My recent detachment from the Students United for Reform and Equality slate, brief spell as an independent, and current position as the head of the United Independents slate has caused students to ask several questions. Read more...

Every year around this time people start gearing up for USAC elections. If you’re a freshman and haven’t experienced the furor and tumult of the student council elections at UCLA, prepare to see something a lot more gritty and harsh than the typical election in high school. Read more...

I learned of Cindy Rabuy’s passing through e-mail. I couldn’t make sense of what I read as I sat at my computer at 12:15 a.m. this past Thursday. Read more...

The Daily Bruin interviewed future vice chancellor of student affairs, Janina Montero, about her plans to tackle difficult issues at UCLA, her past experience at Princeton and Brown universities, and the challenges she will face in her new position. Read more...

Can somebody please tell me what a college degree is worth these days? Not much, I’m thinking. In an era marked by war, volatile market climates and rapid technological growth, it’s easy to miss many of the gradual and less apparent social transitions of the past two decades. Read more...

When National Public Radio did a sample questioning two weeks ago, several Americans responded by saying that if more than 10 Americans died in a war with Iraq, it would be akin to disaster. Read more...

I want peace. I love peace. I would pay any price necessary to attain peace. Yes, even the price of a morally waged war. Without morally waged war, black people would still be wrongfully enslaved in the South (case in point: U.S. Read more...