Only a few more days until the end of the semester. Finals loom but so does the holiday season.
But, of course, like every end of the week, we take this time to honor and poke fun at those who made an impact this week. That brings us to this week's man-I-really-wish-I-didn't-wait-till-this-weekend-to-start-giving-a-crap-about-my-classes edition of ...
Darts and Laurels
To start this week's fun, we turn our attention to Kansas. An 18-year-old high school student was made famous by her "tweet heard ‘round the world" this week when she jokingly tweeted that she told Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback that he sucked.
We throw a what-about-freedom-of-speech DART to Gov. Brownback's staff and the school's principal for trying to get the girl to apologize to the governor.
We also give a way-to-stand-up-for-your-rights LAUREL to Emma Sullivan, the girl who wrote the tweet.
Gov. Brownback eventually apologized to the girl, but because apparently he sucks, he doesn't get an award. Try to tell us to apologize.
Just try.
Next, we have to throw a they'll-let-any-whacko-be-a-guest-speaker-in-college DART to Gary Yourofsky for telling a class at SFC that our treatment of livestock is equivalent to slavery and murder.
So anytime a wolf kills a sheep for food, we need to arrest that wolf and put it on trial for first-degree murder?
However, Yourofsky made a good point when he encouraged animal rights activists to stop protesting because "demonstrations do nothing. Nothing works but teaching somebody."
If only the recipients of our when-will-you-guys-learn-that-you're-not-really-changing-anything DART would listen to him. The newly formed Gator Student Alliance has come together to protest tuition hikes. There are long-term, systematic reasons why tuition keeps increasing and Bright Futures keeps decreasing. Yelling on Turlington Plaza isn't going to change that.
And no, we are not "in the pocket" of the administration.
Next, we give a one-day-your-luck-will-turn-around LAUREL to the Florida cities that Men's Health named some of the least lucky cities in the country: Tampa, St. Petersburg and Miami (numbers nine, four and two respectively).
Just look up more and maybe we can reduce our high number of deaths from falling objects.
Finally, we give an it's-about-time-it-started-to-feel-like-fall-around-here LAUREL to the weather.
Maybe there will be one or two weeks of winter in February.
Maybe.
Have a fun and safe weekend!
