Student leaders have great potential
A recent Daily Bruin article (“Board sets budget for USAC, Student Media,” News, May 27) failed to properly highlight the importance of an action recently taken by the ASUCLA board of directors. This past Friday, the board voted to reduce textbook prices by $400,000 for next year.
Given the mounting financial pressures students will face this upcoming year due to a 7.4 percent increase in student fees and an unstable economy, it is refreshing news that ASUCLA has committed itself to serving the academic and financial needs of students on this campus. Unlike other items that can be found in Ackerman, textbooks are an integral part of any student’s success here at UCLA and represent a core necessity of campus life.
The student representatives serving on-campus oversight boards such as the ASUCLA board of directors and policy review board provide a tangible and direct outlet to effect positive change and implement greatly needed student-guided and student-focused policies.
I challenge all student leaders to transcend partisanship and work to better communicate initiatives to the campus and to Student Media.
Scott Biering
Second-year, history and biology
President, On-Campus Housing Council
Chairman, Policy Review Board
Men undermined in sex column
Nicole Forde confuses “orgasm” with “ejaculation” when she somewhat offensively writes that men on average take “only two minutes to five minutes to get in, get off and get out.” (“The female orgasm should not be that hard to come by,” May 29)
Forde’s error is, however, understandable ““ it is widespread in Western society to equate orgasm with ejaculation. In Indian tradition, which produced the world’s most famous sex manual, the Kama Sutra, there’s a world of difference between the two: It’s possible for a man to ejaculate without having an orgasm and vice versa.
In short, the male orgasm, like the female one, has nothing to do with ejaculation. This is because an orgasm, at least in Indian and much of Eastern sexology, is a most delightful response of the nervous system ““ it is not a mere release of XY-chromosomes floating in fluids.
In fact, yogis with a high level of control over their bodies and minds are known to have the ability to make love for hours without ejaculating ““ but having orgasms countless times.
So lovers, both male and female, take note: You can “come” numerous times without ever “coming” ““ or collapsing thereafter.
Ajay Singh
Senior writer
UCLA Marketing and Communications Services