Allowing defense allocations to increase dramatically while cutting education spending is a destructive and shortsighted policy. The United States spent nearly $400 billion on military expenditures this fiscal year while, at the same time, California faces a $34.6 billion budget shortfall, forcing cuts in a variety of areas, including education. Read more...

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When Bob Englund, UCLA professor of Assyriology, thinks about the looting of Iraq’s cultural sanctuaries, it saddens his heart. When American soldiers entered Baghdad this past week, their quest to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein’s regime immediately unbridled locals in an undesirable way ““ it gave them the freedom to loot and destroy thousands of years of Middle Eastern history, some of which Englund had personally worked with. Read more...

Is it right for professors to make a united stance against war? Is it relevant, especially now that war is coming to a close? Armhawan Darsone First-year, business economics “I really don’t think professors should offer an opinion on war because they have a direct influence on their students, and they could possibly steer students’ opinions, which I don’t think is appropriate. Read more...

Academic Senate polarizes campus The Academic Senate’s choice to condemn U.S. action in Iraq (“Faculty to take stance on U.S. war in Iraq,” News, April 14) is in distasteful disregard of the university’s responsibility to provide students with a safe learning environment. Read more...

Tax cuts are historically justified Doug Ludlow’s column, “Tax cut inappropriate during time of war” (April 11), fails to recognize the urgent need to promote job growth. Read more...