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Hi yeah, I'm sitting on Wescoe Beach, and I would just like to say that KUnited is playing the "Because I Got High" song, and I think that just goes to show what's going to happen if they get into Senate.
Way to go, guys. Now that you've dissed Drew in the Free for All,
he's not going to come back next year. It's all our fault. Way to go.
I was just wondering if anybody knew the first name of MacGuyver.
This is for everyone that is disusing on Jayhawk basketball right now. I think it's crap that our own Jayhawks, who are supposed to be the No.1 fans in the country, are new critics of Jayhawk basketball. And all this just because we didn't make it to the championship game. Take a look at how far we got — the Final Four, baby. So appreciate it and stop acting like poor, damn losers, and act like the fans you were a week ago.
After Saturday's game the only disappointment I have is in the KU fans. It's disgusting that you don't support your team, because Jay-hawks are still No. 1.
I just wanted to say to all those people that called into the Free for All and said all those horrible things about Roy and the Jayhawks, you don't deserve to call yourself Jayhawk fans, and you're pathotic.
My little brother won the kids' state wrestling championship, and I just hope you guys print this so he knows how proud I am of him.
This is for all you idiots talking trash on Roy Williams, the man has more knowledge about basketball than all of you combined. So why don't all you fair-weathered, bandwagon bastards move to Missouri.
How is it I can drink to celebrate victory, but I can also drink to celebrate the loss?
I would personally like to thank Chris Wilcox of Maryland for showing KU and the NBA scouts how good Drew Gooden really is.
Vision coalition rocks. You guys are awesome for getting back up on your feet and doing everything you can to still win this coalition. You guys are going to win, and everything's going to be great.
I just wanted to say that I think it's pathetic that all the people are dissing on the basketball team in the Free for All, because we did awesome, and we did awesome all year. Go boys, you did good. Go Roy.
So you spend all this time writing this stupid paper, and you do all this research and what not, and to find out that your teacher put a stupid bell curve on it so they can look good. What's up with that? Go figure.
I'm just reading the Free for All, and I have two things to say. First, Gooden didn't call the time out. It was Boschee. Second, rock choke Jyahawk? We just lost to the No. 1 team. Thank you.
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At least Chenowith didn't screw things up this time.
All of you people that are bashing Gooden just for calling a time out are ridiculous. He was not the only calling a time out. Many of the players and many of the coaches were also calling a time out, and you are completely out of line for saying that it's all Gooden's fault, so go sit in a corner.
It's 80 damn degrees out. Why isn't the Ch O fountain turned on?
I wonder how many times it's possible to be printed in the Free for All in one day.
I was watching tennis the other day, and they went to a shot of Andre Agassi's wife, and man she's hot.
I live in the Jayhawk Towers, and there's a sorority house across the street, the Pi Phi house, and there's some half-naked sorority girls laying on the roof in the shade. I don't know if they're trying to be cut, or they're actually trying to get a tan in the shade.
Whoever took the $272 out of my wallet Friday night, I really hope you're enjoying my rent money, and if you happen to see me pushing a cart on the street somewhere, just stop and say hi. Just let me know how it's going.
To all those people who are bashing Roy Williams, he said, "I'm staying" two years ago for us. Why don't we be loyal to him?
The five basketball stories for the last three months, what's the Kansan going to write about anymore?
After millions of years of human evolution you'd think we'd have the idea of right and wrong down pretty pat.
I was riding down K-10 today, and I was passed by a giant, yellow van with a sign on the back that said "This van is being operated by a blind individual." Does this bother anyone else?
The boys just got home, and I yelled "I love you," and they said they loved me to.
Oh my God, Becky - vote for Delta Force.
I want you in the worst way.
I'm the guy that was quoted as saying that I want to burn my final Four shirt. I was really mad at that time. I actually am the biggest KU fan in the world. Rock chalk, Jayhawk. Roy Williams is a classy guy.
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Pass:
Responsible Jayhawk fans. To everyone who took the basketball team's loss to Maryland in stride, thank you. Most students showed that Kansas is all about class, win or lose.
Closed football practices. Brilliant strategy, coach Mangino. It might help if opponents don't know ever team secret before the games. We can't figure out how Terry Allen never understood that.
KU Card Open Forum. Students had a chance last night to tell University officials what they really think about those not-so-smart KUID cards. Let's just hope the administration was paying attention and pays heed.
- Immature fans. Throwing temper tantrums, drunken driving and breaking things because the basketball team lost does not make one a better fan. It makes one a drunken, bumbling idiot.
Fail:
Student Senate debates. If Senate candidates want better turnouts at the debates, they should talk about issues students actually care about instead of University governance — yawn.
Resume Builders' election absence. With a platform that included a Trivial Pursuit match with the chancellor to bring back alcohol and a giant pink bunny, the spoof coalition was a refreshing addition to Student Senate elections in 2000. If only they hadn't left early for the pros...
