Okamura serves as the external vice president for USAC. By Evan Okamura When your Undergraduate Student Association Council had their retreat this summer, we collectively sat down and discussed what areas we wanted to address in order to improve the lives of our fellow students. Together, we came up with “Access to Education” as our over-arching theme. One of the three subpoints was providing direct services to students and to advocate on behalf of the concerns of the student body. Read more...

Ben Lee Handler Handler is ready to do his duty for America ““ are you? E-mail him at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Ben Lee Handler   I had a friend who was a big baseball player back in high school. Read more...

Schapel is editor in chief of FEM magazine. By Amanda Schapel In a recent submission, Lauren Black suggests several innovative solutions to eliminate abortion troubles from our national consciousness (“Abortion is murder; it should be made illegal,” Viewpoint, Jan. Read more...

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Financial aid slash has upside ““ or not I can’t believe people are getting mad about their financial aid being cut (“Financial aid may face reduction in allocations,“ News, Jan. Read more...

EDITORIAL BOARD Editor in Chief  Timothy Kudo Managing Editor  Michael Falcone Viewpoint Editor  Cuauhtemoc Ortega Staff Representatives  Maegan Carberry  Edward Chiao  Kelly Rayburn Editorial Board Assistants  Maegan Carberry  Edward Chiao   Unsigned editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily Bruin Editorial Board. Read more...

  Andrew Jones Respond to Jones at [email protected] Last night’s State of the Union had a little something for all UCLA students. For fans of President Bush, there were the trademark injections of wry humor into an otherwise very serious speech. Read more...