Since September I have been director of community engagement for the General Representative 3 office of the Undergraduate Students Association Council. In this capacity I have been responsible for overseeing one of General Representative Lizzy Naameh’s platforms. The following is my letter of resignation from the USAC General Representative 3 office, effective immediately. I joined […]
Category Archives: Community
Submission: Divestment promotes anti-Israeli movement
BY AVINOAM BARAL, TAMMY RUBIN AND MIRIAM ESHAGHIAN At 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Undergraduate Students Association Council will be debating a resolution calling for divestment from five companies that have contracts with the Israeli government. We find this resolution misleading and offensive, and urge all of our fellow students to join us in opposition to it. […]
Submission: BDS movement detracts from two-state solution
BY DOR CARPEL AND GIL BAR-OR Coming from Israeli backgrounds, we’ve both had the struggle of supporting our homeland while at the same time fighting to end the continued occupation of the West Bank. With grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins who live in Israel, our concern for the future of the country and each of its residents […]
Submission: Resolution supports divestment, not BDS as a whole
Since the beginning of this school year, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA has been working tirelessly to raise campus awareness about the need for divestment (withdrawing our university’s investments) from companies that profit off the occupation of Palestine, and about the urgency of this issue to our entire campus community. Our University’s investments make us all individually complicit […]
Submission: Context is crucial in USAC resolutions
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is predictable. Every year, the same issues arise in a slightly new form, with the same back-and-forth petty slate politics, the same anxious and politically charged underclassmen that want the taste of council experience and the same strong momentum that withers away as the year comes to a close and […]
Submission: ‘The Vagina Monologues’ opens dialogue on ‘sex-ism’
BY KAUSAR MOHAMMED Vagina.It looks funny when you read it and can sound a little funny coming out of your mouth.But, it has become a part of my everyday vocabulary as the director of SANAA’s V-Day movement and “The Vagina Monologues” on campus. The play is about everything from self-pleasure, to pubic hair, to orgasms.It […]
Letter to the Editor: Desires for Prop. 13 reform are misinformed
In her article “Submission: Prop. 13 reform needed to resolve UC tuition woes,” in Opinion on Jan. 3, Andrea Chu cites her financial problems as a good reason for Proposition 13 “reform.” Well, Ms. Chu, join the club, many of whom have been “members” since you were probably in middle school. You propagate some major […]