The University Catholic Center was spared Thursday from the current round of injurious budget cuts. However, the threat has left many questioning the importance of such faith-based groups on college campuses throughout California.  We’ve all heard the trite analogies of college being a journey of self-discovery, a crucial influence on the rest of one’s life, etc. Read more...

Last week, for the good of the Democratic Party, U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli dropped out of his re-election campaign. In a relatively liberal leaning state, the Democratic Torricelli was having trouble with a no name Republican challenger, Doug Forrester. Read more...

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Delshad needs to check his facts Jonathan Delshad’s Monday submission, “Preemptive action is both valid, necessary against Iraq,” is fraught with several questionable assumptions. But by far the worst part of the article is the author’s horribly false statement about civilian casualties resulting from bombings of Afghanistan. Read more...

I am still waiting for the national sense of seriousness to set in. Here we are as a nation, potentially facing our biggest threat in history, and we are still gloriously over-consuming. Read more...

By Lisa Concoff Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people live the coming out process every day; even the most openly gay folks have to come out to new people on a daily basis. Read more...

To fortify his agenda against personal choice and fill the pockets of his lawyer “friends,” Gov. Davis signed a piece of gun control legislation that threatens individual liberty at its most fundamental levels. Read more...