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THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LOVE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mila Kunis arrives for the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 12 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Celebrity crushes go beyond appearances
ANDREW HOSKINS
entertain@kansan.com
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Celebrities often seem like unreachable, impossibly beautiful super-beings. If you ask around, it seems like almost everybody has a crush on at least one. This concept sparks a commonly asked question that frequently triggers debates on campus: Who is your celebrity crush?
This surface-level concept may go a bit deeper than mere attraction to celebrities' looks. When carefully picked apart, it can cause new questions to arise: Are we attracted to celebrities in the same way that we're attracted to our significant others or peers? When we have a seemingly endless selection of near-perfect people to have crushes on, do we pick based solely off looks, or does the attraction ever go deeper?
DeSoto freshman Lars Erickson said he feels a connection to his celebrity crush, Anna Kendrick, mostly because of her voice and laid back style.
"Her voice is like an angelic wind whispering through my heart," Erickson said. "I follow her on Twitter and her posts excite my heart. They show she has a unique personality. She has 2 million followers but she's not afraid to show her goofy side."
Relationship counselors Linda and Charlie Bloom wrote in a February 2013 Psychology Today article that, beyond looks, attraction is based around a person's "capacity to bring more healing, passion, peace, exuberance, ease, fulfillment or joy into our life." The article goes on to claim that the vast majority of people enter adulthood with a sense of emotional insufficiency and a diminished sense of self. People often enter relationships with people they feel will fill these voids and provide emotional fulfillment to their lives. Professor and Director of KU Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Dr. Elizabeth Penick said a celebrity crush may stem from a similar need.
"If that uniquely melded image [celebrity looks and personal] touches some sort of longing or desire or lack in the individual, then a crush is formed." Penick said.
The thought of celebrity crushes filling some emotional void is not necessarily the all-encompassing rule. For Austin Haugh, a senior from Olathe, his crush on Mila Kunis stemmed from looks, but also from being impressed by her acting resume.
"She's had a variety of roles, from TV shows like that "That '70s Show' to Hollywood movies,"
Despite the existence of people's non-shallow feelings for their celebrity crushes, looks play a very important role in the attraction process. According to a September 2013 Huffington Post article, physical attraction stems from a combination of factors, from symmetrical faces to the eye and hair color of your opposite-sex parent.
Haugh said. "I find it attractive that she's been able to make this jump and play such a variety of roles and bring both her humor and sincerity into them."
Emily Harsh, a senior from Topeka, said her attraction to James Marsden bloomed mostly from his looks.
"I could stare into his eyes all day." Harsh said.
Penick said she thinks celebrity crushes start with a basic attraction to looks, then allure to the celebrity's personality manifests.
"I would estimate that looks do play a primary role," Penick said. "After looks comes the persona that the celebrity is attempting to project, for example macho versus sensitive for men or provocatively sexy versus strong and virtuous for women. Then, the theory goes, the individual puts those two things together in his or her mind to form a uniquely melded image."
- Edited by Brook Barnes
CAMPUS
Architecture students construct lecture hall
HALLIE HOLTON entertain@kansan.com
The front office of Marvin Hall has recently been blocked by the construction of an addition to the building. The students involved in this addition are part of a class called Studio 804, which is taken by fifth year architecture students who are building the project entitled The Forum.
"It will be a place of education and exhibition," Gaunt said
What the Studio 804 students are building this year is something Marvin Hall has been in need of for a while. The idea of The Forum is something Gaunt has had in mind for the past 10 years.
The dean of the School of Architecture, John C. Gaunt, said it is a unique opportunity that students within the school are building an addition for the school.
Currently architecture students have to go all around campus for their lecture classes. The Forum will be a lecture hall as well as a commons for the architecture school.
"It will be a place of education and exhibition."
JOHN C. GAUNT Dean of architecture school
“[The Forum] will really change the culture of our school” said Charles Linn, director of communications for the School of Architecture.
This new part of Marvin Hall will provide an opportunity for students within the architecture school to showcase their work, learn and grow from one another.
The completion date for this project is still uncertain due to complications with the weather.
The architecture program has a long tradition of "thinking and making" Gaunt said. The Forum is a continuation of that tradition, seeking to better the overall culture of the school.
Last year's Studio 804 students built the EcoHawks Research Facility that is located out on West Campus. For more information on The Forum and Studio 804, visit theforumku.info.
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FASHION
Nyong'o, Leto appear together at Prada show
Edited by Alec Weaver
PARIS — Upstaging a Louis Vuitton show is hard, but somehow Miuccia Prada managed it, thanks to Lupita Nvong'o and Jared Leto.
The Oscar winning pair — whose exact relationship is the subject of speculation
— were both invited by the Italian designer to attend her plastic-wrapped fall-winter Miu Miu show in Paris.
And if that wasn't enough attention-grabbing, Nyong'o had to move seats in order to fit a tardy Rihanna in the Miu Miu front row.
But the ghost of Marc Jacobs' Louis Vuitton past lurked.
Meanwhile, former Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquiere gave an admirable debut at Louis Vuitton attended by Princess Charlene of Monaco, Catherine Deneuve and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Here are details about the last day of the ready-to-wear shows.
LUPITA NYONG'O AND JARED
LETO ATTEND PRADA'S MIU MIU
Even before Jared Leto thanked "my future ex-wife Lupita" in a speech at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, there's been speculation that he and fellow supporting role Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o have been an item.
The "12 Years a Slave" actress has laughed it off — most notably on The Ellen Show — but has not denied it.
SHOW
Now, to further fan the flames, both stars were at Paris' Miu Miu show at the same time — and both nursing jet lag.
Nyongo, who said she "really liked the show," looked radiant in a clean Miu Miu jacket with an off-white sparkling embroidered collar.
But Leto wore shades and admitted he was exhausted.
"But it's the best kind of tired you could ever imagine," he said, avoiding comment on the relationship rumors.
MIU MIU'S SPORTY PLASTIC
WRAP
With a pinch of irony, Senora Prada wrapped the entire show venue — Paris' Environmental Council — in non-biodegradable plastic.
WRAP
It was full of young, fun and colorful suggestions on how to keep warm and dry during fall and winter.
Or waterproof sheer red hooker boots that somehow remained classy were mixed up with skiing shades and quilted pastel ski jackets.
Not all the looks worked, but there were some great black and white fur maxi coats.
See-through pale blue PVC skirts came alongside a bright yellow raincoat with sporty tassels.
Besides, you have to admire this iconic designer's talent. Who else could mix a classic pale yellow pleated silk skirt 1950s with a multicolored see-through anorak and still make it work?
KANSAN COMICS
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