Nowhere is liberty more at odds with privacy than in our university housing experience.
Anyone expecting an ounce of solitude in the decadent world of campus life will be rudely disappointed.
Author Archives: Jordan Manalastas
SB 906 should not protect tax exemption for churches refusing to perform same-sex marriages
In a letter dated last February, when tensions were high and the word “racist” was tossed about like a volleyball, UC President Yudof wrote that the “stewards of free speech” must take a stand against all things offensive.
Foolish DREAM Act strikers hungering for a spectacle
Is there a sight more stirring than that of sickly students starving themselves outside a senator’s office, demanding justice of some sort?
Perhaps not ““ all at once the spectacle begs comparison to Mohandas Gandhi, Marion Dunlop and similar champions of social change.
California’s crippling crisis
The UC Board of Regents has once more confirmed the incompetence of the UC system apropos the Great Californian Fiscal Fiasco. Amid the tourniquets thrown around in this month’s Regents meetings, there are yet no signs of change for the university’s precarious position as it teeters on the brink of financial capsize.
Dr. Craig Venter shakes the heavens with synthetic life
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, what then are we to make of Dr. Craig Venter’s recent stab at God?
Cartoonist criticized for creating “˜Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ should have defended her right to First Amendment
There are, I’ve heard, no atheists in foxholes.
Day of Prayer? That’ll be the day
May 6: a truly alienating day indeed. To anyone who voted to put students last in the Undergraduate Students Association Council election, the chant “Who’s university? Our university!” that roared from majority-winners Students First! was a little more off-putting than the usual partisan antics.