A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2002
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Free for All
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callers have 20 seconds to speak about any topic they wish. Kansan editors reserve the right to omit comments. Slanderous and obscene statements will not be printed. Phone numbers of all incoming calls are recorded.
I always think about what my theme music would be if I were in a movie. If George Bush were in a movie, it would be circus music.
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broken. You saved my night, and you're the nicest guys I've met thus far. Thanks.
Just so all the people in the greek community understand, the greek system is not mainstream. You don't know everything you think you know.
broken. You saved my night, and you're the nicest guys I've met thus far. Thanks.
I think that I speak for the majority of the people who dine at Mrs. E's when I say that I do not appreciate the dinner time singing that went on yesterday. It hurt my ears and disturbed the conversation with the people at my table. I suggest that you all get singing lessons or stop, preferably stop.
broken. You saved my night, and you're the nicest guys I've met thus far. Thanks.
I was in Budig Hall the other day, and I lost my diamond pendant, it's a cross, off of my necklace. And if anyone finds it, could they please, please, please take it to the Budig Hall lost and found so that I could have it back? It's very important to me.
broken. You saved my night, and you're the nicest guys I've met thus far. Thanks.
Thank you to all the frat boys that showed up in our front lawn naked. Good job, guys. Woooow.
broken. You saved my night, and you're the nicest guys I've met thus far. Thanks.
broken. You saved my night, and you're the nicest guys I've met thus far. Thanks.
I'm having a beer right now. And black leather is out, and tan suede is in. Rock Chalk Jayhawk.
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My friend and I are in Manhattan right now, and we're kind of hung over. But we still realize that Manhattan sucks, and KU is sooo much better than K-State. Go KU.
I just called KU Info, and they are closed,
and I'm dying to know how many air vents
are on campus. Emergency, emergency
You know what I want in a girl? Me
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OK, here's the deal. My roommate and I have some bones to pick with you gentlemen at KU. We had a great weekend with a couple of nice, hot guys who said they'd call us, and they haven't. My question is, why do guys say they'll call when they know they won't? We can handle the truth. If you don't want to call us, don't tell us you will. Just some advice from some sexy ladies who want some sugar.
To the guys in the theater lobby who helped me get my car out of the garage because the change machine was
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Dude, we're chilling in McCollum dorm, and we're wondering if you have to dial 8 before you dial 911. It's a really tough question, and no one seems to know the answer.
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In response to the Free for All today, if you're going to get up to get the call in, then get up to go to class.
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I'd like to congratulate the Kansan for the bang-up job they did, scooping the Lawrence Journal-World on the full front page "Students forced to work out inside when it gets cold" article. And the part about slipping when it's ice out? Brilliant.
This is to all the liberals and hippies who don't want the war in Iraq. I have one thing to say to you: yay for liberals and hippies;
You think it's possible to find the love of your life on a Wednesday afternoon in Bailey Hall?
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I don't know what happened last night, but I woke up with gum in my pubic hair
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If anybody lost their driver's license outside of Haworth, I put it in the biology office, which is 2045 Haworth. Just so ya know.
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Hey ladies, want to accompany me to the KFC down on 23rd and try their new $2.99 breast meal?
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My roommate complains that my microwave isn't any good and it's sparking at her, but she just spilled her macaroni and cheese all over the floor when she was trying to stir it. I don't really think that I have to listen to her opinion.
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The timetables are online, the class enrollment sheet things are online. Can you guess where we go to enroll? You guessed it, Strong Hall.
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My fish Marjorie has a fungus on her mouth. So if anyone has any reScommandations how to get the fungus off of her mouth, I would greatly appreciate it.
Mullet-man, mullet-man, does the things that a mullet-man can. He eats burritos, and he drinks his beer. You can't get near him, 'cause he hasn't showered all year. Mullet-man.
This is to my girlfriend. Stop going out with my best friend, please.
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Can you hear me now?
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If we were all penguins; would God live underwater?
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WHITE'S VIEW
Monica Whitn/Kansan
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 Poll Who should be the next Kansas governor? Kathleen Sebellus
Opinion Forum
How important is voting? Do you think everyone should vote or only those who are informed about candidates and issues?
Tim Shallenburger
I don't know who should be governor.
I am not voting this election.
Out of 93 votes, 78 percent thought credit card solicitors take advantage of the financial vulnerability of college students and should be banned from campus; 18 percent thought they should not be banned because college students should be responsible and 3 percent didn't know whether credit cards solicitors should be banned from campus.
PERSPECTIVE
Weddings strike fear in heart of would-be college bachelor
Nothing makes me happier than watching a baby seal get clubbed.
COMMENTARY
Just kidding. I won't go there for another month, if you guys are lucky.
Actually, I've been kind of freaked out lately because a lot of my old high school friends and people my age are getting married.
