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Letters

Thursday, November 7, 1996 Do homework for endorsements As you publish ballot endorsements, one would suspect you to have done your homework and to provide factual documentation supporting said endorsements. Read more...


Law takes side of graduate employees

Thursday, November 7, 1996 SAGE: Judge’s support secured; union ready to strike if rights deniedBy the SAGE Executive Board In a decision issued Sept. 13, a judge has affirmed what the Student Association of Graduate Employees (SAGE/UAW) has been saying all along: Teaching assistants (TAs), readers and tutors are entitled to collective-bargaining rights under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act. Read more...


Students’ futures are also at stake

Wednesday, November 6, 1996 MERGERS: MCAT test prep companies pressured to sell out, goal of helping forgottenBy Todd S. Bennett On Tuesday, Oct. 15, the article titled "Test prep utopia: Hyperlearning to merge with Princeton Review’ was featured on page three of your paper. Read more...



Letters

Wednesday, November 6, 1996 Administration should cooperate What concerns me a lot more than the possibility of a five-day strike by UCLA’s TAs, tutors and readers is Associate Dean Robin Fisher’s thinly-veiled threat to fire SAGE members who participate in the union’s work stoppage ("SAGE faces possibility of one week strike," Daily Bruin, Nov. Read more...


Take a crazy, three-day trek around sites of fun-filled L.A.

Wednesday, November 6, 1996 L.A.: From "Singled Out" to Venice merchants, city has a lot to offer visitors And so I shall briefly descend from my vaunted soapbox, and pass my mighty pen to two esteemed colleagues, members of two of America’s finer institutions of higher learning, the Universities of California and Michigan. Read more...


Take a look around: politics pervade campus

Tuesday, November 5, 1996 UCLA: Elections inspire thoughts on intriguing issues around UCLAAhhhhh, the long awaited election day has dawned upon us yet again. And yes, I too am caught up in decision making as our nation exercises its hard earned right to vote. Read more...