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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.2004
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I just want to say thank you to all the guys on KU campus. Thank you for making the campus so beautiful.
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What can be worse than being hung over and your landlord sends a guy over to start hammering at 8:30 in the morning? Oh, the incessant hammering — make it stop!
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Apparently, Tuesday night is the new Friday night.
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Yeah, the University of Minnesota bookstore looks like an Abercrombie & Fitch store, it's really weird and the only difference between Minnesota and Kansas is pajamas. Pajamas to class. That's right.
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Stephen Moles, you are my hero.
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My roommate is Broadband Man and all I can say is he has red hair.
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Honestly, can you find a better place to express your love for each other than the communal bathroom of ninth floor McColum?
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Whatever happened to the Tongue In Beak section of the newspaper? That was the coolest thing ever. I wish I'd see more of those articles around.
Annual KU tuition: $14,000. Cost of residence hall room: $3,000. Walking down Jayhawk Boulevard at 4:00 p.m. and witnessing a hipie walking directly into a stop sign and trying to pass it off like it was nothing: priceless.
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Who cares about The Apprentice? I want to see Bill Cosby!
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What's up with everyone wearing other Big 12 schools? You need to stop doing it.
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Conservatives are idiots
Liberals are idiots.
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All right, you know what? All the bikers out there who like to ride their bikes to class around campus: it's called traffic laws; please obey them. Just because you're on a bike doesn't mean that you can roll through stop signs and not put your hand out to let me know you'll turn, and I almost ran you over.
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Two words of advice for freshmen girls: Stay skinny.
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Broadband man was my Biology 150 TA.
Chris is so drunk that he let me write all over his arms and legs, and his arm even says,
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You know, I gotta say I'm drunk and the pizza right here is the best. I gotta say I love it with all my heart. Goodnight.
Broadband Man is a TA from the math department. So where's my $20?
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Yeah, my friend is definitely too drunk to call the Free for all, so I had to do it for him.
I know what I want to be when I grow up. I want to be like Broadband Man. Oh, wait. I'm already grown up. Either way, I just want to be the Broadband Man. He's awesome!
I know who the Broadband Man is, but I'm not telling. Nanny nanny boo boo!
So, my roommate just said that he likes it when a true and false test ends with a true answer. It's kind of optimistic.
So, I'm pretty sure I called last night when I was drunk, and it's 7:15 in the morning now and I had to go get my car so I could go to class. How dedicated am I?
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Hey, Emily! It's our five-year anniversary, and I still love you. I'll always love you.
Oh, those KU Republicans really get me all hot and bothered.
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Yeah, girls riding pink mo-peds should realize the sidewalk's for pedestrians and not their use.
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I swear to God, Broadband Man is my brother. So, you owe me $20
I can't find my pants. Has anybody seen my pants?
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Don't tell people how I live.
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Yeah, I installed Sophos again this year. Big mistake!
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Twenty bucks for the secret identity of Broadband man? You've got to be kidding me. It's worth much more. Call back, we'll negotiate.
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Hot damn! I just ordered a pizza for 75 cents. Thank you, Campus Food!
I love how every coupon in the newspaper today expires today.
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I looked in W's eyes on Wescoe Beach the other day. I didn't know the man was capable of such sweat and tears.
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Not only was the Republican National Convention on TV, it even got higher ratings than the Democratic National Convention.
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Is this not the number for Watkins Health Center?
Is it just me, or is it impossible for good-looking, single guys to find a good-looking, single girl on campus?
Oh my God! Wescoe is on fire! Oh, wait. It's a lot of people smoking.
That guy who does the Allstate commercials with the deep voice is really sexy.
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This year choose hope over fear
This presidential election has taken over my life. It follows me wherever I go. I think about it. I talk about it. I study it. I have trouble falling asleep because I cannot get it out of my mind. I am not sure people understand the importance of the choice America will make on November 2. This is a defining moment in the history of our nation, and the choice we make will determine our course for the years ahead.
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our course for the years ahead. Barack Obama, a senatorial candidate from Illinois and Democratic National Committee keynote speaker, framed the options perfectly: "Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?" It was hard to find the best way to illustrate these choices. It became clear that the convention's keynote speakers represented the choice we had in front of us.
and he is John Kerry. On November 2, reject the "politics of cynicism" of Bush, and vote for the "politics of hope" of John Kerry.
