4A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
MONDAY,OCTOBER 21,2002
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To the girl who was wearing the little shorts with the word Kansas on the back, you could've fit about another paragraph on the back of Ah, the power of cheese.
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
Yeah, Amanda Flott, let's fight the war against contradictions. Let's go kick Saddam Hussein's ass for telling us he'll let weapons inspectors into his country and then not doing it.
--matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
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You know you're a college student when you eat your cereal with a measuring spoon because you're too lazy to do the dishes.
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
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matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
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--matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
Has anyone noticed that all the hosts of Change of Heart look like transsexual clones of one another them, too.
Geek Week? What the crap is that? So you study for your midterms, and all the sudden you're a geek now? I mean, can't people in sororities and fraternities just study for their midterms like normal people? And they make T-shirts, too. Geek Week 2002. Geek Week forever.
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
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matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
Within my folder lies a burning question, longing to be quenched, and here it is: Who the hell is Johnson? And why the hell does he, she or it need saving? Thank you
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
I don't know if anyone saw that FM nation on MTV where they were in Wichita. Yeah, I'm from Wichita, and Wichita is not the coolest place in the world, but it's not that ghetto.
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
Just got done reading an article in the UDK referring to sorority members as geeks. Yeah, in the newspaper. Come on, now. When I pick up the paper early in the afternoon, I'm expecting to read news.
--matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
They call it news because it's new info.
Don't waste my time by printing this
pseudo-news garbage.
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
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matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
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To the guy that sat in front of me in film class today. You are the most beautiful creature I've ever seen. Just thought you should know.
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
I was sitting outside of Hash the other day, and these guys were coming back from Mrs. E's, and I overheard one say that he wouldn't mind letting a girl crap in his mouth. And all I have to say is, like, yum.
--matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
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matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
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matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
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matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
We have come to the conclusion of a study that shows that depending on a girls tan, you can tell if she's in a sorority or not.
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The biggest threat to the safety of the world is not Iraq, it's George W. Bush. If you don't believe me, go to www.foe.org. Go there; you'll see the truth. He's evil and bad. He's killing lots of innocent animals. Thank you.
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matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
You know why hot girls can't be smart?
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matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
What is the deal with KU internet? It never works. You're required to have it, and it yet never works. God, it's frustrating.
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matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
matter how important the game or player, athletes who break team rules, which they've known about all season, deserve to be punished.
THROUGH THE EYES OF A MADMAN
BY THE NUMBERS
Number of students who completed the survey out of 1,109 students who received the survey in the Fall of 1998.
7. 4 Number of drinks consumed per week on average.
Percentage of students surveyed who consumed alcohol in the last year.
91% Percentage of students surveyed under the age of 21 who consumed alcohol in the last year.
51%
Percentage of students surveyed who report driving under the influence.
2% Percentage of students surveyed who were arrested for a DWI or DUI.
Source: Fall of 1998 Alcohol Survey
PERSPECTIVES
Punishments aren't the same when it comes to Kansas sports
Rules may be made to be broken, but doing so usually carries consequences if you're an athlete at the University of Kansas—unless you're a current football player facing criminal charges.
Soccer players Lindsay Hunting, Carmel Kaplinger and Nikki Wahle faced those consequences last week. All three missed Friday's game against Central Missouri State and yesterday's game against Iowa State for violating unspecified team rules.
Levi Chronister
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Hunting and Wahle, senior co-captains who were part of coach Mark Francis' first recruiting class, missed out on playing their final two home games. It may seem harsh to force players to sit on the bench during such an emotional and important game, but Francis said he thinks the team is happy that rule breakers are punished.
Punishment is what five members of last year's softball team — four of whom were starters — received after also violating team rules. The five players were suspended from April games against the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Missouri.
