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Monday, January 29, 2007


Just in Case You Thought College was about Intellectual Pursuits.
The student newspaper at the University of Kansas knows what students really need in college: more knowledge about sex.

Yep.

It sounds like something out of the Onion, but that's what a writer for the Kansan says.

"University students are often provided with opportunities to pursue exceptional careers. Dailey accurately asserts that many students lack sufficient means to study the part of their lives that will determine their happiness even more than financial gain. In an increasingly superficial and materialistic society, many lose sight of the importance of meaningful and intimate connections. Sex, as an act solely intended to gain physical pleasure, becomes unsatisfying.

Fortunately, students at the University have the opportunity to learn about this aspect of life as well as their future careers."


Calculus? Pfft! Economics? So unsatisfying. Science? Unnecessary.

At least the class lauded by the editorial writer is non-credit. At least for now.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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