Thanks to SLO police officers for a really quiet weekend. In fact, this weekend was even more quiet than any other normal weekend. I do not even want to go out with three or four cops driving around my house.…
Letters to the Editor
A thank you to students
Recognition is in order for the Cal Poly student community related to reports of a safe and disturbance free weekend. I want to acknowledge that any success in avoiding the problems associated with past celebrations during Mardi Gras is due…
San Luis Obispo under siege
I moved here five months ago from San Francisco to attend graduate school at Cal Poly. Never in my nine years living in San Francisco did I ever feel as threatened and paranoid to be outside than I experienced this…
Ingram missed the point
In Jack Ingram’s commentary on the conservative obsession with abortion, he made it seem like opposition to abortion is an arbitrary stance based on taste, comparable to my personal conviction that mushrooms should remain a fungus, not a food. The…
We're students, not animals
Laughing at the stupidity of San Luis Obispo locals will never get old. See this gem from Dr. Steve Sainsbury of Sierra Vista hospital: “…dispensing multiple packs of ‘morning-after’ pills to the young (mostly female) Mardi Gras devotees that awake…
Show New Orleans we care!
I will keep this short. If New Orleans is able to pick up their city from the rubble of Hurricane Katrina and still celebrate Mardi Gras, so should we! Our rubble may be a cause of drunken college students, but…
Failing to find humor in Mardi Gras
What does Mardi Gras really mean? To a very few, it is a celebration of sacrifice and rejoicing. To many, many more, it is simply another excuse to get intoxicated and party without restraint. What does Mardi Gras mean to…
Oracle has some serious explaining to do
I am one of the countless people constantly annoyed with the poor management of our school’s e-mail software. As a school nationally known for its computer science program, it is a complete disgrace that we have to undergo such treatment.…
The discman strikes back
Discmans are back. Or did they ever leave? It has come to my attention that people have no shame walking with discman in hand around campus. Riding my bike to school on Friday, I had not one, but two discman…
IRA funding is important to students
Your front-page article on Thursday (Feb. 16) suggested that students are paying little attention to the upcoming IRA Fee Referendum, which is unfortunate because the stakes for students are high. A “yes” vote will make possible the continuation and expansion…
Tibet in an age of reason and enlightenment
It is good that the people of Tibet have been free of the Dalai Lama’s onerous brand of religious fanaticism for over 50 years. Thanks to the benevolence of the great nation of China and the heroism of the People’s…