TUESDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2002
4A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
THE INVERSE DAILY PAIRS NO. 1
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2002
Jay Krah
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I沃斯 just letting you know, I bought the katchup. If anyone cares.
love bread a lot.
Free for All, I think I love you
Well, well, well, well. KJHK just had a public service announcement recommending that everyone go to the library and get a dictionary. Aw, man, they've hit an all-time low.
For the girls who sit in section eight at Mrs. E's, you guys are so loud. When someone outside can hear what you're telling someone right next to you, you're talking too loud. The rest of the cafeteria doesn't care what pants make your butt look big, so please spare us.
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So I'm on campus walking toward the Union, and I've already seen two people wearing Michigan State sweatshirts. Where are we? This is Kansas, people. Go Jayhawks.
listens to NPR
The current political cartoons in the Kansan don't say anything about anything. They just prove that the artist sometimes reads the Kansan and maybe
A wise man once told me that what separates men from primates is the ability to make music.
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I was just down in the laundry room in McCollum and I saw a girl handwashing her bra with a toothbrush, and I was just wondering what a girl could do to her bra that she would need to handwash it with a toothbrush.
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I love bread.
love bread muchos grande.
Girls don't poop. What's this everybody
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I am afraid you underestimate the power of my smallness.
This is a trick question. Railroad crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that without any Rs? Think about it.
I'm in the middle of freaking Iowa. There's not one car for miles around and for some reason, the speed limit is still 65 miles per hour. If you're from Iowa, you suck because the speed limit is 65 and it's going to take me a hundred hours to get
home.
I was just wondering if anybody out there knew if electric companies had to pay electric bills because I don't understand that. Where does that come from?
Can I call it sexually frustrated when my horoscope tells me that I need to get my rocks off?
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I just saw a squirrel fall out of a tree. How dumb does a squirrel have to be to fall out of a tree?
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The KU phone book is larger than the Lawrence phone book. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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I just wanted to say that I just looked through like, a dozen rooms in Fraser, and none of them have a pencil sharpener. So I guess I can't take my sociology test today. I don't know, do you think my professor will buy that?
forums to post to the discussion.
I was just wondering if anyone had tried the new automated switch board. Try saying a funny name. It comes up with funny results. It's great amusement.
Memo to Kansas: bring back fall, you
grind whid.
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You know, now I understand why people don't roll their own cigarettes. It's really hard and messy.
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Did you know that it is physically impossible to lick your elbow? Go ahead, try it. It is physically impossible.
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I wanted to let everyone in a fraternity and sorority know that if you don't want to be known as exclusive, maybe you shouldn't have a horrible fee people have to pay to be in the fraternity or sorority, because that is pretty exclusive.
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I know you all just tried to lick your elbow,
and you couldn't do it. Ya know why?
Because it is physically impossible.
I have a roommate who is in a firearms class, and she hung her target thing up on the fridge, and there's about 10 holes in the number eight spot, which is pretty damn close to the bullseye. So I think I'll be doing the dishes from now on.
forums to post to the discussion.
I think a booger fell in my cereal.
Is it said if I have the Free for All number memorized?
forums to post to the discussion.
Attention owl snatchers. This is an all-out plea. I really want my stuffed owl back. I can't believe you stole it. He was my friend. I miss him. Please return the owl.
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I just realized how much of a loser I am because I spend way too much money on my truck. I drive a black Ford Ranger, tinted windows, full mastery exhaust system, whited out lights, all for nothing. Thank you, I'm a loser.
It's cold, and it's wet, and it's rainy, and I don't have a ride. And I just wish someone would pick me up and give me a ride, because it's cold.
I just wanna say that the University of Kansas telephone directory blows ass, because none of the numbers or addresses are right.
Why do I always drive five miles under the speed limit when I'm stoned?
I must, I must, I must increase my bust.
How come guys I like don't hit on me?
How come I just get the obsessive ugly people?
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GRITZKE'S VIEW
I'm waking up in an alley with a hangover. There is a headcone on my head and I can't remember how I got here... definition of a GOOD weekend.
Kevit Gritzke/Kansan
ON THE KANSAN ON LINE
kansan.com
Go to kansan.com and click on the opinion section to check out the weekly online poll. Click on
Opinion Forum
What will you be doing during your time off this week?
Opinion Poll
Should teachers give tests the Tuesday before Thanksgiving?
Last Week's Poll
Yes, we are here for school and teachers have the right to determine the test schedule.
No, students should be able to leave Lawrence early to travel home.
If they want to give a test, do it the week before.
out of the way, 64 percent thought pedestrians were much smaller than cars and cars need to keep an eye out for them, and 4 percent did not know.
I don't know.
PERSPECTIVES
Roles will differ as men march in Womyn Take Back Night
If you have ever walked down Massachusetts Street and seen about 200 women marching together, chant-
GUEST COMMENTARY
1. women marching together, chanting, "Yes means yes and no means no, whatever I wear, wherever I go!" you were probably witnessing the Womyn Take Back the Night march.
Take Back the Night is a protest against sexual and domestic violence and the oppression of women.
