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BROWER: Rivalries are good for college sports but some fans take them too seriously. Cheer for your school without behaving like a child. See kansan.com for more opinions and Free for All comments
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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OPINION
OUR VIEW
Register your bike to deter thieves
Bike thieves have plagued campus again this semester and it's time for students to fight back by registering their bicycles with the Lawrence Police Department.
For 25 cents, Lawrence police will give you a sticker license to place on your bicycle. You get a copy of the registration, which includes your bike's serial number.
Bike licenses deter thieves. A smart thief will avoid stealing a bike with an affixed license. The license makes stolen bikes easier for police to identify, so police are more likely to catch criminals riding or transporting stolen bikes.
The license also makes selling a stolen bicycle more difficult. No one — pawn shop or otherwise — wants to buy stolen property easily identified as such.
If recovered by police, your
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I just came out of the Underground, and two guys were talking in-depth about Xena, the Warrior
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bike is more likely to be returned to you. The license and registration provide information that the Lawrence Police Department and the KU Public Safety Office need to contact you and return your property.
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I need a rich boyfriend. I don't even care if it is your parents' money. I just need you to have a
I don't think you try too hard to be funny, Eric Jorgensen. I love reading your stuff. P.S. You are cute.
Sgt. Dan Ward, spokesman for the Lawrence Police Department, says that people most often steal bikes for immediate transportation and dump them later. When Lawrence police recover a bike, they usually can't determine the bike's owner. The police recover more bikes than are reported stolen, Ward says, so they sell the unclaimed bikes at auctions.
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They just discovered a real, live Jayhawk in South America. This deserves to be front-page news.
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OK, there are two things I hate in this world: Turtlenecks and people who wear turtlenecks. Especially sweater turtlenecks.
If you own a bike, get a license at the Judicial & Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St.
Spangles does not have fine dining.
My roommate got drunk and pissed in my laundry basket, too. I know how you feel.
How come anteaters never get sick? Because they are full of antibodies
Hey freshmen; it is Monday and I don't think they are charging cover to get into class, so you can go ahead and take off that wrist band you got at The Hawk.
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To all of you who think the Little House on the Prairie dresses are hot:
I have news for you. They are ugly,
they were ugly and they will still be
unly tomorrow.
Steve Lynn for the editorial board.
ualv tomorrow.
after an opposing player scored on us. I felt anger towards him. He had no right to score on us, I thought. But then I had to step back and realize just how stupid I was acting.
I have a hair on my tongue. Do you know how much I hate that?
after an opposing player scored on us. I felt anger towards him. He had no right to score on us, I thought. But then I had to step back and realize just how stupid I was acting.
I am just going to go on the record right now and say: I love
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Last weekend I ended up going home with this girl, and she told her friends that I had absolutely no game. Now I am wondering what would have happened if I had
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I bet my roommate $5 I would be in Free for All. Where is my
I am looking for some sperm banks in Lawrence because I am a little low on cash.
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I am man enough to admit: I love the new Beyonce song.
Abe Lincoln was a bad, bad
after an opposing player scored on us. I felt anger towards him. He had no right to score on us, I thought. But then I had to step back and realize just how stupid I was acting.
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I just saw a guy on a bike run a stop sign and almost get hit by a truck. And you know what? I was
after an opposing player scored on us. I felt anger towards him. He had no right to score on us, I thought. But then I had to step back and realize just how stupid I was acting.
To the tough guy who is going to punch off a ticket writer's head: What kind of car do you drive?
Is it sad that I only read the paper for the Free for All?
I can't believe David Linhart called someone a "urinal cracker." I'm going to e-mail this article to my uncle; he is a racist plumber. He
I saw a flock of geese flying south for the winter, and I thought of the Mighty Ducks.
They better be building a Taco Bell on top of the Underground. If they aren't, the construction is
I don't get Sex and the City. Is it about three hookers and their
Why would you ever wear a K-State sweatshirt on campus?
--after an opposing player scored on us. I felt anger towards him. He had no right to score on us, I thought. But then I had to step back and realize just how stupid I was acting.
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after an opposing player scored on us. I felt anger towards him. He had no right to score on us, I thought. But then I had to step back and realize just how stupid I was acting.
--after an opposing player scored on us. I felt anger towards him. He had no right to score on us, I thought. But then I had to step back and realize just how stupid I was acting.
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COMMENTARY
Fans take college rivalries too seriously, act immature
BY CHRIS BROWER
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINION@KANSAN.COM
Muck Fizzou. You can't spell sucks without K-S-U. Is anyone else getting bored with this stuff?