PERSPECTIVE
Dating shows make people believe competition is the way to finding love
While in high school, I was one of those girls who would have "chicks' night out," which consisted of a bunch of girls going out and either ogling all of the guys at the mall, or ranting about all the girls who, though obviously inferior to ourselves, still managed to catch themselves some guys.
We dreamed one day we would have Prince Charming to hold us during the scary scenes of the movie in place of that jumbo box of Junior Mints. In a nutshell, we were rather pathetic.
Yet we never even thought about the idea of going on television and competing with three other girls for a guy's attention.
Enter Elmidate. If you haven't heard of the show, then you obviously haven't watched TV in the past couple of months. It's your usual blind date story, with a twist.
A group of people of the same sex compete for the undivided attention of one person of the opposite sex. In between shots of people pole dancing, lounging half naked in Jacuzzi's or making out, the competitors get to state their opinions of their opponents.
COMMENTARY
The last episode I watched involved one woman stripping down to her bikini, splashing icy water on her nipples and posing for her potential man.
The Fifth Wheel is a similar premise. Two couples are thrown together to see who gets along with whom, and after a day of bonding, a fifth person is thrown in to see if he or she can shake everything up. In the end, somebody is left alone with the new title of "loser."
Even Blind Date has gone beyond it's realm. I remember days of watching dating shows, where the guy showed up with flowers,
Laurel Anne Burchfield opinionkansan.com
and there was a sweet little kiss at the end of the night. The other day I saw an episode where the couple admitted after the date they were happy that it was just a one-night stand.
I hate to admit that I've seen enough little snippets of each of these shows to compose a full half hour. Yet, after no more than five minutes, I can't stand to watch these people make fools of themselves any longer.
I was raised to believe that love, marriage and happily ever after came to a girl who was patient, but still not afraid to go after she wanted. Yet nearly stripping on public television, making out with a guy just a second after another girl to see who is the better kisser or giving a lap dance on a first date were tactics this girl was never taught.
I never had a date go quite like the ones I've seen on these shows, but in no time I can imagine teen girls will feel that this is the way a date is supposed to be. As if dating wasn't hard enough on its own. Thank you *Elimidate* for cheapening today's society even further than we could have naturally done on our own.
Burchfield is a Baseer freshman in education and pre-journalism.
PERSPECTIVE
Student Senate spends cash,takes credit
Whenever someone from Student Senate tries to defend the little club by producing a laundry list of "accomplishments" for the student body, I reach for my wallet.
COMMENTARY
Because while Senate might fund a lot of initiatives that seem wonderful, it's important to remember that they are funded with your money.
For example, Kyle Browning, student body vice president, proudly noted that in the last year, Senateallocated money to more than 70 student organizations. These funds were drawn from your $17 per semester Student Senate Activity Fee.
Robert Chamberlain opinion@kansan.com
You were probably going to spend your $17 on something frivolous, such as food or electricity. Fortunately, because Senate was around to spend money on your behalf, you paid a small part of the $9,800 in honorariums for "Gender-Illusionist/Drag King" Dred, "openly gay male stand-up comic" Jason Stuart and the second-place
finisher in the "National Poetry Slam" Stacy Ann Chin, all of whom appeared in this year's Pride Week. Check the legislative archives on the Senate Web site. I couldn't make this up if I tried.
I'm annoyed that we collectively dropped $10,000 of student money on an event that may not have yielded $10,000 worth of enjoyment for the student body. One might wonder if selling tickets at the door could have covered the costs of the honorarium — and been more reflective of student preferences.
But, like all tax-and-spend institutions, Senate was convinced that it knew what you wanted better than you did.
The last gasp of ardent Senate politicos is that Senate provides some important services, like buses, child care and campus lighting. But even in its moment of triumph, Senate still couldn't get it right.
This was also the case with Senate's support of the Kansas University Athletic Corporation's Title IX expenses. Every semester you shell out $20 for the "Women's and NonRevenue Intercollegiate Sports Fee" and $2.25 on the "Sports Clubs" fee.
In order for the few students who were on these teams to live their dreams of intercollegiate competition, we all were taxed. Frankly, I can think of better ways to spend $45 than subsidizing someone else's hobby.
Keep in mind that the services that are designed to help the students that most need assistance to stay at KU are paid for through a
flat fee. Yet flat fees are regressive, meaning that they disproportionately impose a hardship on those least able to pay. So the costs of the services are most difficult to bear for the students who need the services the most!
Because it is stuck in its own paradox of self-importance, Senate is unwilling to admit that it cannot impose any kind of equitable tax scheme on the students. Primarily, this is because it isn't a true legislative body. It's a club.
So protest tuition increases all you want Senate, and congratulate yourselves for being such a valuable asset to the student body. But as long as you impose $214 in fees every semester, it seems to me that this is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
In the words of Ben Folds Five "Give me my money back, give me my money, you ..."
Chamberlain is a Topka senior in political science.