This quarter alone Kendal Drucker’s three textbooks cost her almost $400. Drucker, a second-year psychology student, is involved in the California Public Interest Research Group, or CALPIRG, which is working to get professors at UCLA to join a movement toward open-source textbooks and other affordable online course materials With the costs of textbooks rising, open-source course materials, or resources made available cheaply and digitally, are an imperative for UCLA. Read more...

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Through numerous college parties, I’ve come to realize that in a college culture that often views drunken hookups as normal, the fun of a good party can bring with it the risk of confused sexual consent and a whole host of other issues that stem from intoxicated decision-making. Read more...

Photo: Last week, the Undergraduate Students Association Council put on Consent Week. As part of the events, students such as third-year world arts and cultures student Claudia Varney, above, manned information tables on campus.

The first thing people ask me about my cousin Jacob when I mention his death is “were you guys close?” The honest answer is no. His tattoo remains my clearest memory of him. Read more...