Letters to the Editor

Voter Registration Gives New Chances

I was extremely pleased that the Daily Californian covered the opportunity UC Berkeley students have to cast their ballots prior to Nov. 7 (“Officials Use New Methods to Lure Voters,” Oct. 19). When I worked with the Cal Votes Coalition and the Alameda County Registrar of Voters to reserve an early polling location for November 1 and 2, it marked the first scheduling made for this novel machine anywhere in Alameda County. On these two days, stop by the first floor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union building from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 4 p.m., respectively, to cast an early vote!

Igor Tregub

Member, Cal Votes Coalition

UC Berkeley Student

Fuzzy Math ‘On Tuesday’

Akiko Ezuka’s most recent “Sex on Tuesday” column (“How Close is Too Close?” Oct. 24) makes the following curious hypothesis: “I would guess that almost everyone on this campus has at least made out with each other through one degree of separation.” Even if generously interpreted to mean that at most one intermediary separates almost all students (two degrees of separation), this would imply that the number of people a typical student has made out with, times the average number of people each of their respective kissing partners has made out with, should total “almost” the UC Berkeley student population of 33,000. And in fact, it would actually be higher due to overlap among such orally proficient students.

A typical student would have made out with the square root of 33,000 students—about 182! If Ms. Ezuka is right, I’m 180 make-out partners below average. I’d better get cracking!

David Farris

UC Berkeley Student

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