Opinion

I’ve been trying to think of various (legal) ways to make some fast cash, and a recent conversation led me to a compelling prospect: egg donation. Heck, I’m not using my eggs. Why not sell them to someone who’s willing to pay top dollar for them? It’s a free market, right? People and organizations will pay thousands for an egg donor, I was told recently.

I would like to respond to some of the points raised in a recent guest commentary by Unny Menon that objected to the Jubail University College (JUC) partnership deal. In Menon’s first point he suggests among other things that Cal Poly should not enter into the agreement because Cal Poly will only be reimbursed for expenses and will not gain any “monetary reward” or profit.

Becky Hammon wanted to play basketball for her country at the Olympic Games, but her country didn’t want her. So Hammon did the next best thing: she joined a new country. It just so happens that the two countries have quite a checkered past. Hammon, who was born and raised in South Dakota, will play under the Russian flag in the Olympics this summer, sparking a trend that has disturbed many and influenced people to name her a traitor.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and

The references were hard to ignore. An iPod here. A Mac start-up noise there. Pixar’s

I love magazines. Opening a new, shiny magazine is like waking up on Christmas morning to a mountain of presents. I even like the way they smell. The problem with my fetish is that I have a hard time throwing them away. Because of this, one corner of my bedroom is dedicated to housing old issues of Marie Claire, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan.

Oh boy! Another cliché letter to the editor with a lousy opening, easily refutable content, and an impractical solution proposal — this time written by a professor. Jackpot!

I’m responding to Edward Schmid’s letter to the editor entitled “Education, not guns,” which was responding to Marlize van Romburgh’s article “The amendment that protects your independence.

To all parents on campus; I’d like to remind you that the library is a quiet place, where people are usually working. Bringing your children in is going to disrupt a lot of people.

Now, it’s one thing if you pop in there quickly to get a book, or to send your professor an email, or even if you’re doing some actual work yourself (though if you’re going to be working in the library for any extended amount of time, you should get a babysitter).

After watching last year’s team of editors deal with the incident of a freelance cartoonist plagiarizing one of his cartoons for the Mustang Daily, we hoped to begin this year with a fresh slate. Sadly, plagiarism has come to haunt the Daily again. And again, we’re apologizing to you, our readers, for unknowingly publishing plagiarized material.

I was rather appalled at your editorial on July 3 in regards to our right to bear arms as stated by the Second Amendment.

Considering the rising tragedies that schools and universities across this great nation of ours are experiencing as a result of suicidal maniacs, your centuries-old justifications lack consideration for those recently murdered.

When it comes to freedom from government oppression, the First Amendment gets all the credit. When it comes to those liberties we all readily enjoy – speech, religion, assembly, petition and press – there is such a strong and unified understanding in America that these are inalienable rights that they’re hardly ever questioned.