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But we believe that Pipe has the right ideas and initiatives for Penn State students and will truly fight for us in Wash ington more so than the big dogs who may let our concerns fall to the wayside. Pipe stood where we were not long ago. He graduated from Penn State just lat year, and now knows what it's like to live paycheck to pay check as an assistant manager at Five Guys Burgers. Though his youth and inexperience count against him in the eyes of his critics, Pipe's ideas to improve the job market, the energy crisis and healthcare reform deserve the attention a seat in Congress would Th4rS Halloween perfect for letting loose By Jessica Uzar WHEN I was younger. my mom used to buy my Halloween cos tumes one size too big so that it would fit over the layers that I would undoubt edly be wearing to keep me warm. I, along with other Pennsylvania youth, have trick-or-treated through rain, snow and freez ing weather. The costumes in college are drastically different. Instead of bundling up against the cold valley winds, I now pretty much expect to wear as little as possible. When you shop online, a high majority of the adult costumes are skimpy and expensive. The less fabric it took them to make it the higher the price. Though this irks me, retailers can do that because these costumes are what sell Sex sells. While boys are congratulated on their creative ideas and awe some costumes, girls are judged, instead, on how good their bodies look in their cos tumes. No one cares how origi nal it is as long as it's low-cut, short and skimpy. 0 I Ft bring. Just as graduating seniors hope for a lucky break into the job market, Pipe deserves a shot. Resurrecting the job market is also Pipe's No. 1 priority. He wants to help boost the economy by focusing on infrastructure and creating more clean energy jobs, which obvi ously also benefits the environment and our energy independence. It's new initiatives like this, and not just provid ing the yes or no vote, that Pipe promises to fight for. His proximity to Penn State, both physically and emotionally, also ensures that Pipe will keep our best interests in mind if elected. He said he will take a personal stance in combating raises in tuition cost as sitting down to discuss the mat ter with Graham Spanier himself. Pipe promises trans parency. and to visit the - . - - -..1.A ... i , '',,•-• - , ' 4 ' . .t'.. ':".',----, - ''., ,,, • - .. -.. *ii;„; - .... - ..,. . .. f r. *,_:,,,,., _- A :-, :::,,, ' A ,s e• . s ~ And though the Susan B. Anthony part of me tells me I should be against this. I'm not Girls and women are often portrayed and treated as sex objects. Halloween. especially college style, is an accurate depiction of this. I think during Halloween. girls often play into that idea themselves. attempt ing to look sexier than any other girl at the party If we want to attract the fittest male of the species, we have to be the most attractive female. And that means looking our best. MY OPINION After all, if we can't attract him physically, he won't want to reproduce with us, right? That's one of our most basic instincts. Study after study shows that males particularly college males think about sex every few minutes. I don't think any one argues with that, and I bet that number goes way up come Halloween night. Most boys admit that they are obsessed with sex. I was once told by a guy friend that he was jealous of girls because girls could "get laid" whenever they wanted and not have to work for it or pay for it. I think that's logical, but females do have to work for it in a way. Instead of paying for drinks that hopefully lead to the actual act itself, girls dress to show off more of their body than their brains. students district as much as possi ble. He said he will put focus on direct dialogue with students specifically by providing stable repre sentatives of his office on each college campus in the district. This would ensure that students will always have a place and an outlet to voice their concerns. He promises to not fall subject to what he calls "D.C. amnesia," where representatives say one thing in Washington and another to their con stituency. We believe Pipe's prom ises, and as a young. bright-eyed candidate yet to be tainted by the game of politics, he will go into the position with no ties, new ideas and a fresh per spective. Congress needs a change, one in which rep resentatives do what's best for the people. not their party. We believe that Pipe's election would signify this change. CYBER BULLYING -,.*- rr- I r -- c . . - MEM I like dressing a little promis cuously every once in a while because I find it fun. But those kind of outfits often do attract boys who only want eight hour long relationships, or sometimes even less than that. So. women just have to be careful when showing a lot of leg this week- end if that's not what they want If you're going to pick one Jay a year to let loose. Halloween is it. Dressing promiscuously is normal for this holiday After all, it's Halloween - - go out and live it up. Pretend to be something or someone you are not. Not only do skimpy cos- tumes show you off physically but it also drives boys' fantasies wild. ltvo birds hit with one • stone. So I say go crazy and wear something that would be appropriate attire at a party in the Playboy mansion. Just 'don't send those pictures to your par ents. Just a warning though -- if you're staying out for the night just remember that you're dressed as a bumblebee or fire fighter or Lady Gaga and that's even more embarrassing than walking home in your dress with your heels in your hand the next morning. Jessica Uzar is a junior majonr, E , in journalism and political science and is The Daily Collegian's Wednesday columnist. Her e-mail is jiul2s@psu.edu. Party critics can't cherry-pick In response to Tuesday's column "Tea Party is scarier than a nightmare," in Oplinger's Halloween scare-fest, straw man after straw man is burnt under the harvest moon. No. Oplinger, Tea Partiers don't want to eliminate the, funding of roads, bridges and police officers. This is not inconsistent with a small government philosophy. Infrastructure, like your local police and fire department, presents a public goods problem where the case for government intervention is at its strongest. It is difficult to boil down the viewpoints of a mass move ment into a few sound-bites. This makes it tempting for commentators to cherry-pick viewpoints on the fringe (or in this case, ones that don't exist at all) to address. It's just as unfair as labeling everyone who supports Obama as communist. The truth of the matter is that the size of the gov ernment has dramatically increased. Federal debt is racing towards 100 percent of gross domestic product for the first time since World War 11. Simultaneously, entitle ment programs like Social Security are becoming more trick than treat eating up an increasing portion of the federal budget. Nightmare spending scenarios, however. aren't just scary stories. Greece reveals the real and spooky consequences of overreach ing government. Next week. lets vote to keep the horror stories where they belong in our nightmares. AD! shields corrupt policies In regards to Tuesday's article "SJP listed as anti Israel.' - The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) should he the last organiza tion on the planet to designate any organi zation as anti anything. The ADL shields Israeli policy by invoking the "complexity of the conflict - without ever illuminating it. In 199:I. the ADL was charged in a San Francisco court in connection with conspir ing wit h a rouge police officer to spy, harass and intimidate several political groups and thimsands of Americans. The ADL helped prolong the apartheid rule in South Africa. Among those the ADL spied on were anti apartheid activists who were fighting for civil rights for the indigenous black South Africans living under apartheid rule. The ADL disguises itself as an organization to fight anti-Semitism, a noble cause, while in tact its true agenda is to silence anyone crit ical of Israeli policy SJP is on the ADLIs blacklist mainly for raising more than 55,000 as part of national effort to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. These funds help provide basic items and humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza such i-I`4 notebooks. textbooks and pencils, chick are prevented by Israel from being imported there. Recent investigations by the United Nations and reports by human rights organizations like Amnesty in!tTnat ional and Human Rights Watch fre quently criticize unrelenting Israeli settle ment expansion. the siege of Gaza, the mili lary occupation of the West Bank and brutal Israeli violence that has Idlled thousands of Palestinian civilians. EOM Problem is in Hamas support In response to Tuesday's article "SJP list ed as 'anti Israel.' - I find it, at the very least, ironic that Students for Justice in Palestine maintain that they are not a hateful organi zation Perhaps it's admirable that Ms. (fader and her organization promote peace, compromise and understanding, but that viev, - certainly isn't emblematic of the Palestinian leaders or citizenry. They have overwhelmingly rejected Fatah. which sought that same two-state solution in favor of Hamas. a terrorist organ ization whose goal is the eradication of Israel. I agree that there must be justice in Israel and Palestine. but unless the SJP comes out as strongly against Hamas as they have against Israel. they have fallen into the same trap that they rally against. ADL has lost real credibility Tuesday's article. "SJP listed as 'anti- Israel. — states Students for Justice in Palestine was listed as "anti-Israel - by the nti Defamation League. The Anti- I )eimation League is a shameless apolo gist for the state crimes of Israel. Masquerading as a group that fights anti- Q.emitism. the real purpose of the ADL is to &tame anyone who dare question Israel's toreign policy. In fact, the ADL went so far as to call Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish American intellectual whose parents sur vived the holocaust, a holocaust denier and anti-Semite because Finkelstein criticized Israeli policy The group has little commitment to civil rights or anti-discrimination work. The idea that a group that has fundamental objec tions to Israel's foreign policy is "anti- Israel" is an idea one only finds taken seri ously in dictatorships, where to disagree with decisions of the leader is a crime. If American's truly care about Israeli people, they will disagree with Israel's leaders and force them to accept the internationally agreed-upon peace solution. Otherwise, Israeli leaders will eventually destroy the two-state solution and evoke more war and terrorism against their citizens. The fact that we are even talking about whether or not SJP is "anti-Israel" instead of more substantive things like the Goldstone report or the lack of U.S. involve ment in a real peace process means the ADL has already done its job, distracting from real issues. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Shadi Ghrayep graduate-engineering Devon Edwards junior-sociology David McLaughlin Class of 24010 Former Students for Justice in Palestine president Kai Kaapro graduate law
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