Rec renovations

It’s sour grapes to complain about a campuswide vote fairly lost. It’s a journalistic prerequisite to dissect a referendum that was done without integrity. Since the Board of Regents approved the student fee increase, it’s crucial that we’re vigilant about dissecting the latter.

Bottle deposit

All in all, a 10-cent deposit would have benefited college students: We don’t pay attention to the deposit when we pay it, and it’s like hitting the jackpot when you turn your cans back in – you’ve drank enough for another case!

Veishea

For Veishea the wristbands won’t do

We hope the new chairs see this too

The party was lame

Since nobody came

We’d rather spend time with a brew

Smoking

Why exactly it’s OK to smoke at the Iowa State Fair we’ll never know. Aÿvocal anti-smoking minority on the Editorial Board is thrilled.

Oh, and famous last words from last semester: “Yeah, yeah, we know. Smoking kills bystanders (five of us on the board) and triggers asthma attacks and allergic reactions (at least one on the board). So enforce the rules already there and get over this universal ban nonsense.”

Facebook

More popular than ever, less private than ever, not really a big deal until we can’t find a job because of those pictures someone tagged of that one night.

GSB

Same ol’, same ol’.

Campus life

Odds are you’ve seen Iowa State’s own “Choose your adventure” campaign advertisements on TV over the past year or two. And odds are that, you, like us, may have had a slightly different experience here than the young go-getters in the commercials. Many of us on the edit board are at or near our four – or five or six – year tenure at Iowa State, and we think the following script paints a more accurate picture of the average ISU student’s adventure:

I want to spend 15 weeks playing “Halo,” then cram a semester’s worth of learning into two nights of coffee and cigarettes.

I want to sleep through my 10 a.m. class all week so I can get up at 7 a.m. Saturday to tailgate.

I want to deflect awkward stares and glances when I do the walk of shame at 9:30 on a Saturday morning.

I want to wonder if that’s my vomit I’m stepping over the next morning in the dorm bathroom.

I want to study the complex division of power within society, understanding the liturgical and sociological elements that contribute to or perhaps enforce this cultural stratification . but I will settle for knowing what a quesadilla is.

I want to see one-hit-wonder bands from the ’90s in a soggy, muddy field in 30-degree weather.

I want to pay more than $1,000 for recreation facilities that I’ll only use once in four years and won’t be renovated until long after I’m gone anyways.

Then I finally realize I want to be a botanist . but it’s too damn late because it’s my senior year and I’ve got $40,000 in student debt already.

Choose your adventure at Iowa State! Or, as the case may be, sit back, see what happens and enjoy the ride.