On Sept. 9, I drank an ice coffee and sat with friends for several hours at Café Hillel in Jerusalem. Twenty-four hours later, I heard the café being blown to shreds by a Palestinian suicide bomber. Read more...

For a decade California held the line on college fee increases. But this year Gov. Gray Davis was faced with a budget shortfall and a Legislature that would not approve new revenues, which left the state’s three public college and university systems with no choice but to increase student fees. Read more...

Schwarzenegger not a serious candidate What frightens me most about candidate Schwarzenegger is not the scary characters he promotes in his violent films, although this hypocrisy needs to be addressed by parents (with their children). Read more...

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In Iraq, we indeed face a possible reprise of the Vietnam situation, though not in the way that much of our punditocracy and media elite have posited. Read more...

Student-initiated programming and organizations fill an important need at UCLA. Without a doubt, the organizations on campus give students the opportunity to seek out information and avenues that are not always presented in the classroom setting. Read more...

Here’s a riddle: How do you further confuse the general populace about the Democratic side of the 2004 presidential race? Answer: Enter retired General Wesley Clark. Read more...