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opinion
friday, february 6, 2004
EDITORIAL BOARD
University flakes on decision to cancel classes
The 1 p.m. cancellation of classes yesterday didn't mean much to most students. They'd already braved ridiculous road conditions, bitter cold and four inches of snow to get to campus and attend classes.
OURVIEW
The snow blizzard that caused class cancellations had warning signs. Next time, cancel class earlier.
around the same time classes were canceled, these students found out those buses wouldn't be taking them back down those hills. The bus system was shut down for the day. The University tried to help students by having an on-call service for rides from 1:30 p.m.to 3:30 p.m.,but many students did not know it was available.
Many students made the trip up to campus on KU buses, which chugged up the hills despite the weather. However,
Having the afternoon off was more of a booby prize than cause for celebration as students relayed stories of snow-soaked clothes and near-misses in their cars en route to class.
It's not as if the University couldn't have planned for this onslaught of flakes. Every TV meteorologist told us Tuesday night of the upcoming 4-inch attack, and the snow began failing late Wednesday, adding rapidly to the already-slick roads.
The University has to act more quickly, for both the safety and convenience of KU students. Perhaps an overnight cancellation was not justified, but the roads were covered with inches of snow by the time the first classes were beginning on campus. Action should have been taken then, and classes canceled for the rest of the snow-filled day.
Every hour the University keeps classes open is another hour of danger, opening the university to potential litigation and students to possible injury as cars slide out of control across slippery roads.
Also, as those who did make it to class can attest, classes on days like yesterday are never productive. Teachers let
Wayne Stayskal/KRT Campus
class out early or cancel it on their own knowing that very few students will be able to make it to campus.
When classes were finally canceled, the decision was made for the wrong reasons. Provost David Shulenberger said that classes were cancelled in order to clean up the campus so that classes could be held tomorrow.
The leaders at the University need to shift their attention from tomorrow's problems and focus on what is happening today. Yesterday's late decision to cancel classes was a classic case of too little, too late for the wet, cold students of the University, who were too busy preparing for the dangerous trip home to care.
Free for All Call 864-0500
To the sisters who built the snowmen: I had fun knocking those things down.
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I was just wondering what the point is of printing crossword solutions if you are going to print the same solutions in every day regardless of what the puzzle is?
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Don't you hate it when you really want to listen to some music and all of the stations on the radio have advertising? It really sucks.
--of U.S. intelligence, U.S. troops are still dying in Iraq, suicide bombings kill 56 in that "liberated" land, 244 pilgrims die on the Hajj in Mecca, but all is overshadowed by a "wardrobe malfunction."
Will somebody please leave McCollum, so that I can have a parking spot.
Please don't cry it will be OK.
Just when it thought that it couldn't get any worse, the wife beater was tucked into the spandex pants.
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Your answering machine is too loud. Turn it down.
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Just because you got a brand new Ford Focus doesn't mean that you need to take up three spots.
of U.S. intelligence, U.S. troops are still dying in Iraq, suicide bombings kill 56 in that "liberated" land, 244 pilgrims die on the Hajj in Mecca, but all is overshadowed by a "wardrobe malfunction."
I spent last night in Paris. Ask me to see the video.
The hot tub is not a urinal and that urinal is not a hot tub.
of U.S. intelligence, U.S. troops are still dying in Iraq, suicide bombings kill 56 in that "liberated" land, 244 pilgrims die on the Hajj in Mecca, but all is overshadowed by a "wardrobe malfunction."
I was just driving down Naismith and at the corner of Naismith and 23rd I just saw a Volkswagon disappear into a pot hole. I just thought that you should know that.
of U.S. intelligence, U.S. troops are still dying in Iraq, suicide bombings kill 56 in that "liberated" land, 244 pilgrims die on the Hajj in Mecca, but all is overshadowed by a "wardrobe malfunction."
Hey, I just went to the Natural History Museum. I just wanted to say that the Comanche, the dead horse, rocks my world.
When it is icy out why does KU put down sand instead of salt. Salt melts the ice, sand doesn't. Sand just makes a huge mess.
Since when did the host of Hollywood Squares teach physics at KU?
of U.S. intelligence, U.S. troops are still dying in Iraq, suicide bombings kill 56 in that "liberated" land, 244 pilgrims die on the Hajj in Mecca, but all is overshadowed by a "wardrobe malfunction."
Two north girls are the hottest. Woo hoo.
What are you supposed to do when the guy you are seeing sleep walks into your roommate's bed and sleeps with her?
To all of girls in Corbin who think that it is cool to drive the deskie's nuts: It's not.
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Come on City of Lawrence, Salt trucks don't work when you use sand in them.
I was just wondering if anyone has ever seen a camel run? It is so graceful.
of U.S. intelligence, U.S. troops are still dying in Iraq, suicide bombings kill 56 in that "liberated" land, 244 pilgrims die on the Hajj in Mecca, but all is overshadowed by a "wardrobe malfunction."
