Nam-Giao Do

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• Convenience and variety draw students to Co-op

  May 18, 2009 at 1:10 a.m.

  For students who are coming back from studying abroad, looking for a new experience, just plain tired of the dorms or unsuccessful in finding housing for next year, I suggest looking into another option that I am trying out right now: cooperative housing.

• Farmers evicted for Forever 21

  March 6, 2009 at 12:07 a.m.

  In the midst of the toxic fumes and rapid industrialization characteristic of South Central Los Angeles, a community garden bloomed and flourished.

• Censorship of exhibit more offensive than art itself

  Jan. 30, 2009 at 12:05 a.m.

  When he was 21 years old, my father fled a war-ravaged Vietnam with his family by boat.

• Studying abroad a chance for global understanding

  Jan. 14, 2009 at 7:06 a.m.

  A lot of people thought I was crazy to go study for four months in Vietnam. But having returned to the United States, I have to say that I found studying abroad such a critical, life-changing experience that it needs to be mandatory. The UC system should seriously consider this in our globalizing, tumultuous age. But more importantly, it is up to the students to take the initiative, no matter what their ages or majors.

• Workers deserve student activism

  June 2, 2008 at 12:49 a.m.

  I’ll admit that even as a columnist, it is sometimes difficult to make an opinion, let alone work for what you believe in.

• Meditate to find relief from college stress

  May 19, 2008 at 12:26 a.m.

  Inner peace.

• Eight of 10 doesn’t amount to much

  May 6, 2008 at 12:42 a.m.

  Already I’m bracing myself for the sight of blue-clad Bruins United supporters around the Bruin Bear touting promises of a bar on campus, the business major, campus spirit and undies galore.

• Agreement will wrongfully deport Vietnamese

  April 24, 2008 at 12:02 a.m.

  “I have to prove that America is my country, my homeland, and that I don’t want to go anywhere else. I have to be the perfect American.”

• Asian American image still not fair

  April 11, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

  We’ve come a long way from stereotyping Asians as Long Duk Dongs, Manchu Fus or yellow-faced Mickey Rooneys.

• Wake up and smell the value of fair-trade coffee

  March 7, 2008 at 12:30 a.m.

  It was another dreary Monday morning, one that truly necessitated a hot cup of wake-me-up coffee. I stumbled sleepily into Kerckhoff Coffeehouse.