By Donna Wong Daily Bruin Senior Staff One year ago – at the dawn of the academic year – the Social Sciences Collegium gave birth to classes that transcended the boundaries of any department curriculum. Now, at the beginning of its second full year, the program headed by sociology Professor Jeffrey Alexander is giving more […]
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Caught by the ‘I’
By John Irvin The camera shows what appears to be a female figure seated on a chair. She is wearing tight pants and stockings, and she is blindfolded. Her hands are tied behind the chair. The photograph is a self-portrait by Pierre Molinier. A viewer might ask why a woman appears as the subject of […]
Band’s coffeeshop acoustics entertain Frente! audience
By Brian Remick If for only an hour or two, it seemed that the reign of hard rock over the Palace temporarily ceased with the presence of a small Australian band named Frente! (exclamation point intended and definitely necessary). Indeed, last Friday night the band showed the guests of the Palace that acoustic rock is […]
‘Atonement,’ fresh beginnings highlight exhibit
By Barbara E. Hernandez Daily Bruin Staff The month of September holds special meaning to Jews, a month centering around Judaism’s high holidays, a time of moral analysis and the celebration of the new year. The Kerckhoff Art Gallery honors the high holidays with the exhibit, "What Jews Do in September: Accounting and Atoning," banding […]
Marilyn Manson strikes out against conventional
By Nisha Gopalan Not since the Revolting Cocks’ "Beers, Steers & Queers – Drop Your Britches Mix" has a band so provocatively incorporated the subject of sodomy into a song – until now. Enter Florida’s Marilyn Manson. Marilyn Manson, the group, manipulates voice textures and bizarre soundbites to add to the disturbing tone of their […]
State prosecutes UCLA in wage suit
By Alisa Ulferts Daily Bruin Senior Staff UCLA is fighting in court a ruling by the state that claims the university owes its construction workers a higher wage for working on publicly funded projects. The problem is that no one can agree on whether the construction is publicly funded. According to the California Code of […]
USAC revives debate of IFC sponsorship
The Undergraduate Student Association Council will discuss the fate of the fraternity community tonight, the latest addition to the contentious debate about the greek role in campus government. Student officers have stressed they will not vote on "responsoring," or re-admitting, the Interfraternity Council, which is the umbrella organization for fraternities. Student government rules require a […]