They had a clear objective. They had the will to pursue it. But at the end of the day, UCLA’s top official didn’t see them. About 150 workers, students and community leaders marched to Chancellor Albert Carnesale’s office Friday afternoon in an effort to get a commitment from the administrative leader to hire subcontracted workers on campus. Read more...

Although Iran continues to press forward with disturbing weapon technology projects, the United States must not consider extreme solutions such as military strikes or a CIA-initiated coup. Read more...

Consumers’ spending figures drop for April Consumers anxious about their jobs were reluctant to go shopping in April, trimming spending by the largest amount since the beginning of the year. Read more...

After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the subsequent economic downturn, a swift, but often overlooked, backlash against immigrants occurred. This treatment, while certainly betraying the United States’ best ideals, has actually been a staple of U.S. Read more...

Focus shouldn’t be on SARS’ economic impact I was utterly disgusted while reading Dr. Tiejun Huang’s misleading submission, “China’s economy safe despite SARS” (May 23).  While only cursorily mentioning SARS’ impact on the citizens of China and the international community, Huang instead asserts that SARS will not affect China’s economy in the long-term. Read more...

Currently UCLA waives student fees for many of its teaching assistants and readers, graduate students who are left to educate undergraduates at a huge university where professors can’t do all the teaching. Read more...

On the same day that Shai Feldman, a prominent Israeli political analyst, talked at UCLA about the feasibility of the U.S.-backed Middle East peace plan, the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers met in Israel to discuss the implementation of the plan. Read more...