4A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY,MAY2,2002
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The girls posing for Playboy are not exploited, underprivileged individuals. They're intelligent college students, and if they want to flash their bare butts that's their preoperative.
Congratulations to the Tuckaway apartments for being nominated and winning the Top of the Hill best apartment complex, and as a note, thank you for towing quick-stars' cars.
This is to all the hippies calling in and complaining about Referendum B. It's time to wake up and face facts. Frat dogs rule the world.
According to Doug Pacey and his commentary we all deserve a refund because sports haven't been really impressive, and that leads me to think the only reason we're here is for sports, and that just makes me say, "Damn, why did I do all that homework?"
It's funny, we become our parents, but we also become the people our parents warned us about. So what does that say about our parents?
I'd just like to say thank you to the Kansan for supporting my drug habit with clever, new ideas. I'll have to order my Salvia.
I too watch Saturday Night Live,and I just got one thing to say,word to Vanilla Ice's mother.
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Maybe the Kansan should think about ethical concerns first before they publish information on the front page about drugs. I mean, how do you think the kids at Columbine learned how to make bombs?
Does KU owe us a rebate for crappy sports columns?
This is a different guy than last time, but I too eat rocks.
So who lost their cell phone at Clinton Lake? Because I found it.
There's a bunch of ladies in black in front of Strong Hall playing red rover. What's up with that?
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Mark and Joanna really want to know what's up with no listing of the best nachos in Lawrence, because Quinton's has the best nachos, and we're just wondering what's up with the nachos? Everybody wants nachos. You need to know how much they cost and how good they are, so we need nachos.
I was just wondering why all the girls at KU, the sorority girls, they're all clones of each other? They all talk the same. They all walk the same. They all wear sunglasses, no backpacks and purses and talk on their cell phones. It's really annoying, and I don't like the fact that they stare at me. I'm a black student. You know, I know how to dress, too. And they all stare at me like I have crap on my face, because my boyfriend's white. I don't appreciate it, and I totally regret going to KU.
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I was just wondering, I'm new to Kansas, and I was just wondering if you have to be white or Asian American to get into one of these sororities on campus that have houses.
To the writer of the Salvia article, I'm a firm believer that journalists should weigh the consequences of their stories before actually publishing them, so think about that next time.
Meet me tonight at the bell tower for a little spring fun.
Alexzia Plummer has a lot of good ideas about campus diversity, but she needs to realize that this is Kansas here. It's kind of hard to have a lot of diversity in the Midwest.
Does anybody realize how bad our sports section sucks? First of all, our columnists pick great ideas like the basketball team is good. Second of all, they've never heard of a box score. Third of all, you'd think that when our football team gets new uniforms instead of just writing about them they could print a picture.
I like the quote about the Northface and Abercrombie stuff, but the next quote will be my big-timer spinoff of the stereotypical sorority girl.
Fake bake for a while to impress Aaron Miles. From my feet to my head, I'm completely red. Got a North face fleece. Wear miniskirts to be a tease. Ain't got no job, but I'm still rich. Got a full tank of gas in daddy's new E-class. Don't pay any rent, because my parents can.
Some creepy guy masturbated in front of my friend this weekend. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I'm driving down Jayhawk Boulevard playing my music really loud. A guy yelled at me that it was a load of malarkey. I just want to know what malarkey means. What does malarkey mean?
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I just want to say that the paper today was a load of malarkey.
It's funny that the Kansan has a sports section, yet you don't cover NASCAR.
My new anti-drug: Salvia.
The Oracle is not journalism. The Oracle is ads, and the article about Referendum B contains lies. The Greek community has more than two representatives in Student Senate.
All those whoosies smoking Salvia ought to step up to the majors and try some DMT.
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KNIGHT RIDDER TRIBUNE
'Kansan'report card
Pass:
wittyhere.
Outgoing student leaders. Justin Mills and Kyle Browning didn't accomplish everything they set out to do, but they still got a lot done.
Most importantly, they represented students when it came to the tuition issue.
- Lied Center's new schedule. Rent, Lord of the Dance and Cabaret will grace the stage at the Lied Center in the coming months. Something witty here.
Grill Out Wednesdays. Every Wednesday Wescoe Terrace goes outdoors on Wescoe Beach for a hotdog and hamburger barbecue. If only they could sell cold ones, too.
No Haskell summer school. How would you feel if you couldn't take those last couple of hours you needed to graduate during the summer? Thumbs down to the federal government for not giving Haskell the money it needs to survive year-round.
