As a student in the social welfare department, my mind often turns to topics of oppression and discrimination. In fact, much of the curriculum that we are presented with details variations of these topics. Read more...

Elections for the Undergraduate Students Association Council and the Graduate Students Association take place next week. Are you planning to vote? Why or why not?   NAME: Peter Ballance   YEAR: Graduate student   MAJOR: Law “I guess I’m not. Read more...

Praxis seeks to divide campus As a Pilipino pre-med student at UCLA for the last four years, I was never politically involved. I fell into the category of students who didn’t really care who won USAC elections. Read more...

By Bill Elliott “Had it always been like this? Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to. Read more...

By Charles Kuo On the brink of undergraduate student elections, you may have run into people all over campus urging you to vote. Very rarely, however, do you find someone advocating the opposite. Read more...

By Kirsten Isaacson Recently, I observed a woman wearing a T-shirt that read, “Nation of sheep, led by pigs, ruled by wolves.” This struck me as humorous at the time, but upon reading David Wu’s Viewpoint submission (“IMF, World Bank protesters buy into hype,” Viewpoint, April 24), I realized just how depressing the truth to that statement was. Read more...

About two weeks ago, the university made a decision to name the UCLA Medical Center after Ronald Reagan. This naming opportunity didn’t come cheap: friends and supporters of the former president and governor of California spent $150 million to put Reagan’s name on the building. Read more...