How many went to the Ashcroft event? What are your thoughts on Ashcroft? What do you think about his responses to VanCougar questions in the interview?
Cougar Pride Days.... anyone attend? Why or why not? What do you think about the notion of Cougar Pride Days in general?
On another note, this issue was put together by the new editors, and it is my last issue as editor. It has been a ton of fun. Keep posting, your new Blog managers will be Rosalyn Hart and Kelly Stonum, the new editors.
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I was a little disgusted at how Ashcroft complained about answering questions asked by the reporters. He fit my stereotype of politicans only being interested in answering questions when they have staunch supporters around, which he knew he would have at the lecture, hence he wanted to wait to answer these probing questions.
I didn't attend the Cougar Pride days event. Unfortunately I had a class during the parade and dodgeball games. I didn't attend the clean-up day because I had to work a full day on that Friday.
I think it's a great idea, just for me right now, I need to work on my days off from school, and I can't really afford to take days off for things like that.
I meant some high profile career politicians when I referred to politicians in the above post.
I disagree, there was a notable crowd of liberals attending the event, as evidenced by the occassional outburst. Even Homo Jim Moeller was there. You should be more disgusted at the way most of the questions he took at the end were less question than commentary. Can no one at this University frame intelligent questions? "Listening to you is like watching a rerun of 1984?" It happened a bit at the panel discussion too. Its sad when amatures think they're part of the panel too, and try to insert their comments more than assert intelligent questions. I thought it was downright funny when the kid got shot down by Ashcroft after asking a rhetorical question. When you ask an expert an expert question, you'd better be able to frame it in expert terms, or you get shot down every time. Doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum they're from. I'm biased, I admit, but I enjoyed the event, agreed with most of what he said, and appreciated the lecture.
I enjoyed the lecture. I found it insightful. There are to many people here who just does not understand how to put themselves in someone elses shoes.
I was disappointed to see that Ashcroft didn't speak much on Civil Liberties at all, but I suppose that really isn't his strong point, now is it. (Mr. Ashcroft, we get it! You REALLY like the Patriot Act.)
In my opinion, he was a ridiculous waste of money for the school. Not only did he just rant through his whole "lecture" and get agressively defensive when anyone dared to "ask" him anything besides "oh God, Ashcroft, why are you so amazing?" He also didn't seem too eager to here. I don't exactly appreciate a person yelling "FAKE IT AND TAKE IT, FAKE IT AND TAKE IT" at his staff while posing for pictures -- no matter what their position.
Next time, let's get someone who doesn't talk to us like we're his drinking buddies, ok?
A few correction to my comment (the one above this one):
aggressively*
Didn't seem too eager to be here.*
A few correction to my comment (the one above this one):
aggressively*
Didn't seem too eager to be here.*
While I think that "Coug Pride Days" are a great option for campus, I think that it is pretty much wasted on our campus where the average age of the COMMUTER student is 32. I mean really, how many people are going to want to clean up a campus that they pay to attend? After attending a movie, do you also stay to help clean up? I think not. I take pride in the new Cinetopia, but I don't help paint or shampoo the carpet after I go see a movie.
The "Coug Pride Days" might have more meaning to 18- and 19-year old kids, but I'm here to get an education, not to be indoctrinated that one educational institutions mascot is better than another educational institutions mascot.
The "Coug Pride Days" should be like a ASWSUV event - just give me some "free" food that I've already overpaid for.
The Center for Social and Environmental Justice had an amazing conference today entitled “Justice in Education, Educating for Justice.” In case you missed it, here's the info on it: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=5798
Also, I evidently had nothing better to do then take pictures, so I might as well share them:
http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/M_Delon/CSEJ%20Conference%20042306/
Did anyone else go? What are your thoughts?
Take care,
Marina
Don't know what was so amazing about it. Every time the group moved from one room to the next, they lost people from the crowd. Blah.
I suppose you would have considered it a good use of school money if Michael fatty Moore came to speak? I know of a college he was paid $40,000 to speak at not long ago, and enough students were disgusted by it that they impeached their student government and demanded their money back. I doubt they got their money, but I think they made their point clear. I don't see how you can call inviting Mr. Ashcroft was a waste. Its all in your (liberal) perspective. Some of us actually met Ashcroft. I wouldn't say he was "not eager to be here" at all.
An extra special thanks goes to the Vancougar! The front page (not Op/Ed page) features a photo of Bozo McProtester, who used the event to embarrass himself and the school by publicly disrespecting the symbol of his freedom to express his own stupidity. I'd like to take the chance to express my freedom to tell him he needs to shave and take a bath. Perhaps that's how he shows his Cougar Pride.
