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BIG JAY, WILL YOU MARRY ME?
This Pyramid Pizza is pretty good, but not as awesome as the article said it was going to be.
The first time I was ever pooped on by a bird was right after the KU football team had lost its first game last semester... Explain the good luck in that, please?
Everyone is out doing the Harlem Shake, and I'm just sitting here study-
I respect the Phog more than you know. That being said, it's been since before college started that I've watched a game there sober.
What is it that prompts people to scratch things into bathroom stalls?
I love it when the campus Internet decides to challenge the weather to a fickle contest.
For Lent, would it be acceptable to give up pop except for when mixed with liquor?
I just saw not one, but TWO people running with their backpacks. My mornine is made.
Passing by all the senior day tour groups make me a bit concerned for the future of our student population.
Wand. Obviously, I choose a wand.
I shouldn't be in class, its Presidents Day!
If you haven't skipped class for basketball camping, you're doing it wrong.
This is easy! A sonic, oh but wait...
That doesn't work on wood. OK wand, but lightsaber is awesome... But so are bow ties, and go with the sonic. Uffda...
Bow tie.
I wish just once I could actually nut up when I think a girl looks pretty and say it! Maybe I'd actually have a chance with someone.
Lightsaber. Always lightsaber.
I pick wand. Always a wand.
Not all frat guys are the same. I'm a nonsorority girl dating the sweetest fraternity guy. Don't stereotype.
I saw Perry Ellis sitting by himself in the Underground and felt bad for him. You can always join me for lunch, Perry!
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013
A squirrel walked with me to class today.
If you think jean jackets were once cool, you're too old for her, bro.
Kansas weather; pick a season and stay in it so I know it's real.
MEMES
After asking if we get a study guide for our exam, our teacher says. "You don't know me, I don't know you." So is that a no?
If she didn't have to choose between Bulasaur, Charmander and Squirtle, he's too young for you, bro.
Harlem Shake takes over the web
Technology has created a wonderful world full of instantaneous ways of becoming famous for all of a few seconds. Now, the trend is to turn those seconds into a phenomenon that spreads like wildfire.
If you have not noticed the latest trend on YouTube, then you probably live in a box. The Harlem Shake did not begin as a viral half-minute video but rather as a dance move created in the 1980s and made famous by rap artists like P. Diddy and G-Dep's in their "Let's Get It" music video. According to InsideHoops.com, a man named Al B took credit for inventing the Harlem Shake in 2003.
"I'm from Harlem, and the Harlem Shake came from Al B," said Al B in the InsideHoops.com.
interview. "It's a drunken shake anyway, but it's an alcohol shake, but it's fantastic, everybody loves it and everybody appreciates it. And it's glowing with glory"
In 2012, Harry Rodrigues, aka "Baauer," a 23-year-old producer from Brooklyn, N.Y., released a song called "Harlem Shake." The tune became popular in the electronic dance music genre, but did not hit mainstream until comic Filthy Frank published a YouTube video of him and his friends dressed in bodysuits dancing to Baauer's song on Feb. 2.
Next, a longboarding crew from Sunshine Coast, Australia, known as TSCS, established the viral form seen in all other Hariem Shake videos. From there, it sparked the addition of more videos that, according to YouTube
Trends Blog, have 175 million views. Simply entering "Harlem Shake" into the search field on YouTube finds about 59,700 results.
Some of you may find these videos hilarious and others may find them stupid, but has the craze ended? My roommates and I found the videos while watching the Grammys and watched at least 20 before turning our attention back to music's big
night. Now I hear people say they are fed up with it and it has only been a little over two weeks since the meme emerged. Moreover, it has nothing to do with the original dance.
lar videos include the offices of Maker Studios, the University of Georgia's pool, the Norwegian army ranks, and introduce Matt & Kim's New York concert. Both "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" have even published videos.
Bauer used the line, "Then do the Harlem shake," to title his song after Plastic Little, a Philadelphia party rap crew, first rapped the line in the song "Miller Time." The story is Plastic Little member Jayson Musson got into a fight with a rival graffiti artist in 2001 and ended it by dancing the Harlem Shake at the other artist.
However, the trend this month has not been to promote the original Harlem Shake but only to move about in maniacal ways to Baauer's "Harlem Shake" tune. A few of the most popu-
Saturday night, our very own KU Men's Basketball team joined the craze, and Big Jay led a second video in the student section. No matter if you like it, the Harlem Shake has become a part of pop culture if only for 30 seconds. Now, it is your turn. Go ahead; shake things up, Harlem style.
Jordan Warren is a junior majoring in journalism from Overland Park. Follow her on Twitter @jordan, mechele.
