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10/02
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
I really should invest in an invisibility cloak for walks of shame.
New rule: If you smell you can't ride the bus.
To the girl wearing a thick jacket and shivering: try pants.
Harry Potter? 90s music? A new bestie? And Pizza Shuttle? I thought I'd never find you!
"My FFA was so funny, why didn't it get in?" asked everyone.
DATING TIP FOR GIRLS: Don't be vain.
Looks help but they're not everything.
Text your FFA submissions to 785-289-8351 or at kansan.com
That moment when some kid walks by whistling "Hedwig's Theme" and every suddenly quits down to listen.
We could cram so many more people on the bus if we started sitting on laps.
I really should try the Pyramid Pizza here, because the one in Emporia only tastes good when you're drunk.
I overheard a guy telling someone about his night last night. It was the plot of "Donnie Darko."
I originally came to KU to be Thomas Robinson's trophy wife, but I guess I have to get a degree now...
I think we need to have a Crosswalks 101 class.
How do I tell girls they shouldn't be walking by themselves in the dark late at night without sounding like a psycho?
I'm going home for fall break just to make sure I stay sober for a single weekend this semester.
So I got to meet the Hulk in person Turns out he was my microbiology teacher the whole time.
Guys will "change" their views on any hot-button issue as long as it gets them laid.
Thank you to those who helped the lady who was hit by a car by JRP. I am a proud Jayhawk!
D did you sleep well last night? Seriously, it's an important question.
Benefit from better sleep habits
Chances are you've pulled a few late nights already. A full seven to nine hours of sleep during the week doesn't happen. Just wait until weekend to catch up, right?
Big mistake. By catching up on missed hours from the week, your body's sense of time shifts. Before you know it, you're itching to stay late on not only Saturday night, but Sunday too. And, next thing you know, the week's off to a slow, tired start.
You've probably heard that you should sleep between seven and nine hours per night, but did you know that not doing so could increase your chances of catching a cold, contracting diabetes and even make you less attractive?
HEALTH
An interview featuring Michael Brus, author of "The Sleep Doctor's Diet Plan," on "CBS This Morning" discussed new studies
Maybe if I put an automatic stapler in my room, I'll have more frienos.
I want Chick-fil-A, but I don't want activist types to judge me.
Besides discussing the dangers of not getting a good night's sleep, Breus offered a five-step plan to getting a better night's sleep and being healthier.
To eat or to sleep... That is the college question.
Bear with me; I know these go against every college norm ever. However, what's more important: the small things that you won't remember in 10 years, or staying healthy even though your schedule is crazy?
on the effects of sleep deprivation.
GO TO SLEEP AND WAKE UP AT THE SAME TIME EVERY DAY (IF IT'S POSSIBLE)
Every night. Nearly the same time. This lets your body know exactly what it's dealing with and allows it to get comfortable with that routine. Sometimes it's not possible; that's true. Sometimes college kids don't even get sleep. I know, but if sleep quality is important to you, this is one way to get it.
You're really wearing a Kentucky shirt in Mrs. E's? Way too soon...
STOP DRINKING CAFFEINATED DRINKS BY 2 P.M.
Drink the coffee in the morning and have your tea with lunch. After that, give your body time to get the energy out of your system. Even if you continue drinking something caffeinated, take it easily as you start reach the evening hours. Give your body a break.
STOP DRINKING ALCOHOL THREE HOURS BEFORE YOU GO TO BED
TO BED.
He said it first, not me. Apparently it's somewhat similar to the caffeine situation. Instead of keeping you awake, alcohol keeps you from reaching the higher quality sleep. Lay off it a bit.
There isn't a good excuse for not seeing the outdoors while you're a student here. On such a beautiful campus with so many opportunities to walk from class to class, how you could avoid the sun would be a much bigger challenge.
DON'T EXERCISE WITHIN FOUR HOURS OF GOING TO BED
To all the night owls at the Rec center, this one's for you. Exercising increases your heart rate and prevents your body from calming down. If you can't calm down, going to sleep will be more of a challenge and getting high-quality sleep may be even more elusive.
Go ahead, try it. It costs you nothing. You'll benefit by being healthier, and most likely, spending less money on your caffeinated beverage of choice.
Open a window. Walk to class.
Enjoy a cup of coffee on a café patio.
Breus says that this helps your biological clock orient itself.
If, for some reason, you prefer to be a zombie during the week, by all means continue. However, adhering to a somewhat reliable sleep schedule and cutting back your afternoon intake of caffeine, alcohol and exercise may be enough to give you a little more natural energy.
Sweet dreams, my fellow Jayhawks.
GET SOME SUN
RELATIONSHIPS
Sex changes friendships
Hawkins is a junior majoring in journalism from Scranton.
Being surrounded by seventh graders for eight hours a day always causes me to remember much more of my own time in middle school than I'd like to. One message that many of us were preached around that age and even in high school was that sex changes everything in relationships.
