Author Archives: David Lazar

There has been a recent effort to incorporate the Associated Students UCLA student workers into the union representing full-time (non-student) workers. Proponents of the unionization plan recently presented their demands at an ASUCLA executive board meeting. Throughout the presentation, advocates repeated the claim that a union would give students more rights in the workplace. “Students […]

Israel has made every effort to end the violence plaguing the region, though some would have you believe otherwise. Hillel at UCLA director Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller moderated a speaking event Feb. 2 of a group called “Combatants for Peace,” where a retired Israeli soldier and a former member of the Palestinian terrorist group Fatah spoke […]

People who hate this country are speaking on campus ““ and you’re paying for it. Beginning Jan. 16, the Undergraduate Students Association Council general representative office has been hosting a weekly Social Justice Speaker Series. According to the online UCLA campus events calendar, the series brings “some of the most prominent activists, advocates and intellectuals […]

In high school, my English teacher once brought a punching rabbi toy to class ““ a bearded doll operated by a lever on the doll’s back. We were all tickled by the seemingly absurd combination. Not until I came to college did I see this combination materialize in real life. Last week, the Daily Bruin […]

Last week was an eventful one for student impostors. The New York Times reported in Thursday’s front-page story that a 29-year-old convicted sex offender had posed as a seventh grader in an Arizona school for nearly two years. Neil H. Rodreick II ““ posing as Casey Price ““ enlisted the help of people he met […]

The notion that global warming represents a threat of impending doom is commonly portrayed as indisputable fact, one entirely beyond discussion. We are told, as in Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth,” that the warming trend may kill countless numbers of people living in coastal regions as melting glaciers raise the sea level. Extreme weather […]

This week, the Muslim Student Association is putting on its annual Islam Awareness week. According to Suwila Habib, vice president of MSA-UCLA, the purpose of this event is to educate the campus about the true nature of Islam. “The aim is to create awareness about Islam on campus, to help dispel many of the misconceptions […]