Deconstruction of canon begins with students

Friday, February 21, 1997 EDUCATION: Literature’s worth derived from centuries of male Western cultural hegemonyBy Vy Nguyen As an English major, I have to take issue with the viewpoint which was printed on Feb. 11 and authoritatively titled "Core classes needed to master literature." The piece vigorously defended the English department’s focus on traditional Eurocentric, […]

Illogical ideas only spur further division

Friday, February 21, 1997 REPARATIONS: Blame for past wrongs should not fall on living descendantsBy Todd Smith J. Jioni Palmer’s reasoning for why African Americans deserve reparations today is entirely flawed. The historical examples that he gave are not appropriate comparisons for the situation that African Americans face in 1997. If Palmer’s great-great-grandfather had killed […]

Letters

Friday, February 21, 1997 Clinton should have remained uninvolved President Clinton’s intervention in the American Airlines dispute is deplorable, as it is clearly to the advantage of management and not the pilots. Where is federal intervention to prevent huge increases in CEO payments? Where is the intervention to stop wage cuts and job losses? The […]

Letters

Thursday, February 20, 1997 Tom’s column disgraces UCLA I am writing in response to Katherine Tom’s incredibly tasteless article in the Friday, Feb. 14, 1997 edition of the Daily Bruin. First of all, shame on the Daily Bruin editors who permitted the publication of this appalling commentary on Cupid’s Day. Judging from the ludicrous content […]

Q&A with the Daily Bruin :Stray dog- insights into hollywood’s biggest independent

Thursday, February 20, 1997 By Scott Lunceford Daily Bruin Staff cademy Award-winning writer and director, Oliver Stone, makes films in the milieu of a pressure cooker. His projects are rarely disconnected from controversy, or at least from close media scrutiny. Never straying far from the heat, Stone co-produced last year’s most controversial film, "The People […]