After weeks of rumors about their impending doom, Sac State’s chickenpopulation breathed a sigh of relief last week. Farmer Gerth informedthe Faculty Senate that the campus’ herd of an estimated 75 chickens wasgoing to be culled. In other words, the University is now going to doits part in keeping the ever-expanding chicken population at bay. Butinstead of the rumored mass euthanations by Facilities Management, theyare being sent to a farm where they will be free to wander without fearof being struck by those stupid rolling backpacks. This solution ismuch better than the one I came up with selling them to Gordito Burrito.

Could you imagine the protests? Nachos!Not that the campus has had enough protests in recent days with the”Christian” protesters last Friday. Invading the Library Quad withtheir massive signs provided an entire Friday afternoon’s worth ofentertainment. While their message wasn’t entertaining, it was nice tosee students come out?en masse?to shout, yell and nearly brawl withprotesters (who, by the way, were roofers from Oakland). Sac Statestudents apparently do have it in them to be more than just sheepwalking to and from class. And a big high five to Lou Camera, assistantto the vice president of Student Affairs, for standing in the faces ofthe protestors when they brought out the megaphone. I’m all for freespeech and protests on campus, but yelling into the megaphone instudents’ faces is going a little too far.

And as for those protesters, does anyone else doubt their Christianity? It seems to me that they did more to make the case to not be aChristian than to run to the nearest church and profess your belief inthe power of Christ. As always, it’s the story of a few making anentire group look bad. Only this time it was about something as seriousas religion.In an almost religious epiphany, I successfully predicted the emergenceof yet another candidate for ASI President. In an already crowdedelection season, Director of Social Sciences and InterdisciplinaryStudies, and former Hornet reporter Joe Devlin, has announced that he isrunning to replace Jason Bryant. That leaves three presidential choicesfor the 500 people who will vote in the upcoming election. Keeping withmy prophecies regarding the future of ASI, in a three-way race betweenArt Pimentel, Hans Weichhart and Devlin, I pick Weichhart by a nosering. It will be interesting to see how the various slates workout?there is always one that represents every classification of studenton campus. Any room for a spiky-haired opinion columnist?

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Brendan D. Wonnacott is a Government & History major and is opinioneditor of The State Hornet. He can be reached by e-mail [email protected].