Thursday, April 23

Study presents fat problem

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...


Earlier drop deadline beneficial

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...


Lack of diversity disappointing

In 1903, black scholar W.E.B. DuBois confidently argued that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line.” Today, America is still racially segregated by where people choose to live, learn, worship and work. Read more...




Rise and take action: End genocide in Darfur

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...


Time is running out for mankind

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...