Last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced his 2004-2005 state budget with the majority of the state knowing there would be deep cuts. During his campaign, Schwarzenegger made a key promise to protect education, which must include graduate education. Read more...

Twenty schoolgirls in Lille, France have been expelled from school. According to French President Jacques Chirac, they are a threat to national cohesion, France’s founding principles of secularism and their behavior “is a sort of aggression that is difficult for us to accept.” You might think they formed a club at school dedicated to starting a revolution in the countryside where they would stage a military coup to overthrow the French government and replace it with a fanatical, religious regime. Read more...

Many UCLA students have a special interest in the 2004 economic outlook for the United States because it strongly affects their job prospects. To assess such prospects, it is helpful to examine those recent developments which will influence most the coming year. Read more...

Branding somebody a liar is a pretty powerful thing to do. It is even more powerful when it is done four times, as Senator Ted Kennedy demonstrated in a remark about the war against Iraq. Read more...

SAT, GPAs still important criteria UCLA is first and foremost an academic institution; and it therefore follows that its primary consideration for admitting new students should be academic merit. Read more...

As the new year approached, I started thinking about what I have achieved during my academic career. I am a graduating senior at UCLA, one of the nation’s most prestigious universities. Read more...

A friend of mine told me a new joke is going around in Italy about the Bush administration’s new outer space plans: “The Americans are sending people to Mars to make sure it’s red.” George W. Read more...