As the last week of the quarter approaches, college students traditionally lose sleep to squeeze in those precious hours of information absorption before taking their final exams. Read more...

Technically speaking, affirmative action may violate whites’ right to “equal protection of the laws.” But then again, the courts did not technically regard Jim Crow laws as violations of blacks’ civil rights, so technicalities should not dominate the Supreme Court’s decision on whether or not affirmative action is constitutional. Read more...

While their peers are busy filling out final exam booklets and bubbling in scantrons during finals week, some students will be acting, performing, making music ““ and having fun. Read more...

A report released in November by the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research found that Los Angeles is home to the largest number of American Indians in the country, the majority of whom live in poverty. Read more...

The United States Supreme Court has accepted a case that could determine whether colleges can give preference to minority applicants in admissions decisions. By June of 2003 the court will decide if three white students were unconstitutionally denied admission to the University of Michigan because the school’s affirmative action policies discriminated against them. Read more...

At the close of the fall quarter, the undergraduate student government is working on gauging students’ opinions and deliberating on whether or not to approve the budget of its system-wide lobbying organization. Read more...

Last week applications from students attending high schools across the nation poured into UC admissions offices. In the Los Angeles area, some public high school college counselors are finding that their students’ applications may not go as far as those from magnet or private schools. Read more...