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MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2011
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If I sold everything I stole while drunk, I could afford to be an alcoholic.
Looks like Charlie lost his Sheen. Get it?
To manscape or not to manscape...
Get off FFA and do your homework!
Yes, I'm talking to you. And yes I
know you're procrastinating.
Rules to being my booty call: 1.
You must initiate the booty call 2.
It must be between 1 and 3 a.m.
Even though you have to put in that effort, I'll make it worth your while.
Is it weird that I choose which stall to poop in based on what's written on the walls?
When cocaine comes to party, it does Charlie Sheen.
Students who donate this week will receive a free KU T-shirt, but more than that every person who donates will be saving lives.
Does anyone else notice how much the sound of our basketball players' shoes on the court sounds like the glorious song of spring birds?
Muck Fizzou. Is there anything more that needs to be said? They just suck.
productive units. Those interested in donating should get plenty of rest the night before, eat a healthy meal drink lots of fluids.
Often times being charitable means giving something up that you won't get back. Donating time or money improves lives through another's sacrifice However, there is one way to donate with hardly any sacrifice at all — giving blood.
Donate to KU Blood Drive and help save lives
The KU Blood Drive began today and lasts through Friday. Students can visit kublooddrive.com to find out more about eligibility to donate and also to find locations on campus to donate this week.
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Be somebody's hero and donate blood this week. It won't cost you anything but your time.
I've gotten a total of 5,512 e-mails from Facebook starting when I joined in November of 2005.
Tyrel Reed could take Chuck Norris.
Adults have about 10 pints of blood
I sense a great deal of sexual frustration on this campus is about to be unleashed.
I liked your mom before you were born.
This year, the Blood Drive Committee's goal is to collect 850 productive units. Last fall it collected 1,030
I have three tests on St. Patty's Day. It's almost as if my teachers expect me to care about school more than getting drunk. She's a natural beauty!
Those in support of having Charlie Sheen give the commencement speech, say "aye."
I'm so in love with you, but you have no clue that I am. I wish I could get up the nerve to tell you.
Erin Brown for The Kansan Editorial Board.
Cross, someone needs a blood transfusion every two seconds, and 5 million patients in the U.S. need blood every year. Most people don't think they'll ever need blood, but many do. Less than 38 percent of the population is eligible to give blood and only 7 percent of people in the U.S. have the universal blood type, O negative. With so many people needing blood everyday, it is crucial that those who can donate do.
My 21st birthday is in 372 days.
in their bodies and one pint is given during a donation. Although temporarily the body loses blood after a donation, it then replenishes the pint that was lost.
One pint of blood can save up to three lives. Unlike time or money, which some people might not be able to give, blood is something most people can spare. Blood cannot be manufactured. It can only be given by volunteer donors, and is needed everyday to save lives.
According to the American Red
Duh, winning.
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'Odd Future' tests the limits of pop culture
CULTURE
Recently, music critics on both coasts have been especially smitten with Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, a Los Angeles hip-hop collective mostly comprised of teenagers who aren't ashamed to call themselves bastards.
As much as their precocious talents have been extolled by pundits and labels (their de facto leader, Tyler The Creator, recently signed to XL Recordings, which handles Radiohead, M.I.A. and Vampire Weekend), it's their content that has the blogosphere gushing over the outfit.
"Kill people! Burn shit! Fuck school!" is their motto, and many of their songs meditate on kidnapping, blasphemy, rape and various forms of torture. Odd Future expands upon these short anti-platitudes by testing the creative boundaries of taboo topics in such songs as "Splatter," in which the image of someone molesting a woman in an elderly home slaps listeners across the face.
Oddly enough, these very reasons read like what's expected from students in an anthropology course, where empathy and disassociating from culturally inculcated paradigms guarantee positive teacher feedback on papers.
"The Don't Cover Their Mouth, Don't Cover Your Eyes Argument." OFWGKTA gives voice to a set of thoughts that most don't want to hear because it is so awfully graphic. In this sense popular morality marginalizes their expression. Their music forces us to consider a lifestyle that we'd rather not because it is so different and so ghoulishly outside of our comfort zone.
Though their lyrics have understandably disengaged some, an exponentially growing Internet following has expressed a number of reasons why they support the most current and perhaps most extreme provocateurs in entertainment.
In fact, it's an attempt to understand this mindset that proves to be Tyler the Creator's main muse — he doesn't actually commit the atrocities he raps about, he's just fascinated by serial killers:"I'm interested in serial killers' mind:"Tyler the Creator said in an interview with Cool 'Eh Magazine,"So I rap about it at that moment ... Who knows, next week I could be rapping about oatmeal if
BY MATTHEW MARSAGLIA
mmsarsaglia@ekansan.com
that's what I'm into."
