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Program helps steer youths away from gangs Volunteers work to guide problematic children toward safe after-school activities By Walter E. Pineda Someday during the month of December 1995, I was walking into an apartment building and noticed a group of four kids hanging outside the front entrance. Unusually, these kids were squatting shoulder to shoulder […]

Letters Dogma definition Editor: I was surprised to see some major inaccuracies in the Daily Bruin article "Through religious eyes" (Feb. 8). Jennifer Louie inaccurately reported that the Rev. Paul Dechant of the University Catholic Center said that belief in three basic dogmas is all that is necessary to be a Catholic Christian. In correspondence […]

Rhetoric of ‘American way’ rests in lies Society blind to benefits of contributions by ‘illegals’ By Roxane Marquez Daily Bruin Columnist/Editor in chief About three years ago, my mother taught me to needlepoint. Tradition, she told me. Women in her family have always been good at embroidery, she explained, since the days of the Dons. […]

Faculty members contesting SP resolutions speak out Professors restate reasons to rescind proposed measures Reasons in favor of rescinding measures restated by professors By Victor Wolfenstein andEllen Dubois We are currently nearing the end of the two-week period during which faculty members of the UCLA Academic Senate are permitted to vote on the senate mail-ballot […]