THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011
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Didn't think it was possible to have a fun snow day in the dorms ... Proven wrong!
Have I ever told you I hate the snow?
Ready to beat Missouri already ... I can't wait much longer.
Captain's Log: Snowpocalypse Day two - Witness signs, of intelligent life that seem to have outlasted the storm. Will leave the confines of my apartment tomorrow to investigate further.
Why do my Teddy Grahams not have faces? I hate this economy...
Sitcoms are already showing Valentines Day episodes ... KILL me.
I haven't met any guys all year. ;(
Today is my birthday. Two snow days, and I don't have classes on Thursdays. Best present ever, KU. Thanks.
I have decided that I will go out clubbing in subzero temperatures before I will do my Calculus homework. Talk about priorities.
Gummy bears from Germany taste better.
Why must my life exactly mirrore Taylor Swift? It is sad and cliché.
Campus really needs a ski lift to get me to class in the morning.
Nothing like a good romantic comedy to make you feel really. Freaking. Single.
I can't wait for my boyfriend's divorce to go through. His wife is driving me insane!
Ummm, you're his rebound. Have fun with that.
I need to stop watching so much porn, my laptop is getting really slow.
It's obviously wayyy too cold out. My nose is frozen, I'm still unthawing and I've been in class for 20 minutes already.
So I had a huge crush on this chick and she turned me down, then got fat. Do I send a thank you note or cookies or how does this work?
Your Facebook romance may be cute to you but its annoying to the rest us. Thanks!
Sign you might be an alcoholic:
When driving to class and on the radio you hear the weather update
say it's a cold one, you instantly think of the beer you have at home.
2cold2function
15 below zero and we still have classes? Did someone light poop on fire on the chancellor's doorstep?
Would you rather run naked across campus today or jump in Potter Lake for 40 bucks?
Nothing like a little cold weather to bring the whiny bitches out of the woodwork.
Proposed pay cuts reflect poor concern for education
EDITORIAL
Kansas state legislators recently backed away from a proposal that would have cut 7.5
percent of state employees' salaries, which would have included those at the University of Kansas.
Under this plan, legislators would have taken money from university employees' paychecks and redirected it into funds for maintenance and repairs on state campus facilities.
Although many of the buildings we teach and learn in need repairs (at a tune much higher than what these salary cuts would have generated), this redirection of revenues was more of an attempt by lawmakers to
secure federal stimulus money by maintaining a certain level of funding for education.
While the fiscal effectiveness of this action could be debated, we should take notice of how little legislators in Topeka seem to value the role of state and university employees.
Their proposed cuts showed disrespect to the individuals who provide a public service that many Kansans rely on. Such pay cuts would not only have affected the salaries of course lecturers at the university, but also those who provide crucial on-campus services that benefit
students' health and academic performance.
This would have also added to the growing problem of employees leaving the University and moving to work for better pay in the private sector, resulting in the potential loss of skilled lecturers and university staff.
Although these pay cuts were not enacted, they reflect many state legislators' lack of commitment toward improving higher education in Kansas. This is demonstrated by their willingness to squander university employees' pay on building maintenance in a shameless effort to
If legislators are going to continue to try and take money out of state employees' paychecks, then they should spend it in a manner that actually works to reduce the state's deficits instead of merely spending it to qualify for federal handouts.
Even though these cuts were not enacted, they demonstrate a startling lack of commitment that Kansas legislators have toward education in the state they represent.
- Spencer Davidson for The Kansan Editorial Board.
How do you feel about the Black Eyed Peas performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Aerosmith, N Sync, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly. Join them together and you have one of the best, most memorable Super Bowl Halftime Shows ever. That is just what MTV did back in 2001 during Super Bowl XXV, properly titling the show "The Kings of Rock and Pop" The show consisted of back and forth performances between the musical acts, with a finale that culminated in a collective rendition of Aerosmith's "Walk this way." A performance of epic proportions, my friends and I still talk about how great it was
Unfortunately for MTV, the big peep show' during Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's halftime performance three years later had them banned from producing future halftime gigs.
We've had some moderately entertaining shows since then, but the thought of having to sit
BY SARA JAWHARI
siawhari@kansan.com
through Black Eyed Peas autotuning their way through a medley of their over-produced songs has me already reaching for some Advil.
Unfortunately, that's what we have to look forward to during this Sunday's show. A piece of advice to the producers: Give MTV another shot and watch your halftime ratings soar once again.
