Opinion
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MONDAY, AUGUST 16,2010
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Recapturing that move-in day feeling, one page of newsprint at a time
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M love-in day is a pain. If you live in student housing, like me, then
be in day is a pain.
If you live in student housing, like me, then you know that on Sunday you saw waves of people descend upon the residence and scholarship halls, sometimes with parents and siblings in tow, storming lobbies and common rooms everywhere, searching for the right paperwork and the right room.
While everyone's focused on signing the right papers and unpacking their stuff, it's easy to miss that move-in day represents one of the best ways for new students to see the diversity of the University. When students mingle
together and room doors are open it's hard to miss as introductions are made and stories exchanged.
That initial discovery of diversity can fade for students, though when friend groups and cliques are formed and many of the new interesting people that students have met inevitably fade into the background.
This semester we, that is associate opinion editor Shauna Blackmon and myself, want the Opinion page to be like those first few hours and days of the college experience when it seems you're meeting someone new every five minutes and encountering a million unfamiliar ideas every day.
Hawk Life
BY JONATHAN SHORMAN
jsforman@kansan.com
This is a page for ideas. Quirky ideas, intelligent ideas, inspiring ideas, smart ideas. It's a page for you to find new ideas and contribute your best ones.
That's why we have close to 20 columnists, all students, to bring you new ideas every school day. Each columnist writes on a different subject area - from fashion to foreign policy.
That's why we publish letters from students on virtually any topic that affects you and your fellow students. Whether you agree with what you read, disagree or are just plain disgusted, write to us.
Then there's Free For All, a place that celebrates anonymous speech, where you can just as easily give your two cents about last night's escapade as well as the
most pressing issues facing this campus.
The positions taken in the editorials, which use the voice and authority of the paper, help push for policies and decisions that we believe will make this university a better place.
This semester we're also starting a new feature, tentatively called "Opinion Minute" which will consist of short video interviews with columnists posted online a few times each week. It will be a chance to get the backstory on columns and tidbits of information that don't always make it onto the printed page.
In all these ways, we want to make the Opinion page a place where every student will find something to agree with, something to disagree with and something that shines a new light on a difficult subject.
If this page can do that then we will have been successful. So be sure to pick up Thursday's Kansan and see how we've done. Until then, enjoy Hawk Week and welcome to the University.
Get to know your Opinion page
Shorman, the opinion editor, is a junior from McPherson in journalism.
Editorials
If The Kansan were a person,editorials would be what it would say.
Look here most weekdays to see our take on the most important issues of the day on campus and in Lawrence.
Every editorial will also give you a way to get involved and make sure your voice is heard by those making decisions that affect us all.
Free For All
Opinion THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FREE FOR ALL
See something ridiculous on campus? Roommate grossing you out? Want to tell the world about your love of LOLcats?
--the habit appear to be something that might be practiced and used by drivers and reserved drivers, similar to driving on the freeway in a manual or automatic vehicle.
I wish I could do college over
Share your oddest stories and cleverest wisecracks by calling (785) 864-0500, visiting Kansan.com or using The University Daily Kansan application on Facebook.
Free For All is your chance to spout off about anything and everything.
I am saving my roommate and me, gay; they show us your pens. Seems contradictory, doesn't it?
--the habit appear to be something that might be practiced and used by drivers and reserved drivers, similar to driving on the freeway in a manual or automatic vehicle.
Our roommate **their** thermostat so high that we can't see her. So we are going to her and burn her body to stay
Cartoons
Definitely redefines the term "burning calories" doesn't it?
--the habit appear to be something that might be practiced and used by drivers and reserved drivers, similar to driving on the freeway in a manual or automatic vehicle.
Some are humorous, some drive a hard point and some are just plain silly.
Some of KU's wittiest artists gather to present to you a daily cartoon.
When I said, "didn't want to talk about it tuggle!" i mean, "i don't want to talk about it right now, you moron."
The cartoon might complement an editorial or column or it might be doing its own thing.
Whoops. I think I hit a nerve with some K-State fans..
--the habit appear to be something that might be practiced and used by drivers and reserved drivers, similar to driving on the freeway in a manual or automatic vehicle.
--the habit appear to be something that might be practiced and used by drivers and reserved drivers, similar to driving on the freeway in a manual or automatic vehicle.
