Category Archives: Opinion

SAGE focuses on democracy By John Medearis It is important to acknowledge two seriously misleading statements attributed to Stanley McKnight, assistant vice chancellor for human resources in the Oct. 25 Daily Bruin. I write on behalf of the organizing committee of SAGE (the Student Association of Graduate Employees). SAGE is the organization that is seeking […]

There are eight days left. Eight days, that is, until the state elections on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Over these next eight days, the Daily Bruin will devote much of its space to keeping the UCLA community informed of the election issues and to providing forum space within the pages of Viewpoint. We’ll focus especially on […]

Prop. 188: the tobacco industry’s initiative By Ramona Tan As I was flipping through the California ballot pamphlet, Proposition 188, an initiative on statewide regulation of smoking and tobacco products, caught my eye. When I think about smoking, I think about the people in my family or in the magazines I read who are struggling […]

Stress returns, but we must not let it blind us Jeanene Harlick Stress. It has returned. It surrounds us, it blinds us, we breathe it in. The euphoric days of summer are over. We now no longer foolishly look forward to the alleviation of boredom that school affords us. Instead, we look back fondly on […]

Keep Tagalog at UCLA Editor: As members of the Concerned Asian Pacific Students for Action (CAPSA), we express our thanks to Dean of Humanities Pauline Yu for her verbal commitment to fund the Tagalog language for an additional year. We are pleased that the Pilipino Coalition, along with other UCLA student groups, have succeeded in […]

A night one friend will never forget By Todd Hanson The recent controversy over sponsorship of the Interfraternity Council failed to take into account the five-month anniversary of a night when a friend of mine encountered a dozen fraternity members. Shortly after midnight on Saturday, May 28, 1994, my friend dropped me off at the […]

Fear of conflict lingers behind locked doors By Drew Hettinger The night I moved into my new apartment I was walking down the stairs to my car parked on the street. I’d just picked up the "genie" clicker and was going to move my car to the locked garage down below. Off to one side, […]