Considering the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, should Californians reconsider Prop. 209’s ban on affirmative action? Pat Ryan Fourth-year, economics “I think there should be debate (on affirmative action). Read more...

Gov. Gray Davis messed up. Entering office with a comfortable surplus, he has sunk California into a $38 billion slump. For Davis himself, this will most likely mean a recall vote in the fall while, at the same time, UC students and their parents will be expected to pay in other ways. Read more...

You can’t always get exactly what you want. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Simple enough to make it into one of the world’s best rock songs, and yet it is a concept that many in this blessed and prosperous country seem unable or unwilling to grasp. Read more...

Monday’s Supreme Court decision allowing renewed affirmative action in higher education has produced more questions than answers. What percentage of one’s heritage must be minority to qualify for racial preferences? Read more...

Occupying Iraq is a complicated issue. The Los Angeles Times recently announced that 200 Americans had been killed in Iraq since the day American and British forces launched the attack against the Persian Gulf nation. Read more...

It’s that time of the year again. You’re ready to pull your hair out because there are 13 different classes you could take to fulfill a requirement you don’t really care about fulfilling, 27 different professors, 62 teaching assistants, and no way to know which combination is going to be at all palatable for the next 10 weeks of your life. Read more...

Having destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs, the United States and the international community must now focus on a problem that could very well be even more threatening to the stability of the Middle East: the prospect of a nuclear Iran. Read more...