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Here's some'poor'adVICE for finding your next place
Small budget? Not a problem. Embrace the lifestyle.
You're in college, and sure, the luxury apartments are great, if that makes you feel more at home and you can afford it. But that's not feasible for most of us. And trying to make your tacky place look nice just makes it look even tackier, so take that "I'm-on-a-water-budget" motif and run with it.
You don't need granite countertops on which to eat ramen noodles and fast food or crown molding to complement your classy display of alcoholic beverage containers, which is next to your Kansas basketball poster, taped to the kitchen wall and covered in Chinese take-out back-splash
Find the oldest, most inexpensive and structurally-unsound steaming pile of crap possible and move quickly to sign for it.
BY JAMES CASTLE jcastle@kansan.com
You might start your search somewhere in the "student ghetto," between 10th and 17th and Kentucky and Louisiana Streets, as those homes are particularly ancient and have a better chance of collapsing at maximum capacity during festivities.
It's a good sign if your apartment or house has a funny smell to it because it is less likely the neighbors will report any suspicious odors.
Rather than
researching the ratings for particular landlords in the area or which apartment complexes have the best amenities, make some appointments for showings to investigate key factors such as smell and carpet color, for example.
It's a good sign if your apartment or house has a funny smell to it, because it is less likely the neighbors will report any suspicious odors. Like good, clean smells, certain carpets can also pose a potential threat to your inconspicuous, low-budget lifestyle. Carpet that is not dirt-colored, or even the existence of carpet, is a bad sign. You do not want to be charged for a year's worth of purges and snow muck. If you can, select a residence with scratched and discolored wood floors.
After you've found a place, you can start
picking out the décor. Goodwill has an excellent selection of mismatched furniture from the twentieth century and works of art that have no relevance to your life. Now, when you or a guest spills Pizza Shuttle all over your gently moth-eaten sofa, you can
rationalize it. "Damn ... wait
...the pizza cost more.
When it's time to move out, your landlord, well-aware of the rat-hole in which you dwell, is less likely to notice any new damages. Additionally, all tattered furniture can be donated back to Goodwill or set next to a dumpster for the next person to claim as their treasure, saving you
the time and energy of lifting and moving large objects.
The facts that you have to use pliers to turn on your bathtub and the homeless collect garbage on your terrace is all part of the experience. There will likely be no other time in your life when you can so easily justify this poverty.
For many of you, it is time to accept that you are no longer affiliated with the socioeconomic status of your parents. When searching for a place to live this upcoming academic year, remember: you are below working-class; wallow in it.
This is college.
Castle is a junior from Stilwell majoring in political science and human sexuality.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 21, 2011
DASKETWALL NEWINU
For more coverage of this story, check out KUJH's newcast at 4 p.m.
Marcus Morris led the Jayhawks with 27 points as they trampled Oklahoma State on Monday, 92-65.
POLITICS
QA
OA with congressman Kevin Yoder
The University Daily Kansan:
What experience or skill that you learned at KU has been the best help to you so far in Congress (or in politics in general)?
Congressman Kevin Yoder has a conversation with Megan Ritter junior from Overland Park, Alex Earles, senior from Salina, and Aaron Dullinger, a senior from Leawood, before his lecture in the Traditions Area on the 4th Floor of the Kansas Union. Yoder was at the Union from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. Students enjoyed free pizza and asked Congressman Yoder questions after his lecture.
Kevin Yoder: My KU experience really set me on a pathway to leadership. I can certainly say that if it wasn't for coming to KU and getting involved in all the activities and elections here, I would have not ever run for congress or ever be in this position. I attribute a lot of what I have developed as leadership skills from experiences in small jobs.
Chris Bronson/KANSAN
Yoder
groups here on campus.
**Voder:** Well certainly the debt and the yearly deficit. You know, we're also at a point where when you add up Medicare, social security and Medicaid, that within 30 years, those three programs will take up every dollar the federal government spends, leaving no money for education, no money for research, no money for transportation, no money for defense, no money for anything. It's gonna take some heavy lifting by the next generation. We're gonna have to figure out what we can live without. Will the next generation have all the of same entitlements benefits that the current generation has? I don't know. I think students are gonna have to decide now, if I'm 21 years old, what kind of country do I want to live in 30 years from now and
Kansan: What issue do you think students should be paying more attention to?
INDEX
start changing things to fix things down the road. If we wait until our generation is at the retirement age, it will be too late.
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2500 - if 25% of KU students
2000 - lose their eligibility, the
1500 - number of Pell Grants
1000 - at the University would
return to Pre-Obama levels
500 -
2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
In the 2009-2010 school year, 4284 students at the University of Kansas received Pell Grants
- Brittney Raybern Lawrence Senior
"I am defiantly counting on the money for summer school, if the money is cut, I'd have to get a part-time job, apply for scholarships, anything I can get extra income."
"I'm going to have to work harder. Apply for scholarships, probably continue to work and use that money toward school."
- Dawnya Pearl
Kansas City, Mo. Junior
Student reactions
"I don't like it. I already don't get that much financial aid as it is now, so that was kinda helping me out. So that's kind of a burmert!
- Danesha Ridley
Chicago Junior
Costs to the Federal Government (in billions)
Without Changes
Obama's Proposal
**— Source: fortweb.com, ebjet.com, and the New Orleans Foundation**
Republican Proposal
Graphic by Clayton Ashley/KARSAM