School rivalry can be a good thing. A little emotion never hurt in making a game more exciting, but when we're yelling obscenities and trying to taunt the other team, you have to step back to realize that what we're doing is extremely corny.
Instead our taunts and T-shirts make us look really immature. Like four-year-old kids in the sandbox, we put down the other kids in an attempt to gain power over them. While the players on the field or court generally act civil, we junp up and down in the audience barking slurs, thinking what we do actually has an effect, when in reality it likely doesn't.
For starters, who are we? We're college students. Who are the players on the field or court? College students. So why are we trying to turn every game into some sort of gladiatorial event, yelling cheesy taunts in a weak attempt to frazzle the other team?
I find myself getting caught up in it, too. I can think of a few basketball games at which I stood brooding
I've been at basketball games when a fan of the opposing team was in the stands. A few disgruntled students took it upon themselves to start trash-talking the other person and, sadly, the other person fired back. I can't help but think how pathetic
this makes our school look. Just because they root for a different team, should we be bad-mouthing people who come to see a game in our fieldhouse?
At least we've stopped tearing down goalposts at
If you're going to taunt players and distract them, at least be original. Next time a player comes to the free throw line, yell out your favorite recipe for apple upside-down cake.
ously people take college rivalries, as if they were something of importance. I've had people badmouth me for the simple fact I attend the University of Kansas. How pathetic is that? Luckily, I've never felt the need to go. "Oh yeah, well the fact that you go to Nebraska means ... you suck!" Because at the end of the day, the fact we go to different schools means absolutely nothing. Why are we using it as fuel to start
football games. What kind of corny, barbary tradition was that?
Fan #1: "Dude! We won the game! What should we do?"
Fan #2: " ... Destrov the field!"
I'm happy that I've never seen a basketball game in which students ran onto the court and carried off the basketball goal. I've yet to hear of a golf tournament where a student ripped apart the bunker and then carried a piece of the fairway down Mass. Street.
Despite how corny this stuff is, it is really entertaining to see how seri-
a fire?
If you're going to attempt to taunt players and distract them, at least be original about it. There's nothing more boring than going to games and hearing students try the same tricks that never work. Next time a player comes to the free throw line
in a basketball game do something other than yell "You suck!" or "Miss it!" Instead, put some originality into it. Yell out your favorite recipe for apple upside-down cake. Or how about yelling out all the state capitals. I don't know about you, but that would really distract me.
So the lesson is simple: Enjoy the games. Bring some emotion to it. But all the childish insults should stop.
Brower is an Overland Park junior in creative writing.
COMMENTARY
Creative costumes draw more attention
BY TERESA LO
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINION@KANSAN.COM
In about two weeks, many of us will celebrate Halloween, a holiday characterized by delicious candy corn, carved pumpkins, and of course, slutty outfits worn by normally conservatively dressed ladies.
What do you want to be? A nurse? No, a slutty nurse. A police officer? No, a busy police officer. A kitten? No ... you get the idea.
This phenomenon was captured in Mean Girls when Cady states, "Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it."
And it's true. Browse the racks of any Halloween store or online, and you will find that most female costumes show some obvious sex appeal. However, when all ladies dress sexy, they tend to blend in together and the entire point of looking hot and gaining attention is lost. For proof of this, look at any photo of Hugh Hefner and his league of blonde girlfriends. Sure, they are pretty, but when they are all together they all look the same.
That is why I propose that ladies try something new to get noticed this Halloween. I propose that they wear food costumes. After all, food ranks at the top of the list of some people's forbidden desires. There are a variety of cheap costumes that could be made. Dress up in red and wear a green hat. Strawberry! Tape purple balloons to your body. Grapes! You and your friends could show up as the Fruit of the Loom team!
For those who really want to go all out and get attention, dressing like a hot dog would really do the trick. I am sure a hot dog costume would be expensive, but the joy one would spread would be well worth the price. Imagine the dirty double-endentrees one, man or woman, would receive if they showed up at a party dressed up as a hot dog.
"Hey, baby. You want to see my weiner?"
"I can already see your weiner."
"Awesome."
The possibilities are endless.
The possibilities are endless.
Over all, I don't think there is anything wrong with dressing slutty on Halloween. I did it once my freshman year, and it was fun getting ready, taking pictures, and laughing with my friends. Yet, if one really wants to stand out, then don't be afraid to try something new. Be funny. Be scary. Sometimes those costumes are the most fun.
Lo is a Coffeyville senior in history.
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