WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014
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Got a parking ticket today. So that was a nice welcome back gift from the parking department.
if you ask me, cutoff and swim trunks are not appropriate for the first day of class or any day of class, ever.
You don't know frustration until you go to the bookstore on the first day of class.
Is it just me or does Jayhawk boulevard look absolutely horrible?
I'm pumped and excited for football no matter how bleak things seem
I think the UDK is slacking on getting the puzzle answers up online...
Nothing like cramming on a bus with 100 of your closest sweaty friends.
My friends are all like "we're seniors, let's get drink inbetween classes" and I'm over here like "(looks at fake watch) I have a professional meeting in an hour...fm!"
Repeating the cryptoquip on day
2? Looks like it's going to
be a long semester.
Made the FFA the 2nd day of classes. As a senior, my work here is done.
I get so excited when I have a class in a room I have had before and my seat is open.
Rode the bus today and realized how much I missed Dan.
PSA: Being bossy isn't the same thing as being a leader.
My psych professor dropped an F bomb and told us there were no textbooks. I'm in love.
Can I marry Cheez-Its?
I never realized how nice our grass was until I walked past Watson today...
"I'm going to be so upset if the teacher doesn't show; I didn't wake up at 7 for nothing."
Welcome to 8 am classes,
I swear we don't bite.
Apparently Full House might be making a comeback. Hell to the yes!
Is it winter time yet? I can't take anymore of this heat.
Professors growing soft on lack of student preparation
During finals week last year I overheard someone talking to
someone talking to his friends about how he had no idea what he was supposed to have learned for one of his finals. I chuckled, knowing that is a feeling we all experience every now and then. But it left me to wonder how many people were going into finals with the same problem.
Before entering college, I wondered how much harder and demanding class would be compared to high school. I imagine that for most people,high school wasn't the toughest of academic experiences.I thought a
university it would be far more challenging. I learned if you want to work hard there are many ways to be challenged at KU, but it has become easier to avoid being challenged in the classroom. It's amusing to think back to the past three years at the University and realize how easy it would have been to have learned nearly nothing in so many classes.
At an institution whose existence is mostly dedicated to educating students, it's saddening to watch how the art of teaching has degraded to accommodate the desires of our generation (a generation that looks to
By Sebastian Schoneich @ThingsSebiThink
get the most out of the least amount of work). Grade inflation, the abundance of study guides and way too many extra credit opportunities contribute to a lack of work ethic among students.
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Students today are figuring out how to efficiently get good grades with the least amount of effort. Of course, much of today's job market makes it a point to put higher value on final grades than the material learned. In doing so, however, attending
a university for the sake of learning loses importance and students graduate with only a vague idea of what their degree really means. The way we understand education is changing to look more like the pursuit of a degree rather than the pursuit of knowledge.
So I'd like to propose something to professors, something simple I think would radically change the learning experience for many students. Ask more questions in class and demand answers.
Too many times have I been in classes where professors ask questions the first few days and then
give up a week later due to lack of student preparation. Forcing students to speak in class (something which I've experienced only with the best professors) requires us to be prepared. Though we groan at the idea, I believe it is among the best ways to demonstrate understanding, especially in a place where we pay thousands of dollars for the purpose of understanding.
Sebastian Schoneich is a senior from Lawrence studying biochemistry and philosophy.
Lawrence Southwind Theater needs improvement
In 1998, Disney's "Mighty Joe Young" ruined my life.
I was 3 at the time and enjoyed a healthy relationship with movies and, by extension, movie theaters. I had already seen "Air Force One" and "Hercules" by then and was all set to broaden my film horizons. My movie ambitions ground to a halt the moment that oversized gorilla came onto the screen.
The two-minute trailer was enough to make me swear off movies for years. "Toy Story 2" passed with me sitting outside the theater holding a bag of M&Ms while my parents took turns imploring me to go inside and watch
Like most kids with fears I was able to grow out of my movie theater anxiety and by the time I started my freshman year at the University, I recovered enough to start reviewing movies for the Kansan.
Then and now, my favorite place to watch movies in Lawrence is Liberty Hall. Sometimes I would have to go to the Regal Southwind on Iowa to watch more widely released films. That's when I noticed that Lawrence's only mainstream
the movie. This lasted into the 2000s when I missed seeing Emperor Kuzko make his llama transformation in "The Emperor's New Groove."
By Maddy Mikinski
@miss_maddy
movie theater didn't really compare to the Phoenix or AMC theaters I was used to
The Southwind is a theater that not only looks old, but feels old as well. The seats are uncomfortable and the rows are too tight. These are complaints I've heard over and over again from my friends and other students. Others think the location is inconvenient and costs too much.
Many of my friends choose to drive to other towns to see movies. Some drive up 1-70 to The Legends, while others take K-10 to AMC.
According to Google maps, all "good" movie theaters are about 35-40 minutes away.
As the only Regal Cinema property I'd been to, I decided to give the Southwind the benefit of the doubt. Maybe other locations were the same and the tight rows and uncomfortable seats were just part of the Regal experience.
While reading the company's website however, I realized that the Southwind, for all intents and purposes, has been neglected. Other Regal properties around the country — such as ones in Florida and California
- offer newly installed recliners. Underneath that list is a list of locations that
are set to receive recliners — most notably, Calabasas, Calif. So basically Justin Bieber is getting recliners before we are.
Seeing why places like Calabasas are getting more updated theaters than we are is easy: Calabasas is heavily populated and rich. Lawrence's 90,000 residents, on the other hand, are mainly poor college students. Still, we were considered worthy of a movie theater back when dinosaur roamed the earth so I think we deserve a renovated one now.
Maddy Mikinski is a sophomore from Linwood studying journalism.
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Which do you prefer? A new movie theater in Lawrence or renovating Southwind Theater?
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@KansanOpinion Definitely a new movie theatre!! Where else am I going to get my Disney kicks!! Frozen showing anyone?!
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