This is not so much an amendment argument, but a broader argument to consider other perspectives, even if we assuredly understand them as inhumane.
"The You Gotta Consider Where They're Coming From Argument." Part of what allows Odd Future to rap about what they do is their background, "Plenty of us are bastards. Most of us are."Tyler the Creator said in a recent interview with The New York Times.
The absence of Tyler the Creator's father and other struggles are recurring topics in the Odd Future repertoire, and they works as a sort of defense mechanism against deploring their grotesqueries. Tyler the Creator, however, appears conscious of this laxity and uses it to further push his provocation.
"The Anti-Establishment Appeal." As evident in their performance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", Odd Future doesn't seem to consider their recent exposure as their big break, but as a coup on the same conservative, mainstream entertainment society they despise.
Though the posse intends to be huge, they're deathly afraid of selling out to a radio-friendly format. And what idealistic youth isn't appealed to that? Success and reach without sacrificing personal integrity (even if their integrity isn't integrative). it makes sense.
POLITICS
These three defenses are all justifiable, but the support is rooted in strict ambivalence and open-mindedness. I'm a fan of both, but when nonjudgmental appreciation is taken to the point of accepting music promoting gang rape, you're denying yourself an opinion for the sake of not having an opinion.
I think Tyler the Creator and the rest of Odd Future understand this population of vacillating, liberally educated youths and are currently testing the limits of their well-intentioned efforts. And it's undeniably genius. I'm somewhat guilty. They swag their shit out.
Marsaglia is a senior in English from Naperville, Ill.
GOP moderates versus bleeding-heart liberals
What do you call a pro-life,progun, tax-cutting, anti-health reform senator with a 77 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union?
Enter Richard Lugar, a courtly Republican from Indiana fending off an expected Tea Party primary challenge from State Treasurer Richard Mourdock in 2012.
A liberal, of course.
Lugar's voting record indicates sterling conservative credentials. His votes earned him whipping scores of zeroes from the AFL-CIO, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Human Rights Campaign. But for the Neandertals who dominate the Tea Party-era GOP, Lugar embodies that despicable species - RINOs. Republicans in Name Only.
While Lugar has proven a reliable vote for his party on curtailing abortion rights, cutting taxes for the affluent and resisting robust environmental regulation, his record is insufficiently pure for the lunatics who are now in charge of the asylum.
Among the senator's most unforgivable transgressions include his votes for President Barack Obama's two Supreme Court nominees, support for the much-reviled TARP bailout of 2008 (a policy supported even by Sarah Palin at the time of its passage) and his unapologetic advocacy for the recent New START nuclear treaty with Russia. Although the treaty conformed closely to decades of bipartisan arms control policy, acting like a bellicose paranoid draws more Tea Party praise than statesmanship, given that anything Obama touches is, by definition, sinister and un-American.
Most political prognosticators do not expect Lugar to return to the Senate in January 2013 when the next crop of senators assume their seats. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a potential presidential candidate, sounded Lugar's death knell recently when he refused to lend his support to his state's senior senator.
Which brings us to a larger point about the GOP's reaction swing
BY LUKE BRINKER
lbrinker@kansan.com
ahead of the 2012 elections. Daniels, mind you, is currently being feted by level-headed, rational conservatives like George Will and David Brooks as the party's hope for salvation. Conveniently forgetting those two years he spent overseeing the budget during George W. Bush's presidency, Very Serious People herald Daniels's seriousness and wonkery on all things fiscal. When he called for a "truce" on hot-button social issues like abortion and gay marriage, Daniels cemented his image as the technocrat who would bring a laser-intense focus on economic matters to the Oval Office.
That call for a cease-fire didn't sit well with Rick Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania. When he's not arguing that gay marriage leads inevitably to bestiality or defending the Crusades of the 11th and 12th centuries, Santorum presents himself as the culture warrior to lead the GOP ticket to victory next year. An economic downturn provides no excuse for ignoring the ghastly evils of sex education, kissing boys and science.
Daniels and Santorum both oppose reproductive, gay, and other civil rights. Daniels chooses not to emphasize those issues. Santorum seems to think he deserves the nod not because he, like Daniels, opposes abortion and gay marriage, but because he despises those concepts more vehemently.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between what passes for a GOP "moderate" and a hard- right true believer.
Brinker is a sophomore in history from Topeka.
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