| Summary: | 47, RALLY TO RESTORE SANITY 10.30.10 KEEP FEAR ALIVE 10.30.10 Graphics from nofactzone.net Fashion-forward fall Since it's getting colder out, looking cute is getting more and more difficult. Sassy Cobbers should try to stay fashionable at all times, but I guess I can forgive you if I find you in a sweatshirt. Here's a list of the best fall fashions of 2010 to inspire you in times when being fashionable seems nearly im-possible in the Fargo/Moor head tundra. The fur coat. Fake fur, of course! Try to get something that's shorter, kind of bomb-erstyle to avoid looking like Cruella De Vil. Brown fake furs look so good against all skin tones and look fabulous in contrast to the fall leaves on the ground. Red lipstick should totally be worn with brown furs, and you'll look like a supermodel. I will give serious props to any glam Cobber who works this look Photo from thegloss com Photo from losve.com on campus. The long-sleeved dress. This style has been in for a few years now in many differ-ent colors and knits. Instead of wearing leggings try some thicker knit dark tights. Boots with this combo give a very casual yet I'm-put-together vibe. Turtleneck styles – very practical in the chilly weather – look so glam and cuddly in the fall. Bright colors are especially daring in a season where most people are wearing black and grey. We're daring though, aren't we, sassy Cobbers? Off the shoulder shirts. I love this look for all sea-sons, but fall is an especially great time to work it. Wear a tank-top underneath and a scarf around your neck. This way, you'll be prepared for any crazy weather changes. Hair can be worn either up Photo from notcouture.notcot.com or down. I prefer hair down with a bow headband, but re-ally any hairstyle can work. The poncho. Don't be scared! I just bought a fur poncho and trust me, it looks more European than old lady. If you find the right poncho it won't end up look-ing like a Snuggle. Stay away from patterns. Find a darker solid hue. Maroon would be fun (and you could show your sassy Cobber spirit!). Brown and blue are probably easier to find in stores. Black could work, but don't make it look gothy. If you decide to go the black route, hoop earrings and a loose belt can keep you looking smokin' rather than scary. Wavy hair. The air is starting to get cold and dry. This can really damage your hair and skin if they're pro-cessed too much. Straighten-ing will really destroy your locks if you do it often. I rec-ommend blow-drying your hair to keep it from looking flat, but make sure to find a smoothing product to keep the frizzies away. Fine hair gets greasy fast, especially with product. Dry shampoo is an awesome way to give your hair volume. And it will look and smell fresh if there isn't time to shower in the morning. Dry shampoo can be found at nearly any beauty supply store and costs about as much as a bottle of regular shampoo. Keep looking good, girl-friend, and you're welcome! Photo from englishsabla.co oto rom ogs.smarter.com BY PRESTON JOHNSON Opinions Columnist OPIN ONS Quote of the Week: "Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather, it condemns the oppression or persecution of others." -John F. Kennedy NOVEMBER 5, 2010 Rallying for reason B A AH AME EDITORIAL vci v wcond November, eyes turn \Vishington for election d.tv. But this vcat t cit.1 ion that :%.tuboli(111 the moct in-wortdm is futon' (rt ()Lir country. A levy was of people' Moorhe the hestimeitrient the taxpayers could mkt. Regardless of your level of patriotism, you have to ad-mit we're hying in a country facing many problems. But throwing money around won't solve many of them. We need bright minds, real thinkers now and in the future, who fro .444' Responses to the question: 'Voting on 11/02/10? Why or why not?" Ayah Kamel @ayahkamel This election will have crucial implications for our country's future, so of course voting < I , in it is important to me. Geneva Nemzek @Geneva Nemzek I'm voting because there's so much that can be fixed in America. Why are you voting, Cobbers? Tell @CCLendMeYourEar #GoCobbers Skyler Vilt @RyansfAustache Totally voting! It is my duty as a citizen to vote and advocate for my beliefs through the ballot box. Kendal Lena Christensen I vote because not long ago women worked really hard to make it possible for me to vote. So, I do it for them =]. Blaine Mullican Voting is a right. We are blessed to live in America - it is your duty as a citizen to vote. Allison Pieri unfortunately no. By the time I remembered to apply for an absentee it was too late to get it in time. Jade Guenther not voting, im only 17. Rachel 'Charlie' Allgor No. I felt I was not educated enough on the candidates to vote. Kent Koistad I voted absentee in Minnesota. I believe there's a lot that needs to change in MN: more funding for education at all levels and less waste (time, money and actual waste) within various state departments are my two top priorities. Christopher Brucideous Lundquist voting is a privilege. We have the opportunity to help the country we live in and also an opportunity for you to stand up for what you believe in. We truly are the land of the free. Nicole Ramey Was going to vote absentee. But decided I didn't know enough about the candidates to vote, and didn't think it was right to vote for who my family was voting for just for the fact that they're my family. Jordan Lyseng I can't just sit passively and let others decide who will make decisions affecting my life. Jacob Whalen Political races are turning into ridiculous advertisements towards people