Remember, ‘united we stand, divided we fall’ By Maita Schuster "Drowning, in a sea of fears/ Hatred, trying to hide your fears/Living, only for yourself/ Hating everybody else/ ‘Cause they don’t look like you." ­ Hootie and the Blowfish Well, for one of the few times in my life I am not quite sure what to say (and for those of you who know me this is a pretty hard thing to do.) For three years I have been reading the Daily Bruin, especially the Viewpoint section, and I am so overcome with anger I feel compelled to write, to jump on the bandwagon and voice my opinion on this whole USAC election/runoff controversy. Read more...

‘Nameless hero’ comes forward Editor: On Friday, May 5, the Daily Bruin ran an article about a "nameless hero" who helped a 4-year-old girl at the Westwood Pizza Hut. Read more...

Masturbation proclamation Editor: Female voices were noticeably and unforgivably absent from "The stigma of self-pleasure," The Daily Bruin’s May 8 article on masturbation. Women were hardly mentioned and no female psychologists were quoted, save a virtually prehistoric comment from Masters & Johnson. Read more...

Kerckhoff politicking muddies free speech Name-calling, finger-pointing and mud-slinging ­ the annual undergraduate student government elections have degenerated into the usual bilge of Judicial Board cases and political maneuvering. Read more...

Hate: America’s newest national pastime Tony Spano"Someone’s got to be oppressed." ­ from the musical "Godspell" by Stephen Schwartz I was a Republican once in my life. Read more...

Ignorance no excuse for misleading, illegal ads By Matt Weathers When Marwa Kilani and I filed a Judicial Board case last week against the Students First slate for what we perceived to be lying to voters and delegitimizing the endorsement process, we did not believe the violations were severe enough to warrant invalidating elections. Read more...

When race is an advantage, it becomes a disadvantage for others By Marina Bogorad Yes, Aisha Jones, your suspicions that my first name sounds feminine proved right ("Affirmative action must right past wrongs," May 8). Read more...