Susanna Hecht Hecht is chair of Latin American studies at UCLA, and associate director of the Latin American Center. She has published widely on resistance movements in the developing world and has been the recipient of two MacArthur Foundation Global Security Fellowships. Read more...

Reichline was editor in chief of the Daily Bruin and graduated from UCLA in 1968. He is currently working as a screenwriter/director. By Neil Reichline I sat with my 87-year-old New Yorker father as he cried all day in front of the TV. Read more...

  Brian O’Camb O’Camb would love to hear what you put in your pipe. Contact him at [email protected]. Despite what its name might imply, Clear Channel Communications is anything but; rather it is clogged and full. Read more...

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By Chris Johnson As the thunderclouds of international conflict gather on the horizon, and as a new class of ostensibly open-minded students report to campus, it is worth trying to implant an idea in their collective conscience. Read more...

  Theodore Andersen Andersen is an emeritus professor of finance at The Anderson School.. Recent student-led protests in Seattle, Quebec and Genoa, Italy, against “globalization,” plus the planned September protests of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, D.C., indicate a need for serious examination of the economic and social issues involved. Read more...

Handler is a fifth-year English student. E-mail him at [email protected]. By Ben Lee Handler Richard Nixon once said that “only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” I have dwelled in the deepest valley of human civilization; I have survived for more than four years the noisy, cluttered and crowded slum that calls itself Los Angeles. Read more...