Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday, October 3, 2011
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An oversized fuzzy neon tennis ball rug stuck out next to my bed, Christmas lights lined the walls, a stuffed abominable snowman named Bumble rested on the dresser, my high school love for "The OC" displayed itself in poster form on the door, a Colorado state flag hung above my bed and there was no shortage of gaudily framed photos of friends and family.
No mom to decorate, no money to go on a shopping spree at IKEA or Pottery Barn, and sure as hell no feng shui: this was my first college apartment.
In the living room, a slew of snowflakes cut from tissue paper made it appear as though a first grade arts and crafts class terrorized our wall. A giant world map sprinkled with cutouts of our heads representing where we had traveled hung next to the cheap tissue flakes.
While my decorating tastes did anything but achieve any sort of mood or cohesion, my place felt like me and it felt like my first home away from home.
College means decorative independence, among other liberations. You can break free from your parents' refined Tuscan interior and furniture that's more for looks than function, and let your personality shine...as far as your college-student budget allows.
SARAH CHAMP | ASSOCIATE EDITOR
This hindrance might lead to walls of tissue snowflakes, but there are solutions to affordably achieving your dream space. To learn more about budget-savvy decorating and how other students do up their homes, check out Alex's story on page eight.
Many moves later (seven to be exact), my eclectic bedroom is a thing of the past. With all the moving throughout college, I've sort of been forced to filter through what I own, leaving behind treasures like the neon rug, "The OC" cast and overabundance of photos. However, I do remain an advocate of year-round Christmas lights and I still have Bumble.
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Student authors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, convinced him to participate in the arduous contest.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Held said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC, and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
that dream." Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that I hope somebody reads this someday."
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story, I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
Held will discuss his book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
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Edited by Josh Kantor
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Student Author Reading
Jason Held will read from
and discuss his new novel
"The Write Message."
Monday October 3, 2011
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Ticket Cost: Free
student writers about students' writing experiences.
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Don't forget to floss! October is National Dental Hygiene Month.
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Today's weather
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L0: 43
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