One person’s decision to live honestly … with HIV Today is World AIDS Day. Today is also Day Without Art. And today is the day on which one UCLA student has chosen to tell the world for the first time about his HIV-positive status, as frightening as this process can be. Read more...

Student government must listen to its critics By J. Jioni Palmer In response to Todd Sargent’s Nov. 29 article, "Kerckhoff groups work around the clock," I must begin with an acknowledgment of my ideological and political positions. Read more...

A UCLA alumnus singing the ‘real world’ blues Dawn Mabalon Call me insane, but I miss school. Call it whatever you want ­ post-grad blues, UCLA withdrawal, whatever. Read more...

Sit-in held consciously, and strategically By Eric C. Wat Since the arrest of the so-called "Murphy 26" on Nov. 17, several students have written viewpoints and letters, both serious and satirical (I am using this word very loosely) attacking the participants of the sit-in. Read more...

Republican Congress in, gun control out Editor: Just when I thought the United States was going to become a safer place to live with the passing of the Brady Bill and the Crime Bill, here come the Republicans who are threatening to lift the assault weapons ban and repeal the newly stated Crime Bill from President Bill Clinton. Read more...

Remembering life’s lessons and mother’s love Peter Hamilton Thanksgiving was great. I needed those four days to reconstruct myself. I barely finished. I spent dinner on Thursday without my mom for the third year in a row, and without my pop for the first time ever (my mom has passed away; my pop was in Seattle). Read more...