Students walking past Westwood Plaza Monday afternoon came face to face with a political maelstrom. In front of a cheering crowd, left-leaning speakers lashed out against conservative positions on a host of issues, ranging from the Racial Privacy Initiative to the potential war in Iraq. Read more...

Next week, a student fee referendum benefiting the Undergraduate Students Association Council will be put to a vote of the undergraduate student body. This referendum would raise quarterly student fees by $9.25 per student, a rather unnoticeable sum relative to what students are already paying for their education. Read more...

Attacking Iraq may not succeed in eliminating terrorism, containing Saddam Hussein, and preventing his use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, but it will certainly cost billions of dollars and thousands of innocent Iraqi and American lives. Read more...

The meager L.A. subway system is in need of expansion, but the proposal for a three-mile extension the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has considered is an inefficient way to start. Read more...

The Supreme Court mistakenly refused to hear a case regarding the use of the death penalty against minors Monday despite four justices being staunchly opposed to the practice. Read more...

The society that tortures children is equally good to the one that opposes it. Does that sound twisted to you? It should, but to many multiculturalists it doesn’t. Read more...

A scene from the movie “Waking Life” poses a question that I think is highly relevant to the UCLA student body: “So what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? Read more...