TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 2002
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2002
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I'm just wondering why it is that all the filthy, lazy people in front of Wescoe can't pick up their cans and their newspapers and have a little bit more respect for the University. It looks like somebody's dorm room all over the place, and it's getting irritating.
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I was just reading all these Free for Alls about how it's so hard to find a sack these days. Well, the hash is quite abundant. I recommend you switch over.
--younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
If you wanna end your life, kill yourself early, by smoking. Fine by me. But if you're gonna do it, don't sit there next to me at Wescoe blowing your smoke in my face.
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younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
How many sorority girls does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One. And five others to make a T-shirt about it.
There are some strange creatures in the dorms that have been biting me and all my friends. We think it's a bunch of spiders. Somebody needs to come clean this up 'cause I have a huge bite on my leg, and my other friend has a huge bite, too. Somebody needs to come and do something about this.
The stripes of the American flag hang lifelessly and loosely, like classic prison garb on the American mindset.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
This is to the girl in my English class. Dear girl, do you have any idea, any semblance of what you posses? And then when I saw you at the Hawk, in your asymmetrical tank top, I knew that we were meant for me.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
This is the original Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Nature's finest product provides its prize flavor. Only the finest of hops and grains are used.Selected as America's best in 1983.
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Three Musketeers tastes pretty good. But don't eat their swords.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
My KU First T-shirt says KU second. What's up with that?
I just have a question. How many people went up to the line for the KU First T-shirts and get more than one. I know I'm not the only one who did this. Come on.
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younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
Steve from the opinion page is absolutely
a god
--younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
How come the cafeteria always closes at 6:28, when we have two minutes to get our asses down there and eat some food. It's not fair. I wanna be able to eat any time I want, 'cause I'm hungry.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
I think condoms should be free every day, not just Monday, Sept. 16. It's not fair. We don't have sex that day; we have it every Tuesday.
(whispered) What's your favorite scary movie?
--younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
Ode to the bus driver. Bus driver, ooooh,
bus driver, why must you yell? There's an
ass in my face. I think I'm in hell. She
won't scoot over, so I'll have a seat. The
armpit in my face smells like dirtty teet
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
Kevin Bacon is in Friday the 13th, but he's really tiny. But he's still got poofy hair, so he's a poofy little midget. It's great. Fooftacular!
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So I was just driving home from work down 14th, and there was a drunken frat boy with blood down his head sitting in the middle of the street. And I almost hit him. If I had, would that be a crime or natural selection?
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
I just have one problem with Saferide. Earlier this evening we needed their assistance in getting home, but they told us too bad. And we were all the way on 9th and Pennsylvania, so the walk wasn't fun. So I decided to drive, and I ran through two yards, and ran over two small animals. Thanks, Saferide. I really needed your help, and you didn't come through for me.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
What happens when Ma Bell gets just a little sleepy? (lagging recording) I'm sorry, we are unable to complete your call as dialed. Please check the number and dial again or ask the operator for assistance. This is a recording, 2152.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
And this is what happens when Ma Bell gets a little horny, (sexy-voiced recording) I'm sorry, we are unable to complete your call as dialed. Please check the number and dial again or ask the operator for assistance. This is a recording, 8062.
(man in falsetto) I think Chancellor Hemenway is hot.
--younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
We got home at 5:30 this morning, and there was this drunk kid passed out in my parking lot. We took pictures of him, and threw bread crumbs and Rice Krispie treats at his head from my deck. It was rather entertaining. Thanks, drunk guy.
KUnited? More like Greek United.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
--younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
Don't sweat the petty things. Don't pet the sweaty things.
younger than me I guess I am just used to being to the 14-year-old blushing boy looking at the hot older centerfold spreading her legs. But now I am the older guy looking at the younger girl whom I wish I could score with.
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Senior remembers early years, ponders looming graduation
I have always been used to being the youngest. I'm the youngest in my family, and it always seemed like at every wedding, big occasion, or job, I was the youngest person there.
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I justified anything dumb or questionable I ever did with "Hey I'm in college" or "hey, I'm young."
But I officially felt old for the first time ever when I was looking at the Girls of the Big 12 Playboy the other day. After perusing over the great women our great conference has to offer, I of course wanted to read all about the centerfold.
I almost fainted when I saw that she was three months younger than me. How can the Playboy centerfold girl be younger than me?
