It’s finals week again, which means it’s time for me
to let you in on this quarter’s tailored justification for
not studying or working on that paper.

Sometime in the next week, a judge is scheduled to rule on the
legality of Proposition 71, passed in 2004 to allot $3 billion to
stem cell research in California.

Much can be said about the incompetence of the current U.S.
government, but it’s hard to argue that they don’t seem
to have the well-being and security of the American people in
mind.

There’s a crucial turning point in every student’s
life. It hits around 3 a.m., eight pages into a 15-page paper, or
when you’ve finally found the results to a lab experiment
that took four times longer than it should have.

The idea behind General Education requirements is worthy: Give
students a well-rounded education and the opportunity to explore
subjects outside of their majors.
But if the promise of general education is to encourage
interested, ambitious students to explore different fields in order
to enrich their major coursework, then UCLA’s current system
doesn’t live up to its potential.

A new trend has developed in the validating of religion ““
pseudoscience, the attempt to veil subjective religious beliefs
with objective scientific theory.
Intelligent design proponents have been filing lawsuits across
the U.S.

Since the advent of the original Napster in 1999, big
entertainment companies have fought Internet piracy by going after
the technology and software that makes it possible.

So much of an undergraduate education is paraphrasing a
professor’s lecture into notes. Rarely do we have input on
the curriculum; rarely is our insight given any significance beyond
a letter grade; rarely are discussions with our peers perceived for
their academic merit.

Intellectual property is now available in a generic brand.
In the last couple weeks Wikipedia.org, the highly frequented,
free online encyclopedia, has been running a major donation
campaign to facilitate expansion.

Now that finals week has reared its ugly head, it may seem
convenient to take out all our problems on the quarter system.
Ten weeks isn’t enough time!