Friday, April 5, 1996 Bruins keep perspective on MPSF tourney, prepare for Santa Barbara’s left-handersBy Mark J. Dittmer Daily Bruin Contributor The UCLA women’s water polo team is going to try to stay awake during its trip to Santa Barbara this weekend. It might be tough, though, because the Bruins are tired. Beginning over spring […]
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Softball must shine against Huskies
Friday, April 5, 1996 Heartbreaking losses to Arizona threaten chances for Pac-10 championshipBy Brent Boyd Daily Bruin Contributor On Saturday at 1 p.m., two teams heading in opposite directions will take the field at Easton Stadium in a very important Pacific 10 softball matchup. The second-ranked Washington Huskies visit UCLA on the heels of a […]
Track hurdling competition in Texas
Friday, April 5, 1996 Bruins looking to Althouse, Acuff for first place finishesBy Scott Yamaguchi Daily Bruin Staff Darlene Malco and Joanna Hayes each won their heat in the preliminary rounds of the 400-meter hurdles Thursday, capping another successful day for the UCLA track and field teams at the Texas Relays in Austin. On Wednesday, […]
Spikers look to rebound from loss in UCLA Collegiate Classic
Friday, April 5, 1996 CSUN head coach wary of Bruin serving, hopes to neutralize hot NihipaliBy Ruben Gutierrez Daily Bruin Staff Pauley Pavilion will be fraught with volleyball action this weekend as the Bruins host the UCLA Collegiate Classic featuring Cal State Northridge, Loyola Marymount and USC. The No. 2 Bruins take on the Matadors […]
U.S. ethics under fire fore recent attack
Friday, April 5, 1996 Americans reap benefits of immigrant labor, still fail to treat them as equalsBy Eduardo Paredes The recent attack by Riverside sheriff deputies on suspected illegal immigrants is testament to an entrenched racist attitude that pervades American culture. Throughout history, immigrants have been treated harshly and degraded based upon the false notion […]
Fear of dark keeps many blind to society’s injustices
Friday, April 5, 1996 Foreboding clenches my stomach as my sister and I sit in the backseat of my father’s car. Tension fills the silence. Suddenly my father whirls around in the driver’s seat. A knife glitters. He grabs our palms, slashes them with the knife. I am struck by the feeling of my flesh […]
Letters
Friday, April 5, 1996R-e-s-p-e-c-t Editor: I am writing to express outrage and disgust  but not surprise  at the vicious beatings of undocumented workers by Riverside County sheriff’s deputies. The images in newspapers and on TV screens of peacekeepers brutalizing Mexicans are not unfamiliar to Mexican immigrants or to Mexican Americans  or to […]