Lea Carland
opinion@kansan.com
The KU Womyn's Empowerment Action Coalition, or WEAC, sponsors Lawrence's march, which began 15 years ago and has been a community tradition ever since.
For many years, an ongoing discourse has surrounded men's involvement in the event. Lawrence's march has always included men and women grouped together during the rally and the closing, where demands are read. But speakout circles are divided into a women's and a men's circle, and the march downtown has only included women, transexual and intersexual folks.
After much deliberation and input, WEAC has decided to stick to some traditions and make changes as well.
As always, the pre-march rally will be open to people of all genders, but the speakout circles will remain separate. Transexuals and intersexuals are welcome at either circle, whichever would be more comfortable.
WEAC envisions a world where all genders share complete equality and separate circles are unnecessary.
WEAC recognizes that we do not live in that world yet; we live in a world where women and transsexuals are disproportionately the victims of sexual and domestic violence at the hands of men and are oppressed by a patriarchal society.
Because of this, it feels unsafe and threatening for many women to speak out about their experiences in front of men. The men's circle is also a unique opportunity for men to share with one another freely — something that rarely happens.
Men will be marching downtown for the first time, but their role will be different from that of women.
The march on Massachusetts Street is symbolic — it is empowering for women and transexuals who are routinely afraid of walking at night to march together screaming out chants and feeling safe.
Hearing the chanting of about 200 women is empowering for many people because women's voices are silenced time and time again.
WEAC did not want to lose the symbolism of the march, yet it wanted to make a place for men who support ending the violence and oppression against women.
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The conclusion is that men will walk together in silence behind the women. This arrangement will make a statement that there are men who support women enough to stand silently behind them so that the women can be seen, and their voices be heard.
The Womyn Take Back the Night march is an opportunity for the whole community to come together to speak out against violence, hate and inequality.
For one night survivors can feel safe in their bodies. Men can feel safe showing emotions in front of other men and women, transexuals and intersexuals can feel safe on the street at night.
Womyn Take Back the Night will be held in April this year in honor of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
If you would like to help organize the Womyn Take Back the Night march, please contact WEAC at ku_weac@hotmail.com.
Carland is a Lawrence senior in women's studies. She is a member of WEAC.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Swear words not welcome
I tried to hold off on this, but in talking with others I realize the problem is not with me. It is with the Kansan
Dropping the f-bomb on the front page, or any page for that matter, is right out.
Your poor use of language in Thursday's "Sliding off the edge" reflects poor reporting, poorer editing, lousy news judgment and the basest of shock-jock mentality.
I've talked with sailors and farm folk who've been known to use salty language, and they, too, are shocked by the depth to which The University Daily Kansan has sunk.
The story was simply a vain attempt to gain personal honorotey and build a clips file. A panel of judges
haven't—can you then take liberties with story choice, structure and tone.
Instead, under the guise of trying to write stories more appealing to students, you splatter your pages with gratuitous use of foul language.
The Kansan must return to its core of news reporting. After you as a collective group have mastered that — and you
It shows total disregard for the sensitivity of all readers.
I suspect some readers weren't offended, but I'm more than certain many others were.
Don't try to hide behind the argument "We're just trying to educate our readers to the realities of the world around them."
Instead, educate yourselves and challenge yourselves to do your job without taking the easy way out.
You can always report the story accurately and colorfully without resorting to use of the foulest language ... that is if you're not too lazy to try.
I demand better.
Jill Hummels
Contradictory 'Report Card'
Public Relations Director of Engineering
When reading The University Daily Kansan on Nov. 8, I had to shake my head in amazement once again at the contradictory nature of the Kansan Report Card.
The Report Card passed increased voter registration and credited the Student Legislative Awareness Board and other groups with that increase.
However, on Oct. 11, the Report Cart failed the Save Johnson campaign.
To me, this is a blatant contradiction. Save Johnson was the SLAB initiative that caused the 70 percent increase in voter registration.
Want more evidence?
The Report Card damns the campaign
prior to the election and praises the result of the campaign after the election.
On Sept. 27, the Report Card failed the passing of the Senate blood drive bill. On Oct. 4 the Report Card passed a record blood donation.
Again, the extreme contradiction appalls me. To fail the action but praise the result is ridiculous.
In both of these cases, the outcomes of the projects would have been dramatically different without the actions taken by SLAB and Student Senate
While the Report Card might not have agreed with the action, clearly, in these cases, Senate positively influenced voter turnout and blood donation. Those are both worthy causes. I beg of the Report Card to stop slamming initiatives that can benefit students, the Lawrence community and the state of Kansas.
Also, students should be aware that the opinions of the Report Card come from only one person, and rarely is there enough information included in the Report Card to allow readers to form their own opinions.
Why isn't the Report Card generated by the editorial board or a group of staff members from the Kansan? The Report Card creates misperceptions and limited perspectives from only one source, yet is entitled the Kansan's Report Card.
Advice to students; Read the Report Card to determine the opinion of one person; read other sources to develop your own opinion.
Kyle Johnson Wichita junior in engineering Student Senator