Budget statistic misleading In Jeff Travis’ letter desperately attempting to defend Students First! (Oct. 1), he used the most worthless (albeit creative) statistic I’ve ever seen. Read more...

Third-party candidates have always played an important role in our country’s electoral process. They call attention to many small yet important issues that would not normally be adequately addressed. Read more...

The long and controversial 2004-2005 Undergraduate Student Association Council’s base budget process appears to have come to a close. For nearly three months, an epic battle has been waged over the base budget allocations totaling $220,037, or 10 percent of USAC’s about $2.2 million annual budget. Read more...

You do not have to be a resident of Florida to feel like a disfranchised voter. You can have that feeling right here in California. For the next month, President Bush and Sen. Read more...

Considering that rape, armed robbery and murder are some of the crimes that ravish Los Angeles daily, I, for one, am pleased to see that the Los Angeles Police Department has stepped up its efforts against another criminal horror ““ jaywalking in Westwood. Read more...

After last night’s presidential debate The Bruin sat down with Erin Templeton, a graduate student in English and the current president of Bruins for Edwards. The Bruin also conducted a phone interview with Mark Lincoln, a second-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student and the technical director for Bruin Republicans. Read more...

Jenna Kyle is quite distressed by the ramifications the increase in UCLA’s academic standards will have on ethnic diversity. She wrote that her “invaluable UCLA education” taught her to look further into the story. Read more...