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...

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News, not TV shows creates fear culture Kyle Gilde accuses the show “24” of being an agent of the fear culture, but he completely misses the target (“TV shows should stop feeding culture of fear,” Feb. Read more...

As if midterms and finals were not enough, the government wants to make standardized testing mandatory in colleges and universities. Remember those inane tests we took in grade school? Read more...

Fishing is one of the most stressful activities I have ever experienced. Multiple attempts to whip the fishing pole into the vast ocean left me physically and mentally weary. Read more...

Last Friday, I was in Cerritos with third-year psychology student Jier Dong and was surprised at how the sky had changed from an industrial gray to a picturesque blue. Read more...