Category Archives: Opinion

Congress’ attack on direct lending leaves millions in cold By Richard W. Riley Students from colleges in the Mid-Atlantic area gathered on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol recently to voice a simple plea to members of Congress: "Students, not banks!" The congressional leadership, however, has sided with special interests and their lobbyists on a […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Power to heal Editor: Chieh Li Chieng’s thoughts on the trials and tribulations of "pre-med" students at UCLA ("Pre-med blues: beyond MCATs," Feb. 2) may have provided many readers with some comic relief (as it did I). Upon further reflection, these are serious matters to consider. Chieng is correct to suggest […]

Who’s afraid of the big, bad Democrat? Beware of friendly liberals, embrace Republicans on trip through electoral forest While many students on the UCLA campus contemplate their choice of candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, the topic of political parties may enter their minds. In these United States, there exist two primary political parties, the […]

Job fair just too close to real world for this columnist Clean underwear, suits, authority all forbidden words Wandering around the campus the other day (at a time when, in theory, I should be in class), I stumbled upon something. It was something I did not expect, something I feared. It was the UBS (Unidentified […]

Lefties: targets of an unaddressed bias Deliberate repression causes undue frustration in classes, labs, workplace By Brendan Whyte Recent articles on alleged discrimination by the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), campus admissions and faculty hiring have caused a little controversy, but I would like to bring to you a case of deliberate bias against 10 […]

ROTC injustice Editor: Regarding the dismissal of Cadet Huong Nguyen from UCLA’s Reserve Office Training Corps (ROTC) program for proclaiming her bisexuality: It’s outrageous that in this day and age such a thing could happen. Why does the university, which has been on the cutting edge of knowledge and progressive thinking in matters of human […]

Letters Pride and support Editor: We, members of Mahu, an Asian Pacific Islander queer organization at UCLA, are writing to support Huong Nguyen for her courage and integrity in coming out. As a support network on campus for Asian Pacific Islander gays, lesbians and bisexuals, we want to express pride and full support for our […]