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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011
I appreciate when a little kid with a sign sits near me at a basketball game. It means I will get on TV.
T. Rob's slam dunk got me closer to the Big O than my ex-boyfriend ever did.
Why yes, going to a blowout exhibition game is indeed worth the backache from sleeping at Allen Fieldhouse.
Battlefield is so much better than Modern Warfare 3.
I know I'm in college now but I'll admit it, I do still have to sing the alphabet in my head when I have to look words up in a translation dictionary.
My TA just begged me to borrow my FFA so he wasn't bored in class. #thevalueofeducation
For years I thought COD was a fishing game.
Surprise, surprise. K-State uses more toilet paper to wipe their asses.
I noticed there are a ton of birthdays in November and I couldn't figure out why. Then I did the math: Happy Valentines Day!
It's not called pre-marital sex if you're never getting married.
For those sexually active, getting your period is like Christmas morning.
Now that No-Shave November is in full swing, campus is filled with child molesters and porn stars.
Call of Duty: keeping teen pregnancy down since 2003
Once the University gets nice toilet paper, steal ALL the paper.
You were the hottest guy ever until you blasted Kesha in your headphones.
It's a good thing Gill doesn't teach here. The whole student body would flunk out of college.
What ever happened to that kid who would haul ass through campus on a skateboard? He was a dimp.
Feeling the wrath of the University's toilet paper.
"Homeless" is a fashion statement for college students with 8 a.m. classes.
What if power in the dorms went out right when Modern Warfare 3 came out? It would probably be a riot. I kept a pitchfork so I could join the mob.
EDITORIAL
Research quality worth student recognition
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education rankings, a record 11 University students received Fulbright scholarships this year. The University has the second highest number of faculty scholarships in the country with nine faculty winners. It ranked 27th overall in the United States with such awards and first in the Big 12.
The esteemed Fulbright program is an international educational exchange that is sponsored by our U.S. government designed to bridge the gap between the people of the U.S. and other nations.
This weather is really putting a damper on my hookah smoking.
Fulbright recipients have the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research overseas for an academic year.
Throughout the years. KU faculty members have won a total of 297 Fulbright scholarships while students have won 432. Having an internationally recognized research and development organization such as the KU Center for Research on Learning, students and faculty have the chance to make a difference.
The center encompasses six divisions, each with a slightly
different research emphasis, varying from research on adolescents who struggle with learning to programs such as the Kansas Coaching Project, which conducts research on instructional coaching. Jim Knight, director of the Kansas Coaching Project, was recently noted by the New Yorker regarding his not-worthy research on essentially "coaching" teachers.
the center a five-year, $7.5 million grant to research whether online learning is effective with students with disabilities and to develop new ways to incorporate technology to improve learning.
So far, the University has been exemplary in its research efforts and more students should take notice. Our highly regarded participation in research should be a great benefit for current and potential faculty and should only elevate our University's prestige.
Last month the U.S. Department of Education decided to recognize the University's Center for Research on Learning. It gave
Students should take advantage of research at the
University by looking into student hourly employment opportunities offered by the research centers on campus and by applying for research positions. The CRI advertises student hourly positions. You won't just earn money through research opportunities; you'll participate in real-world learning experiences and make connections with research staff.
Stefanie Penn for The Kansan Editorial Board
POLITICS
Candidate's criticism is not racist
With the 2012 presidential election a year away, I still don't know for whom I want to vote. I don't even know which party I want to go with yet.
But without a doubt, no matter who becomes the Republican nominee, I could never bring myself to vote for Herman Cain. And it seems that in the era of being politically correct, when people in the media voice the same opinion, they're often accused of being racist.
But why? When did it become not okay to critique someone who isn't the majority?
Even though I don't support Cain, I can't stop watching his interviews.
In fact, I obsess over them. Nor can I get enough of Bill Maher (because I actually like him).
Recently, I watched a video on YouTube of Maher talking about Newt Gingrich's low rank in the nomination. He says to Gingrich, "Let me put your unpopularity into context for you: You're Republican, and you're polling behind a black euv."
And there's nothing unethical about his statement.
