UCLA students are the future leaders of the most powerful and influential society in the world. It would be a crime to waste our intelligence, in which society has invested so much, on mere self-fulfillment. Read more...

Westwood has not been a welcoming place these days. In the Village, business owners are asking for more police protection from loiterers and potential thieves. On campus, a dead body has been found, a sexual assault has occurred, and, most recently, two students in the Saxon Residential Suites were robbed at gunpoint by two as yet unidentified assailants. Read more...

On Monday, the Bruin Republicans made a bold political statement on Bruin Walk, which the Daily Bruin chose to ignore. Our Affirmative Action Bake Sale was intended to drive home to students the absurdity of deciding college admissions by race through the pricing structure of the cookies we were selling. Read more...

All women face the same impossible aesthetic standards and have experienced pain when these standards cannot be met. But we don’t lift one another up and remind each other that we do not have to meet these standards to be successful, happy or loved. Read more...

It is difficult for me to comprehend how a group of American Jews at UCLA can gather on campus to celebrate the occupation of another state as they did in the recent Bruins for Israel rally. Read more...

Daily Bruin flubs facts I am disappointed by the lack of journalistic professionalism displayed in the inaccurate reporting in the editorial “Partisanism taints USAC appointment” (Jan. Read more...

This is the beginning of Black History Month and many students may consider themselves active Black History participants because they might reread the “I Have A Dream Speech,” because they remember George Washington Carver while eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or because they have “black friends.” Then on March 1, students of all colors go back to their lives, forgetting how valuable black achievements have been to them every day. Read more...