For the week of Thursday, September 27, 2012 • Volume 46, Issue 4

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The dispute between China and Japan over ownership of a group of tiny islands in the East China Sea is still escalating.

Con�ict arose recently with protests outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing, China on Saturday. A large rally turned violent before police were able to settle the situation. Chinese protestors raised placards of Chairman Mao’s face, threw rocks, and burned Japanese �ags. Other cities have experienced protests, but not to the scale that has been seen in Beijing.

Protesters were urged by Zhang Zhong to �ght for their nation's right to ownership of the Diaoyo Islands (called Senkaku by the Japanese), citing that young people in particular should keep past atrocities and con�icts from Japan in mind when defending China today.

China’s deep-seated feelings of anger peaked when the Japanese government recently purchased the islands from private owners. Japan has controlled the islands for decades, but current feelings of opposition point to the government purchase as justifying Japan's unwillingness to cooperate with China over ownership. In retaliation, China is now survey-ing the islands' coastal waters claimed by Japan.

As demand is falling for Japanese goods for sale in China, Toyota is decreasing the number of vehicles bound for China. With sales expected to fall short of the 1 million Toyota car sales this year, both China and Japan may experience some form of economic hit. Chinese tourists were issued travel warnings to Japan, and �ights to Shanghai and Beijing are being cut after thousands of tourists have cancelled their �ights.

Leyland BradleyNews Editor

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Early Sunday morning a female student in residence here at the University of Lethbridge was allegedly sexually assaulted in her dorm room by a non-student, 19-year-old male. The assault was reported to Lethbridge Regional Police shortly after 2 a.m., and later that morning Scott Mervin Pylypow was released from police custody on the condition he not go within 100 metres of university property, and have no contact with the victim. Pylypow gained access to the dormitory by accompanying a male student into the dormitory. Later, the suspect left the dorm room, but did not leave the residence building. Instead he went into another room where he allegedly sexually assaulted a sleeping female student. At approximately 2 a.m. the Lethbridge police were dispatched to the dorm and Pylypow was apprehended as he was leaving campus. Campus security was on site to assist the police. According to the residential agreement at the University of Lethbridge, non-student guests are permitted within the dormitories, although over-night guests are expected to obtain permission from a residency adviser, any roommates, and the student they are visiting. It is not known if the suspect was intended to be an overnight guest or not, but no consent form was issued for this visitor. The victim of the alleged assault has been offered counselling through campus counselling services. Counselling services coordinator Barbara Williams could not comment on the current incident, but did mention a number of services offered to anyone affected by similar incidents. “You have to respect the individu-als involved,” says Williams. “You have to speak with them individually, and tend to clients’ needs. What works for one may not work for another; it’s the role of the counsellor to work with the individual.” The university administration was unable to comment before this article’s deadline, but U of L President Mike Mahon did issue a campus-wide e-mail Tuesday encouraging students to take an active role in the safety of their campus. He states in his address, “It is up to us, as a community, to support each other in times of distress…” In addition to responses from the university community, Womanspace representative Jen Prosser also issued this statement Tuesday afternoon in response to the incident: “We would first of all like to iterate that we understand and support the University of Lethbridge’s support for its students living both on and off campus. We also realize that this incident is not the fault of any organiza-tion or individual except the aggressor. We would like to reiterate once more that violence must not, and will not, be tolerated within our community and we stand in support of the victim and the entire community that’s affected.” While sexual assaults on campus are rare, they are not unheard of. According to John O’Keeffe of security services, this “…is the first incident of this type that I’ve known in three years… that’s been reported." While sexual assaults on campus are rare, they do happen, and unfortunately are often not reported. Victims or anyone with information involving incidents are encouraged to contact either counselling, security, or call 911 directly for emergencies.

