Sunday, January 25


Professor's kindness touched students

On Jan. 17, UCLA Professor Jayne Spencer passed away. As a lecturer for the history department, the chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Disability, the director of Computers without Borders, the coordinator for the Tarjan Center for Developmental Disabilities and a leader in the movement to establish disabilities studies at UCLA, Spencer has certainly left her mark on campus. Read more...


Private militaries lead to trouble

When the invasion of Iraq was launched last March, a huge number of private military contractors went into war alongside coalition forces. These were the employees of private companies, the products of outside agencies who have become so valuable to modern western warfare that without them the Iraq war would have been a much more difficult war for the United States to fight. Read more...





Bush’s initiatives delay progress, deceive public

By Jerson Castillo Dana Perino, the associate director for communications for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, defended the Bush administration Tuesday (“Bush serious about Clear Skies,” Viewpoint) in response to UCLA student Mike Bitondo’s column, “Bush’s attractive policy titles hide truth” (Viewpoint, Jan. Read more...