Sunday, April 12

Protesters arrested after trespassing at military fort

When Seth Cohen approached the fence that surrounds a military compound in Georgia last Sunday, he knew he was in trouble. But, harboring a five-year grievance against the training ground for Latin American soldiers, he and nearly 90 others stepped across the line anyway. Read more...


Wimsatt, students discuss public awareness

Fliers advertising the event read: “Billy “˜Upski’ Wimsatt speaks on “˜Why UCLA is America’s best hope to save our ass in the 21st century.'” But “Upski” didn’t want to come 3,000 miles to UCLA just to bore students with another anti-war seminar on Iraq. Read more...


Theft at Los Alamos under scrutiny

University of California President Richard Atkinson pledged to “take decisive action” in response to multiple federal investigations at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In a statement released Friday, Atkinson said he was “very concerned” about recent allegations of theft and cover-ups at the UC-managed nuclear lab. Read more...


U.S. education bureaucratic, creates unjust class system

The homogenizing of America’s children begins at an early age in the public school system where everyone is told to color inside the lines, get in line, shut up, and accept everything the teacher says “just because.” Though it is important to set the ground rules for society and preach the advantages of discipline, anyone who dares to display an iota of individuality is disciplined. Read more...


Letters

Is there more to sex than pleasure? When I read that “even premarital sex, so reviled by the more uptight among us, has its benefits” in Shiva Bhaskar’s column titled “Sexual suppression sustains social ills” (Viewpoint, Nov. Read more...


Honors priority enrollment system flawed

Do you have priority enrollment? I certainly don’t. Despite being a senior with only two classes needed to graduate, I didn’t have my first pass until Thursday morning, after many third-years, second-years and, gasp, first-years had already enrolled. Read more...