Students gathered Thursday morning at the University Union Plaza to voice their opinions about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.
The late morning rally, which was organized by the Students for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (SJPME), was in response to Israel’s air and ground offensive against Hamas dubbed “Operation Cast Lead” by the Israeli military.
People on the Central Coast know Leon Panetta as an honest and good man. That is exactly what we need at the CIA today: a man who sees the big picture, who will bring our country back into the world of nations that honor the Geneva Convention and international law.
There is a kind of girl that aspires to become a princess. This girl longs for the day when she will have sovereign power over the people around her and acts as though her genealogy takes root in a royal family. She is prim, precise and finicky.
You may be more familiar with the title we have given to our particular breed of princess: “Poly Dolly.
Artist and slam poet Gina Loring graced many of those gathered in Chumash Auditorium with her smooth, soulful presence at Another Type of Groove Wednesday night.
Another Type of Groove is a free monthly event that functions as an open forum for anyone who desires to share their poetry, spoken word talents and minds with the rest of the very supportive, open-minded community.
While the Cal Poly football coaching search continues, check out an audio slideshow I made looking back at the Cal Poly-Wisconsin game Nov. 22. Below is an embedded version. View the original here. The photos were taken by Andrew Santos-Johnson.
Cal Poly senior guard Trae Clark was ruled academically ineligible for the winter quarter and will miss the remainder of the men’s basketball season.
“This is disappointing for all of us, including Trae,” Cal Poly head coach Kevin Bromley said in a statement.
Josh Akognon has played against the world’s best basketball players. He helped his relatively unknown Nigerian national team beat defending world champion Serbia-Montenegro in 2006.
The 5-foot-11 guard, who is eighth in the nation in scoring, leads Cal State Fullerton (6-8, 0-2 Big West Conference) into Mott Gym at 8 p.
In a 3-2 vote on Tuesday night, the San Luis Obispo City Council approved the proposed construction of a 12-space parking lot behind the San Luis Obispo Senior Center at Mitchell Park.
The approved plan is slightly different from the original Mitchell Park Master Plan that called for a 14-space lot.
Focus on moral intentions of both sides in the Gaza conflict
Despite a cease-fire, Hamas fired almost 2,000 rockets into Israel in 2008. Israel responded by targeting Hamas in order to defend itself. Israel announced that it was in favor of extending the cease-fire, provided that Hamas adhered to its conditions.
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. published an article titled “The Party of Tomorrow” Tuesday in which he discusses the state of politics in America, more specifically the future of the Republican and Democratic parties.
Both political parties are electing new chairmen and thus both stand to reinvent their party’s public discourse.
What world are we living in, where a career political hack, Leon Panetta, can make his way to an Obama appointment as the Director of the CIA? I contend, we are in a nation that has forgotten. Forgotten how far we’ve come and the resolve it takes to defeat Islamic fascist extremists bent on the destruction of Western civilization.
