Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the United States government for violations of the Freedom of Information Act related to the Obama administration’s refusal to release any sort of information relating to the assassinations of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, two American citizens who were ranking members of al-Qaida.

After merely three days, Susan G. Komen for the Cure bowed to public outrage by repealing controversial funding cuts to Planned Parenthood. The foundation justified its original decision by pointing towards a change to its grant rules that banned funding for organizations under local, state or federal investigation.

The recent revelation that Lunar New Year Festival was allocated $5,500 by Student Union for a fireworks display has enraged many students. Criticisms leveled against LNYF and Student Union were that the spending was wasteful, that SU privileges cultural groups over all others and that $5,500 was an obscene amount of money to be spent on an event.

A few days ago, a well-known documentary maker, Josh Fox, was forcibly removed from a House of Representatives committee meeting he was filming for an upcoming documentary.

In an act of unusual brilliance this week, the U.S. Senate passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, a law to bar members of Congress and their staff from acting on private information in regards to trading financial stocks.

It’s getting to be that time of year again when we undergrads brush up our resumes, squeezing as many buzz words and leadership roles as we can into a single, well-formatted page. The actual internship experience may be rewarding, or you might start developing elaborate revenge fantasies, a la “Horrible Bosses.” Xuedan Wang’s experience was more like the latter.

As the saying goes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. With the current field of Republican candidates, a corollary certainly holds true: truth is funnier than fiction.

I heard a rumor that Ursa’s won’t be around next year. Regardless of whether or not this is the case—I doubt it is—the frequent rumor that another long-standing institution will no longer exist on campus feels symptomatic of something larger. We’ve had a lot of construction on our campus recently and many of the changes and additions have been incredible.

It was reported on Tuesday that a “senior administrator” at Claremont McKenna College inflated the school’s reported SAT averages in order to increase its placement in the US News and World Report college and university rankings, where Claremont McKenna is currently ranked as the ninth best liberal arts school.

A Huffington Post article from last Tuesday brought to my attention a bill in the New York state legislature that would make a felony out of proxy examination in the SAT. According to the article, the bill proposes that “felonies would apply to a test taker who impersonates someone else for pay.