Late Wednesday night, my friend online had the away message “water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.” She’s a lifeguard with late-night training, and considering her earlier away messages, I just assumed that was what she was referring to. Read more...

CALPIRG report skews facts about textbooks There are essential facts that were missed in your recent article on the price of college textbooks (“Book costs reevaluated,” News, Feb. Read more...

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The Bruin’s editorial board is troubled that “only” 22.7 percent of freshmen think that racial discrimination is a problem (“Study results on students’ racial views are worrying,” Feb. Read more...

I’m told that history repeats itself. When I was 9 years old my grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, visited my elementary school. He showed my classmates a photo of himself taken after his liberation from the Dachau concentration camp ““ he weighed barely 90 pounds and had lost his wife and son. Read more...

Representation, student government need closer look I am writing in response to last Thursday’s article “Slate calls for USAC senate” (News, Jan. 27). The complexity of the issue of student government structure warrants more than a correction to the article’s misrepresentation of my comments. Read more...

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