For too long, the Undergraduate Students Association Council has spent its energies promoting certain viewpoints at the expense of others. Student groups that support the dominant slate in USAC somehow end up with the most money. Read more...

Do you think USAC should fund political and religious student groups? Michael Bogdan Fourth-year, geography “Every single group should be funded on campus. There shouldn’t be any discrepancies. Read more...

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“Haiti is like an accordion,” said the great Haitian painter, Andre Pierre. “Sometimes it is stretched very big, and sometimes it is squeezed very small.” For the last several months Haiti has been in its big phase, generating daily headlines to the tune of: “A once popular regime collapses,” “”˜Rebels’ take over provincial towns,” “protesters shot,” “boat people turned back by the U.S. Read more...

I’m from the South; Florida, to be exact. I saw the signs that said “colored” and “white” above water fountains and bathroom doors. I was there as a first-year Florida student in 1965, the year after the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee was disbanded, following eight years of terrorizing both National Association for the Advancement of Colored People members and homosexual professors in the state’s universities. Read more...

At first glance, Proposition 57 and Proposition 58 would seem to make sense. After all, nobody denies the fact that while in office, former Gov. Gray Davis and the Legislature spent every penny they took in ““ and a whole lot more ““ to create a massive operating deficit. Read more...

California faces a cash flow crisis in a little over 100 days. The state’s bills come due on June 16, and if we don’t have enough money to pay them, we will be forced to make drastic cuts to the services that Californians care most about. Read more...