4A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2002
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--is it just me, or does anyone else's water here in Lawrence taste like tea?
So I'm sitting at the Jet Lag right now, and Eric Borja is right down the bar from me. And for some reason I'm just like, really attracted to him, and I mean like REALLY attracted: Free for All, shut me up.
This is to the guy that said Nickelback sucks. Just because they had one song that was overplayed, that doesn't make them a bad band. So you know something? You suck.
Matt Fisher
sales and marketing adviser
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is it just me, or does anyone else's water here in Lawrence taste like tea?
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You know when you go to bed at 4:30 in the morning and wake up at 10:30 that you're still gonna be drunk, but the worst is to you hear about what you did the night before, especially when it turns out to be kissing your crush's arm. Don't ask why I did it. So if he's listening, you're hot, but I didn't mean to kiss your arm.
I just wanna tell my roommate that her cool cabinets she's painting are cool. I want to congratulate her, because she's working on them so hard, and they're so pretty. They've got sums and moons and stars on them, and I love them. Oh my God, they're great.
--is it just me, or does anyone else's water here in Lawrence taste like tea?
Matthew McConaughey look-alike guy, I don't know if you know who you are, but I know who you are, and I love you.
--is it just me, or does anyone else's water here in Lawrence taste like tea?
is it just me, or does anyone else's water here in Lawrence taste like tea?
Before I came to school, I thought I'd seen some nice faux pas. But once I got here, I noticed that this place was the faux pas capital of the world. Peace.
is it just me, or does anyone else's water here in Lawrence taste like tea?
Friends don't let friends drink and take home ugly men.
KU is so cheap they can't even give us free refills in the Market in the Kansas Union.
is it just me, or does anyone else's water here in Lawrence taste like tea?
is it just me, or does anyone else's water here in Lawrence taste like tea?
I just wanna say thank God that they found that sniper, and everybody can relax now, and I just wanna pray for all the families that lost loved ones.
Yes, I tried it once in the 80's, but I didn't enjoy it.
is it just me, or does anyone else's water here in Lawrence taste like tea?
To the guys that were giving out hot chocolate on Wescoe, thanks so much, we love you.
Alright, my life sucks. When I get home from a night of drinking, my roommate gets to go home and have sex with his
girlfriend. I drunk-dial the Free for All
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
So I was just walking back from my history class, and there was this guy on a bike and he was holding on to one of the buses and getting a free ride. And I was just calling to say what a cool guy he was
For that stupid girl or whoever that called in saying people shouldn't hate the greek system because it is mainstream. Since when is the greek system mainstream? I believe there is a much larger percentage of GDI's than greks on campus.
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
Was I dreaming, or did I really spend thirty minutes sitting in my car last night at 3:30 in the morning waiting for the fire drill to clear? That's all I wanna know.
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
I just saw an ad in Home Depot, where you can trade in your tools and get ten percent back. I wonder if I could trade in my roommate and get ten percent back on him and then I could buy a drill or something. That'd be real cool.
A diddley-doo, a diddley-doo, I have sausage on my shoe.
--tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
I think I might be a little bit drunk.
I just found out that it takes 670 licks to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop.
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
Audrey Snyder quoted Ayn Rand. She's my hero.
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
I hope Audrey Snyder takes her own advice and stays home on election day.
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
My roommate and I are looking for two hot guys who aren't jerks to come hook it up in our room. So if you want us, you'll find us, because we're not gonna leave our number. So, yeah, we'll see you around, or in our beds.
My haiku for Brett. Wake up around three.
Watches TV 'til dawn. Whoa, is he lazy.
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
My roommate's poem for Brett. Roses are red, violets are blue. Brett is freaking lazy, and failing games, too.
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I've got some friends who need an exact definition of the word bootylicious. So if some other people could help us out and explain it to them, that'd be a great help.
I hope you all realize that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
--tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
This is to the guy in my algebra class who keeps hacking out a lung every day. I just have one word for you: Watkins.
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
Hey Kansan, what the heck is up with the snowflakes on the front page? Stop teasing. It's not even snowing yet.
I woke up this morning, and my girlfriend woke "Would you like Toaster Strudel, or sex?" And I said "Sex please."
I need to do laundry. I ran out of clean underwear and I'm wearing swimsuit bottoms today.
This one goes out to Emo Mark. Hey Mark.
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
tion a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
STAYSKALS VIEW
BY THE NUMBERS
1923 Year in which Corbin Hall was built.
1965 Year in which McCollum Hall was built.
99,300 Amount of gross square feet in Corbin Hall.
222,707
Amount of gross square feet in McColum Hall.
2000
Year in which Margaret Amini Scholarship Hall, Child Care Facility, and Parking Garage No. 2, the newest buildings on campus, were built.
1894
Year in which Spooner Hall, the oldest building on campus, was built.
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning:
PERSPECTIVES
KU beats rival where it counts in academics and partying
A after a weekend of a purple haze, I began to become reflective of the KU/K-State rivalry.
