Category: Letters to the Editor

I was amazed to read your AP article on Fidel Castro in the Mustang Daily dated August 3 to 9. It quoted a Cuban-American in Florida whose family fled Cuba in 1960: “My hope for Cuba would be for it to grow as the power it used to be . . . I want my parents to see Cuba .

Cal Poly Students: the Arroyo Grande Village needs your help! At the Aug. 8 city council meeting the updated Creekside Development plans and scale model was submitted for the umpteenth time. Luckily Council deferred the project to a later date and voiced some concerns.

Defying the wishes of a majority of Americans and their representatives, President George W. Bush vetoed a bill allowing federal money to go to embryonic stem cell research. Although this veto was devastating to the millions who are familiar with the pain associated with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cancer, and spinal injuries, the veto was also indicative of the palpable disunity present in the GOP.

Ann Coulter, an infamous political pundit, has been making headlines with her new book: “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” In the book, Coulter takes it upon herself to “expose” Sept. 11 widows for who they really are: “These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles; reveling in their status as celebrities.I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.

I cannot believe that Zinedine Zidane was awarded the Golden Ball for the best player in the World Cup. Even if he arguably was the best player in the Cup, what he did should have negated him from receiving the award. By giving him this award, he is being glorified while his unjustifiable actions are being overlooked.

President Bush recently returned from his diplomatic trip to Europe, where he spent two days in Budapest, Hungary, helping commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Communist tyranny. I followed the president’s trip very closely, as my parents are Hungarian and I have traveled to Hungary many times, and I concluded the president’s ignorance was not exposed with his interpretation of Hungary’s past, but with his interpretation of the country’s future.

I would like to comment on Ms. Kasavan’s letter regarding the “Justice for All” exhibit. In her first paragraph, she states that there were people left feeling more confused and uncertain about where they stand on the issue of abortion after viewing the exhibit. Since I would have a hard time believing that a pro-life […]

So I have one question: What’s with all the mechanical engineers writing letters to the editor? I open a Mustang Daily every other day or so and every time I read the letters to the editor, there is always at least one ME author. I just want to know if there is a reason for […]

Let’s face it: the Mustang Daily is becoming boring. Jack Ingram had his moment in the sun, but now he’s repetitive. Brian Eller’s still looking for a way to “Ingram-up” his articles, but they, for the most part, put me to sleep. Even the sex commentaries are full of cliches that cause me to crumple […]

The anti-abortion exhibits have stirred up the abortion conflict once again on our campus. I have so much to say about the exhibit and about the larger abortion debate that I don’t know where to start! Here are the two central points I would like to make. Freedom of speech gives them the right to […]

What merit is there in quoting the ruling on abortion in California (1972) prior to the Supreme Court decision on Roe V. Wade (1973)? Although the case mentioned in the article “Students react to controversial display,” People V. Barksdale, denied abortion beyond the second trimester, the Sternberg V. Carhart case struck down a “partial-birth abortion” […]