THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19,2005
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Take advantage of SUA, or kiss your $5 goodbye
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the $5 Student Union Activities fee that most of us paid when we enrolled is being put to good use.
Case in point: SUA will welcome Chuck D to the Kansas Union today.
For just $4, students will be able to see the man named by Rolling Stone magazine in May 2004 as one of "the fifty greatest performers in rock & roll history." Chuck D is a rapper, poet, political activist, writer and one of the most important artists in hip-hop as the founder and lead rapper of Public Enemy.
He will be addressing "music with a message," racial issues in the music industry and (to celebrate KJHK's 30th birthday)
LAURA WATKINS
opinion@kansan.com
the importance of student-run radio.
The fee that makes this possible is in its first year, and already SUA has brought some great names in music, politics and entertainment to our campus. Last night, the rock band Hot Hot Heat and local band Doris Henson played a free show on the Lied Center lawn.
Popular comedians Jeffrey Ross and Carlos Mencia have performed at the University this
semester because of the SUA.
Basketball coach Ken Carter lectured on how he motivated his famous team and eventually became the subject of the movie "Coach Carter." And at the end of September, SUA brought break dancing group "Urban Spectacular" to the Lied Center and donated all of the proceeds from ticket sales to the Hurricane Katrina Relief fund.
SUA also has plans to reinstate its popular outdoor music festival "Day on the Hill."Consider the amount of money it would cost for you to see Chuck D lecture or Hot Hot Heat perform outside of a university setting.
Without the $5 fee that students pay, SUA would never
have been able to afford to pay prominent performers to come to the University, and in turn, it is unlikely that most of you would have been able to have these experiences.
So the question is, how can you take advantage of the money you paid when you enrolled?
The best way to do this is by attending these events that cost you little money (if any). Here are some suggestions: Every Thursday, SUA hosts "Tea Time" at the Union at 3 p.m. This gives you a chance to not only get free tea and treats, but it's also a time to wind down and socialize with your fellow students.
At least once a week, SUA
"Consider the amount of money it would cost for you to see Chuck D lecture or Hot Hot Heat perform outside of a university setting."
shows a movie at the Woodruff Auditorium. (One of my personal favorites, "Shaun of the Dead," will be playing in conjunction with Haunted Hawk Nights on Saturday, Oct. 22). SUA will welcome comedians Dwayne Perkins and Maryel-
len Hooper on Nov. 30. Hooper was named the "Best Female Stand-Up" at the 12th annual American Comedy Awards, and Dwayne Perkins is a well-known African-American comedian. Tickets will be $5 for students.
For more information on how you can use the fee you paid to the fullest, check out SUA's Web site at www.suaevents.com.
Take advantage of the small fee you paid when enrolling, and experience some performers you may never have access to again.
Watkins is a Lenexa senior in journalism. She is a DJ and Live Events director for KJHK 90.7.
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Free for All callers have 20 seconds to speak about any topic they wish. Kansan editors reserve the right to omit comments. Slanderous and obscene statements will not be printed. Phone numbers of all incoming calls are recorded. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you sure the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor? I learn something new every day at college!
I heard Chuck Norris killed Jesus.
True or False: I was too drunk to walk, so I drove.
So, I'm sitting here in class reading a paper in class,
like I always do, except no one else is here!
Did class get cancelled and I don't know about it?
I'm pretty sure class was cancelled, because it's 40 minutes later, and no one is here. Slackers.
I was calling in response to Joel Simone's article. I really hope they don't close The Hawk, because I don't ever want to see someone like you at my bar.
I don't even have to say anything interesting to get into the Free for All.
Free for All, you're the only "f" in my phone book!
Way to go!
If loving Mangino is wrong, then I don't want to be right!
Heck is the place where people who don't believe in gosh go.
Did anybody order a love burger, well-done?
So yeah, Delta Force is like the Kansas City Royals of campus politics. All they do is whine and lose.
I'm going to say it. Coldplay sucks. There. I said it.
Mr. Bush? Yep? There were 27 Brazilians killed today in Iraq. Yeah, but how many is a brazilion?
(Bush ringing)
On my walk home from class, I saw a station wagon with a spoiler. So to the guy who owns that car: Are you serious about that?
How come the softball team can get away with hazing but fraternities can't?
Chuck D is barmy!
