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A Grain of Salt

A Grain of Salt

CLOSING THE DOOR ON DISCRIMINATIONBy Patrick Tamayo The world is crumbling all around us. Bombs blow up around the globe, earthquakes decimate civilizations, police continue to shoot at anyone remotely resembling a criminal and our entire election process appears to be a complete farce. Yet we get all bent out

A Grain of Salt

A Grain of Salt

POLICE DO OUR DIRTY WORK SO WE DON'T HAVE TO By Patrick Tamayo We rely on the police to serve as protectors, and deterrents of crime. They are first responders who are given the unachievable task of keeping everyone safe, a task that we are naive to think

Homeless Displacement Reveals City’s Values

Homeless Displacement Reveals City’s Values

By Cassie Ordonio The removal of the homeless on San Francisco’s Division Street demonstrates how low this city has sunk itself into a pithole—it’s disgusting. Stretching from Division between 11th Street and South Van Ness Avenue, city officials gave the homeless a 72-hour notice to “clean up”

Athletes Must Own Up To Their Actions

Athletes Must Own Up To Their Actions

By Patrick Tamayo Now that the Super Bowl has come and gone we can move on to basketball, while we wait for baseball, while we patiently wait for football to come back around. Many of us are enthralled with sports and the millionaire superstars that entertain us. We follow their

A Grain of Salt

A Grain of Salt

By Patrick Tamayo It appears that whoever is running the school has managed to keep it open for at least another semester. Apparently bringing in Art Tyler and his sketchy past may not have been the best decision, but our school leaders aren’t exactly known for making the best

A GRAIN OF SALT

A GRAIN OF SALT

Column By Patrick Tamayo/Opinion Editor Now that the tryptophan has worn off and the fist fights over vegetable steamers have come and gone, the realization that all our problems we’d temporarily forgotten about are still here. As the semester comes to an end, the school’s future is

A Grain of Salt

A Grain of Salt

Column By Patrick Tamayo/Opinion Editor We’re all vulnerable. Anytime we go out into the world, we put ourselves in situations of potential harm. As we go about our daily existence we seldom take into account the things around us. We get caught up in our own lives, trying