Category Archives: Opinion

One nation under Santa: just 342 days left ’til X-mas! I know it’s second week, but I still have Christmas on the brain. Maybe it’s the weather, or maybe it’s just the first slot my editor could give me, but my frontal lobe, amid the dread of class schedules, book lines and the "F" word […]

True stories from life in ‘The Weird World’ This is the true story of several students picked to live in a townhouse and have their lives documented. Find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting weird … The Weird World. Today’s episode: stupid bets and challenges. A few of us sat […]

Government regulation threatens civil liberties I’m sure many liberals are desperately worried about the future of civil liberties under the new Republican regime. With the Republicans making hostile threats to defund such liberal symbols as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, and their connections to "angry white men" and […]

History shows power of inter-ethnic solidarity By Ryan Masaaki Yokota Through the 150 years or so of shared experience here in Amerika, many connections between the Asian Pacific Islander and Latina/o communities have been close and fruitful. From the Oxnard sugar beet fields of 1903 to the Delano grape strikes in 1965, our people have […]

A continuing defense of reproductive freedom Throughout high school, I never thought that I’d ever need an abortion. For years, I didn’t even consider it because frankly, I wasn’t having any sex. I personally was not, as my mother once advised me, "financially and emotionally mature enough to handle abortion, adoption or motherhood." And I […]

‘Is this all,’ or is there more meaning to life? By Ron Bassilian So it is, once again. A new quarter has started and the routine starts anew. Get your books, get accustomed to your new schedule, etc., etc., only five more quarters ’til graduation, etc., etc. So goes the endless routine, diagrammed like a […]

Ethnic communities must address homophobia I rarely eavesdrop on conversations, but this one was so irresistibly volatile and heated that I could barely contain myself. "You know, when I see two men kissing each other, I just feel like throwing up," one said to the other. His friend nodded in agreement. "It’s like, it’s just […]