Bruin’s irresponsibility inflames stereotypes The story in the Daily Bruin sports section on April 13 titled “Fighting an image” contains a glaring flaw concerning U.S. women’s soccer player Cat Reddick. Read more...

In the past few years there have been many cases of pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception, or “the morning-after pill,” due to their personal, moral or religious beliefs. Read more...

That old cell phone of yours is not going to decompose in your desk drawer, closet or (enter where you’ve hidden it here). Neither is that TV that’s magically no longer your problem once you set it outside your apartment. Read more...

Michael Oren, author of “Six Days of War,” an account of the 1967 war in Israel, spoke on campus last week. The Daily Bruin sat down with him to discuss the details of his book. Read more...

This past Tuesday, white smoke rose over the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Since that moment, a new pope has presided over the more than 1 billion members of the Catholic Church. Read more...

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This week, after a little playful goading, I feel it is time to broach a subject that has become a phenomenon in the political discourse of right-wing America: the ideology of supposed “anti-Americanism.” On Tuesday, a contributor to the Daily Bruin wrote that it was “high time that Matthew Kennard explain why he is in this country when he obviously cannot stand its policies and politics.” I interpreted this and the rest of his letter as saying, “if you have the temerity to criticize the Bush administration and support working people, then you are profoundly anti-American and should leave.” It’s an interesting premise because it displays an attitude that is typical of a set of uniquely ideological neo-conservatives who attempt to define what it is to be American, and posit that any departure from that definition is antithetical to “American values.” In my experience, “anti-American” has been used merely as a lazy pejorative that’s thrown at any foreigner ““ or American for that matter ““ who makes reasonable objections to the Bush administration and its radical agenda. Read more...