4A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1,2002
TALKTOUS
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I have the biggest erection right now that desperately needs some attention. Ladies?
I don't care what age I am, but I really think Lizzie McGwire and the Disney Channel is the best thing known to man. I don't know what I would do without my Disney Channel here at KU. Just want to give a shoutout to all my Disney Channel friends.
Whatever happened to Beanie Babies?
need to go outside are jeans and a sweat-shirt.
Regarding the cartoon in the paper yesterday with the child in the sniper sight, that was really inappropriate, and I think that shouldn't have been in the paper. And I have found many people who agree with me.
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I just finished cleaning the graffiti off the stall in the men's room at Watson library on the third floor. I was just wondering why it is that so many men feel the need to draw pictures of penises on the bathroom walls. Just wondering.
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I was just wondering. Does anybody else hate pants? Man, these things are killing me.
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I was wondering if all you people that have paragraph long things in Free for All, if you sit there and write them down, and cross out, and write down, and then call in, and read off your little index card. And then I was also wondering if you have a life.
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Let's all ban together and kill Avril Lavigne. And then, let's kill Skitter Boi.
I would just like to tell all y all dang yanks down at the Kansan that y all is spelled Y apostrophe A-L-L, not Y-A apostrophe L-L
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Just a question. Why, since I am a junior, do I have one of the latest enrollment dates that is available?
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I would like to talk today about touchlights. I have 18 touchlights in my room. Yes, I have 18 touchlights in my room. I think they're great devices. I think you can turn them on at night, and I think you can turn them on in the daytime. And I think they are great things, and they make clicking sounds. And they're incredible. I enjoy them, and I think everyone should have them because I have 18. Because I got one for every year I have been alive. I am 18 years old and I have 18 touchlights.
And yes, I have an obsessive-compulsive disorder, but I really like touchlights.
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Damn, y'all now I feel real stupid. I was out last night at Flannigan's, and this boy gave me his number. This is not your number, Frank. I would just like to say that this is not your number, and I feel real stupid. And I do not want to be played like that, so goodbye.
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I'm at the Free for All haiku, so I have a haiku for a rainy day. There's soggy newspapers all over KU campus. Yuck, please throw away.
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You know, I'm glad we're going to war with Iraq. It gives the hippies something to do and something to complain about.
The Jim Talent ads on TV told me to call Jean Carnahan, so I called her and told her Mizzou sucks.
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I would just like to publicly congratulate Aaron for coming in second in the great pumpkin run in Wichita. Way to go, sport.
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I was just wondering if all the guys out there think it's really wrong or disgusting if girls pluck the hair out of their toes.
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Whoever stole my blue mountain bike Raleigh, please return it to the Lawrence Police Station. Maybe you didn't realize, but it's my only form of transportation and I have no way to get around. Please, please, please return it.
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So, about that song I wrote. The sink has still not been cleaned. Hair is still everywhere. And you guessed it, he did not even move out. Dammit.
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I was having a really bad day up until a few seconds ago. I drove my car down to Lindley to pick up stuff from my studio. I parked illegally because it was raining and I didn't wanna walk in the rain. As I was leaving, I saw a parking Nazi writing a ticket out to someone else across the lot. I got out just in time. Whoever it was, I'm sorry, you're not going to have as good a day as I'm having right now, but thank you very much.
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I'm a chick, and I don't know why other chicks don't admit that they masturbate all the time, but I masturbate. And I like it, and it feels good. And I like to touch myself, and it's a good thing. Oh yeah. You're the one who makes me come running. You're the sun who makes me shine.
I was just wondering why dogs stick their head out of car windows going 60 mph. They seem to enjoy it quite a bit. But yet at the same time, they get pissed off if you blow in their face. Hmmm.
To the stranger on campus who confessed her love to me yesterday, uh, what was that all about.
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Alcohol Awareness Week, eh? I'll drink to that.
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WHITE'S VIEW
'KANSAN' REPORT CARD
Pass:
Getting plenty of wear out of a costume. Thanks to Halloween falling on a Thursday this year, students can enjoy three (and, in some cases, four) whole days of candy and parties.
Birdburgers. Considering all of its health benefits, eating emu meat sounds like a great idea. Plus, we are really amused by the image of cowboys rounding up a majestic herd of giant birds.
Respecting our elders. It's great to see Beta Theta Pi fraternity taking an interest in the elderly. College students often forget there are seniors who aren't graduating in May. Keep it up guys.
Fail:
Trashing on students. When even the Lawrence environmental inspector says city residents are unfairly criticizing the state of students' homes, you know something needs to be done. Maybe we need an ordinance against crabby neighbors.
Caving to complainers. Granted, overparking made Edgehill Road dangerous, but the city should have limited parking because of that. Not because one man didn't want students to park in front of his house.
Halloween weather. For those of us who didn't go as eskimos or penguins, the cold ( and occasional snow) were not welcome.
