We should not be discreet with our ink
Sorry Baby Boomers, but your distaste for tattoos has no real effect on Generation Y’s love and obsession with them.
Sure, you’re still the head honcho at the major corporations and you’re still writing the dress code policies for most places that we work or will be working for after graduation. Don’t worry, we aren’t trying to offend you with our tattoos; they’re just another way for us to express ourselves. By the way, not all of us are delinquents. You probably won’t even know that we have tattoos unless you ask. In a 2007Vaultpoll, about 40 percent of Generation Y admitted to having at least one tattoo. Many of us, however, hide our tattoos in the workplace as courtesy to employers and in compliance to company dress code policies. Read More Download |
Invest in Education
It's no secret that the government is attacking the higher education system in California with budget cuts and penalty fees. Last month, students at UC Riverside released a proposalto fix the education crisis; students would attend University of California schools with no upfront charges and upon employment after graduation, they would pay 5 percent of their income for 20 years.
This is an investment in students. This radical idea may be students' only hope. For the past several years, students have peaceably protested up and down the state, hoping for someone to lend a sympathetic ear and a helping hand. Nothing has happened though – except to turn the responsibility over to voters in November. If Proposition 98, which “temporarily increases the personal income tax on the state’s wealthiest taxpayers and temporarily increases the sales tax by one half percent,” does not pass, an additional $5.2 billionwill be cut from public education funding, including $200 million from each public university system. Read More Download |
Bullet trains are cooler than school, anyway
The buzz around campus about the budget cuts, and how they are affecting students, is getting pretty loud, especially with the release of Gov. JerryBrown's 2012-13 budget plan, which irresponsibly leaves funding for higher education in the hands of voters.
If voters do not pass Proposition 98, which “temporarily increases the personal income tax on the state’s wealthiest taxpayers and temporarily increases the sales tax by one half percent,” an additional $5.2 billionwill be cut from public education funding, including $200 million from the University of California and the California State University systems. Brown’s ultimatum has left us with no other viable option but to pass this tax hike. We have to pick up the slack to save higher education in California, because Brown’s administration will not back down. Read More Download |