Tuesday, August 4

Submission: Job stability is the only difference between lecturers, professors

On your first day of class, you will probably assume that the instructor at the front of the room is a professor, right? You’ve got about a 50-50 chance of being right. Read more...

Photo: Lecturers gathered for National Adjunct Walkout Day in February to inform the UCLA community of adjunct faculty members’ struggles with job insecurity from term to term. (Daily Bruin file photo)






Zoey Freedman: Stigmas surrounding women’s health care should not inhibit discussion

It’s kind of funny how angry people get over the thought of subsidized tampons. But sometimes, it’s just sad. Through personal day-to-day experiences, my internship with Planned Parenthood Los Angeles and the reactions to my blogs about feminine health care and equality this summer, I have definitely learned that the topic of feminine health care is a polarizing one. Read more...

Photo: A woman walks with a sign telling others the terms of her healthcare are a personal matter, not one for public debate at Planned Parenthood’s 2014 ‘Moral March’ in North Carolina .(Creative Commons photo by Stephen Melkisethian via Flickr)


Arthur Wang: Asian American stereotypes expose ongoing discrimination

Have Asian Americans “made it” in the United States, miraculously overcoming discrimination in the course of a few generations to become the most “successful” minority group in the country? Read more...

Photo: Vietnamese American Community Ambassadors president Daniel Do-Khanh goes through an archive of Vietnamese art work in UC Irvine’s Langson Library. (Creative Commons photo by UCI UC Irvine via Flickr)