Category Archives: Opinion

Reproductive choice leaves no right answer By Kimberly Mackesy A lot can change in a year. If a year ago I read Chris Ford’s Jan. 18 article,"Defense of ‘choice’ is just an excuse for murder," I would have gotten not slightly, but extremely pissed. I would have written a scathing reply deeming his anti-abortion attitude […]

Remember why affirmative action exists At the University of California Regents meeting last Thursday, the focus turned to affirmative action, a topic fast on its way to becoming the hot button issue in 1995. Regent Ward Connerly said he believes the university currently weights race too heavily in admissions decisions, and that he plans to […]

Feminism and abortion are two separate issues By Bess Hubbard This letter is in response to Roxane Marquez’s Jan. 12 column, "A continuing defense of reproductive freedom" and to Chris Ford’s rebuttal, "Defense of ‘choice’ is just an excuse for murder." The recent slayings of two workers at an abortion clinic seem to be heating […]

Life’s subtler pleasures are the most rewarding What’s the antonym for "point"? Because this column doesn’t have one. Just a little caveat. My dad used to interrupt me midsentence and say, "So what’s your point?" He always told me that I should be able to summarize a whole movie in a sentence. Two sentences, max. […]

Is success in life a foot race or a state lottery? By James Lebakken In last year’s Daily Bruin the chancellor took a stance supporting affirmative action. But I’m with Regent Ward Connerly on this one. The time for this policy, if indeed there ever was, is in the past. And that’s because affirmative action […]

A Chicano perspective on American education today There is currently a debate raging over the quality of education at primary, secondary and post-secondary levels of instruction. This well-founded debate is based upon the discovery that the United States of America’s education system is not functioning adequately to guarantee the basic opportunities to which all Americanos, […]

Tale of a Greyhound bus at border checkpoint By Linda White It is Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday and I am returning from a weekend in San Diego aboard the trusty red,white and blue Greyhound bus. I usually try to catch up on my reading for school or try to catch up on lost sleep, […]