PERSPECTIVES
Maggie Koerth Kansan
Gloomy days wear heavily on collective student psyche
COMMENTARY
Autumn is my favorite time of year. I absolutely love the changing leaves and crisp cool mornings, when all you
Everything seems a little cleaner, fresher and more exciting to me as the first brisk winds rustle across campus. So far, this fall has not disappointed me, except for one small dark cloud, literally. Well, several large dark clouds to be exact.
Sara Zafar
opinion@kansan.com
The sun has not shown itself in over a week. This is a problem. Around campus, there has been a noticeable sentiment of gloom and overall dullness.
While this is somewhat appropriate for the Halloween spirit, it is beginning to take a toll on everyone who spends any time outside at all.
Most of the time I enjoy the occasional good, brooding, cloudy day to give me perspective, but enough is enough.
In my classes this past week, I have noticed attendance dropping significantly. I choose to blame this solely on the fact that it has been dark and cloudy for a very long time.
They are less interested in going about their daily routines and, definitely, less interested in being good students. As enticing as sitting in classrooms of varying climates may seem, the pull is just not strong enough to keep students interested.
Also, more and more people are getting sick.
The lack of bright sunshine is detrimental to the health and happiness of students and teachers alike.
Lectures that are normally interesting and entertaining are more dragging and dull.
Teachers find it difficult to muster the enthusiasm required to effectively teach the students, who are finding it difficult to act as interested as usual.
Clock watching is rampant. Listless sighs fill the silences in dark classrooms.
The gray clouds and incessant rain were enough to keep anyone permanently in pajamas, in front of the television.
Other people expressed a desire to get away somewhere, anywhere where there was sun.
Countless studies show the effects of sunlight deprivation on everyday functioning.
However, I don't need a study to prove to me that this endless darkness is weighing down the spring in my step.
Even my motivation to get up in the morning has been pushed aside by the gloom I've seen from my window every morning. Everything seems less important when provided the option of staying inside with the lights on and not thinking about anything.
Thankfully, these classical signs of depression are not permanent for the vast majority of people.
As soon as the sun returns to us, bright and shiny, most of us will go back to our daily routines with more enthusiasm than has been seen on this campus in some time.
I, for one, can't wait until I see the blue sky through the trees again, the way the sun brightens everything, and everyone's moods.
We just have to wait. These dark times can't last forever.
Until then, I make my plea to the sun gods/goddesses or what have you. If we don't see some sunshine around here soon, we will be forced to change the words of our alma mater to "Far above the cold, wet valley/dark and foggy to view/ stands our noble Alma Mater/towering t'ward the ...um, gray?"
Zafar is a Wichita sophomore. She is undecided.
College students don't have responsibility to be anti-war
Oracle on Wescoe Beach to protest a possible war on Iraq. It's just fine by me if someone wants to protest a potential war on Iraq. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But don't assume that these views are representative of everyone on campus.
In the Oct. 24 issue of The University Daily Kansan, Amanda Flott, co-director of Concerned Active and Aware Students and organizer of the protest, was quoted as saying, "KU needs to join other universities whose voices are being heard. It's important that our campus be involved in the national movement."
She is referring to the trendy anti-war movement that is currently sweeping college campuses across the nation.
It sounds to me like she wants the University to be portrayed as an anti-war school in the national movement. But those of us who believe the ousting of Saddam Hussein is in our nation's best interest do not want Amanda Flott and the other protesters representing our school as a whole.
GUEST COMMENTARY
I'll admit it. I believe in President Bush's policy regarding Iraq. And no, despite what the protesters say, it doesn't make me ignorant, it doesn't make me brainwashed, and it certainly doesn't make me wrong.
I am just as informed of the situation as the they are, but I have come to a different conclusion.
Nathan Clark opinion@hansan.com
One of the protesters that day was Sean
Ringey, a junior from Clearwater who said that he believed the goals of the U.S. were geared more toward getting cheap oil than preventing terrorism.
His claim is partially correct. Oil does play a part in the potential war. Saddam wouldn't be as big a concern to us if he didn't have so much oil.
There is nothing wrong with being
proud of our country for simultaneously protecting its interests while promoting universal ideals and protecting the welfare of other peoples, including the Iraqis.
The college-based anti-war movement hit full steam last weekend when massive protests were held in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.
Over 140,000 people showed up to make their voices heard, including some KU students. These were highly publicized events that made headlines across the nation.
But there was a smaller group of counter-protesters there who didn't get the same attention. A few hundred war-supporters gathered across from the throng of protesters to voice their support for President Bush.
According the The Washington Post, one who joined the counter-protesters was Imam Husham Al-Husainy.
Many of them were exiles from Iraq who were actually chanting slogans against Saddam.
"Most of these people across the street, they don't know the reality in Iraq," Al-Husainy told the Post.
It's important to understand that the anti-war protesters, with their catchy chants, vague accusations and organized rallies, don't actually represent everybody in America or at this University.
The less protest-happy Bush supporters across the nation and on the KU campus should let their voices be heard too.
Clark is a Kingman sophomore in journalism