Tired of Racism Claims, UCLA Student Sets Record Straight
OPINION: It is important to meet such misguided opinions head-on and challenge them on the merits of their arguments. The fact is UCLA does much for diversity already and is a very diverse school. Back...
View ArticleSordid Details from the Frontlines of a Student-Workers Union Strike
The University of California system’s United Student-Workers Union organized a strike on the UCLA campus last week, and it was a spectacle to behold. The strikers, totaling in the hundreds, gathered in...
View ArticleDude, Stop Microaggressing My People – The Plight of German Americans
College campuses across the nation recently played host to “Cinco de Drinko”-styled parties celebrating the Mexican holiday “Cinco de Mayo,” which commemorates the Battle of Puebla. Steadfast Mexican...
View ArticleLeftist Suggests President of Ayn Rand Institute Should be Sodomized
OPINION: Appalling, jaw-dropping vulgarity is unique to the Left Yaron Brook is one of my favorite intellectual figures and public speakers. He is president of the Ayn Rand Institute and often speaks...
View ArticleHigher Ed, Clinton Extravagance, and an American Pathology
OPINION Hillary Clinton gave a Luskin Thought Leadership lecture at UCLA last March for which she raked in $300,000 in speaking fees. The appearance was one of at least eight lectures she gave at...
View ArticleANALYSIS: ‘Studies’ showing diversity classes improve tolerance debunked
Here’s proof UCLA’s new diversity requirement is based on bad science, emotion, rhetoric Diversity. Diversity. Diversity. It’s the catch-all term we’ve heard innumerable times since entering college....
View ArticleMathematicians refute oft-cited ‘diversity trumps ability’ study
UPDATED to include a response by Professor Scott Page A widely touted study claiming diversity is a better attribute than ability in spurring productivity and problem solving – claims used to push...
View ArticleUCLA student told she could not serve – because she is Jewish
ANALYSIS: Blatant act of anti-Semitism shocks UCLA community A UCLA student this week declared in an op-ed in The Daily Bruin that members of the university’s student government should apologize for...
View ArticleIn debate, black intellectuals spar over who’s to blame for high ‘black body...
Debate on race at UCLA between Jason Riley and Randall Kennedy tackles where to lay the blame for the ‘black body count’ LOS ANGELES – Two black intellectuals engaged in a heated exchange at UCLA this...
View ArticleCalifornia professors instructed not to say ‘America is the land of opportunity’
That’s one of several phrases deemed a ‘microaggression’ at faculty leader training sessions initiated by University of California President Janet Napolitano “America is the land of opportunity,”...
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