Letters to the Editor

Gandhi’s birthday deserves attention

I find it sadly ironic that most students around UCLA who
normally tout Mahatma Gandhi as their hero and splatter his
quotations and portraits on their bumpers and walls failed to
realize his birthday was two days ago.

Your publication did not even mention that fact, much less look
into analyzing the impact Gandhian values has on today’s
world.

It seems it has now become standard to name Gandhi (with a
grossly incorrect pronunciation) when it comes to naming all things
holy and semi-God-like, even if people may not be aware of his
teachings or history.

Swati Srivastava

Second-year,

Political science and global studies

Students can help change admissions

The students on the Undergraduate Admissions Workgroup find it
difficult to swallow the words of our undergraduate student council
president, Marwa Kaisey, from Monday’s piece on admissions
(“New policy in the works,” Oct. 2).

Students apply and do not get accepted; they are denied access
to this university and not even given a chance to decide whether
they want to come here. The problem is not yield and the problem
does not rest entirely on the K-12 system.

Students on this campus need to take initiative to help resolve
this admissions crisis on our campus. We must continue to work with
and to pressure the administrators at UCLA and in the UC system to
realize long-lasting effective change.

Lucero Chavez

Fourth-year,

American Literature and Culture and Chicana/o Studies,

Undergraduate Admissions Workgroup