Opinion

During the past two weeks, much has been made of the display at the crops house and the subsequent administration reaction. Several departments have filled the Mustang Daily with letters to the editor. Administration and our Associated Students Inc. president have added to the fray with numerous e-mails about their response to the situation.

‘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.

The Right was dealt a crushing blow to the head recently. Every Republican by now has had to face the bitter news: Obama is the President-elect. Many seem to believe that in consequence of Obama’s victory this election, the Republican Party lost. But as sometimes happens, the obvious is not the whole truth.

The California electorate has approved Proposition 8, deeming marriage to be legal only for couples of one man and one woman. However, a significant legal and procedural problem not addressed in the wording of Proposition 8 remains unresolved. Unless the secretary of state acts immediately to deal with this heretofore-unrecognized threat, the legal veracity of Proposition 8 and the Constitution itself is at risk.

In the early 1900s, workers flocked to Detroit for the promise of ‘the good life’ that automobile manufacturing plants could offer. Today, one out of every ten Americans is employed by the auto industry. This is quickly changing as the current economic crisis hits the motor vehicle and parts industries the hardest.

Political science department condemns crops house incident We, the undersigned members of the political science department, are outraged by the racist display at the crops house and believe that it is equally destructive to accept the pretense that the students involved were unaware of the racist and threatening connotations associated with the Confederate flag and a noose.

So you want to know what happened at the Crop’s House?

Here’s what we do know: at “the party,” there was a confederate flag, a beer pong table with a painted confederate flag and a noose. There is much speculation over the signs, but we have heard reports of both versions (“no Obama, no liberals” and “no ni–ers, no fa–ots, no hippies”).

Academic environment should be accepting of all

We, the members of the philosophy department, abhor and condemn the recent alleged racism and acts of anti-homosexuality at the Crops House. We believe that such acts belittle, offend and strike fear in valued members of the Cal Poly community for no good reason.

119,378,874 total votes. 52 to 46 percent. 349 electoral votes to 163. Those are the numbers that made history in so many ways, with such profound implications for the United States and for Cal Poly.

Today, two days after the most important election in recent history, begins a new world with entirely new possibilities for America – possibilities that include all of us, people of every political party, people of every ethnicity and race and people everywhere around the world.

Thanks for supporting Prop 11 I am proud of all my fellow Poly students for breaking voting records and opting to vote for what they believe in. Most of you probably showed up to vote primarily for president and Prop 8, both of which were the most controversial of the election.

It was refreshing to read Mr. Nachreiner’s political column this Thursday and realize it provoked an emotional response within me as I read it. My thanks go to him and the other weekly columnnists this quarter (“Between the Sheets” manages to be dependably witty and instructional!) for keeping the ‘Stang exciting to pick up every day.