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KU should definitely be ranked after that upset!
The awkward moment when Big Jay launches a burger instead of t-shirt at your face!
To anybody and everybody who I saw stop and look at the flags by Wescoe ... thank you for keeping 9/11 in your minds
I think my iTunes is trying to tell me something; it just played "Baby Got Back," "Bad Touch" "Do It All Night" and "She's Like Heroine" all in a row ..
How come nobody will rush the field with me? We're 2 and 0!
We're going to the Super Bowl!!
Dear professor: Affect is an action. It's not that hard to remember both start with an A. Thanks for incorrectly correcting my "mistake."
FREE FOR ALL
Thank you Kansas City Chiefs. I love staring at Johnson County whores all day
Sometimes drip dry is the only way to go.
Date two. Fail. Apparently farting in your sleep is frowned upon.
Why the hell is there a KU lizard mascot at the game????
I realized that I cannot only quote every line in Finding Nemo, but I relate everything in life to it. Problem?
I love parents weekend; so many hot dads!
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Get with the program game day drivers: I have the right of way. Sincerely, an irae pedestrian.
I wanna see "Dolphin Tail" ... does my manhood take a deduction?
Take that UDK! I still solved the cryptoquip despite your attempt to impede my effort by not including the clue!
Bathroom graffiti is the real FFA on campus, uncensored too!
You know that awkward moment when a text became a tweet? I just had that awkward moment where a text became a FEA.
FYI: Dorm beds are not ideal for sleepovers.
Birkenstocks will save your soul.
That awkward moment late at night where you are tipsy talking to your gay RA and "angle and kicking" change to "anal and licking."
To the people wearing pollution face-masks ... we have clean air here; this isn't Missouri!
I had > dream last night that KU made everyone take classes inside Allen Fieldhouse. Best dream, EVER!
Lol @ girls you hit on using profile pics from freshmen year cuz they got too fat
I hate it that I am taller than some of the bathroom stalls in Murphy. I promise I 'm not creepin'.
TEXT IN YOUR FREE FOR ALLS
EDITORIAL
KU parking deserves credit for fixing problem
The University of Kansas is never without its parking woes. Recently, those woes multiplied when KU Parking and Transit installed electronic gates and payment machines at the Union Parking Garage.
Since then, the chaos has calmed down.
What made the $550,000 remodel of the garage such a pain is the complicated terms of
entering and departing.
To enter, a driver must have a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) card that comes with the purchase of a garage permit, or they have to take a ticket from payment machine that must be paid before leaving.
Departing the garage has been the major distress. The line to exit the garage seems to pile up with frustrated drivers. Either they do
not have their payments ready to go when they reach the gate, or they have problems with the machine not recognizing their RFID cards.
And in August, a driver jammed a credit card into the wrong slot of the machine, which broke some of the machinery in the payment station and totaled $5,000 in repairs.
Parking and Transit has been
working diligently to fix many of the new system's kinks, and their efforts have paid off.
Now, an employee sits at the Mississippi Street entrance from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and counsels incoming drivers on how the new system operates.
After adding more informational signs about the new system, hiring a full-time parking advisor, and listening to the
grievances of the garage's patrons, the wait to either enter or leave is almost non-existent.
While it will always remain a pain to pay for parking, at least now the process is a lot more efficient and driver friendly.
Vikaas Shanker for the Kansan Editorial Board.
CULTURE
I am American: On being Muslim in a post-9/11 era
September 11, 2001. I was 11 years old and in the sixth grade at a private Islamic school in Kansas City. We were well into class when my teacher explained that we needed to put our books away and follow her quickly. All students were packed into a few rooms with blinds shut and lights turned off. Our particular room had a TV, and as we settled in, the second plane hit.
As the hour passed, confusion only grew and the sheer shock on the teachers' faces became more apparent. It was then that the anchor mentioned the name Osama Bin Laden. Naively, I turned to a fellow classmate and asked, "Osama, why'd they just say your name?"
It goes without saying that the events that day forever changed the lives of millions in America and abroad. We saw Americans unite at candlelight vigils and memorial services and found signs and bumper stickers that announced "United We Stand" at every turn. But, were we truly
united? Sadly, absolutely not.
In the weeks following 9/11, it was clear to me that Arabs and Muslims weren't included in this unity. In fact, it was the exact opposite. Our nationality and patriotism was questioned everywhere we went and thus was the birth to the deplorable wave of Islamophobia. For many, it has been ten years of grieving. For Muslim Americans, it has been ten years in a never-ending match where we are only playing defense.
My family is the embodiment of the "American Dream." My parents immigrated to the states in 1991, seeking the same freedoms
and opportunities for my three siblings and I that have always attracted people to America. My father has been a working man since moving here, and my mother has been a teacher for as long as I can remember. I went to an all-American public high school and even graduated with an award for being "an exemplary young citizen who has demonstrated a marked respect for country"
So what makes us less American than our neighbors? Is it our skin color? Our religion? It can't be because we are immigrants because after all, isn't that who created this nation?
