Letters No more cable complaining! Editor: What a bunch of cry babies! I can’t believe all the complaints and fuss over the minor "inconvenience" the dorm residents must face in getting cable installed ("Cable installation project to begin in dorms," Feb. 23). How much stuff could you possibly have stuffed into those little dorm closets? […]
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UC administration responds to SAGE’s struggle
UC administration responds to SAGE’s struggle By Kathleen Komar I would like to respond to statements in Mike Miller’s Feb. 28 Viewpoint article, "SAGE continues struggle for recognition." Specifically, he notes that, "Bureaucrats at the University of California Office of the President in Oakland … propose eliminating the partial fee remission program that now pays […]
Cuban trade embargo adds to budgetary waste
Cuban trade embargo adds to budgetary waste Thomas Overton The meat-axes are out in Washington these days. If you read the op-ed pages much, it seems like nearly every federal program on the books is up for review. Welfare, farm subsidies, Medicare, midnight basketball leagues  if it’s not working or we don’t need it, […]
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Letters Silent no more? Editor: This is not an anti-gay letter; it’s anti-perversion! For the four years I was an undergrad and the two years now as an alumnus, I have kept silent. No more! Perverted homosexuals are defacing this campus. My evidence? 1.) Partitions in the bathroom stalls all over campus are drilled through […]
Cable installation runs into difficulty
Cable installation runs into difficulty Student reactions mixed as wiring schedule delayed By Kimberly Mackesy The lengthy and long-awaited process of in-room cable installation at the dorms began in Hedrick Hall on Tuesday morning. But wiring of individual student rooms did not go as smoothly as planned, and student reactions to the process were mixed. […]
Custodians reveal filthy secrets of UCLA campus
Custodians reveal filthy secrets of UCLA campus By Matt Sorokotyazh To some people, nothing is more important than decent rest rooms. Yet clean restrooms are often taken for granted and people who maintain them are not given their due. Those who clean public restrooms say they are seldom thanked or known. Yet UCLA’s formidable army […]
New treatment helps end newborn blindness
New treatment helps end newborn blindness UCLA researchers find inexpensive solution for developing countries By Janice Luo UCLA researchers have discovered a new, inexpensive eye treatment that will help reduce the incidences of blindness around the world. Each year worldwide, neonatal conjunctivitis, a serious infection of the eye, blinds thousands of newborn babies, who catch […]