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I thought I missed everything about KU over break. Then I came back and remembered how much parking sucks.
Hahahahaha Kentucky.
FREE FOR ALL
Did Ashley Pennington ever figure out her parking permit dilemma?!
We beat K-State. K-state beat Florida Florida owned Missouri. Therefore we could own Missouri.
EMAW: Ellis, McLemore And Withey.
BAM.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24. 2013
Its OK, K-State. Not everyone can win in the Octagon of Doom.
Kevin, you are beautiful the way you are. You can keep your afro if you want to!
I don't understand these professors who require the latest edition of a textbook worth $200 while the older version is only $3.
The difference between 8 and 9 a.m. is something only college students can truly appreciate.
My sorority sister says I should marry someone tall so my children wouldn't be so short. I took to that mean that I should marry Jeff Withey.
Oh my God. This woman is literally breast feeding her child in the middle of class right now.
If you gathered up all the crumbs from Nature Valley Granola Bars, you could end world hunger.
Don't get excited boys, I'll only look this good the first week of class. After that, I'll look like a woolly mammoth.
Finally went to the grocery store. Now my fridge is only half full of beer.
You spilled coffee down your leg and it looked like you peed? Too bad Billy Madison was! "there to save you."
The first rule of boat shoes is you do not talk about boat shoes.
I'm wearing boat shoes with socks.
Hate me.
I feel like if the bus driver needs to tell you to exit at the rear of the bus second semester, you shouldn't be here.
No I don't want a coupon book. Leave me alone.
I used to know a person in the CLAS department with me. Now back to just knowing Engineers... Got to have friends somewhere I guess.
Aren't your ankles cold?
People around campus seem 4 inches taller than last semester.
Went on a cruise over winter break, I actually felt justified wearing boat shoes for a week straight.
SOCIETY
Someone at Mrs. E's deserves to be banished to culinary hell. My chicken had so many cloves in it that it tasted like a mouthful of Christmas potpourri.
Coming out is becoming easier
The past year has, in a way, kind of been the year of the "exact com
We're getting to a point in our mainstream culture, and in parts
ing out" From Frank Ocean, to Anderson Cooper to Jodie Foster just a week ago, more and more celebrities have been coming out as part of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning community. Not with covers on Time magazine, but with posts on blogs, as a vague allusion in speeches, a single line of "Yep, I'm gay, I also just adopted a puppy" in an article. It's still a big deal, to publicly declare to the world that your banner is the rainbow flag. But it's not quite as big of a deal as it used to be. In fact, there's a lot of pride held nowadays in being "out", and being able to publicly wave the rainbow flag—there's also a lot of pressure to be out, even if you don't necessarily feel comfortable, or even safe, in doing so.
of LGBTQ culture, where there's a growing expectation to be as out as possible: to publicly let your family, friends, peers, third grade lunch lady, every single person you come into contact with know that you're not heteronormative. There's a pressure, and an insulation, that as soon as you know this about yourself, everybody has to know this about yourself. And that if you don't thrust yourself out of the closet as soon as possible to every single person, you're doing a disservice to the LGBTQ community. There is pressure that not being super out means you must be carrying a lot of self-shame, which you need to get over. Which is a bunch of bull.
Some members of the LGBTQ community are simply not ready to come out, whether if it's just to their mom, or their workplace. This idea that you have to come out creates a mentality where not being super out means you're letting down the community.
Especially for younger members of the LGBTQ community, there's a certain anxiety. You don't want to feel like you're hiding anything—you may even be out to some people already, or even to whole circles of people you know. But because you don't necessarily want to put on Facebook that Sally is interested in women, you're being made to question your own pride, when in fact, you're just not ready.
For some people, coming out even to just yourself can be a huge and lengthy process, and you may need time to sort out what it means for you on a personal level. For other people, you may feel comfortable confiding in certain people, but don't want to risk losing other friends or family in case they don't approve. Or you may not want to come out yet because of fear for your safety.
In 2011, 30 hate crimes were committed against members of the LGBTQ community that led to death, according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.
It sucks that despite the year being 2013, and living in a far more accepting world than the one our parents grew up in, that members of the LGBTQ community have to question being out for fear of being hurt. And everybody who is very much out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, queer, whatever your flavor, 'I'm glad you're' in a space in your lives where you can do that. Go you, because that's awesome. But not everyone feels they can do that. Some people, if they
came out right now, might be fired, or lose their housing, or be shunned by their families. They could literally be putting their lives at risk.
We need to keep working to make it safer, and more acceptable, to be out. We need to educate people, and create more protection under the law. And more people being out does help lend a stronger visibility, to make more people realize that whoever a person is attracted to, or whatever their gender identity is, it doesn't make them any more or less of a valid human being. But there also needs to be an understanding that some people don't feel comfortable being out yet, and not being out doesn't make them any less valid of a human being either.
TECHNOLOGY
Gwynn is a sophomore majoring in English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality from Oatmeal. Follow her on twitter @AlliedisGwynn.
Science still impressive even over winter break
I'm not going to lie, when it got around to the fourth week of break, being stuck in my house all day was starting to drive me crazy. I know some of us coped by getting jobs or taking trips to Mexico, but I was not so lucky; my only luxury was YouTube.
After 16 hours or so of a coma-like state of video browsing, I hit the jackpot and found almost every episode of "Bill Nye the Science Guy." I powered through two seasons in one day, and every episode reminded me of something I had forgot in my winter break stupor; science is awesome.
I know it's the first week back from break and the last thing you want to do is learn about science, but some seriously cool discoveries and research has been down the last 30 days, and there's three main things I think you should know about.
