Journalists aren’t supposed to be activists. But one of the reasons I chose to write news for the Daily Bruin was because I believed that reporters do fulfill some sort of activist role. Read more...

When I joined the Daily Bruin as a member of the senior staff, I felt a little like the font Helvetica. Somehow I had slipped into a staff that knew journalism very well, just as Helvetica manages to slip its way into the newspaper every now and then. Read more...

Old editors in chief warned me about feeling deep sadness and undergoing difficult withdrawal periods after leaving the Daily Bruin. Dealing with student government officers angry about an editorial every other day, staying until 1 or 2 a.m., working on a sensitive news story, or having to completely improvise a midterm I had no time to study for all made the concept of missing The Bruin very unrealistic. Read more...

By Scott Lee “What are you going to do after you graduate?” my mom asked. “I plan on taking some time off to clear my head and figure out the rest of my life. Read more...

By Jerome Hoffman Why do 42 percent of Americans believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks? Could it have something to do with government lies? Read more...

Sexual awareness insert misleading On Wednesday, May 21, the Daily Bruin featured an anti-abortion “advertisement supplement” promoting abstinence and condemning the use of birth control, condoms and abortion. Read more...

Back straight, chin up, eyes focused, lips pouted. Gerren Taylor knows how to work what she’s got on the haute couture runways. Juggling a budding modeling career and pre-algebra, 12-year-old Gerren leads a childhood unlike other seventh-graders.  Gerren’s modeling job may seem harmless and glamorous to some, but the price of child labor is in fact much greater than what Gerren is getting paid. Gerren Taylor is a 5-foot-10-inch example of youth exploitation by the modeling and clothing industries.  Although Gerren’s mother tells the L.A. Read more...