Volume 124 Issue 113
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
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BOY- That's terrible, baby. Do you want me to punch her in the throat or kick her in the groin?
GIRL- Punch her in the throat.
GIRL- I would keep doing it, but I want to keep my butt muscles.
GIRL- You know what you need right? Butt padding. Pad the butt.
PROFESSOR- Men have breasts, they're just not outies.
GUY 1- It's not like a horse won't be packin'.
GUY 2- My hernia acted up just as you said that.
GUY 1- I don't know, it was just like a giant soccer ball and a bunch of people with tasers.
GUY 2- How does that work? What do you do?
PROFESSOR- Go start the grammar revolution.
GUY 1- I guess everyone just runs around tasing each other.
HUSBAND- This might sound dumb, but do you know what swag is? I keep seeing people posting about it, it's really popular.
about it, it's really popular.
WIFE- Oh, yeah — It's when people give out free shirts and hats and cd's and stuff. Swag. Kids love free stuff.
What do you know about... the queer uncanny? //KELSEA ECKENROTH Researching the family concept
Milton Wendland, a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, is developing a notion called "the queer uncanny." In Wendland's work, queer means non-normative. Uncanny is a concept created by Sigmund Freud, who Wendland says, was interested in uncanny as something that causes us to repeat ourselves both in language and behavior.
Wendland's research focuses on the movie "The Wizard of Oz," the book "Mysterious Skin" by Scott Heim and the city ordinance called The City of Lawrence Domestic Partnership Registry, which allows any two people to register as domestic partners. By looking at how certain elements in each of these repeat or are illogical, we see how certain concepts
aren't as stable as we would like to think they are. Wendland uses the example that most people see the "The Wizard of Oz" as a happy movie about finding your way home, but Wendland says when you actually trace Dorothy's words and actions, you find that Dorothy learns there is no "home," and what really happens is that Dorothy unconsciously creates the trouble that takes her away from Kansas.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Milton Wendland
Wendland's queer uncanny approach suggests that the concept of family can be many different things at once and is unstable. "If you survey people and ask them what a family is, most people say a mom, a dad and kids. That's a nice ideal, but not the truth. Not everyone has the same family structure," Wendland says.
Leslie Asquini, a senior from Overland Park, says her family isn't what the majority of people would consider "normal," but to her and her family, they are a perfect family. "To me, having a perfect family means having lots of communication and a healthy, supportive and structured environment," Asquini says. We should let family be multiple things, rather than giving it one definition.
because they are more motivated and ravenous when they play teams that BCS schools.
It's hard for a big name program like Kansas to get motivated to play against a mid-major team even if it's for a trip to the Final Four, as fans saw last season. Not to discredit VCU's performance against Kansas, but Kansas played its worst game of the season, shooting 35.5 percent from the court, 9.5 percent from behind the arc and a paltry 53.6 percent from the free-throw line. Statistically, Kansas was awful, but the team's effort and energy was just as bad. The Jayhawks were simply flat and lethargic. They simply overlooked and undermined Cinderella.
If Kansas played against a BCS school instead of a mid-major in last year's Elite Eight game, I firmly believe that they would have played much better and advanced to the Final Four.
The Jayhawks have what it takes to go all the way, but they also did last year. Cinderella is waiting, and Jayhawk Nation hopes that her slipper won't fit this time around.
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"Going into the season, a lot of people didn't have faith in us because we lost so much last year," junior guard Travis Releford said Monday afternoon. "But if you think about it, all the guys that are playing, we've been here a while. We know what coach wants and we know how to run the system."
The Jayhawks earned the tournament's top seed for the ninth time in its 16-year existence and are looking to capture their 13th Big 12 tournament championship.
A head-scratching loss to Davidson in December made Bill Self question just how good his team was, but a 16-2 league record and eighth consecutive conference regular season championship re-assorted Kansas as the cream of the crop in the Big 12.
Releford said the team has had something to prove since the beginning of the season because of doubting fans.
"I haven't been defending how I was at the start of the season and I feel that going into post-season that I can step it up a lot more," Releford said. "He knows that I can be that guy that can step up and stop someone on the opponent's team."
He's stressed the importance of finding a "defensive stopper" on numerous occasions and admitted his words were a message to a few players.
The team is 19-2 since that loss to Davidson but Self thinks the team still has room for improvement heading into postseason play.
Self said great defense was all about a person's mindset, not something a team can just decide to practice one week and magically get better at. He thinks Leeford, junior guard Elijah Johnson and senior guard Tyshawn Taylor can all improve defensively.
But the month of March brings more than just on-court adjustments.
"I think distractions have
"It would be great," Self said. "Because that means we won two games."
In the short term, the biggest distraction might be the talks of a possible meeting between Kansas and Missouri in the tournament championship Saturday night.
things I probably won't about more than anything else."
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Junior guard Travis Releford drives into the lane during the second half of a game against Missouri earlier this season. The Jayhawks could face the Tigers again in the Big 12 Tournaments.