WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013
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It's a Monday night and I'm already thinking I've had a bad week.
You know how I know you're serious about getting in shape? You're not running on campus.
Yes cars, computers, and phones are all stupid ideas. We never have gotten any benefit from engineers ever.
The FFA Editor is a total sassmaster,
I love it.
Better than being a liberal arts major getting underpaid for stupid ideas.
Holy allergies, Batman! I feel like I just got bitch-slapped by spring.
Suite life of Zack and Cody! Childhood -3
Shoutout to the frat boy who stopped to smell the flowers. Thanks for reminding me not to hate on you all!
Wow, downloading and accessing Lulu was remarkably easy. But also dumb because I'm not in it.
The editor's witty editor's notes are my favorite part of the FFA.
Steel.
There's nothing sexier than seeing a guy do sudoku on the bus... Well, that, and a guy who shows regularly.
They are fixing the roads on campus this summer!
HUGE baseball series against K-State for first place this weekend go support the 'Hawks!
Let the engineer raging begin.
There was no need to hook shot your banana peel into the trash can and cause banana guts to fly all over my computer cord. You barely even made the shot!
Forgot to bring my book to read for fun. What will I do in Biology now? *Editor's note:* Learn.
Brunettes do it better? The redder the head, the better in bed.
The FFA has become reddit repost central. Get it together, v'all.
I always feel bad walking past the "end animal cruelty" guy eating a Chick Fil-A sandwich.
I want a pet chicken...
Girl Power! You tell 'em editor! Editor's note: I'm a guy, but — YEAH!
I schedule my meltdowns. #junior-probs.
To the person who thinks your major in engineering and get overpaid for stupid ideas: you do realize that it was engineers that designed the cell phone you texted that from, right?
BUSINESS
I played frisbee in budig 120. What have you done lately?
Wow, you don't recognize Batman as a superhero? He's clearly the hero you need, and the hero you don't deserve.
US can benefit from foreign-born businessmen
Entrepreneurs create jobs and economic prosperity. The U.S.is prime historical evidence of this, as well as arguably the most innovative country in the world. But it does not have as many entrepreneurs as it could use.
Initiatives to create more entrepreneurs in the U.S. are growing, and they are very important. However, there is a tremendous resource already in the U.S. that is not being tapped into. Entrepreneurs educated in the best institutions in the nation, who want to found companies and create jobs here, but are turned away. These are American-educated students, foreigners who have left their countries and families, temporarily or permanently, with the sole goal of learning more than they felt they could in their homelands.
Many of them would like to work and create companies here, but they are usually sent back home after graduation due to out dated immigration laws. Because of that, the U.S. gives up a highly-
skilled pool of labor that will start ventures and create jobs in other countries rather than here. Fortunately, a proposal to facilitate the immigration of entrepreneurs to the U.S. is in the works. It is called the Startup Visa Act.
According to the Kauffman Foundation, the economic impact of an entrepreneur goes way beyond his or her personal wealth. From 1980-2005, nearly all the jobs created in the USA occurred in young firms. While entrepreneurs of all backgrounds are very effective, foreign innovators seem to have a disproportionate impact in the U.S. economy. As reported by the Partnership for a New American Economy, more than 40 percent of the 2010 Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children, and immigrants are almost twice as likely to start a new business than a American-born worker.
To capture this talent, the Startup Visa proposes to offer 75,000 new visas to entrepreneurs. Among other groups, such
as foreign workers on H-1B visas, the Startup Visa is geared towards international students.
Foreign students are a sort of hidden talent pool in the U.S. Although trained here, they remain hidden from the marketplace. Universities, as well as the state, invest a lot of money to recruit and train top foreign talent to schools, but fail to retain them because of obsolete immigration laws. In fact, the U.S. already invests so much on international students that it just makes sense to take advantage of them, rather than educate them and ship them home.
I am biased, of course. As a foreign student myself, I feel inclined to support propositions
that would make any country in the world more open to immigration. But the effects of the Startup Visa are clear. According to the Kauffman Foundation, on the current version of the proposal, the companies started through the Startup Visa are estimated to create somewhere between 500,000 and 1.6 million new jobs in 10 years.
Although the effects of the Startup Visa on higher education cannot be predicted, it could potentially attract even more foreign entrepreneurs to American higher educational institutions. As stated by Jared Konczal of the Kauffman Foundation in an interview, entrepreneurially-minded foreign students might be more likely to come to the U.S. if they see a viable long-term solution to start ventures here. This could allow for a snowball effect: foreigners already in the U.S. start companies, foreign entrepreneurs see their success and also come to found companies here. Of course, universities could become wary of entrepreneurial students who
might drop out of school,but the alumni endowment potential would likely offset this.
US-educated foreigners are a valuable asset to the country, and the Startup Visa is a great first step to keep this talent pool here to open companies and create jobs. But as noted by Dane Stangler in a Forbes column, entrepreneurs can come from all sorts of varied backgrounds, and higher education is no requirement to a successful entrepreneurial career. In fact, this is at the very core of the entrepreneurship dynamics, and is part of the beauty of it. Let's make the Startup Visa the first step of a long race towards a comprehensive immigration reform, and clear the path toward not only a more open economy, but also a truly open nation.
