Category Archives: Opinion

Tuesday, May 14, 1996 Union must gain bargaining powers to right wrongsBy Mercedes Ibarra Tonight at six in Kinsey 51 members of SAGE/UAW will vote whether to authorize a strike in the fall quarter if Chancellor Young does not recognize our union. Because striking is such a serious action that will effect much of the […]

Tuesday, May 14, 1996 By Eugene M. Lang Fifteen years ago this spring, I impulsively promised a college education to 61 East Harlem sixth graders, if and when they graduated from high school. The only catch: 75 percent of the youngsters were projected dropouts. To make my promise meaningful, I began a year-round educational program […]

Tuesday, May 14, 1996 Is the lure of big bucks leading college athletes astray? NBA tempts with the glory of expansion teams.Superagent Lee Steinberg glances at his watch … Gasp!! It’s twelve o’clock already, recess time at the local elementary school! He pulls up to the Montessori just in time to see the towering 4-foot-8-inch […]

Monday, May 13, 1994 Is the late-term procedure what it’s made out to be? On April 10, President Clinton vetoed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, which would have prohibited a specific late-term abortion procedure made known by Dr. Martin Haskell, the leading provider of the procedure. Controversy surrounded the ban act and the veto, yet […]

Monday, May 13, 1994Nauseating supplement Editor: This has to do with Thursday’s Daily Bruin and its offensive supplement. Maybe the anti-abortion supplement has nothing to do with your view as a paper, but we the student body should not be subject to this kind of propaganda. This is not even the first time this filth […]

Monday, May 13, 1994 People of color short-changed by bus linesBy Alex Caputo-Pearl and David Rice What does a low-income person of color riding a bus on the overcrowded Vermont Avenue line have in common with a middle-class UCLA student who occasionally rides the Santa Monica bus to school? The answer is that they share […]

Thursday, May 9, 1996 Asian/Pacific Islanders in fraternities and sororities maintain ties to heritageBy Clarisse Cristobal During my three years at UCLA, I have regretfully come to the conclusion that many individuals in the UCLA community are very confused and ignorant. Please prepare yourself for the following statement; many of you will be quite shocked. […]