The Outdoor Gunn 12-1-05

Christopher Gunn The sun set at 4:51 p.m. Tuesday. With the sun retreating towards the horizon at what seems like an extraordinary pace these days, and cloudy skies beginning to filter in with the first signs of winter rains, it…

Nice guys finish-first?

Janice Edman             There seems to be a well-circulated notion that the “dangerous” members of the opposite sex contain a mysterious, irresistible quality.  A recent letter to the editor here in the Mustang Daily bemoaned the fact that most girls…

God can handle his own affairs

In response to Ingram’s article, “Who would Jesus hate?” I must say that it sounded more like a rant than any organized thought process. Yes, I understand your anger about the molestation of children, and you appear to support the…

Art, schmart

Mariecar Mendoza The best thing in the world is not love, sex or respect. It doesn’t involve making friends, influencing people, or rising above an insurmountable foe. The best thing is simple and easily attainable: a magical entity that will…

Smells like not enough green spirit

Tyler Middlestadt For some Cal Poly students, this is the last week of classes they’ll ever attend at this campus. For the rest, that week will come sooner than you think. But regardless of when you have the privilege of…

Frankly Speaking 11-30-05

Frank Stranzl Where to start this week? There’s a pair of polar opposites both worthy of overwhelming attention. On one hand, there’s the sad story of the volleyball team, the first Cal Poly team this year to receive a post-season…

A challenge for the boys at AGR

Dear Rustmeister, I challenge you and Scott NERD-hold to a nude Jell-O wrestling match, if you ladies are man enough. I hear the boys at AGR (“Alpha Gamma Row”) are into that type thing and I’m sure they would be…

Who would Jesus hate?

Jack Ingram According to a 2004 survey conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, of the 10,667 people sexually abused by Catholic priests in the U.S. between 1950 and 2002, 81 percent were male. The Vatican’s solution to…

Searching for a better deal

Khaled Hal Saad The price of a product is only one component of its overall cost. A “search cost” is the cost of finding the product you want at a competitive price. Search costs comprise of the time and resources…

Take your purse off

In response to Brad Scholten’s letter to the editor “Girls never go for the good guys”: Brad, if you whine a little more about it, girls will definitely see the error of their ways. When you’re done crying yourself a…

Put down the pens and come out swinging

Put down the pens and come out swinging So I was sitting on my couch the other day reading the letters to the editor section of our Mustang Daily. I was quite annoyed by the amount of space devoted to…