Thursday, August 6

Letters to the Editor

Cartoon trivializes worldwide tragedy I am offended and embarrassed by the editorial cartoon featured on April 18 concerning the shootings at Virginia Tech. It is insulting and irresponsible to poke fun at such a tragic event that has affected college students worldwide and many UCLA students personally. Read more...



Admissions policy is not reverse discrimination

UCLA’s much-publicized holistic admissions approach has now survived its first applicant pool. When the data was released on the school’s Web site on April 5, a 2.2 percent increase in underrepresented minority admits served as evidence for the policy’s improved ability to take into account factors other than test scores and GPAs. Read more...



Letters to the Editor

Sex is expensive; abstinence is free I was completely disappointed in Lara Loewenstein’s article “Exorbitant expense of fornication nothing new, but still blows” (April 12). The article was rather depressing, not in terms of the content it dealt with, but rather the message delivered. Read more...



A sleepless future? Maybe after a nap

I shouldn’t have done it. I had decided to stay up for 24 hours without the aid of energy drinks or coffee to make a point about the future of sleep, and 12 hours in, I was already regretting my decision. Read more...