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Judge’s order is just first step
Last Tuesday a federal
judge ordered the military
to stop enforcing the
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
policy. And while the Jus
tice Department has 60
days to appeal the ruling,
no immediate action has
been announced.
It is nice to see that
someone finally stepped
up to the plate to take the
first measure in abolish
ing this policy. The mili-
tary should no longer
defend a 17-year-old policy
that applies to an all-vol
unteer, co-ed army. The
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College displays boy, girl differences
By Jessica Uzar
I’ve been in denial about
relationships between men
and women for a long time.
Until recently, I
couldn’t under
stand why men
seemed to be so
dumb.
Then this
summer, I real
ized that, in fact,
they are not
dumb. They’re
just different
MY OPINION
Working in a steel mill, I was
surrounded by 150 plus men with
only three other women on site
as my allies. Being around this
large amount of testosterone
pushed me to my most recent
revelation about the sexes.
In the “real world” outside of
college, I heard the way the men
at work talked about their rela
tionships. Divorces were a very
common topic and none were
pleasant discussions. And every
single person that had any
advice about relationships told
me to never, ever get married.
If guys hate being in a relation
ship so much, why do they do it?
Men and women really do
have different brains. When the
book “Men are from Mars,
Women are from Venus,” first
came out, I was pretty young.
Only now do I appreciate the idea
of how truly opposite males and
females are.
Girls are crazy. Yes, I said it
and am admitting to it myself.
AD girls except your mom, of
course.
Sometimes I don’t even under
stand why I say what I say or why
I care about a particular thing. Of
course a boy is sleeping with
every girl that writes on his
Facebook wall, right?
Giris basically think with their
emotions, sometimes construing
what makes sense. Bovs are the
Obama administration
has already openly criti
cized the policy but has
done little to rectify the
situation.
Now that the ball is
rolling, we urge the Con
gress to take the addition
al steps to make DADT a
distant memory. The
administration’s choice to
appeal the federal judge’s
decision because of mid
term elections would be a
low blow to all those who
voted for Obama because
they thought changes like
this would ensue. Timeli-
opposite, often thinking with lit
tle or no emotion and often
using a part of their body other
than their brain to make deci
sions.
The differences are even more
apparent in college. Girls and
guys generally look at the college
dating experience differently.
Girls are naturally looking for a
boyfriend, whether consciously
or not. Guys rarely think of com
mitment.
Also, the invention of
Facebook has only worsened the
problems. People can now stalk
activities of their boyfriends, girl
friends, exes and crushes. I don’t
think Facebook has ever actually
helped a relationship, except to
announce it to the world.
College is such a short time
(depending on your career
choice) that you almost have to
decide between being single or
being in a relationship. Say fresh
man year you meet a great guy
or girl. Do you date them
because you like them so much
or do you pass and stay single so
you can get the “college experi
ence”?
For all the students who ever
had Dirk Mateer for ECONOO2
(Introductory Microeconomic
Analysis and Policy), you know
that college is the best economic
time to fed a partner, and also
the most likely. When else are
you in a town where there are so
many people your age from so
many different parts of the coun
try? And when else in life can you
get away with being cheap?
I agree that this is the best
time to find someone. But I have
also thoroughly enjoyed my first
two years in college being single.
If you spend almost all your time
for the first two years with a
boyfriend, your college experi
ence is all about him.
But if we know a high percent
age of guys are going to do some-
ness should affect the end
result.
This policy is nothing
more than institutional
ized government bullying
and by upholding this out
dated policy the adminis
tration is destroying peo
ple’s careers and dreams
all because of sexual ori
entation.
The government should
n’t appeal the ruling just
to gain votes. It shouldn’t
matter what platform
ends this policy, just as it
shouldn’t matter if a sol
dier is gay or straight.
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thing bad in a relationship or
turn out not to be the person we
want them to be, why do girls
want to enter into relationships?
If guys know that girls are going
to be nuts sometimes and yell at
them when they didn’t really do
anything wrong, why do they
date us?
I think the benefits outweigh
the problems, and those are the
reasons men and women want to
be together. When a person finds
someone of the opposite sex that
they truly like, they enjoy spend
ing time with that person and
can overlook the occasional tiff
or misunderstanding.
But the more important part of
the Mars vs. Venus war for me is
that in finally realizing how dif
ferent guys think, and that it’s
not something that changes at
any point in their maturity.
I feel like someday I can be a
better other-half of a couple.
