As “super seniors” look forward to graduating next week, we’re forced to look back at the last four years and take stock of what happened. Did we choose the right school? Did we take the right classes? Did we really need to stay an extra quarter? (I prefer to think of it as a victory […]
Author Archives: Jed Levine
Have yourself a merry little solstice
I’m with Bill O’Reilly on this. I’m tired of all this “Happy Holidays,” politically correct mumbo jumbo. Everyone knows December is about one holiday and one holiday only ““ there’s no need for plurals. Yes, I’m talking about the time-honored pagan celebration of Yule. All those pseudo-holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa have merely […]
Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 1
Mostafa Tabatabainejad is totally guilty. Some may say it’s premature to make conclusions about the incident last Tuesday, in which Tabatabainejad was stunned with a Taser five times in Powell Library after refusing to follow the orders of university police officers. But I don’t think that’s jumping to conclusions. It’s more like passing judgment over […]
Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 2
Last Tuesday night, after refusing to show his BruinCard to university police officers, UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was viciously stunned with a Taser five times. We barely had to wait until morning for the Internet to become abuzz with premature accusations and unsubstantiated speculation. Our parents’ generation had to wait around for days for silly […]
Oral sex: licking Africa’s wounds
Programs such as the Peace Corps have long been popular with the ever abundant undecided graduate looking to see the world and do some good. Such programs promise a chance to help people in the Third World by teaching them things we already know. But what exactly do a bunch of English majors know about […]
Human rights abuse not just Coke’s problem
Coke and Colombia. The two go together like fashion and France, sex-tourism and southeast Asia, or democracy and Iraq. So I was surprised when I found out the most recent scandal from the land of FARC and Pablo Escobar involved the Coke of the drinking variety. A Colombian labor union sued the Coca-Cola Company, accusing […]
Give credit to those who truly deserve it
The first time I heard that UCLA was naming its brand new, world-class hospital after former President Ronald Reagan, I thought it was a joke. Like if someone told you they were establishing the “George W. Bush Center for Not Bombing Land” or the “William Jefferson Clinton Fellowship for Keeping it in Your Pants.” Ironic. […]