The Independent-News, Volume 120, Number 12, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 August 1994 — Page 12

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS - AUGUST 4, 1994

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New School Lunches In Theory Is A Good Idea Bye-bye, burgers and fries. Hello, grilled chicken, pasta and tossed salads. The federal school lunch program goes on a low-fat, high-fiber diet starting in 1998. But will school systems across the nation have the time, money and facilities to carry out the new requirements? “I think the new guidelines are going to be good for the health of our children, but I think they are going to be difficult to meet in the school food service system,” said Alyce Fly, a nutritionist and an assistant professor at Indiana University's Department of Applied FOR RENT Banquet Hall For WEDDINGS - RECEPTIONS LARGE A SMALL PARTIES We Can Accomodate Large Groups PLENTY OF PARKING VFW Post 1954 656-4684 North Liberty

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Health Science. The proposed changes include limiting total fat to 30 percent of daily calorie intake and offering more foods rich in fiber, such as fruits, vegetables and grain products. Unfortunately, many foods that fit the new guidelines tend to be expensive. School food services traditionally have purchased less expensive commodity foods — canned vegetables and fruits, peanut butter, cheese and meat — through government surplus sources. Entrees made with such commodities tend to be higher in fat. Also because of the limited number of commodities available, menu diversity and creativity is slim. When the school lunch program was established in 1946 to combat malnutrition, less was known about the dietary impact on development of chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer. "We’re providing them with a lunch at school that does not reflect the habits that we want them to have,” said Alice Lindeman, an associate professor in the IU Department of Applied Health Science. Not only will school food services see increased costs with their grocery bill, but many are simply unequipped to prepare the food recommended by the new guidelines. Some don’t have kitchens with

their cafeterias, but instead, holding facilities. The food is prepared in a central location and arrives before lunchtime. "As a result, they are restricted to the types of food that they can serve," said Fly. Os course, all good intentions are valuless if kids, in search of a highfat fix, take off for a burger place at noon. Both Lindeman and Fly say the solution is to plan menus that are appealing enough to keep older kids around and to attract younger ones to a low-fat, high-fiber diet. Giving low-fat foods top billing might help sell such meals to youngsters. For instance, the government requires that fluid milk be available. Out of tradition and convenience, many schools only offer whole milk. But Lindeman mentions that it could be kept in a cooler separate from the counter that sells 2-percent or skim milk. If a child wants whole milk, they will have to specially request it. CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE METEOR KIND LEFT SIX-MILE IMPACT IN INDIANA Jupiter’s collision with comet fragments hurtling toward the big planet’s surface have stirred interest from our smaller but wellinhabited planet in its own cataclysmic encournters with heavenly objects. One of them occurred amid the flat farmlands of northwest Indiana, creating one of the state’s strangest geologic features. "There’s little question it was a meoeor impact,” says geophysicist Gary Pavlis, associate professor in the Indiana University Department of Geological Sciences, who investigated the area near Kentland in Newton County, near the Illinois border. There, Pavlis said, is a circular crater about six miles across and 100-200 feet deep and a central uplifted area, which is characteristic of impact with a large meteorite. "The outline of the crater is circular and clear," he said. The uplifted center — known as the "Kentland Dome" — is where the meteorite slammed into the surface. The rocks were suddenly compressed by the impact and rebounded upward explosively, fracturing all the surrounding rock and pulling up a layer of limestone that had been far below. Additional layers of rock that normally would be embedded 1,800 feet below the surface are instead on the surface in a vertical position. Other rocks at the impact site were vaporized, he added, and cracks in surrounding rocks filled with "rock flour," a powder left over from rocks pulverized by the force of the meteorite collision. Pavlis also discovered many "shatter cones" in the area, which are cone-shaped rocks formed when a large force is suddenly applied to them. Poorly-shaped shatter cones are found at sites of dynamite explosions, for example. The sharper the cone shape, the more powerfill the impact. Those at the Indiana meteorites site, Pavlis says, are almost perfectly shaped. The earliest nails were made about 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Artists used them to fasten sheets of copper to wooden frames to make statues. The worst prison would be a closed heart. — Pope John Pall II FOR RENT NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY CENTER AIR CONDITIONED Renting For All Occasions 300 S. Main Street Phone 656-4134 11593

LOCAL STUDENT IN OFF-CAMPUS STUDY PROGRAM Byron Craft, of North Liberty, a senior at DePauw University, is studying in London, England. The London program combines liberal arts studies with an opportunity for cultural enrichment and travel. Craft, a 1991 graduate of John Glenn High School, is the son of David H. and Pamela M. Craft, 201 S. William Street, North Liberty. Founded in 1837, DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, is a selective coeducational, liberal arts university with nationally recognized academic programs. DePauw guarantees graduation in four years for students in 40 standard programs, or the University will waive tuition and fees for any subsequent course work necessary for graduation. Fortune magazine in 1990 ranked DePauw 11th among all colleges and universities in the nation in terms of the likelihood

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that its graduates will become chief executive officers of top American companies. DePauw ranks 12th in the nation among private liberal arts colleges and universities as the baccalaureate source for Ph.D. degrees in all fields, according to a 1990 survey by Franklin and Marshall College. JOURNALISM STUDENTS GAIN PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE Three St. Joseph County residents were among 62 Ball State University journalism students to complete internships during the 1994 summer semesmter. Students gained job experience working for corporation, organizations and the media. Kevin South, Walkerton, worked for Electro-Voice, Buchanan, Michigan, marketing services. South is a senior journalism major with an advertising emphasis. He is the son of John and Diane South, 103 Grissom Drive.