After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the subsequent economic downturn, a swift, but often overlooked, backlash against immigrants occurred. This treatment, while certainly betraying the United States’ best ideals, has actually been a staple of U.S. Read more...

Focus shouldn’t be on SARS’ economic impact I was utterly disgusted while reading Dr. Tiejun Huang’s misleading submission, “China’s economy safe despite SARS” (May 23).  While only cursorily mentioning SARS’ impact on the citizens of China and the international community, Huang instead asserts that SARS will not affect China’s economy in the long-term. Read more...

Currently UCLA waives student fees for many of its teaching assistants and readers, graduate students who are left to educate undergraduates at a huge university where professors can’t do all the teaching. Read more...

On the same day that Shai Feldman, a prominent Israeli political analyst, talked at UCLA about the feasibility of the U.S.-backed Middle East peace plan, the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers met in Israel to discuss the implementation of the plan. Read more...

The arrests of top Iraqi scientists since the end of the war have revealed a startling trend in the educational background of these experts wanted for the alleged development of weapons of mass destruction: Many received training from American universities. Read more...

A group of professionals discussed the scientific, political, social and economic aspects of severe acute respiratory syndrome at Bunche Hall on Thursday; the impact of the virus hit home for some upon learning that the University of California would not have an Education Abroad Program in Beijing in summer or fall 2003. Read more...

It was during the winter break of her second year as a political science student that Anica McKesey, the new undergraduate student government president, realized changes had to be made in the world ““ starting from her descendants’ country of Belize. Read more...