Ifurung is a third-year political science student. By Nick Ifurung Maegan Carberry’s absurd column about the UCLA men’s basketball program (“Bruin Bloopers,” Daily Bruin, Viewpoint, April 24) demonstrates a classic example of what happens when someone who claims to be a fan of Bruin basketball decides to cheaply criticize the team: they end up looking like a complete fool. Read more...

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  Doug Lief Lief is a third-year English student, and thus feels it is his right to invent words like "crimdiddly." Give him a rama-lama-ding-dong at [email protected]. Read more...

Court deals blow to civil rights In “High court takes a bite out of Civil Rights Act” (Daily Bruin, News, April 26), I was quoted as saying, “It’s a really bad time to be a minority in the states right now. Read more...

  Peijean Tsai Tsai is looking for the whipped cream to sweeten her piece of the pie. Send her remarks and Reddi-Whip to [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Peijean Tsai Looks like “lax” in Los Angeles is not just the abbreviation for the much trafficked airport; lax also seems to describe how drug offenders will be punished under the passage of last November’s Proposition 36, the California initiative that will place drug offenders into rehabilitation programs rather than in jails. Read more...

Chez Shadman Shadman is a third-year international development studies student who enjoys the sound of a cat’s purr. She can be reached at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Chez Shadman The first productive tool we learned as children was probably the ability to read. Read more...

Slattery is the general manager of Skylight Books in Los Feliz and former board member of the Southern California Booksellers Association. By Kerry Slattery This is an exciting ““ and particularly challenging ““ time to be an independent bookseller. Read more...