THE UNIVERSITY DAILY & ANSWER
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
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I've had sex so many times this weekend. Using the my-brother-died-last-week line paid off HUGE!
Is said whale a nice or mean one?
The only worthy touchdown I want to discuss this week is Felix Baumgartner's.
Today I learned staple removers actually remove staples. I just thought that they were little monsters used to chomp everything.
Sorry Hawks. But I cheered for Roll Tide this weekend.
The awkward moment when you can hear your TA and roommate getting it on
Guitar players spend 90 percent of their time tuning their guitars and 10 percent playing out of tune.
After further review, Felix Baumgartner did not obtain the record for longest or furthest freefall. That record belongs to the Kansas City Chiefs.
That awkward moment when you text a newspaper about your problems...
I'm not going to lie... When Felix was tumbling like a rag doll for the first couple of minutes, I was cracking up. How dark is that?
If you're over 6"4", I automatically assume that you're here for a sport.
I hope I'm not the only one getting chills from the spider article...
Saddest day of my life: when I didn't see Withey on my walk to class.
I don't always read the UDK, but when I do, I learn way too much about how many spiders could be in my apartment.
Many factors make a good president
That awesome moment when someone else walks to the beat of the music you're listening to.
And God said, "Let Jeff Withe tower over the rest," and it was good.
What do we look for in a president? An obvious parameter to evaluate the candidates in the upcoming presidential election is the plan they present for tackling the problems of economic growth, unemployment, and the debt deficit. However, for the average voter, the debates leave us with a picture that is murky at best. When politicians quibble over arithmetic and change their platforms with the weather, it does little to help sort these issues out for people at home.
The awkward double take you do when you want to see what's on Wescoe, but you don't want them to approach
Factors like persona and charisma are undeniably invaluable to a leader. One of a president's key assets can be how they present themselves. We can see how we think about this in the debates when pundits analyze a
candidate's body language or when they give a speech and a reporter is left salivating over or lambasting someone's oratory deftness. We value these "intangibles" whether we are conscious of it or not, and I believe rightfully so. How a leader comes across to an audience, how they can shift the attitude of the country is one of the biggest impacts they can have as a president.
"The President's Club" by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy illustrates the bond and mutual respect shared between former presidents. They understand that a President of the United States of America has the best intentions and makes their decisions on the basis of what is best for Americans. They also understan-
The giant piles of leaves in front of Marvin tempted the inner-child in all the many college age looking peoples.
that the sitting president has at their disposal the world's greatest brain trust of advisers and those experts will weigh in with opinions and knowledge that no one else has. I heard Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, speak this summer and he echoed this message. He lauded President Barack Obama for how he has handled certain situations even if he did not always
ideologically agree with the method. He recognized that the president had the best resources and was the most capable of making the decisions that he came to make.
parts of their arguments offered insight and who to listen to. His strength was not expertise but judgment.
George Washington had two men, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, in his cabinet that were two of the most brilliant minds in the world. They were also much more ideally polar than any two members of Congress today, much less within the President's cabinet. Washington was an extraordinary leader and a man that demanded respect. He may not always have had all the answers, but he knew who did and how to listen to them and what is more, he had the gift of judgment. He was able to mediate between them and discern which
What are the qualifications that we value? What kinds of experience do we see as ideal for a person to run this country? Is being qualified having a record of committed public service and deep knowledge of law and constitution or is uber-successful business experience more valuable? Maybe it is a quality much more difficult to measure. Judgment and charisma are two ways to interpret leadership.
Cosby is a sophomore majoring in economics and political science from Overland Park. Follow him on Twitter @clavcosy.
Unconditional love is not realistic
Kansas weather: Keeping you on your toes since the beginning of time.
Since childhood, we're taught that unconditional love is the highest form of love there is. We regard it as an ideal and strive to achieve it with our families, friends, and significant others. Unconditional love is usually applied to family and pillars of faith, but when we apply those same ideas to romantic relationships, that love can come at a terrible price.
Some of my friends on Facebook frequently update about how much they love their husbands, boyfriends or whatever and how perfect they are. They say they love them so much and will forever. Then I think about my own boyfriend. I love him, but what I feel is not unconditional. My feelings for him have boundaries. And so should everyone else's.
But when you're caught in the moment of a great relationship and not nearly as much of your week is devoted to thinking about dating as mine is, love can leave you blind and lead your brain astray — literally.
In fact, according to scientists at the University College London in the United Kingdom reported in the journal NeuroImage that romantic love suppresses brain waves associated with critical social assessment of other people and negative emotions.
In other words, once you get close to a person (i.e. falling in love), the brain has a reduced need to evaluate the nature of said person and nearly stops harboring negative emotions towards him. In the end what we're left with is a skewed sense of our partners that can lead us
It may be cynical, but the best thing anyone can do in a relationship is imagine his or her life without his partner and be honest about the conditions in which he should no longer love the other. I got over the ideal of unconditional love five years ago when my first love ended, and as far as dating is concerned, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
to at least aspire to love unconditionally.
