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Show THI UNIVDSlTYJQUaNAL • SOtr:111EllN trrAH UNIVERSITY• MONDAY, OC~BER 7, 1996 SEE.?I 1DLD YOU SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION THl;Y'RE. CHIC~N ... COMMENTARY 100 years of thunder One Hundred Years of Thunder is about to get even more exciting. Hom ecoming '96 is beginning and it is going to be one HELL UV A week. The events scheduled should prove to be an adventure for all students here at SUU. This year the scheduled events hold som ething for everyone, and we're expecting record attendance at all the activities. The entertainment for the week is full of big names and old favorites. To start off Mike Rayburn is performing in the Great Hall. He was a s mash at last year's Starlight C lub and the anticipation is high for thi s co media n/ mu sicia n' s perfo rma nce. The next evening the campus will be displaying its most talented students in the 2nd Annual T alent Show. Wedn esday's Unplugged is featuring an SUU favorite, Peter Breinholt will be gracing the Student Center from 11:45-1:15. Be sure to catch this popular performer. The entertainment reaches its pinnacle on Friday with th e dy namic duo of " Monkey Wre nch ." Thi s juggling com edy team will have you in stitches and amaze you with their juggling prow ess. Th e entertai nme nt will be fantastic ye t affordable with the lowest prices that SUU has seen in awhile. Only $2 with a student Id for all the evening performances. Peter Breinholt is, of course, free, something every college student can appreciate. T he sporting e vents s ho uld also be humorous as well as exciting. Tuesday's Volleyball Tournament will be greeted with beautiful weather and hot competition. Thursday's. Powder Puff Football will very possibly turn out to be the highlight of the week. Men, be sure to cheer on the ladies as they show just how much they really DO know about football. If running is in your blood then on Saturday morning put your shoes on for a SK Run. Last but not even close to least is the football game in which the T-Birds will slaughter S.W. Texas. Other events are a Midnight Movie at Fiddlers Theatre, again reduced prices for students with an ID (Ahh Yeah ). There is a progressive activity on Friday culminating in an old-fashioned bonfire before that evening's performer. The parade on Saturday, the tailgate, and of course the Homecoming Formal (Men go get yourselves a date, it's gonna rock). There are man y things happening this week so to help you keep them s traight your friendly and courteous neighborhood SUUSA members may be dropping by your apartment with a calendar for the week. Thanks to Gemme, Steve, and their committee for all the hard work. See you there. Cherilyn Snow is a junior theatre arts major from Tucson, Ariz., and the assistant to the activities vice president/special events. 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PLEASE RECYCLE TiiIS COPY. I LAQUETTA CARPENTER COMMENTARY The joys of reader response First off, I need to explain that I m eant, in no way, to malign the junior high school concert or jazz band in last week's column. It seems that it greatly upset both the band director and the principal of the junior high school. The band of which I was speaking was a punk band comprised of m e mbe rs from qu es tionabl e sc hoo l origin a nd who a re in no way connected to any action, behavior, thought, or an ything else having anything to do wit h the junior high school in Cedar C ity. In fact, I love the junior high . I wDuld soone r eat my o wn face than ca u se th e m di s tres s in a n y fashion ... GO COUGARS! I feel better now. It seem s that I am always getting myself into trouble by writing stuff down in a co mpute r. N o matter what it i s ... junior high schoo l, Nyquil, Top Spot, blazers, face eating products, the weather, the time, you name it, somebody has called me with a very well - re h earsed and ups e t comment. Now, this may be difficult for some of you, but let's all try it together: What is humor? Scary littl e kids calling m e n ames and threatening me, screaming at the crowd, and giving everyone present a display of their new vocabulary is NOT HUMOROUS. In fa ct, it pretty much ruined my day. Me writing about the experience in order to make som e fun out of a ve ry bad and NOT FUN FOR ME situation IS HUMOROUS . Now for all of you who are now preparing to write another letter, personal, or ca ll m e up because you would like to tell me that I am, in fact, WRONG and that I' m not funny, never was funny, and should inhale the ink on the paper, stop writing, go into accounting and GET OUT OF YOUR LIFE. First, I suck at math, so accounting is out (not, in any way to assume or infer that accountants are not worthy or valuable or that I would not like to be one.) Second, contrary to popular belief, I am a person. I am trying to do my job here. I don't go around to your places of work and say, '"hey, you are the worst bagger I have ever seen and I will NOT let yo u take my groceri es to the car you slim y pig of a human being I hate yo u because you as ked; I HATE YOU! " (I· in no way mean to insinuate that baggers are inferior in any way to anyone else, and anyone who is a bagger is, in no way, a s limy pig of a h uman being). I do not do this, because it is mean and irra tio nal. For everyone who didn't get their pen cil out a moment ago to write me but are now doing so because yo u want to te ll me, " You s uck, you are mea n and irrational, you deserve it. " please stop, because I've heard it. If you really feel the need to ruin m y day by personally insulting me and telling me I suck, I suggest you simpl y ca ll one of the com pan ies to which I owe exorbitant amo un ts of money and ask them for lessons because they arc very good at this. Th ings could be going really suck y... my life could b e fallin g apart , but so me o ne somewhere, because I said that I don ' t lik e tomatoes or som ething about that important, fee ls moved to write m e a lett er t o tell me that they hate me and everything about m e. (Not in any way to suggest that people who write letters or hate m ail are bad people that I am trying to in any way pok e fun at o r malign.) I simply like to make jokes about things . If you've eve r m et m e, you know that. I am a walking joke. I fall over chairs, fall off of my bike, write and lose papers on e-mail, sacrifice pots to trees, get caught stalking folk singers, a nd knock entire Hunan displays off of th e counter, I make fun of myself more than anyone and if you feel threat ened by me, I surely do not know why, I am pretty much an idiot. (Not in any way to say that idiots are not threatening) So eat your face if you want to, be in a punk band that won' t perform, smell the newspaper ink, vote for Bob Dole .... but don' t say I didn' t warn you. (Not to imply in any way that Bob Dole eats h is own face.) Laquetta Carpenter is the Opinion director for the University Journal |