EDITORIAL BOARD Christine Byrd  Editor in Chief Michael Litschi  Managing Editor Jonah Lalas  Viewpoint Editor Barbara Ortutay  News Editor Amy Golod  Staff Representative Timothy Kudo  Staff Representative Brian O’Camb  Staff Representative   Unsigned editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily Bruin Editorial Board. Read more...

Urrea is a third-year English student and general coordinator of Concienca Libre. By Marlene Urrea Last week, the Daily Bruin ran a story concerning our organization, Conciencia Libre, and the crosses we erected last quarter to represent those who died while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexican border in the past few years (“Conciencia Libre fine creates rift in USAC,” News, Jan. Read more...

  Chris Diaz Diaz is a second-year political science and Asian American studies student with a minor in English. E-mail him at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Chris Diaz In Gratz v. Read more...

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  Doug Lief Lief is a third-year English student who says, "Hooray for Hollywood, Yippee for New York, and Blech to Barstow!" Send your two cents to [email protected]. Read more...

Steel is a 2000 graduate of UCLA. By Kirra Steel The first time I laid eyes on Cook County Jail, Women’s Division Four, despair washed over me as I gazed at the brown, concrete-block building. The gray Chicago sky melded with the gray snow and I sighed as I pushed through the chain-link fence. Read more...

Free market not to blame for crisis Yashar Ettekal (“All affected by slippery slope of deregulation,” Jan. 18, 2001), like the California Legislature and our poll-motivated Governor, has shown that he simply has no understanding of why California is in an energy crisis. Read more...