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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
The only reason I wear sunglasses is to people watch without others knowing.
To every frat boy walking your dog on campus; Congratulations on using the oldest trick in the book. We're not impressed.
That scary moment when the steam whistle wakes you up in the morning.
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XV is my favorite.
10:30 p.m., Tuesday night, no pants,
Rockband? Game on!
Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the reason I have trust issues.
I'm running out of family members to fake their deaths. I'm going to have to go to classes soon.
Dear boys: Your cute factor decreases big time when you spit onto the sidewalk.
Text your FFA submissions to 785-289-8351 or at kansan.com
Guys and gals of KU. If you are great you will have a better chance of meeting someone if you go out and stop texting the FFA about your issues.
Dammit, KHIK, I shouldn't have to tell you this. Bruce Wase Chinese. Why would you use him in your ad for your Japanese music block?
The UDK says KSU has a bye week before traveling to ISU? Even KU football doesn't matter to KU!
To the person complaining about the liberal media bias in the FFA, why are you at one of the most liberal schools in the nation?
Sometimes I just want to listen to 90s music, eat Pyramid Pizza and talk about Harry Potter. Is that such a crime? Editor's Note: You sound like me... Did I write this?
There is really only two kinds of homework: due tomorrow and not due tomorrow.
About the TV article... knew exactly which episodes she was referring to. SVU for life!
Decided I'm in love with this girl, who also happens to be my best friend. Help me editor! Editor's Note: Tell her?
My professor just said he's lived through a dictatorship because he's married.
Did you just connect liberal media with ANTI-abortion?
Keep in mind that you probably won't find your nice girl at the Hawk on a Wednesday.
I feel like there are a lot of unneccessary doors in Wescue. Too much opening and closing for me.
I envision the Free For All editor like the banker for "Deal or No Deal." Very mysterious.
I'm worried that the girls who think they are nice are still mean, they just can't see it.
Blood donations vital for hospital patients
CAMPUS
This week the KU community has the opportunity to make an incredible
impact on the lives of thousands of people in need of blood transfusions in our community.
The University of Kansas and the American Red Cross are hosting a blood drive all week long, open to blood donor veterans and first-timers alike. The goal, according to the Lawrence Journal-World, is 333 pints of blood—roughly equivalent to 333 successful donations. Those donations represent a lifesaving commodity to hundreds of people. That said, 20,000 students attend the University, so a serious effort by the KU community could benefit patients across the region.
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A 2007 University of Minnesota study estimated that about one third of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood. However, the number of people who actually choose to donate is far fewer. Currently, the Kansas City-based Community Blood Center, which provides seventy area hospitals with 3,600 units of blood each week, describes its supply as critical; meaning the supply for hospitals and patients is stretched thin.
This shortage is especially acute now, after a summer break without school blood drives to bolster reserves. Having enough blood available is absolutely essential for treating patients. America's Blood Centers, an organization encompassing many smaller community
programs across the country, reports that one seventh of hospital patients will require a blood transfusion. Patients undergoing organ transplant, anemic patients, some patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment, premature infants and patients who have lost blood because of injuries all need blood donations and blood donors to survive.
Compared to the massive benefits that result from giving blood, the actual process is easy. After filling out medical paperwork, prospective donors meet with staff to undergo a brief physical exam. If the donor is eligible, the period where blood is extracted takes about ten minutes. Afterwards, donors can sit, rest, eat snacks and rehydrate.
If you've already given blood this week, that's phenomenal. If not, I'd strongly recommend considering it. The time commitment isn't significant, especially if you'll find yourself on campus anyway, and the Red Cross is dependent on donors like you to supply 40 percent of blood used in the U.S. You also
certainly don't have to go alone; if you're nervous or bored, bringing a friend or two can make donation process easier and more entertaining. Feeling uncomfortable around needles or blood is an entirely understandable concern. If that concern is causing you to hesitate, I can only say that the vast majority of people I've met who work at blood centers are incredibly competent, caring and friendly individuals who make donating as comfortable and as easy as possible.
I used to give blood regularly, after a friend and I committed to go once every other month. The experience was a powerful one for me; at the time, I knew someone receiving frequent blood transfusions. My Community Blood Center also placed the stations to donate blood adjacent to the ones where patients received transfusions, so we could see the benefits of donating as we gave blood. Although I haven't donated since I moved to college, I miss that feeling of supporting the health of my community. I certainly plan to attend the drive this week, and I'm hoping hundreds of my fellow students will do the same.
To determine whether youre eligible to give, visit redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-rerequirements.
Gress is a sophomore majoring in political science and economics from Overland Park.
Letter to the Editor
Billy McCroy's most recent piece about Romney and Obama blew me away. Now, I feel that McCroy's goal is to help others form an educated opinion about the presidential candidates. However, this most recent piece was anything but educated.
First, McCroy (like Romney) claims that the 47 percent of Americans not paying an income tax are the same 47 percent of Americans voting for Obama. It's misleading and just flat out incorrect.
Secondly, he claims that the conservative message champions personal responsibility. Democrats and Republicans both champion personal responsibility; the Democrats simply support the idea that the government aids those
whose lives get turned upside down instead of letting them fend for themselves. And what kind of president wants people to become beholden to the government? If that were true, Obama would have lost in 2008. Making that claim makes McCray no better than the looms that pass as news anchors and hosts on Fox News.
sources and purchase cheaper coverage. Employers would save on costs by participating in the exchange.
