Volume 128 Issue 78
Kansan.com
Monday. February 16, 2015
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KU STUDENTS TURN TO SOCIAL MEDIA FOR RELATIONSHIPS
KWANG HYUN
@Chwangwiti
These days, many students find it easiest to talk to their crushes through social media. Whether messaging them on Facebook or "sliding into their DMs" on Twitter, communicating through social media has become a common precursor to an actual date.
Jordan Cook, a freshman from Austin, Texas, had an experience meeting someone through social media before.
"Originally, I was going to go to Arizona State and it so happened that a girl from Austin, Texas, was also going to Arizona State as well," Cook said. "So she messaged me and we hit it up from there."
Cook said the date was like an actual date. He said he was glad that the person was actually normal.
It seems like it's more reasonable to meet an actual person who you are interested in through social media. As the years pass by, people have become more open to the idea of online dating.
1 met my boyfriend through Twitter," said Danielle Latza, a sophomore from Lindenhurst, Ill. Latza said they began to develop a serious relationship after her boyfriend asked her to
hang out on Twitter.
"I definitely do think Twitter played the biggest factor in our relationship," Latza said.
Datingsitesreviews.com shows that six out of 10 Americans use social networking services.
"I definitely do think Twitter played the biggest factor in our relationship"
DANIELLE LATZA Sophomore fromLDenhurst. hind
According to the website, 33 percent of couples today have met online, and the number is expected to increase to 70 percent by 2040. The statistics show that the success rate of dating someone online is increasing.
Liz Marsh, a senior from Chanute, had an experience dating someone through social media before.
"I think people can match better through social media because you can see what they are like, such as interests and hobbies before you actually meet them," said Marsh. "It's definitely becoming a social trend and I think it's going to be like this more in the future."
HEARD ON THE STREET
MCKENNA BROWN
Best date: I got taken from Lawrence to Kansas City and we went downtown to a really nice steak dinner
**Worst date:** "Going to Steak and Shake. I've been on a lot of dates to Steak and Shake, weirdly enough I love Steak and Shake, but I've been on like 20 different dates to Steak and Shake."
JOSHUA ROBINSON
Best date: 'It was very simple. We went to the movies; saw a great move, then went out to eat somewhere cheap, not expensive like Chipote. We went back to my house and just talked for a little bit.
Worst date: I took a girl to an amusement park and it was hot and it was sweaty and she didn't like the rides and I didn't either. It was very frustrating"
GRACIE COPELAND
Best gift! My ex-boyfriend gave me a gorous diamond heart necklace.
**Worst gift!** I an e-cig, and I don't smoke and I just do not do it and he thought it would be a good idea to give me an e-cig. So That was the worst. And I came home and my dad was like What'd you get? and I was like Dad I got an e-cig He was like Uh, you done."
GARRETT FUGATE
Best gift: I got this really cool tulip for my partner last year. We are no longer together but I was away for Valentine's Day. I was out of town for a conference, so I got him a tulip it was really pretty because it hadn't bloomed yet."
*worst gift:* "I don't think I've ever had a worst gift."
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When Chrissie Noriega joined Queers and Allies last year, she was already contemplating a name change for the campus LGBT group. To her, it was limiting. Not every transgender person is gay. She knew the name would keep some people, including other on-campus groups, away.
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"The word queer was seen as divisive, and some people didn't take that on as an identity," Noriega said.
At her urging, the group renamed itself Spectrum and is working to engage a wider audience that truly lives up to the name. In the past year, the group has led discussions about LGBT Muslims and violence in
"We have to be working together, because a lot of times social justice organizations are working towards the same goal, but with their own means," Noriega said. "I don't want anyone to feel left out of what we're doing, so I work with other people and try to bring them into our community."
LGBT communities and hosted a viewing of the film "Pariah" with the Black Student Union. It also encourages attendance for other organizations' activities, such as The Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity's Trans+ Remembrance Day Candlelight Vigil.
Noriega said she was raised to believe everyone was equal. In her Queens, New York, home, she watched her father do the laundry
"I think I had a hole in my clothes, so her mom took it and was going to fix it and I was like 'Oh, my dad does that!' and they were like 'What? Your father can't do that, that's women's work.'" she said.
Noriega said being raised in an egalitarian family motivates her to change the perception of gender norms here in Kansas.
"I'm a feminist and an activist, a lesbian [and a] social justice advocate," she said.
Mitchell Cota, Spectrum's
and make lunches. He even taught her to sew. She didn't realize that was unusual until she had a conversation with her friend's mother in fourth grade.
SEE RIGHTS PAGE 2
Statehouse for LBGT rights
Index
CLASSIFIEDS 12
MBB REWIND 13
PUZZLES 6
SPORTS 14
JAMES HOYT
@jamesihoyt
On Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered on the south lawn of the Kansas Statehouse to protest Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's Executive Order 15-02. The rally was organized by
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Wichita-based LGBT rights coalition Equality Kansas and featured state representative John Carmichael (D-Wichita) as a keynote speaker.
The Valentine's Day rally was organized in response to an executive order Brownback declared Feb. 10, which revoked workplace protections given to state employees on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This makes it legal for state employees
"This Executive Order ensures that state employees enjoy the same civil rights as all Kansans without creating additional 'protected classes' as the previous order did. Any such expansion of 'protected classes' should be done by the legislature and not through unilateral action," Brownback said in a statement last Tuesday.
to be discriminated against if they identify as LGBT. The order reverses protections that former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius put in place in August 2007.
Carmichael expressed his support for the demonstrator's cause and informed them of his plans to advocate for the LGBT community in the legislature through his sponsorship of House Bill 2323, which aims to reinstate the protected classes.
Daisy Tackett, a University freshman from Jacksonville. Fla., said she attended the rally because she has friends who identify as LGBT.
Catholics were banned from the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies. Catholic clergymen could be put to death in Massachusetts by law in 1647. Gov Brownback, that's your adopted religion," Meade said.
Equality Kansas Chairwoman Sandra Meade drew comparisons to past instances of discrimination in American history to criticize Brownback's policy in front of the crowd.
"We heard about this protest and we all just wanted to come and support equality," Tackett said.
Today is the last day to add or swap a class.
— Edited by Samantha Darling
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