The Higher Education Act was initiated in 1968 to provide grants and loans to students who would otherwise be unable to attend state colleges and universities. Read more...

I consider myself an ally of Thomas Wood, the co-author of Proposition 209, despite the fact that I consider myself a politically liberal-minded person. I’m his ally not because he believes that race is an irrelevant factor in hiring and higher education admissions. Read more...

ASUCLA should beef up BookZone The drop in BookZone sales has nothing to do with the absence of best sellers. BookZone stopped being a place to buy books when ASUCLA decided to make selling BearWear to tourists their number one (and only) priority. Read more...

When all is said and done, where do you draw the line between comedy and blatant offensiveness? Here’s where I’m drawing it. The February issue of Vanity Fair Magazine which features the lovely Salma Hayek on the cover, contains an advice column titled “Ask Dame Edna.” Now, I love satire and comedy as much as the next person. Read more...

What will happen to successful black women who graduate from UCLA? Will they date and marry black men who might be on a lower educational and financial level? Read more...

The Daily Bruin’s unsigned editorials should be required to have some semblance of consistency. While last Friday’s editorial on the parking problem professed the board’s complete understanding of parking scarcity, the other editorial on the Undergraduate Student Association Council’s budget decision, which appeared right above it, was devoid of any economic sense whatsoever. Read more...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley recently announced he is concluding his investigation of the Rampart Scandal because the testimony of an officer involved in the scandal had not implicated any additional officers. Read more...