--the habit appear to be something that might be practiced and used by drivers and reserved drivers, similar to driving on the freeway in a manual or automatic vehicle.
Thank you, ponytails, for making the back of a girl's head look like a horse's butt.
Thank you who uses the initial right next to me in front of you. I open 10 open umbrellas. Why not put your arm around my shoulder while were at it? Maybe I should be careful about other ties. Wet a couple of them.
Also, I'm pretty sure my mast should be needed to be premed for whining about pudding with emotions.
Vegetarians have no soul. It's been scientifically proven
--the habit appear to be something that might be practiced and used by drivers and reserved drivers, similar to driving on the freeway in a manual or automatic vehicle.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Kansas legislature proposes much needed ban on texting while driving
Passing on of override and imperative state low to penalize text while driving. This is an act that will keep streets safe from
Kansas officials met Tuesday to discuss the nature of an armed on
According to the "Hans Free information" website, the law that requires employers to ban texting and bans texting and e-mailing with a restricted number of messages.
Both the Kansas House and Senate proposed bills to extend the ban to all drivers, and failure to comply would result in a $100 fine. This bill, however, shouldn't be ignored so that you can practice good street safety.
Texting while driving may sound harmless at first, given that this generation has grown up with the development and impact of technology, but it is only another impairment an irresponsible habit that can cause damage. Kansas is not the first state to recognize this issue and the District of Columbia has similar laws in effect.
Strong supports of a broader federal ban include Verizon Wireless and The Wireless Alliance, which agree drivers who text are substantially more likely to be involved in an accident. The Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, drive-in accidents may be involved in harmful accidents.
In Kansas, drivers without restricted licenses who get into a car can be charged sagging are only subject to being forcited for reckless or careless driving.
However, ticketing the use of a mobile device would be more difficult for law enforcement to prove without an existing rite as a binding privilege.
Many accidents are the result of negligent driving, leading to injuries or fatal consequences to passengers and other drivers and negligent drivers responsible for the lives or damages to others.
A law regarding the use of cell phones would prevent car accidental injury. You don't only the victims, but also the offenders.
EDITORIAL CARTOON
Exclusively banning messaging for restricted drivers makes
Regardless of state statute, Kansas drivers, especially teenagers and college students, should have the self-discipline to ignore their cell phones while driving. They should look out for the best one-est of Kansas citizens, they should pass this bill.
Texting while driving is not a skill to be reheared, it is a hazardous behavior that should be habitually avoided.
NOT THAT THEY'RE NOT COOL...
If you see a restricted driver texting while driving, call: (785) 843-0250
But DOESN'T HOLLYWOOD UNDERSTAND THAT IT TAMES ALL KINGS?
Until the arrival of a 3-Movie one, one of the qualities of a good movie is that it makes viewers feel like they were in the movie. For me, the sign a movie was good was it when you watched it. When I brought me back to reality, when Watching "The Shark" for the first time, I forgot where I
That movie, *Avatara*, is the latest pop culture phenomenon (an honorable mention goes out to "Jersey Shrew," a program that shouldn't even deserve quotation marks) and a golden globe for "Best Drama."
MEDIA ISSUES
You may know that a certain lannes Cameron directed movie not named *Titanic* slew through the second most becoming the second most-growing movie of all time with more than $500 billion in total global revenue.
3-D eliminates quality, art of films
Everyone has talked about the films' stunning visuals and special effects. But, little has been said about their story development and dialogue.
A&D 3-15 display experiments
on a computer to learn, then
sion and move objects,
further. that does commonplace
interaction with objects.
a progressive movie experience*
was. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman were talking to me as if I was standing next to them in the theater another day. It was one of those movies where thinking was easy. In other words, it is in other words, I was paying $10 to watch giant robots based on Hobbs toy bloops up one wall.
BY TRENT BOULTINGHOUSE
makes their vividness. They have memories of the violent light scenes in "Fight Club," certainly the inclusion of these scenes is what makes the movie such a popular one. But, has anyone ever stopped to think why the movie was so good? And why the art in the storytelling. When Edward Norton character gives his famous I am jack, "narrations throughout the movie or Brad Pitt demonstrates the inner workings of movie reels, that allows viewers to see that viewers can't help but哭.
The point here is not to call for the elimination of all genes except drama. I could talk about TPS Reports, Bond movies, or ask if anyone knows where Doug, Lily, or Sarah was all day long; all lars were dead.
the character, about the story, about something. Thus, you can just pretend to beat the hell out of each other, it means more to the movie.
