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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...

Farahmandpur is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies By Ramin Farahmandpur It is believed that with the help of the clandestine efforts of a “fifth column” in Florida, consisting of loyal contingents of button-down storm-troopers ““ the Secretary of State, Kathleen Harris and the Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush; the five supreme court justices who ruled against counting ballots; and the predominantly Republican state legislature of Florida ““ George W. 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...

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