THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011
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Where can I contribute to the student political parties? I want to send them bags of rotten potatoes.
Warm weather ... when we go from leggings as pants to shorts with uggs. I haven't decided which is worse ...
Dear Warm Weather: Welcome back.
We've missed you. Sincerely, Every
Male Student.
Is there such a thing as a burping disease? If so then the man next to me in the library is in some definite need of some treatment.
I've hardly spoken to you and I've already had a dream about you. GET OUT OF MY HEAD WOMAN.
The hill between Dole and Stauffer Flint will most likely be the death of me!
Next year during elections, I'm going to make a huge profit by selling shirts that say "Already voted, get the hell away from me."
DO YOU BOO BOO! Do YOU.
My house is bigger than your frat house and it has a way better bar with a margarita machine.
To be honest, I want to date you. However, I wouldn't mind getting to know your hotter friend really well, too.
Disney and porn have something in common in that they cause unrealistic expectations for women and men respectively.
DONKA DOO BALLS!
Dear men of the world (douche bags, idiots, and jerks included), MAN THE HELL UP!!!! Love, the annoyed women who put up with your shit.
Dear women of the world, don't fall for a guy that has a new girlfriend every few weeks, and then complain when it doesn't last because he is a jerk. Sincerely, all the good people that have put up with your bitching.
I accidentally went into the girls bathroom and saw that girls are just as nasty as us guys!
Is it just me or do other girls think it's awkward hugging short guys?!
The life span of my two fish that I bought today while they were in my care was 36 minutes. That's gotta be some sort of record. RIP Squints and Wendy Peffercorn.
I drank last night so I could finally have the balls to ask you out. Totally worth the headache this morning.
Does anyone know about how to get to the large hill/rock thing outside Lawrence that you can see on your left driving in on K-10?
LOCAL ISSUES
Contribute to local economy, buy from Lawrence stores
It's no secret that warm weather brings us out of our homes, giving us the long-awaited opportunity to once again explore the streets of Lawrence and meet up with friends around town.
However, as I walked down Massachusetts Street this weekend, as many of you did, I couldn't help but notice the abundance of vacant storefronts. In a town that prides itself on locally owned and operated stores, restaurants and boutiques, the number of businesses filing for bankruptcy or closing is alarming.
Within the last year, numerous local businesses closed their doors to the public, including 35-year veteran The Bay Leaf, 717 Massachusetts St. These businesses depend on students and community members alike to keep their bills paid and products available.
Even though the Lawrence city council has voted against various
BY BRETT CRAWFORD editor@kansan.com
proposals for malls and shopping centers throughout the years, big businesses keep finding their way into the Lawrence community.
The biggest concern we should have as Lawrence citizens isn't "Where can I get the cheapest stuff?" but "Where will my dollar have the biggest effect?" Maybe you can save a few bucks buying a Jayhawk shirt at Wal-Mart instead of Jayhawk Spirit. But why would you?
pockets of corporate giants. If we all consciously bought from local stores and ate at locally-owned restaurants when we decided to go out, we could do a lot of good for our community. Many of us work at local stores and depend on their success as much as the owners do.
It's worth it to the community to put those extra couple of bucks back into Lawrence instead of lining the
At the same time, I understand that most of us are students, living on a student's budget. It can be difficult to get the things we need and want while remaining financially stable. And although it's true that we're in tough economic times, that doesn't mean we can just abandon our local shops altogether.
The biggest problem facing locally-owned businesses is the lack of consistent patrons and support. Maybe if we can't personally afford to support a shop the way wed like to, we can help spread the word by telling our friends and family members to buy local.
However, the dwindling support of Lawrence businesses doesn't just affect locally-owned shops. Blockbuster Video on 23rd Street is closing its doors within the month, not to mention the Borders store closing at 700 New Hampshire. Although these places aren't locally owned, the fact that they're experiencing such a lack of business speaks volumes about the current state of being a business owner in Lawrence.
And hey, who knows? Maybe economic times will get better, and before we know it, everyone will have more money than they need. But until then it's crucial that in tough economic times like these that we continue to support those whose interest is supporting our city.
Crawford is a sophomore in journalism from Olathe.
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HUMOR
For the sake of Darryl Hammond, let's elect The Donald
Donald Trump is probably going to run for president. And if he does run for president, he's probably going to win. People will vote for him for one of two reasons: because they had so much fun electing the first black president and now they want to elect the first sentient hairdo (damm it, I was hoping Conan hold this honor someday!) and because people love famous people.
Ask my eighth grade classmates who all grunted angrily at me when I said, "Maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't qualified to govern California." Do you remember that? When Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California? People are pretty stupid, even Californians.
Anyway, back to the national arena. Schwarzenegger was elected governor, that weird wrestler guy was elected governor, I was elected eighth grade treasurer over my future best friend Ronnie Blackburn (I was emo, but she was a nerd. It was a lesser-of-two-evils decision) and Donald Trump will be elected, because he has a sketchy reality-competition show which birthed thatSerpent Omaa and made him nearly able to copyright the phrase
Whether it be on the KU campus or abroad, elections always turn out to not be about the important issues at all. I doubt even 80 percent of the students look at each party's ideas before voting. For some people, the choice is made without even looking at the opposition's website. The hardest decision a Greek kid should have to make is what shade of pastel their hat should be — not who would best run the University of Kansas — so, thank God the decision been made for them
I sincerely hope this election puts some jammin' jayhawks in power, and I hope whoever is elected actually puts effort into some positive change for the University. But "cautiously optimistic" is my mantra here (and future band name ... I hope), and I know the way these things usually go.
BY CHANCE CARMICHAEL
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"You're fired!"
"So, what's wrong with the Trumpmeister, Chance? He's got all those towers and wives," you may say. And I will reply: Nearly everything. First of all, Donald Trump is a total bither, guys. I thought we were over that — y'know when Obama Headquarters presented it to FactCheck.Org (they posted pictures and everything). Second of all, Trump's millionaire was a very inherited one, and although he has had success, he has had some very notable failures.
Could he pull America out of its huge debt? He has made it through bankruptcy before, sure, but he's also made some pretty stupid decisions with his money to get to those bankruptics. One of the most recent blemishes on his record includes a $40 million debt to Deutsche Bank who loaned him the money to develop a Trump Tower - Chicago. When they filed a suit against him for the funds, he filed a countersuit claiming the crisis was somehow caused by an "act of God" and that their suit over his unpaid debt damaged his reputation. Yep. More than "The Celebrity Apprentice."
Real estate tycoon and television personality Donald Trump and wife Melania Trump attend the 'Dressed To Kill' fashion show to benefit the Friends of Scotland Organization at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 in New York.
Either way, if he's elected president, screws up and gets impeached or investigated, expect a counterimpeachment, America, for tarnishing his glitzy rep.
At this point, I have one hope to hold onto: Somehow, Darryl Hammond will Bartley Crouch Jr. Donald Trump (eat up that Harry
Potter reference, you nerds!) and fix our awful deficit by doing his wide array of impressions in private performances for other world leaders willing to pay admission.
I mean, c'mon, what does Darryl
Hammond got going on? Not "Saturday Night Live" anymore
Carmichael is a junior in creative writing from Mulvane. Follow Chance on Twitter @ChanceComical.
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