Opinions: Letters to the Editor

Opinions: Give on-campus solicitors the boot
DHANANI: They are everywhere — lurking in the shadows, waiting to pounce, singling out the weakest in the pack and especially those on their own. Yes, ASU is wrought with religious fanatics and salesman like carnival barkers. From the cute little girls in green vests to the creepy guy jubilantly handing out fliers, ASU's campus is run amuck with people selling, advertising and marketing enough to save their lives.

If you're unfortunate enough to pass the same place twice in a day, as am I, then you may be solicited by the same people over and over and over again. Some quick tips on how to avoid them: hands in pockets, head down, bust out a cell phone and fake a call. Personally, I try to explain to them in earnest that they've already talked to me and move on.

Opinions: Something fishy about government-ordered flood
If humpback chubs could talk, they would tell you better than anyone that flooding in the native habitat of this native fish species, the Colorado River, hadn't happened for a long time before 1996. To be specific, it hadn't happened since the Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1963 in Page, Arizona. And until the fateful day in 1996 when the government changed that with an experimental flood, the river had been flowing predictably through Arizona. Maybe the humpback chubs don't have these dates written down in the archives of their history, but their dwindling numbers told us they were noting the change.

Now the government is trying that experimental flood again.

Opinions: Defining 'true change' ... or not
CAPO: I was walking by the Memorial Union recently when a girl jumped out in front of me with dry erase markers fanned out like a deck of cards and asked, "Would you like to answer my question?"

In large letters on the white board was written, "Do you think true change will come from a minority candidate?" No doubt this was a political question referring to the presidential election, but two previous answers on the white board intrigued me. One was "What a silly question" and the other was "What is 'true change?'"

Opinions: Boos & Bravos
See what the editorial board boo'd and bravo'd this week.