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》 OUR VIEW
U.S. must stop global warming
Within the lifetimes of most KU students, the global warming debate has evolved from fringe topic of concern to heated clash of warring causes. The rhetoric has accelerated in recent years as climate scientists continued to warn of looming danger, even as Senator James Inhofe, the recently departed chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, denounced global warming as a hoax. The cause was even hurt in popular culture by books like "State of Fear," the bestseller of dubious scientific foundation whose author, the once great Michael Crichton, received an award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
But last Friday's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that global warming could now be considered "unequivocal" and that there was 90 percent certainty that human activity is driving the trend. The tone of the debate is prepared to shift. For those who would denounce this report as merely the work of high-handed United Nations scientists, consider this; the Wall Street Journal recently reported that energy company lobbyists are quietly acknowledging the reality of global warming, simply to engineer their own changes before a government forces change upon them. The existence of global
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I'm hoping the girl I saw fall on the 13th Street hill is okay.
--warming can no longer be called hypothetical when even oil companies are ceding the point.
To the girl in the Underground wearing all white, fuzzy sweatpants this morning: Thank you for being the only good thing in our Monday, from the guys sitting
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To the ghost on the 4th Floor of GSP; I found your underwear.
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Somebody pooped in a tuba, and now Murphy Hall smells like said pooped-tuba. Today was a
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According to the e-mail I got from KU, the government now controls time. Awesome.
But the good news, according to the panel, is that we can alter the effects of global warming by taking prompt and decisive action. While it is too late to completely blunt the outcome for the very near future, the livelihood of our planet tomorrow can be aided by action today. The most obvious areas that require immediate change are fossil fuel effects, including the continued burning of oil and coal. Investments in alternative and clean energy have been granted only lip service for too long, and continued exploration and development in these areas is vital.
To the RAs in Corbin: I was drinking in my room.
to get into the game, anyway.
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Though "global" warming inherently requires a "global" solution, the United States must take the lead in this policy fight. With a scant five percent of the world's population, we as a nation produce roughly a quarter of emissions, giving us the ignoble title of world leader. This is a perfect opportunity for us to use our global clout and leadership for an urgent cause, and to set the agenda for the rest of the world. The United States must act now to avert the impending consequences of global warming.
If you're willing to root for A&M, maybe you didn't deserve
McKay Stangler for the editorial board.
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Free for All, this is Scooby-Doo. Not only do I not smell, but the loss was not because of us, and I did not try to set campus on fire. Thank you very much, and
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>> COMMENTARY
You have no idea how happy it made me when I opened the paper and the free-for-All was dominating the page today.
Pens, paper not all there is to good students
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Hey, Free-for-All, it's February 6th, and I love you, because you're really big today. But there's at least 15 columns about the stupid game in here. Enough.
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First of all, it's not Lew Perkins' fault that you couldn't get into the basketball game, and second, if you knew how much he did for this athletics department you'd put your foot in your mouth, and your foot is probably really dirty
and stinky
Megan, watch out for buses.
Are they smoking a bong or a hookah on the Wescoe beach?
To the basketball game we wear blue. Not red, not white, not green, definitely not purple, but blue. Please wear blue.
This is for all those people who have searched endlessly down isles full of office supplies looking for answers in 20-packs of ballpoint pens. This is not a guide to what pen is best suited to a college student's needs, though. It simply is a reminder that looking like a good student doesn't make you one.
Last night, I was sitting in my English class, and I watched this graduate student who looked like he belonged in some sort of Calvin Klein ad (the stubble, the white unbuttoned shirt, the curly black hair), preparing for class. And I was thinking this guy looks like he has it together. He's an English grad. He looks organized with his file folders, legal pad, highighter and $5 dollar pen. He actively participating, and he just made a Yeats joke. The teacher is laughing.
Now you might not like or even be familiar with W. B. Yeats. But you are familiar with that student that has it together, that seems to somehow be connected with the teacher.
It's like he read the lesson plan before class started.
No surprise that this is the same student who gets As on all his tests and
papers. You wonder how he does it, I walked home last night trying to put together a formula for how I could be like this grad student.
BY BRYAN DYKMAN
Growing the stubble should be easy enough. As for the rest, I'll go to Office Depot and buy some file folders and legal pads. Maybe they'll even match. As for the pen, spare no expense.
