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--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
Just because it's misting outside does not mean that you look like a prostitute.
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
I like to listen to the "Brandenburg Concerto" when I pee.
I just picked my nose and thoroughly enjoyed it. I know it's a nasty habit, but so is sleeping around, and I know I'm not going to get herpes from picking my nose.
My friend and I are sitting outside Summerfield Hall and we are counting all of the v-necks that go by.
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
I almost crashed my car because I saw hippies in a train car having sex.
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
I love being in a college, but I hate the fact that I can never afford Pizza Shuttle when I need it the most.
The Notorious B.I.G. once said, "Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirst-av"
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
Why can't I buy my Missouri tickets? WHYYYYY?
"You're lonely. I'm lonely. Let's have sex!" And so we did. And it was good.
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
A NATO strike kills 30 civilians, 39 more died this weekend. Five G.I.s died in Afghanistan alone. Let's all just keep talking about Kanye West and Lady GaGa.
Is there a Latino food store in Lawrence?
Starbucks was my high school sweetheart, but Milton's is my coffee soulmate.
To be fair, Kanye ain't sayin'
Taylor Swift's a gold digger,
she just don't mess around
with no broke broke.
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
Can I be pro-life and still hate the abortion display?
Mountain Dew me.
Who else is sad they missed the crunchy chicken wrap
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
That's why Kanye is a gay fish
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
My roommate just burnt her ass on her hair straightener. I have no idea how that happened
--just one way students at the University are using technology to enhance their learning. Unfortunately, the practice of teachers banning or limiting laptops in lecture halls is becoming more common. This is an unfair rule that harms the many students who learn more efficiently using a laptop to take notes.
Those glasses... They magnify your soul!
EDITORIAL BOARD
Technology in classrooms promotes better learning
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Using a laptop in tecture classes is just one way students at the University are
"I'm against laptop bans," Joshua Walton, Olathe senior, said. "My laptop is where I take all of my notes. Since I invested in a laptop it's nice to not have to buy note-books every semester."
Walton is not alone in his views. Students in nearly every lecture class use their laptops to take notes. The advantages are numerous: quicker note taking, better organization, instant editing and spell
check. It's also environmentally friendly and less to carry in a backpack. The choice of whether to use a laptop in a given class should be left up to the student, unless there are except circumstances that would n them a hindrance.
Barton Guner, Gardner, Kan. junior, said that laptops had always been banned in her POLS 150 class.
Outright bans prevent those students who take better notes on laptops from doing their best. With a campus covered in wireless Internet, it's hard not to think the University is encouraging students to use laptops.
there are legitimate reasons for not allowing students to use laptops. Some art classes use a projector that requires a darkened room, and the light from a laptop can make it hard to see the screen. Some chemistry lectures are just not conducive to note taking on a laptop.
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However, for some classes.
There is no way students could
draw complex chemical structures on their laptop" David Benson, associate professor of chemistry, said. "I assume they're doing something else if
they're on a laptop."
It is up to students to use their laptops responsibly. Distracting nearby students by playing games, videos, or in a disturbing worst-case scenario, watching pornography, are exceedingly immature and disrespectful things to do to fellow students. This is part of what gives many professors the cause to ban laptops in the first place.
Benson, however, will allow students to use a laptop if they can show him a way to take sufficient notes.
"Other students complain that it's distracting to them," Antha Cotten-Sprekelmeyer of the Humanities and Western Civilizations department said, a sentiment repeated by a variety of professors.
Students who must entertain themselves during a lecture should take seats in the back rows to avoid bothering students sitting behind them, a compromise more professors should try before out right banning laptops. If this was the policy, it would be harming only the students who choose not to pay attention.
Laptops are a useful tool that professors should be willing to work with. They can be used for learning or distraction, but alone are not what causes a problem. Professors should give students the benefit of the doubt when it comes to using laptops in class before instituting bans harmful to the learning of their dedicated students.
EDITORIAL CARTOON
— Clayton Ashley for The Kansan Editorial Board
Bob had been on an all-bacon diet ever since he heard about the fabulous benefits reaped by students lucky enough to obtain the legendary "swine flu." So far, his efforts had been in vain.
JAMES FARMER
POLITICS
The incredible shrinking presidency
When the most powerful man in the world is complaining about what was posted on the ex-governor of Alaska's Facebook page, you know he is in trouble.
Here was the President of the United States, standing in front of a Congress in which he needs no votes from Republicans to pass his legislation, whose poll numbers are dropping faster than any president (save Ford, after pardoning Nixon) in history and who has nothing new to offer in his effort to promote a bill which hasn't even been written.
As I was watching President Obama give his 29th speech on health care last Wednesday, this time in prime time to a joint session of Congress, it dawned on me that I was witnessing a spectacular political failure.
He might still be sending thrills up Chris Mathews' leg, but that feeling is long gone in mainstream America. His call for a joint session of Congress in order to promote his political goal was a display of great weakness.
How has this dazzling unifier that transcended "politics as usual" fallen from grace?
First, Obama's magical rhetoric has finally met its match — substance. It has never been about substance with Obama, rather illusory and intangible "hope" and "channe"
The President is so confident in his ability to persuade that he continues to push legislation that is rejected by simple common sense. For example, he claims that this new massive government program will not add to the deficit. Mr. President, Americans are smarter than that.
