For a quick update on the flood situation, Spoden recommends the U's climatology Web site, which posted the NWS' first quantitative forecasts of flood probability Feb. 28, drawing on many NWS stations around the state. This morning's posting includes a warning that the Red River has a severe snowmelt flood potential from Wahpeton, N.D. to the Canadian border, due to the high water content of snow on the ground. Check it out for more than 3,000 events, lectures and meetings hosted by the U each year. Included are art gallery openings, schedules of sporting events, ticket prices, campus maps, detailed parking information and an eight-year prospectus of planned U events. Each event will be linked to the sponsoring unit, department or college for more information.
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In a study of 36,000 Minnesota public school students in grades 7 through 12, the researchers found several risk factors for low consumption of dairy foods, including being female, nonwhite and of low socioeconomic status. Dieting was strongly associated with low consumption, as were dissatisfaction with one's weight, school grades of C or less and low family connectedness. The findings are of concern in light of the risk for osteoporosis, especially among older women, that comes with inadequate calcium intake. Theatre production in Rarig Center. At 8 p.m., desperation and desire explode in a U Theatre production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger , on stage in Rarig's Nolte Xperimental Theatre through March 14.