In a political game chock-full of empty rhetoric and waste-of-time spectacles, the annual State of the Union address that President Bush will give to the nation in front of a joint session of Congress tonight is the most vapid, inconsequential, meaningless and self-reverent of them all. Read more...

I half expected my conversation with one of the resident assistants of De Neve Plaza to take place inside a dark downtown bar. I would apprehensively walk across a floor of broken peanut shells before spotting a hooded figure wearing sunglasses at the far corner booth. Read more...

Many college-age students are just here to get their degrees and move on, but there is another demographic of students here at UCLA who seem to have a greater appreciation for the educational and social experiences UCLA has to offer. Read more...

Morals born from religion, not reason I found Ryan Masaaki Yokota’s submission (“Fundamentalism is an attack on reason,” Jan. 27) to be somewhat offensive and politically degrading. Read more...

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It’s fun to feign omnipotence and think how I would change Los Angeles if I could. I would certainly give the state more money, so it wouldn’t have to take its debt out on students and force me into month-long Ramen-fests. Read more...

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