Author Archives: Richard Clough

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators from across the country rallied Sunday to promote abortion rights in an effort to generate legislative and voter support in an election year. In Los Angeles, about 250 community members staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard to advocate abortion rights and to fight […]

Lawmakers in several states have set out to ensure the liberal arts do not get too liberal. A new GOP bill to be presented to the California Senate Education Committee on Wednesday has drawn fire from Democratic opponents who believe the proposal undermines academic authority in order to get more conservative college professors hired and […]

President Bush proposed comprehensive reforms in the Pell Grant program last week to finance a new grant program for college students studying math and science, causing some higher education organizations to be concerned about the initiative’s scope and cost. If approved, the plan will create a $100 million annual program to distribute 20,000 grants to […]

Arianna Huffington, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of 10 books, spoke on campus Tuesday about the state of California politics, the uneasy relationship of political parties, and her ideas for reforming the American political scene. She spoke in Ackerman Grand Ballroom to a group of about 100 students and community members, the first in […]

Clashes between coalition forces and supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq on Sunday left 52 Iraqis and nine coalition troops dead, prompting U.S. officials in Iraq to enforce a warrant for al-Sadr’s arrest. American officials would not say when they would move to arrest al-Sadr, who is holed up in the main […]

One year later, the fighting continues in Iraq. Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the start of the ground campaign in Iraq, and though President Bush declared the conflict officially over 10 months ago, turmoil persists and questions linger in the nation’s conscience. American troops remain in Iraq and endure steady casualties as Bush and […]

Only four months into his term as governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been heavily involved in California’s education community. From his earliest campaign platform to the present day, Schwarzenegger has shown attentiveness to education in California. Many of his critics, though, wonder if the administration has too heavily emphasized primary and secondary education and lacked focus […]