A flurry of reports have detailed how an “unimpressive” youth population “didn’t rock” the vote last Tuesday. All cited a statistic claiming the proportion of 18- to 29-year-olds voting this year was about the same percentage as in 2000. Read more...

Tens of thousands of students pass by the Fowler Museum every day on their way to and from class, but not many attend the exhibits. Students who can actually locate the off-campus Hammer Museum probably don’t know the museum hosted a reading by David Foster Wallace last Friday and Jonathan Franzen is scheduled to speak in December. Read more...

A divided country begets a divided home. President Bush’s close victory over Sen. John Kerry Tuesday served to highlight the political rift gripping the nation and my apartment. Read more...

With the crunch of midterms, finding time to write that history paper or analyze that Shakespeare poem may seem like an impossible feat. But students will want to think twice before running to the Internet to download a paper in times of desperation, as UCLA renewed its license this year for the commonly used online anti-plagiarism service, Turnitin.com. Read more...

Eleven years ago, Sung Deuk-Oak found it strange to write an academic paper by starting with his thesis. The foreign notion of presenting one’s ideas at the beginning, rather than subtly suggesting them at the end has required some adjustment. Read more...

On Tuesday, 14 million Americans ““ equivalent to the combined populations of New York city, Los Angeles and Chicago ““ agreed gay couples are not worthy of marriage. Read more...