Kansas softball coach Tracy Bunge had to bench girls who had played their hearts out for her, and it couldn't have been easy for Francis to suspend two of his first players from their final home games, but both coaches made the correct decision. No
Men's basketball coach Roy Williams made a similar decision two seasons ago when senior forward Lester Earl was arrested and charged one count of driving while intoxicated and one count of driving with a suspended license Jan. 24, 2000.
Williams suspended Earl indefinitely the day after the arrest, punishing him for his indiscretion. Earl was not allowed to participate in games or travel with the team for nearly a month, but returned for the Feb. 20 game against Oklahoma.
Not every Kansas coach is as firm with punishments as Francis, Bunge and Williams.
Football coach Mark Mangino has had two players -- junior defensive tackle Brock Teddleton and senior back-up quarterback Jonas Weatherbie - who have had
run-ins with the law since Mangino was hired in December 2001.
Weatherbie was arrested July 10 for driving while intoxicated and driving with a suspended license — the same charges Earl faced. Teddleton is facing battery charges after a March 9 incident at Jack Flanigan's Bar & Grill.
Even though both players are facing formal charges, there has been no public apparent punishment for either Jayhawk. Mangino said he was aware of a situation, which he handled internally.
Teddleton wasn't on the sideline for games against University of Nevada-Las Vegas or Southwest Missouri State, but he said he didn't think the games had anything to do with the altercation.
Weatherbie, whose driving incident slipped under Mangino's radar until a reporter brought it up during a press conference, has suited up for every Kansas game this year, even though his DWI charge was a violation of team rules.
If smaller sports such as soccer and softball can afford to bench vital players during crucial games and the men's basketball team can look past its star status and make sure team rules are followed, shouldn't Mangino do the same?
Chronister is a Lawrence senior in journalism. He is the Kansan sports editor.
Try a new kind of stress reduction remedy: learn to laugh
How often do you laugh in a normal day? How often do you giggle or chuckle at
something? The answer is probably not enough.
Did you know that laughter could actually help decrease "stress" hormones? According to a study done by Dr. Lee Berk and Dr. Stanley Tan of Loma Linda University, laughing is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Laughing not only reduces stress and aids in muscle relaxation but also enhances the immune system.
GUEST COMMENTARY
So laugh, will you? OK, so you can force yourself to laugh, but you can take time out each day to learn what it is that makes you crack a smile and release that
I for one am a very uptight person. I tend to obsess over the little things in life, which only end up causing me more stress. Yet, one of the things I seem to forget is laughing makes me feel good. So why not laugh more? Let's take the time out of our day to have a good laugh. Here are a few of my suggestions on how to start cracking up.
sound of joy.
Before you go renting Monty Python and the Holy Grail (which I highly recommend if you even remotely like British humor) it is important to determine what kind of humor you like. I personally like sarcastic humor but have found that stupid humor is just as stimulating sometimes. The important thing is
Mandy German opinion@kansan.com
to realize what you think is funny doesn't mean everyone has to think it is funny.
Try renting what one film student I know calls "check your brain at the door" movies. These are movies that require absolutely no thought in order to enjoy them. Super Troopers and Our Cold are my newest personal favorites in
this category. But, again try to find something that reflects your humor or just go with what I now consider a classic like Tommy Boy.
Hang out with people that make you laugh. Hopefully since you have been in college you have made friends that you are able to laugh with or at. If you have yet to find that group of friends you are missing out. In general, it's being around people that take themselves lightly that can help stimulate your funny bone.
Laugh at yourself. Come on, you have to admit some of the stuff you do is pretty funny. For instance, I have to crack up at myself every time I walk into the glass doors at Target because I mistake the manual doors for the automatic ones. I
also find it pretty funny when I call someone and have a conversation with him or her for several minutes before realizing that the person I actually dialed is not whom I wanted to reach.
Go on, find that one movie that makes you cry from laughter. Find that person that can do the robot. Find something that makes you laugh. Life is pretty funny if you take the time to actually notice.
Most of all, always remember the words of Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort who said: "The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."
German is a Johnson senior in journalism.