Wednesday, December 31

Funding from state should aid outreach, rework K-12 system

Wednesday, November 11, 1998 Funding from state should aid outreach, rework K-12 system DIVERSITY: Current policy ignores broad issue, focuses solely on helping UC-qualified students With all the talk about outreach lately, one might think legislators, university officials and student groups have devised the perfect solution to California’s educational inequities. Read more...


UCLA: Home of weather gods, pharoah

Wednesday, November 11, 1998 UCLA: Home of weather gods, pharoah SUGGESTIONS: Bettering our lives means bearing shame, renting movies Now that former World Wrestling Federation (WWF) superstar Jesse "The Body" Ventura has become governor of Minnesota, maybe you’ve wondered what else can be done to better our nation. Read more...


Muslims, Islam under attack in terrorist movie ‘The Siege’

Wednesday, November 11, 1998 Muslims, Islam under attack in terrorist movie ‘The Siege’ MOVIE: Hollywood inflicts pejorative view of group on susceptible audiences By Salar Rizvi The headlines read "Crafting a ‘Siege’ Mentality" as the faces of Denzel Washington, Annette Bening and Tony Shahloub stare aghast at the machinations of some would-be terrorist. Read more...


Society imposes femininity on women

Wednesday, November 11, 1998 Society imposes femininity on women WOMEN: Standards of beauty, self-esteem mask individual value, strength By Debrah Shurman This submission is in response to Catie Bailard’s column titled "Sugar ‘n’ Spice as effective as feminism" (Viewpoint Nov. Read more...


Leave senses in Las Vegas

Tuesday, November 10, 1998 Leave senses in Las Vegas THOUGHT: Take a vacation from responsibility with overload of sight, sound, smell, sin Being in Las Vegas is such a trip. Read more...


Punish hate crimes with more time

Tuesday, November 10, 1998 Punish hate crimes with more time CRIMES: Perpetrators of actions motivated by racial, sexual bias should face harsher penalties By Adrian Haymond I read with interest the article "Punishment fits crime, not cause" by Matthew Gever (Viewpoint, Nov. Read more...


Sever penchant for racist death penalty

Tuesday, November 10, 1998 Sever penchant for racist death penalty DEATH: Join working class in fight to free activist Jamal from capitalist legal system By Michelle Oberman The vindictive, racist frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal now places his life directly in the scales of justice as the state’s executioners prepare their machinery of death. Read more...