiful", is working with women in GSP-Corbin Hall to combat negative body images.
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"Some of our women have been talking about themselves...not in positive ways." Natalie Timson, GSP-Corbin complex director said.
Timson said the campaign began as a way to remind the women that they are beautiful, and others think so as well.
GSP-Corbin resident Lynn Jones.
Osage City sophomore, said the program was an encouraging idea because negative body issues were more prominent in an all-female hall.
She said she has seen calorie-counting in the cafeteria, and
laughed as she recalled telling some of the women to "have some cake, cake is good."
women thinking positively about themselves without "cramming it down their throats". In order to make the campaign more passive, GSP hall staff have planned small gifts for the women.
"Women look in the mirror at times and don't see the positives in life."
Coming from a rural town, Jones said college pressure made negative body issues worse for women. While talking about social gatherings in a college town, said the people are "downright mean if you're a little off, a little on the chunky side".
The first initiative of the campaign was writing Maya Angelou's poem, "Phenomenal Woman," on all the mirrors in GSP.
Daisies were given to residents upon their return from spring break, and resident advisors left encouraging notes in their mailboxes to let the women know they were appreciated.
This week, a bulletin board was hung in the lobby, on which the women can post pictures of special women in their lives.
"People come up to me and say, 'Hey, thank you for putting that in my mailbox, it really made my day.'"
Resident advisor Lauren Christina, Woodlands, Texas, sophomore, was pleased with the response to the program.
Timson the goal of these daily reminders was to get the
NATALIE TIMSON GSP-Corbin complex director
Christina said.
She said because many of the women are freshmen and just starting their college experience, it was important that they discovered who they are in a positive way.
Other events
such as a "real woman" fashion show and "Throw Away the Hate" day are being planned for April.
Timson said GSP staff hope to show women, through the fashion show, that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
"Women look in the mirror at times and don't see the positives in life," Timson said. "We want them to realize that people think they are beautiful just the way they are, and get them to see it too."
Kansan staff writer Katy Blair can be contacted at kblair@kansan. com.
Edited by Mark Vierthaler
Putting the pieces together
Rod Millington/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Steve Cayer, back, fastens anchoring hardware into the head of a woolly mammoth skeleton as George Guest, center, and Thomas Dewald, right, help support the tusk as it is installed. Wednesday, G.Wiz. The Hands: On Science Museum in Sarasota, Fl.a., is preparing to open an exhibition of prehistoric beasts, and other inhabitants of our earth from 2000 years ago.
Cheaper labor to replace workers
》 CIRCUIT CITY
BY MAE ANDERSON
NEW YORK — A new plan for layoffs at Circuit City is openly targeting better-paid workers, risking a public backlash by implying that its wages are as subject to discounts as its flat-screen TVs.
The electronics retailer, facing larger competitors and falling sales, said Wednesday that it would lay off about 3,400 workers — immediately — and replace them with lower-paid new hires as soon as possible.
"We haven't done something called (a) wage management initiative before," said company spokesman Jim Babb. "All companies at one time or another need to go through and make sure their cost structure works with market conditions."
The laid-off workers, about 8 percent of the company's total work force, would get a severance package and a chance to reapply for their former jobs, at lower pay, after a 10-week delay, the company said.
nation's No. 2 consumer electronics retailer behind Best Buy Co., says the workers being laid off were earning "well above the market-based salary range for their role." They will be replaced with employees who will be paid at the current market range, the company said in a news release.
The news of the laoyfs came as a surprise to Rachelle Gouled, who earns about $7.75 an hour working on the sales floor at a Circuit City in Roseville, Minn. She said she was spared but 10 people were laid off Wednesday at her store.
While other companies, such as Caterpillar Inc., have introduced two-tiered wage systems, where newer workers make less, firing workers and offering to rehire them at a lower wage is very rare.
"For some of them, I could see them being OK without this job," she said. "For others, it was their only job."
Circuit City Stores Inc., the
Circuit City declined to say how much those laid off were paid and how much the new workers would make. Company spokesman Bill Cimino said it varies depending on the market.
Analysts and economists said the move is an uncertain experiment that could backfire for the chain. The risks: Morale could sink and customers could avoid the stores.
POLITICS
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Democrats say attorney firings due to political intimidation
WASHINGTON — Eight federal prosecutors were fired last year because they did not sufficiently support President Bush's priorities, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff said in remarks prepared for delivery to Congress on Thursday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Separately, the Justice Department admitted Wednesday it gave senators inaccurate information about the firings and presidential political adviser Karl Rove's role in trying to secure a U.S. attorney's post for one of his former aides, Tim Griffin.
In a letter accompanying new documents sent to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, Justice officials acknowledged that a Feb. 23 letter to four Democratic senators erred in asserting that the department was not aware of any role Rove played in the decision to appoint Griffin to replace U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins in Little Rock, Ark.
