A recent resolution passed by the University of California Academic Council has made headlines (“UC May End Its National Merit Grant Program,” Los Angeles Times, July 6). Read more...

We live in a society where we are judged by our looks down to a hair (pun intended) ““ where people are so chaetophobic (afraid of hair) that not only is leg hair reserved for hippie communities and “those” feminists, but, when Julia Roberts showed up to the Notting Hill premiere with fuzz under her arms, it earned her the spotlight. Read more...

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By Linda Goss Why should you donate blood? Simply because it’s an opportunity to do something amazing: save the life of another person. Time and again, UCLA patients marvel that complete strangers will choose to spend an hour of their time to donate blood for people that they will likely never meet. Read more...

By John MacDougall I have been interested in Kenneth Hurst’s Viewpoint submissions, “Wine workers’ demands irrational, unproductive” (May 31), and “UC workers’ demands lack logic, rationality” (April 8), and in the pro-labor responses, which did not directly respond to his points. Read more...

Hey, look! My column’s at the top of the page! But there’s no time for reckless celebration. It has been brought to my attention that summer is indeed upon us, and nearly everyone on earth is partying hedonistically with exotic people at exotic locations, getting exotic venereal diseases. Read more...

By Frederick Burwick On behalf of the Office of Residential Life and the Faculty in Residence, it’s my pleasure to welcome the freshman class to UCLA. Read more...