“A story has no beginning or end: Arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead,” Graham Greene once wrote.

Last Thursday we were reminded that every time a step toward social equality is taken, it becomes that much more obvious how far is left to travel until reaching the final destination.

If the allegation that Los Angeles events promoter Rodney Guillory provided former USC basketball star O.J. Mayo with nearly $30,000 in money and gifts while Mayo was still an amateur turns out to be correct, the fallout will likely lead to the firings of USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett and basketball coach Tim Floyd.

More often than I would care to admit, I come across media coverage of an exceptionally salacious news story.

I have been implored by the Viewpoint editors to write the “negative USAC” column, given that the rest of this week’s coverage of the undergraduate student government elections in the Daily Bruin are by and large very enthusiastic about the candidates and the voting process.

I am fairly certain that I am not the only young man at UCLA who wishes he could write like Nabokov and was built like a truck.

Watching last week’s debate between the Democratic presidential candidates in Philadelphia, I was trying to imagine what the 1973 version of Senator Hillary Clinton would think of her 2008 self.

You may not know this, but you are a smug, condescending liberal elitist. There are more appropriate names I could call you, but they wouldn’t be fit to print.

Sitting in a Westwood apartment as the Memphis Tigers put the finishing touches on a near-perfect game against the UCLA Bruins in the national semifinal on Saturday afternoon, I was surrounded by a group of UCLA students who wore familiar looks of resignation their faces.

In case some of you had not heard, former President Bill Clinton will be giving the commencement speech at UCLA in June.
But why?