Sexual assault on campus Kelti Boissonneault Editor-in-Chief

Safewalk - Operates between 8 p.m. and midnight every night - One male and one female student will escort a student to any point on campus for any reason - Available for staff and faculty use as well

Working Alone- Sign-up on www.uleth.ca/workingalone - Security guards will tailor their patrols to include your area and will periodically check in on you - Allows you to log in and out and registers you in a database that security will check regularly

Security office

- Open 24/7 - Contact through any “house phone”(university land-line) by dialling 2345

911 Call Manager - If 911 is dialled from any “house phone” it will automatically send a text message with the location of the phone used to security personnel who are dispatched immediately to that location - The Lethbridge Public Safety Communications Centre will immediately dispatch university security if a call is received from a mobile or cellular device

Counselling services on campus

Career development Personal growth

Academic support Workshops

Individual or groups sessionsMeditation sessions

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The Word on the Street

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Sept. 23 marked the second time the Lethbridge Public Library has hosted The Word on the Street festival. The event is a book and magazine festival described as a “national celebration of literacy and the written word.” The Word on the Street was hosted on the same day in Vancouver, Saskatoon, Kitchener, Toronto, Halifax, and of course, Lethbridge.

The Lethbridge festival spread itself down Eighth St., Fifth Ave., and across the library grounds. Tents littered the area: the “Listen & Learn Tent” had a multitude of panels which included topics like self-publishing, gardening, quilting, and writing history. However, at 4 p.m. it was scheduled to turn into the “Love Tent” and I sadly missed what was probably a wondrous spectacle of family-friendly love in a tent. The “Main Authors Tent” started with Dan Kazikoff and Gord Hunter, featured 10 other writers, and ended with the Most Vocal Poets Society. All of the authors discussed their work (reading excerpts at times) as well as writing in general. The “Most Vocal Poets Stage” also had writers talking and reading from their work.

The loudest area was the main stage where many local bands got to play a set for the streets of Lethbridge. But the stage was not limited to just music — it also featured Desert Winds Belly Dance, a haiku poetry death match, and more. To appeal to the younger crowds there was also “The Teen Zone” and the “Children’s Performance Tent.” In all, the Lethbridge Word on the Street festival did its best to appeal to all and create a pro-reading and writing atmosphere.

The first Word on the Street festival was held in Toronto in March 1990 and had an attendance of over 30,000 people. With the plan to go national the Toronto Book and Magazine Fair Trust became The Word On The Street Canada Inc. in 1994. Then in 1995 Vancouver and Halifax held festivals and since then festivals have been held in eight Canadian cities. The Word on the Street has established itself as Canada’s top literary festival with last year’s nationwide attendance at nearly 300,000 people.

While the Lethbridge festival seems modest, in the shadow of these numbers, it has the potential to thrive in a city full of university and college students/professors, an excellent live music scene, and a fair number of citizens willing to attend such events.

Billy DaveyFeatures Editor

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So here’s the deal. This was Robot Chicken’s 100th episode, and to celebrate the occasion they teamed up with DC Comics to poke fun at some of the most iconic characters in the universe. If you’ve never seen the show, Robot Chicken is essentially a skit comedy show done with stop motion toys and animation. The show excels as a satire aimed at exploiting often ridiculous real life situations and long running fan-boy nitpicks regarding obviously questionable things in movies, music, and life itself. Show creators and head writers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich joined forces with Geoff Johns (one of DC’s head writers whose works include Justice League, Aquaman, and the long running Green Lantern) and numerous other writers to tackle the wealth of jokes that could be had from DC’s almost 80 years. So what’s the obvious lead to a story of this magnitude? You guessed it: Aquaman. For as long as I can remember, Aquaman has been the joke of the DC Universe, which is really unfortunate as he’s truly a compelling and outright badass character. Don’t believe me? Go pick up some of the recent Aquaman work written by Geoff Johns and gorgeously

drawn by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado to set things straight. If that’s not enough for you, how about hearing that Aquaman recently outsold all Marvel comics in a top 10 grading for numerous months. Yet still, Aquaman can’t shake the stigma of being a joke character, and that’s what the main story in this episode is about. In the episode we’re shown how even the other members of the Justice League are constantly humiliating Aquaman. But that’s all about to change as Aquaman gets sick of being ridiculed by his fellow Leaguers and decides to switch sides to the Legion of Doom. The episode feels like a retro throwback to classic characters and elements of the DCU (DC Universe). Nothing’s off limits as the show goes after obvious absurdities in characters’ powers to blatant flaws in costume designs. From Superman’s “amnesia kiss” and Lex Luthor’s fully loaded body armour minus head protection, to the existence of ludicrous characters like Mister Banjo. All in all, it’s a fun but brief show that shines a humorous light on some of the more bizarre elements of the DCU’s long history. The jokes are spot on, the animation is fittingly quirky, and it’s all

