4A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2002
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rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
I'm in Norman, Okla., and I just wanted to say OU sucks. Oh yeah, and Mizzou sucks, too.
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
Happy birthday Katy. You rock Love all your friends from all your Web sites.
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
I would just like to say that I was driving home from Iowa on I-35 through Missouri, and I got a ticket for doing 81 in a 70. And I have come to conclude that because of this, Missouri sucks. Not only does Missouri suck, but all of Missouri sucks.
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
I was just wondering why socks that come to your ankles are ankle socks, and socks that come to your knees are knee socks, but socks that come in between aren't in-between socks?
I just wanna say thank you to the incredibly nice girl who followed me half a block in her car the other night to give me my KUID, which I had left at the ATM machine. People like you give me faith in the human race. Thank you.
The Chancellor's editorial yesterday in the UDKreminds me of the Saturday Night Live skit with Darrell Hammond and Will Ferrell playing Al Gore and George W. Bush. I so think, Chancellor, if you run for president in 2004, your one-word campaign slogan should be "wallet."
This is to the ignorant person who said that anyone against the war on terrorism must be soulless and in favor of human suffering. Know the facts: the U.S. bombing on Afghanistan killed more innocent civilians than the Sept. 11 events. I am against war because terrorism and killing of any kind is wrong, whether it is by a rival group or the U.S. government.
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I just wanted to say I feel so alienated now that everything is online and on computers. If it weren't for the Free for All and KU Info, I don't know how I'd survive on campus.
I just got out of the shower, and now I have to get dressed. I really love being naked, and I really hate having to put on clothes. This is by far the worst part of my day.
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rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
I just lost my remote and would like to know why they have not invented a clapper for the remote so we could find it when we needed it.
To all the gun-toting conservatives out there who are pushing perpetual war and expansion, I have one question. How can you sit there and watch the majority of the world's population suffer at the hands of a blood-thirsty, imperialistic regime day after day and not want to change things?
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If you had a soul, or even a scrap of empathy, you could not. You should be reborn as a migrant worker, a starving Somalian, or, God forbid, a poverty-stricken American, so others can ignore your suffering.
--rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
So I was walking home today and I heard this creepy noise. It was like a barking/hissing, and I was trying to figure out what it was, because it was coming from all around me. So figured out that it was the squirrels. The squirrels were barking. Does that creep anyone else out? Because it sure did me.
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
Carrot Top should stop doing the commercials on TV because he's a dirty devil dog of doom.
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
This is to the guy who says that his roommate always sets his number on prime numbers. Any number can be factored completely into primes, it's called the prime factorization, you idiot.
--rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
This is for the person who wrote that liberals are against the war on terrorism. We're not against the war on terrorism, we're against how your president is handling the war on terrorism.
People who call in and think they get tired of hearing how Mizouz sucks, they suck themselves. So, Mizouz still sucks, and why don't you give it a rest next time, huh?
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
Me and my four friends are just discovering that there exists a greek telephone directory. But there isn't a McCollim phone directory. Come on guys, let's do it.
Worst nightmare if you're living in the dorms; dyeing your hair red in a fire alarm.
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
Explain to me this; why is it that any boy, and I emphasize on any boy, looks extremely hot? It's one of those wonders that I haven't figured out but yet am so grateful for.
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
You know what I hate? I hate cartoons about ducks, because they always end up falling somewhere, like off cliffs, and they don't fly. They're ducks, they can fly. Why do they fail? I was just watching one about Donald Duck and he was falling and got an umbrella that kept him from falling and it was really stupid. So I think they should stop making cartoons about ducks that don't fly when they should. The end.
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
I just want to send a message to all the people who start decorating and stuff before Thanksgiving for Christmas. I just want to say that you've gotta respect the turkey and you shouldn't decorate until after Thanksgiving.
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I couldn't think of anything clever to say so
I'm just gonna diggle.
I'm watching ESPN. Kirk Hinrich is hot, even though my friends don't agree. He is hot, Damn!
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
I just wanted to say for the first time ever I played a drinking game and I swallowed a quarter while doing it. I'll never play a drinking game again. Also, the state of Kansas really sucks now, badly
Hooray for road construction around KU basketball time.
rey, Hemenway. If you're so concerned with budget cuts, you should stop constructing new buildings.
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I’m like, so drunk that Mizzou doesn’t even sack anymore
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STAYSKAL'S VIEW
Gene Stayskal/Knight Ridder
ON THE KANSAN ON-LINE
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Go to kansan.com and click on the opinion section to check out the weekly online poll. Click on forums to post to the discussion.
Opinion Forum
What do you think have been the funniest moments of 2002? What would you add to Eric Borja's list of most overrated events in 2002?
Opinion Poll
How much of an effort have you made to stay in contact with your childhood friends?
We see or at least talk to each other on a regular basis.
We see each other every so often.
I don't know.
