Jeff Davis | Vent Section Manager

There are few things I hate more than aftertastes. A few nights ago I was in the Student Media lab working on some project or another that involved an infernal Macintosh machine. After a few hours I got "study mouth." It was really bad. Not as bad as "car mouth," when you're traveling long distances down the interstate and you get this gross slime forming on your tongue. But it was bad enough. So I went to the soda machine. Alas, we've switched to Pepsi. So I got myself a Dr. Pepper. Certainly not a favorite but it had less caffeine than Mountain Dew.

The Dr. Pepper ended up leaving yet another bad aftertaste in my mouth. That can of syrup was all over my mouth and it got to the point I had to use the bathroom sink to cleanse it.

It's no secret Pepsi is sweeter than Coke. If you look at the nutrition facts on the can, there isn't much of a calculable difference. But for some reason I can taste that extra two grams of sugar like I've ingested an entire sugar cane field. As my little sister would say, that's grody.

You probably don't agree with me on the Coke-Pepsi-taste thing. And it could be for two reasons. Some of you hyper people are all about some s-s-s-s-s-s-s-sugar. And the others may be the 70 percent of the RU poll that said you liked Pepsi better than Coke. It was a 50-person poll in a school of about 9,000 people and somehow that doesn't seem very proportionate to me.

This is not to say I'm going to become the Angel of the Lord and ascend Muse Hall with a gun that shoots cans of Coke. For one thing it would get me expelled. Also, Pepsi offered the school a $1,150,000 contract, which is more than the school has ever made in the past. The money will be used to help fund the new student center.

Pepsi also offered Aquafina water on move-in day. I'm sure there were some very pleased students and parents. It was a scorcher.

You won't find any other kind of bottled water on campus. And you can't find Snapple drinks anymore either. With accepting the contract, the campus accepted the Pepsi conglomerate and limited itself to only Pepsi products, with exceptions for coffee and some juices. You simply don't understand my love for Snapple's Elements drinks. Rain is the best one. But oh no, you won't find it here. I gotta walk somewhere else to get one. So variety has kinda gone down the tubes on that one.

It probably wasn't any better with the Coca Cola contract, but hey, I like Coke, much more than Pepsi. I think I'll go to Sam's Club and buy a few crates of Coke and sell it. I'll make a killing.