Brian O’Camb O’Camb was the 2000-2001 Daily Bruin Copy Chief. He graduates with a B.A. in English and digs Norse mythology, music and pirates. One night last year on the copy desk, my staff was discussing their early childhoods and where they were born. Read more...

  Emi Kojima Kojima is a graduating English student. She was an assistant news editor in 1998-1999. It’s scary to say goodbye to so many people all at once ““ especially the ones who put their necks out on the line for me and knew what was right for me at any particular moment in my four years at UCLA. Read more...

  Mike Litschi Litschi likes planes, trains and all things with lights and sirens. He wishes the 2001-02 staff good luck and reminds them to be good to their lungs and livers. Read more...

Robert Liu Liu is a fourth-year graduating senior with a double major in communication studies and sociology with a business specialization. He thinks the Daily Bruin Online is by far the best college online publication in the world. Read more...

  Mary Ciecek Ciecek was an assistant photo editor in 1999-2000. I often wonder how many other people feel as lucky as I do to have been able to go to UCLA. Read more...

Politics should be separated from institutions In an ideal professional workplace, appointments, promotions, demotions, job descriptions and power structures should be free of politics. Once an act is defined as “political,” it is presumed by some no longer to be subject to integrity, law, professionalism, ethics or even basic human decency ““ because politics is considered to supersede and overrule all of these values. Read more...

  David Drucker Drucker is a history student in his final quarter at UCLA. E-mail him at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by David Drucker Something funny happened to American liberals while they were leading the nation along the road to a color-blind society: they turned around and headed back from whence they came. Read more...