Submission: “˜Community and Conflict in the Modern World’ GE requirement must be understood

College faculty are in the middle of deciding whether to adopt a “Community and Conflict in the Modern World” requirement for undergraduates. We hope that faculty will cast their votes based on a careful evaluation of the content of the proposed requirement, though we recognize there are bound to be differences of opinion.

Submission: Proposed “˜Conflict and Community in the Modern World’ GE requirement unrealistic for UCLA

This week UCLA faculty are voting on whether to require every new undergraduate in the College of Letters and Science starting next fall 2013, to take a general education course in “Conflict and Community in the Modern World.”

Submission: Creation of Palestinian state key to maintaining Jewish majority, democracy in Israel

On May 7, the Daily Bruin published an advertisement titled “The Two-State Illusion,” which argues that the Palestinians’ quest for statehood is actually a guise for their ulterior motive “to wipe Israel off the map and push the Jews into the sea.”

Letter to the editor: Muslim Bruins should be treated with respect

This past Tuesday a photograph was posted on Facebook showing two signboards ““ the Muslim Student Association’s endorsement of Lana Habib El-Farra and Taylor Mason next to the Young Americans for Freedom at UCLA’s endorsement of Bruins United. Beneath the picture was a hurtful, bigoted caption.