As the temperatures dropped lower and lower Saturday night at the Bamboozle Left music festival, the kids spread across the field found various ways to keep themselves warm. Some of them were wrapped in blankets they had laid out on the grass. Some were jumping up and down and kicking the air in time to the music.

Eliza Jane Scovill died at age 3 through no fault of her own. Her death was not caused by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. She did not die of cancer. She was not killed by a thug on a street corner. According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office, this little girl died of AIDS in September 2005 and in the opinion of several doctors, her death could have been prevented.

Kids are not adults. Oh sure, they act like adults; however, until they reach the ripe age of 18, they are not at all legally adults. Until then, they live with certain restrictions. Until 18, kids are not able to get tattoos or body piercing without parental consent.

The American stance on education today seems to be a huge stage and we are great actors. Our politicians have nice and neat little platforms on education and we make it seem like our schools are so important to us but really, on a day-to-day, show-me-the-money level, we simply don’t care.

In the early 1970s, the video gaming industry was considered a small and newly developing field of technology. Today, it is hardly so. In fact, the Bureau of Labor has predicted that the growth of software publishing will expand by 67.9 percent between 2002 and 2012.

There are arguably a few things in this world that we all want. We all want shelter, love and nourishment. And we all want sex, especially us college students. Well, that is to say that most of us want sex. Some of us are getting too much. You see them exhausted and bedraggled in the 8 a.

Last fall, CSU trustees voted to raise tuition by 8 percent for undergraduate students and, while there is an obvious need for more resources on many CSU campuses, the money is most definitely not going toward programs, campus upkeep or, most importantly, the maintenance of a quality faculty.