WHO'S WHO AT KU
Meet three of the University's top administrators and a KU basketball coach. PAGES 6C and 7C
TIME TO TONE UP
Need to chisel your abs? Play volleyball? Then the recreation center is the place to be. PAGE 2C
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ONTHEHILL
AUGUST 15,2005
WWW.KANSAN.COM
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LIVING SPACE
STYLE ON A BUDGET
BY ERIN M. DROSTE
edroste@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Living in a residence hall at the University does not mean that you have to live with cold, stone walls, gross tile floors and a cluttered room with little decoration besides the movie posters you've collected. For less than $50 you can create a livable space that doesn't remind you of a prison cell.
To prove that it is possible, I decorated room 218 in Oliver Hall. I spent a grand total of $49.12 for carpeting, lighting and fun extras.
To make the room work, I asked for help from John Bruce, a designer on TLC's "While You Were Out." He said the key to organizing your small space is keeping the clutter out.
"A common mistake is collecting and assembling items that you love individually, yet have no business being together—they clash," he said. "High contrast makes a space feel busy, and a small space for sleeping and studying should not feel aggressive."
To start, I decided to find a fun solution to the cold. brown floors
that are a trademark of the halls. I got carpet remnants to make a carpet mosaic for the center of the room that
Bruce said choosing the colors for the room was important.
"A small room, especially one where studying takes place, benefits from a palette of low contrast," he said. "Colors can be light or dark, pastel or earthy, and so on — but stick to one plan."
Because I was stuck with a brown tile floor that I couldn't cover completely, I chose an earthy palette of browns and tans to match, with blues for an accent.
After calling many carpet stores sell carpet remnants and samples for $1 a piece.
I was able to get four 18-by-25-inch pieces and four 11-by-18-inch pieces for a total of $8 from Kring's Interiors, 634 Massachusetts St., and Paradise Floors, Inc., 2108 W. 27th St. From the separate pieces I created a carpet mosaic.
Photos by Kerri Henderson/KANSAN
SEE STYLE ON PAGE 4C
BEFORE
MY BUDGET: $50
Carpet remnants ... $8.00
Photo mattes ... $7.50
Thread ... $1.47
Desk lamp ... $5.86
Silver trays ... $4.43
Pillow ... $8.86
Clock ... $7.72
Trashcan ..$2.99
Total with tax ... $49.12
TOP5
reasons to drop a class
Even the most dedicated and focused of students will eventually find a reason to drop a class. Kansan staff writer Adam Land says that for one reason or another students are either forced or choose to cut their losses and drop, and here are the top five reasons to drop:
1. Too Early in the Morning
This excuse/reason generally coincides with a class that starts before 9 a.m. You may make it to the first one, but after that it gets harder and harder to make it on time. You can get away with skipping large lecture classes, but smaller ones — where the teacher actually knows your name and face — usually have a strict attendance policy. Some professors will drop your grade by a letter after your third absence.
Taking notes and studying are enough to induce stress, but when an unlikable professor is the instructor, the class may need to be dropped. Students learn in different ways, and some teaching styles are just not compatible for everyone.
2. Dislike for the Professor
SEE DROP ON PAGE 9C
RIVALS
Fierce feuds fuel faithful
BY ADAM LAND
aland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Sports is nothing without rivals. Teams that are hungry to beat your team every year. The University of Kansas definitely has rivals, two specific rivals to be exact.
It began with Kansas becoming a free state and Missouri becoming a slave state. Tensions were hot between the two and boarder skirmishes happened often.
The first, and most hated rivalry is between Kansas and the University of Missouri. Lawrence and Columbia have long feuded and the hatred goes back to a clash between the states.
On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill, a former school teacher in Lawrence, came in with a band of raiders to sack the town. After a long, four-hour fight, Quantrill and his men had killed 180 people and burned almost the entire city of Lawrence to the ground.
The people of Lawrence soon rebuilt the city and a year later erected the University of Kansas,
Since the dispute both universities have despised each other. Basketball is the most hotly contested sport between the two, partly because it is the best sport for each school.
The other rivalry lies with Kansas State University, just down I-70 in Manhattan.
This rival is purely due to geography. K-State is the only other truly large university in the state.
However, unlike Missouri, K-State and the Kansas do not share the same talent in the same sports. Kansas is a basketball school and K-State is a football school. Each takes a turn pounding the other at different parts of the year.
The Jahways just beat the Wildcats in football after an 11-year drought and K-State still clings to the hope of beating Kansas in basketball, which it has not done in over 10 years.
The rivalry comes from each school knocking off the other in their better sport.
Rivalries, especially Kansas rivalries, are great for sports and pride in the university. They bring fans, students and faculty together in a heated frenzy to beat the opposing team. Whether at home or abroad, the competition between Kansas and its rivals is, and always will be, intense and contested.
- Edited by Ashley Michaels
Illustration by Cameron Monken
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Sunday Morning 10:30 am
Sunday Evening 6:00 pm
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