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O Columbia, Alma Mater, I wasn't sure what to say when you announced that you were inviting the President of Iran to come speak on Campus. I mean, this guy's government puts grandmas in jail, among other odious pasttimes. And worse...he smirksHowever, in true Columbia style, the protestors showed up en masse, providing a valuable ( Read more... )

Well, Constitution Day was technically Sunday the 17th, but the Law school has decided to celebrate it today. We watched a film on 'judicial independence' with Justices O'connor, Breyer and Kennedy, which was pretty intersting, then listened/asked questions to a panel of judges, an attorney and my Con Law prof (who merged today's class into the ( Read more... )

*M. found someone's Alaska drivers license outside our back patio. We figure it belonged to a guest at our neighbors 3am shindig early Friday morning. We were trying to figure out how to get it back to her. Anyway, since the person was not the KU directory, I thought she might be a student at Haskell (another college in Llamaville). I googled her ( Read more... )

Luckily, I was available to take my ill younger brother llama to the pediatrician this afternoon. He looked very green. I felt very old sitting in the waiting room, realizing that the other women my age were bringing their children, not their siblings, into the doctor's office ( Read more... )

I'm taking constitutional law this semester, so maybe I'm more sensitive to current events. Has anyone else been following the Georgia Tech free speech lawsuit? Evidently, two students, an evangelical Christian and freakin' Jewish president of the Hillel have sued the University for the right to openly say they hate other students in on-campus ( Read more... )