The TGIF referendum will be another costly program with little oversight.
Soon, the cost of being a student at UCLA will increase yet again. Despite recent protests about the rising cost of tuition at the university, students indicated their willingness to pay more in student fees each quarter when they passed a referendum, known as The [...]
On June 3rd Californians will have the opportunity to reverse one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in the tribunal’s over 200-year history. The Bruin Standard hopes that its readers will seize that opportunity and vote yes on Proposition 98. In 2004, the Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. City of New Haven that governments [...]
Chicken Little is at it again. Climate change has become a centerpiece of today’s social consciousness, and has demanded the immediate attention of the industrialized world. Countless meetings, summits, and poolside discussions have been held in an effort to save our world from this impending catastrophe. But maybe you shouldn’t trade your car in for [...]
Bye.
Hey look, it’s June. How the hell did that happen?
Before I go graduate, I want to share some of my opinions which never made it into an issue this year. This way I leave you with something to remember me by – the rants of an idiot.
It always feels good to know that we’re helping to save the environment by buying energy-efficient and clean products. That is why we should not buy hybrid cars.
Hybrids obviously use electricity in place of large amounts of polluting fossil fuels, but to judge the car by its fuel usage alone leaves out the cost in [...]
Having studied abroad in Ireland for the duration of this year, I’ve come to appreciate the good-natured and humorous attitudes held by our other neighbors across the pond. Everyone has a story to share, a joke to tell, and a drink to finish. My friends are constantly pulling my leg, a social behavior that helps [...]
Most of us in the UCLA community agree that global warming is real, so I’m not going to waste too much time explaining that, but for those skeptics out there, consider these facts. According to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, worldwide, the average temperature has risen 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. Additionally, several studies [...]
France: the country of food and wine and free time. So they figured out that unspecified amounts of butter in any dish is delicious, big deal. Obvious right? Well how about their transition to nuclear energy? Is it equally obvious to choose a form of energy that is efficient, clean, safe, and possibly our answer [...]
Two minutes! Two minutes is all I ask!” A questionable choice of phrasing coming from a lanky guy sitting behind a sign emblazoned with the word “porn.” I notice the sneer on the face of a passerby as he trudges down Bruin Walk, ignoring the appeal. “Stop!” I mentally urge him, “I want to hear [...]
Ben Stein’s (“Bueller?… Bueller?”) documentary takes a look at how American schools revoke any theory of creation beyond Darwinism.
America has always stood for freedom, and for defending freedom. Americans have always believed in the free exchange of ideas, that the truth is most rigorously discovered after examining a given issue from both sides. Yet in [...]
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LIBERAL: Congratulations! You’re graduating.You’ll spend the next 10-15 years of your life paying off your debts. By the way, you still owe me five bucks.
CONSERVATIVE: Congratulations! You’re graduating. You’ll spend the next 10-15 years of your life collecting other people’s debts. By the way, I’m working on those five bucks. Once my foodstamp application goes [...]