But just like many of us would like to forget our middle school experiences, we should try to forget that idea too. Sex that is not a one-night stand does change a lot. But it affects non-relationships more than ones that are preexisting because in committed relationships, generally speaking, there's already an understanding of what partners can expect from each other when the lights go off.
There's nothing wrong with sex outside of a relationship, and a study out of Michigan State University even goes so far as to find that such casual sexual relations are neither emotionally nor psychologically damaging. Casual hookups are not for everyone, the study said, but they meanwhile aren't harmful to those who wish to partake.
Regardless of anyone's stance on the morality of getting frisky with someone you're not committed to, there is always something fundamentally different between two friends who don't have sex, two friends who have had sex once and two people who frequently hang out and also hook up. The same study finds that though some friendships could regress back to their original ways after the two have had sex, the number of them that didn't survive the change was stagering.
As the Michigan State study finds, these "casual" sexual relationships tend to be anything but. Couples usually enter them because they appear simple. But they can often be just as complicated or more so than a committed bond because said partners frequently develop a fear that one will fall harder than the other. For that reason, when those relationships end, the friendships often die with them.
It's important here to note that sex or any other form of intimacy doesn't always lead to relationships or anything close. Sometimes it does. But sometimes it ends up like an attempt to light a firework after dropping it in water: it sounds like it could be successful but usually still leaves you with something non-workable and anticlimactic.
But unless it's a one-time fluke, sex or anything leading up to it changes non-relationships because it forces us to reconsider our connection to that person because there's nothing casual or natural about people having sex on a regular basis who are "just friends."
intimate relationship, sexual activity shouldn't affect much.
Meanwhile sex in a relationship that's already committed is so mainstream that unless the couple is intensely sexually conservative, said matters of the flesh usually don't change the relationship in any major way. Against the backdrop of an already
After all, there's already somewhat of an expectation of intimacy on some level when two people are committed to each other, especially for college students and other adults in those relationships.
If sex really changes that much in a pre-existing relationship, the couple should probably reconsider their expectations of one another (and also communicate very clearly and openly about them) or reevaluate their being together.
Here, sex becomes a personal problem rather than a relationship problem and must be addressed. In the end the relationship can fail if it's not handled in a healthy manner.
And finally we have to let go of the long, ingrained idea in American young teen culture that sex changes so much in our lives. There's no denying that it doesn't matter. After all, bad or no sex can be fatal to otherwise great relationships.
But we shouldn't undermine everything else that makes a relationship what it is. Sex is a huge part of culture, but when "you" and "me" become a "we," it shouldn't be that complicated.
Sex may tend to rock the boat in our friendships, but if it doesn't totally change us, it shouldn't change our exclusive relationships either.
Rachel Keith is a graduate student in education from Wichita. Follow her on Twitter @Rachel.UkEite.
TECHNOLOGY
CAMPUS CHIRPS BACK
Leaders inspire change through social media
H have you ever wanted to incite social change in our world but didn't know where to start?
There is a large group of men and women using the realm of social media to try and change the world. Starting Sept. 22, men and women across the globe will be meeting in various locations for "The Social Good Summit" to trade big ideas that meet new media and will create innovative solutions to the issues pertaining to the world today, according to the Mashable.com.
Leaders from different areas of the world, like United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, American writer deepak Chopra, the founder of the famous social media website Mashable.com Pete Cashmore, and the director of social strategy for the American Red Cross Wendy Harman, are in attendance to attempt to, "explore how communities and audiences are connecting with each other through social and digital innovations to solve global problems."
Some of the things these individuals plan to use social media and technology for include fighting different diseases, affecting businesses, and issues of spirituality.
I find this fascinating because with the world the way it is, having problems and disagreements where we, as a social conscious group, are heading we have all of this technology and, through the
If we come together and use the resources at our disposal of social media and new technologies, we can really take a hold of the vision put forth by the leaders of the first annual Social Good Summit, and better the futures of the next generations.
If you would like to join this cause, there is a social cause group that meets in Lawrence. They meet most Wednesday mornings at Signs of Life coffee shop from 7-9 a.m. At these meetings, the members discuss the new facets and improvements in the social media arena, as well as how they could use them for business and to improve the world around us.
This is a very important question that we should not just put to our politicians or leaders, but we need to take up the responsibility. If we do our part and put our technology to use, we as the next generation could get our voices heard.
What makes this even more interesting is that you do not have to be a prominent leader to make a difference in the fight for social good. You can take action in one of the most important discussions of our day. What you can do is attend or set up a social good meet-up in your city. The ultimate goal for these meet-up groups is to answer the question, "How can new technology and new media create solutions for the biggest problems facing our communities?" The secondary goal is to create one of the biggest, most global, and most powerful conversations the world has ever seen.
Phillippe is a senior majoring in American studies from Keller, Texas.
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