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Morelix is a junior majoring in business and economics from Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Reality television can be bad but awfully entertaining too
I have a secret to share. My guilty pleasure? Bad reality TV shows.
Wait, what? Emily, I thought you liked to watch meaningful shows with complicated plots, intriguing alternate worlds, brilliant scripts and ridiculously good-looking actors?
Well, yes, I do. But when I have to work on an essay, or when I have to pretend like I understand Spanish, I need some mind-numbing reality TV. Something that makes my life a little bit better, but doesn't send me into an emotional coma like some of my favorite fandom shows.
So, what do I watch?
So, what do I watch?
Everything and anything on Bravo.
I could go on and go about Bravo TV. I truly think it is the future of storytelling, and it, without a doubt, is one of the most innovative channels I've seen so far. They've made a brand out of their channel, use an amount of audience interaction I've never seen before and have created some of the best reality TV shows out there like "Project Runway," "Top Chef," and the housewives franchise.
They use the 360 type of storytelling that I love.
I honestly have not encountered a show on Bravo that I haven't liked. They even started showing documentaries like "The Queen of Versailles," which was 100 minutes of trashy exuberance that made me sick to my stomach. Did I watch every second of it? Of course.
You get the normal reality TV show perspective, then you have regular cast blogs online, live after-shows with celebrities and cast members, and, of course, the drama-filled reunion shows.
But what makes Bravo the best TV channel out there isn't the creative programming or my patron saint, Andy Cohen, an executive vice president of Bravo who happens to also host the network's reunions and the live after-show, "Watch What Happens Live."
No, it is the plethora of reality TV stars.
from the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" franchise. She will say whatever she wants to whom- ever she wants and has a sense of swag I long for. She is now becoming an actress in her own right, acting in shows like "Glee" and "The New Normal."
First, there is NeNe Leakes.
Then there is Teresa Giudice, the famous table-flipper, who still has no idea how to say her own last name.
But my favorite? Jeff Lewis.
Bur my favorite, jeff Lewis.
Jeff is from the reality TV show, "Flipping Out," which documents his job as a house "flipper" and designer. The smallest thing can set him off on an OCD-induced rage. Yet, he is still one of the funniest people on the entitley of Bravo. You love him,
and you hate him. But I mostly love him.
So, if you need some mind-numbing reality TV while you study for finals, I recommend you check out Bravo. "Dukes of Melrose," and "Don't Be Tardy" are my favorites that are currently running.
Brown is a freshman majoring in journalism from Overland Park
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HEALTH
Music affects the brain in positive way
As we start to transition into the spring season, despite Kansas' reluctance to accept its spring, two things come to mind: loud music and windows open. My walks on campus are not filled with silence anymore, but with the passing of cars, each with their own sound.
It's a simple formula: as the temperature rises, so does the volume of the music, but is it just the weather that have people in a good mood?
Each car is telling a story about the person driving it.
It doesn't matter if you rock out to Metallica or prefer Bach, because music is a universal language. It speaks to every culture. For instance, according to Live Science and Standford University neuroscientist Daniel Abrams, studies have found that happiness, anger and other basic emotions are expressed similarly in music across cultures.
Songs are doing more than creating entertainment. They are stimulating certain emotions and are telling stories that can be sentimental and circumstantial in value. We choose songs based off of our mood, attitude, culture, circumstance, events and ceremonies — such as birthdays, weddings, graduations, etc.
Another car passes by and in it are two men. The driver is bobbing his head and the passenger is trying to sing, more like yelling, "Tonight is the night. We'll fight until it's over. So, we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us."
Music is more than melodies and lyrics. According to the Washington Times, music affects our brain waves, emotions, heart rates and breathing rates. Music
One car is filled with women,
all synchronized in their singing,
saying, "I don't care; I love it, but
I'm a 90's b!tch."
According to the Washington Times, Another example of music therapy's benefits is its ability to help those with Alzheimer's disease and dementia "communicate" with their loved ones in a shared, emotional experience through music, when other forms of communication are partially or entirely impossible.
Music therapy, with its universal appeal and many uses in healthcare, can act as our own "therapist", and is one of the most indispensable and affordable "prescriptions" available to help us all live healthier lives.
As Ronald Reagan once said,
"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."
Bierwirth is a senior majoring in journalism from Overland Park
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According to the American Music Therapy Association, music therapy began "as a healing influence which could affect health and behavior and is at least as old as the writings of Aristotle and Plato." Additionally, according to Elizabeth Scott, a psychologist at San Diego State University, music therapy has a great potential for healing or helping cancer patients, children with ADD, and many others.
Music can be a highly effective method for dealing with stress, among other things.
may even excite us to a state of joy, or move us to tears — a single song has this power.
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