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Editorial: Will Big Brother be watching?

The Associated Students Inc. board of directors is going to hear a half-baked funding plan for student clubs and organizations at today's meeting. While Vice President of Finance Devin Cook laudably wants to give clubs students more cash from ASI's budget, his proposal is poorly structured.

The essence of the plan is to allow students to vote during ASI’s general elections, for two clubs for ASI to give additional funding to. Each vote a club receive will turn into $2. After one year, one of the two votes must go towards a political club on campus. Another Cook proposal on the agenda would have students provide their on-campus political 'party' affiliation.

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The Soapbox
It seems as though some of the professors at CSUS have decided they don't teach at a state university but are teaching at a local high school. Or least that is the way it appears by their dogged determination to make sure no one enrolled in a course misses a single class.

Thanksgiving: the forgotten holiday
(U-WIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Once upon a time when I was a little girl I remember that there was a holiday between Halloween and Christmas. I think it might have had something to do with Native Americans, Pilgrims and turkey. If you were to walk into a store right now, you would think that time had sped up and it was Christmas. Halloween day I went to a store and walked down an aisle of Christmas cards and ornaments. I thought to myself, wait, isn't today Halloween? I should be wanting to puke at the sight of another pumpkin, not breaking into a chorus of "White Christmas."

Letter to the Editor
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