Correction Appended Hundreds of students congregated, their many voices forming one in their chant, “We’re fired up, can’t take it no more.” Chicana/o student group MEChA held a rally in front of Kerckhoff Hall on Wednesday afternoon in the hopes of teaching UCLA students about the purpose of MEChA, as well as uniting many student groups with the common cause of equality. Read more...

Recent insurgent activities in Iraq were discussed as Iraqi scholar Dr. Juan Cole gave a talk entitled “Shiite Islam and Politics in Post-Baathist Iraq” in Bunche Hall on Wednesday. Read more...

The term “shopping” may evoke images of malls and money, but shopping isn’t only used for clothes and food; the term is expanding to include the way students on campus choose their classes. Read more...

North Carolina State University Chancellor Marye Anne Fox was harshly reprimanded by the NCSU faculty senate last year, but this past conflict has not made the University of California Board of Regents hesitant to support her as the next chancellor of UC San Diego. Read more...

Maybe your water faucet should carry a health warning. Our drinking water is at serious risk of contamination by Pacific Gas & Electronic Company’s toxic waste. Read more...

Staff members working under the University of California Institute of Labor and Employment continue to go to work every day coordinating research and educational programs, knowing that in only a few months, many of them will be jobless. Read more...

Last weekend, I joined hundreds of students at UCLA to participate in a convention of the California College Republicans. Many in the crowd had flown or driven to our campus with the same zeal and ambitions of the stereotypical student activist. Read more...