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If I was looking for a relationship I wouldn't be making an ass out of myself via Goomba, I'd be drinking drink martins at The Eldridge.
To the person who put up the Slender pages around campus, congratulations on preventing me from getting both to class and to sleep tonight.
Ctrl+F: Pants.
Forget memorizing "Living on a Prayer," people really need to figure out how to clap to our fight song.
It's funny how I have an insistent on cleaning the night before a test. Procrastinating on studying can be beneficial.
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My future wife needs to be able to compete with me in super smash bros.
I love Monday mornings. Nothing's had time to go wrong yet.
ROCK THE VOTE
Had to Google what Ctrl+F is.
Is it just me or does the Wesco-
Budig area always smell like cigarettes?
Dann'y nally.
Are you trying to say Dan was an one hit wonder?
Women are so weird. Why can't they just say "thanks" instead of shit like "schvank you!" and "spanks it"
I've got 99 problems and Kansas weather IS ALL OF THEM.
When I see people riding their bike on the side walk I hear Professor Oak say "Now is not a time to use that."
Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.
Actually I was 10 steps away from the bathroom and went out of my way to pee in the bushes...
To the boy looking for a single, sober, non-smoking, poke fanatic who is cute and likes to cuddle… I'm right here.
Every time I finish the sudoku I think "One sudoku closer to graduation."
Is it weird that I'd rather have Bill Self sign my diploma for graduation than the chancellor?
I love walking past Budig because don't have to pay for the carnival.
I bet my fantasy football team will get as many wins as the Chiefs. I don't have a fantasy football team.
When I see couples holding hands and kissing in public I want to just throw up a little.
You know you're struggling to save your energy when you start taking the bus from McCollin to Mrs. E's.
Oh look, the dead babies are on campus again.
Youth vote valued more by candidates
In this year's presidential election, once again the crown jewel demographic, each candidate will hope to secure is the senior vote. It is particularly critical in Florida, one of the few remaining battleground states and obvious given the focus by both candidates on Medicare. This election, the "youth" vote, or equally important, the lack thereof, could be of high consequence as well.
While I know a lot of students at KU are political activists and we have our share of campus crusaders, there is also a significant portion of the population that is either apathetic or, understandably, put off by the political process.
When President Barack Obama won the election in 2008 the voter turnout for 18-to-29-year-olds was 52 percent, the highest turnout since the same percentage occurred in 1992, according to the National Exit Poll. In that election Obama received 68 percent of the 18 to 29 vote to just 32 percent for Senator John McCain.
When it comes to the youth vote in the upcoming election the real battle will be for voter turnout. There is a general sentiment regarding Obama that his campaign has not been able to replicate the same high level of enthusiasm from his supporters that it produced in 2008 (not that you could tell by watching the Democratic National Convention). If excitement has in fact decreased this would intuitively lead to a lower voter turnout especially among demographics that historically struggle to find the polling station: the youth.
Additionally, while presidential candidate Mitt Romney is unlikely to steal the 18 to 29 vote from Obama, his share of the vote could grow from McCain's, in 2008, if younger voters adhere to the national trend of economically-centered values, which Romney polls much better on than any other issues. Youth voters are traditionally easier to whip into frenzies on social issues, but with the state of the economy we could see a change in priorities this year. Obama could be faced with a sizable reduction in total votes from this group if his margin of victory decreases and fewer
still win Kansas if he punched a baby, like Will Ferrell's character in "The Campaign," your vote on either side of the aisle is as meaningful as a way of exercising your rights, especially one that was not always universally afforded.
youth come out to vote.
For younger voters this could mean a higher value is placed on your vote and we could see the candidates addressing issues facing youth voters, such as student loan programs and education, in the weeks to come. This is even more of a reason to exercise your rights by voting, even if you have never done so or be old enough to before.
If you are not registered to vote, each year at KU the Dole Institute of Politics and the Student Advisory Board help put on a civic engagement program. The program includes a voter registration drive and this year they will be teaming up with the Student Legislative Awareness Board to bring awareness of the event to as many students as possible.
If you think your vote does not matter because you live in Kansas, securely a red state, or because one vote could never make a difference, this is what our very own Barbara Ballards said while speaking at the Dole Institute of Politics to the Student Advisory Board: "I don't know anyone who walks into the voting booth and gets more than one vote." All of our votes count just as much as any other and even though Romney would probably
Cosby is a sophomore majoring in economics and political science from Overland Park. Follow him on Twitter @claycosby.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
We, the Commission on the Status of Women, would like to address our concern about the display being put on campus this week by the group Justice For All.
Justice For All is an extremist anti-choice group that comes every year to KU with a display intended to frighten and intimidate students. Not only are the images Justice For All displays extremely graphic (and despite the "warning signs" are completely unavoidable), they use biased and oftentimes present false or outdated information. This is not only morally contemptible but the spread of misinformation concerning medical practices can be dangerous
and even deadly, Justice For All, in an attempt to frighten individuals and demonize prochoice advocates, exploits the horror of the Holocaust and the systematic lynching of African-Americans by making inaccurate and racist comparisons.
their family, friends, and whatever faith or ideology they may or may not possess. No person or group knows or can speak for any 'individual's unique circumstances, and therefore cannot make the best decision for that individual. The pro-choice movement is about allowing a person's decision—whether to continue with a pregnancy or whether to end it—to be made in accordance with what is best for themselves, their future, and their families.
