Tristan Reed

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• Forced to mix as one body politic in UCLA

  June 9, 2008 at midnight

  As I sat at my desk the other day, contemplating my past four years here, I could not help recognizing the truth in Aristotles’s proposition that man is a “political animal.”

• UCLA grads must be more proactive than private elites in job search

  May 27, 2008 at 1:32 a.m.

  With graduation set for Friday, June 13, the class of 2008 faces a rather inauspicious send-off.

• ‘Genocide’ term may be detrimental

  May 21, 2008 at 12:02 a.m.

  Raising awareness, that prized hobbyhorse of the student organization, is this week in full gallop.

• Neighborhood recyclers need to take it to the streets

  May 15, 2008 at midnight

  I don’t recycle.

• Support the cause: Let them eat tacos

  May 7, 2008 at 12:54 a.m.

  “Carne Asada is not a crime.”

• Students First! could turn it around

  May 6, 2008 at 12:43 a.m.

  After nearly two decades of sounding the clarion call to progressivism from Kerckhoff’s towers, Students First! now risks looking out of touch and anachronistic.

• Short-sighted senate proposal won’t mend an unbroken system

  April 10, 2008 at 12:01 a.m.

  Gabe Rose, president of USAC, is a fervent supporter of Sen. Barack Obama. Ironically, this month he’s adopted a political strategy of Sen. Hillary Clinton.

• Cleaning up the UC’s big mess deserves big pay

  April 3, 2008 at 12:04 a.m.

  The University of California made a big purchase last week.

• In America – still an ocean away from the American dream

  March 13, 2008 at 12:29 a.m.

  On a foggy Saturday morning at the beginning of the month, hundreds of high school students poured into Haines Hall for a teach-in on “Underground Undergrads,” that small, embattled group of undocumented immigrant students, who struggle substantially more than most to achieve this country’s dream.

• Rise up and fight for the right to higher student fees

  Feb. 21, 2008 at 12:03 a.m.

  Time was, any activist worth his salt could rally a campus by shouting Marx’s famous phrase: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!”