Reader says coffee shop offers little food during night

To the editor:

I was intrigued by a comment made by Carson’s manager Corrine Aguilar in last week’s issue of the Pioneer.

In “Investigation exposes food service issue,” Aguilar claims Carson’s food is made available in the evenings via the Coffee Shop.

As someone who has been at OCCC for two years, and has had many a semester full of night classes, I can assure you this is not true.

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Everyone loses with NFL lockout

If you’ve watched ESPN for any amount of time during the past couple of months, you know there are questions regarding the upcoming NFL season.

Will it be played on time? Will there be a season at all? Will the owners use replacement players if an agreement cannot be reached in time?

Instead of finding answers for these questions, the NFL owners and players have engaged in a full-blown media war to solve the problems.

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School cares more about outside interests than students

To the Editor:

It seems to me every time an important function occurs at OCCC, Parking Lot D is closed off to students and faculty so politicians can shake hands with the President’s Cabinet for a PR photo op.

To me, this smacks of privilege by the school.

For those who are not familiar with the concept of privilege, it’s a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most.

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Procrastination leads to plagiarism

We have all heard it from our instructors: plagiarizing is a serious matter that is not to be taken lightly and will result in discipline.

Many students roll their eyes when it comes to this topic because they think they know the ground rules. Some, however, are clearly mistaken.

According to dictionary.com, the definition of plagiarism is to “steal or pass off words as one’s own, to use another’s work without crediting the source, and presenting an idea derived from an existing source.”

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Writer says proposed bill legislates ‘incompetence’

To the Editor:

State Sen. Breechen wrote a defense of his SB 554 (the “teaching evolution controversy” bill) in which he defended the bill as constitutional.

Let us, for the moment, stipulate that the intent of the bill really is to give a voice to those criticisms of evolution that are both under-represented and scientific.

As an example, he offers “the fossil record lacking phylum-level transitional forms”. This is an old creationist argument that has been refuted for years.

It is false.

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