Letters to the Editor

Up participation in World AIDS Day

Continuing a tradition started in 2004, thousands of students will celebrate World AIDS Day at UCLA to acknowledge its discovery right here at UCLA 26 years ago.

They will actively support AIDS research and organizations on campus and in the outside community that work toward the eradication of this rapidly spreading disease.

The day is filled with events that reaffirm a campus-wide commitment to intervene in the global AIDS pandemic.

The theme this year, “Unite to Fight: Face HIV/AIDS,” encourages all of the UCLA community to come together in a united effort and further support AIDS awareness and research and also to fight stigma in the face of HIV/AIDS.

The UCLA campus unites to become a site for free, rapid, anonymous HIV testing, information dissemination from community AIDS service organizations on prevention methods and ways to get involved.

Student groups can demonstrate their support, and inspirational art-based projects will showcase the growing efforts of activists worldwide.

Become a part of UCLA’s own art-based effort by committing to Unite to Fight: Face HIV/AIDS through photos, which will be linked in the image of a giant red ribbon in Bruin Plaza.

As a visual embodiment of this year’s theme, the faces of UCLA will join the faces living with HIV/AIDS to show how together we can make a difference.

Unite to fight in the face of HIV/AIDS.

Aya Obara &

Stephanie Santos

AIDS Awareness Co-Directors

Student Welfare Commission

Ron Paul would hurt education

Interestingly, what was missing from Stephen Campbell’s “Ron Paul would bring prosperity back to America” (Viewpoint, Nov. 28) was Paul’s stance on education. Perhaps that is because it is nothing; that is, he would have zero taxpayer resources go toward education.

The irony is that he and all the writers and many readers of the Daily Bruin attend or have attended a top-rated public school.

If UCLA’s public funds were diverted, UCLA students would suffer tuition increases as well as severe cutbacks in order for the university to remain a top-rated institution.

So, while Ron Paul may bring prosperity to some in America, that set does not include UCLA students.

Josh Hernandez

Graduate student, mathematics

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