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Oct. 25 - Oct. 31, 2012

CAMPUS CHAT
What Are You
Going to Be for
Halloween?

Scotts Soapbox
Non-Traditional
Is a Good Thing
BY COREY SCOTT
Staff Writer
Living the life of a college
student is rough. The long
hours of studying and a different paper
every week
seem to monopolize all
available
time. Many
students do
not realize
the
extra
work some
of their fellow students must
endure to get the degree.
Single parents, married
students and non-traditional
students may seem like a fraction of the student body, but
they are among the hardest
working. Many put in 15 to 20
hours of school work then go
home to cook, clean and take
care of a family before they
sit down and tackle looming
mountains of homework.
Some of these students are
even industrious enough to put
themselves out there and join
student organizations and participate in a multitude of extracurricular activities.
Too many times students
get back tests and curse the
older person in the corner for
ruining the curve or always
having the right answers.
These people work hard and
deserve a bit of credit from
the younger generation. This
small pocket of the population,
whatever their background,
are Tigers. They belong in the
halls of East Central University just as much as the star
quarterback or the homecoming queen.
No matter their chosen field
of study, these students dream
of making a difference. They
would not be here otherwise.
So, next time the old guy in the
corner scores a perfect score
on a quiz no one else seemed
to study for, the entire class
needs to congratulate him and
deal with the consequences.

I am going to
be a vampire.
Ashley
Bean,
Beggs
freshman

My last
Halloween
costume was
the Hulk.
James
Brown,
Shawnee
freshman

ECU Stands
United Against
Domestic Abuse

I am going
to be a redneck bunny.
Brooke
Butler,
Ardmore
freshman

CARTOON/SALVADOR JASSO

EDITORIAL
Political Opinions Ought to Be Potty Trained
BY MARY NEWPORT
Editor-in-Chief
As the presidential election creeps closer and loyal
devotees
advocate
one candidate or another, tempers run hot
and many
an
argument erupts.
However
fierce the fight, debaters
should take care to refrain
from mud-slingingor poopplacing and condom-cloaking,
as seems to be happening at
East Central University.
A Tiger with strong political opinions recently placed
a few flyers around campus.
Presumably in reference to
Mitt Romneys remark about
Americans who feel entitled
to government benefits, the
flyers read simply 47%.
Most occupy inconspicuous spots, but two were stuck
to a wooden stake and planted

very visibly on the lawn near

the front entrance to the Horace Mann Building.
The sign only stood tall for
a short while. After a few days,
it was unstuck from the ground
and laid low, with a bit of dog
poop balanced precisely on the
uprooted stake.
One supposes a civic-minded canine with extremely good
aim could have knocked the
sign over and relieved itself
there, but the idea seems a little farfetched. Reason suggests
somebody decided to make a
statement with his best friends
waste.
Ignoble as the poop may
have been, it wasnt over yet
for the brave little sign. Not
long after, someone brushed
the dried ordure from the stake
and pulled a bright red condom down its length instead.
Unrolling a condom requires
thumbs, which rules out local
dogs.
There are also those who occasionally get drunk enough to
mistake a signpost for an organ
of similar shape, but nobody so

intoxicated could bend down

and pick it up without falling
over. Once again, it seems,
someone took exception to the
sign.
Those someones need to
take a communication course.
Leaving aside questions of
proprietybecause
college
students know dung isnt a
socially acceptable means of
expressionthe poop and condom approach is simply ineffective.
Such methods dont specifically illustrate the placers
opinion. They might disapprove of the sign, of Romneys remark or just of wooden
stakes. ECU might be dealing
with a churlish, pet-owning
vampire.
Things would go better if
commentators put up their own
signs or held a campus political debate. If people must continue to comment childishly,
they might try the traditional
trick of drawing crude genitalia. It at least takes a smidgeon
of artistic talent and eliminates
the need to handle excrement.

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I am going
to be an
M&M.
Morgan
Johnson,
Shawnee
freshman
I am going to
be Psy from
the Gangnam
Style video.

Kale Lampkin,
Davis sophomore
I am going
to be a scary
clown like the
one from the
movie IT.

Justin Doughty,
Ardmore freshman