NO DEATH BY ASTEROID
Based on data collected from orbiting telescopes, NASA announced that the 300-yard long behemoth, eraily named Apophis, will not crash into the Earth in either 2029 or 2036. Astronomers were able to get a closer look at the asteroid as it passed by Earth early this January. According to NASA, if it hit the earth, Apophis would be expected to impact with a force of 510 megatons of TNT, or 10 times the force of the largest nuclear weapon.
no way wed send astronauts to the spacerock a la "Armageddon," and we definitely wouldn't nuke an asteroid — that would just create a bunch of little radioactive asteroids that would still hit us — we could still hit it with a rocket to change its course by 1 or 2 degrees. And if we're playing with giant asteroids, that's exciting enough—for me.
While I'm happy I'll live (non-asteroid related deaths not withstanding) at least to the age of 41, I'm still disappointed we won't get to test out any of our anti-asteroid technology. While there's
SURPRISE: SUGAR IS TERRIBLE FOR YOU
After using MRI scanners to track eating control centers in the brain, researchers from Yale believe that our brains don't realize that fructose, as in high-fructose corn syrup, is actually sugar. In contrast, when a high amount of glucose, normal sugar, is registered in the bloodstream, our bodies release chemicals to make us feel full or stop eating. With fructose, our body doesn't recognize the sugar, so we tend to eat much more.
Fructose became the mainstay in most sugary foods, such as soda and most fast foods, starting in the 1970s, and not surprisingly, the increase in American obesity started at the same time. While there's no existing evidence the two events are linked, I mean, come on.
TELEPORTATION ALREADY EXISTS
Most ideas about the future always involve crazy ideas of transportation: from flying cars, to floating skateboards or teleportation. Most of these ideas will never come to fruition, but there's a bright side: teleportation already exists.
Alright, you got me. It's not as impressive as it sounds. We can only teleport at most a couple of photons. It's extremely complicated, and the simplest way to explain it is say we use quantum entanglement to send qubits, or an extremely tiny amount of information, one at a time. Still, researchers in Europe were able to teleport those two photons a distance of 88 miles.
Luckily for us who want to teleport, scientists at Cambridge believe they have a way to increase the amount of information sent via teleportation. According to an article published in Physical Review Letters, the researches have found a way to send multiple qubits at the same time.
Think of mailing a bunch of Legos to a friend. The old way would ship a single Lego piece at a time. The new teleportation technique would mail many Legos at once, but the more Legos pieces, the more jumbled they get.
Except right now, we can't send Legos, only photons. So we have a long way to go, but still, we've teleported things. Isn't that cool enough?
Simpson is a freshman majoring in chemical engineering from Fairway.
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POP CULTURE
The claiming of the NBA throne
Is the NBA the Game of Rings? Maybe that is a stretch, but how does this sound? Competing self-interested factions making tactical maneuvers in order to be better positioned to take the ultimate prize.
Characters (players) change allegiances or find themselves betrayed as their odds at claiming the throne perpetually lengthen and dissipate (are traded and used as leverage to assemble pieces to a championship puzzle).
"Game of Thrones" is a TV show depicting powerful houses, lead by royal families, vying for power through politics and on the battlefield.
Bill Simmons authored "Game of NBA Thrones" last year at Grantland.com where he used quotes from his newfound favorite show to compare to moments and events in the NBA. Since then, thanks to the Los Angeles Lakers' woes and the Oklahoma City Thunder's budget constraint, the league has developed into a fully-fledged parody.
The NBA has seen the development of an evolved form of the player marketplace, as more star players enter the league and popularity rises, teams (and sometimes players) are assembling super teams, with multiple stars. Key players joining together to build great teams and challenge other teams for the title.
Starting with the pioneers Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen joining Paul Pierce in Boston, the NBA underwent an industrial revolution in how teams compete for titles. The Miami Heat, or should I say the Lannisters, popularized the concept when Lebron James and Chris Bosh teamed up with Dwayne Wade, Tyrion Lannister. Tyrion is the most likeable Lannister, who are power hungry and also the richest family in the Kingdom (the Heat have a wealth of superstars), but Tyrion is unique among them and aids them because of his strong family pride and loyalty.
The Starks, or the Thunder, are a more traditional, often honorable family that does not share the same power lust as other houses like the Thunder, who built their dynamic squad patiently through the draft. Ned
Stark, the leader of the Stark house (Kevin Durant) was thrust into the spotlight against his will and became Hand of the King without ever desiring such power, a modest superstar.
The Targaryens are a former dynasty now in ruin. They have a reason to be hopeful but find themselves far from their illustrious goals, much like the Lakers whose reign has ended and, although they have assembled the pieces, have performed poorly.
Stannis Baratheon, the brother of the former King, is willing to do anything to assume power. He consulted a quasi evil witch lady and took part in a sort of weird, dark magic ceremony where she gave birth to a demon thingy. The Brooklyn Nets have also trusted someone with the image of their organization—Jay Z. He may not be a witch but do you trust Beyonce? The team moved to Brooklyn from New Jersey and changed their team color to black, the same color as the demon thingy. They made some big offseason moves as well, acquiring pieces that made it clear that this longtime basement dweller was eyeing contention. Clearly, they will do anything to win.
And James Harden is obviously Jon Snow, the bastard son of Ned Stark who chose life on "The Wall" instead of as a part of the Stark house. James Harden was traded from the Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder to the mediocre Houston Rockets. Instead of chasing titles with the Thunder he will be hanging out with Marcus Morris amid Cole Aldrich at the Night's Watch, or, I mean, in Houston.
Cosby is a sophomore majoring in economics and political science from Overland Park. Follow him on Twitter @clavcosy.
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