This is to the person who called in complaining that a white person can't say the n-word: Why would a white person want to say the n-word
A girl in my class just incorrectly attributed the song "Something to Believe In" to Whitesnake in the middle of an honors English discussion, and though it was a Poison song, not Whitesnake, I still thought it was super sexy.
Yankee October Uniform. September Uniform Charlie Kilo.
Eric Jorgensen is a disgrace to Scandinavia.
Attention North Templin Liberation Front:
I am a Thebsian from Templin 6 South, and
I say bring it on!
To whoever was getting testy with Gina Ford for listening to rap but not advocating the use of the n-word: You can enjoy music and not necessarily oundle every aspect of that music. For example, I enjoy rap music but don't like beating women.
Who would win in a fight? McGuyver or Walker: Texas Ranger?
Actually, I was thinking about it, and I would let her cheat on me with the offense too, because I know they wouldn't score.
If I had a girlfriend, I would let her cheat on me with KU's defense.
Professor Oak I, just got my first Pokemon. His name is Pikachu. Love you, Bye.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
We have a lot we can gain from looking for diversity of group representation as well as the individual.
ing in the inter city has an entirely different outlook and daily life experience than say a white here at KU like you or me.
Ethan Nuss Salina senior
Traits indicative of perspective
In Tim Robbins' Sept. 28 letter to the editor in the University Dally Kansan, he wrote, "As a society, we ought to learn that culture and individual backgrounds account for the type of people we become — it isn't sex, race or sexual preference."
While I agree that we should look at diversity on the individual level, I also believe that we shouldn't abandon the group
Don't you think sex, race, socio-economic status and sexual preference affect one's background? And, in many cases, greatly define one's background and cultural upbringing?
level.
There are many individual variances and similarities across group lines and within groups. But we must also keep in mind that a black single mother liv-
▼ LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Kansan should be less Pence-ive
It's insulting that someone I don't know would write a letter to the editor assuming behavior on my part in which I don't engage.
I'd like to respond to Ray Pence's letter to the editor. I do not "address women in [my life] - family members, friends, teachers, co-workers - as 'cunts.'"
It would be just as illogical for me to assume that Ray Pence calls the thinking of everyone he meets "downright stupid" based solely on what he wrote to The University Daily Kansan.
I am also frustrated with the Kansan for choosing to publish the letter. It seems
Additionally, the content of Pence's letter would indicate that he didn't even attend Mencia's performance, and would therefore have no frame of reference — no context — in which to consider both Mencia's comments and my letter.
Pence's defamation of my character isn't important enough for the Kansan to contact him and ask him to revise his letter before printing it.
Pence misinterpreted the intention of my letter, which was to criticize the Kansan for both misquoting Mencia and for taking the "quote" out of context, thereby making it
more offensive than it would be otherwise.
That, however, does not justify the personal attacks on my character written by Ray Pence and published by The University Daily Kansan.
I do not support or condone the use of the word "cunt," and that was certainly not the intended message of my letter.
I realize that by signing my name to the letter, I became part of the debate over Mencia's appearance at the Lied Center.
- Kevin Hess Wichita senior
The Short Stack
Editor's note: The Short Stack is a new opinion page feature in which we publish less lengthy comments and letters to the editor. If you have something to say, but aren't drunk enough to call the Free for All and don't like to write long, lofty essays, then e-mail The Short Stack at opinion@kansan.com.
Knowledge is power!
This is in reference to Gina Ford's brilliant article showing great concern about the derogatory writings of someone who is a coward.
In India, just like in America, communities exploit citizens based on their birth and discriminate in society. Because of democracy and the availability of education for a larger number of people, the parity of various communities has slowly come down.
Let us strengthen the education facilities available to all communities including blacks, Hispanics, Asians and other South American communities, as well as poor whites who are as much discriminated as the others. In due course, there will be less discrimination.
Subramanian Natarajan
Escape into column
I just wanted to let Eric Jorgensen know that his column today, "Shacking, the Great Escape" was one of the funniest things I have ever read in the Kansan. I was having a bit of a rough morning, and his article made me laugh for about five minutes. I just wanted to say thanks — it made my day.
♦ Carey Woltkamp
Kids will be kids
If the University of Kansas coaches — notably Mark Mangino and Bill Self — are going to continually call their players "kids," and yell at them like they are kids, then they should not be surprised when they play like kids. How about showing the players the same respect the coaches demand?
Alan Hurlbut