Cal Poly has recently experienced two sexual assault incidents. This has brought the issue of sexual assault to our attention. We created a student survey to investigate the campus climate and what students feel would make the Cal Poly campus safer. Our results showed that 50% of students either have been or know someone who has been sexually assaulted. Additionally, respondents reported that they would feel safer on campus with: more lighting (76.5%), security cameras (47%), more safe escort services (61.2%), and more self defense classes (60.2%). Finally, 34.5% stated that they would like department specific education programs and seminars to promote sexual assault awareness. From our research, in conjunction with Safer, we strongly suggest installing a seminar that is required for all incoming students, as well as an exit seminar prior to graduation. We urge you to take action immediately, on behalf of everyone in the Cal Poly community.

We're in danger of returning to an age when simple infections are potentially fatal. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year more than two million people are hospitalized and 23,000 die because they have been infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The overuse and misuse of lifesaving antibiotics is causing these drugs to rapidly lose their effectiveness against dangerous infections. The biggest offenders: factory farms that mix antibiotics right into the feed of healthy animals. In fact, 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are for animals. Big farming operations discovered that giving antibiotics to healthy animals made them fatter, faster. Now many of them put antibiotics into the daily feed of all their livestock, sick or not. The result? Bacteria that come into contact with these animals mutate and become resistant to antibiotics, and the infections these bacteria cause -- everything from pneumonia to MRSA -- become harder and harder to treat. The World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and other leading medical groups all warn that the routine use of antibiotics in food animals presents a serious and growing threat to human health. Now, in the face of calls for reform, factory farms are spending big money to lobby against any new rules to curtail the overuse of antibiotics. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the authority to stop the worst overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. It's time for them to act.

Idling is dirty, inefficient, and unhealthy. Idling vehicles—particularly diesel trucks—produce exhaust that pollutes our air and damages our health and our children’s health. Texas allows cities to pass their own anti-idling ordinances. Dallas and Austin already have. We want the City of Houston to pass an anti-idling ordinance to protect our health!

"We are starting this petition to stop secondhand smoke in vehicles. Tobacco alone kills more people in Michigan than alcohol, AIDS, alcohol, auto accidents, cocaine, heroin, murders and suicides combined! Together, we could help put a stop to secondhand smoke."

Last week a Summit County, Ohio deputy forced Siobhan Householder to spit out a prescription pain pill she took for a toothache. That same week, officers at Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare in Athens, Ohio held down John Rohrer, a head injury survivor, so he could be force-injected with a drug that causes brain damage. The video of Householder's assault clearly shows she was sitting peacefully in the room of a courthouse and in no distress until officer Vaughan grabbed her by the hair, pinned her down and shoved his hand into her mouth in an attempt to remove a pill. As a result, photos show, the woman suffered bruises on her chin and other parts of her body and cuts in her mouth. Rohrer had simply been walking down the hall at Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare in Athens, Ohio, a state hospital he has sued for illegally detaining him, when he was assaulted. Police officers Brian Willard and Todd Bumbalough pinned down Rohrer so he could be injected with a drug [Risperdal] whose manufacturer has been successfully sued in several states for its fraudulent marketing of that drug. Rohrer's doctor outside the hospital, whom he's been banned from seeing, agrees with him that the medication forced on him is detrimental to his health AND VIOLATES THE STANDARD OF CARE. Ohio legislators must stop police officers from assaulting citizens over healthcare choices. I write this petition on behalf of Ms. Householder, whom I don't know personally, and on behalf of John Rohrer and a family member, with whom I am friends - also on behalf of all others I personally know have been assaulted in this way.

If you love Flathead Lake and want to keep the lake and its shoreline healthy and beautiful, then please sign this petition. The bridge to "Dockstaeder Island" now is 1/3 built. We think it was improperly approved and must be removed. The Flathead County Commissioners approved the bridge on the technicality that it was 'not a road'. In fact, the bridge is both a road and a driveway and it crosses the Lakeshore Protection Zone twice. Neither a road or driveway may cross this protection zone. The commissioners need to deny an "amendment" to the permit to allow the bridge to be completed, and they need to rescind the original permit for the bridge. Withdrawing this permit and removing the bridge will protect the lakeshore. It will also restore fair and equal treatment for everyone under the regulations.

There has been a huge increase in the use of rail shipment of hazmat materials along with several catastrophic derailments resulting in fire, explosions and spills. Our region along the Mississippi River is a environmentally sensitive area and any accident would be destructive to our region and states downstream and jeopardize the safety of inhabitants near any accident.

The Founding Fathers encouraged thousands of newspapers to circulate by allowing them to use the US Postal Service without paying postage. Why? To encourage the innovation and creativity that comes from the open marketplace of thought. Now we have a handful of organizations controlling most global communications and producing most of our entertainment. Furthermore, tens of thousands of jobs may be at stake. Diversity of opinion is at risk. Net neutrality will be destroyed in three years. Our public square is disappearing. And finally, millions of dollars in fees will go to consultants and contractors before the public sees an ounce of benefit.

I want to have a day to embrace who we are.

I am starting this petition because after several of us parents have complained and called the schools, the Super Intendant, and the Sumter bus transportation offices, nothing has been done. We've even contacted media with no results. We are tired of fearing for our children every time they get on their buses. The drivers yell at the children, make them stand in the isle if they talk at all (unsafe), squeeze up to 4 per seat and then drive so fast and sharp that if they happen to slam their head on the seat in front of them, they get yelled at or for falling into the isle. They speed and often have almost hit a child or backed into a car, they have been caught swearing vulgar language in front of the children, often kids come off the bus in tears. We want cameras on the buses, we want more than one bus picking up all 3 schools, and we want drivers fired and investigated if need be!

The Manhattan Club tarnishes the image of NYC Tourism. The Manhattan Club Timeshare (TMC) is a New York City scam. The Manhattan Club (TMC) uses misleading and false advertising and sales presentations to sell worthless timeshares in its 286 room property. The Manhattan Club is oversold but continues to sell timeshares via the internet, mailed brochures, telemarketing and street kiosks in several US cities including a kiosk in Times Square. The Manhattan Club uses the US mail and the internet to defraud the public and sell their worthless timeshares. Manhattan Club timeshares have sold on eBay for $1. One "owner" who paid $84,000 sold his time share for $2. The Manhattan Club is the subject of thousands of complaints filed over many years with the Better Business Bureau and The N.Y. Attorney General's Office. The New York Attorney General's Office refuses to protect consumers. The Manhattan Club uses aggressive and harassing collection techniques to collect exorbitant maintenance fees for rooms "owners" cannot book.

In the United States, over 70% of PKU adults are not being treated in a metabolic clinic. Among the untreated adults, there is an increase in mental illness, psychological disorders, neurological deterioration (epilepsy, tremor, paresis), and children born to pregnant women with untreated PKU have severe birth defects and mental retardation. This is 100% preventable and the barriers to access care are unjustifiable. Medical food saved my life and my children's lives and coverage is denied by my employer, the federal government because of my age. This discriminatory policy is not prohibited by the Affordable Care Act and poses a serious threat to the health and safety of the PKU victim. It is essential to include PKU in this initiative in keeping with good and acceptable treatment practices - "diet for life." Please help.