Board is unfair to USAC candidates
I feel it is completely unfair how the Editorial Board, while
endorsing certain candidates for Undergraduate Students Association
Council positions, chose to bash the candidates it judged to be
unqualified (USAC Candidate Endorsements, Viewpoint, May 9).
I expect more from the Daily Bruin. The critical judgment of the
candidates expressed by the board was based on personal tastes and
prejudices that have no relevance to someone’s ability to
perform. The endorsements were shameful and embarrassing.
As the only major publication on campus, it is inappropriate for
the Daily Bruin to make such harsh criticism. If your goal is to
help students choose candidates, it should be done in an unbiased
way, such as encouraging voters to meet with candidates in order to
form their own opinions.
Students at UCLA are intelligent and can figure out who the best
candidate is without the Daily Bruin dictating to them.
Sabrina Pakzad
Second-year
Astrophysics
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Endorsements read like Praxis ad
Hey, here’s something for the Thumbs Up/ Thumbs Down
section of the Daily Bruin. A big thumbs down for the school
newspaper being blatantly partisan in regards to the Undergraduate
Students Association Council election (USAC Candidate Endorsements,
Viewpoint, May 9).
Why don’t you just call it the “Daily Praxis”
instead of the the Daily Bruin? With one exception, the newspaper
endorsed every Praxis candidate that was running.
The one Praxis member who was not endorsed was replaced by the
“unenthusiastic” endorsement of the “naive”
Noah Bookman. I sure hope Praxis paid the Daily Bruin for this
blatant advertisement of its slate.
Jeffrey Hale
Second-year
Political science