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Grads banking on financial gain
Flashy incentives, uncertainty steer young workers away from public service, toward Wall Street
From the sounds of it, Harvard’s getting angsty, as are many other big brand schools. The reason for this is that apparently an overly large amount of the wide-eyed ... This past Thursday, the Supreme Court turned heads and incited strong reactions, both positive and negative, when it overturned the District of Columbia’s ban on the individual possession of handguns. The ruling puts the ... Georgia State University is defending its actions in a lawsuit filed by three publishing companies for posting copyrighted material online for student use. The plight struck, and it went straight for the fruit (or vegetable) of our hearts: the tomato. Tree-sitters at the University of California, Berkeley were granted a victory last week when a judge ruled the university must resolve lingering concerns about a major construction project that would, among other things, cause the death of a grove of coastal oak trees. The 2008 election has been characterized by identity. So, you are a Bruin at last and you’re already bored. As USAC president, I want to welcome all the new students to UCLA! Congratulations, Class of 2008! So I’m supposed to use this space to write a goodbye, a farewell, parting words to my home for the last four years. “A story has no beginning or end: Arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead,” Graham Greene once wrote. If I’ve ever been tested, this was the year. I remember the day I fell in love. Standing on tiptoe to look at the pages of the Complete Webster’s Dictionary, at 5 years old I knew I was in, and I was in deep. Today someone asked me, “Hey Ken, how many design meetings do you think you’ve attended over the years?” Colleges deserve protection from guns
University use of fair use is, well, pretty fair
Dearth of tomatoes downright rotten
FDA warning after salmonella scare let me see how this saucy fruit makes me feel all squishy inside
Editorial: New SAT policy helps rich, bad test takers
The College Board, the organization behind the SAT, announced a new policy that will allow college applicants to choose which test scores they want admissions officers to see and which ones they do not. Editorial: Tree-sitters rooted in community involvement
Identity politics may blind Indian American voters
Voting for Bobby Jindal for his ethnicity would ignore what’s relevant: his positions, policies
Orientation Issue 2008: The opportunities are here – find your path
Your college experience should not be influenced by preconceptions of undergraduate life; take the reins, this is the time to experiment
Orientation Issue 2008: The power to induce change, local and global, is yours
As UCLA students, you have unlimited chances to be proactive, pursue your causes
UCLA’s legacy is yours to fulfill
We are the luckiest kids in the world
Changes write new chapters in our lives, but past is prologue
36-hour days do exist, if you have super powers
With words, it wasn’t just puppy love
I leave you with my thanks and some great memories
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