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...

Harmony is being restored to the political world. Fox News has resumed its shameless slander of Democrats, Democrats appear to be working on an agenda to distinguish themselves from black holes, and all of the hoopla surrounding the recent exploratory committees of Sen. Read more...

Choice belongs in women’s hands I was neither bothered nor surprised to find a column in the Daily Bruin that countered my personal and political sentiments about abortion (“Roe revised stance; so should U.S.,” Jan. Read more...

This board found President George W. Bush’s State of the Union Address mind-numbing and poorly written. The following transcript is what we would have liked to have heard in his speech: My fellow Americans. Read more...

This week, the Muslim Student Association is putting on its annual Islam Awareness week. According to Suwila Habib, vice president of MSA-UCLA, the purpose of this event is to educate the campus about the true nature of Islam. Read more...

Israel is not to blame for Mideast violence I am shocked by the assertions in Ron Richards’ letter to the editor (“Rabbi should consider new points of view,” Jan. Read more...