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VOLUME 123 ISSUE 73
PILLOWTALK
Score As by getting plenty of ZZZs
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
Michelle Hansen, a senior from Victoria, said she planned to rely on two things to survive finals week: coffee and studying. In other words, sleep would not be a priority, as she is reserving only about four hours for sleep each night.
"That's all I'll have time for," Hansen said.
However, Jenny McKee, a health educator at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said sleep would be crucial during finals week if students wanted to reach their full potential. McKee said many students thought they were the most productive when they pull all-nighters to study. However, McKee
said research shows students who get more sleep typically get higher grades. Here's why: The human body commits most facts to memory when it's asleep, and that memory formation can only happen at a certain time of the sleep cycle. McKee said. Alternatively, if students don't get adequate amounts of sleep, they wouldn't be able to file facts away properly.
"If you get an inadequate amount of sleep, you might be able to remember something, but it might be difficult for your body to recall it quickly, or it might only remember part of the answer," McKee said.
What's more, McKee said an individual's mood is directly affected by sleep. If students get adequate sleep, which means about seven
hours, then they would feel energized and alert.
A bad mood, though, might do more damage than just make students seem grumpy. McKee said sour attitudes make it unlikely that students would be able to focus on anything, much less studying.
"When we're cranky, every molehill feels like a mountain, and every mountain seems like the Himalayas," McKee said. "It's best to meet basic needs first, and then it'll be easier to tackle those bigger things inch by inch rather than vard by vard."
Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said it takes only a few minutes of planning each day to avoid sleep deprivation. McKee suggested that students make a
manageable to do list at the beginning of each day. Then, at the end of the day, students could catch some uninterrupted z's without worrying about things they forgot to do.
Quinlan said she knows that some students find themselves unprepared during finals week and have no choice other than to pull all-nighters. For these people, she had some advice: Take 20-minute power naps.
"Even if you don't fall asleep in those 20 minutes, you still helped your body reenergize, and it will make a big difference," Quinlan said.
—Edited by Emily McCoy
Getting regular sleep during finals week is very important. By getting adequate sleep, a person is more energized, alert and communicates better. This can help students to get better results on tests.
Photo illustration by Sarah Hockel/KANSAN
Surprise!
Chris Bronson/KANSAN
Recording artist Jason Mraz performs an impromptu concert on the main floor of the Kansas Union on Friday night. Mraz contacted Student Union Activities on Thursday and told them to keep the visit a surprise. "This was just arranged yesterday," Mraz told the crowd. "Surprise! My managers even asked me if I was stopping anywhere, and I was like, 'nope.' Mraz said he wanted word of mouth to be the only advertising to let students know of his performance. Even so, nearly 100 students showed up to see him perform."
ATHLETICS
Rumors, but no announcement, about new AD
BY STEPHEN
MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor@kansan.com
The leader of Kansas' athletics director search committee said Sunday he had "no idea" whether University of Tulsa athletic director Bubba Cunningham was in Lawrence as speculated.
Ray Evans, who leads the
10-person committee, said the committee is closer to making a selection but is still unsure on when that announcement will occur.
One of those candidates is said to be Cunningham, who was thought to have been en route to Lawrence on Thursday, but a
"A lot of this isn't just our time line but who we're talking to," Evans said.
didates, has pared the field down to about three. Evans said the committee is at a sensitive point in its search and cannot disclose much, and said any speculation on how many candidates remain or who they are would still be a guess.
plane from Tulsa actually carried fans attending the night's men's basketball game against UCLA.
SportsByBrooks.com, a national sports blog, tweeted Saturday that Cunningham was in Lawrence with his family. "Likely his call if he wants the job," the tweet continued. Evans said it would be fair to guess that the committee, once said to have met or talked with several dozen can-
Edited by Kelsey Nil
CAMPUS | 3A
Jewish community celebrates
The Chabad Jewish Center gathered in South Park Sunday night to light a nine-foot menorah in celebration of Hanukkah. The annual holiday celebrates people's right to practice their religion of choice.
Journalists from all over the world streamed in live on Skype on Saturday with associate professor Simran Sethi's Diversity in the Media class to discuss media-related topics.
Diversity class hosts summit
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | 10A
Road game against SMU ends in 73-65 win for Kansas
MEDIA | 6A
The Jayhawks are 8-0 and one step closer to their goal of being undefeated in non-conference play. After last game's record-breaking high score, SMU was was more of a challenge.
TECHNOLOGY
Additional funding will help initiatives to improve Internet
Students complained about login queues lasting up to 15 minutes throughout the fall semester. IT implemented minor changes to base images about a month ago. A computer's base image runs its operating system and applications.
Despite the improvements, students most likely didn't notice faster login times, said Ann Ermey, director of service management and delivery at IT Services. She said IT couldn't do more during the semester without being too intrusive.
IT officials to fix wireless and login problems
Students can expect to see computer login times faster by about three and a half minutes on campus libraries after winter break, information technology officials said.
Ermey said IT would continue working on base images during winter break. She said technicians would replace Windows XP with Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system released last October, on every computer in Anschutz and Watson libraries.
IT will also upgrade wireless Internet in Anschutz during winter break as part the Learning Studio project. Ermey said IT was still on schedule to have those improvements completed before classes started on Jan. 21. The upgrades would improve wireless access throughout the libraries.
BY MICHAEL HOLTZ
mholtz@kansan.com
Smith also said he met with IT and University officials about creating an IT student advisory board next semester. The board would help decide how to spend money raised by a $10 per credit hour technology fee implemented this semester.
The additional money would be used to further improve wireless access in Anschutz, said Student Body President Michael Wade Smith. He said those improvements would be completed during winter break in addition to the ones scheduled as part of the Learning Studio project.
Edited by Anna Nordling
Goddard said the fee was originally collected to pay back the Provost Office for half its initial investment in wireless improvement projects. The Provost Office initially spent $2 million on the projects.
"Wireless technology has evolved tremendously since the original infrastructure has been in place," Goddard said in an e-mail. "This additional allocation will simply allow us to move forward more quickly with the end result being very positive."
The Provost Office will allocate $868,152 to help fund additional wireless Internet projects on campus, said Diane Goddard, vice provost for administration and finance and interim chief information officer. That money was raised as part of a $5 wireless fee paid for by students each semester since fall 2006. The fee is set to raise $1 million before it expires in 2011.
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