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Editorial: Same-sex marriage

OpinionMay 20, 2008
The California State Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex marriages are legal in California marked a historic and positive turn in our state’s history.

Editorial: TAPS enforcement

OpinionMay 20, 2008
During the last few weeks, Transportation and Parking Services has created a cyclist upset by confiscating illegally parked bicycles primarily in the Memorial Union and Activities and Recreation Center areas. Notices were left on bicycles to discourage owners from parking in certain areas where no racks are available.

Guest opinion: Marriage ruling obscures larger discrimination issue

OpinionMay 20, 2008
Not all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenderpeople are happy about the same-sex marriage ruling. While we recognize that the California Supreme Court decision positively and importantly affects some queer lives, marriage alone cannot solve the problems plaguing queer communities.

Real mature, Lynn!

OpinionMay 20, 2008
Okay, so I just signed up for the GRE, talked to a journalism student from NYU and looked up a bunch of graduate schools for different disciplines. Now I’m more nervous than ever about the future and have concluded that I’m not a competitive applicant. My delivery of fail will come in the mail soon.

Letters to the Editor

OpinionMay 20, 2008
The ASUCD Senate has the power to censure any elected official of ASUCD.A personae censure is a censure that states the ASUCD Senate‘s disapproval of the particular behavior of an individual.

Upholding equality

OpinionMay 20, 2008
he California Supreme Court’s landmark decisionthatinvalidates thelawagainst same-sex marriage has elicited achorus of jubilation in the gay and lesbian communityacross the nationand among its ardent supporters.

You won’t believe this…

OpinionMay 20, 2008
When it was announced that the University of California education system would be facing $4 billion in budget cuts, UC students were forced to realize that allies in their financial struggle would be few and far between. In the past months, state legislators, UC administratorsand even California’s governor have all but turned their back on the state’s student population, leaving them starved for representation in matters that directly impact their higher education experience.

The peril of loving

OpinionMay 19, 2008
The boy loves words. He reads books constantly. He labors for hours over a creative writing assignment. He reads for the sake of reading, and he writes for the sake of writing because he enjoys these things for themselves, not for any rewards they bring.

Xanadu

OpinionMay 19, 2008
I like good movies, but I love bad movies. Sure, “high-quality” movies are okay every once in a while, but there’s nothing like watching a terrible plot-hole-ridden mess. I’m just glad the 1980s and ’90s gave us so many treasures.

Casual casuality

OpinionMay 16, 2008
You may recall me writing on apathy the other week; I really don’t care for that subject anymore. I have recently re-attuned my lifestyle to the words of one of my foremost role models in life, Kermit the Frog: “Time’s fun when you’re having flies.” In non-frogian terms, I take this to mean something like “take nothing seriously.”

Booty call

OpinionMay 16, 2008
I can usually get a laughwhen I tell people I wasfirsteducated as part of a failed governmental experiment.Then,when I try to explain further that my unorthodox instruction led directly to me becoming a raging nerd and,indirectly,to a guy getting punched in the face four years later,I’m invariably treated to an incredulous stare.But it’s true,all of it.

Editorial: iTunes U

OpinionMay 15, 2008
UC Davis recently became one of many universities across the nation to participate in Apple‘s iTunes U program.iTunes U allows college campuses to share multimedia podcasts through the popular iTunes software.This new tool can bebeneficial to students,facultyand prospective students alike.