Author Archives: Ross Aikins

Activism is a hallmark of higher education, but I don’t know if we, as a college student collective, have improved at it since our “revolutionary” progenitors of the ’60s and ’70s. I

The votes have been counted, and now the newly elected undergraduate student government administration has time to ponder which campaign promises are actually deliverable before they take office next fall.

For the record, Kyle Kleckner is completely neutral.

By undergrad standards, we graduate students are a little bit different.

Trends in college admissions are a little bit like trends in an OC-based high school drama. Everybody wants to do what the cool kids are doing.

This week is Political Correctness Week, sponsored by the Bruin Republicans, or as I prefer to think of it, ubiquitous irony week.

Roger Clemens has been in the news a lot lately for his alleged use of steroids and human growth hormone, and it’s pretty clear why this is a big deal to the public: It concerns whether somebody has reached a high level of success in a competitive arena by cheating.