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THE UNIVERSITY BAILY WANSAN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2011
opinion
All in favor of bringing back the fat man...
I thought TT stood for Tyshawn Taylor, not Turnover Taylor.
Apparently my professor called my name four times to answer a question. Meanwhile on Twitter...
Win or lose, Gill is a FILF.
Trix is my drug of choice.
Why is it that when the Pillsbury Doughboy gets fingered by some random person it's cute, but when I do it's considered slutty?
How are Daisy Hill kids supposed to keep faith in this university if Dan the busdriver is driving a 42?
Roommates, Y U No stop snoring?
I told my dad that I wanted to get my Mrs. degree. He told me I needed to work on my sandwich skills first.
I noticed my right arm is stronger than my left. To fix this I started masturbating with the left, and there has been much improvement.
I'm so sick of all the jokes about Gill. Could you have done better?
Editor's note: Football coaches live in a cruel world. I live in a funny one.
Since I don't have sex with losers, the football team is out. The band looked and sounded amazing. Any takers?
I mean no disrespect, but I think our Chancellor would look pretty kick-ass in a multicolored weave.
My one-night stand called me "baby" during sex. I'm suddenly very dry and very sober.
When you can clearly see those washboard abs through your shirt, constantly lifting it up is quite unnecessary. Modesty is the best policy boys.
I like my men as I like my coffee:
sweet, whipped, and able to keep
me awake for my 8 a.m. class.
EDITORIAL
I figured coming back to school wouldn't suck, and it seems my assumptions are just as bad as the assignments I turned in before break
Despite costs, KU housing is still good option
In the last decade, housing and meal plan rates have been steadily increasing; next year will most likely be no exception. The Department of Student Housing proposed an increase in next academic year's housing and dining fees to the Kansas Board of Regents for its monthly meetings on Nov. 16 and 17.
I'm so good at procrastinating.
If only that was something you could major in...
If the Board approves the proposal in December's meetings, it would lead to a 2.8 percent increase in traditional housing costs for students and a 2.2 percent increase in costs for all dining plans. Renovated residence hall residents would see a 3.2
percent increase in housing costs while traditional Stouffer Place apartment costs would increase two percent and 2.5 percent for renovated rooms. Scholarship halls would experience hikes from 2.6 to 3.2 percent.
The total estimated revenue from the fee increases is $915,400.
Students in traditional doubleoccupancy housing would only have to pay an extra $104 per semester. Even with this increase, university housing is still a cheap, convenient option for new students.
Although students won't like a housing fee increase, it isn't the only university struggling to find supportive measures for its housing department. Both Pittsburg State University and Kansas State University are proposing higher cost increases at four and 3.5 percent respectively.
Also, the housing cost increases are investments for future residents. Next year, the Department of Student Housing expects to increase housing improvement expenses by $854,710. The proposed increase is necessary to cover this jump in expenses for renovations of Gertrude Sellards Pearson and McCollum residence halls.
Ding dong Gill is gone, Gill is gone, Gill is gone. Ding dong Turner Gill is gone!
But students still have the right to vent about continued increases in costs around the University. Friendly financial aid is turning into crippling student loan debt as many graduates struggle to find stable jobs. Students in Occupy movements are even calling for student loan debt forgiveness.
The Kansas Board of Regents has only heard the proposal and won't take action on it until its December meeting. If you are against these housing and dining cost increases and feel they are unfair, send an email as soon as possible to the regents' president and CEO Andy Tompkins at
atompkins@ksbor.org. A student voice should be expressed beyond the committees making the proposals.
Ultimately, it's up to students to decide where they want to live while receiving a quality KU education. So if the housing and dining fee increases pass in December and you disagree with the proposal, you still have the ability to live in cheaper and convenient off-campus houses in the student ghetto or consider other off-campus options like Naismith Hall.
Vikaas Shanker for the Kansan Editorial Board
Miley Cyrus admitted to being a stoner, like we didn't already know that
Appreciating art
Walking through museums gives us a wonderful view of human creativity - from decadence to despair, from war to peace, from love to hate, from the absurd to the realistic. In one collection you may become uncomfortable, the next collection makes you laugh, and the next makes you cry. Museums hoard human emotions.
The best way to explore a museum is by not reading the descriptions of the pieces. No artist ancient or modern probably ever intended for his or her piece to end up behind a glass pane with a gray plaque next to it.
Who wouldn't want to be the new coach at KU? It's the shortest path to a sweet retirement plan.
Over Thanksgiving Break I visited the Dallas Museum of Art which is quite a gem of a museum. As a classics major, one of my first stops was of course the Greek and Roman Art. On display was a collection of Greek and Roman gold jewelry which puts Tiffany&Co. to shame.
But art in the 21st century is hidden behind glass panes or is hung on walls be carefully guarded by museum employees in black suits. Every piece has a name, a description, a date. Some have a creator, others are anonymous.
The craftsmanship, the details, the creativity was so much more impeccable and imaginative than anything I see today lit up in jewelry displays. When a person from the 2nd century AD can carve a full figure of a woman on an earring no bigger than my thumbnail yet many of us in the 21st century can barely finish an English paper, it made me think what will end up in museums from our time in a few hundred years.
People are confused when I'm kind to them. That's sad.
