Likes is a third-year English student. By Ryan Likes I am responding to the “Thumbs up/Thumbs down” that discussed the nomination of John Ashcroft for U.S. Read more...

  Doug Lief Lief is a third-year English student who says, "Hooray for Hollywood, Yippee for New York, and Blech to Barstow!" Send your two cents to [email protected]. Read more...

Steel is a 2000 graduate of UCLA. By Kirra Steel The first time I laid eyes on Cook County Jail, Women’s Division Four, despair washed over me as I gazed at the brown, concrete-block building. The gray Chicago sky melded with the gray snow and I sighed as I pushed through the chain-link fence. Read more...

Free market not to blame for crisis Yashar Ettekal (“All affected by slippery slope of deregulation,” Jan. 18, 2001), like the California Legislature and our poll-motivated Governor, has shown that he simply has no understanding of why California is in an energy crisis. Read more...

  Judette Eloi Eloi is victoriously finishing her seventh year as an African American studies student with an English minor. (Yes, seventh! "Seven" is for perfection.) Interesting comments can be e-mailed to [email protected]. Read more...

What do you think of John Ashcroft as an attorney general? Leslie Scarborough Fourth-year Political Science "I guess I don’t feel that strongly about it either way. Read more...

  Illustration by GRACE HUANG/Daily Bruin By Evan Marcus This is ridiculous. Someone needs to inform the teeny boppers that. Britney Spears is no Madonna. She never will be no matter how many comparisons the media makes. Read more...