Fifteen minutes is all the time the UCLA Mock Trial teams need to plan case strategy that will ultimately reveal whether seven-year-old Derrick Smith was killed by an epileptic seizure or hit-and-run driving. Read more...

On Friday, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed its ruling that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools with the phrase “under God” intact is unconstitutional. Read more...

If Gov. Gray Davis will prove anything to voters in his second term, it’s that no helpful academic program is exempt from a good thrashing. California’s 2002-2003 budget contains $74 million in mid-year cuts, ranging from $3.3 million cuts in outreach programs to $18 million in research, and $6.3 million for student services. Read more...

War, not USAC, is the thief In response to Joel Schwartz’s column “Councils rob public with anti-war ads,” (Feb. 27) as a member of the Undergraduate Students Association Council who voted for the resolution opposing the war, I wanted to comment on what I feel is the true theft. This war, and any subsequent wars it will cause, is robbing the public (and especially students) of funding that should otherwise go to alleviating our increasing tuition, keeping hospitals open, and providing employment for the many students who will soon graduate, as well as maintaining employment for those people who are losing their jobs en masse. A printed resolution, or time spent at a meeting is the least we can do to use our public positions to call out the true injustice and theft of the nation’s communal resources which are now being funneled to the military industrial complex and oil producers. Read more...

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Many students come to UCLA hoping for hands-on academic experiences unique to this school. Some students don’t know where to look, but for the ones who do, enroll in Education 193F. Read more...

Internet junkies and political philosophers are becoming one and the same as the focus on discussion boards shifts under the tension of possible war in Iraq. Read more...