Eric Borja
opinion@hansan.com
To everyone who has turned 22 and to anyone dreading turning 22 this year, you know what I am talking about. Back when we were in high school, 22 wasn't even a feasible number. The only thing
Maybe I am over-reacting, but for all the seniors out there who came in 1999 our time to be young and dumb is fading fast, and the real world is slowly rearing its ugly head.
we ever thought about was 16, 18 and 21. But 22?
Twenty-two might as well be the gateway to hell. It means you have reached the pinnacle age in the normal school cycle. Some people will take five or six years to graduate and some will go off to graduate school, but 22 is industry standard for being a senior in college.
I remember being a wide eyed freshman where everything was new and exciting.
exciting.
I remember being so excited to get into all the over-21 bars with my fake ID and ordering as many Long Island iced teas as possible and checking out all the hot upperclassmen (by the way, this is to all the ABC's and bouncers who fell for my awful fake; SUCKAS!).
Now with no excitement I hand the bouncer my valid ID, order some dull drink like a vodka tonic and I sit in a booth and checkout the hot younger girls.
Games and campus events used to be the biggest deal. All my friends and I would dress up and go to football games an hour early to get good seats.
Now we roll in midway through the first quarter, sit up in the nosebleeds even if there are good seats available and we usually leave around halftime if things aren't looking good.
When I am on campus I feel old partly because everyone else is now younger than me and also because I know where everything is. I know what to expect in every class, and the whole "I am in college" excitement wore off a long time ago. Now it's been replaced with the "I just want to graduate" attitude.
But being a senior does have its perks. I know that in less than a year, I won't be stressing about getting a paper done in a particular format, reading a book I have absolutely no interest in, worrying about how high my G.P.A. is or sitting through another power point presentation.
But I will miss the atmosphere of 24,000 young people choosing to learn and enrich their lives at this great institution, studying hard for a test and actually doing well on it, not studying hard for a test and doing well on it, and most of all, being young and dumb.
Borja is a Springfield, Mo., senior in journalism.
Beauty pageant participants deserve better media image
B beauty pageants are an easy target for ridicule, what with the stereotype of contestants with Vaseline smiles, talents such as baton twirling and furniture rearrangement and their perpetual hopes for world peace.
But, in reality, the contestants' dedication, tenacity and poise are admirable. It's the pageants themselves that send out mixed messages about women and their roles.
Vying for better ratings, coordinators for the annual Miss America pageant tried to update the pageant's image, revamping its format and structure by including a game show-like pop quiz and giving the contestants the ability to vote for the winner.
Like the line in Sandra Bullock's movie Miss Congeniality, "It's not a beauty pageant — it's a scholarship program," the scholarship opportunities of up to $50,000 were repeatedly mentioned in Saturday's broadcast of the Miss America pageant. According to many of the contestants, the allure of these scholarships was one of their primary motivations.
Their efforts at altering the public's
image of women have been unsuccessful and have resulted in the pageants and their contestants becoming even more laughable as they have emphasized the contradictory messages confronting women today.
According to an Associated Press story, the Miss America organization is "the largest provider of scholarships to women
Lauren Stewar
opinion@kansan.com
GUEST COMMENTARY
in the world, but its swimsuit competition and emphasis on beauty have hampered ... (their) efforts" to be "taken seriously as something other than a bathing beauty festival."
So, in order to improve its credibility, the Miss America Organization developed a quiz show-styled final category, consisting
of 16 multiple choice questions covering current events.
This pop quiz, which was intended to display the intelligence of the five finalists, in actuality was so overblown, random and poorly written that at times it was painful to watch.
Did the pop quiz actually illuminate the finalists' scholastic achievements or intellectual capacity?
Focusing on intelligence requires more
No, not really, but it was another opportunity for the finalists to change into another trendy-yet-business-professional outfit, and it was nice to know that none of the five knew about the World War II national monument or who was the first American in space.
than additional scholarship money or an overly dramatic quiz show with questions about Bruce Springsteen's latest album.
It would be more effective to emphasize accomplishments over physical appearance, and intelligence over evening wear. Perhaps making scores for the swimsuit competition worth less than scores for a non-visual event, like the talent competition, would achieve this.
The women who participate in pageants work hard and more often than not are smart, athletic and in possession of an almost superhuman poise and focus.
They deserve better. We all deserve better.
Stewart is a Wichita sophomore in journalism and English.