EDITORIAL BOARD Christine Byrd  Editor in Chief Michael Litschi  Managing Editor Jonah Lalas  Viewpoint Editor Barbara Ortutay  News Editor Amy Golod  Staff Representative Timothy Kudo  Staff Representative Brian O’Camb  Staff Representative   Unsigned editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily Bruin Editorial Board. Read more...

  Ariana Brookes Brookes is a third-year English student who knows that Diet Coke is the drink of champions. E-mail her at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Ariana Brookes Joni Mitchell sings, “Blue songs are like tattoos,” and was right on target when she made the comparison. Read more...

Menthe is a graduate student in the department of physics and astronomy and was chair of the ASUCLA board of directors for 1999-2000. By Lance Menthe Copeland’s Sports opening in Ackerman Union next month (“Copeland’s set to move into Ackerman Union,” Daily Bruin, News, April 17) will mark the completion of the last major step in the ambitious turnaround plan hammered out by the Associated Students of UCLA’s board of directors and management team last year in response to the association’s critical financial shortfalls. Read more...

Adrian Haymond If you’d like to discuss or just express your disgust, feel free to contact Haymond at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Adrian Haymond Observing the riots in Cincinnati, my mind drifted back uncomfortably to a similar episode almost nine years ago. Read more...

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  Illustration by Kristen Gilette/Daily Bruin By Harout Semerdjian In July of 1915, dispatch was sent to the American Embassy in Istanbul (Turkey). The American Consul in Harput, Leslie A. Read more...

Hamilton is a second-year international economics student. By Hudson Hamilton Doug Lief should get his facts straight before he proposes that our government has engaged in some sort of cover-up operation over the collision of a US EP-3 plane and a Chinese fighter jet on April 1 (“Fighting Forces a Fighting Farce,” Viewpoint, April 16). Read more...