The Faculty Executive Committee of the UCLA College is considering a proposal to change the late-drop policy for non-impacted courses. Currently, undergraduates are allowed to drop non-impacted courses through the fourth week of the quarter with no transcript notation. Read more...

In 1903, black scholar W.E.B. DuBois confidently argued that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line.” Today, America is still racially segregated by where people choose to live, learn, worship and work. Read more...

The late Ernst Mayer, one of the most revered biologists of the 20th century, said a few years ago that “the average life expectancy of a species is about 100,000 years.” This should worry us interminably because our own species, homo sapiens sapiens, has had the intelligence to establish civilizations for around that same period. Read more...

Sitting in a staff meeting for the Vietnamese Student Union in preparations for the upcoming “Black April” event inspired a weird feeling of sadness and nostalgia inside me. Read more...

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In 1998, four years after the Rwandan genocide took the lives of nearly 1 million men, women and children, former President Clinton delivered a speech before a group of survivors and government officials, asserting, “Genocide can occur anywhere. Read more...

Not “˜pathetic’ to remain in closet The Daily Bruin should be praised for addressing on-campus lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. The stories regarding the present climate for queer student-athletes were informative and helped raise awareness of issues faced by many of UCLA’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Read more...