I can definitely tell you what's not American. Calling up my school the morning of 9/11, threatening to "bomb the building and shoot off every last Muslim kid." (This threat has been made every year since the attacks.) What about the Ground Zero mosque debates and the pastor who wanted to burn thousands of Qurans at his Florida church last Sept. 11? (He backed
out, but it didn't stop the Phelps' from doing it.) But the most un-American, racist and hate-filled act of the decade toward Muslims has to go to Rep. Peter King and the Congressional hearings into the "domestic radicalization of Muslims."
Being American and a Muslim are not in conflict with each other. But there are people that work day and night to make sure people believe that they are.
Enough is enough.
I I'm tired of the blatant misquoting of the Quran and Internet trolls telling me what my religion teaches about Jihad. I'm tired of pointing out that, like Christianity and Judaism, Islam unequivocally condemns terrorism. I'm tired of being told that I'm oppressed because I proudly don a headscarf, which I willingly took on shortly after 9/11 in retaliation of all the scrutiny. Most of all, I'm tired of being grouped with "the enemy" when I'm anything but.
I will not apologize for the
events that occurred on 9/11 as apologizing implies guilt, and Muslims, real Muslims, are not guilty of the horrific acts of terrorism on that day. And when a classmate recently stood up, looked at me and announced, "My best friend lost his brother in the twin towers," I looked over and responded "And I lost my brother in humanity." In fact, on that day, I lost more than 3000 of them. I mourned their deaths just as every other American did.
It has been ten years, and our nation is as divided as ever. We cannot allow those who promote hate, either here or abroad, to continue to strengthen this divide. Though I am tired of constantly being on the defensive, I realize something needs to be done. I fear where we will be another ten years from now. I only wish for the day when I could hold up a sign that states "United We Stand" and truly believe it.
TELEVISION
Jawhari is a senior from Kansas City . Mo., in journalism and anthropology.
Stations should drop multi-camera sitcoms
Recently, like a majority of the rest of you schnucks, I moved. I also was downgraded to cable, at which point I realized how terrible multi-camera sitecam are.
The good news is I'm out of that horrid apartment-house with its "Paranormal Activity 2" basement and its move-your-cars-on-game-days policy. The bad news is that this year my roommate took the extra hook-up to the satellite/DVR, so my gigantic old Sanyo and I were left to fend for ourselves. Luckily, a lot of apartment complexes come with a very basic set of cable channels and local channels (now, I can watch that guy who won "The Not So Late Show" thing over me and dramatically crush plastic cups).
During the last couple of weeks while I sit and stew in my room, I divide my Algebra avoidance between Netflix and basic cable runs. Let me tell you, I have now seen many episodes of "How I Met Your Mother." The most depressing thing about all of this is that I have become addicted, And I so don't want to be.
Those of you super fans who have followed my columns from the beginning should remember that my first column was about my sad, debilitating addiction to "Degrassi" (this addiction is ongoing and I'm sad to report that Fiona is now my favorite character. What is this world we live in now?) So I knew what was really going on inside of me. I really do enjoy "How I Met Your Mother." The characters are fun and have interesting relationships with one another; Jason Segel and
Alyson Hanagan are on it (and their characters are married); the show has a fun and fresh style of storytelling; and it has funny jokes. I wish I could just show you all of this in flashbacks like they tell every story on that show, but it slowly dawned on me that my problem with it was its stale form. "How I Met Your Mother" may be above average as far as comedies go, but the medium is the message and multi-camera sitcoms with laugh tracks sure are a bad message.
Multi-camera sitcoms with laugh tracks just plain suck. Like Woody Allen's surrogate Max of "Annie Hall," laugh tracks nauseate and confuse me. For those of you who are confused by the term "multi-camera sitcom," imagine putting a ton of cameras around your high school auditorium's stage, and then lazily cutting from camera to camera to edit together an episode. Seriously, if you're the type of person who actually enjoys laugh tracks, I don't know what to say to you, other than you have some serious control issues and you'll probably marry an abusive, controlling wingnut (not a Wichita Wingnut, just a crazy person). I mean, TV producers might as well just
My problem with the whole multi-camera thing is that it's archaic. You see, shows like "30 Rock" "Community" and "Parks & Recreation" are single camera sitcoms (which means they employ a single camera to get the different takes for each shot required like a drama or a movie) can easily play with different genres, employ cutaways, and do stuff outside.
make the word "laugh" pop up in neon Comic Sans text every time someone makes a pun.
I know that multi-camera sitcoms (if you're still confused by what I mean, see CBS) are a monster that can't be killed, because they're generally cheaper. But don't those awful, fake-looking sets make anybody else want to instantly turn off the television? Don't we live in the 21st century? I'm sure it can't be that much more frugal to lock characters into one set for eternity. They just aren't aesthetically pleasing. The lighting, the sets, the staging — it's all reminiscent of a bad high school play.
It's too late now, but I wish that "How I Met Your Mother" had taken a lesson from its storytelling methods and gone unconventional. But what else should we expect from stuck-in-the-20th-century CBS? I mean, they think "Two and a Half Men" was funny in the first place.
Chance Carmichael is a junior in creative writing from Muvane. Follow him on Twitter @ChanceComical.
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