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KANSAN.COM | THURSDAY, OCT. 6, 2016
Late Night was HOT, but probably because T Self popped that shirt open
I don't remember a lot of this morning...it was a little faggy.
There's a circle of hell completely devoted to strangers trying to start conversations in hot elevators.
Thank goodness Late Night took my mind off football
Every day is leg day at KU
"YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S CHOOSING TO BE ALONE" Me, to my cat, just now.
I'm single and ready to tell you to stay the hell away from me.
There's a barbeque sauce dispenser where a ketchup dispenser is supposed to be in the Underground and there is no happiness in my life anymore.
Good day for people with a clown fetish. Bad day for literally everyone else.
Beyoncé teaches English at a girls' school. She assigns a large research project. She takes her students to the library. She says, "Okay, ladies, now let's get information."
At some point there are so many 'unlikely friendship' videos of animals on facebook that it is no longer unlikely
It was foggy bc VAPE NAYSH YALL
Stop white people from wearing chance the rapper hats 2016
Just went to the bathrooms in Pearson, now I understand why so many people are education majors.
david beaty is such a master of cliche that it is almost profound
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My teacher just passed a book around the room and it was bookmarked at the "Family Romance" section.
I wonder what America will look like when it's great again.
My purpose in life is to scam Kevin Jonas out of his meager fortune.
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Bertels: Live for yourself, not your resume
▶ ELLEN BERTELS @ellenbertels
As I apply to law schools and internships, I have been thinking a lot about resumes.
Our professional world demands that each person get involved with activities and jobs that look good on paper. Whether these students are actively contributing to the work they do is a different matter altogether.
I would argue that it is a special breed of person — someone impervious to weariness and hunger — that can meaningfully contribute to three jobs,
And yet we persist in trying.
It's not as if this culture of overwork is uncommon among students. It appears in everyday interactions. We are impressive, not frightening, when we forget to eat for a few days. We tell tales of glory, not horror, when we sleep a cumulative four hours over the course of a week.
And all of this is, to us, par for the course.
What sort of person would dedicate themselves to such an objectively unhealthy
What do we gain from it? The only way that lifestyle makes sense is if we enjoy the work, and understand the value of it, more than we mind exhausting and starving ourselves.
lifestyle, unless they loved the work they were doing in the first place?
If this comes across as a "millennial" complaint, rest assured: I'm not saying people shouldn't do hard things, or that we should always choose comfort and ease over the rigors of academic and professional life.
I have had my fair share of late nights and early mornings; I understand the value of the grind. Rather than declaring a boycott of hard work, I aim to criticize the unhealthy culture that insists assumes, even - that students will work themselves to the bone doing work they do not enjoy and hardly engage with in order to prove ourselves as worthy, successful and employable.
If we are going to work ourselves to the bone, we should do it by focusing on work
that we contribute to thoughtfully and meaningfully - work that we care about, not for our resume, but for the benefit we gain from the experience. I see little value in contributing shallowly to a dozen activities just so you can add them to your resume and list them off in interviews.
The real value derives from investing more time and talent into the things that matter. Surely, extended periods of hard work on something you care about will pay off in tangible ways.
We also have to begin being honest with each other. This culture does not just exist; we contribute to and pass these expectations onto others by insisting that we are the busiest, have the most resume bullet points, sleep the least, eat the worst. By intentionally prioritizing the titles of our
positions, rather than the work that is done or the progress that is made in those positions, we do ourselves and our peers a great disservice.
in my time at the University, I am consistently the most impressed and inspired by the dedicated people I meet who contribute to friendships actively and engage thoughtfully and carefully in their work. I know I have so much work to do. If we want to follow their lead, we must begin by choosing quality of engagement over quantity, and by allowing our passion, rather than the desire to impress, to lead the way when we speak about ourselves and the work we do.
Ellen Bertels is a senior from Overland Park studying English and Italian.
Foster: Voting third party a national gamble
▶ KAITLYN FOSTER
@qreocity
The wave started when Secretary Hillary Clinton's delegate count overwhelmingly overtook that of Sen. Bernie Sanders, denying him the Oval Office. "Bernie or Bust" became the new slogan for impassioned Sanders supporters unwilling to help elect a Democrat they viewed as irredeemably corrupt instead of the Republican candidate bulldozing his way to the Republican National Convention.
When Sanders officially left the race, many of his supporters didn't
know where to flock. Similarly, many staunch Republicans were aghast at their official nominee. Where could they turn with their hopes and ideals - and their votes - now that their beloved candidates had bowed out? Hopefully, not to the third-party candidates with incredible gusto. In such a crucial election, that could shrink the margin of error for either major party candidate's victory.
Unfortunately, we see that exact scenario playing out before us, but it's not affecting the major party candidates equally. Support for Clinton among women and young voters has eroded, according to Bloomberg Politics. In a four-way race, Clinton's support drops by 10 percent among voters under 30, according to a New York Times/CBS poll. And third-party candidates can together rake in more than one-third of voters from the same group.
These statistics illustrate two things. First, younger voters are disillusioned with the politicians of major parties. They desire change and doubt that Clinton or Trump can make their wish a reality. Second, it appears younger voters are under the impression that voting for a candidate implies they completely approve of him or her.
I wholeheartedly agree that our political system needs to change, but I am also realistic about how translating that view into a vote can affect the election.
Sticking with your principles is admirable and has its place, but that place is not in an election so unbelievably close that we could elect a president whose ideas
about NATO and a certain Russian president could endanger national security, whose proposed tax cuts reflect Brownback-like trickle down economics, whose beliefs about global warming border on conspiratorial and whose conception of humanitarian aid includes busing migrants back to highly-impoverished countries and opening up jobs Americans don't want.
Sanders invigorated many young voters. He is an inspiring wellspring of political change. Being inspired by one's candidate is a luxury, though. It's something young voters seem to believe matters more since Obama received such enthusiastic support in 2008.
We know how third-party votes affected the election in 2000. Al Gore lost the presidency by 537 votes because
third-party candidate Ralph Nader enjoyed support from 60 percent of would-be Gore voters in Florida, according to a study by Dartmouth and UCLA researchers.
In 2012, young voters proved decisive in reelecting Obama.
In a previous column, I argued that young voters should make their voices heard in this election. However, showing up at the polls is not enough. We have to vote, especially in deeply-contested areas like Ohio and North Carolina.
This time,young voters cannot prioritize ideals over pragmatics, lest we become the demographic that causes a repeat of the 2000 election, instead of 2012.
Kaitlyn Foster is a sophomore from Lawrence studying political science and sociology.
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