Like many of the students who join the paper to fill these pages, I once had a fascination with celebrities of a different sort. My own variety, distinct from the species spotted at Westwood movie premieres, were a bit grayer on top, usually white and inevitably more square. Read more...

When the Boston Globe ran a photograph last month of Boston College graduates snoozing through their commencement speech, university outcry compelled the paper to apologize. It did, saying the decision was “inappropriate” and misrepresented the reality of the ceremony. Read more...

Have you seen how the Los Angeles Times does it?” “The Orange County Register does this cool thing where …” “It just doesn’t seem very professional.” Far too often in the last few years I heard conversations that included phrases like these. Read more...

Ten years ago, campus life at UCLA was in many ways different than it is today ““ students didn’t have cell phones, the dorms weren’t equipped with Internet, and the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” was climbing the charts. Read more...

They have worked hard for four long years, sweating through finals, struggling to stay awake during lectures, and scrambling to turn in their term papers on time. Read more...

When writers ask for time off to focus on school work, I usually oblige and sometimes assure them, “You filled out an application to UCLA, not the Daily Bruin.” That’s coming from someone who used his UC personal statement to explain how he wanted to work at The Bruin. Read more...