4A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2002
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you know considering how much everybody complains about parking all the time, you'd think that it would get better from year to year. Instead it's just been
Alright, the girl in the light blue pants is back at the Hawk on Sunday night. But I'm more concerned with the guy in the black dress pants and white dress shirt with the gold chains getting his freak on with the girl in the red top. It's Sunday!
Just because I drive a mini-van doesn't mean I don't like to drink. I wanna drink sometime too, ok!
you know considering how much everybody complains about parking all the time, you'd think that it would get better from year to year. Instead it's just been
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It's Sunday night, and I just wanted to say to the girl in the blue capri pants and black tank top, wearing no shoes on the dance floor at the Hawk; you really suck at dancing, and it's been like, five songs. Seriously. Go to the bar. Yeah, with different guys. Go to the bar! You really suck at dancing.
(sung) Ooooh, amber is the color of your energy.
This message is for the guy who was driving around campus with the Portugal jersey on. I love you; you could possibly be my next husband.
you know considering how much everybody complains about parking all the time, you'd think that it would get better from year to year. Instead it's just been
How am I supposed to learn anything without Ku Info?
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Malcolm Gibson
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you know considering how much everybody complains about parking all the time, you'd think that it would get better from year to year. Instead it's just been
Hi, it's me again. I'm at the Hawk on Sunday night. Light blue pants is now dancing with guy in white dress shirt and black pants, which may be the funniest moment in my four years of college. I'll tell ya if it gets better.
I karate-chop drunken, drunkeness! Did ya hear that? I karate chop drunkeness.
Matt Fisher
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My house is on fire and it ain't cool.
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Pirate's Booty. Thar be good.
you know considering how much everybody complains about parking all the time, you'd think that it would get better from year to year. Instead it's just been
The traffic on 19th street kinda makes living hereKinda crappy. Ah, but the front row to the girl's soccer practice makes it all worth while.
you know considering how much everybody complains about parking all the time, you'd think that it would get better from year to year. Instead it's just been
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you know considering how much everybody complains about parking all the time, you'd think that it would get better from year to year. Instead it's just been
getting worse.
I just wanna say screw you to whoever stole my goldfish Friday night.
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So in all honesty, the drunken kleptos that were blond and brunette from across the street, yeah, they made for one heck of an interesting night. But keep 'em away from your places if you treasure your valuables.
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I just wanted to tell my roommate that her boyfriend smells really bad. I can't even sit in my own room when he's around because he makes me wanna throw up. I just wanna tell my roommate that.
I just have a question for all the cute, single men on campus. How do you feel about long-term, monogamous relationships?
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Is it bad when you're jealous of the kids on Road Rules because they get to eat baked potatoes and all you have is shrimp-flavored Ramen?
Every time I read something in the Kansan about there being a problem with money or a conflict between departments, it seems to always revolve around the recent budget cuts. That's the excuse for everything it seems at KU now. So I was wondering, if I went to my professors and said that I couldn't turn in my homework in light of recent budget cuts, would that be ok? Would I still get my A?
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Are you ready for the ACT. Anti-Custard Trend? Down with custard, up with ice cream.
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In my opinion, Sheridan is a hag. I love the Custard Cup.
I would just like to tell the Lawrence Police that they're doing a great job in the war on drugs because I can't find a bag anywhere in this town.
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I just wanna know why I paid $85 for a Jayhawker Towers parking permit, and right now my car is parked in the Templin parking lot. Oh yeah, I know why, because the parking department at KU really sucks.
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Fake fingernails should come with a warning label that reads "highly flammable." Today I was trying to light a bowl of sweet cheeba and my thumbnail caught on fire and almost smelled my skin off. Have you ever heard of anybody dying from a $20 set of nails catching on fire? Yeah, I didn't think so.
I was just reading the Kansan and I just saw that a "NSYNC star who was gonna go up in a Russian space ship has been replaced by a container packed with space station supplies weighing about the same as him. I've gotta say, that's the greatest thing I've ever heard.
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USA PATRIOT ACT? Why don't they call it the "George Bush doesn't really want to get re-elected Act?"
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PERSPECTIVES
Give into dating show obsession
COMMENTARY
I have a deep, dark secret that only my closest friends know. I am obsessed with watching dating shows. Not just some of them, all of them.
I'm talking Taildaters, Dismissed Blind Date, Elimidate, The 5th Wheel Meet My Folks, Change of Heart, Shipmates, Dating Story and the list goes on and on.
