Category Archives: Opinion

Kerckhoff groups work around the clock By Todd Sargent It’s time for a response from one of your elected USAC council members. I have been watching article after article in the Daily Bruin describe how some of my fellow students regard USAC, your student government. You would think USAC stood for Useless, Selfish, Arrogant and […]

Remembering life’s lessons and mother’s love Peter Hamilton Thanksgiving was great. I needed those four days to reconstruct myself. I barely finished. I spent dinner on Thursday without my mom for the third year in a row, and without my pop for the first time ever (my mom has passed away; my pop was in […]

Activists should channel energy where it counts By Kimberly Mackesy So! I’m not the only one who’s a little concerned about the ubiquitous proliferation of Proposition 187-bashing articles in the Daily Bruin! I’m about as far to the left as a person can get, and although their letter smacks of Republicanism, I have to say […]

Bombshelter conspires against South Campus By Ashkan Lashkari Most students destined to become future mathematicians, doctors and engineers at UCLA ­ those that gravitate to South Campus ­ must overcome some major obstacles in their path. For some, it’s grueling laboratory experiments and anatomical dissections, and for others it’s simply organic chemistry. But the challenge […]

Prop. 187 threatens faculty-student tie By Russell Moore Several weeks ago, an administrator, Kathleen Komar, wrote in these Viewpoint pages of the need for collegial relationships at UCLA. She did not want to see "outside" (meaning employee union) influences on the relationship between faculty and students. Although gravely misdirected, I agree with her basic claim […]

Question ‘majority rule’ beyond election day By Jeffrey Ow As an Asian American, a person of color, a Daily Bruin reader, a man and a person, I am thoroughly embarrassed for Nikao Yang’s verbal conduct ("My report on the superfluous Prop. 187 protest," Nov. 21). Appropriating the voices of Chicanos, African-American rappers, "English and forensic […]

Giving thanks … for being alive at UCLA Donald Carpenter-Rios It’s the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday, and like most things, the weekend had its ups and downs. There was plenty of football ­ that’s an up. There was plenty of turkey, potatoes and ham, and when I was stuffed there was plenty more of […]