Steve Forbes, president and executive officer of Forbes, Inc., advocated democratization of the Middle East and a flat-tax plan for the United States in a speech he gave Tuesday at the Anderson School at UCLA. Read more...

Graduate students can log on to the MyUCLA Web site and start voting for next year’s Graduate Student Association officers today. The GSA election begins at noon, and students will be able to vote 24 hours a day for a week until noon on April 22. Read more...

The UCLA Office for Protection of Research Subjects determined on March 30 that UCLA researcher John Fahey “was engaged in human subjects research” for the controversial malariotherapy treatment going on in China. Read more...

Allowing defense allocations to increase dramatically while cutting education spending is a destructive and shortsighted policy. The United States spent nearly $400 billion on military expenditures this fiscal year while, at the same time, California faces a $34.6 billion budget shortfall, forcing cuts in a variety of areas, including education. Read more...

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When Bob Englund, UCLA professor of Assyriology, thinks about the looting of Iraq’s cultural sanctuaries, it saddens his heart. When American soldiers entered Baghdad this past week, their quest to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein’s regime immediately unbridled locals in an undesirable way ““ it gave them the freedom to loot and destroy thousands of years of Middle Eastern history, some of which Englund had personally worked with. Read more...

Is it right for professors to make a united stance against war? Is it relevant, especially now that war is coming to a close? Armhawan Darsone First-year, business economics “I really don’t think professors should offer an opinion on war because they have a direct influence on their students, and they could possibly steer students’ opinions, which I don’t think is appropriate. Read more...