Boycott efforts economically unsound I hope the students who prompted this whole witch hunt against Taco Bell are happy. They’ve successfully put all the students who worked at that Taco Bell out of a job and reduced the income of the farm workers they were (ignorantly) trying to help. Read more...
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October 24, 9:00 pm
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October 24, 9:00 pm
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October 24, 9:00 pm
Proposition 69: Privacy or safety?
Proposition 69, the DNA Fingerprint Initiative, would immediately require all convicted felons to provide a non-invasive DNA sample for inclusion in a statewide database. Beginning in 2009, individuals arrested for felonies ““ not misdemeanor crimes like shoplifting under $400 or traffic violations ““ would also have to provide a DNA sample, but could have their sample removed if they are not convicted. Read more...
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October 24, 9:00 pm
Proposition 69: Privacy or safety?
Imagine that the campus police mistakenly pick you up for shoplifting over $400 worth of BearWear at the campus store and you are later released without charges. Read more...
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October 21, 9:00 pm
Medical progress dependent on stem cell research
In order to clarify some issues that are often inadequately explained within the media and politics, I would like to discuss the issue of therapeutic cloning. Read more...
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October 21, 9:00 pm
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October 21, 9:00 pm
UCLA needs to boot the Bell
Many students are wondering why Taco Bell is still on campus even though they did not respect the Associated Students of UCLA’s request to conduct a third-party investigation into the working conditions of Florida farmworkers, and even though the ASUCLA Food Services Committee has recommended, now for the second time, that the ASUCLA board of directors not renew the Taco Bell contract. Read more...