As wildfires torched California, advocates of President George Bush’s “Healthy Forest Initiative” renewed calls for tree-thinning measures designed to help prevent damaging forest fires. The House of Representatives and Senate recently passed bills that would lead to thinning by revising U.S. Read more...

Two weeks ago, UCLA students rallied with strikers at the Westwood Ralphs and showed their support at an informational forum on the Hill. One week ago, the supermarket union moved strikers from Ralphs locations to Vons and Albertsons stores. Read more...

Veterans Day is a celebration of those who served their country, but one local veteran looks at the Nov. 11 holiday not with pride, but bitterness. Read more...

She doesn’t know where her brother is; she won’t see him until April next year, but she nevertheless supports him like a loving sister. First-year biochemistry student Therese Cresalia is just one of many UCLA students who has family and friends who are serving their country thousands of miles away. Read more...

Nov. 6, when three federal courts blocked the ban on “partial-birth” abortions, the problems associated with tampering with human life in its earliest stage became the order of the day. Read more...

American veterans have opinions that vary just as much as the general population when talking about whether U.S. soldiers should return home from Iraq for their safety and when discussing Operation Iraqi Freedom in general.  Most veterans, like most Americans, seem to think U.S. Read more...

For those of us who read George Orwell’s utopian nightmare “1984” in euphoria, Week 6 at UCLA was a grand display. The campus brimmed with animated student activists who sought to enlist the support of their peers in a radical movement toward totalitarianism. Read more...