In a recent submission, Stanley Johnson expressed concern about the low number of African American freshmen enrolling at UCLA this fall. I share his dismay and would like to add my perspective and correct what I believe to be some misperceptions. Read more...

UCLA’s incoming freshmen are without question some of the finest students in the nation. The average high school GPA of these students is a 4.27 and their mean SAT score is 2010. Read more...

When I set foot on a rainy UCLA campus last year, I was awed by the immense beauty of the 419-acre block I would later learn to call my home. Read more...

When I arrived at UCLA, I had never envisioned that I’d find myself stranded in South Central on a cold November night, with no cell phone, money or way of getting home. Read more...

Dicto Simpliciter, the fallacy of making sweeping generalizations, is frowned upon, but admit it, every person probably commits this same error many times in a single day. Read more...

I suppose my biggest regret as UCLA’s sex columnist was never coming up with a sassy name for my weekly musings ““ such as Cal’s “Sex on Tuesday,” Boston College’s “Sex and the Univer-city” or (my favorite) “Cornellingus” from you can guess where. Read more...

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