WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY &ANSAN
opinion
Just saw a girl jogging in a Reagan-Bush '84 shirt - my kind of woman.
Is that a snitch in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
I was sincerely disappointed in the ratio of slutter women to men this weekend. I just want to see good abs.
To the ladies out there doing no-shave-November, I will take you in for a relationship. I'm desperate.
Without my birth control, I would never know what day of the week it is.
Typical Chiefs fans, one week they're getting Andrew Luck jerseys, the next week they're buying Super Bowl tickets.
Not only am I a female gamer, I'm an Xbox repairwoman.
Editor's note: I'm bracing for the influx of dating requests today.
There isn't a wrong time to listen to Christmas music.
yearroundyuletide
Dear men participating in no-shave-November, if you participate in this, it will soon become no-sex-November. Think about that.
Don't kid yourself. GDIs get our leftover women. It's called trickle-down bang. Have fun with that.
Turner Gill, please report to the principal's office.
One of these days holding the door open for a pretty girl will pay off.
lonelv
I just got bitch slapped in the face by a leaf. Thank you Kansas wind, that's exactly what I needed this morning
It's my fourth year in college and my first basketball game #idontgadamn
The large size of the Sudoku is making it even more difficult to hide it from the teacher.
EDITORIAL
Things longer than the Kardashian-Humphries marriage: the NBA lockout, NFL lockout and Britney Spears being bad!
She already knows you eat her food. #suckstosuck
Sorry, I can't go out with you. I need to stay home and organize my iTunes.
These days, college students can be found wandering the halls searching for any sort of quality WiFi reception. Those who manage to access the internet live in constant dread of a severed connection with the rest of online society. One student goes mad during a research project as the internet freezes for the seventh time.
I'm getting an erection just thinking about being in Allen Fieldhouse for the first game!
While these remain exaggerations heard by students who live on Daisy Hill and other University housing on a daily basis, the fact remains that the internet provided by Apogee for student housing has proven inadequate to the needs of the student body. Now, many wonder if it's truly the best option.
Campus Internet provider Apogee disappointing so far
In an Apogee press release posted on marketwatch.com, representatives cited Apogee partner Hardin-Simmons University in Texas, which was praised in eCampus News "for meeting the growing challenge of bandwidth management by signing on with Apogee to manage bandwidth and ResNet on campus." According to the release, Apogee has taken the load off of administrators and created a faster, more efficient residential network at HSU.
I just saw a kid wearing a Gonzaga basketball shirt. First KU basketball game is today. Face palm.
To the creepy girl in the Chi-O fountain on Monday. #WTF
don'tyouhaveclass?
At University of Kansas, Apogee's Internet speed is considerably slower than other local options. Knology is more than twice as fast and Community Wireless Communications
After-Halloween Facebook is a softcore porn site.
pany proclaims that it's "the nation's largest and most innovative provider of on-campus residential networks (ResNets) for higher education." But this statement is not holding true at the University right now.
Company (CWCC) is triple the speed of Apogee according to Net Index. Also, Apogee was contracted to deliver wireless Internet to all ResNet buildings by May 2011, yet most students still don't have wireless capability.
Apogee was one of two vendors who provided bids to the University for the contract. The other vendor, Televideo, criticized the University for providing inadequate time for potential bidders to review the contract and services to be provided. And now local provider CWCC is currently lobbying elected officials to persuade University officials to compete with Apogee for student Internet services.
Surely, when the University agreed to an eight year contract entrusting Apogee to provide internet for the residence halls, they anticipated the kind of innovation demonstrated at HSU. Instead, this deal has the feeling of a large company transaction; one marked by efficient pricing, mediocre production, and poor customer
What happened at the University?
Apogeo has the look of an upstanding company in a continuous expansion. It bought the naming rights to the new football stadium at the University of North Texas. The com-
If Apogee chooses not to honor its commitment of implementing a high-speed residential network with wireless capabilities, and if it's continually providing poor Internet service compared to other options, the University needs to go a different direction with student internet.
satisfaction.
Vobby Golen Jr. for Kansan Editorial Board
ADVICE
Smoking causes relationship haze
By Liz Stephens
lstephens@kansan.com
Need some advice? Email Liz at lstephens@kansan.com to help solve anything from dating dilemmas to roommate troubles. Dear Liz,
I just started seeing this girl. She's smart, funny, my friends like her and she's hot. I can see myself being with her for the long term. There's one problem: she smokes. This girl makes me really happy and I don't want to have to break things off over something petty like this, but I can't stand cigarette smoke or her nasty cigarette breath. What do I do?
