THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2011
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My vagina has two distinct smells: winter and summer. It definitely smells like summer right now.
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Why are there hot girls in the library? Are they trying to get guys' attention by pretending to study? If they are, it is working.
Hot girls can study too...
Girls are like Pokémon. You need balls to catch'em.
Fact. Every time someone gets engaged on Facebook, I de-friend them.
Never make a shopping list when you're stoned...
Warm weather - winter apparel = horny students.
I find it wrong that the Student Health Center doesn't do doctor's notes. All of my teacher's syllabi require a doctor's note for an excused absence. Guess what Watkins: By not writing doctor's notes, you are forcing me to go to off-campus doctors and pay.
If guys are comparing women to Pokémon, we're all screwed. No wonder there aren't any decent men left in Lawrence.
I feel like Phog Allen, James Naismith and Wilt Chamberlain would all be highly disappointed in the Fist Pump Cam.
Is there any possible way to explain dropping your dorm key into a heater WITHOUT sounding like a total dumb ass? No. No there isn't.
I spent three hours in lab today to make a tiny worm look like a giant glowing green penis on a computer screen.
If I bought a DVD for every time we beat K-State, I wouldn't have room for anything else.
Cut off jorts are absolutely NEVER okay.
Kay, douches. You reserve the right to say, "Chiefs," and I reserve the right to say "Broncos" or "Rams."
Damn you stress ... You have made it almost impossible to get off!
I had a dream that I shaved my armpits while sitting in front of Budig. Weird.
This is America. Show some class.
How many people use OkCupid and actually meet people?
The "Fist Pump Cam" at Allen Fieldhouse is living proof that Jersey Shore is taking over KU. Anyone else concerned?
Thank you, Nebraska. Before today, I couldn't wait for you to leave for the Big Ten, but now ...*sniff*... I might miss you.
I went to Missouri this weekend.
NEVER AGAIN!!!
The arts are good for Kansans and the economy
EDITORIAL
From the debate over evolution to Fred Phelps picking funerals, Kansas seems to make national headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Now our state is again making national news for a similarly embarrassing scenario: the elimination of the Kansas Arts Commission.
On Feb. 7, Gov. Sam Brownback signed an executive order eliminating the state agency, making Kansas the only state in the nation without at least a quasi-governmental arts agency.
Instead, a private nonprofit arts foundation will replace the KAC. This may seem like a simple solution to save the state thousands of dollars, but the loss of the KAC will result in grave
consequences for the state and for the University of Kansas.
The KAC supports the arts in Kansas through grants, professional development programs and leadership initiatives. KAC provided the Spencer Art Museum with $21,286 and the Lied Center with $16,286 for the fiscal year of 2011. Without funding from the KAC, the Spencer Art Museum would likely have to make cuts, including one full-time art education position.
The overall economic benefits of losing the KAC are low, and the costs are great. This elimination will result in the loss of 4,000 jobs and $1.2 million for the state, according to a press release from KAC Chairman Henry
Without public funding, arts organizations will have to cater to rich donors even more, and the number of people they reach will diminish.
It's no secret that today's economic climate requires drastic action, but cutting relatively small and successful organizations like the KAC won't solve the state's budget shortfall.
Schwaller. The state will lose $778,200 in direct funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and $437,767 in indirect grants and services from Mid-America Arts Alliance.
The Kansas arts and cultural sector is a $153.5 million industry, according to the KAC website. An investment in the arts is an investment in private sector business, and cities thrive when the arts are supported. Investment in arts increases tourism, and businesses are more likely to locate in communities that support art programs and other quality-of-life enhancing amenities such as schools and libraries.
Public support for art programs also enables those with lower incomes to enjoy the same benefits as the affluent.
Every civilization is remembered for its cultural and community values. Kansas must preserve the arts to benefit today's communities as well as future generations.
Let's make headlines for that.
Erin Brown for the Kansan Editorial Board.
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LETTER TO THE EDITORS
Chiefs chant shows pride for local team
In regards to the Chiefs chant editorial in Friday's paper, I have a few complaints. First off, I would argue that the majority of students are from the Kansas City area. Second, I don't find it disrespectful, but rather a celebration of our local professional football team — just like we preemptively sing our Rock Chalk chant at our basketball
games in celebration of the likely win. It's fun, and it shows team pride. I am sure Ms. Oommen is an out-of-stater and doesn't appreciate the chant, but let us have our fun. Go Chiefs, go Hawks.
