Quick Es
April 20, 1998
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Quick E of the Day
“The new way to spell Veishea: L-A-M-E.”
Freshman
Marketing
“Of all the statistics that are in the paper for Veishea this weekend, the one I want to know is how many cars were seen leaving Ames on Friday.”
Senior
Mechanical engineering
“We’re offended by people who are offended by everything.”
Seniors
Civil engineering
“I saw the greatest thing I’ve seen on campus in a long time — PEPSI
trucks.”
Sophomore
Management information systems
“I celebrated a dry Veishea. I dry heaved.”
Sophomore
Computer engineering
“Kudos to the trumpeter playing ‘Taps’ after the Physics 221 test. It should be the department’s theme song!”
Freshman
Chemical engineering
“I would rather pull on my eyelids and punch a hole in them than listen to that damn Flaming Lips Experiment!”
Sophomore
Apparel design
“‘Freedom is the right to choose: The right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice; without the possibility of choice and the
exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing…’ — Archibald MacLeish.”
Freshman
Psychology
“I think we should rename Catt Hall to Beavis Hall, in honor of all the Buttheads who want the name changed.”
Junior
Biology
“Isn’t it odd that there were far more cops at dry Veishea than there ever were at a ‘wet’ Veishea?”
Sophomore
Industrial engineering
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