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COMMENTARY
Be a bargain hunter when buying decor
BY MARIA JUAREZ editor@kansan.com
Howard Ting/KANSAN
No college student's abode is complete without some hand-me-down furniture. Craigslist and Goodwill are two places to find cheap furniture.
When we first moved in to my century-old, three-story, student ghetto-fabulous house on Tennessee Street, we had nothing but a dingy ivory couch for about a month. The cracked walls expressed no allegiance to film or music, guest seated consisted of collapsible lawn chairs and the lone coffee table served as an off-kilter footstool to the few who could seize a spot on the couch.
It wasn't a home. It was a crack den. No one wants to live in a crack den. So when a drunken lodger hurled his Friday night Four Lokos onto our only sofa, I snapped.
I never considered the importance of furniture on mental health until I had none. I avoided my living room for weeks, because it creepily resembled the backdrop to an episode of Intervention. In addition to crummy living quarters, my financial state did not agree with my lofty pipe dreams of Ethan Allen sectionals and mahogany corner bars. Let's be honest, I can barely tip the Jimmy John's guy. Besides, why splurge on furniture that sloppy college
kids could potentially mistake for a toilet?
The answer lies in Craig, Craigslist, to be exact.
With no sign-up, posting or buyer's fees, Craigslist is an excellent source for college furnishings. The greatest part of Craigslist
transactions, however, is bartering. Don't want to pay $100 for a used loveseat? Offer them $80 or no deal. More often than not, they'll prefer a lower price than none at all. Like a virtual scavenger hunt, Craiglist is an amenable marketplace where the buyer is in
control.
For example, I bought a twin mattress and box spring for $35 only to sell it for $50 when I upgraded to a queen. The transactions were remarkably smooth. It almost seemed clandestine. There were no shipping fees or credit card billing address forms, nothing but the crisp exchange of cash for commodity. Craiglist is at least worth a shot. (Just try not to get sidetracked in the "Casual Encounter" section.)
Likewise, Goodwill is a goldmine for home decor. In my rehabilitated living room sits a $4 fake tree plant, $6 hanging mirror and $10 rocking chair all of which I scored at the Lawrence Goodwill. Consignment shops offer everything from framed landscape paintings to bed frames. All you have to do is look.
So go forth and peruse the nooks and crannies of Craigslist! Rummage through the options at your nearest Goodwill! Turn your crack den into a castle!
Edited by Brittany Nelson
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2011
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
meetings and recessal by visiting artists," Van Leer said.
"The new Pavilion is made possible by a gift from the Lied Foundation Trust. Construction began in September 2010 and we anticipate completion of the Pavilion this summer," Van Leer said.
The pavilion will be a place for visiting and local artists to engage with the community. The Lied Center offers specialties in education and engagement programs such as pre- and post-performance discussions, demonstrations, lectures, workshops, master classes and more. It will create more possibilities and special occasions for the Friends of the Lied to celebrate the arts.
The public is invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the new Kemper Foyer.
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made possible by a $2.5 million donation to the University by the Lied Foundation and a $300,000 donation from the Kemper Foundation
$10 million to the University in order to fund the construction of the Lied Center.
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According to the Lied Center's mission statement, the purpose of this organization is to promote the arts and education through performance.
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The expansion will provide additional practice space for state productions as well as displays providing information on the history of Ernest F. Lied and the Lied Foundation Trust.
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The $10 million Lied Foundation Trust donation to initially construct the Lied Center was the largest donation to KU ever at the time
The Lied Center expansion was originally proposed in 2005, but the project was scrapped due to a lack of funding.
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CSL Behring processes plasma to take out specific proteins and antibodies needed to fight disease.
"Well, it's extremely important for people with rare diseases such as hemophilia, immune deficiencies, inherited respiratory disease and a number of other serious rare diseases," said Christopher Florentz, manager of cooperate communications. "We take the plasma collected by our CSL plasma collection centers and we put it through a process called fractionation where basically we separated out the proteins in the plasma and we use those proteins to make biotherapies that are used to treat various diseases."
To create plasma products the company needs raw plasma. This is where the donation centers and students like Holbrook Walker come in.
"I told everyone I was doing it for a good cause but really I wanted money for back to school clothes," Walker said. "My paycheck I got all went to my rent and I needed some extra money to do that."
Holbrook did not want to have to get a job and balance schoolwork.
Donor compensation differs by weight class. The more a donor weighs the more plasma the center can take and the more money the donor can make.
"I basically got paid to sit there and study," he said.
During the semester, Holbrook sometimes made biweekly trips to the CSL plasma donation center,
earning about $400 from more than 20 trips.
"If you weigh under 150 it's not even worth it." Holbrook said. "It's like making minimum wage."
With his ankle weights, Holbrook tipped the scales at just over 150 pounds.
Florentz said that on average, a CSL plasma donation center pays $2 million per year to donors and in total, donors made 18.5 million plasma donations in the U.S. in 2008.
"We refer to it as donating because we compensate for their time as opposed to their plasma," Florentz said.
Kunsan: Is donating plasma a good idea or not from the donor's perspective?
Denning: From the donor perspective it could cut either way. For people who are young and healthy it doesn't impact their overall health in the long-term. However in the short term it can impact even healthy young people. When you donate plasma they are taking off specialized proteins called antibodies. They are our first line of defense against infection. And personally in the height of flu season I would not recommend anyone donate plasma because we all need to keep our antibodies at a nice healthy level.
UDK: Have you seen students come in with problems or injuries cause by plasma donation?
UDK: Some people bruise at the location where the needle is used for plasma donation. Is this serious?
Denning: I do on occasion see people who come in who are sick who have influenza or respiratory infections who have donated plasma. And I'm like, quit doing that until flu seasons over!
Denning: It's not uncommon to get a little hematoma here or there. It's uncomfortable and does look very ugly and scary but those generally go away.
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The amount of money a donor receives for a plasma donation varies with weight, visit number and the amount of donations the donor has made in a week. This graph shows what donors will make during each visit to the CSL Plasma Donation Center assuming they give plasma twice a week.