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To the two girls that came off Safe RideSaturday night to make sure I was okay. Thank you. You saved my life
I always feel like a creep for wanting to ask out the cute girl from "Catch of the Week."
She looks great at lottery. Marry that girl.
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That awkward moment when Puerto Rico is the only state that wants to be a state.
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I just pissed in front of a church group that was watching "The Lorax." I feel somehow accomplished.
I think once you get rejected by Safe Ride... You've hit a new low.
To all KU fans: It's not cool to verbally abuse the opposing team's fans personally. Not cool. Sincerely, Annoyed Jayhawk.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2012
I wonder if anyone else realized that most of the students at the game probably already bought tickets, so it's not really free.
I heard there's a Ron Weasley look alike on campus... dibs.
Alternatives in responding to negative speech
TGIBS. Thank God It's Basketball Season.
Maybe I'm imagining things, but it seems as if there have been at least two instances of evangelists coming onto campus in order to exercise their freedom of speech by yelling at students. In no way endorse this practice as an accept able way of sharing one's religion. However, I think it's important that students understand their train of thought as well as an alternative to yelling back.
Coming home and seeing my mom wear her KU Final Four shirt always makes me happy.
Calling passersby "whores" and "sluts" sounds more like harassment than Christian vernacular. These phrases are sometimes yelled at students by our good friend Brother Jed, who has been to campus more than once. Chances are he thinks he has a reason.
In the Kansan on Nov. 8, students saw that millennials weren't
very religious. Sure, we pray. We have spirituality, but religion isn't something our generation does well. Wouldn't it make sense for someone interested in sharing a religion to share it with the people who don't have one?
The thing is, Brother led and other evangelists sometimes forget 1 Corinthians 13:13: "Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Without hope, what's the point? They constantly tell us that we're all going to hell. We can't be saved. We're bad, terrible people without hope. But then? They're going to be in heaven laughing at us.
And love? That's one we can all learn from. Yelling at students and calling them names is hardly
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r you are the smartest person in the room,you are in the wrong room.
an effective way of loving anyone, regardless of your purpose. In the same breath, yelling back isn't helping matters any. If their yelling didn't change your beliefs, what makes you think your yelling will change theirs?
an audience, maybe they'll go away. It's not a bullet proof theory, but it's something. right?
Christian or not, it's standard practice to ignore people who aren't very bright, mostly mean and sometimes bullies. If you don't engage them or give them
However, I understand that sometimes these things are too offensive, backwards and giving Christians a bad name. Instead of yelling, instead of singing in their faces, instead of being obnoxious, why not do something to brighten the environment?
of speech protects them in the same way it protects Fred Phelps, the Kansan and all of the United States.
If AT&T sponsors the stadium, how come I can't get a signal at the game but the Verizon guy in front of me can?
In case you're looking for some ideas for the next time this situation arises, try getting a group of friends together to sing on the opposite side of Wescow Beach or to play some music. Hold a dance party. Bake some cookies for the students walking by.
Hate shouldn't be something we engage in or endorse in any way. Even Mizzou received more love than these evangelists. Even if you don't agree, the freedom
I know it's hard to listen to someone talk about people in such a negative light. It's also difficult to watch someone use the name of God to validate widely opposed opinions. Regardless, understanding and finding alternatives to engaging in combative conversations could help keep things from escalating on Wescoe and give the power back to the students. Brighten the environment, be charming. Spread the love.
Hawkins is a junior majoring in journalism from Scranton.
BEER
Support American brewery tradition
Many inventions call claim to being the most influential in human history; from the Internet to the printing press to penicillin, they've all had an enormous effect. But there's one invention I think we always overlook in this "Best Thing Ever" contest, an invention that basically created society. There was a reason our hunter-gatherer ancestors decided to set down their bows and invent farming.
And that reason is beer. And it's currently being taken over by foreign companies and we are all letting it happen.
I'm not kidding. Around 10,000 years ago, people in the Middle East settled down and started planting and harvesting grains instead of roaming around hunting wild animals.
Sure, these early farmers made foods like bread, but it wasn't long before some lucky fellow accidentally left some grains in a pot of water for a little too long, and was probably very pleasantly surprised with some beer when he next checked the pot.
You could definitely try and argue that those ancient people were farming so they would have, you know, food to eat. But let's take a look at human nature. If someone offered you a loaf of bread or a six-pack, which would you take? Don't kid yourself, you'd take the beer every time.
By Andrew Simpson asimpson@kansan.com
And then there's the fact that drinking beer was just as important as eating. When all of these ancient peoples started drinking beer instead of water, less and less of them got sick because the alcohol in beer killed harmful bacteria. Everybody wants less sick people, so drinking beer became a necessity to keep people healthy. Drinking beer kept people safer from diseases for thousands of years before we learned how to treat water for public use.
