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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014
arts & features
HOROSCOPES
Because the stars
know things we don't.
Gemini: May 21 - June 21 You're going back and forth about a romantic situation, unsure about which way to turn. Maybe you're attracted to somebody, but you're unwilling to risk getting hurt and heartbroken again. Honor your true feelings.
Aries: March 21 - April 19
Your confidence is super high right now, thanks to the moon.
Even if you're just an average looking Joe or Jill, you'll be projecting charisma and oozing sexuality everywhere. If you've been hoping to attract attention from a certain someone, now is the time to strike.
Cancer: June 22-July 22
As social planet Mercury moves into a friendly sign, you're ready to come out of your shell. You'll say "Yes" to all of those party invitations you've been getting. You'll make plans to go away with your friends this winter on vacation. It's good for you to get
Taurus: April 20 - May 20 Mars is making you impatient with maintaining the status quo. If you and your honey have been dating but avoiding any major commitment, you'll want
to make a big change
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out there and circulate.
Leo: July 23 - Aug. 22
A business or career situation has you preoccupied just now,
and you need to apply yourself to advancing your position.
Jupiter is reminding you that sometimes you need to put your personal life to the side so you can deal with more practical matters.
Virgo: Aug. 23 - Sept. 22
You might need to confront someone who has been taking advantage of you. The sun is showing you that even if you care about someone, it's not right to let them drain you, abuse you, or otherwise harm you. Stand up for yourself.
Libra, Sept. 23 - Oct. 23 The moon is reminding you that keeping everything to yourself sometimes just makes you feel more lonely and isolated.
Scorpio: Oct. 24 - Nov. 21
Relationships are going through some big shifts as Venus encourages you to focus on quality, not quantity. Don't attempt to date fourteen people at once when just one special sweetheart will do. Try not to be so scattered with your sexual
energy.
Sagittarius: Nov. 22 - Dec. 21 You could receive some good news about your career or education as Jupiter shines its light on you. Maybe you'll finally get that raise or promotion. Perhaps you'll be admitted into a great training program. Share your achievement with your home.
Capricorn: Dec. 22 - Jan.19
An intense full moon is bringing a lot of pent-up emotion to the surface. If you've been casually dating someone, maybe it's time to get more serious. Or if you've had your doubts about your partner being healthy for you, voice your concerns now.
Aquarius: Jan. 20 - Feb. 18 You could be contemplating a career change as Jupiter stirs up some restless energies. As an Air sign, it's important for you to feel challenged and inspired by your work. Brainstorm with your partner about how you might manifest your ideal job situation
Pisces: Feb. 19 - March 20 You're analyzing a complicated relationship, taking note of its undercurrents and shadow aspects. Mercury is encouraging you to keep thinking about love in a deep way. Don't assume that the surface side of a
that the surface side of a romance is its only dimension.
KU Nourish fundraises for trip to Peru
RYAN MILLER
@Ryanmiller_UDK
海沧渔场
KU Nourish International, a student organization, is starting its fourth year on campus and plans to take its next project oversees to the Moche Valley in Peru. The club's focus is to impact poverty on a global scale. It works on engaging students to impact communities by doing various things, from improving health conditions to taking part in local women's empowerment groups.
Brogan Britt, a senior from Abilene and current chapter leader, said this is the first time the chapter is sending KU students abroad, since last year the club didn't have enough students commit to going. The money raised last year was still given to the chapter's partner, MOCHE, Inc. to do prep work such as diagnosing the water system. This needed to be done in order for KU students to implement the project this coming summer in Lima, Peru. Nourish is trying to send 12 volunteers to Peru this summer for five weeks, from July 1 to Aug. 5.
Britt said the organization puts on fundraisers and related ventures throughout the year. The chapter uses the money to then implement a specific project abroad over the summer. In its first two years, the club went to Accra, Ghana, and worked on a women's empowerment sustainable project. Last year and this year however, the club chose to work with a project in Peru.
This year the chapter is doing a sanitation project, so it is primarily focusing on health through building latrines
and putting on a health fair in Lima. Britt said she is excited to send volunteers to Peru to make an impact on the poverty and get hands on experience.
"You get to see the difference that it makes in people's lives, and just to be a part of that and be part of understanding their culture and developments. It's just really inspiring." Britt said.
"it's really encouraging to see that our work is making a difference."
