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College is more
than thrill seeking
Most of us were
brought up with
antennae to
detect anyone who tries
to brainwash us.
A generation of skep
tics, we are taught to
think for ourselves, ques
tion what we are told and
watch out for cultural
constructs and biases.
However, our senses
are not perfectly refined.
We often pass over bla
tant lies and embrace
them with a wholehearted
naivete, to the point they
become a part of our
everyday lives.
One of those lies:
"College will be the
best years of your life lt
all goes downhill from
there, so live it up and
enjoy it while you can!"
Well, for the most part
it is a lie until it turns
into a self-fulfilling proph
ecy —which it can, when
it is accepted, as it so
often is.
I spent my freshman
year at the University of
Georgia pondering why
and how this lie got start
ed.
I eventually became
too bitter to think clearly
about it all, and left the
University to enroll else
where only to be back
in Athens the following
fall.
My anger was misdi
rected, I realized. The
University of Georgia did
not start the lie.
The lie started thou
sands of years ago when
we discovered how fun it
is to be selfish.
We liked it so much
that we sacrificed for it.
We gave our lives for it.
And it was it is fun.
However, one day, we
wake up from the trip and
find ourselves lying in bed
with a bunch of people we
don’t know at all peo
ple we knew so well in the
height of our revelry, or
seemed to know.
We wake up, and find
ourselves quite alone.
Everything we had
spent our lives on is gone.
And what’s to live for
now?
During my “I hate col
lege” phase. I would com
plain to my dad about
how self-absorbed every
one is, and he said to me,
“That's how the world is.
That’s not just at col
lege.”
I argued, insisting that
college really was much,
much worse —but I was
wrong.
There’s a saying I’ve
heard quite frequently
that goes something like
this “enjoy it now,
because after college it’s
alcoholism."
It speaks true.
Even if it already is
technically alcoholism,
people don’t see it that
way.
For four years or
five, or six our culture
permits us to live out that
old lie that we’ve all
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struggled with since the
beginning of time.
We are excused even
encouraged to live for
ourselves and to worship
the great god of pleasure.
We all do this every
once in a while we are
selfish, impulsive and like
to have ftin.
However, we don’t live
the college lifestyle forev
er, and if we do, we’ll find
how empty it really is.
This is why we tell our
selves to eqjoy it while we
can because it ends.
Could it be true?
It’s not.
The happiest and most
rewarded people are
those who spend their
lives loving and giving of
themselves.
Love makes us happy.
It doesn’t just make us
feel good, like pleasure
does.
It fulfills us as human
beings.
It gives us a purpose,
and things are satisfied
when they work towards
their purpose.
Aside from being crea
tures that need to be self
less, we are also creatures
of habit.
When we live a certain
way for the beginning of
our adulthood, it becomes
ingrained in our subcon
scious.
It becomes comforting
and familiar, and it seems
to be the way things
should be— especially
when doing it is so much
fun, and when everyone
around us tells us it is
how it should be.
If we have that kind of
outlook the “let’s party
before the world ends"
mindset —then it’s going
to be bad, without a
doubt.
The truth is, there’s
something more to life
than me.
There’s more than my
young face and body
and there’s more to life
than you.
We have to learn to
reach out. It’s the people
who do who are truly
happy, and who will say to
themselves and to us,
that it really can all go
uphill from here.
If you’re putting your
self into something you
love, whether it be paint
ing, or writing, or your
husband or your students
you will be happy.
College will be some
great years of your life.
Even though I’m not
there yet. I’m pretty sure
we’ve got some great ones
to come if we just let
them.
Elizabeth Hannah is
a sophomore from Atlanta
majoring in Philosophy
from heart disease, high choles
terol, diabetes and obesity than
my omnivorous counterparts
are.
Not only does a vegan diet
mean I can satisfy my sweet
tooth's occasional pastry plea,
it’s also much better for the
environment.
Earlier this month, the
United Nations released an
extensive report concluding
that “a substantial reduction in
[environmental] impacts would
only be possible with a substan
tial worldwide diet change,
away from animal products."
When else will an Eclair and
the right decision be the same
thing?
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Sarah Palin's breasts are titillating
Our great national
panic can finally
come to an end.
No, not the oil spill
screw the Gulf Coast,
forget about the econo
my and don’t even think
of mentioning the wars
in the Middle East.
I’m talking about
Sarah Palin’s breasts.
You heard right?
They’re real.
Drum roll, please.
Brace yourself for the
collective sigh of relief
the light of the con
servative party has not
I repeat, has not
stooped to plastic sur
gery.
This is contrary to a
glut of rumors all
stemming from far-left
liberals, one assumes
that popped-up follow
ing the appearance of a
certain Tight White
T-shirt Photo.
Though the mind
wonders: if Palin had
gotten a little boost,
and if she’d stayed in
office long enough to
finish up her duly-elect
ed term as governor of
Alaska whilst under the
knife, would she have
written it off as a work
expense?
“Boobgate is all over
the Internet right now
because there are a lot of
bored, idle bloggers and
journalists with nothing
better to talk about," our
Lady of Wasilla confessed
to Greta Van Susteren
during a recent interview.
So does that classify
me as a bored, idle jour
nalist? Almost certainly.
But here’s the thing,
Sarah Can I call you
Sarah?
