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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011
opinion
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FFA is now more competitive..B.S. it
now just takes too long to read.
It's spring, which means rodeo season. Broncos, bulls and broads.
If I can hear your headphones over my headphones, your headphones are too loud!!!!
I saw a cute girl walking today who was smoking... I saw a girl walking today.
I don't really know much about KUnited or Renew KU but they need to stop chalking the sidewalks... It's getting annoying and messing up my new kicks!
Just took a shower where I used my bodywash as shampoo and my shampoo as body wash and didn't realize it until I got out. I probably should not have stayed up all night to study for my exam.
Facebook knows about that regrettable hookup from last year. How else would someone with no mutual friends or networks just show up on "people you might know"? Creenvy
Just want to thank the president for considering a paycut to the military. It's cool. Not like I want to pay for my tuition or anything.
Can I declare Selby going to the NBA for him? We all know he is going.
I never want to graduate because then my drinking tendencies will be considered problematic...
I'm trying to get hit by a bus to get free tuition. Watch out drivers, I'm a jumper!
Remember to have an attitude of gratitude. This will bring more great things into your life!
Free tuition for getting hit by a KU bus?? 1) I call B.S. 2) In case it's not B.S., I will be standing on Jayhawk Boulevard tomorrow ALL DAY!!
Why in God's name would I have a banana in my pocket to begin with? Of course it's an erection!
I'll know I have met the girl of my dreams because she will make sandwiches better then Subway.
Oh look, people who think campus politics actually matter. How quaint.
My friend always gets into Free for All and I really want to. To be clever and witty, I can do in person, but I guess not in paper form.
Editor's note: You're right, but we still love ya.
Dear Student Senate, I don't vote because neither coalition has ever represented my interests and I don't want to legitimize that.
I know you think you're fast, but you're never going to outrun a car. Therefore, get off the road and run on the damn sidewalk.
I don't miss anything about you. But I DO miss your super hot roommate. The truth comes out...
My English professor quoted Justin Bieber and he didn't even know it.
To see desired changes, students need to vote
EDITORIAL
Once again, Student Senate elections are in full swing, with Renew KU and KUnited both making presidential bids this year. During this election, students should be respectful of the commitment that both coalitions are making to benefit the University and the campus community. Regardless of whether students prefer Renew KU or KUnited's platforms, they should take the initiative to acknowledge the efforts of both groups by participating in an election that is of tremendous importance to the entire University and student body.
ferred representatives. Voting in these Senate elections can have a direct effect on what services are provided to students, and those who wish to have their money spent in a way that is beneficial to their interests have an obligation to cast their vote in this current election.
The allocations of large portions of student fees are directed by those elected to Student Senate, and students have an opportunity to influence where part of their tuition money is spent by selecting their pre-
The candidates for both coalitions have expressed their strong desires to properly serve the student body and to represent the interests of students at the University. Both groups have clearly demonstrated their motivation and willingness to work for the benefit of students, and now all that students have to do in return is vote.
— D.M. Scott and Mandy Matney are the opinion editors.
CARTOON
THE TROUBLE HERE
IS THAT NOT ENOUGH BEER
IS AVAILABLE ON CAMPUS!
THE TROUBLE HERE IS THAT THERE'S TOO MUCH LEARNING ON CAMPUS!
DO TWO
MAKE A
PLATFORMS RIGHT ?
Nicholas Sambaluk
Do you care about Student Senate?
□Yes, it represents the student body.
□It's important, but I don't care.
□No. They just dress up and play Congress.
Vote now at KANSAN.COM/POLLS
and leave a comment
NATIONAL
Pay for those serving the country should not depend on shutdown
The government came perilously close to a shutdown on Friday. Such an incident would have directly affected some students at the University.
There are more than 300 students on campus who have served or are currently serving in the armed forces. For those who are serving, their pay would have been cut in half. The status of the GI Bill of Rights, which benefits many veterans, was still up in the air when the shutdown was possible.
