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Don't understand how people stay in law over the summer without working or taking classes. What do you do? Why are you here??
All dresses need pockets!
Window shopping at a mall is one thing.
Window shopping at garage sales is just sad.
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Maybe if you hadn't started on DAY 89...
Government, what are we going to do with you?!
You can catch more flies with honey,but you catch more honeys bein' fly.
I'm glad there's a YouTube video with Blake Griffin explaining the lyrics for "trap queen."
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View faith as a relationship, not a religion
Before I came to college, I went to church every Sunday. Throughout my childhood I went to youth group, and I even spent a few years working in my church's childcare facility. But when I went to college eight hours away from home, in a different state, and only knowing two other people, my habits of being involved in a church began to fade.
I am sure that others have gone through the same struggle: the difficult balancing act of school and a social life along with keeping true to your faith. But as Miley Cyrus said, "Going out doesn't make you a bad person. Just like going to church doesn't make you a good person." Just because you don't go to church or pray every night before you go to bed does not mean that you are straying from your beliefs. When trying to decide how to act out our faith on a daily basis, we should look at it as a relationship, not a religion.
When I began to look at my religion as a relationship with God, things started to change. I looked at Him as a friend, rather than some high-up figure in the sky who would strike me with lightning if I didn't
church. Regardless of your res beliefs, think of your higher as you would your childhood end. If you talked to your the same way every day and from the same things, your re- p would lack depth and be if you saw them only once a Sunday for two hours and had so much to share with you, you just sat there and focused not falling asleep, that would art any friend's feelings. Both of these things apply to how we pray or spend time with the higher being that we believe in.
Once you make the ideological shift from looking at your faith as a religion and instead looking at it as a relationship, you also tend to care more about how you live out your beliefs. Going to church no
longer seemed like a chore; when I could go, I was excited. Praying was no longer something I did before every meal, but throughout the day whenever I needed to vent or ask for help. Because that's what friends are for, right?
I have nothing against churches or organized religion. But I do believe that in order to strengthen and fully embrace the hope and love that religion offers to millions of people, we must look at it as a relationship rather than a chore. When this change occurs, what was once a god that condemned you when you forgot to tithe becomes your ultimate best friend.
Anissa Fritz is a junior from Dallas studying journalism and sociology.
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Do black lives matter at KU?
Cassandra Osei
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Do black lives matter at the University of Kansas? This is a question I have routinely asked this past year. I have demanded an answer from the chancellor, the provost, Student Senate, the University Daily Kansan, KU Athletics, the University Honors Program, the Undergraduate Advising Center, friends who are no longer friends and fellow peers. I never get straight "yes" or "no" answers. Instead, I receive "suggestions" that are non-verbalized "no's."
Today, I received another negative suggestion. As the Office of Multicultural Affairs is one of the few spaces endowed with integrity on campus, they were the sole University entity to issue a statement on the June 17 Charleston terrorist attacks. Typically, they are the only University entity to state any kind of concern or solidarity for marginalized students on campus. They are always the first and the last to issue statements on police brutality and state-sanctioned violence against black people. The OMA was also the sole University center that offered its space to all Universityaffiliated individuals to come for
support, dialogue, and community discussion over the Charleston terrorist attacks. Non-OMA affiliated groups on campus usually applaud the OMA for their efforts in providing safer spaces for their marginalized students on campus. I also applaud the OMA staff; their names are Precious Porras, Cody Charles, Mauricio Gomez, Camille Clark,
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