Tyler, junior
There aren't that many options here, Tyler, and that's why this is going to be simple to solve. It's a common thing that a person with whom you get involved is not quite what you expect and there are going to have to be some adaptations on either her or your side if this is going to work out.
First, she can adjust to your non-smoking. Talk to her about it. She may stop because she respects your opinion and values your company. Maybe you could come to a compromise. Does it matter if she lights up when you aren't around or do you want her to quit completely? Will you back out if she doesn't quit the habit?
Your second option is to accommodate her smoking. Prime yourself to tolerate cigarette smoke and tar breath. Carry mints around and offer them to her. You may have to see this as
your problem instead of hers and just get over it.
Tyler, I encourage you to think about why you are involved with this girl in the first place. You two aren't dating solely for her mouth. I hope. You like her, she makes you happy, and she can play Call of Duty with your friends like a champ. It's possible that you may overlook her shortcomings and be able to see that her smoking is just a cloud in the sky of beautiful things that make her great. That's the funny thing about getting involved with someone; they aren't going to meet all your requirements and you won't meet theirs either. As you adjust to each other, maybe you'll find that what you thought was a necessity in a mate (non-smoking) is something that wasn't really a big deal in the first place.
Dear Liz,
For my birthday in June my friend bought me a very nice, expensive gift that I appreciated and treasure. Since her birthday is coming up, I feel like I should return the favor. The problem is that I'm not nearly as well off as she is. It's hard for me to buy groceries sometimes so purchasing something in the same price range as a pair of Juicy Couture velour harem pants may be out of the question. Ideas?
Shelbv. sophomore
Give her a lock of your hair,
make her a card, and write her a
song. Trust me, she will cherish
the priceless gifts longer than
she would a pair of velour harem
pants.
Stephens is a senior in English from Dodge City.
CAMPUS CHIRPS BACK
CARTOON
Nick Sambaluk
CULTURE
Yes, hipsters are people too
Every culture operates with an internal logic, no matter how strange, well-off or down-trodden it seems to be. As an example, suburban families in upstate New York have more in common with Mexican drug cartels than you might realize: both manage to eke out a source of income and have varying forms of expression and individuality. Both have established norms in terms of gender, sexuality and familial structure. All that differs is the way they go about living their daily lives.
"Hipster" culture operates under the same assumptions. Hipsters must find a source of income. They personally express themselves by the clothes they wear. They have distinct perspectives and conceptions of modern domestic life. Sounds to me like suburbanites and drug lords.
But what does it really mean to be hipster? I've struggled with this concept for a long time. After a little research, I've come across many qualifications for "hipsterism." Generally, they must possess some of the following: a desire to wear skinny jeans, scarves, non-prescription glasses, knit caps and dirty clothing. They might have a love for the arts, specifically paintings, poetry, fiction and any other form of expression that is difficult to articulate to those in the
mainstream. They might have a love for indie music, not showering daily, vegetarianism and recycling. The general frame of mind behind the hipster, then, is rebelling against any sort of established cultural paradigm about living daily life.
At this point, though, we run into a problem. We can't have an established definition of hipsterism; that isn't hipster! Though, I guess the idea of having a definition, as long as hipsters themselves don't personally identify with said definition, is okay for the purpose of those wishing to have some way of describing them.
A further issue lies in the fact that this hipster culture seems to have made its way into the mainstream, and we've seen this in the past with trends such as "goths" and "emos." Any Lawrence resident can see that "hipsters" are everywhere. Is this a problem? Hipsters are supposed to run the counter-culture, or the antithesis to the established culture; if so
many people are suddenly self-
identifying as hipsters, doesn't
that mean that is it becoming
hipster to not look and act tra-
ditionally hipster?
Running along a similar train of thought (but to a different conclusion), is it "hipster" now to self-identify as hipster? There used to be no definition of hipsterism and those living the lifestyle didn't use this conscious self-identification. This means that those self-identifying as hipster (or, consciously using the term "hipster" to describe themselves) are now the ones out of the mainstream.
All of that aside, hipster culture is valuable for many reasons. As a group of people, we attempt to attach some sort of coherent definition to a population so that we can organize our thoughts and stereotypes about them easier; this happens with hipsters, homosexuals, surburban housewives, drug dealers, fraternity brothers, and all forms of identity among them. In the end, we can't forget that these prejudiced attitudes are incorrect most of the time, and every single person in this world has some varying structure of identity.
Hipsters have feelings too
Salsbury is a senior in English, History of Art, and Global and International Studies from Chapman.
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the weird talents you always see displayed on mass. #donteveraquestions #justgowitht
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