The breakup with unconditional love can be difficult, but we all need to do it. If we don't, it could wind up leaving us crushed in the end. They say breaking up is hard to do, but here, it's a must.
To make a relationship work in the first place, we have to master the art of compromise, tolerance, and respect. But if we don't address our own needs and expectations of our partners first, the desire to maintain unconditional love in and of itself can become compromising.
Some kid just walked in my history class with a blue book and a scared expression. Too bad the test was last week
Many viewers may find Cattrall's character selfish, but her message is too important to miss. After all, in a world in which we can't always count on our romantic partners to pull through and give us everything we need and more, unconditionally loving them can be poisonous.
According to Laurie Puhn,
author of "Fight Less, Love More:
5-Minute Conversations to
Change Your Relationship without
Blowing Up or Giving In."
when certain non-negotiable factors are missing in a relationship, love does (or needs to) dissolve.
To love unconditionally is to put oneself at risk of being taken
Most days after work I like to get into my happy place by watching "Sex and the City." Twice in the entire saga, Samantha Jones (Kim Cattarrl) utters a variation of "I love you, but I love me more." The line is genius, and last week, it got me thinking about unconditional love.
Puhn advocates that the five factors in a relationship that are essential to all people are appreciation, respect, compassion, trust and companionship. And when one of those is not provided, the relationship is destructive and can leave those in it wondering how unconditional the love they share really is. Your needs have to be met first.
advantage of or abused.
Finally, like many students at the University, I'm a firm believer in the beauty and power of a great relationship, whatever kind of relationship that is. But what I always believe in is unconditional love for the self first and significant other second.
And when we maintain that ideal, the conditional and healthy love that we share with others can finally begin to really fall into place.
Keith is graduate student in education from Wichita. Follow her on Twitter @Rachel_DU.Keith.
CAMPUS CHIRPS BACK
How do you feel about the "woo"
in the Rock Chalk chant?
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@UDK_Opinion Woo cares'
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@UDK Dinnion, it's wack, and doesn't work! Just like Dayne Crist's decision making.
COLLEGE 101
Three steps make writing simpler
@kyleswift15
©UDK_ Opinion Get rid of it.
"The woo" is more of a "good job, good effort" kind of chant.
Writing essays and papers for college is one of the most time consuming tasks we have to do throughout our student life. It is a typical Facebook topic ("OMG!!! I have a 10-page paper due tomorrow") and a major academic pain. To international students like me, the pain tends to be even bigger. I used to take forever when writing my papers, and it became a real problem. I knew I had to change my approach to writing when I barely passed my general education English requirement class with a D.
BREAK IT DOWN, BUILD THE STRUCTURE
The system really came to life over the past summer, when it saved me up to 15 hours a week. I was in a class in which we were required to write four-page long reading notes almost every single class, five times a week. On the first day, it took me about four hours to write the notes. I asked other people from my class and they were also spending about four hours on it. I realized that was too much time, and using this system, I cut the time spent by 75 percent, and enjoyed the summer much more than I would have otherwise.
The main issue for me was not quite the quality of the writing, but the time I spent doing it. It just took forever, and because I had so many other things to do, I did not have the time to sweat a lot over a single paper. Fortunately, I figured out a system that helps me to write well and quick. This three step system is a mix between tips from other writers, business principles, and things I learned while testing different ideas.
Break down your paper into parts. This might sound a little bit obvious, because we all learn in high school to divide our texts in intro, body and conclusion. But you have to go one step further, and break down these parts also. To do that, decide on your talking points and write them down first, building the foundation for your paper. This is like establishing a road map: you know what you will be talking about, and have laid out your points. Now you only have to connect the dots, which is a much easier job than have to write every single paragraph "from scratch."
KNOW WHEN TO CALL IT A DAY
Obviously, sometimes your work will not be a masterpiece, as this could make you wonder whether this is a really good idea. But I believe on Mark Zuckerberg's mantra that "Done is better than perfect." He built Facebook based on this principle, and I think it is safe to say it will work on our own writing assignments.
ILLUSTRATE
This is probably the most important tip on this column, and might also help you in assignments other than writing if you give it a shot. Define how much time you will spend writing. To do that, discover how much this specific assignment is worth to you. Is it worth 1 percent of your final grade? 10 percent? 25 percent? 50 percent? Some assignments are worth spending a lot of time on, because an outstanding job on them will generate a high benefit. Some aren't worth a lot of your time, because they will barely give you any results.
Make your text more vivid with examples and stories. For instance, I used the Facebook example to illustrate my point on the paragraph above.
Illustrating has two objectives: support your argument, and fill the page, so that you reach your page or word count requirement as quick as possible. Also, you can add some pictures and graphics if the assignment allows. This alone could lighten your burden a whole lot.
This little system has been working really well for me. Of course I still get stuck sometimes, and the three steps do not write the text automatically for you. But they completely changed the way I write and, quite literally, saved my summer
Morelix is a junior majoring in business and economics from Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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@UDK_Opinion It's meant to have silence after the "K---U----" Gives the chant an ominous feel and gives me goosebumps.
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