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It's 8 am. and I'm on campus and I'm drunk.
See all the United Students stuff on campus today? It all violates the campaign laws that they introduced and passed. Is that the kind of leadership you want? Absolute belligerence.
You know when you go to class and the professor turns on the M.I.A. "Paper Planes" video that it is going to be a good class.
I think I might need life rehab
Guys, it's gorgeous out. Unless you're on crutches, you shouldn't be taking the bus from Naismith up to campus. And I see no crutches.
--rude reductions in his operations, and any further decrease in funding will adversely affect students. These cuts represent a direct threat to the value of higher education.
--rude reductions in his operations, and any further decrease in funding will adversely affect students. These cuts represent a direct threat to the value of higher education.
To all the campers: if you don't need an electrical outlet, don't take an outlet spot.
Attention to squirrels everywhere: Beware, they will find you.
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I'm going to need everybody to turn your iPods over and make sure my name is not engraved on the back. If my name IS on the back, please call the number below it.
Clue: Mrs. E's. We don't remember the rest of it.
Seriously, the McDonald's Filet-o-Fish commercials need to stop. They're doing serious psychological damage. Ugh!
I'm outside studying because it's such a beautiful day, and I look over and see this guy doing martial arts or something right in the middle of the lawn by Budig, and now I can't study anymore because I'm laughing too hard.
I'm laughing too hard.
To the girl who forgot to wear a bra and is a 36C: You're awesome. People like you make me want to be a better person
--rude reductions in his operations, and any further decrease in funding will adversely affect students. These cuts represent a direct threat to the value of higher education.
The one-night stand has turned into an engagement ring
EDITORIAL BOARD
Students should monitor threatening budget cuts
A substantial cut in state funding for higher education next year has forced the University to make considera tions in its services and
This year, the state reduced funding for higher education by 4.25 percent, a $6.5 million cut for the University, leaving it with no choice but to reduce the number of course sections, delay technology upgrades, shorten museum hours, limit departmental office supplies, back on equipment purchases and trim a myriad of activities, including guest speakers.
Lynn Bretz, director of University Communications, said student services were expected to suffer cuts first because the removal of academic programs took longer to carry out. One cut the University has to make is to the Learning Communities program, which contributed a collaborative setting to facilitate student learning.
As these reductions occur, the University will receive more cuts in the budget for fiscal year 2010, and if, as predicted, the cuts exceed 7 percent, the effect on students will
"Similar programs will help close the gap, but it still represents the loss of a program that benefited students," Bretz said.
KANSAN'S
OPINION
get situation and the consequences the University will face. Richard Lariviere, provost and executive vice chancellor, talked through what the possibility of an additional increase in budget cuts of as much as 15 percent would mean for the University.
be much more severe.
On Feb. 20, Chancellor
Robert Henneyway
held a brownbag
legislative forum to
explore the state bud-
"It's possible for an institution like this to adapt, not always successfully, but to adapt nonetheless," Lariviere said. "What we're looking at this year and next year is a really traumatic acceleration of that process, and because it's so accelerated it's not possible for us to adapt in a normal manner that we would do."
The University relies on only 23 percent of funds from the state Legislature, and Lariviere said the donations, outside grant funding, tuition and fees together would not be sufficient to make up for such an abrupt loss.
Matthew Shaw, junior and senior CLAS Student Senate member, said he knew higher education
had been hit particularly hard and
he expected a raise in tuition.
"I would be surprised if they didn't raise student fees," Shaw said. "Especially because the freshman class that came in were guaranteed a flat rate on each class, so they're ineligible to have their tuition raised. It's the juniors and seniors that will have to worry."
The University has left vacant about 110 faculty positions, resulting in more limited course offerings and increased class size.
Bretz said that in the end, students should be aware of the strain deep cuts will put on tuition. The provost and chancellor said higher education must do its part to help the state address these budget issues, but the plans must be balanced and practical.
Higher education systems are certainly important and uphold the potential of a quality, affordable education to students.
"First and foremost, students should pay attention to discussions in the Legislature about funding higher education." Bretz said. "If you are a Kansan, talk with your parents and discuss ways your family can voice support for higher education."
Nancy Wolens for The Kansan Editorial Board
STUDENT LIFE
TYLER DOEHRING
Stay classy, spring-breakers
I was going through a file CNN tape for a class when I stumbled on a spring break story the channel ran back in 2003. I forgot what the general point of the story was, but it began by characterizing my hometown (Lynn Haven is three minutes from Panama City Beach, Fla.) as a "modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah," while showing college students gyrating on each other at bars down on the beach. Scantily clad and inebriated folks of both genders were shown running up and down the mile-long stretch of beach that houses spring break. They were all screaming at the camera, announcing their holiday.
I know spring break is coming soon and your brains are full to bursting with the need to cast caution, scruples and articles of clothing to the wind in favor of "kickin' it wild" for a week. By all rights, you've earned it. Clearly the goal of higher education is to squander you. This year, however, I'm prostrating myself in front of you, pleading: Don't let lazy and irresponsible journalists or profiteers get the best of you this year!
"WHOOOOO SPRING BREEEEEAAAAK!"
I've seen this story played yearin, year-out at the expense of both college students and town residents. The city's populace is always shown as a bunch of negligent morons with no control over
Having lived as both, I really don't feel as though either stereotype is warranted. Do we, as our proud nation's future, really want to be depicted as petty, vapid, spoiled assholes? I say we stick it to CNN this year by showing them how utterly classy we can be. I know that I, for one, will be wearing at least a monocole for the entire break. I also plan on making a reference to reading New Yorker magazine whenever camera crews are around.
their town. College students always come off looking like immature, perpetually inebriated wastes of life.
