By Trisha Ranney In response to Maegan Carberry’s column regarding student athletes (“Athletes play vital role in creating university pride,” Viewpoint, May 11), I believe Carberry is overlooking one of the reasons that some students have a disdain for student athletes. Read more...

Now that the roiling suspense of the presidential primaries is far behind us, a hush falls over the country, a hush which says, “Can we just get to November already and elect one of these epsilons so we don’t have to see them both on TV at the same time anymore?” I figured this interim would be the perfect time to warn you about a philosophy you may have heard a little about already, but which will be hammered into your head like a railroad spike as the election approaches. Read more...

By Ryan Bulatao Imagine yourself at a tryout for a competitive basketball team. You are standing in line waiting to perform the drills that the coach will use to determine which players make the team and which go home. Read more...

By Natalie Sweiss One of my best friends, Nawal, lived in America until she was eight years old, and she moved to Beiteen, a city about 15 miles away from Jerusalem. Read more...

Yo, yo wassup y’all? OK, many of you may be wondering if this is how I usually communicate. Not because the words themselves are funny, but because they sound funny coming out of my mouth. Read more...

By Glenn Sacks The Clothesline Project will come to UCLA May 16-18 and will focus on domestic violence against women. The project, however, will only tell half the story. Read more...

Board is unfair to USAC candidates I feel it is completely unfair how the Editorial Board, while endorsing certain candidates for Undergraduate Students Association Council positions, chose to bash the candidates it judged to be unqualified (USAC Candidate Endorsements, Viewpoint, May 9). Read more...