They see Medicare broke, Medicaid broke, Social Security broke, the Post Office broke, Amtrak broke, Cash for Clunkers broke and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae broke, Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Our government can't even run a railroad!
Obama also says his plan will insure millions of uninsured Americans without resulting in long lines or rationed care. How can you treat 50 million more patients with no extra doctors
when there is already a shortage?
This question remains unanswered
This question remains unanswered. Second, his reaction to resistance has been remarkably arrogant. The Democratic Party and the mainstream media that were in a frenzy during the Bush war glamorizing Iraq war protesters and mercilessly attacking President Bush, now seek a tranquil political atmosphere.
President Obama has caused an end to the name-calling. But it is his own party that demeans Americans who raise questions. Nancy Pelosi has compared them to Nazis. Harry Reid calls them "evil mongers." His own White House calls them "an unruly mob." If he is serious about the name-calling, he ought to look inward.
President Obama has become ordinary. It remains to be seen whether or not a man like Obama, who holds himself in extreme self-regard, will be able to adapt to being a mere mortal.
This presidency is failing, but it is far from over. Obama can save himself if he stops belitling his fellow Americans and begins to pay heir to his own call for bi-partisanship. That is the right idea.
Compton is a Wichita senior in political science.
Fall fashion advice
Here in Kansas the seasons don't like to make smooth transitions. As
we saw last week, one day it's sweltering hot, and the next it's in the lower 60s. While the weather tries to decide if its summer or fall, it's good time to prepare your wardrobe for the cooler months.
WHAT TO KEEP
Keep pieces that are season neutral. Clothes that are darker colors or simpler; muted prints can transition from season to season.
If you have dresses or tops that fit the fall color pallet but are more of a bare, warm-weather style, consider using them for your fall wardrobe to layer with leggings, tights, long sleeved shirts or sweaters.
Keep in mind that accessories can define an outfit's season. A dress with sandals and a straw hat is for the beach, but wearing that same dress with dark tights, riding boots and a blazer creates a gorgeous fall look.
Using accessories to make summer clothes wearable in the fall will save you money and allow you to get more use out of your favorite clothes.
SHOPPING END OF SUMMER SALES
Summer styles get cheaper and cheaper as stores start to make room for new fall and winter lines. No matter how good the deal is, though, if you can only wear the piece for a few more weeks, your money would most likely be better spent on in season pieces.
If you find something that screams, "take me to the beach," but you love it anyway, consider buying it and saving it for next summer. Just remember to first ask yourself, "will this be in style a year from now?" Summer classics are a smart sale purchase, but if the piece has a trendy silhouette, print or color, it probably won't be in next season.
you will have wasted your money.
INVEST IN STAPLE PIECES
Things like a nice, dark pair of jeans or a timeless, black cocktail dress will always be in style, no matter the season. A true staple piece can be worn for years, and should be simple enough to be styled in many ways so you can wear it multiple times without anyone knowing.
When investing in staple pieces, make sure they are high quality and have good fit. You may have to spend a little extra, but investing in a classic staple piece means you'll save money re-wearing them later rather than having to buy new trend pieces every season.
In tough economic times — and with our limited college closet space — it's important to have some pieces that you know you can always turn to.
Remember, no matter what season it is, it's good fashion practice to dress weather appropriate. As the weather gets colder, please don't be that person wearing flip-flops and shorts when there's snow on the ground. No one looks good with frost bite.
Esposito is an Overland Park sophomore in journalism and film.
Follow Kansan opinion writer Alexandra Esposito at twitter.com/ thehelmineKU
FROM INDIANA
Indiana U.
How technology ruined dating
Indiana Daily Student
CHRIS NELSON
Imagine you're on a date. The moon is full, the air is crisp and you're standing toe to toe, saying goodnight.
On your way home, you keep thinking about the taste of her lips and how excited you are to see her again. Then your phone lights up and reads "Thanks for the great night" with a tacky smile afterwards.
Now, for me, this is one of the biggest turnoffs after any date.
When you drop someone off, even if you had a great night, you dropped him or her off. You don't want them climbing to you via text till dawn. You don't want to get sick of the person after only one date, especially if they paid.
Before cell phones ran our lives, you could wait days before calling someone. Now though, you're always within reach, even when you don't want to be.
And don't think not responding will work. You either need to respond immediately if you ever want to see them again or decide it wasn't worth it and call it quits
there and then
John O'Neill, the director of addictions services at the Meninger Clinic in Houston, says our addiction to technology is "an impulse disorder that can be as socially damaging as alcoholism, gambling and drug addiction."
There's no escape anymore. Technology has embedded itself in the deepest roots of society's tissue. This has led to some pretty serious problems.
So to me, dating someone who does an after-date text is like dating an alcoholic. But instead of getting thrown up on and turned off, the inevitable text will finish the job.
So it's official. Technology is trying to assassinate everything dating once stood for.
Don't shoot yourself just yet, because, ladies and gentlemen, I have the solution. Just steer clear of the post-date text and everything will be wonderful. Wait a few days, send that text and enjoy dating the way it should be.
Come to think about it, don't text at all. Grow a pair and call them.
— UWire
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