Thursday, February 12

Open the doors to coed dorms

The battle of the sexes is back "“ but now it's for who can win the first shower. Examining and reconfiguring boundaries between genders will always meet backlash, stir up some strange moral panic and raise pressing questions. So it's only appropriate that the topic of gender-neutral rooms in dorms has done just that. For the past four decades, schools have steadily allowed the sexes to mingle in closer proximity: First came coed buildings, then coed suites and finally coed rooms, a trend now observed across more than 50 campuses nationwide. Read more...


Promote community instead of prejudice

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice …" This promise is yet to be held for American Muslims today. It must be clarified that the proposed "mosque" near the World Trade Center site is actually a 13-story Islamic community center called Park51 that will have a culinary school and basketball courts. Read more...





GEs: a forced education

General Education requirements can be torturous. For some, watching paint dry may be infinitely more appealing than learning that next equation in algebra. Read more...

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You may lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. So goes the time-honored saying, and so goes the lives of so many UCLA students forced to take GE courses.