Frank Gilliam is a professor of political science and the director of the Center for Communications and Community at UCLA. Perceptions are a powerful thing. They shape the way people process information and influence how they will act in the future. Read more...

Education grads: learn manners, too To the angry students in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA: If Barbara Streisand is qualified to speak at the John F. Read more...

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  Gilda Gazor Gazor is a fourth-year political science student and master bargain shopper. Please e-mail comments and requests to [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Gilda Gazor Prada bags? Read more...

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  Doug Lief Lief is a fourth-year English student whose Social Security is going to replenish Bush’s endless supply of red ties. Contact him at [email protected]. Read more...

Burke is a third-year political science and English student. By David Burke The last ten days of my academic life were every student’s worse nightmare. Not only did I have two midterms that counted for a significant portion of my grade, but I also wrote two lengthy papers, took a quiz, did a journal assignment, and read what amounted to over 500 pages (about a less than ideal subject: Dark Age state building). Read more...