Category Archives: Opinion

Letters Ode to basketball UCLA basketball team: This is Maxie writing to you! I’m an almost 80-year-old alumnus who likes to write letters to our team. (I’ve done so for the past couple of years.) I like the way you have been playing except for the times you lose! You are now starting the last […]

Chained to Justice Present-day America must make reparations for generations of wrong Is the movie "Heat" pure entertainment or a huge slice of Americana? After watching writer and director Michael Mann’s movie, I found myself wondering why, after three or so hours, I felt a little let down. The two adversaries, played by Al Pacino […]

Support justice for political prisoner Former student spends 25 years in jail despite evidence of innocence By Jerome R. Hoffman, M.D. and Katherine C. King We are asking the UCLA community to become involved with the ongoing legal case of former UCLA student Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt. Pratt has been in state prison for more than […]

Take five minutes to fight for your education By Barbara Brazil and John Du These are the top 10 things that John Du, your student government’s external vice president, can do in five minutes: 10. Tie his shoe laces. 9. Brush his teeth. 8. Move 2 feet in a Murphy Hall line. 7. Travel 1 […]

Americans keep on ryding in the free world Rock and roll realm of tight jeans, Farrah hair merits academic report Whether they are called "hessians," "rockers," "dirtbags" or whatever, ryders, as they have been recently dubbed by scholars, represent one of the most fascinating, understudied (and as some would argue) endangered, subcultures of American society. […]

UC students: Stop whining about fees Thank taxpayers for subsidizing education By Daniel Garstka How dire are the lives of students. Some of them actually have class at 10:00 a.m.; some of them actually need to pay some of their fees; and some teaching assistants, rumor has it, are actually required to come in on […]

Free will Editor: I am impressed by how offended and defended Princeton Kim is by religious solicitation on Bruin Walk. Kim began his Jan. 24 column, "Heaven help me: Bibles blitz Bruin Walk," with a disclaimer, warning that "the events and persons in this column are fictitious." But of course, proselytism on Bruin Walk is […]