Week’s speakers aim for violence, not peace I am deeply concerned about the choice of speakers chosen to headline this week’s programming, “Israel and Palestine: Obstacles to Peace.” Amir Abdel Malik is a radical who supports the suicide bombings of the Isreal-Palestine conflict, according to the Spartan Daily. Read more...

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Despite my previous awareness and interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it wasn’t until this year’s revival of Students for Justice in Palestine that I became an active member and officer of this on-campus organization. Read more...

In order to graduate, you will sit through four years of tedious speeches. There are the boring, redundant lectures given at orientation that warn you not to cheat ““ complete with cheesy video footage of a student who not only got kicked out of UCLA for plagiarism but couldn’t even get accepted by USC afterward. Read more...

Awareness week an obstacle to peace I am averse to contributing to the whiny din erupting from ideologues on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian “debate.” History will always have its diverging versions, some accounts that will lend credence to one side versus another. Read more...

Year after year a group of students on campus hosts a week that is meant to raise awareness about what Palestinians have been facing for decades. Read more...

Over 208,000 students just got screwed over all at once. And they probably didn’t even realize it. At the UC Board of Regents’ May 18 meeting, which addressed the recent compensation scandal and the possible culpability of University of California President Robert Dynes, the regents decided to give Dynes their support. Read more...