Abbie Hoffman's 1971 protest book "Steal This Book" could not have had the same effect with a title like "Steal This Book, But Please Return it When You're Done." It's this understanding that last weekend's lackluster student-worker protest didn't grasp. Read more...

Column’s argument was misdirected Columnist Tristan Reed muddled his message and made improper connections in his column (“Stop empowerment discourse ““ just serve,” April 27). Regarding Tristan’s time spent in Zambia, he recalled that his refugee clientele had asked for a “loan or a class, or a book,” remarking that such pleas were in fact a manifestation of a disempowered person. Read more...

If you want to run for president of the Undergraduate Students Association Council without being a member of Bruins United or Students First!, you had better be either as rich as Ross Perot, or as crazy. Read more...

I think it was around ninth grade when the public school system decided we were ready for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and, ever since then, we have been more or less acquainted with the old "what is in a name?" adage. Hopefully, no one is still under the belief that if you called a rose a crapshoot it would still be the No. 1 seller on Valentine's Day. Read more...

The first responsibility of the Undergraduate Students Association Council is to represent the students of UCLA. Read more...

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Right-wingers will ignore issue It has come to our attention that L.O.G.I.C. (Liberty, Objectivity, Greed, Individualism and Capitalism), a group that advocates for the unfettered expansion of capitalism as a solution to the world’s problems, is hosting a debate on immigration policy today. Read more...