The first time I heard that UCLA was naming its brand new, world-class hospital after former President Ronald Reagan, I thought it was a joke. Like if someone told you they were establishing the “George W. Read more...

Editorial falls short of real solutions I found the editorial regarding the ban on Iranian students studying nuclear technology at foreign universities (“Ban impedes enrichment of students, not uranium,” Oct. Read more...

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As physically unthreatening as my mother is, her verbal artillery is quite intimidating. After threatening to send me back to Asia if I limited myself to befriending only Koreans, I became so fixated on being diverse that I shied away from my own people. Read more...

DURBAN, South Africa “”mdash; Besides being basically across the globe from each other, the United States and South Africa have a lot of things in common, including a recent history of racial segregation and a mechanism of trying to make amends for that history ­”“ racial affirmative action. Read more...

His faint smile transformed into a look of utter confusion as the girl stopped and gave him an equally confused stare. Pretending not to see the awkward situation, I entered through another set of doors. Read more...

“No man is an island,” you may have read in high school. “Unless,” poet John Donne should have written, “he lives in Westwood.” Castaway stories aren’t uncommon. Read more...