Posted on March 11 at 2:08 a.m.Suggest removal

Dear Daily Editors,

Funny story: Just before you published this article a friend pointed out to me that every official statement from our sovereign to your publication in response to a controversy begins with some variation of the phrase “I am puzzled,” “I was puzzled,” or “I found it puzzling.” (Could you please fact check this for me?) A president in perpetual puzzlement? What do you make of this?

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Posted on March 9 at 9:05 a.m.Suggest removal

Janowiak,

I found the “occupation” bemusing and befuddling myself. I never saw the flyers for the event you are referring to, though I saw a lot of literature being passed around when I was there, and I had no hand whatsoever in staging the event, so I’ll let the tribe’s leaders speak for themselves. “Pretentious and incomprehensible?” I’ll accept pretentious; but see if anything that follows makes sense to your literal mind: “Stop trying to ruin the Left’s name on this campus.” You sound like Don Quixote defending the honor of chivalry. Tell us, Janowiak, where is this “Left” on campus? If you’re so concerned about the reputation of your “Left,” and if you’re losing sleep because a band of Groucho Marxists threatens to jeopardize it’s “serious” projects, then please tell us more about your “Left”—since you have appointed yourself its gatekeeper--and, more to the point, what your Left’s plans are for defending higher education. You know as well as I that a 3.5 percent budget cut is only the beginning; The University of Oklahoma can only fend off the economic crisis while our President plays good/ bad cop with the state legislature for so long. So it’s better to do nothing you think? Then by all means continue doing nothing. Pray that your Left will ride in and rescue you at the last moment. “He who does not descend from his horse to speak with the peasants has no right himself to speak,” but “He who is not afraid of a death by a thousand cuts will unseat the emperor.” (Mao Zedong) Yes, this response to you is from an older thread.

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Posted on March 8 at 11:51 p.m.Suggest removal

Janowiak,

I found the “occupation” bemusing and befuddling myself. I never saw the flyers for the event you are referring to, though I saw a lot of literature being passed around when I was there, and I had no hand whatsoever in staging the event, so I’ll let the tribe’s leaders speak for themselves. “Pretentious and incomprehensible?” I’ll accept pretentious; but see if anything that follows makes sense to your literal mind: “Stop trying to ruin the Left’s name on this campus.” You sound like Don Quixote defending the honor of chivalry. Tell us, Janowiak, where is this “Left” on campus? If you’re so concerned about the reputation of your “Left,” and if you’re losing sleep because a band of Groucho Marxists threatens to jeopardize it’s “serious” projects, then please tell us more about your “Left”—since you have appointed yourself its gatekeeper--and, more to the point, what your Left’s plans are for defending higher education. You know as well as I that a 3.5 percent budget cut is only the beginning; The University of Oklahoma can only fend off the economic crisis while our President plays good/ bad cop with the state legislature for so long. So it’s better to do nothing you think? Then by all means continue doing nothing. Pray that your Left will ride in and rescue you at the last moment. “He who does not descend from his horse to speak with the peasants has no right himself to speak,” but “He who is not afraid of a death by a thousand cuts will unseat the emperor.” (Mao Zedong)

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Posted on March 8 at 1:04 a.m.Suggest removal

Dear Daily Editors,
The funniest and saddest part of this whole story is that a dozen hippie-looking students making a confusing statement on the South Oval has created such a furry of commentary from the Daily. I’m sure that far more hours have gone into the commenting by now than went into the planning of the event itself. Without that small tribe of gypsy students you wouldn’t have much to write about. (It’s too bad you can’t count on a woman getting tasered in front Bizzell every day.) So why then bite the hand that feeds you? And protest tips from you guys? You wouldn’t know a protest if it ran you over in the middle of the road.

