Monday, May 13, 1994Nauseating supplement
Editor:
This has to do with Thursday’s Daily Bruin and its offensive
supplement. Maybe the anti-abortion supplement has nothing to do
with your view as a paper, but we the student body should not be
subject to this kind of propaganda.
This is not even the first time this filth has come as part of a
Daily Bruin issue. You got a lot of response last time, so why
bother putting it in again?
I believe in the First Amendment, but the least that could have
been done was add a rebuttal supplement. Not everyone at this
school shares the same opinion, but I can guarantee that not one
student is "pro-abortion." Someone is either pro-choice or
anti-choice/abortion, or somewhere in between. All this pamphlet
did was make me feel sick and angry.
Next time please try not to offer a one-sided argument on such a
controversial topic.
Amaya Brecher
First-year
Theater
Reality check!
Editor:
I keep seeing things that remind me of why we still need
affirmative action and why we need to openly talk about racism and
not pretend it doesn’t exist any more.
The other day on television there was a story of a 71-year-old
white woman who attempted to hold up a gas station at gun point.
She drove away without any money and the police came to her house
and quietly arrested her. She apparently wanted to steal the money
to pay taxes on her home, which looked well kept and in a nice
neighborhood.
People felt so bad for the woman that some stranger posted her
bail and a fund was started to help her pay her taxes.
OK, now imagine a young black man had attempted to rob that same
gas station at gun point in order to feed his children. I think you
know where this is leading; it’s pretty obvious isn’t it? If he
survived being arrested, what are the chances the young black man
would get bail posted by strangers and have strangers want to feed
his children out of sympathy?
We like to think we’re an enlightened society, but stop and look
at the realities.
Raymond Ackerman
Alumnus
Class of 1990
Love it or leave it
Editor:
It was a favorite slogan in the ’60s and ’70s  "America
 Love It or Leave It."
The slogan was directed primarily at anyone opposing the Vietnam
War, wanting racial equality or standing for any social
improvements in our country.
It was widely used by "conservatives," cops, far-right fanatics,
etc.
No one ever says "America  Love It or Leave It" to the
Militia folks or the Freemen group.
Ever wonder why?
Richard Heckman