LECTURE: Professor discusses retaining Native American heritage in today's multicultural America.

FITNESS: Researchers funded to develop machine to help astronauts prevent zero-gravity atrophy.

APPLICATION: A new feature on social Web site Facebook allows students to charter rides from peers.

LECTURE: Visiting professor delves into the difference of foreign policy between Reagan and Bush.

UCI Medical Center Fails to Meet Requirements; City Councilman Faces Anger Management

FORUM: Members from four student groups met to discuss America's future with President-elect Obama.

EMERGENCY: Fire response crews scramble to control three separate fires in Southern California.

RESEARCH: Scientists are developing methods to diagnose harmful diseases and treat them in utero.

JOURNALISM: Both professional and student newspapers are feeling crunch of financial crisis.

A week after Election Day, Washington voters had to spend some serious time considering such a situation. Last Tuesday, Washington voters approved Initiative 1000, making it the second state after Oregon to approve medically assisted suicide. The measure passed by a margin of 58 to 42 percent.

As a natural rights activist, I feel disappointment toward the Proposition 8 opponents, supposedly my allies, who hurl anathemas to defend a politically flimsy position that has little to do with natural rights. On the other hand, Proposition 8 supporters played fair game in their pursuit to exclude homosexuals from the domain of state matrimony. I would even argue that a majority of Proposition 8 opponents are not against exclusion in itself, but are only for the inclusion of what they perceive to be an acceptable group.

As noted in last week's article entitled "Re-evaluating the Iran Threat," it is unlikely that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. However, even if it does, an Iranian nuke would not be the threat to international security that many politicians and analysts suspect. However, the majority in this country seems to feel the opposite way, including President-elect Obama, for whom Iran's nuclear program is presumably a top priority.

This week on campus is Islam Awareness Week, brought to you by the Muslim Student Union (MSU). With over 300 registered organizations on our campus, we are spoiled with amazing programming that enlightens and educates us. With so many events on campus, why should you come to Islam Awareness Week?

The words "school," "professor" and "liberal" are often joined together in the same sentence because it is frequently claimed that professors are liberal and that their beliefs are uncritically accepted by students. However, that claim is now less tenable after the release of a recent study in "PS: Political Science & Politics," the journal of the American Political Science Association. The study looked at 7,000 students at 38 institutions and concluded that students are not indoctrinated or instilled with the beliefs held by their professors.