When I find a guy that I want to
stay with, I will make more of an
effort to not do “typical” girls
things. I won’t obsess about
whether he’s being unfaithful
and I won’t make him talk about
his feelings with me.
Of course I’m going to have
moments. I cannot stop
Facebook creeping. I will always
ask if I look fat in a dress and
the answer is always, always no,
with zero hesitation.
But I will do my best to
remember that guys don’t see
the world like I do. That they
don’t have the same thought
process or emotion set that I
have. And I will learn to know
what they are thinking and to not
get mad when he would rather
watch basketball than talk to me.
Jessica Uzar Is a junior majoring In
journalism and political science and is
The Daily Collegian's Wednesday
columnist. Her e-mail is
]lu 125@psu.edu.
Students face discrimination
This is a wakeup call to all students at
the Penn State Altoona campus. The Logan
Township Police are trolling for Penn State
Altoona students on a daily basis. I should
n’t be the one to point this out. Your univer
sity should be telling you this. Seventy four
students were issued underage drinking
citation on the first weekend of classes this
year. I am not sure how many other cita
tions were issued so far this year, but the
numbers stay stagnant year after year and
you are paying the price.
The police can stop you anywhere and at
anytime for any reason. They can bring
their canine units to places like Nittany
Pointe and walk your sidewalks even if the
complex is completely quiet. As a student,
you do not have the same rights as the gen
eral public in Altoona. You are under con
stant watch and the city of Altoona and the
university both are making money hand
over fist. At $3OO for the first offense and
$5OO for the second, Logan Township is
obviously profiting. And, supposedly, the
fine may go to $l,OOO you do the math.
The university office of judicial affairs is
forwarded the students names who are
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then required to take an alcohol awareness
class and possibly community service even
if they are not convicted of the underage
drinking offense. The class costs $2OO.
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These are the numbers I could retrieve
from the web but I am sure the statistics
are much higher. I do not condone under
age drinking and neither does Penn State
Altoona. However, the university dishes out
poor advice by telling students if they are
going to drink do it “responsibly.” Don’t go
to big parties, have a designated driver, etc.
These suggestions are leading you into a
false sense of security. Ask any of your
classmates if they followed this advice and
still got a citation. The answer will be yes.
The simple truth is you are all victims of
age discrimination. What are you going to
do about it?
Fans are not entitled to wins
In response to Tuesday’s letter “Lion
Turnaround Is Unlikely” Mr. Herman’s let
ter is the usual “get rid of JoePa” letter
that creeps around the mid-season of a
bummer football year. What makes his
complaint stand out, however, is this
phrase: “I have the right as a season ticket
holder to expect reimbursement for the
inferior product that I am paying for.” This
specific terminology creeps up more and
more not only in regards to football, but
also academically.
This sense of entitlement comes down to
this: Professors, instructors and certainly
coaches are increasingly relegated to cus
tomer service. We hear phrases like this:
“You’re giving my son an F? We’re not pay
ing for him to come here to receive Fs.” Mr.
Herman, you’re simply paying to watch a
live sporting event. You are not paying for
Penn State to win, just like any alumnus is
not paying tuition for his Penn State daugh
ter to get an automatic A.
Paterno has been the greatest financial
asset Penn State has ever had regarding
academics and athletics. Insulting
Paterno’s age and credentials because of
lousy scores this particular season is
absurd. Are you expecting Paterno to drop
magical fairy dust on the players to get
them to the Rose Bowl? Maybe they just
stink this season.
Of course Penn State is money-driven,
but quality whether it’s academic or ath
letic is not necessarily a direct correla
tion of the money thrown at it. Take that as
you will.
If you've ever seen a documentary,
you know who Ken Burns is. You may
not realize you know him, but you know
him.
Ken Bums is one of the biggest
names in documentary filmmaking,
with an extensive lineup of productions
and his very own famous “Ken Bums
Effect,” (that classic documentary film
ing technique where the camera pans
and zooms on a photograph).
One of Burns’ most highly acclaimed
works was his Emmy award-winning
documentary “Baseball.” The film was
appropriately divided into nine parts or
“innings,” and, recently, Bums released
"The Tenth Inning."
Much has happened in the world of
baseball since Bums released his origi
nal 9-part documentary in 1994, and
“The Tenth Inning” aims to document
recent history-
junior forward Nick Seravalli is on
schedule as he recovers from full groin
reconstructive surgery he had in the
offseason
He said he is about two to three
weeks away from returning, aiming to
be back to face Liberty in two weeks or
West Chester a week later...
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