Last Tuesday night, after refusing to show his BruinCard to
university police officers, UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was
viciously stunned with a Taser five times.
We barely had to wait until morning for the Internet to become
abuzz with premature accusations and unsubstantiated
speculation.
Mostafa Tabatabainejad is totally guilty.
Some may say it’s premature to make conclusions about the
incident last Tuesday, in which Tabatabainejad was stunned with a
Taser five times in Powell Library after refusing to follow the
orders of university police officers.
Programs such as the Peace Corps have long been popular with the
ever abundant undecided graduate looking to see the world and do
some good.
Such programs promise a chance to help people in the Third World
by teaching them things we already know.
Coke and Colombia.
The two go together like fashion and France, sex-tourism and
southeast Asia, or democracy and Iraq.
So I was surprised when I found out the most recent scandal from
the land of FARC and Pablo Escobar involved the Coke of the
drinking variety.
I was visiting my grandmother in Buffalo when we found ourselves
stopped at a major intersection, her behind the wheel, squinting
ahead.
“Tell me when the light turns green,” she said to me
in her sweet, grandmotherly voice.
Over a hundred students gathered in Meyerhoff Park last week to
express discontent with the University of California admissions
policy.
Protestors chanted such slogans as, “UC Regents, I see
racists,” and criticized UCLA for not doing enough to
increase diversity.
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