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All unicorns like Cap'n Crunch!
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
Pancakes on my face make me extra happy.
I would like getting caught in the rain. If it were with you.
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
Ted, how could you. I had you pegged as the one who would s to Betty White.
To all of you who looked ahead at the weather and thought to bring an umbrella — I kind of hate you a little bit. But I did enjoy my stroll from Haworth to Smith without one! It's a little freeing.
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
I'm the only John Wayne left in this town
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
It's the Great Flood all over again!
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
If the guy in my journalism lab doesn't stop constantly murmuring under his breath every time the professor asks a question, I will go nutty and punch him.
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
Thank you super nice woman that gave me a ride home. You saved me from more rain!
Why doesn't the bus to JRP ever come? After the rain today, I'm wet and cold ... that's what she said.
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
I hope Ted meets Mary Jo in heaven. If he gets to heaven.
You want me to be happy but don't you realize that you're the only thing that will ever make me happy?
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
I think I just saw a six-foot-tall pickle walking down my hall. WTF happened last night!
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
KU, I just really love you.
They say that when your nose itches, someone is thinking of you. Please stop thinking of me, it has been like two hours and its starting to hurt!
To the cute girl in my 9 o'clock, you're lovely and if I wasn't so shy, I'd take you to dinner and a movie.
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
Attention EVERYONE! Penis That is all.
--money (or lack thereof) can make or break a business, especially a local one. In light of the economic recession and the challenges of breaking even, students need to support Massachusetts Street and all local businesses around it, to preserve the unique downtown experience for everyone.
Ah the joys of a roommate free (and consequently pants-free) lifestyle.
Students should support downtown businesses
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Adam Buhler/KANSAN
With today's struggling economic climate, money (or lack thereof)
Last fall, students at the University represented all 50 states and more than 110 countries in the world. Perhaps one of the most traditional aspects of the city life is the rich history of downtown, a history which today is challenged by hard economic times. Numerous stores have had to close their downtown doors, and it is up to the community to keep the remaining ones alive.
Recent summer closings in the downtown area include Palace Cards
& Gifts, Round Corner Drug Store, Blue Heron Home Furnishings and Old World Pottery. For Tom Wilkerson, owner and founder of Jayhawk Spirit, a
sportswear and collectibles store on Massachusetts Street, which was started in 1981, the recession has not directly affected the store. However, he said he could see its effects by just looking down the street.
"I could probably name more businesses that have left than ones that have come to take their place," Wilkerson said. "We can stabilize what our expenses are going to be, and if there's a slow period, we make adjustments."
the smallest towns of the Midwest. Lawrence hasn't been hit the hardest, but to see the recession affect downtown life is just as disheartening.
The effects of the recession are evident around the country, even in
Wilkerson also pointed out how a mall opened in Columbia, Mo., and "killed their downtown." This
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is yet another reason Lawrence should refuse to resemble its eastern neighbors. The vibrant downtown energy and atmosphere doesn't compare to the stale
house or a warehouse shopping mall.
"Merchandise that is hard to find, some of it is specialized, and people think our store is pretty special. Where else can you get this kind of diversity?" Wilkerson said.
inside of a mundane shopping mall
In January of this year, the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration reported that "Kansas' economic recovery will depend on small business." Lawrence's stores are the epitome of small business and they need help to succeed.
The Lawrence downtown
business district is in need of faithful student support. Though the economy seems to be fluctuating as time goes by and businesses are in a time of uncertainty, common sense tells us that to keep our businesses intact, we have to prove that we want to keep them here.
Keep the malls and chain stores at bay, Students and the members of the community should spend their money at downtown stores to preserve local, unique businesses.
Brett Salsbury for The Kansan Editorial Board
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NICHOLAS SAMBALUK
STUDENT LIFE
Embrace human rights advocacy around the world and at home
I'm going to ask you a question that sounds really simple. Do you care about people?
Chances are you care deeply about loved ones and friends. Many of us are guilty of caring about someone when it's convenient and then dropping the ball later, but no one's perfect. The really hard part of the question is deciding how much you care about the people you don't know.
This time, think deeply about the question before you answer. Do you really, truly care about other people?
Most of you probably would say yes. If not, you're probably aware that my column won't really line up with your interests or beliefs, but thanks for trying.
Sometimes the people who really need our care and concern are so separated from our daily lives that we push them to the back of our minds and forget about them — or we just don't hear about them at all. It doesn't mean we are bad people. We are just part of an age that implores us to see what is directly in front of us as being urgent and dismiss everything else in procrastination or defeat.
In that respect, human rights
advocacy isn't necessarily at the forefront of the average American college student's mind. To begin a more advocacy-oriented way of thinking, I encourage you to disband the stereotypes in your mind of what social justice is all about.
