Category: Opinion

If you’re anything like me, you spend countless hours on AOL Instant Messenger. I mean really, why would anybody want to have any kind of face to face interaction with anybody anymore when you can just type to people online instead1? Again, the problem is that with so many other things going on, you might be doing all of your instant messaging wrong.

So there’s this person you like. You really, really like them. You want to go out with them. But you can’t just go up and ask them out. Or can you?

The answer is yes, yes you can.

You can’t just ask someone to a dance like you did in high school, which can make it a little bit more nerve-racking for some.

“By the time you go home at the end of your program, you will have learned to live a much simpler life.” These were the first words our program director said to us, shortly after arriving in Torino, Italy.

Like many other American students, I mentally argued with her statement, feeling as if I already lived a pretty simple life.

I am not much of a porn fan. I guess I haven’t really given myself the chance. Playboy seems to be about all that I can handle, and anything beyond that, for me, is like watching a surgery, except a lot less sterile and with a lot more naughty nurses. I can’t really place a finger on why I get squirmy in my seat at the close-up shots.

The Republican Party suffered a convincing defeat in this year’s midterm election. Losing control of both the House and the Senate will likely leave these institutions in the untested hands of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

During the past two years, these leaders worked together to implement a strictly enforced form of party unity.

Look around campus on any given day (except during midterms or finals) and you will have visual confirmation that love does indeed exist at Cal Poly.

There’s a couple I see every other morning walking hand-in-hand on their way to class. Another couple frequents The Avenue, and the young man sits rapt by his beloved’s effusive expression.

I enjoy traveling. I think it’s important, as citizens of this planet, to see the way people live at other longitudes so that we can better understand the way we live. How can we expect to make informed decisions about foreign policy if we’ve never left our own United States comfort zone? Travel is also a right, guaranteed to all free people throughout the world.

One would think that coming off an election year we would be very well-informed about our government’s plan to deal with the Iraq puzzle. Sadly, after being force-fed abundant campaign slogans and talking points from both political extremes, Americans are left thinking in terms of only two heavily-flawed strategies for dealing with Iraq: “Cut and Run” and “Stay the Course.