Tuesday, February 16, 1999
Letters
Chancellor not playing fair
Chancellor Carnesale:
I used to respect you. Now I find your actions abhorrent.
How dare you abuse your power and post a letter to all of campus
via e-mail about unionization without giving SAGE the opportunity
to do the same thing?
How do expect people to respect you? To me, your actions speak
for the entire UCLA administration; therefore, I now trust
absolutely nothing from your administration and have no respect for
this university under your leadership.
Mark J. Chekal
Doctoral student
Public health
Consider more than money
In "Hair Salon Snip Away from being at UCLA" (News, Jan. 21)
ASUCLA has used polls and media surveys to decide that there might
be a need for an on-campus hair salon, and that big franchise
chains, like Supercuts, have already approached them.
The article has shed light on why ASUCLA has been so unhelpful
in assisting the Jewish kosher advocates in getting a place on
campus to sell kosher food.
Let me back up. When the representatives of the Kosher Coalition
previously approached ASUCLA for their cause, the response was
twofold.
First, they would not make money off such a venture, and second,
some franchises, like McDonald’s, have offered ASUCLA millions of
dollars to open a location on campus, so kosher-conscious people
don’t even have a chance.
Is ASUCLA’s focus on helping the majority groups, the vocal
minority groups or just making a big profit?
Clearly, the kosher cause would not be a money-making venture,
nor would the majority of UCLA students need to use it, but ASUCLA
should not make their decisions solely based on economic
considerations.
One of the reasons why I thought I was going to college was that
money would not be the most important thing.
Zachary Hepner
1998 alumnus
Engineering
Just where is
the punchline?
I am writing this letter knowing full well that in all
likelihood, nobody at the Daily Bruin will have the guts to print
it.
Nevertheless, I must call for the destruction of the comic strip
known as "Two-Item Combo: Back Pho’ Seconds." First I should
probably begin by criticizing it for some politically incorrect
content. Let’s see, the most recent one I read contained some kind
of blather about "typical non-ethnic but obviously Asian" girls and
what I think is their difficulty in relating to others.
I’m not sure what the joke is there, but it’s probably bad to
poke fun at slightly ethnic-looking people. Somebody with more
experience in raising hell over political correctness would
probably be able to help me out with that.
Now that I’ve gotten the technical stuff out of the way, I would
like to bring up my main reason for calling for the outright
decimation of this comic strip. It’s because it totally sucks and
is not funny at all!
At this very moment I have three Asian peers sitting beside me
and even they cannot find an ounce of humor in this consistently
poor comic.
I might get really fired up and start picketing outside of
whatever building this rag is published in, although I’m pretty
busy, so I probably won’t until it gets warmer out.
Feel free to reply with any questions you might have regarding
my opinion expressed here today.
Mike Begarney
Graduate student
Chemical engineering
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