As a child in South Korea, I participated in speech contests commemorating the death of an eight-year-old boy, who was said to have shouted “I don’t like communists” before he was killed by a group of North Korean armed guerrillas in 1968. Read more...

President George W. Bush proposed a $1.2 billion plan to research and develop fuel-cell cars in his State of the Union speech last month. Although I question the President’s sincerity, being the oil-friendly conservative that he is, at least he’s making the necessary point that the United States needs environmentally safer vehicles. Read more...

Inequality seems to be the recurring issue of our day. Not only is inequality an issue in race and gender, but it is also an issue that concerns our university’s staff members. Read more...

The Higher Education Act was initiated in 1968 to provide grants and loans to students who would otherwise be unable to attend state colleges and universities. Read more...

I consider myself an ally of Thomas Wood, the co-author of Proposition 209, despite the fact that I consider myself a politically liberal-minded person. I’m his ally not because he believes that race is an irrelevant factor in hiring and higher education admissions. Read more...

ASUCLA should beef up BookZone The drop in BookZone sales has nothing to do with the absence of best sellers. BookZone stopped being a place to buy books when ASUCLA decided to make selling BearWear to tourists their number one (and only) priority. Read more...

When all is said and done, where do you draw the line between comedy and blatant offensiveness? Here’s where I’m drawing it. The February issue of Vanity Fair Magazine which features the lovely Salma Hayek on the cover, contains an advice column titled “Ask Dame Edna.” Now, I love satire and comedy as much as the next person. Read more...