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--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
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--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
Attention! Stop Day happens in one month. You can make it!
I never set my watch back for Daylight Saving Time. Therefore I'm living one hour in the future!
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
They are called skinny jeans. Not make-you-skinny jeans.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
To the ninja girl ticketing my car, how stealth are you? I didn't even see you!
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
Glee is like an adult version of "Kids Bop"but just as bad.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
If he comes back in bondage gear, we're leaving.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
I try to communicate more with the opposite sex than I do my teddy bear and my dog. Its working out pretty well for me.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
The amount of days you don't shave is directly related to the amount I don't want to kiss
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
I have a test tomorrow. Does that whole "swine flu" excuse still apply?
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
It's like Kirk and Spock on Star Trek, if we do not fight to the DEATH they will surely kill us
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
I'm going to pack your pretty pink mouth so full of iced cream, you'll be the happiest Jen & Jerry on the block!
I love how playful flirting basically equates to slut.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
Facebook: supporting creepers and procrastinators since 2004.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
I want a voiceover box that will make me sound like Morgan Freeman. Epic much?
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
To the sexy man-boy in calc
— I may not pass this class
thanks to you and I'm OK
with it.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
I plan on leaving my ex-girlfriend alone, completely. I also plan on lying to myself
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
I pray for commando.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
I'm watching Cake Boss and eating Nutella by the spoonful. I either need a life or a personal trainer.
--advising meeting can be an overwhelming routine each semester, but now My Planner gives you the ability to personally take time to plan future semesters. Instead of heading into advising appointments bewildered as to what the next semester will bring, students have the opportunity to prepare their future course load ideas prior to their appointments.
EDITORIAL
New application makes enrollment a little easier
The stressful process of mapping out plans for graduation, making course schedule selections and being prepared for advising appointments, just got a lot easier thanks to a new tool that is now available on Enroll & Pay website.
The new feature called My Planner was made available this semester as a way for students to map out their courses schedule for their entire four years of college. Students are now able to access the full Course Catalog, which should make the process of selecting classes a lot easier.
Planning ahead is always beneficial and students should definitely take advantage of this useful tool. Deciding what classes to take right before your enrollment date and
The helpful resource that is My Planner provides students with their course history, the grades they received, as well as how often and when a specific class is offered. The interactive tool also allows students to search the online course catalog by subject alphabetically and then the course titles are listed. More features will be expected
after user feedback is given.
Given the advantage of gathering personal course information ahead of time, there is still no excuse for students to not see their advisers. Even though you may have devised a four-year academic plan, there is still information only an adviser can provide. It is essential in fulfilling individual career goals that students seek out their advisers.
We can only praise and say thank you to the Student Information System for creating such a useful tool.
- Stefanie Penn for The Kansan Editorial Board.
CARTOON
MARIAM SAIFAN
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Take day to thank veterans
Thanksgiving is not the only holiday that we should be giving thanks on this month. Even though it is widely overlooked, unless you personally know someone who has served, Veterans Day is a holiday that everyone should recognize and give thanks.
Over the past few days, I have seen an all to high number of tweets and Facebook statuses expressing the excitement of those who will be enjoying a day off of work due to Veterans Day being a government holiday. I understand there are people who may
not know anyone who is in the Military or who may not have a very close relationship with someone who is serving or has served. However, those who are currently serving around the world and those who have served did not know you either, but that did not stop them from making a countless number of sacrifices for you and this country.
So, I want to encourage everyone to not only thank a veteran, but to also attend some of the Veterans Day ceremonies and events on campus and even volunteer
your time. There are so many ways to help and get involved and say thank you, especially during the upcoming holiday season. Showing your appreciation and support is as easy as acknowledging their service or donating your time and money to causes and organizations that benefit those who gave so much.
Ashlee Brawner is a graduate student in education from Boulder, Colo.
GUEST COLUMN
Red on the horizon
Republicans like to argue that the American people sent Washington a message last week, that the results in this one election represent a sweeping validation of conservative principles. The truth is a little messier than that; this year it wasn't just a perfect cross-section of "the American people" sending the message, it was the Republicans' dream electorate. 2010 voters were markedly older and whiter than those who came
Last week national Democrats woke up to the aftermath of a Republican invasion — a Red Dawn. Democrats felt the full force of an electoral recoil four years in the making. After flipping a total of 52 House and 14 Senate seats since 2006, a huge number of Dems found themselves in vulnerable positions, running for reelection in reddish areas that never really felt like their own. Many of them confusedly bumbled from message to message, running away from their caucus's accomplishments and attempting to triangulate themselves back into Congress in a red year. Republicans, to their credit, successfully coupled popular unrest over the economy with simple, repudiating messaging to storm back this year. The result was, in President Obama's own words, a "shellacking;" the GOP recaptured the House and nearly erased the historic Democratic advantage in the Senate.
to the polls in 2008. Apathetic Democratic sympathizers (I'm looking at you, students) sat home on Election Day, allowing a very different electorate to make its voice heard. By delivering a new majority in only the House and failing to recapture the Senate, the older and whiter voters who showed up to the polls gave Republicans a strange sort of blessing. Mad Republican scientists can now play around in their Congressional lab and shove through the House any wacky piece of legislation they want — and then moan about how Washington is broken when Democrats try to slow it down in the Senate.
