Thursday, November 12

Online Extra: Letters

Divestment supports terror Israel has asked one thing of its neighbors: to be left alone. To be accepted. That’s it. Instead, the Arab countries have tried to destroy it year after year. Read more...



Editorial

Reform needed to end police brutality The ire raised by the beating of 16-year-old Donovan Jackson by officers from the Inglewood Police Department on July 6 is another turn in a cycle of intermittent awareness of police brutality. Read more...


Special Letter from the Editor

An influx of responses to the July 8 editorial “UC must respect human rights, divest,” indicates a significant number of readers have confused the difference between news coverage and editorials. Read more...



UC failed to recognize companies’ risky tactics

By Theodore Andersen The collapse, first of Enron in which the University of California pension fund lost $150 million, and then of Worldcom in which the UC lost another $350 million, calls into question the investment policies of the UC pension fund management. Read more...


Letters:

Schwartz fails in understanding ruling His proclamations of atheism and boyish grin notwithstanding, Joel Schwartz has a religious agenda. It is quite simply inconceivable for an atheist to ever conclude a column by suggesting anyone “thank God” for anything. Read more...