Opinion

For somebody like myself, it goes without saying that I’ve been obsessed with Chatroulette ever since I heard about it on the blogo-wiki-interweb-twatter-sphere. I spent the better part of Sunday splayed across my bed – in my underwear, with a full neck beard and my nuked leftover enchiladas from On the Border™ – chatting it up with freshmen across the U.S. who are pent up in bomb shelter rooms they call dorms.

Ah, good ol’ ignorance. Still finding its way into every last niche of today’s society.

On Sept. 24, we began the year by walking out of our classes and workplaces in solidarity. Students, faculty, workers and staff who faced furloughs, layoffs, pay cuts and tuition hikes all left their buildings, classes and jobs to rally and march together against the privatization of education.

And I’m still bitter about it.

I’m a jerk.

“Do something stupid over the next few days so you can blame it on being a teen,” my friend, Slava, jokes days before I turn 20.

The first thing Bob asked me when she walked in the door was, “Am I supposed to be the token Indian bisexual girl?”

The funny thing about mistakes is you should be able to learn from them. You know, to avoid making the same mistakes again. I figure that’s a pretty obvious fortune-cookie lesson in the world today. But then again, there’s Mike Tyson.

Every year, a frickload of Americans stock up on a lot of beer. They drink a lot of it while yelling at their TVs. This is the Super Bowl and they are men, dammit.

One negative stereotype of feminists is the panicked claim (usually by misinformed conservatives) that we hate children and families. Patently untrue as this is, as can be understood from feminist theory, I have anecdotal evidence to back me up: I, a feminist, just happen to love babies.

Chancellor Linda Katehi announced plans for an Organizational Intelligence initiative in her first State of the Campus address last Thursday.

In this week’s ASUCD elections, a student filed a complaint against the Elections Committee for granting the usual 24-hour extension to executive candidates Sergio Blanco and Vishakha Patel. This complaint resulted in the court decision that Blanco and Patel should be removed from the ballot.