Sunday, August 9

In the news:

SF! should re-evaluate how it relates to the student body

Just when I think the social architects of this university can’t get any more absurd, they keep on surprising me. I really regret that I couldn’t get this piece in before the elections, but then again I don’t flatter myself to think that my brief testimonial could have turned the tides of such a perfect storm. Read more...



Speaks Out

How will you endure a likely fee increase of 35 percent next year? Igor Sapozhnikov Third-year, microbiology and neuroscience “It’s a shame that there might be a fee increase, but UCLA is one of the cheapest California schools. Read more...



Anti-abortion ads shameful

I am writing in response to the anti-abortion advertisement in Westwood Plaza on May 12. I would like to address UCLA by saying that this was a display of offensive and doctored pictures. Read more...


Peterson case treated like prime-time drama

A tragedy occurred last Christmas Eve when Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant, mysteriously disappeared from her Modesto, California home. On April 14 tragedy struck again when her body, along with the body of her unborn son Connor, was discovered washed up on the San Francisco Bay shore. Read more...


Historical facts show Palestinians not “˜mere victims’

As a reporter who has traveled to and covered the news in the Middle East, I was utterly shocked and disturbed by Rebecca Steinfeld’s presentation of inaccurate historical facts and uncalled-for criticism of the Bruins for Israel (“Israeli independence also a Palestinian catastrophe,” May 9). Read more...