MY VOICE
KFC goes the extra mile... to kill you
Look, we all know fast food is
unhealthy, but this is downright
ridiculous.
What exactly is “this?"
It’s a new sandwich from
KFC with bacon, cheese, and
spicy mayonnaise.
While that might not sound
so bad, here’s the kicker: in
stead of bread, this sandwich
features two patties of fried (or
grilled) chicken.
The aptly named Double
Down Sandwich (because you
will double down when you fin
ish it) is KFC’s newest creation,
and it’s exactly what’s wrong
with fast food today.
No word on whether a defib
rillator comes with the sand
wich or if you have to order it
as a side.
While it may not be the worst
sandwich on the fast food mar
ket today (at only 540 calories),
the idea of it is what is so ap
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MY VOICE
You will get what you asked for
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palling.
“Yeah, I’ll take some bacon
and cheese, but, uh, instead
of bread, car
some fried chi<
It will all bei
ality on April
If you enjo;
you might wanl
go before th<
Double Down
comes out.
After that,
it’s time for
the glutinous
masses to
rise off of
their sofas
and head
down to the
KFC.
At least
cheap.
The Double
Down only costs $5. That's a
dollar for each pound you’ll
This time of year is an inter
ig time - when sophomores
schedule University Park
classes for next fall if they plan
to transfer.
University Park is a huge
freaking campus. A college
with 45,000 students makes for
a sweet party atmosphere, an
awesome football school, and a
great alumni association. But
with those advantages come
several things many students
do not know to expect.
Leading me to my first “You
get what you asked for.” You’ve
scheduled your classes, and
they all have 350 students in
them. Or 710. Or 800.
According to the Penn State
2009-2010 Common Data Set,
there are 398 courses at Univer
sity Park that contain more
than 100 students. They adver
tise that there are “only 12
courses over 400 students,”
which means that 386 courses
contain between 100-400 stu
dents.
Meanwhile,
Jhrend, the average class
size across four years of atten
dance is 26 students per class,
according to Behrend Admis
sions. In 816 total courses at
Penn State Behrend, there are
nine that are above 100 capac
ity - none of which exceed 150
students.
The second thing,
which I frequently hear this
.ime of year, is you’ve tried
to schedule your classes, but
they’re all full.
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gain from just looking at the
thing.
BRANDI
America is getting
fat. We aren’t exer
cising, we weren’t eating
healthy to begin with, and now
s (‘iiior writvr
No crap. You have 45,000 stu
dents competing for that gen
eral education art class you
think would spice up your de
gree. Are you a sophomore?
Yeah. By the time you get to
schedule, the only class that
will be around to schedule is In
troduction to Underwater Bas
ket Weaving. Enjoy.
Now, students can work
around this. If you can’t sched
ule any major class, shoot for a
minor. A journalism major
picking up an economics minor
might set himself apart in the
industry later on by showing he
can grasp a different concept.
Of course, you’ll have to hope
those classes for your major are
available the next semester. Or
pack them all in your last year.
A particularly funny one -
your classes are each 25 min
utes apart. Enjoy finding the
bus schedule. The buses are
nice, provided you live near a
stop and don’t mind a vodka
laden freshman throwing up in
your lap.
Every semester at Behrend,
I’ve avoided 8 a.m. classes, and
have scheduled my classes in a
convenient block in the early
afternoon. I’ve scheduled
classes with professors that
know me by name, know what
I want to go into, and know
how opinionated and argumen
tative I am. Six times - yes, six
-1 have enrolled in classes that
were full. Not because the ar
chaic Penn State scheduling
system let me, but because pro
litorial B<
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With this and other ar
ming sand
the market, it
about a few
What ever
to a plain
sandwich?
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.ok with two
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re no idea, I
ive no idea,
id I have no
lea, although
probably not
very good.
’s no wonder
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we’re shoving bacon sur
rounded by fried chicken down
our gullets.
While the sandwich might
taste good, think of how short
lived that taste is.
Meanwhile, those thunder
thighs and arm fat flaps?
Yeah, those last a little longer.
