Imagine you’re driving in your car on one of California’s freeways, bumpin’ the tunes and enjoying the sunshine. Suddenly you see flashing lights behind you, except the vehicle tailing you isn’t the usual black and white, it’s the green and white, Border Patrol. You wonder what you did as the[Read More…]
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Our View-Transfer hopefuls get brunt of administrative lapse
This campus has many students with vastly different backgrounds. Some of us have been here since our freshman year, some are transfer students, some work part-time and some don’t work at all. Whatever our differences may be we all have one thing in common; we are in pursuit of a[Read More…]
Gaza occupation result of Israel hegemony toward Palestinians
In the award-winning documentary “Occupation 101-Voices of the Silenced Majority” a young woman is in labor. She is suffering intense pain during contractions and feels her body weakening, while medical personnel are nowhere in sight. Her life depends on an 18-year-old soldier giving permission to go to a hospital. With[Read More…]
This Week In Cartoons-Indira Carmona
Imagine your car breaks down and you’re forced to spend four hours a day on Los Angeles’ bad public transportation system to get to school. On top of that, you must use every single paycheck to cover food, rent and bus money — your school ID is only good for[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,I understand that the full color flyer inserted into Monday’s paper was a paid ad against abortion. However, the only identifying feature was the website Nucleus Medical Art from which the images were taken. I believe there is a law that requires that political ads must carry the name[Read More…]
Our View-Easing immigration hails infrastructure investment
This country would be unrecognizable without Mexican immigrants, the men and women who often perform the thankless jobs that many privileged citizens might refuse to do. How many middle-aged white guys would work all day as a gardener and then head straight to the local restaurant to cook and clean[Read More…]
Muslim right short on blamable presidents
On Jan. 30, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post wrote a column criticizing aspects of President Barack Obama’s outreach to foreign Muslims. While I agree with some of his points, in other ways he makes errors in reasoning that conservatives commonly seem to make. Specifically, he took exception[Read More…]
Tainted peanut butter gets spread on poor childrens’ sandwiches
Is there anything more enjoyable than eating a peanut butter sandwich? It’s a universal meal enjoyed by toddlers and starving college students alike. Elvis Priestley used to eat fried peanut butter sandwiches by the dozen, and Hall of Fame Washington Redskins coach George Allen — who also was a Long[Read More…]
Our View-Use of child soldiers should have world seeing red
We’ve chosen to re-published most of the article “Our View-Children should be in school, not fighting in wars,” which originally ran in November because tomorrow is Red Hand Day. Those who would like to participate may stop by the Daily Forty-Niner newsroom in SPA 004 between 10 a.m. and noon[Read More…]