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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30,2006 WWW.KANSAN.COM
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OUR VIEW
Landlines a waste in dorms
Walk down Wescoe Beach and you will likely see one thing in common among students: Many have a cell phone glued to their ear.
Diana Robertson, interim director of student housing, said there are currently discussions between the Department of Student Housing and the Student Housing Advisory Board concerning the issue. She said discussions would continue through the fall semester, which could lead to a solution.
The cell phone has become the primary source of communication for college students, diminishing the use of landline phones. Students living in residence halls continue to pay for landline phones, which are seldom used. It may be time to axe landline phones, as universities across the country are doing.
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"It's a likely direction we will move in," Robertson said. "It kind of makes sense to most students."
But making emergency calls is a concern. She said placing a call to 911 on a cell phone doesn't always provide an exact location, which creates a problem for emergency officials.
Safety and security are priorities and the Department of Student Housing wants to make sure it doesn't jeopardize residents.
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Robertson said a change would only come after discussions among the KU Public Safety Office, residents and University officials to evaluate the pros and cons.
More and more schools are recognizing the overwhelming popularity of cell phones. The University of Cincinnati now offers incoming freshmen a new cell phone to serve as their primary means of contact. Morrisville State College in New York has made the transition from landline to wireless, and more schools are considering the switch.
Current renovations to Hashinger Hall included landline phones, but the idea of making the move to a completely wireless hall seems reasonable.
For residents, this would mean eliminating the fee for seldomused landline phones.
With our campus already equipped with wireless Internet access, it's time we look at relying on cell phones.
The University could save money as well. American University eliminated landline phones in residence halls in 2005. The move saved the university $1 million.
Louis Mora for the editorial board
When you say 'Kansas,' some say 'Superman'
COMMENTARY
While I enjoyed the Kansan's editorial last week about North Lawrence changing its name to Jericho as a publicity stunt. I want to point out that Kansas is the home of a very famous person: Superman.
The show "Smallville" depicts the fictional Kansas town before a large national audience. I also find it interesting how Smallville is portrayed in the Superman comic books.
I've always theorized that Smallville is in Southeast Kansas for the simple reason that the school is much larger than anything in western Kansas except Dodge City. Plus, Smallville has things like rivers and trees, which we don't really have in western Kansas.
I've found that people in other countries associate Superman with Kansas more than "The Wizard of Oz." I visited France for a
BY DAN HOYT
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINION@KANSAN.COM
week a couple of years ago and a Frenchman asked me where I was from. When I told him Kansas he asked if I lived in Smallville, where Superman was from. I laughed and told him I was glad he didn't ask, "Where's Toto?" He had no idea what the "Wizard of Oz" was.
So yes, there are more positive things Kansas is associated with than the BTK killer, our lack of evolution, fictional nuclear blasts and "The Wizard of Oz."
Hoyt is a Dodge City senior in journalism.
--ing freaks for inventing "No-Taste" ranch dressing.
Tennessee streets went; There was a pilot in Kentucky that was confused about which way the runway ran and 49 people got killed. Thanks a lot.
Hey, if you went to "Snakes on a Plane" expecting an Oscar-winning movie, I don't even want you to like it.
Grant Snider/KANSAN
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I just wanted to let you know my friend comes in caffeinated beverages. It is gross.
KU women need to put on some clothes
"Less is more" seems to be the motto society has adopted. Sure, this phrase is useful when applied to practical situations in everyday life. Such as, it's definitely better to put less wasabi on your sushi so that you will have more taste buds. Or putting on less perfume so more people can breathe.
However, society has applied this to the fashion industry. They say the less you wear, the more appealing you are. So, the less your bikini is, the more men you'll pick up. Men ignore this concept as we can see by the lack of hotties in Speedes. Women, however, have whole-heartedly adopted the "less is more" phrase.
We generally hate, to use a term coined by the scientific community, sluts, or *sluticus noclothesmmy-bodyus*. The sluts would say we're just bitter and jealous. This is only partly true. We're bitter and jealous but we enjoy our food, especially our chocolate, and words like "sugar-free" and "Atkins Diet" give us nightmares. We hate dieting freaks for inventing "No-Taste" ranch dressing.
