In this bastion of higher learning and high-minded intellectualism, there exists among the future generation of this country a wide, hilarious streak of anti-intellectualism. It creeps its way to the surface with the preface of “um, like, you know” in the sentences of our after-class socializing, which are usually finished evermore with the post-Gen X […]
Author Archives: Oliver Lukacs
Intern your way to success
Listen up, people, especially you freshmen, and most especially you little overachieving fresh meat straight out of high school. I want to share a little chunk of wisdom my brain decided to drop on me belatedly. College is a game. Well, it’s part of the game. It can be a luxuriously furnished and pocketbook-breaking day-care […]
Drunkenness should be personal
How drunk do you get on the average? Are you a recreational drinker or a binge drinker? Are you drunk right now? If these questions sound familiar to you, then you are one of the lucky 1,000 undergrads who received a UCLA student drunkenness survey in the mail recently. I know because I was lucky […]
Tasers: fatal or just shocking?
I’d never tried getting shot before ““ until I wrote this column. Imagine 50,000 volts of electricity zapping your body for about five seconds. That’s what you could be feeling should you find yourself locked in a death-charged confrontation with a UCLA police officer, who in the future will be equipped with a state-of-the-art, less-than-lethal […]
Bush win reflects Christianized U.S.
So my little liberal buddies, Jesus Christ is a Republican, and our Republic just became officially “Christian” again. This might be mind-boggling for us in the campus bubble, but take a look around. We’re outside the Bible belt, which now is securely fastened around the bulk of the United States. I can’t help but recall […]