On the heels of the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush resolutely stated that “America is at war, both at home and abroad, to ensure the security of the American people.” Much has changed since these words were first uttered over a year ago. Read more...

Most UCLA students don’t have a lot of options or devote a lot of thought to which city they are going to live in. For the first one or two years of school they grace the halls of the dorms, plow down grilled cheese sandwiches and jello in the dining halls, and benefit from having a lot of people their age around them. Read more...

Many students have deliberated whether to attend a big campus like UCLA or to seek enrollment at a small college that may have as few as 2,000 students. Read more...

Going to a school as diverse as UCLA can sometimes make people weird. Like they might think, oh well I attend an ethnically diverse school and therefore by association I have the diversity thing covered. Read more...

Close the paper. Read that red sentence one more time. The Bill of Rights guarantees your freedom of speech, but when was the last time you needed it? Read more...

Sure, Welcome Week makes it seems like things are going to be all fun and games this year, but we all know better than that. Here’s a brief, tragically incomplete list of some issues students will have to come to grips with once again this year. Read more...

It must feel wonderful to begin your life as a college student. In order to make it this far, to a place as prestigious as UCLA, you must have shown wonderful intellectual capabilities, fortitude of critical thinking, and academic ethics. Read more...