Sallie Mae, provider of one-third of all federally insured student loans, discovered last week that it had been under-billing some of its loan recipients and raised the monthly payments on these loans from 25 to 40 dollars per month. Read more...

Booking a trip to Europe might not seem as daunting to students and faculty now that a new travel center has journeyed its way onto the UCLA campus. Read more...

The Day of Reckoning drew ever closer. With the help of the jittery and elusive Anarchist, my common-law wife Christy and I were getting closer to toppling Rupert Murdoch and his Inner Circle of TV executives. Read more...

Ozma “Spending Time on the Borderline” Kung Fu Records We’ve all been there, at our most angst-ridden moments when we need nothing more than the perfect power-pop melody and sweet, disturbingly heart-breaking lyrics. Read more...

Professors have the right to opine It disgusts me that some students here think professors should be forbidden from voicing their political opinions for the fear that it might infect the students.  In that case, parents shouldn’t preach their political views at the dinner table, and political analysts should not be on television. Read more...

Academics are often accused of living in an ivory tower of ephemeral debate and abstract thinking with little connection to the real world. Yet, when the UCLA Academic Senate voted Monday to officially oppose preventive war, a public argument erupted over the right of professors to display overtly political opinions. Read more...

Gabriel Piterberg, a history professor at UCLA, is not opposed to the war in Iraq because of catchy slogans, hippie culture or vehement anti-United States rhetoric. Read more...