MARIAMI LISA KRIKORIAN/Daily Bruin Karren Lane is Undergraduate Students Association Council president. Here, she discusses the nature of USAC post SP-1 and 2, the effects of affirmative action policy and USAC’s influence, both on campus and in the community. Read more...

Gonzalez is a third-year political science student. By Nathan Gonzalez Americans have become accustomed to the wide-reaching effects of powerful interest groups. While these groups can be seen as an important component of democratic political participation, a serious yet often neglected problem arises with a group like the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), because this very powerful lobbying group is solely concerned with the well-being of a country other than ours. Read more...

Protests only serve to divide us Last Saturday, I was witness to a large protest in support of Palestine while I drove by the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard. Read more...

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David Burke David Burke is a third-year political science student. E-mail him at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by David Burke Recently, hate crimes have been a popular topic in both the public forum and in our very own school newspaper. Read more...

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