brought together with an all-star voice cast including Aaron Paul, Nathan Fillion, Alex Borstein, Megan Fox, Paul Reubens, and Alfred Molina, among many others. So if you’re a fan of stop motion animation, comic books, or just plain fun, give the Robot Chicken “DC Comics Special” a shot. On a related note: we are now one year into the New 52 revamping of DC comics. The New 52 was a great way to mix up the DCU and bring in new readers, for one year later DC is releasing Zero issues for all of their series. A Zero issue can be anything from a closer look at a character’s beginning, or a re-imagined secret origin. The only reason I bring it up is because now is a better time than ever for new readers to get involved. So if you’ve ever wanted to start reading comics but didn’t know where to jump in, here’s your chance. Marvel Comics has taken the hint and is trying a similar tactic with their Marvel Now initiative starting next month. I’d elaborate on that, but I’m not sure anyone knows exactly what it is. Comics are cool. Go read comics. Batman!

RJ BalogEntertainment Writer

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Please note before reading this article that I understand perfectly that taste is a matter of subjectiv-ity, and it is truly impossible to judge any medium in an objective way. Having said that, also note that I objectively have a better subjective taste, so more often than not, I am right. The Big Bang Theory is the geeky television darling created by Chuck Lorre, the creator of other incredibly unfunny shows such as Dharma and Greg or Two and a Half Men. It has become the go-to show for a large portion of the 18-24 demographic of people that have terrible senses of humour. Highlights of the show are its highly ineffectual cast of one-note jokes (“Oh look! The blonde one is pretty, the East Indian one can’t talk to women, and Sheldon is borderline autis-tic! How adorable!”), its clichéd sitcom premises punctuated equally with references to sex and nerd culture, and its nominations for more Emmys than it could possibly deserve. Also, there is an incessantly cacophonic laugh track so that we know where the jokes are, because heaven forbid people should decide for them-selves what parts of the show are humorous (note: very few). So then, why has this show taken off when, by all rights, it should have been canceled after the first season? I did some very in-depth research into this topic – mean-

ing I’m just going to speak anec-dotally for the next paragraph. Having seen a large spectrum of episodes (at least a season and a half’s worth) across the show’s five current seasons, as I have several friends and one girlfriend who (frustratingly) enjoy the program, I can safely say why I think people enjoy it so much. Geek and nerd culture are becom-ing increasingly mainstream within the 18-24 demographic. It’s simply another progression of youth attempting to foster an identity by saying “Oh look at me! I’m such a dork! I love The Big Bang Theory and play Pokémon and saw The Avengers on open-ing night!” And there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of those things. Enjoy whatever you’d like to enjoy and I really won’t mind (I’ll just write articles about how much it sucks). Just don’t think that watching The Big Bang Theory makes you a nerd. It doesn’t. Because all that show does is re-package nerd culture and sell it back to people who want it present and – more importantly — obvious in their lives. It’s exploitative, manufac-tured, stale, and boring; but worst of all, it just ain’t funny, and thinking that it is will make me skeptical whenever you say that you have something funny to tell me. Because you obviously have no idea what that word means. Bazinga.

Andrew McCutcheonEntertainment Contributor

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Travis Robinson: Is it appropriate for coaches to have expectations for the upcom-ing season?Greg Gatto: No question. You have to set expectations. It’s goals, really. You have to set your goals; you have to have something to strive for. Otherwise, what are they playing for? You should be setting them high, reaching as high as you can with those goals. Everyone’s goal is to make the playoffs and win a champi-onship – they should be anyway. We’re in the wrong sport otherwise. We want to win every time we get out there; that’s kind of our nature.

TR: So then what are the expectations for this season?GG: Well, we’re really young. We expect to make the playoffs and anything can happen. It’s just a confidence booster from there. Obvi-ously two teams from the Canada West go to the National Championships in Saskatoon, and our goal is to be one of the two. That’s the way we have to be if we want to be a national champion, even though we are a small school. You have to strive for that.

