The weight problems of the people of the United States vanished overnight last week. At least that’s what a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute indicates. Read more...

The Faculty Executive Committee of the UCLA College is considering a proposal to change the late-drop policy for non-impacted courses. Currently, undergraduates are allowed to drop non-impacted courses through the fourth week of the quarter with no transcript notation. Read more...

Sitting in a staff meeting for the Vietnamese Student Union in preparations for the upcoming “Black April” event inspired a weird feeling of sadness and nostalgia inside me. Read more...

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In 1998, four years after the Rwandan genocide took the lives of nearly 1 million men, women and children, former President Clinton delivered a speech before a group of survivors and government officials, asserting, “Genocide can occur anywhere. Read more...

The late Ernst Mayer, one of the most revered biologists of the 20th century, said a few years ago that “the average life expectancy of a species is about 100,000 years.” This should worry us interminably because our own species, homo sapiens sapiens, has had the intelligence to establish civilizations for around that same period. Read more...

Not “˜pathetic’ to remain in closet The Daily Bruin should be praised for addressing on-campus lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. The stories regarding the present climate for queer student-athletes were informative and helped raise awareness of issues faced by many of UCLA’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Read more...