Monday, October 21, 1996 SOCIETY: Philanthropic advice: storm ASUCLA and demand return of the ‘Classic Joe Bruin’Hey, hey, UCLA! It is I, Viewpoint’s resident philanthropist, back again to provide useful and FREE information to you, the reader. (Philanthropy, for those of you not familiar with the sometimes-philanthropic Greek system, is defined as "active effort to […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Teaching children life skills hands-on
Monday, October 21, 1996 ACTIVISM: ‘Service learning’ benefits both students and communityBy Richard Riley The remnants of a Chicago crack house were transformed recently into a schoolhouse of sorts. A group of local high school students devoted a day of gritty, hard work to cleaning up the abandoned residence and beginning the task of converting […]
Forgiving when an old enemy acquires new way
Friday, October 18, 1996 HISTORY: Humbled by disability, a segregationist changes, makes amendsBy Bob Ray Sanders New York Times Several people gathered around my desk that spring afternoon in 1972 to see what was in the package. The large brown envelope, clearly marked "Governor’s Office, State of Alabama" had attracted attention even before I arrived […]
Make those in the dark aware about affirmative action
Friday, October 18, 1996 AWARENESS: Educating others about truth of Proposition 209 will result in its blowing defeatBy Roy S. Ramirez My partner knocks at the next door as I stumble through the mounds of literature, trying to get a handout ready. "Yes, who is it?" says a voice through the iron clad screen. "Hi, […]
Social exclusiveness promotes dividing line
Friday, October 18, 1996 DIVISION: Learning from other groups’ experiences may reveal similarities It all started with a conversation, like these things often do. I’d been talking to an African-American woman and once the conversation drifted to race and politics, she said, "you know, you can never really know what I experience on a daily […]
Letters
Friday, October 18, 1996Horey delivers epiphany with wit Often when I’m driving in traffic and someone cuts me off, nearly killing us both for the sole reason of getting into a parking lot to buy bagels or something, I inevitably ask myself, "What is this asshole thinking?" Please allow me to express my appreciation to […]
Leading the environmental charge
Thursday, October 17, 1996INTERVIEW: Realizing the need for a conservation ethic at the heart of issueBy Scott Lunceford Since his appointment as secretary of the Department of the Interior in 1992, Bruce Babbitt has raised plenty of hackles on both sides of the environmental fence; on one side, ranchers and industrialists accuse him of denying […]