Despite what you may be inclined to think about the Black Graduate Students Association staging a re-enactment of a lynching last Wednesday, no black people are losing sleep about a possible lynching. Read more...

The United States seems to be constantly finding new and inventive ways to get around the concept of freedom. With illegal wiretaps, the administration is using the “fascism-is-effective” campaign. Read more...

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Article promotes talk on role of immigrants I was glad to read Khadeeja Abdullah and Saira Lari’s “Reaction to cartoons hypocritical” (Feb. 14) in the Daily Bruin because they were able to encapsulate many of the issues involved with the cartoon portrayal and the reaction to it. Read more...

USAC trying to find space for groups At the last Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting, students and the groups they comprise won a huge victory. By passing the organizational space allocation guidelines for the first time in 9 years, USAC is seriously tackling the problem of having over 800 student groups and nowhere to house them. Read more...

The idea behind General Education requirements is worthy: Give students a well-rounded education and the opportunity to explore subjects outside of their majors. But if the promise of general education is to encourage interested, ambitious students to explore different fields in order to enrich their major coursework, then UCLA’s current system doesn’t live up to its potential. Read more...

There have only been a few times in my life when I’ve been optimistic about the future of the world and its human inhabitants. Like when discussing the need for buying drinking cocoa from both a fair-trade and a nonprofit company with a guy in Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City, or the sight of a poster advertising the statement “Good Catholics Use Condoms” with a picture of a gay male couple, paid for by a Catholic organization. Read more...