Category Archives: Opinion

Auren Hoffman is a former ASUC student advocate and senior majoring in industrial engineering and operations research. By Auren Hoffman Abortion has consumed the American moral debate for the past few decades. There is no other issue as likely to spark a fuse in any American. But why is abortion one of the few moral […]

Joanna Brooks and Mark Quigley are graduate students and TAs in the English Department. They are currently at work on their video series, "When ASEs Attack!" By Joanna Brooks and Mark Quigley Daily Bruin Contributors To those new to campus, academic student employees may seem like curious creatures – odd twenty- and thirty- somethings leaning […]

By Brian Campbell Daily Bruin Contributor Last Tuesday, Gov. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) signed a law that made California the first state to require chemical castration of repeat child molesters. The law, effective Jan. 1, 1997, applies to those convicted of committing a second sexual assault against a child under 13 years of age. Does the […]

Stacy Coontz is a journalism and political science student at the University of Kentucky. By Stacy Coontz Daily Bruin Contributor Attached to a bulletin board in my apartment is a button that reads "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people too." I bought it at the State Fair this year, courtesy of the […]

By Timothy Joyce Daily Bruin Contributor Fellow students, there festers in our midst a sinister force which, if left unabated, will prove to be the bane of our very existence; this foul succubus has infiltrated all of our most sacred institutions: religion, politics, even baseball. The very mention of its name sends countless unwilling souls […]

Prop. 209 articles misleading public In your paper, articles about Proposition 209, the California Civil Rights Initiative, have ignored "Clause C." This clause legalizes sex discrimination in public employment. Clause C allows public agencies to adopt arbitrary standards which have been used to deny women equal access to job opportunities in blue-collar trades, athletics and […]

By Chris Miller Daily Bruin Contributor Sometimes it takes drinking a beer in Scotland to realize that capitalism isn’t for everybody. While in Scotland, I enjoyed a freshly drawn Guiness Stout with a copy of Marx’s Communist Manifesto in a small pub. To be honest, I felt a little guilty and un-American purchasing the text. […]