Westwood may seem safe on the surface, but, as any student could tell you, it’s an academic wild west. Like a stray bullet in the midst of a bar fight, this student was hit by a painful surprise this quarter: an $80 charge for a course reader. Read more...

Photo: Course Reader Material is one of the locations students can buy course readers their professors require for class. But despite providing students their required reading, this doesn’t justify their high costs caused by licensing issues. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)

Affirmative action’s days may be numbered due to an academic’s (pur)suit for the numbers. When UCLA School of Law professor Richard Sander filed his lawsuit against University of California two weeks ago, it was not to ban affirmative action. Read more...

This winter, prospective college students will spend their hard-earned break agonizing over the Common Application, digesting turkey while continuously modifying essays and questioning every step of the process that will determine their admissions future. Read more...

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Getting a rug pulled from under you is pretty dangerous. It makes one wonder, though, why UCLA’s Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, which oversees and provides medical care to UCLA’s students, continues to pull the rug from underneath its students. Read more...

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History is replete with accounts of ambitious political initiatives that have promised to address all manner of injustices, only to devolve into a “tragedy of good intentions.” Race-based affirmative action seems to be no exception to this historical trend. Read more...

Photo: California passed Proposition 209 in 1996, banning racial preference policies in state institutions. There is evidence to believe, however, that the University of California continues to use race-based affirmative action, despite its illegality and ineffectiveness as policy. (Daily Bruin file photo)