Author Archives: Tristan Reed

The University of California made a big purchase last week.

On a foggy Saturday morning at the beginning of the month, hundreds of high school students poured into Haines Hall for a teach-in on “Underground Undergrads,” that small, embattled group of undocumented immigrant students, who struggle substantially more than most to achieve this country’s dream.

Time was, any activist worth his salt could rally a campus by shouting Marx’s famous phrase: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!”

Undergraduate course enrollment starts next Tuesday, and students are already beginning to worry.

If you’ve been paying the primary race even the remotest attention, you’ve undoubtedly heard that it’s about this thing called “change.” America is tired of an unwinnable war, tired of a government that favors tax cuts for the wealthy few over health care and economic support for the many, and tired, most of all, of the Republican party.

UCLA coffeehouses offer low-quality goods and dire ambience, leaving much to be desired