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By Jennifer Juncosa
/)(°(spectit('S editor
. 1(006 I psu.edu
Because Bruno's makes it way too
easy for me to eat a whole pint of Ben
& Jerry's ice cream in one sitting., I find
that I am going to the gym regularly.
My daily schedule gets me to the gym
around 3 p.m. This year, there are more
ellipticals and other machines. making
the small room even smaller.
The Student Facility Fee survey
results have come hack, and most peo
ple said that the weight room should he
the first to get modified at the Junker
Center. I am one of them.
H yg iene
It's not
By Neil James Peters
sue' triter
njpsoB3(aysu.edu
We all had to make sacrifices when
we chose to came to college. Some of
us chose to sacrifice sleep, others to
sacrifice a job and steady income.
However, one thing that should never
be sacrificed is good hygiene. I don't
care what you have to do or what your
problem may be: if you are living on
campus then there is no excuse for not
taking care of your things and yourself.
As students living in a residence hall,
we have unlimited access to showers,
washing machines and anything else
that we might need. So if you choose
to be a slob and let everything in your
room go to hell, then that's your
choice. Just remember that there is a
whole halt of other people who have to
put up with it, too.
thaw been to nearly every living
arrangement that Behrend has to oiler
for one reason or another. And each time
in traversing their corridors, there was
always one room that stood out. It start
ed with a faint lingering tinge of stag
nant air. As my body became accus-
tomed to the environment, the paint
peeling odor seemed to worm its way
into my own clothes and skin. When I
finally managed to flee the premises, I
felt like I would need a shower of bat
tery acid to get clean.
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Michael Phelps shouldn't have to apologize
By Joshua Wittmershaus
str Writer
j k N 0062 psu.edu
In the 1998 Winter Olympics, a
Canadian named Ross Rebagliati won
the first gold mead for Olympic snow
boarding. After he won, a drug test
revealed traces of marijuana in his circu
latory system, and he was stripped of
his medal for some period of time. The
medal was eventually returned to him
on the basis that marijuana was not a
"pertbrmance-enhancing - drug (whether
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- Hugh Jackman
- The Oscars
- Tutoring Sessions
- Garlic white pizza
All I want is to be able to run in peace
Guys will roll their eyes and girls
will cheer and agree that there should he
two gyms. I am all for a boy gym and a
girl gym. When I am at the gym. I do
not want to he hit on. Guys. it a girl is
sweating, then leave her he: she is
strictly business. However, if she is
wearing the world's tightest pants and
not breaking a sweat, then she probably ,
wants to be hit on.
I dn't go to the gym hoping that a
guy will pick me up: I go because I
still have the appetite of a (liver hut I'm
not burning the calories of a diver an\ -
more. I am there for one reason only: to
nm my three miles and leave.
Sometimes I tOrtzet my iPod, hut the
in college:
that hard
After my skin grew hack from my
cheese grater scrubbing. I resolved to .
discover the cause of such a terrible liv
ing environment. Upon further investi
gation into this mysterious [natter, I
found that lingering stenches that haunt
certain unfortunate halls are typically
the result of unwashed athletic equip
ment. From nasty-ass hockey gear to
old sneakers that incubate in the closet,
the root of this evil is simply the
inability of the owner to use a freaking
bar of soap.
Now, I never played hockey. So I
can't he exactly sure on how the equip
ment works and how complicated the
pads are. However, I did play football
and they don't seem too different. I
managed to keep my pads smelling Ns in
ter fresh most of the time. I stepped
into the shower and scrubbed them
down with a washrag and let them air
dry. So it's not impossible. As for dirty
clothes and shoes, they made this kick ,
ass thing hack in the fillies called a
washing machine. It's not that difficult
to operate. If you can will on a TV, you
sure as hell can use a washer and dyer.
In conclusion, if any readers have
poor hygiene and stink up the place.
please take my advice and clean up your
act. It's healthier fir everybody
involved, and if it keeps stinking up the
hall, your roommates might kill you.
Just a heads up there.
Have an opinion?
Want to write about sports?
it is actually performance enhancing or
not is &batable, hut most would agree
he deserves the trophy). Sound at all
families - '' After pressure from sponsors
and lawyers, Michael Phelps, world
furious 14-gold-medal Olympian, issued
a public apology after a British tabloid
got their greasy hands on a poorly taken
picture of him taking hits from a bong.
Now he has been suspended from USA
Swimming lOr three months and
dropped by sponsor Kellogg Co. and
almost laced charges by Richland
County. South Carolina police.
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weight room has the radio playing. It
would he great if I could hear it, hut the
guys lifting block it out. Between the
small chatting and the grunting, the
music is drowned out. Guys, it' you
have to grunt that much each time you
lift a weight, then it's probably too
heap ‘.
