Thursday, July 2

Letters

Proposition 22 ad insults gay people I must protest your decision to run the March 6 advertisement titled, "Look What Happens If We Pass Proposition 22." By allowing the advertiser to include the wording "Not paid for by your student fees, but by concerned students," you clearly insulted the students – including myself and my partner – who designed and paid for another ad, titled "Vote March 7 No on 22," which ran in the same issue. Read more...





Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down

Giuliani reacts poorly to shooting Thumbs down to New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for responding irresponsibly and insensitively to the death of Patrick Dorismond, the third unarmed black man killed by the city’s police in the past 13 months. Read more...


Asian males face contradictory stereotypes

By Jon Chang This is in response to the column, "Stereotypes of Asian Americans limit dating scene" (Viewpoint, March 2). I’d like to comment that although Annalisa Burgos begins by mentioning how the stereotypes of Asian American females and males are analogous, she ends by stereotyping Asian American males herself. Read more...


Hate crimes encouraged by indifference

By Ryan Masaaki Yokota In a 1995 film called "Higher Learning," which ironically was filmed at UCLA, a white supremacist on a college campus goes crazy, and by the end of the film perches himself on the top of Haines Hall and starts shooting people of color in Dickson Plaza. Read more...