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》 OUR VIEW
City's total ban of skateboards on campus needs revision
We support the efforts of the students who want to make longboarding legal on campus, but we would go further: Allow skateboarding and longboarding with some limitations.
The city of Lawrence has prohibited skateboarding in some public areas since August 1987, with the most recent revision of the ordinance being made in July 1996. At the University of Kansas, the restricted area spans from West Campus Road to 13th Street and 1,000 feet from either side of Jayhawk Boulevard.
The interests of both skateboarders and people who use the sidewalks must be weighed and a compromise reached.
Many students rely on skateboards for transportation and skateboarding generally poses no more of a threat than does driving an automobile or riding a bicycle or motorcycle.
However, some skateboarders may lack the same control drivers and bicyclists have and others might damage property by grinding ledges and handrails. We suggest that the city commissioners consider the policy of the University of Colorado at Boulder for guidance.
The university allows skateboarding on campus, but the skateboard's wheels must not leave the pavement while the rider skates. This rule prevents airborne skateboards from injuring pedestrians and damaging property. It's also not allowed on certain campus sidewalks during times of heavy pedestrian traffic.
Lt. Tim McGraw of the University of Colorado Police Department says that he hasn't seen an increase in skateboard-related injuries since the policy was implemented.
Riding a skateboard proficiently takes time and practice, so unskilled skateboarders should stay off their boards if they think they might pose a danger to themselves or others.
If Lawrence wants to accommodate all of its citizens, the city should rework its unfair blanket ban on skateboarding on campus.
Steve Lynn for the editorial board
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COMMENTARY
Three things to know about college men, wome
For Men
If you're a woman, look away! This section is for men only.
Men, women try to give us a bad rap, and it is undeserved. They think we don't listen, or that we just "don't care" in general.
Oh well, we don't really care if they think we don't listen. We men are great to our women, and they are lucky for us to be so genuine to them, even though they all think we are stupid, which is hurtful. Men are wise and wholesome.
Here are three things to know about University of Kansas women to better help your success with them.
1. Women think "Step Up" is a good movie.
Why? Because there is dancing, cheesy romance and a guy with his shirt off. Women like movies for the dumbest reasons.
"Step Up" is just the latest in the "Grease," "Dirty Dancing" and "Save the Last Dance" series. What this means for you is you either need to learn to enjoy these movies, or at least learn how to go into the ultimate, two-hour-long day dream.
At some point you will have to watch these movies, and if you're not on your best behavior, it's the
couch for you. If you're good, maybe you'll earn a treat, like Chinole.
Women really need to learn to appreciate "Predator."
2. Women have powerful senses.
Not only will they live longer than us, but if you so much as think about farting, she'll smell it.
They also have amazing hearing capabilities. So, go ahead and talk to that other girl. Just be careful. Keep it sly and cool like we always do, like Zack Morris, or even Sly from "California Dreams."
Women also have one more powerful sense. They're like blood-hounds when it comes to lies. If you lie to them, they'll know. Always have an alibi.
3. Women have naked pillow fights.
That's because the first rule of Secret Naked Pillow Fighting Club is you don't talk about Secret Naked Pillow Fighting Club. We know in our hearts there is such a club, and it is wonderful.
Ask any woman if they have naked pillow fights and if there is a secret pillow fighting society, and they will say no.
There is a secret woman covenant that meets randomly at night to have naked pillow fights.
For Women
If you're a man reading this, mind your own business for five minutes. Go do the Sudoku or something.
Women, sometimes you are hard on men, but it is totally deserved. It seems like they really just don't care most of the time. Not to mention how poorly they sometimes treat you.
Here are three things to know that may help you bear living with men.
And how can they not like movies like "Step Up?" It's got a good plot, stellar acting, dancing and the guy is super hot! Watch that movie with your boyfriend. If he behaves during it, reward him with Chipotle
1. Men are easily entertained.
Men are very immature by nature, as you all know. Give them a bag of Cheetos and an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie and you've bought yourself two hours of shopping time.
2. Men think they are smarter than you.
Men think they can feed you lines of crap, and that you will believe them. They lie incessantly, and think you will never find out
BY ERIC JORGENSEN
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINION@KANSAN.COM
why they blew you off.
Men think you don't realize he is talking to some random girl, even if you're right next to him. Is he really that dumb?
Yes, he is. Which brings us to our third point.
3. Men are super dumb.
Men are so dumb they actually think you have naked pillow fights with your friends. How ridiculous is that?
I promise, men are as dumb as they look.
They believe there is a Super Secret Naked Pillow Fighting Club. If a guy ever asks you if there is a club, say no and kick him in the shin, third grade recess style.
