THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, JANUARY 31, 2011
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My roommate just left for GameDay ...It's 2:44 a.m.!!
GEEZ, those 5-hour Energy commercials are inescapable. They're on nearly every commercial break! Seeing any ad that often is bad enough, but they're soulcrushingly awful to boot.
Sounds like you have that two o'clock feeling right now. Ever tried a 5-hour Energy for that?
Doing searches on match.com lets me see all the losers out there. Thus making me feel better about being single.
Don't be surprised if "Mello Yello" becomes a new "Black and Yellow" remix
TO THE WALL!
TO THE WINDOWS!
Quick Trip = Hangover Heaven. They need one on campus.
Middle-Eastern men make the best dancers.
Flava Flav is opening a chicken restaurant, boil
Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman and talked like a man.
Luda, steak night and Jack Daniel's Single Barrel = Best end to the first week of classes ever.
It's a great day to be a Jayhawk!!!
ROCK CALK BABY KABY!!!
Mello Yello and cheese puffs. College is awesome.
My life is just a string of bad decisions.
Mother Nature wasn't happy with a lot of the snow melting this week so she's going to punish us Monday and Tuesday. Who's excited?
Ppl meeting over FFA is pathetic.
One word: adderallshowersexwin.
Thank you Disney for putting the Incredibles on for our pre-game movie ... Now I think I'm a super hero
WARNING: THERE IS BLACK ICE! I tested the ground and slipped and fell. Don't worry, now you know!
Ladies if the guy isn't making the move, then you should! Waiting around isn't getting anyone anywhere.
That's it ... I'm taking my talents to South Beach.
Anyone ever notice how EMAW sounds like the bray of a donkey?
Is it wrong that my biggest disappointment from yesterday's game is that T-Rob didn't get one more rebound?
The university needs the money, just not the strings
EDITORIAL
Last week, Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed his $105 million University Economic Growth initiative, designed to stimulate job growth in research areas such as aviation, cancer research, animal health and engineering.
According to the plan, Kansas State, Wichita State universities, and the University of Kansas will each receive $5 million a year for three years, as well as the ability to receive another $3 million annually.
However, Brownback has attached some rather interesting strings to that additional $3 million: competition.
In a nutshell, each university would be "required to provide through private sector or reprogrammed funds 50 percent of the cost of the program initiative," according to Brownback's State of the State address.
In the past, the funds were directed to the University Cancer Center. Now, the funds first go through the Department of Commerce who will distribute the money throughout different areas of research.
Sure, this is a great opportunity for the Cancer Research Center to gain extra support, but at what cost?
This is the problem the University will have to face if we want to further the research that already so much has
been invested in. Brownback's initiative is distracting state universities by hanging more money over their head, instead of equally distributing the money to the school's primary area of research.
Competition is a beautiful thing, and can bring out the best in people, but this proposal creates a hindrance along with the benefit.
Issues surround this new initiative, and it seems that if job creation is the goal behind this new program, the money should be more accessible to respective programs.
Perhaps a better course of action would be to ultimately grant each university the total $8 million per
Although director of the KU Cancer Center, Dr. Roy Jensen, said in an interview with The Kansan that he didn't think raising the private matching funds would be too difficult, Governor Brownback's new initiative sure is a far cry from former policies.
year regardless of what they can develop on their own. That way it relieves the pressure of falling short while still encouraging independent fundraising.
Brett Crawford for the Kansan Editorial Board.
CARTOON
NICHOLAS SAMBALUK
Incident does not reflect the entire CU student body
I am extremely angry. In the morning paper [The Denver Post], I read that a CU student yelled out "F__ Kansas" during a moment of silence for KU player Thomas Robinson's mom, who had just died. It made it even worse when it was published that she was a single mom, and Thomas found out from his 9-year-old sister. This behavior is intolerable and really hit home because I remember how I felt when our CU quarterback Sal Aunese died of cancer and a baner on a Nebraska dorm room read "Sal is dead, Go Big Red."
Beyond the sports rivalry, I have never felt quite right about Nebraska since then. I want you to know that I respect KU. As a CU alumnus, I would like to personally apologize to the University of Kansas and to Thomas Robinson for this behavior for which there is no excuse. I don't want you to even think for a moment that this incident represents the CU I know, or that we stand more for athletics than the plight of individual families. Please let me know where I can make a contribution to this family.
