BY DOR CARPEL AND GIL BAR-OR Coming from Israeli backgrounds, we’ve both had the struggle of supporting our homeland while at the same time fighting to end the continued occupation of the West Bank. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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February 25, 12:01 am
Submission: BDS movement detracts from two-state solution
Community, Opinion
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February 24, 11:37 pm
Submission: Resolution supports divestment, not BDS as a whole
Since the beginning of this school year, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA has been working tirelessly to raise campus awareness about the need for divestment (withdrawing our university’s investments) from companies that profit off the occupation of Palestine, and about the urgency of this issue to our entire campus community. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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February 24, 12:00 am
Submission: Context is crucial in USAC resolutions
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is predictable. Every year, the same issues arise in a slightly new form, with the same back-and-forth petty slate politics, the same anxious and politically charged underclassmen that want the taste of council experience and the same strong momentum that withers away as the year comes to a close and elections are in sight. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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February 21, 12:00 am
Submission: ‘The Vagina Monologues’ opens dialogue on ‘sex-ism’
BY KAUSAR MOHAMMED Vagina.It looks funny when you read it and can sound a little funny coming out of your mouth.But, it has become a part of my everyday vocabulary as the director of SANAA’s V-Day movement and “The Vagina Monologues” on campus. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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February 20, 12:14 am
Letter to the Editor: Desires for Prop. 13 reform are misinformed
In her article “Submission: Prop. 13 reform needed to resolve UC tuition woes,” in Opinion on Jan. 3, Andrea Chu cites her financial problems as a good reason for Proposition 13 “reform.” Well, Ms. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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February 19, 12:00 am
Submission: USAC divestment resolution relevant to entire student body
In the coming weeks, the UCLA’s Undergraduate Students Association Council will be voting on a resolution calling on the UC Board of Regents to withdraw its investments from five companies directly complicit in and profiting from, violations of human rights and international law in the Palestinian territories, occupied by Israel since 1967. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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February 19, 12:00 am
Submission: UCLA must enact policies to improve campus climate
On Feb. 5, students learned of a racist and misogynistic flier that was mailed to the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. On Feb. 6, students were notified of an anonymous flier mailed to the USC Asian Pacific American Student Services, the very same one that the AASC received.While the flier itself was already disturbing, this incident was a symptom of a larger issue at hand: the hostile campus climate that exists here at UCLA. Read more...