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[sigma7]

I need levity.

The K-State Collegian main page.

The Rando-Collegian page. Reload/refresh for a new randomization. It's not perfect, but I love the way the poll turned out. The images don't change and I lost two of the menu options and the phpNonsense engine still needs some fixes, but it wastes some time.

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It really says something to see how jarring it is to go from the top story to the ones lower down. This is obviously a big anomoly in your area.

Woe be unto this staff if this isn't the biggest story of the semester. I hope it is. It's certainly unusual, and might even be unprecedented in terms of faculty on trial, I don't know. It's made more unusual in that his ex moved to the city of the university's bitter in-state rival, so any possible community polarization was just amped up a dozen times or so.

There are normally a few murders a year, but they're often drug/alcohol related, and Ft. Riley (half an hour of the other side of Manhattan) is often involved. Something this grisly, with all of the family drama, though, is definitely exceptional.

I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist checking out what's fashionable in your Manhattan these days. And boy, is that a flash back to my early college days in southern Alabama.

I gotta say that I'm fashion blind. I'm wearing my faithful black leather jacket, jeans, an a T-shirt with the periodic table on it.

Phrases like "Ethnic Invasion" and "Ethnic looks best when it is not done from head to toe" would provoke snickers in my multicutlural Manhattan. And there would probably be some scowls about the aggregation of African tribal influences and white colonial safari garb. Even the entreaty to "Release your inner Greek goddess" would strike most non-whites as a bit misguided.

Even this town -- one of the most diverse in the state -- is still largely homogenous. There are more Asian and Asian-American students than black, and that's not a huge number. I'm looking out the windows as students walk by and they're largely jeaned and hoodied. This is not a mecca for distinction.

What's most hilarious about it, though, is that these are the same fashions styles I see here. They're just described very differently. Go figure. :-)

Ha! I know our EIC and interim adviser are in NYC this weekend for a conference -- and I know that a good percentage of Little Applers aspire to more trendy fasion from your neck of the woods -- but a lot of us are very much cornfed and homegrown and feel out of place even here. It's a shred of the real world engulfed by the prairie. Most unusual. But wow, I missed it.