I first took a tour of the Daily Bruin offices fall quarter of my freshman year. At the time, I really wanted to be here, and I fell in love with the place immediately. Read more...

By Scott Lee “What are you going to do after you graduate?” my mom asked. “I plan on taking some time off to clear my head and figure out the rest of my life. Read more...

By Jerome Hoffman Why do 42 percent of Americans believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks? Could it have something to do with government lies? Read more...

As of May 29, there were 71 suspected or probable cases of SARS in California alone. Considering that, a little healthy fear is probably a good thing. Read more...

Sexual awareness insert misleading On Wednesday, May 21, the Daily Bruin featured an anti-abortion “advertisement supplement” promoting abstinence and condemning the use of birth control, condoms and abortion. Read more...

Back straight, chin up, eyes focused, lips pouted. Gerren Taylor knows how to work what she’s got on the haute couture runways. Juggling a budding modeling career and pre-algebra, 12-year-old Gerren leads a childhood unlike other seventh-graders.  Gerren’s modeling job may seem harmless and glamorous to some, but the price of child labor is in fact much greater than what Gerren is getting paid. Gerren Taylor is a 5-foot-10-inch example of youth exploitation by the modeling and clothing industries.  Although Gerren’s mother tells the L.A. Read more...

Officials at UC Berkeley recently lifted the ban on students from SARS infected areas, but is that necessarily safe? “SARS took us by surprise,” writes Melissa Hinebauch of Newsweek in a May 12 column regarding her experiences as an American expatriate in Singapore, “I even had to cancel my daughter’s birthday party because none of her friends’ parents would let them attend. Read more...