September 20th, 2011
When all was said and done we went to Spaces to get some wonderful free planners. They were kind of nice, except for the simple fact that they had the Spaces logo on them. ICK. What a waste of money – it’s pretty ridiculous how much A.S. funds that terrible organization. I walked Bee-John over to the Cashier’s office so he could get a new I.D. Card. While there, I saw and talked to Pam for a bit, before Bee-John and I proceeded back to Warren for the organization fair. I somewhat tabled with PAW seeing Rosario, Lauren, Amy, & Julia for a bit, while also mostly tabling with Nick, and Gavin at the WTCC table. Intermidst all this was some free cookies and otter pops provided by Brittany the Warren ambassador, as well as some free cake me and Cody took at some Engineering event (that wasn’t even open to us. TEEHEE).
Next free event of the day? Convocation. This time, the food wasn’t so hot, as me, Lauren, Cody, and Bee-John sat through 2 hours of ridiculous speeches all to get some terrible chicken wraps and bad-tasting Udon noodles. The highlight of it all though was talking to Bee-John and grabbing literally free handfuls worth of ice cream (now sitting in my fridge). I snapped a picture subsequently for my blog before meeting up with Geetha at the bus stop. We went back to my place to chillax before the Glee party, where the lowest ever attended party occured: Amy, Rosario, Angie, Geetha, Tiffany, Michelle, Robbie, Ryan, & their friend came making an single-digit 9 people attending. We also watched an episode of “New Girl” afterwards which was alright, but not exactly all to die for. I’VE HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE!
Final free of event of the day? Target. Me and Geetha went to TapEx first to get her Calimari rings before going back to campus, where we took the SunGod Shuttles to Target for an exclusive A.S. Target event. We expected lots of free things, but were mostly disappointed by the energy drinks and mac and cheese provided. We both failed to get a dishrack, instead setting on 70 cents worth of notebooks between the two of us. When all was done, the night was over, and the events of the day left me both satisfied in my stomach and in my head subsequently.
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| On this day in 1973, in a highly publicized “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, top women’s player Billie Jean King, 29, beats Bobby Riggs, 55, a former No. 1 ranked men’s player. Riggs (1918-1995), a self-proclaimed male chauvinist, had boasted that women were inferior, that they couldn’t handle the pressure of the game and that even at his age he could beat any female player. The match was a huge media event, witnessed in person by over 30,000 spectators at the Houston Astrodome and by another 50 million TV viewers worldwide. King made a Cleopatra-style entrance on a gold litter carried by men dressed as ancient slaves, while Riggs arrived in a rickshaw pulled by female models. Legendary sportscaster Howard Cosell called the match, in which King beat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. King’s achievement not only helped legitimize women’s professional tennis and female athletes, but it was seen as a victory for women’s rights in general. King was born Billie Jean Moffitt on November 22, 1943, in Long Beach, California. Growing up, she was a star softball player before her parents encouraged her to try tennis, which was considered more ladylike. She excelled at the sport and in 1961, at age 17, during her first outing to Wimbledon, she won the women’s doubles title. King would rack up a total of 20 Wimbledon victories, in singles, doubles and mixed doubles, over the course of her trailblazing career. In 1971, she became the first female athlete to earn more than $100,000 in prize money in a single season. However, significant pay disparities still existed between men and women athletes and King lobbied hard for change. In 1973, the U.S. Open became the first major tennis tournament to hand out the same amount of prize money to winners of both sexes. lolz. go men. |
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| President Barack Obama proposed cutbacks in some health benefits for veterans as part of the budget plan he released Monday. And Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul took him to task for the ideas Tuesday. “There are trillions of dollars in unwise and unconstitutional spending we must cut,” the Texas congressman wrote in an open letter to Obama. “There are few other leaders in Washington willing to cut spending as deeply as I am and truly balance our budget. But, we must make sure we take care of our veterans who fought to take care of us.” HE’S GOT A POINT. |
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