Author Archives: Adam Foxman

Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn will join Barbara Johns via a live telephone call at 1 p.m today to lead an anti-war teach-in the Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom. The featured speaker will be Barbara Johns, a member of Voices in the Wilderness, an organization protesting the U.S. sanctions against Iraq. Chomsky, a linguistics professor at […]

Seventy-four years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, and 35 years after his death, millions accept his wife’s assertion that he was “America’s greatest champion of racial justice and equality.” King’s passionate speeches and powerful displays of non-violent civil disobedience galvanized the civil rights movement, paved the way for the end of segregation in the […]

Quick, silent, clean and bubble-shaped ““ the UCLA transportation service has a new fleet of electric cars, valued at $1.1 million, but it didn’t pay a cent. Late last year, Diamler-Chrysler subsidiary Global Electric Motorcars donated to UCLA 127 low-speed, electric “gemcars,” which sell for $7,000 to $9,000 apiece. Gemcars are totally electric, zero emission […]

A report released in November by the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research found that Los Angeles is home to the largest number of American Indians in the country, the majority of whom live in poverty. The report notes that the low income and unemployment that many American Indians face is in large […]

In an effort to improve the reputation of one of its neighboring communities, the University of California, Santa Barbara this year began sending notification letters to parents of students who were arrested in Isla Vista for alcohol-related infractions. Isla Vista, which is located near UCSB and is home to many of its students, is famous […]

As the United States braces for war with Iraq in the event the Iraqi government does not comply with the United Nations resolution, the majority of UCLA students polled opposes sending American troops to remove Saddam Hussein. In addition, very few students, even among those who support war, said they would volunteer to fight. “I […]

Tuesday’s midterm election was met with indifference and frustration at UCLA as a low voter turnout was aggravated by incomplete voter registration lists on campus. The low turnout for Tuesday’s gubernatorial election did nothing to dispel widespread concerns about voter apathy, especially among college students. Slightly less than 45 percent of California’s registered voters made […]