I examined the two speeches closely, reading and watching them again and again. The speakers contrasted in many ways and outlined two drastically different futures for America: Democrat and Republican; hope and fear; optimism and pessimism; unity and division; America's greatness and America's arrogance.
arrogance.
The Republican keynote speaker, Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), gave a speech that embodied President Bush's campaign message and strategy. His only goal, like most at the Republican convention, was to tear down John Kerry and avoid talking about the past four
BLAKE SWENSON opinion@kansan.com
years. The Republicans only want you to remember Sept. 11, 2001. They want you to think that every day is a possible 9/11 to scare you into voting Bush back into office when his record has not earned a return to Washington.
This has been Bush's campaign strategy. The Republicans have continually told us why Kerry should not be elected and not why President Bush should return to office. Republicans do not want Americans to vote on President Bush's first four years because it was an utter failure.
utter failure.
Bush would rather focus on a war that took place 30 years ago in Vietnam instead of a the war in Iraq, where more than 1,000 Americans have been killed. President Bush will use fear and manipulation to get your vote just as he did to get the support he needed to fight a vendetta with Saddam Hussein.
Americans have in common instead of what divides them. He did not attack Bush nor the Republicans. He said, "We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
Democrats understand our nation's most powerful weapon is not our economic or military might, but the hope our founders created. Nations have never respected us because of the billions we spend on defense, but because Thomas Jefferson wrote 228 years ago that, "We hold these truths to be self evident: That all men are created equal."
What unites us is the hope we have for a better tomorrow. Obama said we must have the "audacity of hope" to survive. We live in a time when hope is considered a bold act, not that the norm and fear of losing that hope is a reality. America is great because it has been a beacon of light for millions and I say that we must return to a time when hope is the standard bearer of foreign policy and not fear. There is only one man that can change our path and he is John Kerry.
Obama gave a passionate discourse on what made every American proud, and defined why we must elect John Kerry. He concentrated on what
Swenson is a Topeka senior in political science. He works for the Kansas Democratic Party.
Studentsupportoffootball teamcontinues to improve
Dear students,
Thank you for the great support that you displayed for our team last Saturday night. Our players and coaches appreciate the spirit you bring to Memorial Stadium.
You are fast becoming one of the loudest student sections in the Big 12 Conference. Believe me, a lot of our opponents are taking notice.
Keep up the good work. You are making a major impact on the game day atmosphere in our house! Let's keep it rockin'!
And please, continue to do it with class.
Mark Mangino
Head football coach
Raytheon ad does not portray all aspects of the company
I must say that I was honestly taken aback when I saw an advertisement in the Sept. 9 Kansan for Raytheon. The ad, which encompassed almost an entire half of the main section's back
I am aware that there is a natural human drive to succeed—and having money is probably the most universal way to define success. I like money; who doesn't? But I will draw the line somewhere.
Dear editors,
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Raytheon. The ad features a cross-section of a human brain with flashy, high-tech devices superimposed; the bottom of the ad has the following quotes: "The power of applied intelligence." "Raytheon: Consumer Success is Our Mission" "Opportunities are available in the following areas: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Math, Physics..." "No one knows what the future will bring. Except those creating it."
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page — a presumably expensive piece of newspaper real estate — is advertising a two-day career fair booth, held here at the University, by Raytheon.
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But what the ad fails to mention, is that according to their Web site www.raytheon.com, Raytheon is an $18.1 billion company who is "industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business aviation and special mission aircraft." They are the developers of an expansive list of weapons, including: Advanced cruise missile, Tomahawk cruise missile, Stinger missile,
The advertisement makes it seem like all of the highly intelligent people they want to recruit will be designing satellites and making automobiles better and safer. Making the world better; creating technology of the future - sounds like a cool job.
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These weapons are used to kill people. I don't care if you say that they kill "bad people"; a human being is a human being. Who am I, who are you and who are we to attempt to justify the loss of a life? Raytheon designs products intended to kill people, and the Kansan sold them space to advertise. I don't like that. Journalism is all about ethics. The most challenging aspect of the industry is attempting to make money without selling your soul in the process.
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in the process. The Kansan probably got a lot of money for the humongous ad, but at what cost? How many of this university's bright minds will go to that Raytheon booth, and sign up to work for a company that makes money when they figure out a new way to kill people? It doesn't seem right, and I thought this newspaper would have known that.
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