Wednesday, May 6

Letters to the Editor

Anti-Semitism not new on UCLA campus In our time at UCLA, Holocaust revisionists, raving xenophobic fanatics and other propagators of anti-Semitic hate have been invited to speak on campus. Read more...



Letters to the Editor: Responses to the Taser incident

Letters from the UC community UCPD needs to better serve its community While I do agree with David Lazar (“Beware of easy knee-jerk reactions,” Nov. 17) that Mostafa Tabatabainejad was uncooperative and even hostile, an unarmed civilian refusing to leave a library hardly justifies use of force. Read more...


Objecting to use of police force

Hundreds of UCLA students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in Meyerhoff Park Friday afternoon to protest the multiple uses of a Taser on a UCLA student by university police. Read more...


Bruins mourn former teammate

Tempe, ARIZ. “”mdash; Redshirt freshman linebacker Reggie Carter straggled behind his teammates following UCLA’s 24-12 win over Arizona State on Saturday night. As the rest of his team disappeared into Sun Devil Stadium, Carter stood at midfield and paused for a few moments. Read more...


Science&Health: Study looks at human evolution

A breakthrough study conducted by UCLA scientists was published last week, leading to further understanding of evolution by comparing the brains of humans and chimpanzees. The study found that evolution occurs not only on the level of individual genes, but also in the interaction between genes, called a network. Read more...


Role of racial profiling difficult to determine

As I crowded in among the dozens of cameras and reporters at a press conference that preceded Friday’s protest against UCPD’s repeated use of a Taser on a student in Powell Library, I found that one of the more fascinating aspects of the media frenzy was not just the story itself, but the direction in which reporters were pushing for it to go. Read more...