i’m not one to mince words really, but i’m really not too keen on throwing around the word “cunt”

be that as it may, this bitch is completely one. for those of you not in the know, there’s a link to this story from ESPN. i just find it funny that she’s choosing to badmouth the university after leaving. everyone around here knows that she did not get along with the board during her 4 years at the helm, and it was hardly a secret that the board wanted to promote the football culture while she did not.

now i’m no superjock or meathead or something, but i do love me some college football. i love the diversity of the game that is shown on the college level. at the professional level all you get are a lot of the same styles of play with varying levels of talent. in college you have a much broader philosophy to play by. you have all kinds of different regions and styles to watch. so please do not take this as a heavy handed “she break football. she make norb mad” kind of mongoloid rant. i’m trying to get past that here…

the problem is her choice of wording to describe what she calls a “riot culture” at ohio state. i attended osu from 1998 to 2002 and lived through the “absolute drunken orgies” that happened on campus after many football games. it bothers me that she seems to think that “rioting” is something that is a base part of the ohio state experience, and that it was something that everyone participated in. if you think that standing by and watching 20 drunk people burn a couch or throw things at cops is participating, i hate to think that you and i share the same american values.

i would like to pose these questions:

maybe the incidents were brought on by a lack of other places for people to be? — many of the local hangouts for college students started disappearing around this time. the university bought up a large swath of what used to be college bars and knocked them down, leaving the students no where to go but to the streets.

maybe it was somehow perpetuated by an overly abundant police force? — living on norwich (which had 2 riots in the years i lived there, one basically directly in front of our place) i was privy to these experiences first hand. on both occasions where i saw a disturbance start, i noticed it was usually directly preceded by an altercation between some kids and some cops. the police used to fill the parking lot of a church across the street from our apt with all kinds of vehicles and officers, plenty of them decked out in riot gear. that kind of atmosphere is bound to lead to altercations.

holbrook likes to think that she did some good while she was here. as far as i can tell all she did was make an enjoyable and exciting experience something less. i understand the need to progress and grow as a university, but i also tend to feel that her heavy handed approach to “tailgating” and the football culture here was not in the best interest of the university. unfortunately for her, football fans make up a large base of the osu community, be it alumni, students, faculty or staff. and if you look at it, the overall experience of any one osu fan is not going to be representative of her comments in the above article.

i’ve had a friend in from michigan for the BIG GAME. he, being the jerk that he is, absolutely chose to wear all his michigan gear and head out with my friends to the stadium to soak up the atmosphere. not once did he feel physically threatened or did he come to any harm. there was the usual good natured ribbing given out at these kinds of things, and at one point he was harassed by a state trooper (“EVERYONE BOO THIS GUY!”) but he made it home just fine. i think if you picked any typical fan you’ll find that they did not have a problem and they did not get into any trouble.

so yeah, that bitch sucks. i for one am glad she’s gone.

so i came to the realization yesterday that i am probably a fairly shallow person. i’ve always thought that my inability to pick up girls related to the fact that 1) they hardly ever approach me and 2) i get all nervous when they do.

yesterday a couple of my friends and i went to the beach (well, as close as you can get to a beach in ohio anyways). we were hanging out on a sand volleyball court, just hitting the ball back and forth over the net. the sand was really, really hot so we weren’t really playing a game, but rather just messing around. well up walks this girl from somewhere else, and she asks if she could get someone else to come over and play 3 v 3. i turned to her, did a quick once over, saw she was kinda fat, and just said “well, we aren’t really playing. we’re just messing around.” she goes “oh, ok” then stands there for another minute, then walk away.

my friend’s gf goes “why can’t she play?” at that moment, i realized that i kind of wasn’t very inviting to this girl, never really made eye contact, and kind of just shut her out right away. last night while i’m laying bed trying to get to sleep (which was neigh impossible due to the fact that i failed to put any suntan lotion on my back, so it got burnt the fuck up) i started to replay the little exchange in my head and figure out what it was that made me not be too friendly to this girl.

it came to me in a flash of brilliance… it was her looks. i gave her the once over, dismissed her as fat, and that was that. i wasn’t interested in spending time with her or getting to know her. i didn’t even bother to find out if the other person she wanted to bring was another girl (maybe a hot one) or even a dude. once i made that realization, i started thinking back on a lot of different encounters i have with different girls. i started to see a pattern where i’m not as friendly with the fat ones as i am with the hot ones.

so i started to ponder this new found personality flaw, and it dawned on me… why should i even care if i’m shallow? it’s always seen by society that being shallow is a bad thing, yet i think to some extent everyone is shallow in one way or another. just the term itself, shallow, seems, well, shallow. heh. what i’m getting at is, if it is in your nature to be attracted to a certain body type, intelligence level, whatever, then why should you fight that? why should you go against your own nature just to please society? i don’t think that is a very good way to go about your life, really.