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opinion
Kansas State is No. 1 in something?! Yup, hell just froze over.
Text your FFA submissions to 785-289-8351 or at kansan.com
Shout out to Ask a Librarian. Saved my butt last night by helping me find the perfect source for my paper and sharing some laughs.
Can you fall in love with someone based off their iTunes library? I think Matt, owner of "Matt's Mac," might be my soulmate.
The past hour has confirmed my worst fear: most likely friend zoned for life. Editor's note: A moment of silence for our fallen comrade.
I've been standing on the benches in Allen Fieldhouse since I started going to games at age of 6 months. I am going to continue to do so!
Those paper airplanes were statically unstable. As determined by the five aerospace seniors attending the game
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012
We give our soldiers one day to give thanks? F that! I will forever be in your debt. THANK YOU VETERANS.
Someone inform me. What's wrong with the woo?
Bamboo.
I miss the serie silence during the Rock Chalk chant before the woo.
STOP THE WOO.
I'm so disappointed in you for not noticing Gatorade has been our sponsor for years that I want to beat you with bamboo.
This chick next to me is struggling with Math 101. I think you should reconsider college.
Go home Kansas weather, you're drunk.
When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be watching KU basketball. And my family will say, "After all this time?" And I will say, "Always."
Crap. The Lakers made a good choice for a coach... Still... Hahahaahahaha Lakers.
To the person wanting Jeff Withey to prove whether he reads the FFA by saying "bamboo": How do you know it's him? Bamboo.
Way to go, UDK posters. Third time's the charm on getting Elijah's number right.
A few weeks ago, I was at a party playing the board game LIFE with my boyfriend and two of my best friends. I have to admit I got a little competition about salaries and hoarding LIFE tiles, but I love the fun of the game anyway.
iTunes needs to have a "play this song next" button. Editor's note: Do you know what a playlist is?
Playing the field can be rewarding
In retrospect, though, the path on which I pushed my flimsy green car, which my pink and blue peg family kept falling out of, seemed eerily reflective of how society normally views the dating game: as a narrow path with hardly any accepted alternatives in which it is impossible to finish without getting married.
Generally, we place value on monogamy and put it on a pedestal like it's something to be admired, desired and eventually achieved. While a successful relationship resulting in a successful marriage is many times viewed as winning some sort of dating game, we as young adults who are entering the phase of "Are you getting married soon?"
should take a timeout from fulfilling our great aunt Whoever's dreams of tying the knot, tarry awhile and play the field when we have the chance.
According to blog, Science of Relationships, playing the field, or casually dating a number of people simultaneously, is an instinctual desire, especially for men, because everyone has an innate want to (ahem) produce offspring. This idea may manifest more so in men because they subconsciously want to mate with as many people as they can.
Scientifically speaking, playing the field makes less sense for women because our role in reproduction is much more difficult and complicated. Because of this, women do not play the field to the extent that men do because they tend to be evolutionarily disadvantaged by not having a partner stick around to care for the child in question.
Though society has evolved from its former hunter-gatherer
By Rachel Keith
rkeith@kansan.com
ways, it still tends to view playing the field and not settling down as surprising, selfish, irresponsible and borderline unacceptable. But in our corner of the earth in which reproductive and contraceptive technology is advanced and widespread, the risks of dating multiple people at a time who use contraception are much lower.
So then I have to ask, what's the problem? Instincts are strong forces, but if our egos generally keep us in check, why can't we accept playing the field as legitimate?
With that being said, I need
to clarify that I in no way am endorsing "playing" a person, or purposefully having someone believe that he or she is the only object of the other's affection at that time. What I am saying is that playing the field can be a rewarding experience.
In fact, if we're new single or are thinking about entering the dating scene again, matchmaker and author of the book "It's Complicated (But It Doesn't Have to Be)" Paul Carrick Brunson said that playing the field rather than settling down with one person from Day One can be beneficial to everyone because it allows people to see and experience dating with a variety of individuals and choosing between them.
This process makes us more aware and opinionated about the qualities we look for, both wants and non-negotiables, in partners and may make us wind up having more successful relationships in the long run if we eventually wish the partake.
Finally, it is also beneficial, Brunson said, because if you're looking to settle down some time, you need to know that those potential partners are worth your undivided attention. If they aren't, we're better off going back to dating around.
Dating doesn't have to be as narrow as a path as the one you take in LIFE, so don't make it be. Share an appetizer with a cute neighbor at Teller's and score a cocktail and flirt with someone you just met at a bar. Everyone needs to stop minding the naysayers and start seizing the day because whether you are eventually looking for something exclusive or not, at least you can have a good time getting there.
No matter what your "dating style," you may regret it in the end if you don't.
TECHNOLOGY
Keith is a graduate student in education from Wichita. Follow her on Twitter @Rachel_UDeKith.
