Thursday, March 19

Letter to the Editor

Labor Center plays vital role on campus In “UCLA has no place funding labor center’s political agenda” (Nov. 3) David Lazar attacks the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education. Read more...


Focus should be on police mind-set

It seems that after last week’s Tasering in Powell Library, everyone has become an expert on police conduct. Each student is ready to opine on whether or not a Taser actually hurts that badly, or on whether Mostafa Tabatabainejad was actively resisting the officers. Read more...


Letters to the Editor

Anti-Semitism not new on UCLA campus In our time at UCLA, Holocaust revisionists, raving xenophobic fanatics and other propagators of anti-Semitic hate have been invited to speak on campus. Read more...


Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 2

Last Tuesday night, after refusing to show his BruinCard to university police officers, UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was viciously stunned with a Taser five times. We barely had to wait until morning for the Internet to become abuzz with premature accusations and unsubstantiated speculation. Read more...


Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 1

Mostafa Tabatabainejad is totally guilty. Some may say it’s premature to make conclusions about the incident last Tuesday, in which Tabatabainejad was stunned with a Taser five times in Powell Library after refusing to follow the orders of university police officers. Read more...



Editorial: Access to information necessary for freedom

Pretend you could go online but you couldn’t access most major news sites or search engines, many major education sites or even Wikipedia. For many of us, this would seem similar to life before the Internet, when information wasn’t free and learning was more work than it is now. Read more...