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FRIDAY,APRIL 26,2002
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GTAs whine too much.
--i. I don't buy it cause.
Although it doesn't directly state in Senate's rules and regulations that Malone can't do this, it is an unwritten rule that she was out of order.
I'm alarmed at a university which purports to be a bastion of gender, equity and decorum toward women. A deafening outcry has not arisen from feminists and humanists alike at the visit of a purely misogynistic institution like *Playboy*. Now there's something worth speaking out against.
Oh my God, what a headline. "Not everyone agrees." I never knew. You've blown my mind! ___
I know Calvin and Hobbes is like the best comic strip ever, but seriously why now is he still on the back of tons of cars, especially when he's peeing or on the backs of trucks and stuff? Seriously, what's up with that?
About those anti-Lee chalkings, why is it that when a Christian speaks out in love about their faith you would write malicious lies about them down on the sidewalk and think you've bettered them? You've only proven how much you need God and how afraid you are of Jesus.
i. I don't buy it cause.
Although it doesn't directly state in Senate's rules and regulations that Malone can't do this, it is an unwritten rule that she was out of order.
This message is about those tuition posters. Education is not a right. It is a privilege, even though it might be overpriced sometimes.
i. I don't buy it cause.
Although it doesn't directly state in Senate's rules and regulations that Malone can't do this, it is an unwritten rule that she was out of order.
You know which beliefs have been forced on me in the last four years? Tolerance, diversity, freedom of speech. As soon as someone stands up for their beliefs they're attacked, but only for certain beliefs. Does anyone else agree that diversity and pluralism are kind of contradictory ideas?
This is to the person that wrote the Free for All about not blindly following others. You know, you're right. I'm going to do what you say.
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To the person who said that I bet your grandma was a hippie, maybe my parents are older than most parents of people who read the Free for All, but my grandma worked in a shoe factory during the Great Depression, and my mom was a hippie.
Help, I'm going to my sorority sister's formal with her date, but she doesn't know yet. What do I do?
Jesus himself must have given Lee the idea for his campaign, because it looks like a couple other Christians were thinking the same thing. I'm referring to iagreeswithbob.com and iagreewithioe.com.
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I'm only going to say this once, so pay attention: Flash the bus driver. You're playing in the fountain. You're laying out somewhere. We're going to have to look at you anyway. Think of it as a public service. You make us happy, we'll be nice to everyone else. It's simple.
There is a bunch of people calling in about being hippies on campus, and there is no such thing as hippies. There's free spirits. There’s no hippies at KU.
My name is Jed, and I was wondering how Lee Bickerstaff started his whole organization, because I wouldn't mind starting mine. It's called "I go to bed with Jed."
What would you do for a Klondike bar?
If I pray to the porcelain god, does that mean I agree with pee?
If Jesus can walk across water,can he swim through ice?
Gene Hackman puts the G in gnarly.
Don't knock masturbation, because it's the only time I get to have sex with someone I love.
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I just wanted to know why I needed Marc Inger to tell us that sunny days and warm weather raise the spirits of students. I thought I already knew that ___
I just had a note to all the students outside Stauffer-Flint, who are writing about Lee on the sidewalk. If you could, please go elsewhere, because I have these things called classes I have to go to, and you're in my way. Just because you've already drawn your tree or dandelion for the week some of us real students have real classes to go to. Thanks.
There are a lot of cool things in the world, but the coolest thing on the planet is cribb, cribb, cribb, cribb.
The members of Phi Kappa Psi would like to extend our most heart felt apologies to the families who suffered losses in our senseless act of sidewalk chalk violence last week. We are truly worthy of the word despise.
I saw this girl fall on campus today, and I don't know if it's bad,
but it totally made my day. ___
To the chicks in Hashinger with the flying W in your window, you rock.
Bark spelled backward is the K word.
I have a question: What is the difference between the I agree with Lee campaign and National pride week? They're both trying to push their views on everyone else.
i. I don't buy it cause.
Although it doesn't directly state in Senate's rules and regulations that Malone can't do this, it is an unwritten rule that she was out of order.
Ozzy Osbourne just had hippie killer shirt on, and it was really sweet.
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KNIGHT RIDDER TRIBUNE
PERSPECTIVE
Student Senate's leaders, past and present only perpetuate partisanship
Student Senate has become a joke, and Wednesday night's joint Senate meeting—a meeting of this year's Senate and next year's—proved it.
COMMENTARY
After the new student body president, Jonathan Ng, made a speech urging Senate not to be divided along coalition lines, his vice president, Loren Malone, did the most divisive thing she could do.
Just minutes after the old Senate adjourned, Malone said, "I can interpret rules and regulations, and I'm enforcing rules and regulations. I uphold the referendum." Yesterday Malone said she wasn't attempting to overrule former student body vice president Kyle Browning's decision, but that's not the way the Kansan reporter nor senators in attendance understood it. I don't buy it either.
