Yea to the rain. It was nice having all the sunshine, but we’re happy it’s raining again. Nay to forgetting to wear a rain jacket because you thought it was going to be 80 degrees and sunny. Yea to the Salmon Bake on Wednesday. The food was delicious, the dancing looked good, the drumming sounded great and we had a swell time.

We could say we are disappointed, even ashamed, at the theatrics of Tuesday’s Associated Students of Oregon State University senate meeting. But when it comes to the legislative branch of ASOSU, it is what we have come to expect. We could spend the majority of this editorial looking at the toothless resolutions encouraging the university administration to do all sorts of things, from lowering the cost of textbooks to not requiring those applying to the university to submit SAT scores.

The government has overstepped its boundaries. We’re not OK with it. Secretly, federal investigators seized two months worth of phone records from The Associated Press’ reporters and editors. The A.P. is calling it a “serious interference with A.P.’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news.

An automatic system of cuts that were implemented in March, a result of Congress’ inability to agree on a better way to handle the United States’ debt and other financial issues, known as sequestration, is starting to affect Oregon. Garbage cans at Upper and Lower Table Rocks’ parking lot and trailheads are being removed, according to the Medford Mail Tribune.

Give Kappa Sigma another chance Kappa Sigma fraternity should be given another chance to appeal its suspension from the university. While the specific incident that led to its suspension is both regrettable and worthy of disciplinary action, the current membership of the fraternity should not be punished for the deeds of a few bad seeds no longer there.

Yea to Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who rescued three women from captivity after he heard one of them scream. We like to think that in horrible situations, we humans can depend on each other to step up and do the right thing. Ramsey proves that even a dish washer who has done time in prison can redeem himself.

No Greek houses applied to the First Year Experience program Oregon State plans on implementing. The university set an original deadline of April 1, when fraternities and sororities intending on joining had to submit an application and pay a fee of $10,000 — each.

Sexual assault is wrong, no matter who it is or where it happens. It is wrong at this university just as much as it is wrong anywhere else in the world. A report released Tuesday by the Department of Defense shows that sexual assault continues to persist as an issue in the armed forces, with numbers taking a spike this year when compared to last year’s numbers.

The cell phone application, Lulu, is a disgrace. Let’s preface this editorial: The editorial staff is made up of men and women. As a gender, women have been fighting successfully for equal political, economic and social rights since the 19th century.

Inclusivity has been on our minds lately. Or, rather, the lack thereof has been on our minds. Boy Scouts of America’s National Council is scheduled to vote on May 23 to either keep its current policy — which bans open homosexuals from joining the organization — or to include homosexual youths within the organization.