I would like a Whataburger in Lawrence.
KANSAN REPORT CARD
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Student Senate Web site updates: Kyle Johnson, Student Senate Stud Ex chair, has responded to the Web site complaints. Asking student senators to chip in, Johnson has been posting senate progress reports on the Web site: www.ku.edu/~senate
Frenzied fans: "I Eat Poo" doesn't exactly help Kansas' rep as the home of the Big 12's classiest fans, but the rabid crowd at Monday's Missouri game certainly gave the Jayhawks a lift in a close Border War contest.
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Delivery stores not delivering: If students could get up to campus, and many of them did, Jimmy Johns or especially Yello Sub should be able to deliver on a day where delivery is a must.
Birth control prices on the rise: Watkins pharmacy just increased Ortho-cyclen prices 170 percent. For sex-obsessed students, this is just one more price increase as if tuition and student fees weren't enough.
KU grounds crews dropped some snow-bombs on innocent by-standers: Students weren't the only ones feeling sorry for themselves in the snow. A smug grounds-keeper was seen taking his frustration out by swerving around campus aiming snow removal towards students.
MUSIC OF MY MIND
'Wardrobe malfunction' hits headlines; superstar exploits cover up real stories
COMMENTARY
Cornelius Minor opinion@kansan.com
In 1993, Christmas, for me, fell on September 16. Janet Jackson was on the cover of the new Rolling Stone. It was what me and my freakishly hormonal contemporaries considered to be THE photo of Janet—the famous one with an anonymous set of hands covering her breasts.
"Put me on a planet, damn it, where all the girls look like Janet" — Treach (of Naughty By Nature), "It's On" from the 1993 album, 19 Naughty III
Though it does not sound like much by today's hyper-sexual standards, I dreamt roughly three days worth of pointless adolescent daydreams about what was behind those hands. But dreams do fade. As those particular dreams did, bigger things began to occupy my consciousness. With the passage of time came calculus, came graduation, came adulthood, came career — then came Super Bowl XXXVIII.
With a suggestive hand motion and a poorly-written song lyric, Justin Timberlake showed the millions watching what
At the time I was a raging pubescent 10th grader, and that, in my 15 year-old mind, was art. Patrick Demarchelier, the Rolling Stone photographer, was a lucky genius. My parents, however, in agreement with the dominant media at the time, thought that the world had gone to hell.
Demarchelier and Rolling Stone did not. I never thought that old 10th-grade desires would resurface and be realized like this.
As I've gone about life this week, I've been mildly disturbed and infinitely frustrated by the fact that Janet's breast — the object of my fascination for all of three days when I was 15 — has become an object of national import for what now is going on a week.
I guess the world has gone to hell again.
Though I understand the issues of public decency and community standards involved with what is sadly becoming "the Janet Jackson debate," I am reminded, yet again, that public life in America is not represented by stories of its common people, but by the results of the elite.
Our journalists do not tell our stories. Bush announced its major investigation
It's not that the nation's fascination with Janet Jackson has gone too far; it's much bigger than that. Our obsession with celebrity and consumer culture has marauded our sense of who we are. I meet so many people who define themselves by what they consume—"Hi I'm a Starbucks coffee drinker." "I'm a Strokes fan," "I'm a vegetarian." When I introduce myself as Cornelius, folks don't know how to approach me. Conversely, when I introduce myself as a Hip hop enthusiast or as a video gamer, all of a sudden folks know exactly what to expect.
Though I'm in the midst of my own struggle to get past the activity of boxing people into prefabricated consumer units, it has become increasingly clear to me that our ways of seeing and knowing have become limited to the paradigms that superstars and products have built for us. It's hard for us think about love, for instance, without attaching it to a song or to a movie, similarly our concept of family and friends is fueled by the relationships exemplified on sitcoms.
We elect presidents, governors and representatives, but to whom do we really look for leadership? This was a big
week in the history of the world. We live in the kind of socio-political climate where every week is.
Though I agree that we should grapple publicly with such issues, we allowed Justin Timberlake's quasi-violation of Janet Jackson to dominate our national consciousness this week. Have we thought of the women whose rights are eclipsed in more dramatic ways every day? The freedom of thought upon which we pride ourselves is nothing more than a pretty mask for our collective willingness to remain ignorant.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love Janet. Though I don't share the same love for Justin that other folks may exhibit, I do dig the things that make pop culture so interesting. It's going to take a conscious effort, though, for me not to let the things that I buy or the celebrities that I admire to define my existence. For我, there is no freedom in that kind of definition, and I seriously doubt that there is freedom there for any of us.
Minor is an Atlanta graduate student in American studies. He is the co-host of Voice Activated on KJHK 90.7FM on Thursday evenings, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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