Human rights aren't just about feeding starving children in Africa or protecting refugees. There are human rights abuses within the United States and within your hometowns that are equally important. Start by considering those issues that are in close proximity to your life.
Schools and recruiters place such a high emphasis on community service that all we do is log hours and keep track of how much our competitors are doing.
It is my opinion that the University of Kansas takes great pride in having culturally aware and socially conscious students. What should we expect from ourselves as the student body? So many groups such as Oxfam International, Amnesty International, Students Against Sweatshops, Support International
and many more try to get us to care about prominent social injustices, but most of the time all they get is a 10-minute-deep response — the audience cares about it for 10 minutes, but then they just go back to living their everyday lives.
It's not even about being a service to the community anymore; it's about the community being a service to us. By changing how you think about social justice and basic human rights, maybe you will get more out of these discussions or your community service projects.
It's easy to coast on autopilot without much concern for outside problems, but it's much more effective in one's life to pay attention and, when necessary, advocate change.
I don't think students completely disregard what they hear about these issues; they just need to assess how to incorporate human rights awareness into their daily lives.
Cosby is an Overland Park sophomore in journalism and political science.
More to eating healthy than diets, quick fixes
Diet. At one time the word alone was enough to make even the most
health-conscious of people crineh. And now? Every magazine is filled with the latest tips. Every morning news show proclaims the best methods. Everyone behind the checkout counter thinks they have the best advice. It is as if, suddenly, there is no "i" in "diet".
So, what exactly is the problem? Couldn't it be assumed that the increase in dialogue would lead to more healthful eating habits and, consequently, bodies?
Instead of creating a more healthful America, mass dieting has spawned a nation of androids, blindly — or rather, tastelessly — consuming foods based on current fads. It is as if this nationalization of feeding has resulted in widespread distancing from the very best parts of eating: the aromas, the colors, the textures and finally the tastes. And the worst consequence of all, more so than the bizarre willingness to consume cardboard if suddenly deemed healthful, is that Americans are surrendering their abilities to truly enjoy food.
First, we have to learn to talk about food not as the inevitable and eternal enemy, but rather as a close friend with whom we share positive experiences and fond memories.
Yet, unlike the latest diet plans that many people are so eager to embrace, there is no quick fix to overcoming contention with culinary mediocrity. Instead, it is necessary to rework the ways in which we associate with food.
Reworking my own relationship
Au contraire!
Though I may not be sticking to any strict diet, I have found that acknowledging my hunger allows me to feel easily and completely satisfied. Often a bite of chocolate that I slowly savor fills me up more than a hastily devoured — and later regretted — slice of rich cake.
with food has been a challenge, but the greatest reward of becoming aware of what I really am craving is the deep joy and pleasure I feel in indulgence. I now know that I love a cool ice cream cone on a hot summer day, a steaming cup of aromatic coffee in the early hours of a winter morning and a slice of whole wheat bread topped with peanut butter after an intense workout.
True, there are some key principles that are important to stick close to. No matter how much they may be craved, a body can only get by for so long on Twinkies or hamburgers.
But beyond a few smart guidelines, eating is more about personal reflection than prescribed diets. This approach may take a bit more time and effort than simply consuming based on fads. However, the results of a healthy, empowered body and truly satisfied appetite are well worth it.
McCoy is a Lincoln, Neb. sophomore in journalism.
FROM UTAH
Utah
ALICIA WILLIAMS
Pay-for-performance sets dangerous precedent
Daily Utah Chronicle
It wasn't so long ago when people who desperately wanted to go to school couldn't. Prejudices against individuals of certain genders, races and financial situations dictated the precious opportunity of attending. Things certainly have changed.
With the increasingly popular pay for-performance programs all over the country, American students have gone from appreciation of education to an expectation of cash incentives to learn.
Programs range from encouraging student attendance to tardy control, tutoring and stressing good performance on standardized tests and Advanced Placement exams. They target a wide variety of schools but primarily focus on low-income city-area with predominately low college attendance. One idea is to pay students a monetary award for their hard work, and thereby promote good habits to create successful college students.
It's hard to find fault other than the possibility that in doing so, we are creating a generation of students who will expect to be paid
for every effort they make toward knowledge
According to a New York City program, Rewarding Achievement, or REACH, which pays students up to $1,000 for high scores on AP exams, the opportunity to increase the low number of black and Latino college students is worth the experiment.
"It's a different type of scholarship," Edward Rodriguez, executive director of REACH, said. "The global nature of economic competition is one that requires our young people to be committed to their studies so that they can develop the skills to compete and participate in an economy that is totally different than yesterear."
Unfortunately, cash incentives are working, and school districts all over the nation are jumping on the pay-for-performance bandwagon. This could ultimately be the downfall of academia, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
Hoppefully, kids will still continue to learn for the love of knowledge, and not just learn enough to pass the test and say, "Show me the money."
UWire
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