The University of California has over $131 million invested in companies doing business in Sudan, a country whose government is responsible for rape, disease, starvation and possible genocide. Read more...

The season where high school kids explore UCLA is back. I love to watch them, wide-eyed and hopeful. “Look,” they whisper, “college students.” “Look,” we think, “high school students.” In a way, they’re right to gawk. Read more...

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The other day I was enjoying a fish burrito at our campus Rubio’s (wait … is it Rubio’s or Baja Fresh? Or La Salsa? I can never remember) in Ackerman Union when all of a sudden my ears were assaulted by a cacophonous racket that all 200 televisions thoughtfully identified as a musical group called “My Chemical Romance.” After suffering through their song (which lasted almost two whole minutes), MTVU (the U stands for University) cut to a scene involving a “reporter” interviewing a student from some remote place like Kansas or Alabama about the new album by someone called “50 Cent” (who, incidentally, is having a bitter feud with someone called “The Game,” presumably over who has the most ridiculous name). Read more...

Walking into Denny’s in Houston last weekend, I had my first brush with odd American rules ““ Texas seemed full of them anyway. I mean, putting up the Texan flag on pretty much every open inch of space? Read more...

After I read your recent article titled “UC regents stall on graduate fee hikes” (News, May 27) I felt the reporting was fair and balanced. However, I wanted to clear up one statement made by the author. Read more...

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