Category Archives: Opinion

Kerckhoff politicking muddies free speech Name-calling, finger-pointing and mud-slinging ­ the annual undergraduate student government elections have degenerated into the usual bilge of Judicial Board cases and political maneuvering. This time, an advertisement in the Daily Bruin sparked the ruckus. The Bruin Democrats’ full-page ad supporting the Students First slate was the focal point of […]

Hate: America’s newest national pastime Tony Spano"Someone’s got to be oppressed." ­ from the musical "Godspell" by Stephen Schwartz I was a Republican once in my life. This moment of weakness came during the fifth grade. The 1980 presidential election prompted our class to hold a mock election between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter, Republican challenger […]

Ignorance no excuse for misleading, illegal ads By Matt Weathers When Marwa Kilani and I filed a Judicial Board case last week against the Students First slate for what we perceived to be lying to voters and delegitimizing the endorsement process, we did not believe the violations were severe enough to warrant invalidating elections. Our […]

Masturbation proclamation Editor: Female voices were noticeably and unforgivably absent from "The stigma of self-pleasure," The Daily Bruin’s May 8 article on masturbation. Women were hardly mentioned and no female psychologists were quoted, save a virtually prehistoric comment from Masters & Johnson. As far as I can tell, only one female student got to air […]

When race is an advantage, it becomes a disadvantage for others By Marina Bogorad Yes, Aisha Jones, your suspicions that my first name sounds feminine proved right ("Affirmative action must right past wrongs," May 8). Guilty as charged ­ I am a woman. But I, pardon my ignorance, cannot grasp how my gender is significant […]

Forgive the past, but don’t forget its consequences Yep. I bet you’re one of the ones who was laughing at Rodney King when he said, "Can’t we all just get along?" That statement has become a big joke. One mortgage company even went so far as to say, "Can’t we all just get a loan?" […]

A lesson: We are the government, all of us By Solomon Matsas Since several weeks have passed, and we now sadly know we are not having a nightmare, but rather, there is no other good choice but to open our eyes as fully as we can. The scene ­ in this case, the bombing of […]