Opinion

Roman Polanski’s internationally publicized arrest at a Switzerland airport stirred up the dregs of his past. It has taken over three decades for Polanski, the Oscar-winning director of Chinatown and the Pianist, to be arrested for the 1977 drugging and rape of a 13-year-old girl.

A Student shares his experience with Parking and Transportation. Parking and Transportation offers an explanation.

The Blue Target on Baucus’s Back By Neil Thakore It’s hard to remember, but there was a moment in the recent past when passing a...

Our writer Jeanette Reveles contributed a wonderful article on a new breast cancer ad that was recently introduced in Canada. Let us...

These are some of the highlights from Deborah Solomon's interview of UC President Mark Yudof as published on September 24, 2009. And education? The shine...

It’s tough not to feel at least a little sorry for Mark Yudof these days. The current President of the UC system has become something of a scapegoat, taking the brunt of the blame for everything going wrong.

The revelation that Iran has been secretly building an underground uranium enrichment facility may have raised expectations that last Thursday’s meeting in Geneva would be a showdown between the United States and Iran. However, the meeting between Iran’s nuclear negotiator and representatives of the United States, China and Russia is more likely to be the beginning of a dialogue that will continue for months to come. Whether this dialogue will result in anything is yet to be seen.

CONTROVERSY: New breast cancer ads aim below the belt. Literally.

Do you ever wonder if President Yudof has a public relations person? Because if he does, he needs to fire the idiot...

It seems as if now, more than any other time in recent history, being a student is particularly difficult. As a class, we have no choice but to bear the consequences of the mistakes of our predecessors, shoulder the debt they’ve racked up and deal with an economy that is about as worn out as Amy Winehouse’s hairpiece. While a lagging job market waits at the end of our education, the massive cuts in the educational system impair the very generation meant to absolve the debt and revive the economy.

In the 1920s, alcohol was banned from the United States in an attempt to reduce crime, poverty and improve the overall living conditions in the United States. As a result of the ban, alcohol consumption skyrocketed, organized crime rates went through the roof and severe corruption took root in law enforcement agencies. This prohibition of alcohol was, without a doubt, a failed policy that was not only incredibly ineffective, but was also detrimental to its goal.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is a community organization that was created to help low to moderate income households by providing housing aid and by boosting political involvement among these groups. It is now under scrutiny after being accused of questionable behavior involving child prostitution, political corruption, tax evasion and human trafficking.