Daria MonDesire, in her article, "Stripped of more than My Clothes," addresses the unfortunate indignity she suffered returning home from abroad. Daria was stripped searched on her return to the United States by U.S. Customs agents. Daria uses comparisons and figures to shock the reader and to gain their sympathy. Comparing her strip searcher's hands to that of a rapist and showing the low percentages of people found carrying drugs.

lthough this is an extrememly unfortunate situation there needs to be someway to filter out innocent people from this process. If I was stripped searched I would probably be extrememly upset and angry that I was searched for no reason. Perhaps if someone is under suspicion of having drugs there should be a drug dog near by. If that dog sniffs something they don't like then there would be reason to search the person. If the dog did not smell anything like durgs then there would be no reason to search the person. I think that this would be a completely logical and time saving process for custom agents and the people being searched.

"TV isn't Violent Enough"

Mike Oppenheim, argues in his essay, "TV Isn't Violent Enough" that television violence is not gruesome enough to be considered "too" violent for the mainstreams of television. As a doctor, Openheim first states that violence on television is so over exaggerated that it comes off as fake, and therefore is not a problem. Secondly, Oppenheim argues that children will not learn anything from violence if they are quarantined from it. Oppenheim believes that shielding children away from violence is bound to do more harm than good. Finally, Oppenheim states that if society is so worried about protecting children, they need to find other ways besides cleaning up TV, because TV is already too "antiseptic."

I think if parents feel that what their children are watching is too violent then it is their responsibily to monitor what their children watch with v-chips and other parental blocking programs. I think in this day and age that parents are becoming over protective and too up tight about what their chilren are watching. I agree with Oppenheim that TV isn't violent enough to be considered too violent. Many of the programs on during the day are not anything that people should worry about because they are geared more for stay at home moms rather than male high school teens. If TV is infulencing kids then maybe there should be a change with the family and social surroundings before people go pointing fingers to the TV.

What Limits Should Campus Networks Place on Pornography?

The essay, What Limits Should Campus Networks Place on Pornography? by Robert O'Neil was about what limits should Cal Poly institution put on their network.

I think that if view porn on the campus networks causes physical problems to the computers then it should definitely be blocked. If it does not cause any physical problems problems for the computers then I do not think that it should be blocked. It is everyones own responsibility to make sure what they view is appropriate if it were to get into the wrong hands. In this case pron popped up on a teachers screen right before a large presentation. I do not think that this should cause any problems for the students because it is probably nothing they have not seen before. I think this case is blown up to be something more than what it is.

Unless viewing porn causes computers to be infected with viruses then I do not see why it would need to be blocked. Perhaps it should be blocked on the teachers computers. That would eliminate any problems that teachers could encounter before giving a presentation, but other than that I do not see why it is something that needs to be blocked or limited by the school.