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A McDonalds quarter pounder with cheese con-sists o 510 calories and 26 grams o at. A small ordero potato ols rom Taco Johns has 439 calories. Withmenu items like these constantly enticing students,it should be no surprise that the Centers or DiseaseControl and Prevention last recorded that Nodaway County had an estimated 29 percenet o its adult pop-ulation considered obese.

It is no secret that college li e can, at times, be hec-tic and overwhelming. Many Northwest students grow used to sporadic eating habits and minimal hours o sleep, which both take their toll on a healthy body.Getting ewer than seven hours o sleep each night cancause changes in hormones that result in an increaseo appetite, according to the Mayo Clinic.

I think it is very easy or a person to gain weight in college, junior Donnie Merriman said. We are stu-dents who are always on the go. We need something o convenience, and convenience comes with calories.

Washington University School o Medicine in St.Louis conducted a study in 2005 that showed that 70percent o students gaina signi cant amount o

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Students in the education department are seeing new changes be-ing made to teaching standards across the country.

The National Governors Association Center or Best Practices andthe Council o Chie State School O cers collaborated to orm theCommon Core State Standards Initiative, which aims to better educatestudents in the United States.

In 2010, the NGA Center released the names o 47 states that agreedto sign on to the program in support o the state-led process towardsdeveloping common English-language arts and mathematics stan-dards. The decision was made by the governors in an attempt to makestate test scores more consistent.

The governors, rom their level, said that what we need is a com-mon set o standards, and that, coming rom them rather than the ed-eral government or the U.S. Department o Education, was a better t,associate pro essor Cynthia Malm said.

Historically in this country, a national curriculum has never beenanything because o local control, and this looks to be a good alterna-tive.

The Common Core Standards

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Anxiety. Uncertainty. Panic.Its spreading across the campus

due to recent higher education cutsand is in the back o many aculty members minds. In an attempt tobegin to crawl rom the darkness,the University is looking to makeup a $4 million plus loss by gettingrid o programs, departments andaculty.

Last week, University President John Jasinski and Provost DougDunham met with Faculty Sen-ate President Je Thornsberry todiscuss the ormation o an ad hoccommittee ocused on a reductionin orce outlined in chapter two o the Faculty Handbook.

According to Dunham, the las t time the University needed to re-sort to the Reduction in Force sec-tion in the Faculty Handbook wasthe 1991-92 school year.Its just a tremendous amount o uncertainty, Thornsberry said.(People are wondering) is it my department thats going to beeliminated? Is it my major? Am Igoing to be suddenly out o a joba ter having been here or seven,10, 15, 20 years and developed a ca-reer here?

Those are the questions onpeoples minds, but Dunham saidthat or now, no one can be sure.

Were operating under theassumption that the 12 and a hal percent cut will stick in the end,Dunham said. I you look at his-tory and what a governor has pro-posed and what ends up becominglaw, its 99 percent o the time what the governor proposed.

So, were operating underthat assumption. Each (Northwest Leadership Team) member hasbeen working and developed someinitial dra t plans rom where they believe cuts, realignments, reorga-nizations are necessary.

Once the plans or academicand nonacademic cuts are created,they are sent to their respectivecommittees. The academic plan ishandled by the Reduction in ForceCommittee, and Dunham said they hope to have the plan dra ted by next week. From the Reduction inForce Committee, the plans go totheir speci c department or eval-uation and response.

The ultimate decision lies withthe Board o Regents. Dunhamsaid Jasinski wants to give themeverything, a ull report, all at onceso they can make the decisions to-gether. They are aiming or the re-gents March meeting, according toDunham.

Our plans will involve pro-grams and personnel; theres just no way to do it to get to the $4 mil-lion, and we have to do that, Dun-ham said. The big context here isthat our state appropriations havebeen cut almost $8 million overthree years, and thats 25 percent o our state appropriations.

In Thornsberrys mind, the ac-ulty are the magnet that attractsstudents and helps the University

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JEssi ALLisoN | Nw MissouriANNurse begins to administer a flu shot on Wednesday at the Unversity WellnessCenter. Warm weather does not mean we are protected from diseases such asthe flu. The University Wellness Center offers flu shots for your protection.

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Sneeze. Cough. Sni . These aresounds that every student dreadshearing rom their roommate orsomeone sitting next to them in class. While the fu has not been as preva-lent as usual around campus so arthis year, fu season is not over yet.

I dont think weve seen (fu

season) yet, Judy Frueh, University Wellness Services clinical supervisorand womens health nurse practitio-ner said. I think its probably on its way.

While the warm weather haspeople thinking that winter is over,un ortunately, the peak season or the

fu is typically not until February orMarch. Students should not breathea sigh o relie quite yet, as fu seasonmay be just around the corner.

I think its probably just becausethe weather has been so nice lately,and it hasnt been nearly as cold,senior Joshua J. Smith said. People just dont typically get as sick whentheres not as much butt- reezingcold snow.

That seems to be the popular ideaas to why there has not been as muchsickness this year. The weather hasbeen unseasonably warm this win-ter, and that may be a big reason why the fu has not shown up yet. Whenit is cold, people tend to stay indoorsand in closer contact with people

that are sick. With the above reez-ing, shorts-wearing weather, morepeople are enjoying being outside inthe resh air.

All preventative measures shouldcontinue, including getting plenty o sleep, taking multi-vitamins, drink-ing plenty o water, washing handso ten and staying away rom peoplethat are sick. More in ormation about the fu, precautionary measures andhow to identi y it can be ound onthe Northwest Wellness Services siteunder Pandemic Planning.

We just need to continue to beon the lookout and continue to besa e, Frueh said. We may bypass it altogether, but thats historically not what has happened.

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Third grade practicum student Tiffany Fry helps students at Horace MannElementry School on Tuesday.

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SIZING UPNODAWAY COUNTYCollege students tend to fall intolifestyle of poor diet, exercise

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Obesity is a problem across the U.S.. Nodaway County has a high obesity rating of 29 percent. Poor diet and lack of exercise are contributing factors to weight gain. This issue spills over into the college life at Northwest.