“Congratulations, you’ve been accepted into the Class of 2021! Prepare for a challenging year ahead, which includes losing your virginity to a rapist.” Under normal circumstances, your everyday college acceptance letter wouldn’t include that second sentence. But, that’s one of several jarring statements presented in an online campaign titled, “Don’t Accept Rape”, which last week […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial Cartoon: Lecturers make good pets
Lecturers at mercy.
Submission: Empowering Clothesline Display violated by theft
Twenty years of T-shirts. Twenty years of truth. This was how we, the co-directors of Bruin Consent Coalition, formerly 7000 in Solidarity: A Campaign Against Sexual Assault, started a blog post we released at the beginning of last week – a concise commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Clothesline Display at UCLA. This is […]
Submission: UC students should collaborate to tackle middle-income struggles
When Danny McElaney checked his BruinBill last year and saw that he had received $140 though California’s Middle Class Scholarship, he laughed. McElaney, a second-year economics student, has one working parent who makes too much to qualify for financial aid through the University of California, but far too little to cover the costs of education […]
Julia McCarthy: Continued dialogue crucial for progress against college sexual assault
April, the month when high school seniors decide where to go to college in the fall, also happens to be Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And the two topics, college decisions and sexual assault, are in fact more connected than you may think. Last week, an online campaign called “Don’t Accept Rape,” made the connection quite […]
Letter to the Editor: Sanders, Clinton should not disavow Jewish voices against occupation
If Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders must fire Simone Zimmerman, his Jewish outreach coordinator, for criticizing the Israeli occupation of Palestine and its overseer Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton has some similar house-cleaning to do. Clinton has appeared to embrace the American political establishment’s dogmatic support for Israel and its leadership. In the debate two weeks […]
Editorial: UC must hold faculty accused of sexual assault as culpable as students
University of California President Janet Napolitano promised to implement several policy changes to address the shortcomings of the University’s Title IX procedure in regard to complaints filed involving faculty. While the changes are a big step in the right direction, Napolitano’s order falls short of what the University’s main goal should be: holding professors to […]