This summer I traveled to Italy and plugged my laptop into a DSL line there. In less than a day, I noticed someone in China had planted a virus called “youwish.exe” on my hard drive. Read more...

I could start this out with an Arnold quote. Sure, it’s an overused device, but it’s still fun and germane to the subject. However, to do so falls into the same trap most pundits are currently flailing around in. Read more...

Welcome to UCLA! Students like you are drawn to UCLA for many reasons. Among them, UCLA provides the benefits of a large, leading research university but also offers opportunities to learn in small, personalized settings. Read more...

Florida’s a mess. Hurricane Charley raged through the Sunshine State last month, tearing roofs off family homes. Lately, we’ve been experiencing terrible hurricanes, starting with Hurricane Andrew in 1992 ““ and it’s pretty scary stuff. Read more...

As college students, our daily verbal discourse is quite varied ““ presentations, talking to professors, peers, roommates, co-workers and so on. By now, most of us know how to adapt to our audience in order to receive our desired response. Read more...

Want to hear the biggest flip-flop of the 2004 presidential election? Nearly 10 months ago, President Bush told a crowd in Whippany, N.J., that he “came to this office to solve problems and not pass them on to future generations.” Yet four years since taking the oath of office, even the most devoted CNN or Fox News fan would be hard-pressed to think of a single college-education plan that the “compassionate conservative” has tried to implement. Read more...

The most common complaint I hear about the Daily Bruin is that it’s not really a student paper. “It never covers anything I care about,” moaned one student. Read more...