Opinion Columns – Page 210

Open the doors to coed dorms

The battle of the sexes is back ““ but now it’s for who can win the first shower.

Examining and reconfiguring boundaries between genders will always meet backlash, stir up some strange moral panic and raise pressing questions.

So it’s only appropriate that the topic of gender-neutral rooms in dorms has done just that.

For the past four decades, schools have steadily allowed the sexes to mingle in closer proximity: First came coed buildings, then coed suites and finally coed rooms, a trend now observed across more than 50 campuses nationwide.

Foolish DREAM Act strikers hungering for a spectacle

Is there a sight more stirring than that of sickly students starving themselves outside a senator’s office, demanding justice of some sort?

Perhaps not ““ all at once the spectacle begs comparison to Mohandas Gandhi, Marion Dunlop and similar champions of social change.

UCLA bubble results in apathy

News has always traveled fast. In the age of Twitter, Facebook, texting and Internet access on your phone, it’s almost impossible to avoid real-time updates of current events.

More than just fair trade

I’m not a coffee person; but when I need a pick-me-up, I try to go to Cafe 1919. Their cookies are addictive, and I feel better knowing my coffee is fair trade.

End the Ralphs monopoly

When the shopping list includes textbooks, clothing or a tank of gas, a bit of sticker shock should be expected.

Plaques were long overdue

I’ve walked by Campbell Hall hundreds of times on the way to class, but incredibly, I’d never heard the names of Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and John Jerome Huggins Jr. until a few weeks ago.Carter and Huggins were UCLA students and leaders in the Black Panther Party. On Jan. 17, 1969, they were shot to death in Campbell Hall by an unknown assailant. It’s not information they give out on the official tour and the university has avoided any sort of official recognition of their deaths for 41 years.

Don’t attack UC Berkeley’s pursuit of science

Remember wasting hours completing AlcoholEdu the summer before arriving to UCLA? As fun as that was, UC Berkeley is giving their incoming class another kind of optional assignment.