You’ve seen Jewish men in yarmulkes and Muslim women in hijabs around campus, right? They sure do stand out on Bruin Walk and in lecture halls, so you would have noticed them if they lived on your floor in your residence hall. Read more...

Imagine if, after you read his book “It’s Not About the Bike,” you found out that Lance Armstrong never had cancer, just a bad case of the flu that caused him to lose a little bit of weight. Read more...

“I hate girls.” “Girls come with too much drama.” “Girls are evil, shallow, sneaky, manipulative, hypocritical and untrustworthy.” These are only some of the more colorful things I’ve heard spoken about my fellow women. Read more...

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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...