Monday, February 2



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...


Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 2

Last Tuesday night, after refusing to show his BruinCard to university police officers, UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was viciously stunned with a Taser five times. We barely had to wait until morning for the Internet to become abuzz with premature accusations and unsubstantiated speculation. Read more...


Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 1

Mostafa Tabatabainejad is totally guilty. Some may say it’s premature to make conclusions about the incident last Tuesday, in which Tabatabainejad was stunned with a Taser five times in Powell Library after refusing to follow the orders of university police officers. Read more...


Editorial: Access to information necessary for freedom

Pretend you could go online but you couldn’t access most major news sites or search engines, many major education sites or even Wikipedia. For many of us, this would seem similar to life before the Internet, when information wasn’t free and learning was more work than it is now. Read more...


Editorial: Scandals mar federal education programs

It’s not surprising anymore to hear scandal and controversy from President Bush’s education initiatives. The latest scandal to surface includes evidence of conflict of interest in the Reading First Program, which administers $6 billion in grants so districts can buy the materials necessary to ensure that all low-income children learn to read. Read more...