Two words. Homework, ugh.
I need an idea for my column this week. Please send me ideas. Anything will do.
I don’t have much to write today seeing as how I’ve just been doing homework since I got out of class at 10:15. However, I thought I’d share this very amusing story from today’s Stanford Daily.
“This Saturday marks the first time in 11 years that the Stanford band will be allowed to perform at the University of Oregon.
Thanks to the the Stanford Department of Athletics’ persuasion of the Oregon administration, the band has been allowed to return to the Oregon football stadium.
University of Oregon officials banned the band from its football stadium in 1990 after the band performed a halftime show about the endangered northern spotted owl….”
Laughing yet? The article gets even better after a few more paragraphs.
“In its offending 1990 show, the band had hoped to increase social awareness about the predicted extinction of the bird, according to Yelderman. ‘It was a very socially aware show to bring interest to the issue,’ he said.
Band members had observed that lumberjacks were destroying the owl’s habitat and causing owl populations to drop dangerously low, Telderman explained.
The show included what band members thought was a humorous yet informative social dialogue:
‘Mr. Spotted Owl! Your environment has been destroyed, your home is now a roll of brawny and your family has flown the coop. What are you going to do?’ ‘Me? I’m going to Disneyland.’
However, University of Oregon administrators did not find the routine quite so funny, ‘objecting to such keen social awareness,’ said junior Aram Cretan.
Cretan said the lumber industry plays a significant role in the Oregon economy and that administrators found the band’s antics insulting. The result of the school’s displeasure was an 11-year restraining order.”
I was cracking up.
