Adam de Jong

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• Changes write new chapters in our lives, but past is prologue

  June 9, 2008 at 12:17 a.m.

  “A story has no beginning or end: Arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead,” Graham Greene once wrote.

• Political stereotypes heal no social ills

  May 19, 2008 at 12:28 a.m.

  Last Thursday we were reminded that every time a step toward social equality is taken, it becomes that much more obvious how far is left to travel until reaching the final destination.

• The only thing that surprised this columnist was the low, low price that allegedly bought O.J. Mayo

  May 13, 2008 at 12:43 a.m.

  If the allegation that Los Angeles events promoter Rodney Guillory provided former USC basketball star O.J. Mayo with nearly $30,000 in money and gifts while Mayo was still an amateur turns out to be correct, the fallout will likely lead to the firings of USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett and basketball coach Tim Floyd.

• The media needs to initiate a deeper dialogue

  May 12, 2008 at 12:25 a.m.

  More often than I would care to admit, I come across media coverage of an exceptionally salacious news story.

• These elections aren’t worth my time

  May 6, 2008 at 12:38 a.m.

  I have been implored by the Viewpoint editors to write the “negative USAC” column, given that the rest of this week’s coverage of the undergraduate student government elections in the Daily Bruin are by and large very enthusiastic about the candidates and the voting process.

• Hot weekend refreshingly literary

  April 28, 2008 at midnight

  I am fairly certain that I am not the only young man at UCLA who wishes he could write like Nabokov and was built like a truck.

• Clinton trades identity for broad appeal

  April 21, 2008 at 12:38 a.m.

  Watching last week’s debate between the Democratic presidential candidates in Philadelphia, I was trying to imagine what the 1973 version of Senator Hillary Clinton would think of her 2008 self.

• Who’s looking out for you? Not the right-wing media

  April 15, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

  You may not know this, but you are a smug, condescending liberal elitist. There are more appropriate names I could call you, but they wouldn’t be fit to print.

• Three years in a row, UCLA wasn’t the best

  April 7, 2008 at 2:44 a.m.

  Sitting in a Westwood apartment as the Memphis Tigers put the finishing touches on a near-perfect game against the UCLA Bruins in the national semifinal on Saturday afternoon, I was surrounded by a group of UCLA students who wore familiar looks of resignation their faces.

• Clinton a poor choice for speaker

  April 4, 2008 at 12:09 a.m.

  In case some of you had not heard, former President Bill Clinton will be giving the commencement speech at UCLA in June. But why?