Volume 124 Issue 39
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Monday, October 17, 2011
LIVING UP LATE NIGHT Special appearance by Victor Ortiz. Rob Riggle at Late Night PAGE 8B
Aside from the girl who I saw wearing my clothes in Facebook pictures freshman year, I've lucked out when it comes to my college roommates.
And then last year happened.
A group of girlfriends and I signed a lease on a big seven-bedroom house downtown. The problem came when one girl backed out on us and we had to turn to the sketchiest of methods to replace her last minute: Craigslist.
The 36-year-old woman looking to exchange house cleaning for a place to live inquired, the single mom needing to get back on her feet tried to bargain with us and then we heard from a handful of KU students — all guys. Following a seemingly normal first impression, a 27-year-old male undergraduate who I'll call Craigslist (and did call Craigslist while living with him) became our seventh wheel.
It didn't take long for Craigslist and his surround-sound sexcapades, rank cooking, griminess and blaring, crappy music to make our spacious setup seem like a claustrophobic bachelor pad.
Living with a guy, we knew we needed to lay
Civil conversation quickly escalated into passive-aggressive notes on the whiteboard: "If you have a pen, clean the bathroom." "Get a hotel room or a quieter girlfriend." One roommate even got so fedup with Craiglist's dirty dishes that she hid them under the porch for at least five days.
Our immature answers to living in a yearlong episode of "The Real World" provided nothing other than a good laugh every once in a while and maybe a way to stay sane while sharing a home with a dude from the Internet. We really just made things worse.
Sometimes, a little more patience and communication can go a long away. Other times, you might just be living with a crazy person.
SARAH CHAMP | ASSOCIATE EDITOR
a few ground rules, most of which pertained to the bathroom. Aside from that, we figured that living with a 27-year-old surely meant he was capable of being a considerate, fully functional adult. We were wrong.
For more on roommate communication, see Bailey's feature on page eight.
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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.
Kansas, making his home first in Stauffer-Flint Hall — where he sat, forgotten, until 2009 — and then in the University Archives.
On Wednesday evening, he made another journey, this time to the offices of the department of Slavic languages and literatures in Wescoe Hall, where we'll live for one year in a glass display case.
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 alumnus working with the YMCA in Germany during World War I.
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 Sativa department.
"I want the marving to help draw attention to the things
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.
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."
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.
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.
CRYPTOQUIPS 4A
OPINION 5A
CLASSIFIEDS 7B
CROSSWORD 4A
A gift of grumman
Index
SPORTS 1B
SUDOKU 4A
According to a pencil inscription on his side, the Russian Jayhawk was given to Hoffman in 1917. He was probably carved by either
SEE JAYHAWK PAGE 3
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