Friday, February 20



Submission: Daily Bruin should have disclosed authors’ link to Hasbara

On Feb. 25, the Daily Bruin published an op-ed entitled “Divestment promotes anti-Israeli movement,” written by Avinoam Baral, Tammy Rubin and Miriam Eshaghian. Although I personally do not agree with the political viewpoints endorsed by the authors, I find it more problematic that the three are participants in the Hasbara Fellowships program, and that the Daily Bruin failed to publicly disclose this information to its readership. Read more...



Natalie Delgadillo: Faculty must note campus climate

It’s hard to argue that campus climate is not a problem at UCLA. A growing list of incidents on campus this year proves that point: student protests denouncing Proposition 209, which bans affirmative action in the state of California; a student video criticizing the university’s lack of black students; racist and sexist fliers directed at the Asian American population on campus; and an Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting that ran more than 11 hours and included several hateful public comments toward the Palestinian and Jewish communities on campus. Read more...

Photo: Xin Song/Daily Bruin