Wednesday, February 28, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Ash Wednesday services typically include the practice of wearing ashes on the forehead. The practice began about 1,000 years ago. Photo illustration by Selena Jabara/KANSAN
Dust to dust: Lent begins
Catholics begin period of sacrifice religious reflection
By Sarah Smash
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff write
Katy Poorman might want a beer, but she won't let herself have one.
Poorman is one of many Catholics who begin a 40-day sacrifice today, Ash Wednesday, that ends on Easter Sunday. The period, Lent, calls for Catholics to demonstrate their faith by giving up something they normally do or enjoy.
Poorman, Davenport, Ohio, senior, said she would give up drinking alcohol, a "common occurrence" in her life. She said the sacrifice would be difficult but beneficial.
"You're supposed to give up something that would be hard," Poorman said. "It will get me more focused."
"I think we can handle giving up something we like if he gave us his life." Godfrey said.
The Rev, Charles Poliska, a priest at St. John the Evangelist, 1229 Vermont St., said Lent didn't originate as a parallel to Jesus' crucifixion. He said Lent was originally instituted as a preparation period of enduring personal sacrifice for those waiting to be baptized into the Church.
Poliska added Lent was an opportunity for Catholics today to evaluate their lives.
"Lent is a period of time for renewal and getting one's life in order," Poliska said.
Kelly McIlwee, Wilmette, Ill., sophomore, said she would seek renewal by giving up being judgmental of others.
"They say you should pick something that will make you better." McLwee said.
Not all Catholics students said they felt inspired to make a sacrifice.
John Senn, St. Louis sophomore, said he had never given up anything.
"I still understand it and respect it," Senn said. "But I feel like I'd be going through the motions instead of actually believing in what I'm doing."
Catholicus begin the season by wearing ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday. This practice dates back to the 10th and 11th centuries when those who committed grievous sins would wear ashes as a public display of remorse and penitence.
Many Catholics also fast or abstain from eating meat on Ash Wednesday and every Friday during Lent.
Michael Podrebara, director of liturgy and music at Saint Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Rd., said Lent was meant to be a time of austerity to temper the excess in life.
our minds and our spirits," Podrebarac said. He said the personal sacrifices, universal fasting and attempts at self-improvement all stemmed from a desire to "get to the roots of who we are as God's people."
"We try to become less attached to things of this world and more attached to the things of the eternal world." Podrebarac said.
To emphasize the mortality of the human body and the christian belief in the eternal soul, priests in Ash Wednesday services recite the following: "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
New KU server will identify viruses
By Cassio Furtado
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff write
— Edited by Joshua Richards
The University of Kansas will be ready to combat computer viruses that can affect KU students when it completely switches from Falcon, Eagle and other servers to the new Exchange system. Until that happens, students are still vulnerable.
Chad Cummings, Andover junior and Academic Computing Services Help Center student operator, said the virus used Microsoft Outlook to send itself to everyone in the infected person's address book.
Last week six KU computers were infected by a virus called Life Stages.
He said the subject line of the e-mail would probably be "Life Stages," "Funny," or "Jokes."
The virus doesn't damage the victim's computer, but
because it sends messages with the infected file to multiple users in someone's address book, it can cause an e-mail server to be damaged because of message overflow.
The KU Exchange e-mail system automatically scans and quarantines infected attachments such as the Life Stages virus to protect Exchange users.
Cummings said the Life Stages virus displays a humorous text when the victims open an infected e-mail attachment. It saves:
"Age. Seduction lines. 17 My parents are away for the weekend. 25 My girlfriend is away for the weekend. 35 My fiancee is away for the weekend. 48 My wife is away for the weekend. 66 My second wife is dead."
Linda Spelcher, who works at the Public Safety Office, received a message containing the Life Stages virus last week.
Speicher said she didn't know anything about it and
wasn't sure about how many people in her address book had been infected after receiving the message from her.
"I hit delete as soon as I got it," Speicher said.
Cummings said in Speicher's case, the University software picked up the virus and stripped the virus out of all emails sent from her computer.
He said the virus was allowed to replicate once, but the offspring was sterilized by the software and the life of the virus was suspended.
Only Windows systems are vulnerable to the Life Stages virus; Macintosh systems are not affected.
When the KU Exchange system detects a virus, it still delivers the e-mail, without the attachment, noting the attachment has been removed.
Users also get a separate e-mail telling them the University's system has deleted the attached file and who it came from.
COMPUTER VIRUS
What happened? Six KU computers were infected by a virus called Life Stages last week. The virus used the victim's address book to replicate and infect other computers.
What it means: Falcon and Eagle servers are unprotected against Life Stages and other viruses, while the Exchange e-mail system recognizes infected files and deletes them.
What next? The University will switch to the Exchange system for students by May and for faculty by May 2002.
Falcon and Eagle servers do not have server-level antivirus protection but do filter all incoming e-mail for a few destructive viruses.
The University does not provide virus protection or filtering on any other central servers, including KUHUB.
Students among millions with eating disorders
Edited by Brandy Straw
Bv Livi Reaenbaum
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Enough people suffer from anorexia and bulimia every year to rival the population of Chicago, and Watkins Memorial Health Center wants to help change that.
The center will have information tables on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow to answer any questions or concerns about eating disorders as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
"I started not eating at 22," she said. "I was getting a divorce and had a five-year-old. I did not feel pretty and felt fat. I started exercising, but I also started not eating. The more attention I
Midge Grinstead, executive director of the Lawrence Humane Society, said she suffered from anorexia for years.
The Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention organization reported 5 to 10 million girls and women and 1 million boys and men struggle with eating disorders. It also reported 91 percent of women surveyed on college campuses had attempted to control their weight through dieting.
Ann Chapman, nutrition director at Watkins, said the purpose of this week's events was to educate students about eating disorders and to provide information about how to get help.
"The prevalence of eating disorders is greater in the college university environment," she said.
"Women are under a great pressure to look a certain way, and it is taught by society," she sald. "We have lost touch with our bodies' needs. Only 2 to 3 percent of women have the body type of a true model."
got, the more I worked out and the less I ate."
"We live in a thin society where people think being thin means you're beautiful and being fat means that you're dumb and ugly."
Grinstead started modeling, which she said only worsened her problem because modeling agencies would pressure her to continue to lose weight.
"They would nail and gripe about everything," she said. "At 105 pounds, they were telling me not to eat."
"I started getting sick and started having health problems and ended up having a hysterectomy at the age of 24."
Claire Durwood, Mission Hills sophomore, said she thought eating disorders were a problem at the University.
"I think it is something that affects the university but does not plague it," she said. "I took ballet and there were a few them."
Watkins will have information tables from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
EATING DISORDERS
who struggled with body image."
"Symptoms of anorexia are frastic weight loss and refusal to eat," she said. "Bullimia involves secretive eating followed by purging through vomiting, laxatives, diuretics and excessive exercise or fasting."
Chapman said symptoms of eating disorders varied depending on the type.
Chapman said treatment for eating disorders was a three-step process.
"A woman who presents with an eating disorder needs to do three things," she said. "They should see a physician, work with a mental health counselor and work with the nutritionist."
Edited by Matt Dougherty
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