Will it be our iPhones and computers, our kitchen gadgets, our furniture or clothing? Will there be
a little plaque describing an MP3 player or coffee maker?
What kind of society will our future descendants see - a culture obsessed with convenience and individuality and material things? Will we be considered a society of people who isolated themselves from the world through MP3's, televisions, and phones?
I went shopping on Black Friday for the first time. I had to go buy milk for my grandpa.
From my observations at museums, I can see that the Romans were a society obsessed with war, the Greeks obsessed with beauty, the Italians during the Renaissance and Medieval period obsessed with religion, and Buddhist societies obsessed with spirituality. These are shallow one dimensional perceptions since each society was much more complex than anything a museum can tell me, yet this is the impression they left for me.
We're not the real judges of our society and culture; the real judges are those living in posterity. They're the ones who are going to rewrite history books, who are going to sift through records and stories. They're the one who are going to choose what goes into the 21st century section of museums, and I hope we can leave behind a few good things for them to display.
ENTERTAINMENT
Alexis Knutsen is a sophomore in classics from Overland Park.
Who is the ultimate TV alpha male? Two columnists face off to defend their favorite fictional males, Ron Swanson from "Parks and Recreation" and Jack Donaghy from "30 Rock."
TEAM SWANSON
The ultimate TV alpha male
Ron Ulysses Swanson is not just a man working for a small town government in the parks and recreation department. He is the man that every boy wants to grow up to be. He drinks whiskey, loves empowered women, believes mankind should have the freedom to do whatever the heck it wants to do, and most importantly: He loves meat.
Not only does he show no emotion, he is a master woodcrafter. Making many great things such as a hand crafted harp (while he was drunk on whiskey), a canoe and many other great things that
Ron likes to keep his emotions to a minimum, as a hilarious Internet meme shows all his facial expressions in different situations; they are all exactly the same face (except when he is drunk on Tom Haverford's Snake Juice). A straight face with his left eyebrow raised a little bit to give the impression that the viewer is constantly being judged. He sometimes calls people by the wrong name to remind them that he doesn't really care about them. He once started a fight in the office because it was "getting a little too cunning around here." He blamed the broken coffee pot on someone in the office, although he was the real one who broke it because, "it burned me, so I punched it."
Ron can hold his liquor, control his emotions, create amazing things out of wood, coach basketball, and demand respect. And that's just a small taste of Ron Ulysses Swanson. He is all that is man — And a man I would love to grow up to be.
men should know how to make with their bare hands. When he goes to Lowe's Home Improvement, he denies help from the people on staff to know things about home improvement because he "knows more."
Dylan Lysen is a junior in journalism from Andover.
Jack Donaghy is the definition of a true American. He was raised in Boston in an impoverished household. Everything he has accomplished has been by working hard and striving to succeed; he has proved that the American Dream is possible.
TEAM DONAGHY
Success: Jacky D. worked and paid his own way through college at Princeton, and then went on to Harvard Business School. After college he worked his way up to be the CEO of the microwave division of General Electric.
What makes Jack Donaghy the definition of a true American?
Swanson and Jack are both heavy drinkers and probably eats steaks for every meal. What makes Jack better is that each bottle of scotch he drinks probably cost more then Ron Swanson's house.
Politics: Jack is a Reagan man. As in the episode of "Reaganing" he is close to having a day where he is able to solve every problem that is presented to him as Reaganing, in which he views Reagan as living an error free life.
Both of them do have a common place and that is small government. Donaghy is constantly being held back by politicians who claim that he is being unethical and mistreating people, like in the episode where a democratic congresswomen is suing GE's subsidiary Sheinhardt Wig Company for leaking toxic chemicals into the Chicktaugua River and turning children orange, business is something that should not be controlled by the government. As Donaghy would say this country is founded on capitalism, not democracy.
—Jacob Moffitt is a senior in English and philosophy from Wichita.
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CAMPUS
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
First off all, I am dismayed with the use of a picture of Turner Gill and his daughter with the cover story for the UDK yesterday. Was there no other photo that could have been taken? I feel that this was an add-on to the growing amount of disrespect not just for Turner Gill but for the football program in general. I have never seen worse fans than these last two years when I've been to football games. I understand we were losing the majority of the games but fans stay and cheer on their team. I saw numerous instances where students were booing our own team - what is this? Are we bandwagging only when there are victories? It takes time to build a winning team. And two years in this case is simply not enough time. I believe that at the very least, we should have given him three years. Jeremiah Hatch put it well with his statement of "They probably don't know anything about football. The guy is a good man and he wants to win, off the field and on the field." I spoke to several of my friends who are either on
the football team or a part of the staff — and all resounded that firing him at this point was the wrong move. Personally, if all of the guys who play football think he should have had another year, I think that's a pretty good indicator of the quality of coach that he is. I understand that wanting to win isn't enough but the recruits that Turner Gill and his coaching staff brought in needed more time to develop in winning athletes. In addition, the fact that the man's character is full of integrity should carry more weight than just a couple closing remarks by our Chancellor and AD. Was this not the reason that Mangino was "releived of his duties?" I'm thankful that Turner Gill never got arrested for drunk driving — unlike another program that I know of. I'm saddened to see that wins seem to be the only thing that matters. I hope we can find another coach of that integrity.
— Michael Stejskal is a sophomore studying Information Systems and Economics
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