Letters to the Editor

I am writing to inform our campus and larger community of the impressive steps that Cal Poly has taken to be the Countys lead producer of renewable energy. This past summer, a 135kW array of solar photovoltaic energy panels were installed on the roof of Engineering West.

As freshmen with no car, we are forced to eat the selection of foods that the campus provides. Although we are capable of going downtown to find better quality food, time is definitely a factor. Many students have conflict with their class hours and restaurant hours.

I am writing in response to the Nov. 30 article “How safe are the tracks you walk on?” After I had finished reading this article, I was dumbfounded at all the propositions being made in wake of the recent accident involving Ryan West.

The article starts out with a recap of the very vague circumstances of the accident and then moves on to why we need to have new safety installments around the tracks and why the cost should be pinned on Union Pacific Railroad Co.

Matt Bushman, of course the death toll is not the only measure of success in Iraq. But when there is no clear measure of success, the war becomes easy to criticize because of issues like war profiteering, loss of U.S. credibility, loss of liberty and the creation of more terrorists.

I would like to complain about the artwork that sadly dresses the walls upstairs in the UU outside of Chumash Auditorium. Specifically, I am most angry with Merhdad Sheikh’s “Web of Life,” a wall sculpture that spreads across the wall to the left of the beautiful Marie Curie.

A letter disputing the article on “Sex, Lies, and the Bible” was recently posted in your letters section on Nov. 20. To quote the letter, “Such lines as … any serious investigation negates their claims as false … were way off the mark” and are “not the kind of broad, sweeping claim(s) this particular author is qualified to make.

Maybe “bashing” is too strong of a word, but the review of the book “Sex, Lies, and the Bible” printed in the Mustang Daily on Wednesday was much like the book itself – way off the mark.

Such lines as, “the Bible is no better than a good set of Shakespeare,” and “how can a person who believes in the Bible find truth?” are inflammatory at the very least.

I must say, I find a certain delicious irony in the fact that the commentary on correcting people’s grammar contains a sentence that ends in a preposition. This could just be a typo, but it brings up an important question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

For those of us who never took Latin, the approximate translation is “Who will watch the watchers?” Who will police the grammar police? Along that same line of thinking, who will police the grammar police police? Or the grammar police police police?

And at what point does this whole exercise become so ridiculous we should just never do it? I say it starts at the grammar police.

Thank you to ASI for putting on the debate between Ron Jeremy and Craig Gross on Thursday night. It’s important that provocative perspectives are shared, and for those of you who weren’t able to go, I hope I can accurately summarize the encounter.

The debate was over the merits or dangers of porn.

I would like to speak about a phenomenon I have witnessed several times during this quarter. I am talking about when walkways around campus sprout hundreds if not thousands of picket signs all with the same message.

Apparently, due to the most recent bout of signs, the pope wants me to carpool to church.

Patrick Molnar, while I have no problem with your enthusiasm and anticipation of Democratic victory, is that the purpose of your article? Granted this is an opinion article, but you should present a grander opinion than “We’re gonna win!” This article reads much like the ignorant campaign rallies after elections where candidates celebrate before assured victory (since everyone in politics thinks they are right and never wrong, and they must have won the election).