aggienaut | Opinions & Influence

Year Ago Today - an excerpt
   I ran into Vicki Swett in the MU. Vicki - "Do you need to sit down with legal council about this case?" (the real lawyers) Me - "nah, its a relatively simple case ...[the Plaintiff] does want to overturn the whole legislation though" ::Vicki immediately goes from nauseating cheerfulness to icey death looks:: "look Kris you're a bright boy.. I know you won't let the Court do anything stupid again ::extremely piercing death stare:: ...we WILL get our lawyers on this if it gets out of hand." me - "uh, yeah.. its under control" ::excessive bubbliness again:: - "alright keep up the good work.. see you later"
   Yeah she's not trying to influence the Court one bit. Needless to say I have no intention of mentioning to the Court her threat.. their reasoning should not be affected by such threats.

   Two quotes from year ago today from my nuclear physics professor -- "a piece about the size of a baseball should just about do the trick if you're having a bad day" (about uranium) -- and about the benefits of working on nuclear programs: "you get lots of money to play with... you're surrounded by big fences that protect you from people with stupid questions... and the designs are kinda cute" (after drawing a rather "cute" bomb on the board).

Quotes From Today's Aggie Opinion Section - regarding the opinion by Tiqula Bledsoe I mentioned earlier
Gregory Jones (Davis Resident): "...I must say that I am offended and appalled that this institution of higher learning dare raise standards of admittance ... raising standards is akin to forcing African Americans to sit on the back of a bus, or to drink from a different water fountain. African Americans simply cannot meet higher standards ... We may think raising standards is innocent, but really it dates all the way back to the Civil War ... We cannot let them continue segregation 50 years after Brown v. the Board of Education."
Paul Amnaypayout (Treasurer, Davis College Libertarians): "...African Americans are capable of attaining the highest grades, just like any other group, and to suggest otherwise borders on racism..."

Birthdays: Today is the birthday of Chris "Croat" Plancic (inequity) and Alexandra "Sashie" Chesnokova (slosha)

In Other News: It is currently 12:26 during the day and I'm in the computer lab. It is "chamber of commerce day" out on the quad which totally means free apples and dollar slices of pizza.

Related
   California Aggie Opinion Section for today - read Gregory Jones' and others' letters in full
   Year Ago Today: Cartoons, Nuclear Physics, & Vicki Swett - pocketbookannie turns in a cartoon to the California Aggie that has me in it, among other things.