But I'm a townie! They won't take me seriously! I encourage you, my fellow students, to follow my lead. Act as vainglorious and reckless as possible off-camera, but be classy gents or lasses whenever cable news/local news/Joe Francis shows up to take advantage of said vaingloriousness and irresponsibility. When a reporter comes by to tape you drinkin' and dancin', debate the necessity of nationalized banking with them! When Joe Francis asks you to expose yourself
(Side note: Francis won't be in Panama City. He's banned for life for statutory rape. However, I'm sure he'll be at other spring break y locales, and I understand he also loves jawing about third-world economic policy.)
for a cheap T-shirt, explain to him the importance of President Obama's choosing Dennis Ross as his advisor on Iran!
Unfortunately, I'm operating on the base assumption that everyone will party significantly harder because I wrote this. Such is life. Spring break essentially runs Panama City Beach's economy anyway.
I will make one serious note. Pick up your garbage for at least just this week. Last year there were beer cans, unused condoms, dip cans and all manner of liquor-themed Mardi Gras beads floating up in the surf for weeks after everyone had left. I'm sure a number of adorable, snuggle, endangered animals probably died horrible beer-can related deaths. They were probably otters or some equally cute, largely aquatic carnivorous mammal.
I realize it's your God-given right to be lazy and careless for this one week per year, but please, think of the people who kinda like Bay County. It's a damn nice area that I'm rather fond of.
Neubauer is a Lynn Haven, Fla., senior in journalism.
MUSIC
Hip-hop must retain its roots
Hip-hop is the youngest of all major music genres, with techno as the likely sole exception. Yet to most of those in our generation, hip-hop has been around since before we can remember. MTV began playing Dre and Biggie videos in 1992 and 1994, respectively, which to many of us is around the same time our first memories occurred. The result is that many in our age group today identify hip-hop only with what they have seen and heard in the last decade or so, as opposed to taking into consideration what values the music and culture were originally rooted in, as well as how and why these values have changed since helping the culture to flourish in its earlier days.
This "golden age" of hip-hop, as it is often referred to, lasted for approximately a decade. It was at this time that the hip-hop mainstream seemed to become more and more popular on a national scale. American suburbia and its youth became immediately enamored with hip-hop's arrogant and rebellious image and, began snatching up as many 2Pac and Wu-Tang albums as they could find. As expected, this vast amount of consumer spending did not go unnoticed by corporate America.
The appeal of hip-hop to America's youth was undeniable, and companies across the nation quickly recognized its great financial potential. You can picture the cartoon dollar signs
Born on the south side of the Bronx in New York, hip-hop made its debut in the late 1970s and early 1980s at block parties and on street corners. Using tattered amplifiers and the most primitive turntables (by today's standards), pioneers such as Afrikaa Bambataa and Kool DJ Herc led the way with feel good break beats that inspired simple rhyming by local performers. This new, invigorating brand of music was all about having a good time, and by the mid-to-late '80s, much of the nation's youth were listening to such groundbreakers as Run DMC, LL Cool J and Big Daddy Kane, among others.
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Hot Pick:"Save Ya" by Elti
Classic Cut:"Above the Clouds" by Gang Starr
Underground Classic:
"We Get Down" by Apathy
In the hip-hop world, everything revolves around and is meant to reflect authenticity and reality. Consequently, the hip- hop artists who were generally perceived as having the "realest" reputation were approached by international corporations with enormous endorsement deals, and hip-hop began to sell out for millions in highly successful campaigns.
Though it originally surfaced as an esoteric subculture grown out of music, graffiti and fashion, hip-hop evolved into a highly exposed and highly influential movement with its own subcultures that continue to thrive to this day. Hip-hop's influence on the world as a whole will continue to expand exponentially. But in order to maintain its popularity, it must stay true to its own authenticity and the reflection of reality that has made it perennially successful. In short, the publicized and designated diplomats of hip-hop must embrace their global influence without selling out hip-hop's values to such a degree that the culture no longer reflects what made it so socially revolutionary in the first place. Peace.
lighting up in the eyes of the suits at the board meetings. Hiphop became the ideal way for brands to reach a sought-after audience consisting of ferociously independent youth.
Coldham is a Chicago senior in journalism and English.
FROM NEW YORK
Spending less vital to students
The Daily Orange
JANAE DERUSSO
The Dow closed at below 7,000 for the first time since 1997 on March 2. Whether you follow the stock market or not, you can imagine this is not positive news.
While a significant portion of students have not yet had to concern themselves with finding full or even part-time employment, it is important that students make it a priority to regulate their spending now.
"Save money" tips have been spouted before. Don't order so much takeout. Make popcorn and rent old movies rather than going to the movie theater. Buy fake Uggs instead of real ones.
The situation is much more serious for many students.
Pressure to make money to afford tuition and housing leads to schedules laden with hours of employment that would otherwise be devoted to studying or other college activities.
Spring break is next week, and it can be a notorious wallet-empier for students. Students should remember to reconsider extra spending during vacation. "Stay-cations" aren't a bad option.
However you choose to spend your money, spend wisely. Keep track of all purchases and see how many truly unnecessary items you buy in a week. Maybe you are already a responsible spender. If not, a list of each $4 magazine and $3 coffee may make you come to realize you have some work to do.
-UWire
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