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KANSAN.COM | MONDAY, OCT. 31, 2016
Have you seen the sign by the Chi-o fountain that says "No Standing Any Time"? Apparently, no one else has, either!
Love is nice I guess. But historically, fear is more effective.
Pornhub doing the lord's work.
- realizes I uploaded
the wrong cover letter
* * shrieks at the top of
my lungs for 2 minutes
while correcting it *
Imagine Kid Rock singing the national anthem at Trump's inauguration.
As the shadows get longer, so do my eyeliner wings.
which wine pairs best with gummy worms and regret
Why tf is Twitter trying to show me 20 hourold tweets? That was 40 news cycles ago, bro, get it together.
What ever happened to yo mama jokes?
They call me yam daddy
there is something deeply wrong with my face
hobbies: screwing up
PSA: The FBI "reopening" of Hillary's email case *actually* has nothing to do with her or her email server
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On the eighth day god gave us corn dogs.
Remember to vote for Donald Trump on Nov. 28
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Make KU football great again
5 more weeks of class... (not counting Thanksgiving and finals)
Black Eyed Peas: awful in every form
Don't tell me my password is weak, my password can be whatever the frick I want it to be.
Nightmares of our own creation: finals week, rush week, this election cycle
Just make it through the next week and a half, America. It'll get better after
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Doerr: Offensive team mascots need to go
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▶ JACOB DOERR
@No_Doerr
CW: Racism
Walking into work at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland three summers ago, I walked underneath a 28-foot neon sign depicting the Cleveland Indians "Chief Wahoo" mascot in baseball garb in order to enter the Library. His left leg curls underneath him above the entrance as he prepares to swing at an imaginary pitch.
Last week, I encountered the "Chief" again, as the Cleveland Indians swept the Boston Red Sox in the American League Divisional Series, advancing to win the American League pennant and a chance to play in the World Series. Above the spurts of champagne stood Cleveland's offensive logo on the team's caps.
The modern version of Cleveland's logo adorns most Cleveland baseball memorabilia, but I won't go into specifics describing it. The most amazing part of this logo's history is that the modern incarnation is somehow more humane than past ones, which are also still sold on memorabilia.
Working in the Library behind the "Chief," I learned that much of Cleveland's population emigrated to the United States after 1900; waves of Jewish, Hungarian, Polish, Italian and African-American immigrants came to work in the major factories after Theodore Roosevelt lamented the disappearance of "the frontier." It speaks to the ubiquity of the stereotype that it features so prominently in a Rust Belt community.
A very different history exists here on the Plains. Existing reservations scattered across the state exist because of a violent history. Most of Kansas' original white inhabitants were settlers who came to make a living on land that
was either taken by force or was in the process of being taken.
Lawrence itself is home to the Haskell Nations Indian University, founded in 1884 as a boarding school tasked with assimilating its Native students. And, thanks to the bravery of Native protesters, among others. Lawrence was one of five cities to send a letter of support to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the midst of its battle to protect its land from a pipeline (#NODAPL), featured next to cities such as Seattle and Minneapolis among others. The ways in which this battle and continuous process has shaped Lawrence, Kansas, and the Plains region is both clearly visible and continually important.
Some argue that because Native Americans are less visible to mainstream (i.e. white) Americans due to the intended isolation of reservations, that it has been hard to create momentum to make changes to the names and logos of the Indians and other racially offensive team mascots.
Illustration by Jacob Benson
It has been hard to create momentum to make changes to the names and logos of the Indians and other racially offensive team mascots."
But that can't be true. Cleveland, for example, was one of nine urban areas that the United States government actively encouraged Native Americans to emigrate to under the Indian Urban Relocation Program of 1952; 750,000 Native people would eventually move
from reservations into urban areas. Native Americans are present and have contributed to urban American history in recent decades and many before that.
While working in Cleveland that summer, an educator from the Navajo Nation confronted me about the 20-foot abomination outside of our door. I apologized profusely, and later spoke to my supervisor, who also expressed remorse for the sign. Despite our personal objections, a decisive majority of funders and patrons of the museum wanted the sign to remain prominent. Indeed, the mascot is now seen by tens of millions of Americans each night during the World Series.
The continued existence of the nickname and logo has been blamed on both the Cleveland Indians organization and its ownership, but to blame solely the organization
ignores the culpability of its fans, who continue to make the logo and nickname profitable.
For many Cleveland fans, and fans of other teams with racist mascots, the trouble of changing gear outweighs the effort required to recognize our violent history and continued marginalization of Native Americans, and the effect that offensive stereotypes such as "Chief Wahoo" have in perpetuating that marginalization. Until this effort no longer outweighs the inconvenience of putting a hat down or changing shirts, for most fans, the Indians' name and its logo will continue to be both popular and profitable.
Jacob Doerr is a graduate student from Shenandoah, Iowa, studying public administration.
McCarthy: Rigged election claims unfounded
> KEVIN MCCARTHY
@kevindmccarthy
Like many Americans, I have just about had it with this presidential election. Being a political junkie, however, I still check my Twitter feed every day to see the latest woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct or the new emails that WikiLeaks released about Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
Donald Trump has said a lot of hateful, offensive and downright false things in this election, but this has to be among the biggest fibs he has told so far. These claims are simply not grounded in reality.
One headline stood out to me in particular last week: a tweet from Trump that said, "Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before Election Day."
These claims are simply not grounded in reality."
Trump and his surrogates have also claimed that there is a "massive problem" with "illegal immigrants [who] are voting." At a rally last week, Trump cited research by professors at Old Dominion University, claiming that more than 14 percent of noncitizens in both 2008 and 2010 were registered to vote. However, this study has been largely debunked by experts. A Harvard professor who manages the data used
Does voter fraud happen? Of course it does, but not on the scale that Trump is suggesting. According to a report by a professor at the Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, out of one billion ballots cast, there were only about 31 incidents of voter fraud found between 2000 and 2014.
Despite this evidence, Trump has continued to say that the election is being "rigged," and the reason he is not winning in any polls is because the "crooked media" is biased against him. During the third presidential debate last week, he even refused to say he would accept the results of the election.
in the study said the data was misused and the study's conclusions are wrong.
As you can probably tell, I am not a big fan of Trump. That being said, if he were to be elected president of the United States, I would accept the results.
America considers itself to be the greatest democracy on Earth. That means that we have the expectation of free and fair elections. Every
losing presidential candidate in American history has conceded to the winner. Even Al Gore conceded to George W. Bush in 2000, and with the controversy surrounding that election, he could have contested it for years.
The peaceful transition of power is one of the basic tenants of our democratic system. It is one thing to dislike the outcome of the election, but to say that it is illegitimate because it did not turn out your way is not only childish but dangerous.
Kevin McCarthy is a senior from Lenexa studying political science, history, and public policy.
Edited by Cody Schmitz
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