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Posted on March 7 at 11:01 a.m.Suggest removal

Janowiak,
You and Landon are part of the same problem: a smug liberalism that exorcizes its own guilt about doing nothing by shouting down anyone is why trying to do anything. Do you fancy yourself some kind of activist because you troll the Daily website looking for opportunities to condemn other students? What kind of pleasure do you get out of this activity? What (if anything) constructive have you ever had to contribute? With higher education (and democracy in America) in crisis, why are so much more obsessed with policing what others are doing? Pre-tend activists with no creativity and no ideas, you claim to understand everything and yet you live nothing.

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Posted on March 5 at 10:11 p.m.Suggest removal

Dear Landon,

“Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” (Benjamin Franklin). Had you bothered to leave your office and spend some time on the South Oval you would have seen a diverse bunch of students chatting, eating, sharing literature, and just having a good time. When I passed by I overheard straight-edgers, Christians, and construction workers discussing employee benefits at OU. (I don’t know what literature you are quoting, it may have been from one of the UC fliers.) There was no coherent ideology behind the symbolic occupation, because an expression of solidarity with the plight of students across the country needs no ideology. If the South Oval occupants were Marxists, they were students of Groucho, but you are so obsessed with your standards of intellectual rigor that humor escapes you. The ideologue here, Landon, is you. Your ideology: the dictatorship of the real, a dogmatic liberal positivism that still clings to “hope” for a “change we can believe in.” You wept during Obama’s inauguration. You await the arrival of change like it’s the messiah, and because it never comes you become disenchanted. I meet witless liberal Democrats like you all over campus. Priggish, self-righteous, ineffectual do-nothings. You berate those who still possess creativity, those who can still imagine that the world could be other than it is. Higher education in America continues to deteriorate and rather than try to understand your students you dismiss them because their ideas lack the logical precision you worship. The only intellectual masturbator here is you. You are pitiable. Una risata vi seppellirà!

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Posted on March 5 at 11:03 a.m.Suggest removal

Dear online blog editors,

Are you blocking my posts for some reason, or are you just not updating regularly? If you are rejecting my posts, please explain to me why so I can modify my responses accordingly. And DON’T POST THIS COMMENT. Post my previous comment. This is just a query. I’m just wondering what happens to my posts that don’t get posted.

Supersooner

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Posted on March 5 at 12:40 a.m.Suggest removal

“Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” (Benjamin Franklin) Marxists, Janowiak, really? I doubt many of them have read Marx. If you had bothered to spend some time there you would have seen a diverse bunch of students chatting, eating, sharing information, and just having a good time. When I passed by I overheard straight-edgers, Christians, and construction workers discussing employee benefits at OU. (You must be quoting from some of the UC literature they had on hand. I don’t remember reading anything like that on their fliers.) There was no ideology behind the symbolic occupation, because an expression of solidarity with the plight of students across the country needs no ideology. How do you not see, Janowiak, that the ideologue here is you! Your ideology: the dictatorship of the real, a dogmatic do-nothing liberal positivism that still clings to “hope” for a “change we can believe in.” You await the arrival of this change like it’s the messiah, and because it never comes you are consumed with bitterness. You could just stew in your own bile, but you insist instead upon intoxicating others. You berate, and, in your own words “police” those who still possess creativity, those who can still imagine that the world could be other than it is. Education in America is in crisis, and you are haunted by armies of Marxists? If the South Oval occupants were Marxists, they were students of Groucho, but you are so “grown up” now that even humor is beyond you. Who knows, maybe their armies will one day tear us all down. Una risata vi seppellirà!

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Posted on March 3 at 9:41 p.m.Suggest removal

I don’t know, Janowiak and Chris, the event kind of sounds like fun to me. If it’s not your thing, then why don't you just stay at home in front of your computer blogging about how other people aren’t as enlightened as you are and wanking with your almighty "invisible hand." Have fun!

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Posted on October 15 at 1:19 p.m.Suggest removal

Briareus is absolutely right! Why do we allow these gay commie baby-killers to express their views in our paper? Why do we even allow them on our campus? If they hate American so much, why don’t they found their own Institute for Hating America, preferably somewhere in Texastan! (OU beats Texas by two touchdowns and a field goal—you can put your money on it!)

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