Friday, January 23, 1998 Required courses take away choice DIVERSITY: Celebration of culture should be up to individual’s interests By Nathalie Esteban In this age of "political correctness" it is fashionable to study the cultures of previously ignored/overlooked groups, such as women or minorities. Read more...

Friday, January 23, 1998 General education at UCLA: EDUCATION: Improving current curriculum could add multi-discipline first-year clusters; new program contains possible problems with funding, teaching schedules By Sarah Morris The proposal now before the faculty and students of UCLA for consideration is the result of several years of work by dedicated members of this community, who deserve praise for their goals and efforts. Read more...

Friday, January 23, 1998 Students must rally behind diversity requirement proposal DIVERSITY: Support will prove to Academic Senate necessity of improvement By Vy Nguyen As some of you may remember, last year many student organizations and the Academic Affairs Commission organized extensively around the campaign for a diversity requirement at UCLA. Read more...

Friday, January 23, 1998 Speaks Out EDUCATION: Do you think it’s good that UCLA requires students to take classes outside of their major, or should students be allowed to take only classes that interest them? Read more...

Thursday, January 22, 1998 A little moral outrage goes a long way toward change SIMPSON: Media circus can be tamed by stopping glamorization of wrongs The topic is "Consequences: How the little things we do (or conversely the little things we don’t do) often yield the greatest effects." Two recent and unrelated events remind me of a probably apocryphal story I read somewhere about a guy who endlessly procrastinated tuning-up his sputtering, back-firing automobile. Read more...

Thursday, January 22, 1998 Bilingual education needs renovation, not removal LEARNING: Program’s success hinges on more support from schools By Jessica Goldberg I would like to respond to Ron Unz’s letter in the Jan. Read more...

Thursday, January 22, 1998 Thunbs up/Thumbs down Late to the wrong class? Thumbs down to the winter schedule of classes which has done little other than provide major inconveniences to students attempting to locate their classes. Read more...