Thursday, November 7, 1996 POLITICS: A survey of the lesser-known groups on campus "It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever." ­ David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap Ah, yes indeed it is. Read more...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...