Brooke Hesler bhesler@kansan.com
It was within Browning's power to do what he did. A majority of students voted in favor of the referendum, an initiative that would give students living in greek housing the opportunity to vote for off-campus candidates in the elections. The problem with the referendum was that its petitioners had it placed on the ballots without having it changed into bill form by Senate, as required by rules and regulations.
Ng said Browning was wrong not to uphold the will of the students. By the same token, it was
Malone was out of line if she was attempting to overrule Browning's decision because the Senate over which she is presiding had not even considered the issue.
Browning the referendum goes against rules and regulations. Granted, it might seem like a relatively small technicality, but why does Senate even have these rules and regulations if administrations can override them at their whim? It is the will of the student body (or the less than 20 percent who actually voted) to have this referendum become a reality, but throwing out the rules isn't the way to do it. Change the rules; don't disregard them.
It seems Malone wasn't even familiar enough with the process to realize she had to take role call at the end of the Senate meeting. She initially adjourned the meeting and only took role call after several senators prompted her to follow the rules.
the will of the students to elect Browning. We put our trust in him to obey the rules and uphold the will of the student body, which he has.
The old Senate even took a vote to reverse Browning's decision. The vote failed.
After all, this was only her first meeting as student body vice president. Maybe we should cut Malone some slack, right? No way. We, the student body, elected these people to do a job, and we should expect that they know how to do it by
the time they take office, nearly two weeks after the election results were announced.
Ngwas right when he called on Senate to mend coalition lines. And indeed, that's what should happen, but too often the people we've elected ruin that dream and make a mockery of the process.
Wednesday night's meeting wasn't the only time partisanship has reared its ugly head in Senate. Just ask Ben Walker, student body president in 2000-01. I wonder if he ever let his successor, Justin Mills, sign the token baseball past student body presidents had signed — the baseball he removed from the Senate office after Mills and Browning won. Now that Delta Force isn't in charge of the top Senate positions, I wonder whether Ng will be allowed to add his signature to the ball.
sigature to the ball.
If given the opportunity, I hope he doesn't do it. The baseball represents what's wrong with Senate, people who care more about coalitions and silly traditions than the student body.
Ng has the potential to help rid Senate of these silly coalition lines. When Mills made his final speech as student body president, he received a standing ovation. Senators from his coalition, Delta Force, clapped and cheered, as did senators from opposing coalitions. Hopefully, Ng will receive the same farewell from Senate a year from now. It looks like things are already off to a good start.
Hester is an Overland Park junior in journalism.
She is associate opinion editor.
Hello God, this is Eric, are you there?
PERSPECTIVE
Dear God, Mohammed, Jesus, Mary, Budda, Satan, Santa Claus, Allah, some Virgins and a cow that just got sacrificed in Idaho by some cult: I am writing you to see if you can help me out.
I took Western Civ., and you guys are supposed to be the highest beings in the land, and you are supposed to be making everything all fine and dandy here on earth.
COMMENTARY
mine and daunty lion on you. But for some reason, people have been reading Cliffnotes and downloading summaries off the Internet instead of reading the first edition of your beliefs. Now everyone has their own opinion on what you guys mean and it is causing a big crapstorm everywhere.
Eric Borja
opinion@kansan.com
Can you help?
It seems like people are making up their own sets of rules. I wish you guys would just come down here at set it straight. I know being up there (down there for you, Satan) is pretty nice, but all of us humans need some guidance.
Can you help?
I made up a little list of grievances that I hope you guys can get to pretty soon.
Some people who believe in you, God, think that homosexual people are bad. I want to know what you think because it seems like people love speaking on your behalf on this issue
Then all these people talk and read about that book about you and your son and how it contains all this stuff about loving thy neighbor and just being a good person in general. So lots of people are pretty pissed about that whole dilemma.
Like every year this grizzly old man and his cronies came to KU and say that you hate "fags." Is that true?
This is to Allah and God, all these people speaking on your behalf have been fighting each other as long I can remember. They are always finding another reason to hate each other. Allah, there are these guys in a group called Al-Qaida, and I think they read the Q'uran after an Ozzy Osbourne concert because they have things all mixed up.
They think that by killing people that are not
that's not true, I am.
I just wish that people could see that no one is right. I wish you guys could just set things straight. All this hate and fighting over blind faith. Just give us something so that we don't have to fight over who is more right anymore. Why can we just be comfortable in our own skin? Everyone wants to think their way is better than everyone else's.
I walked down Jayhawk Boulevard one day, and there was a Hare Krishna telling me why his religion was better than the rest, then there were these old guys handing out these small books that had their beliefs in them, then there was this guy on a ladder screaming about how I'm going to hell if I don't believe in you God, and then I think there is this new higher being named Lee who a lot of people seem to be supporting. But only seconds later I saw people disagreeing with Lee. It's so confusing I can't keep up with all this stuff.
like them, they are making you happy. I know that's not true, is it?
So if you guys could just work on all that stuff for me that would be great.
Borja is a Springfield, Mo., junior in journalism.
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