Wednesday, May 6

Bruins’ lobbying goes beyond campus bounds

After studying drug regulations in their public policy class, Eric Gorin-Regan and Daniel Walter were hooked ““ on public policy, that is. One year later, their interest would take them and fellow student Matt Nazareth to Washington, D.C., to lobby about drug policy issues as part of a developing political student group called Students for Sensible Drug Policy, or SSDP. Read more...


Middle East series goes on

As’ad AbuKhalil, a professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus, spoke on campus Tuesday about the current state of Lebanese politics as part of a series dealing with the current situations in the Middle East. Read more...


Students discuss LGBT, HIV issues

In an event called the “Rainbow Dialogues” held by the undergraduate student government and the Queer Alliance on Tuesday, more than 20 students were infected with HIV ““ at least figuratively. Read more...


Students weigh in on TAs’ effectiveness

In Mala Mandyam’s anthropology class last year, her teaching assistant brought a newspaper clip to class to begin discussion every week. The class focused on evolutionary anthropology and Mandyam said the clips always produced a vibrant debate. Read more...