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...

Mosqueda is a third-year sociology and Chicana/o studies student. She is the MEChA Chicana/o Studies Coordinator. By Cindy Mosqueda Last quarter I picked up a copy of the Daily Bruin and perused the front-page news. Read more...

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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This weekend, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will take place at UCLA. What is your favorite book of all time and why? Julie Garchow First-year Biology “My favorite book is “Exodus” by Leon Uris because it’s a great book about the conflict with Palestine and Israel. 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...