Smokers to unfairly bear deficit burden In the midst of a financial crisis, the California state Legislature has found an easy way to try to balance the budget: Pick on the little guy. Read more...

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The Undergraduate Student Association Council chose the wrong year to start a budgetary revolution. Despite being given roughly $30,000 less in discretionary funds by the Associated Students of UCLA than last year’s council, it is trying to drastically increase the amount of funding some groups receive. Read more...

The cafeteria bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem last Wednesday hit closer to home than past hostile attacks in Israel because five Americans, including Marla Bennett, a UC Berkeley alumna, were killed. Read more...

The University of California and the state government claim they have a partnership ““ a relationship that should, by definition, benefit both parties. But both need to take a closer look at what each promised to give, and what they can provide: the UC has yet to see the budget increase the state promised, and a state audit reveals the UC has grown faster in management, rather than academic staff. Read more...

By Robbie Hurwitz Exactly one year ago, I arrived in Israel for the beginning of a year-long program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. On my first day, I registered for classes, met my advisors and ate lunch at the Frank Sinatra Cafeteria. Read more...

Taxpayers have Starr to blame It has been reported that former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, have asked a court to have taxpayers reimburse them for legal costs related to the massively expensive, multi-year Whitewater investigation. Read more...