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Step Off. . . into the Spotlight
Senior Week
Karaoke KickOff
Tuesday, April 22
Bullwinkle's Bar and Grill
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Parent’s Weekend Kickoff Concert
PRESENTED BY
DELTA Z ETA
STARRING
DAVID ALLAN COE
WITH OPENING ACT,
Friday, April 15,1997
Wolf Pen creek Amphitheater
Doors open at 6:00 / Concert at 7:00
Tickets: 12.50 advance &l $ 15.00 at Door
Ti( Bets Available At:
Duddley’s Draw
Plarooned Records
Central ParB Box Office
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Rother’s BooBstorcs
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'^inning Dorm Receives
100 Free pizzas
$40 cash for beverages
Which Dorm has the
biggest eaters??
We will find out on
the battlefield!
Free Pizza Party must be scheduled 2 days in advance.
Call Store for details. Contribution to War $ on delivery only. Tips are appreciated.
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The Dorm that orders
the highest dollar amount of pizza
this week wins the war.
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Aggielife
Friday • April'
The
Plight
of a
Lefty
Right-handed world causes daily headack
Pho&LEK —^ ^otunoM...
I and millions of other
people in the world
are oppressed. No
laws exist to aid us in our
plight for equality. No
special admittance poli
cy granted me admis
sion to Texas A&M. I am
a member of a silent
group of exploited peo
ple — I am left-handed.
Those of you fortu
nate enough to be born
into the privileged
world of the right-handed do not
understand the hours of pain and
suffering we “southpaws” must
endure. Go ahead and laugh at the
notion. Call it ludicrous, but be
cause of my hand dominance, 1
feel like the world is against me.
As I sit and type on this com
puter, I cannot help but glance
longingly at the mouse lying close
to my right hand. This device was
meant to make our world easier
but has segregated the population
into two factions.
Trying to manipulate the
mouse with my right hand, I no
tice I am not as nimble as I would
be if it were on my left. Insensitive,
unfeeling people say, “Move the
mouse to the other side, you freak
of nature!”
Alas, I can move the mouse and
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Columnist
Aaron Meier
Junior political science
major
try to double-click with
the left button, and I un
dergo vertigo. The moni
tor becomes a blur of im
ages, the keyboard
seems written in the
Cyrillic alphabet and I
cannot tell the left but
ton from the right. Do
not ask me to explain —
just try it and feel the
agony of the left-handed.
The woe of being
genetically cursed as a
left-handed person is not a mod
ern phenomenon. The prejudice
against the "right-brain domi
nant” has existed for centuries.
In medieval times, left-handed
people were accused of being
witches and burned at the stake.
While this punishment may
seem extreme, it is nothing com
pared to the torture of watching
handwriting become smudged
as the left hand plows over fresh
ly-inked words.
I am sick of walking into sport
ing goods store and not being
able to find a left-handed base
ball glove. I am sick of having to
turn on a water fountain with my
right hand. I am nauseated every
time I have to grab a can opener
upside down to open a can of
Spaghetti-O’s.
Ironically, though, theta j(j
of being left-handed are over
looked by the rest of the pop.
lion. Left-handed people are
more adaptable to problemsp
sented to them. Imagine ari^s
handed person tryingtousei
left-handed pair of scissors.1; I,
best result one could hopefe
some horribly shreddedpape
and an annihilated massofc
that once was scissors. Howe,
lefties must adjust to this am: [Un
every ciay.
Call it ludicrous, but
because of my hand
dominance, I feel if
the world is against mi
nel
Also, IcTties are juslpl;nr: 1( j[
smarter than right-handedptf;
But you do not have totakemfl
word for it — just ask anyleWl
will reply honestly with,“Yes®j|
right-handed dolt, I far exceed
your meager mental abilities. |an pi
Incidentally, in the past wo p n J
presidential elections,a
didates have been left-h
Clinton, George Bush, R
and Bob Dole all have the# L|
gift of left-handedness. o'
See Lefty, Pat tnusl
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