You know what's fuuny to me? I saw one of the protesters outside the school talking to a police officer. He was complaining that someone made a rude gesture to him, and wanted the officer to take action on it. The officer had to explain to this brilliant person that the other guy has a right to free speech just like he had a right to protest. Do liberals really think that they are the only ones with rights that can be violated? Apparently this clueless fellow thought he was entitled to some special treatment. Just another great example of koolaid-drinking liberal rhetoric.
Calling names is not a good way to make a point.
Thanks for harboring such a narrow-minded outlook on people. First and foremost, I think Michael Moore is a crock-pot; so um, basically your argument is dead from that point on, sorry.
As for the protester -- who cares? Since when does he represent liberals as a whole? With that ideology it would be sufficient for me to think that all conservatives believe that the best way to deter abortions would be by bombing abortion clinics; and I sincerely hope that's not the case. I'm not sure what you've been doing in school all this time without realizing the key concept that one person cannot adequately represent such a large group.
I'm sorry that the world appears to you in liberal v. conservative terms; there's more to people than that.
We lost people? I didn't think so. There was just three lectures going on at the same time, so maybe that's why it seemed like we lost people. It was actually a pretty good turnout for an all-day event on such a beautiful day, and for a WSUV event in general. =]
While it may be true that a single person's actions are anecdotal, Bozo's actions were more the rule than the exception to contemporary liberal behavior--in so far as it is portrayed by the liberal media that we are so in love with. Doesn't the Vancougar remember printing remarks from one member of WSUV faculty advocating "civil disobedience" from students? Does no one else make the connection that perhaps there is an association between liberal academic rhetoric and student thought and actions?
As for what I've been doing in school all this time, I've developed an opinion and the inclination to express it publicly. It just doesn't happen to be the predominant tilt of this university. I figure the only way the liberal agenda can be advanced is by large-scale propagandizing at the academic level, and hence we see sooo many left leaning professors and instructors on colleges and universites throughout the whole country. How else would you expect anyone to buy into the ideology? If today's electorate won't see it our way, let's feed it to their children and in 10 years we'll have it easy. Sounds like my experience growing up in public schools and universities.
Did anyone happen to notice which WSUV professors had signs posted on their doors today stating "Closed" in protest of immigrant "rights"? Not surprisingly, much of the College of Liberal Arts office doors show the department's collective "civil disobedience" on the day without an immigrant. Paul Thiers, Mark Stephan, and the predictable Luz Maria Gordillo all top the list. How convenient that evaluations are done, as are classes. Still don't see an agenda?
You're right, a conspiracy is at foot.
In fact, they have it all mapped out:
8:00 – Wake up. Hug tree.
8:10 – Quick breakfast of Wheaties w/ banana and unborn fetuses, stem cells spread on toast.
8:20 – Get dressed in hemp suit.
8:30 – Miscellaneous worship of false idols.
8:45 - Drive to methadone clicnic in hybrid car; 30% electric, 70% Bible furnace.
8:50 – Receive methadone. Sell for pot.
9:00 – Catch up on a little reading: Torah, Koran, Book of Mormon, other books not The Bible.
10:00 – Stop on way to welfare office to drown puppies.
10:20 – Pickup welfare check.
10:30 – Cash check.
10:35 – Buy more pot.
11:30 – Miscellaneous Sodomy.
12:00 – Light lunch of sushi and stem cell pie, plus cappuccino, at upscale coffee shop.
12:30 – Stop at nearest cemetery to bleach flags on veterans' graves.
1:30 – Miscellaneous coveting.
3:00 – Steal babies, throw them from bridge.
3:30 – Bomb a church.
4:00 – Meeting with Jews for instructions on what news stories to run today.
5:00 – Formal dinner/fundraiser of virgin Christian sacrifice. Guest speakers Michael Moore, Al Franken, Satan, and Bizarro Ann Coulter.
6:30 – Smoke cigars lit by a burning pictures of Jesus
6:45 – Infiltrate the school system to attract impressionable young student to the homosexual lifestyle.
7:00 – Miscellaneous taking the Lord's name in vain.
7:10 – Smoke pot.
7:15 – Giggle for about twenty minutes.
7:35 – Order pizza with extra cheese and stem cells.
8:00 – Pay pizza man in food stamps.
8:30 – Watch Real Time with Bill Maher.
