Posted on April 11 at 7:10 p.m.
Neither side is a bastion of goodness. I honestly which one was just a little darker than the other so I could pick a side.
Posted on April 11 at 7:05 p.m.
Congrats guys, you won with 2,005 votes on a campus with more than 30,000 students, and no doubt you will now pretend to speak for them all.
I'm so glad to be through with KU after this year. You can bet that this university won't receive a dime of my money after taking so much from me already through these ridiculous student fees that pay for buildings that those of us who are graduating will never use, along with machines for the student senate that simply don't work.
So congratulations United Students. You won an election with so little of the electorate that it would make Castro blush.
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Posted on April 11 at 6:59 p.m.
Horrible. Just horrible. Shame on China and shame on these students. If China is so great, maybe they ought to return to that country instead of utilizing the very freedom that they would deny others.
Posted on April 10 at 6:19 p.m.
"If you want sensible solutions to problems that affect every KU student, and if you want a coalition whose members represent the entire student body, not just select groups, United Students is for you"
That's a lie. You don't represent the entire student body with turnout being as low as it always has been. I've been on this campus for five years, and every year, the student senate continuously allows the Athletics Department to play by its own rules why squandering millions of our dollars. This nonsense has to stop.
I propose that unless the student senate can get half of all KU students to vote, we shouldn't have a student senate. As of right now, student senate is little more than a resume builder for people living in the Greek system.
Posted on February 21 at 7:10 a.m.
Richie, that vote to increase student fees was a total sham, and anyone who voted in that election knew it. First of all, the wording of the fee increase was cleverly disguised to prevent students from really knowing what they were voting for, secondly KU athletes were telling people to vote for this increase to "help the basketball team" (A rather shady tactic), and third only 3,000 students out of a campus of more than 30,000 voted. How can you call something passed by less than 10% of the student population a legitimate vote? You're dreaming if you think that the majority of students wouldn't take that $40 a semester straight back if they knew what it was going towards.
This is not an attack against Women's and non-revenue sports. It is an attack on the ability of the Athletics Department to take money from students who have no affiliation with Athletics in any way shape or form. Why should 30,000 students pay for a boat house that many will never have the opportunity to use? It's not right, and you know it.
Who cares what Athletics wants? They are a separate entity from the university and therefore shouldn't be able to take money from students via the university. Let them raise ticket prices and make the minority of students who go to athletic events pay for them.
There IS a huge outcry against campus fees. Most students just feel there's nothing they can do about them because they've got a money grabbing university on the one hand and a Student Senate on the other that lacks the moral fortitude to actually do what's right for the majority of students they represent.
KU obviously values athletics more than academics, and therefore can expect to not receive one single penny of support from me after I graduate in May.
Posted on April 9 at 7:53 a.m.
"The raising of contraception prices is not an “absolutely unacceptable” situation. It may be a means to reduce promiscuous behavior."
Can you cite evidence for this? All the data I've found claims the reverse: That taking contraceptives away will only result in more unprotected sexual encounters.
"In my thinking, the most effective way to avoid the consequences of imprudent sexual activity is to avoid such behavior. "
That would be logical, except that when it comes to sex, few things are logical and planned out. This is an example of observing something from the outside without having experienced it for yourself.
"The most effective means of reducing unwanted pregnancies is chastity. Perhaps the sexually active should give it a try."
Again, this would be a logical argument if humans weren't sexual beings with a strong drive to have sex with each other. This is one of those situations where you aren't going to be able to control the base behavior, and thus we are left with the only option of controlling the results. I promise you, stopping people from having sex is impossible. Entire religious institutions have been dedicated to the cause, and have failed miserably.
Despite your holier than thou attitude, what you're suggesting would result in a sharp increase in social problems, not the least of which would be an increase in actual abortions, even if you were able to make abortions illegal.
Posted on April 6 at 9:02 a.m.
"OK now I have little love for the close-minded atheists which tend to be as close-minded as the christians."
Actually, I have little love for the closed-minded atheists either. Thank goodness I've never met any in SOMA.
Posted on April 6 at 8:57 a.m.
Considering their were people who practice some type of faith both bidding and selling their "souls" last night doesn't make it a mockery. I can't even begin to figure out what part of the headline or byline is in any way offensive, but that's what's so great about living in a free society: You can be offended, and it's a wonderful thing. Celebrate it.
It's pretty easy to say something anonymously on the internet and make a snap judgment about a huge group of people whom you've never met. Nothing about the Soul Auction was making fun of the PEOPLE with a different belief system, it's making fun of the belief system itself. You have to be able to separate the belief system from the people who believe it.
You can't play the persecution card here. Not in a country where more than 80% of the population claims Christianity as their religion.
"To be metaphoric, what if a religious group raised money for charity by having members guess what was the entire volume of the cavernous nose that sits afront Andrew Stangl's face? (I assume Stangl is the person pictured in the forefront of the picture) And in reporting on this story, the Kansan touted the headline, "Stangl's whopper of a schnozz inspires students to raise money""
Actually, the person you are referring to is SOMA's treasurer, Henry Bernberg. Congratulations, you made an ethnic slur against a Jew.
I would actually find an event like the one you described above both hilarious and in good taste. You see, I can laugh at myself and what I believe or don't believe as the case may be. If you could raise money for a charity by guessing the volume of any part of my body, then please do it. Charities need money.
"As disrespectful and childish as participating in this event would be, to feature this activity so blantantly on the front page of the Kansan would approach outright maliciousness."
Nope. It would be hilarious and a sign that we live in a free society. I would support it with all my being. You really need to loosen up.
Comparing well-established and professional organizations with a student organization at a state university? Ignoring that unfair comparison for a moment, consider how interested you would be in reading about a Greek fundraiser as compared to a group like SOMA holding an auction that's designed to play with religious beliefs. Which would grab your attention more? Clearly, you read and had a strong opinion on the subject. That's precisely the reason more articles like this will be coming in the future, because people like you who are offended, keep reading them and responding to them! That's precisely what the journalists want!
Posted on November 1 at 9:58 p.m.
Just another leftist bashing piece of garbage that wouldn't hold under a minuscule amount of scrutiny, followed by a desperate attempt to save the failed conservative ideology by pretending that it just simply wasn't adhered to properly.
Give me a break. The conservative ideology in America is doomed to failure for its creation of the super rich and utter moral failure that it, once again, tries to blame on leftists.
And then of course, there's the predictable blaming of the minority secular population. It will never cease to amaze me how Christians can somehow be both the persecuted majority while launching endless bigoted attacks on other religious groups and secular people.
I've got a new slogan in mind for the 21st century:
"It's your ridiculous faith, stupid!"
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