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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Green and beaming
Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader poses on tax day Monday at the main Lawrence post office, 645 Vermont. After he spoke at the Lied Center, Nader toured the city. Photo by Joshua Richards/KANSAN
By Michelle Ward writer @kansan.com Kansan staff writer
All students must move e-mail and Web sites off Falcon, Eagle, and KUHUB by May 31.
"I hope we will have more contact with them," Pieroni said. "They have always given us money for Brazilian Week, and hopefully, we will work together on other projects."
As a leader of a minority student organization on campus, Pieroni, a Rio de Janeiro junior, hopes new student senators will have more interaction and provide greater financial support for these groups. With almost 30 cultural and ethnic organizations listed on the KU Web site, they form just under 8 percent of the total 387 organizations at the University of Kansas.
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Groups seek fund change
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Bruno Pieroni submitted a request for money to help fund Brazilian Week this spring. While Student Senate granted his request, it is the only contact the president of the Brazil-Portugal Student Association has had with Senate.
To help aid the organizations,
Senate has created a multicultural
Gokulrangan said he hoped the Senate would return to more unstructured approach for applying for next year's funds. He said he would like the club to submit a broad plan of the year's upcoming events, allowing the new executive committee elected in May greater flexibility with future plans.
Giri Gokulrangan, president of the KU Cultural India Club, said though the club received the money it needed, he objected to the way funds were allotted. The organization had to write a detailed report including dates, times and places for events that happened in the fall of 2001 and spring of 2002.
ability.
"We need assurances of those funds," Gokurangan said. "But they expect you to be ready with exact dates and details for things happening in six months."
The details of events that would happen more than six months away are hard to nail down, Gokulrangan said. If the group did not submit this report at the end February, they would lose out on guaranteed funding for next year's events. The club would then have to apply closer to the event for unallocated funds dependent on avail
Justin Mills, president-elect, said Student Senate was working to break the ice and improve relations with international organizations. He added that all student organizations needed to supply a budget at the beginning of the year, not just international groups, to ensure accountability for allotted funds.
affairs committee to help allocate a portion of the Senate's $737,00 budget, which comes from student activity fees. While each student pays the $229 fee, only $17 of that is used by Senate to fund programs and aid campus groups. The cultural student organizations received a total of $79,269 this year, 10.8 percent of the overall budget, said Greg Wiley, student treasurer and Shawne senior.
"It would be hard to make an exception for international groups," Mills said. "We would work them as hard as we can."
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— Edited by Melinda Weaver
Heart disease rising among young women
By Livi Regenbaum
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The inactive and unhealthy lives many women lead have doctors worried.
The Centers for Disease Control released a report this week that heart-related deaths among young women has risen 10 percent since the last year.
"Heart attacks and clots in heart arteries are the things that are associated with smoking, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol," said David Meyers, cardiologist and professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
He said though cardiac deaths were not a major problem for young people, the lifestyle a student led could increase the risk.
Meyers said more college-age women were smoking, which is the number one cause of heart disease. He said he was also concerned about more Americans continuing to gain weight, which also contributes to heart disease.
Meyers said the causes of heart attacks included a family history consisting of heart disease and one's lifestyle, including diet and exercise.
Molly Virgin, Olathe senior,
said she worried about the potential risk of a heart attack because
she smoked cigarettes.
"Usually you think of middle-aged men having heart attacks, and you don't usually associate it with young people, especially women," she said.
Virgin said it was important for students to be educated about the risks of heart attacks, and that
students were not invincible
Symptoms of a heart attack include uncomfortable pressure, pain spreading to the shoulders, neck or arms and chest discomfort with lightheadedness, fainting, nausea or shortness of breath.
"It concerns me and I smoke," said Sarah Raske, Topeka junior. "I am planning on quitting when I get out of college."
Meyers said ways to prevent heart attacks and heart disease included a healthy and active lifestyle, which consisted of exercising thirty minutes a day, a low-fat diet and not smoking.
"It is surprising how many in their 208 have significant hardening of the arteries," Meyers said. "A low percentage may well have hardening of the arteries."
— Edited by Matt Daugherty
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