The question of whether students’ education is compromised by the political biases of their professors has come up recently in various media. Concern emerges from the belief that students will mold their intellect and ideology around the ideas communicated by their professors, rather than formulate their own belief system based on an unbiased education. Read more...

Zwan “Mary, Star of the Sea” Reprise/Warner Bros. Hey, remember the Smashing Pumpkins? No, not that bizarre mumu-wearing gothic melodrama factory that put out “MACHINA/The Machines of God.” I’m talking about the real Pumpkins, the band that rocked our 13-year-old lives with jangly-guitared anthems like “Today,” “Mayonaise” and “Tonight, Tonight.” Well, there are those of us who haven’t forgotten them, one of whom seems to be Billy Corgan himself. Read more...

The death of seven astronauts in the Columbia tragedy this weekend brings human life and the pursuit of progress into perspective. A space accident of similar proportions had not occurred since the explosion of the Challenger upon lift off in 1986. Read more...

UCLA’s Asian Pacific Coalition has begun its fight against the Racial Privacy Initiative ““ which could ban collection of race and ethnic-related data in California ““ more than a year before the measure hits the ballot. Read more...

More than 400 demonstrators wearing and waving blue, yellow and red flags gathered Sunday at the Federal Building to demand the resignation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Read more...

Tori Youngblood learned of the fate of the Columbia when she logged online to check her e-mail Saturday. Reacting with “horror, absolute horror,” all she said she could think about was the the last fatal NASA disaster in 1986. Read more...