Students should not be made to fund the university’s quest to house a higher percentage of students on campus, period. But perplexingly, the state deems all housing expenses to be auxiliary to the costs of education, meaning they aren’t included in taxpayers’ financial responsibility to the UC. Read more...

Last summer, four soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina killed their wives within a span of six weeks. Three of the murderers had just returned from service in Afghanistan. Read more...

Students have the chance on Tuesday to pass two measures that will change not only their futures, but also the future of the entire state. It is imperative that all members of the campus community use their voting might to pass Propositions 47 and 52 ““ two of the most relevant measures on the ballot. Read more...

They may have looked like fairies, superheros and monsters, but anyone who spent Halloween distributing fun-sized packets of fruity and chocolatey candy to groups of rambunctious “children” knows this is a far cry from the truth. Read more...

The National Rifle Association, in a show of blatant disrespect for victims of gun-facilitated crime, held a gun-owner rally to support NRA-friendly politicians this week in Tucson, Arizona. Read more...

The California Three Strikes law, now being challenged before the Supreme Court, is not only unconstitutional, it’s grossly nonsensical. Under the law, a person can commit two relatively minor offenses but still face 25 years to life in prison, regardless of whether their third offense is murder or videogame theft. Read more...

Mike Hansen recently attacked the Santa Monica living wage in these pages (Viewpoint, Oct. 29). But having watched this issue closely for more than three years, I am confident that Measure JJ is a fair way to lift thousands of workers out of poverty, relieve taxpayers of a welfare burden, and maintain Santa Monica’s prosperity. Read more...