COMFORT ZONE
Change after graduation can be a good thing for us
Many students are afraid to graduate right now or move to a new
state. Stability is comfortable, and the idea of change is frightening. Leaving your life behind friends and history - seems crazy. It is tempting to stay in the same place with the same people and never change.
I learned that no matter where you go or stay, change will always follow. It is inevitable, so you might as well be the one controlling it.
After graduation, many of your closest friends may move or marry, and as much as we want to stay in college forever, we cannot. A life-changing decision will come whether we want it or not. And if we are not moving, what are we really doing?
Several students at the University have a multicultural background, and I am one of them. Because of my dad's job in the U.S. Foreign Service, I lived in three different countries. I was originally born in Texas and I moved to Vancouver, Canada when I was three. After living in Vancouver for four years I moved to Brazil, where I spent 10 years of my life. To top it off my parents are Mexican, making me grow up among even more cultures. This experience gave me the ability to be fluent
in three languages and have a global perspective of the world. I am also more understanding towards international students because I can relate to their experience.
At the same time, I had to deal with saying goodbye to many friends, restarting my life and learning a new language. It made me value how precious friendships are and how distance can tell you who your friends really are. It can be hard, but it has made me very adaptive and passionate about different cultures. Most importantly, it made me embrace moving.
I feel I can move anywhere now. I am not a rare case, many young adults have childhoods like mine, or some students have often changed states. It is not a unique experience. What matters is getting a lesson out of it.
that I have spent in Kansas, I have made many new friends and established a completely new life again. Sure moving to a new place, where you do not know a single soul is hard at first, and there is so much you have to get rid of physical and personally. But it forces you to get out of your comfort zone and have new adventures.
As an experienced mover, I can assure it is worth it. I still stay in touch with closest friends from Brazil. In the past five years
NOSTALGIA
When applying to jobs, make sure to not limit your choices to only one state, city or street. Look at other places. We often envision ourselves in different places and make plans. The truth is most of the time, things do not go exactly as planned. I thought I would go to a university in New York, and I saw myself walking to Central Park on my break between classes. That obviously did not happen. But so far, I have had the best four years of my life.
Change does not have to be a different location, it can be something simple. Just make sure you do something different. It makes life interesting.
Siqueira is a senior majoring in global and international studies from Overland Park.
Music can take you back in time
W when I sit down to write, I usually try to have a topic already
in my head and a beginning thesis.
Once I have that completed, I will put my iTunes on shuffle to keep me focused.
Music is playing and my thoughts are flowing. Then this one song came through my speakers and it instantly brought me back in time.
Then it dawned on me; Music has the amazing ability to bring us back into the past because of the certain memories we attach to certain songs.
I never realized it until now, and I was shocked because I haven't heard the song in a few years, but I still have a connection to it. It brought me back to the first time I ever went snowboarding. The memories were so vivid that it actually felt like I was reliving that moment in time.
Before you call me crazy, stop and think about it because I'm sure it has happened to you. Let's face it, we have all heard those classic songs come onto the radio that bring us back in time to an old school dance, your favorite warm-up song or even fun nights out with your friends. But what is it about music that creates such graphic memories?
Hear me out, the power of music is great, but it affects each individual differently. While listening to music, it is easy to have a change in emotion. Certain songs have the power to make you feel more happy with yourself while other songs can make you feel blue and down on yourself.
CAMPUS CHIRPS BACK
But music is also a time capsule. For example, whenever you hear your favorite song, it can take you back to the very first time you heard it. You will be able to remember where and what you were doing when you first heard it. Or your favorite pump-up song will take you back to the time when you would listen to it every time you had a game to get ready for. It is natural to attach important memories to certain songs, and when we hear that song play, those vivid memories instantly fill your thoughts.
The experience can feel quite intense. It is not all mental, but physical as well. Daydreaming about the past while listening to your favorite songs can bring chills to your body. This makes for an almost surreal experience as you can feel the memories run through your body.
So it is safe to say scientists may not have figured out time travel just yet, but we do have the next best thing, and that is music to take us back in time.
Carroll is a junior majoring in English from Salem, Conn.
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@UDK_Optinna call it whatever you want, if its gets a group of people dancing in unison I'm into it! #ymca #macarena #flashmob #dougie
@UDK Opinion Not sure.
The basketball team did a funny one, as did the student section, but some others I've seen are terrible.
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@UDK. Dunion Cool, but now I've become densitized. You have to really shock me to get a reaction now!
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@JDK_ Opinion I really just don't understand what it is at all. Just like gangnam style.
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