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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17,2014
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TBH the world would be better off with more Marxists and feminists.
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Kudos to the guy tapping in the Underground.
I walked past a sorority girl clearly heading back from a one night stand. She smelled like pumpkin spice and regret.
I totally agree with the article about the education system in Kansas! Sam Brownback won because there was a third party candidate that split the vote, and now Kansas will suffer for a long time to come.
I support equality, not feminism.
The difference: men are equal to women, not to whale poo.
Is this weekend too early to put up the Christmas decor? #noshame
Ugh there are too many people at the underground now so I can't eat the cheese paper from my breakfast sandwich without criticism.
Let's be real, there's always at least one bird in Budig.
Engineering kids love Shasta.
invest in a spill-proof coffee mug and never throw away coffee on the bus again!
The notification box on Blackboard for class messages is like the voicemail icon on my phone. If it doesn't go away I'll flip.
You'll look at it on a year-by-year basis. KU Athletics? Balderdash.
I feel like I did my good deed taking those girls in blankets home, after they jumped in front of my moving car.
Can Student Senate do something about the 43 red bus route on daisy hill? I'm not fond of it. Why does it still go up Irving hill when the new Engel Road is done. Let's use it.
The real reason I hate winter:
people get runny noses and refuse
to blow them! *Sniff* *sniff*
Just blow your nose!!!
Watching Jenna Marbles videos at the dining hall was a bad idea. The dirty looks as I'm laugh/crying are worth it though.
Today is a perfect day to hop on the scooter and let the wind blow my golden locks about, like wild flames reaching to the heavens.
"Like butter and salt, too much of a good thing can be bad." This prof gets my life.
Chanting "overrated" is an insult to your own team. Stop.
KU Catering needs to have more options
A catering order for six gallons of juice through KU Residential Dining costs $33. Another six pounds of pretzels cost $12, and two pounds of mixed nuts cost $16, which excludes a delivery fee. The delivery does, however, include the cambro (the large multi-gallon containers with pour spouts), cups and compostable bowls.
These items were recently ordered for a program hosted on campus for the student population. If you were not aware, any event held on the KU campus with food must be ordered through KU Catering. There are a few exceptions with outdoor grilling and Pizza Shuttle, but for the most part, if you host an on-campus event and order food through another service, you violate a campus rule. Anyone who attends a SILC workshop will soon learn these facts, along with other things on about leading student organizations.
As someone who has ordered through KU Catering
before, I initially felt peeved by the prices. But after further research, KU Catering's prices are on par with other catering services. KU Catering buys in bulk and uses this to its advantage when fulfilling catering requests just as other organizations do. So, being upset over the price list is futile.
Instead, we should be peeved that KU Catering forces itself on campus as a monopoly. If it has the best options, prices and location, then why wouldn't it be the natural choice? It should not have to mandate themselves on all meals if this were true.
But alas, this is not the case.
Even when the engineering school orders pizza for their numerous events, it is done through KU Catering. While the Union or KU employees do not make the pizzas ordered for the events, the food still must be ordered through KU Catering's service. This seems absurd.
KU Catering claims a monopoly because it can, and it protects consumers from falling ill to an untested catering service. But this really limits our options and freedom of choice. KU Catering will not always have what I desire to feed people. For example, candy bars fall under this exception.
Additionally, KU Catering does not offer very specific items, because it is unable to attain them through its suppliers. This means if I want to have real fruit juice popsicles, then I am out of luck. Only the artificial, high sugar content options are available.
Instead of being annoyed by KU Catering's prices, we should be annoyed by the lack of a full range of options and how we cannot veer outside their realm.
Anrenee Reasor is a senior from Thayer studying East Asian languages and cultures and economics
Protesting commencement speakers is wrong
its safe to say a college commencement ceremony is one of the biggest moments in a young person's life. After more than a decade's worth of schooling, it's finally time to graduate and start life. The University of Kansas has a gorgeous commencement ceremony tradition where students get to walk through the Campanile, down the hill and into the football stadium. Unfortunately, another tradition is on the rise, nationally, when it comes to commencement ceremonies:
If you've read the news lately or follow Bill Maher, you know Maher's invitation to speak at Berkley's December graduation ceremony is being protested. His comments about Islam in an exchange with Ben Affleck caused the students to protest.
protesting and disinviting commencement speakers. This problem needs to stop before it spreads to more universities.
But Maher is nowhere near being the first commencement speaker to be protested this past year. Rutgers University, Smith College and Haverford College students protested to the point that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund and physicist Robert J. Birgeneau
respectively withdrew. Brandeis University, Azusa Pacific University, Pasadena City College and the University of California, Irvine, respectively withdrew invitations to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Charles Murray, Dustin Lance Black and Nonie Darwish. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reported that from 2009-11, students made 27 attempts to disinvite commencement speakers, and since 2012, 42 attempts have been made.
It's apparent this trend is growing and it needs to stop. One such reason is that protesting commencement speakers infringes upon the right to freedom of speech and the idea that universities are supposed to be open to all ideas. Universities should
be places where ideas can be shared and debated — not where students veto or protest speakers because they believe in a different ideology. It says something about this problem when former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg commented and lectured Harvard students during their commencement about the wrongs of suppressing different opinions.
Speakers are entitled to their own beliefs. They do not represent the university, nor do they represent the student body. If you don't like what they say, then don't listen or debate with them in a respectable manner later on, but do not heckle them.
It's an honor to have a high-profile speaker for commencement, regardless of their beliefs. As a Republican,
I would not protest at all if President Obama, Hilary Clinton or Senator Harry Reid spoke at my commencement ceremony this spring. The fact that they would even be there is special, and it opens someone up to different viewpoints, perspectives and ideas.
Protesting to the point where a commencement speaker can't even do the job they were asked to do suppresses ideas and opinions, which, in turn, defeats the purpose of going to a university altogether. Ideas are meant to be exchanged on campus and not silenced because they're different.
Adam Timmerman is a senior from Sioux Falls, S.D., studying environmental studies
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@KansanOpinion no. You may not agree with the speaker, but that day is special to a lot of students and is their final moment.
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