Social media gives voice to everyone
After Hurricane Sandy hit the northeast, many Americans were out of power and stranded for days on end. What became the main voice inside the natural disaster was that of social media, specifically the platforms of Twitter and Instagram.
According to news reports from CNN and Mashable, nearly 1.3 million pictures were uploaded to Instagram. The most popular hashtags that incorporated twitter with Instagram, were #sandy and #hurricansandy. These two in particular, gained 800,000 and 478,396 pictures respectively.
Another big gain for Instagram was with the hash tag #frankenstorm which gained close to forty eight thousand pictures. Compared to other Instagram explosions over the years, it is easy to see that this was by far the biggest one in recent memory. According to an article from Mashable, the biggest one before this happened at the Superbowl last year where it was a measly 85,000 pictures uploaded with the hash tag #Superbowl.
What this shows us in particular, is that with the power out for much of the area, many news organizations were not able to show the rest of the nation what is going on in the most affected areas. The social media platforms
of Instagram and Twitter gave these citizens the opportunity to be the field reporters and be the eyes and ears for a first hand look of the damage. They say pictures tell a thousand words, and through all of these thousands of pictures we were able to see first hand narratives from families and friends, to celebrities and sports stars helping out the cause.
It was in moments like these that we could really see the heart behind social media communities like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. The ability to connect with one another and share pictures and memories, even in the face of tragedy, can at the very least give us a little bit of hope. We get to see communities on a regional, national, and even global scale sharing photos and support. But this isn't where it stops. Along with the community of sharing pictures and status updates comes along a community willing to give to organizations that are on the ground helping out
our fellow man in the affected areas. Examples of texting to the American Red Cross or tweeting to the American Red Cross gives citizens the ability to help out those directly affected have given us an inside look at how we can use social media and our technology to help those in times of crisis and need.
Now, even though there has been such an positive support from field reporters posting Instagram photos and tweets, there has been some negativity. There have been numerous reports of various people posting photoshopped pictures or even using shocking photos that were not current. Even though it may seem that these select individuals have been trying to ruin the Instagram experience with crude jokes and unrealistic photos, we can be sure that the vast majority of the images shown on Instagram were truthful.
With all that said, we can see that not every photo submitted is of good, but at the same time not all of them are bad. That is the thing with social media, not all is positive, not all is negative, but with platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube, we all have a voice, even in times of crisis, as well as times of peace.
Phillippe is a senior majoring in American studies from Keller, Texas.
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If Romney had won the election...
A week has now passed since the people of the United States chose to re-elect President Obama for a second term. The grass seems a bit greener, the air a bit cleaner, and the nation's morale is on the up-and-up. We've got four more years of Obama ahead of us, and we're going to make the best of each one. However, what would have happened if Mitt Romney had been elected on Nov. 6?
Things would be very different, my friends, very different, indeed.
First off, the national budget would already be miraculously balanced, and the nation's debt paid in full. This was a huge campaign issue, and something Obama has been struggling with since he came to office four years ago. Our man Mitt would've been in there fist fighting his opposition and running his enemies into the ground with his bare hands.
We all know that Mitt has had some issues in the past with "flip-flopping" back and forth on hot-button issues, but hey, who doesn't change their mind on abortion now and again?
He's a simple guy, and that's why he's so likeable. right? We need someone who's going to listen to the people of this nation, and although Obama has quite the set of ears on him, maybe we're better off with Mitt.
Children would be laughing and frolicking outside in the November sunshine without the threat of insurgents invading their homeland, unlike that awful looking "Red Dawn" remake, thanks in part to Mitt's innovative initiative and upping our military's presence in foreign countries. You can bet that before Romeny's term would be over we would be looking at at least four new American colonies in the Middle East. One step closer to world domination, reminding the world that, "The sun never sets on the American Empire."
But wait, if Mitt had been elected, could anything bad have come of it?
By Brett Crawford bcrawford@kansan.com
Let's say Mitt goes a bit power crazy and starts making little amendments to the Constitution. It starts slowly; a correction here, a slight change there, next thing we know he's declared himself King of America and there's nothing we can do about it. All because some senator thought the rider he was adding to some new law was just helping little Billy from Hoboken, N.J., get to school a little easier while his mom's off at work. How can we trust someone to run our country when he didn't even win his own state in the election?
What would become of all those stuffed into Mitt's "binders full of women?" A group of fringe youths bent on justice would band together with their iPads and smartphones and create a movement like the world has never seen before. They would use their parent's money to drop out of state colleges and tour the nation raising awareness for these women, who would become known as the "Women of Bindage," hoping only to free them from Mitt's mighty mitts.
Either way you look at it, there are pros and there are cons. Politics are born of dissent and disagreement, but we're all in it together. In short, I think we all know who the real winners are, and that's every state but Florida, because for once we all didn't have to wait for our retired grandparents to figure out how to count the votes before resting easy that the right man made it into the White House.
Crawford is senior majoring in journalism from Olathe. Follow him on Twitter @brett_cra.
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