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TUFSDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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5 Exist
8 Ban-shee's cry
12 Incite
13 Harry Potter's pal
14 English river
15 Andirons contents
17 Earthenware pot
18 Public health org.
19 "Let me think ..."
20 Milk dispenser
21 Vast expanse
22 Chances, for short
23 Adipose
26 — of the peace
30 “Arrive-derci”
31 Trench
32 Fine
33 Jiminy, e.g.
35 Act segment
36 Youngster
37 Stir-fry pan
38 Nympn pursuer
41 Vote seeker, for short
42 Spinning stat
45 Met melody
46 One way to get rid of junk?
48 Prognosticator
49 "— Impossible"
50 Census data
51 Difficult
52 Born
53 "Why not?"
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Syne”
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e.g.
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pop
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mate
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times
21 Locale
in Upton
Sinclair's
"The
Jungle"
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23 Airwaves watchdog org.
24 Melody
25 Mai —
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28 Tin container
29 Storm center
31 Roulette bet
34 White wine aperitif
35 Auctioneer's call
37 Declining
38 Miss America's attire
39 Vicinity
40 Layer
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42 Anger
43 Entreaty
44 Netting
46 Yang counterpart
47 Put into words
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Maroon 5 portrays woman as prey in 'Animals' music video
LYNDSEY HAVENS
@LyndseyAlana
INTERSCOPE RECORDS
The question of publicity vs. problematic often arises in the entertainment industry. There is, for lack of a better term, a blurred line between what constitutes as attention grabbing and what is appropriate, the latest example being the music video for Maroon 5's new hit song, "Animals." "Animals" is the second single off the band's fifth album, "V," released Sept. 2.
Later last month, on Sept. 29, the music video for the track was released, placing the song in a drastic and startling visual context. The video, which has now garnered well over 13 million views, has created frenzy among media. The Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) deemed the video a "stalkers fantasy."
In the video, frontman Adam Levine portrays a butcher "preying on" or stalking his love interest, played by his real-life wife Beati Prinsloo. While the connection between the character of a butcher and the song's title "Animals" seems plausible, the disturbing disconnect occurs when viewers realize the animal being hunted is in fact
a woman.
As sexual assault remains a prominent and sensitive issue on our own campus, it's important to note that this issue pertains not only to students, not only on college campuses, but on a national level as well. Whether through Obama's "It's On Us" campaign or through a twisted music video from a poprock band, the matter is being widely discussed. When such a well-known band creates and delivers a piece of work relating to such a pertinent and serious matter, it's only natural that people are going
to not only pay attention,but they are going to react.
This past Saturday, Oct. 4, Maroon 5 was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. The first of the two songs the group performed was, to little surprise, "Animals." The red leather jacket Levine wears while performing is the only on-stage resemblance to the gruesome video, in which a shirtless and tattooed Levine sways from a rack of carcasses and makes out with his wife as what appears to be blood pours over them.
When the song is taken out of context from the stalker
storyline of the video, listeners have little reason to take the literal meaning of preying on a human as serious. If we can take a stance on the issue of sexual assault on a local level, on our very own campus, then we should hold ourselves responsible for promoting our stance on a national level as well and to promote visually appealing rather than appalling content. As for Levine, the only thing he should be hunting down is better concepts for his music videos.
- Edited by Miranda Davis
Robert Morris University bets video game scholarship can draw talent
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted.
His grades tanked. His parents fretted.
A few years later, the 20-year-old from the San Francisco area leads a team of headset-wearing players into virtual battle in a darkened room at a small private university in Chicago. He's studying computer networking there on a nearly $15,000 a year athletic scholarship — for playing League of Legends, the video game that once jeopardized his high school diploma.
"I never thought in my life I'm going to get a scholarship playing a game," said Chung, one of 35 students attending Robert Morris University on the school's first-in-the-nation video game scholarship.
Once regarded as anti-social slackers or nerds in a basement, gamers have become megastars in what are now called esports. In professional leagues, they compete for millions of dollars in prizes and pull in six-figure incomes for vanquishing their enemies in what have become huge spectator events packing tens of thousands into sports stadiums around the world.
Games have evolved from the days of Pac-Man and Donkey Kong into something much more complex. They demand hyper mental acuity and involve multiple players communicating with each other in teams, plotting strategy, predicting opponents' moves and reacting in milliseconds.
Robert Morris, a not-for-profit university with about 3,000 students, believes those are not so different from the skills one uses on a football field or a basketball court and that spending money to recruit these students, too, will enrich campus life and add to its ranks of high-achieving graduates.
"I never thought in my life I'm going to get a scholarship playing a game."
YOUNGBIN CHUNG Scholaship recipient
Hundreds of other colleges and universities have esports clubs, but Robert Morris is the first to recognize it as a varsity sport under its athletic department. The scholarships, which cover up to half off tuition and half off room and board (worth a total of $19,000 in a typical three-quarter academic year) are for a single game, League of Legends, in which teams of five on five use keyboards and mouses to control mythical fighters battling it out in a science fiction-like setting.
"It's coming; it's coming big time," Associate Athletic Director Kurt Melcher said of the esports trend and what he's sure is its looming recognition by a bigger chunk of the collegiate sports world.
The first practices started last month in a $100,000 classroom outfitted with
an expansive video screen, computers and an array of eye-dazzling gaming paraphernalia.
The space is dimly lit and window blinds are drawn to keep glare off monitors. In the darkness, dozens of students wearing microphone headsets flit fingers and thumbs over the controls with blistering intensity and concentration. Death comes in a multitude of forms and is often sudden. Accordingly, the hum of game chatter is punctuated by the occasional whooping cry of victory or anguished sigh of defeat.
The Robert Morris Eagles will play teams in two leagues that include the likes of Harvard and MIT with hopes of making it to the League of Legends North American Collegiate Championship, where the members of the first-place team
take home $30,000 each in scholarships.
Melcher dreamed up the scholarship idea while searching online for the video games he used to play.
Some soccer players were bemused, but he said there was no real pushback from the university, which already has scholarships for everything from bowling to dressing as the mascot.
Some 27 million people play League of Legends each day, according to developer Riot Games Inc.
This year's professional championship is Oct. 19 in Seoul at the stadium South Korea built to host the 2002 soccer World Cup. The 45,000 seats are expected to sell out. The top team will take home $1 million.
The traditional sports world is still trying to figure out what to make of the phenomenon.
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