But it's becoming clear that the GOP isn't satisfied with just legislating from its current position. Republicans have made no secret that their goals are political, rather than policy-oriented. Sarah Palin says she can see 2012 from her house, and it seems like Republicans who actually have government jobs are just as fired up about pressing their political advantage. When asked just days before his party was poised to take back Congress's lower chamber, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell told The National Journal that, come January, the number one priority for the again-powerful Republican conference would have nothing to do with immigration reform, climate legislation, tax
policy, or creating jobs. "The single most important thing we want to achieve," he said, "is for President Obama to be a one-term President." Several days later, the man who in January will be the Speaker of the House echoed his colleague's combative tone. A cocky Representative John Boehner told Fox News pundit Sean Hannity that "This is not a time for compromise." If you're disturbed by the idea of two of our country's most powerful legislators promising to place their responsibility to work with all parts of government secondary to their political ambitions, then you're not alone.
McConnell's and Boehner's words paint a bleak post-election landscape. The tone of this past cycle eviscerated the illusion that we ever even came close to the bipartisan harmony candidate Obama preached on the campaign trail. Republicans aren't even bothering to pay lip service to the value of bipartisanship. Instead, the GOP has doubled down on its commitment to extreme non-cooperation. That promise ensures that under the new red reality, the shifting of blame and shuffling of feet in the legislative process is going to be just as hyperpolitical as it has always been.
-From UWIRE, J.D. Bryant for Daily Northwestern at Northwestern University.
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EDITORIAL
Show gratitude to peers in the service today
Today, all over this country, parades will be held, speeches will be made and salutes will be given.
Today, Veteran's Day, is the day set aside to thank those who have served America in the armed forces and to remember those who have died in that service. Lately, there have been more people to thank and remember.
Today thousands of young men and women our age woke up in a foreign country — Afghanistan and Iraq among them — and will face numerous challenges. Some will endure uncomfortable living conditions. Some will have to choose whether or not to take a life.
And some will probably,but sadly, die.
Our lives will not be like that. Most of us woke up this morning in relative comfort. Most of us will not confront decisions of life and death today and that's exactly the point. That's why
some of our peers are at this very moment clutching machine guns, so that we do not have to live with the anxiety of insecurity.
But what we all can hopefully agree on is that the character and sacrificial attitude of those who serve, those who are willing to be killed for us, deserve our appreciation.
There are genuine debates to be had about whether the decisions made by the leadership of this country and carried out by the military over the last nine years — and in every era — have helped or harmed American interest and whether some of these actions have actually made our nation more secure and free.
So when we're afforded an opportunity,like today,to express our gratitude,we should take it.
-Jonathan Shorman for the Kansan Editorial Board
Responses to the news of the week on Kansan.com
Chatterbox
— "Jessed" in response to "Oral contraceptives harmful to women" on Nov. 10.
"Tricia - Thank you for being brave enough to write this letter. It is not a message that many people want to hear and I'm sure you knew the backlash that would follow. Maybe more people in the future will be able to do the same. I'm waiting on the story about Planned Parenthood closing in Lawrence (no news stories about it in Lawrence). An organization that was supposed to be a safe place for women to seek guidance closed their doors. The truth? The organization faces numerous criminal and malpractice actions. Thank you for your letter and I hope that women will start being more cautious about who they look to for help."
"What college students need to learn is moderation and how to drink in a manner that is not dangerous. I've had four loko's and not suffered any truly serious negative effects. Its knowing how to drink properly is what's important, not what drink we are consuming ...just how we do it."
— "RockChalkReview" in response to "Unreasonable to single out Four Loko" on Nov. 9.
"Titan, Hey if KU football is close in the 4th quarter has a legit shot to win another game this season it is going to take the Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost, the Pope, and Mama T all being Jayhawks. The 2nd greatest comeback in Div 1 football - what is the point of tearing down that accomplishment? Fox sports replaying the game based on the actions not the record of the teams. KU coaches, players, fans, anyone attached to KU football, needed a positive shot in the arm. Never apologize for a win, and thank whoever you want."
"I absolutely agree. Thank you for stating what I assumed to be the obvious. And yes, it is a wonderful way to relieve stress. An added bonus is that it teaches people to be less embarrassed about their bodies and more comfortable with their sexuality."
— "AmeS" in response to "No need for masturbation taboo" on Nov. 7.
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