You see in my hometown of Johnson, Kan., located in the southwest part of the state, it is a rarity for someone to not bleed purple. Out of my graduating class of 38, six of my classmates chose to go to Silo Tech, and more have arrived since. I was the only one to take the higher road and go to KU.
COMMENTARY
I thought when I graduated this would just create some friendly banter between friends, but after receiving numerous phone calls year after year with sounds of the K-State fight song playing on the other line. I am taking a stand.
Mandy German
opinion@kansan.com
I have to admit that arguing about whose school is superior has never been easy for me during football season. Even when basketball season comes and I remind them that K-State has never beat KU in Bramlage Coliseum, I am still faced with that inevitable call in March followed by a choking sound.
KU and K-State were both ranked by
To my fellow Jayhawks who have remained friends with those who live for Willie the Wildcat, it is time we take this battle away from ESPN highlights and back to where it really counts, partying and academics.
U. S. News and World Report in several categories this year to determine where they stand nationally compared to other colleges Our Business school ranked 28th out of 95 schools and our Engineering school ranked 36th out of 78 schools.
What about K-State? Their same respective schools weren't ranked in the top 50 like ours were.
Then of course comes the most important ranking of all.
Playboy ranked KU ninth on the list of best party schools in the nation. Now I know that this ranking upset many of you, but you have to understand that anytime we can point out something we do better than K-State we should be happy.
I would also like to take this opportunity to point out to my K-State friends that you have told me on more than one occasion how much you like Lawrence.
I would also like to point out that my K-State friends as, I am sure some of your K-State friends drove up to Lawrence to watch KU take on Maryland in the Final Four last season.
Why? Because they are closet fans or at least that is my theory.
But, you see I am above pointing out the true colors of K-State.
Like their football team's preseason schedule full of tough opponents like Louisiana- Monroe and Eastern Illinois (and they wonder why they don't go to better bowl games).
I am above pointing out that according to the Topeka Capital Journal online site, K-State's basketball team hasn't beat KU anywhere since 1994 when most of my friends were in the seventh grade.
Yet, it is my obligation in the spirit of the Jayhawk to point out that I go to a higher academically ranked school and the student body I am a part of parties better than most of the nation.
However, if my phone happens to dial a few of my K-State friends around basketball season and a few people I am around just happen to be saying the Rock Chalk Chant there is nothing I can do about it.
German is a Johnson senior in journalism.
Forget Ayn Rand: voting is a duty according to dictionary
On Oct 29, Audrey Snyder wrote in her column that Ayn Rand defined a duty as "the moral necessity to perform certain actions for no reason other than obedience to some higher authority."
Merrigan-Webster's 10th New Collegiate Dictionary defines duty as: 2a : obligatory tasks, conduct, service, or functions that arise from one's position (as in life or in a group)
I don't know about you, but I'll trust good old M-Wover Amy Rand any day.
The notion that it's quite alright not to vote if you don't know the issues is as ludicrous as using a modern novelist to define a timeless English word.
Let's look at Merriam.Webster's definition a bit more closely. Obligatory is defined as "binding in law or conscience."
Now, one is never forced to vote by law, but one's conscience and national pride should motivate one to vote.
Voting is one of our most precious rights. Voting is the only way to make our politicians listen to us.
As for one's position, we're Americans with many freedoms. Our position is one of being citizens of a great nation that allows its citizens to choose its leaders; our position in and of itself should be enough motivation to utilize the system.
Americans do have a duty to their conscience to vote in all elections. And along with that duty is the duty to be informed on candidates' plans and platforms.
GUEST COMMENTARY
Patrick Ross opinion@kansan.com
Every student here at the University of Kansas has access to the Internet. Every candidate that is running for any kind of office these days has a web site that will inform a potential voter about the candidate's proposed policies and ideas about current issues.
Our tuition at this very institution was
raised because the state and legislature did not have money to allocate because of the budget shortfall. Informed voting may have prevented that. Almost everyone complains about the tuition increases and the general consensus seems to be that it's too late to do anything about it. Voting can change what we don't like about this city, state and country.
Even still, if lines can make you run screaming from your societal privileges, the advance voting ballot is your new best
If you think it's inconvenient to wait in a line, how on earth did you ever enroll at KU? If enrollment is important enough to wait for, certainly choosing who is running our government should be equally as important.
friend. Keep it in mind. I wholeheartedly agree that voting without knowing for whom or what you're voting is a travesty. No one should vote without knowing the issues at hand.
But everyone should vote, and therefore, everyone should get informed. There are debates, forums, Web sites, fliers and many, many other ways to get at least a beginning grasp upon the issues being decided by your vote.
So, this election season, think before you decide simply not to vote. Make informed decisions. Get out and vote. Or use the advance voting ballot system.. Either way, it's your duty.
Ross is a Topeka freshman in journalism.