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The appearance of a temporary traffic control booth heralded the construction of another gateway on University grounds. The Docking family gateway at 13th Street and Oread Avenue joins the Malott gateway at 15th and Iowa streets as another aesthetic addition to campus. While both are supposed to improve the entrances to campus, the improvements shouldn't come at the cost of current students' and faculty's convenience.
Something can be said for having the gateways. As part of the Master Campus Plan, they help visitors when they're looking for and entering campus. A visually pleasing entrance puts a good foot forward for prospective students and faculty, because it shows the University is concerned with how it represents itself.
At the same time, the improved gateways don't provide a real function to the majority of the student body or faculty. They don't contain offices or classrooms or house necessary services. To be honest, they are strictly pretty to look at. With the Malott gateway, students in Templin Hall complained that they had lost a prime playing
Issue: The new campus gateways
Stance; Gateways are pretty but they serve no purpose to those already at the University.
field for football when it was built.
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Donna Hultine, director of the KU parking department, expressed concerns in Tuesday's The University Daily Kansasan that the relocation of the traffic control booth to 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard could cause car and bus congestion in front of the Kansas Memorial Union. This would be a problem to anyone trying to get on campus, but especially those here on a daily basis.
Care should be taken that while improving the University's image, the needs of the students and faculty are taken into account. Opportunities to improve how the University presents itself should always be taken, but it should also use some of these same opportunities to make those already here happy with their choice of university.
- Ty Beaver for the editorial board
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against by their colleagues once they land a job.
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All I have to say is that facebook has ruined col-
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Hey, so yeah, I just got cut off by a police officer from crossing at a crosswalk. What the hell is the deal with that? KU police
Yeah, I just totally saw this guy get shot down by a drunk girl with "Yea, because I'm drunk?"
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I'm a dude and I just downloaded "It's Raining Men" for my ring tone. Is that super gay or super awesome?
Daddy's home!
All right, even though I know it's 5:15 in the morning and it's totally obvious, but I have to say it anyway: the Orange Iguanas rule.
Sasha Kaun can't play basketball and he can't
against by their colleagues once they land a job.
play drums.
against by their colleagues once they land a job.
Yeah, this message is for The University Daily Kansas: I really wish you people would decide your size of paper and your layout you're gonna have.
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Hey, that picture you guys had in there of the two guys making out:
Totally hot. I'm gonna cut it out and post it up.
I was reviewing my Spice Girls collection today, and I just wanted to know, what is a ziz-a-zig-ah?
against by their colleagues once they land a job.
"I think Sunday should be a day of rest." OK,
(Editor's note: I can't print it here. Check out songmeanings.net.)
To whoever took it upon themselves to turn over all the trashcans on campus: Not cool.
god..
against by their colleagues once they land a job.
Thanks again Cryptoquote, you just ruined my whole week by giving me the wrong clue on a Monday.
Next time a weather alert interrupts The O.C., I will watch The O.C.
Thought the "Ring of Fire" comment today was pretty funny. Just so that person knows, Johnny Cash didn't write that song. It was June Carter. Thanks.
against by their colleagues once they land a job.
Right now in San Francisco, a city long notorious for it's loving embrace of the LGBT community. a battle is raging.
Transgender awareness crucial to ending prejudice
COMMENTARY
So why are these people having so much trouble? Discrimination. Woodward reported that though overly qualified, many transgendered individuals were snubbed in job interviews and employment applications because of their gender identity.And the lucky few that make it past these obstacles are discriminated
In the Bay Area during spring break, the cover story of the San Francisco Bay Guardian featured a photo of a dark-haired woman, the title floating above the woman's head read "Transjobless." Intrigued by the title's play on words and the bold statement, I picked up the paper and found that inside the cover an even bolder statement was being made.
Guardian reporter Tali Woodward's cover story brought to light a number of alarming statistics about the plight of transgender individuals in San Francisco's workforce. A survey of 194 transgender San Franciscans conducted by the Transgender Law Center found that only one of every four transgender individuals had a full-time job. What's even more shockingly brutal is that 59 percent of those surveyed reported that they made no more than $15,500 a year and only four percent made more than the city's median income of $61,200. An annual income of less than $15,500 in any metropolitan city like San Francisco is virtually living in poverty.
A 2001 U. S. Census Bureau study found that same-sex couples lived in all 105 Kansas counties, even those that were most rural and underpopu- lted. That number was a 514 percent increase from previous data, and that was five years ago. Though numbered, the Kansas transgender community faces discrimination. A Wichita Eagle article from February reported that Kansas law did not allow birth certificates to be changed to accommodate gender reassignment.
