If a poor woman walked into Saks Fifth Avenue and tried to lift $5,500 worth of merchandise, she’d likely go to jail. Lucky for Winona Ryder, she’s an attractive, rich celebrity. Read more...

The move to strengthen the current campus smoking policy would be beneficial for the vast majority of students, faculty and staff. Smokers would have to move 20 feet away from the area immediately in front of building entrances to smoke instead of 5 feet as the policy stands now. Read more...

By Jennifer Babcock Read more...

Blacks should not wait for system As a college educated black man myself, I congratulate Ryan Smith for being one of the apparently few “black men who entered UCLA this fall based on academics alone” (“Funding for education, not prisons, vital to blacks,” Nov. Read more...

The California Milk Processor Board is looking for a town willing to rename itself “Got Milk?” What’s going on here? A phenomenon called “ad creep” is sweeping the nation; IBM has hired graffiti artists to launch a guerrilla marketing campaign on the sidewalks of Chicago. Read more...

California voters move in mysterious ways. On Tuesday night, they inexplicably voted for a governor that has been plagued by corruption, and then turned around and rejected a proposition that would have plagued our voting system with corruption. Read more...

Tuesday’s elections gave the majority of seats in Congress to the Republican Party, and with it, dominion of the entire federal government since they also control the White House and Supreme Court. Read more...