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If You Kant Beat Them...

Still can't wrap your head around the categorical imperative? The 2010 Class Council wants to feed your bodies and your minds at 10:30 tonight, according to an email from President AJ Pascua:

"Take a break from midterm cramming and enjoy free ice cream, toppings,
and CC study guides! Expect condensed versions on the writings of: Kant,
Rousseau, Smith, Olympe De Gouges, Frederick Douglass, Bentham, Marx,
Burke, Wollstonecraft, and Tocqueville. KANT Get Enough Sleep? will take
place THIS Sunday at 10:30pm on the ramps of Lerner. We will not be
emailing these study guides out after the study break so please come and
claim your copy!"


Posted by waste of my time : #1 · reply · track
March 9, 2008 at 10:51 PM (from campus)
I actually waited 15 minutes for my generous teaspoon of ice cream, and ate it while realizing how useless the study guide is
Posted by kant: : #2 · reply · track
March 9, 2008 at 11:00 PM (from campus)
one sexay mofugga!
Posted by apparently : #3 · reply · track
March 9, 2008 at 11:14 PM (from campus)
rousseau is a nobel savage
Posted by welcome : #4 (in reply to #1) · reply · track
March 9, 2008 at 11:24 PM (from campus)
welcome to the world of free food provided by student councils.
Posted by yet : #5 · reply · track
March 9, 2008 at 11:58 PM (from campus)
when i make jokes like this i get booed in cc class.

sigh
Posted by geeze : #6 · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 12:11 AM (from campus)
so ungrateful!
Posted by juicycampus : #7 · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 12:25 AM (from campus)
theres been a lot of talk about aj pascua on juicycampus
Posted by student politics : #8 · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 1:37 AM (from campus)
seems to vacillate between substandard food/bad study guides and policing our morals/censoring the internet.

when will it make up its mind?
Posted by on finaid : #9 · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 1:54 AM (from campus)
Amount CCSC spends on study breaks / Number of CC students = amount of money we should not be paying in student life fees, or perhaps amount that should be paying for study breaks thrown by student groups (read: Colombia coffee = better).
Posted by ... : #10 (in reply to #9) · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 1:55 AM (from campus)
marry me
Posted by tobefair : #11 · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 2:05 AM (from campus)
sue yang probably wrote that study guide all by herself because people like AJ just want to sit back and do nothing, the study guide is actually pretty good at that. columbia kids just need to quite being such ingrates and get over themselves. yea CCSC sucks, but some of them work hard.
Posted by AJ is great. : #12 · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 3:05 AM (from campus)
this juicycampus stuff is ridiculous! i dont understand why people are hating on AJ so much, he is one of the sweetest people on campus and is genuine in his kindness. I think those who are jealous of him are posting these false things. perhaps CCSC should block the site, just so we stop hating on one another so much. WHERE'S THE LOVE???
Posted by Why do communists : #13 · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 3:17 AM (from campus)
do so well at school?

They get good Marx!
Posted by hi sue : #14 (in reply to #11) · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 4:06 AM (from campus)
Posted by no way : #15 (in reply to #14) · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 4:10 AM (from campus)
Sue is the last person to talk herself up. She's so hard working and people need to give her the credit she deserves... She doesn't have time to be on bwog posting comments about herself.. give her a break and some props please
Posted by when : #16 · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 6:03 AM
When my girlfriend tried to treat me as a means I called her a stupid Kant.
Posted by not sue yang : #17 · reply · track
March 10, 2008 at 9:42 AM (from campus)
sue yang is freaking amazing. she sort of scares me, but she's hyper-capable.
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