4A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2002
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I was looking in the paper, and I saw a lot of advertisement for free kittens. I'm thinking of picking up one, because I love free... cats.
Here's a note to those punks on the sixth floor of Jayhawker Towers who are throwing carrot out of the window; Yeah, we know who you are, and tomorrow, we're coming after yel
Don't be so hard on the parking nazi. They're just following orders.
Oh yeah, so after seeing that Girls of the Big 15 Playboy photo spread, I came away thinking one thing; pierced, piered! Go Jayhawks.
What a day, what a day. First I get sick.
Then my roommate gets fired. Then my buddy gets struck by lightening. What a day, what a day.
Ben, who lived in Ellsworth two years ago on the fourth floor, I want to bear your children. Thank you.
Hi, I just wanna say whatdup to the Greystone porch monkeys. Boys, it's been a great summer.
Peeling paint, ripped grey wire and graffit: yeah, I'm talking about the shanty on Naismith hill called Lindley annex. Wow, ouch!
I can't believe it rained on the first day of school... no, wait a minute, girls in wet T-shirts. Nevermind, it was great that it rained on the first day of school.
I just took out my tongue ring after two years. Am I still sexy? And does anyone wanna make out with me any more?
The great thing about freshman girls is that even though I get older, they stay the same age.
To the dude in 512 C, you just like,
to stand butt- ass naked in your window
Unneatly through lawns, there lies scattered paper all around. Mostly ads from Target are ones that I have found. But students, this is trashy. Quit throwing them on the ground
Leave KU info alone.
Now that the Grenada is under new ownership and has undergone rennovations, does that mean we have to call it Gra-not-so-nasty?
We are badasses.
(Talking Lilo and Stitch doll) My name
Stitch Ok, ok. Oh, ...Hi My name Stitch
Lilo.
I've got three to one odds that Jonas Weatherby loves Weezer. Any takers? Huh?
There's no honor without pie.
I so wait in line for two hours to enroll, and as soon as I get in the damn room there's a fire alarm. And where's every body on campus? Nobody's partying.
I just wanted to call in and say that Jason Barr is the worst KJHK jd ever. All he does is brag about how cool he is on the air.
I have an identical twin sister, so does she and I get to be on the front page of the Kansan? We've been at KU for four years now, always living together for 23 years. And have you ever heard of fertility drugs that their mother possibly took? My mother didn't. Thank you.
What's up with freshman girls getting ready for a class at 8 in the morning? Doing their hair, their make-up and wearing clothes that they wear out to a night club? This is not high school.
Are all nineteen year olds so inconsiderate? I have three girls that live above me in a nice apartment, and they continually throw over their empty beer bottles, cans, cigarette packs and cigarette butts onto my patio and yard. And they don't understand why I ask them nicely not to do it. What's up with that?
So I'm reading the newspaper in class the other day, and I'm presently surprised when I turn it to the opinion page to see a picture of the most gorgeous man I've yet seen on this campus. Steve, the Brandon Boyd of Incubus look-like, yes, I will find you, and I will marry you.
I just got the new issue of Playboy with the girls of KU, and Jennifer Wayland has a pierced hoo-hoo.
To all of the freshman ladies, get ready to he KL-i-lief.
I'm drunk, but I have the potential of being waaayy drunker.
So I'm at this party, right, you know, the opening of the Granasty. And either way, I'm dancing with this chick, we've had a few drinks, you know, things are going well, and I turned around, and it was her grandma! Let's go back to the Station House Later.
Since history began, man has asked the
eternal question: what is the best pie?
Pierced... pierced?!
So anyway, I was thinking... I was thinking about lemurs. Everybody just think about that for a second: lemur... lemur.
I would just like to say to all the females, don't listen to that chump who said something about donkey kong, because that's an old game. My game is fresh and I'm about to come for you. Yeah.
Why would you print the "praying for no. STD's anymore" twice? It happened twice. Pray with a condom, not with your mouth.
Kansas is a cool state. Yeah I love ya.
You know. The women, the scenery,
What can I say, it's all great. Okay I am
done now. Bye bye
In response to the last call, Lawrence is the oasis of Kansas. Kansas is not a good state. Every town west of Kansas is broke, as well as south. Lawrence is the oasis of Kansas. Thank you.
We're a succubus!
To the two guys that are reading the Playboy in the back of our coms class...you should have some tac. I know the girls of the Big 12, and that really wasn't funny. Later.
trilobite! Triliiiiilobite! Trilobite, trilobite,
trilobite.
I want to know why KU can afford to plant flowers every other week, but they can't afford another com teacher.
Oh my god! The guys in Hy-Vee are so hot. They are so beautiful looking.
Yesterday I did pushups on top of a mini-
V00.
Who opened fire on Channel 7's news
von Channel 4
It's unpatriotic to think.
Wake up.
Hello? Hello?
If you flash George Bush he'll give you some beads.
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me.
Might as well吃 eat worms.
Look who's back, back, back. Back again, gain gain. Noonans back, back, back. Tell a friend.
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Yeeaaaaah. I got mail. I got mail.
Yeeeeaaahhh!
