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This guide to apartments is the second of the apartment guides The Kansan publishes each spring.
BY ASHLEY MONTGOMERY amontgomery@kansan.com
The search for my first apartment was quick and painless. The move-in was not.
Just a few short weeks later I had signed a lease for a one bedroom apartment within a few minutes' walk from campus. I thought it was going to be perfect.
I arrived one hot August morning with two carloads of necessities, ready to get settled. I opened the door to the smell of smoke. The hallway was dark and I turned on the light to find dirty carpet. The walls were stained with food spatter and other mysterious particles. The once-white tub was stained a dusty brown. The refrigerator was holding onto the remnants of old food and beverages. The kitchen floor had enough crumbs and leftovers to feed a family of mice
for weeks.
I was severely disappointed.
I had been told that the apartment would be cleaned during the turnover between tenants.
But it was. And I wasn't going to give up that easy.
So I called the management. The woman who answered the phone assured me that crews had vaccuumed and cleaned every unit. So it was impossible for mine to be dirty.
Several hours later — after a series of phone calls, voicemails and an office visit — the manager apologized and personally supervised the cleanup.
Eventually the problem was fixed. But I lost a day and my trust in the management. Looking back I wish I would have paid more attention to the lease agreement. I should have made sure that the promise to clean was in writing and I should have discussed my expectations with the management.
Because when it comes to tenantlandlord relationships you can't take anything for granted.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2011
Dasketball Kewina
For more coverage of this story, check out KUJH's newscast today at 4 p.m.
Marcus Morris led the Jayhawks with 27 points as they trampled Oklahoma State on Monday, 92-65.
POLITICS
OA with congressman Kevin Yoder
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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.
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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)?
Yoder
ting 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 student
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 get-
groups here on campus.
**Yoder:** 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?
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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Competition helps resettle 900 displaced people in Kenya.
ACTIVISM|3A
Groups help rebuild settlement
2500 - If 23% of KU students
2000 - lose their eligibility, the
number of Pell Grants
1500 - at the University would
1000 - 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
72
"I'm going to have to work harder. I apply for scholarships, probably continue to work and use that money toward school."
- Davyna Pearl Kansas City, Mo. Junior
"I am definitely 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 to get extra income."
Brittney Raybern Lawrence Senior
Student reactions
"I don't like it. I already don't get that much financial aid as it's now, so that was kinda helping me out. So that's kind of a burner."
- Danesha Ridley
Chicago Junior
Costs to the Federal Government (in billions)
Without Changes
Obama's Proposal
---Source: Fastweb.com, about.com, and the New America Foundation.
Republican Proposal
Graphic by Cleyton Ashley/KANSAS