The concept of alcohol in proximate coexistence with education is certainly not a foreign concept to most college students. Indeed, the most widespread and absolute saturation of our society by alcohol occurs during the formative and liberating experience of college. Read more...

Have you become more or less aware of world issues since coming to UCLA? Jenny Altman Second-year, Political science “I’m a little bit less aware. My life is centered around campus, I spend a lot of time here at class, work or the gym, so I don’t always know what’s going on in the outside world.” Lizy Bagby Alumna, Anthropology “I felt like I was in a community, but if I felt isolated it was because we spend all our time on school work instead of watching the news or reading the newspaper.” Ellen Huang Fourth-year, Biology “I think I’m aware of what’s going on. Read more...

Classes may be starting soon at UCLA, but the student body has some much larger questions to answer than the ones they’ll find on their finals. Read more...

There are two types of people in this world: those who believe that life is merely a chain of random events and thus live in fear, and those who believe that a higher force controls everything. Read more...

Comedian Dennis Miller recently quipped that the political climate on college campuses has grown so hostile that even a speech delivered by Jesus would be protested by a mob of college students. Read more...

By Robert Walsh The Westwood Village Business Improvement District was created seven years ago, encompassing the area from Wilshire Boulevard to Le Conte, and from Gayley to Glendon. Its mission has been “to help create an environment in which the BID’s constituents may prosper.” When it was founded, retail storefronts were almost 25 percent vacant, and there were virtually no major real estate investments on the horizon. Read more...

By Robert Hennig As a non-tenured member of the faculty at UCLA, my job is to teach undergraduate courses. All told, I love my job and have given my best to approximately five thousand UCLA students. Read more...