APARTMENT GUIDE 2
COHABITATION
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Photo illustration by Ashleigh Lee/KANSAN
Help with heavy lifting and household jobs are just a couple of perks to having your significant other around the house. But couples should also consider the possible consequences of living together.
For better or for worse: living with a significant other
BY VICTORIA PITCHER
editor@kansan.com
Deciding who to live with is not an easy process.
"Will we get along?" "Are they going to pay the bills on time?"
For a number of students these are questions are being asked of their boyfriend or girlfriend. Cohabitation seems to be an uncommon occurrence among University students, but for some, it is a beneficial option.
Jennifer Stastny, a junior from Wichita, has been dating Todd Claim, a senior from Wichita, for more than two years and deciding to live with her boyfriend was easy. "I definitely weighed the pros and cons," Stastny said, "but I can't imagine not living with him now."
The obvious benefits to living with a significant other include expenses being cut in half
and more time spent with that person. "We get to see each other and spend more time together." Claim said. "It's been good."
Claim lives with Stastny along with three other female roommates. For the most part he doesn't mind living with women.
"I like living with girls a lot better than a bunch of guys." Claid said. "It's a lot cleaner."
And the female roommates feel an added bonus of security from having Claim as a roommate.
"He makes me feel safer," Taryn Barker, a junior from Wichita, said.
Living with a boyfriend or girlfriend has its upsides, but it definitely comes with difficulties. The large amounts of time together can create stress in the relationship. "Living with somebody, they see every side of you," Stastny said. "We get sick of each other."
There are a lot of things to consider before
He said the hardest things in a cohabitation environment are dealing with money, communication, cleanliness and sharing of duties.
moving in together. Chris Crandall, professor of social psychology, advises students to think about the pragmatics.
"Stuff outside of the relationship is tremendously important." Crandall said.
"You need to be aware of the size of the commitment," Crandall said.
Megan Harrod, a property manager at Tuckaway Apartments, has seen both successful and unsuccessful living arrangements between couples. Different factors, including age and length of the relationship, play a part in the effectiveness of living with a significant other.
"Once you feel more serious about someone, I wouldn't say it's a bad idea," Harrod said about students living together. "Generally it's
Students should consider the length of the lease and therefore the commitment. In the event of a break up,couples sharing a lease would still be obligated to abide by the terms they signed on.
worked out."
Living with a boyfriend or girlfriend while in college is generally uncommon. Couples may feel as if they are not in the right time in their lives or relationships to handle the ups and downs that come with living with their significant other. For other couples like Stastny and Clain, it's a beneficial living arrangement.
"I know it's not traditional, but nowadays you should," Stastny advises.
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The pavilion will be a place for visiting and local artists to engage with the community. The Lied Center offers specialties in education and engagement programs such as pre- and post-performance discussions, demonstrations, lectures, workshops, master classes and more. It will create more possibilities and special occasions for the Friends of the Lied to celebrate the arts.
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"The new Pavilion is made possible by a gift from the Lied Foundation Trust. Construction began in September 2010 and we anticipate completion of the Pavilion this summer," Van Leer said.
The public is invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the new Kemper Foyer.
The Lied Foundation donated $10 million to the University in order to fund the construction of the Lied Center.
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Funding for the expansion was made possible by a $2.5 million donation to the Univiesity by the Lied Foundation and a $300,000 donation from the Kemper Foundation
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According to the Lied Center's mission statement, the purpose of this organization is to promote the arts and education through performance.
The expansion will provide additional practice space for state productions as well as displays providing information on the history of Ernest F. Lied and the Lied Foundation Trust.
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The $10 million Lied Foundation Trust donation to initially construct the Lied Center was the largest donation to KU ever at the time
The Lied Center expansion was originally proposed in 2005, but the project was scrapped due to a lack of funding.
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CSL Behring processes plasma to take out specific proteins and antibodies needed to fight disease.
"Well, it's extremely important for people with rare diseases such as hemophilia, immune deficiencies, inherited respiratory disease and a number of other serious rare diseases," said Christopher Florentz, manager of cooperate communications. "We take the plasma collected by our CSL plasma collection centers and we put it through a process called fractionation where basically we separated out the proteins in the plasma and we use those proteins to make biotherapies that are used to treat various diseases."
To create plasma products the company needs raw plasma. This is where the donation centers and students like Holbrook Walker come in.
"I told everyone I was doing it for a good cause but really I wanted money for back to school clothes," Walker said. "My paycheck I got all went to my rent and I needed some extra money to do that."
Holbrook did not want to have to get a job and balance schoolwork.
"I basically got paid to sit there and study," he said.
1 basically got paid to sit there and study, he said. During the semester, Holbrook sometimes made biweekly trips to the CSL plasma donation center, earning about $400 from more than 20 trips.
Donor compensation differs by weight class. The more a donor weighs the more plasma the center can take and the more money the donor can make.
"If you weigh under 150 it's not even worth it," Holbrook said. "It's like making minimum wage."
With his ankle weights, Holbrook tipped the scales at just over 150 pounds.
Florentz said that on average, a CSL plasma donation center pays $2 million per year to donors and that in total, donors made 18.5 million plasma donations in the U.S. in 2008.
"We refer to it as donating because we compensate for their time as opposed to their plasma," Florentz said.
Kansan: Is donating plasma a good idea or not from the donor's perspective?
UDK: Have you seen students come in with problems or injuries cause by plasma donation?
Denning: From the donor perspective it could cut either way. For people who are young and healthy it doesn't impact their overall health in the long-term. However in the short term it can impact even healthy young people. When you donate plasma they are taking off specialized proteins called antibodies. They are our first line of defense against infection. And personally in the height of flu season I would not recommend anyone donate plasma because we all need to keep our animals at a nice healthy level.
Denning: I do on occasion see people who come in who are sick who have influenza or respiratory infections who have donated plasma. And I'm like, quit doing that until flu seasons over!
UDK: Some people bruise at the location where the needle is used for plasma donation. Is this serious?
Denning: It's not uncommon to get a little hematoma here or there. It's uncomfortable and does look very ugly and scary but those generally go away.
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The amount of money a donor receives for a plasma donation varies with weight, visit number and the amount of donations the donor has made in a week. This graph shows what donors will make during each visit to the CSL Plasma Donation Center assuming they give plasma twice a week.
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