In order to graduate, you will sit through four years of tedious speeches. There are the boring, redundant lectures given at orientation that warn you not to cheat ““ complete with cheesy video footage of a student who not only got kicked out of UCLA for plagiarism but couldn’t even get accepted by USC afterward. Read more...

Awareness week an obstacle to peace I am averse to contributing to the whiny din erupting from ideologues on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian “debate.” History will always have its diverging versions, some accounts that will lend credence to one side versus another. Read more...

Year after year a group of students on campus hosts a week that is meant to raise awareness about what Palestinians have been facing for decades. Read more...

Over 208,000 students just got screwed over all at once. And they probably didn’t even realize it. At the UC Board of Regents’ May 18 meeting, which addressed the recent compensation scandal and the possible culpability of University of California President Robert Dynes, the regents decided to give Dynes their support. Read more...

I would bet a few dollars that most of you are not particularly pleased with the president’s performance at the moment. I’d also bet many of you would like to see him out of office. Read more...

Organic farming runs its own risks Jason O’Bryan’s column reinforces several common misconceptions about organic food (“UCLA should get smart, go organic,” May 16). In his column, O’Bryan claims that “paying farmers a higher wage to go through their field and hand-weed as opposed to spraying herbicides is not out of line.” Unfortunately, that is not the case. Read more...

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