UC lecturers are at the end of their rope. Last Monday the bargaining team composed of lecturers from different UC campuses went to Sacramento for contract negotiations with UC’s Labor Relations Department staff and representatives from the campuses. Read more...

The Student Alumni Association helped bring some spirit back to the campus by renewing homecoming festivities this weekend after a six-year intermission. SAA’s event was the product of student-initiated campus community building and should be commended as an honorable effort. Read more...

North Korea’s recent belligerent announcement of what everyone already knew ““ that it is developing nuclear weapons ““ has stirred up the Iraq debate. Thus far, though, it seems most commentators, at least campus commentators, are missing the point. Read more...

Chancellor Albert Carnesale has joined his Berkeley counterpart in opposing the Racial Privacy Initiative due to the potential threat it can have on the University of California’s ability to conduct academic research and audit the effectiveness of its outreach programs. Read more...

The government should adopt a $50 per hour minimum wage so that everybody makes $100,000 a year. This is the absurd logic behind Santa Monica’s Measure JJ, on the ballot Nov. Read more...

It’s time for UCLA to improve the education of its students by making a change from the quarter system to semesters. The quarter system, widely used across the University of California and seldom outside it, often causes a semester’s worth of content to be condensed into a ten-week quarter. Read more...

With the tragic death of Senator Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., in a plane crash last Friday, this country lost one of its most passionate and inspiring social justice advocates and a deeply moral voice for compassion in a nation too often characterized by selfishness. Read more...