Ryan Chartrand‘Drop your pants’ is brilliant piece of political satire
I might go so far as to say that Doug Swanson is in the same realm as Jonathan Swift with “A Modest Proposal.” I love the fact that he posed it in such a serious manner, reading as though he was telling it to you with a straight face. I only knew he was being sarcastic when these beautiful words came out, “county clerks should be ordered to penis-check all applicants.” Imagine the horror that county clerks would go through if this passed. Here you are, in a position that has much responsibility, and then California passes a law that you must penis-check all people wanting to get married.
Last time I checked, people are getting married all the time. Add to this the dilemma of writing something like this into law, oh man… So my congrats to a well written political satire, I only write this in the fear that some pro-Prop 8 people will take you seriously, and some anti-Prop 8 people will get hilariously angry over it. I can’t wait for the letters to come in.
Scott Joly
architectural engineering senior
Reactions to crop house incident help open up discussion
Mr. Wolf, are you serious? Are you so ignorant not to realize that the crop science incident is of significant value to get passionate and angry about? Maybe in the three little years you have been here you have been unaware of the many other underreported, racial-discrimonatory incidents that have occurred.
As a minority myself, as well as many other fellow students, I am happy and grateful that this incident has recieved so much attention. Maybe this is the one thing that will pressure Cal Poly and President Baker to take immediate action in preventing things like this from happening again. This might even get President Baker to work harder to get the Inclusive Excellence plan initiated.
People’s ignorance on diversity and apathetic behavior, like yourself Mr. Wolf, is why incidents like this continue to happen. I applaud ASI President Kramer for being informed and active in the diversity issues that are ongoing here at Cal Poly. Keep up the good work.
Jonathan Martinez
civil engineering senior
Inspiring lecturers being fired because of budget cuts
This is to inform social science majors how the state budget cuts will be affecting us directly:
Due to the most recent budget cuts, we will be losing two of our greatest lecturers. I will not name them here but if you want to know who they are, go and speak to Dr. Terry Jones, the head of the social sciences department. I can say that when I was informed that these two valuable instructors were being made to leave Cal Poly, I was very upset. One of these instructors changed my life radically as a student and a person and I must now watch her be laid off from a job she loves, from a life she has passion for.
There are certainly some tenured faculty who are tired of teaching and don’t bring passion to the department. I have taken classes with some of these tenured faculty members and hoped they would retire soon so no more students would have to sit through their passionless lectures where they simply go through the motions.
Why can’t we force these few tenured faculty members to retire and then use that money to pay the two lecturers so they can stay and make a difference in the lives of students? I don’t know if there is anything we can do as students, but I will not sit by while my department lays-off two amazing and spirited lecturers, cheating us out of the quality education we deserve.
Megan Underwood
social sciences senior