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VOLUME 121 ISSUE 104
Number of STIs rising in Kansas
BY ANNA ARCHIBALD aarchibald@kansan.com
Alyssa sat nervously with her boyfriend in the waiting room. She had waited six months to get tested, and she was finally in the Lawrence Memorial Hospital's gynecology department. A nurse called her name and she — and her boyfriend
proceeded into the small office.
Sensational sixth
protected into the small Nearly half a year before, Alyssa, a junior from Lawrence, found out that her boyfriend of two years had cheated on her - with a girl infected with herpes.
"They used a condom, but I didn't want to take the chance that he had gotten it and then I would get it," she said.
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Alyssa, who didn't want her last name used, isn't alone in her concerns about her sexual health. In 2009, more than 3,000 students received sexually transmitted infection testing at the University's Student Health Services for a variety of reasons, including routine testing, said Mai Hester, marketing coordinator for SHS.
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Douglas county generally has one of the highest STI rates in Kansas, next only to Wyandotte and Sedgwick counties.
Because of the increasing number of sexually transmitted infections in Kansas, sexual health continues to be an issue not just for students but for Kansas residents as well.
Elise Bolton, a senior from Lawrence, gets standard STI testing every time she
Coppedge said the rate of chlamydia has gone up every year since the 1990s. The department is still compiling numbers from last year, but he said the state is expecting a 14 percent increase in the number of people who tested positive for chlamydia in 2009.
"This is the first year we're above 10,000 cases in the state," said Derek Coppedge, director of the STD Section in the Kansas Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention. "We are really pushing for all women 25 and under to be screened for chlamydia."
Coppegede said chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis are the only "reportable" STIs in Kansas. An STD has visible physical symptoms, but an STI is an existing infection that may or may not have any symptoms. Even without the visible symptoms, Coppegede said many complications still arise and can cost a lot of time and money. According to a report by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, 4,710 cases of chlamydia, 1,244 cases of gonorrhea and 37 cases of syphilis were reported from January to June 2009. Most of the cases of all three STIs occurred in 20- to 24-year olds.
He said the department didn't assume one gender is diagnosed more often than the other, but that the physiology of women causes them to have more complications from the diseases.
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COOKING LESSON
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Rebecca Lo, a senior from Coffeyville, left, and Krista Gampper, a senior from lola, prepare food during an international cooking class at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building last night. The class learned how to make several Southern Indian dishes. Guest cooks lead the sessions which cost $5 to attend.
Students acquire international taste
BY NANCY WOLENS nwolens@kansan.com
March 8: Irish
March 22: Vietnamese
April 5: Traditional Italian
April 19: Island Cuisine
May 3: Egyptian / North African
Jasmine rice, vegetable samosas.
Indian spices and aromas filled the air as a group of 22 students received the assignment for their first hands-on cooking lesson. Team eggplant, team onion and the rest of the teams threw on their aprons to concoct a homemade Southern Indian meal.
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Classes meet from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Center.
A-BROAD COOKING CLASSES
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FINE ARTS
Local dance team wins awards for hip-hop,jazz at competition
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The Flare, a local competitive dance team, won first place in the hip-hop division at the National Dance Alliance All-Star Competition on Saturday.
Wins secure bid for championship
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BY BRENNA LONG blong@kansan.com
A little flare went a long way in Dallas this weekend.
Flare Dance Team, a local competitive dance team, placed first in hip-hop and second in jazz at the National Dance Alliance All-Star Competition.
"We were really happy about everything." said Marja Edwardson, a 2007 KU graduate from Eden Prairie, Minn. "It was a good showing."
Made up of 20 hip-hop and 12 jazz dancers, the team also received the innovative choreography award in jazz, the sportsmanship award in hip-hop and two bids for the National Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship in April.
Edwardson said the women competed against five other teams in their division with co-captains Edwardson and Sammi Zuber, a 2008 KU graduate from Eden Prairie, Minn. More than 80 teams from across the nation competed, according to the NDA website.
compete against year after year, so we knew they were good," Edwardson said.
Before the judges critiqued performances on Saturday and Sunday, each team spent 20 minutes on Friday perfecting routines in the performance room. The practice time helped the team work out spacing issues and gave new members a chance to see the stage, Edwardson said.
"We see a lot of the teams we
"We were feeling very confident and excited at that point," she said. "We were definitely nervous, but excited."
every night, often until 11 p.m.
"I would be exhausted when I would come back, and I would still have all my homework to do," said Jordan Hinmon, a freshman from Leawood. Hinmon joined the team last fall.
To get ready for the competition, the team practiced almost
"I have danced all my life, so it would have been different to just stop," she said.
Since its start in 2002, Flare has won multiple competitions. including the National Collegiate Cheer and Dance championships in 2004 and 2008.
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