Saturday, July 11


Clash erupts at regents meeting

The University of California Board of Regents meeting was disrupted Wednesday when university police clashed with a group of students as they moved into the restricted area of the third-floor conference room in Covel Commons. Read more...


O Canada! We want your drugs

Millions of Americans are victims of legal extortion. I’m talking about the gouging of the United States by prescription drug companies. I’m talking about the exorbitant (and usually unwarranted) prices of prescription medicines and the questionable, quite immoral, policies designed to protect and enrich the manufacturers. Read more...


Briefs

An important appointment postponed Council voted to table the appointment of the new elections board chair because the candidate did not attend the meeting. USAC supports organized labor The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed the Resolution in Support of Organized Labor with a 10-0-0 vote at Tuesday night’s general meeting. Read more...


Letters to the editor

Students speak with stomachs Students should be outraged that fascist student activists seek to terminate Taco Bell’s contract with UCLA. The Daily Bruin reports that Taco Bell is the second-most frequented restaurant on campus, meaning that the silent majority are voting with their pocket books to keep Taco Bell on campus. Read more...


Students demand to be heard

“Whose university? Our university.” Student protesters chanted to the beat of a drum Wednesday at the Rock the Regents Meeting rally where activists demanded their voices be heard by the University of California’s governing body. Read more...


Editorial: Tuesday’s debacle gets nothing done

At Justin Fong’s last meeting as student regent, the former UCLA student who worked tirelessly to rescind the university’s anti-affirmative action policies reflected on the day the UC Board of Regents approved him as its lone student member. Read more...