When living in a dorm, it’s quite easy to spot those students who have a Verizon phone and those who don’t. Ride the elevator up and down a few times, and you’ll see that Verizon users casually enter the elevator, Motorola T720 in hand, blabbering about whatever relationship issues they are having for that week. Read more...

As the UC Board of Regents comes out of its secret hideaway in San Francisco to visit the UCLA campus this week for its bi-monthly meeting, a controversial new round of potential UC fee hikes are being brought out into the open. Read more...

The article “Wildfire legislation garners concern,” (News, Nov. 12) addressed the legislation that President George W. Bush and Sen. Dianne Feinstein pushed through, claiming that it will protect communities from future devastation.  This bill is a version of Bush’s logging plan inappropriately dubbed the “Healthy Forests Initiative,” as it would mercilessly undermine forest health. Read more...

My office will continue to fight for equal access to student government funds in spite of the wrongful assertions made by the USAC internal vice president in a Nov. Read more...

In the past month or so, increasing attention has been given to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jewish-Muslim dynamics on campus: Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor and author of “The Case for Israel,” spoke at Royce Hall, with pro-Palestinian protesters standing just outside the door. Read more...

Gov. Schwarzenegger won on a substance-free campaign ““ and I’m not talking about drugs. But now that he is in office, heading the fifth largest economy in the world, he’ll have to face the same nightmare of problems that got Gray Davis fired. Read more...

On Nov. 17, Arnold Schwarzenegger assumed the governorship of the most troubled of the 50 states. The new governor has already pledged to save California’s economy by granting individuals and businesses more control over their money and property. Read more...