The government should adopt a $50 per hour minimum wage so that everybody makes $100,000 a year. This is the absurd logic behind Santa Monica’s Measure JJ, on the ballot Nov. Read more...

UC lecturers are at the end of their rope. Last Monday the bargaining team composed of lecturers from different UC campuses went to Sacramento for contract negotiations with UC’s Labor Relations Department staff and representatives from the campuses. Read more...

The Student Alumni Association helped bring some spirit back to the campus by renewing homecoming festivities this weekend after a six-year intermission. SAA’s event was the product of student-initiated campus community building and should be commended as an honorable effort. Read more...

With the tragic death of Senator Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., in a plane crash last Friday, this country lost one of its most passionate and inspiring social justice advocates and a deeply moral voice for compassion in a nation too often characterized by selfishness. Read more...

My sympathy for childless couples runs short when I read their advertisements in papers seeking egg donors. If a couple can’t have children for whatever God-given reason, it just isn’t meant to be ““ plain and simple. Read more...

It’s time for UCLA to improve the education of its students by making a change from the quarter system to semesters. The quarter system, widely used across the University of California and seldom outside it, often causes a semester’s worth of content to be condensed into a ten-week quarter. Read more...

Our generation has grown up with an implicit internationalism. Since preschool, we have been learning about the damage people are doing to the Earth. Many of us are concerned enough about sweatshops in developing countries to avoid buying clothes we know are made there. Read more...