Owen is a third-year English student. By Charlotte Owen Hope: my perpetual ruin. Of what do I speak? Do I suffer because I believe in world peace? Read more...

Black is a fourth-year economics student By Lauren Black Under the current American judicial system, it’s very easy to get away with murder. I’m not talking about homicide; I’m talking about abortion. Read more...

spiegel is a fourth-year history student By Lital Spiegel Right-wing demagogue David Horowitz, a notorious apologist for American slavery, appeared here at UCLA in “A Rally for America” alongside the equally sinister Dinesh D’Souza. Read more...

  Sharon Kim Kim is a second-year biology student. Send your rhyme or reason to [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Sharon Kim For lack of something more cliché, California’s “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law has “¦ struck out. Read more...

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UCLA men’s soccer coach Todd Saldaña may have made a legitimate mistake by pursuing a bachelor’s degree from Columbia State University in 1997, an institution later shut down by the state attorney general’s office for fraud. Read more...

  Barbara Ortutay Ortutay is a former news editor and current editor in chief of tenpercent. E-mail her at [email protected]. Diploma mill” is a phrase commonly used for fraudulent distance-learning “colleges” such as Columbia State University, which claims to have given people like UCLA head soccer coach Todd Saldaña a legitimate bachelor’s degree for a few thousand dollars. Read more...