Category Archives: Opinion

Letters to the Editor Eye for an eye? Editor: On Sunday, Feb. 25, 1996, tragedy struck the State of Israel. At 6:30 a.m., a suicide bomb blew up bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, killing 24 people and injuring 51. Approximately an hour and a half later, a second suicide bomb […]

Attendance at strike vote helps democratic process By Christine Ehrick In my years as a teaching assistant at UCLA, I’ve taught hundreds of students and graded thousands of papers and exams. I’ve enjoyed my job and worked hard at it – not only because it’s my responsibility, but also because I care deeply about undergraduate […]

Letters Primary problem Editor: Nick Golding began his letter to the editor about my candidacy for state Assembly ("Party crashing," Feb. 22) with the phrase, "I read with interest … " I found several of his statements interesting, too, and would appreciate if The Bruin gave me equal space to refute his ridiculous and patently […]

Graduate employees’ union calls for student support Undergrad government recognizes necessity of respecting workers’ rights By York Chang On Feb. 8, the Student Association of Graduate Employees (the labor union for academic student employees – tutors, readers, research assistants and teaching assistants) voted to hold a strike authorization vote meeting on Feb. 29. At this […]

‘Broken Arrow’ flies straight into toilet bowl Movie shortchanges Hong Kong action fans Natural language cannot begin to communicate the titanic disappointment of John Woo’s latest film, "Broken Arrow." (The title will doubtless soon enter the language as a veiled metaphor for flaccid and bankrupt imagination.) Michael Horowitz’s excellent Feb. 9 review in The Bruin […]

Attack on United States elicits defense Judgment clouded in unfair critique of American way By Jeremiah Reynolds This viewpoint is in response to the Feb.15 column by Roxane Márquez ("Rhetoric of ‘American way’ rests in lies"). In the second half of Márquez’s column, she asserts that illegal immigrants have as much right to be here […]

Cut the dissection Alternative methods are available to teach science By Jonathan Balcombe I will always remember the small, dead, squint-eyed, black and pink piglet I purchased in a see-through plastic pouch for $9 from a shelf at the back of the campus bookstore. I remember tying the four tiny cloven hooves to the edge […]