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--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
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Of all the seats in the classroom, why does someone always pick the one my foot is resting on?
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
White Owl is in the Underground and talking to random girls. Yes!
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
Guys from Minnesota are sexy. It must be something in the lakes.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
So are the girls. Minnesota just spits out attractive people.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
College is like one big sleepover.I love it.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
I'm drinking an energy drink called Cocaine. Hmm ...
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
I would love to meet the person who picks the FFA quotes. (Editor's Note: Creepy.)
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
Is it bad that if a guy has bad shoes it can be a deal breaker
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
Our generation's sign of the apocalypse: Facebook has been slow for more than a day.
The next pack of squirrels that follows me around campus is getting individually throat punched.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
Is it just me, or is everyone yelling my name?
To the guy with the pink umbrella: I almost giggled at you. Then I realized you were totally rocking the pink umbrella.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
Walking through Wescoe's prime lavatories, I noticed an unfamiliar sight: Two dead bats in the urinal?
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
I miss summer like K-State misses winning.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
I saw a cat on campus today.
It was wild. Why is there a
Wildcat on Jayhawks' campus?
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
To the girl at Mrs. E's who I overheard talking about Zelda: I want you.
--an impressive line up this fall. A cannot-miss show is coming up at The Bottlemeck on Friday when Split Lip Rayfield will be in town. The month of October is littered with more glorious hootin' and hollerin' music and culminates with Yonder Mountain String Band at Liberty Hall for a two night show on Oct. 30 and 31.
Lawrence music scene continues to impress
MUSIC
Before I ever came to the University of Kansas and stepped foot on Massachusetts Street, I had heard that Lawrence was the hub of music in the Midwest. Coming from Denver, a big city with an influx of musical talent and shows that never seemed to stop, I was skeptical of the validity of this loaded statement. Obviously, I was just ignorant.
In my two and a half years living in Lawrence I have seen some of the best shows of my life, enough so that I feel it needs a better name — "The L." Aside from my personal corkiness and total infatuation with everything Lawrence, I can step outside of my own box and confirm that Lawrence is legitimately one of the best places to see a great mixture of musical talent in the Midwest.
I've researched almost all of the venues in other Big 12 college towns: Iowa City, Iowa; Columbia, Mo.; Norman, Okla.; Manhattan, Kan.; and Austin, Texas. The only city that might have a better line-up this fall is Austin, but that doesn't count because Austin is in, well, Texas.
Lawrence has a line-up that can almost be compared to bigger cities like my home town of Denver, considering the quality and regularity of shows. For a college town — especially one located in Kansas — the diversity of music coming this fall is something that we, as residents of Lawrence, must take advantage of.
For the raving, glow stick twirling music fans the month starts off with everything you could possibly want. Girl Talk is scheduled to perform on Oct. 1 at Abe and Jake's, and Sound Tribe Sector Nine is set to perform at Liberty Hall on Oct. 6.
The line-up for this fall looks to be one of the best since I came here two and a half years ago.
For all the foot stomping,
bluegrass and all-around-good-
time-lovin' music fans, there is
If you are a singer-songwriter fan, your life may be complete when Ben Folds plays at Liberty Hall on Oct. 26.
Sadly for hip-hop heads, a run of good shows is coming to a close. After the likes of The Cool Kids, Tech N9ne and Shwayze in August and September, the only show ahead worth noting is Brother Ali at The Granada on Sept. 27.
Now, I have only included shows up until Halloween. (That is what I call scary!) A quarter of the way through the school year and my wallet will already be empty and my tack board will be overloaded with ticket stubs. Long live Lawrence music.
Roesler is a Denver junior in journalism.
EDITORIAL CARTOON
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POLITICS
Back to basics: Kansas Politics 101
Agirl on my floor has no knowledge of American football. I don't fault her ignorance at all. The world might be a better place if we all paid less attention to football on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and focused more on the challenges and joys of our collective existence (and this comes from a person who cried when the Chiefs ended their 1997 season, at home, in the divisional playoffs against the Broncos after a 13-3 regular season).
For the first Monday night game of the year, I found myself sitting next to her thinking about this and was compelled to ask, "How much do you really know about football?"
Besides, I know there are many issues that people know and care deeply about that I might never understand.
She said she didn't mind if I tried to teach her about football, so I proceeded to give a run-down of all that came to mind — downs, defenses, Steve Young (he was a part of the broadcast team) — but after a minute or two I could tell I had lost her. Her face did not
"Nothing," she said with a chuckle, conveying that she truly meant it.
show the understanding someone does when they have learned a concept.
From this experience I reflected and realized that my first two columns, though I was proud of them, might need the support of more information to be more easily understood by someone not as interested in state politics as I am.
