Three years ago I fell in love with The Bruin ““ and since then, I’ve been asking myself why. As a freshman on the orientation tour I found an otherwise gray office marked with wry reminders of its inhabitants and knew at once that these were my kind of people. Read more...

Almost two months ago, hundreds of students gathered in Meyerhoff Park to celebrate “4/20″ by smoking a bowl. Clouds of smoke rose above the crowded space with an abundance of pipes, bongs and joints. Read more...

By Lance and Helen Bosart Although we know that the pain and hurt of losing a son will never go away for the rest of our lives, our ability to cope with the tragedy is helped by articles like the Daily Bruin’s that capture the quintessential Brian Bosart (“Graduate student dies in car accident,” News, June 2). Read more...

It seems that after the heyday of the anti-drug Reagan and Bush administrations, America is starting to rebel against the War on Drugs. The change, if real, has been influenced in no small part by our own “free love, free pot” president, who, when asked by an MTV audience member in 1992, “If you had to do it over again, would you inhale?” replied boastfully, “Sure, if I could. Read more...

In the following tribute, graduate students in the atmospheric science department remember their friend and colleague, Brian Bosart. I sat beside Brian at work every day; there was only a divider between us. Read more...

By Christina L. Glaser This article is written in response to Maegan Carberry’s insightful and honest column on race relations (“Bashing whites hinders struggle against racism,” Viewpoint, June 2). Read more...

By Susan Chang and Deborah Sheen We were sitting in traffic for an hour and it had come to a standstill. Frustration was rising to an uncontrollable level. Read more...