GREED
GOBBLEHEADS
Knicht Ridder
PERSPECTIVES
Summer in New York provides new outlook, celebrity sightings
COMMENTARY
A afterventuring out to Los Angeles last summer, I was hard pressed to try and find a better place than L.A. to live for the summer.
I put in much thought, time, and consideration and I came to the conclusion that the only place in the United States that could come close to L.A. was of course, New York City. It sounded like a cool idea, but little did I know what I was getting into.
So much like in Home Alone 2, Coyote Ugly and Midnight Cowboy, I packed my bags and headed out to the Big Apple. And much like the main characters in those movies, I was way, way out of my element for a week.
Eric Borja
opinion@kansan.com
Luckily, within my first two days I got an internship at Comedy Central on its first made-for-TV movie named Porn and Chicken. Which, by the way, is being compared to The Godfather and Citizen Kane in terms of cinematic genius and it makes its premeire on Comedy Central on Oct. 13 (got to love shameless self-promotion).
Once I got over the initial shock of big city life, I embraced it and began to enjoy it.
I went into New York expecting a city still torn apart from Sept. 11 and the current recession. But what found was an
energy I have not experienced anywhere else in the world. Even though Sept. 11 still remains in the back of a lot of people's minds, the city was thriving.
Most tourists love New York for the usual tourist fare of the Empire State Building, Time Square and the Broadway shows. But I loved New York for the little things that make it "New York."
The fact that the bars don't close until 4 a.m., that McDonalds delivers, that during a twenty minute walk you can go from Greenwich Village to Soho to Chinatown to Wall Street and experience a totally different world in each few blocks.
What seemed like extraordinary experiences to me, like shaking Tom Cruise's hand on the Today Show or shopping for hats with Sum 41 or eating dinner next to Gwenyth Paltrow or chilling with Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson, was just
another day in the life of someone living in New York.
Nothing shocks or impresses any New Yorker. I learned many important rules in New York that I wasn't aware of.
1. New Yorkers think that New York is the center of the universe and they can't fathom how anyone could live anywhere else.
2. Sex and the City isn't just a show, it's a lifestyle. Getting hit on by 35-year-old women in Dolce and Gabana is pretty cool until they learn that you are an intern and that what you make per week is equal to one of their earrings.
3. Anything related to Kansas is a novelty. I lost track of how many Greenwich Village hipsters I saw wearing a T-shirt or hat with Kansas on it. Hey at least we're fashionable.
After three months there, it totally changed my perspective on life, for better or worse. But I needed to get out. I had had enough with the lines, the pollution and the constant commotion. I had to get back to my real world, where there is grass, fresh air and peace and quiet. I had to get back to Kansas.
Borja is a Springfield, Mo., senior in journalism.
A legendary service is in jeopardy, so answer the call and help KU Info
looked forward to picking up the The University of Delhi Karpan on the first
University Daily Kansan on the first day of class. For over two years it has forced its way into my daily schedule when I'm on campus. What I didn't expect was the news that was going to greet me to start off this year.
KU Info was in danger of being closed?
GUEST COMMENTARY
No. That couldn't be right. The headline must have been misleading. It had to be. Nobody who has been on this campus for more than a few days would ever think of closing one of the best student services on campus.
Brian Thomas
opinion@kansan.com
But it was true. I had to read the article twice, but it was still the same. I knew KU Info was already being hit by the budget crunch. Its operating budget was already slashed 38 percent before the school year.
Who else will tell me where I can still find a blue book 15 minutes before a final?
That meant a smaller staff and less double-covered shifts. But how could anybody in the administration be so thick as to think that they could just cut KU Info completely?
Where else can I call to find out all the names of the Smurfs?
Who else can tell me where the nearest bungee jumping company is?
Who would put up with me calling
We don't need a student portal to be our KU Info. We've already got Yahoo! and Google for that.
them to find movie showings in Kansas City when I'm driving on K-10?
Who is going to tell me how many cups are in a pint when I'm shopping at HyVee?
My cell phone is sadly not equipped with Web browsing, or any other fancy gizmos Sprint is trying to tell me I need. If I was around the Internet to look
Not a computer. Not the Internet.Not some student portal.I can tell you that for sure.Yes, we all have high speed Internet access on campus. But I have a secret the geniuses in administration might not know. I don't have high-speed Internet when I'm at Clinton Lake trying to figure out how many acres it is.
something up, I wouldn't be bothering KU Info in the first place.
We don't need a student portal to be our KU Info. We've already got Yahoo! and Google for that.
So that leaves us all with a choice. We can sit around and do nothing about KU Info being shut down. We can let the administration rob us of one of the few gems this University has left. We can all learn to use the yellow pages again.
Maybe we can fight back for once. Maybe we can put all of our differences aside, if only for this one time. We can prove to the administration that we are not afraid to fight them for what we want.
We can show them for one shining moment in time that they can raise our tuition, they can cram us into overcrowded rooms with no air conditioning, but they'll never take KU Info without a fight.
If you're interested in supporting KU Info, come to an open campus meeting today at 5 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. We'll be discussing the current state of KU Info and possible courses of action to take.
Thomas is a Plano, Texas, junior in political science.