TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2014
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opinion
Do I remember most of the things I learned last semester? No. Do I remember the chorus of a song I learned in kindergarten? Yes.
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Burger as big as my hangover.
Just saw someone practicing on the practice field. Glad to know that we have at least one person using it.
I get really tired of hearing about diversity. Color doesn't make you a diverse campus.
To the Royals hater, all we do is win
Hopefully the people in Hong Kong fighting for democracy will encourage students to vote in the November election.
I managed to cover my skin with sunscreen, but I still came out of this weekend with sunburnt lips. Ginger problems.
Since when is Missouri State in the Big 12 conference?
I've been hit by a car as a pedestrian because the driver ran a red light. My solution? No more old people driving! Grey Dawn!
You have two choices when getting dressed for the day. Freeze your butt off in the morning or burn up in the afternoon.
No, an entire fraternity is not being targeted for the actions of an individual. The fraternity is being targeted for fostering a culture and environment where sexual assault is allowed. A disproportionately high number of sexual assaults are connected to Greek life and the university is trying to curb the problem by cracking down on the houses where it
down on the houses where it happens.
play real-life Frogger.
Speaking as someone who got hit by and car and walked away, a car speeding down the street is more responsible for an accident than a pedestrian whose only choice is to live forever.
You know what my coffee would taste good with? No class.
The person complaining about the Royals is like a grain of sand in a sea of blue.
Fraternities are campus organizations so if they're going to create environments in which sexual assault can happen then yes, it's necessary to punish the entire fraternity.
I bet this won't be FFA of the day.
Pumped for Late Night!
Everything is Halloween and nothing hurts
I've always wanted to hijack a school tour.
Faculty has responsibility to address sexual assault
The Department of English wishes to take up the challenge issued by the September Siblings and other students to examine the institutional climate in which sexual violence has been able to cause widespread and too often unknowledged suffering. Specifically, we wish to answer the call made by Alesha Doan, chair of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and co-chair of the Sexual Assault Task Force to follow these students' courageous example and continue to speak out. It is our responsibility as a community to keep breaking the silence, to draw attention to the pervasive patterns of sexual violence which our culture tolerates, to call for and actively support
changes in policy and implementation that prevent and punish such violence, and to make ourselves and others accountable for seeing that such changes become permanent.
In our role as an academic unit, we can best address this through teaching and research. We often witness the impact of sexual violence on the lives of our students. In our classrooms, we need to practice structuring inclusive conversations about systemic violence and sexual assault and the pain and damage they cause. There are many ways we can do this: through the texts we teach, in discussion of current events and by using language that respects the seriousness of sexual violence.
These conversations
can connect students with one another and with their teachers in ways that produce powerful learning experiences, even as they raise consciousness about a pervasive and deadly problem. Teachers need to be trained in leading discussion around these issues as well as in how to best provide first-response support. As instructors, we need to be ready to direct students who confide in us to resources that can provide the strongest forms of survivor advocacy (e.g. the Emily Taylor Resource Center and Lawrence-based GaDuGi). As an institution we need to act to ensure that those resources are truly robust.
The task force has been charged
by our chancellor with examining KU policy, practices and sanctions, the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities, and the adequacy of survivor services and prevention programs.
Even as members began working on these immediate goals, their first meeting also powerfully highlighted our responsibility and our opportunity as a research institution to become a national leader in prevention and survival. Two of our Bold Aspirations strategic initiatives,"Promoting Wellbeing"and "Building Communities"invite us to link research opportunities with prevention programs, to generate and analyze data and to open up critical conversations that together can
drive decisions about prevention, safety and survivor needs.
We are proud of our students for speaking out and we take their demands seriously. We are grateful to the task force members who have taken on this crucial work. We need to help put their recommendations into action through our teaching, our research and our service as citizens of KU and the larger community beyond the campus. In these ways, we can help uproot norms that enable sexual pressure and assault on campus even as we make meaningful contributions to a nationwide conversation whose urgency must not be allowed to fade.
Anna Neill is a professor and a chair member of the
City-wide recycling is exactly what Lawrence needs
The City of Lawrence is in the process of
providing each singlefamily and multi-family residences in Lawrence with new, blue recycling bins. Collections will occur on an every-other week basis, adding a mere $2.81 per month to each resident's utility bill, and will begin the third week of October.
Until now, several private recycling companies have been providing their services in Lawrence, most notably Deffenbaugh Industries. Deffenbaugh has been picking up recycling bins on a weekly basis for an average of $5.00 a month. The switch from weekly to bi-weekly pickups shouldn't be a problem for households that accumulate significant amounts of recycling
because the City will provide extra bins upon request at no extra charge.
Even though Defenbaugh has decided to end its business in Lawrence (since Lawrence will practically monopolize the recycling market), small recyling businesses should not expect to suffer much. They have been included in the City's planning discussions since the citywide recycling decision was made a year and a half ago, and they contend that loyal customers will still recycle with them. Furthermore, the City's bi-weekly pickups may cause residents to continue recycling with them, or take an occasional trip to other recycling centers around Lawrence.
What a victory for the
environment. Nearly everyone will have the opportunity to recycle at a low cost, and local businesses have been treated well in the process of implementing this plan.The citizens of Lawrence need to make the most of this new opportunity.I hope not only that more people will now recycle regularly,but also that people will start to develop waste-reducing mentalities.
In this country, space is not an issue, and throwing everything in the trash seems to be a widely accepted practice
justified by habit and laziness. On the other hand, my grandmother, who lives in Europe, gets fined if she does not recycle recyclable items. In countries where space is so tight that driving a Smart car is actually smart instead of comical, recycling is often mandatory and controlled by the government. Though Lawrence isn't quite that strict, I'm glad to see that we are moving in the right direction.
When you are confronted with the option of throwing away versus recycling, I hope that a moral bell rings and you decide to spend those extra seconds to break down a cereal box instead of chucking it. I'm convinced that by simply providing an option for recycling, mentalities about waste
will change. People will become conscious about more than just recycling; this can become a domino effect for more conscious thoughts on water usage, electricity usage and so on.
Lawrence has provided a truly wonderful opportunity for its citizens to collectively reduce waste and develop waste-reducing mentalities. So, while Rosneft and ExxonMobil begin pumping crude oil from the Arctic and start damaging yet another environment, we can at least be happy with our small, though absolutely important, environmental victory at home
Sebastian Schoneich is a senior from Lawrence studying biochemistry and philosophy
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