TR: Do you have any new additions to the team that fans should be aware of?GG: We have about 10 of them. We’re really young this year – we only have three third year

players; we have no fourth or fifth year guys, which is unheard of really in CIS. Usually you have a lot of older guys. We have nine or 10 first year players, and a couple of Western Hockey League captains in Chase Schaber from Kamloops and Hayden Rintoul from Victoria. We also have a couple of old Leth-bridge Hurricanes in Cason Machacek and Damien Kelto, the goaltender, so hopefully those are the people they [the fans] can associ-ate with and want to come and watch.

TR: What do you think the prominence of CIS hockey is on the spectrum of CIS sports?GG: In reality, the CIS spectrum of sports isn’t looked upon as highly as it should be. I mean, I think it’s a hidden gem and a great game. I’ve always asked why, if you’re down in NCAA hockey at 20, 21, [why are] you a prospect? Yet they come here and they’re almost like that “has been.” We want to get rid of that. I mean, we’re a pretty good hockey program, and I don’t want this to be the dying grounds for the Western Hockey League guys; this should be a stepping stone to go play minor pro in Europe kind of thing and have these guys set their goals a little bit higher when hockey’s done.

TR: What do you think the impact of the NHL lockout will be on CIS hockey?

GG: I think we’ll see a few more 20 years olds coming down, the guys that are probably going to try pro and want to be a pro hockey players. With the filter down process, we might get a few extra guys – Chase Schaber is one. He wanted to be a pro; Hayden Rintoul and Damien Kelto were the same, and eventually those are the only spots you can fill. They realized they could use their Western Hockey League scholarship money and go pro another time.

Travis RobinsonSports Editor

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Travis RobinsonSports Editorial

I am admittedly not a big hockey fan, nor am I a rabid NHL fan. I played the game in my youth, but came under suspect for my lack of size and eventually quit the game. At the professional level, the game is all about physi-cality. Big bodies are naturally more physical, and despite some obvious exceptions (think Theo Fleury), size matters in the sport of hockey. Size is so paramount in the NHL that the average NHL player stands over 6’0” tall and weighs over 200 lbs. Bruising bodies make the game the spectacle it is today, and the NHL relies on a mix of contact and finesse as its lifeblood. Tantamount to physical size are the sizes of the contracts the players sign. In the 2011-2012 NHL campaign, the average salary stood at a cool $2.45 million. This, of course, is peanuts compared to the incentive-laden monstrosities that the star players command. As a comparison figure, the highest paid NHL player last season made nearly $10 million. This works out to roughly $122,000 per game, or approximately $2,000 dollars per minute in a full length game. While no human being can possibly be worth $2,000 per minute worked, NHL players garner such salaries due to the revenues they generate within the hockey market. Considering that the average NHL fan pays $40 to watch a game, and another $200

on merchandise and food, it is no wonder why the NHL can pay its players such exorbitant salaries. Yet here comes another September without hockey, calling back the bitter nostal-gia of 2004, when the entire NHL season was lost due to squabbling between the players and their owners involving money. This season, the concept remains no differ-ent. The NHLPA demands an increase in salary. The NHL and its owners do not wish to bend to the demands of the players. Thus, we are in deadlock with very wealthy parties on both sides refusing to cooperate to put NHL hockey back on the ice. The absurdity in such a quarrel is sickening, and yet it happens from time to time in every professional sport where big revenues are met with big demands. The allusion to a slave owner and his slaves is not lost on me when one speaks of a sports owner and his players. While professional athletes are paid handsomely for their dirty work, they are still technically owned by the team owner. Without a players’ union, the owner could exploit players far beyond reasonable means. In the era of a union, however, owners are forced to meet the demands of the players. When the two sides cannot reach an agree-ment, a lockout ensues, and millions of dollars in revenue are lost, not to mention the aspira-tions of players just coming into the league.

