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--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
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--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
It would have been easier to get a boyfriend if I had gone to K-State.
This is my guarantee: You will see a significant decrease in the number of males in class the day Halo Reach and COD: Black Ops come out in stores.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
I just can't be your friend ... I like you way too much.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
Get off your bike or get off the sidewalk.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
I think I just told my best friend that I love her. I'm screwed now.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
Nothing completes your late night run than seeing drunk people all over Mass Street.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
I'm frunk as duck.
What does it mean?!
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
I've got sunshine in a bag.
My AC is broken in my car and now my apartment, DAMMIT.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
I guess he is an Xbox and I'm more of an Atari.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
Don't forget to bring a towel!
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
To the beautiful girl who picked up my phone for me when i dropped it in class, thank you.
Blankets — how do they work?
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
Anyone find a small set of keys today near Fraser, Bailey, or on a park & Ride bus?
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
I want me a ROTC Navy boy!
The fact that my professor wears Burberry clothing regularly makes me like the class a little more.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
Wiping your hand on that trash can is not going to get the poop off of your hand.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
I miss the days when I actually understood what's going on in my classes.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
I just want to drop out of college and go live as a hippie.
--new things is hard. Here's what, I believe, is a central tenant of the so-called college experience — something, despite all our individual differences — we all come to learn: Trying new things is good.
New ways of covering news provide challenges
ON-CAMPUS MEDIA
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
Kurt Vonnegut
I have always been, and I'm sure will always be, a very shy person.
Growing up as a timid, hearing impaired only child, I always tended to stay on the outside, choosing more often to be an observer rather than experience my young life first-hand. Like I'm sure we can all relate to at some point in our lives, I lived with a perpetual fear of rejection — and of change.
I've come a long way since my playground days, but not without constant effort.
Last semester, when I applied for the job of editor-in-chief of The University Daily Kansan, I was terrified. Though I have been involved with The Kansan since the second month of my freshman year, I never envisioned I would "be good enough" to take on the head role. But, with the support of many friends and advisers, I found the courage to put forward my vision for student media on this campus. And, though this semester will be filled with challenges, I wouldn't change a thing.
Here's what we all know: Trying
BY ALEX GARRISON
Editor's Notes
We will be working to expand our coverage and to expand how we deliver that coverage. We are no longer the student newspaper of the University of Kansas; we are now the student media of the University of Kansas. We are print, we are television, we are online, we are social media, we are radio.
This semester, we will be trying new things with The University Daily Kansan.
We will be bringing you not only the daily paper, but live video news updates, on channel 31 and online, five times per day — on the hour from noon to 4 p.m.
We will be continuing our commitment to online content with breaking news, interactive
features, in-depth photo galleries
video and audio all at Kansas.com
And we will be increasing our presence in the exciting world of new media.
We have lofty goals. I speak for more than 200 students who contribute to the print version of The Kansan and the expanding multimedia versions when I say that no, we probably will not accomplish all the goals we set out to accomplish. We will fall short. We will inevitably make mistakes. We, too, after all, are students. Every day, we put out content across many platforms. Every day, we learn.
We learn because we care about serving you. I personally can attest to the commitment of all those students. We will try our best, because we demand the best of ourselves.
But our success depends in part to your feedback. E-mail me. Call me. Visit me. Facebook me. I want to hear your input. Have the courage to contribute to the new and scary — that's what we'll be busy with.
Garrison is the editor-in-chief of The Kansan and a senior from Kansas City, Kan., in journalism and Arabic and Islamic studies.
CARTOON
SURE, BURNING COAL, OIL, AND GAS SENDS RECORD AMOUNTS OF $ \mathrm{C O_{2}} $ INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
WELL, SURE. CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS THE PLANET BUT, LIKE I SAID, THAT'S ONLY NATURAL.
NICK SAMBALUK
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
KU should follow in Nebraska's footsteps and join the Big 10
This summer, our University along with many others was subject to extreme turmoil when conference expansion threatened the once mighty Big 12.
Our administrators lack much foresight about the issue, even when news stories were being published since December 2009. They have failed us numerous times, and it is clear that they have alienated our loyal alumni. It is even a struggle to sell enough tickets to fill a tiny box in the football stadium that has yet to be built. KU is still without a plan for the future.
There may be a temporary union in place now, but the position our University was put in cannot be excused. While conference expansion discussion is filled with increased budgets for athletic departments, ours is somehow diverted to Texas to keep them in, when in fact they are probably the root of all our problems.
So I am here to propose something to my peers that I sincerely believe will lead our University to greatness: We need to join our friends in Nebraska and join the Big Ten. It's the smartest thing Nebraska has ever done.
stretches past Lawrence. The Big Ten is full of soft athletics, it will be tough for our teams, but it can be ours for the taking after years of Texas' crap. The Big Ten will boost out of state students to KU and will bring more research funds that will greatly advance our academics.
Our campaign starts now. We must innovate or risk becoming obsolete. Our University needs to be more aggressive, and we must expand our campus. We need to exploit our attractiveness as a University compared to our potential rivals joining the Big Ten. Iowa State, Mizzou, and Kansas State would all want to be in the same club.