And as I wondered looking for a Dr. Grip, I thought: whom am I kidding? There is no shopping spree in the world that would cover the pens and paper clips I would need to raise myself to this guy's level.
But what was more alarming was
BY BRYAN DYKMAN
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINION@KANSAN.COM
that I had actually considered that office supplies would turn things around. I actually convinced myself, and the friend that gave me a ride, that these multi-enabled Players
multi-colored flags
would be the difference between an undergrad and a graduate student.
But like I said at the beginning, this is a column for those who suffer from a similar misconception: that pens and legal pads can change the kind of student you are. After all, I come to bury office supplies, not praise them.
Wait a second; I just made a Shakespeare joke. And from one of my favorite plays, too. That part in "Julus Caesar" where Mark Antony turns to Antony and says "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
Sure, it maybe over-quoted just a little bit, but it marks the beginning of a speech designed to manipulate the public. In essence, it's how every politician after Anthony wants to start his speech but can't because it's already been written. And not by a politician but by a bard.
I can really get into this English thing, which is seems like such a better investment than trying to match this grad student in appearance and knowledge. This will prove to be good for my sense of individualism and my wallet. I think that sometimes I get caught up in trying to look like a good student and forget just to be one.
Luckily I'm in Shakespeare this semester, and we won't be covering tragedies until the end of the semester.
Plenty of time for me to come into some folders.
Dykman is a Westwood freshman in English.
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One thing we have done well is the recycling program. While it is helpful to our environment, recy
》 LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Sunny delight:solar panels needed at KU
One night I sat in my room with a few friends and used Google Earth. None of us had looked at the program in a while, but we were discussing spring break plans and decided to look around the United States to see where we could go. We noticed the resolution of the remote areas in some of the states were substantially crisper than in past experiences using the program. We scrolled over to The University of Kansas to see how the images have changed in our neck of the woods.
To our surprise the images were very clear. We could see the painted layhawk in the middle of the football stadium and our cars parked on the streets. We then looked at the tops of all the buildings on campus, but the detail on the buildings wasn't the kind of detail that was on the football field. It wasn't because of the clarity of the images but the reflection of the sun off the roofs of the buildings distorted the images.
It was recently reported in the Kansas that the University received a barely passing grade of a C- on greening practices and endowment policies.
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Our University seems like a very good candidate for this type of renewable energy. As Google Earth showed, we have many buildings on our campus that are free of obstruction and would allow for sunlight to contact solar panels.
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California State University recently teamed up with SunEdison the largest solar energy company in the country, to construct solar panels on top of buildings on campus. According to Chico News, CSU's newspaper, "SunEdison is covering the $2.8 million cost to install and operate the solar arrays over the course of a 20-year contract with the University." Within three years the energy savings from the solar panels will offset the cost of the installation.
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cling shouldn't be the only thing that our University does to protect our Earth.
With renewable energy on our campus, the University would not only help the world's fight against global warming, but also maintain the reputation Lawrence has as an innovative and environmentally conscious city.
For any questions, call Courtney Hagen or Natalie Johnson at 848-4810 or e-mail natalie.kansan.com. General questions should be directed to the editor at editor@kansan.com
Jason Ptaszek
Minnnetka, Minn., junior
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This was not mere "confusion", as Marchiony would have us believe, but a grievous error that could have been avoided if the Athletics Department would get their priorities straight. Instead of blaming students for saving seats, Jim Marchiony, Lew Perkins, and the rest of the Department, who are only interested in profits, should apologize to the students who waited in the cold. Students should come first at The University of Kansas and not shoulder the blame for the incompetence and greed of their Athletics Department.
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stated, not all of the students (including myself) were able to find seats. We were forced to wander illicitly from aisle to aisle, and only witnessed the final ten minutes of the game.
After finally entering Allen Fieldhouse, we were shuffled around between overstressed PR administrators and overextended crowd security. Unlike Marchiomy
Despite arriving over an hour and a half before tip-off, the security guards informed the throng of students that the game had been oversold by several hundred tickets. Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, however, blamed students already in the fieldhouse for saving seats and refusing to move. This is an absurd diversion from the real issue at hand, considering students are allocated a limited amount of tickets to games.
》 LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Student fans wrongly shut out in cold
As a student who was locked outside Allen Fieldhouse in the sub-freezing weather before Saturday night's basketball game, I was infuriated when I read the Athletic Department's ridiculous explanation of the situation.
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