UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 14, 1996
5A
Diners' eyes are bigger than their tummies
By Dave Breltenstein
Kansan staff writer
Take all you want but eat all you take
It seems obvious, but every day KU students wait in line for dinner at residence hall cafeterias, only to throw away what they had been waiting for. A large amount of food is wasted daily at the Ekdahl Dining Commons and in the cafeterias in Oliver and Gertrude Sellard Pearson-Corbin halls. But students seem to be doing little to reduce the amount they throw away.
"I'm not sure if students are consciously thinking about it when they eat," said Nona Golledge, dietitian for the department of student housing "We just need to educate more students about it."
Golledge said dining hall employees had put information on tables urging students not to take as much and explaining why they should not throw away as much.
Last year, a study by the Association of University Residence Halls found that an average of eight ounces of food were wasted a dinner.
The dining halls serve an average of 2,400 dinners each night during the week, which amounts to 1,200 pounds of food that nips up in the garbage daily.
"There's always the purpose of decreasing menu items to reduce waste, but we don't want to do that," Golledge said. "We'd rather have a customer-education programming event and make it fun."
She said dining hall employees received training on proper serving sizes so students were not served portions that were too large.
Dinner is the meal where the most waste is generated. Gollledge said.
"At breakfast and lunch, students are on a busy time schedule, so they don't have enough time to go back for seconds," she said. "At the beginning of the year with new students, they like to sample more and throw more away. In the second semester, students already know what they like."
Mike Markley, Derby junior, said he ate almost everything on his plate at Oliver Hall's cafeteria. He knows what he wants at breakfast and lunch, but dinner is different, he said.
"Dinner is always a mystery," he said. "You take your chances if you'll like it or not, but if you don't like it, it will probably end up in the trash."
Markley said some foods tasted better than others, so he usually took larger portions of his favorites. But if he is unsure about a new product, he samples it first.
"I don't take too much food because I don't like to waste it," he said. "I consider myself a friend of the environment."
Mollie Mangerich, operation supervisor for Lawrence's department of waste reduction, said about 5 percent of the city's waste comes from food.
"While it's not a huge part of the waste stream, it is still a large portion that can be reduced," she said. "But it's up to the individual to decide how much food they want to take and how much they want to throw away."
Librarian writes a book on books
By Kimberly Crabtree Kansan staff writer
Books have become so much a part of our culture that many people may not even notice them.
But Richard W. Clement said he was convinced that the book is a controlling facet of our civilization. That's how the Spencer librarian came to write The Book in America, which details the history of the relationship between American culture and the printed word.
Clement autographed copies of his new book for a handful of readers yesterday during a book signing at the Mt. Oread Book Shop in the Kansas Union.
Information for Clement's book, which costs $39.95, came mostly from his teaching background. As a courtesy associate professor of English, Clement teaches a class each spring on the history of the book.
"In a way, books are also a time machine, because they let us communicate with people long dead," he said. "I would almost bet there isn't a household in America without written material."
Richard W. Clement, a Spencer librarian, conducted a book signing at Mt. Oread Book Shop in the Kansas Union. Clement signed copies of his new book. The Book in America, yesterday after noon. The Book in America discusses the history of the printed word in American society and costs $39.95.
The Book in America includes many rare photos, book covers and graphics from the Library of Congress. It also includes a few photos from the Spencer collection. The foreword to the book is written by James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress.
Clement started writing the book after a representative of Fulcrom Publishers called him with the idea. The representative had heard from a friend that Clement taught about the history of the book, and the publishers were interested in publishing a work on this topic. Clement's work is one of a series of Library of Congress
Classics available from Fulcrum.
Although this is Clement's first book, he has edited six collections of essays. He has started working on his next book, which will discuss the book on the American frontier. He said he hoped to have that manuscript completed by the end of the spring semester.
Ruth Lichtwardt, an assistant buyer for the Mt. Oread Book Shop, said the book
shop had requested Clement do a signing at the store.
"I saw in a catalog that his book was coming out, so I asked him if he would come over when it came out," she said.
