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Oh great, now my scarf smells like sneeze.
So how much does it cost the professor when they cancel class?
What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.
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FALSE! Wescoe wasn't suppose to be a parking garage. It's was going to be a 25-foot sky scraper. #studentambas-daroporbs
I just want it to be spring break so I can be near blackout drunk for a good 216 hours. (
As one of the kids whose parents had to bring me to class back in the day, I appreciate it if we could stop the hate. Growing up on campus was awesome.
@KevYoung I just want to let you know that I will miss you next year. Campus just won't be the same without that beautiful smile.
I'd rather be dumped by Kate Upton than have the bus driver tell me it's too full to get on.
You know midterms are coming up when people start arguing in the FFA more than they submit funny quotes.
Lights out and you're expecting Bane? Please. I was waiting for the Team Rocket anthem to start playing over the loudspeakers.
To the girl walking around campus in the Mizzou sweatshirt: take that off before you start a riot.
I'd rather sit next to a parent and their kid than eight girls from the same sorority talking about how drunk they got last night.
I really need to stop wearing sweat- pants.
The KU drummer may be awesome, but the mellophone players are really where it's at! Editor's note: Said the mellophone player.
Dennis Rodman for president
Ben McLemore just walked by me. I played it cool and limited myself to a triple take.
Is it just me, or do sorority girls always have the sniffles?
I have a Red 43 bus all to myself... So when do the zombies pop out?
I don't wanna wear pants.
Nothing tastes sweeter than the tears of ME 312 students.
People need to stop hating in the FFA!
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013
PEP TALK
Nine-year-old inspires many through YouTube
Everybody needs a pep talk snow and then. Without one, you may never feel brave enough to challenge your enemy to a dance-off or ask out the cute girl in your English class.
The truth is encouragement allows us to move past our fears and stretch our imaginations beyond the possible. That is all Robby Novak wants to do: make people aware that they can be less boring and more awesome.
If his name does not ting a bell, perhaps you know him by his alias, Kid President. Never heard of him? I say shame on you. According to his profile at TED.com, in October 2012, this 9-year-old dressed in a suit from Henderson, Tenn., began creating videos inspiring others to "treat
everybody like it's their birthday."
Since then, Kid President has starred in 26 YouTube videos in collaboration with SoulPancake, a media company seeking to promote anything on your mind.
Additionally, Kid President has a website, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr accounts with thousands of followers. That is impressive for a project that began as a promotion of the annual benefit dinner for Freed-Hardeman University.
A few of the inspirational remarks Novak makes on the videos include, "The world needs you to stop being boring." "If life is a game, aren't we all on the same team?" and "You were made to be awesome." Good stuff, right? I know I enjoyed watching
his videos and felt more optimistic about the start of my day. His most successful video, "A Pep Talk from Kid President to You" has more than 12 million views on YouTube alone.
This kid wants everyone to put aside their differences and realize that we can all be awesome, individually -nd as a whole. Novak dedicates his pep talk to Gabby, his friend who "is fighting cancer
LIKE A BOSS?" Additionally, Kid President himself has osteogenesis imperfecta, better known as brittle bone disease. In his recent videos, you can see his finger in a cast because of the disease, but he does not want people to worry.
"I don't worry about — like, that's my point!" he exclaims in a CBS interview. "I'm trying not to worry about it. Like I want everybody to know ... I'm not that kid who breaks a lot. Like, I'm just
— I'm just a kid who wants to have fun."
Now I ask you, what are you doing to make this world better? Novak asks this question many times, and I want to know your answer. Recently my roommates and I were talking about some of the Academy Award winners and
realized Adele is only 24-years-old, has two successful albums and an Oscar. And here I am, complaining about how I cannot watch both "Honey Boo Boo" and "Dance Mom's" at the same time.
Kid President challenges you and me to get off our lazy buns and start doing something. As he says in the pep talk YouTube clip, "What if Michael Jordan had quit? ... What if he quit and didn't make the team? He would have never made 'Space Jam,' and I love 'Space Jam'..."
So get up, stretch your limbs and do as the kid says, dance.
SENIORITIS CRISIS
Warren is a junior majoring in journalism from Overland Park.