Pick up the remote and tune in to the World Cup
Football is a sport that refers
to two very different things
depending on if you are in the
North America or the entire rest of
the world.
In the U.S., football is a sport
that Americans gather around the
television to watch during
Thanksgiving.
It is ingrained into our culture
and commonly associated with our
country probably because we’re
almost the only country that plays
it.
In recent years, the Super Bowl
has garnered almost 90 million
faithful viewers, tuned in to watch a
single game.
For everyone else, American
football serves as an imposter.
Soccer is the world’s largest
sport, consisting of 208 countries
that participate in it —most of
whom live and breathe for this
black-and-white ball. .
For those of you unaware, the
Super Bowl of soccer is the World
Cup, and only happens every FOUR
YEARS.
As opposed to a single game, the
World Cup is an entire international
tournament that takes place over a
series of weeks.
While the winners of the Super
Bowl get a pretty little ring, the
World Cup champions bring glory
Investigation shows
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Asa vegan, thank you for fea
turing Tabitha Phi Ups and her
efforts to promote vegan baked
goods (“Contest caUs for vegan
variations,” June 16).
Demand for alternatives to
traditionaUy non-vegan prod
ucts like donuts is increasing as
the number of vegans continues
to grow.
Tabitha proves it is possible
to create unique confections
without compromising taste or
ethics.
In addition, vegan desserts
appeal to any health-conscious
consumer desiring a treat free of
unhealthy cholesterol and satu
rated fat.
There are plenty of reasons
for caring consumers to avoid
Dunkin’ Donuts.
In a recent investigation by
Compassion over Killing, an
undercover employee discov-
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After all your airtime, I
do feel as if I’ve gotten so
close to you it’s not
that we’ve got nothing
better to talk about. It’s
that you are the thing.
You’re it, honey.
In a 24-hour news
cycle, Palin’s become the
dreamed-of Holy Grail
because she generates
content constantly.
Boobgate is just her
Barbed
to their nation and immortality for
their players.
Impressive, right?
In comparison, the Super Bowl
yields a bunch of players donning a
new hat, covered in confetti.
At the completion of the World
Cup, crowds often stampede the
field an act that has led to the
death of more than one fan.
The World Cup finale is an event
that leaves fans breathless and
players in tears. Yet we, as
Americans, cannot even tune in to
watch this momentous event?
The world is currently set on
pause as nations battle for glory,
yet Americans hardly care even
when our own nation is playing!
To me, this seems like one of the
greatest embarrassments to
America.
I simply do not understand our
attitudes.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my
NFL and I am not a particularly
huge soccer fan.
latest hot-off-the-presses
scandal, the latest in a
lengthy sequence includ
ing Johnstongate (as in
Johnston, Levi
Johnston). Bridge-to-
Nowheregate and
Govemorgate.
Hers has been a career
of follies, it would seem.
Oh, yes. sure, all politi
cians are a bundle of fol
lies by nature!
But what’s so great, so
perfectly and truly won
derful about Sarah Palin,
is her utter refusal to stay
away from the limelight.
She stumbles, and the
whole world watches.
The pattern, as the
ered horrific signs of suffering at
a factory farm owned by
Michael Foods, a major egg sup
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ing hens crammed together in
cages unable to move as weU as
dead and injured birds inter
spersed with live birds.
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Atlanta
Playing BP blame
game not the solution
The citizens of our country
need to get off of the moral high
horse on which they’ve firmly
seated themselves.
BP made mistakes so
what?
They are doing all they can to
fix their problem and prevent a
mass panic.
How many times do you
scold a child for spilling some
thing?
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latest blunder finds its
way around the cable
news channels, has
become almost automat
ic:
Keith Olbermann
rages, Rachel Maddow
smirks. Bill O’Reilly
defends, Glenn Beck dis
misses and Greta Van
Susteren whose hus
band, John Coale, has
worked with Palin on a
possible ’l2 presidential
bid apparently helps
clean up.
All the while Palin
chirps away, spunky as
ever, proudly waving that
rogue banner she lifted
from John McCain.
It seems the poor man
has simply forgotten he
ever owned the thing to
begin with: out of sight,
out of mind, apparently.
Will she make a viable
presidential candidate?
Conventional wisdom
would say no, not ye(|
anyway her spunk is
verging on silly, and that
banner she's waving has
begun to look frighten
ingly like possibility, not
inevitability.
But don’t despair,
Palin-fans and Palin
haters alike.
Regardless of the out
come two years from now,
we all win.
If she triumphs, she’ll
doubtless be granted an
even larger stage in an
even larger limelight from
which to fail.
And if she does not?
...I think I hear Wasilla
calling.
Adam Carlson
is a sophomore
from Dallas majoring
in magazines
However, my television has still
been tuned into the World Cup
every day since it began.
My exasperation towards the
U.S.'s lack of interest leads me to
say one final thing
America: you’re missing out on
one of the most exciting, passion
filled sports events for some time
to come.
Turn on your TVs.
Jody Barber is a
psychology major at the
University o/
West Georgia
Usually, just the one time is
sufficient.
This endless yelling and
blaming of BP isn’t construc
tive, nor is it capping the well or
cleaning the beaches.
Every American who chooses
to use petroleum and gasoline,
myself included, is to blame for
this disaster; not some poor suit
who sits in a building in London
and answers to the sharehold
ers.
CHRISTOPHER SMITH
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