The Big Ten has a TV network that cannot be rivaled. It brings a lot of exposure to the population of Big Ten Country, which now
Many may argue against such a move, and the business is messy. Many Mizzou fans feel they were shafted when Nebraska made the jump and no such offer was extended to Mizzou to join the Big Ten, but we must realize that we are a lot more attractive than Mizzou. We can make a lot of money in the Big Ten off basketball unlike our current situation. With the Big Ten Network, a lot more of our games will be televised on a network that reaches millions. Kansas can pull the attention of TV viewers, and in the end that is what the Big Ten wants.: tradition, academics, good athletics and a big TV market
What will probably seal the
deal in the process is the fact that Nebraska is in already. I have little doubt that they would be most eager to help us join the Big Ten, as we were its closest ally in the Big 12.
The issue at hand is our school's security, and without peer university support, we are hopeless. Nebraska's AD and former famed football coach Tom Osborne has been quoted as saying the move was about security, and currently our conference leaders our not providing that for us.
It is an insult to all who love KU to realize we are paying the likes of Texas, Oklahoma, and A&M to stick around when they are clearly waiting on offers from other conferences. I believe our best option is to join the Big Ten, and I believe Nebraska can be an invaluable ally in achieving this goal.
The respect, power, tradition and stability of the Big Ten is what Kansas needs. Action starts with you! Tell the Board of Regents, the KU administration, your friends in the Big Ten, and your friends here that KU belongs in the Big Ten!
Thomas Deacon is sophomore from West Lafayette, Ind., in political science.
HEALTH
Case against the legalization of pot strong and hilarious
It's been a long time since Nancy Reagan first spearheaded the first battle in the War on Drugs.
headed the first battle in th War on Drugs.
We've learned a lot of things since then.
I mean, let's look at the facts. Alcohol is legal, and marijuana is illegal.
Alcohol destroys your liver like a poison, and marijuana helps ease the pains of cancer.
Alcohol tastes like liquid-fire, and marijuana can be baked into delicious brownies.
Like Paris Hilton being a celebrity for, well, being a celebrity — marijuana is bad, because it JUST IS, OKAY? And until America (and especially Lawrence — yeah, that's right. I'm looking at you, Bloodshot Eyes) realizes this, puts down their hilariously named bongs and pipes, and picks up a brewsky instead, I will not stop.
Also, I read some astonishing things in a study that never happened by the Association of Fake Studies.
When you drink too much alcohol you vomit or die, and when you smoke too many marijuana you laugh and eat pie. Not to mention the fact that marijuana is inherently evil — like the number 666 or cats.
The study followed a group of people who smoked marijuana regularly and a group of people who drank regularly. All of the people who drank regularly lived normal lives, made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and one of the people turned out to be Mel Gibson.
I mean, that guy has had an awesome past couple of years, right?
All of the people who smoked marijuana regularly lived awful lives, most were thrown in prison for having marijuana (which isn't a cyclical argument at all), and one of the people turned out to be Seth Rogen.
Do you remember Seth Rogen?
Of course not, because the sitcom he starred on, Freaks and Geeks, was canceled after one season.
BY CHANCE CARMICHAEL
carmichael@kansas.com
Well, 14 states have made medical marijuana legal to cancer patients, those with chronic pain, and other fakers that also happen to be drug addicts.
There's no need to go to all that trouble making marijuana — I mean you need, like, air, water, and sunshine — when you can simply take opioids, anticonvulsants, antidepressants and local anesthetics. What is more cool sounding than an anti-convulsant? We're past natural junk too. I mean just the other day I had some Zoloft-flavored tea.
Pilgrims came to America to someday ride around on robots, use jetpacks to arrive at prom, and pop chemical-infused pills until every day is like an episode of Full House. I mean that family's mom died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. A drunk driver! Not a high driver.
That hilarious sitcom would not exist if a drunk driver didn't most likely, horribly liquefy the mother in a car accident — so another "YAY!" on the alcohol side.
Listen, folks, this column was difficult to write, what with all of the facts supporting the continuing illegality of marijuana.
If nothing else can convince,
have a little dose of syllogism:
marijuana is considered a drug;
meth is considered a drug, so
I submit for your approval —
MARIJUANA IS METH. Either
marijuana is as awful as meth, or
society is wrong.
And when was the last time society was wrong?
Carmichael is a Mulvane junior in film and media studies and journalism.
Responses to the news of the week on Kansan.com
Chatterbox
"Not all milk has rbST. Despite that, over 120 studies say it's SAFE. What's the problem? I don't get what this article is even about. What's the point of drinking non-dairy "milk"? They have to chemically add vitamins and nutrients that are naturally occurring in milk. $75\%$ of the world is lactose intolerant? Then why do so many cultures promote drinking milk and eating cheese?
This article lacks facts. There's nothing wrong with drinking milk. There's nothing wrong with non-dairy choices out there. Telling people milk is bad when the evidence says the opposite is completely ridiculous and absolutely a sign of bad journalism."
— "kujayhawk" in response to "Good alteratives to dairy milk exist" on September 2.
"All milk contains naturally occurring bovine growth hormone, or bovine somatotropin (BST). So whether or not the artificial recombinant recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) is also given to the dairy cows from whom you get your milk, humans get a healthy dose of bovine growth hormone with every gulp of dairy."
— "marielouise" in response to "Good alternatives to dairy milk exist" on September 2.
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