Author Archives: Lina Chung

I drove to UC Santa Barbara expecting a prelude to Girls Gone Wild but found myself strangely close to home.

Last week, a so-called “Newseum” opened up in Washington, D.C., giving good old print journalism another kick in the direction toward retirement.

It seems as though the Governator has taken on a new kind of superhero role ““ as a new martyr for the environment, a modern-day Captain Planet to save us from the lagging legislation of the federal government.

Although I’d been fooled by the glossy pictures and smiling faces on UCLA’s housing Web site as a freshman, this year, I thought I had lucked out in the housing gamble.

No Child Left Behind seemed like the beacon of hope to solving all our nation’s education woes when President Bush signed it on Jan. 8, 2002, but, six years later, educators and legislators are shaking their heads at what could have been.

It was just my luck that out of all the days I could get sick over winter break, I happened to fall ill the weekend before classes began.

There’s always a catch, isn’t there?