There is one ranking which trumps the combined influence of every Top 25 poll: U.S. Read more...
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August 30, 1:34 am
Exam bank tests campus collaboration
There is a place on campus that many Bruins have never heard of, yet it gets busy enough to have a line of 40 students for its services during midterms and finals weeks.
A description of this place, the test bank in the Student Activities Center, almost sounds fictional. Read more...
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August 26, 10:18 pm
Open the doors to coed dorms
The battle of the sexes is back "“ but now it's for who can win the first shower. Examining and reconfiguring boundaries between genders will always meet backlash, stir up some strange moral panic and raise pressing questions. So it's only appropriate that the topic of gender-neutral rooms in dorms has done just that. For the past four decades, schools have steadily allowed the sexes to mingle in closer proximity: First came coed buildings, then coed suites and finally coed rooms, a trend now observed across more than 50 campuses nationwide. Read more...
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August 26, 8:41 pm
Foolish DREAM Act strikers hungering for a spectacle
Is there a sight more stirring than that of sickly students starving themselves outside a senator's office, demanding justice of some sort? Perhaps not "“ all at once the spectacle begs comparison to Mohandas Gandhi, Marion Dunlop and similar champions of social change. Read more...
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June 2, 10:35 pm
UCLA bubble results in apathy
News has always traveled fast. In the age of Twitter, Facebook, texting and Internet access on your phone, it's almost impossible to avoid real-time updates of current events. Read more...
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June 2, 10:09 pm
More than just fair trade
I'm not a coffee person; but when I need a pick-me-up, I try to go to Cafe 1919. Their cookies are addictive, and I feel better knowing my coffee is fair trade. Read more...
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May 31, 9:41 pm
End the Ralphs monopoly
When the shopping list includes textbooks, clothing or a tank of gas, a bit of sticker shock should be expected. Read more...