Volume 124 Issue 39
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Monday, October 17, 201
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Health on the Hill
Learn how to maintain your grades, life and well-being.
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LIVING UP LATE NIGHT Special appearance by Victor Ortiz Rob Riggle at Late Night PAGE 8B
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ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS // SELLING ON EBAY
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Unused and unwanted items can quickly accumulate in your house and take up valuable storage space. Selling those items on eBay is an easy way to get rid them and earn extra income on the side.
If you've never sold before, follow this guide to get started.
1. Register as a seller on eBay and PayPal.
2. Research completed sales of your item to see how much it's selling for and how much to list it as. Then prepare photos of your item and a description.
3. List your item on eBay using the Keep it Simple form, which includes step-by-step instructions.
4. Choose how you want to ship your item to your buyer, and how you want to be paid. Then sell and ship the item.
Lower prices draw people to eBay, making it easier to sell items. "I bought a dress for a fraction of the cost of what it would have been in the store, and it's in perfect condition," Sarah Smith, a junior from Leawood. "I was definitely happy with it and would use eBay again," she says.
For those who don't have the time to research the best price, there are stores that will sell your items for you. "I can ship overseas, which sometimes intimidates people who haven't done it before," says Sean Passmore, owner of Bling Drop-Off store located on the corner of 9th and Mass. "I also recommend selling your items sooner rather than later, before they go down in price value," he says.
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Contributed Photo Dress For Less: Sarah Smith, a junior from Leawood, purchased a dress from eBay for a fraction of the cost of an in-store purchase.
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Jason Phoenix explains different gestures for responses during the demonstrations held by protestors participating in Occupy Lawrence. The local movement has expressed solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. The group is working toward promoting change in local government ordinances.
"I want the carving to help draw attention to the things
Kansas, making his home first in Stauffer-Flint Hall — where he sat, forgotten, until 2009 — and then in the University Archives.
The "Russian Jayhawk," as the small carving has come to be known, was a gift of gratitude from an unknown Russian prisoner of war to Conrad Hoffman; a Kansas aiumnus working with the YMCA in Germany during World War I.
The YMCA post was "an important non-governmental service performing a moral and social function during the First World War," Greenberg wrote in his article "Hoffman's Hawk."
On Wednesday evening, he made another journey, this time to the offices of the department of Slavic languages and literatures in Wescoe Hall, where he'll live for one year in a glass display case.
It's a symbol of the long-standing connection between the University and its students doing good in Russian and Eastern Europe, said Marc Greenberg, chairman of the Slavic department.
In 1913, Conrad Hoffman became the secretary of the YMCA at the University, leaving his position as a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin.
A gift of gratitude
According to the article, the YMCA worked in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, providing education and coordinating social and athletic activities for the prisoners. The YMCA also helped prisoners develop trades and hobbies by giving them tools and arranging exhibitions and sales of their artwork.
Hoffman went to Germany in 1915, and it was common for him to receive presents, said the article, from the thankful prisoners who he worked with.
According to a pencil inscription on his side, the Russian Jayhawk was given to Hoffman in 1917. He was probably carved by either
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