Students can say “sayonara” to yet another Westwood business, as Circuit City, located on Gayley Avenue, leaves the Village this Sunday. Circuit City will do its best to offer its Westwood employees work at alternative locations, but this trend of business closures makes students concerned about local work options. Read more...

Professor Michael Dukakis knows everybody’s name. He’s an engaging teacher, teasing the answers out of his students even when they don’t quite know what to say. Read more...

Every society must exercise a corrective mechanism to punish those who break the law, and to ensure such lawbreaking does not continue to occur. In the United States, some hope to accomplish this through stricter incarceration laws. Read more...

Ever wanted to sue the National Football League? Maurice Clarett, the former running back for Ohio State, did just that. In a landmark case, Clarett challenged a 13-year policy limiting NFL eligibility to players merely three seasons removed from their high school graduation date. Read more...

Abortion not similar to Nazi Holocaust I’m writing in regard to an obscenely insipid and unpalatable comparison of the Nazi Holocaust to “America’s Holocaust,” referring to “partial-birth” abortions, a presentation I saw Feb. Read more...

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has now dropped out of the race for president, but the issues he raised and the strategies he used should not be dropped in the same way. Read more...

For many of its young residents, Isla Vista is the college partygoer’s dream. But for the local sheriff’s department, it is a security nightmare. Isla Vista, a primary residential area for the University of California, Santa Barbara, is known for open parties that allow for easy access to alcohol. Read more...