Finally, McCroy's "exercise" on Obamacare; his claim is hardly true. The fact is companies with more than 50 employees must pay a $2,000 penalty per employee if the company doesn't provide health care or if any employees receive health care subsidies to pay for coverage. Health care exchanges will be created so that small businesses can pool their re-
The United States government is not a business. It's not in existence to maximize revenues and cut costs regardless of the consequences. It exists to serve the people, to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – something that the Republican Party seems to have forgotted. So, shame on you, Billy McCroy, not just for using non-facts and half-truths, but for knowingly misleading your readers.
Alex Boeding, sophomore Lenexa
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Emmy Awards lavish 'Modern Family,' again
By Stephane Rogue sroque@kansan.com
The 2012 Primetime Emmys was headlined by ABC's hit comedy "Modern Family" collecting four awards on 10 total nominations. While the show is one of my favorites, Julie Bowen, who plays Claire, for Best Supporting Comedy Actress? That's just absurd.
Bowen isn't the second funniest actress on her own show, (Sofia Vergara and Ariel Winter are both funnier), let alone all other comedy TV series. Maybe it's because I think Bowen tries way too hard at her role, or that site makes it painfully obvious when doing so, but for her to beat out the much more talented pool of comic actresses shows me the Emmys haven't changed one bit.
Popularity will reign over talent, and what frustrates me the most is that the Emmys expect us to believe the two terms are synonymous. Even Jon Stewart, after receiving his 10th best variety show award, had this to say in regards to the Emmys' foreseeable selections, "postapocalyptic aliens will find my box of statues in the future and they will find out just how predictable these [expletive] things can be."
It wasn't all bad, though. As a huge Eric Stonestreet fan, I enjoyed seeing him bring home the Best
Supporting Actor award. To play a flamboyant homosexual while being straight as an arrow is no easy feat, and Stonestreet nails it episode after episode.
Either way, Levitan has earned the right to be brash, especially after his show won Most Outstanding Comedy Series, its third in a row, to finish out the successful evening for "Modern Family."
Fizbo the Clown appearances continue to be the most comical aspect of "Modern Family". And what the hell was with "Modern Family" creator and writer Steven Levitan after winning the Directing for a Comedy Series award? "I wouldn't be here without faith in me." A little smug for a guy cleaning up the Emmys ever since the series premiered, no?
While I have beef with the Emmys and their repetitive selections for award-winners, "Modern Family" deserves all the credit in the world. I'd like to see over-achievers Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays Mitchell, and Ty Burrell, who plays Phil, get more recognition and hopefully Bowen has "earned" her last Emmy.
The cast for "Modern Family" is undoubtedly stacked, and unlike the late-season burnouts like "The Office" and "Scrubbs", I see "Modern Family" going strong into its later seasons. My only hope is that the actors and actresses who deserve to win supporting awards (Stonestreet excluded) actually end up winning them.
Roque is a senior majoring in journalism from Overland Park. Follow him on
Twitter @stephaneroque4.
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Kansas law to limit political donations
As a general rule, it's often said that a U.S. House incumbent must raise $10,000 a week between the day they assume office and the next election day, just to be competitive for re-election. These days, the number is likely higher. Senators must do the same, if not more, for six years, which requires elected officials to raise money day in and day out – while Congress is in session.
This requires an extensive amount of a candidate's time. More importantly, it has serious ethical implications, because many Congressmen and women ask for money from organizations and people who have pointed opinions on how he or she should be doing his or her job.
In an attempt to avert these ethical dilemmas, Kansas enacted a law prohibiting the knowing solicitation or acceptance of funds from anyone other than an individual between January 1 and the final day of the legislative session (Kansas has a citizen legislature that only meets from January through mid-May). This applies to legislators, state office holders such as the governor, candidates for any such office and committees set up by political parties for legislative candidates.
In 2000, former Kansas Representative and Senator Kay O'Connor asked the Governmental Ethics Commission to issue an advisory opinion clarifying the extent of the statute. The Commission held that if a letter announce-
The key prohibition prevents any such request or receipt of funds from "any registered bobstyl", or a person paid ("employed to a considerable degree") to lobby an elected official or who spends at least $100 to lobby (exclusive of personal travel and subsistence expenses).
For the first time last week, however, the statute was applied even further - to the posting of such generic information on Facebook.
Republican representative Greg Smith of Overland Park, a Senate candidate, and Republican Becky Niice of Topeka, a house candidate, were fined $100 each for unintentionally breaking the law by posting information about fundraisers before June 1, the last day of this year's legislative session.
How? People who "liked" Smith's page and were "friends" of Nioce are lobbyists. Both vowed to be more vigilant in the future, though most would hardly regard their actions as demonstrating a serious lack of attention to detail. It is merely the breaking of new ground.
Meanwhile, Kansans can have some confidence that the rule of campaign finance law is being up held - especially in limiting the influence of lobbyists on state politics where far less media and fewer citizens are focusing their attention.
"It's the first time we have a social media question," Carol Williams, the commission's executive director, told the Associated Press. "I think with the explosion of social media, this is something we'll see far more."
ing a fundraiser after the final day of the legislative session were to be delivered to a lobbyist prior to the conclusion of the session, the law would be violated.
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Legislators were so worried about the statute that they also requested an opinion as to whether a weekly legislative update could be sent to lobbyists without breaking the law. The Commission ruled that if the update included links to the candidate's website, the linked words could not contain words such as "contribute" or "donate," which overtly ask for money.
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