Opinion

You're in debt. I'm in debt. Everyone in this mortgage-saddled, card-swiping, impulse-buying nation is in debt. Our economy is driven by the spending of money not earned, by the focus on short-term gains while taking on conditions that ensure artificial scarcity in the future. This model of debt culture, immediately and unequivocally, must be changed. This change must be internalized at all levels of society to make a world more stable and focused on real value. The specter of indentured servitude must be driven out.

We're all gonna die. No, really, they mean it this time; we're all gonna die. Someone in Mexico thought it would be a good idea to make out with a pig, and now we're all fucked. Proper fucked.

But that's not the bad news.

Although most of you haven't heard of this word, "akrasia," you're all familiar with what it refers to. Akrasia is the state of acting against one's better judgment. Even though you figure out what the rational plan-of-action is, your emotions or lack of emotions hold you back from executing the plan.

The 100-day mark is an exercise in futility. It neither provides any defining, authoritative conclusions, nor does it lay sufficient evidence for future successes. But the mark, however flawed a construct it is, is not just an indicator and predictor of performance. Rather, it conveys a perspective of context.

The classroom can be more than just a place to catch up on sleep and do a little Sudoku. It can be a source of both learning and entertainment if you know which classes to take. Luckily for you lovelies, my almost-three years of, uh, "hard work" at this pop stand have led me to compile this list of awesome classes you should take in order to mix a little business with pleasure, whether your pass time is coming up or you're about to graduate and want to wallow in a little regret.

This winter's ASUCD election has certainly been one for the books but thankfully the ASUCD Court has finally provided an end to the saga.

During a pre-hearing last week, the court unanimously shot down Case 46, Christopher Ambriz vs. the ASUCD elections committee, which centered on a voting malfunction in which the website went down for three-and-a-half hours during the elections. Ambriz claimed students were "disenfranchised" because of the malfunction.

The Bike Church, a student-run campus institution that originated in the Domes Sustainable Living Area, chose to leave campus last year after failed talks with Student Housing regarding renovation of their location.

Bike Church organizers vowed to continue educating people on bike repair and starting an off-campus location.

Dear Editor,

In Wednesday's article "Letting Kids be Kids" about Camp Kesem and AEPi's Iration benefit concert, AEPi Concert Chair Jason Pearl is referenced with the following; "Pearl would not confirm or deny if 100 percent of proceeds from ticket sales would go toward Camp Kesem." I want to clarify that all proceeds will in fact go to Camp Kesem.

Saying "that's so gay" has seemingly become a part of our daily language as children and young adults. Initially, it may seem as though there's nothing wrong with saying it because there's no apparent victim, especially when most people assume that the people they know are straight. But for some children, like Carl Walker-Hoover, just being straight is not enough to keep them from becoming victim of taunting words like "you're gay."

Facebook. Don't even pretend that you're not into it. Several hours of your week are probably dedicated to wasting time on this ridiculous, yet somehow simultaneously amazing, networking system. And it's not just stalking friends or reading updates about how "Jen is currently eating homemade coleslaw while wearing her new underwear."

I've got beef with you, Internet. Everyone seems to be mighty impressed by your whole "heralding in the Information Age" bull, but I can see right through the shenanigans. The truth is, you fail. Internet, here are 10 things I hate about you:

Being an English major, I'm familiar with drafts: rough drafts, first drafts, final drafts. People are like that too - we all start out a complete mess but through things like school, parents and friends, we learn. Other people can grow through us too, and now everyone's just a clusterf*ck of self-betterment.

Who doesn't love constant assessment? Despite the endless fits of whining you'll likely hear from your ill-prepared peers during the next few weeks of midterms, the answer is nobody. Everyone has their own way of showing it, but deep down inside we all share that desire to grade, or be graded by, someone other than ourselves.

The animal rights activist group Stop Animal Exploitation Now recently purchased airtime on several TV stations in California in order to make a strong point about the California National Primate Research Center. The commercial contends that the research center, which is affiliated with several UC campuses including UC Davis, allegedly perpetuates practices that needlessly torture the primates being used at the center.