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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
opinion
This headache of mine is gonna make me shoot a cute baby bunny.
I never thought about yelling "fire" in a crowded theater until the Supreme Court gave me the idea. Which, by the way, is HILARIOUS.
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I really wish my parents had waited a month or so to conceive me. Last year, I turned 21 on Mother's Day and had a 7:30 final the next morning. This year I have a test and a major paper due the day after, and a massive group project I'll be working on.
I ALWAYS GOTTA POOP!
My 20th birthday is this Friday. So is the Royal Wedding. A royal party complete with British pop music and booze is born.
Lumberjack Club. Would this be something for females who love beards and plaid on men? Or men who like wearing plaid and have beards? Either way I like it.
I desperately wish I was Kate Middleton right now.
Wait wait wait! Hold up playa. There's a couch in the girls bathroom??! Well if that is some big ole BS...
I wonder what would happen if a sorority girl went missing. "Last seen wearing leggings, a large sweatsuit, Sperry's and carrying a Vera Bradley purse." That really narrows it down.
I can't believe Donald Trump is taking credit for Obama releasing his long-form birth certificate! What an idiot!
If you're gonna blare your music you might wanna choose a worlther genre than what my little sister listened to in middle school.
There's a girl in the bathroom at Anchutz curled up on the couch sound sleep ... air horn anyone?
I bet George Washington never imagined he'd be the number one cause of lapdances.
ACHOO!!!! I think I just caught a cold ... probably from the ice inside my soul. Yeah, that's probably it.
When the hell did I move to Seattle? The ever-present precipitation is only furthering my levels of apathy toward classes right now.
Now that I go to KU, I've found that I know a lot more about the different suburbs of Kansas City than I want to know.
Sometimes, I call KU Info knowing the answer to a question just see how much information they really know ... Then I call them out when they're wrong.
If you don't feel lucky just to be on this campus breathing in KU air then you should probably leave this beautiful school.
I have drunk six bottles of Smartwater tonight ... I don't feel any smarter. I'm sueing for false advertisement.
Math help room: a place where I accomplish nothing and stare at the hot math guys.
COMMENTARY
Freedom is found inside a gold-tin wrapper
I never thought a simple Chipotle burrito could upset me. But oh, it did just this past Sunday afternoon.
Chipotle, along with other fine dining choices, was closed Sunday. All for that damn rabbit and his eggs.
Ok. That's a bit of an exaggeration.
That's not what Easter is about, but
I'm still upset I didn't get my delicious
goodness wrapped in gold-tin foil.
Why must I suffer in my pursuit of culinary delights because of someone else's religion? This is America: land of freedom of religion,land of the free home of the fast-food lunch.
It seems that one is only allowed to have freedom of religion as long as it coincides with the majority, the
BY AARON HARRIS aaharris@kansan.com
Christian belief. Business shuts down on religious holidays and not just national holidays. Something seems askew there.
I can understand Christmas. It has turned into a commercial holiday and even Wal-Mart closes for it. Not much to argue when the monopoly that is
Wal-Mart decides to celebrate.
It's curious to see what the reaction would be if businesses such as fast food restaurants and grocery stores were owned by Jewish companies. Would Christians get angry if these businesses closed on Shavuot, or Yom Kippur? The look on someone's face cause they couldn't get a Big Mac due to a non-Christian, non-national holiday would be amazing.
Don't get me wrong here. I'm not anti-Christian. I believe you should follow your faith. However, this is not a Christian society, or at least its not supposed to be one. It isn't our recognized religion. We as a society don't have one.
We live in a democratic and capitalist country. We have the right to practice our own views. However, when does that hinder others from practicing their own? It's difficult to be open to religion, especially as an agnostic, when you have it thrown in your face by the shutting of a business because it's someone else's holiday.
To me freedom is freedom. It's pretty simple. And that means getting my Chipotle burrito when I want it.
Harris is a senior in Journalism and history from Kansas City, Kan.
No more Facebook topics on opinion page
I will keep this short to make my point. Can we please divert the school's attention and focus onto some other more pertinent subject than Facebook etiquette? The article today (April 25) was basically a list of five behaviors someone who is well-adjusted would probably not do in the first place.
I have nothing against Ms. Matney, but there has got to be something more interesting or edifying than Facebook. Between FFA and opinions, it is too much. Most articles you all post are interesting or humorous, but
some, namely social media opinions or other obvious social phenomena (e.g., Jersey Shore commentary), are a waste of our time, brainpower and most of all paper.
I would think the environmental clubs would see the apparent abuse of paper wasted for such drivel. Nothing personal to those who write these columns, but really? Facebook is old news unless it starts interacting with its user. Then maybe some trees should be cut down to cover that.
Mike Ragusa is in cell biology.
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POLITICS
'Rate My Professor' is the University's review section
It's the end of April, everybody! We only have, like, two and a half weeks of school left (and then one week of HELL), and the weather is being all wishy-washy like it always is, but sometimes there's a sun out! And you can see the shark being put in place to be jumped on "The Office" as it tries to make you cry every week for that a*sh*le (profanity averted via asterisks!) Michael Scott's departure this week.
Yep, we've reached the end of another year and a semester. I always say I am ready for the semester to end, because classes get old, man — unless they're History of Silent Film with Professor Michael Baskett. That class just had... it (starring Clara Bow!) But, yeah, this semester is so 2000 and late (right, Fergie?). I am ready to move onto pretentiously mocking fundamental Christians in my "Understanding the Bible" class next semester.
And I know that class is gonna rock, y'all, because I use ratemp professors. com (props Professor Paul Mirecki
BY CHANCE CARMICHAEL
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For those tragically not in the know, ratemyprofessors.com is a website on which students can post public ratings and critiques of their past professors. In the past, the controversial site has come under fire from professors (what a coincidence) and others who claim it is unreliable and irrelevant. You know, like that second rate, barely trafficked Wikipedia — which is, like, totally a lie machine and not an interesting tool that can provide its readers with zounds of sources.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, professors.
So, ratemyprofessors.com does have that weird chili pepper that for "hot"
- you got a smiley face).
professors and it probably has a few cleverly veiled lies floating around, but it has never let me down. I choose to believe that most college students realize what context clues are and if the review has some awful spelling and grammar or it is one negative review among tons of good reviews, it is probably not one to take too seriously.
However, if you're one of those hippies purely here for hula hooping and hashish then those angry, exaggerated reviews about how a professor totally follows the University's attendance policy might be the ones to pay attention to. It's a free country. Be useless and lazy if you want to be useless and lazy.
And professors, quit sweating over this website. You have to have some faith in your students. For instance, my favorite film professor, Professor Michael Baskett(FULL CIRCLE) has gotten a bad rap from University students on the website for being "hard FROWNFACE." So, his rating is low. But if you actually read the reviews, a lot of the students who complain
about the difficulty of his courses admit he's an amazing professor with a wealth of knowledge about film. So I totally ended up taking his class! If the reviewers' only complaints are basically "OH MY GOD HE TREATS THIS LIKE IT"A COLLEGE COURSE OR SOMETHING," then ignore it (unless you're one of them hauloooers).
Besides, people, we pay some hardcore dough for these classes. When you enroll each semester, you are basically making an enormous Amazon purchase. Why not have a review section? The reviews on ratemyprofesesors.com are like reviews on food, music or film.
Some reviewers are Armond Whites and some are Roger Eberts - you generally have to use a bit of common sense to figure out whether a review is reliable or not.
Carmichael is a junior in creative writing from Mulvane. Follow him on Twitter @ChanceComical.
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