It occurred to me that political columns such as my own, if not those of other topics as well, might spend a disproportionate time proffering an elevated argument to the few rather than attempting to educate an audience that is skeptical about concerning itself with a political environment as polarized as ours.
I was out of practice in explaining the absolute basics of the game.
In 2010, statewide elections will engross Kansas. The state offices of governor (liutenant governor
So, let's begin anew.
runs on the same ticket), secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer and insurance commissioner will be up for election by all Kansans for four-year terms. All 125 state House of Representatives seats, who serve for two years, will also be voted on next year.
At the federal level, there are four U.S. House of Representatives districts in Kansas, all of which will be up for grabs in 2010 (half will not have an incumbent in their races, but half have a competitive look, anyway), as is one of the U.S. Senate seats.
My intent for this space continues to be discussion of issues and both potential and actual candidates in relation to next year's elections (for a listing of names and races, please see my blog on Kansan.com).
But I'm not interested in expressing a strong opinion. I'd much rather teach something instead. What would you like to know?
Holmes is an Overland Park sophomore in political science.
Follow Kansan columnist Tyler Holmes at twitter. com/tylerholmes.
HEALTH CARE
Democrats' reform needs to stay strong
A after that long summer of agonizing retrenchment in the debate over
ment in the debate over health care reform, a modicum of momentum has returned to the President Obama's push for health care reform. And it's been helped along by a number of unexpected endorsements.
On Sept. 16, Bill O'Reilly told Nina Owcharenko of the Heritage Foundation that, lo and behold, he supports the public option.
Never in my most delirious dreams did I suppose that one day I'd be lauding the blustery populist for his position on any substantive issue of public policy.
But I've got to admit he made a good point when he said, "I want, not personally for me, but for working Americans, to have an option, that if they don't like their health insurance, if it's too expensive, they can't afford it, if the government can cobble together a cheaper insurance policy that gives the same benefits, I see that as a plus for the folks."
In a poll conducted last week, Dr. Salomeh Keyhani and Dr. Alex Federman of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York found that 73 percent of doctors supported a public option. And 63 percent favored a plan that would give patients a choice between a public and a private option, and 10 percent favored a public option only, which is tantamount to a single-payer system.
What magnanimity!
Last week also marked another, much more significant endorsement of the Democrats' reform.
But we have to make sure that this plan will not just plaster over the cracks only to sap impetus from fundamental reform to the system that will be needed in the near future. This must be a first step, not the last.
We need to deal now with the
The Democrats' plan, even with a public option, is only a stopgap, not the fundamental reform we ultimately need. This means eliminating the perverted incentives that underlie the entire health care system.
When speaking at the University of Maryland last week, Obama promised that under his plan young people could retain coverage under their parents' plans until they turn 26.
I would advise everyone to read David Goldhill's article "How American Health Care Killed My Father" from this month's issue of The Atlantic.
Goldhill convincingly illustrates how the current system prevents transparent competition,encourages an ever-increasing amount of expensive treatment — often at the expense of patients' well-being—and hides how much consumers actually pay for the medical care they receive.
most pressing issue, expanding coverage to those of us who, by little or no fault of our own, have been left out of the system: the millions of Americans who have lost their insurance along with their jobs in these lean times of the Great Recession, all of those with pre-existing conditions who are denied coverage and those poor college-age saps who, like me, have been booted off their parents' insurance.
He is correct when he says that the Democrats' plan does not address "the root causes of poor quality and runaway costs."
Thompson is a Topeka senior in economics.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
LETTER TO Salon Hawk sends mixed signals of cancer awareness
The University of Kansas and its many organizations have always attempted to bring awareness to many social issues. Cancer has been one of the main topics.
"Two years ago my best friend found a lump on her breast," Emily Willis, owner of Salon Hawk, said.
In Monday's editorial, breast cancer, but more importantly breast cancer awareness, was the main topic. According to the article, "Salon Hawk is giving students a chance to add pink to their hair to raise awareness about breast cancer."
If Salon Hawk is trying to bring awareness to breast cancer, why does it have a tanning bed that exposes students to harmful ultra-violet rays leading to skin
cancer, the most common form of cancer in the United States?
I'm aware that there is a difference between breast cancer and skin cancer. However, when awareness is brought up for any type of cancer, awareness is brought up for all types of cancer.
It seems extremely hypocritical that the University is focused on the awareness and prevention of cancer while providing students with easy access to a service that is known to be one of cancer's main contributors.
Willis and the University may be bringing awareness to breast cancer through a great charity, but the presence of a tanning bed on campus undermines the overall awareness and effort that should be aimed at preventing all types of cancer.
If the two groups can't come together then the task will never get done.
Amanda Kong is a sophomore from Lawrence.
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