Jumping to the 1700s, beer was still the staple drink, especially in America. Before and after the revolution, brewing was one of America's first small business industries, and before Prohibition, there were 4,000 separate breweries nationwide. Even the founders of the U.S. such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson brewed their own beer. It's really hard to be more American than beer, but more specifically local beer.
You might be wondering why I've been telling you all about
beer. It's because beer has been incredibly influential on the world scale, it should be revered, and beer is very important to me. Also because I think you all are treating beer like dirt and ignoring its impact on America.
The profits of all of the those Budweisers with the American flags you've been drinking, not to mention Bud Light and Natural Light, go to Belgium. All of those Coors, Millers, and Keystones go to Britain and Canada. Freaking Canada! Come on people, you're better than that.
Every time you drink one of those beers, you're threatening the jobs of over 100,000 US craft and local brewers. Here in Lawrence, we have Free State Brewing Company, a local company that's won several awards at the Great American Beer Festival over the years, including 2012. Why don't you buy from them? Because the major brands are a little cheaper? That's like saying, "I enjoy not helping American workers make money." It's hard for me to think of something less American than drinking a Bud.
Seriously though, all it takes is maybe $1 more for something local. All I'm trying to say is, don't stay thirsty like the Dos Equis guy says. Have a beer and make sure that beer supports America.
Simpson is a freshman majoring in chemical engineering from Fairway.
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Petition to ban use of drone strikes
If only the CIA could investigate their military strategies as rigorously as its leaders' sex lives.
As Petraeus does his best to quietly take the backdoor out, drone strikes continue to pound the Middle East, cutting down innocents and provoking thousands to join radical militant groups while accomplishing virtually nothing. American terrorism exists, and we should put an end to it.
Picture this: A cross-hair focuses in on a hazy clump of buildings, and the operator twiddles his joystick to find the perfect shot. The first of two anti-tank Hellfire missiles opens a gash in Pakistani countryside. There is no kill confirmed, all that can be seen is the shell of a rural house. Rescuers arrive on the scene with stretchers, unarmed. The second missile is released.
There was a good chance they were terrorists, right?
The foreboding hum of unmanned Predator drones has been heard from Yemen to the U.S.-Mexican border. The constant threat of spontaneous combustion is a hellish reality for thousands of people throughout the Middle East, a reality that has been hidden from public and legal scrutiny. Many citizens can't attend the weddings of their friends in case a single guest is an American target. The funerals of those killed in previous attacks have then been bombed in a "double-tap" reminiscent of terror methods used by the likes of Hamas and al-Qaida. These methods and others were described in a joint study released by NYU and Stanford titled, "Living Under Drones." To be blown apart because twhe apartment above yours had a suspected terrorist over for dinner the week before. Now that's democracy in action.
The problem with this mentality is that we are treating a spider bite by scratching the surface. Every drone strike that successfully eliminates a handful of suspected terrorists motivates a dozen more young men to join radical group. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has confirmed that for every single suspected terrorist killed, 49 civilians are sacrificed. Having your family torn apart in an instant is not easy to forget. And the American public is still confused
By Wil Kenney wkenney@kansan.com
by anti-Western sentiment? Let's be honest with ourselves.
It's not as if these attacks are legal, either. The U.S. is not officially at war with Pakistan, so strikes into their territory are violations of their sovereignty. If any other nation pulled this kind of stunt, the response would be open war. Pakistan has nukes and a history filled with military coups, angering them is asking for a trigger-happy, nuclear orgy. Conveniently, the constant turbulence in the region is a curtain to hide behind for the CIA, who has no obligation to report their result. Despite investing billions into a fleet of drones twenty thousand strong, the kills just weren't coming in. What was the CIA response? Broaden the definition of a terrorist to inflate their success rates. They're using international cheat codes.
But don't flip out quite yet, the conversation on drone strikes is happening and you're invited. Brushed away behind news of Syria and the Afghan withdrawal, there are petitions to impose an immediate ban on drone strikes, go sign them. Apply the fervor of past viral campaigns to this issue and don't let up on your representatives when they say that they're powerless. The CIA has no issue with research their leader's career into the ground, so force them to re-evaluate their own methods. The election is over and done with. This is Obama's final term, and he can govern with the gung-ho bravado that got him elected in the first place. As the cabinet, CIA and political spectrum adjust themselves, now is the perfect time to amend this unproductive practice.
But hearing how Petraeus got some was always a bit more interesting.
Wil Kenney is a freshman majoring in political science and journalism from Shawnee.
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