Jawhari is a junior in journalism and anthropology from Kansas City, Mo.
You know when you're hosting a party and there's inevitably that guy who mutinies your music in favor of playing a blog hit from his iPhone, and you're like, "step off, please, I karaoke to that"?
Well, imagine there were 110,000 people at that party and its debauchery was being broadcast to 140 million creepers doing the creep in 232 countries.
What you're imagining is the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
And it worked. I added the "fifth-grade-15 pounds" because of Catholicism. But it worked because some of us were still wetting our beds, and they were smarter than us.
Now think back to when you were younger and teachers, religious leaders and focus group organizers wielding video game prototypes used pizza as a way to conjure our willful participation. They did it because they figured pizza would grab our attention.
In a way, the Super Bowl is the world's homeromoon party, the Black
BY MATTHEW MARSAGLIA
mmsarsqlqi@kansan.com
Eyed Peas are America's pizza, and the CBS fat cats are the aforementioned authority figures of our youth—the don't know whom the world wants to see at halftime, so they check the charts.
This time, however, we're smart enough to question their choice but still simple enough to be more interested in watching Fergie's curves than shooting our enemies in the face. Ultimately, this is the best foreign policy decision we've ever made.
Marsaglia is a senior in English from Naperville, Ill.
from KANSAN.COM/POLLS
The Super Bowl Halftime Show has always been overrated.
Not the best choice,but it should satisfy a large audience.
24 total votes
HUMOR
Student's snow day shows what little can be accomplished
Thank God school was canceled. I was gettin' ready to Enfyp a fool if it wasn't. Every
Egypt a fool if it wasn't. Every community college in Kansas was closed by Monday night - and there are at least a billion community colleges in Kansas. I guess Chancellor Gray-Little finally took a moment from her bath full of liquid gold to look out the window.
I don't have to wake up early. I listen
1.03 p.m. I woke up again. For real this time. I looked out the window and watched a bunch of Robins try to fly in the blizzard winds. I considered turning on "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan to complete the scene.
Anyway, since I'm sure you all loved my power outage play-by-play. I thought I'd give you all a little taste of my snow adventures on Tuesday.
BY CHANCE CARMICHAEL
ccarmichael@kansan.com
2:16 p.m. After lying in bed for an hour looking through Twitter
7:00 a.m. I woke up early to see if I didn't have to wake up early. I didn't!
(cue shameless plug: follow me @ ChanceComical), I decided to turn on The Weather Channel. Did you guys hear about that crazy blizzard?!
2:47 p.m. I finally left my room. My roommate was nowhere to be found. I called him. He went to Game Nut with another friend. At least then I could watch crappy "The King of Queens" reuns without worrying whether someone would judge me or not.
4:12 p.m. I looked outside to check out the blizzard and watched a guy walking down the street carrying a case
of beer. How delightfully college!
4:30 p.m. Low on food, I panicked and drank a whole bottle of Pepto-
Bismol. Everything looked bubblegum pink. I wondered if I was dying.
5:18 p.m. I got the text message about class being canceled the next day. I opened up Facebook, and my computer started vomiting the word "snow!"
5:49 p.m. I started to watch TV on the couch, but every time I had to get a drink or use the remote my arms had to leave my blanket, and my skin effing touched the cold air for a minute.
(I really wish they made an afghan with like sleeves or something. They could call it the Afghan-Freehand. Haha, that'd be the raddest!)
7:34 p.m. I was hungry and ordered some Chinese food. SnowMG, I was hungry! Oh, did I mention yet that I was putting "snow" and "blizzard" into everything? As in, "Oh SNOW, he didn't!" or "What's new pussycat?"
SNOW SNOW SNOW" or "Gettin'
blizzard, like a SNOW6." SNOW man,
it's been a long, long day.
9:23 p.m. The Chinese food finally arrived. I ate it. Apparently "teriyaki chicken" doesn't mean "chicken in teriyaki sauce," it means "giant onions slathered in teriyaki sauce sprinkled with a dash of鸡汁." I am disappointed. I thought about Liz Lemoning it: calling them, demanding a refund and threatening to report them to the Better Business Bureau. I decided against it and just picked out the onions. Like an animal.
1:23 a.m. I went to bed. Having accomplished nothing. But I did eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch out of a box and wrote this column.
Chance Carmichael is a junior from Mulvane majoring in creative writing.
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