Friday, January 10, 1997 By Stephanie Salter San Francisco Examiner As the years accumulate, I sometimes forget why I turned out the way I did. I mean, for instance, why I became a Democrat instead of a Republican or why I moved to California or never got married or prefer scotch to bourbon. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 STANDARDS: Machistas and Machos are put to the test; find out which one you should be I must preface this by saying that I love men ­ men in the definition that I will describe. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 LANGUAGES: Communication with diverse tongues may result in exclusionBy Scott Sahlman In John Lemke’s article, "Limiting word choice stifles evolution of language," he claims that having a standardized English language, aside from being illogical and inane, is elitist and propagates racism and intolerance. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 EDUCATION: Fickle youth cannot be force-fed works of The BardBy Elizabeth Schuett Cox News Service GIBSONBURG, Ohio — "Shakespeare? Oh, yeah. He’s the funny-looking dude who wrote a bunch of weird stories in a foreign language." So says one of my more voluble freshmen, whose ignorance of a topic (any topic) seldom puts his mouth on hold. Read more...

Thursday, January 9, 1997 LEADERSHIP: USAC’s good side clouded by misuse of mandatory feeBy Ben Hofilena It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that there’s something terribly corrupt about our current student government. Read more...

Thursday, January 9, 1997 POLITICS: Choice preserves integrity of student governmentBy Telly Tse It is easy to criticize USAC, especially when many feel that it has tremendously wronged students by overturning a decision made by another branch of student government. Read more...

Thursday, January 9, 1997 CONDUCT: In public, free speech is the right to talk, not the right to offendBy Marlon Morales When your words and actions in a public place become blatantly mean spirited and even hateful, your constitutional freedom of speech ends. Read more...