The 2012 NHL lockout may be resolved soon and we may see a truncated NHL season unfold before us. With the elfin Gary Bettman serving as moderator between the two sides, I do not see immediate resolution happening in the near future. Bettman, who himself is paid an ungodly $8 million a season, cannot seem to stop the league from sinking into another bog of infighting. On the NHLPA side, its executive director is paid a generous salary of $3 million. Owners themselves are either multi-millionaires or billionaires, so the fight is not so much about the money itself as it is the arrogance both sides command. The bottom line is that two very spoiled groups of people are handled by a childish man in Bettman himself. Such resolution is a very distant possibility at this point. The bright side of an NHL lockout is that it allows minor leagues to flourish. Players wish-ing to play this season out are being delegated to the ranks of minor league hockey, which will make for some great competitive hockey. At home in Canada, our CIS and WHL teams will flourish as fans turn off their televisions to catch some live hockey. While any sports lockout is a showcase of plutocratic greed, the trickle-down effect of a halt in professional hockey is energetic semi-pro or amateur competition.

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** Submit your TLFs at www.themeliorist.ca. All TLFs must be submitted via a valid uleth e-mail account. Keep in mind that libelous or offensive TLFs may be edited or omitted. The TLFs do not reflect the view or opinions of The Meliorist Publishing Society.

Anyone else notice that the FS lot is never full? I understand that faculty is more important but do they really need an extra 2 rows of empty stalls in their lot?!

Dear angelic-boy-who-bought-my-sub:Thank you! I’ll pay it forward… or meet you there to pay for yours? I seriously owe you! There’s a back story ;p

Legalize Crystal Meth

to the individual they refer to as ‘Boom’, who looks like that one baseball player. You make my trips to the Village Liquor store on Friday nights that much more exciting! Thnxz!!

How did the hipster burn his lip?he sipped his coffee before it was cool…

millions of dollars spent and all that was acomplished was making the parking lot confusing and forcing motorcycles to park on the sidewalk. money well spent, uleth

Dear girls in tight pants : Keep on rockin! XD

Still need first philosophy (phil 1000) or sociology 1000 textbooks freshies? I want to get rid of these books!

House concert this Monday night

feat. West Coast musician Zaac Pick! $5 at the door for great music. Email colton.whelpton@uleth.ca for more info

Keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever – Happy anniversary to my amazing fiancé BLT!

Count me in for the Tall Club! When can we start!? And can we get Segways so we’re even taller?

Lost something? We found it. Check the Atrium.

the hand dryers in uhall are from the 70’s….

free sodexo cheescake?… Its A TRAP!

dear lady: if your looking for meatheads and tapout shirts, youve come to the wrong place. your at #Uleth,what did you expect if not skinny jeans and hipsters….

for all those interested in joining the Tall Club….6’0” is a minimum…sincerely,Tall With Glasses

if you’ve been finding half finished meliorist crosswords all over the school….ive been leaving them as gifts to others who only like to do half a cross-

wordTo the person smoking directly upwind from where people are sitting enjoying their lunches…just because you want lung cancer, that does not mean the rest of us do.

I like when my server walks past our table for 20 minutes without even talking our drink order.Here we go again zoo service. #angersweats

When girls pass me on the sidewalk I match their speed and wait for them to hold my hand – SpiderSean

What do you call a deer without eyes? No Ideer! SpiderSean

“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours firstLet’s compare scars, I’ll tell you whose is worseLet’s unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words”- Rise Against

Fine Arts Building why do you have to be So Cold when it’s so nice out? No one wants to carry around a jacket all day just to survive a class.

People in Ling 2300: please stop asking dumb questions and freaking out about the larynx. Also, to the girl trying to explain “cap” and “about”, we under-

stood :) .So I see someone really likes Rise Against…?

Don’t let me catch you forgetting how dope it is that you can have live fish in your house

Like how awful is your day in general that you’d rather get mad at people about their fashion via The Meliorist as opposed to just writing something nice

Let me be a set S that is bounded. Where the bed is my infimum and you are my supremum ;)

I would like to know who the awfully pretty young man with the dreads is…

Ermahgerd herper berthder sterpherner

Know what’s cool about demoralizing people who take the elevator? Nothing. Nobody needs to justify their choices or activities to you. Focus on your own glutes and move on.

