Category: Letters to the Editor

Recognition is in order for the Cal Poly student community related to reports of a safe and disturbance free weekend. I want to acknowledge that any success in avoiding the problems associated with past celebrations during Mardi Gras is due largely to your response and efforts to represent the Cal Poly community a positive way. […]

I moved here five months ago from San Francisco to attend graduate school at Cal Poly. Never in my nine years living in San Francisco did I ever feel as threatened and paranoid to be outside than I experienced this past weekend. If anything, San Luis Obispo seemed to be under military occupation for the […]

In Jack Ingram’s commentary on the conservative obsession with abortion, he made it seem like opposition to abortion is an arbitrary stance based on taste, comparable to my personal conviction that mushrooms should remain a fungus, not a food. The problem with this is that it completely divorces the issue from morality. We all agree […]

Laughing at the stupidity of San Luis Obispo locals will never get old. See this gem from Dr. Steve Sainsbury of Sierra Vista hospital: “…dispensing multiple packs of ‘morning-after’ pills to the young (mostly female) Mardi Gras devotees that awake in horror the next day…” Only a SLOcal could be so aghast at the way […]

I will keep this short. If New Orleans is able to pick up their city from the rubble of Hurricane Katrina and still celebrate Mardi Gras, so should we! Our rubble may be a cause of drunken college students, but let’s pull together and show New Orleans we care! (It’s the least we can do.) […]

What does Mardi Gras really mean? To a very few, it is a celebration of sacrifice and rejoicing. To many, many more, it is simply another excuse to get intoxicated and party without restraint. What does Mardi Gras mean to me? It means treating a seemingly endless line of facial lacerations that will parade through […]

I am one of the countless people constantly annoyed with the poor management of our school’s e-mail software. As a school nationally known for its computer science program, it is a complete disgrace that we have to undergo such treatment. I have completely given up using the school’s e-mail. I am submitting this letter using […]

It is good that the people of Tibet have been free of the Dalai Lama’s onerous brand of religious fanaticism for over 50 years. Thanks to the benevolence of the great nation of China and the heroism of the People’s Liberation Army, they now live in an age of reason and enlightenment. The theocratic regime […]

If you can’t walk and chew gum, you might consider spitting it out and hanging up your cell too. In the same vein as Manuel Azevedo’s letter last Thursday about bicyclists slowing down, I would like to remind all you walkers on campus to remember where the bike lanes are. After your rant, Manuel, I […]

I would like to take the time to expound on my last letter regarding conservative political theory. In it, I stated that almost all conservative policy is derived in some way or another from the issues of responsibility and accountability. I should have gone into more depth. These are the buzzwords that conservatives use to […]

Discmans are back. Or did they ever leave? It has come to my attention that people have no shame walking with discman in hand around campus. Riding my bike to school on Friday, I had not one, but two discman sightings. That same night, my friend’s backpack contained none other than a discman. When it […]