Opinion

The prophet again ascended the mountain to seek the wisdom of the Lord.

"Did I not provide you with 10 commandments previously?" he asked.

As goes California, so goes the nation. And between Nixon, Reagan and the political climate they bequeathed unto us, that certainly appears to be the case.

As you all may be aware of, Facebook has been under heat from users for a recent update in its Terms of Use. Under these changes, all user-generated content - basically anything that's ever been posted or uploaded on Facebook - could be used, altered and even sublicensed by the site.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a well-known schematic for a person's priorities represented as a pyramid. Each tier corresponds to a "need" that can only be fulfilled once the tiers below it are satisfied. Although Maslow makes a fairly correct outline of our needs, there is still some controversy over its accuracy.

In the classic 1989 movie Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams' portrayal of a poetry professor inspiring his students to love poetry for its intrinsic qualities - as opposed to a singular focus on grades - is at once touching and haunting.

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son," says Dean Wormer in Animal House. Just because you're an adult in the eyes of the law doesn't actually mean you have to act like it. Okay, yeah, maybe mooning strangers on I-80 and flashing the vajayjay sign in your holiday greeting cards is not exactly model behavior, but it can be stupidly entertaining and really fun.

This quarter's ASUCD elections produced their usual crop of quality senate and executive candidates. Unfortunately, they also produced unruly and disruptive crowds at the two debates in the ASUCD Coffee House. Slate supporters, most notably LEAD supporters, are excessively loud and raucous at such functions on a consistent basis.

The announcement of a possible US Bank branch in the Memorial Union was bad enough. The latest news is even worse. UC Davis could allow US Bank to put its logo on the back of all UC Davis identification cards as part of the ongoing negotiations to allow a US Bank branch in the MU.

Some light needs to be shed on a particular minority of women. These women come in various shapes and sizes, skin colors, religious beliefs, sexual orientations and everything else that makes people vary. Actually, they really have nothing in common, besides one crucial aspect of their personalities that distinguishes each from the rest of society.

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel old? Pretty soon I'm going to start dying my hair, subtracting five years from my age and power walking at the mall on Sunday mornings. Every day I get closer and closer to being a grown-up, and I don't like it.

We live in an era of one-night stands and transitory relationships. Many of you have probably never had a meaningful relationship, while most of you likely have had a one-night stand or maintained a "friend with benefits" relationship. In the fashion of our generation, you embraced your physical impulses while fearing and avoiding emotional ones.

Now that my friends and I are high tailing it out of this ol' college town this year, I've been noticing that we're trying to cling onto our old antics. Our collective fear of growing up and entering that blasted "real world" is festering inside us at such an alarming rate; we're desperately trying to stay young. And I'm not even talking about staying in college mode. Sadly, we've been trying to act like high schoolers again.

Over the year and a half I've been writing this column, I've encountered a variety of different responses. Some students have been motivated by my efforts, others have been appalled by them, but so far nothing has caught me more off guard than a displeased TGIF supporter who insisted that I smell her in the middle of a crowded Coffee House breezeway.

In addition to selecting six new ASUCD senators this week, students will also be asked to weigh in on a controversial new fee increase to establish a "Green Initiative Fund."

If passed, the measure will require students to pay an extra $4 per quarter in fees to ASUCD in order to fund a program that would give students the money to initiate sustainability projects on campus.

ASUCD senate and executive elections begin at 8 a.m. tomorrow and to help students make their selections, The California Aggie sat down with each senate and executive candidate to talk about the issues.