Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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Grads banking on financial gain

Flashy incentives, uncertainty steer young workers away from public service, toward Wall Street

From the sounds of it, Harvard’s getting angsty, as are many other big brand schools. The reason for this is that apparently an overly large amount of the wide-eyed ...

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Colleges deserve protection from guns

This past Thursday, the Supreme Court turned heads and incited strong reactions, both positive and negative, when it overturned the District of Columbia’s ban on the individual possession of handguns.

The ruling puts the ...

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University use of fair use is, well, pretty fair

Georgia State University is defending its actions in a lawsuit filed by three publishing companies for posting copyrighted material online for student use.

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Orientation Issue 2008: The opportunities are here – find your path

Your college experience should not be influenced by preconceptions of undergraduate life; take the reins, this is the time to experiment

So, you are a Bruin at last and you’re already bored.

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Undie Run marks end of spring quarter

A Powell Library window is broken during the event, causing UCPD to reraise safety concerns

A sea of students swarmed in Strathmore Tunnel on Wednesday night before running through the UCLA campus to commemorate the end of spring quarter with the school year’s last Undie Run.

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Beef up on your knowledge of meat

Audiences cringe watching participants of reality TV ingest insects and other creatures that are typically considered inedible.

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UCLA must step up to the plate

Dining halls should give unserved food to charity instead of just throwing it away

Six hundred seventy pounds: the amount of food wasted daily by UCLA students from one – count it, one – dining hall. But what about the food that never makes it out of the kitchen?

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Pomp and Clinton's stance

Presidents, past or hopeful, do not belong at graduation ceremonies if they will burden them with agendas

There are laws in the United States that prevent one candidate receiving more media time on a station than another candidate.

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Ethnic data must be specific, not rigid

The way our schools and government collect data on race and ethnicity is severely flawed – just ask any Persian or Arab who has been categorized as white, any mixed-race person who has been told to choose one race to identify with, or the progressive visionaries who finally had the UC admissions data on Asians and Pacific Islanders divided into 23 distinct categories.

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Speech and debate team gains steam

Completely student-run organization is amassing size and reputation, despite initial setbacks

When UCLA students first began its debate team, a rival coach told the group they would not last two months.
Three years later, the team is more successful than it has ever been.

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