Tuesday, May 5

Candidates gear up for runoff elections next week

A few candidates walked away with the thrill of victory Thursday night, but for many more, the race is still on. Four positions on the Undergraduate Students Association Council had outright winners from this week’s election, but six others were not decided in the vote ““ academic affairs commissioner, cultural affairs commissioner, facilities commissioner and the three general representative positions. Read more...


McKesey takes presidency

The results are out, and Students First! came in first. As candidates and students waited in anticipation, the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s 2003 election results were announced late Thursday night on top of the Kerckhoff steps. Read more...


Girls aren’t the only targets of media distortions

As I’m sure many would expect of a Daily Bruin columnist, I am not sexually active. I could sit here and qualify my virginity as the result of some conscientious rebellion against the popular media or my strong moral convictions ““ but come on, we all know that’s not true. Read more...


Speaks out

Do you think the U.S. government will ever find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? If not, do you think U.S. credibility will be questioned? Do you think we still should have gone to war, Hannah Miller-Lerman Graduate student, Anderson School at UCLA “I suspect they will not find any weapons of mass destruction. Read more...


Letters to the editor

Morality is subjective and relative Solomon Matsas’ sentimental yet sensationalistic rant (“World conflicts have moral ambiguity,” April 30) should be taken with a huge grain of salt, lest we identify with his psychic anguish and become lulled into accepting the premise that the war on Iraq was fought on moral grounds. Read more...


Non-married couples deserve adoption rights

The state Supreme Court is on the verge of making a decision that will either extend or deny basic civil rights to thousands of Californians. The court must uphold adoptions for gay, lesbian and other non-married couples. Read more...


Lifetime e-mail bad choice

Another e-mail address? Isn’t that just another conduit for more spam? Does any undergraduate now at UCLA really need or expect to use a ucla.edu address 20 years from now? Read more...