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...

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...

When a woman tells a man she has sprung a leak, it is possible that she may be referring to more than the plumbing. Women, now more than ever, can actually be referring to their ruptured breast implants. Read more...

You might not even care about the environment because you think it does not affect you and your life, but it does. Over 130 million Americans live in areas where it is unsafe to even breathe. Read more...

In previous articles, members of the Faculty Organization for Human Rights have expressed their concerns about collateral damage caused by the current administration’s focus on war as the answer to terrorism. Read more...