A Chicano perspective on American education today There is currently a debate raging over the quality of education at primary, secondary and post-secondary levels of instruction. Read more...

Tale of a Greyhound bus at border checkpoint By Linda White It is Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday and I am returning from a weekend in San Diego aboard the trusty red,white and blue Greyhound bus. Read more...

Examining pros, cons of affirmative action By Khoa Lam After reading the Associated Press article on the campaign against affirmative action, ("Jackson attacks anti-affirmative action campaign," Daily Bruin, Jan. Read more...

White male: part of the problem and the solution One evening a while back, my wife asked me to go downstairs and fetch the last load of clothes in the dryer. Read more...

Defense of ‘choice’ is just an excuse for murder By Chris Ford "Disturbing" is the word that came to my mind when I read Roxane Marquez’s Jan. Read more...

Joy comes to those who make life meaningful By Cynthia Rosenthal A response to Ron Bassilian and others with the same question about the meaning of life: Dear Ron, et al: You asked, "What is the meaning of life?" A religious person who believes in some form of afterlife might say that the purpose of one’s life on earth is to prepare oneself for a better life in heaven (or wherever one’s religion says one goes after death). Read more...

Slaying the American dragon of ‘big government’ To capture the Rhinegold, the fabulous treasure of the Nibelungs, the hero Sigurd had to slay the dragon Fafnir. Read more...