PERSPECTIVES
Borja picks the proud, the few, the overrated things of 2002
As another year winds down and we all grow a little dumber and a little older, there will no doubt be a lot of year-ending lists that detail the highlights and lowlights of 2002.
I tried to think of a few poignant or less than-great moments, but I couldn't come up with any significant points. I did come up with a list of the most overrated happenings of 2002.
So, in no particular order, here is the list. Drum roll please.
COMMENTARY
People complained about how all the boy bands looked and sounded the same. You could also say the same about these "groundbreaking" bands who all have shaggy hair, wear vintage clothing and sound like the Buzzcocks with the volume turned all the way up.
1. Psuedo-garage-power punk bands such as The Strokes, The Hives, Phantom Planet, The White Stipes, The Vines, etc.
Eric Borja
opinion@kansan.com
We will also include Avril Lavigne here because girl punk music sucks, too.
Yes, masturbating is normal, going down on a woman is good, and having sex in public places is fun.
2. Sex columnists
We are older than 18, and sex isn't shocking or taboo anymore.
They are everywhere now. Please tell us something that *Playboy* or pornos did not teach us five years ago.
3. Cover charges at bars that don't feature live music
It cracks me up when a doorman asks me to pay $5 to get into his establishment to listen to Nelly, Jay-Z, P. Diddy and Eminem on repeat for three hours and have some meat head make me a crappy Long Island iced tea.
4. Fall break
Thanks for those two days in the middle of October.
The options are endless on what we can do with four days, especially when the break is during midterms and teachers assign work due before and after break.
I would rather have a full week during Thanksgiving or get out earlier for winter break.
5. South Wind 12 Theatres
Lawrence is home to the worst movie theater in the world.
The seats have no leg room, and I think the stadium seating was taken a little too seriously when the entrance to the theater was built in the middle of all the seating.
6. Helene from The Bachelor
My boy Aaron representing all the beau-hunks of Springfield, Mo., letdown all men across the nation when he picked the boring Helene instead of the stunning and sophisticated Brooke.
Plus, all guys know you go for the younger woman.
7. Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
Wow, a whole paragraph of notes just appeared on the screen in different fonts and with cool gun blast sound effects. That still won't prevent me from falling asleep in class.
8. American Idol
Kelly, Justin, Paula ... where are you now?
9. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
I feel like I am in the relationship as well because I see every one of their sexual encounters when I check out at the grocery store.
10. The negative effects of Jackass:The Movie and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
That we have to warn people not to stick toy cars up their rectums or to rape and kill hookers in Miami means our society can't get any dumber. And who said being dumb was bad anyway?
Borja is a Springfield, Mo. senior in journal-sim.
Don't forget where you came from, whether big or small
I don't like country music. I haven't for quite some time.I tend to think the country songs I have heard are heevs.
But over the last couple weeks I have become familiar with a song by Montgomery Gentry called "My Town". Yes, the song does have some cheesy lines, but it also conjures up emotions in me.
cheesy.
With the Thanksgiving break just two days behind us, I couldn't help but address something that I feel is important for all of us to remember — where we come from.
The song is about the singers' home towns, "where I was born, where I was raised, where I spent all my yesterday."
know I come from a small town in Kansas that hugs the Colorado and Oklahoma borders. It is out in the boonies, a place of cornfields and cows.
Small towns have a unique atmosphere quite different from larger towns. If you break your arm, in a small town, everyone in town will know about it in five minutes. But despite the different environments, there is really no difference between my hometown and that of anyone else. No matter what or where your hometown is it is a part of you.
Those who have read my columns
GUEST COMMENTARY
The song by Montgomery Gentry refers to the characteristics of a small town.
Mandy German
opinion@kansan.com
I am sure many of you were, like me, a high school senior eager to get away from home. My hometown consists of about
one square mile, and though most students are from much larger towns, I am sure the prospect of coming to KU was exciting for all prospective students regardless of the size of their hometown.
Not everyone experienced the same shock I did on the first day of classes. When I walked into my first class and realized there were more people there than were in my entire high school, I was a little scared. But I bet nearly everyone was scared on their first day, too.
One of the reasons I chose to come to the University of Kansas over Kansas State University was that I knew I would have a better chance to make friends from places like Chicago or St. Louis.
Growing up in western Kansas has shaped me into who I am.
I have met many people who grew up in bigger cities, and understanding their backgrounds has made me a more well-rounded person. But when it comes down to it, I am still just a girl from the boonies.
So, as I spent this past week in "My town", the place "where I was raised,
where I spent all my yesterdays", I was happy to be from a place where people know who I am, where I go to school and care about where I end up.
And I am happy that people in my hometown think strategic communications is a good major for me because they know me well enough to know my strengths.
You may not be from a small town like I am; you may be like one of my friends from a large city. But whether you are from Johnson, Kansas or Chicago, the town you grew up in is part of who you are and it will always be your town.
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German is a Johnson senior in strategic communications.