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Comments about "Ire and Vice: The Azia Kim Supremacy"
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36 Comments on this article:
"Depending on who you ask, Azia Kim proves once and for all that private-school kids, women, Koreans or HumBio majors are crazy..."
Azia Kim went to Troy High School, which is a PUBLIC school.
"Liberty dies to the sound of thunderous applause."
well I see someone saw Star Wars: Return of the Sith
I must recant; I now support Azia Kim for Commencement speaker.
"Azia Kim went to Troy High School, which is a PUBLIC school."
Right, and she also didn't major in HumBio since she wasn't actually enrolled... but I don't think you're getting the point of the comment.
The phrase is "couldn't have cared less" -- not "could have cared less". I'd have expected more from a Stanford student.
"could care less" is actually fairly acceptable slang now. That's been an alternate form of the expression since the 1960s. Being overly pedantic is against the natural course of linguistic change.
(After all, fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing... clearly one is meant in sarcasm.)
No offense to whoever wrote this, but it isn't very well done :S
Have I told you lately that I am deeply in love with every single word that has ever been conjured up by your beautiful, beautiful mind?
Yes, God forbid the police stop anyone from being extremely loud or obnoxious---i.e., disturbing the peace or creating a public nuisance---when there's undergrads who want to chug beer, neighbors be damned! Heavens forfend that a large open air event with plentiful alcohol, scantily clad folks, and plenty of opportunities for nonconsensual sexual situations be marred with some security milling about the perimeters!
Truly we dwell in a Stalinesque nightmare world. Thankfully you will escape this gulag known as Stanford in four years or less, off to a utopia where society works so well, police don't ever need to leave their desks.
This column reads like the Darren machine blew up: tons of disjointed rhetoric, absolutely no focus, lots of beautiful and completely unreadable words meandering to a yawn-stifling little nothing.
Lots of big words, but completely devoid of meaning or intent.
Can some other Stanford snob translate this into plain English?
John - Have you ever stepped foot on Gov. Co grounds? Do you know what you are talking about? The closest public space to Suites is the friggin Secret Safeway, half a mile away. Who are these neighbors you speak of? You'd better be a grad student in Lyman.
Hey person who made the first post: good job. You sure debunked his argument. Way to expose such an injustice.
(get a life)
Great article. People use to leave their front doors unlock. Now, people have alarms and bars on their windows. Where is it going to end?
"This column reads like the Darren machine blew up: tons of disjointed rhetoric, absolutely no focus, lots of beautiful and completely unreadable words meandering to a yawn-stifling little nothing."
I actually liked the column, but Tiffany and L, you guys are hilarious. I knew I heard that "thunderous applause" quote somewhere...
"We are a culture of cowards, raised to seek protection rather than learn to deal with our fear."
A timeless advice inspired by a failed drunken feast. Certainly a great lesson which will, indubitably, instill the right attitude to the nation's worst tragedies. Buildings were blown up and students were killed, but we should be really pissed off now that the party got interrupted by cops (who should, indeed, be searching public storages day and night for your stolen rusty Shwinn...)
Mommy and daddy are raising hell and demanding more security! They're shelling out US$35k+/year for their precious freshperson who can be talked into sharing a dorm room of the likes of Azia. Whose is going to pay for all the psychologists and stress counselors for these traumatized students? Azia should be praised for her ingenuity and enterprising skills - isn't that the bottom line at Stanford?
It's a lot of fun reading Darren's description of Azia Kim while watching her chow down on that cheeseburger in the front page story. I had a good laugh.
You trees have no rights to capture Azia. Free her now!!!
As usual, a brilliant column.
I do have one problem with it, though. About your apparent dismissal of date rape-- date rape DOES happen at Stanford. Way more often than you think. We may not hear about the cases since they are confidential, and I seriously doubt police presence will do anything to prevent date rapes from happening, but date rape happens too often at Stanford and should not be dismissed.
I am waiting for her to do herself in. LOL. Killing herself would make me laugh. No offence.
why do so many berkeley kids read the daily? and comment on it? does berkeley even have a student newspaper? I would never read it.
"Azia should be praised for her ingenuity and enterprising skills - isn't that the bottom line at Stanford?"
I really don't understand this view at ALL. Essentially Azia broke into housing and stole food for eight months. You might think I'm complaining because I pay for it, but morally this is just wrong. Stanford has an incredibly rigorous Honor Code - what would the admittance of Azia say about the standards that the university holds itself to?
In Azia Kim we have a contemporary Frank William Abignale Jr.
its college. where ppl grow up. supposedly where the real world is supposed to meet you half way between sleepy dream of academia and self-independence. stanford or maybe overprotective parents have shielded the school populus into forgetting that it is a crazy world out there that no one can relegate to the margins. if one want safety put yourself back into kinder-care at least they'll change the diapers of the ones who messed themselves from the harsh circumstances of the real world. this type of sophomoric behavior makes me so glad that I did not go to stanford.
azia kim obviously is not on the same conscientious level as most of the world. we could almost say borderline crazy. anyone would have to be to pull this off. the idea that people would want to prosecute her on charges and make her pay for this is ridiculous. i think azia deserves a chance, somewhere elsewhere b/c its obvious that stanford doesn't deserve someone of this drive. but maybe after some counseling?
At first it amazed me that College students would completely ignore the beauty in this article to correct minuscule and ridiculously insignificant grammar flaws. It's because of stupid things like these that we also overlook the beauty of Azia's deeds, as crazy and intrusive as they may have been. Congratulations to you, people who read with your eyes but not with your brain, you have just completely wasted 5 minutes of your life by missing the whole entire point and turned this amazing article into another writing assignment.
Oh, and, Mr Franich, you have wrote one of the most amazing things I have read lately... ever.
Azia is a performance artiste extraordinaire. Long may she grift.
Good column, DF.