I remember back in the day when marriage seemed like such a foreign concept and when it was "freaky" when someone got married.
Eric Borja
opinion@hansan.com
Now, we seniors are 21 or 22 and marriage is becoming more of a reality.
At family gatherings and weddings, the question "are you dating anyone?" seems to carry a bit more weight and seriousness.
Then, inevitably, when you tell them you are single it is followed with "oh you've got plenty of time" and "there are plenty of fish in the sea" when in fact they are really thinking what a freak you are for being 21 and single.
But although I wish young, engaged couples nothing but the best, I am secretly skeptical of those who marry young or right out of college.
Call me old fashioned but I am more in the get-settled-get-a-job-get-money-and-get-some-perspective-before-you-get-married train of thought.
In today's culture, making a marriage
work is so much more difficult. Not only do you have to deal with the difficulties of being tied to one person, but you also have to deal with more expensive living, more turbulent and violent times and fitting into the image of an ideal parental unit.
I just assume that people getting married so young are just making rash decisions and often they are going to get divorced.
With so many divorces and public figures having affairs, the state of marriage isn't really as sacred as it used to be.
Take The Bachelor for instance.
The only good thing that comes from the show is that the guy is from the beauhunk capital of the world. Springfield, Mo. The show totally trivializes love and marriage and makes it a competition.
How can any of the girls truly think that they are falling in love with the bachelor? He made out with a girl on a beach
the day after he made out with another girl on the top of the mountain and he tells each girl, with a straight face, that he is falling for them.
When you talk about marriage it inevitably leads to questions. Do you believe in love at first sight? Do you believe there is one single person out there who is meant for you?
If either of those were true, Britney Spears would've returned one of the 400 letters I have sent her with my cologne sprayed on it.
But what's more disappointing is that I haven't fulfilled my one goal in college; to get my M.R. degree.
I am not afraid to admit it. I was hoping to find that overachieving pre-med or business-school scholar girl who would live a prosperous life and let me tagalong for the ride, spending her money, taking care of the children, cleaning up the house, and having dinner ready whenever she would come home from a long day at work.
That girl who is the magical mix of Elisabeth Shue from The Karate Kid and Cameron Diaz from There's Something About Mary.
Until I find that perfect lady I will have to keep writing Britney.
Borja is a Springfield, Mo., senior in journalism.
SUVs threaten the environment, safety on the road
I'm sure you've heard this before so I won't elaborate. Rather, I wish to raise another point: safety.
I am not the first to raise concerns about sport utility vehicles. Their voracious gasoline consumption drives up demand and cost of gas for everyone and furthers our dependence on foreign oil. That subsequently acts as a catalyst for war in the Middle East.
An SUV seems safer than a car because it is big enough not to get smashed or tossed around easily. That is not the case.
SUVs are unsafe for drivers and passengers because they roll over more easily in a crash.
Traffic Safety Administration shows that more than half of SUV accident deaths involve roll-overs, compared to 19% for normal cars.
Also, SUVs are considered light trucks, and as such their manufacturers are not bound by such stringent side-impact safety and bumper strength laws as passenger cars.
According to the Web site www.suv.org a study done by the National Highway
Sam Lane
opinion@hansan.com
Moreover, SUVs are an unnecessary burden to everyone else on the road.
GUEST COMMENTARY
Their greater weight makes them battering rams on wheels when they collide with something or someone, and their added height allows them to plow right over most parts of a car that would normally absorb collision forces.
Passengers in a car struck from the side
are 27 times more likely to die if the vehicle that hits them is an SUV, said an April 1998 article in The Los Angeles Times.
Also, SUVs impair visibility. It is harder for a car driver to see oncoming traffic when an SUV is in front of them, and when stopped at an intersection with an SUV in the left lane, it is nearly impossible to see
SUVs are an unnecessary danger to everyone else on the road.
traffic from the left without pulling into the intersection.
To that driver, their low-beams are as bright as most cars' high-beams. As a Saferide driver, I can attest to all of these, but the last one is especially irritating. It
Because of their high ground clearance, the headlights of an SUV are mounted at about the same level as the side mirrors of most cars, so their headlights are aimed directly into the eyes of the driver in the car ahead of them.
By choosing to drive an SUV, a person must be willing to take on the responsibility of handling one of the most lethal classes of machines on the road, and they must be willing to take extra care driving to offset the increased risks.
does not help anyone when 1. In my little Saferide Ford Escort, am nearly blinded by the spotlights of the suburban assault vehicle tailgating me.
To that end, I ask the police to be particularly vigilant in ticketing SUVs for moving violations, and I ask anyone considering buying an SUV to accept the responsibility of having lives in their hands and drive extremely carefully.
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Lane is a Leavenworth senior in psychology.