Monday, January 13, 1997 BASKETBALL: Attitudes of players holding the team back, not Lavin’s abilitiesBy Robert Vasquez What a mockery UCLA basketball has become! It’s a disgrace, a poor representative of the school and an embarrassment. Read more...

Monday, January 13, 1997 DIALOGUE: Policies that discriminate, not free speech, threaten libertiesBy Philip Hoskins While certainly empathetic to the pain, humiliation and anger that was a result of the boorish behavior described in "Incident of homophobia …" on Jan.9, Marlon Morales is wrong on one point ­ one’s right to free speech does not end "When your words and actions in a public place become blatantly mean spirited and even hateful." At least according to a long line of court decisions, that right includes rude and boorish behavior, even when mean-spirited and hateful. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 By Stephanie Salter San Francisco Examiner As the years accumulate, I sometimes forget why I turned out the way I did. I mean, for instance, why I became a Democrat instead of a Republican or why I moved to California or never got married or prefer scotch to bourbon. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 STANDARDS: Machistas and Machos are put to the test; find out which one you should be I must preface this by saying that I love men ­ men in the definition that I will describe. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 LANGUAGES: Communication with diverse tongues may result in exclusionBy Scott Sahlman In John Lemke’s article, "Limiting word choice stifles evolution of language," he claims that having a standardized English language, aside from being illogical and inane, is elitist and propagates racism and intolerance. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 EDUCATION: Fickle youth cannot be force-fed works of The BardBy Elizabeth Schuett Cox News Service GIBSONBURG, Ohio — "Shakespeare? Oh, yeah. He’s the funny-looking dude who wrote a bunch of weird stories in a foreign language." So says one of my more voluble freshmen, whose ignorance of a topic (any topic) seldom puts his mouth on hold. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 Women’s sports boring This is in response to Kathryn Manlove’s letter about women’s basketball on Jan. 7. She inaccurately identified the reason fans walked out before the women’s basketball game after the men played Kansas. Read more...