Robinson's injury shuffles lineup
After spraining his foot during practice Wednesday, Robinson will
miss Saturday's game against Iowa State.
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>> PARKING PROBLEMS
Scheduled renovations to weatherize stadium lot
BY KYLE CARTER
Lot 59, the fenced off parking lot southwest of Memorial Stadium, won't reopen until late April and construction will temporarily disrupt traffic on 11th Street as well.
Jim Modig, director of design and construction, said the parking lot needed storm sewer improvements in order to handle large rainstorms. He said the project had been on a list of deferred maintenance projects for more than 10 years since a study by Black & Veatch determined that the area could not handle "10-year events". A 10-year event is a rainstorm so large that it theoretically
The football facility that will be built this spring at the site caused the project to be bumped up on the list. Modig said he aimed to have the project completed before the Kansas Relays to avoid parking problems at the meet.
happens once every 10 years.
Scheduled improvements include installing larger underground pipes designed to carry large volumes of water to sewers and installing a storm pond in the field at the corner of 11th and Maine Streets, northwest of the stadium.
Post-construction, Modig said the pond would only fill up during rain-fall and would then trickle out as the
area dried, helping to avoid flooding of the area during rainfall
Without the improvements, Modig said a severe rainstorm could flood Memorial Stadium with several inches of water.
The loss of parking in lot 59 left many students looking for open spaces in other lots. Donna Hultine, director of parking and transit, said the best place to find additional parking was in lot 94, east of the stadium.
"I know that won't help the students in JRP much, but for people parking and walking to the
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Lot 59, the fenced-off parking lot south of Memorial Stadium, will be closed until late April
due to construction
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Local baby-sitting business booms
> REFERRAL SERVICE
Camden Cazor, 2, and Degan Kaczor, 5, play with their toy cars Tuesday night at the Nacor house. April Rand, Missouri Valley sophomore, is a babysitter with Sunflower Sitters. an organization that offered experienced baby-sitters to Lawrence parents through a referral network.
Sunflower Sitters attracts University women for its flexibility, hourly wage
BY MATT ERICKSON
Liz Weisman, Los Angeles senior, may not have expected to give lessons in privacy and decency when she took a job with a baby sitting service, but she didn't panic when two young boys she watched asked her to look at their "private parts"
"I just said, 'No. I'm not going to look. We don't show those to strangers,' " Weisman said.
Weisman, along with seven other University students and a recent graduate, worked through a baby-sitter referral service called Sunflower Sitters, run by DeAnn Windibiziri, Lawrence resident. The business began referring baby-sitters to families in November.
The Kansan is where Weisman said she found the job. She said the work was perfect for her.
But for her efforts with the children she watched, Weisman said she enjoyed plenty of benefits good money, good experience and good fun.
"I think were lucky to live in Lawrence and have the resources of KU students." Windibiziz said.
She said many families preferred college-aided sitters to younger ones. She has advertised in The University Daily Kansan to find sitters.
She makes $9 an hour for watching one or two children at a time, and the wage increases for more
children. She sets her own schedule
children. She sets her own schedule — she works about eight to 12 hours per week — with no pressure to work when she doesn't want to. And she likes the children.
"I love it," she said. "They keep me young. They're so entertaining, and they're just so innocent."
Libby Cooper, St. Paul, Minn.
senior, schedule flexibility was
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Research to tailor dose to age
DRUG RESEARCH
BY DANAE DESHAZER
Researchers at KU discovered a factor in aging that could allow doctors to prescribe more appropriate drug doses in the future.
Jeffrey Krise, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and principle investigator of the study, said pharmacists in the past have noticed varying effects of drugs in patients of different ages, but no real answer had been discovered.
"I don't think it's fair to say that older people just complain a lot," Krise said. "I think there's really a reason behind it."
After receiving a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant in 2004, Krise and Ryan Sol Funk, sixth year pharmacy student, started their study by breaking age difference into cell groups.
When any organism, from an apple to a human, ages, the organism's cells gain oxygen molecules, becoming oxidized.
"When the sun bleaches something like a car, the color will become more dull," Krise said. "That's oxidation."
To mimic aged cells, Krise and Funk exposed some cells to hydrogen peroxide, an oxidizing agent. Then they exposed aged cells and cells in the control group to the same dose of therapeutic drug and examined the drug uptake.
The aged cells absorbed 100 times more of the drug than the control cells. This showed that the same dose given to an 18-year old and a 68-year-old would have completely
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》 NAKED DEFIANCE
Local anarchists expose themselves in calendar
BY TYLER HARBERT
The images in the Kansas Anarchists Exposed 2007 calendar are beautiful, ugly, fat, skinny, political, pale, provocative, revealing and real.
The calendar, which has been produced in part by the Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library, is a collaboration of skin and speaking out.
Most of the models are totally nude or are at least baring some forbidden flesh. Some of the pictured models are involved with anti-war movements, women's health groups
Vanessa Hays, a 2005 graduate and one of the organizers of the calendar, said the calendar started four years ago for fundraising and as a response to the Women of KU calendar. She said the anarchists calendar celebrates natural outward appearances.
or radical politics. They are photographed wherever and in whatever poses they feel comfortable.
"It has all body types, races and genders," she said. "We wanted to make something more representative of what people actually look like."
Hays said the calendar is not for
or about sexuality and it's actually meant to desexualize the human form.
"We recognize that sex does sell, but we wanted to work within that context." Haws said.
resent people in the flesh. Kelly Pierce
The anarchists' calendars show real people, not cars.
"We wanted to make something more representative of what people actually look like."
VANESSA HAYS
Calendar organizer
brushed photos of supposed ideal bodies like in the Women of KU calendar, Hays said. She said the Women of KU calendar doesn't rep-
outward appearance.
manager of the Women of KU Calendar, said the 13 featured models in this year's Women of KU calendar, now in its eighth year, were selected based on academics, activity involvement and
"Our motto is we want them to be both inwardly and outwardly beautiful," she said.
She said the models were shown the poses selected for the calendar before the calendar was produced.
"We want them to be completely comfortable in the swimsuits they model." Pierce said.
The 13 models were also chosen out of a pool of more than 200 applicants because of the diversity of their majors, races and body types.
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"Our goal and our intention is to portray coeds from the University of Kansas in a beautiful and classy
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