In an April 7 article in Stars and Stripes, a military-related periodical, the Veterans Affairs (VA) office refused to comment on whether the shutdown would have affected the GI educational benefits. One area where the shutdown would have affected the VA was the manning of help lines that are meant to answer questions for veterans who need assistance with their benefits. Not only could GI benefits have been cut, the veterans would not have even been able to find out what their options were in the situation
It is a shame and should be a crime when politics, not economics, affect the pay of the men and women who have given up their time to serve our nation. While some veterans have slush funds to make it through such times, many rely on these benefits to pay their way through college, mainly to pay such necessities as rent.
Some of these students are parents and face further problems. On top of attending college, they now must content with the hardship of finding additional income while trying to finish their degrees.
Vietnam-era veterans fought long and hard to secure these benefits.
BY AARON HARRIS aharris@kansan.com
Current and prior generations have come a long way to ensure that our veterans are taken care of when they return home. That benefits would end because of the politics of a few is a slap in the face to those who fought to provide for others.
This whole process has been an embarrassment to our nation. Our nation came close to the government being shut down and the very men and women who serve in the defense of this nation would have been left unpaid but expected to work.
To those on campus that this affects, and anyone that has been embarrassed by the actions of our Congress, please write your legislators. Remind them that their duty is not to themselves, but to those that vote for them. Perhaps they should take a cut in their own pay to realize what is happening to those that are affected by their actions.
It is not much to ask for our service members to be paid and for our veterans to receive the benefits that have been promised and fought for.
Aaron Harris is a senior in journalism and history from Kansas City, Kan.
CULTURE
Leave the scientific terms in the classroom
Naturally, I was blasting Katy Perry's new single "ET" while jogging on campus. I came to a sudden halt when Kanye's chorus came up. He sings, "IMA DISROBE YOU, THEN IMA PROBE YOU." What?
Did he compare the scientific procedure of examining something with a slender medical instrument to sexual intercourse?
This can be seen in another fairly recent song, "Born this Way" by Lady Gaga. Gaga explains in her usual 10-minute, episodic music video about the simultaneous mitotic birth of a good and evil race on GOAT, a government owned alien territory. Offspring are
I felt violated and quickly changed the song. It did not help that I watched the music video that evening. I was entirely creeped out when she floated in space looking like an avatar alien. This song is just another example of how our pop culture intertwines and abuses the world of future science.
BY MONICA SAHA msaha@kansan.com
There is not a gay gene or a transsexual gene. I won't get into the nature versus nurture debate, but come on, Gaga, this theory was just an excuse for you to dance semi-naked in a pool of men and women.
actually born through meiosis.
She also claims we have the same DNA, but are born differently. Gaga infers that our genetic makeup is both biologically and behaviorally driven.
This biological determinism is not true and vastly archaic.
actually born through meiosis.
(I do appreciate the idea of accepting all.)
S skewed science is further portrayed in films like "Splice" or "Human Centipede." "Splice" explores "splicing" DNA to create a human-animal hybrid for medical purposes. However, the movie becomes sexual and violent when the new creature Dern tries to seduce the scientists and kill off the boss of the pharmaceutical company.
The intention of science was there, but the movie was a thriller because of passion and violence, not medical advancement. "Human Centipede" is an example of medicine gone wrong. Surgeons are meant to help the greater good and alleviate human pain. Rather, Dr. Hieter, the deranged surgeon wants to create a centipede by connecting the anuses of the three victims. This does not further the common good. It is sick, disgusting horror.
Music and films use science to capture the interest of the human mind.
This would be fine if science were accurately or tastefully portrayed. Show me a horror film on the abuse of antibiotics, creating a superbug. Adding science in the mix of sexual glamour and violent sadism is unnecessary.
So please, Katy Perry, stick with your skin-tight jeans and catchy melodies, but leave science out of it. DNA is meant for textbooks and replication in lab work.
Infections deal in terms of bacteria, not love. Probing is meant for scientific exploration, not sex. Most importantly, I feel like an idiot dancing to "ALIEN SEXI"
Saha is a junior in neurobiology from Overland Park.
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