who are misinformed or ignorant. That is why it is important for people who are educated on candi-dates and their platforms to get out to make a difference. For every person who says, "my vote will not count" there is another person who is voting ignorantly, and their vote will count. It is a privilege that most other countries do not have. In order to have a more progressive america we need a bigger voter turnout, especially from well informed voters knowing the change they are voting for. Opinions Columnist Over the past few weeks, a sense of excitement has grown in the nation's capital. On the metro, at work, in classes: everyone I talked to had a single favorite topic of conversation. This building anticipation wasn't limited to D.C. People around the country were being swept into the fever. What was the cause of all of this fervor? Tuesday's mid-term elec-tions? No. An awesome new movie with an innovative plot? Nope. The enthusiasm was in anticipation of Jon Stewart and Stephen Col-bert's Rally to Restore Sanity last Saturday. All of the hype over the past few weeks, as well as the turnout on Satur-day, has left me in awe once more at the way in which politics and entertainment collide. Almost everybody I talked to in D.C. was plan-ning to go to the rally, yet nobody seemed to know what the purpose of the rally was. We were all clueless as to whether or not the rally would be political, whether the tone would be funny or serious, whether there would be speeches or performanc-es. Perhaps in an attempt to not alienate any potential attendees, Comedy Central kept the schedule for the rally under wraps. The only sneak peek rallyers got came in the form of a leaked, par-tial schedule the day before the event. Despite not having a clue what to expect, over two hundred thousand people answered Stewart and Col-bert's rally calls. The event turned out to be more of a variety show than a tradi-tional political rally. Spec-tators were treated to a lot of comedic bickering from Colbert and Stewart, a slew of musical performances and a number of taped segments from special guests. The only real speech of the day came from Jon Stewart at the very end of the three-hour event. In a rare break from satire, Stewart delivered an earnest ode to reason. He applauded the crowd for seeing beyond the virulent partisan atti-tudes that he said only really exist in Washington politics and cable news shows. The rally was remarkable, not because of the ground-breaking ideas it presented, but because of the insight into the minds of Americans it provided. Nobody knew what to expect of the rally, yet hundreds of thousands of people showed up from around the country in search of something different - dif-ferent from the angry, bick-ering power-struggle that is our political system. In his speech, Jon Stewart indi-cated that he hadn't meant for his rally to be political, but it was. Millions of people around the country turned to two comedians last weekend to send a powerful pre-elec-tion message to our coun-try's politicians: American people are capable of reach-ing compromise through reasoned discussion, and we expect our politicians to do the same. Ilk 1, It is the age of the "blurb." Every day we consume dozens of the little things—Facebook wall posts, text messages, Twitter messages—they're the obvious ones. But they're also in forms we don't even real-ize. When's the last time you read through an entire news story online or in a printed source? Everywhere around us, punchy, short snippets of text flood our brains. Understandably, this steady stream of short script has con-siderably affected our English language. Our language has changed dramatically due to technology. No, I don't mean the new tech speak each of us has added to our vocabulary— Googling and blogging, for ex-ample— but a completely new kind of communication. While many may not ad-mit it, all those wall-posts and text messages do have an ef-fect on one's other writing too. Sure, the acronym-filled short speak of text messages prob-ably won't become common in collegiate writing anytime soon, the signs are there. The days of long, precise-ly punctuated sentences are definitely over. The sentences of today are pithy, punctua-tion- less, and procurements of haste. It seems that we've become so impatient that we want to get our thoughts out on the page, keyboard, text-pad— or whatever else you may be writing on—as quickly as possible, even if that means cutting corners. So is this evolution of the English language good? May-be. While the world can't be-come entirely Twitter-cen-tric and fit every complete thought inside 14o characters, I think that some practice in concision is good. Getting to the point is what writing is all about. Flowery drafts that me-ander through an endless sup-ply of fluff are just as bad. However, I do think that there is a continued space for longer, "traditional" writ-ing. Let's face it, many things simply can't be described in a paragraph. There's a feeling of accom-plishment, but more than any-thing, traditional writing gives readers a challenge. It forces them to think about what they have just read. There's a pe-riod of time after reading that requires deciphering, catego-rizing, and arranging that the blurb doesn't solicit. But the main point is that writing must evolve. That's what it's been doing for thou-sands of years and this blurb is just another small mark on the scale of evolution. For, the record, this story is only 388 words. I hope you made it through.
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