The students of UCLA came to this institution to take classes and learn from them. With too many professors researching or publishing, students here often get short shrift when it comes to the classroom experience. Read more...

The preamble to UCLA’s undergraduate student council constitution promotes an “understanding of group action” within the organization. But after members filed a petition for a Student Judicial Board hearing against External Vice President Tina Park, we are wondering when we’ll ever see any of that “group action.” Financial Supports Commissioner Shaun Doria and Facilities Commissioner PC Zai filed the petition alleging that Park broke Undergraduate Student Association Council bylaws by not seeking council approval when choosing representatives to travel ““ on USAC’s dime ““ to conferences. Read more...

“I went to school the same time as Al Gore. The only difference is that I went here and he went to Harvard,” lectured Professor Marde Gregory to her Speech 1 class as a segue into the topic of global warming. Read more...

Speaker invited for the wrong reasons Contrary to the assertions in a recent letter to the editor (“Rabbi should consider new points of view,” Jan. 18), I, a veteran political dissenter vis-a-vis the Middle East, have always welcomed alternative views. Read more...

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Genetic screening challenges the natural order of human life, as parents all over the world now have the disturbing option to customize their children. Earlier this week, the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics presented its fifth annual symposium, “The Genetic Marketplace: A Citizen’s Guide to the Genomic Bazaar,” to explore concerns regarding advances in human genetics research. Read more...

The SAT is to the GRE as (a) tension headache is to migraine, (b) USC is to Harvard, (c) abhorrence is to repugnance. I’m bored. Next! Read more...