Some of this discrimination seems to stem from a lack of awareness: Statistics typically aren't kept that proclaim the cold, hard truth about the life of the LGBT community. When others don't know about injustices being done, it is hard to fight them.
I can't help but wonder, if it is this appalling in an accepting city like San Francisco, how bad can it be on the flat wheat plains of Kansas?
A week ago, on our very own campus, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and straight students rallied in support of LGBT awareness. Last Wednesday, hundreds of students and members of the community gathered at a performance held by Anthony Rapp, star of
"Rent." to hand out awards to both exemplary LGBT and straight individuals and to raise awareness about sexual freedom.
We shouldn't need a special week or awards night to protect sexual freedom and choice. In our own communities and around the country, people are working to face oppression and discrimination based on their sexual orientation. Whether you are gay, straight or transgender this just isn't right. What happens behind our closed bedrooms doors is our business and our business alone. No matter who you are or what you do within the confines of your own home, when the rights of one are violated, the rights of everyone are. Whether it's trangender individuals not being able to get a job in San Francisco, or your classmate facing persecution for being gay, no one should lose a job or a friend because of the choices made in the bedroom.
COURTNEY HAGEN opinion@kansan.com
With enough time and tolerance, the front-page story — in any city — won't ever be about suffering for your sexual orientation or gender identity again.
Joshua Bickel, managing editor
864-4854 or ibicket@kansan.com
The good news is that we can change minds and attitudes in a very grass roots sort of way: By listening and accepting all. We must work to protect our sexual freedom and accept those who have different sexual orientations from our own.
Hagen is a Council Bluffs, Iowa, junior in journalism and theater and film.
The following is a comment from kansan.com regarding justin LaMort's April 3 column, "Making college cheaper is easy as one, two, three. The comment appears in its original form and is unedited and unaltered. To read the column, check out kansan.com.
Jason Shead, opinion editor
864-4924 or jshaad@kansan.com
This doesn't even account for the fact that if more and more people have the ability to afford something (in other words, the demand curve shifts to the right) the price will rise. If the price rises, more scholarships are needed. If more scholarships are needed, tuition needs to be raised to afford the scholarships. So now that tuition is raised more scholarships are needed, and the cycle continues.
Jonathan Kealing, editor
864-4854 or isealing@kansen.com
Nate Karlin, managing editor
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HA! What a title tool!
Also, Have you notice that EVERY rise in tuition has a large portion of the rise for scholarships? You realize that part of the money for the scholarships goes to the RED-TAPE of distributing those scholarships. All that scholarship money raises tuition faster than tuition-help can save it.
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The red-tape and beauracracy of public-funded scholarships is insane.
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Begin learning outside the classroom
DAVID ARMSTRONG opinion@kansan.com
It's finally time to take a breather. That's right, I'll soon be graduating and I'm taking a moment to rest before I head off into the "real world." Although I will no longer be attending class lectures, I will still have a great deal of learning to do. While attending college courses and earning a degree has provided me with many great opportunities to learn, it has really been the whole kit and caboodle of college that I have learned from the most.
School has given me some direction and insight, but most of my learning occurs outside the classroom. That's not to say that I haven't learned much from school, because I have acquired quite a bit of knowledge from textbooks and class lectures. I have learned the most, however, from the atmosphere that is prevalent in a college student's life: Parties, protests, picnics and people. A classroom is a good place to learn what would otherwise be left out of one's education. I have always thought that the most uninteresting of my school subjects to be the most important to pay attention to, because I would otherwise not take the time to learn such material. I also value the classroom education because it has given me a foundation — a home base, so to speak — for my extended learning.
Nevertheless, only so much can be truly learned, understood, felt and appreciated from a lecture or discussion. I must admit that some subjects are probably best taught in a classroom, such as math, but there is simply more to be learned than can be taught in such a setting. What is learned in the classroom is the knowledge necessary to make a living in the real world. What is learned outside of the classroom is the awareness necessary to make a world that is really alive.
While book knowledge is measurable, purpose of existence is not. I am not only talking about such hobbies as traveling, making soap, planting seeds and keeping a journal, for these are actual endeavors that are to be learned from. The therapeutic benefits of gardening and the enlightenment reached through one's travels are perplexing and in a realm other than that of schooling. Again, it is the entire package that is important. School gives us a place to start, but the world and the experiences for which it provides is the substantial educator of our souls.
So remember what Albert Einstein said: "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
Armstrong is an Overland Park senior in anthropology.
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