Gonzales' former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, in remarks obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, spoke dismissively of Democrats' condemnation of what they call political pressure in the firings.
"The distinction between 'political' and 'performance-related' reasons for removing a United States attorney is, in my view, largely artificial," he said. "A U.S. attorney who is unsuccessful from a political perspective ... is unsuccessful."
Democrats have described the firings as an "intimidation by purge" and a warning to remaining U.S. attorneys to fall in line with Bush's priorities. Political pressure, Democrats say, can skew the judgment of prosecutors when deciding whom to investigate.
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
Phi Beta Delta
2007 "Picture the World"
Photo Contest
sponsored by Phi Beta Delta
the society to honor international scholarship
March 29th, 2007
Contest Details:
- Photographs must have been shot outside the United States.
· Only printed photographs may be entered.
· The deadline for entries is Friday, March 30th.
· Any KU alumni, students, staff, faculty, or scholars may enter
· Each contestant may enter up to six prints.
· There is no entry fee for active members of Ph Beta Delta.
· The entry fee for all other contestants is $3 per photo.
· There will once again be great prizes for the award winners.
· Winning and Noteworthy Photos will be displayed on campus.
· Selected photos may be published, with credit to the photographer
For Photo Content Rules and Contest Entry Forms, go to:
http://www.international.ku.edu/~opip/photos/
ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS FOR SOCIAL ACTION
Architecture Students for Social Action Fundraiser:
Help us build a classroom for the 7th Ward of New Orleans!
March 29, 2007 9pm Midnight
23rd Street Brewery
$$ cover gets you food and great music!
KU Hillel
KU Hillel
Passover at KU Hillel
Seder
Monday, April 2
6pm - Gridiron Room, Burge Union
Passover Lunch
el will be serving Kosher-for-Passover lunches each
day during Passover from 11:30-1:30 in the Kansas
Union.
The rooms are as follows:
Tues April 3 - Alcove E (3rd Floor)
Wed April 4, Alcove C (3rd Floor)
Thurs April 5 - Alcove G (3rd Floor)
Friday, April 6 - Governors Room (5th Floor)
Monday, April 9 - Alcove C (3rd Floor)
There will be no lunch served on Saturday or Sunday.
Passover Dinner
KU Hillel will be serving Kosher-for-Passover dinners each night during Passover from 6-7pm at Hillel.
Contact Program Director Matt Lehman at [785]749-5397 or mlehrman@kuhillel.org to RSVP or pay for any meals.
Visit kuhillel.org for prices and more information! Save money by prepayment or by purchasing meal packages!
PRESENTS THE 55th Annual International Awareness 10:31st
staffed by 1531
FLAVORS OF THE
WORLD
First Presbyterian
Church
2415 Clinton Plowy
(6:00 pm - 10:00 pm)
ADVANCE $3
DOOR $3
THE CREATION/
Evolution DEBATE in
the MUSLIM WORLD
by profession Taha Eds
Aldershot University
15:00 (morning)
(7:00 pm)
INTERNATIONAL CULTURE QUIZ SHOW
English & Centennial Room - KS Union
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Prizes Awarded!
LANGUAGE FASHION & SUCA
TSAHON SHOP & SUCA
COSTE AND KULTURE
I love this book
(40 minutes)
5 9TH ANNUAL WORLD
KS Union Ballroom
(12:00pm - 6:00pm)
&
5TH ANNUAL FEST!
VOL OF MADONS
KS Union Ballroom
7 00pm - 9 30pm
WORLD CUP
mindtheball.edu
to sign up
and 2014 place
impaired at
Stork kids
11:30am 6:00pm
PAID FOR BY KU
DOLE INSTITUTE OF POLITICS STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD
Thursday, March 29 4-5:30 pm
Wedge Issues: God, Guns, and Gays Governor Holden continues his study group "You Be the Governor" with special guests Roy Temple, Richard Martin, and Paul Wilson
This event is at the Dole Institute of Politics on KU's West Campus—Free Parking, Cookies and Lemonade!
PRE- NURSING CLUB
Pre- Nursing Club Meeting Tuesday, April 3 @ 6:30 PM Watkins Health Center. 1st Floor Conference Room Contact esack@ku.edu with questions!
KU Young Democrats
Meet the KDP Leadership!
Teresa Krusor, Vice Chair of the Kansas Democratic Party, is visiting KU to speak to the Young Dems!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Pine Room, fifth Floor Kansas Union
Eat like a refugee
KU Amnesty
For call 1-877-259-0001
Where: Farmstead of Birch Ministries at KL
When: Friday, March 4th 10:00am - 9:00pm
Find what a common and communal meal is like for teenagers. A view
attendees, chooses at farmstead will be served American meals.
Open to the public. Backies sold at the door.
We'll be taking on Wednesday, March 4th from 10:00am -
2:00pm.
Our hours/communion: jimmy.kk@gmail.com
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