It’s part of a little-known Bruin mythology, but the story of Reginaldo Francisco del Valle deserves to be told.

If you ask them, multiculturalism is the devil.

It’s week seven of spring quarter and UCLA’s most famous freshman is barely going to Bruin Bash.

Signboard? Check. Web site? Check. T-shirt? Organic check. This campaign has all the flair of student politics but hardly any of its ugly confrontation.

It’s 3 a.m. and Hugo Chávez is safe and asleep.

At UCLA, nobody kept score on who I was, they just wanted to see what I did.

At least they are up-front about it.

Semana de la Raza ““ a Latino cultural awareness week ““ kicked off yesterday, and with it UCLA once again sees the world come to its campus.

It was the typical stage of Hollywood activism: well-known figures, sharp talking points and an issue without much controversy.

As a lover of controversy, I was excited.