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THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 2017 | VOLUME 133 ISSUE 10
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
'Redo Your U' misleading, unnecessary, critics say
► DARBY VANHOUTAN
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With only two months left until students
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Against Rising Tuition, Tommy Finch and Lev Comolli, both sophomores from Lawrence, who are spearheading a campaign
SCHOOL OF LOVE
Can college relationships last after graduation?
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▶ TANNER HASSELL
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College is a time for exploration, a time to grow and learn about yourself. It's an exciting time, but it comes with challenges. Balancing school work, social obligations, extracurricular activities and having fun can be quite the challenge. Add a significant other to the mix, and the challenge can become even more complex.
Relationships create questions about the future. Forever can be a daunting amount of time to think about when the journey of life has just begun, so the question is: will your college relationship last forever? Randy Moredock, a relationship counselor in Lawrence, said young couples need to mutually agree on a path forward, if the relationship will continue after school.
"I think there has to be that acknowledgement, that moment where you have to decide what you're going to do," he said. "I think that there has to be honest dialogue about 'Are we going in the same direction?' There has to be a sense of understanding on what we're agreeing to do, and are we both buying into this?"
Landri James, a senior transfer student from Haskell Indian Nations University, offered a different perspective on college relationships after recently breaking up with her boyfriend, whom she
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dated through high school and her time in college.
To the extent you can find somebody who enjoys the same stuff you do and wants to be a part of your journey,and whether that will last forever, nobody knows for sure."
Randy Moredock Relationship counselor
"We broke up once before, when I was at Haskell," she said. "I was a freshman, it was an exciting time. He just couldn't trust me, being away at school. When I got to Haskell, I
think he just knew what it was like to be a freshman."
James said she and her boyfriend broke up this year, due to trust issues re-emerging.
"We've been happy for the last six or seven years," she said. "We were together my entire time at KU. Honestly, I don't know if I could have made it without him. Just small things like getting me food, giving me rides when I needed them, he was just there for me. I think he still couldn't trust me after the first time we broke up."
Moredock, who spent many years as a college counselor, said young couples should make sure they know what they're agreeing to when moving forward with a relationship.
"One of things I've seen that is very destructive to relationship is a person will
say, 'I'm going to do this for you,' he said. "Then, if it doesn't work out or the person isn't adjusting well to this new place then that can cause a lot of problems."
Moredock said relationships in college are unique in the various challenges young couples face as they work toward a future.
"The unique qualities about college relationships is you're not sure what's going to happen afterward," he said. "You may have one person who's an engineering major and another who's a psych major and they both have different things they want to do. The psych major might want to go and get a PhD, and the engineering major might say, 'Hey, I have this really unique opportunity to work in Bahrain, in oil fields and
I don't want to pass that up.' There has to be a lot of discussion in terms of, 'We want to keep this thing going long distance, but how do we do that?'
James said she believed her relationship would last, but is ready for the future without her boyfriend.
"I really did think we would be together forever," she said. "We were going to get married, we were planning our wedding and everything. I put so much energy into him and I was loyal to him, but he still accused me of cheating. Now I can focus on larger things, I can actually enjoy myself and other people."
Moredock said couples in college face a great deal of uncertainty when it comes to the future. This is even further complicated by the personal development that many students experience
over the course of college.
"Sometimes somebody you meet as a freshman may not grow in the same direction or at the same rate as you," he said.
Moredock's advice to all college students, single or dating, is to keep an open mind, be patient and have fun.
"Being in a college relationship is a guess," he said. "You have all this stuff that is available to do. It's just a fun time, it's a very alive time. To the extent you can find somebody who enjoys the same stuff you do and wants to be a part of your journey, and whether that will last forever, nobody knows for sure."
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Hocking
exemption for universities expires on July 1.
The weapons policy, which the Board of Regents approved last semester, specifies guidelines for concealed carry on campus. For example, those who wish to carry a firearm must carry it in a holster that covers the trigger, and anyone found to be in violation of the policy has the potential to be removed from campus.
Earlier this month, KU Athletics announced it will
departments of organizations to request security at certain events, but permanent security measures will most likely not be provided for most buildings.
Despite the University's efforts to implement safety measures within the confines of the law, many were still concerned about its impact on the campus.
"People are malicious anyway. When they have a gun on them, the chances of that turning violent or deadly increase," said
sity community have been vocal about their opposition to guns on campus including testifying in the Kansas legislature and publicly protesting. Right now, however, the goal of the University is to do as much as possible to inform the public on how to be safe with guns on campus, Williams said during the event.
Some people, like Professor Ron Barrett-Gonzalez, said the University
Certain Kansas legislators have been making an effort to stop guns on campus before the exemption expires. One bill, HB 2074, would allow universities to indefinitely exempt them-
the big terrible event," said Barrett-Gonzalez, a chapter president of the American Association of University Professors, during the event.
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many University students know enough about their free speech rights. The survey asked questions about the First Amendment, like what categories of speech are legally protected.
"With our interactions with the rest of the KU community, both in person and things that we see throughout KU social media, whatever platform it might be, we get the feeling that not a lot of people know exactly what their free speech rights are
of the funding to conduct the survey, Lepinski said the group had to request permission from Student Senate to hand out the test, which was approved.
Lepinski said they are still tallying up the results from the test. They received approximately 60-70 tests back, but they are trying to reach 100 before YAF publishes the results.
The initial first impres-
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