When I think of the proposed "Community and Conflict in the Modern World" General Education requirement, three things immediately come to mind: the superficiality of General Education courses, cultural hostility on campus and the need to focus on racial sensitivity outside the classroom. Read more...

As a college student with a Facebook account, I heard about the "Kony 2012" campaign the night it launched. The 30-minute video, created by Invisible Children, a nonprofit organization that seeks to educate people about the crimes committed by the Lord's Resistance Army in Central Africa, spread faster than any other Internet video in history. Read more...

You have probably heard the cliche story about how a rudimentary general education course was so captivating that it caused a student to switch majors and career paths. Read more...

Around eighth week, the familiar murmurs of "This quarter went by too fast!" start to echo around campus. A course that seemed like it would be a slow, arduous trek at the beginning of the quarter feels like a sprint. As a consequence of the quarter system, Bruins are always rushing. Read more...

Presidential candidate Ron Paul spoke to a crowd of more than 5,000 at UCLA on Wednesday, presenting economic views he claimed you won't often find in the classroom. Read more...

The concept of a building in which visiting scholars, professors, world-class researchers and other academics can stay, meet and hold conferences on UCLA's campus is undeniably appealing. But is that really how the proposed UCLA hotel, the Luskin Conference and Guest Center, would function? Read more...