Thursday, April 11, 1996 Regent answers questions about integrating industry and education communityBy Philip CarterAs a member of the UC Board of Regents, Lt. Gov. Gray Davis has come forward as a compelling advocate for greater integration between California’s business and education communities. Speaking with the Daily Bruin last week, Davis continued to advocate a […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Student academic employees work hard, deserve rights
Thursday, April 11, 1996 Sunday convention addresses workers’ ability to unionizeBy Mark Quigley This Sunday, something remarkable is going to happen at UCLA. Often, universities are considered "ivory towers," where the almost sacred work of research, teaching and thinking can go on unimpeded and unstained by the hustle and bustle of the hoi polloi. The […]
Editorial
Thursday, April 11, 1996 Riverside deputies abuse guidelines set by departmentThe April 1 beatings of two suspected undocumented immigrants by Riverside County sheriff’s deputies have raised serious questions about the use of force by law enforcement officers. The actions of deputies Kurt Franklin and Tracy Watson against Alicia Sotero Vasquez and Enrique Funes Flores are […]
Traffic laws: too much of a good thing
Tuesday, April 9, 1996 Police cannot regulate civic responsibility by issuing jaywalking tickets I still remember the first time my mother and I walked down to the neighborhood park. I was about 5 years old, and when I saw the swings and jungle gyms waiting for me, I charged across the street at full speed […]
Anti-Defamation League Infringes on Civil Liberties
Tuesday, April 9, 1996 Israeli Intelligence agency conducts surveillance of anti-Zionist organizationsName Withheld Do you know what the Anti-Defamation League is? The assistant director of this organization, A. Randall Steinberg, published a belated response ("Fact vs. fiction," April 2) to the Palestinian perspective of a recent five-part series claiming that it distorted facts about the […]
LIfe, liberty, happiness make endangered species list
Tuesday, April 9, 1996 Letter writers should know U.S. law before attacking immigrantsBy J. Manuel Urrutia While I often find david aguilar’s columns to be grating because of their confrontational style, I found the responses printed on April 8 to be even more offensive. The letter from Chris Clark ("Shared guilt") explicitly states that the […]
Letters
Tuesday, April 9, 1996Home front Editor: Despite the fact that the United States is one of the richest nations in the world and is able to feed everyone in it, it is estimated that 3 million people are forced to sleep in cars, under bridges, in shelters and on the streets. This homeless population makes […]