Radio Rahim: Archive

Charles Schwartz on the UC's budgetary dishonesty →

I would estimate that our undergraduates are being charged something like 160 percent of what it actually costs the university to provide their education.

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150 Missing Black Freshmen at UCLA →

The folks Academic Workers for a Democratic Union have been kind enough to post an article of mine exploring race and admissions at the UC. Check it out. AWDU is the reform slate currently in power in the union that represents graduate student workers at the University of California.

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Martin Luther King Jr in Selma, Alabama - March 8,...

Deep down in our non-violent creed is the conviction there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they’re worth dying for. And if a man happens to be 36-years-old, as I happen to be, some great truth stands before the door of his life–some great opportunity to stand up for that which is right. A man might be afraid his home will get bombed, or...

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Jillian C. York » The Definitive Collection of... →

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Why I am Occupying

I am occupying UCLA because I am fed up with the mismanagement of this university. Let me explain: I am here for my students, who face another round of fee increases, even though they’re up to their necks in debt and scared about how they’re going to pay it back once they graduate. I am here for my students who can’t get the classes they need to graduate, much less the classes...

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i am sorry i pepper sprayed you. i would like to get to know you better.

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Another reason to occupy UCLA

In 2006, our university promised to repair its broken admissions system whose flaws had produced a historically low enrollment of black freshmen, only 96 students (2% of the incoming class of 4,800). 5 years after promising reform, our university has made almost no progress, enrolling only 209 black students in this year’s freshmen class (4.2%). To put this in perspective, UCLA enrolled 360...

Nov 19th

From Privatization to Segregation: The University...

I compiled these articles as a contribution to the Occupy UCLA movement. The complex structure and governance of our university, combined with the short periods students spend in attendance, makes it difficult to clearly understand the ways in which the university is being corrupted and distorted. I hope this contribution helps. - RK Part 1: Orientation - The Privatization of the University ...

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Response to Daily Bruin Editorial on SB 185 (UC...

I am posting this here in light of the Daily Bruin’s refusal to print: Last week, the Daily Bruin Editorial Board argued against SB 185 (a proposed bill that would allow the UC to consider race, gender, ethnicity and national origin in admission decisions), by claiming that additional students of color and under-represented minorities will under-perform academically, that the school lacks...

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