Wednesday, May 13



Donating blood saves lives

By Linda Goss Why should you donate blood? Simply because it’s an opportunity to do something amazing: save the life of another person. Time and again, UCLA patients marvel that complete strangers will choose to spend an hour of their time to donate blood for people that they will likely never meet. Read more...


Workers deserve decent treatment

By John MacDougall I have been interested in Kenneth Hurst’s Viewpoint submissions, “Wine workers’ demands irrational, unproductive” (May 31), and “UC workers’ demands lack logic, rationality” (April 8), and in the pro-labor responses, which did not directly respond to his points. Read more...


School doesn’t have to be lame

Hey, look! My column’s at the top of the page! But there’s no time for reckless celebration. It has been brought to my attention that summer is indeed upon us, and nearly everyone on earth is partying hedonistically with exotic people at exotic locations, getting exotic venereal diseases. Read more...