Working with professors, administrators and peers for the past four years has given me a strong voice as an advocate for the UCLA community. When a vacancy opened up for a general representative on the Undergraduate Students Association Council, I felt the position would give me a chance to address current issues at UCLA. Read more...

Gregory Stock is the director of the UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology and Society. The Daily Bruin sat down with Stock to discuss the impact and importance of stem cell research. Read more...

Six “Dictator of the Week” A-boards belonging to my group, Students Against Dictators, have been stolen from Bruin Walk and throughout UCLA. These boards cost hundreds of dollars and took many hours to assemble. Read more...

Do you think USAC should fund political and religious student groups? Michael Bogdan Fourth-year, geography “Every single group should be funded on campus. There shouldn’t be any discrepancies. Read more...

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“Haiti is like an accordion,” said the great Haitian painter, Andre Pierre. “Sometimes it is stretched very big, and sometimes it is squeezed very small.” For the last several months Haiti has been in its big phase, generating daily headlines to the tune of: “A once popular regime collapses,” “”˜Rebels’ take over provincial towns,” “protesters shot,” “boat people turned back by the U.S. Read more...

For too long, the Undergraduate Students Association Council has spent its energies promoting certain viewpoints at the expense of others. Student groups that support the dominant slate in USAC somehow end up with the most money. Read more...