[Editor's note: To find information on how to contribute to the Lisa Robinson Scholarship Fund, please refer to the front page.]
GLOBAL VIEWPOINT
Sincerely, Andrew Cleary, a resident of Denver. Colo.
Student shares experience 7,500 miles away from home
He was sitting on a chair,looking at the streets through the window. The noisy bar and the dance
floor next to him meant nothing. His face was different, different from all the others in the room. He was worried and a little bored.
That night was in 2009 on the last day of the international student orientation. I was walking back to my seat from the dance floor in the Chateau. After a stressful one-week orientation, we all needed a break. I was surrounded by people I met during the orientation. The air was filled with excitement, not about going out, but about beginning a new page in our life: a new page in a new country.
I looked around the room, and I saw him, one of my Chinese friends. I don't remember his name, but that moment remains in my memory.
I was ambitious, full of hope just like all the other international students in that room. I had prepared very long for this. Now, in a couple of days, I would be studying with other American students in the same classroom, learning their culture and enjoying the open academic environment here.
He looked back at me, the look from his eyes pulled me back to reality.
Was I ready to live with other students who may have difficulties relating to my life? Was I ready not to see my parents for at least half a year? Was I ready to leave all of my friends behind? And, was I ready for the fact that most of them would lose contact with me eventually?
BY KIRK WU
kwu@kansan.com
I quickly moved my thoughts away from those questions. I already made the choice. There was no going back.
Busy with my academic program, I have not been back to my country for one and half years. When I look at myself in the dance room that night, I feel much older. It doesn't make sense to me that little over a year could do this much, but it did.
Now, I speak English and think in English. Sometimes, I get too used to the way of life here.
But every time I watch the sunrise, it reminds me that in that direction — 7,500 miles away — is my home.
The international community is a very important part of the student population here on campus. I will be presenting our lives to you this semester in my column. I want to act as a bridge between both communities, and I hope understanding and friendships will be formed.
Wu is a sophomore in mechanical engineering from Nanjing, China.
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HUMOR
Obama's death wish not going as planned
It was expected to be a breeze,but President Barack Obama has not been able to get the one item on his personal docket done — an item that he has been trying to pass since before his election: Death by Presidency.
When I asked a man who had thoughts on the situation what his thoughts were on the situation, he said, "Most likely we're just becoming a less racist country as we move more towards a global society. We are becoming used to different kinds of people from different backgrounds, and I think President Obama is living proof of that."
Unable to muster the courage to do it himself, he screamed, "You'll never take me alive!" as he sprinted toward the presidential election, feeling confident that he would never see the end.
asked another man. This time, someone that purports to really know things said, "It's more likely that our literacy programs in the regions associated with the extremists have educated them enough to know that it would irritate him more if they kept him alive."
BY JEROD KILGORE kilgore@kansan.com
Where exactly are these regions:
"The South, mostly, but also the Deep South and the Southeast, as well. We've
Where exactly are these regions?
really tried to put most of our focus on the problem areas"
When a call was made to a Deep Southerner's rotary telephone, he was asked his opinion on how the current president was allowed to take office, he replied with, "I believe Ronald Reagan is doing a fine job."
Obama's election campaign even "leaked" that he might not be born in the U.S., which was expected to be the tipping point for extremists. It was further helped by the fact that Obama was born in the faraway and mystical, yet somehow U.S.-owned, land of Hawaii. However, his campaign coordinators did not take into account the call-in radio shows, blogs and loss of 1950s stocism that now allow the population to vent all their anger.
Without the need to contain everything until it boiled over, everyone merely
However, it might not be blogs that are keeping Obama safe, or even his security staff. More than likely the president's greatest defense is the man that would take over. Ioe Biden.
yelled and complained rather than doing anything. Charles Bronson never would have stood for this. He would have shot this fact in the face if it were a tangible object.
As Vice President of U.S. Operations, Biden was asked about the situation through telephone and had this to say, "They've taken away my speaking privileges again."
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Kilgore is a junior in film and media studies from Lenexa.
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