Category: Letters to the Editor

Dear Mr. Eller, How silly of you to buy into that survey. Would I be 15 percent more likely to be happy were I to switch parties? No, there is no causal relationship between party affiliation and happiness. In fact, if there is anyone whose mainstay of contentment is their political party, I’d say they […]

Ms. Glasgow wrote a very interesting article concerning the brain development of a fetus and postulated that to kill a fetus with a developed brain is killing a human. Though insightful, I find one major problem with the argument: How accurately can we measure the thought process of a fetus? If fetal cognitive thought is […]

I would like to respond to Mr. Chowdhry’s commentary in the Mustang Daily on Monday. First, Israel never stopped the payment for the collected taxes. She reversed her original decision and paid ALL the money due to the Palestinian Authority. Israel did not want to give the money to Hamas because of the fear that […]

Sometimes I just cannot believe the idiocy of some of the people who write in to the newspaper. There is nothing “modest” about Brenton Campbell’s proposals. They are totally impractical and completely undeveloped. First of all, the construction of proper catacombs would take a long time and a lot of money, and you can’t even […]

This is in response to Brian Eller’s “American history and black history: It’s one and the same.” Black history diverges far from American history in terms of perspective. While it is true that they are coinciding and interacting events that occurred on the same land; they are also two very different recollections resulting from cultures […]

Michael Mullady should stop placing blame on others who break the law and focus on his own offenses. Over my (relatively short) lifetime, I’ve taken note of many journalists willing to break the law in the name of “sound journalism.” Not many people take note of these journalists’ infractions because the stories are usually compelling […]

Remember when you were 10 or 11, if someone said something in full honesty only to immediately realize that all within earshot were in complete opposition, they would attempt to save their dignity by quickly stating, with a smile, that they were “Just kidding”? If not, it probably rings a bell for Jack Ingram, who […]

Ms. Campbell, I wrote to you earlier this year about the lack of parking availability on campus, which had hit an all-time low in the six years I have been here. You assured me that the department is doing everything it can to balance out the available parking spots on campus, sending me the results […]

When it comes to abortion, the foundation of the entire debate is the killing of a human being. The dispute rests on this underlying argument and not on social consequences. In the U.S., the killing of a human being is against the law, but the killing of many other living organisms is not. So, it […]

In northern Uganda, a war led by abducted child soldiers has been taking place for 17 years. They are kidnapped at night from remote African villages and forced into a violent and militaristic lifestyle by rebel factions, becoming part of a “kid military.” They are targeted at the ages of 8 to 14, making them […]

Forget Mardi Gras. It’s time to focus on something that students actually have a say about. I’m talking about Wildflower. For those of you who don’t know what it is, Wildflower is a Tri-California event where Cal Poly students camp out and volunteer for a weekend for the second largest triathlon in the world. Last […]