National Coming Out Week celebrates sexual diversity through campus voices This week (Oct. 8-14) is National Coming Out Week, at UCLA and throughout the country, and there are a lot of lessons to be learned. In the past at UCLA, the Daily Bruin’s coverage of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities on campus has been […]
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Coming out: a gay Army sergeant’s announcement
Coming out: a gay Army sergeant’s announcement Leland Kim I sat nervously on a cold, hardwood chair across a desk from a weather-beaten sergeant first class whose leathery face served as a reminder of his many years in the military. My Army recruiter had picked me up early that morning in 1990 to begin an […]
UCLA must end alignment with ROTC discrimination
UCLA must end alignment with ROTC discrimination By David Mixner The issue is clear. ROTC, under the military’s new "don’t ask, don’t tell" guidelines, will not allow openly gay and lesbian students to participate in its program. If a student is discovered to be homosexual, he or she could be investigated, dismissed from the program […]
Campus groups provide support systems for coming out
Campus groups provide support systems for coming out By Jùlio C. Rosa and Ali Beck She’s out. He’s not out to his family. She’s totally closeted. He’s just starting to come out. To those unfamiliar with the lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities, these phrases may be meaningless. To others, they attempt to describe the […]
More women from all racial groups taking GRE
More women from all racial groups taking GRE By Naoki Naruse If college tests are a sign, then the 1990s may just prove to be the decade of the woman. Or at least, the decade of some women. From 1981 through 1992, the number of U.S. citizens who took the Graduate Record Examinations General Test […]
UCLA professors win humanities awards
UCLA professors win humanities awards National endowment gives grants of more than $300,000 total to campus scholars By Donna Wong Daily Bruin Senior Staff When science and technology raced for the moon in 1965, humanists decided there were moral and ethical elements that could no longer be ignored. So they created the National Endowment for […]
Blocked routes around campus frustrate students
Blocked routes around campus frustrate students Congestion, traffic bottleneck students at construction sites By Ben Gilmore Tony McClane is a marketing representative working on Bruin Walk who has been to many schools. He has never seen anything like UCLA. "This is the worst I’ve seen, and I’ve been to Long Beach, Cal, and many other […]