Wednesday, February 19, 1997 AAP: Campbell Hall has closed itself up to differences in opinionBy James Liu As a former Bruin and former Academic Advancement Program tutor, I read your recent article on the AAP tutorial program with great interest: Someone finally had the guts to "out" the evil empire of Campbell Hall. To be […]
Category Archives: Opinion
America¹s debt to African slaves unpaid
Wednesday, February 19, 1997 JUSTICE: Reparations remain delinquent; it’s time to make amends Imani is a young man-child entering the prime of his life. One day, however, he is kidnapped and taken to a far-off land, and for years, relegated to labor without compensation. Today, Imani has his freedom, but we waits … he waits […]
Active teaching vital for learning
Wednesday, February 19, 1997 EDUCATION: Memorizing materials doesn’t help develop reasoning skillsBy Adam Reed It’s finally over! The anguish-filled week of sleepless nights, nervousness, and tension has been brought to a close with the last midterm on Friday! Only three more weeks to go, and then we get to do it all over again. I […]
Bruin Democrats show poor guidance
Wednesday, February 19, 1997 LEADERSHIP: Method of break with Students First! seen as bad policyBy Michael Schneider It was very disturbing for me to read the article submitted by Angela Foster and Darrin Hurwitz (Viewpoint, Feb. 4). As the former president of the Bruin Dems, it pains me to see what has happened to this […]
Culture, state must cooperate for prosperity
Tuesday, February 18, 1997 GLOBALISM: Economic hot zones’ growth still limited by gargantuan governmentsBy Thomas L. Friedman New York Times There is a concern that as globalization knits countries and markets together it will flatten cultural differences, as we’re all forced to drink Coke, eat Big Macs and compute on Windows 95. In some ways, […]
Society hesitant to understand vegan lifestyle
Tuesday, February 18, 1997 A harrowing week of midterms has left me completely ignorant of the state of national affairs and the like. As much as I love pulling all-nighters, they do have the unfortunate effect of making the morning paper appear to be an inconsequential blur. Therefore, I would like to present the readers […]
Teach-in to unite seekers of social justice
Tuesday, February 18, 1997 LABOR: UCLA event to focus on transcending race, gender, class linesBy Alex Caputo-Pearl and Hany Khalil In the last five years, UCLA students and workers have led a series of movements to reform our university. We have sought to create a Chicano studies program to keep tuition at reasonable levels, to […]