SAN JOSE, Costa Rica “”mdash; As I sit at my desk at The Tico Times, an English-language weekly in Costa Rica, I realize how lucky I was to work at the Daily Bruin. Read more...

I managed to avoid the dentist for four years, from freshman year to this past April. They discovered five holes in my teeth. That got me thinking. Read more...

I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my life. I’ve learned from some and forgotten about others. And it’s taken me a while to realize that being the copy chief this year wasn’t a mistake. Read more...

By my count, I’ve written anywhere from 60 to 63 columns for the Daily Bruin in the last four years. In every one of those, I’ve known the ending before writing the first word. Read more...

On June 30, Albert Carnesale’s tenure as UCLA Chancellor will end. Carnesale has been the fifth individual to hold the title of UCLA chancellor and only the eighth chief executive officer in the 87-year history of this university. Read more...

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Carnesale is a great leader, colleague Al Carnesale and I became chancellors at around the same time ““ recruiting him from Harvard was a real coup for the University of California system, and there was tremendous excitement about his arrival ““ so we learned the ropes together, and we became friends and allies, even when our campuses were in fierce competition for the California Institutes for Science and Innovation. Read more...