Travis Molsen is a junior from Olathe.
LGBT community stands for more than just gay bars
First off, who would not like being served shots that taste like they were just wrung out of a pack of fermented Starburst from scanti- clad men and women?
In the article "Gay bars have important significance in LGBT culture," the author, Castle, brings up a strong point: gay bars serve as an important meeting grounds for many LGBT members in the time of Harvey Milk, when they faced great oppression and fear of being carried off in paddy wagons for their "immoral" acts.
The article paints a picture of these current gay bars as important cornerstones in gay culture, but this sends a bad message to heterosexual and LGBT persons.
No one is disputing that gay bars are not fantastic places to go and dance, drink, be merry, dress up as Mary and have a good time, but as we progress into more tolerant times — with the repeal of DADT and some states legalizing gay marriage — I think it is also time to begin to define our community
outside the walls of an abandoned steak house, al la château.
In the last paragraph of the article, Castle says, "when we feel depressed and alone because of bullying and the oppression of an intolerant, heterosexual society, we are always welcome at our humble, hole-in-the-wall taverns."
Is this the message we want to
Is this the message we want to send?
Whenever life serves you lemmons, put them in a long Island Iced Tea and have a swig?
As a strong and growing community, I believe we can reshape the way our culture views us. That begins with showcasing ourselves beyond the gay parades and catchy-named bars. This is not to say that they are not a part of our rich culture, but they don't define our culture, and they don't define us.
Sebastian Beshk is a junior from Mission Viejo, Calif.
HUMOR
Embrace your soon-to-be old-fogey ways
In a scant three months, I will be graduating from college — provided, of course, that I pass my last few required courses, don't run out of bribe money and don't get expelled for bribing the professors of my last few required courses. If that all goes according to plan, my last act as a college student will be walking down Campanile Hill.
After that, I will be thrust into the real world, a dreadful hellscape of adult responsibility fraught with decaying carcasses of childhood long passed. It's an intimidating journey, and one that carries with it the grim prospect of eventually Being Old.
But I choose to see the positive side of things. When I finally Become Old, I will also get to Act Old. I will be out-of-touch, out-of-date and outstandingly unaware of whatever is considered "cool" or "hip" by the no-good youths of what will eventually be today.
In short, I will be a Lame Old Fogey,
and it will be glorious.
BY ALEX NICHOLS anichols@kansan.com
Old People seem to be surrounded by a magical force field that deflects all incoming knowledge of trends, fads and other popular ephemera, making them blissfully ignorant of the sort of dreck people our age tend to go for
But it is not the mere absence of with-it-ness that I will relish in. It is also the utter confusion I will get to experience when suddenly confronted with something newfangled — and the cranky disapproval of said newfangled something I will exhibit without reproach.
As of now, if I say that I hate, for
"Oh, don't mind Alex," the kids will say. "He's almost 30 and hasn't taken his third nap yet."
As an Old Person, it will be impossible for me to be cool, no matter how hard I try — thus allowing me to finally revel in being un-cool.
Some people seem to fear this transformation, clinging desperately to their collegiate youthfulness until they are sitting alone in a deserted park, chugging PBR and tossing Frisbees to themselves as they weep longingly for the festive days of yore.
example, Dane Cook, my peers may be inclined to label me a “otes jealous h8r.” Once I Become Old, however, I will be allowed to express my hatred for just about any rich and successful person without any such ad hominem.
There's no sense in denying the inevitable. There's something freeing about aging to the point where it doesn't matter if you like what everybody else likes. And there's something
Take Andy Rooney. If you don't know who he is, it's because he's on television, so I suggest you go online and look up some videos of his majestically grouchy rants from "60 Minutes." Since 1978, he has made a living out of letting the world pass him by, having delivered countless monologues on the befuddling nature of things like new music, new art and — somehow — new fruit. He has fully embraced Being Old, and doing so must be invigorating, because he's still showing up at work at the age of 92.
As we all venture into the Real World, let us follow Mr. Rooney's example and welcome our future fogeyness with open arms. It may be the only thing we can hold onto.
Nichols is a senior from Stilwell in creative writing.
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