Category: Opinion

It’s a 15-minute drive through Los Osos to Montana de Oro State Park, a beautiful recreation area that bolsters some of the county’s most beautiful scenery. The park, however, is not just a hiking paradise; it is also home to some of the largest waves on the Central Coast at Spooners Cove. Over this past […]

Janice Edman             No two girls are alike, as any guy who’s been through the dating scene knows.  But what a surprisingly large amount of guys don’t know is that there are universal gestures of adoration that every girl is helpless to resist.  Flowers and candy, along with the occasional little gifts, are no-brainers to […]

Daniel Gingras I awoke in the middle of the night, wrenched in terror, the vision of Talk Sex’s Sue Johansson still burnt in my mind. She was flailing a menacing dildo at me and prophesizing the epic sexual impact that my five don’ts of sex will have on the community at large. I can no […]

Emily Rancer Since Halloween’s almost here, store shelves are piled with cheap candy. So dammit, go for that bag of Reese’s miniature cups because you can use them to make, as one of my friends said, a “f*ckin’ delicious” dessert. Imagine personal-sized brownies, each with a peanut butter cup melted into the center. Then top […]

Emily Rancer As my roommate Julie leapt for her FedEx package, she squealed, “Ooh, it must be my Halloween costume!” After ordering it online the week before, she told me it was a cute sailor’s outfit. From her description, it really did sound cute. As she pulled the navy blue miniskirt from the box, we […]

Frank Stranzl Well, last weekend sucked, to put it frankly. The football team should have won, the volleyball team could have won and the men’s soccer team has not won (a Big West Conference game). The lone bright spot is that the women’s soccer team still has a shot at making the Big West playoffs. […]

Tyler Middlestadt At the crossroads between reality and ideology, the intersection between vision and ability, and the boiling point between satisfaction and outrage, student fees exist as a necessary source of revenue and an inevitable source of contention within the CSU system. What we’re faced with today is a significant shortfall in higher education funding […]

Jack Ingram It is a good thing that discrimination doesn’t exist. When I heard the other day that Gov. Schwarzenegger recently vetoed the Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Protection Act (a.k.a. A.B. 849), thus denying homosexuals the same rights as heterosexuals, I was worried that some people might be discriminated against. Then I remembered that […]