Our nation has been through extensive dialogue on the role of guns and gun rights in our daily lives. I have heard endless arguments from the plethora (I love the word plethora; this has been a public service announcement) of sides, such as advocating a ban on handguns or positing increased numbers of guns carried at public schools in the interest of safety. Read More »
Category Archives: Opinion
Crowder: Don’t go into politics
Steven Crowder’s visit to Cal Poly this past week was supposed to be centered around his political comedy act — but the audience got something even better. Read More »
Cinnamon Challenge, Pass-Out Game: popular pastimes, grave stakes
What exactly do you think it is about Tosh.0 and the television show Wipeout that makes them so addicting? Let’s point out the obvious: We love making fun of other people for doing stupid things. Read More »
Fall in love with sex (again)
I have yet to meet a college student who doesn’t have some form of a to-do list — especially females. Read More »
Cars (and guns) are dangerous
While I was in high school, a friend of mine said to me, “Cars are pretty damn dangerous.” It didn’t require any special powers of observation to see this, and so I replied, “They are, indeed.” Sensing that I wasn’t looking at it in the same way, my friend continued “Think about it, we’ve made it necessary that we use these two-ton steel blocks, and move them at speeds that consistently result in death or injury” (Car accidents cause approximately 30,000 deaths in the U.S. each year). He was right, but it wasn’t anything driver's ed hadn’t taught me already. I knew/know the risk of driving, and try to follow the rules of the road to avoid aforementioned death or injury. Read More »
Gosnell case raises abortion questions
Fox News correspondent and political comedian Steven Crowder (who will be speaking on Cal Poly’s campus Tuesday at 6 p.m.) recently released a video in which he revealed a large proportion of Americans have heard nothing about the Gosnell abortion trial happening in Pennsylvania. Read More »
Let’s take this outside: the ins and outs of public sex
When I think of consensual sex in public, I imagine young people doing it in their parents' Volvos, and people banging in the wilderness. Read More »
Diversity is still an issue between the lines
If 13.1 percent of the United States is black, how many of Cal Poly’s 17,680-person undergraduate student body identifies the same way? 2,000? 1,000? 500? Read More »
Sea otters, rape and a broken justice system
My favorite animal of all time is sea otters. Read More »
Economic special interest groups defeat the purpose
I’ve always thought that part of the idea behind a democracy was that we work together to build a better society. Read More »
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