Bingo! Bango! Bongo! BABY BLUE SOUND CREW!!! for the boys still padding their stats…

articUNO, zapDOS, molTRESAsh Ketchum -> Ash catch’emMind = Blown

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Fellow University students: save the elevators for the people who need them! The stairs and hill aren’t THAT bad!

Super cute how the Meliorists considers #tweetlikeagirl to be #news. Really setting the bar there.

Yay, body policing in the TLFs! I’ma channel my third grade self and go back to wearing baggy shirts with leggings because fuck you. Don’t tell me how to dress.

Imagine what you could do by giving one person a smile.

To the girl in the grey shirt and black yoga pants at the track around 9:30 pm on Thursday jumping rope, single? ;)

Is anyone else stupidly excited for HvZ?! I can’t wait! *girly screams!*

Galileo’s lounge really needs a soundtrack to describe what’s happening…if it’s calm have smooth jazz and when it gets more hectic the casino theme from Pokémon…this could work

Please don’t use hashtags in TLFs. Just . . . just don’t.

Dear Mr. Headbanger,Yes, we’re out here but look where you wouldn’t expect to find us. Sometimes our taste in music comes as a surprise to others based on how we look -Cute MH

To the boy looking for a metalhead girl: hereeee I am! Find me in the pool gallery and we can talk REAL music.

Ain’t nobody got time for dat

So Travis, the Bears are gonna win

the NFC North? Doubt it, but they’ll be lucky if they can finish the season 10-6 for a “lovely” second place finish behind the 14-2 Packers.

Can we please have fewer UofL employees talking on cells while driving? I’m sure we could use the Arts And Science budget to buy at least one hands free set.

PETA chick: Unless uv specifically seen the dogs in the car for +30mins in excessive heat you should STFU. You have no right to criticize someone unless you know the whole story!

To the person who left a note on my dashboard “lecturing” me on parking, and telling me how lucky I am that they didn’t key my car: YOU’RE lucky that you didn’t key my car. Grow up

To the girl working at the coffee shop: Your smile is as breathtaking as the wind around here.

To the Dirty Bingo peanut gallery. Please shut up. The rest of us are there to have fun not listen to your childish antics. If you want to behave like idiots, go to studio.

To DCL: Yeah, Yamamoto’s Bankai is great. But it destroys SS so I think he can count on one hand how many times he’s ever used it. Knowing Kubo it won’t finish the battle.

To the ppl who smoke beside buildings, rule is 10 m away from any buildings and don’t start a grassfire. Easy way to follow these rules: Quit smoking. No smoke = no grassfire.

What, like the “free” parking outside the apartment complexes that prevents me from actually

being able to get into the building? You’re just using someone else’s area dick.

the trouble with trouble is troublesome, true,but trouble is trouble – and the trouble is that.

Thanks to David, Sarah & finance guy (who may not also be sexy david) for helping us with the drunk guy in the alley.Love the Purdue Court Streakers.

Dear climbing guy: We should finish that conversation. Same time, same place? From: spelunking girl.

Guess who’s 3-0 in the NFLArizona Cardinals! BOO-YAH!Suck it 49er fans!-Enigma

Need a horror movie buddy?

#WhyDontYouLikeHashTags #TLFs #YouMadBro

To the girl who posted last week about tights not being pants. My apologies, I had no idea my calfs were so offensive to you.-cant see the difference between tights and yoga pant

to the girl with the short blonde hair…that ass.

The Campus Women’s Centre needs help with updating our website. Please send us an email (womens.centre@uleth.ca) or drop by if you or someone you know can help us. Thanks!

Watch out lot N! Security is on patrol. Those without passes – get out of the lot and let those who have them park!!

Advertisements everywhere: in

classrooms on tables, in front and shouting really fast, on bulletin boards… I thought that if you paid it was ad-free. Apparently not.

The first years this spring are bruuuuuutal. Srsly, half the class was packed up and out the door with 5 minutes left to go. The prof just stopped mid speech, shocked.

TLFs are an ineffective way to police people’s fashion. How bout everyone just wears what they feel like putting on in the morn’, aight?

Do you eat soup or do you drink soup?

Hello gorgeous gals and handsome hunks of the U of L!

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