I would like to complain about the artwork that sadly dresses the walls upstairs in the UU outside of Chumash Auditorium. Specifically, I am most angry with Merhdad Sheikh’s “Web of Life,” a wall sculpture that spreads across the wall to the left of the beautiful Marie Curie.
Nightclubs offer life lessons with a twist
I’ve climbed the Eiffel Tower, the Sagrada Familia and the Vatican. I’ve seen the David, the Anne Frank house and the Budapest baths. I’ve perused museums in Vienna, Madrid and Florence. And all of these experiences have been inconceivable, to say the least.
Finding home, comfort in a family of strangers
Maria del Mar, with her Nanny McPhee-esque appearance, ability to spoil the heck out of me, and amazing cooking skills, is the perfect Spanish se¤ora. Unlike many people studying abroad (those who came to Europe with a ‘screw school and staying in Barcelona, I just want to travel’ attitude), I came to Spain mostly to live.
Condoms, cocaine and convicts
“Father of slain groom speaks out.” “Republicans want vote on abortion pill.” “Break from medications dangerous.”
These are just a few of the headlines that graced the pages of Yahoo! news yesterday showing that sex, drugs and violence really do dominate the news.
Creative arts classes lack hands-on learning
At Cal Poly you can get credit for driving tractors, making stickers, butchering hog carcasses, sleeping in homeless shelters and even writing newspapers. This truly is a “Learn By Doing” institution.
Except when it comes to the fine and performing arts.
I remember when I came to Open House during my senior year of high school.
Success in Iraq not based on death toll
The modern media seems to have a morbid fascination with the rising death toll in Iraq. It is paraded about in headlines and stories as if that is the only news worth reporting from the entire conflict. Even The Tribune, San Luis Obispo’s very own newspaper, continually updates a running death tally.
Textbook prices to increase 237 percent
Editor’s note: The Bunion is fake news. Period. SAN LUIS OBISPO – Store clerks at El Corral Bookstore were solemn on Sunday as they put up signs announcing a 237 percent price increase on textbooks, effective this winter quarter 2007. Having no ladders due to budget problems, the clerks resorted to standing on each other’s backs in acrobatic pyramid fashion to hang signs up high enough, where they hoped enraged students would be unable to tear them to pieces in protest, just so long as they did not bring any ladders of their own.
Breaking up is hard to do
Last week we talked about a phenomenon called “turkey droppings”: the unfortunate Thanksgiving-season demise of many long-distance relationships (LDRs).
As steadfastly optimistic as I am that relationships can work, as a surveyor of relationships, one must remove the rose-colored glasses every so often.
Interpretations of Bible sometimes misleading
A letter disputing the article on “Sex, Lies, and the Bible” was recently posted in your letters section on Nov. 20. To quote the letter, “Such lines as … any serious investigation negates their claims as false … were way off the mark” and are “not the kind of broad, sweeping claim(s) this particular author is qualified to make.
Clean and green travel
In less than 3 weeks each of us will take our last final, sell our books back for a little cash, clean out the rotten unidentifiable foods in the back of our refrigerators, and prepare to say goodbye to SLO-town for the holiday season. San Luis Obispo hosts an airport, bus station and rail station providing many travel alternatives for students and citizens alike.
What would Jesus do about homosexuality?
America’s national dialogue about homosexuality has always perplexed me. The current debate over sexual orientation centers considerably around science, as we try to answer whether being gay is a choice or not.
However, since science and religion are usually at odds, a definitive answer in the scientific realm wouldn’t change a thing for many religious Americans.