BROGAN BRITT Chapter leader
Britt said the club does different types of fundraisers for the project month to month. For the month of October, the chapter partnered with Etkie and sold 'Free Her' bracelets, which were made by formerly trafficked women in Mongolia. For this month, the club is doing a tailgating event outside of the football games on Nov. 8 and 15, where they will be doing activities such as face painting and sign making. Britt said the club tries to do something every month that is a venture for raising money. Nourish needs to have its fundraising finished up and turned in by July so that members are able to go to Peru on time.
Amber Halliburton, a sophomore from Olathe and the social media chair for Nourish, said she is helping to sponsor both the club and trip to Peru. She said improving the sanitation in Moche Valley and helping out more
communities than her own is inspiring.
"I'm trying to get more people interested," she said. "The more people we have, the bigger difference we can make."
In addition to fundraising this year, Britt said the club will be on Wescoe a couple times to talk with students. This is Britt's third year with Nourish after joining as a sophomore. "I was looking for an organization that works with global issues," she said.
Britt said she has stuck with Nourish because of its values, where the club focuses on working with the community.
"We're not going there pretending to be their savior," Britt said, "Typically the community knows what needs to be fixed."
She said they work with the community, let the community make decisions, then Nourish helps out with the resources and manpower.
Last year, Britt worked with MOCHE, Inc. and went with another Nourish International chapter from Emory University. They worked in the rural community of Ciudad de Dios and did a women's empowerment focus. This included helping women in the production of their products, building playground equipment and building stoves made out of adobe bricks.
Britt said the project in Peru came about through a combination of the Nourish national office and the MOCHE, Inc. group; both located in North Carolina. Nourish International has around 60 chapters nationwide and in Canada, and the national office in North Carolina provides
Britt said one of the United Nation's goals set in 1990 was to cut extreme poverty in half, and that goal was already met, five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.
individual chapters with a list of organizations that meet the list of criteria for potential projects.
Africa before, we like to switch it up," Britt said.
After following a set of criteria focused on sustainable development, Britt said they chose to work with MOCHE because they really wanted to help make an impact on poverty in the Moche Valley in Peru.
"Since we have gone to
"It's really encouraging to see that our work is making a difference," Britt said.
Edited by Miranda Davis
Chris Rock pokes fun at terrorism in controversial SNL monologue, sketches
Ebola, terrorism, Taylor Swift ... no topic is safe from the risk of being reduced to a comedic sketch on "Saturday Night Live." This past Saturday, host Chris Rock proved this to be true within the first few minutes.
During Rock's opening monologue alone, he made light of heavy matters such as the Boston bombings, noting the irony in being told to "run" once the bombs exploded, as if running in the 26-mile marathon wasn't exhausting enough. He also cracked jokes about 9/11, saying how he will never go inside New York City's Freedom Tower since it resides where the World Trade Center towers once stood, not wanting to take the risk.
While shows such as "Family Guy" and "South Park" are known for pushing the envelope, viewers not only accept the bold and cheeky comedic scenes, they expect them to be present in every episode. When such humor is executed in an unexpected manner though, to a less suspecting audience, the jokes are accompanied with both uncomfortable laughter and controversy.
Us Weekly questioned whether Rock's monologue was "too soon or comedically edgy," while the debate defaulted to Twitter, the social media site that seems to only add fuel to the fire behind most debates
recently.
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While the opening monologue moved on within minutes, the topic of terrorism presented itself yet again in a "Shark Tank"-themed sketch, in which Rock appeared as a member of the terror group ISIS. In the sketch he said, "Genocidal regimes are a very tricky business," once again reducing sensitive subjects to playful punch lines.
Sometimes, adding humor to a situation can lessen the intensity and spread awareness by involving those who would otherwise remain uninterested in the issue at hand. Last week on campus, for example, members of Campus Ministries USA stood their ground on Wescoe Beach, shouting out obscenities while promoting the notion of abstinence. Students took a stance against the group, handing out bingo cards, bibles and hugs in response to the vile remarks being made. While the presence of Campus Ministries on campus itself wasn't new, the reaction from students was.
Though terrorism and abstinence fall at seemingly far ends of the scale from one another, they're both heated issues nonetheless. Pushing boundaries and creating controversy are often highly beneficial promotional tools, but when it comes to fusing humor with appropriation, is there such a thing as bad publicity? Controversial content intends to generate a response, and as students demonstrated last week, it doesn't always have to be a negative one. How we choose to react to such content can often be more powerful than the content itself.
- Edited by Alex Lamb
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