Spring Break
Over the past several months, the life and imminent death of Terri Schiavo have turned into a political nightmare and media circus. With heated debate from both sides, Schiavo's humanity and the cold facts of the case have been lost to speculation and accusation from all sides.
This year, like the two years before, the Spring Weekend concert will be headlined by two rap acts. As announced in Wednesday's Daily Campus, this spring's show will feature famous hip-hoppers Nas and Fabolous, with special guest The Black Violins. Nowhere in the lineup is any non-rap act that anyone's heard of, nor any non-rap act that anyone wants to pay $10 to see.
Listen up UConn because it's time for a psychology lesson, Maslow style. According to Abraham Maslow, a world famous psychologist, deficiency orientation is a condition that affects nearly everyone. It is the preoccupation with the perceived need for material things.
There's a Monty Python sketch called "The Value of Not Being Seen" in which a man hidden behind a bush is asked to expose himself. As soon as the man reveals himself, there is a loud gunshot. He holds his stomach, cringes, then falls over dead. John Cleese pipes up, "Thus demonstrates the value of not being seen.
I have long been a military man. I grew up in a military household and at a very young age, when other kids were deciding that they wanted to be doctors or teachers, I decided that the armed forces would best benefit from my talents. The events of Sept. 11 consolidated that decision for me, and gave me passion for what I had chosen.
If the school keeps messing with our meal plans and parking, we will keep messing with its tour groups. Wait, did you say rap? Again? Well, at least the method of getting tickets has changed if the music hasn't. Shouldn't extra credit questions be based on the subject matter being taught? Why are students given an advantage for knowing UConn basketball stats? Hasn't SUBOG noticed that they get rappers for Spring Weekend every year and X-Lot keeps getting bigger? You know those funny commercials from the Super Bowl where monkeys worked in an office and messed things up and played with whoopie cushions? I heard they filmed them in ResLife.
