Tuesday, March 3, 1998 Every country is only out for itself in our corrupt world FOREIGN POLICY U.S. carefully weighs options before acting in foreign nations By Wesley Jay Morris I am writing in response to Garrick Ruiz’s article on the hypocrisy in the Iraqi Crisis ("Military action downright hypocritical," Feb. Read more...

Tuesday, March 3, 1998 Thumbs up/thumbs down New grants for computers Thumbs up to the state board of education for giving the Lennox School District an $872,744 grant to create a professional development center for teaching staff, parents and students about computers and to buy computers for every classroom. Read more...

Monday, March 2, 1998 Letters Lesbian sorority had community impact After reading The Bruin’s Feb. 25 article "Delta Lambda Phi returns to UCLA," I am once more amazed at just how brief our cultural memory seems to be as Gen-Xers and a little disappointed at the author’s lack of research. Read more...

Monday, March 2, 1998 Socialist rebellion could right wrongs of U.S. conquest IMPERIALSIM: World’s proletariat must unite against capitalism’s blatant imperialism, prejudice By Michelle Oberman In February, the Spartacus Youth Club (SYC), youth organization of the revolutionary socialist Spartacist League (U.S. Read more...

Monday, March 2, 1998 Sanctions aren’t working in Middle East IRAQ: Children, civilians, not Hussein’s leadership, are being harmed by ineffective demands from U.S. Millions of Iraqis, many of whom are children, are suffocating under the harsh economic sanctions implemented and enforced by the United Nations. Read more...

Monday, March 2, 1998 Bamboozle your professor PAPERS: Using big words and long, convoluted sentences for no apparent reason may not be ethical per se, but receiving a good grade for it from a draconian TA doesn’t make you an evil, Machiavellian student So you’re daydreaming in class, but unfortunately your friend wakes you up just in time to find out about the term paper that’s due at the end of the quarter. Read more...

Friday, February 27, 1998 Concept of race creates artificial social divisions DIFFERENCES: Return to childhood’s innocence; re-learn to see people as unique, equal individuals By Daniel Rego Race is the most putrid and hate-inspiring word ever spoken. Read more...