Friday, January 23


Editorial: Westwood homeowners hypocritical

Three tons of garbage were removed from Westwood streets on Sunday by about 100 students and a whopping two non-student Village residents. The semi-annual trash pickup, called Operation Clean Sweep, is sponsored by the City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works and brings fraternity members and non-student residents together to clean up the Village. Read more...


Editorial: Supreme Court should uphold Miranda rights

As guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, “no person … shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” But this protection will prove largely moot if a suspects’ right to silence during police interrogation is revoked in the case of Chavez v. Read more...



Bush has little evidence to support Iraqi war

Statements from the president seem to blur the lines between fact and assumption, while at the same time vilifying the Iraqi people. There are however, several distinct facts and a number of assumptions ““ all of which clearly point to the lack of any real justification for a war on Iraq. Read more...



Editorial 2: Financial aid should be free from taxes

The phrase “financial aid” should be self-explanatory: it means providing funds where funds are lacking. But the government does not view “aid” in this manner since they tax graduate student fellowships, abstracting money from an award whose purpose is to increase money for students. Read more...