As another spring comes to UCLA, graduating students try to ponder and decide where their futures might take them. However, as some students decide whether their futures lie in corporations, students of color have a more daunting task. Many have to make decisions that do not only dictate their futures, but the futures of their […]
Author Archives: Ryan Smith
Graduates should sustain campus truths
Of the several thousand seniors who will graduate from UCLA this spring, many have begun taking active steps necessary to ensure their success for the years to come. However, the class of 2003 will graduate in a time that seems more uncertain about its own future than the graduates are about their own. We live […]
Elections a pointless popularity contest
Every spring quarter it happens again. We are bombarded with a sea of red and blue shirts asking us to take one of their flyers in hopes of attaining the highest student positions in the land. However, the election process for the Undergraduate Students Association Council has and continues to be a sham. The USAC […]
Poor students lack voice, ignored by campus
Among the mass of student groups vying for your attention on Bruin Walk, have you ever noticed the Poor Student Union? Have you heard the chants of hundreds of students at UCLA proclaiming “We are the deprived” or someone at UCLA actually saying that they are not from the middle class? At UCLA, where most […]
Black athletes’ education should be priority
Only 280 black students were offered admission into UCLA out of more than 10,000 admits for 2003. And hopefully there will never be a time when black athletes are the only black students admitted and given the opportunity to graduate from UCLA. But even if they were, black athletes might not even have the privilege […]
Black gender gap needs to be filled in
What will happen to successful black women who graduate from UCLA? Will they date and marry black men who might be on a lower educational and financial level? Might empowered black women be CEOs in the boardroom only to be alone in the bedroom? Or will black female students begin to date outside their race […]
Bush’s autocratic policies get failing grade
The policies under President George W. Bush’s administration have already given him the title of tyrant; and unilateral war against Iraq would be the icing on a crumbling domestic and foreign policy cake. Bush’s unprecedented unilateral pursuit of war demonstrates a pattern of international disasters, domestic conflicts of interests and compassionate rhetoric. Bush has regressed […]