Beverly Braga Braga wrote for the Arts & Entertainment department.   Two years after transferring in, I somehow managed to graduate out. After the last blue books close on finals week, I will take a walk down Wilson Plaza (hopefully embarrassment free) and receive my make-believe diploma. Read more...

Mike O’Young O’Young served as the Electronic Media director in 2001-2002.   As a mere green card holder, I have frequently used my own deportable status as punch lines. Read more...

Ben Lee Handler Handler was the 2001-2002 Viewpoint sex columnist.   The average American will live about 80 years. Granted, no graduating UCLA student will settle for average anything, but after all is said and done, most of our lives are more than a quarter over, and eighty is creeping ever closer, even as you read this. Read more...

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Anne Douglas is a student at UCLA.   By Anne Douglas On Monday, June 3, and Tuesday, June 4, there was a group of anti-abortion demonstrators on campus. Read more...

Student parking problems cannot be disregarded I am writing in response to the submission by Christine Austin regarding parking costs (“Parking Fee Increase Necessary, Warranted,” Daily Bruin, Viewpoint, May 31). Austin broadly states that when it comes to complaints, “(she doesn’t) care because the complaints are all unjustified.”Â I disagree. The opinions of commuters are justified and are not merely personal attacks on UCLA parking over a buck. The lack of available parking spaces is a challenge for both commuters and parking services. Read more...

Riggs is a second-year communications student.   By Nicole Riggs In 1954, the United States Supreme Court rejected the “separate but equal” doctrine on the grounds that “separate but equal is inherently unequal in the context of public education.” Although this was a Civil Rights case, the reasoning and ruling applies practically and legally to the separation of classrooms along gender lines. Read more...