Grand Lake’s debut album “Nevermint” is filled with controlled blasts of experimentation, resisting the shoegaze noise of a band like Deerhunter, while never giving into the orchestrated indie pop of a Sufjan Stevens.
Guest commentary: Cal Poly Corp. records should be transparent
Institutions sheltered from taxes should be transparent. Period. Let’s all work together to get rid of obscure auxiliary organizations and make this a better, more affordable and more transparent place to go to school.
A young liberal’s look back on a historic year
This has been the most fascinating and important political year of my life. As a nation we stood together at a crucial fork in the road. One way led down the crooked, deceptive, and narrow path we’d been travelling for eight years — a path contrary to the image of justice, fairness, and freedom that our nation spent over 200 years developing.
Propping up GM a questionable investment
Many Americans don’t want to see any more wasteful debt spending, but also don’t want to see the death of a company so ingrained in American culture. We will be taking a bet that a demand remains for tens of thousands of American heavy industry workers.
Capitalists: society’s true humanitarians
Over the course of history, society has generally suffered only a minority of the population to act as professional humanitarians. After all, the career humanitarian is a unique breed. The humanitarian seeks alms for the poor and must, in turn, seek alms for himself to continue his alms-seeking vocation.
Local and international internships that make difference
Sustainability-oriented and green-minded internships may just be a more fulfilling way to spend your summer during a down economy.
Credit card reform bill makes college living harder
The recently-passed credit card reform bill is a supposed effort to protect us poor, naïve students from being exploited by the big, powerful credit card companies preying down on us — but honestly, this bill stinks of exactly the kind of paternalism most of us have outgrown by the time we’re in college.
North Korean government deserves world condemnation
Last Thursday, President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney gave national security speeches on the same day. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the timing was a coincidence — at least on the President’s side.
Obama plans to legitimize unconstitutional “prolonged detainment”
It seems the more time goes by, the more Obama seems to support the precedents established by the prior administration. Civil rights advocates were greatly dismayed last week after hearing about Obama’s plans to reform treatment of terror suspects.
Memorial Day should focus on sacrifices, not victories
Memorial Day is a worthy holiday, and one that I believe Americans do well to give pause and reflection to. But this is not a day to celebrate wars or even fallen warriors. It is a day which we must mourn them both.
“The Anthem” third annual slam poetry contest
Seven pronounced poets from diverse backgrounds will come together to inspire the audience with words in Cal Poly’s third annual poetry slam, “The Anthem.” Aiming to show that words have enough power to change the world, the event, which exposes individuals to poets who are champions from the international slam circuit and who have performed on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and National Public Radio, will address issues of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, race, class, identity and love.