Now, there are many of us who do cover our cleavage (sometimes because we modest, sometimes because we're sick of dropping our M&M's down there and having to fish them out) and who wear jeans that cover all of our, to use a French word of fashion, derrière.
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In all honesty, though, we don't want to go blind because the wind exposes your booty or feel violently ill because your tube top decides to pull a Janet Jackson. Men don't mind, especially ex-boy band members, but there are some who do. Granted, a lot of these men are gay, but not all of them. And besides, we should listen to the gay men when they talk about fashion.
But, think about it for a second. If you show it all off now, there's no mystery left. You'll slink into the bedroom all seductive and sexy and your guy will be like, "Bare there, sheen that." There won't be that element of anticipation for the guy to wonder what's behind Bra #1.
I know people should be free to express themselves. However, there's a difference between expressing yourself and exploiting yourself. Please do not confuse everyday life with Playboy auditions.
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Although I wish I could make everyone follow a dress code, I realize that this is not possible. I wouldn't mind this skanky trend so much if women didn't get the short end of the skirt, I mean, stick. If the media exemplified floozy men, perhaps I could get my daily dose of eye candy and not be so bitter.
Because people were arguing about which way Kentucky and
It'll help protect her midriff that's still recovering from the frostbite it acquired last December.
Apparently though, skin is in and decency is out the door. So soon you won't have to worry what to wear the next day because people simply won't be wearing clothes. Reality shows like "What Not To Wear" will have a whole new meaning. Even feet are starting to become exposed. Flip-flops are the latest fashion. With people buying so many flip-flops, no wonder they don't have any money left to afford clothes. Or perhaps some girls just haven't been able to afford clothes since they were five and that's why their clothes look so little.
Sometimes, people make themselves look just plain ugly. Such as, if you are a size 12, you SHOULD NOT wear "gravity-defying" low-rise jeans with an extra small "built-in support" (although I've seen socks with more support) tank top. Those are not the kind of rolling hills that people want to see. Please have consideration for the public (OK, so Princess Jasmine in Disney movies bares her midriff, but that is because she is a Disney character with a perfect size -2 waist).
Although, men wear such loose pants it's causing a dramatic increase in the number of pants spontaneously falling off butts, I mean, *derrières*. You no longer need to pull a guy's pants down to embarrass him; his pants can do the work themselves. It is from the two inches of ugly boxers sticking above a guy's pants that are holding onto a cliff with one hand, that we can tell that straight men will never get fashion.
Instead of asking, "Does this shirt make me look fat?" ask yourself, "Does this shirt show off too much of my fat?"
Until society figures out its values, women figure out what's tasteful, or more men start wearing Speedes, the fashion industry is doomed. As for me, I'll just continue sitting here eating my M&M's and later discover, "So that's where that blue one went!"
FREE FOR ALL
Whatever their excuse is, reach out to the undressed skank next to you and buy her a sweatshirt.
Call 864-0500
Hartz is a Stilwell sophomore in creative writing.
> LETTER TO THE EDITOR
and Louisiana who probably would have appreciated a story about what has and has not been taken care of on the Gulf Coast, and I hope that those who weren't directly affected by Katrina still care about those who are still in need.
So, this guy I've been hooking up with for the past few weeks, I just found out he has a girlfriend. When I asked him about it he told me it clearly said on Facebook under his relationship status that he had a girlfriend. To all those KU guys out there: I just deleted my Facebook, so you are going to have come up with far better lame-ass excuses.
Kansan ignores Katrina experiences
Jonathan Kessling, editor
864-4854 or jkaeling@kansan.com
Erick R. Schmidt, managing editor
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Gabrielle Souza, managing editor
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Frank Tankard opinion editor
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You asked students to share their memories of where they were on September 11th, but there is no mention of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in today's UDK.
Jennifer O'Neill Lawrence junior
I was in the Union on the third floor watching a Category 5 monster scream toward my family and friends, and my former home Biliox. In the year since then, I have not been able to bring myself to go home and see firsthand what has happened there.
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There are students at KU who were affected by Katrina, and the destruction she left in her wake.
Being a Mississippi native, I can tell you exactly where I was a year ago
I know that there are other students here who are from Mississippi
today.
Dave Rulph, associate opinion editor
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Kyle Heeld, business manager
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Lindsey Shirck, sales manager
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