The benefit of having a girl gym and
a bo‘ gym would he that while I have
mustered enough confidence to get my
butt to the 2VM, I wouldn't he sur-
rounded by the people that made me so
self-conscious in the first place. Nine
times out of 10, while I run my miles,
I have a guy next to me sprinting like
that impresses me. I'm not wearing the
Every year my friend and 1 watch•the
Oscars and rank the men from one to
10. One means that they weren't look
ing good and 10 meaning they were
looking good. To make it more fun, we
can only assign one 10 which means
that there were a lot of 9.8 s and 9.95.
We aren't ashamed to admit that we
both find Hugh Jackman extremely
attractive and when we found out that he
was the host we simultaneously said
"10."
I have only cared about the ()sun for
a couple years and belOre that I couldn't
watch because it stayed on "past my
bedtime. - The last Oscar y I can remem
ber was the year that Billy Crystal host
ed and he did the montage of the movies
tor his opening, which he watched and
had cameos in.
Between then and now, 1 have seen
Crystal, Chris Rock. Jon *MI6, tfAlen
DeGeneres, and now Jackman. The last
Owen hosted by multiple
Michael Phelps should take some
time to think about what he's apologiz
ing for. While he is committing, a non
violent crime, his fame has allowed an
invasively taken photograph to drasti
cally damage his image. Eight people
have been arrested as a result of the
publicity of his pot smoking. If the
police are so adamant about justice on
the obvious American hero, why don't
they take a stroll over to Facebook and
chronicle the thousands of pictures of
teens and young adults smoking blunts
and bonging beer? Perhaps our boys in
Hugh
By Jennifer Juncosa
perspalives «filer
jdjso6 I (a psu.edu
tight pants
The mat that I lay on to do my
crunches is the size of the mat I slept
on in kindergarten. The only place for a
mat is under the cable crossover
machine and when I lay on my back. I
look up to see some guy standing over
me. If we had our own gym then we
wouldn't have that problem. Women
conk! stretch and tk crunches without
getting stepped on.
If we had our own gym, then we
could run while only being surrounded
by our own sex, we could run and not
get hit on. We could run and not worry
about body parts jiggling too much. We
could actually have an opportunity to
at the Oscars
the 59th OSCON in 1987. Most people
would argue that Bob Hope was the best
Oscar host, and they would be right.
But recently. they haven't been so good
or entertaining. After Hope, who hosted
the Oscars 17 times, Crystal hosted the
Oscars eight times. Other than that,
Whoopie Goldberg has hosted four
times. After attempting comedians, out
of-work actors, and talk show hosts, the
academy had chosen a successful, in-his
prime, actor.
I can admit that I was curious how he
was going to pull it off. Even if he was
had, the crowd would be won if he just
stood there and smiled. But after show
ing that you don't need money to have
a great opening, he had me. He has
been the best Oscar host in a long time.
He was comical without trying too
hard, he was easy on the eyes without
trying too hard, and he did his job with
out trying too hard. It seemed that it
came easy to him. When you have a
comedian host the Oscars, you have the
problem that they want to stand on
stage and show how funny they can be.
Talk show hosts have the same problem
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blue are just looking for a little camera
love themselves.
It has become apparent to me that one
of the most pressing issues involving
this is the effect this will have on his
young fans. Stepford wives across the
States scold Phelps in their blogs and
express concern that their kids will
think that him smoking dope is in cor
relation, or even causal to his swim-
ming success. I prefer to think of it
this way: not only is he encouraging
his fans to challenge the legal institutes
and question the true "dangers" behind
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use the resistance machines t
more beneficial for women anyway
If men had their own gym, then they
could sprint on the cardio machines all
they want. The men wouldn't have to
worry about who to hit on or who to
leave alone. They could li)cus on their
workout. If men had their own gym
then they could have the machines that
would be beneficial to them and they
wouldn't have to worry about the space
I will admit that I will never see a
female-only gym at Behrend, hut at
least make two rooms: one for earth()
and one for weights. Spread it out.
because they want to show how they
can keep an audience interested. Having
an actor host the Oscars was the hest
move the Academy has made. but they
can't be out-of-work actors because then
they stay on stage to show that they
still got it. Having Jackman was the
best idea because he just did his job and
did it well.
His opening showed it all. He sang.
he aimed, he made us laugh, and he
looked fantastic doing it. He wasn't On
stage often, but when he was, it was
down to the point. He was given time
to be creative and he used it well, tak
ing that little time to make us laugh
but keeping the show going.
At first I thought that it would he
unfortunate to have a famous and work
ing actor host the Oscars because it
shows that he dicln't k anything worth
an Oscar but it makes sense. I have yet
to see A ustndia, but it wasn't an Oscar
movie and both Jackman and Nichole
Kidman knew that. Jackman had the
opportunity to fail miserably as a host
but he walked away leaving us wanting
to see more hosts like him.
opening
pot, but he is also providing inspiration
for down-and-out stoners, showing them
that just because they like to get lit
doesn't mean they are never going to
succeed.
Michael Phelps shouldn't have to
apologize to the public tbr his behavior.
No one was hurt by his actions, and
although he broke the law it is an act
which should, if anything, strengthen
his character.
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