Thursday, November 12

Immigrants not to blame for environment’s problems

Tuesday, April 14, 1998 Immigrants not to blame for environment’s problems ENVIRONMENT: Everyone equally responsible for preventing destruction By Garrick Ruiz Immigrants are blamed for many of the biggest problems facing society today: poverty, unemployment, crime, disease and public education failures. Read more...


Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down

Tuesday, April 14, 1998 Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down Making sports gender-blind Thumbs up to California State University Stockton for making progress in equalizing scholarship funding for female athletes. Read more...


Use public transit to stop parking woes

Tuesday, April 14, 1998 Use public transit to stop parking woes BRUINCARD: Fare-free program would allow more commuting students to take buses to UCLA By Andrew Jon Westall and Brian Taylor As the co-author of the BruinCard Bus Pass Pilot Project Proposal for the 1998-99 academic year, I would like to address Tiffani Chin’s comments in the Daily Bruin ("It’s not the fare that keeps us off the bus," April 7). Read more...


Limiting immigration key to saving environment

Monday, April 13, 1998 Limiting immigration key to saving environment POLLUTION: Reducing per capita consumption preferable, not realistic Last June, the president of the U.N. General Assembly opened Earth Summit II saying: "We as a species – as a planet – are teetering on the edge, living unsustainably and perpetrating inequity, and may soon pass the point of no return." The April 9 Daily Bruin chillingly illustrated this warning. Read more...



Target racism to save environment

Monday, April 13, 1998 Target racism to save environment IMMIGRATION: Whites project destruction of Earth onto immigrants By Scott Kurashige UCLA Astronomy Professor Ben Zuckerman has drawn a lot attention for his support of a Sierra Club initiative charging that immigration is the key threat to the environment in the United States (See Zuckerman’s L.A. Read more...


Letters

Monday, April 13, 1998 Letters Distorted facts The recent article by Anatoli Ilyashov ("Prop. 209 threatens return to pre-civil rights thinking") is so plagued with inaccuracies, distortions and what could only be complete B.S. Read more...