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USAC’s voter project costly, lacks planning While I don’t usually find myself criticizing USAC’s actions, I am unable to withhold comment regarding Tuesday’s feature photograph of USAC’s implementation of a disturbingly foolhardy plan (News, “Voters share a common thread,” Nov. Read more...

Details of bathroom-stall vandalism graced the front page of the Daily Bruin on Nov. 2. Under the headline “Anti-Semitism marks UCLA,” the paper reported an incident in which someone wrote “fuck Jews” on a Kerckhoff Hall bathroom stall and drew swastikas. Read more...

It was just supposed to be a trial of a high-profile dictator, not the global, finger-pointing, conspiracy-theory-provoking, divisive issue that it has become. “Politicize” is definitely the verb du jour; everything from Sept. Read more...

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently ruled that same-sex couples deserve equal rights and protections as those afforded to heterosexual couples. The issue of same-sex marriage is a heated debate on the political landscape and is marked by highly polarized views among American politicians and citizens. Read more...

Today we’re faced with weighty choices. We have to pick the leaders of our state and our representatives in Congress. Thanks to the slew of California ballot initiatives, we also have the opportunity to vote on a few laws and a few bond measures that could cost us down the line. Read more...

Coke and Colombia. The two go together like fashion and France, sex-tourism and southeast Asia, or democracy and Iraq. So I was surprised when I found out the most recent scandal from the land of FARC and Pablo Escobar involved the Coke of the drinking variety. Read more...