ISU Daily's OP of the behavior at the Mizzou game

[cyclone87]

Read the daily every once in a while, her opinion pieces are always pretty bad. She definitely fits the feminist bill too, I remember one of her pieces where she was upset over our choice for new ISU president because a woman wasn't considered for the job. IMO it should be whoever is best qualified.

[driegner]

I worked the opinion desk at the Daily for a year and it was total feast or famine. If there isn't enough solid content to run, you have to run whatever the columnists give you. Sometimes the columnists really hit something good, many times they don't. These are young writers who are forming opinions and often write these columns in a single sitting. We had some great columns run during my time at the Daily, and I'll be the first to admit we ran some pretty crappy ones because we had to.

The opinion page's primary goal is to generate conversation, even if it is at the expense of the columnist's point of view (most often the conversations generated don't agree with the columnist.)

If you don't like what she said, write a letter to the editor. If it is respectful, somewhat reasoned/opinionated and written in english at or above a 6th grade level it will get published. If you write in a few good letters you may get asked to be a columnist and then they'll start paying you for weekly content.

[Cyclonepride]

I would say 80% of girls are not competitive... You have to have a competitive gene to understand why the taunting and mean things are done for both sides of ISU and Mizzou. It's trash talk... The greatest athletes in the world do it... Why? Because it gives them a psychological edge.

But the ones who are........hooooly cow. Women understand trash talk about as well as men understand women.

[KFitzy87]

But the ones who are........hooooly cow. Women understand trash talk about as well as men understand women.

True dat

[Hawkeye11en1]

It's a girl.

Same difference.

[motorCYcle]

bahahahhahaha that was an awesome article. Oh man, I know his type. They are hilariously fun to annoy.

I'd rep but I must have done so recently.

[driegner]

Does she realize that we don't actually think the player "sucks"? If Harrison Barnes came to Ames he would get the same chant. It's all part of the fun of sports..this is Division 1 basketball, not Junior High. And, girls do have weirder form than most guys do.

This. Smaller ball, shorter shooter, shorter distance, different muscular structure, center of balance etc. I don't know much about basketball but you can tell there are differences. If this girl really played basketball, I'd expect she'd know there's striking contrasts between the men's/women's game. Not saying either is better/worse but there's no doubt it's different. Just look at the scores.

The entire column is pointless.

[NATEizKING]

Agreed, my park and rec basketball team used to scrimmage the girls varsity team until we injured one too many players. Easily distinguishable between the two.

[cymate]

of course a women wrote this. she is going to make some male really unhappy someday

[gnarlsbarkley]

Life changing article. I'll be printing this off to show my grand kids someday.

[clones26]

What is she doing out of the kitchen?

[FarmClone]

The Daily is the true "rag" of newspapers, this may be due to the one ply garbage ISU uses in the bathrooms though.

[IHavNoCyCash]

I know I was a main person in the Kim English defense...

but this article is absolute ****...looks like an english student wrote this honestly

EDIT: looking at the company who wrote it plus who it is...it makes sense...it is a college english student, typical

[Haverhill]

Lets be honest... would this article be written had we won the game??














My guess: no.

[Goothrey]

would read again