Fail:
- Soaked shirts. The Union bookstore sold shirts outside the Union yesterday, despite the soggy weather. Not exactly the kind of wet T-shirts Playboy was looking for.
the money it needs to survive year
■ End-of-the semester work. Papers, tests, finals. Just when the weather is finally getting nice, academia always seems to get in the way. Good luck to everyone on surviving the stress of May.
PERSPECTIVE
'Osbournes' a fascinating glimpse into an unusual, original family
In these most recent of weeks I, along with the rest of America, have become enthralled with a certain family Osbourne. Much to the surprise of MTV programmers, Ozzy fans and the Osbournes family itself, The Osbournes has become the most highly rated series in the history of MTV.
The question I keep asking myself though is why the rest of the country and I are so infatuated with this family. I highly doubt that people watch it because of Ozzy's music career. Most people that watch the show probably couldn't name more than five of his songs off the top of their heads.
COMMENTARY
Add an ex-junkie rock star as the dad, his wife/manager as the mom, two bickering siblings and a few thousand swears, and you get one of the more unique families in the country. I have a hard time believing that anyone who watches the show can say, "Yeah, I've been in that situation before."
Marc Ingber
opinion@kansan.com
Certainly it's not because they can relate to their lives. I'm sure most viewers don't live in a giant mansion with a statue of Satan hanging above the door. In addition to Beelzebub, the family has enough dogs so that all they would have to do is put a sign above the Prince of Darkness' head and they could open the Osbourne family pet shop.
This is where the show differs from the Real World. Although most people in this world aren't picked to live in a house with six strangers, it is much easier to relate to the people on the Real World. Most people know what its like to be dumped by their girlfriend or boyfriend, get in a fight with their friend or any other sort of the stupid everyday problems that the people on the Real World whine about.
— what is completely ludicrous to the average viewer is completely normal in the Osbourne household. It's hard not to find it funny when a dad that once got banned from the state of Texas for a decade for relieving himself on the Alamo tries to tell his kids to be home by 12:30. Or when Ozzy yells at Kelly for getting a tattoo about an inch in diameter, when he's basically got the Sistine Chapel ceiling running down the length of both his arms.
about.
Most people can't relate to Kelly Osbourne when she complains to her parents, "the kids at school can't get over the fact that my dad bit the head off of a bat 20 years ago." Besides her siblings, little Kelly is probably the only person in the glorious history of this planet that can utter that sentence.
This is the other main draw of the show—to compare what a more elder Ozzy is like at home to how he's been known as a public figure for the last 30 years.
This is what I think is the draw of this show
Whether it be his run in with a bat or snorting ants off the sidewalk, the Ozman has had quite an interesting past. Knowing this it is quite amusing to watch him clean up after the dog or yell at the kids for being too loud.
That's why no matter how long it takes him just to spit out one sentence, people will still watch. Just because he's Ozzy—a family man to be reckoned with.
Ingber is a Golden Valley, Minn., sophomore in pre-journalism.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
STUDENT SENATE CRITICISM UNFAIR
Dear editor.
Dear editor, Brooke Hesler was way off base when she decided to knock down Referendum B in her column entitled, "Student Senate's leaders, past and present only perpetuate partisanship" (April 26).
She was unjustified in stating that Loren Malone was wrong for deciding to reinstate the majority-favored policy. She also unfairly insulted the new administration and Andy Knopp's referendum for no reason except her lack of research.
lack of research. Knopp wrote a column explaining the technicalities in the latest edition of the Oracle. He also explained that "the point of the referendum is not that there aren't enough Greeks in Student Senate...[the point is] only to provide equal and fair representation."
As of now, greek housing is not classified under residential or off-campus categories. So, because a person decides to live in his or her greek house, he or she has no housing representation. Needless to say, this is biased against the greek community.
However, Mitchell did send Referendum B to the entire, frequently read Senate listserv. Every member of Student Senate saw and read the referendum. Funny how Kyle Browning decided this way was not legitimate after the fact that the referendum passed. And this did not just merely pass. It achieved a large majority when two-thirds of the students voting on the referendum voted in favor of it.
Jayme A. Aschemeyer
Aurora, Colo., sophomore
voted in favor of R.
It is quite beneficial that this new Student Senate administration decided to put Knopp's referendum back on the table because now they are representing the student voter's majority opinion — which is why they were elected in the first place.
The technicality occurred when Knopp gave the referendum to Elections Commissioner David Mitchell instead of the Executive Staff Secretary Anna Gregory.
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