This lack of compassion for true human suffering, as well as the emotionally manipulative format of the display, should concern all who hate oppression and misinformation, regardless of their stance on a person's right to choose.
The decision to end a pregnancy is a deeply personal one, one that is to be made by the individual in question, with consultation if they desire of
President of The Commission on the Status of Women at KU Haley Miller
HUMOR
Don't worry about motivation, let yourself self-loathe today
It seems like you can't go more than five seconds without coming across some watered-down motivational phrase someone retweeted on your Twitter feed or some sage-like advice from a fellow student where they allude Adderall-laden all-night study sessions to some overused, played-out Muhammad Ali quote.
If you're someone who has gone 18 or more years without learning how to self-motivate, these little nuggets of wisdom can come in handy. I know I'm probably not the only one who, on a good day, reads some of those things and conjures up a little more motivation. Nothing gets me more fired up than a paper for three hours than some random Dalai Lama quote. But that's on a good day.
Unless you're Jack Johnson, you're going to have more than a handful of really bad days. Those days after you just found a dude with a tribal tattoo on top of your girlfriend, those days when you just totaled your already beat-down '96 Accord. You can try all you want to motivate yourself on those days, but I guarantee it won't work. It's a bad day, there's nothing you can do about it.
Why not try reverse psychology on this whole thing? If you can't get inspired or motivated, you might as well have an uninspired, unmotivated day. It's a bit more complicated than that, though; you can knock out a basic self-loathing session just by lying in bed all day.
sure you do it slowly and make sure you go开朗 loud enough for your roommates to hear (you're going to alienate them later on, so you might as well get a head start). Don't bother with showering or getting ready; bed head and B.O. are the embodiments of effective self-loathing. Fix yourself a bowl of cereal without milk, turn "The Today Show" on, mute it, and stare angrily out the window as you eat. By now, your roommates should get the message and won't bother you with stupid questions like, "Are you okay?"
You have to step your game up (or down). If you're going to self-loathe, you've got to self-loathe with gusto.
Here's how to start: Go ahead and roll out of bed, but make
You're not okay, and that's why you aren't going to class. If you have a quiz, send a somber email to your professor telling them your great, great aunt passed away last night and your family staged a next-day funeral. If she asks for a program from the service, snap back with, "Are you kidding? Who grabs those things? It was my great, great aunt's funeral, not a high school graduation" Crisis averted.
and "Jerry Springer" while retweeting stupid, sappy tweets from one of the fake Wiz Khalifa accounts until you reach exhaustion, thus leaving your roommates with the task of dusting off chip crumbs and taking you to bed. You'll sleep for about 16 hours and should feel rejuvenated when you wake up.
Now it's time to load up on some comfort food and booze. Drive - aggressively, honking at everyone and cutting everyone off - to your nearest retailer and load up. Once you get home, inhale as many calories as possible while chasing it down with some sort of miserable, cheap booze. Once drunk, watch every episode of "Montel," "Maury."
In his 2009 hit, "Young Forever," Jay-Z said, "May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows." By having the least productive, most uninspired day possible, you've basically guaranteed yourself an amazing day tomorrow.
Sure, the logic behind it isn't the best, but whatever. You can't win 'em all.
Barbosa is a junior majoring in journalism from Leawood. For more hilarity, follow him on Twitter @AIBARBROSA.
LIFESTYLE
Procrastination: not all bad for you
It is late at night but you are still awake working on your project. You have already had several mugs of coffee and the one you are drinking now is not the last one. Your deadline is tomorrow but you still have a lot of work to get done. Not surprisingly, you are beginning to feel drowsy. You know you should have done your assignment before. You know you had the time to do it. Time you spent maybe on the Internet, maybe on video games or maybe just hanging around. If you are like most college students, the situation described has happened with you at least a couple thousand times. Procrastination has won, one more time.
I am pretty good at managing my time now, but I was a huge procrastinator. I peaked during my first semester of college. I had a lot of trouble getting my homework done and forgot test dates (a couple of friends still make fun of me because I arrived late for an Italian test I did not know about).
Although we do not tend to take it very seriously, and it is usually not more than a Facebook-talk topic, procrastination is kind of a big deal. The author of "The Procrastination Equation," Piers Steel, estimates that the costs of procrastination in the workplace amount to more than $1 trillion in the United States. But evidences of procrastination are also present in the academic world. The signs are all over campus: students watching YouTube videos at the computer labs, your roommate texting you jokes during classes, and dozens of more or less hopeless students winging it at Anschutz library right around 3 a.m.
After spending half of my college life working on it, I learned a lot of techniques that helped me get more things done in less time. But there is a single trick that has been extremely important to me. I hope it can also help you.
The single technique that has helped me the most is the one Piers Steel calls "productive procrastination." It suggests that if you are putting off a big task and cannot find the motivation to do it, you should do smaller tasks, as not urgent, but still useful. For instance, you might not feel the motivation to write that long Western Civ essay right now, but maybe you can knock off some of the math homework, practice your Spanish or do grocery shopping. These smaller tasks are not as important as the big task, but they are still required, and are probably a better use of our time than browsing through Facebook timelines or watching prank videos on YouTube (though those could spark creativity).
Of course, engaging in "productive procrastination" is not as good as non-procrastination. But it makes us much better off at the end of the day than if you did nothing at all. Give it a shot. You will like it.
Morelix is a junior majoring in business and economics from Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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