Opinion

Thank you for the article Nov. 26 about our new class addressing design for impoverished communities, D-Lab. I wish to clarify the issue of eligibility. While we value the presence of advanced students and graduate students in the class, we are willing to consider freshmen and sophomores as well.

“It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber,” the saying goes. Now more than ever, public schools across the nation are feeling the brunt of the current administration’s allocation of funds, not into educating future generations, but instead into spreading “American-style” democracy around the world.

When looking at Presidential campaign Web sites recently, I noticed something confusing. The top four candidates for the Republican Presidential Primary – Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and John McCain – all seemed to prioritize national issues differently.

The foods you eat directly affect the performance of your brain. It’s been proven

My biggest fear for the 2008 election is that we’ll be forced to choose between the lesser

College students are often considered lazy. But who can blame us?

Let me introduce you to a controversy that you may not have heard of. On Oct. 14 of this

You know what really grinds my gears? Television. Let’s be honest; even if you like shows on television, the Writers Guild of America strike is putting most of them on hiatus. For example, Saturday Night Live is on re-runs. This is annoying, because now I can’t spend 40 minutes of watching crappy sketches on the show just to get to the most recent Digital Short! And the supreme act of masochism that is watching Steve Carell’s performance on “The Office” no longer exists, and now I’ve had to resort to swallowing glass and sugar in order to receive the same amount of pleasure and pain.

One of the pitfalls of going to Cal Poly is our lack of exposure to multiculturalism.

President Baker,
We are writing to thank you for taking the

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