Economics meet affirmative action

DURBAN, South Africa “”mdash; Besides being basically across the globe from each other, the United States and South Africa have a lot of things in common, including a recent history of racial segregation and a mechanism of trying to make amends for that history ­”“ racial affirmative action. Racial affirmative action ““ giving people priority […]

Sex columns help educate, clear up misconceptions

I suppose my biggest regret as UCLA’s sex columnist was never coming up with a sassy name for my weekly musings ““ such as Cal’s “Sex on Tuesday,” Boston College’s “Sex and the Univer-city” or (my favorite) “Cornellingus” from you can guess where. Unfortunately, I don’t think the letters U-C-L-A lend themselves to a clever […]

Proactive attitude necessary to end sexual violence

Walk by Schoenberg Hall today and you’ll see the hundreds of shirts that hang on the clotheslines. Stop for a chat with someone wearing a red shirt that reads “Lives are on the line” and you’ll quickly find out the latest statistics about sexual violence ““ how underreported rape is because survivors are afraid of […]

If women have the right to choose, men should have it too

When a woman unintentionally becomes pregnant she has options such as abortion, carrying the child to term, adoption or becoming a mother. But when a man unintentionally fathers a child he has few choices. If the woman chooses to have the child, then the man involved is held financially liable for the child without having […]