By Ayesha Husain Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to be given the Nobel Peace Prize, has reported several recent death threats on her life. On April 5th, one such threat took the form of a missive sent to her office with the words, Shirin Ebadi, your death is near?. While Ebadi has been at…
by Adam Sheets, UCLA It is crucial that one has her/his facts straight about Israel”s war on Gaza. What events brought about this dreadful situation? What needs to be done to make it stop? These questions will be answered in the content of this article, using concrete facts from a variety of news sources. Let”s…
By Judith Pererra of The Daily Bruin More than 75 students crowded the meeting room at Kerckhoff on Tuesday night when the Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a humanitarian resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza conflict by a vote of 8-2, with two councilmembers abstaining. The resolution, titled A Call for the Immediate…
By Rabiah Rahman The world is at war. The war I speak of is not amongst nations; it is not amongst human beings. We are at war with a disease. For over 25 years leaders in science, technology and medicine have been working together to combat the international pandemic known as the Acquired Immune Deficiency…