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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2011
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VOLUME 123 ISSUE 98
DANCE ALL NIGHT
KU Dance Marathon raises $37,000
Record 420 students attend fundraiser
BY CHRISTINE CURTIN ccurtin@kansan.com
For 12 straight hours Saturday night through Sunday morning, University of Kansas students stayed on their feet. Even through dancing, relay races and a midnight "Rave Hour," there was not one KU Dance Marathon participant sitting down in the Ambler Student Recreational Fitness Center.
"We will spend 12 hours dancing and standing for
"It says a lot for students to stay in on a Satruday night and help raise money for such a good cause."
The night featured a Clue board game theme, as participants tried
LIZZIE GREMMINGER director of recruitment
In its third year as an on-campus organization, KUDM raised more than $37,000 for KU Pediatrics. It also boasted its largest registration numbers yet.
kids in hospitals who can't," KUDM Executive Director Lauren Winchester told the audience at the start of the event.
Not only did a large number of participants register, but they stuck around for the whole night, too. At 5 a.m. Sunday morning, there were still 150 participants at the event, making it the largest number of participants at the end of a KU Marathon in its history.
This year, 420 students registered for the marathon, almost doubling last year's registration number of around 250, said Hilary Ferguson, associate director of internal operations.
to guess "who done it" based off different clues. There was also a Wii videogame station, prison ball and a dance routine to learn to keep students active throughout the night.
"It means so much and it says a lot for students to stay in on a Saturday night and help raise money for such a good cause," director of recruitment Lizzie Gremminger said.
KUDM is still taking donations for KU Pediatrics through May 1. Donations can be made online at www.kudm.org/donate.
Edited by Becca Harsch
Katelyn Appleby, a freshman from Shawnee, talks to one of the children who participated in the dance marathon Saturday evening. Appleby was on a team with other members of her sorority and helped raise money for Children's Miracle Network.
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GALLERY
Reception honors retiring art professor
BY MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
Two sculptures clad in black bathing suits and golden shades lie on black sand in the center of the gallery of the Art and Design Building. The work, "Gulf Bathing" by John Chmeister, was surrounded by a circle of people.
Meanwhite,
Jane Asbury's
less prominently placed
oil paintings,
"Time Piece"
and "Search for
the Unicorn",
lured viewers with their multi-dimensional grasp.
the Visual Art Department on Sunday afternoon. The reception celebrated the work and career of Jane Asbury, associate professor of painting, who will retire in May after 37 years of teaching. The gallery, which will be open to the public until March 4, also features the work of 22 other faculty members, who used mediums
"It's not really legible. It's the idea of the text and how we communicate visually and verbally."
CIMA KATZ art professor
such as acrylic, charcoal, pastel, silver and bone.
"The colors are vibrant," Bran Supernaw, a junior from Skiataok, Okla., said of "Time Piece." If you're across the room and you see this, you think, 'Wow.'
"T im e Piece" is a three-dimensional wave of varying colors. Asbury said that the oil painting
Asbury's friends, along with art students, faculty and others, attended the 2011 Annual Faculty Exhibition, presented by
"I was exploring the idea of using organic forms to express the fluidity and ephemeral qualities of time," she said.
borrows from early abstractionists and is influenced by the idea of transition in nature.
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Sudoku...4A
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HEALTH
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
Anorexia nervosa is the deadliest disease a woman aged 15 to 24 can have, according to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH). Celebrate EveryBODY Week meets that threat with a positive message.
Celebrate EveryBODY Week coincides with National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDA), which campus organizers Student Health Services and the H.O.M.E.B.A.S.E. task force have adapted to address topics including body acceptance, healthy eating and physical activity. Notes and posters posted around campus will spread positive messages about body image beginning Monday.
Guest speaker Lee Wolfe Blum, a University of Kansas alumna and anorexia survivor, will deliver a portion of that message as part of a series of events throughout the week educating students about eating disorders and promoting healthy body image. Other events this week will feature discounted food and giveaways of bottled water and T-shirts.
Ann Chapman, coordinator of nutritional services at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said more needed to be done to educate students about how to appreciate the bodies they are given, especially when the media promoted unrealistic messages about how people should look.
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Events promote positive body image
"Everywhere you look, the epitome of beauty is a woman who is five-ten, too thin and has breast implants," Chapman said. "Three
or four percent of women have that body type."
The NEDA reports that 80 percent of women are dissatisfied with their appearances.
Kathy Rose-Mockry, program director at the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said students who don't feel good about themselves are less likely to be successful academically or in their personal development.
Chapman said that she had counseled many students who were unhappy with their bodies.
"We know there's a higher incidence of eating disorders on college campuses for a variety of reasons," Chapman said.
The average age of onset for anorexia is 19 and for bulimia the average age is 20, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
The NIMH reports that the mortality rate among people with anorexia is about 12 times higher than the death rate due to all causes of death among women ages 15 to 24 in the general population.
Blum, a health educator at Park Nicollet Eating Disorders Institute in Minnesota, will give talks at Budig Hall and the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Blum said her talks at Budig Hall would discuss the nature of eating disorders, how to identify them and how people can recover. Her discussion in the ballroom will focus on the story of her personal struggle with, and recovery from, an eating disorder.
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WEEK'S EVENTS
WHEN: Monday
WHAT: Lee Wolfe Blum
WHERE: 130 Budig Hall
WHEN: 5 p.m.
WHEN: Tuesday
WHAT: Positive Affirmation Day
WHERE: Residence and Scholarship Halls, Greek Housing, Campus Restrooms
WHEN: Wednesday
WHAT: Celebrate Activity Day
WHERE: Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center,
WHEN: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
WHEN: Wednesday
WHAT: Encore presentation of Lee Wolfe Blum
WHERE and WHEN: 110 Budig Hall at 8 a.m., Kansas Union Ballroom at 7 p.m.
**WHEN:** Thursday
**WHAT:** Celebrate Food Day
**WHERE:** Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more Information on events visit hawkhealth.ku.edu or Ann Chapman, 785-864-9575, achap@ku.edu
FACTS ON IMAGE
More than 10 million females and 1 million males in the U.S. suffer from eating disorders.
There has been a significant increase in anorexia from 1935 to 1989, especially among young women ages 15 to 24.
A rise in the incidence of anorexia has occurred in young women ages 15 to 19 in each decade since 1930.
The incidence of bulimia in 10 to 39 year old women TRIPLED between 1988 and 1993. Only one-third of people with anorexia in the community receive mental health care. Only 6 percent of people with bulimia receive mental health care.
Fifty percent of American men don't like their overall appearance. Whereas in 1972, it was only one in six men who didn't like his body.
Source: National Eating Disorder Association
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