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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Thursday, December 11, 2003
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Meagan True/Kansan
Lawrence fourth-grade Ellen Kyriakos and Lawrence fourth-grade Annie Reed-Westo went sledding yesterday afternoon down the hill across the street from Lewis Hall.
Winter weather returns
Kansan staff report editor@kansan.com
Snow makes wonderland for sledders, nightmare for drivers
Wearing a long sleeve shirt and shorts, a student runs out of K.K. Amini Scholarship Hall yelling and screaming as a snowstorm falls around him.
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Antonio Querasian, Rio De Janeiro Brazil, sophomore, saw snow for the first time yesterday afternoon.
"The more excited you are, you don't feel the cold," Querasian said. "Your body temperature goes up."
night play in the city today. "It's been a stressful week and it was fun to go out and play in the first snow," she said. "It was really cold though."
Jade Martens, Salina freshman, went out with Querasian and others at midnight to play in the snow and go sledding.
But the next day, it was back to work as University of Kansas students plodded through one to two inches of snow and slush on their way to class.
Despite the conditions, Noah Pogany, Lawrence freshman, wasn't really worried about slipping on the layer of ice covering everything outside on the way to his 8:30 a.m. class.
Pogany joined about 20 other fellow University students about eight hours
earlier yesterday to slide down the slopes near the Campanile.
"It it was awesome except for when you crashed and burned," Pogany said, "because it felt like needles where going into your back. It's all ice under the surface with just a little snow on top."
Brandi Evans, Manhattan freshman, said she had to walk to her class instead of taking the usual bus.
"Besides that, I've lived in Kansas all my life so I'm used to it," Evans said. "It's not that bad. It's just really cold and windy but you can't help that."
Her usual bus was not available because that bus was caught up in an accident near GSP-Corbin Hall where she lives.
The University bus collided with a car at the intersection of 11th and Indiana streets. The accident occurred downhill from GSP.
According to Sgt. Mike Patrick of the Lawrence Police Department, a white Toyota 4Runner was travelling east-bound on 11th Street, pulled out from a stop sign and did not see the bus heading northbound on Indiana street. The bus ran into the 4Runner.
The bus driver and one passenger sustained injuries. The driver was taken to
"It was awesome except for when you crashed and burned."
Noah Pogany
Lawrence freshman
Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
More information was not available because the officer who took the report was in court yesterday afternoon.
The hospital offered no information on the driver's condition.
Tim Akright, KU on Wheels coordinator, said that the KU on Wheels bus route was not affected.
"Things are running smoothly." Akright said after the accident.
Ross Janssen Channel 6 News forecaster said he's going to start to track a storm that could hit town on Tuesday.
"It's one we'll watch real closely," Janssen said, "because it had a lot of the features and characteristics that this one had."
—Reporter Amber Byarlay, Mike Norris and Steve Schmidt contributed to this story. Edited by JJ Hensley
Diabetic student passes out, wrecks
By Amanda Kim Stairretti astairrettk@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Tuesday evening, the Lawrence Police Department, KU Public Safety Office, emergency personnel in the Kansas City area and family and friends were searching for the 22-year-old Bowlin, who has type-one diabetes.
It was windy and cold as Stephanie Bowlin, Olathe senior, was leaving her job at the University of Kansas School of Business. It was about 4 p.m. and the last thing she remembered was pulling up to a stop sign.
According to the American Diabetes Association, the body does not produce insulin in a person who has type-one diabetes. Insulin takes sugar from the blood which it uses as fuel for cells.
Bowlin's blood sugar level fell, slowing her brain's processes and causing her to lose her way.
No one knows what happened, but at about 5:30 p.m., Bowlin's boyfriend Andy Pope, Lawrence senior, received an emotional phone call. He could tell immediately something was wrong. Bowlin told him that she was low and that she had stopped but was unable to tell him where she was. Pope kept probing Bowlin for clues, but she got frustrated and hung up on him.
When Bowlin is in this condition, Pope said, he has to treat her like a 2-year-old child. She gets emotional, and if he is stern, she cries.
Pope called her back but she was incoherent and babbling. Pope jumped into his vehicle and retraced the route Bowlin usually took to his house. By then, it was sleeting and his windows were too foggy for him to see. He got worried and called the Lawrence police at 5:40 p.m. He then called Bowlin's mother, Marcheta.
Marcheta said the Lawrence police contacted the KU Public Safety Office. Lawrence police contacted Verizon Wireless, Bowlin's mobile phone carrier. Verizon traced the signal to the Kansas City area and emergency personnel was contacted. They could not find Bowlin. Police in Lawrence would have to rely on manpower to find her. Marcheta called her brother in Kansas City, Mo., to help search. Pope called his friends, and they joined the search too.
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pop, pills and projects:
Fighting sleep to make the grade
By Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
It's 2 a.m. Your eyes are drooping, your head hurts and there's nowhere you'd rather be in bed.
But your project -the semester-long all-important project that will either make or break your grade - isn't done.
Photo Illustration Megan True/Kansan
Fromright, Cory Vales, Shawnee senior; Benji Williams, Leawood senior; Patrick Hinkle, Overland Park senior; and Jacob Spence, Wichita senior; took a caffine break while working on their engineering projects early Wednesday morning in Learned Hall.
In fact, it isn't even close to being done.
A half-hour later, you're having trouble breathing, you feel like you're going to throw up, your heart is beating funny and your friends are debating whether to drive you to the hospital.
Once again you reach for the closest pick-me-up: a cup of coffee, a can of Red Bull or maybe some NoDoz pills.
Sound like one of mom's cautionary tales? Maybe mom was right.
As finals draw closer and projects near their due dates, sleep becomes a luxury that many college students decide they can't afford.
To stay up through the long hours of the night, some students turn to substances such as caffeine or amphetamines.
Though they can offer the alertness students need, they also have the potential to be dangerous and even life-threatening. In the case of some amphetamines, they can also be illegal.
With caffeine, 10 grams (roughly 100 cups of coffee) is considered a lethal dose, but it takes only 350 milligrams
(about three cups of coffee) to overdose and cause side effects that can include heartbeat irregularities.
Amphetamines can be much more dangerous, especially when taken without a prescription, said Robert Brown, a doctor at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
But for some students, all of these risks mean nothing in the face of bombing a test, or worse yet, a class.
To maintain this sleep-depriving schedule, Bhat once experimented with caffeine pills in an attempt to stay awake--a decision he regretted.
The St. Louis junior regularly works past 1 or 2 in the morning on his architecture projects, only to get up the next morning between 7 and 8 a.m. for class
Now Bhat sticks to Red Bull for his late nights in studio. But that has dangers of its own, too.
"It felt crappy," he said. "I got the shakes, I felt dizzy and I couldn't concentrate. All it did was make me realize how tired I was."
Red Bull, marketed as "the energy drink that gives you wings," contains 80 milligrams of caffeine in every 250 milliliter can.
Once during his sophomore year, Bhat used Red Bull to stay awake for seven days straight with just six total hours of sleep.
During that period, he fell asleep in the middle of Naismith Boulevard as he was crossing it, earning a honk from a driver who had to stop to avoid hitting him.
Despite that experience, Bhat continues to use Red Bull to stay awake.
"It's not a matter of whether I choose to stay up late," he said. "I have to stay up late."
The most cans of Red Bull Bhat has ever had was four in a 12-hour period, more than twice the recommended amount. It was enough to give him the shakes.
Now, Bhat saves his use of Red Bull for special occasions, like the week after Thanksgiving when he was hard at work on another big architecture project.
"I basically just use it to prevent myself from passing out outright," he said.
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