Midnight snacks don't add weight
Dietitian suggests yogurt and cereal as late-day munchies
By Megan Jordan Kansan staff writer
zine, these fears are unfounded.
The study reported that women who consumed more than 50 percent of their daily calories after 5 p.m. were no heavier than those who ate less at night.
It's midnight. You're starving. But you have visions of eating and then waking up the next morning weighing 50 pounds more than when you went to bed. But according to a study conducted by Tufts University and published in Self maga-
Ann Chapman, dietitian at Watkins Health Center, explained why this made sense for both men and women.
"Bottom line is how much you eat in a certain day vs. how much you burn off," she said.
Chapman said that as long as students planned their eating schedule to include late night calories, they would not gain weight. As a matter of fact, if students eat dinner at 6 p.m. and stay up until midnight, Chapman said their bodies probably need nourishment because their blood sugar is low.
Lindsey Lang, Albuquerque, N.M., freshman, said hunger pains were not the only reason that students snacked late. Eating is a fun social activity and a good excuse for a study break, she said.
Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that students indulge in midnight meals. Gumby's Pizza, 1445 W.23rd St., does the majority of its business between 1 and 3 a.m., said Bud Anderson, Gumby's employee.
He estimated that on the average week night, the store sold roughly 100 pizzas
during this time. On a weekend, the number might be as high as 150.
"After midnight it's probably 95 percent student orders," Anderson said.
Although it's OK to eat at night, Chapman suggested avoiding high-fat foods such as pizza. It is more difficult for the body to break down these foods. Chapman said frozen yogurt, graham crackers, cereal or hot chocolate were better options.
Even if she doesn't eat a greasy pizza, Lang said she still felt guilty for eating at night.
"It's late night, so you know the food's going to stay there," she said.
George Clooney begins boycott of TV tabloid show
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — They're the so-called video paparazzi, or in some circles "stalk-arazzi," who earn a living hounding stars and selling footage to an ever-increasing slew of tabloid television shows.
*ER star George Clooney simply doesn't want to take it anymore.
Olooney has refused to do interviews with Entertainment Tonight and Hard Copy, which are both produced by Paramount Pictures Television Group, after Hard Copy aired a segment about his girlfriend, Celine Balidran.
Clooney was particularly angered because the segment broke a deal the actor had with Paramount Television president Frank Kelly to keep him off Hard Conv.
"I understand I'm a celebrity,
Clooney said. "I make a good living, I don't ask anybody to feel sorry for me and I don't expect anyone to.
"But I think that we all should be afforded certain civil rights, and some
of them are you can't put bounties on people's heads and have people try to jump in your window for $300,000 to get a picture of you and your baby," he said, referring to Madonna's recent delivery.
Clooney's boycott of Entertainment Tonight, which unlike Hard Copy relies on celebrity cooperation for its interviews, has gathered steam with support from Whoopi Goldberg, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Demi Moore and Steven Spielberg.
Following telephone conferences
with Clooney and other celebrities, Paramount executives implemented guidelines for such coverage.
The executives said their shows would reject footage in which the subject was harassed to provoke a reaction, footage that shows the celebrity's home address, unauthorized footage of celebrities or their children in the privacy of their homes, or footage known to be illegally obtained.
Cloney said, "I don't want to belittle what has happened, what Paramount was willing to do. I think it's great. But
if it were just left up to its own devices, I don't know that anything would change and there would be any difference at all."
Freelance videographer Alan Zanger, who has sold footage on a regular basis to Hard Copy, said he had followed those rules anyway and that they would not affect the way he nabbed celebrities.
Although he won't reveal how much he earns for each video, Zanger said it was anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars.
Zanger criticized Clooney's movement, saying he was just using his clout against something that serves a celebrity-hungry public.
Although Clooney's campaign targets Hard Copy, he said he would like to see tabloid TV in general clean up its act.
Plus, if Hard Copy doesn't want the video, he said, someone else will.
"The point is you fight a war basically one battle at a time, and that's the only way you win and get inroads," Clooney said.
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