Maybe it’s about time we
changed KFC to something a
bit different.
Taking after Krispy Kreme
and switching a “C” to a “K,” we
can create this truthful little
name: Kreating Fatter Citizens.
And with the “kreation” of
fatter citizens, so ends any dig
nity the fast food industry had
left.
They can hide behind their
healthier options, but as long as
they have sandwiches like the
Double Down, I can’t help but
to look down on them.
fessors will usually over-enroll
their classes for people they
know. At this size of a univer
sity, they all know me.
University Park has its ad
vantages, and it has its draw
backs. I’m not saying that no
students should transfer to Uni
versity Park. The guy who I
roomed with my freshman year
is a meteorology major - for
him, he had to transfer. Right
now, he enjoys small class sizes
at one of the best meteorology
centers in the world at Univer
sity Park. Kosher.
About one out of every four
students at Penn State Behrend
will transfer to University Park.
Yeah, it’s that low. Students
transfer for a variety of rea
sons. Some, like my freshman
roommate, transfer because
their major is not offered here,
and there’s a nationally known
program waiting for them over
in Centre County.
However, for people who go
to University Park for State
Patty’s Day and decide that it’s
the place where you want to go
every day for two years, be
warned. You may have gotten
used to professors - not gradu
ate students - knowing who
you are and caring whether you
live or die. You may have gotten
used to the small class sizes, re
laxed setting, and variety of
open classes to choose from.
Just know that if you transfer
to University Park, you’ll get
exactly what you asked for.
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OUR VOICES
Why "mistakes " are
not really "mistakes "
As we all
lege, most
told us to
choices” in
would alwa;
thing and st
ble.
However,
many of us
ally listenei
Realisticall’
not many
As college
students, it
part of our
ture to
mistakes a
things that
regret. Bui
is said and
we really ei
gretting th>
takes?
reality, do w
consider thf
takes?
We don’t
In honori
that aren’t r_.
we’ve all made this year, the
two of us have decided to put
together a list of what we be
lieve are the top three mistakes
college students make that
aren’t really mistakes.
Drinking
Sure, throughout our college
careers we spend thousands of
dollars on alcohol that could be
spent in a more appropriate
manner. However, this is cer
tainly not a mistake. You can
always depend on alcohol for a
good time and great stories,
and this is well worth the in
vestment we make.
Of course, there is concern
over alcohol abuse in college,
but when you’re in college it
simply doesn’t count. Day
drinking, drinking on week
nights, drinking alone, and
drinking until you black out
might be considered inappro
priate behaviors in the real
world. However, in college,
they are generally accepted,
generally fun, and certainly
NOT mistakes.
In college, drinking is always
that aren’t really mis-
MARISSA LANICH takes ” are what make our co *-
stjiiwriters lege careers memorable and
one hell of a good time.
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rounded by this many young
and single people. Therefore,
taking advantage of this situa
tion and exploring your options
is essential to your college ex
perience. Sure, taking the Walk
of Shame can be embarrassing
and some might make fun of
you for the beer goggles you
were wearing last night, but
these experiences always make
for great stories.
Sure, hook-ups can be awk
ward and sometimes even hu
miliating. However, hook-ups
often result in new friendships,
new relationships, and if noth
ing else, a great time.
Skipping Class
Sometimes, things such as no
sleep, enjoying the nice
weather, watching TV drinking,
laying in bed hung-over, or
even just doing nothing feels
more important than attending
classes.
While this may put us behind,
and we may regret it short
term, it is always a mistake
worth making in the end.
Skipping these classes
doesn’t come easy, as we all
n order to do this, ex
must be made, and in
ses, simply e-mailed to
lessors
ick and it’s contagious,
not be attending class
est of the week.”
car broke down...in
are absurd, but proba
tnd all too familiar. Al
igh none of us
:essarily enjoy lying, it
ust be done in order to
ljoy our young lives.
the end of our four
irs here, we will not re
iber the mornings that
iserably sat in classes,
we will remember the
imes we spent enjoying
many criticize the de
we make during our col
lars and may consider
be mistakes, we do not
this is the case. These