A night one friend will never forget By Todd Hanson The recent controversy over sponsorship of the Interfraternity Council failed to take into account the five-month anniversary of a night when a friend of mine encountered a dozen fraternity members. Shortly after midnight on Saturday, May 28, 1994, my friend dropped me off at the […]
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Prop. 188: the tobacco industry’s initiative
Prop. 188: the tobacco industry’s initiative By Ramona Tan As I was flipping through the California ballot pamphlet, Proposition 188, an initiative on statewide regulation of smoking and tobacco products, caught my eye. When I think about smoking, I think about the people in my family or in the magazines I read who are struggling […]
Stress returns, but we must not let it blind us
Stress returns, but we must not let it blind us Jeanene Harlick Stress. It has returned. It surrounds us, it blinds us, we breathe it in. The euphoric days of summer are over. We now no longer foolishly look forward to the alleviation of boredom that school affords us. Instead, we look back fondly on […]
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Keep Tagalog at UCLA Editor: As members of the Concerned Asian Pacific Students for Action (CAPSA), we express our thanks to Dean of Humanities Pauline Yu for her verbal commitment to fund the Tagalog language for an additional year. We are pleased that the Pilipino Coalition, along with other UCLA student groups, have succeeded in […]
Sappy rhetoric loses ‘Paradise’
Sappy rhetoric loses ‘Paradise’ Depression-era play depicts life during hardship By Lawrence Sullivan During the Great Depression my grandfather sold mustard door to door in Chicago. When it comes down to pushing condiments to muster up a living, Leo Gordon in Clifford Odets’ "Paradise Lost" seems justified in saying "the world has a profound dislocation." […]
A cappella group finds key to future
A cappella group finds key to future Black Voices to unleash talent at Wadsworth By Rodney Tanaka Black Voices was an accident waiting to happen. The all-female British group unleashes its a cappella harmonies with an African-inspired flavor at the Veterans Wadsworth Theater on Sunday. The group’s current popularity results from talent. Its conception resulted […]
How to spell overrated: C-A-T-S
How to spell overrated: C-A-T-S Webber’s musical disappoints, lacks cohesive qualities By Denise Cruz and Robert Stevens Daily Bruin Senior Staff Here’s a money saving tip. The gimmick behind Andrew Lloyd Webber’s highly successful and world renowned musical "Cats" is that … well, they’re cats. This tremendously effective theatrical device  people acting like cats […]