From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Want free money? USAC is literally giving it away

by Stephen Crisafulli 03.09.2010

The Bruin Standard shows you how to take back your student fees with help from your friendly neighborhood student government
In light of the recent California budget crisis and the fee increases for the UC system, The Bruin Standard thought it would be prudent to look into how our student money is being used. If you [...]

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Protestors bring shame, not change to UCLA

by Kelly Bowers 03.09.2010

What a coincidence. The kids I babysit scream when they want something too
On the first day back at UCLA for the start of winter quarter, I began my usual morning ritual. A stale croissant from Bruin Café, an embarrassing scramble to collect new books I just bought and already lost, and of course, a quick [...]

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Transparently corrupt

by Paul Vollmer 03.09.2010

USAC hides how it spends your $121.38
On January 26, the Viewpoint page of the Daily Bruin found itself in a rather peculiar position: as the main source of news for the student body, it’s ironic to advocate less transparency in government. For with a stroke of the pen, the editorial board made its opinions on [...]

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Don’t Blame Arnold

by Mark Stefanos 03.09.2010

Or the regents. Or Yudof. Why our state, once the darling of our union, is now its biggest joke. What makes our problems virtually unsolvable. And how we fucked ourselves — A letter from the founder
It’s a breezy 75 degrees in January, as I bob up and down in the shallow water by the Santa [...]

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Let’s get a hamburger; it was a cold winter anyway

by Katie Lorentz 03.09.2010

UCLA’s meager attempt to “go green” denies students their rightful lifestyle choices
In an attempt to make UCLA “go green,” UCLA dining services now flaunt four new policies that are meant to improve environmental sustainability on campus. These policies promote Trayless Dining, “Waste Watchers”, Waste Reduction, and Beefless Thursdays and allow dining services to claim that [...]

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When tolerance is at odds with safety

by Katie Lorentz 03.09.2010

Voters have a responsibility to the innocent to fix ambiguous sexual assault legislation
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My sister’s 17 year old friend, Chelsea King, is dead. She was raped and murdered while running in a park, and the man currently held in custody and charged with the crime is a registered sex offender.
You may have seen the missing person [...]

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Solving Barack Obama’s unsolvable problem

by Lydia Mazuryk 03.09.2010

The president claimed not to have heard any good health care ideas from conservatives.
Maybe he should have tried actually listening.
President Obama faced the nation during his first State of the Union speech and said, “If anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, [...]

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Good Hair: A Review

by Josh Markovitz 03.09.2010

If you grew up male (as I did) you probably think of your hair as just a part of your head, for which you occasionally employ scissors and a comb to keep it under control and out of the way. At the same time, you were probably vaguely aware that matters hair-related might be a [...]

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We found the next great American novel

by Kelly Bowers 03.09.2010

But Rich Shapero’s absurd story of nature and acid trips – entitled Wild Animus – definitely isn’t it.
They say you get what you pay for. In the case of Rich Shapero’s Wild Animus, nothing could be further from the truth. If you were one of the students who received – free of charge – the [...]

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