I write to congratulate the many students who protested the Israel Defense Force soldiers' event at UCLA last week. Read more...

As a former manager with the UCLA men's basketball team (2003-2005) under coach Ben Howland, I was very disappointed with his inaccurate portrayal in the most recent issue of Sports Illustrated. Read more...

To experience the highest level of education is a privilege. During times of recession and job loss, the ivory towers of the university have an extra sparkle in them as they portray security and promise in search of class advancement by way of education. The lessons taught, the research conducted and the personalities formed during these years all contribute to the direction this country will eventually head toward. Clearly, the institution of college is the assembly line in the United States of America corporation, producing the leaders and identities of this country's future. Read more...

At the end of a successful week of demonstrating peacefully, spreading awareness and listening to some of the most esteemed professors in Los Angeles speak, Students for Justice in Palestine held its keynote seminar on Thursday on the inequality and injustice taking place in Israel. Read more...

I'm tired. I'm tired because after being a Bruin for four years I am still only able to talk about my passion for Israel with extreme political nuance and trepidation while on my tippy-toes, and the word Zionist has all but disappeared from my vocabulary. Read more...

This week, as Palestine Awareness Week takes place at UCLA, the pro-Israel community braces for sound bites, such as "apartheid state" and "occupation." Meanwhile, campus organizations hope for the publicity and exposure they believe such an issue truly deserves. What's more important, however, is not what they're saying but how they're saying it. Read more...

On Feb. 9, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block wrote a piece in the Daily Bruin stating that the sale of the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is in the university's best interests. The organizations and the family of Hannah Carter who have formed the Coalition to Save the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden respectfully submit that other options are possible, and, indeed, preferable. Read more...