Universities are responsible for encouraging students to develop
their own opinions while also teaching them to respect the opinions
of others. But students around the United States feel their
universities are not living up to that responsibility.

Financial aid is supposed to level the playing field for those
who otherwise would not be able to attend college. One such type of
aid is the Cal Grant program, which in 2001-2002 gave
$512,873,000
(7 percent of California’s $7.3 billion aid package) in
fiscal support to California’s students.

At the Web site www.quizie.com, there is an online quiz
entitled, “How UCLA Are You?” The fifth question asks,
“Have you ever NOT seen construction on campus?” The
answer to that question is obvious to most current students.

When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took office, he inherited a
billion dollar budget crisis. In order to drag California out of
such a hole, he has proposed budget cuts that virtually would
eliminate university outreach programs.

For the first time in my life, I’m embarrassed to be a
blonde. I thought we flaxen-haired women had surpassed the stigma
of the vapid, shallow, mind-numbingly unintelligent girl.

I feel like the campus is already swimming in it. Fraternity
houses, apartment parties, dorm rooms, and now potentially Ackerman
Union are dripping with alcohol.
While I understand how having a bar on campus may be convenient
for the 21-and-over population on campus, I have to wonder, why
must it be convenient?

I never expected my late-night studying endeavors in Powell
Library could potentially expose me to someone else’s secret.
Walking into the bathroom, I heard gagging and coughing in one of
the stalls.

I was taking a much needed relaxation break from studying for
midterms Monday. Sipping water and scarfing down mini Milky Ways, I
flipped through the pages of my Glamour magazine where I found a
haunting article written by Bridget Kelly (as told to Hallie
Levine) titled, “I was raped ““ and I want you to know
my name.” Kelly describes a terrifying night during which she
says she was beaten, strangled, raped and shot three times in the
back.