Thursday, 5/29/97 Executions gaining favor PUNISHMENT: Politician’s, population’s opposition to death penalty eroding By Marianne Means New York Times It has taken decades of moralistic hand-wringing, political posturing about getting tough on crime and judicial irritation with legal delays, for the death penalty to become a quietly accepted fact of national life. Read more...

Thursday, 5/29/97 Criminalization of marijuana use out of step with state, people’s rights DRUGS: Government "drug war" focuses on partisanship, imposes too severe penalties for offenders By Colin Morris Last November, the voters of California succeeded in passing a proposition to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana as prescribed by doctors. Read more...

Thursday, 5/29/97 Speaks Out "If there were a cure for AIDS, do you think people would take less precautions when having sex?" Liberty Huang: I think they would. Read more...

Wednesday, 5/28/97 Prayer has been, is, will always be voluntary RELIGION: Judge’s display of Ten Commandments shows fine line in church-state debate By Jim Wright Just where to draw the line between a nation rooted in religious faith and a state-sponsored religion continues to plague the minds of our most fastidious legal dogmatists. Read more...

Wednesday, 5/28/97 Apathy shouldn’t be part of college life POLITICS: Those who don’t vote shouldn’t criticize election results By Elizabeth Geyer What I am tired of is hearing how disunited we are, and "can’t we all just get along?" Isn’t this the same article that is traditionally cranked out during every election at The Bruin? Read more...

Wednesday, 5/28/97 Letters Misconduct As undergraduate students, we want to express our anger at the disgraceful manner our USAC President John Du chose to represent our student body during last Friday’s retirement celebration for Chancellor Young. Read more...

Wednesday, 5/28/97 ‘Reinvention’ of science fails both women, intellectualism SOCIETY: Achievement in academic world, gender unrelated to each other When I was in seventh grade, I was the perfect candidate for the women’s studies program. Read more...