9:30 – Bedtime snack of nachos with three kind of cheese and peppers. No stem cells, watching weight.
10:00 – Miscellaneous dishonor of mother and father.
10:30 – Early bedtime, need rest for tomorrow's All-Day Sodomy Fest.
And they thought they could fool an intelligent, conservative HAWK such as yourself! ;)
NOT to be confused with the homosexual agenda:
6:00AM - Gym
8:00AM - Breakfast (oatmeal and egg whites)
9:00AM - Hair appointment
10:00AM - Shopping
12:00PM - Brunch
2:00PM
1) Assume complete control of the U.S. Federal, State and Local Governments as well as all other national governments.
2) Recruit all straight youngsters to our debauched lifestyle.
3) Destroy all healthy heterosexual marriages.
4) Replace all school counselors in grades K-12 with agents of Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels.
5) Establish planetary chain of "homo breeding gulags" where over-medicated imprisoned straight women are turned into artificially impregnated baby factories to produce prepubescent love slaves for our devotedly pederastic gay leadership.
6) bulldoze all houses of worship.
7) Secure total control of the INTERNET and all mass media for the exclusive use of child pornographers.
2:30PM - Get forty winks of beauty rest to prevent facial wrinkles from stress of world conquest
4:00PM - Cocktails
6:00PM - Light Dinner (soup, salad, with Chardonnay)
8:00PM - Theater
11:00PM - Bed (du jour!)
A day in the life, a day in the life.
A day in the life of the above poster:
6:00 a.m. to 6:01- think about posting on blog.
6:01 to 7:00 a.m.- post on blog
7:00 a.m. to bedtime- try desperately to convince everyone that the only truth is in their point of view.
bedtime to 6:00 a.m.- Try not to think other people may have different opinions on how to live.
Oops, I left out the dreams of being naked in a crowd.
Well, all I can say is I hope the change of management in the vancougar this year takes away some of the liberal spin that seems to have been the norm over the last two years. Do something different with your Op-Ed page. Watch the themes that run in the stories you publish. Spin comes in the form of what news a paper chooses to report or not report. We need only look at the Oregonian for evidence of that. Try diversifying your cartoons sometimes. Even Carolyn leftie Long alternates the political swing on the big public affairs event every year. Why not throw in some conservative commentary every once in a while? You tried for a little bit, but obviously it didn't sit well with the vancougar, and no one is surprised to have seen his column replaced with someone else because "the readers demanded more female voices." Maybe remove some of the cynicism too. Extend the scope of the paper to include more of the surrounding community. No one in the paper has mentioned a word of the soon to be Vegas-size casino that will probably be build not far from here. How would that impact WSUV students? Do an interview or two with local leaders. That shows a paper's credibility and builds the kind of authority readers want, rather than interviewing the three people you walk into while leaving your office door. What about the influx of new freshmen students? Get their take on why they would choose this campus over any other. Or why isn't there a broader choice for higher education in southwest washington in the first place? I'll give the vancougar credit for trying some of this stuff, but never really taking off with it. Maybe with Brian Schlosser gone, things will improve.
A day in the life of the above poster:
6:00 a.m. to 6:01- think about posting on blog.
6:01 to 7:00 a.m.- post on blog
7:00 a.m. to bedtime- try desperately to convince everyone that the only truth is in their point of view.
bedtime to 6:00 a.m.- Try not to think other people may have different opinions on how to live.
Oops, I left out the dreams of being naked in a crowd.
It's true. :(
Except the 7AM-6AM time slot, because that's a typical stab in the dark at a person who tries to indicate that another opinion is present; and not a very funny one at that, sorry.
Anyway, if the WSUV conservatives are so concerned with the uh... blatant liberal bias of the VanCougar, then why don't they go and write for it instead of whinning about it (after all, that's the liberals' jobs.) Last I heard the College Republicans had a decent amount of members, I'm sure at least one of them can write.
Anyone else noticed the free speech boards up around campus? I saw one today that someone posted on. It looked like someone didn't like someone else's free speech, cuz they wrote all over it. Does anyone know the rules on the boards or where we can find out?
What happened?
Dear Cougs:
I took some pictures at Graduation on May 13th and if you are not too busy earning your desired "PHD" in 2 weeks, go ahead and check 'em out.
http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/M_Delon/WSUV%20Grad%20051306/
Like how I forgot to take my lil sun-cap for my lense? Ah well!
Best,
Marina
Hi Anonymous,
If you're referring to me, I'm also Middle Eastern and French. =]
Best,
Marina
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