Wishing for more time to spend at the University
As I look back on the last four years I've spent here in Lawrence, I can't help but remember all the great memories I've made. Coming to the University after our big NCAA championship, I was excited to become a Jayhawk. The people I met in the dorms were great, the nightlife in Lawrence is second to none, and I thought that my time here would last forever. Only now I realize it won't.
And I hate it.
If I had it my way, I'd be here for another four years. Hell. I'd even stay for another eight just to soak it all in. I could change things up, maybe join a fraternity for a while and call the Hawk my second home. Maybe go vegan for a bit, and get a part-time job at the Merc while I study anthropology. Who knows? I might even go so far as to become a TA in the math department, and reteach every lecture you couldn't understand or forget sitting in the back of Budig Hall.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm ready to grow up and move out of Lawrence as much as the next
guy, but there's just something about this place that makes me want to stay. If I were to figure out how to make it work, maybe Judd Apatow would buy the rights to my life from me to make one of his hilarious movies out of. I'd just have to put somewhere in my contract that it couldn't become some half-assed version of Van Wilder.
In all seriousness though, the University has been great. My professors here have been some of the most nurturing and kind people I've had the pleasure to ignore on a daily basis, deep in my Angry Birds trance, slumped over in my chair in the middle of class. I can't thank all of my new friends enough for all the
lecture notes they've let me copy hours before midterm and final exams, giving me that extra push to understand René Descartes and John Locke mere moments before summer break began.
What I'm trying to say is this: don't waste what you've going for you here. Who wouldn't want to live in a town as cool as Lawrence, going out five nights a week, cheering the Jayhawks on to another victory (at least the basketball team), and learning as much as they can before someone tells us we've learned enough and it's time to go out into the real world? I mean, it's all free, so why waste it?
What's that? You mean we have to pay to be here? I thought all of this was subsidized by the state. How much is tuition? Really? Oh, well on second thought, maybe the real world is a much better option.
Crawford is a senior majoring in journalism from Oiathe. Follow him on twitter @brett.cra.
CAMPUS CHIRPS BACK
SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter hacking benefits companies
twitter. It's taking over our lives whether you like it or not. It's an amazing
I wonder you like it or not. It's an amazing source for people to learn about information and news. Whether that information is positive, negative, important, or irrelevant, the entire Twitterverse still reads it, or at least is aware of it.
But what can we conclude about the recent hackings of Burger King and Jeep Twitter accounts? Were they a conspiracy planned by the corporate office to expose their business, or is it just a case of poor security on Twitter and Public Relation's part?
To me, this seems like a safety issue, but the two firms did benefit from it.
The person responsible for the hacked tweets changed Burger King's picture to the golden arches that are McDonald's and also changed the company name to McDonald's. But it didn't stop there. They were also responsible for saying the company was sold to the king of fast food, McDonald's, and posted tons of irresponsible tweets. Although this seems like this kind of exposure is a negative thing for Burger King, it did get them a lot of recognition from the general public. Burger King received an additional 34,000 followers, a number that is almost double the amount they had previously, which, if you're unfamiliar with Twitter, is a really good thing.
Of the 53 tweets sent during a 71-minute timeframe, there were 73,421 retweets. All of these rettweets exposed the home of the Whopper to all of Twitter and it was actually a good thing for the company. In a way, this is free promotion for Burger King, even though it is not ideal promoting. All of this exposure actually benefits Burger King.
The very next day, Jeep was also hacked on Twitter. Although their hacks were a lot lower key than Burger King, they too benefited from the recent cyber attacks.
it seems as if the Hamburglar's plan backfired on him and he actually helped promote the restaurant instead of sinking them.
Jeep had the same sort of attack, but had only 17 tweets sent and only 2,756 retweets. But this was still enough for the entire world of Twitter to recognize Jeep.
These recent hackings were not a planned PR stunt but real hackings due to poor security measures by both Twitter and the companies' marketing teams. This could have been a tough lesson learned,but luckily for both firms,they benefited from all of this exposure.
The hackings Jeep experienced were defiantly not a "#Jeep thing" and they tweeted that they were "back in the drivers seat," meaning the situation was back to normal.
Whoever is responsible for the hacks must feel pretty dumb because their plan actually promoted and exposed both Burger King and Jeep. Those companies can thank this unknown person for helping them increase their Twitter followers.
Carroll is a junior majoring in Engl lish from Salem, Conn.
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