Opinion

Old habits, that is.

According to a recent UC Davis report, our campus received $679 million to fund scientific research during the 2009-2010 fiscal year. This was a record-breaking amount and a huge increase from just $298 million in 2000-2001. At the same time that research funding grew, student fees rose dramatically. While it’s tempting to connect these two increases, and assume students are footing the scientists’ bills, there is no correlation between the two.

Proposition 215 of 1996 is perhaps the pivotal measure of national drug reform policy, catalyzing popular laws in many other states, impelling unprecedented adjustments to federal enforcement policy. Yet, due to legislative failures and various other factors, it remains largely unimplemented – despite being very widely popular.

Readers may have seen the fliers around campus last week screaming quizzically: “Can we have a revolution?” I did. I was tickled enough to attend a meeting by a group called the Socialist Organizer at Olson Hall last Thursday. Never say never, right? But this time, I don’t mind the designation of general in the naysayers’ army. A revolution, of any kind, is not going to happen in today’s America. I’ll tell you why.

Many people nowadays, myself included, are engaged in a process of soul searching – a quest to find our place in the world and to figure out the meaning of life in these modern times. For me the journey began with a trip back to my childhood hometown in Illinois, where the French-Canadian ancestors on my mother’s side of the family settled in the 1800s.

“Ho-kay. So. Here’s the Earth. Damn, that is a sweet Earth, you might say.”

One of the most important measures on the California ballot this November is Proposition 19, which would legalize and regulate the possession and sale of marijuana.

The guest opinion published on Oct. 7 was truly appalling. To read that the Palestinian flag symbolizes “the murder and genocide of millions of innocent Jews and the ethnic cleansing of Judea” is offensive, tragically misleading and flat out wrong. Palestinians had no part in the Holocaust. Yes, Jews may be a minority, but by taking on the role of oppressor, it is difficult for Palestinians to sympathize with their past struggles.

There is no place for vandalism anywhere on our campus or on our beloved mural, period.

So a state budget is passed and signed into law, but California’s future is no brighter.

College students learn a variety of coping mechanisms to deal with the everyday struggle we’ve chosen to endure.

The stigma created around female masturbation is a lot like the stigma set about female excrement. Basically, it just doesn’t exist.