As I sat at my desk the other day, contemplating my past four years here, I could not help recognizing the truth in Aristotles’s proposition that man is a “political animal.”

With graduation set for Friday, June 13, the class of 2008 faces a rather inauspicious send-off.

Raising awareness, that prized hobbyhorse of the student organization, is this week in full gallop.

I don’t recycle.

“Carne Asada is not a crime.”

After nearly two decades of sounding the clarion call to progressivism from Kerckhoff’s towers, Students First! now risks looking out of touch and anachronistic.

Gabe Rose, president of USAC, is a fervent supporter of Sen. Barack Obama. Ironically, this month he’s adopted a political strategy of Sen. Hillary Clinton.

The University of California made a big purchase last week.

On a foggy Saturday morning at the beginning of the month, hundreds of high school students poured into Haines Hall for a teach-in on “Underground Undergrads,” that small, embattled group of undocumented immigrant students, who struggle substantially more than most to achieve this country’s dream.

Time was, any activist worth his salt could rally a campus by shouting Marx’s famous phrase: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!”