Bumper Stickers and Summary

The CSU campus is a diverse community filled with people from all walks of life. This can be demonstrated through the type of bumper stickers the different communities have on their cars. I first walked through the Scott Bioengineering parking lot, and then through the King Soopers parking lot, and found a vast majority had similar stickers. One of these being CSU Ram stickers. This was common throughout both parking lots I searched. Another theme I found in the Scott parking lot was a few cars that demonstrated the “hippy” culture. They had stickers that said “Be Hippy” or peace signs filled with tie dye, and also other popular symbols filled with tie die from the hippy community. These stickers can represent a way of life that they enjoy living, and could also give you a look into their political ideas, based on the way they live their life.

            I then saw the other spectrum of the world. There were multiple either lifted jeeps, or lifted diesel trucks in these parking lots. They would be sporting the typical CSU Ram sticker, but also had a vast amount of performance stickers. This demonstrates their personal interest, which would be tuning their truck for optimal performance. Also on these vehicles I saw a few political stickers, that would get their views across, but also tried to use a humorous manor to do so. The sticker read “Gun Control means using both hands”, this sticker demonstrates his view on the major issue in the world today, gun control. But also tries to make it funny, to get the point across. Some of the bumper stickers could lead you to assume some things about the person driving the vehicle. For example, I found a truck that has an American flag, and then the yellow don’t tread on me flag. From these stickers we could infer that he is a Republican, and has the majority of the same ideas as a normal Republican. Witnessing the differences and he amount of diversity on campus was actually very interesting, and gave me an insight on the type of people we have on campus.

            Nathan Brown, the assistant professor in the department of English at the University of California at Davis writes about a police brutality protest on campus being broken up through the use of police brutality. The protesters on campus were protesting the use of police brutality on the UC Berkeley campus, and the students were using the same peaceful tactics used by the Berkeley students. Chancellor Kathy then proceeds to issue police in riot gear, and equipped with mace, batons, and tear gas guns to handle the on campus protest. The police use brute force to disband the protest, spraying mace in the teachers and students throat and face, and then using their batons to disband them. The police injured multiple students and teachers, and one of the students was still coughing up blood forty-five minutes after being maced in their throat. Mr. Brown then proceeds to explain his reasoning for his issue of resignation of Chancellor Katehi. This includes Mr. Browns reasoning for Katehi not being able to keep the students safe, and the implication of threats upon stude