The current buzzword is diversity, and with its emergence questions are more often raised than answered. What is diversity and why is it receiving so much attention now? Read more...

Over the course of the past year, I kept encountering the term “academic freedom” in the mainstream media. The subject really did not spark my interest, though, until I picked up a copy of the Bruin Standard during my first week on campus. Read more...

It’s quite clear that at least a few criminals look at university folk as easy prey, since you’re not going to be doing much in terms of self-defense against a 9mm handgun with your iPod or the “downward dog” learned in yoga. Read more...

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When I suggested female ejaculation as a topic for this column I was told that it was overdone. And yes, while I wouldn’t say that female ejaculation is as obscure a topic as, say, the idea of being genderqueer, I definitely wouldn’t say that it’s overdone. Read more...

I am writing in response to the submission by David Carreon titled “Scientists should weigh intelligent design on its scientific merits” (Oct. 11). I, and the rest of the UCLA community, should be appalled at the fact that a bioengineering student could so blatantly misconstrue the purpose of science and so zealously encourage the stymieing of the very field he is currently studying. Read more...

This week, the Bruins United majority of the Undergraduate Students Association Council was falsely accused of attacking students. This accusation comes in the middle of a debate among councilmembers over three resolutions that would declare USAC’s opposition to state Propositions 74, 75 and 76. Read more...