Opinion

You hear a sound, and you enjoy it. It doesn’t belong to the wind or the footsteps or the chatter you’re used to hearing throughout your day; it rises above them, maybe a reminder of the familiar or something entirely different. Either way, it’s made just for you. You’re listening to a song. Of course, […]

In your hands. In your eyes. In your heart. It’s art. But the literature of that is just the first part. What has to follow, or what I am inclined to encourage, is the pursuit of art as a pursuit of life that inspires more life. In the grand poetic sphere of things, everything is […]

The ASUCD Coffee House has recently implemented a Meatless Monday program, which aims to provide increased variety as well as raise awareness of alternative food options. Although not all of us are vegetarians, we fully support the program — a collaboration between ASUCD and the CoHo — to supplement the normal menu with vegetarian options, […]

Four years ago, in the presidential election of 2008, the power of the youth vote helped make history. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, turnout among college-educated voters between the ages of 18 and 29 was 62 percent, an expression of one of the most important acts available to us as citizens in a democracy: […]

This year, college students are in for a treat: six days of Halloween, college style. With the traditional event occurring in the middle of the week, all of a sudden the party schedule is thrown off. Do we celebrate it the weekend before? Trick-or-treat at Linda Katehi’s house on Wednesday? Dress up in November? Not […]

I am writing in response to Adam Khan’s Oct. 23 article, “Meatless Monday comes to the CoHo.” It is no surprise that students would want “Meatless Mondays” in their dining halls: According to a study by food-service provider Bon Appétit, the number of college students who identify themselves as vegetarian has risen by 50 percent […]

Last week, I, along with many members of the ASUCD Senate and The Aggie, received word from Yara Zokaie that she would be officially resigning her post as a member of the Senate. I appreciate the fact that Miss Zokaie has decided to move on, as greater endeavors await her during and after law school. […]

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish, and you feed yourself. He’s a grown man. Fishing’s not that hard.” The world is cutthroat. The pursuit of independence naturally lends itself to a more self-centered existence, and as life goes on, we have less and […]

So you’re at your favorite, fervently frequented, friendly neighborhood café, whittling away at your 10-page thesis on “Why banana peels turn from yellow to brown,” which you’ve totally had the past six weeks to work on, but that dastardly charlatan known as “life” got in your way. Between every painstakingly pecked-out line, you stop to […]

Before the invention of modern medical techniques preventing pregnancy, women wore amulets, ingested herbs and took part in anti-fertility rituals, while males wore condoms made from chemical-soaked linen or the intestines of a goat. But what happened when these unreliable prophylactic measures failed? The earliest written record of self-induced abortion is from 1550 B.C. Egypt, […]

As I was driving my 95-year-old great-grandmother to her doctor appointment, she pulled out two Ziploc bags of slightly stale Lucky Charms and made me eat some, chastising me for starving myself even though we had just had lunch at Chipotle. I think this is something most grandparents have in common — our grandmas care […]

Editor’s note: This letter was originally sent to members of ASUCD government. I, Yara Zokaie, would like to resign from my position as an ASUCD senator. I chose to keep my position because President Rebecca Sterling was pressuring senators to vote how she told them (even while her policy decisions repeatedly proved catastrophic for the […]