What should differentiate a high school hopeful wearing a UCLA sweatshirt from an accepted UCLA student? The answer should be obvious: a competitive minimum competency and a highly visible determination for success. Read more...

Proposition 56 just might be the law that will save California. This March, Californians will vote on several different propositions; the most important of which is surely this one. Read more...

President Bush’s newly proposed immigration plan is very much in line with the two most crucial goals of our era: the establishment of a healthy economy and the preservation of national security. Read more...

Last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced his 2004-2005 state budget with the majority of the state knowing there would be deep cuts. During his campaign, Schwarzenegger made a key promise to protect education, which must include graduate education. Read more...

Twenty schoolgirls in Lille, France have been expelled from school. According to French President Jacques Chirac, they are a threat to national cohesion, France’s founding principles of secularism and their behavior “is a sort of aggression that is difficult for us to accept.” You might think they formed a club at school dedicated to starting a revolution in the countryside where they would stage a military coup to overthrow the French government and replace it with a fanatical, religious regime. Read more...

Many UCLA students have a special interest in the 2004 economic outlook for the United States because it strongly affects their job prospects. To assess such prospects, it is helpful to examine those recent developments which will influence most the coming year. Read more...

A friend of mine told me a new joke is going around in Italy about the Bush administration’s new outer space plans: “The Americans are sending people to Mars to make sure it’s red.” George W. Read more...