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Free condoms send a message
An Arizona-based environmental group is planning on dispersing 100,000 free condoms across America. The point? To call attention to human over-population and its effect on endangered species. And there’s no harm in a little bit of safe love.
ASUO approves anti-Pacifica resolution
It doesn’t repress free speech to dislike something with a unified voice, and now we can move on to other issues with a collective sigh of relief.
Google makes Googling safer
Google launches a “safe mode” for its YouTube search results. Users may now option out of mature content with comments automatically filtered by default in this mode. No more, “Wow, I really wish I had not just seen that,” when Googling.
 
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Lyzi Diamond resigns from the ASUO Senate
Seven resignations in one academic year: Either we picked our senators wrong in the first place, or the Walnut Room has become a hostile place for reasonable people. Probably more of the latter.
Iran claims nuclear capability
On Thursday, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, claimed his country has nuclear fuel capabilities. With Iran already a loose cannon as it is, this marks the potential turning point in Iranian foreign policy. Now we just need to wait and see what China will do in response and whether or not they will join us.
Facebook changes. Again.
Once again, Facebook changes what isn’t broke. The Facebook poll answered by 14,000 users: “Who thinks Facebook should go back to the original version?” was answered as 86.7 percent saying yes, 5.1 percent saying no, and 8.2 percent saying “a little change
is OK.”
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