Florida’s a mess. Hurricane Charley raged through the Sunshine State last month, tearing roofs off family homes. Lately, we’ve been experiencing terrible hurricanes, starting with Hurricane Andrew in 1992 ““ and it’s pretty scary stuff. Read more...

As college students, our daily verbal discourse is quite varied ““ presentations, talking to professors, peers, roommates, co-workers and so on. By now, most of us know how to adapt to our audience in order to receive our desired response. Read more...

Want to hear the biggest flip-flop of the 2004 presidential election? Nearly 10 months ago, President Bush told a crowd in Whippany, N.J., that he “came to this office to solve problems and not pass them on to future generations.” Yet four years since taking the oath of office, even the most devoted CNN or Fox News fan would be hard-pressed to think of a single college-education plan that the “compassionate conservative” has tried to implement. Read more...

The most common complaint I hear about the Daily Bruin is that it’s not really a student paper. “It never covers anything I care about,” moaned one student. Read more...

During my Aug. 23 browsing of the Daily Bruin, I came across a column in the sports section, “Olympic voices should focus on positive to keep viewers,” by Sonya Palathumpat. Read more...

This year’s Undergraduate Student Association Council’s base-budget process was unprecedented because the funding source was opened up to all student groups ““ whether they were officially recognized or independent. Read more...

The following is a phone interview with Grant Tyler Peterson, a recent UCLA graduate who married his boyfriend Eric “Gumby” Anderson in San Francisco in February 2004. Read more...