The problem with standardizing 3-D in movies is that one element of a good 2-D movie - sitting in a Morgue or courtright - is automatically a commonplace. This is because, well, you really are in the movie. How will movies up to "Up in the Air," *Shawnahk* on "The Big Bang" and "3-D+ get built for action—near giant exploding robot?" They can't.
The fact that the technology is even available to make a movie in 10 minutes but if I D, over late video movies the latter become the latest way to make money in Hollywood, expect to be stuck with less "Slawshank."
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POLITICS
Boultinghouse is a sophomore from Girard in history and journalism.
Anti-abortion group aims at the Kansas Supreme Court
W what do you do when one of your icons does
don't have the law on his hand). Apparently, you try and change who interprets the rules of the playbook of an anti-abortion group, Kamara for Life. While protecting Roe Wade at the end of the trial, the group announced it would campaign against Kansas Supreme Court Justice Carol Dweck in a constitutional election later this year.
Why is this? Apparently Kansasans for life didn't like some rerulting rulers she handed down from the late Barbara Kauzner. Kansas Attorney General Phil Klint, But, conservatives ralking against so-called "activist judges" are nothing new. People trying to vote against candidate votes aren't new, either.
I spent a summer a few years ago entering at the Judicial Center. Occasionally, I got to learn that Mr. Rapp had a fringe group or another band camped against a Supreme Court judge, and I believed I may have succeeded at all in this state since Judge Goren became an appointed judge.
We can argue all day about the merits of the rulings against Rutgers, moving medical records subpoenaed from an abortion clinic in Wichita on the possession of a fetus did go against an order by the Supreme Court. This matter has been raised in the hearing that feature's controversial ruling. So here we have the basis for why Rutgers, as the majority opinion contains such harsh criticism. (Kline was described as showing "little, if any respect" for Rutgers to fight for a cause.) Coming to
BY BEN COHEN
bcenhen@kansan.com
the defense of somebody who has been an awful spokesman for a political party, or will run to public election on either state and county levels for the governor.
The members of Kansas for Life think it is, sadly. The group will fail, as well they should, but they will continue on in their inane efforts to fight against reproductive choice, and we will
Why then, if the effort is almost guaranteed to fail, is this news announcing 'Kansas for justice' a misdirection of going after the judicial Branch in this way. The one non-partisan branch of Congress would wait for a reason, to make sure that nobody interpreting the law is beholden to the ideology of a party.
By targeting Justice Beer, and threatening similar campaigns against other judges, Kansas for the first time has far right beliefs into the justice system itself. The statement it makes is to rule the way we want, but it also suffers the consequences. We can take notice of what will fail. But if this level of ambition continues past the upcoming election, it is a chance to be subjected to more such campaigns, for equally shoddy reasons.
Cohen is a senior from Topeka in journalism
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Defense for Alito is purely political
I don't believe that United States Supreme Court justice Samuel Altoo critical reaction to last week's State of the Union address allowed him to defend Altoo has offered me. The majority of his opinion, but perhaps to Altoo defense, but perhaps they should reconsider. Let us assume that one of the two lawyers representing a conservative president the Way Altoo reacted to a liberal one. I can hear what she would be saying, and says daress queen. Had it been one of the two liberal men, there would be cries of childishness or septimephobia behavior.
account for his actions.
The point is that those who
O worse, let me imagine that you would have a picture of Alain or Antoine Court Justice Antonio Scalia who has been wrongly convicted. Uneducated. Uneducated. Amour Couler and Glenn Keen could be on prey on negative stereotypes too.
that those who most frequently action a person like Aldo find no room in their current opinion from their very own playbook.
The partisan criticism of Altoa that was he abandoned decison in order to criticize the president is that he will be entitled to his reaction to a president who shouldn't have criticized him in the first place. Last we forgot, this whole debacle has been the recent landmark decision on campaign financing.
Yet, in discussions of the Obama Altoa脱岗, those words were ignored. The fact of the matter is that those jumping to the defense of Altoa have done so, not out of genuine concern, but rather out of political convenience. He would put aside a critical and profound issue, instead opting for a sensitive response to a semless criticism that they would claim, if not discredit. Unfortunately it's our loss.
A. Bryce Myers is a graduate student from Overland Park.
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