Prop. 188: the tobacco industry’s initiative By Ramona Tan As I was flipping through the California ballot pamphlet, Proposition 188, an initiative on statewide regulation of smoking and tobacco products, caught my eye. Read more...

Stress returns, but we must not let it blind us Jeanene Harlick Stress. It has returned. It surrounds us, it blinds us, we breathe it in. Read more...

Keep Tagalog at UCLA Editor: As members of the Concerned Asian Pacific Students for Action (CAPSA), we express our thanks to Dean of Humanities Pauline Yu for her verbal commitment to fund the Tagalog language for an additional year. Read more...

Fear of conflict lingers behind locked doors By Drew Hettinger The night I moved into my new apartment I was walking down the stairs to my car parked on the street. Read more...

Conflict Mediation Program clarifies function By Peary Brug, Howard Gadlin and Jennifer Scott This letter is in response to Rob Greenhalgh’s Oct. 20 viewpoint, "USAC must initiate more communication on campus." The Conflict Mediation Program is pleased to have been mentioned as a resource for addressing the tensions surrounding the responsorship of the Interfraternity Council. Read more...

A few thoughts about the sponsorship issue Donald Carpenter-Rios Well, I had an interesting weekend. I spent the better part of two days pouring over at least 500 pages of news clippings, meeting minutes, photocopies of photographs, photocopies of songbooks ­ in short, the entire history of the recent "responsorship" controversy ­ compiled on the fraternity-sorority-songbook-racism-misogyny-homophobia issue. Read more...

Voter conflict raises questions of priorities ‘Three Strikes,’ ‘Save Our State’ address repression, not problems By Kevork Madooglu Two of the propositions on the November ballot, Proposition 184, dubbed "Three Strikes," and Proposition 187, dubbed "Save Our State," are asking California voters to sanction increased repression against certain sections of the state’s population. Read more...