As the blood slowly dripped out of his arm, Rick Mathauser lay comfortably and received congratulations from nurses who considered him a hero. The needle in his arm drew blood and filtered out platelets, and for Mathauser, donating his platelets was a common occurrence. Read more...

Black Sunday needed to go In response to Lucas Johnson’s submission “Students must fight for their right to party” (Sept. 30), I would like to say that Black Sunday had to end. Read more...

Foreign policy and homeland security was at the forefront in the face-off between incumbent President Bush and his Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Thursday night in the first of a series of three presidential debates. Read more...

The commentary after last night’s presidential debate sounded like a ball game had just ended: who won, who lost and who was on the offensive. The candidates put on an excellent show, proving it is possible to repeat the same thing in a thousand different ways. Read more...

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While many UCLA students were enjoying their last few weeks of summer vacation, others were fasting to pass legislation that will make dreams come true. On Sept. Read more...

Norman P. Miller, UCLA’s first vice chancellor of student and campus affairs and coordinator of UCLA’s involvement in the 1984 Olympic Games, died of natural causes Sept. Read more...