Can you imagine a country where one small group of elitists controls the whole country and its resources, where there is no such thing as voting, free speech or even in some cases, the right to have more than one…
Stereotyping does not solve problems
In response to Jack Ingram’s Feb. 28 commentary – What are you trying to accomplish? Every time I read an article whose sole purpose is to bash on the beliefs of other Americans, I grow and more and more concerned…
OK, who's right?
Where is the consistency? Why is it that when Scott Peterson killed his wife he was convicted of second degree murder of the fetus, yet when countless numbers of women choose to have an abortion, we don’t try them for…
Jack, Jack, the name calling hack
What a short memory Jack Ingram has. It was less than a month ago that Jack wrote “Political convictions without political labels,” an article denouncing political labels. (I won’t even begin to describe the irony of such an article appearing…
If you want to lower the amount of abortions, vote Democrat
Oh, another abortion debate, an issue that neither side understands the other on, but let me give my interpretation and I can read why I am wrong in upcoming issues. The Republicans’ ultimate goal is to outlaw abortions, not stop…
Make a move to improve
Tyler Middlestadt There are only two days remaining to pick up a packet from the Student Life and Leadership office and become a candidate for the ASI spring elections. This year our theme for elections is “Move to Improve,” so…
Frankly Speaking 3-1-06
Frank Stranzl California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo will win its first ever men’s basketball national championship this year. Not only that, but Derek Stockalper will be named the tournament’s most valuable player and coach Kevin Bromley will…
Few thoughts about last weekend
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.…
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…