Category Archives: Opinion

Monday, May 6, 1996 Changes in legal system, tougher laws, sentencing should be enacted soon I am continuously surprised at the leniency and ineffectiveness of our criminal justice system. Even after a fourth arrest for rape in 1993, Edward Patrick Morgan returned to the streets. The following year he raped, mutilated and killed another woman […]

Monday, May 6, 1996Pub-lic policy Editor: As a former UCLA graduate student, I found Timothy Burke’s column, "Give me a shot of whiskey" (April 24), interesting but a bit late to have kept me from becoming too narrow minded. From his column, I conclude that any mess in Washington can be resolved by having local […]

Friday, May 3 1996 Walk-in voting was for those without electronic access By Katherine Crosswhite I am writing to respond to a letter written by Jo Anne Beazley published in the April 30 issue of the Daily Bruin ("Candid ballot"). Beazley correctly reports that for a few days, the Graduate Students Association was requiring walk-in […]

Thursday, May 2, 1996 Bon voyage, ‘Chuck’ Young, whoever you are! Retirement of chancellor saddens starstruck studentBy Steve Lee Three years ago, as a wide-eyed and somewhat naïve freshman, I was required to go to a "convocation." The convocation was a time for the UCLA administration to welcome the Class of 1997 (assuming one graduates […]

Friday, May 3 1996 Peeling back the layers of a silenced and concealed history By Christina Shigemura I have to give Ryan credit. He saw it coming before anyone else did. Maybe marijuana confers the gift of prophecy. "You’d look good with your head shaved," he said, "You should do it." I thought that he […]

Thursday, May 2, 1996Spring coverage Editor: Last Friday, UCLA’s last spring tradition, Spring Sing, brought down the house. It is the only campus event that draws an attendance as large as 3,000 people, and yet the Daily Bruin felt that a photo essay did it justice. Since USA Today, a national newspaper, decided that Spring […]

Wednesday, May 1, 1996 By Romben Aquino A time-honored UCLA tradition became the site of a cheap politically-motivated gimmick. After watching this year’s Spring Sing, it is no longer a secret which slate the Student Alumni Association is endorsing. In a skit between acts, Todd Sargent, a member of the Student Alumni Association (SAA) board […]