Letters to the Editor

I was impressed to read a student’s (Pat Goulding II) letter criticizing decisions made by our football coach during Cal Poly’s game last weekend. Not that I agreed or disagreed – I wasn’t there. I was at UC Riverside, coaching your women’s volleyball team.

After being bombarded on all sides by campaign literature, TV ads, and posters for the candidates, not a single one talked about the only issue that is truly important this election.

That issue is, of course, who will be signing my diploma. All of you out there should have this issue on your mind if you plan on graduating within the term of our new governor.

After Homecoming, head coach Rich Ellerson said there were a lot of lessons to be learned from the loss. There certainly were. Saturday’s game proved, however, that he didn’t learn any of them. It’s true that this lead was only six points; it’s true Montana was given a hand-wrapped and personally addressed gift from the head referee on fourth and 13 to continue the game-winning drive; it’s true that Montana is certainly stiffer competition than South Dakota State .

Tomorrow is Election Day, and controversial Measure J is on the ballot. I would like to quickly inform you about Measure J and encourage you to vote “no” tomorrow. Measure J allows the construction of Dalido Marketplace, a huge retail development on the Dalidio’s farm by the Laguna Lake area post office.

Dear Mr. Vigliotti, I would like to point out a few of the many problems with your article regarding “Manly Men.” First of all, you say “real manly men respect women and love them,” yet you seem to forget that in the era where men were acting like John Wayne, women were relegated to kitchen and cleaning duty – and were only permitted lofty career goals such as secretary or seamstress.

In response to Amy Dierdorff’s “Where Have all the Manly Men Gone?” you don’t need to look any further than the article above to see that the answer is Michael Heimowitz (1). When he’s not rollin’ round town with his posse in his Hebrew Hummer with the windows down and the music up (2), or teaching people how to be gangsta rappers (3) or putting jackasses (4) in their place, or tearing up the football field (5), he’s most likely putting a ridiculous amount of footnotes in his articles (6).

I sincerely hope that Will Vigliotti’s commentary was a joke, or some form of Halloween prank designed to frighten thinking readers. I also feel deeply sorry for any of the women in his life. First of all, if manly men are, or apparently were, so strong, how could they have let women and “veritable women” push them aside? It seems that the sort of man that Mr.

On Wednesday the Mustang Daily printed an ad for the Cal Poly men’s basketball team. It stated Cal Poly was hosting an “exhibition game vs. Notre Dame.”

As a lover of college basketball my heart pounded with excitement. How could Notre Dame, a nationally recognized, premier basketball school be coming here!? Why had I missed this information? I decided to check and make sure it was not a typo.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to No Shave November.

Octobeardfest has served us well, but was a mere shadow of the real. Today on campus, joy has filled our souls as a result of throwing away our razors for the next 30 days.

Do not be afraid! Your extra hair will protect you from the coming winter chill.

Congratulations on the excellent story in Monday’s Mustang Daily by Patrick Molnar about mercenaries in Iraq. To find out more about this situation, readers may be interested in seeing the headline-making film by Robert Greenwald, “Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers.

It appears that Matt Bushman has become as disconnected to reality as the president his last name pays homage to. He appears to believe that choosing Democrats to lead the House of Representatives is “stagnation,” while retaining the absolute disaster that is the Republican House leadership would qualify as “progress toward the American Dream.