Jorgensen is a Baldwin City senior in journalism.
Women who wear less shouldn't be labeled 'sluts'
I recognize that Ms. Hartz's article on "less-is-more" (8/30, "KU women need to put on some clothes") is a tongue-in-cheek attempt to address the presence of skimpy outfits on campus, a visible result of a culture that objectifies and exploits the sexuality of women. I found parts of the article amusing enough; however, a few key blunders in Ms. Hartz's word choice left
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I am not one of the "skanky" perpetrators of whom she speaks. I prefer to keep my goods under wraps. Nonetheless, I was very upset that Ms. Hartz refers to scantily-clad women as "slut." A woman should never be labeled a slut simply because she dons a belly-baring tube top and a micro-mini. No matter how humorous Mrs. Hartz's arti-
me disappointed.
I would love if images of sexually objectified women disappeared from the media and from campus, but labeling women who let it all hang out as "sluts" sets any progress back a few decades or so.
COMMENTARY
Sept.11 exhibit reminds us what memorials mean
Katherine McCue Overland Park senior
Heroes live on the sixth floor of the Kansas Union.
that these women "asked for it."
cle is supposed to be, there is nothing funny about how the word "slut" is used. A detrimental and invalid association between skimpy clothing and promiscuity exists today. This ill-conceived relationship leads to situations where women are treated like sluts or whores, where women are harassed or even raped since their choice in clothes seems to give some people the impression
Immortalized in metal and print, the names and faces of the University's World War I veterans stare from opposing walls at those who take the stairs to the top floor of the Union.
Just down the hall from those man-sized memorials to an 80-year-old war lives Superman.
He has a small home: two framed comic book pages hang just past the elevators.
Except he's not really the hero here. He stands in for the men and women of United Flight 93, whose sacrifice prevented further tragedy on Sept.11.
It is an unexpected and poignantly appropriate memorial to events that still shape our lives.
"They're heroes of the highest order." Arnett said. "It was easy to connect them to a real-life Justice League."
Like the events of that day, though, even this simple comic isn't so easy to categorize. Arnett's parents, Carl and Melissa, were married on Sept. 11, 1967. They celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary the day the towers fell.
Arnett gave his parents the comic for their next anniversary in 2002. He said he wanted to try to give them their day back.
Maybe that's why it has stuck in the back of my head for the past five months. I discovered it while wandering the halls of the Union one afternoon. A reader had suggested I check out the World War I plaques
Later, Arnett asked David Mucci,
director of Memorial Unions, if he
would be interested in the work.
"I was looking for a way to tie everything together," he said. "From that day, from my life."
Mucci said the simplicity of the artwork attracted him.
Tell your stories. Listen to others.
Remember lest the memorials lose their meaning.
"There's not a lot of verbiage, it just cuts to the issue, the shock," he said. "It's a really simple, elegant piece. You walk into it and you're hit by it."
Arnett's comic will always tell a story. Future readers may find a different story or meaning in it, but the emotion will survive.
BY COURTNEY FARR
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINIONQNANKSAN.COM
Farr is a Scott City senior in Journalism.
Memorials without stories eventually fade — in color and richness. Few probably remember the stories of the men whose pictures hang just down from Arnett's Superman. In another generation, likely no one will be able to tell their stories.
As we strive to find eternal memorials to the people who died that day, let us not forget their humanity. I fear that we may end up losing their stories in our quest to build the perfect memorial or the tallest tower.
The contrast between the memorials fascinated me. The elder ones are but collections of names and faces. What should be two of the most personal aspects of a man rendered impersonal and cold by time and medium.
Later this month, the architect of Freedom Tower will be on campus discussing his vision for Ground Zero. The families of the passengers on Flight 93 are still working toward a memorial at the site of the crash.
on the sixth floor.
Then there is the comic. Just black ink on white paper. The musings of Arnett as he watches Superman flying overhead. It tells a story so much deeper and richer than that though. Loss, pain, confusion and hope wind their way through his words and drawings.
I've learned many things in life, but the greatest thing I've ever learned is: Candyland makes the best drinking game ever.
This goes out to Steve Irwin: Rest in peace buddy. We love you.
As we approach the five-year anniversary of Sept. 11, bureaucrats, survivors and victims' families talk of how and where to memorialize.
Dave Rulgh, associate opinion editor
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5 a.m. Monday, Labor Day. I just heard about the crocodile hunter. Rest in peace Steve Irwin. You were inspired to us all.
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To everybody that was commenting on my girlfriend's Muck Fizzou shirt at the game saying "We aren't playing Mizzou, why are you wearing that?": If you wake up in the morning and it is a Monday through Sunday, that is a day to
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