It’s been about seven months since I’ve last been on these pages and since a fateful night when three of the five sports staff writers escaped an out-of-control burning big-rig barreling down a dead-ended street known as the Sports section. Read more...

Three years ago I fell in love with The Bruin ““ and since then, I’ve been asking myself why. As a freshman on the orientation tour I found an otherwise gray office marked with wry reminders of its inhabitants and knew at once that these were my kind of people. Read more...

November 18, 1996: Members of the Student Association of Graduate Employees/United Auto Workers hold picket signs as they begin one of many strikes in the fight for collective bargaining rights. Read more...

When I came into this job, I knew a lot about journalism, but had spent my life running from it. You see, my father was a journalist for over 30 years, covering everything from the Kentucky Derby to major league baseball. Read more...

Journalism is an unbelievably rewarding profession. It allows us to interact with the world, find out what’s going on behind the surface, and effect social change. Read more...

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I recently roused myself for class at the early hour of 9 a.m., only to be informed by a perfectly-coifed anchorwoman that NBC’s “Later Today” was already under way. Read more...