Officials at UC Berkeley recently lifted the ban on students from SARS infected areas, but is that necessarily safe? “SARS took us by surprise,” writes Melissa Hinebauch of Newsweek in a May 12 column regarding her experiences as an American expatriate in Singapore, “I even had to cancel my daughter’s birthday party because none of her friends’ parents would let them attend. Read more...

Sitting in a sea of caps and gowns and listening to the speakers congratulate his class, the soon-to-be UCLA graduate took a moment to reflect on his future.  Big mistake.  Having lived through the experience of being a freshman in both high school and college, he was about to become a freshman in life. He had thought about grad school and jobs, but all of that seemed far away and vaguely menacing. He tried to find comfort in the skills and knowledge he had acquired in school, but sensed that most of the information he’d inhaled during pre-final all-nighters had immediately flown from his head after each test. As he squirmed in his seat, his stomach began to twist itself into a knot, and a voice in his head screamed, “Don’t make me leave!” Looking back on that day fifteen years later, I can see how right I was ““ and how wrong. Yes, I had forgotten a lot of what I learned in classes. Read more...

As of May 29, there were 71 suspected or probable cases of SARS in California alone. Considering that, a little healthy fear is probably a good thing. Read more...

When a woman tells a man she has sprung a leak, it is possible that she may be referring to more than the plumbing. Women, now more than ever, can actually be referring to their ruptured breast implants. Read more...

You might not even care about the environment because you think it does not affect you and your life, but it does. Over 130 million Americans live in areas where it is unsafe to even breathe. Read more...

In previous articles, members of the Faculty Organization for Human Rights have expressed their concerns about collateral damage caused by the current administration’s focus on war as the answer to terrorism. Read more...

When I went to Hong Kong this past summer the first thing family and friends said to me was, “Wow, you gained weight; what have you been eating?” This was contrary to what I have been hearing from people in the United States. Read more...