Sunday, September 6

In the news:


The more prisons you build,

Friday, September 26, 1997 The more prisons you build, PRISONS: Capitalism perpetuates racist misconceptions to expand prisons at expense of education By Andi Meck Fact: One in three black males between the ages of 20 and 29 is under some type of correctional control, as opposed to one in 15 young white males. Read more...


Speaks Out

Friday, September 26, 1997 Speaks Out During summer orientation, front desk employees in the residence halls were prohibited from playing hip-hop music. Does it bother you that this particicular type of music was singled out to be banned? Read more...


UCLA’s general education system failing students

Monday, September 22, 1997 UCLA’s general education system failing students OVERHAUL: ‘Clusters’ would enhance writing skills, create coherency, increase learning By Jamil Jaffer Before I arrived on this campus as a freshman in the fall of 1994, I had never heard of general education. Read more...




Ethnic groups must come together to produce social change

Monday, September 22, 1997 Ethnic groups must come together to produce social change RACE: Collaboration between blacks and Chicanos would lead to a better America By Mandla KayiseCollaboration between Africans and Chicanos is essential to the development of progressive cultural and socioeconomic change in American society. Read more...