Adham El-Sherif and Kevin Duffel skateboarded down the aisles in the Northwest Campus Auditorium. They weren’t there to skateboard for leisure, but to discuss an issue they call “skateboardingism.” “Skateboardingism,” which they defined as discrimination against skateboarders, was one of nine topics that students presented Wednesday night at an event called The Isms Project, presented by the Office of Residential Life. Read more...

Of the University of California campuses whose police departments use Tasers, the university police department at UCLA has the one of the most flexible policies regarding the use of Tasers. Read more...

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The University of California Students Association released its “Police Brutality Resolution” on Monday related to the Taser incident ““ the problems with this resolution start with the title. Read more...

We have grudgingly come to expect the appointment of anti-abortion activists to key federal positions by the Bush administration. But the appointment of Eric Keroack as the Department of Health and Human Services’ deputy assistant secretary of population affairs will be detrimental to the lives of 5 million Americans. Read more...

Students say their views on overall campus safety and attitudes toward university police may be altered due to the recent use of a Taser on a student ““ but statistics show violent crime on campus is fairly low. Read more...

After studying drug regulations in their public policy class, Eric Gorin-Regan and Daniel Walter were hooked ““ on public policy, that is. One year later, their interest would take them and fellow student Matt Nazareth to Washington, D.C., to lobby about drug policy issues as part of a developing political student group called Students for Sensible Drug Policy, or SSDP. Read more...