TGIF referendum collected student fees and did very little
The snazzy purple t-shirts, free sunglasses, bags, and ice cream giveaways seem to have paid off. The PLEDGE initiative on this year’s USAC ballot passed with 50.3% of the vote (passing by just 52 votes), raising student fees from $119.97 to $158.22 a year.
This is not [...]
Too much political correctness will soon turn into censorship
“Civilized society,” I said.
My history TA looked at me and smiled, condescendingly.
So I repeated myself – this time with defensive air quotes. They diminished my point but I think that’s what she wanted.
After all, referring to any society as civilized is offensive. I guess it implies that [...]
Biased reporting hurts student organization
Daily Bruin journalists may have violated their mission statement by publishing an article that deviated from the truth in the front page article of the May 7 issue: “Slate May Have Violated Election Code”.
They attempted to cover a Hillel event at UCLA that occurred the day before in which students [...]
Back in 2003, as I walked down Landfair to vote in the recall of Gray Davis, I remember thinking what a bright future California had ahead of it. Here I was, about to be a part of the people of California’s final repudiation of big government, high taxes and far left interest groups’ stranglehold on [...]
Only schoolyard bullies used to make you feel miserable when you didn’t do anything wrong
A certain English playwright of some notable success once remarked, “all the world’s a stage… and one man in his time plays many parts.” Though his time upon this world has long since passed, one can only assume that his grave [...]
A long time ago in a place far far east of here, two great empires struggled for supremacy. Their rivalry extended from the depths of the ocean to the skies above. Nuclear submarines played tag and spy planes struggled to touch the very sky that held them. There was but one, final frontier where their [...]
On October 4, 1957, the Russian satellite Sputnik I was launched into space; it was the dawn of the space age. This historic achievement inspired both awe and trepidation in Americans. Thus, the ‘space race’ began in a competitive struggle to reach the moon, and The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established.
NASA [...]
Liberal Noam Chomsky has surprisingly traditional roots in his conservative father, Hebrew educator William Chomsky
We’re all familiar with the old adage: the apple never falls far from the tree. But sometimes, one has to admit, it does. Sometimes, apples fall very far from their trees; sometimes children turn out very different from their parents. Unimpressive [...]
Contemporary liberalism and conservatism alike have abandoned the emphasis on individualism and liberty that was the focus of America’s founding principles
If Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were to have an aired CNN debate today, their back-and-forth conversation on the role of the government and individual liberty would provide the intellectual bounds of our nation’s history.
Indeed, [...]
Modern society is far from free of evolutionary drives that dictated attraction and mating of hunter-gatherers
Survive and reproduce. Evolutionarily speaking, those are our only goals in life. That doesn’t mean we walk around all day actively looking for ways to maximize our fitness. At the same time, we have arguably evolved to have certain underlying [...]
Los Angeles has decided what constitutes art, and is already prosecuting dissenters. “Throw the book at them,” said Councilman Jack Weiss of West Los Angeles and Hollywood, in an LA Times article by David Zahniser.
Did Councilman Weiss have his panties in a bunch over the giant transvestite clown sculpture in Santa Monica? Or maybe [...]