UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
Thatcher and Reagan were “kind of like a tag team, dynamic duo; bringing [their economic] policies to the core of the world economy.”Tobias Higbie, UCLA associate professor of history, quoted in a April 8 MSN Money article about the economic legacy of the Thatcher-Reagan approach to economic reforms.
"Long-running gangs on the street are smart enough to know their own limits and don't cross them. The ones that go crazy are the ones that don't survive."Jorja Leap, adjunct associate professor of social welfare at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, quoted April 5 in a Business Insider article about a white supremacist prison gang in Texas and the recent murder of two Texas prosecutors.
"Proposition 8, in its social meaning, sends a message that gay relationships are not to be respected. That they are of secondary value, if of any value at all."Ilan Meyer, a senior public policy scholar at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, quoted April 5 in a Mlive article about a Michigan lawmaker's Facebook post attesting that homosexuals suffer from health problems because of their "filthy "lifestyles.
"It is no more about sex than an eating disorder is about food or pathological gambling is about money."Rory Reid, a research psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, quoted April 4 in a WebMD article about sex addiction.
“There’s a way in which a gesture of teasing a woman like you would tease a man is coming from a very respectful, and generous and open place as much as it could come from an othering or demeaning place.”Juliet Williams, associate professor and vice chair of the UCLA department of gender studies, quoted April 4 in a Politico article on the controversy over President Obama's comments regarding the attractiveness of California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
“Marriage is for people who have money and want to spend money just on the wedding itself ... Some people would rather buy a house, or just pay the rent ... People who are poor or less educated may shy away from marriage and its legal complications.” Gail Wyatt, professor of psychiatry and director of the UCLA Sexual Health Program, quoted Thursday in a Bloomberg article about a study that found that most women in the U.S. by the age of 30 have lived with a partner without being married.
