Keep UCOP accountable UCLA Academic Senate chair Adrienne Lavine’s opinion (“Bill calls for UC financial reform,” News, Jan. 11) is that the outcry over the $871 million UC Office of the President executive salary scandal “has been carried too far.” Thousands of University of California students who have seen their fees increase year after year, and thousands of UC staff and faculty whose salaries have declined against all market comparisons, will very strongly disagree with Lavine. Read more...

The recent revelation of the South Korean stem cell scandal is not only a setback in the quest for the holy grail of medicine ““ that stem cells from human embryos can be produced to replace diseased or injured human tissue ““ but also harms the credibility of the entire area of research. Read more...

I was already one drink in, and working on a second, before I remembered that, for New Year’s, I had resolved to not drink so much. Read more...

Intellectual property is now available in a generic brand. In the last couple weeks Wikipedia.org, the highly frequented, free online encyclopedia, has been running a major donation campaign to facilitate expansion. Read more...

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California Republicans, tax fighters and fiscal conservatives are still hurting from the slow-motion train wreck of a special election back in November. It wasn’t just the election outcome, the 0-4 smackdown that Gov. Read more...

Occasionally people e-mail me to ask specific questions about their personal sex lives. While a certain number of these are bored, usually male students with nothing better to do on a Friday night than to send a drunken e-mail to their resident sex columnist, some of these questions are worth answering. Read more...