Remember Zero Week? The bane of professors and students alike, we begin fall quarter on a Thursday and then get just two days off for Thanksgiving. We should start classes on the Monday of Zero Week and then get the full week off for Thanksgiving. Instead, we get to battle airport and freeway traffic the Wednesday night of Thanksgiving week as we struggle to get home for the holidays. Read more...

Read up before shunning auto bailout In response to a column by Alex Pherson (“Auto bailout is all politics,” Nov. 20): The imprudent Pherson once again managed to write a column Rush Limbaugh would be proud of. Read more...

I have a friend who would rather be a teacher than a lawyer. Read more...

Hardly a state election goes by without some proposition on the ballot advocating reform of California's current marijuana laws. Read more...

Education, not business, is first Several proposals have been made recently that would limit admissions for UCLA students based on their state residency status, failing to recognize the mission of the university. Read more...

"I am terribly passionate about learning and eagerly await the opportunity to study in a university." Read more...

It has been two weeks since the historic Nov. 4 election and young people across the country are asking, "Now what?" Read more...