Phish “Round Room” Elektra Records Phish is one of the most confounding music groups of the last 20 years, if not for its astonishingly bad lyrics then because of its seemingly willful inconsistency. Read more...

SAN FRANCISCO AND YORBA LINDA ““ As the Pentagon sends more soldiers and warships to the Persian Gulf, anti-war activists, hundreds of them university students, again took to the streets to protest a seemingly inevitable war against Iraq. Read more...

The fate of two hospitals tied to UCLA’s Medical School lies in limbo until at least early February as Los Angeles County looks for more funding to keep them open. Read more...

Seventy-four years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, and 35 years after his death, millions accept his wife’s assertion that he was “America’s greatest champion of racial justice and equality.” King’s passionate speeches and powerful displays of non-violent civil disobedience galvanized the civil rights movement, paved the way for the end of segregation in the United States, and expanded rights for all minorities. Read more...

At first glance, it seemed to be just another U.S. flag: red, white and blue, 13 stripes. But this flag, carried by a protester during the anti-war march last Saturday in downtown Los Angeles, had a very subtle and yet telling difference to it. Read more...

The university, in theory, is supposed to provide a safe space for personal growth and the exploration of various intellectual ideas. Complementary to the education provided by learned academics is the social knowledge attained through student-led political endeavors and cultural expression. Read more...

S.U.R.E not behind Jones On Thursday, a controversy swirled involving certain students who registered the name Student Empowerment! as an official student group with the Center for Student Programming. These students, in particular Bruin Republicans Chair Andrew Jones, have a known history of antagonism toward the Student Empowerment! Read more...