Monday, February 23


Miriam Bribiesca: Spillover effect of assisted suicide bill must be considered

This week, despite large opposition from the religious public, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill that would enact the End of Life Option Act. This bill approves assisted suicide by allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses to patients who are expected to live six months or less. Read more...

Photo: Gov. Jerry Brown signed a controversial bill Monday legalizing assisted suicide that allows physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UCLA must not abandon the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden

The Hannah Carter Japanese Garden was the first Japanese-style garden of its scale to be built in Southern California after World War II. When it was donated to UCLA, it was meant to promote East-West understanding as it did for me and my students so very long ago. Read more...

Photo: UCLA settled a three-year lawsuit last week, which allows it to sell the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden in Bel Air so long as the new owner agrees to preserve it for at least 30 years. (Daily Bruin file photo)




No Offense, But: Foreign trade

Welcome to “No Offense, But,” the Daily Bruin’s Opinion podcast. On Monday, the United States reached an agreement with 11 other countries to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Read more...

Photo: (Roberto Luna Jr./Daily Bruin senior staff)


Two social movements your high school history textbook probably missed

Think back to your high school history textbooks and try to recall how much space publishers allocated to various social justice movements. Columnist Aram Ghoogasian argued that textbooks’ underrepresentation of different communities’ histories generates the misunderstanding efforts like the recently passed College of Letters and Science’s diversity requirement aims to remediate. Read more...