However, the issue is that the video is titled "Bill Maher Takes Racist Swipe at Herman Cain." But if you take 10 seconds to think about it, there's nothing racist about it. And I was disturbed that so few of the comments below actually recognize that.
In the campaign, Cain claims he never plays the race card. And he never has to because, as the video's title suggests, people are already doing it for him.
By Rachel Keith editor@kansan.com
But worse than the complete misinterpretation of Maher's statement is society's general inability to discern what prejudice actually is anyway, and we can see this every day.
Often we assume that if you critique a black man, a woman, a homosexual, or any person of any minority, you're not opinionated. You're just a bigot.
Ironically, to even suggest that it is bigoted. It means that rather than being equal, it's almost become politically incorrect just to be the majority anymore and that to speak against someone who's not is unethical. But this idea is unethical in itself. We're just scrambling to correct ourselves in the easiest way we know how, and we sacrifice our entitlement to an opinion in the meantime.
And if we don't have rights as basic as that, we don't have anything.
So finally, I don't dislike Herman Cain because he's black. I dislike him because his platforms are at best completely absent-minded. I believe his social policies in particular are dangerous for groups like women, Muslims and homosexuals, and that to instill his policies is to do a disservice to an entire nation.
And thats not racism.
It's a real reason not to support someone.
Keith is a senior in secondary English education from Wichita
And that's not racism.
Rivalry deserves to continue after Missouri's departure
Missouri's gone. They've packed up and taken their lack of talent to the SEC.
Many KU fans are angry.
Some MU fans are angry.
One sports radio caller said, referring to his belief that his alma mater is chasing money at all costs, "I will never again support Mizzou." Finally, a reasonable MU fan.
However, this move has inspired one sentiment I cannot understand: Missouri's departure has somehow ended our rivalry.
There's no reason why being in separate conferences should end a rivalry. There are plenty of non-conference rivals that play every year. Florida-Florida State, Georgia-Georgia Tech, Iowa-Iowa State, Clemson-South Carolina, and Kentucky-Louisville all play annual games. If you include independent teams, USC-Notre Dame, Michigan-Notre Dame, and Army-Navy are some of the best annual rivalries in college football.
It's equally puzzling that anyone would claim the rivalry "just won't be the same." Most KU-MU games I've been to had almost nothing to do with the Big 12. There are some exceptions, but the passion
surrounding the games almost always comes from the disdain between the teams, not their common conference. I doubt there were many games where fans thought, "If they weren't both in the Big 12, I just wouldn't care." If this rivalry survived, wed play them just as often in football and one less game a year in basketball. There's no reason why the rivalry can't be the same. If anything, Kansas should just add to this the list of reasons we hate Missouri.
The Border War is the second-most-played rivalry in college football history. And no other rivalry has the passion and history of the Border War. They called it the Border War, because that's what it was. This rivalry did not come from a showdown; it came from towns being burned down and people killing each other. Our mascot, the Jayhawk, is a term that originated during that battle. And the despicable "Scoreboard" T-shirts that Mizzou fans made and John Brown signs that KU fans
Whether the No. I ranking is on the line or both teams are in
shambles, our fans love playing each other. It's one of the most exciting games of the year. I implore our administration to continue this rivalry. Canceling it doesn't benefit us at all. That will not teach Mizzou a lesson, it will not "declare us the winners," nor will it benefit us financially (on the contrary, I imagine we'll lose money if we cancel the football game). All it does is take away a matchup our fans look forward to every year. And it's important to remember that we hold our own against Mizzou in football, historically and recently (we're 55-55-9 all-time, and 11-10 since 1990).
It's understandable that people are mad about this, but canceling this rivalry would deprive our students and fans of a matchup that, over the last 119 years, has come to be a part of what it means to be a Jayhawk.
Christopher Nelson is a law student.
CAMPUS
Moe Ataie
CHIRPS BACK
fakeKUParking
Baylor because they said their parking office wrote more tickets than us... which is not true at all.
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We def should pick a new rival, My suggestion . . . School of Business, no one likes them #amirite
KG Steez
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©UOK Opinion How about WVU? It doesn't make sense to have a rival to the west, so let's keep moving east.
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First team that beats us in basketball
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There will never be a rival like Mizzou. And apparently no one as cowardly.
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