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"The essence of most of my talks is just hope," Blum said.
Students can receive free bottled water and T-shirts at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center Wednesday from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. as part of Celebrate Activity Day. On Thursday, Better Bites snacks and entrees, available in all KU Dining facilities across campus, will be offered at a discount for lunch.
To learn more about eating disorders, students can visit the Emily Taylor Resource Center, Student Health Services or Counseling and Psychological Services.
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Asbury said she was interested in the Mobius band, a twisted cylinder, and wanted to provoke the viewer's imagination.
"They're illusionistic and paradoxical at the same time," Asbury said of the two oil paintings. "They don't have a linear perspective."
Also on display in an adiacent room are Asbury's sand and acrylic paintings. The innovative procedure used to make the paintings mix sand from different deserts (some naturally colored) into a clear polymer solution. The results are paintings with a tribal feel influenced by Asbury's passions of ethnic art, anthropology, archaeology, mythology and non-Western cultures.
In the artist's statement, Asbury wrote, "the desert is a place for solitary introspection."
Cima Katz, a professor of art, picked her favorite work from her three-piece set titled "Codex: Odd Other." The digital collage is an open book of multi-colored words, numbers, birds and an oval that reads, "In Memory Of My Odd Other." Katz said the underlying narrative behind the collage is death, dispersal of memory and what's left after someone leaves earth.
"I'm interested in voices speaking back and forth," Katz said of the words written by herself, her mother and her grandmother. "It's not really legible. It's the idea of the text and how we communicate visually and verbally."
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"Time Piece" by Jane Asbury, associate professor of painting, was on display in the Art and Design Building as part of the Department of Visual Art Faculty Reception Sunday. It was painted with oil on canvas in 1977.
Bill proposes legal medical marijuana
BY CHRIS NEAL
cneal@kansan.com
STATE
After being shot down several times in the past, legislation to legalize medical marijuana was filed again Feb. 15 in the Kansas House of Representatives.
Fifty-eight percent of adults in Kansas support the legalization of medical marijuana, according to a poll conducted last year by SurveryUSA and sponsored by KWCH, a Wichita-based TV station.
The new bill, known as the Cannabis Compassion and Care Act, calls for the legalization of owning and using marijuana plants for those with "debilitating medical conditions", such as cancer, glaucoma, AIDS, hepatitis C and Crohn's disease. The bill was
referred to the House Committee on Health and Human Services for debate.
pass. During the discussion of a similar bill last year, a friend of Fox went to speak to the committee, but he said it didn't look promising.
"Everyone in the committee got up and left, except for three people," Fox said. "It was like a ioke."
Despite the support, Jacob Fox, a sophomore from Landenberg, Pa., and president of the KU chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said he didn't think the bill would
- You can't possess or use marijuana while in a school bus, on preschool, primary or secondary school grounds or at any correctional facility.
- You are not allowed to use it while using a form of public transportation or in any public
If the bill passes, patients that are prescribed marijuana would be allowed to have 12 plants and six ounces of useable marijuana, but the plant must stay
"Everyone in the committee got up and left, except for three people."
JACOB FOX KU NORML chapter president
locked up in a secure area until use of the drug is needed. A caregiver will also be assigned to each patient to keep track of drug use and aid the patient with any needs or concerns.
According to the bill, if you are a patient using marijuana for medical purposes, there are several things you will not be allowed to do while under the influence:
- While under the influence, you can't do anything that would result in negligence or professional malpractice.
place.
- You are not allowed to operate any form of transportation if under the influence.
Although the bill would legalize the use of marijuana in
"If someone wants to find weed, it's not like they have to go far," Fox said. "It's everywhere."
some instances, Fox said it won't cause the illegal use of marijuana to rise because of how easy the drug is to obtain already.
If it's accepted, the bill would also make Kansas the 16th state to have a medical marijuana bill in place.
Edited by Amanda Sorell
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