All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten” … and “from shopping” … and “from The Simpsons” … and “from Star Wars.” You’ve seen these kinds of posters before. Read more...

Once upon a time, not very long ago, a young girl lived in a little peach apartment on a windy little street in a quaint little village. Read more...

Commencement. Graduation. Celebration and relief. Completion. Excitement and uncertainty. Happiness and anxiety. Starting a new chapter. Moving out and on. Graduate school or a new job.   These are the descriptive words and phases for the next week or two. 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...

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...