Eric Borja opinion@kansan.com
For me, it doesn't get any better than watching wannabe actors and actresses from L.A. pimp themselves to total strangers for their 15 minutes of fame. Do these people actually think they will meet someone meaningful or even, dare I say it, their soulmate, on a freaking blind date set up by a bunch of TV producers?
I really feel genuinely sorry for any person who actually goes on one of these shows. It seems like the shows set up the most incompatible couples in the whole world with each other because seeing a date fall apart is way more entertaining than seeing love blossom before our very eyes.
We want to see people lie and charm their way into some else's pants or we want to see people argue and insult each because that's what your typical college relationship is like.
Clooney. So seeing guys brag about how many girls they've bagged in the last year, or how they are afraid of commitment, or how they really want to make out with the girl on the first date, makes my dating disasters or lack there of, seem just a little less embarrassing.
What I love the most about watching the shows is that I get to see guys who are worse around girls than I am. I mean, I make Screech look like George
What was once a pure genre of TV reality shows has now gotten trashy, irreverent, and immature and me and millions of viewers everywhere are loving every minute of it.
The entertainment of watching dating shows used to be found in the interaction of the couple throughout the date. Now, with the advent of the quote bubble popularized by Blind Date and various other devices used to embarrass the participants, the entertainment is now found at the expense of how desperate these people really are and the lengths they are willing to go to get some booty.
This form of "full contact dating" or competing for someone's affection, isn't
so much about finding that special someone as it is winning a competition and getting to make out on the first date.
But at the core of these new hard-core dating shows there is a little truth. I think these shows reflect the changing attitudes and beliefs about dating and love.
Love was once viewed as a pure and sacred miracle of life back in the day. But now, like the athletic, corporate, and political world, love is all about survival of the fittest.
Soaring divorce rates, high profile affairs and sex scandals and the whole Sex and the City phenomenon have all made young people's views on relationships very jaded and skeptical.
Relationships and dating, like the shows, are now viewed as a process of trial and error where all the pain and suffering a person goes through is justified in the fact they will be rewarded with a nice looking, fertile, and honest mate, and if not, maybe a nice piece of tail for the night.
But in the end dating shows reinforce those universal rules that seem to always hold true, girls love the bad boys, the guys always wants to get the girl into bed on the first date, and everyone wants someone with a sense of humor.
Borja is a Springfield, Mo., senior in journalism.
Tailgating policy doesn't score a touchdown with students
I made a disturbing discovery while reading an article in The University Daily Kansan on Aug. 29.
The article stated, "the15 lots surrounding Memorial Stadium have sold out of parking spots." Because I was concerned this meant the tailgating lots were full, I made several frantic phone calls to KU Info and the Parking Department. I was told that the Parking Department sells all of the spaces to the Williams Fund and it then sells them to donors.
I am not a contributor to the Williams Fund and therefore I am not eligible to park in the designated tailgating areas before home football games.
I understand that the University is experiencing a buget crisis across the
I have noticed that the people with reserved seats are almost always the last to arrive at every game, for both basketball and football, and are always the first to leave. A majority of the people who park in those lots did not even tailgate last season. Couldn't the donors who don't want to tailgate park in a different parking lot and be bussed to the stadium? It could be a classier version of the Robinson lot shuttle that is currently available to anyone willing to pay.
board and that this is just one more way for a university group to make a profit, but do all the donors really tailgate?
GUEST COMMENTARY
What about students who want to tailgate?
Alexandrea Schippers
opinion@kansan.com
I was told that students do have the
option to pay $60 for a season permit to park in the Mississippi street garage and we could then tailgate on the grass inside of the designated tailgating area.
This would require tooting all of the tailgating must-haves quite a distance. It still might be a viable option, but then we would have to pack everything back up
Packing things back and forth would cut our tailgating time down to the point where it wouldn't even be worth it.
and haul it all the way back to the vehicle in the garage before we entered the stadium.We usually enter the stadium as soon as the gates open, to get the best seats in the student section.
The view and the noises surrounding Memorial Stadium are what sets every avid football fan's heart beating. Without that, tailgating at KU is a joke.
A second disappointing option was presented. We could pay a fee and park in any blacktop lot of the University and tailgate there. The Robinson parking lot was the lot mentioned. The only thing missing is the stadium.
Jay Hienricks, director of the Williams Fund, said the fund bought the parking spaces in response to an increased demand for season tickets. He said that the fund wanted to benefit its donors, but that no one in his office had thought of what to do about donors who took up spaces and didn't tailgate.
Hienricks said the Robinson lot shut- might be a good idea. The Williams Fund ought to implement this. If they don't do something they are ignoring the needs of some of the Jayhawks' biggest fans.
Schippers is a Hoxie senior in communications.
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